Month: December 2008

  • links for 2008-12-12

    Schneier on Security: Remote-Controlled Thermostats Encryption and encoding stops all hacking attempts, of course it does. No the men in lab coats believe you too. (tags: security encryption) BBC NEWS | Business | Boeing postpones Dreamliner again How long are they going to keep delaying this aircraft? (tags: boeing dreamliner aircraft airplane airlines) When was […]

  • links for 2008-12-11

    Firefox, Chrome virtually tied for JavaScript speed | Webware – CNET Firefox and Chrome basically the same at JavaScript rendering. I switched back to Firefox after a few weeks with Chrome, it was nice but FF was better and more stable. (tags: firefox chrome google javascript browsers internet) Official Gmail Blog: Really new in Labs […]

  • links for 2008-12-10

    BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese police arrest protesters Just in case people thought the Chinese actually believed in political rights. (tags: china politics humanrights) BBC NEWS | Business | White House 'agrees' car bail-out $15bn for the car companies. (tags: automotive bailout business congress whitehouse bush)

  • links for 2008-12-09

    Official Google Mobile Blog: New AdWords options for iPhone and G1 Now you can create specialized ads for full HTML web browsers running on mobile platforms (a la – iPhone and Android). (tags: google android advertising mobile cellphone iphone marketing internet search) Tech Trader Daily – Barron’s Online : Microsoft: To Unveil Zune/Danger Device At […]

  • links for 2008-12-08

    Link by Link – The Freedoms That Technologies Help Bring – NYTimes.com This is just silly. Egypt wants and has apparently gotten Apple to disable the GPS in the iPhone, so that they can't tag military bases. Because it's so hard to have your own GPS unit and walk up to the base, or use […]

  • links for 2008-12-07

    Enigmail: A simple interface for OpenPGP email security PGP for Thunderbird. (tags: thunderbird pgp security software privacy cryptography encryption opensource mozilla gpg enigmail openpgp gnupg)

  • links for 2008-12-06

    BBC NEWS | Business | US job losses surge in November 533,000 jobs lost in single month. (tags: usa business recession job job_losses) BBC NEWS | Health | Intelligent 'have better sperm' Intelligence correlates closely with better sperm. (tags: sperm gender research science intelligence genetics) Penny Arcade! – We Are Gathered Here Today "His death […]

  • links for 2008-12-05

    "Prop 8 – The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more… from FOD Team, Jack Black, Craig Robinson, John C Reilly, and Rashida Jones Wow, just wow. (tags: prop8 politics humor video comedy jackblack marriage samesexmarriage california religion culture music funny economy) Coding Horror: The Problem With Logging Is logging always useful? […]

  • links for 2008-12-04

    Why Do Web Applications Stink So Badly? | The Changelog Web applications need to " Separate code from data, Separate code from configuration, Separate all of the above from the DocumentRoot to the greatest extent possible" (tags: webdevelopment programming) Computing 95 Percentile In MySQL | SQL Zone Get percentile analysis from sql. (tags: sql mysql […]

  • Don’t Let Google See Your Private Information

    There was a story in Techcrunch today about a hosting provider (Meteora Technologies Group) that accidentally revealing revealed a dump of Kleiner Perkins’s iFund database. The moral of the story don’t even put stuff publicly online that you don’t want Google (or the public) to find out about. Google isn’t just good at their job, […]