Tony Finch's link log

Here are some links to interesting web pages which I have encountered. This list is gatewayed to Delicious, Twitter, and LiveJournal. My main blog where I post longer pieces is also on LiveJournal.

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2012-05-17: If they hadn't censored this talk no-one would be talking about it.
2012-05-17: Duplo self-assembly in a washing machine.
2012-05-17: Cat plays and wins the shell game. (YouTube)
2012-05-17: LOLcommits.
2012-05-17: Taxing the rich is too controversial an idea for TED to spread online.
2012-05-17: People who viewed a 55 gallon drum of lube on Amazon also viewed...
2012-05-17: MILNET maps.
2012-05-17: ARPANET topological maps.
2012-05-17: ARPANET geographic maps.
2012-05-17: BitTorrent was never the problem, bufferbloat was. Where will the next operational nightmare arise?
2012-05-17: DNSSEC now available for .nl domains.
2012-05-17: America had an openly gay president in the 1800s.
2012-05-16: The WTO hates dolphins.
2012-05-16: Swear should I go to eat?
2012-05-16: The Unix way, the Emacs way, and the wrong way.
2012-05-16: Linux's userland plumbing layer as the new kernel.
2012-05-16: What The Times cycle safety campaign has taught us so far.
2012-05-16: The Royal Jubilee Bells for the Thames pageant and St James' Garlickhythe.
2012-05-16: Associate editor of "Genomics" resigns, saying Elsevier puts profit before access to research.
2012-05-16: The wrong Carlos: Texas sent an innocent man to his death.
2012-05-16: An overview of the IBM 801 minicomputer. (1977)
2012-05-16: In praise of CSV.
2012-05-16: Straight White Male: the lowest difficulty setting in the RPG of life.
2012-05-16: The judge in the Oracle/Google Java/Android lawsuit seems to be a programmer.
2012-05-15: ARPANET-Internet old archived mailing lists.
2012-05-15: Archive of header-people: email message format standardisation in the 1970s.
2012-05-15: US judge sides with Georgia State University over educational fair use.
2012-05-15: Time-lapse map of Europe since 1000 AD. (YouTube)
2012-05-15: LightSquared files for bankruptcy after failing to ruin GPS by using low-power satellite spectrum for high-power cellphones.
2012-05-15: Scotland, where political parties work together.
2012-05-15: They're not 'orphan works', they're 'hostage works'.
2012-05-15: VLC's billion downloads relied on French freedom from software patents.
2012-05-15: Operation Elveden may bring down Rupert Murdoch.
2012-05-14: Heather Brooke on British press collusion with police lies and misinformation. (video)
2012-05-14: Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers.
2012-05-14: STV has made big difference to democracy in Scotland.
2012-05-14: Nerds need to operate within the realm of traditional power and politics or we will lose.
2012-05-14: Base16k: efficient binary data encoding in Unicode text.
2012-05-14: Another Bitcoin hack + theft.
2012-05-14: Envisioning a non-evil version of "trusted" computing.
2012-05-14: C coding style guide (for Tcl implementation).
2012-05-14: Telecoms and the London Olympics.
2012-05-14: Open Data Structures: an open source textbook.
2012-05-14: Caterwaul is a Javascript recompiler and macroexpander that allows you to manipulate code in a first-class way.
2012-05-14: *JS is the bastard child of JavaScript and C.
2012-05-13: Coco is a CoffeeScript dialect that aims to be more radical and practical.
2012-05-13: Mark Henderson talking about his book "the geek manifesto" on evidence-based policy in Cambridge.
2012-05-13: The correlation between religiosity and well-being among U.S. states.
2012-05-13: FreeBSD 10 to be compiled with LLVM clang, and deprecate gcc.
2012-05-13: Dress code: blue tie and male. Dell says women should not work in tech.
2012-05-12: This is why teachers leave teaching.
2012-05-12: The right won the economic argument and the left won the culture wars.
2012-05-12: When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed.
2012-05-12: Software defined networking: the future of networking, the past of protocols.
2012-05-12: What the battle over the meaning of SDN reveals.
2012-05-11: Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers.
2012-05-11: Hardware macroarchitecture vs mircoarchitecture.
2012-05-11: Google API discovery documents.
2012-05-11: JSON home document: the entry point for a RESTful web API.
2012-05-11: What does the Queen’s Speech mean for civil liberties?
2012-05-11: Communications interception: Lib Dem party view.
2012-05-11: Communications interception: dazed half-memories of a conference call with Julian Huppert.
2012-05-11: If you meet a censor, ask them this question.
2012-05-11: FF Chartwell: an OpenType font that turns numbers into charts using ligatures and stylistic alternates.
2012-05-11: Driving a receipt printer from OpenWrt on a TP-Link micro router.
2012-05-11: Voting for checked exceptions in Java.
2012-05-10: BT cheerfully admits snooping on home LANs.
2012-05-10: Jumping through hoops: the grueling farcical campaign that won London the 2012 Olympics, at gargantuan expense.
2012-05-10: AppleScript's English-likeness monster.
2012-05-10: Vexing exceptions.
2012-05-10: Real-time collaborative editing is like exception handling, but the arrows in the category are reversed.
2012-05-10: WiFi Pineapple Mark IV: $90 hotspot honeypot.
2012-05-10: Why ZeroMQ should have been written in C not C++.
2012-05-10: Individual Liberty, by Benjamin Tucker.
2012-05-10: An Arduino-powered wire bending machine.
2012-05-10: C! (C-bang): a system-oriented programming language.
2012-05-10: Vert.x: an asynchronous concurrent application framework for the JVM.
2012-05-10: Using a Kalman filter to predict ticket prices.
2012-05-10: What is and is not a technology company.
2012-05-10: Current pypy-stm documentation.
2012-05-10: Plans for STM-based parallel execution in PyPy.
2012-05-10: Mozilla complains about Microsoft banning Firefox from Windows 8 on ARM.
2012-05-10: The floppy disk means save, and 14 other old-people icons that don't make sense anymore.
2012-05-10: Configurable trampolines without writable code pages on iOS and Mac OS.
2012-05-10: No third-party JIT on Windows 8 for ARM.
2012-05-10: Recursive Drawing.
2012-05-10: MESS in JavaScript: emulating lots of old computers in your browser.
2012-05-10: The end of Moore's Law is nigh, says Broadcom's CEO.
2012-05-09: Pervasive snooping and secret courts in the Queen's Speech.
2012-05-09: "We are going to create something which will not be effective against terrorism but which will be a general purpose surveillance on the entire nation."
2012-05-09: More about the CCDP UK surveillance bill.
2012-05-09: "The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right" - Hannah Arendt.
2012-05-09: To discourage piracy, US government is making legit movies even worse.
2012-05-09: Haskell vs Scala.
2012-05-09: The obstacle to decentralized social networking is lack of profitability backed up by surveillance and control.
2012-05-09: Lib Dem policies in the Queen's Speech.
2012-05-09: The government’s proposal for data communications surveillance will be invasive and costly with minimal effectiveness.
2012-05-09: Diageo screw BrewDog.
2012-05-09: How a Florida "pill mill" operation fuelled a painkiller abuse epidemic.
2012-05-09: Pastafarianism in the US military.
2012-05-09: Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, Australia.
2012-05-09: Playing with fire: tobacco and chemical manufacturer lobbying led to excessive use of toxic flame retardants.
2012-05-09: A set of top Computer Science blogs.
2012-05-09: Iron Sky in the UK for one day only?
2012-05-09: Good Guy Lucifer.
2012-05-09: Some information about the draft communications data snooping bill.
2012-05-09: Proliferating ways of bypassing the Pirate Bay blocks.
2012-05-09: Clojure Reducers: a library and model for parallel collection processing.
2012-05-08: Never Seconds: a daily dose of primary school dinners.
2012-05-08: The most confusing git terminology.
2012-05-08: Going dark, or a golden age for surveillance?
2012-05-08: Many kids have Firefox + TOR on a USB stick for bypassing school and ISP filters.
2012-05-08: Gay rights in the USA, state by state.
2012-05-08: 20 years of SMS.
2012-05-08: Japan has switched off all its nuclear power stations.
2012-05-08: Fundamental progress solving bufferbloat.
2012-05-08: The MSF 60KHz time signal and some memories of the NPL.
2012-05-08: Emotive conjugation / Russell conjugation / irregular verbs.
2012-05-08: The first atomic clock: a film made in the 1950s at NPL.
2012-05-08: Modern active queue management is just one piece of the solution to buffer bloat. (Van Jacobson)
2012-05-08: Republican war against women now attacking the right to vote.
2012-05-08: Aran Islands megagravel is moved by storm waves.
2012-05-08: Audiophools! What your hifi rig needs is an atomic clock.
2012-05-07: e4rat: defragment ext4fs to reduce boot time.
2012-05-07: Parse URLs in JavaScript using the DOM.
2012-05-07: IETF ConEx congestion exposure concepts and use cases.
2012-05-07: RFC 6297: a survey of lower-than-best-effort transport protocols.
2012-05-07: Exploring delay-based congestion control.
2012-05-07: Recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions.
2012-05-07: Electoral reform a year after the AV referendum: most people support PR; a fifth support FPTP.
2012-05-07: TCP sucks: latency-based congestion control (as in uTP) is better.
2012-05-06: Peter Zotov: (a bit of) whitespace.
2012-05-06: Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematical community.
2012-05-06: All the Earth's water in a sphere.
2012-05-06: Impressive automatic video stabilization available after upload to YouTube.
2012-05-06: Bertrand Russell's ten commandments for teachers.
2012-05-06: Minecraft implemented in Minecraft.
2012-05-06: Everyone panic about drones carrying biological weapons, warns Colonel in charge of keeping London calm for the Olympics.
2012-05-06: ParFunk: How to write hybrid CPU/GPU programs with Haskell.
2012-05-05: What is the 21st Century blackboard?
2012-05-05: The London Mayor thing. The Ken thing.
2012-05-05: The realisation dawns that the axioms of the Black-Scholes equation are wrong.
2012-05-05: Teknische Universität München mathematics department cancels all Elsevier subscriptions.
2012-05-05: Debugging node.js memory leaks.
2012-05-05: Police strategy in New York: violence and sexual assault against peaceful protestors.
2012-05-05: Lotte Time Lapse: Birth to 12 years in 2 min. 45.
2012-05-05: Hair: the unsightly keratin-based proof that you have gone through puberty.
2012-05-04: 2.11BSD patch archive.
2012-05-04: DARPA shredder challenge.
2012-05-04: BT said in 2004 that it would cancel Cleanfeed if it were pressured to extend the scope of its filtering beyond child porn.
2012-05-04: Why you should keep your NFC card in a tinfoil wrapper.
2012-05-04: Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber, creators of the ARM: the accidental chip.
2012-05-04: A neat proposal for a better way to edit text on an iPad.
2012-05-04: Cost-effectiveness of healthcare in different countries.
2012-05-04: Transparency DCMS style: secret plans for UK net censorship.
2012-05-04: UK Pirate Bay block initiates Streisand Cascade, drives record traffic, popularises VPNs.
2012-05-04: Cambridge local elections: results and prognosis.
2012-05-04: Judge: An IP address doesn't identify a person, and mass BitTorrent cases should be rejected.
2012-05-04: How Inktomi lost to Google.
2012-05-03: PHP developers remove a crucial CGI security check to make their test suite work. (CVE-2012-1823)
2012-05-03: A modern BNF-style regex for matching email addresses.
2012-05-03: We don't have to choose between freedom and copyright.
2012-05-03: DRCS: a distributed version control system for wide-area networks based on RCS and UUCP.
2012-05-03: The great auroral storm of 1859: the week the Sun touched the Earth.
2012-05-03: An early article on the Acorn RISC Machine, including ARM1 die photo and floorplan.
2012-05-03: Sophie Wilson describes the ARM in comp.arch, 1988.
2012-05-03: Tories speak out in support of Rupert Murdoch.
2012-05-03: 25 years of the Swiss TLD .ch.
2012-05-03: Visualizing English word origins.
2012-05-03: Probabilistic data structures for web analytics and data mining.
2012-05-03: How to avoid making more racist as campaigns.
2012-05-02: Common Lisp: the untold story.
2012-05-02: The protection of freedoms act 2012.
2012-05-02: All research funded by UK government to be open access.
2012-05-02: Imperial College open access fund.
2012-05-02: The bleak future of the Irish university.
2012-05-02: Discussion of the world population distribution maps.
2012-05-02: World land and water distribution by latitude and by longitude.
2012-05-02: World population distribution by latitude and by longitude.
2012-05-02: Supermoon Saturday: full moon and perigee coincide.
2012-05-02: MillionShort: search the long tail by cutting out the top sites.
2012-05-02: Android ported to C#.
2012-05-02: Display latency can be larger than transatlantic packet delivery time.
2012-05-02: Designing and implementing a deployable multipath TCP.
2012-05-01: FBI "terrorist" infiltration, attempted entrapment, and failure.
2012-05-01: Multipath TCP.
2012-05-01: Jellyfish: networking data centers randomly.
2012-05-01: SPDY performance on mobile networks.
2012-05-01: TV Calendar: episode listings guide.
2012-05-01: In praise of bokeh: how new technology is changing the visual style of news.
2012-05-01: Norman Ramsey's Nobel Prize lecture on his resonant cavity used in atomic clocks.
2012-05-01: Agalmics: the marginalization of scarcity.
2012-05-01: The Manfred Macx media diet.
2012-05-01: Logica report on their electronic vote counting system for Scottish local elections.
2012-05-01: STV in the Scottish local elections.
2012-05-01: Monthly rainfall deficit over the last three years.
2012-05-01: Which party do you agree with the most, based on their voting record in parliament?
2012-05-01: Standard Time: a performance art project by Mark Formanek.
2012-05-01: Labour-intensive live-action digital clock.
2012-05-01: Millau viaduct / Miaow viaduct.
2012-05-01: The UK intellectual property regime is one of the world's worst for consumers.
2012-05-01: Huntingdon Road reduced speed limit consultation.
2012-04-30: LuaJIT module for controlling the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins.
2012-04-30: Answers to Rob Pike's obscure Unix trivia quiz.
2012-04-30: The stupendous insanity of the London 2012 Olympics.
2012-04-30: The DNS in 2000: are we overloading the saddlebags on this old horse?
2012-04-30: ... just put it in the DNS.
2012-04-30: Defending against BGP man-in-the-middle attacks.
2012-04-30: Stealing the Internet: a routed wide-area man-in-the-middle attack.
2012-04-30: How much chocolate can you put on a gingerbread man before you have to pay VAT?
2012-04-30: PolarSSL security advisory: weak key generation.
2012-04-30: Microsoft Exchange does not log SMTP transactions by default.
2012-04-30: Rob Pike's hard unix trivia quiz from 1984.
2012-04-30: GSOC 2012: a LuaJIT back-end for ClojureScript.
2012-04-29: Google Street View wardriving was intentional.
2012-04-29: UTF-8 everywhere.
2012-04-29: Introduction to TRILL / RBridges.
2012-04-29: Network layer protocols with Byzantine robustness.
2012-04-29: Peak Telecoms.
2012-04-29: TRILLapalooza: replacing ethernet's spanning tree protocol.
2012-04-29: Of MP3 players and Apple complacency.
2012-04-28: Parsing mixfix operators.
2012-04-28: Lots more music for programming.
2012-04-28: An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app.
2012-04-28: SOAP: The S stands for Simple.
2012-04-28: Bobby Tables: A guide to preventing SQL injection.
2012-04-28: Comcast rolls out native IPv6 support for home networking with DHCPv6.
2012-04-27: Security implications of IPv6 on IPv4-only networks.
2012-04-27: Jeremy Hunt’s handling of the NewsCorp/BSkyB deal was unlawful.
2012-04-27: Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin split.
2012-04-27: Apple vs. Samsung: a visual guide to Apple's trademark claims.
2012-04-27: Key tests for Skylon British spaceplane project.
2012-04-27: Classic maths books typeset with LaTeX on Project Gutenberg.
2012-04-27: Have Oracle screwed up the Java copyright registration on which their lawsuit with Google is based?
2012-04-27: Demovibes: electronic grooves from the demoscene.
2012-04-27: Microsoft patches widely-exploited Hotmail password reset bug.
2012-04-27: SPF deployment survey: feedback for the IETF SPF spec revision.
2012-04-27: The cynical agile and scrum dictionary.
2012-04-27: Portal 2 soundtrack.
2012-04-27: Computer-generated journalism.
2012-04-27: Examples of evolution in humans.
2012-04-27: Gawker's new commenting system aims to elevate the discourse about frogs who sit like humans.
2012-04-27: musicForProgramming();
2012-04-26: Gawker supports pseudo-anonymous accounts and collaborative moderation.
2012-04-26: Labour IT mandarins tried to help Microsoft scuttle open standards policy.
2012-04-26: UK government to re-run open standards consultation since the chair was secretly skewing it in favour of Microsoft.
2012-04-26: All electronic voting systems are complete garbage.
2012-04-26: Glencore: the giant commodities trader operating at the margins of what is legal.
2012-04-26: Agatha Heterodyne's "Spark Roast" coffee engine.
2012-04-26: A survey of smart phone power efficiency.
2012-04-26: Google refused to buy a Java licence to avoid being held back by Sun's standards bureaucrats.
2012-04-26: On the limits of the use cases for authenticated encryption.
2012-04-25: The invention of jaywalking.
2012-04-25: Burrows-Wheeler Aligner: an efficient nucleotide sequence search tool.
2012-04-25: Using the Burrows Wheeler Transform as an efficient exact-match substring index, for finding DNA fragments.
2012-04-25: Cambridge University Library open catalogue data.
2012-04-25: Harvard puts metadata for 12 million library items into the public domain.
2012-04-24: The development of the signage typeface Wayfinding Sans Pro.
2012-04-24: Harvard encourages open access on cost grounds, and supports boycotts of closed journals.
2012-04-24: IPv6 now deployed across entire T-Mobile US network.
2012-04-24: "That's why you don't have any friends."
2012-04-24: Hacker News discussion on how to avoid bad Mac OS X disk performance.
2012-04-24: A cartoon intro to the Korean writing system.
2012-04-24: Something is deeply broken in Mac OS X virtual memory management.
2012-04-23: Privatisation is a modern enclosure movement.
2012-04-23: A survey of stellar motion is inconsistent with the dark matter theory.
2012-04-23: How to cope with the Gmail redesign.
2012-04-23: First steps with the Raspberry Pi: what works / what doesn't yet.
2012-04-22: State of Flux: NASA images of change.
2012-04-22: Speech crime and thought crime in the USA.
2012-04-22: What does Twitter know about me? Results of a data subject access request.
2012-04-22: Belgian political scandal prompts interesting discussion of sexual harassment.
2012-04-22: Discussion of Apple Disk ][ and RW18 fast disk driver.
2012-04-22: Interview David Rees, the Proust of pencil sharpeners.
2012-04-22: Worm propagation strategies in an IPv6 internet.
2012-04-21: PHP hammer.
2012-04-20: IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight lithium-air battery.
2012-04-20: Drug companies fight over patents rather than work on Hepatitis treatment.
2012-04-20: Cameron and the civil service coup.
2012-04-20: People who don't know how to spell "Cologne".
2012-04-20: Scale Something: How Draw Something rode its rocket ship of growth.
2012-04-20: Scaling: it's not what it used to be.
2012-04-20: URL handlers on OS X.
2012-04-20: Splitting the electron into spinon and orbiton quasiparticles.
2012-04-20: A review of the Lytro camera.
2012-04-20: Telephone vs Internet peering and settlements.
2012-04-19: Pioneer deceleration anomaly solved!
2012-04-19: The ongaonga or tree-nettle of New Zealand.
2012-04-19: The Gympie-Gympie stinging tree can cause months of excruciating pain for unsuspecting humans.
2012-04-19: OpenSSL heap corruption security advisory.
2012-04-19: ShadowStats.com response to Bureau of Labor Statistics article on CPI misconceptions.
2012-04-19: Addressing misconceptions about the US consumer price index.
2012-04-19: US standard of living has fallen more than 50% since 1970.
2012-04-19: The non-libertarian FAQ.
2012-04-19: Will OpenFlow really be the Android of networking?
2012-04-19: Selecting some MPs by lottery may improve parliament.
2012-04-18: The fairytale world of the Faroe Islands.
2012-04-18: Rise of "forever day" bugs in industrial systems threatens critical infrastructure.
2012-04-18: Google and OpenFlow.
2012-04-18: FreeBSD slaughters Linux in this authoritative DNS performance benchmark.
2012-04-18: Dense anycast deployment of L-root DNS authority servers.
2012-04-18: dnSSexy: a DNSSEC-verifying authoritative proxy, based on NSD.
2012-04-18: DNSSEC: dealing with resolvers that can't receive UDP fragments.
2012-04-18: Microsoft is holding back the secure web with lack of support for TLS SNI on XP.
2012-04-18: Modern maps of 18th century shipping.
2012-04-18: An improved level-of-pain chart.
2012-04-18: Latest issue of the .at report features DNSSEC and yours truly.
2012-04-18: JANET tecnical guide: designing reliable mail systems.
2012-04-18: Make everything OK .com
2012-04-17: The difference between UI and UX explained through the medium of breakfast cereal.
2012-04-17: Tricky arithmetic.
2012-04-17: Men-ups! Men in classic pinup poses.
2012-04-17: The evolutionary advantages of middle age.
2012-04-17: Think like a penis enlargement spammer and you can talk about Londinium MMXII in your ads as much as you want.
2012-04-17: Cognitive media, who do whiteboard animated illustrations for talks.
2012-04-17: Olympics venues step up the war against photography.
2012-04-17: The "profile" link relation tackles media type proliferation in RESTful web APIs.
2012-04-16: Nice video visualisation of TCP packet flow.
2012-04-16: GMail: anti-abuse at scale.
2012-04-16: "What's the difference between hams who know Morse and programmers who know C? The C programmers have a point."
2012-04-16: The DoJ's badly-targeted ebook lawsuit.
2012-04-16: Economy killers: inequality and GOP ignorance.
2012-04-16: Visualizing WiFi signal strength through space with a bar of lights and long exposure photography.
2012-04-16: Seizing the wrist and re-understanding the Internet.
2012-04-16: Swedish municipalities with DNSSEC.
2012-04-16: The problem of handling local timezones consistently across platforms.
2012-04-16: unluac: Lua 5.1 bytecode decompiler.
2012-04-16: DNSSEC experiences at Cambridge.
2012-04-16: Recent advances in IPv6 security.
2012-04-16: Ice crystal lattices.
2012-04-16: Want to cleanse your city of its poor? Host the Olympics!
2012-04-15: A Programming Language by Ken Iverson. (PDF scan of 1962 book)
2012-04-15: Americans are moving back from the suburbs to the cities.
2012-04-15: For every American soldier killed abroad, 25 veterans commit suicide.
2012-04-15: Which party will win the anti-politics vote?
2012-04-15: Why airport security is broken, and how to fix it.
2012-04-15: C++11 standard (with fixed typos).
2012-04-15: NIRA: a new interdomain routing architecture.
2012-04-15: Interdomain multipath routing.
2012-04-14: Ask-for-forgiveness programming: how we might program 1000 cores.
2012-04-14: Demonstrate multi-device responsive website design on the desktop.
2012-04-14: Calling someone a cunt on Twitter is a crime that will get you locked up.
2012-04-14: Lobbyists wreck the government's moves towards freely licensed open standards.
2012-04-14: The benefits of giving up patent protection outweigh the risks of surrendering a share of the market.
2012-04-14: Lord Justice Laws vs former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey.
2012-04-14: Fifty things to do before you're 11¾.
2012-04-14: The Twitter languages of London.
2012-04-13: Olympics branding police impose heavy restrictions on most UK businesses.
2012-04-13: How computers are creating a second economy without workers.
2012-04-13: A children's book about Ada, the first programmer, and Mary, the first sf writer.
2012-04-13: Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees.
2012-04-13: US government report on IP does not say what the MPAA thinks it does.
2012-04-13: They almost built a life-size model of the starship Enterprise in Las Vegas.
2012-04-13: UK Information Commissioner "highly unlikely" to enforce law requiring consent to store cookies.
2012-04-13: IPv6 TLD hall of shame.
2012-04-13: Jitsi SIP softphone now has DNSSEC support.
2012-04-13: Intel 910 PCIe SSD: eye-watering performance at an eye-watering price.
2012-04-13: Rack-mountable data center support staff.
2012-04-13: Book price agreements at risk in the German-speaking world.
2012-04-13: Corrupt British spies and complicity in torture.
2012-04-13: London Underground's unique species of mosquitoes.
2012-04-13: The curse of the upside-down apostrophe.
2012-04-13: Death to Microsoft Word.
2012-04-13: Rendering a map of the world.
2012-04-13: Still Scrambling For Safety.
2012-04-12: In lab experiments we show that swarms of soldier crabs in a maze can implement logic gates.
2012-04-12: Shadow Cyclist vs Bus: excellent Lothian Buses training video.
2012-04-12: Canada Post sues GeoCoder.ca for copyright infringement over GeoCoder's crowdsourced postcode database.
2012-04-12: Britain's silent scandalous epidemic of people too poor to afford food.
2012-04-12: How PCs boot.
2012-04-12: Scrambling for Safety: conference against UK government snooping, 24th April at LSE.
2012-04-11: A recursive network architecture.
2012-04-11: The design of a routing service for campus-wide internet transport. (1981)
2012-04-11: Nyan Waits.
2012-04-11: The Rust programming language object system.
2012-04-11: The crisis in American walking.
2012-04-11: Here comes the pun: why playful language matters.
2012-04-11: Hyperaddictive stupid games.
2012-04-11: Sirpent: a high-performance internetworking approach. (1989)
2012-04-11: Seat Assignment: lavatory self-portraits in the Flemish style.
2012-04-11: What an app can do with "no permissions" on Android.
2012-04-10: Tiny Transactions on Computer Science: scholarship in 140 characters or less.
2012-04-10: Comparing price/user and price/employee of Instagram and other tech buyouts.
2012-04-10: More than you ever wanted to know about goatse. (SFW!)
2012-04-10: LuaProxy: manipulate an isolated Lua state with Lua (rather than C).
2012-04-10: Declarative GUIs with Lua and Motif.
2012-04-10: More on the insurmountable technical problems of LightSquared.
2012-04-10: Wall Street "vulture" loses $14 billion bet against the laws of physics. (LightSquared cell towers would not wreck GPS?)
2012-04-10: Addressing in internet protocols.
2012-04-10: PHP: fractally bad design.
2012-04-10: AnonWhois.org provides a list of domains with cloaked whois data.
2012-04-10: Mosh: the mobile shell.
2012-04-09: Why does the government always get Internet policy wrong?
2012-04-09: The Guardian loves Eastercon.
2012-04-09: Text from dog.
2012-04-09: Commodore: Computers for the Masses.
2012-04-09: Forbes obituary of Jack Tramiel.
2012-04-09: Commodore before Commodore.
2012-04-09: Smart meters teach electricity companies about computer security the hard way.
2012-04-09: FCC report on DNSSEC implementation practices for ISPs.
2012-04-09: European Commission's Civil Liberties Committee passes bill that will criminalise computer security tools.
2012-04-09: The Swedish CCDP: focussing on the limits of technical privacy protections harms political protections.
2012-04-09: Beard letters.
2012-04-09: Linux + MySQL swap insanity and NUMA.
2012-04-09: An introduction to petname systems.
2012-04-09: Killer homoeopath Francine Scrayen doesn't understand the Streisand Effect.
2012-04-08: You can't P2P the DNS and have it too.
2012-04-08: The hideous name.
2012-04-08: Mirrors: design principles for meta-level facilities of object-oriented programming languages.
2012-04-08: Everyone who is actually involved in producing software knows that patents are a blight on the industry.
2012-04-08: People make poor emergency backups for computerized dynamic systems.
2012-04-08: British security services initiated extraordinary rendition.
2012-04-08: Julia presented at Lang.NEXT 2012.
2012-04-08: A first look at MintChip's hosted API's crypto.
2012-04-08: FOI request for Theresa May's Internet history.
2012-04-08: It should not be illegal to be a stupid racist bastard on Twitter.
2012-04-08: We should not trust the security forces with sweeping new powers of surveillance.
2012-04-08: Demoscene: The Art of the Algorithms.
2012-04-08: DNS problems and alternatives.
2012-04-08: UK surprised to find out after 10 years of close co-operation how bad Uzbekistan is.
2012-04-08: Static analysis of an unknown compression format.
2012-04-08: Hash Functions.
2012-04-08: Unix password security: a case study. (1979)
2012-04-07: Scroogled. A creepy story by Cory Doctorow.
2012-04-07: Another instance of photographic copyright infringement by the Daily Mail.
2012-04-07: Gov.uk web design principles.
2012-04-07: Appeals court rejects Viacom's DMCA arguments against YouTube.
2012-04-07: Google Maps exodus continues: Wikipedia mobile apps switch to OpenStreetMap.
2012-04-07: Shadchen: pattern matching for Emacs Lisp.
2012-04-07: A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering.
2012-04-07: Keeping Instagram up with a million new users in 24 hours.
2012-04-07: How to count a billion distinct objects using only 1.5KB of memory.
2012-04-06: If Oracle wins its Android suit, everyone loses.
2012-04-06: How a global temperature projection published in Science in 1981 matches real data since then.
2012-04-06: The uncertainty in the realization and dissemination of the SI second from a systems point of view.
2012-04-06: The beer game, supply chain efficiency, and why Apple manufactures in China.
2012-04-05: A level grade inflation: A national disgrace.
2012-04-05: London Olympics trying to get musicians to work for nothing.
2012-04-05: UK Borders Agency brings back dental X-rays to identify children, previously stopped as breach of medical ethics.
2012-04-05: Petition against government snooping.
2012-04-05: The future of US oil production.
2012-04-05: There aren't any security reasons to introduce secret courts.
2012-04-05: The Daily Mail uses and abuses its female writers.
2012-04-05: Amazon.co.uk pays no tax.
2012-04-05: Author Chris McGrath faces six figure legal bill for his foolish libel suit.
2012-04-05: Automatic porn censorship legislation under consideration in the House of Lords.
2012-04-05: Lansley's attack on abortion: expensive, disruptive and unjustified.
2012-04-05: Connecticut Senate votes to repeal death penalty.
2012-04-05: MintChip: the Royal Canadian Mint's electronic currency.
2012-04-05: A turning point for GNU libc.
2012-04-04: The byte order fallacy.
2012-04-04: The end of secure computing on general-purpose hardware.
2012-04-04: Lessons in stable corporate structure from John Lewis and the Halifax.
2012-04-04: Notes from the Lib Dem conference call on communications interception.
2012-04-04: Privacy law vs. government surveillance.
2012-04-04: World War 3.0: regulating the Internet.
2012-04-04: When computers were women.
2012-04-04: Cambridge central post office to be refitted owing to lack of postal facilities.
2012-04-04: Amazing chalk+blackboard typography.
2012-04-04: Google uses reCAPTCHA to fix OCR errors and identify house numbers from Street View.
2012-04-04: A one-line software patent.
2012-04-04: Is Firefox slim yet? Graphs of memory usage benchmarks.
2012-04-04: What is the meaning of this? (JavaScript)
2012-04-04: UK Serious + Organized Crime Agency takes down website for copyright infringement. (Less ranting more details please?)
2012-04-04: The way of the peaceful parent.
2012-04-04: Clegg shows shocking signs of not actually being a Tory.
2012-04-04: Confusion over warrants, surveillance powers and intrusive access to traffic data.
2012-04-04: The general authorisation regime for public and private communications networks and services in the UK.
2012-04-04: There's a sucker born every minute in Shepherds Bush.
2012-04-04: Deconstruction of the government surveillance dissembling.
2012-04-04: How not to sort by average rating.
2012-04-04: Pratt parsers: expression parsing made easy.
2012-04-04: The wheels are coming off the online monitoring bandwaggon.
2012-04-04: On the expressive power of programming languages.
2012-04-04: Shiny new legislation on communications data.
2012-04-04: Liberal Democrat MPs stand up for data privacy.
2012-04-04: Australian report against the war on drugs.
2012-04-03: Bob the Angry Flower in Atlas Shrugged 2: one hour later.
2012-04-03: DRM: a whip for beating authors and publishers.
2012-04-03: Atlas Shrugged 2: shrug harder.
2012-04-03: Richard Feynman and computation.
2012-04-03: In praise of plain text data files and protocols. (Also featuring really bad XML.)
2012-04-03: ORG notes on government surveillance plans.
2012-04-03: Poles find out more about secret CIA prisons that violated Polish constitution.
2012-04-03: Bloke called Merlin abuses bloke called Fish for having an implausible name.
2012-04-03: Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why?
2012-04-03: Munich mayor says switch to Linux is cheaper and reduced complaints.
2012-04-03: DNSSEC validator extension for Internet Explorer.
2012-04-03: The future of HTTP in Python.
2012-04-03: More urgency required to get 32 bit AS numbers working.
2012-04-03: Are you sure you want to look at prospective employees' Facebook accounts?
2012-04-03: The management problems that led to the bad mirror in the Hubble space telescope.
2012-04-02: Computer science for the rest of us. (See also Kernighan "D is for Digital".)
2012-04-02: Traditional hospital rotas put lives at risk.
2012-04-02: What the Betamax case teaches us about Readability.
2012-04-02: The fireplace delusion.
2012-04-02: The credit rating agencies do not know what they are talking about, nor even what their ratings mean.
2012-04-02: Random hash functions, or, more NaN lunacy.
2012-04-02: See the Tory u-turn on civil liberties.
2012-04-02: The communications snooping plans: time to get campaigning.
2012-04-02: Julian Huppert on safeguards to control state surveillance.
2012-04-02: Nick Clegg declares his support for the government's distributed snooping database.
2012-04-02: Humans: hot, sweaty, natural-born runners - the evolutionary biology of persistence hunting.
2012-04-02: CC Movie vs. infinite copyright.
2012-04-02: Privacy International FAQ on the "Communications Capabilities Development Programme" aka routine warrantless surveillance.
2012-04-02: Why Lua should not have slices, and some performance observations of Python.
2012-04-02: Proposals for real-time monitoring of email and social media show the government has caved in to the security services.
2012-04-02: The digital sundial at the Genk sundial park in Belgium.
2012-04-02: Digital sundials for sale.
2012-04-02: World's most accurate scope, nixie, and flip clocks.
2012-04-02: Why states fail. (Will the extractive 1% impoverish us?)
2012-04-02: Most cancer "discoveries" cannot be reproduced.
2012-04-02: How Linux is changing lives in Zambia.
2012-04-01: The national security and anti-terrorism party.
2012-04-01: Nigeria Google.
2012-04-01: The pirates who are fighting for your vote.
2012-04-01: Girls put off coding by peer pressure.
2012-04-01: Government plans to introduce more Internet snooping in the next Queen's speech.
2012-04-01: Parliamentary privacy committee says Google, Twitter, etc. should enforce superinjunctions.
2012-04-01: What if carpenters had forums like camera geeks?
2012-04-01: Landlord turns tables on anti-abortion harassment.
2012-03-31: Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an Age of Folly.
2012-03-31: Copyright stagnation.
2012-03-30: Phonetic hashes for fuzzy matching names.
2012-03-30: More evidence that pesticides are killing bees.
2012-03-30: More on the EU criminalisation of hacking tools.
2012-03-30: "Servo" next generation browser layout engine design.
2012-03-30: Roy Fielding's "Waka" proposal for HTTP/2.0.
2012-03-30: Comments on Microsoft's SPDY proposal.
2012-03-30: Train wreck: the privatization of British Rail.
2012-03-30: People, Power, Area: how the laws of physics constrain our sustainable energy options. (TEDx vid)
2012-03-30: Mitigating DNS denial of service attacks.
2012-03-29: A Woman's Story.
2012-03-29: EU plans to criminalize security research.
2012-03-29: A new television series of Yes, Prime Minister.
2012-03-29: Copenhagen's bicycle account says cycling is a net gain to society and driving is a net loss.
2012-03-29: Kiva Systems order fulfillment robots. (YouTube)
2012-03-29: EU To criminalise hacking tools.
2012-03-29: DNSSEC deployment in .nl
2012-03-29: The case for fair trade porn.
2012-03-29: IETF hotel WiFi re-engineering.
2012-03-29: Patents keep assistive communication technology clunky and expensive.
2012-03-29: Change of glibc maintainers.
2012-03-28: Wikipedia is rejecting about half of the good contributions by new editors.
2012-03-28: Comparison of graph layout algorithms.
2012-03-28: pandoc2rfc: low-markup IETF document tool.
2012-03-28: Elephant plays with a smartphone. (YouTube)
2012-03-28: UK speech crime: What can't you say on Twitter?
2012-03-28: Finding IPv6 hosts by efficiently mapping ip6.arpa.
2012-03-28: 8-bit PC can run Ubuntu… takes about 6 hours to boot.
2012-03-28: A fan site about the ATS programming language.
2012-03-28: Hacker News discusses BitC, Rust, and Go.
2012-03-28: Optimizing for V8.
2012-03-28: A profile of the mathematical genius Amalie Noether.
2012-03-28: The (LEGO) Duel. (YouTube)
2012-03-28: Ursula Le Guin on the supposed death of the book.
2012-03-28: Headblade: razors for scalps.
2012-03-28: Touring DNS open houses for trends and configurations.
2012-03-28: Put more entropy at the start of your key names for better Amazon S3 performance.
2012-03-28: Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and Sealand, the world's smallest nation.
2012-03-28: Bespoke fitted hat making with a conformateur and a formillon.
2012-03-28: The best birth control in the world is for men.
2012-03-27: Erasure coding makes files more fragile, not less.
2012-03-27: Twitter's pull-to-refresh patent.
2012-03-27: A linguistic history of cocks, dicks, and nuts.
2012-03-27: Android or condom?
2012-03-27: Geek identity, mainstreaming, authenticity, and adulthood.
2012-03-27: News Corporation promoted piracy of pay TV rivals in Australia and other countries.
2012-03-27: After major First Amendment ruling, Boston police settle cellphone recording wrongful arrest lawsuit.
2012-03-27: Why power generators are terrified of solar PV.
2012-03-27: SGI has turned into a patent troll.
2012-03-27: Akamai will offer IPv6 to its customers starting April 2012.
2012-03-27: Pirate Party now a significant political force in Germany.
2012-03-27: A blow for speculative copyright invoicing.
2012-03-27: Linux 3.3: finally a little good news about bufferbloat.
2012-03-27: One drug to shrink all tumours?
2012-03-27: Rainbow: small syntax highlighting library for Javascript.
2012-03-27: Time to renegotiate the European Arrest Warrant.
2012-03-27: CPS makes errors of analysis and judgment in 7% of prosecution cases.
2012-03-27: The tweet police: illiberal courts don't believe in common sense or decency.
2012-03-27: Ontario legalizes brothels on safety grounds.
2012-03-27: Documentation style: declarative or imperative?
2012-03-27: Teratogenic effects of pure evil in ursus teddius domesticus.
2012-03-27: Scalability lessons from YouTube.
2012-03-27: Redis persistence demystified.
2012-03-27: femtolisp: a lightweight robust lisp interpreter built on reusable C libraries.
2012-03-26: A config library for JVM languages.
2012-03-26: Safe elegant configuration files with Scala.
2012-03-26: Explore the fourth dimension on your iPad or iPhone.
2012-03-26: 16-year-old makes working scientific graphing calculator in Minecraft.
2012-03-26: Bike Butterfly.
2012-03-26: A News Corporation company gave money and trade secrets to a hacker site to kill Sky rival ITV Digital with piracy.
2012-03-26: How the TSA handles a plane full of soldiers.
2012-03-26: The cultural clout of young female readers.
2012-03-26: cmonster: a Python wrapper for the Clang C++ parser.
2012-03-26: Racist Hunger Games fans are very disappointed.
2012-03-26: A total disaster for homoeopathy.
2012-03-26: Language-independent sandboxing (in NaCl) of just-in-time compilation and self-modifying code.
2012-03-26: Work-efficient higher-order vectorization.
2012-03-26: Debtris.
2012-03-26: How the Daily Mail conquered Britain.
2012-03-26: The USA must stop wanting good government in the middle east more than the Arabs do.
2012-03-26: How a language can be faster than C.
2012-03-25: Why to prefer gzip not deflate compression for HTTP.
2012-03-25: Retrospective thoughts on BitC.
2012-03-25: The six stages of debugging.
2012-03-25: Legit: git for humans.
2012-03-25: LaTeX for logicians.
2012-03-25: This is what the end of Moore's law looks like: NVidia grumbles about TSMC.
2012-03-24: Governments spending millions for zero-day exploits, keeping them secret from software vendors.
2012-03-24: Google Service Accounts: OAuth 2 certificate-based app authentication.
2012-03-24: Lessons from the Iraq war.
2012-03-24: An efficient scholarly journal.
2012-03-24: A collection of web development cheat sheets.
2012-03-24: The wheels come off Toronto's experiment in Tea Party politics.
2012-03-24: US federal agencies still struggling to deploy mandatory DNSSEC.
2012-03-24: Summit Entertainment claims to own the date November 20, 2009.
2012-03-24: Antibiotic over-use means the end of safe medicine.
2012-03-24: ISO lobbies against open standards, but doesn't know what they are.
2012-03-24: Statistical laws governing fluctuations in word use from word birth to word death.
2012-03-24: Perverse incentives and pizza delivery.
2012-03-24: Frustro: the impossible typeface, based on Penrose triangles.
2012-03-23: NFC phones can pull details from contactless cards through wallets and clothes.
2012-03-23: The injustice of minimum alcohol pricing.
2012-03-23: Using a laser and an ultrafast camera to see around corners.
2012-03-23: Optimized strings for Java. (One allocation for header and data, like Lua.)
2012-03-23: m0n0wall: a firewall package based on an embedded unix with init scripts written in PHP and configured with XML.
2012-03-23: Florian Weimer's passive DNS replication software.
2012-03-23: The art of always being right.
2012-03-23: The US Department of Defense computer networks have been completely compromised by foreign spies.
2012-03-23: ISC passive DNS architecture.
2012-03-23: Nine open problems for conjunctive and Boolean grammars.
2012-03-23: Parsing: the solved problem that isn't.
2012-03-23: The proof is trivial!
2012-03-22: Ten million DNS resolvers on the Internet.
2012-03-22: The debunking handbook: a guide to correcting misinformation.
2012-03-22: How not to provide a mobile optimised website AND how not to use QR codes.
2012-03-22: Comcast and Time Warner cable rolling out IPv6 this year.
2012-03-21: Hierarchies of ebook design.
2012-03-21: Perl secret operators and constants.
2012-03-21: 85% of SPF hard fail messages are legit.
2012-03-21: Petition to put Alan Turing on the next £10 note.
2012-03-21: The Millcroft Campanile: a ten bell mini-ring at Willingham in Cambridgeshire.
2012-03-21: Version control timeline.
2012-03-21: Geocities-izer.
2012-03-21: The digital detective: Mikko Hypponen's war on malware is escalating.
2012-03-20: Clay: a language for generic programming.
2012-03-20: Big flaws in web apps that rely on cloud single sign-on.
2012-03-20: Dave Crocker on the history of email.
2012-03-20: The history of email.
2012-03-20: "That's what she really said." Fighting sexist jokes the geeky way!
2012-03-20: An idea for fluid window controls.
2012-03-20: Libya regime change bombing campaign made UN missions to protect civilians less likely.
2012-03-19: Why bcrypt is somewhat better than PBKDF2.
2012-03-19: A brief bit about near misses by asteroid 2012 DA14.
2012-03-19: D is for Digital, by Brian Kernighan.
2012-03-19: Stumped by a problem? This technique unsticks you.
2012-03-19: How to hang a picture using n nails so that removing any k nails makes the picture fall.
2012-03-19: Dance the digital/physical flip-flop: a pattern for art.
2012-03-19: Judge chooses Pi Day to reject lawsuit over attempt to copyright pi as a tune.
2012-03-19: The growth of the Elsevier boycott for open access to scientific journals.
2012-03-19: "Feminism" is making a roaring comeback, thanks to the Republican War On Women: misogyny on steroids.
2012-03-19: Chirpclock: who is mentioning the current time on Twitter.
2012-03-19: Writing with word processors: a research overview.
2012-03-19: Growth in DNS resolvers with IPv6 connectivity.
2012-03-19: UK digital economy dwarfs the creative sector.
2012-03-19: The evolution of character codes, 1874-1968.
2012-03-19: Free Universal Construction Kit: interoperability between construction toys.
2012-03-19: Bilingualism makes you smarter.
2012-03-19: How UK ENUM abuses the DNS.
2012-03-19: Metropolitan Police pay compensation to student who was wrongly arrested for filming buildings.
2012-03-19: The left in the UK is divided between labourism and liberalism.
2012-03-19: About those vector icons.
2012-03-19: Speaking to a technical conference.
2012-03-19: How good is JavaScript?
2012-03-19: Divided We Stand: the polarization of American politics.
2012-03-19: Bank of America: too crooked to fail.
2012-03-18: The future for cash in the UK.
2012-03-18: In Sweden, cash is king no more.
2012-03-18: In protest, Democrats zero in on men's reproductive health.
2012-03-18: Megaupload seizure order "null and void" says NZ High Court.
2012-03-18: How to explain your game to an asshole.
2012-03-18: How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp.
2012-03-18: Very large RSA public exponents and DNSSEC validator CPU usage.
2012-03-18: When Ulysses S. Grant expelled the Jews.
2012-03-18: What ails the Linux desktop? The wrong kind of freedom.
2012-03-18: 0800Buster: 0800 to geographical number translation.
2012-03-18: Radical biplane design might fly supersonic without the boom.
2012-03-17: World's most annoying business (direct marketing) complains about privacy regulations.
2012-03-17: This might seem silly: "git pull" in Swedish.
2012-03-17: Catholic bishop to hospitals: let women die, that's an order.
2012-03-17: Ranto: learn NOT to speak Esperanto.
2012-03-17: MPAA ratings and the film "Bully".
2012-03-17: The end of Pax Papyra and the fall of Big Paper.
2012-03-17: RSA public exponent size, performance, and DNSSEC.
2012-03-17: Why they didn't use a bloom filter.
2012-03-17: The new iPad's screen under the microscope.
2012-03-17: Single page web apps with Backbone.js.
2012-03-16: Church encodings and the U and Y combinators in JavaScript.
2012-03-16: Diagnosing weird problems: a debugging case study.
2012-03-16: Regulatory Catch 22: distillery regulations in Tennessee.
2012-03-16: Terry Winograd: Thinking machines: Can there be? Are we?
2012-03-16: For every network service, there's an equal and opposite disservice.
2012-03-16: The NSA is building a huge communications interception data centre in Utah.
2012-03-16: Texas loses Medicaid funding owing to anti-contraception lunacy.
2012-03-16: Why software patents are evil.
2012-03-16: How not to attract tourists.
2012-03-16: European Parliament blocks orphan works copyright reform with 113% turnout.
2012-03-16: Correlation between white rice consumption and risk of diabetes.
2012-03-16: MPs should sever links with the Christian charity CARE which co-sponsored 'gay cure' event.
2012-03-16: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world's most beloved computer programmers.
2012-03-16: Make Commodity Beautiful.
2012-03-15: Copyright math. (TED talk)
2012-03-15: Decades of research proves that shorter work hours raise productivity and profits, and overtime destroys them.
2012-03-15: What's really wrong with Goldman Sachs.
2012-03-15: The first press article about the first webcam: the Trojan Room coffee pot camera.
2012-03-15: International domain takedowns for copyright infringement: ICANN to cooperate with global law enforcement.
2012-03-15: What to say to the government in the equal marriage consultation.
2012-03-15: An estimate of the size of Amazon AWS.
2012-03-15: Linear Scan register allocator for the OCaml native code compiler.
2012-03-15: The Microsoft Azure outage: time is a SPOF, leap day doubly so.
2012-03-15: Number misuse, telecommunications regulations, the Internet, and WCIT.
2012-03-14: Cyberwar is still more hype than reality.
2012-03-14: Dave Gorman takes on Flickr's quick permanent deletion DMCA takedown policy.
2012-03-14: Unknown tech company defies FBI national security letter in secret surveillance case.
2012-03-14: Judge orders failed copyright troll Righthaven to forfeit all its copyrights to pay off its debts.
2012-03-14: Why Greg Smith is leaving Goldman Sachs.
2012-03-14: Wrecking crew orchestra. (YouTube)
2012-03-14: Twitter's tales of sexism.
2012-03-14: Carrier-grade NAT address space: 100.64.0.0/10.
2012-03-14: ICANN 43 DNSSEC workshop slides.
2012-03-14: European GDP per region.
2012-03-14: Machine pareidolia: applying a face detection algorithm to antropomorphic objects.
2012-03-14: Yahoo-Facebook patent fight: more than meets the eye.
2012-03-14: A homeless person costs $40,000 a year or more; providing housing is much cheaper.
2012-03-14: A reason insurers won't cover people with pre-existing conditions.
2012-03-14: Stop innovating, please: Kaleidescape loses DVD jukebox case.
2012-03-14: Miles of rail line could be re-opened.
2012-03-14: The possible physics of Angry Birds in Space.
2012-03-14: Encyclopedia Britannica halts print publication after 244 years.
2012-03-14: Why James Whittaker left Google.
2012-03-13: The Fall of the House of Murdoch.
2012-03-13: India uses a compulsory patent licence to reduce cost of anti-cancer drug.
2012-03-13: Going DNSSEC with Unbound and PowerDNS.
2012-03-13: Fukushima was no disaster, no matter how you spin it.
2012-03-13: Olympics 2012: you had better not upset anyone in lockdown London.
2012-03-13: "Influencers" are not the key to viral success: fans are.
2012-03-13: Catholic Church uses US courts to attack paedo priest victim support organization.
2012-03-13: Fake Unicode Consortium
2012-03-12: Train stations are no place for armed police.
2012-03-12: Technology and morality: Apple vs freedom.
2012-03-12: Metaprogramming custom control structures with the C preprocessor.
2012-03-12: UX design tips for iPad apps for small children.
2012-03-12: An alternative to pharmaceutical patents.
2012-03-12: How patent monopolies work in the real world, not the fairyland of the lone inventor.
2012-03-12: Why Monsanto could not believe weeds would develop resistance to herbicide.
2012-03-12: Spanish and German national libraries release bibliographic databases under CC0.
2012-03-12: Edgar Rice Burroughs copyright zombie uses trademark law to prevent derivative use of public domain works.
2012-03-12: Dangerous assumptions and unconscious discrimination.
2012-03-12: The 01:58 rail replacement service from Stevenage, when the clocks go forwards (daylight saving time starts).
2012-03-12: How Labour and Conservative politicians invited News International into government.
2012-03-12: Why is C++ iostreams so amazingly slow?
2012-03-12: time.is: display your time and place.
2012-03-12: Plead "not guilty" and demand a trial, to crash the justice system.
2012-03-12: British banks failed owing to simply lending too much: no CDOs or derivatives to blame.
2012-03-11: Apple launch events usually break live blogging platforms.
2012-03-11: Using an iPad effectively in the classroom: feedback support / overviews with attitude.
2012-03-11: Annotated NHS bill letter from Lib Dem leadership.
2012-03-10: Department of Health still trying to keep reform risk assessment secret.
2012-03-10: What privatised out-of-hours GP service has been like in Cornwall.
2012-03-10: Summary of Windows Azure service disruption on Feb 29th, 2012.
2012-03-10: The not-so-sweet smell of odious sovereign debt.
2012-03-10: £153 to get a licence to hold an Easter egg hunt.
2012-03-10: What free speech really means.
2012-03-10: Consequences of increased resistance in corn rootworm to GM plants.
2012-03-10: Apple causes nice problems for OpenStreetMap.
2012-03-10: Examples of Lisp code typography.
2012-03-09: Chisel: Fossil SCM hosting.
2012-03-09: SPCDNS: a DNS library with Lua binding.
2012-03-09: Boozy Britain, or not: what the media don't tell you.
2012-03-09: Predicting Internet telephony call setup delay.
2012-03-09: The personal analytics of Stephen Wolfram's life.
2012-03-09: The fatal mistake of programming language research is to create a new language.
2012-03-08: load81: a Lua programming environment for children.
2012-03-08: The quest to replace passwords: a framework for comparative evaluation of Web authentication schemes.
2012-03-08: Apple is using OpenStreetMap in iPhoto.
2012-03-08: If you don't feel that International Women's Day is for you …
2012-03-08: Open source military helicopters to fight proprietary lock-in.
2012-03-08: George Dyson's continued downplaying of British computing efforts is tiresome.
2012-03-08: Where is it safe to register a domain name? Which TLDs are independent from the US government.
2012-03-08: SSL and browsers: the pillars of broken security.
2012-03-07: How to get anything past a TSA nude body scanner.
2012-03-07: When full disclosure meets SCADA PLCs.
2012-03-07: History of free birth control in the UK.
2012-03-07: The practical reality of contraception in the USA.
2012-03-07: Five years ago the House of Commons voted for an elected House of Lords.
2012-03-07: Who would have thought that a web taxi firm would have it easier in France than in the US?
2012-03-07: TfL advised engineers to ignore cyclists at killer Kings Cross junction, despite cyclists being 20% of casualties.
2012-03-07: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: a stealth attempt to undermine democracy.
2012-03-07: Why Hayek would have hated software patents.
2012-03-07: Reddit v Hacker News v Twitter.
2012-03-07: A self-organising news site?
2012-03-06: EFF argues in court that Warner Bros bogus DMCA takedowns stifle free speech.
2012-03-06: This time is different: A panoramic view of eight centuries of financial crises.
2012-03-06: Intro to DNS for developers.
2012-03-06: Weapons of mass assignment: Ruby on Rails PHP-style vulnerability. (May 2011)
2012-03-06: The new networked feminism and Limbaugh's spectacular social media defeat.
2012-03-05: Ayn Rand's libertarianism is the ugliest philosophy since the second world war.
2012-03-05: Japanese writing, design and typography.
2012-03-05: Paul Krugmsn on economics in the crisis.
2012-03-05: US government agencies will be required to validate DNSSEC signatures.
2012-03-05: Web site bandwidth. Twitter uses a 4MB framework to transmit a 140 character tweet.
2012-03-05: The human rights statistician.
2012-03-05: Invisible Mercedes. (YouTube)
2012-03-04: Got Mead?
2012-03-04: Agriculture: the worst mistake ever.
2012-03-04: Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France.
2012-03-04: Food marketing is a big lie.
2012-03-04: NHS fairness tsar received £799,000 payment from US private health giant.
2012-03-04: The Raspberry Pi can help schools get with the program.
2012-03-04: Artist and hacktivists sabotage Spanish anti-piracy law.
2012-03-04: Is there still research to be done in programming languages?
2012-03-04: "Forget Your Past": Buzludzha, Bulgaria.
2012-03-04: Why is nobody using X.509 client certificates?
2012-03-04: 60 metre asteroid 2012 DA14 to approach within geosynchronous orbit and may collide.
2012-03-04: A few thoughts on Bell Labs and innovation.
2012-03-04: Nobody wants to learn how to program: teaching how to make computers do new things.
2012-03-04: Police help construction firms to blacklist troublesome workers.
2012-03-04: Cult information centre under attack.
2012-03-04: Mari0: Super Mario Brothers clone with Portal mashup.
2012-03-03: The NY Times explains Londoners.
2012-03-03: Misunderstanding higher education: eight "category mistakes".
2012-03-03: Why the F5 BIG-IP iRules are based on Tcl.
2012-03-03: Fault tolerance in NetFlix's high volume distributed system.
2012-03-03: Spotlight on movie profitability: an excellent data visualisation.
2012-03-02: Copyright lawyers sue patent lawyers for using academic papers to prepare patents.
2012-03-02: Vortex radio modulation could boost wireless capacity "infinitely".
2012-03-02: The impact of Raspberry Pi on the RS website.
2012-03-02: Harmony explained: progress towards a scientific theory of music.
2012-03-02: How the giant patent troll Intellectual Ventures operates.
2012-03-02: "Sorry mate, I didn't see you." The excuse of the dangerous driver.
2012-03-02: UK police to be privatised.
2012-03-02: Fantasy shipping forecast.
2012-03-02: The Washington Post gets taught a lesson about credulous press release churnalism and the need for fact-checking.
2012-03-02: Every car in France must carry a breathalyzer from July 1st.
2012-03-02: ICANN's dodgy ccTLD redelegations in 2005. (The Register)
2012-03-02: How not to sell software in 2012.
2012-03-01: Microsoft Windows Azure cloud service hit by 8 hour downtime due to leap day bug.
2012-03-01: How Red Hat killed its core product to became a billion dollar business.
2012-03-01: Too big to fail: the first 5000 years.
2012-03-01: The 50% tax rate, and tax breaks for entrepreneurs.
2012-03-01: East African internet resilience.
2012-03-01: New speech-jamming gun hints at dystopian future.
2012-03-01: SSL/TLS deployment best practices.
2012-03-01: Programs as proofs: models and types in the lambda calculus.
2012-02-29: Large exponent overflows in Google Go's RSA library, causing godns DNSSEC interop problems.
2012-02-29: US authorities require Verisign to seize Canadian .com subdomain registered via foreign registrar.
2012-02-29: Disputes about bogus automated YouTube DMCA takedowns are judged by the accuser.
2012-02-29: Faster Javascript through category theory.
2012-02-29: Ned Freed describes a few problems in X.400.
2012-02-29: Six real people with mind-blowing mutant superpowers.
2012-02-29: Frank King and the Paternoster Square sundial.
2012-02-29: No right to parody in the UK / the video Olympics Authorities want banned.
2012-02-29: What Raspberry Pi is for: encouraging children to write software.
2012-02-29: News of the World interfered with a murder inquiry.
2012-02-29: Key SOPA/PIPA article censored by bogus DMCA takedown notice.
2012-02-29: Cotton Candy: $200 powerful thumb-sized ARM Linux machine.
2012-02-29: An attempt to gag parliament with a super-injunction covering 7/7 allegations.
2012-02-29: Young women are, like, way ahead of the linguistic curve?
2012-02-28: Profile of a failed Anonymous attack.
2012-02-28: Richer people are less ethical.
2012-02-28: Carmen Sandiego: latina rôle model.
2012-02-28: vsResolver: a validating stub DNSSEC resolver written in Python.
2012-02-28: Principles and objectives for safer cycling in Britain.
2012-02-28: The corrupt relationship between News International and the Met Police becomes clearer.
2012-02-28: How to build a naive Bayes classifier.
2012-02-28: The hue and cry over buying and selling tickets for live music.
2012-02-28: A whole /8 legacy class A block of IP addresses for sale.
2012-02-27: The intelligent argument for legalizing cannabis in California.
2012-02-27: Coerced citations and manipulated impact factors: the dirty tricks of academic journals.
2012-02-27: FCC fires FUD at the idea of a UN-controlled Internet.
2012-02-27: NPR will now avoid "he said, she said" false-balance reporting.
2012-02-27: Regenemies: a regex matching game.
2012-02-27: Petition to stop the beer duty escalator.
2012-02-27: Boycotts and access to back issues of scholarly journals.
2012-02-27: goluago: an implementation of Lua written in Go.
2012-02-27: Why HDDs have a higher failure rate when operated at altitude.
2012-02-27: LuaDNS: scriptable bulk DNS hosting managed with git.
2012-02-27: Imaging the charge distribution within a single molecule using Kelvin probe force microscopy.
2012-02-27: Economists cling to beliefs that no longer apply in an overconnected world.
2012-02-27: The case of the $517 chest x-ray.
2012-02-27: The business of bookmarking: pinboard.in.
2012-02-27: Cities fit for people, on foot as well as on bike.
2012-02-27: Increasing TCP's initial window as standard.
2012-02-27: Google and Microsoft have large TCP initial windows.
2012-02-27: Innovation at Bell Labs.
2012-02-27: The social mobility problem: poor children do badly in most of England's schools.
2012-02-27: Conversation, Twitter, and Susan Greenfield.
2012-02-26: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source.
2012-02-26: The Bechdel Test and the 2012 Oscars. (YouTube)
2012-02-26: Simon Beck makes huge geometric patterns by walking in snow.
2012-02-26: Testing a steam locomotive on the London Underground.
2012-02-26: Feminism.
2012-02-26: Beeb@30: celebrating the 30th birthday of the BBC Micro.
2012-02-26: How to make pseudoephedrine from meth.
2012-02-26: Attacking the Washington DC Internet voting system.
2012-02-26: What happens to the cocaine from making Coca-Cola?
2012-02-26: The sun is setting on Rails-style MVC frameworks.
2012-02-26: Bitcoin & Gresham's Law: the economic inevitability of collapse.
2012-02-25: Why the super-rich love the UK.
2012-02-25: Safecracking for the computer scientist.
2012-02-25: Anti-authoritarianism is deemed a mental health problem.
2012-02-25: Twitter as a vector for disinformation.
2012-02-25: The UN/ITU threat to Internet freedom.
2012-02-25: Teller reveals his magical secrets.
2012-02-25: Designing geared twisty 3D puzzles.
2012-02-25: Can economic growth last? The limits on thermodynamic efficiency.
2012-02-25: A history of multitouch.
2012-02-24: iBooks DRM has been cracked.
2012-02-24: How Olivetti stitched up Acorn.
2012-02-23: How credit card payment processing works, from the online merchant point of view.
2012-02-23: PHP 0+2=4.
2012-02-23: Amazon pulls thousands of ebooks from sale after publisher refuses to reduce prices.
2012-02-23: EFF press release on the failed Astrolabe TZ copyright claim.
2012-02-23: Astrolabe Inc. drop their copyright claims against Olson and Eggert for the TZ database.
2012-02-23: SO_REUSEPORT: scaling multicore servers with high connection rates.
2012-02-23: Cecil/Diesel/Vortex programming languages.
2012-02-23: How bots seized control of a pricing strategy.
2012-02-23: Why do we need academic journals in the first place?
2012-02-23: 333 donations from private healthcare sources totalling £8.3 million given to the Tories.
2012-02-23: Australian National Health and Research Council CEO supports open access and the Elsevier boycott.
2012-02-22: Butter improves brain function?
2012-02-22: Registrars that support end user DNSSEC + DS record management.
2012-02-22: The 4+4 hour sleeping pattern.
2012-02-22: The case for publishing the source code of research software.
2012-02-22: The US music industry is stealing from people who post videos on YouTube.
2012-02-22: According to Fox News, Iran is always a year away from having nukes.
2012-02-22: All dead Mormons are now gay.
2012-02-22: The RIAA is collapsing; the rest of the music industry is thriving.
2012-02-22: The future is not evenly distributed per gender.
2012-02-22: How to brick an electric car.
2012-02-22: Britain fails the maths test.
2012-02-22: how Mailinator compresses email by 90%.
2012-02-22: A better way to teach science than lecturing.
2012-02-21: DNSChef: a highly configurable response-forging DNS proxy.
2012-02-21: Luerl: a version of Lua written in Erlang.
2012-02-21: Valerie Aurora has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
2012-02-21: IE cookie loophole reported in 2010.
2012-02-21: Google bypassing user privacy settings in IE too.
2012-02-21: The problems with hashbangs.
2012-02-21: Twitter to get rid of hashbangs.
2012-02-20: On removing call/cc from Scheme R7RS.
2012-02-20: Sauerkraut Station.
2012-02-20: Mountain Lion safety guide.
2012-02-20: Two Canadian universities to monitor internal email for copyright infringement, which includes sending hyperlinks.
2012-02-20: Infinite copyright: a modest proposal.
2012-02-20: How a papermaker helps preserve civilization.
2012-02-20: Elsevier is doing an unbelievably shitty job of accomplishing its ONE AND ONLY PURPOSE.
2012-02-20: How Forbes stole a New York Times article and got all the traffic.
2012-02-20: Our unrealistic views of death: "aggressive medical treatment can become sanctioned torture."
2012-02-19: How Gordon Moore invented the talent economy on which Silicon Valley is based.
2012-02-19: John Nash's 1955 letter to the NSA on cryptography and computational complexity.
2012-02-19: AMD: what went wrong?
2012-02-19: Examples of misuse of Census 2001 data on religion.
2012-02-19: The Citizens United catastrophe: replacing American democracy with plutocracy.
2012-02-19: PLOT: Programming Language for Old Timers.
2012-02-19: Why we created Julia - a fresh approach to technical computing.
2012-02-19: Origami micro-drones laser-cut from a sheet.
2012-02-19: The Julia programming language.
2012-02-19: Cameron's hospital visit covered up after all the staff treat him like scum.
2012-02-19: Time in the 10,000 year clock.
2012-02-19: Michael Gove says anti-discrimination law does not apply to school curriculum.
2012-02-19: The Mu USB adapter. (Folding UK plug, 1A output.)
2012-02-19: Brilliant UK folding plug finally goes on sale - as a USB wall wart.
2012-02-19: The politicians who will profit from wrecking the NHS.
2012-02-18: Stop paying your jQuery tax.
2012-02-18: Sloppy reporting on the self-driving car.
2012-02-18: Inside the amazing and embarrassing French postnatal "perineal re-education" class.
2012-02-18: How category theory relates to programming language theory.
2012-02-18: Labour broke the state in its manic attempt to set markets free and then prop them up when they inevitably failed.
2012-02-18: Martin Amis's guide to classic video games: 100-proof WTF.
2012-02-18: Another reason for boycotting GoDaddy.
2012-02-18: Labour: an illiberal elitist capitalist party with no taste for democracy and a misplaced paternalism towards the masses.
2012-02-18: Cops spend weeks to seduce 18-year-olds into selling pot, pointlessly ruining their lives.
2012-02-18: The piracy threshold: when honesty becomes too difficult.
2012-02-18: Who is, and is not, invited to Cameron's emergency NHSbill summit?
2012-02-18: SSD performance and reliability drops as feature sizes shrink.
2012-02-18: LSM B-tree: log-structured merge tree storage engine in Erlang.
2012-02-17: Does your smartphone speak your language?
2012-02-17: How to save money on FOI without changing the law.
2012-02-17: Fatigué? Pensif? Triste?
2012-02-17: How Target figured out a teenager was pregnant before her father did.
2012-02-17: First peal by members of the Regent House of the University of Cambridge.
2012-02-17: Nimrod: logfile-based metrics server written in Clojure.
2012-02-17: How Etsy developers manage their test suite.
2012-02-17: Google stealthily exploits bug in Safari to violate users' privacy settings.
2012-02-17: Autometrics: self-service metrics collection at LinkedIn.
2012-02-17: MapReduce patterns, algorithms, and use cases.
2012-02-16: Who can name the biggest number?
2012-02-16: iOS apps and the address book: who has your data, and how they're getting it.
2012-02-16: Why philosophers should care about computational complexity.
2012-02-16: Why all this new stuff was needed in Linux: dynamic change.
2012-02-16: The destructive desktop: Linux in trouble?
2012-02-16: The original (?) greylisting whitepaper.
2012-02-16: Where the Lua programming language is used.
2012-02-16: Britain is neither a religious country nor a secular one, but an interesting mix of both.
2012-02-16: European hosting providers cannot be required to scan their users data for copyright infringement.
2012-02-16: Google Public DNS "no longer experimental" despite lack of DNSSEC support.
2012-02-16: The Sun's journalists change their minds about the Human Rights Act when it might help them protect their informants.
2012-02-16: SSL traffic analysis finds the location you view by sniffing Google Maps tile image sizes.
2012-02-16: Canada bans masked protest; penalty up to 5 years in prison.
2012-02-15: The "undue weight" of truth on Wikipedia.
2012-02-15: A comparison between Misultin, Mochiweb, Cowboy (all Erlang), node.js, and Tornadoweb (Python).
2012-02-15: Department of Health fails to cover up senior staff tax avoidance scheme after lying to Parliament.
2012-02-15: David Cameron knows the drug laws aren't working; his failure to change them is simple cowardice.
2012-02-15: Vintage London.
2012-02-15: Mobile devices to exceed human population this year: about two devices per IPv4 address.
2012-02-15: The cost of knowledge.
2012-02-15: Elsevier boycott grows to 5000+ academics.
2012-02-15: Successful Lisp: how to understand and use Common Lisp.
2012-02-15: Movie lawyers destroy a student project for no Reason.
2012-02-15: When you find something scary in your genome...
2012-02-15: Orange UK blocks access to free speech advocacy site La Quadrature Du Net.
2012-02-15: The Guardian on the Heartland Institute climate denial leak.
2012-02-15: Heartland Institute exposed: internal documents reveal backers and strategy of the climate denial machine.
2012-02-15: Bret Victor: inventing on principle. (Vimeo)
2012-02-15: At last the FCC ditches the LightSquared GPS-jamming cellphone system.
2012-02-15: Tumblr's architecture.
2012-02-15: Lasagna.
2012-02-15: Where to wait for an elevator.
2012-02-15: The golden rule of web site performance.
2012-02-15: Vintage LP stereo banners.
2012-02-14: Popular British insults.
2012-02-14: "Shitstorm" is best German Anglicism of the year.
2012-02-14: Is there sufficient historical evidence to establish the resurrection of Jesus? No.
2012-02-14: A squalid brutal Scientology child labourcamp in Australia.
2012-02-14: The Department for Culture Media and Sport vs. the Intellectual Property Office: good vs. bad policy-making.
2012-02-14: Dutch government planning to relax copyright to allow creative remixes.
2012-02-14: Whitehall accidentally devolved power over British Antarctic territory to Scotland.
2012-02-14: Implementing a DANE DNSSEC-for-TLS validator.
2012-02-14: UK govt has six days to release "extraordiary rendition" prisoner or face war crimes investigation.
2012-02-14: Avoiding and exploiting JavaScript's warts.
2012-02-14: Many "Christian" Brits do not believe in God, or that Jesus was his son, or in the resurrection.
2012-02-14: Why concatenative programming matters.
2012-02-14: The Sun learns a hard lesson about human rights and due process.
2012-02-14: How to spot bad books.
2012-02-14: The late Tony Sale and Colossus, the world's first electronic programmable computer.
2012-02-14: Public-access policies that make research more open result in accelerated progress in science and faster economic growth.
2012-02-14: AT&T expects $100bn real estate windfall from VOIP's smaller space requirements.
2012-02-14: Learning magic in the age of the Internet.
2012-02-14: The mystery of the exploding pig shit.
2012-02-14: Piracy does not affect box office takings in US, but does in countries with delayed releases.
2012-02-12: Beware the CDPATH environment variable.
2012-02-12: Why understanding Chris Lightfoot matters.
2012-02-12: McKinsey and Company: the firm that hijacked the NHS.
2012-02-11: Fuck your Noguchi coffee table.
2012-02-11: Clean up your web app access permissions.
2012-02-10: JITs for free with RPython and PyPy.
2012-02-10: Alan Moore on Guy Fawkes, V for Vendetta, and Anonymous.
2012-02-10: Anatomy of a LEGO minifig.
2012-02-10: NLnet Labs DNSSEC workshop presentation and exercise materials.
2012-02-10: Lower than reprinted press releases and simply making shit up, is the Daily Mail.
2012-02-10: Two cheers for the Eolas patent troll victory.
2012-02-10: Bideford town council prayers ruled unlawful.
2012-02-10: The Economist on the growing Elsevier boycott.
2012-02-10: Proponents of US critical infrastructure security bills worried about being seen to regulate the Internet.
2012-02-10: Patent troll Eolas loses claim to own the interactive web.
2012-02-10: Powers of Ten: the scale of the universe. (Flash)
2012-02-10: The federal research public access act.
2012-02-09: Kiwi helmet law cut cyclist numbers by half.
2012-02-09: The Land of the Free and the Elements of Style: everything in Strunk and White is wrong.
2012-02-09: Homemade collapsible TARDIS.
2012-02-08: London street map distorted to match the Tube map.
2012-02-08: Clarifying TLD syntax requirements, wrt dotted-quad IP addresses and internationalized domain names.
2012-02-08: Enough, already: US copyright law is strict enough, and secret treaties export it worldwide.
2012-02-08: Vixie's attempt to address the "ghost domain" problem. (2010)
2012-02-08: How parking shapes urban form.
2012-02-08: A look back at single-threaded CPU performance.
2012-02-08: Twitter Joke Trial made law look silly.
2012-02-08: United States v Shipp: rape, lynching, habeas corpus, and contempt of the Supreme Court.
2012-02-08: File sharing after the death of MegaUpload.
2012-02-08: Ghost domain names: revoked yet still resolvable.
2012-02-07: Bullet: adventures in a minimally delimited Lisp.
2012-02-07: San Francisco's 19th century telegraphic public fire alarm system.
2012-02-07: Federal appeals court rules California's gay marriage ban is unconstitutional.
2012-02-07: You can't copyright porn, argues BitTorrent defendant.
2012-02-07: Judge Dredd: the Bod TV special.
2012-02-06: Seeing the patriarchy.
2012-02-06: LLBMC, the low-level bounded model checker: a tool for finding bugs in C programs.
2012-02-06: On system rollback and totalised fields: an algebraic approach to system change.
2012-02-06: Will Self thinks the Olympics suck dogshit through a straw.
2012-02-06: How hangovers work.
2012-02-06: Satphone encryption cracked: another failure of secret crypto.
2012-02-06: Many boardroom videoconferencing systems are open to unauthorized remote access.
2012-02-06: FBI / Scotland Yard conference call hacked by Anonymous.
2012-02-06: Encyclopaedia Morningtonia.
2012-02-06: GSL Shell: LuaJIT + GNU Scientific Library.
2012-02-06: Yieldable LPEG: for parsing a dynamic buffer fed from a socket.
2012-02-06: Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome supports equal marriage rights.
2012-02-06: Melton: A static memory leak detector for C programs based on the clang static analyser.
2012-02-06: Fail-Safe C: a memory-safe implementation of the full ANSI C language.
2012-02-06: Regressive tax in the US, state-by-state.
2012-02-06: The Tesla valve: one way flow without moving parts.
2012-02-06: The sociology of drunkenness.
2012-02-05: You will never kill piracy, and piracy will never kill you.
2012-02-05: UK Police hired out to work for private companies.
2012-02-05: The US kills people with drones and fires on the rescuers who arrive at the scene, then goes after mourners at the funeral.
2012-02-05: The decline of the amateur expert.
2012-02-05: Don't store that in a float.
2012-02-05: Four touchscreen-compatible gloves reviewed.
2012-02-05: Can your smartphone stand the cold?
2012-02-05: Maillardet's writing automaton.
2012-02-05: DNSSHIM: hidden master DNSSEC signer. (Java)
2012-02-05: Why did PledgeBank fail when GroupOn and Kickstarter flew?
2012-02-05: Google's horrible January.
2012-02-05: From sand to silicon: the making of a chip.
2012-02-04: Justice Department says prison rape accounted for majority of rapes committed in US in 2008.
2012-02-04: Atheism in America.
2012-02-04: Journals boost their impact factor by asking academics to pad their citations.
2012-02-04: On the ethics, pragmatics, and politics of cryptographic application design.
2012-02-04: Three things Twitter has not got right yet.
2012-02-04: Genetic IP reduces innovation and product development by 20-30%.
2012-02-03: Why Mark Jaquith is an atheist.
2012-02-03: The 64-bit counter-revolution.
2012-02-03: Darkness. (Wonderful 24 hour comic.)
2012-02-03: Why oh why do those nutheads use vi?
2012-02-03: The Prince vs Cariou copyright case has a chilling effect on appropriated images in art.
2012-02-03: Opposition to intellectual property laws is starting to look like a political winner for the Republican party.
2012-02-02: DMARC anti-spam protocol leads to private information leakage.
2012-02-02: On Temple Island Collections v New English Teas, the Westminster bus photograph copyright case.
2012-02-02: It is time for the rebirth of the university press.
2012-02-01: No, that's not snow: pesticides coat California's central valley.
2012-02-01: Some of the world's most beautiful book shops.
2012-02-01: Lua vs Javascript for MediaWiki.
2012-02-01: The Jackdaw database package. (1974) (The current version of Jackdaw is Oracle on Solaris.)
2012-02-01: Lua to be Wikipedia's template scripting language.
2012-02-01: The sky is rising! The growth of the entertainment industry in the Internet age.
2012-02-01: Why Lua?
2012-02-01: The founder of PLoS on the research works act and publishing failed experiments.
2012-02-01: Reducing the retrieval time of scatter storage techniques: Brent's variation on hash tables.
2012-02-01: People are spouting nonsense about Chinese manufacturing.
2012-02-01: Transgender people are completely banned from boarding airplanes in Canada.
2012-02-01: The trouble with popularity: repetitive fun memes crowd out meaningful content.
2012-02-01: Piracy is the new radio: it's how music gets around.
2012-02-01: Linotype: The Film.
2012-01-31: Apache httpOnly cookie disclosure vulnerability.
2012-01-31: Environmental protection rules may be headed for government shredder.
2012-01-31: CuBox: small computer built around Marvell Armada 510 SoC.
2012-01-31: The caffeine curve.
2012-01-31: Sublime threats and ridiculous consequences as the works of 3 great English writers enter the global public domain.
2012-01-31: Tiny Core Linux 4.2 is a complete operating system in 64MB or less.
2012-01-31: GSM tracking: obvious in the UK. (para 46 et seq.)
2012-01-31: How to learn effectively.
2012-01-31: Python pbs: run commands as if they were Python functions.
2012-01-31: Desirability and density of urban design.
2012-01-31: Australia: the confusing country.
2012-01-30: Avoidable failures of peer review.
2012-01-30: A police state for benefits claimants.
2012-01-30: What is a "private-sector research work"?
2012-01-30: How the puffer fish gets you high, zombifies you, and kills you.
2012-01-30: Helmet cam secures conviction of motorist who assaulted cycling QC, despite police attempts to drop case.
2012-01-30: Windows Azure Storage: tackling the CAP theorem head-on.
2012-01-30: How should British vacancies in the European parliament be filled?
2012-01-30: What financial regulators can learn from nuclear reactors.
2012-01-30: Broderick? Broderick?
2012-01-30: Baby clothes without the pink-or-blue.
2012-01-30: The Führer speaks out on Downfall parodies.
2012-01-30: Format string vulnerability in sudo.
2012-01-30: 20th birthday of alt.fan.pratchett.
2012-01-30: The complexity of font sizes.
2012-01-30: American youth becoming even more godless.
2012-01-30: A serious flaw emerges in quantum cryptography.
2012-01-30: DNSSEC libraries for application developers.
2012-01-30: Wall Street Joirnal rejects climate essay from 255 National Academy of Science scientists; accepts anti-climate essay from 16 others.
2012-01-30: Why your network should go IPv6 only.
2012-01-30: The strong principle of charity.
2012-01-30: Really, Google is evil now? How about Apple?
2012-01-29: What is wrong with electronic academic journals?
2012-01-29: The P-versus-NP page.
2012-01-29: The Lancet: the Research Works Act is a damaging threat to science.
2012-01-29: A cold war missile silo converted to a private home in the Adirondacks.
2012-01-29: Google+ nymwar is not a matter of behaviour, it's a matter of aesthetic appearance of names.
2012-01-29: Why Twitter's new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates.
2012-01-29: Single-block collision attack on MD5.
2012-01-29: How the badly maimed BBC can stand up to parasitic Sky.
2012-01-29: Twitter's censorship is a gray box of shame for governments that impose it, not for Twitter.
2012-01-29: Wind electricity to be competitive with cheap natural gas by 2016.
2012-01-29: Inder's kitchen.
2012-01-29: The BBC's science problem.
2012-01-29: Hollywood edition: if computers were as user-friendly as movies.
2012-01-29: What have academic publishers ever done for us? And do we need them?
2012-01-29: IcedCoffeeScript: just add "await" and "defer" keywords.
2012-01-28: The why of WAT.
2012-01-28: Which computers star in which films.
2012-01-28: Our courtrooms make a mockery of "beyond reasonable doubt".
2012-01-28: Megaupload: a lot less guilty than you think.
2012-01-28: Why eating fat doesn't make you fat.
2012-01-28: Discussing the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split.
2012-01-28: The BBC pays Sky to broadcast their channels.
2012-01-28: Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split.
2012-01-28: Why does that QR code take me to justinsomnia.org?
2012-01-28: Universal Music abuses YouTube takedown process preventing independent band from posting their own song.
2012-01-28: Three faces of feminism: Louise Mensch, Laurie Penny, and Jodie Marsh.
2012-01-28: The soaring cost of gritting roads is forcing local authorities to gamble on weather derivatives.
2012-01-27: 1960s password hacks on MIT's CTSS.
2012-01-27: Identity slippage: when sensitive personal data goes to the wrong email address.
2012-01-27: Red bus photo copyright case spells trouble for reverse engineering.
2012-01-27: Let the robot drive: the autonomous car of the future is here.
2012-01-27: Vancouver cuts sexual assaults by targeting anti-rape ads at men.
2012-01-27: iPoo.
2012-01-27: European parliament rapporteur quits and denounces the "masquerade" behind ACTA.
2012-01-27: Smartphone-powered Lego robot beats human Rubik cube record.
2012-01-27: On the computational complexity of video games.
2012-01-27: What can the IETF do when an open spec is ambushed by a patent?
2012-01-27: A small bill in the US, a giant impact for research worldwide.
2012-01-27: ACTA: signed, not yet sealed - now it's up to us.
2012-01-26: Bueller? Bueller?
2012-01-26: Regarding regulation, we are all Internet exceptionalists now.
2012-01-26: The origin of the "Write Only Memory".
2012-01-26: Cars kill cities.
2012-01-26: Building memory-efficient Java applications.
2012-01-26: Copyright encounters of the third kind: physical goods. (2009)
2012-01-26: Beetles dressed as characters from Jurassic Park.
2012-01-25: Initial algebras and terminal coalgebras.
2012-01-25: A self-rendering digital image encoding.
2012-01-25: Photographers who compose a picture in a similar way to an existing image risk losing a copyright infringement lawsuit.
2012-01-25: Tinker Tailor: a guide to the perplexed.
2012-01-25: O2 fix their phone number exposure bug.
2012-01-25: O2 changing web content on the fly, inlining CSS @import.
2012-01-25: Striking a pose like women on fantasy covers.
2012-01-25: Dear Merriam-Webster, your dictionary is RUINING YOUNG MINDS!
2012-01-25: USA .gov DNSSEC deployment status.
2012-01-25: Gibson enquiry into complicity in torture cancelled in favour of a Met Police investigation. The Met say there is no such thing.
2012-01-25: Privacy leaks in mobile phone Internet access.
2012-01-25: How the Glock became America's weapon of choice.
2012-01-25: Large validating ISPs (eg. Comcast) make DNSSEC cockups (eg. NASA) visible and embarrassing.
2012-01-25: O2 send your phone number to every site you visit using their mobile data network.
2012-01-25: Are expensive batteries worth the extra cost?
2012-01-25: Quote Investigator: "The future has arrived — it's just not evenly distributed yet."
2012-01-24: USDA approves Monsanto's utterly useless GM maize - no more drought-tolerant than existing varieties.
2012-01-24: Measuring the speed of light using a microwave oven and cheese. (YouTube)
2012-01-24: Some devops rules.
2012-01-24: Jenga pistol.
2012-01-24: Norwegian Data Inspectorate rules corporate Google Apps breaches data protection law.
2012-01-24: It is landlords, not tenants, getting rich off benefit payments.
2012-01-24: Barack Obama, the post-partisan president, meets Washington gridlock.
2012-01-24: Stringly typed.
2012-01-24: Open source is like improv, so say "Yes, and...".
2012-01-24: SOPA stopped, so back to the ACTA arrête campaign.
2012-01-24: Form letter template for acquired startups.
2012-01-24: A review of the Simtec entropy key: random numbers for crypto.
2012-01-24: Tarantool: a high performance key/value storage server.
2012-01-24: Americans can be forced to decrypt self-incriminating data.
2012-01-24: How parents normalize teen password sharing.
2012-01-24: Patent inflation.
2012-01-24: Google's work to make TCP faster.
2012-01-23: Supply chains, Apple, and the American economy.
2012-01-23: It is time to end the failed war on some drugs.
2012-01-23: £35,000 on the speaking clock is quite reasonable.
2012-01-23: The SCOTUS warrantless GPS tracking decision is a near-optimal result.
2012-01-23: Cambridge is Britain's top city.
2012-01-23: What Google search results would look like if more relevant social network results took the place of Google+.
2012-01-23: The cost of knowledge: researchers taking a stand against Elsevier.
2012-01-23: SCOTUS rule that a warrant is required for GPS tracking of suspects' cars.
2012-01-23: Public speaking for normal people.
2012-01-23: Megaupload could spawn caselaw more destructive than SOPA.
2012-01-23: Another US Internet bill requires ISPs to keep detailed activity logs for 18 months.
2012-01-23: Is Ladies Learning Code awesome and feminist, or just awesome?
2012-01-23: US Customs ban on importing subversive or immoral goods.
2012-01-23: iTerm2 and tmux integration.
2012-01-23: The links between contraception, abortion, and maternal mortality.
2012-01-23: Harbin international ice and snow festival.
2012-01-23: HTML5 please: which parts of the spec are ready for use.
2012-01-23: Oovium: novel multi-touch calculator / spreadsheet for iOS.
2012-01-23: Better living without ads.
2012-01-23: Linux local privilege escalation via writing to /proc/pid/mem of setuid process.
2012-01-22: Security vulnerability in Oracle with deeper architectural implications.
2012-01-22: Old confused man tortured to death by Florida police.
2012-01-22: Copyright and Internet regulation, and the economics of sharing.
2012-01-22: Japanese multiplication. (video)
2012-01-22: Exercise and longevity: understanding the link.
2012-01-22: The copyright industry is putting its faith in god.
2012-01-22: Red flags of quackery.
2012-01-22: The Megaupload indictment, with a crash course in the DMCA and why they're totally fucked.
2012-01-22: The sad death of tactile feedback in car controls.
2012-01-22: "Alien" as told by the cat.
2012-01-22: Foolish attempt to block new nuclear power plants using competition regulation.
2012-01-22: The rise and fall of personal computing.
2012-01-22: Building instructions from LEGO.
2012-01-22: Mighttpd: a high performance web server in Haskell.
2012-01-22: Cartel-like behaviour can emerge naturally without collusion between sellers.
2012-01-22: The secret document that transformed China.
2012-01-22: strcpycat
2012-01-21: International governments using ITU to reduce US (and NGO?) control of the Internet.
2012-01-21: Why iPhones are not made in America.
2012-01-21: HTML5 codec popularity: Theora > WebM > H.264.
2012-01-21: "Publishers are in Amazon's sights and they're going to kill us."
2012-01-21: Rob Pike says rm should remove directories.
2012-01-21: Tim Gowers shuns evil Elsevier.
2012-01-21: Rape is R but consensual sex is NC-17.
2012-01-21: Clarks sexist shoes.
2012-01-21: The SOPA and PIPA demonstrations were a first rough beta test of the power to impact policy online.
2012-01-21: Any musicians noticed that since they shut down MegaUpload, the money has been POURING in?
2012-01-21: They wouldn't demand a longer jail term for streaming a Michael Jackson video than Jackson's own doctor got for killing actual Michael Jackson? Would they?
2012-01-21: A series of articles on Lords reform.
2012-01-21: Keyboard shortcut to break out of screen lockers on recent Xorg.
2012-01-21: Vim for iOS.
2012-01-20: The next SOPA.
2012-01-20: With MegaUpload down, who's next? RapidShare? SoundCloud? DropBox? - TechCrunch
2012-01-20: The non-infringing uses of Megaupload.
2012-01-20: Wat: Ruby and JavaScript misfeatures. (video)
2012-01-20: UK CET bill runs out of time in Commons.
2012-01-20: Live music red tape to be relaxed.
2012-01-20: Revisiting network I/O APIs: the netmap framework.
2012-01-20: Amazon DynamoDB: a fast and scalable NoSQL database service designed for Internet scale applications.
2012-01-20: ITU press release on the decision to revisit the leap second question at the next Radiocommunication Assembly in 2015.
2012-01-20: LEGO instruction booklet scans.
2012-01-20: US statement on leap seconds and the future of UTC.
2012-01-20: Top income tax rate: how does 83% sound?
2012-01-20: Are there fundamental laws of cooking?
2012-01-20: Making system configuration more declarative.
2012-01-20: Anti-employee control fraud: mistreatment of workers at Apple's suppliers.
2012-01-19: Leap second decision postponed to 2015.
2012-01-19: Russ Cox releases key parts of Google Code Search as open source.
2012-01-19: Will 2012 be the dawn of widespread DNSSEC deployment?
2012-01-19: A second here a second there may just be a waste of time. (NY Times front page story on leap seconds.)
2012-01-19: .nz DNSKEY RSA exponent encoding anomaly.
2012-01-19: McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite includes an open proxy.
2012-01-19: 1967 flying clock experiment.
2012-01-19: Rush to sign up for Free Mobile accounts overwhelms French number portability systems.
2012-01-19: World-wide time synchronization, 1966.
2012-01-19: Correlating time from Europe to Asia with flying clocks. (1us precision in 1965.)
2012-01-19: A new performance of the "flying clock" experiment. (Precise time transfer in 1964.)
2012-01-19: Time for decision on removing leap seconds.
2012-01-19: Leap seconds may have only hours to live!
2012-01-19: The murderous insanity of the War on Drugs.
2012-01-19: The ins and outs of gradual type inference for ActionScript.
2012-01-19: Performance of JavaScript vs type inference and ActionScript.
2012-01-19: Internet blackout in 1996 for the Communications Decency Act.
2012-01-19: PIPA supporters violate copyright laws, too.
2012-01-19: Pointer Analysis: haven't we solved this problem yet?
2012-01-19: Wanted: epitaphs for hot topics & retrospectives of academic fads.
2012-01-19: Inside Apple's secretive corporate culture.
2012-01-18: What happens when pirates have a better experience of your product than paying customers.
2012-01-18: Nature Publishing Group does not support the ban on open access to federally funded science.
2012-01-18: The politics (and lies) of the apostrophe.
2012-01-18: NASA blocks release of first sf movie made in space.
2012-01-18: Faster Fourier transforms.
2012-01-18: Marine biologist prosecuted for filming killer whales feeding.
2012-01-18: Notes on reducing Firefox's memory consumption.
2012-01-18: Jacob Rees-Mogg MP proposes to return Somerset to local mean solar time.
2012-01-18: Litigating time in America at the turn of the 20th century. (Describes Curtis v. March.)
2012-01-18: Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS.
2012-01-18: ZEVO: ZFS for Mac OS X.
2012-01-18: The tragedy of the Smurfs.
2012-01-18: Why UEFI secure boot is difficult for Linux.
2012-01-18: Copyright King: you have to pay for "I have a dream".
2012-01-18: Elsevier = Evil: more on the Research Works Act.
2012-01-17: Should evidence determine policy?
2012-01-17: The authoritarian cause will be defeated by its own cognitive dissonance.
2012-01-17: The captain of the Costa Concordia is totally screwed.
2012-01-17: Effective ways to improve school performance.
2012-01-17: Movie posters from another universe.
2012-01-17: Peacock's Tearoom, Ely.
2012-01-17: Delegates at the ITU are expected to vote on the abolition of leap seconds on Thursday or Friday.
2012-01-17: Mistruths and insults from the copyright lobby over the proposal to ban open access publication of federally funded research.
2012-01-17: Is it still possible to extend TCP despite interfering middleboxes?
2012-01-17: Review of Android's Roboto typeface.
2012-01-17: Submarine cable map.
2012-01-17: The first lawsuit to challenge the Payment Card Industry regulations and fines imposed on merchants.
2012-01-17: Quickly! Create this silly Tumblr before anyone else does!
2012-01-17: How the Hammersmith Flyover was cleverly constructed and why it currently has problems.
2012-01-17: Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000: Plover, the open source steno system.
2012-01-16: Spacewalk: Red Hat system provisioning, monitoring, and updating.
2012-01-16: Defining "creepy treehouse".
2012-01-16: Why e-safety isn't part of digital literacy.
2012-01-16: Academic publishers have become the enemies of science.
2012-01-16: Regarding the 5th amendment, is a password something you know or something you have?
2012-01-16: Blue Monday: a depressing day of pseudoscience and humiliation.
2012-01-16: ITU-R WRC-12 news report on UTC.
2012-01-16: Networking needs a VMware: part 1: address virtualization.
2012-01-16: Graph of latency of four million DNS queries.
2012-01-15: Cait Reilly on her campaign for a judicial review of unpaid work for unemployed people.
2012-01-15: Why the US is no longer the land of the free.
2012-01-15: The rise of the new groupthink.
2012-01-13: Name of the Year.
2012-01-13: Node.js/V8 postmortem debugging.
2012-01-13: Advanced DTrace tips, tricks, and gotchas.
2012-01-13: FreeBSD 9.0 release notes.
2012-01-13: Google apologise to Mocality for scamming their customers.
2012-01-13: PayPal feature doesn't exist and no-one knows how it works, says PayPal.
2012-01-13: Royal Society report on computing in schools.
2012-01-13: Google makes fraudulent phone calls to steal business from a Kenya business directory service.
2012-01-13: JNLua: Java <-> Lua bridge.
2012-01-13: China Daily on the abolition of leap seconds.
2012-01-13: EFF demands withdrawal of bogus time zone database lawsuit, Astrolabe v. Olson & Eggert.
2012-01-13: Analysis of DNS setups of Internet2.edu members.
2012-01-13: Microsoft confirms that UEFI secure boot will lock down ARM Windows devices.
2012-01-13: The Economist on the possible abolition of leap seconds.
2012-01-13: Android as we know it will die in the next two years.
2012-01-13: Libtask: a coroutine library for C and Unix.
2012-01-13: Copy elision, the return value optimisation, and passing by value in C++.
2012-01-13: Defining declarative programming.
2012-01-13: Only the Good Die Twice: the only man who can stop Bond ... is Bond.
2012-01-12: BSD-style Sedgewick 2-3 left-leaning red-black tree macros.
2012-01-12: Obituary of Ronald Searle by Nigel Molesworth in the Economist.
2012-01-12: Lua/Linux icons.
2012-01-12: Lualubit: bitwise operator patch for Lua.
2012-01-12: Museum volunteer forced to work unpaid at Poundland instead, in order to keep her job seeker's allowance.
2012-01-12: WhatDoTheyKnow.com: four years and 100,000 FOI requests.
2012-01-12: Why JavaScript will not get coroutines.
2012-01-12: Popular programming languages converge on CLispScript.
2012-01-12: JavaScript needs blocks.
2012-01-12: Good bye, Google Maps… hello OpenStreetMap.
2012-01-11: Intel gets serious about the fight with ARM for the mobile market.
2012-01-11: Guantánamo was a hole into which suspects would for all practical purposes disappear, never to be heard from again.
2012-01-11: Behind the scenes of the Cambridge undergraduate admissions process.
2012-01-11: The complexity of a change is closely correlated to the indentation of the code in the diff.
2012-01-11: Darknet Rising: private, secure and anonmyous meshnets are emerging.
2012-01-11: Out with ICT and in with a British computing renaissance.
2012-01-11: Police anti-protest technology: after the kettle, the cordon.
2012-01-11: Homemade synth: "Kitchen Music" by Stephen J Anderson. (YouTube)
2012-01-11: The iPad has great potential as a tool for teaching programming, if Apple would allow it.
2012-01-11: Congress proposing to ban open access to federally funded research.
2012-01-11: Why Raspberry Pi is not being assembled in the UK.
2012-01-11: Campaign of assassination of Iranian nuclear engineers.
2012-01-11: Rebooting computer science in schools.
2012-01-11: Free.fr disrupts the French mobile market.
2012-01-11: The anatomy of an American hospital bill.
2012-01-11: Android's broken openness promise and its failure to tackle the mobile network operators.
2012-01-11: Your body wasn't built to last: the Gompertz Law of human mortality.
2012-01-11: Rhombus Tech working on faster cheaper ARM board with Chinese SOC manufacturer and open source.
2012-01-11: Map of C++.
2012-01-11: TRESOR runs AES on x86 securely without RAM.
2012-01-11: Gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not calculation.
2012-01-10: the.pm: This is teh, best module evar!
2012-01-10: Common coding mistakes with wide character arrays.
2012-01-10: Comcast completes its DNSSEC deployment.
2012-01-10: An innocent German kidnapped and imprisoned by the US government in Guantánamo.
2012-01-10: An innocent Bosnian kidnapped and imprisoned by the US government in Guantánamo.
2012-01-10: Hedge fund managers take 84% of profits leaving 16% for their clients.
2012-01-10: Stockholm library interior architectural concept.
2012-01-09: The true complexity of Scala.
2012-01-09: Bifferboard: tiny £35 two-board 486SX computer (no graphics or floating-point).
2012-01-09: How Facebook will decline after its IPO.
2012-01-09: Report web sites incorrectly censored by mobile Internet providers.
2012-01-09: Comprehensive experimental analyses of automotive attack surfaces.
2012-01-09: A disturbing Trend: MAPS has lost its way. (We gave up on the RBL+ 2.5 years ago.)
2012-01-09: A warning to ducks.
2012-01-08: Diomidis Spinellis on his Greek Ministry of Finance mind map.
2012-01-08: Dara O'Briain on the Gilette Fusion Power Stealth. (YouTube)
2012-01-08: How Diomidis Spinellis tried and failed to fix Greek tax collection with software.
2012-01-08: A Moore's law for razor blades?
2012-01-08: Shaving product parodies.
2012-01-08: Bigger Than Cheeses on the razor size wars.
2012-01-08: The Onion predicts the Gillette Fusion.
2012-01-08: The restart page: simulated rebooting on vintage operating systems.
2012-01-08: Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes.
2012-01-08: Cello Wars. (YouTube)
2012-01-08: Video and description of pyroclastic flow on Mount Etna a few days ago.
2012-01-08: Obscenity law in doubt after jury acquits distributor of gay pornography.
2012-01-07: Lots of free programming eBooks.
2012-01-06: Solving the Sudoku minimum number of clues problem (=17).
2012-01-06: Sad Etsy kids.
2012-01-06: How SOPA can be used to wreck scholarly publication.
2012-01-06: Minimum viable SEO.
2012-01-06: UK national grid status.
2012-01-06: Punching through the Great Firewall of T-Mobile. (They need to read RFC 5068.)
2012-01-06: Investigating disk erasure using household chemicals.
2012-01-06: The USA is not the "land of opportunity": it is the least socially mobile rich country.
2012-01-06: The obscene publications act has become an anachronism.
2012-01-06: Evolutionary and Monte Carlo AI game design: the Shibumi challenge.
2012-01-06: Which of these drinks will dissolve a mouse fastest?
2012-01-06: Obscenity trial ends with "not guilty" verdict.
2012-01-06: It is time to stop pretending to endorse the copyright monopoly.
2012-01-06: Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency of Windows 8.
2012-01-06: Google+, Tumblr, and the importance of proper attribution.
2012-01-06: Google+ is going to mess up the Internet, says someone who really hates Google+.
2012-01-06: How Rick Santorum's official web site is worse than spreadingsantorum.com.
2012-01-06: The decline of the public good in America.
2012-01-06: Why you might like to read Foreign Affairs magazine this month…
2012-01-05: Le klaxophone. (YouTube)
2012-01-05: Why US cars have poor milage despite advances in fuel economy.
2012-01-05: Mogees: interactive realtime audio mosaicing by gesture recognition using contact microphones on any surface.
2012-01-05: A gross miscarriage of justice in computer chess.
2012-01-05: The depressing state of statelessness: Microsoft's war against thin clients.
2012-01-05: Esther Dyson on the ideals and reality of TLD expansion.
2012-01-05: SOPA protest effect on GoDaddy.
2012-01-05: Google+ is going to mess up the Internet.
2012-01-05: Why do we pay sales commissions?
2012-01-04: Dear Customer, who stuck up for his little brother ...
2012-01-04: Berlin's Pirate Party has "pony time" in their rules of order.
2012-01-04: Benedict Cumberbatch's violin coach for Sherlock.
2012-01-04: Error handling patterns
2012-01-04: Virtual values for extending JavaScript. (Just like Lua userdata metamethods?)
2012-01-04: A nice Apple-style monitor stand and USB hub.
2012-01-04: Live maps of North American power grid frequency and phase variation.
2012-01-04: Encrypted Ubuntu on a MacBook Air.
2012-01-04: Dallol: the world's weirdest volcanic crater.
2012-01-04: Why you should never fly into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
2012-01-04: Why time is difficult. (video)
2012-01-04: Paypal hates violins.
2012-01-04: Ronald Searle & the St Trinian's cartoons.
2012-01-03: Renationalise the railway.
2012-01-03: In Our Time: The Written World - every day this week.
2012-01-03: FaceTime for apes: Orangutans use iPads to video chat with friends in other zoos.
2012-01-03: What we would like to know about the railways over the last 30 years.
2012-01-03: The US presidential primary process is a meaningless sideshow.
2012-01-03: Best of Ronald Searle? the rake's progress.
2012-01-03: TVs are all awful: the horrors of overscan.
2012-01-03: End of the pro-democracy pretense.
2012-01-03: Copyright extension: good for Cliff and the Beatles, bad for the little guys.
2012-01-03: Violinists can't tell the difference between Stradivarius violins and new ones.
2012-01-03: The tactical advantage of the retreat against riot police.
2012-01-03: META: pragmatic parsing in Common Lisp.
2012-01-03: Physicists seek to lose the lecture as a teaching tool.
2012-01-03: Type inference and optimisation for an impure world.
2012-01-03: Obscenity trial will clarify what porn is illegal to publish and posess.
2012-01-03: How not to use symmetric encryption.
2012-01-03: 10% of .se domain names now signed using PowerDNSSEC.
2012-01-03: Microsoft's holodeck research project.
2012-01-02: The Linuxification of software development: platforms shifting to rapid update.
2012-01-02: SF gives us a vocabulary for speaking about the future.
2012-01-02: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett write Crowley and Aziraphale's New Year's resolutions.
2012-01-02: A top ten list of top ten lists of top ten lists.
2012-01-02: Lightweight static resources: sexy types for embedded and systems programming.
2012-01-01: Deca: a higher-level assembly language.
2012-01-01: Hungarian quick sort folk dance.
2012-01-01: De-duplicating streams with reservoir sampling and Bloom filters.
2012-01-01: Lego's various attempts to appeal more to girls.
2012-01-01: Why Obama was forced to sign the NDAA.
2012-01-01: Banks rejecting American customers because of the foreign account tax compliance act.
2012-01-01: Authors entering the Public Domain on 2012-01-01.
2012-01-01: A full-colour homemade laser projector.
2011-12-31: Audiofools and the need to feel special.
2011-12-31: Raiders of the lost archives. (YouTube)
2011-12-31: The dangerous effects of reading.
2011-12-31: A proposal to stress-test implementations of C++11 concurrency.
2011-12-30: Just ordered a ladle from Amazon ...
2011-12-30: The myth of Japan's lost decades.
2011-12-30: Bruce Lee plays pingpong and lights matches with nunchuks.
2011-12-30: What's the deal with RC4?
2011-12-30: Visualizing Reddit ranking with a bumps chart.
2011-12-30: Mob response - think before you weigh in.
2011-12-30: RED in a different light: Van Jacobson on active queue management.
2011-12-30: Take your DNSSEC with a pinch of salt: how authenticated denial of existence works.
2011-12-30: Why movie revenue is dropping.
2011-12-30: Brute forcing Wi-Fi Protected Setup.
2011-12-30: The coming war on general-purpose computation.
2011-12-30: High quality education in Finland.
2011-12-30: Can you explain why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript?
2011-12-30: The development of a storm surge barrier control system - revisiting the seven myths of formal methods.
2011-12-30: Fair use vs appropriation in contemporary art.
2011-12-30: Augmented reality with Processing: a tutorial.
2011-12-30: The incredible true story of the collar bomb heist.
2011-12-30: Some particularly stupid patents.
2011-12-30: The web browser platform should be radically refactored.
2011-12-30: California's equal marriage ban leads to constitutional challenge on tax raising restrictions.
2011-12-30: Digital fireplace.
2011-12-30: Remake: photographic reconstructions of classic art.
2011-12-30: What hackers learn that the rest of us don't: notes on a hacker curriculum.
2011-12-30: Occupy Babel explain LANGSEC in a few slogans.
2011-12-29: Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz.
2011-12-29: Radical honesty.
2011-12-28: Unofficial LEGO advanced building techniques guide.
2011-12-28: Maize rootworm evolves to resist Monsanto Bt corn.
2011-12-28: Google+ fingering profile pictures.
2011-12-28: "Blue hour" twilight photography.
2011-12-27: Lessons from suppressing research.
2011-12-27: The coming retail apocalypse.
2011-12-27: Launching the Kindle Fire in its current state was a mistake.
2011-12-27: The dumbest idea in the world: maximizing shareholder value.
2011-12-27: Why (and how) we've switched from Google Maps to Open Street Map.
2011-12-27: The amazing power of deflationary economics for startups.
2011-12-27: HTTP status dogs.
2011-12-26: GoDaddy breaks ICANN rules by delaying domain transfers.
2011-12-26: GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA.
2011-12-26: ByeDaddy: find out if a domain is registered with GoDaddy.
2011-12-26: The status of Cambridge and the Lucasian Chair of mathematics when Newton was appointed.
2011-12-25: James Bond: you know the rules, and so does he.
2011-12-25: Why didn't Thorium molten salt reactors happen?
2011-12-24: John Carmac on the value of static code analysis.
2011-12-23: Yossi Kreinin's history with Forth and stack machines.
2011-12-23: One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom.
2011-12-23: Five things Roger Ebert taught me about criticizing programming languages.
2011-12-23: Forty things about writing.
2011-12-23: A Christmas message from America's rich.
2011-12-23: Programming with technological ritual and alchemy.
2011-12-22: Step-by-step guide to transferring your domains away from GoDaddy.
2011-12-22: Folding cup eliminates need for plastic lids.
2011-12-22: Multiple sclerosis is a metabolic disorder, not an autoimmune disease.
2011-12-22: Convicted for words not deeds.
2011-12-22: Why not to expose your VM bytecode.
2011-12-22: Why do humans menstruate when most mammals do not?
2011-12-22: Smoke screening: how airport security accomplishes nothing, at enormous cost.
2011-12-22: Police militarization and the war on drugs.
2011-12-22: Thatcher state funeral should be privatised.
2011-12-22: JavaScript as a first language.
2011-12-22: How Harvey Mudd College increased female compsci enrolment to 40%.
2011-12-22: 20 JavaScript showcase sites of 2011.
2011-12-22: Jurors in New York need to know they can say no.
2011-12-22: Dropping a magnet through a copper pipe.
2011-12-21: Mozilla secures continued funding from Google search revenue.
2011-12-21: Stories from North Korea by Kim Jong Il's Russian tutor.
2011-12-21: Unfortunate Python features to avoid.
2011-12-21: There is no formal legal means in Texas to confess to a crime for which someone else has been convicted.
2011-12-21: Zombie Borders.
2011-12-21: Interview with ARM co-founder John Biggs.
2011-12-21: Five reasons why Trey Ratcliff doesn't care if his photos are pirated.
2011-12-21: A secret that Big Shaving has kept from you.
2011-12-21: Worst (and some best) Xmas happenings.
2011-12-20: An Indian inventor disrupts the period industry.
2011-12-19: Roller derby breastfeeding.
2011-12-19: A case for using CoffeeScript.
2011-12-19: Visualizing device utilization.
2011-12-19: Aeropress-gang.
2011-12-19: Lego is for girls - or should be.
2011-12-19: Federated account management using SAML and Shibboleth.
2011-12-19: Republic Lost: how government centralization and expansion puts democracy in the service of special interests.
2011-12-19: Prof David Nutt: science and non-science in drug policy. (23 Jan @ Churchill Coll)
2011-12-19: The changing face of the Lego minifigure.
2011-12-19: Collection of light: an LED taxonomy like an insect collection.
2011-12-19: Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook: an 1860s tourist guide.
2011-12-19: Britain's ghost trains.
2011-12-19: CoffeeScript is not a language worth knowing.
2011-12-19: Progress with the HTTP cookie opt-in consent regulations.
2011-12-19: The node.js aesthetic.
2011-12-19: Why CloudKick switched from Twisted Python to node.js.
2011-12-19: The orbit of the Moon around the Sun is convex!
2011-12-19: The recording industry likes to make its supporters look like assholes.
2011-12-18: Lord of the Buns: Tim Hayward and why saving Fitzbillies matters.
2011-12-18: PHP's problem: "no design and no plan".
2011-12-18: Goodbye World! The perils of relying on output streams in C. (video)
2011-12-17: Institutional memory, engineering archaeology, and reverse corporate espionage.
2011-12-17: GNU/Linux distribution timeline.
2011-12-17: POSIX close(2) is broken.
2011-12-17: A history of source code control in ten innovations.
2011-12-16: lua_udunits2
2011-12-16: UDUNITS: a library for manipulation of units of measurement.
2011-12-16: Anagram tube map.
2011-12-16: The surprise exam, and more surprises.
2011-12-16: GPU-accelerated RSA.
2011-12-16: A review of "Unjustifiable Risk? The Story of British Climbing".
2011-12-16: Why programmers work at night.
2011-12-16: Sun Java JDK evicted from Ubuntu following security vulnerability and withdrawal of licence by Oracle.
2011-12-16: Lego has lost its gender-neutral creativity.
2011-12-16: Fantasy armour and lady bits.
2011-12-15: Bug prediction at Google.
2011-12-15: CarrierIQ: the real story.
2011-12-15: Elevator algorithms.
2011-12-15: Best YA GLBTQ books of the year.
2011-12-15: A review of MoonScript, CoffeeScript-style syntactic sugar for Lua.
2011-12-15: Quel est le sexe des RFC ?
2011-12-14: GlobalSign web server compromise incident report.
2011-12-14: Long-form journalism highlights of the year.
2011-12-14: Cheap PID-controlled espresso machine. (Kickstarter)
2011-12-14: Louis C.K. on the production costs and profitability of his DRM-free comedy video.
2011-12-14: Some iOS apps for children.
2011-12-14: HTTP status cats.
2011-12-13: IBM CMS "Hartmann" pipelines.
2011-12-13: The Fox News approach to charting unemployment.
2011-12-13: As expected, retreat of arctic ice leads to extensive methane plumes.
2011-12-13: NOtES: nano-scale biomimicry for secure optical effects on cash.
2011-12-13: Using augmented reality to show what it is like to have anomalous colour vision.
2011-12-13: Statistical analysis of widespread Russian electoral fraud.
2011-12-13: Vim: revisited.
2011-12-12: Megaupload to sue Universal Music for false DMCA takedown.
2011-12-12: The growth of the NYC commuter cycling indicator.
2011-12-12: STFU about what women want.
2011-12-12: Do not go rioting with remaining eye.
2011-12-12: A skyscraper without windows: the AT&T long lines building at 33 Thomas St in Manhattan.
2011-12-12: EU bans export of thiopental for use in executions.
2011-12-12: DNSSEC validating stub resolver NSS plugin for glibc.
2011-12-12: Kindle Touch jailbreak via JavaScript in an ID3 tag.
2011-12-12: Why Spotify can never be profitable: the secret demands of record labels.
2011-12-11: Tanenbaum's law vs. SETI.
2011-12-10: Come bellringing in Cambridge on BBC Four.
2011-12-10: The moment that David Cameron lost his argument at the EU summit.
2011-12-10: René Carmille: founder of the French national statistics service, hero of the résistance, and hacker of IBM punched cards.
2011-12-10: How to dispel your illusions: Freeman Dyson reviews "thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman.
2011-12-10: A BBC Micro for the 21st Century?
2011-12-10: The deepening Fermi paradox.
2011-12-10: Getting value for money from cloud computing.
2011-12-10: RIAA musicians promote "rogue site" Megaupload. (Plus interesting business plan.)
2011-12-09: Australian exceptionalism.
2011-12-09: Painting the Forth Bridge now finished.
2011-12-09: Producing documents by programming in Postscript.
2011-12-09: The Crunchpad is proof that the iPad design is obvious.
2011-12-09: Cory Doctorow reviews "how to fix copyright" by William Patry.
2011-12-09: WebOS goes open source.
2011-12-09: Apple using patents to undermine open web standards again.
2011-12-09: New ice cream flavour: cookies and e. coli.
2011-12-09: An infographic describing the criminal enterprise of counterfeit drug spam.
2011-12-09: Popular xmas songs by decade of recording - UK version of today's XKCD.
2011-12-09: Deutsch Bahn ICE channel tunnel service delayed until 2015 owing to late arrival of trains.
2011-12-09: Buffer bloat: what's wrong with the Internet? - ACM Queue
2011-12-09: US immigration and customs enforceme unjust domain name seizure processes.
2011-12-09: An end to UK student loan phishing spam?
2011-12-09: Results of UK publicly funded research will be open access.
2011-12-08: DNSSEC deployment status at Comcast.
2011-12-08: Understanding prototypes in Javascript.
2011-12-08: Dutch government X.509 CA KPN Gemnet hacked via PHP MyAdmin.
2011-12-08: Some pictures of the St Pancras Lego christmas tree.
2011-12-08: Lads' mags use the same misogynist language as rapists to describe women.
2011-12-08: Cambridge Noir.
2011-12-07: Mandelbrot beats economics at modelling markets.
2011-12-07: Corruption and dumbing down in exam boards.
2011-12-07: Truly open data.
2011-12-07: Who looked at /etc/motd on ubuntu and thought, HEY, I KNOW WHAT THIS NEEDS – SHELL SCRIPTS!?
2011-12-07: Exploiting holes in deeper security layers of Intel CPUs.
2011-12-07: git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.
2011-12-07: Is your logo design phallic?
2011-12-07: "I like to urge designers to always ask themselves, does this logo look like a penis?"
2011-12-07: More news: C|Net download.com bundles adware trojans with free software.
2011-12-07: Google has raised the bar for intelligence gathering.
2011-12-06: Piumarta's cola: combined object/lambda architecture.
2011-12-06: The Kernel programming language: first class fexprs.
2011-12-06: Bringing a Norwich Pharmacal order as a litigant-in-person to identify a nasty online troll.
2011-12-06: The curious case of 128.0.0.0/16.
2011-12-06: C|Net download.com bundles trojan adware with free software downloads.
2011-12-06: PayPal says Christmas is for sick cats not poor people.
2011-12-06: Busway car traps are the new rising bollards.
2011-12-06: The Eurozone's terrible mistake: to guarantee banks' foolish lending.
2011-12-05: What do you do when an entire system of laws is flouted and unenforced?
2011-12-05: How integers should work in systems programming languages.
2011-12-05: American Christmas devil is coming!
2011-12-05: The discovery of dolphin language.
2011-12-05: Botnets in the UK: spam and hi-tech crime.
2011-12-05: Bulls Dairies - a preserved sign in Cambridge.
2011-12-05: Anti-Grain Geometry - accurate text rasterization.
2011-12-05: Animated Bézier curves in SVG.
2011-12-05: Cubic spline & bezier curves library.
2011-12-05: Hermite curve interpolation.
2011-12-05: Bezier curves - a primer.
2011-12-05: What powers Instagram.
2011-12-04: British public life is 78% male or worse.
2011-12-04: On the feasibility of maglev monorails.
2011-12-04: How Rachel Aaron went from writing 2000 to 10,000 words a day.
2011-12-04: A programming language for DNA-based computing.
2011-12-04: A review of "don't take no for an answer" on the Yes to AV campaign.
2011-12-04: Moving from SVN to Git in 1,000 easy steps!
2011-12-04: Has Mozilla lost its Google search revenue?
2011-12-04: Damn you autocorrect: top 25 of the year.
2011-12-04: The medical loss ratio: the bomb buried In Obamacare explodes today, Hallelujah!
2011-12-04: Beall's list of predatory "open-access" vanity publishers.
2011-12-03: The great Ivy League nude posture photo scandal.
2011-12-03: How Google killed the long tail of search ad keywords.
2011-12-03: This site's domain name has been stolen.
2011-12-03: Doug McIlroy's guide to Research Unix.
2011-12-02: The strange birth and long life of Unix.
2011-12-02: Dutch anti-piracy campaign and collection agency caught in big copyright infringement and corruption scandal.
2011-12-02: Skeuomorphism in iOS: the opiate of the people.
2011-12-02: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 lack-of support for DNAME.
2011-12-02: Eleven charts on inequality in America.
2011-12-02: How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street.
2011-12-02: Email problems at UC Berkeley.
2011-12-02: Will Abellio, Dutch operator of East Anglian rail franchise, improve cycle parking at Cambridge?
2011-12-01: Carrier IQ usage tracking on iPhones, and how to turn it off.
2011-12-01: A Lua DLZ back end for BIND.
2011-12-01: DNSSEC: how to deploy it, and why you should bother.
2011-12-01: How cleaning up the DNSChanger malware highlights the law's control over the IP address registries.
2011-12-01: Learning modern 3D graphics programming.
2011-12-01: Do data caps punish the wrong users?
2011-11-30: Software in the Public Interest associated projects.
2011-11-30: Frink: a programming language that knows about units of measurement.
2011-11-30: Ben Collins-Sussman on the ASF/git debate: "your community is not your tools".
2011-11-30: Amazing glass staircase wrapped around a huge cylindrical aquarium.
2011-11-30: Royal Flying Corps trainee Graham Donald tries a new manoeuvre with his Sopwith Camel.
2011-11-30: Norman Matloff's R programming language page.
2011-11-30: Making sure your site can be read by a screen reader just got a whole lot more important, wouldn’t you say?
2011-11-30: Amusing bug: can't type lowercase e on Amazon EC2 Linux server.
2011-11-30: Mary Beard on the Oxbridge interview.
2011-11-30: RFC 6441: time to remove /8 bogon filters.
2011-11-30: "My head teacher won't let me teach computing."
2011-11-30: Wikipedia on the Intercity Express Programme for new trains and electrified lines.
2011-11-30: Cambridge to get faster trains, up from 160 to 200 km/h.
2011-11-30: Monadic region-based resource management.
2011-11-30: Why one company is switching back from Scala to Java.
2011-11-30: Reddit discusses "simple made easy".
2011-11-29: Rich Hickey: simple made easy.
2011-11-29: Hank Paulson's inside jobs.
2011-11-29: There should never, ever be even a trace of the supernatural in the world of Scooby-Doo.
2011-11-29: ACLs in SQL for Geeklog2.
2011-11-29: How to build role-based access control in SQL.
2011-11-29: HTTP Strict-Transport-Security: protection against TLS stripping attacks.
2011-11-29: Certificate transparency: public audit logs for TLS.
2011-11-29: GitHub is the shape of things to come, but the Apache Software Foundation still has a role.
2011-11-29: Node.js is the most popular repo on GitHub.
2011-11-29: DNS DNAME is almost useless.
2011-11-29: A standard is open when it has an active open source implementation.
2011-11-29: Thinking of impact as re-use could be key to uniting funders and researchers behind open research.
2011-11-29: The real climategate.
2011-11-29: Idiomatic Python: code like a Pythonista.
2011-11-29: A basic tutorial on the pragmatics of Python.
2011-11-29: Some equations computer scientists should (at least pretend to) know.
2011-11-29: NPR interviews biographer of Hedy Lamarr, inventor of spread spectrum radio.
2011-11-29: Matrix multiplication is O(n^2.373).
2011-11-29: John Bercow's arms have an LGBT motto.
2011-11-28: Publishers are cutting their own throats by requiring DRM on ebooks.
2011-11-28: The death of Flash was eight years in the making.
2011-11-28: Cumbria police killed a man by repeated tasering.
2011-11-28: What a lender of last resort looks like: the Federal Reserve and Morgan Stanley.
2011-11-28: "The Dick Night" featuring Frank Miller.
2011-11-28: US Senate voting whether to allow indefinite military detention of US citizens without charge or trial.
2011-11-28: The rise and fall of Bitcoin.
2011-11-28: Male comic-book superheroes drawn like female ones.
2011-11-28: The King James bible, still in copyright in the UK after 400 years.
2011-11-28: libfaketime: a preload library that reports fake time to programs without having to change the system-wide time.
2011-11-28: Toy advertising and gender stereotypes.
2011-11-28: Burzynski clinic "cancer cure" quacks learn about the Streisand Effect from a school boy.
2011-11-28: A century of reactionary deceit fromt he copyright industry.
2011-11-28: Companies that ban Facebook are 30% more likely to have IT security breaches.
2011-11-28: LLVM 3.0 type system rewrite.
2011-11-28: Roll over, Frank Miller: or, why Occupy Wall Street is better than the Spartans.
2011-11-28: Alan Moore: meet the man behind the protest mask.
2011-11-27: How Spotify works.
2011-11-27: Pre-fabricated energy-saving homes from Hanse-Haus.
2011-11-27: Modern houses in Cambridgeshire.
2011-11-26: This stupid new housing policy takes us back to the glory days of Northern Rock.
2011-11-26: Mirth helps correct cognitive errors.
2011-11-26: HDCP cracked using leaked master key and cheap FPGA.
2011-11-26: Your moons are rubbish, astronomer tells Christmas card artists.
2011-11-26: Ten things to know about the King James bible.
2011-11-25: Daily Mail trying to force Leveson enquiry to reveal who is criticising the tabloids.
2011-11-25: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: a long, tangled tale.
2011-11-25: Evangelical churches in UK killing people with HIV by convincing them to stop taking medicine.
2011-11-25: Peter Losher from the ISC talks about running root DNS servers.
2011-11-25: Cory Doctorow on cold-brewed coffee.
2011-11-25: The Times and the Daily Mail attack a support group for victims of press intrusion.
2011-11-25: Three dying platforms: Flash, Silverlight, Win32.
2011-11-25: Good footage of American football is an NFL trade secret.
2011-11-24: What's wrong with OKCupid's matching algorithm.
2011-11-24: A more detailed summary of the ECJ decision against court orders that require indiscriminate filtering by ISPs.
2011-11-24: Air Traffic Control marches into the 1990s with new X.400 deployments!
2011-11-24: Prevalence of swearing in the Guardian, 1999-2009.
2011-11-24: European Court of Justice decision limits ability of member states to turn ISPs into copyright police.
2011-11-23: World's tallest Lego Christmas tree at St Pancras: 12 metres, 3 tonnes.
2011-11-23: Apache Software Foundation considered harmful.
2011-11-23: Google TLS services now support forward secrecy for Firefox and Chrome users.
2011-11-23: Porting TeX to the iPad.
2011-11-23: After this experiment we reckon the vodka tampon is an urban myth.
2011-11-23: Transactional memory in gcc 4.7+.
2011-11-23: New York reporters meet the fists of the law.
2011-11-23: Open source (almost) everything.
2011-11-23: The Atlantic's online ad revenue surpasses print.
2011-11-22: Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?
2011-11-22: Leave the history curriculum alone but teach it for longer.
2011-11-22: What's wrong with #firstworldproblems.
2011-11-22: Hospital patients forced to watch continuous message from Andrew Lansley, or pay £5 a day to a private company.
2011-11-22: Monopolistic tendencies in the domain name system.
2011-11-22: David Frum asks, when did Republicans lose touch with reality?
2011-11-22: How the automatic gearbox nearly killed off the sperm whale.
2011-11-22: Full disk encryption is too good, complain digital CSI teams, demanding more research to make it stronger.
2011-11-21: What is pepper spray and what harm does it do?
2011-11-21: Café threatened for unauthorized use of hobbit.
2011-11-21: Neelie Kroes, EU commission VP for the digital agenda: "trying to enforce copyright has not stemmed piracy".
2011-11-21: Iceland let the creditors of its banks hang. Ireland did not. Good for Iceland!
2011-11-21: Sovereign Keys: a proposal to make TLS more secure.
2011-11-20: Journals are the dinosaurs of academia.
2011-11-20: How the police treat abuse of women and minorities online.
2011-11-20: Improve diversity by making recruitment more objectively meritocratic.
2011-11-20: How the San Francisco Ruby meetup grew from 2% to 18% women.
2011-11-20: Militarized police treat prisoners better than students in California.
2011-11-20: Cleggmania round two?
2011-11-20: Cassandra's curse: how "The Limits to Growth" was demonized.
2011-11-20: Seven misunderstandings about classical architecture.
2011-11-20: Most laser printers add a tracking watermark to every page they print.
2011-11-20: eWAVE: the world atlas of varieties of English - online.
2011-11-19: Demonstrating should not be not a crime.
2011-11-19: One third of Americans are below the poverty line or just scraping by.
2011-11-19: Occupy HOPE.
2011-11-19: Clayton Christensen: how pursuit of profits kills innovation and the U.S. economy.
2011-11-19: Phonological change in English: the trap-bath split.
2011-11-19: Modest dressing.
2011-11-19: Declassified 7000 sq.m. nuclear bunker 65m under Moscow.
2011-11-19: How tabloids treat your family if you speak against their evil acts.
2011-11-19: Thoughts and ideas about teaching computing in school.
2011-11-19: How to fix copyright, by William Patry of Google.
2011-11-19: A review of the Kindle Fire.
2011-11-19: The systemd journal: a syslog replacement for Fedora.
2011-11-18: The Hotel Silken Puerta América in Madrid - different design and architecture on each floor.
2011-11-18: An experiment in extreme schooling at the Moscow New Humanitarian.
2011-11-18: The top ten supercomputers, illustrated.
2011-11-18: The United States Supreme Court has another chance to reverse the mission creep in patent law - Prometheus vs Mayo.
2011-11-18: In praise of clutter and paper.
2011-11-18: Are you reading too much? (Am I?!)
2011-11-18: "The police tried to provoke people to react violently [...] but we all supported one another and prevented the police from causing a riot."
2011-11-18: poll() vs select()
2011-11-18: On the Google WiFi mapping opt-out.
2011-11-18: The NTP nanokernel.
2011-11-18: Martian Time FAQ.
2011-11-17: Optimization tricks used by the lockless allocator.
2011-11-17: NeverWet coatings are superhydrophobic surfaces.
2011-11-17: Graphene improves lithium-ion battery capacity and recharge rate ten times.
2011-11-17: The mouse trap: the dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.
2011-11-17: Teaching good sex.
2011-11-17: Windows 8 secure boot is not secure.
2011-11-17: nixio: Lua networking + crypto + filesystem functions.
2011-11-17: WinKexec: a Linux bootloader implemented as a device driver for Windows.
2011-11-17: The fall of America's r-less class.
2011-11-16: Miss World and Mary Beard.
2011-11-16: The 3-D printing free-for-all. (Not for long!)
2011-11-16: What exactly is HMRC paying Capgemini billions for?
2011-11-16: Javascript minitel emulator.
2011-11-16: SPDY is not hard. Securing the Internet is.
2011-11-16: Zoho mail sends messages with a Status: header marking them as already seen.
2011-11-16: Men-only policy debates must stop.
2011-11-16: Oh dear, another BIND crash bug.
2011-11-15: "Verbatim" mode stops Google search from trying to be clever.
2011-11-15: Cracking Siri: how an iPhone 4S talks to the speech recognition engine hosted at Apple.
2011-11-15: PDP-10/X: a reimplementation of a PDP-10 on an FPGA, running ITS.
2011-11-15: sortu: sort | uniq in one.
2011-11-15: "My ICT teacher can't mark my homework" - a problem for children who can code.
2011-11-15: DNSSEC reality and utility.
2011-11-15: Lua-CodeGen: a template engine based on Terence Parr's ideas.
2011-11-15: Condorcet internet voting service.
2011-11-14: Observations of two "happy eyeballs" quick IPv6 / IPv4 connect implementations.
2011-11-14: Remembrance Sunday and Germans.
2011-11-14: The handling of sex offenders in the USA makes the problem worse.
2011-11-14: 101 - national non-emergency number for contacting the police.
2011-11-14: Google's smeared leap seconds vs. Markus Kuhn's smoothed leap seconds.
2011-11-13: Cheap drugs reduce violent crime.
2011-11-13: A memory of sexist abuse.
2011-11-13: The nocebo effect.
2011-11-13: In America some women who lose babies face murder charges.
2011-11-13: Grammatical variation in Irish English.
2011-11-12: Luma Labs discontinues their camera sling products to avoid patent litigation.
2011-11-12: Finally, a judge stands up to Wall Street.
2011-11-12: Planning for the post euro Irish economy.
2011-11-12: The Riot's catcaller form.
2011-11-12: "How I stopped worrying and learned to love OWS."
2011-11-11: The slow approach of the bananapocalypse.
2011-11-11: Bright: a C-like Lua derivative.
2011-11-11: How Fitzbillies was saved.
2011-11-11: Wittgenstein on fog-like sensations and road signs.
2011-11-11: 80 mph speed limit does not look so clever now.
2011-11-11: "The Eurozone countries most under threat aren't the ones with generous welfare states or effective social contracts."
2011-11-10: Confident code.
2011-11-10: Everson Mono font.
2011-11-10: Google+ does not understand its users.
2011-11-10: Online abuse: what about the men?
2011-11-10: OFCOM study on the state of DNSSEC deployment in the UK and internationally.
2011-11-10: Engineering the ten thousand year clock.
2011-11-10: Computer programming for children, minus cryptic syntax.
2011-11-10: Campaign against the "keep calm and carry on" trademark.
2011-11-10: Celebrating 50 years of human-powered flight.
2011-11-10: 60th birthday of the Lyons Electronic Office, the first business computer, based on EDSAC.
2011-11-10: More water rocket construction tutorials.
2011-11-10: NASA water rocket launcher build instructions.
2011-11-10: High-power paper rocket launcher.
2011-11-10: NASA water rocket build instructions.
2011-11-10: NASA project X-51: water rockets for kids.
2011-11-10: DTrace and Erlang.
2011-11-09: Comcast IPv6 deployment.
2011-11-09: Authenticated denial of existence in DNSSEC.
2011-11-09: xv6: 6th Edition Unix and Lions' commentary ported to ANSI C and x86 for teaching.
2011-11-09: A brief rant on the future of interaction design.
2011-11-09: HMG says open source is as secure as proprietary software, and should not be ruled out of the procurement process.
2011-11-09: The social graph is neither.
2011-11-08: 32 questions for sysadmins.
2011-11-08: Berp: a Python 3 to Haskell translator.
2011-11-08: Michael Lewis on Daniel Kahneman, "the king of human error".
2011-11-08: Non-errors in English usage.
2011-11-08: La Brea allows you to insert Lua scripts into a program without recompiling.
2011-11-08: The big sexy problem with superheroines and their "liberated sexuality".
2011-11-08: Nature reports on the Royal Society leap second meeting.
2011-11-08: Burj Khalifa has no sewers, so relies on trucking out the poo instead.
2011-11-08: libfiu: fault injection in userspace.
2011-11-08: Sir Paul Nurse on the Fracis Crick institute.
2011-11-08: Francis Crick institute building. (Should have used the plot to keep more books on site at the library.)
2011-11-08: The saggar maker's bottom knocker.
2011-11-08: Morality and the markets.
2011-11-08: Robert Fisk on remembrance poppies.
2011-11-08: Version numbers in Perl are not boring enough.
2011-11-08: Demystifying the chinese hacking industry.
2011-11-08: ACPO and UCAS now count as public bodies for freedom of information purposes.
2011-11-08: "All right, fine. I'll add a disclaimer to my emails."
2011-11-08: NY Times obituary of Norman Ramsey, whose work led to atomic clocks and nuclear magnetic resonance.
2011-11-08: Bayes' theorem not banned from British courts.
2011-11-08: What lies behind online misogyny?
2011-11-08: All Wired staff photos released under CC-BY-NC.
2011-11-08: The project to build Babbage's Analytical Engine.
2011-11-08: Ruby crypto key generation bug.
2011-11-07: What should we do about sexist abuse online?
2011-11-07: BozoCrack: depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker.
2011-11-07: Automated content: the future of sports journalism?
2011-11-07: Artificial intelligence is putting people out of work.
2011-11-07: The most amazing room in Queens.
2011-11-07: Chaitin's incompleteness theorem and the surprisingly small complexity barrier.
2011-11-07: IKEA's convoluted ownership and accounting.
2011-11-07: Google's tax dodge.
2011-11-07: "I think dead children should be used as a unit of currency. I know this sounds controversial, but hear me out."
2011-11-07: 1TB hard drive prices up 180% in a month due to floods in Tailand.
2011-11-07: Glass-Steagall Act: the senators and economists who got it right.
2011-11-07: Goldman Sachs is forcing up the price of aluminium.
2011-11-06: The origins of Scala.
2011-11-06: Eclipse Xtend: syntactic sugar for Java programmers.
2011-11-05: Is abuse really a necessary occupational hazard of blogging?
2011-11-05: The only way to have a successful revolution in any field of human activity.
2011-11-05: Words on plot and treason.
2011-11-05: DNSSEC-trigger on Mac OS X.
2011-11-05: L'énergie tirée des forêts polluerait plus que le charbon.
2011-11-05: When centralised purchasing wastes money.
2011-11-05: Capitalism can't just be about money.
2011-11-05: The thing about bullying.
2011-11-05: haveged: an entropy gathering daemon based on variable execution timing.
2011-11-05: Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP: another improved flow control algorithm.
2011-11-05: FileVault 2 and Find My Mac foil thieves.
2011-11-05: A woman's opinion is the mini-skirt of the Internet.
2011-11-04: Universal Music sued again for not paying licensing royalties to musicians.
2011-11-04: KON Getronics suspends CA operations after finding DDOS tool on web server.
2011-11-04: Patently absurd: copyright law provides enough protection for software.
2011-11-04: The BBC on the leap second debate.
2011-11-04: Gaslighting: belittling women and dismissing their legitimate emotions as unreasonable.
2011-11-04: Future of UTC meeting presentations.
2011-11-04: Women in finance.
2011-11-04: Apple's supply chain expertise.
2011-11-04: Not One-Off Britishisms: UK expressions that have taken hold in the US.
2011-11-04: Four ways men stunt women's careers.
2011-11-04: Gas mask, $20, ideal for occupying Oakland or Wall St.
2011-11-04: A senior police officer says brothels should be legal.
2011-11-03: An RFC 4819 secure shell public key subsystem implementation for OpenSSH.
2011-11-03: Mozilla revokes trust in a Malaysian intermediate CA, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd.
2011-11-03: Australian weather calendar 2012.
2011-11-03: How iAds support WebGL, and how developers can use WebGL on iOS.
2011-11-03: The Mac app sandbox is restrictive.
2011-11-03: Knot authoritative DNS server from nic.cz. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: Yadifa: beyond BIND and NSD. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: "Google release something, and I no longer have any faith that it’s going to be any good."
2011-11-03: The flat world of BGP: AS and prefix counts growing, but not update rate. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: IPv6 day: what did we learn? (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: DNSCCM: an implementation of the nameserver control protocol. (RIPE63).
2011-11-03: DNSSEC-trigger: mobile Unbound validator autoconfiguration. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: The sheer volume of sexist abuse thrown at female bloggers is the Internet's festering sore.
2011-11-03: The Daily Mail and Hugh Grant: how tabloids intimidate privacy campaigners.
2011-11-03: Documentation about the ITO map.
2011-11-03: ITO Map: view hidden layers of Open Street Map.
2011-11-03: Copyright policy is Internet policy.
2011-11-03: Almost all BT Newzbin2 users are bypassing the court-ordered block.
2011-11-03: Yadifa: a full-featured DNS server in development at EURID.
2011-11-03: Knot DNS: full featured high performance authoritative DNS server from nic.cz.
2011-11-03: A beautiful ring counter clock.
2011-11-03: Don't give your users shit work: manually categorizing contacts is a waste of time.
2011-11-03: Studded bicycle tires.
2011-11-02: In-place modification/assignment patch for Lua.
2011-11-02: East Bergholt.
2011-11-02: Germany's difficulties caused by phasing out nuclear power.
2011-11-02: Inside the mind of the octopus.
2011-11-02: So you think Linux's capability model is bad? What about the web's?
2011-11-02: Did accounting help sink Corzine's MF Global?
2011-11-02: Ex Google Reader PM on the redesign.
2011-11-02: Chemistry and early hominid diets.
2011-11-01: Jamie Zawinsky discusses RSS feed readers.
2011-11-01: Ten years of ZFS.
2011-11-01: Notes d'EuroBSDcon 2011 en Français.
2011-11-01: Status of the ITU-R study of UTC.
2011-11-01: Key escrow from a safe distance: looking back at the Clipper chip.
2011-11-01: Telescript programming guide.
2011-11-01: Telescript language reference.
2011-11-01: Protesters decide they actually like wind turbines now they have been built.
2011-11-01: Three RSS feed readers.
2011-10-31: The mediaeval plutocracy at the heart of London.
2011-10-31: Android has swallowed the UK smartphone market in the last 18 months.
2011-10-31: Siri ported to jailbroken iPhone 4.
2011-10-31: Averia: an average font made using generative typography.
2011-10-31: jgrep: a grep for JSON written in Ruby.
2011-10-31: The OTCA metapixel: running Life inside Life, 4 million times bigger and 35 thousand times slower.
2011-10-31: The Dish celebrates its 50th birthday.
2011-10-31: A senior civil servant on the unavoidable truths about government IT.
2011-10-31: State schools are not properly guiding pupils through university applications; UCAS planning to move process after A-levels.
2011-10-31: The Guardian on the Janet 6 network upgrade project. (Wot no "super"?)
2011-10-31: Acoustic cryptanalysis: nosy people and noisy machines.
2011-10-31: Tachyon: a meta-circular optimizing JavaScript virtual machine.
2011-10-31: TLS out-of-band public key validation: divorcing TLS from X.509.
2011-10-31: TACK: Tethered Assertions for Certificate Keys. Convergence widens its TLS protection.
2011-10-31: The war on lemonade stands.
2011-10-31: Giving Haskell a promotion: kind polymorphism and typed type-level programming.
2011-10-31: All Chinese maps are subtly obfuscated.
2011-10-31: Brian Kernighan talks about Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-31: Extensible programming with first-class cases - a solution to Wadler's expression problem.
2011-10-31: The evolution of RISC technology at IBM.
2011-10-31: A Smalltalker reviews Google Dart.
2011-10-31: Freedom and crutches in programming language design.
2011-10-30: Open Access to scientific publications: a short summary.
2011-10-30: Wall Street isn't winning, it's cheating.
2011-10-29: kramdown-rfc2629: an xml2rfc back end for a ruby markdown processor.
2011-10-29: Markdown -> pandoc -> docbook -> xslt -> xml2rfc -> Internet draft.
2011-10-29: The EFF on SOPA: "Hollywood finally gets a chance to break the Internet."
2011-10-29: Why everything R2D2 says is bleeped out.
2011-10-29: DNSCCM: DNS Configuration, Control and Monitoring.
2011-10-29: Freshmeat renamed FreeCode.
2011-10-29: Publicly funded science should be published and practised in the open.
2011-10-29: Dr. Walter Bortz on his patient and friend, John McCarthy.
2011-10-29: Google Apps admins have unrestricted access to all their users' Google+ data.
2011-10-29: RSS vs social media.
2011-10-29: Copyright troll loses case for not owning rights; must pay nearly $120k costs.
2011-10-29: StackExchange's battles with the .NET garbage collector.
2011-10-28: Google staff being put on probation or sacked for arguing against the real names policy.
2011-10-28: Legal aid: the new poor law.
2011-10-28: Sexist reactions to feminism in open source.
2011-10-28: How Occupy Wall Street cost Caitlin Curran her job.
2011-10-28: Girls often driven away from STEM by their teachers.
2011-10-28: USPTO grants patent on obvious application of scientific method.
2011-10-28: If Google don't like your name they will delete the contacts from your Android phone.
2011-10-28: Why Dave Winer needs to learn about RFC 2136 DNS updates.
2011-10-28: Broadway: a JavaScript H.264 decoder.
2011-10-28: lolcat(1)
2011-10-28: Apple gift catalogue 1983.
2011-10-28: Codify: game and simulation development with Lua on iPad.
2011-10-27: An experimental evaluation of rate-adaptation algorithms for streaming over HTTP.
2011-10-27: Google nymwars, redux.
2011-10-27: Norman Davies on Europe's vanished states.
2011-10-27: EPO grants patent on broccoli.
2011-10-27: Brian Cox is wrong: blogging your research is not a recipe for disaster.
2011-10-27: PLoS Won: the success of open access journals.
2011-10-27: Playing the probabilities: blackjack, shuffles, and residual correlations.
2011-10-27: The EFF on the security of and attacks on TLS.
2011-10-27: Australian helmet cam study reveals motorists to blame in vast majority of cycling crashes.
2011-10-27: Android orphans: visualizing a sad lack of supported software updates.
2011-10-27: Valve: "The easiest way to stop piracy is to give people a service that's better than what they get from pirates."
2011-10-27: Paraglider survives encounter with thunderstorm.
2011-10-27: Parachuting through a cumulonimbus.
2011-10-27: Two amusing side channel attacks.
2011-10-27: Higher-Order Perl.
2011-10-27: Modern Perl.
2011-10-27: Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage).
2011-10-27: The making of Arduino.
2011-10-26: Sealand, HavenCo, and the rule of law.
2011-10-26: It has to work: the essential ingredient of successful software.
2011-10-26: French government "banning vegetarianism" in school canteens.
2011-10-26: The road to better web authorization.
2011-10-26: Cutting the Gordian knot of web identity.
2011-10-26: The forbidden story of Argentina's post-default economic success.
2011-10-26: Reminiscing about The Princess Bride.
2011-10-26: How the Joy of Sex was illustrated.
2011-10-26: The St Paul's protesters are taking health and safety more seriously, with more professional responsibility, than the Dean and Chapter.
2011-10-25: Visa and MasterCard want to use credit card activity to target web ads.
2011-10-25: Radiation and Reason: the impact of science on a culture of fear.
2011-10-25: The Register's obituary of John McCarthy.
2011-10-25: UN special rapporteur on health as a human right says all states must provide safe abortion and contraception.
2011-10-25: A randomly generated language is as easy as Perl for novice programmers.
2011-10-25: On parliamentary sovereignty.
2011-10-25: Software patents come to the UK.
2011-10-25: How to handle versioning in web APIs.
2011-10-25: Jamie Zawinsky's tribute to John McCarthy.
2011-10-25: Wired obituary of John McCarthy, father of AI and Lisp.
2011-10-24: Empirical software engineering.
2011-10-24: Who else was hit by the RSA attackers?
2011-10-24: How to break XML encryption.
2011-10-23: Tim O'Reilly on running a business, and the pursuit of passion rather than profit.
2011-10-23: "Cookie Monster" explains Occupy Wall Street.
2011-10-23: Congress warned in 1999 that deregulation would lead to cascade failures and make banks too big to fail.
2011-10-23: Space Alert's genius is in combining its madness-inducing ten minute time limit with a spectacular demand for player co-ordination.
2011-10-23: Holy Flying Circus: brilliant funny dramatization of the controversy over "Life of Brian".
2011-10-23: Find out why the onions are in there before changing the recipe.
2011-10-23: The Goertzel tone detection algorithm.
2011-10-23: 1e13 digits of pi.
2011-10-21: Susan Greenfield should write up her techno-scare stories for scientific review.
2011-10-21: How a tabloid ruins someone's life for no good reason.
2011-10-21: The Economist's obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-21: Centralized shared HR and finance services for the research councils fails to save money.
2011-10-21: The stilted grammar of telemarketing.
2011-10-21: Quasiquotation in Lisp.
2011-10-21: Labscam: Penn & Teller at Bell Labs, as told by Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-20: Design mistakes in mixed C / C++ and Lua projects.
2011-10-20: A list of AJAX webmail software.
2011-10-20: The case for copyright piracy.
2011-10-20: Why did the BBC compare sex education to paedophilia? Cowardly uninformative journalism.
2011-10-20: Buying second-hand goods for cash is illegal in Louisiana.
2011-10-20: Network effects in share ownership: the concentration of economic power in 147 companies.
2011-10-20: Cambridgeshire county councillors give themselves a 25% pay increase in violation of the council constitution.
2011-10-20: On the ethical conduct of News International's solicitors Farrers.
2011-10-20: EFF declares premature victory in the Google+ nymwars.
2011-10-20: The challenges of turning the Photoshop deblur prototype into a product.
2011-10-19: Using an iPhone accelerometer to decode what is typed on a nearby keyboard.
2011-10-19: How to create a fictional language in a day.
2011-10-19: Programming languages of the last five years.
2011-10-19: The guild of Silicon Valley.
2011-10-19: In defence of Objective-C.
2011-10-19: The digital replacement of film in cinema.
2011-10-19: Drawbridge: user mode NT for application sandboxing.
2011-10-19: Inserting synthetic 3D objects into 2D photographs.
2011-10-19: Hacker News recommends programming blogs.
2011-10-19: Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors - about an Internet hub, 60 Hudson St.
2011-10-19: In memoriam Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-18: The great tech war of 2012.
2011-10-18: A*: reweighting a graph for faster shortest paths.
2011-10-18: A review of the Guardian's iPad app.
2011-10-18: The Devenish-Phibbs memorial gallery.
2011-10-18: Mitigating the BEAST attack on TLS.
2011-10-17: A plaque on both your houses.
2011-10-17: Skyscraper builders get in trouble for re-creating photo safely.
2011-10-17: Lunch atop a skyscraper in London.
2011-10-17: OpenResty web app server basedon nginx + Lua.
2011-10-17: Why Stephen Bond is no longer a skeptic.
2011-10-17: WeatherSpark: beautiful weather graphs and maps.
2011-10-17: Amazon is now becoming a publisher in its own right.
2011-10-17: Summary of the judicial review of the charitable status of independent schools.
2011-10-17: Accessibility does not require reduced security. (Alec Muffett on Steve Yegge's Amazon / Google rant.)
2011-10-17: Japas Sushi. (9 Saxon Street, Cambridge)
2011-10-17: DNSSEC-Trigger updates your Unbound validating resolver configuration as your connectivity changes.
2011-10-17: Programming for children.
2011-10-17: Siri's favourite colour is octarine?
2011-10-17: The Cambridge Tab on the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-17: Metaphor to maturity: typography, the web, and ebooks.
2011-10-17: IANA Time Zone Database.
2011-10-17: Athene Donald on the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-17: Mary Beard on the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-17: There seems to be only one cloud icon in the entire universe.
2011-10-17: The Shen programming language.
2011-10-17: How much do Apple's factories cost?
2011-10-16: Fibonacci flim-flam.
2011-10-16: Document history of plan to pass TZ database to IANA.
2011-10-16: ICANN officially takes responsibility for TZ database.
2011-10-16: York University to get the Brian Blessed Centre for Quiet Study.
2011-10-16: Official result of the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-16: The consequences of missing sex education.
2011-10-16: High-viz, women's clothing, and blaming the victim.
2011-10-16: Lord Sainsbury elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
2011-10-16: The Keaton music typewriter.
2011-10-15: How to reform copyright.
2011-10-15: More C programming tricks
2011-10-15: What is your favourite C programming trick?
2011-10-15: The LMAX architecture.
2011-10-15: Shit that Siri says.
2011-10-15: The Cambridge Science Centre initiative.
2011-10-15: The Department for Transport now allows "Except Cycles" to be added to "No Entry" signs.
2011-10-15: Amazon Kindle source code.
2011-10-15: Cambridge University official map switching to Open Street Map.
2011-10-15: Google Labs and Code Search killed.
2011-10-15: Google+ support staff will cancel your account if your name is too foreign.
2011-10-14: How to beat the CAP theorem.
2011-10-14: Lights: pretty WebGL demo.
2011-10-14: Speed up bloaty web apps with nginx microcaching.
2011-10-14: Rob Pike on Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: Throwable 360˚ panoramic ball camera.
2011-10-14: How Siri works.
2011-10-14: Why extended display identification data (EDID) is untrustworthy for DPI.
2011-10-14: The developer's guide to browser adoption rates.
2011-10-14: More news on the Astrolabe / Olson + Eggert TZ database lawsuit.
2011-10-14: Some funky new features in iOS 5.
2011-10-14: Do anything interesting in the tech world, and you will get sued for patent infringement.
2011-10-14: How to hide the iOS5 Newsstand icon in a folder.
2011-10-14: Parsing expressions by recursive descent.
2011-10-14: Top-down parsing of expressions.
2011-10-14: Ars Technica obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: Wired obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: NY Times obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: Guardian obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: K&R and you.
2011-10-13: A profile of Dennis Ritchie in the Economist, 2004.
2011-10-13: The BLISS programming language: a history.
2011-10-13: Herb Sutter on Dennis Ritchie and C.
2011-10-13: Geoff Huston's progress report on IPv4 address exhaustion.
2011-10-13: Who uses RFC 2136 dynamic DNS updates.
2011-10-13: Smalltalk 80: the language and its implementation.
2011-10-13: Why a RIM outage affects users on a corporate Blackberry Enterprise Server.
2011-10-13: What our culture teaches about alcohol is all wrong.
2011-10-13: Siri says some weird things.
2011-10-12: Large scale pcap data analysis using Hadoop.
2011-10-12: My Blackberry isn't working.
2011-10-12: On blogging, death threats, and silence.
2011-10-12: Benford's Law and the decreasing reliability of accounting data for US firms.
2011-10-12: How Wall St salaries compare to the rest of New York.
2011-10-12: Crash-only software.
2011-10-12: Steve Yegge's Amazon vs Google platform rant.
2011-10-12: Why isn't everyone hacked every day?
2011-10-12: MDB: a memory-mapped database and backend for OpenLDAP.
2011-10-12: The disfunction of Google's Wave project.
2011-10-12: The search for a more perfect kilogramme.
2011-10-11: Photoshop "unblur" / blind deconvolution.
2011-10-11: Why your new programming language will not work.
2011-10-11: The vicious trademark battle over "keep calm and carry on".
2011-10-11: Why believe in Keynesian economics?
2011-10-11: Why Caitlin Moran and Grace Dent are never on panel shows... but should be.
2011-10-11: Dart has a feeble type system.
2011-10-11: That's not online! Library collections, archives and other information that aren't accessible online, and how to find them.
2011-10-11: The LONG and windy ROAD - a timeline of IPng and IPv6, 1991 - 1996.
2011-10-11: UK ISP porn filter plans have been blown out of all proportion.
2011-10-11: Radio 4 Long Wave's days are numbered - what will happen to Economy 7 radio teleswitching?
2011-10-11: Ignition! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants.
2011-10-11: What good is Wall Street?
2011-10-11: List of languages that compile to JavaScript.
2011-10-11: A first impression of Dart
2011-10-10: Type inference for first-class messages with match functions.
2011-10-10: Simple types are anti-modular.
2011-10-10: Netflix realises that the Quikster split was a stupid idea.
2011-10-10: Ben Pierce: "Types considered..."
2011-10-10: Defending against spear phishing with Exim's embedded Perl feature.
2011-10-10: Lambda The Ultimate discusses Dart.
2011-10-10: The Dart programming language: Google updates Javascript for programming in the large.
2011-10-10: Microtouch: AVR devel board with touch screen.
2011-10-10: "Electronic communications privacy act" lets US law enforcement secretly search email logs.
2011-10-10: The great American bubble machine.
2011-10-10: HP plans to release first memristor memory alternative to flash in 18 months.
2011-10-09: Vehicle and operator services agency: smoky vehicle report form.
2011-10-09: How beer saved the world.
2011-10-09: Edwin Land, the man who inspired Steve Jobs.
2011-10-09: Steven Pinker's history of violence.
2011-10-08: Margaret Dayhoff, pioneer of bioinformatics.
2011-10-08: TCP-clouds, UDP-clouds, "design for fail" and AWS.
2011-10-07: Understanding integer overflow in C and C++.
2011-10-07: Microsoft ISA server is incompatible with CIDR.
2011-10-07: LLVM IR is a compiler IR not a general-purpose bytecode.
2011-10-07: ZBar bar code reader.
2011-10-07: Infringement damages increased after CEO complains about patent system.
2011-10-07: Swedish copyright policy is dictated by the USA.
2011-10-07: Jason Kottke remembering Steve Jobs.
2011-10-07: TZ database lawsuit the result of an argument between astrological software companies?
2011-10-07: Answers to the IERS's UTC questionnaire.
2011-10-07: IANA TZ Mailman list info page, including archives back to 1986.
2011-10-07: F*: secure distributed programming with value-dependent types.
2011-10-07: TZ mailing list makes early move to IANA.
2011-10-06: Steve Jobs succumbs to alternative medicine.
2011-10-06: A portrait of Steve Jobs.
2011-10-06: Thanks, Steve.
2011-10-06: Astrolabe Inc. vs. Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert: complaint.
2011-10-06: Astrolabe, Inc. vs. Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert.
2011-10-06: Law suit shuts down Olson TZ database servers.
2011-10-06: Exploiting Apache httpd reverse proxy rewrite rules.
2011-10-06: Luca Cardelli: an accidental Simula user.
2011-10-06: Affirmative design / critical design / programming language design.
2011-10-06: Practical file system design with the Be file system.
2011-10-06: ICANN security and stability advisory committee preliminary report on DNS response modification.
2011-10-05: Organic farming outperforms industrial farming on every measure.
2011-10-05: Bluetooth 4 vs near-field RFID.
2011-10-05: Diplomatic blowback in the UN following the NATO action to enforce an "immediate ceasefire" in Lybia.
2011-10-05: Middleboxes in cellular networks.
2011-10-05: Patently misguided.
2011-10-05: Broadcom's pet patent troll is suing hotels and cafés that offer WiFi.
2011-10-05: Gaming security by obscurity.
2011-10-05: Apple Knowledge Navigator 1987 concept video, vs iPhone 4S.
2011-10-04: Cache directory tagging standard.
2011-10-04: Amon Tobin ISAM visualisation.
2011-10-04: Sampling and mixing by cutting and pasting vinyl records.
2011-10-04: A homemade receiver for GPS & GLONASS satellites.
2011-10-04: Homemade GPS receiver.
2011-10-04: Facebook promotes rape and violence against women.
2011-10-04: When archbishops propagate tabloid lies about the BBC's lack of editorial policy on dates.
2011-10-04: Domain name case law in the US.
2011-10-04: Nissan Computer vs. Nissan Motor domain name dispute.
2011-10-04: AC: composable asynchronous IO for conventional languages.
2011-10-03: MIT Technology Review special science fiction edition.
2011-10-03: Bitbucket now supports Git as well as Mercurial.
2011-10-03: Beloit College mindset list for this year's freshers.
2011-10-03: Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code.
2011-10-03: DNSMON view of the F-root Beijing node IPv6 route leak.
2011-10-03: BGPmon on the F-root Beijing node IPv6 route leak.
2011-10-03: Fanfic refugees get to grips with Pinboard, as it were.
2011-10-03: Pinboard gets to grips with the fanfic refugees from Delicious.
2011-10-03: Microsoft blacklists email from Oxford University.
2011-10-03: HTC Android phones log private data and expose it to unprivileged apps.
2011-10-03: Cameron wants to scrap the Human Rights Act but Clegg prevents him.
2011-10-03: Judge rules mathematical analysis of statistics and probability may not be used in court.
2011-10-03: Cambridge Geek Night 13 featuring Bill Thompson and Simon Peyton Jones.
2011-10-02: Innovation Starvation - Neal Stephenson.
2011-10-02: How the US FRA is regulating passenger rail out of existence.
2011-09-30: Browser speed tests: Opera wins, Chrome loses.
2011-09-30: Chrome to pass Firefox in popularity by the end of the year.
2011-09-30: Will Amazon buy Palm from HP?
2011-09-30: LuaNode: asynchronous I/O based on Boost.Asio.
2011-09-30: Whatever happened to the iPad rivals of 2010?
2011-09-30: A Lua binding for libuv.
2011-09-30: Cliff Stanford to appeal email interception conviction.
2011-09-30: Spam feedback loop n-gram analyzer.
2011-09-29: DJB's NaCl ECC-based cryptography library. No algorithm agility?
2011-09-29: C#-style async/await support for node.js.
2011-09-29: DJB vs. the IEEE on public domain papers and copyright assignment.
2011-09-29: Academics should stop giving free peer review services to closed journals.
2011-09-29: The BMJ on the Liberal Democrat drugs policy.
2011-09-29: Organize your cables with toilet paper rolls.
2011-09-29: ROBLOX FAQ for parents.
2011-09-29: Video promo for ROBLOX: lego-ish kids' game engine scripted with Lua.
2011-09-28: Tizen: Meego rides again.
2011-09-28: On the proportion of women on comedy panel shows.
2011-09-28: Luvit = node.lua = libuv + LuaJIT = node.js with Lua instead of JavaScript.
2011-09-28: UK ICO guidance on freedom of information legislation and research information.
2011-09-28: Can failure really be a spur to success?
2011-09-28: Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journals.
2011-09-28: How journalists willingly get stitched up by the Daily Mail.
2011-09-28: ThunderLOLcats.
2011-09-27: John Dee's calendar and God's longitude.
2011-09-27: libeatmydata
2011-09-26: The (political) science of salt.
2011-09-26: The engineers could [telnet into] the engine management system of a 747 [and] re-tune the engine in air.
2011-09-26: It's time to end the war on salt.
2011-09-26: Towards network reputation: analyzing the makeup of DNSBLs.
2011-09-26: D-Link calls typosquatting and unreliability "Advanced DNS Service".
2011-09-26: Identifying and characterizing anycast in the domain name system.
2011-09-26: Einar Stefferud, 1930-2011.
2011-09-26: Timelapse video of new bridge installation at Cambridge Station.
2011-09-26: We buy any cat!
2011-09-26: The simhash algorithm.
2011-09-26: A program written by Charles Babbage.
2011-09-26: Internal economic borders of the United States derived from tracking dollar bills.
2011-09-26: Subdivision of the world into rectangles containing equal numbers of geotagged tweets.
2011-09-26: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, reformatted for Kindle.
2011-09-26: ITU-R recommendation TF.460-6: standard-frequency and time-signal emissions.
2011-09-26: Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition.
2011-09-25: Why you should not go to medical school.
2011-09-24: Apple Thunderbolt display teardown.
2011-09-24: QR code clock.
2011-09-24: Security impact of the Rizzo/Duong CBC "BEAST" attack.
2011-09-24: Chrome and the BEAST.
2011-09-23: The Internet is secure enough.
2011-09-23: "Knot" authoritative DNS server from nic.cz.
2011-09-23: Bunnie Huang on Moore's Law and the future of open hardware.
2011-09-23: Squeak Smalltalk.
2011-09-23: Pharo open source SmallTalk.
2011-09-23: Mozilla's Rust programming language.
2011-09-23: One million concurrent TCP connections with FreeBSD and Erlang.
2011-09-23: Why SPDY is better than HTTP.
2011-09-23: The BEAST attack on TLS 1.0.
2011-09-23: Swedish Film Institute is accused of piracy based on BitTorrent IP address logging.
2011-09-22: Pipe organ desk.
2011-09-22: TOFU POP MONK: trust on first use, persistence of pseudonym, mesh overlay network keysigning.
2011-09-22: Perspectives: public "notary" servers monitor certificates used by websites to detect man-in-the-middle attacks without certificate authorities.
2011-09-22: Convergence: an agile distributed secure strategy for replacing certificate authorities.
2011-09-22: How to write unmaintainable code.
2011-09-22: University of Cambridge lecture list web site.
2011-09-21: Bankers: an anthropological study.
2011-09-21: Every time you make a PowerPoint, Edward Tufte kills a kitten.
2011-09-21: Simhash: hash-based similarity detection.
2011-09-21: Police attempted to make Guardian reveal phone hacking whistleblowers, but were prevented by the Human Rights Act.
2011-09-21: Google Chrome "stable" version now supports DNSSEC-chained TLS certificates.
2011-09-20: Patent trolls caused half a trillion dollars of lost wealth in the last 20 years.
2011-09-20: DigiNotar files for bankruptcy after being comprehensively hacked.
2011-09-20: Mining massive datasets.
2011-09-19: A toolkit for spotting prejudice.
2011-09-19: "He said, she said" binary journalism fails to inform the public.
2011-09-19: Tenzing: Google's implementation of SQL on top of MapReduce.
2011-09-19: The plot against the NHS.
2011-09-18: The MIT guide to lockpicking.
2011-09-17: Opening plain text files is not safe on Windows.
2011-09-16: Adaptve cruise control on 20% of cars greatly reduces traffic jams.
2011-09-16: Google Plus developer site and API documentation.
2011-09-16: Cory Doctorow on the Lib Dem IT policy paper.
2011-09-16: Google deploys Markus Kuhn's smoothed leap seconds to avoid having to audit code for leap second bugs.
2011-09-15: Most of you have no idea of what Martin Luther King actually did.
2011-09-15: You are all Johann Hari.
2011-09-15: An interview with David Graeber.
2011-09-15: David Graeber vs the Austrian shool of economics.
2011-09-15: Metalimericks.
2011-09-15: Eben Upton of Raspberry Pi answers some questions.
2011-09-15: The Internet's not-very-secret back door: government certificate authorities support man-in-the-middle attacks.
2011-09-15: Shock news: good ISPs and effective CERT teams lead to lower malware infection rates.
2011-09-15: Evidence is scarce that expensive classroom IT improves results.
2011-09-15: How money developed from debt accounting.
2011-09-15: Why we should teach our kids to code.
2011-09-14: Wonderful book sculptures anonymously left around Edinburgh "in support of libraries, books, words, ideas".
2011-09-14: Convergent encryption reconsidered.
2011-09-14: On the railways being a rich man's toy.
2011-09-14: Tubular Fells: a topological map of the Lake District.
2011-09-14: Are there any examples of good pie charts?
2011-09-14: The BSD pf firewall on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
2011-09-14: The HDCP magic inside Bunnie's NeTV.
2011-09-13: Hotfile sues Warner Bros. for copyright fraud and abuse.
2011-09-13: Dead Reckonings: a blog on nomograms and advanced mental arithmetic.
2011-09-13: COMAP: Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications: instructional resources for innovative educators.
2011-09-13: The lost art of nomography.
2011-09-13: Scratch: create and share your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.
2011-09-13: Royal Society education research and policy project on computing in schools.
2011-09-13: Computer science for fun.
2011-09-13: Alice: teaching programming in a 3D environment.
2011-09-13: Programming is the new literacy.
2011-09-13: Computing at school: a BCS / grass roots support + lobbying initiative.
2011-09-13: Things we should teach in school. (Read the comments!)
2011-09-13: Projet Gutenberg, son fondateur Michael Hart, et un objet mythique par excellence du monde geek: le plain-texte.
2011-09-13: Intel gives $2.5 million a year to several universities, provided they open source their work with no patents.
2011-09-13: Golomb-coded sets: smaller than Bloom filters.
2011-09-13: Ferguson Ariva 120 Combo digital TV receiver review.
2011-09-12: Global navigation space systems: reliance and vulnerabilities.
2011-09-12: Nerdy day trips.
2011-09-12: Copyright: you'd better swatch what you say.
2011-09-12: European copyright term extension is a cultural disaster.
2011-09-12: List of musical works with unusual time signatures.
2011-09-12: Big Trak. "Retro and cool."
2011-09-12: Programming doesn't fit into the primary school curriculum.
2011-09-12: Teach our children to code.
2011-09-12: Lua metatables are "hard".
2011-09-11: Some ways in which the film industry is evil.
2011-09-11: The fall and fall of Scottish Conservatism.
2011-09-11: The great prosperity, 1947-1970 / the great regression, 1970-now.
2011-09-10: Some papers every programmer should read.
2011-09-10: Fundamental concepts in programming languages. (Christopher Strachey, 1967)
2011-09-09: Helpful uranium-munching bacteria breath it through conducting nanowires.
2011-09-08: Why are black boxes so hard to re-use? Towards a new model of abstraction in software engineering.
2011-09-08: Which TLDs are most abused to support online criminal activity.
2011-09-08: Git is simpler than you think.
2011-09-08: How Google App Engine price changes are affecting the architecture of the hosted apps.
2011-09-08: JSTOR now provides free access to old out-of-copyright papers.
2011-09-08: Old papers from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society liberated from the paywall.
2011-09-08: Über die Stabilität von Oszillatoren und Frequenznormalen.
2011-09-08: Some similarities between Go and Lua.
2011-09-08: Digital archeology with drive-independent data recovery: recovering Cray 1 software from a big old drive infested with wasps.
2011-09-08: What is the bandwidth of the IETF document publication process, in millibits/second?
2011-09-08: From sundials to atomic clocks.
2011-09-07: Shake to undo, for Mac OS X.
2011-09-07: Why can't PC manufacturers compete with the MacBook Air?
2011-09-07: What happens to your patent litigation after you shaft the inventors.
2011-09-06: The future of light is the LED.
2011-09-06: Please fix the dire cycle parking shortage at Cambridge Station.
2011-09-06: Jari Arkko's home network.
2011-09-05: Plan to revive the only UK built and launched satellite for its 40th birthday.
2011-09-05: The Great Bank Robbery - Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Spitznagel.
2011-09-05: Small memory software: patterns for systems with limited storage.
2011-09-05: Stupid in America.
2011-09-05: A first look at the literacy of America's adults in the 21st century.
2011-09-05: Mobile Web: Taiwan, Opera and WebOS.
2011-09-05: Lessons learned from giving bug bounties.
2011-09-05: Karl Marx may have been wrong about communism but he was right about much of capitalism.
2011-09-05: Publish or perish: peer review and the corruption of science.
2011-09-05: Achron: Starcraft with time travel.
2011-09-05: Professor Moriarty elected Drapers Professor of French in the University of Cambridge with effect from 1 September 2011.
2011-09-05: Open Science, Freedom of Information, and the big journal monopoly.
2011-09-05: GOVCERT.nl factsheet on DigiNotar X.509 CA disaster.
2011-09-05: The Pearl: erotica printed for the Society of Vice, 1880.
2011-09-05: Feature branches vs. continuous integration.
2011-09-05: Torvalds puts his Linux tree on GitHub to work around the kernel.org downtime.
2011-09-05: The costs of open source development in isolation and collaboration.
2011-09-04: Stop using unsafe keyed hashes: use HMAC.
2011-09-04: More on the extent of the damage done by the DigiNotar X.509 CA.
2011-09-04: A cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing.
2011-09-04: Seriously: stop with the booth babes!
2011-09-04: The true cost of 9/11.
2011-09-04: Reflections of a Republican Party operative who left the cult.
2011-09-04: BBC Radio 4: fighting the power of pink.
2011-09-04: How Western Governors University is disrupting education.
2011-09-03: What happens when disabled people ask for accessible web sites.
2011-09-03: Rob Pike: the good, the bad, and the ugly, of 1e9 seconds of Unix.
2011-09-03: No-one trusts DigiNotar now.
2011-09-02: Protothreads: a minor improvement to Simon Tatham's C coroutine trick.
2011-09-02: CS unplugged: computer science without a computer.
2011-09-02: Average speed of Cambridgeshire guided bus is 12mph.
2011-09-02: Intel's new "Bull Mountain" hardware random number generator.
2011-09-02: Our children are mostly getting training in Microsoft Office rather than ICT education.
2011-09-02: Doorstep "charity" clothes collection bags are a scam.
2011-09-01: Unofficial Lua FAQ.
2011-09-01: No, git does not magically make the kernel.org compromise harmless.
2011-09-01: Sodastream kicked out of Swedish Co-op shops owing to factory in occupied West Bank.
2011-09-01: Skeptics in the Pub: contacts, links and resources.
2011-09-01: Low-overhead breakpoints for Lua.
2011-09-01: Using git to work on the FreeBSD source code.
2011-09-01: DigiNotar breach: the story so far.
2011-09-01: The Carlton Arms new website.
2011-09-01: Well, that about wraps it up for SCO.
2011-09-01: Charlie Stross reinvents zombies.
2011-08-31: Adrian Cockcroft of NetFlix is looking for AWS competitors, and OpenStack isn't up to it.
2011-08-31: "We have to monetize more of what ordinary people do, or we make them into wards of the state" - Jaron Lanier.
2011-08-31: What shapes do dice have?
2011-08-31: With 95% probability, the Higgs boson does not exist within the energies the LHC has explored.
2011-08-31: Bit-squatting: DNS hijacking using random bit-flip errors.
2011-08-31: It is not clear that IPv6 will secure sufficient following to attain market viability. (John Curran, 1994)
2011-08-31: Intel's plans to keep Moore's law going.
2011-08-31: Flickr: automatic privacy settings based on photo locations.
2011-08-31: That coloured road surface isn't a bike lane, it's a door zone.
2011-08-31: Britain should be proud of the Human Rights Act – and protect it.
2011-08-31: To kill a mocking name.
2011-08-30: Facebook improves privacy controls.
2011-08-30: FixMyTransport: report, view, and resolve public transport problems.
2011-08-30: IETF very strongly urges Google and OpenDNS to follow the EDNS0 option code allocation procedure.
2011-08-30: UK government supports copyright term extension despite the recommendation of the Hargreaves report.
2011-08-30: The world time system.
2011-08-30: Tony Sale, computer conservationist at Bletchley Park, has died.
2011-08-30: OpenDNS and Google public DNS deploy workaround to fix CDN geo-IP pessimization.
2011-08-30: Vasco press release on the hacking of their subsidiary X.509 CA DigiNotar.
2011-08-30: "Cat women of the moon": Radio 4 programme on science fiction and relationships between the sexes.
2011-08-30: Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist.
2011-08-30: DigiNotar X.509 CA portal hacked by Iranians years ago?
2011-08-30: Mr.Hermes: simple Python debug/test SMTP server.
2011-08-30: "High Table, Lower Orders": Cambridge comedy murder mystery currently on Radio 4 Extra.
2011-08-30: Data mining the Science Museum catalogue: "inordinately fond of bottles".
2011-08-30: Google and Mozilla revoke trust in a CA that issued a GMail man-in-the-middle cert.
2011-08-30: Not Tetris 2 - Tetris with physics.
2011-08-30: Microsoft fails at data-driven UI design.
2011-08-30: The case for a free market in IPv4 addresses.
2011-08-30: Trading IPv4 addresses will end in tears.
2011-08-29: The Daily Mail's repeated deliberate photo copyright infringement.
2011-08-27: Pacific Northwest superquake and megatsunami.
2011-08-27: Schiehallion experiment to measure the density of the Earth.
2011-08-27: From System F to typed assembly language.
2011-08-27: ichbins: a self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 6 pages of code.
2011-08-27: Bootstrapping a metacircular PEG-to-JavaScript parser generator.
2011-08-27: An incremental approach to compiler construction.
2011-08-27: Stories about the B5000 and the people who were there.
2011-08-27: Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers.
2011-08-26: Ellen Ripley saved my life.
2011-08-26: How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves.
2011-08-26: UK's atomic clock is world's most accurate.
2011-08-26: Corrections and clarifications on Iceland.
2011-08-26: Why Iceland should be in the news, but is not.
2011-08-26: Hints for computer system design from Butler Lampson.
2011-08-26: Papers every computer scientist should read.
2011-08-26: Tomasulo's algorithm for out-of-order instruction scheduling.
2011-08-26: Out of the tar pit: minimizing complexity.
2011-08-26: What would it be like walking around on a cube-shaped planet?
2011-08-26: The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold.
2011-08-26: "Climategate" was a fake scandal.
2011-08-26: Peter Norvig on Christopher Strachey's checkers program from Scientific American, Sept. 1966.
2011-08-26: King's Cross Station redevelopment.
2011-08-26: Paddington Station refurbishment.
2011-08-25: Capanography helps emergency services know when not to give up CPR, even after 96 minutes.
2011-08-25: Students don't know how to find information in libraries or online.
2011-08-25: List of scientific equations named after people.
2011-08-25: Google+: too much unnecessary drama.
2011-08-25: NewsBlur online feed reader.
2011-08-25: It's easy to steal PINs from cash machines using a thermal camera.
2011-08-25: Where is Physics Barbie?
2011-08-25: Free version of ISO 32000-1 PDF specification from Adobe, with the official ISO boilerplate filed off.
2011-08-24: Intel product rosetta stone.
2011-08-24: The financial industry has become a threat to the global economy again.
2011-08-24: The 1922 New York straw hat riot.
2011-08-24: Paul Krugman on Google+, or not.
2011-08-24: The amazing disappearing BSD licence!
2011-08-24: Org mode: an Emacs extension for notes, project planning, and authoring.
2011-08-24: TiddlyWiki: a serverless wiki.
2011-08-24: Operating system popularity statistics on Windows XP's tenth birthday.
2011-08-24: List of enclaves and exclaves.
2011-08-23: "OK Go and the Muppets? That sounds pretty exciting!" "Nah, let's watch cat videos."
2011-08-23: Rob Pike says "don't write lexers and parsers with regular expressions".
2011-08-23: Bretton Woods and the gold standard vs. floating exchange rates and paper money.
2011-08-23: How to transport 211 tonnes of gold from London to Caracas?
2011-08-23: The Register on BlueGene/Q.
2011-08-23: BlueGene/Q includes hardware support for transactional memory.
2011-08-23: Sales of non-iPad tablets vs. obscure game consoles.
2011-08-23: Chinese military reveals a cyber-warfare tool on TV.
2011-08-23: Ericsson's Computer Science lab: the first ten years.
2011-08-23: luatrace: tracing, profiling and coverage for Lua.
2011-08-23: Charlie Stross is not on Google Plus.
2011-08-22: Reflections on diglossia.
2011-08-22: The discovery of an underlying disease process for all types of ALS.
2011-08-22: BHyVe: KVM-style hypervisor for FreeBSD.
2011-08-22: European unitary patents could bring unlimited software patents over here.
2011-08-22: Software patents: foolish business (says the Guardian).
2011-08-22: Cherry Box Pizza: interesting toppings in Cambridge.
2011-08-22: Vodka nation.
2011-08-22: Peudonymity, privacy and responsibility on Google+.
2011-08-22: Met Office building in Exeter - spot the supercomputer hall.
2011-08-22: Smileua: an alternative syntax for Lua inspired by MoonScript.
2011-08-22: Arabic language history.
2011-08-22: Arabic is terrific.
2011-08-20: Threads without locks - the Plan 9 / Go approach to concurrency.
2011-08-20: DNSSEC and trust agility. (Doesn't realise that hierarchial trust protects against foreign bad actors.)
2011-08-20: $1 billion that nobody wants.
2011-08-20: 66 metre sundial / cable stay bridge in Redding, California.
2011-08-20: Google+ must stop this identity theatre.
2011-08-20: 13yo designs solar panel mount using the Fibonacci sequence in trees.
2011-08-20: Jamie Zawinsky on the nym wars.
2011-08-19: A ban on programming language module imports.
2011-08-19: How personal names differ around the world.
2011-08-19: London Tube map with distance grid.
2011-08-19: A more geographical version of the London Tube map.
2011-08-19: Apple doesn't do concept products.
2011-08-18: David May, creator of the transputer.
2011-08-18: Writing a macro processor for Erlang.
2011-08-18: How web browsers work.
2011-08-18: $80 Huawei Android phone sells like hotcakes in Kenya.
2011-08-18: Pigeons are better at the Monty Hall problem than people.
2011-08-17: Redefining the SI units based on fixed values of fundamental constants.
2011-08-17: An extended comparative study of language support for generic programming.
2011-08-17: Termination combinators forever.
2011-08-17: The Kitchen Sink DNS resource record type.
2011-08-17: Judge Andrew Gilbart QC sentencing remarks on the Manchester riots.
2011-08-17: A comparison of C++ "concepts" and Haskell type classes.
2011-08-17: AKS primality test.
2011-08-17: SpaceX to fly to ISS in November.
2011-08-17: Vinay Deolalikar's claimed proof of P!=NP, one year later.
2011-08-16: Secure dynamic DNS update howto.
2011-08-16: Standard-ish secure dynamic DNS updates with Mac OS X, wide-area Bonjour and DNS service discovery.
2011-08-16: Experiences porting KVM to SmartOS.
2011-08-16: Joyent SmartOS.
2011-08-16: Pandoc: a universal document converter.
2011-08-16: Goodbye, cruel Word.
2011-08-16: IBM pulls the plug on high performance computer systems research.
2011-08-16: False confessions are easy to extract.
2011-08-16: Building with Legos: immutable virtual servers.
2011-08-16: Dark matter may be an illusion caused by gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum.
2011-08-16: How the head of Fox News is making Americans more right-wing, ignorant, and terrified.
2011-08-15: The Black Blood of the Earth - triple cold-extraction coffee.
2011-08-15: Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages.
2011-08-15: The sunny side of smut.
2011-08-15: How to create a sparsebundle without relying on Time Machine.
2011-08-15: Time Machine - backing up to a locally-connected sparsebundle.
2011-08-15: Apple's sleek new Fifth Avenue glass cube.
2011-08-15: Evil traffic interception by US ISPs.
2011-08-15: I'm sorry, but were you actually trying to remember your passwords?
2011-08-15: The ethics of artificial intelligence.
2011-08-15: Automated testing on iOS and Android.
2011-08-15: Perlis languages.
2011-08-14: The shapes of CSS.
2011-08-13: Google finds 80 Flash exploit in four weeks using large scale fuzzing.
2011-08-13: How to create an account on a Mac when you don't know its passwords.
2011-08-13: AeroFS: file sync without servers.
2011-08-13: How to put your logo into a QR code.
2011-08-12: Research is in crisis and young scientists are suffering.
2011-08-12: Independent police monitor beaten up in back of police van, while monitoring policing of riots.
2011-08-12: Petition for no homeopathy on the NHS.
2011-08-12: Design patterns are a sign of missing language features.
2011-08-12: Armed Response Technologies, home of the DeathStation 9000.
2011-08-12: An enlightened social contract is not built on subsidies or "handouts" — whether to the impoverished or to bankers.
2011-08-12: What if Bertie Wooster, rather than being a mere layabout, was also Batman?
2011-08-12: DragonFly Mail Agent - a small and secure MTA for edge systems.
2011-08-12: Mac OS X Lion recovery disk assistant.
2011-08-12: Death to the ‘noreply' mailbox.
2011-08-12: Hooking up a VT220 to a Mac.
2011-08-12: LSI launches MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 SSD caching software.
2011-08-12: Do not leave concentrated nitric acid unattended.
2011-08-12: Charging and convicting rioters is not a simple matter.
2011-08-12: Riot against moral relativism.
2011-08-12: Patent-infringement lawsuit against Fark settled for zero dollars, sans NDA.
2011-08-11: The patent system is broken, not us.
2011-08-11: How terrorism laws brought back 1980s riots.
2011-08-11: How BlackBerry BBM fed the riots.
2011-08-11: How nice it is to change someone's mind on the Internet :-)
2011-08-11: Deep structural problems lie beneath the London riots.
2011-08-11: Reducing redundant RETURN opcodes in Lua.
2011-08-11: Some fun C tricks and tips.
2011-08-11: Graphs of rent prices in Cambridge used to set the Local Housing Allowance.
2011-08-11: The eyesore on I-4.
2011-08-11: The economic consequences of Gordon Brown.
2011-08-11: Weapons of Lua.
2011-08-11: Moonscript: an alternate syntax for Lua inspired by CoffeeScript.
2011-08-11: The strange propaganda of the now-famous riot cleanup broom bic.
2011-08-11: CAPTCHAs to keep idiots out of comment threads.
2011-08-10: The GOES time code service, 1974–2004.
2011-08-10: Metrologia special issue on modern applications of timescales.
2011-08-10: What happens to the 13 to 20% of kids who walk away from school with no qualifications?
2011-08-10: Google's list of bad words.
2011-08-10: Index of multiple deprivation / riots map mashup.
2011-08-10: "Self-pitying scumbags" - Tony Parsons on the rioters.
2011-08-10: How have Europeans grown so tall?
2011-08-09: Philips LED bulb tear-down.
2011-08-09: How bad is News Corporation?!
2011-08-09: Gamification is marketing bullshit.
2011-08-09: Mac OS X Lion for unix hackers.
2011-08-09: RetroBSD is a port of 2.11BSD Unix to Microchip PIC32 embedded MIPS systems.
2011-08-09: An experiment with the Google+ profile abuse handling process.
2011-08-09: Google employees whose G+ names violate their policy.
2011-08-09: Policing riots: stand and watch or get stuck in?
2011-08-08: The obfuscated vote counting competition.
2011-08-08: Chuck out that tough Aussie bloke stereotype and bring back the laid-back Aussies.
2011-08-08: Warren's Abstract Machine for Prolog: a tutorial reconstruction.
2011-08-07: Enthusiasm to learn and marking school work.
2011-08-07: Dan Carlin podcast on the death throes of the Roman Republic.
2011-08-07: An explanation of Microsoft's anti-Google patent FUD.
2011-08-07: "My name is me: your freedom to choose the name you use online.
2011-08-06: The Economist on the moon - ultimate headline winnage.
2011-08-06: In search of stupidity.
2011-08-06: Realize that fold is nothing but replacing each n-ary constructor of an algebraic data type with an n-ary function.
2011-08-06: Real name policies are an authoritarian assertion of power over vulnerable people.
2011-08-06: Google IPv6 adoption statistics.
2011-08-06: Lion, IPv6, happy eyeballs.
2011-08-06: You can steal my ideas but I'm still the best person to carry them out.
2011-08-06: Vince Cable anti-Murdoch leakers were bribed by News International.
2011-08-05: "Phlebomania Hancocksia": prevalence of a previously undescribed psychomotor disturbance.
2011-08-05: Google+ names policy explained.
2011-08-05: Craig Murray was right about the UK's pro-torture policy.
2011-08-05: Coalition cock-up or conspiracy?
2011-08-05: This is an article about a statistic.
2011-08-05: cython-ifdef: basic preprocessor support for cython using unifdef.
2011-08-05: In love with Sheffield's architecture.
2011-08-04: Another big miscarriage of justice.
2011-08-04: What interests Google associates with your ads cookie.
2011-08-03: When patents attack Android.
2011-08-03: Charles' Rules of Argument.
2011-08-03: Student journalists try producing a paper using 1980s tech.
2011-08-03: The US legislation that could kill Internet privacy.
2011-08-03: The mother of all interview questions.
2011-08-03: The C2I2 hypothesis: customers vs. collaborators; implementations vs. inventions.
2011-08-03: ViTunes: control iTunes from vim.
2011-08-03: Standard LEDs can make a 800Mbps wireless network.
2011-08-03: The myth of the sole inventor.
2011-08-03: The Exonomist says America's intellectual-property system is a travesty which threatens the wealth and welfare of the whole world.
2011-08-02: Efficient and practical distributed currency.
2011-08-02: Liberty / Justice femslash.
2011-08-02: Beware of Greeks bearing bonds.
2011-08-02: The little manual of API design.
2011-08-02: They could have had the moon but instead they got Afghanistan.
2011-08-02: Your shoes make you walk wrong.
2011-08-02: Moore's law hits a snag with power budgets.
2011-08-02: Venture capital has stopped funding the future.
2011-08-02: How fake money saved Brazil.
2011-08-02: Oslo: Reflections on U.S. and Norwegian reactions.
2011-08-01: Playgrounds can be too safe.
2011-08-01: The Left might actually be right.
2011-08-01: Everyone plays Monopoly wrong.
2011-08-01: How Bush and Obama have affected US debt.
2011-08-01: Time does not exist.
2011-08-01: How not to do conference wifi.
2011-08-01: Skud's survey of suspended Google+ accounts.
2011-08-01: Freedom of the press implies that if you don't own the press, you don't get the freedom.
2011-08-01: Test your vocabulary.
2011-08-01: False Witnesses 2.
2011-08-01: False witnesses, malicious liars.
2011-08-01: God hates German words.
2011-07-31: American patent reform may strengthen patent trolls.
2011-07-31: Forbes says the US Supreme Court should invalidate software patents.
2011-07-30: The secret ingredient flavouring your orange juice.
2011-07-30: IPv6 brokenness problems are being fixed.
2011-07-28: Moom: grid-based window positioning for Mac OS.
2011-07-25: More people caught out by proliferation of US federal offenses.
2011-07-22: Enable TRIM support for all SSDs in OS X Lion by editing a kext binary.
2011-07-22: PowerDNS authoritative server 3.0 released - now with DNSSEC support.
2011-07-22: ClojureScript is a dialect of Clojure that targets JavaScript as a deployment platform.
2011-07-21: Nokia takes a nosedive. "Osborne Effect" henceforth known as "Elop Effect".
2011-07-21: The Columbia Journalism Review summarizes the criminal activities of News Corporation.
2011-07-21: Aaron Swartz’s reckless open access activism.
2011-07-21: Nominet DNSSEC signing service.
2011-07-21: Open Cambridge - see inside places that are usually closed - Sep. 9-11.
2011-07-19: Mork keeps on giving: When the database worms eat into your murder trial.
2011-07-19: The reasoning behind changing daylight saving time in North America in 2007.
2011-07-18: Connie Willis may be the worst writer in existence.
2011-07-18: Fox News claims the News of the World was a VICTIM of phone hacking.
2011-07-18: Paul Krugman on the insanity of the Republican Party.
2011-07-18: How the Guardian broke the Murdoch scandal.
2011-07-18: Why aren't the earliest sunset and latest sunrise on the same day as the winter solstice?
2011-07-18: Higher-order Venn diagrams.
2011-07-17: A literary appreciation of the Olson TZ database.
2011-07-16: How Ethernet grew from 3Mbps to 100Gbps.
2011-07-16: How Stuxnet was revealed to be a sophisticated cyberweapon.
2011-07-16: The algebra of data, and the calculus of mutation.
2011-07-16: Is there anything good about men?
2011-07-15: The rise and fall of the independent software developer.
2011-07-15: Small businesses sued after MacroSolve gets a patent covering HTML forms.
2011-07-13: For the first time ever, the government publishes its consolidated accounts.
2011-07-13: "Rupert Murdoch has done more to harm journalism in America and Britain than any other person." - Roger Ebert.
2011-07-13: Floppy disks: it's too late.
2011-07-13: A major improvement to BIND 9 startup performance with lots of zones.
2011-07-13: TIME's Lev Grossman on fan fiction culture.
2011-07-13: How the Metropolitan Police tries to cover up their mistakes with lies and corruption.
2011-07-13: How New Corporation blackmailed a Fox Sports anchorman over his health.
2011-07-13: Csmith is a compiler testing tool that generates random C programs which conform to the standard.
2011-07-13: Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?
2011-07-13: The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient and immune to dust.
2011-07-12: How News Corporation gets massive tax refunds from the US government.
2011-07-12: Edward Tufte's slopegraphs.
2011-07-12: Women in national parliaments.
2011-07-12: Garbage collection is fast, but a stack is faster.
2011-07-12: A library of high-level control operators based on continuations.
2011-07-12: A retrospective on region-based memory management.
2011-07-11: A reply to criticisms of the Knight and Leveson N-version programming experiment.
2011-07-11: NSA SIGINT style guide.
2011-07-11: This scandal goes to the heart of the way this country has been run, under both parties, for decades.
2011-07-11: Analysis of increased query load on root name servers.
2011-07-11: NY Times on the corruption and criminality of News International.
2011-07-11: Royal Society event discussing UTC for the 21st century.
2011-07-11: The Mine! project: open source online data and relationships logistics.
2011-07-08: IERS surveys opinion on the possible redefinition of UTC.
2011-07-08: Advanced Lawnmower Simulator. (almost as good as the Sinclair version)
2011-07-08: Research on innovation by James Bessen et al.
2011-07-08: A generation of software patents.
2011-07-08: SURFnet on deploying DNSSEC validation on recursive nameservers.
2011-07-08: Code in academic papers.
2011-07-08: Nature: why scientific programming does not compute.
2011-07-08: Microsoft's Android shakedown.
2011-07-07: How mobile phone voicemail hacking worked.
2011-07-07: IRA vs. al Qaeda.
2011-07-07: The machine to build the machines. (NeXT promo video from 20 years ago.)
2011-07-07: Revolution, hacktivism, lulz, and memes.
2011-07-06: Brewing gluten-free strawberry beer with animated GIFs.
2011-07-06: Dear photograph.
2011-07-06: Google to retire Blogger and Picasa in favour of Google+.
2011-07-05: Have cities in the developed world reached peak car use?
2011-07-05: The (Deutsch)-Schorr-Waite graph marking algorithm, developed with style.
2011-07-05: Police bail in the dock.
2011-07-05: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO.
2011-07-05: High speed rail in China.
2011-07-05: Who holds Greek debt.
2011-07-05: Once Greece goes…
2011-07-05: A funny little calculus textbook.
2011-07-05: Babbage - the language of the future.
2011-07-05: Fukushima cover-up unravels.
2011-07-04: Dutch beer glass sundial.
2011-07-04: A beer glass with a built-in sundial.
2011-07-04: Homophobic primary school stops community opera at last minute.
2011-07-02: Decentralised currencies are probably impossible, but let's at least make them efficient.
2011-07-01: How to safely store a password.
2011-07-01: fexl: function expression language based on combinators.
2011-07-01: Why do game developers prefer Windows? Direct3D vs OpenGL.
2011-07-01: Hacker News discusses broadband competition.
2011-06-30: Why Europe has fast cheap broadband, but America has arguments about net neutrality.
2011-06-30: I like the buttery biscuit bass.
2011-06-30: Jellyfish: networking data centres randomly.
2011-06-30: Norvig vs. Chomsky and the fight for the future of AI.
2011-06-30: No-nose bicycle saddles are better for you.
2011-06-30: The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable.
2011-06-30: Chip-scale atomic clock GPS-disciplined oscillator.
2011-06-30: dotjs - Google Chrome plugin for easily adding your own JavaScript to web pages.
2011-06-30: Programming in Clojure for beginners.
2011-06-29: Root DNS server load up by factor of four in last 24 hours.
2011-06-29: Why Programming Languages?
2011-06-28: Designing GitHub for Mac.
2011-06-28: How a code editor can indicate nesting level without indentation.
2011-06-28: Cambridge's Richardson Candle street lights have been listed for preservation.
2011-06-28: TCP Hybla: a transmission scheme for long RTT wireless networks.
2011-06-28: Petition to ignore the EDL march in Cambridge.
2011-06-28: How to make a clock run for 10,000 years.
2011-06-28: Using Yubikey with Fastmail.
2011-06-28: Inexpensive OATH OTP tokens.
2011-06-28: Duo Security: two factor authentication made easy.
2011-06-28: TCP over 2.5G and 3G wireless networks.
2011-06-28: Why mobile networking sucks: bufferbloat and TCP over 3G.
2011-06-28: American Scientist article on the future of UTC by pro-leap-second astronomers.
2011-06-28: Update on revised spec for UTC and leap seconds.
2011-06-27: JavaScript is dead. Long live JavaScript!
2011-06-26: 10,000 year clock.
2011-06-26: The road to gay marriage in New York.
2011-06-26: Lua 5.2 reference manual, annotated with changes from 5.1.
2011-06-25: Cross-browser non-ASCII download file names.
2011-06-24: Institute for the Future predicts effects of IT in 1982: right effects, wrong tech.
2011-06-24: Kind of Screwed: fair use in action.
2011-06-24: Top 10 most sinister PSYOPS mission patches.
2011-06-23: Lytro light-field camera will take photos that can be refocussed during post-processing.
2011-06-23: Graphics programming black book, by Michael Abrash.
2011-06-23: Rateless codes and big downloads: a peer-to-peer system based on linear-time rateless erasure codes.
2011-06-23: Digital fountain codes for forward error correction.
2011-06-23: GitX (L): a fork of GitX.
2011-06-23: GitX: a git GUI for Mac OS X.
2011-06-23: Offline GitHub for Mac.
2011-06-23: Leap-of-faith trust aka TOFU/POP for https.
2011-06-23: Health and safety has little to do with timid risk aversion.
2011-06-23: Tube Map in German.
2011-06-23: Georgia's new anti-immigration law causes a farm labour crisis.
2011-06-22: Fighting for the public domain in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.
2011-06-22: Yahoo!s list of things to do to speed up your web site.
2011-06-21: How Google notifies you of "search customization".
2011-06-21: Escape your search engine Filter Bubble!
2011-06-21: Broken Koans and other Zen debris.
2011-06-21: Zen Koans.
2011-06-21: Facing up to insolvent infrastructure and debt-ridden services.
2011-06-18: jsmad: pure JavaScript mp3 decoder.
2011-06-17: DNSSEC authenticated HTTPS in Google Chrome.
2011-06-17: How magnets work.
2011-06-17: Why you might say to MySQL, "I am a dummy."
2011-06-17: DNSvis diagram of DNSSEC trust and delegation chains for dotat.at.
2011-06-16: ORM is an anti-pattern.
2011-06-16: Designing good multiple-choice questions.
2011-06-15: The sleepsort algorithm: an O(n) sort implemented in bash.
2011-06-15: Samuel L Jackson reads a bedtime story: "go the fuck to sleep".
2011-06-15: An abridged history of the Internet.
2011-06-15: Are auto-login links in email a good idea?
2011-06-14: The Gosu programming l.anguage
2011-06-14: Scala: static checking that feels dynamic.
2011-06-14: Matt Groening's promo cartoons for Apple.
2011-06-14: Reverse DNS considerations for IPv6.
2011-06-14: Common scenarios in which Exchange may lose or confuse calendar data.
2011-06-14: Python idioms and efficiency.
2011-06-14: How to write a spelling corrector.
2011-06-13: Andy Baio interviews the creator of telehack.
2011-06-13: How to increase procurement costs: use economies of scale rather than competition.
2011-06-13: What is "loatheware"?
2011-06-13: Terry Pratchett starts the process to take his own life.
2011-06-13: Pink stinks: a campaign to challenge the culture of pink which invades every aspect of girls' lives.
2011-06-13: 6rd: IPv6 rapid deployment.
2011-06-13: Cisco on their success with IPv6 in France.
2011-06-13: From dust to edge: making a blade starting from ore.
2011-06-13: The Reduceron: high-level symbolic computing on an FPGA.
2011-06-10: A Haskell combinator library for the design of full-size railway track layouts.
2011-06-10: Patients are not consumers.
2011-06-10: 90 gaffes from Prince Philip in the Mirror.
2011-06-10: 90 gaffes from Prince Philip in the Independent.
2011-06-10: Internet access in th USA is a disaster.
2011-06-10: Normalize CSS: an alternative to CSS resets.
2011-06-09: Wait, what does your startup do?
2011-06-09: Bacon Ipsum.
2011-06-08: DENIC says .de has the most 2LDs signed with DNSSEC.
2011-06-08: Two stage filtering for email over IPv6.
2011-06-08: The Radio 4 Today Programme's fighty interviews are boring and poisonous.
2011-06-08: Oxford Electric Bell: a scientific instrument running for 170 years.
2011-06-07: Ten physical gestures that have been patented.
2011-06-07: How the Tube Map affects journey planning decisions.
2011-06-07: Alan Kay asks about significant new inventions in computing since 1980.
2011-06-07: Sample of DNS server IPv4 and IPv6 addresses querying maps.vix.com.
2011-06-07: Microsoft AD DNS fails to keep SOA serial numbers in sync, which breaks zone transfers to slaves.
2011-06-07: Cambridge Geek Night 11: Monday 13th June, 19:00 at the Union.
2011-06-07: Lua enters TIOBE programming language top ten.
2011-06-07: Library of the future: box up the books in shipping containers and lend out their contents over the web.
2011-06-07: Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling.
2011-06-07: Telehack: huge interactive retrocomputing archive.
2011-06-06: National Heritage map of England.
2011-06-06: Experimental observations of dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 services.
2011-06-06: Spamhaus IPv6 block list strategy.
2011-06-06: The Energy Limit Model: Industrialism is no longer able to outrun energy costs.
2011-06-06: Translations of common mathematical understatements.
2011-06-06: The Economist's Johnson blog with more on cultural misunderstandings.
2011-06-06: Languagelog on European understanding of British understatement.
2011-06-05: A collection of programming and management laws.
2011-06-05: How I failed, failed, and finally succeeded at learning how to program computers.
2011-06-04: A benchmarking case study of C++, Java, Scala, and Go.
2011-06-03: netmap: memory mapping of network devices to drive 10gigE at line rate with FreeBSD.
2011-06-03: Microsoft's unenthusiastic support for IPv6 day.
2011-06-03: Sony gets massively hacked a dozen times.
2011-06-02: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy votes to reject the IEEE copyright policy and adopt the USENIX policy instead.
2011-06-02: The Santa Barbara county courthouse tower clock website (including a disturbance from Japan's earthquake in March).
2011-06-02: Skype reverse engineered.
2011-06-02: Requirements for handling leap seconds in NASA's common data format for space physics.
2011-06-02: The case against the em dash.
2011-06-02: Dissecting gzip and deflate.
2011-06-01: The Phoenix compiler framework: Microsoft's answer to LLVM.
2011-06-01: No, she went of her own accord.
2011-05-31: Depixellating pixel art.
2011-05-31: Convert between miles and kilometers using only addition.
2011-05-31: Bypass Cisco RA Guard by fragmenting your spoofed router advertisements.
2011-05-31: CBBC "Horrible Histories" spoofs Apple excellently.
2011-05-31: Limits to Growth.
2011-05-31: Rock star programmers.
2011-05-31: Linux 3.0rc1 - at last a bit of sanity in version numbering.
2011-05-30: Twenty reasons why revolution is kicking off everywhere.
2011-05-30: Thermoacoustic hot air engine.
2011-05-30: A refrigerator that runs without artificial energy input.
2011-05-29: "Peak Civilization": the fall of the Roman Empire.
2011-05-28: P.G. Wodehouse's American Psycho.
2011-05-28: The GFDL is possibly one of the worst licenses ever.
2011-05-27: Things in PHP which make you sad.
2011-05-27: Phonotactic reconstruction of encrypted VOIP conversations - amazing traffic analysis exploit.
2011-05-27: Polygonal map generation.
2011-05-27: Haynes manual for the 60163 "Tornado" Peppercorn class A1 Pacific steam locomotive.
2011-05-27: Roger Ebert on dim Sony 3D projectors.
2011-05-27: Stop sign.
2011-05-26: What papers should every computer scientist read?
2011-05-26: Floating point formats.
2011-05-26: route53d: gateway between standard DNS UPDATE / IXFR messages and Amazon's HTTP-based protocol.
2011-05-25: Peak oil, Hubbert curves, thermodynamics, and limits to economic growth.
2011-05-25: Branch descriptions in git.
2011-05-25: IPv6 eye chart: which websites can you see?
2011-05-25: Paul Francis's networking publications.
2011-05-24: A treatise on font rasterisation.
2011-05-24: The Ryan Giggs affair would have remained private if he had not taken out the injunction.
2011-05-24: Never mind naming Ryan Giggs, the RBS and FSA are the real secrecy scandal.
2011-05-24: How to deconstruct almost anything.
2011-05-24: An algorithms textbook by Dasgupta & Papadimitriou & Vazirani.
2011-05-24: ShaperProbe: a tool to detect traffic shaping by ISPs.
2011-05-24: Lactase persistence, quasi-pastoralism, and the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
2011-05-24: Should apples be regulated?
2011-05-24: EU IPR policy is crippling the digital economy.
2011-05-24: DENIC currently rolling out DNSSEC for the .de zone.
2011-05-24: Mouse + VOIP phone. Try using your computer and phone at the same time...
2011-05-24: The HTML keygen element generates a cryptographic key pair and submits the public key as part of an HTML form.
2011-05-23: Semantic versioning: a sensible software release numbering scheme.
2011-05-23: Linux version numbering to change to 2.8.x.y or 3.x.y?
2011-05-23: Loopsofzen: a little puzzle game for IPv6 users only.
2011-05-23: OMG IPv6 day! (the tl;dr version)
2011-05-23: Test your IPv6 connectivity.
2011-05-23: Richmond golf club temporary rules, 1940.
2011-05-23: A thoughtful piece about privacy law vs. global media.
2011-05-23: How the No to AV campaign won.
2011-05-23: Yes to AV post-mortem self-flagellation.
2011-05-23: RIBA pylon design competition.
2011-05-23: A Toronto couple are trying to raise a genderless child.
2011-05-23: MessagePack: like JSON but fast small and binary.
2011-05-23: Repairing corrupted ZIP files by brute force scanning.
2011-05-23: Scottish newspaper claims immunity from English superinjunction. Hilarity ensues.
2011-05-22: It is not a crime for investment banks to stiff their clients.
2011-05-22: Fighting the lower Mississippi river. (1987)
2011-05-21: How a Schillings superinjunction ensures everyone will hear your secret.
2011-05-21: Lambda the Ultimate discussion of proper tail call optimization.
2011-05-21: Why object-oriented languages need proper tail call optimization.
2011-05-20: Why we resist the idea that carbs are worse for you than fat.
2011-05-20: Unix system programming in Objective Caml.
2011-05-20: Run jslinux on node.js.
2011-05-20: Kirkus Reviews gives a star to Rule 34 by Charlie Stross.
2011-05-19: Wadler's criticism of SICP.
2011-05-19: A criticism of SICP and a rationale for HtDP.
2011-05-19: Amazon now selling more Kindle books than dead tree books.
2011-05-19: Carlton Arms to re-open towards the end of July.
2011-05-19: Decentralized Internet resource discovery revisited.
2011-05-18: Nominet completes rollout of DNSSEC for its .uk 2LDs.
2011-05-18: The influence of the embedding/extending API on the design of Lua.
2011-05-18: The recursive internet architecture.
2011-05-18: Assessing the security of the RINA clean-slate internet architecture.
2011-05-18: The definitive Tube map.
2011-05-18: Changes to the Internet architecture affect privacy.
2011-05-18: The periodic table of biscuit urban legends.
2011-05-17: Heaven: a fool's paradise.
2011-05-17: "Tubular Bells" played on an awesome collection of classic synths. (YouTube)
2011-05-17: Lost Type - pay what you like for fonts.
2011-05-17: Urban vs online spaces, cosmopolitan vs parochial, and designing for serendipity and flâneur.
2011-05-17: Serendipity: How the vogue word became vague.
2011-05-17: The untold story of the search business model.
2011-05-17: Dutch is essentially ...
2011-05-17: A another brief bio of Fabrice Bellard.
2011-05-17: Chief reviwer of NHS reforms says they are unworkable and will destroy essential services.
2011-05-17: The state of Unicode fonts in 1998.
2011-05-17: A somewhat fluffy bio of Fabrice Bellard.
2011-05-17: The L programming language and system.
2011-05-17: DNSSEC monitoring tools.
2011-05-17: Unintentional goatse.
2011-05-17: Programming language popularity.
2011-05-17: JavaScript madness.
2011-05-17: This PC emulator is written in Javascript. (Another stunning hack by Fabrice Bellard.)
2011-05-17: Fair Trade revealed as a feel-good hoax.
2011-05-16: Why Kate Griffin does not write about customer service.
2011-05-16: Physics lolcats.
2011-05-16: MISC: an experimental LISP-like language based on maps.
2011-05-16: What the Spitfire can teach us about nurturing innovation and radical ideas.
2011-05-16: Vint Cerf wants YOU to use IPv6.
2011-05-16: How the secretary of state for health proposes to abolish the NHS in England.
2011-05-16: validns - DNSSEC-aware zone file validator.
2011-05-16: Scientific evidence and government dietary guidelines.
2011-05-15: The worst algorithm in the world, or, how to calculate Fibonacci numbers.
2011-05-15: Web comments need to be reinvented.
2011-05-15: The dark side of C++.
2011-05-15: Imagine a (virtual) world without guns.
2011-05-15: Core totally demolished at Fukushima Daiichi No. 1.
2011-05-15: How to make WiFi work at tech conferences.
2011-05-15: A guide to undefined behaviour in C and C++.
2011-05-15: Anti-competitive licensing requirements in the USA.
2011-05-15: The "as-if infinitely ranged" integer model for avoiding overflow bugs.
2011-05-15: What every C programmer should know about undefined behavior.
2011-05-15: JSON is not a subset of JavaScript - lol Unicode.
2011-05-15: Markov generators and reservoir sampling.
2011-05-15: The suprising security model for NFC payments.
2011-05-14: DNSSEC, and trusting Internet names.
2011-05-13: Lexadecimal: meaningful colour numbers.
2011-05-13: UK higher education policy should not look towards the Ivy League.
2011-05-13: Symmetricom chip-scale atomic clock now for sale.
2011-05-12: Anglo-EU translation guide.
2011-05-12: The humiliation of the Yes to AV campaign.
2011-05-12: What happens to Asian-American overachievers after graduation?
2011-05-11: Realism in user interface design.
2011-05-11: An electoral reform post mortem.
2011-05-11: Build your own probability monads.
2011-05-11: Home-made core memory for the Arduino.
2011-05-11: The "Country Life" magazine list of 39 basic life skills.
2011-05-10: The war on access to information.
2011-05-10: Creative Commons and the enemies of creators' rights.
2011-05-10: EU "cookies" directive: interactive guide to 25th May and what it means for you.
2011-05-10: Exploit for Google Chrome (sandbox/ASLR/DEP bypass) - would Capsicum stop it?
2011-05-09: Cool but obscure unix tools.
2011-05-09: Oxford vs. Yale.
2011-05-09: There's more to HTML escaping than &, <, >, and "
2011-05-09: Irish jobs minister says current copyright law is bad for the economy.
2011-05-09: Samoa to switch from East to West of the Date Line.
2011-05-08: The CALM principle: distributed consistency as logical monotonicity.
2011-05-06: An alternative vote, Cambridge fashion.
2011-05-05: The Economist on the Fukushima nuclear reactor problems.
2011-05-05: Blunkett admits No campaign lied about costs. #yes2av
2011-05-05: Nominet announces that me.uk and co.uk are now signed with DNSSEC.
2011-05-05: Intel's 22nm tri-gate transistors.
2011-05-05: Results from Gravity Probe B confirm that Earth's spin twists space-time as predicted.
2011-05-05: Motivated almost exclusively by rage.
2011-05-04: A history of copy-on-write memory management.
2011-05-03: A celebration of Joanna Russ, 1937-2011.
2011-05-03: Antihydrogen trapped for 1000 seconds.
2011-05-02: Reasons in favour of lazy evaluation.
2011-05-02: LuaMacro2 - a lexical preprocessor for Lua.
2011-05-02: The file(1) / libmagic home page.
2011-05-02: BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.
2011-05-02: What Colour are your bits? "Paranoia" and Intellectual Property.
2011-05-02: Measuring C compiler standards conformance in the early 1990s.
2011-05-01: Atomic22 infiniti3D secure bike component fasteners.
2011-05-01: TiGr: titanium ribbon bike lock.
2011-05-01: Another patent used to kill innovation.
2011-04-30: Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS outage.
2011-04-30: Teletext 1970-2012: the life and death of a medium.
2011-04-28: Is your cat confused about the referendum for fairer votes? (YouTube)
2011-04-28: Power on/off symbology explained.
2011-04-28: Redis and scripting (with Lua).
2011-04-28: Hens say "yes!" to fairer votes.
2011-04-28: Jim: a small implementation of Tcl.
2011-04-28: Vote "yes" to fairer votes (and beer!)
2011-04-28: Why you should extend Python rather than embedding it.
2011-04-28: Yahoo! sells del.icio.us to YouTube founders.
2011-04-28: That's What She Said: automatic double entendre identification.
2011-04-28: The grim threat to British universities.
2011-04-27: A perfectly crazy voting system.
2011-04-27: Koninklijk Eise Eisinga Planetarium - the oldest planetarium.
2011-04-27: The Chancellor's wife is in town today.
2011-04-26: Why I just spent three days changing my passwords on over 300 web sites.
2011-04-26: Digital policy in the coalition government.
2011-04-26: Corruption, tax fraud, torture, and murder by Russian officials.
2011-04-26: Anatomy of bloat in Mozilla's SVG code.
2011-04-26: Fitzbillies to re-open under new management.
2011-04-26: SecSpider: the DNSSEC monitoring project.
2011-04-25: Dutch postal privatization.
2011-04-25: Everyone is to blame for this continued expectation that magic distributed storage is possible.
2011-04-25: An elegant computer desk.
2011-04-24: Algorithmic pricing on the Amazon marketplace.
2011-04-23: Immix garbage collection: fast collection, space efficiency, and mutator locality.
2011-04-23: Smalltalk 80: bits of history, words of advice.
2011-04-23: Google and Linux infringe linked list patent.
2011-04-23: The bouncing torpedo.
2011-04-23: The Black Team finds a bug in a tape driver.
2011-04-23: Everything popular is wrong: making it in electronic music, despite democratization.
2011-04-22: 1D glasses.
2011-04-22: 2D glasses.
2011-04-22: We should have got AV 93 years ago.
2011-04-21: PCH DNS service architecture.
2011-04-21: "Fun" with PHP arrays.
2011-04-21: Apple's location data collection is mentioned in the terms of use you didn't read.
2011-04-21: A better way to teach maths.
2011-04-21: TCP/IP illustrated, volume 1: the protocols (2nd edition). By Richard Stevens and Kevin Fall.
2011-04-20: Ugly memoization with unsafePerformIO.
2011-04-20: Elegant memoization with functional memo tries.
2011-04-20: An amazing surreptitious tour of London's disused underground mail railway.
2011-04-20: Is the ACS:Law case the beginning of the end for "three strikes" copyright laws?
2011-04-20: BT and TalkTalk lose their legal challenge to the Digital Economy Act anti-filesharing provisions.
2011-04-20: How the Erlang generic server works.
2011-04-20: Parallelism is not concurrency.
2011-04-20: A monad for deterministic parallelism.
2011-04-20: What is the status of multicore programming in Haskell?
2011-04-20: Education as a commodity.
2011-04-19: The Taxpayers' Alliance has bought yes2av.org and redirected it to no2av.org. Classy.
2011-04-19: Mozilla should add Honest Achmed's root CA certificate.
2011-04-19: Size of Google's and similar map tiles at different scales.
2011-04-19: The science of why deniers refuse to believe science.
2011-04-19: Trade IPv4.
2011-04-19: Haskell for the cloud: Erlang-style distributed concurrency.
2011-04-19: ARIN seems to agree that Nortel can treat its old IP space as property.
2011-04-19: Intel agrees with Oracle that Itanium is obsolete.
2011-04-18: 10 best tricks to fool yourself to work.
2011-04-18: In favour of juries being allowed to throw out bad patents.
2011-04-18: What's at the back of your web page?
2011-04-18: AV and dog shit.
2011-04-18: LuaJIT performance on an ARM (interpreter only, no JIT yet).
2011-04-18: Artificial almost-intelligence will trigger the spam apocalypse.
2011-04-18: Woo! Cold fusion!
2011-04-18: Extruding Conway's Game of Life.
2011-04-17: Examples of robberies from data centres.
2011-04-17: Photo tour of Facebook's new datacenter.
2011-04-17: I2P anonymous network.
2011-04-17: The Lisp curse.
2011-04-16: CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computing.
2011-04-16: TCP incast congestion collapse.
2011-04-15: A stable bicycle without gyros or trail.
2011-04-15: Cisco PIX firewall SMTP content filtering evasion vulnerability.
2011-04-15: Data Protection and Cambridge University's Google Calendar service.
2011-04-15: A closer look at the Level 3 + Global Crossing merger.
2011-04-15: Sugar: the bitter truth. (YouTube)
2011-04-15: Is sugar toxic?
2011-04-15: Matt Sergeant has written a new SMTP server using node.js.
2011-04-14: Asia/Pacific IPv4 exhaustion approaches.
2011-04-14: Teaching binary arithmetic using the Socratic method.
2011-04-14: UK Political Studies Association media briefing paper on the Alternative Vote.
2011-04-14: "Kettling" of peaceful protestors by Metropolitan Police ruled illegal.
2011-04-14: Electricity around the world.
2011-04-13: Zooko's tetrahedron.
2011-04-13: Zooko's triangle: names can be two of decentralized, secure, meaningful.
2011-04-13: Hugh Grant, phone hacking, paparazzi, secret recordings, and the News of the World scandal.
2011-04-13: Gazelle: a system for building fast reusable parsers.
2011-04-13: Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks.
2011-04-13: User-friendliness and fascism.
2011-04-12: Justice is impossible if we cannot trust police forces to tell the truth.
2011-04-12: Solaris has a MACHINE_THAT_GOES_PING.
2011-04-12: LISP network element deployment considerations.
2011-04-12: LISP (locator/Identifier separation protocol) beta network site status.
2011-04-12: In praise of eggs.
2011-04-12: The Olson timezone database (tzdata and tzcode). (New homepage since twinsun is down.)
2011-04-12: AMSS: the AM radio data signalling system.
2011-04-12: Specification of BBC phase-modulated data transmissions on Radio 4 long wave.
2011-04-12: ShairPort: an open source AirTunes server with a copy of the necessary private key.
2011-04-12: Hormel sues for "SPAM" trademark infringement.
2011-04-12: Toddler app user interface guidelines.
2011-04-12: Binary vs. UTF-8, and why it need not matter.
2011-04-11: Programming in Standard ML by Robert Harper.
2011-04-11: Circular "roundabout" observation bridge at Hiyoshi Springs.
2011-04-11: Castle in the sky: the story of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux.
2011-04-11: The rise and fall of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
2011-04-10: Classification of the principal programming paradigms.
2011-04-10: Programming paradigms for dummies: what every programmer should know.
2011-04-10: lorempixum - categorized placeholder images.
2011-04-10: Optimizing cache performance on a rapidly growing site.
2011-04-10: An encyclopaedia of programming languages.
2011-04-10: Relaxed memory models must be rigorous.
2011-04-09: A watch with a gnomon.
2011-04-09: Facebook's Open Compute Project server.
2011-04-09: A collection of articles about game physics.
2011-04-09: A unified framework for rigid body dynamics.
2011-04-09: Physics engines for dummies.
2011-04-09: Using coprime overlays to make non-repeating backgrounds.
2011-04-09: Brian May use prime numbers in the sound design for "We Will Rock You".
2011-04-09: In praise of "The C Programming Language".
2011-04-08: Rob Pike's C style guide.
2011-04-08: C Craft - waking from a programming nightmare.
2011-04-08: PHK on leap seconds in ACM Queue.
2011-04-08: Security problem excuse bingo.
2011-04-07: When Harry Met Sally 2, starring Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren.
2011-04-07: 75-year-old copper thief finds a single point of failure in Armenia's Internet connectivity.
2011-04-06: OpenSSL memory usage in node.js and Twisted Python.
2011-04-06: Testing prime numbers using pcre.
2011-04-05: Heap Layers: C++ templates for building high-performance allocators such as Hoard.
2011-04-05: Guardian.co.uk is switching from Java to Scala.
2011-04-05: "Yes to AV" bikes.
2011-04-04: Dan Kaminsky on DJB and secure DNS.
2011-04-04: A discussion about DES between Stanford CS researchers, NBS, and NSA, in 1976.
2011-04-04: gTLD DNSSEC at Verisign. (March 2011)
2011-04-04: Minority Report user interface available for real world use.
2011-04-04: "Predator" algorithm for tracking unknown objects in unconstrained video streams.
2011-04-04: Be prepared to accept security vulnerability reports.
2011-04-04: Rules for readable web sites.
2011-04-04: The continuing saga of the breast cancer gene patent case.
2011-04-02: Zenburn colour scheme for vim.
2011-04-02: Solarized - colour scheme for terminal programs.
2011-04-02: Product design at GitHub.
2011-04-01: Graph showing number of DNSSEC domains with secure delegations in .com, .net, and .edu.
2011-04-01: Quantum random bit generator service (with mathematical CAPTCHA).
2011-03-31: Linux distros move /var/run to /run to support programs starting early in bootup.
2011-03-31: RSA Inc. was hacked by the Chinese?
2011-03-31: Wired magazine interview with Paul Baran.
2011-03-30: How to insult a computer scientist.
2011-03-30: C++ member function pointers and fast delegates.
2011-03-30: Canada's broad anti-poly law.
2011-03-30: La Meridiana: a house built around a sundial. (stupid Flash photo gallery)
2011-03-29: Hacker releases private key of fraudulent Comodo X.509 certificate.
2011-03-29: A ballroom under a lake near Godalming...
2011-03-29: Juggling quadrocopters. (YouTube)
2011-03-29: INWG and the conception of the Internet: an eyewitness account.
2011-03-29: DJB's CurveCP: a monolithic replacement for TCP+TLS, plus discussion of transport protocol design.
2011-03-29: Mozilla follow-up on the Comodo X.509 certificate authority security breach.
2011-03-29: Rima: a mathematical modelling toolset using Lua.
2011-03-29: Twin babies have a conversation. Cute! (YouTube)
2011-03-28: Niall Ferguson on military overstretch, fiscal deficit, and the collapse of empires.
2011-03-27: National Executive Committee for space-based positioning, navigation, and timing on LightSquared and GPS.
2011-03-27: Unladen Swallow (Python JIT) retrospective.
2011-03-27: Bulletproof Node.js coding.
2011-03-27: Cornell library rejects NDAs and will reveal journal prices.
2011-03-26: f8 Facebook conference badges / booklets.
2011-03-26: Field vs. Google: robots.txt and copyright.
2011-03-26: Left-leaning red-black trees.
2011-03-26: Hopscotch hash table.
2011-03-25: The tale of a 15-year-old T/TCP bug in FreeBSD.
2011-03-25: Symmetricom's chip-scale atomic clock.
2011-03-25: Autotools Mythbuster.
2011-03-25: Autotools Tutorial.
2011-03-25: Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power.
2011-03-25: Das Leben ist zu kurz für den falschen Job.
2011-03-25: Ross Anderson asks, can we fix the security economics of federated authentication?
2011-03-24: Bankrupt Nortel sells its IPv4 addresses to Microsoft for $7.5 million.
2011-03-23: How glow.mozilla.org visualizes Firefox 4 downloads.
2011-03-23: How to sync an iPhone with multiple computers.
2011-03-23: Oracle ditches support for Itanium.
2011-03-23: Peter Gutmann: "A mighty fortress is our PKI"
2011-03-23: Japan Registry Service DNS server user-side evaluation.
2011-03-23: Jacob Appelbaum detects Certificate Authority compromises and web browser collusion.
2011-03-23: X.509 certificate revocation doesn't work.
2011-03-23: Google snappy: a fast compressor/decompressor.
2011-03-22: What is the bandwidth of a human ejaculation?
2011-03-22: What Johann Hari has in common with Jamie Oliver's kids.
2011-03-22: Over-provisioning an Intel X25-M SSD for greater performance and durability.
2011-03-22: IPv6 consumer edge router interoperability.
2011-03-22: How many times has a URL has been shared on various social networks.
2011-03-21: How to fill in your census form without Lockheed Martin profiting.
2011-03-21: John Hemming MP on secrecy orders made by the courts. Utterly scandalous.
2011-03-21: Hyper-injunctions can stop you from talking to your MP.
2011-03-21: Brian Krebs on the Rustock botnet takedown.
2011-03-19: Subsurface liquefaction on reclaimed land in Tokyo caused by the Sendai earthquake.
2011-03-19: Life and times of J root.
2011-03-19: Analysis of anycast anomalies on the J root DNS server.
2011-03-18: Query storm affecting .cl TLD.
2011-03-18: Integer hash functions.
2011-03-18: Non-cryptographic hash function zoo.
2011-03-18: How Backblaze build cheap cloud storage.
2011-03-18: A plea for baked weblogs.
2011-03-18: Paul Vixie on blocking DNS - but when will an RPZ service be announced?
2011-03-17: Fantastic Japanese "Jurassic Chocolate".
2011-03-17: Safety of different energy sources measured in deaths per TWh.
2011-03-17: MOD conducts regular GPS jamming exercises in the UK.
2011-03-17: Abusing switch() to delay a loop test in C.
2011-03-16: Are you protected by DNSSEC?
2011-03-16: What is the definition of a "blue moon"?
2011-03-16: Parsing: the solved problem that isn't.
2011-03-16: Why is TeX still used? What are some good, modern alternatives?
2011-03-15: List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock, before it was deleted by morons.
2011-03-15: The case of the flat panel TV scream.
2011-03-15: CV Dazzle: camouflage to hide from face detection software.
2011-03-15: Print 1 to 1000 without loop or conditional statements.
2011-03-15: Police ruin seized evidence after CPS drops charges.
2011-03-14: A mind-blowing history of science fiction.
2011-03-14: CERT C programming language secure coding standard.
2011-03-14: C99 + TC1 + TC2 + TC3
2011-03-14: Datum Inc. handbook of time code formats.
2011-03-14: Hidden warning message found inside Samsung Galaxy tablet.
2011-03-14: iPad 2 introduces new headphone jack.
2011-03-14: DRM is so bad it isn't even wrong.
2011-03-13: Toxic MP3s can 0wn your car.
2011-03-13: Coalition to save our GPS from LightSquared.
2011-03-13: Sundial buyer's guide.
2011-03-13: nowjs creates a magic namespace "now" accessible by both server (node.js) and client.
2011-03-13: The food bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it.
2011-03-13: Why oil is so expensive today (it's not Libya).
2011-03-12: iPad + ZAGGmate w/keyboard = the return of the Psion Netbook?
2011-03-12: Japan quake caused day to get a wee bit shorter.
2011-03-11: Washington Advanced Systems for Programming: Cecil, Vortex, etc.
2011-03-11: Clozure Common Lisp.
2011-03-11: Why Livejournal moved each user to a separate subdomain.
2011-03-11: DNS prefetching on discussion sites with per-user subdomains.
2011-03-10: Broadcom NIC remote code execution vulnerability.
2011-03-10: Muppets alignment chart.
2011-03-10: Will the MIT Media Lab's brilliant algorithmic logo lead to algorithmic trademarks?
2011-03-10: TeX vs. GUI word processors.
2011-03-09: Jim Reekes on "sosumi" and the other Mac OS system sounds.
2011-03-09: You are not a Jedi.
2011-03-08: HP BladeSystem VirtualConnect broken by the allocation of IP block 49.48.46.0/24.
2011-03-08: MS Exchange 2010 skips every 50th message in a mailbox with more than 2046 messages.
2011-03-08: Adobe Wallaby: convert Flash to HTML5.
2011-03-08: Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems.
2011-03-08: d3.js: amazing dynamic data-driven documents.
2011-03-08: The solid facts on Christchurch liquefaction. (huge 1-page PDF)
2011-03-08: SCOTUS to make a decision on copyright and the public domain.
2011-03-07: Pictures of a Russian nuclear power plant.
2011-03-07: Why Austalia's major cities are in decay.
2011-03-07: Engaging a multi-generational workforce: practical advice for managers.
2011-03-06: Agora: the Scheme of object-orientation.
2011-03-05: Ecdysis: open-source nat64.
2011-03-05: Anti-vaxxers use libel to suppress the truth about their evil acts.
2011-03-04: The best magazine articles ever.
2011-03-04: Linux's inconsistent system call credential checking.
2011-03-04: Show me kittens.
2011-03-04: Cambridge analogue television switch-off dates.
2011-03-04: A list of radio positioning and surveying systems.
2011-03-04: The crypto gardening guide and planting tips.
2011-03-04: The blind man who taught himself to see.
2011-03-04: Microsoft and Google jointly sue patent troll GeoTag Inc.
2011-03-04: The Wikipedia FAQK.
2011-03-04: The case against drop-down identities.
2011-03-04: Why gender is a text field on Diaspora.
2011-03-04: What you need to know about mobile Internet censorship.
2011-03-03: Ingredients of the Arabian revolutions. (NY Times)
2011-03-03: Draft C1X standard, with diff marks relative to C99.
2011-03-03: O2 and Vodaphone are arbitrarily blocking "adult" web sites.
2011-03-03: Cleaning up alkali metals with superheated steam.
2011-03-03: Memory models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware.
2011-03-02: Knuth on academic publishing.
2011-03-02: The ACM and the IEEE are shaking down computer science.
2011-03-02: Why sodium produces a bigger bang than more reactive alkali metals.
2011-03-02: The bipolar Lisp programmer.
2011-03-02: Great books for programmers.
2011-03-01: Pictures of Nyiragongo volcano.
2011-03-01: CloudFlare anycast geoIP reverse proxy web accelerator service.
2011-03-01: Pictures of kittens to use as placeholders in your web site designs.
2011-03-01: Weightings for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.
2011-03-01: Playstation 3 imports seized for violating LG's BluRay patents.
2011-03-01: Interesting photos from Google Street View.
2011-03-01: Anyone want to buy the domain os.com?
2011-03-01: Microsoft Windows development process.
2011-03-01: The very rich indie writer.
2011-02-28: "I don't want to be a teacher any more."
2011-02-28: Every revolution is different: 1848 vs. 2011.
2011-02-28: Geekhack forum for discerning keyboard users.
2011-02-28: US DoC National Telecoms and Info. Administration notice of inquiry re. IANA and ICANN.
2011-02-28: First come first served source address validation for locally-assigned IPv6 addresses.
2011-02-28: A real-world MAC address spoofing incident.
2011-02-28: mcpp: a portable C preprocessor with validation suite.
2011-02-27: The flocking algorithm.
2011-02-25: How to write a script that is understood by both the shell and by Lua.
2011-02-25: Intel BIOS implementation test suite.
2011-02-25: Alan Turing's papers saved for the nation.
2011-02-24: Inside the mind of a police dog.
2011-02-24: What Islamist terrorist threat?
2011-02-24: FBI counterintelligence techniques for detecting liars.
2011-02-24: Intel Thunderbolt (aka Light Peak) technology brief.
2011-02-24: A list of bugs in qmail.
2011-02-23: Understanding XCP equilibrium and fairness.
2011-02-23: GPS and the legal traceability of time.
2011-02-23: Precise time and frequency for military systems.
2011-02-23: How to choose chart types.
2011-02-22: TCP congestion control with a misbehaving receiver.
2011-02-22: P99 - preprocessor macros and functions for C99.
2011-02-22: How to detect an empty argument list given to a C99 variadic macro.
2011-02-22: How to count the number of arguments given to a C99 variadic macro.
2011-02-22: Money won't buy Yanks health insurance.
2011-02-22: A critical review of "end-to-end arguments in system design".
2011-02-22: Why flow completion time is the right metric for congestion control.
2011-02-21: UK census office says you can call yourself a Jedi if you like.
2011-02-21: AFNIC report on problems caused by DNSSEC bug in BIND.
2011-02-21: C/Invoke connects high-level code to C libraries at runtime.
2011-02-20: Using space-filling curves for multi-dimensional indexing.
2011-02-20: Spatial indexing with quadtrees and Hilbert curves.
2011-02-20: Visualizing genomic data with the Hilbert curve.
2011-02-20: Mapping 3D RGB space to a plane using Hilbert curves.
2011-02-20: Using space-filling curves to sort colour dictionaries.
2011-02-20: Using space-filling curves to find good travelling salesman tours quickly.
2011-02-18: JANET: the first 25 years.
2011-02-18: Experience with Grapevine: the growth of a distributed system. (Xerox PARC, 1984)
2011-02-18: Grapevine: an exercise in distributed computing. (Xerox PARC, 1982)
2011-02-18: Unfriendly user interfaces are more efficient.
2011-02-17: OK Go: This too shall pass (awesome Rube Goldberg version).
2011-02-17: Bufferbloat.net.
2011-02-17: Van Jacobson rants about queues.
2011-02-17: So long, and no thanks for the externalities: the rational rejection of security advice by users.
2011-02-17: Gyro-stabilized electric unicycle.
2011-02-17: The Last Ringbearer: Middle Earth from Mordor's point of view.
2011-02-16: Homeland Security shuts down 84,000 websites ‘by mistake'.
2011-02-16: Clay: a language for generic programming.
2011-02-16: Save the Lion Yard loos!
2011-02-16: Monosodium glutamate.
2011-02-16: CCTF notes on UTC.
2011-02-16: CCTF 18th meeting discusses redefinition of UTC (see section 8).
2011-02-15: Time and frequency dissemination in the UK.
2011-02-15: Research into interpreters by Anton Ertl and David Gregg.
2011-02-15: Mike Pall on the difficulty of compiling interpreters.
2011-02-15: Dirty secrets of search engine optimization.
2011-02-15: Chat bots and Turing tests.
2011-02-15: Nine traits of a veteran unix admin.
2011-02-15: Map of global alcohol consumption.
2011-02-15: Nokia Plan X.
2011-02-14: Great oscilloscope display hacks.
2011-02-14: Keep your government hands off my medicare!
2011-02-14: Darwinian valentines.
2011-02-14: XML <-> Unix text processing tools.
2011-02-14: The British Government's continuing evil treatment of the Chagos islanders.
2011-02-14: ZFS-Linux (from KQ Infotech).
2011-02-14: ZFS on Linux (from LLNL).
2011-02-13: Banning drugs does not reduce their availability.
2011-02-13: QuickLZ: fast compression library for C, C# and Java.
2011-02-13: New substring search algorithm.
2011-02-12: Optimizing an Erlang Git daemon.
2011-02-11: What to know before debating type systems.
2011-02-11: Staying alive in cold water.
2011-02-11: JavaScript obfuscated coercion rules.
2011-02-11: Egypt changed its clocks four times in 2010!
2011-02-11: Lawyers celebrate MPs' vote to deny prisoners their democratic rights.
2011-02-11: Remnants of a disappearing user interface.
2011-02-11: IBM Watson to play against human Jeopardy winners on TV.
2011-02-11: How the FCC plans to let LightSquared wreck the GPS.
2011-02-10: Special vs. general relativistic time dilation on the earth's surface.
2011-02-10: An automated bot uploads pages to Deletionpedia as they are deleted from Wikipedia.
2011-02-10: Why liquor store clerks often win the lotto.
2011-02-10: Bach's Toccata and Fugue for floppy disk drives.
2011-02-09: Loops in PKIX certificate chains.
2011-02-09: Spotify is the second larges single source of revenue for record labels in Europe.
2011-02-09: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs.
2011-02-09: Links to large email service postmaster and feedback loop pages.
2011-02-09: Prebake: an efficient build system.
2011-02-09: Build system benchmarks.
2011-02-09: Your version control and build systems don't scale.
2011-02-08: I bike San Francisco.
2011-02-08: The Manchester Egg.
2011-02-08: Problems caused by unsigned int in C-like languages. (Google Groups)
2011-02-08: BBC to delete historical content from their website.
2011-02-08: BBC will develop a permanent online archive.
2011-02-08: UTF-16 bad, UTF-8 good.
2011-02-08: A guide to terrestrial coordinate systems in Great Britain.
2011-02-08: Fitzbillies gone bust.
2011-02-07: The new kilogramme is approaching.
2011-02-07: The BBC does not like "electoral reform".
2011-02-07: The United Kingdom explained with a Venn diagram.
2011-02-07: ISC announcement about BIND's new DS record DNSSEC validation bug.
2011-02-07: Open research issues in Internet congestion control.
2011-02-06: Manifesto for half-arsed agile software development.
2011-02-06: Understanding Git conceptually.
2011-02-06: Git from the bottom up.
2011-02-06: Photographs along the Regent's Canal.
2011-02-06: The lost rivers of London.
2011-02-06: J for C programmers.
2011-02-06: J interpreter.
2011-02-05: Unlicense yourself: set your code free.
2011-02-04: ECJ to rule that sports broadcasting must be a single market?
2011-02-04: Why rockets were an inevitable technological development.
2011-02-04: The MIME guys: how two Internet gurus changed email forever.
2011-02-04: Shipping forecast glossary.
2011-02-04: Official USA time zone map.
2011-02-04: Timezone boundaries in multi-zone countries.
2011-02-04: Administrative divisions of countries.
2011-02-04: Geographical boundaries of the timezones of the world.
2011-02-03: All Icelandic literature to go online?
2011-02-03: Pump-and-dump share spammer charged with fraud.
2011-02-03: The natural colour system.
2011-02-03: How colour vision actually works.
2011-02-03: Spam is now Verified by Visa.
2011-02-03: Immigration officer put wife on no-fly list.
2011-02-03: Australian government becomes more friendly to open source.
2011-02-02: Data-dense analysis of cycling habits in Dublin and four other cities.
2011-02-02: Oneybike: funky folding recumbent penny-farthing.
2011-02-02: Michael "Liar's Poker" Lewis on Ireland's economic crisis.
2011-02-02: Problems with SERVFAILs from BIND after .net was signed by DNSSEC.
2011-02-02: Gold rush for the last IPv4 addresses.
2011-02-02: Egypt Internet connectivity graphs.
2011-02-02: Awesome world record Rubik's cube solution, in slo-mo. (youtube)
2011-02-02: Mailman does not parse RFC 822 headers correctly.
2011-02-02: Homeland Security siezes domain name of Spanish business that had been declared legal in court.
2011-02-02: A statistician cracks a scratch-card lottery.
2011-02-02: Bikes of San Francisco.
2011-02-02: Unixy JSON record stream manipulation tools.
2011-02-02: Probable RIR IPv4 exhaustion dates.
2011-02-01: Cisco's preliminary plans for DNSSEC validation in all their products.
2011-02-01: Last five /8 blocks to be allocated on Thursday 2011-02-03.
2011-02-01: Java hangs when converting 2.2250738585072012e-308.
2011-02-01: Securing BGP routing with RPKI and ROAs.
2011-02-01: T-mobile stealing other networks' addresses to use for their access networks.
2011-02-01: Interesting graph of RIR IPv4 burn rate.
2011-02-01: Comcast activates first users with IPv6 native dual stack over DOCSIS.
2011-02-01: IPv4 exhausted: two /8s allocated to APNIC from IANA.
2011-02-01: ATM skimmers that never touch the ATM.
2011-01-31: Louis Essen writes about time scales. (Metrologia, 1968)
2011-01-31: Recent developments regarding the future of leap seconds.
2011-01-31: Best of Hacker News.
2011-01-31: Pretty froggy stained glass sundial.
2011-01-31: Free programming eBooks.
2011-01-30: A collection of famous bugs and glitches.
2011-01-30: Linear logic and permutation stacks: the Forth shall be first.
2011-01-30: How organized crime is taking control of Google's search results.
2011-01-29: Peter Naur's Anti-Philosophical Dictionary.
2011-01-28: Why Python pickles are insecure.
2011-01-28: Lambda the ultimate political party.
2011-01-28: Ben Goldacre on what makes a newspaper worth paying for.
2011-01-25: Professionals lament the demise of the 4:3 laptop.
2011-01-25: Jettons or reckoning counters.
2011-01-25: ACM considered harmful.
2011-01-25: How to avoid long timeouts when connecting to a server over IPv4 + IPv6.
2011-01-25: Cathode: vintage terminal emulator.
2011-01-25: Why 3D doesn't work and never will.
2011-01-24: The BBC and "the astrology controversy that has raged in science for literally almost none of the last couple of centuries".
2011-01-24: Expect a PR splash when the last IPv4 /8s are allocated to the RIRs.
2011-01-24: How Nigerian fraud harms Nigerians.
2011-01-23: Commercially available chip-scale atomic clock.
2011-01-23: IPv6 doom: the rogue RA bug.
2011-01-23: The secret invention of public-key cryptography at GCHQ.
2011-01-20: The truth wears off: is there something wrong with the scientific method?
2011-01-20: Nicely modernized Dutch bike.
2011-01-20: The Italian Hours / Babylonian Hours sundial at Selwyn College.
2011-01-20: Nautical time and civil date: change the date at 180°? at midday or midnight?
2011-01-19: Opportunity knocks; management fails to answer.
2011-01-19: How the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition.
2011-01-19: Eek! A Man!
2011-01-18: What not to do when Spamhaus tells you your network is infested with criminals.
2011-01-18: They call it "design patterns", don't they?
2011-01-18: Stuxnet is way behind the virus state of the art.
2011-01-18: VX Heavens - huge computer virus site.
2011-01-17: DNSSEC comes to ac.uk starting on Wednesday 2011-01-19.
2011-01-17: What it is like for a woman to pass as a man.
2011-01-17: Glasgow Haskell compiler development moving from darcs to git.
2011-01-17: A book printed with a chain of four desktop printers with different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976.
2011-01-17: Chomsky on postmodernism.
2011-01-17: Major record labels pay $45m compensation for pirating music.
2011-01-17: Networking in UK Academia in the early 1980s.
2011-01-17: "I should have pushed Haskell 10% towards Fortran instead of pushing Fortran 90% towards Haskell" - Guy Steele on Fortress.
2011-01-17: Hacker News discusses djb redo.
2011-01-15: Luma - Lua macros inspired by Scheme and using LPEG and Cosmo.
2011-01-15: Dogs don't understand basic concepts like moving house.
2011-01-15: "Why wasn't I consulted?" - how websites become popular.
2011-01-15: Why you should never ever put two spaces after a full stop.
2011-01-14: Frequently made mistakes about the origin of Internet email.
2011-01-14: Can Belgium win the world record for the time taken to form a government?
2011-01-14: From punched cards to flat screens: a technical autobiography by Philip Hazel.
2011-01-13: Iolaus: experimental darcs-alike git porcelain.
2011-01-13: Best of reddit 2010.
2011-01-13: A localization horror story - it could happen to you!
2011-01-13: Ice formations from diurnal freeze-thaw cycles.
2011-01-12: The MMR scare started with a money-making scam.
2011-01-12: A review of hardware security modules.
2011-01-11: Akin's laws of spacecraft design.
2011-01-11: Canada only allows brown soft drinks to contain caffeine.
2011-01-10: The Chinese eco-disaster, or, where not to build a dam.
2011-01-10: What not to do with a US electronic communications subpoena.
2011-01-10: Yahoo!locaust.
2011-01-10: Uncomfortable lessons from the reaction to WikiLeaks.
2011-01-10: Home Office suppressed embarrassing ID card report.
2011-01-10: Epidemiology and public health significance of Norovirus.
2011-01-10: The way the world works, and the god that sucks.
2011-01-10: How economics works in the real world.
2011-01-09: Semicolon wars! The proliferation of programming languages.
2011-01-07: The decline of Google search quality.
2011-01-07: Detailed comparison of syntax across several programming languages.
2011-01-07: One year in one image.
2011-01-06: PowerDNS now with DNSSEC.
2011-01-06: Wakefield's anti-MMR paper was even more fraudulent than previously reported.
2011-01-06: Justice Scalia says the 14th Amendment does not give women equal protection under the law.
2011-01-06: What does it mean for Americans to support terrorists?
2011-01-06: First Past the Post: a damning report on a system that 'fails the fairness test'.
2011-01-05: Objects have failed: notes for a debate.
2011-01-05: Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer in Europe.
2011-01-04: PHP hangs on numeric value 2.2250738585072011e-308.
2011-01-04: What if the FCC had regulated the Internet?
2011-01-04: Straight men kissing more as homophobia disappears amongst young people.
2011-01-04: jemalloc() improvements at Facebook.
2011-01-03: How the oldest surviving sundial works.
2011-01-03: Chinese military multi-tool.
2011-01-01: Inside LuaJIT 1.
2010-12-31: On good URL design.
2010-12-31: Multi-line comments considered harmful.
2010-12-31: Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase.
2010-12-30: Why do Americans say (or cry) uncle?
2010-12-30: Touching your junk: an ontological complaint.
2010-12-28: New papers about specialized databases at Google.
2010-12-27: Is Erlang overhyped or underestimated?
2010-12-25: Ask Ross Anderson to hush up banking insecurity? Priceless!
2010-12-25: Inside the 1kb Javascript 3D Christmas tree.
2010-12-25: How Ray Kurzweil says his predictions are faring.
2010-12-25: What would you describe as a "Gloucesterfuck"?
2010-12-25: It's the latency, stupid.
2010-12-24: JavaScript antipatterns in Google Closure.
2010-12-24: Homeland Security seized domains of sites providing official free song downloads.
2010-12-22: The fees policy is more about universities than students.
2010-12-22: More detailed analysis of race in Oxford's admissions process.
2010-12-22: Students of England, the NUS has failed you.
2010-12-22: Comic Sans criminal.
2010-12-21: Slow start and congestion control for a snowbound Eurostar.
2010-12-21: Breaking SSL on embedded devices with promiscuous private keys.
2010-12-21: Jeff Varasano's NY pizza recipe.
2010-12-21: Azul's pauseless garbage collector.
2010-12-19: XSS vulnerability in Amazon "search inside".
2010-12-19: Cash Cow Disease: the cognitive decline of Microsoft and Google.
2010-12-17: DNS-operations mailing list thread containing a Who's Who in DNS.
2010-12-17: Plan 28: building Babbage's analytical engine.
2010-12-17: "Post hoax, ergo propter hoax" - a review of Sokal's book.
2010-12-16: Insert coin ... be amazed. (youtube)
2010-12-16: Patents do not protect small businesses because they cannot be enforced.
2010-12-16: Git explained by analogy with higher-dimensional manifolds :-)
2010-12-16: Former drugs minister calls for an end to prohibition, a bit late.
2010-12-16: Dan Kaminsky explains his colourblindness app.
2010-12-16: A better code of urban design for America.
2010-12-16: Make snow chains for your bicycle from cable ties.
2010-12-15: fabricate - a Python build tool with automatic dependency discovery.
2010-12-15: Dan Kaminsky's anomalous colour vision fixer app for iPhones.
2010-12-15: Why John Cage's 4'33" is no laughing matter.
2010-12-15: The only build system that might someday replace make... ?
2010-12-15: Bytecode verifier for Lua-5.2
2010-12-15: Allegations that the FBI backdoored OpenBSD IPSEC.
2010-12-15: Lua / C++ binding generators compared.
2010-12-14: <input type=password> needs to grow up.
2010-12-14: BSD For Linux Users.
2010-12-14: Status of FreeBSD on Amazon EC2.
2010-12-13: An Amazon Web Services news roundup, including a link to yours truly.
2010-12-13: Visualizing sorting algorithms.
2010-12-13: Original Tron is losing DVD sales while stuck in the Disney Vault.
2010-12-13: Open Research Computation: An ordinary journal with extraordinary aims.
2010-12-12: The day MAME saved my company.
2010-12-11: Filming the LEGO Antikythera mechanism.
2010-12-11: A LEGO version of the Antikythera mechanism.
2010-12-11: Why apparently banal revelations can have very important political consequences.
2010-12-10: The utter balls people write about Oxbridge.
2010-12-09: Comcast's protocol-agnostic congestion management system.
2010-12-09: The Royal Statistical Society Magazine on race and Oxbridge.
2010-12-09: Clay Shirky on Wikileaks.
2010-12-09: A free press [has] the duty to prevent…government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die.
2010-12-08: There is no such thing as a non-obvious invention.
2010-12-08: The Wikileaks publications are caused by a failure to compartmentalize.
2010-12-07: One ambassador's embarrassment is a tragedy; 15 000 civilian deaths is a statistic.
2010-12-07: VeriSign launches cloud-based DNSSEC signing service. (Where are the docs?)
2010-12-07: Making all data races manifest themselves.
2010-12-06: Autonomous sycamore-seed single-blade mini helicopters.
2010-12-06: Mary Beard visits the Cambridge University Library tower.
2010-12-06: On the duality of operating system structures - events vs. threads.
2010-12-06: Yacc is not dead.
2010-12-06: Continuation-passing C: automatically rewriting thraded C into event-passing C.
2010-12-06: The intellectual propeerty implications of low-cost 3D printing.
2010-12-05: Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns.
2010-12-05: When seekdir() didn't seek to the right position.
2010-12-05: What the attacks on WikiLeaks tell us.
2010-12-04: Explaining the Comcast / Level3 peering dispute.
2010-12-04: Jim Gettys on buffer bloat. (TCP Vegas is the answer!)
2010-12-03: The Fossil distributed software management system - version control + wiki + bug tracker.
2010-12-03: The TH scripting language.
2010-12-03: Git and Mercurial users should gang up against Subversion.
2010-12-03: Unbelievably easy mince pie recipe.
2010-12-03: Medical researcher rediscovers integration and gets 75 citations.
2010-12-03: Understanding pac-man ghost behaviour.
2010-12-03: Why Google Maps's city labels are more readable than the others'.
2010-12-02: French libel law abuse: professor of public health sued for saying that cigarettes kill.
2010-12-01: Obituary of Maurice Wilkes in the Guardian.
2010-12-01: Obituary of Maurice Wilkes in the Independent.
2010-12-01: Obituary of Maurice Wilkes in the Telegraph.
2010-12-01: dpkg vs. ext4fs - safety vs performance.
2010-12-01: Canon "original data" security kit is thoroughly cracked.
2010-11-30: BBC obituary of Maurice Wilkes.
2010-11-30: NetReg - CMU's network registration system.
2010-11-30: Obituary of Benoît Mandelbrot in the Independent.
2010-11-30: Obituary of Benoît Mandelbrot in the Telegraph.
2010-11-30: Obituary of Benoît Mandelbrot in the Guardian.
2010-11-30: Programmer competency matrix.
2010-11-30: Carne Ross on Wikileaks / cablegate.
2010-11-29: The Crash at Crush - the staged train wreck of 1896.
2010-11-29: Pure and declarative syntax definition: paradise lost and regained.
2010-11-29: Progress with libgit2.
2010-11-29: Sir Maurice Wilkes, DFBCS FREng FRS, 1913 - 2010.
2010-11-29: Copyright lawyers sue lawyer who helped copyright defendants.
2010-11-29: Regular-expression derivatives re-examined.
2010-11-29: Yacc is dead - parsing with derivatives.
2010-11-29: 24 ways - web design and development articles and tutorials for advent.
2010-11-28: Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr: "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose".
2010-11-28: Lua interpreter compiled from C to JavaScript using Emscripten.
2010-11-28: x86 optimization resources.
2010-11-28: Land of Lisp / insect nation.
2010-11-28: The art of the interpreter.
2010-11-28: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
2010-11-28: Die unerträgliche Lameness des Web 2.0 (English version).
2010-11-28: How DST caused severe database performance problems.
2010-11-28: Statistical fingertrees - Haskell code to dynamically combine and split means and variances.
2010-11-28: Earliest known uses of some of the words of mathematics.
2010-11-28: The triumph of types: Principia Mathematica's impact on computer science.
2010-11-27: A 15-minute writing exercise closes the gender gap in physics at university.
2010-11-27: FreeBSD network performance tuning.
2010-11-27: US Immigration and Cusoms Enforcement siezes domain names involved in copyright infringement.
2010-11-27: Review: How equal temperament ruined harmony.
2010-11-27: High quality motion deblurring from a single image.
2010-11-27: Why blurring sensitive text is a bad idea.
2010-11-27: How to understand your hot and cold water system.
2010-11-26: A GSM hacking blog.
2010-11-26: 0wnz0red by Cory Doctorow.
2010-11-26: Steal this presentation.
2010-11-26: You suck at PowerPoint!
2010-11-26: How Objective C method dispatch works.
2010-11-26: No, you can't have Matt Blaze's slides.
2010-11-26: Having children abroad? Your country might not accept them as citizens.
2010-11-26: A typographic anatomy lesson.
2010-11-26: Police to get power to sieze UK domain names.
2010-11-26: AeroPress coffee maker.
2010-11-25: What things did scientists long believe which turned out to be wrong?
2010-11-23: Give money to Bletchley Park to buy Alan Turing's papers for the nation.
2010-11-23: Benchmarking the native Linux ZFS module.
2010-11-23: That Alternative Vote ballot paper in full.
2010-11-23: Are you holding back something that seems too obvious to share?
2010-11-23: How complete is the RIPE routing registry.
2010-11-22: Bicycles & tricycles: an elementary treatise on their design and construction. (1896)
2010-11-22: Novell sold to Attachmate (who?)
2010-11-22: Why π does not equal 4.
2010-11-22: A collection of .gitignore templates.
2010-11-22: LaTeX coffee stains.
2010-11-21: Goodbye Ireland, it was nice knowing you.
2010-11-21: IKEA hacker.
2010-11-20: The government's badger culling policy encourages the spread of bovine TB.
2010-11-19: WebKit security bug caused by unchecked NaN tagging.
2010-11-19: NaN tagging in Mozilla JaegerMonkey.
2010-11-19: Security and NaN tagging.
2010-11-19: Alejandro Caro invented NaN tagging for Parallel Haskell in 1997.
2010-11-19: Understanding the strict aliasing rule in C.
2010-11-19: Keyboard buddy iPhone 4 case.
2010-11-19: Periodic and chaotic iteration and the structure of the Mandelbrot set.
2010-11-19: Renesys on China's 18 minute Internet traffic interception.
2010-11-18: Constructive Eating - children's cutlery.
2010-11-18: Bladon Jets: micro gas turbines.
2010-11-18: Jaguar C-X75 concept hybrid electric / gas turbine car.
2010-11-18: NaN tagged objects used by SuperCollider in 2002.
2010-11-16: John Hubbard gives a tour of the Mandelbrot set.
2010-11-15: David Madore's Mandelbrot movies and images.
2010-11-13: An asymmetric umbrella that turns into the wind, not inside-out.
2010-11-13: Schizophrenia seems to be caused by an endogenous retrovirus.
2010-11-12: Evan Harris on #twitterjoketrial and #stoningcase.
2010-11-12: Does the law treat killing a cyclist seriously enough?
2010-11-12: Are we fast yet? Javascript benchmark graphs.
2010-11-11: The Economist on the true size of Africa.
2010-11-11: How to clean a decanter.
2010-11-11: Slides for Dan Kaminsky's talk about his Phreebird easy DNSSEC software.
2010-11-11: Dan Kaminsky to release easy DNSSEC-ifying proxy for authoritative servers.
2010-11-11: Calculating base 2 logarithms quickly using floating point hardware.
2010-11-10: Lost Book Sales.
2010-11-10: Suggestions for short trips to abandoned bits of Britain.
2010-11-10: Seven cycling mistakes and how to correct them.
2010-11-09: The Times' paywall and newsletter economics.
2010-11-09: Sailing downwind three times faster than the wind.
2010-11-09: Feynman on magnets and ice and why? (Youtube)
2010-11-09: Boeing 7*7 in a line for the first time.
2010-11-08: Think of it as a graduate tax, not as tuition fees.
2010-11-08: Graphs of the distribution of RIPE's IP address allocations over the last 20 years.
2010-11-08: Why McDonald's hamburgers do not decay.
2010-11-08: Common errors in English usage.
2010-11-07: How to use the Ames lettering guide.
2010-11-07: Raising the Internet MTU.
2010-11-06: Moving beyond TCP/IP.
2010-11-05: Life beyond distributed transactions: an apostate's opinion.
2010-11-05: S4: a distributed stream computing platform from Yahoo! Labs.
2010-11-05: Sudoku as a constraint problem - how to grade the difficulty of a puzzle.
2010-11-04: Sinclair Research X-1 electric vehicle - the return of the C5!
2010-11-04: Uninstall Flash to extend your battery life.
2010-11-04: A stick-figure guide to AES.
2010-11-04: Collection of spoof musical notation and silly scores.
2010-11-03: Comparing DNS resolvers in the wild: Google vs. OpenDNS vs. your ISP.
2010-11-03: The Earth considered as an oscillator and frequency standard.
2010-11-02: Kidnapping, theft, and rape by cyber criminals.
2010-11-02: Dreck in the halls - unseasonal clichés.
2010-11-02: mdocml: a man-only replacement for groff.
2010-11-02: Bell System Technical Journal: every edition 1922 - 1983 online.
2010-11-02: Customizing the Mac OS X Cocoa Text system (brief overview).
2010-11-02: Customizing the Mac OS X Cocoa Text system.
2010-11-02: Higher-level keyboard rebinding for Cocoa apps on Mac OS X.
2010-11-02: Installable keyboard layouts on Mac OS X.
2010-11-02: Solar calendar leap rules.
2010-10-31: The opening up of GSM.
2010-10-29: DNSSEC deployment schedule for the .net and .com zones.
2010-10-29: Daylight saving, electricity demand, and emissions - CE(S)T would reduce it by 0.27%.
2010-10-29: RoSPA lobbying to move Britain to CE(S)T.
2010-10-29: iPhone serial port hack.
2010-10-29: CMPH - C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library.
2010-10-28: Slot machines vs. voting machines.
2010-10-28: Sharing desktops one window at a time, using VNC over XMPP.
2010-10-28: Your desk job is slowly killing you.
2010-10-28: Millimetres matter in an insect pie fight.
2010-10-27: Dimensional analysis using C++ templates.
2010-10-27: Spam, hacking, corruption, blackmail, kidnap, and rape.
2010-10-27: How to make a hemispherum sundial.
2010-10-26: DNSSEC or not?
2010-10-26: The security of password expiration: a fast cracking algorithm and empirical analysis.
2010-10-26: Characteristics of toxic organizations.
2010-10-26: Explaining the coalition to Scandinavians.
2010-10-26: An elementary proof of the undecidability of the halting problem - in verse.
2010-10-26: Computer systems: a programmer's perspective (not a builder's).
2010-10-25: Recommendation for a new Internet routing architecture.
2010-10-25: Design goals for scalable Internet routing.
2010-10-25: On the scalability of Internet routing.
2010-10-23: Smoothly colouring the complement of the Mandelbrot set.
2010-10-22: Qubes OS: security by isolation.
2010-10-22: The NYT mag on language: "truthiness".
2010-10-21: Making something hard to read means it is more likely to be remembered.
2010-10-21: A new home for the Olson TZ database at IANA?
2010-10-21: How Facebook decides whether to show your updates to your friends.
2010-10-21: Head of Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime unit lied under oath.
2010-10-21: Unsafe unfused plugs coming into the UK.
2010-10-20: HTML mail: cute idea or abomination?
2010-10-20: Create a paper sundial customized to a location you mark on Google Maps.
2010-10-20: Australian school leaving exam grades are given as the percentile rank of the candidate's results.
2010-10-20: Charlie Stross on credentialism and higher education restructuring.
2010-10-19: When Dilbert came to Nokia.
2010-10-19: Comcast rolls out DNSSEC.
2010-10-18: Amazing Mandelbrot set tattoo.
2010-10-18: xapply - another concurrent xargs replacement.
2010-10-18: GNU Parallel - replacement for xargs with concurrent subprocesses.
2010-10-18: The "ladies' night" strategy in two-sided markets.
2010-10-18: Interesting privilege escalation vulnerability running setuid binaries with the glibc dynamic linker.
2010-10-18: Cultural heritage of astronomical observatories.
2010-10-18: Advice on composing a .sig from the NYT.
2010-10-18: Emergency Navigation: improvised and no-instrument methods for the prudent mariner.
2010-10-18: Solar warm air heating system using glass roof tiles.
2010-10-18: What is wrong with extending the DOM.
2010-10-17: MCE OptiBay - replace Mac DVD SuperDrive with a hard disk drive.
2010-10-17: BlindType - clever touch phone typing autocorrection.
2010-10-16: Homeopathetic Order Logic.
2010-10-14: A brief history of ARM.
2010-10-14: Tube Map Central.
2010-10-14: The Axis of Awesome - Four Chord Song. (youtube) :-)
2010-10-14: The Aten heliochronometer.
2010-10-14: McDonalds say dried-out food doesn't get mouldy.
2010-10-14: History of the Super Soaker.
2010-10-14: Super Soaker inventor has designed a new kind of solar generator.
2010-10-14: What a 12-year-old McDonalds hamburger looks like.
2010-10-14: Blosc: loss-less compression faster than memcpy().
2010-10-14: The Well Grounded Java Developer, covering Java 7.
2010-10-14: Design principles behind Smalltalk.
2010-10-14: Rubik's Sundial Cube.
2010-10-13: ThinPlug - folding UK plug (unearthed).
2010-10-12: Peter's Principle confirmed: meritocratic hierarchial organizations are built to fail.
2010-10-12: Protocol Politics: a book about IPv6 deployment.
2010-10-12: High speed logarithmic arithmetic processor.
2010-10-08: OpenDNSSEC monitoring tools.
2010-10-08: DNSSEC monitoring tools used by the .se TLD.
2010-10-07: Eloquent JavaScript: a modern introduction to programming.
2010-10-06: Irish government discovers that 7000 unused voting machines costing €50m are now worthless.
2010-10-06: Top level domain DNSSEC deployment report.
2010-10-06: Domain registrations under the .ly Libya TLD should be considered unsafe.
2010-10-06: Comet: a distributed key-value store for active objects scripted in Lua.
2010-10-06: Man fined $1B for sending Facebook spam.
2010-10-05: Cyclist found not guilty of assault after being strangled by a taxi driver and stitched up by the police.
2010-10-05: Cleverly scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight.
2010-10-05: Cross-site scripting by putting JavaScript in DNS records.
2010-10-01: TTYtter: Perl command-line and interactive terminal-based Twitter client.
2010-09-30: HDCP encryption/decryption code.
2010-09-30: The world's longest disused guided busway.
2010-09-30: How to configure Thunderbird to avoid Exchange's inability to handle Content-Disposition: inline.
2010-09-30: Google's use of Haskell for virtual machine cluster load balancing.
2010-09-30: Linux's "swap insanity" problem and the effects of the NUMA architecture.
2010-09-29: FDA bureacratic interference seriously discourages the development of new antibiotics.
2010-09-29: Five reasons to stop praising your child.
2010-09-29: MathJax: beautiful maths in all browsers.
2010-09-29: Russ Allbery's coding style notes (including docs and build system).
2010-09-28: Quicksort is faster with two pivots.
2010-09-28: Internet Failures: an emergent sea of complex systems and critical design errors?
2010-09-27: ILNP - Identifier/Locator Network Protocol - another attempt to fix IPv6's scalability.
2010-09-27: Lego Tower Bridge.
2010-09-26: Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic?
2010-09-26: Margaret Stanier's memorial unequal-hours sundial at Newnham.
2010-09-26: The Spamhaus Whitelist.
2010-09-25: Bonfire of the quangos - find out what they know before they shred everything!
2010-09-24: Most software patents do not survive a lawsuit.
2010-09-24: Incident report for the .uk DNSSEC screwup of 11 Sep.
2010-09-24: ltwitter: Lua Twitter client.
2010-09-24: iOS programming with Lua.
2010-09-24: A digital media primer for geeks. (30 min. video)
2010-09-24: Endlich: das xphone. (youtube) :-)
2010-09-24: makespace - Cambridge "inventing shed" / hackspace.
2010-09-23: Pinion P-1: a bottom-bracket bike gearbox.
2010-09-23: BookBook: a MacBook case that looks like an old hardback.
2010-09-23: evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies.
2010-09-22: A path-finding algorithm for loop-free routing.
2010-09-22: libconfig - configuration file library for C and C++.
2010-09-22: Etch-a-sketch iPad case.
2010-09-21: AppTamer: Mac OS X GUI for SIGSTOP and renice.
2010-09-21: Unibody MacBook chopping board.
2010-09-21: Copilot: a Haskell DSL for writing embedded hard real time avionics code.
2010-09-21: Perian: universal codec for QuickTime.
2010-09-21: A Linux feature to get more info about dying processes. (/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern)
2010-09-20: Using an Apple Aluminium keyboard with Linux.
2010-09-20: Using the Apple Bluetooth keyboard with the Nokia N800.
2010-09-20: On-line tools to test your DNS setup.
2010-09-20: The Twitter Joke trial - mindless authoritatianism in modern Britain.
2010-09-20: iPhones for the blind.
2010-09-19: Gene for short-sightedness discovered.
2010-09-19: How to stifle the British press.
2010-09-19: Visual transistor-level simulation of the 6502 microprocessor.
2010-09-19: ICSI Netalyzr - connectivity debugging.
2010-09-19: Network Performance Knowledge Base - Issues for Bulk Data Transfer over a WAN.
2010-09-17: Machine learning spam filter based on the Google Prediction API.
2010-09-17: A small fraction of selfish referees can drastically reduce the quality of published science.
2010-09-17: What's cooking for FreeBSD 9?
2010-09-17: Steve Jobs ninja stars revealed to be iPod prototypes.
2010-09-17: Police sabotage News of the World investigation by intimidating whistle-blowers.
2010-09-17: Using colour in information display graphics.
2010-09-16: How to get SMS delivery reports on an iPhone.
2010-09-16: SCSI debug driver for Linux - configurable block size and error generation.
2010-09-16: Solomon Linda and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
2010-09-16: John's Phone is the world's simplest cell phone.
2010-09-16: earPod - iPhone earbud case.
2010-09-16: miniWINDER - iPhone earbud case.
2010-09-16: earBuddy - iPhone earbud case.
2010-09-16: BudCase 2 - iPhone ear bud case.
2010-09-15: Paedophile priests still supported by UK Catholic church.
2010-09-15: Popular usernames and passwords. (word clouds)
2010-09-15: Brilliant 3D light painting stop motion animation with iPads. (vimeo)
2010-09-14: Musicians make more money in file-sharing age than before.
2010-09-14: HDCP master key leaked?
2010-09-14: Musopen - copyright-free classical music recordings.
2010-09-14: Mac OS X hidden features and useful tricks.
2010-09-14: "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
2010-09-14: Experimental JIT-compiled version of LPEG.
2010-09-14: Calm networking.
2010-09-13: Official response from the USA to the ITU-R on the abolition of leap seconds. (docx)
2010-09-13: AppleScript code to avoid top-posted replies in Mail.app.
2010-09-13: Professor Brindley's famous lecture about the first effective remedy for erectile disfunction.
2010-09-13: Alec Muffett thinks remote wipe is OK. (I think he is too sanguine.)
2010-09-13: MS Exchange server admins can remotely wipe client devices!!
2010-09-12: The man who makes your iPhone.
2010-09-11: How iPhones detect wifi captive portals.
2010-09-11: Fortifying Scheme macros.
2010-09-11: Court upholds EULAs, threatening digital resale.
2010-09-11: Topology-independent flat addressing makes sub-linear routing table sizes impossible.
2010-09-10: Reverse traceroute.
2010-09-10: Why parents can't do primary school maths any more.
2010-09-10: Network Heretics on timezone identifiers.
2010-09-10: MobilityFirst future internet architecture.
2010-09-10: XIA: the expressive internet architecture.
2010-09-09: Test your internet connection speed. Is your provider throttling certain apps?
2010-09-09: Apple relaxes restrictions on development tools used to create iOS apps, provided the apps do not download any code.
2010-09-09: Urs Hölzle: Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time.
2010-09-09: Why blue collar Americans switched from the Democrats to the Republicans.
2010-09-09: Longyearbyen: the most northerly sundial.
2010-09-09: On packet switches with infinite storage.
2010-09-08: The annual workshop on duplicating, deconstructing, and debunking research in computer architecture.
2010-09-08: Why we don't need more women in tech ... yet.
2010-09-08: A retrospective on software transactional memory (wrt C#).
2010-09-07: A classically-trained singing instructor reviews five metal singers.
2010-09-07: Great microprocessors of the past and present.
2010-09-07: Mediaeval helpdesk. (youtube)
2010-09-07: Subtleties of search-and-replace in Emacs.
2010-09-07: The "premature optimization is evil" myth.
2010-09-07: Pictures of a morris dancing event in London.
2010-09-06: SURFnet (Dutch academic network) DNSSEC survey.
2010-09-06: Alan Turing and reaction-diffusion.
2010-09-06: More parkour in Cambridge.
2010-09-06: Parkour in Cambridge.
2010-09-06: University of Cambridge corporate typography and design guidelines.
2010-09-06: Rethinking the service model: scaling ethernet to a million nodes.
2010-09-06: The Bernhardt precision sundial.
2010-09-06: Dangermouse's esoteric programming languages and algorithms.
2010-09-04: syslogintr: a syslog daemon configured with Lua.
2010-09-04: Stephen Hawking denies God.
2010-09-04: A nifty new jet engine design promises to improve combustion efficiency.
2010-09-04: Most of the environmental impact of an electric car comes from its operation not from battery manufacture.
2010-09-04: Cool tech drives the strong demand for Java skills.
2010-09-04: Paul Allen's patent are not worth single penny - execution counts, not lawsuits.
2010-09-03: Why is everyone always writing off Netflix?
2010-09-03: Thomas Edison's plot to patent the movie industry to death.
2010-09-03: SSL Certificate Authorities: the Internet's cryptography back door.
2010-09-03: Edwina Currie was right about salmonella.
2010-09-03: U.S. rejected chicken salmonella vaccination despite British success.
2010-09-02: The third-world squat.
2010-09-02: How defecation posture affects your health.
2010-09-02: Why can you turn clothing inside-out?
2010-09-02: How to lose data.
2010-09-02: Productivity tips for academics.
2010-09-02: Five myths about the female brain.
2010-09-02: Netflix lets its staff take as much holiday as they want, whenever they want - and it works.
2010-09-02: How Twitter does OAuth wrong, and how to compromise it.
2010-09-02: Problems with ACID and scalability, and how to fix them without going NoSQL.
2010-09-02: Fast cache for your text: accelerating exact pattern matching with feed-forward Bloom filters.
2010-09-02: CPU clock rates stopped growing in 2003. (article text 2005; graph updated 2009)
2010-09-02: Represent sets using products of primes.
2010-09-02: A complete history of the Soviet Union from the point of view of the workers - or is it Tetris?.
2010-09-02: Strength training for parkour.
2010-09-02: Impressive parkour in Cambridge.
2010-09-02: Ten easy ways to fail a PhD.
2010-09-02: Ubercab aims to disrupt the taxi business.
2010-09-02: The New York Times on the News of the World hacking voicemail for celebrity gossip.
2010-09-01: UK Youth Parliament report on sex education.
2010-09-01: Google Summer of Code project: dynamic NetBSD kernel extensions written in Lua.
2010-09-01: Mail abuse reporting format spec finally published as RFC 5965.
2010-09-01: Lord Tanlaw summarizes the UTC vs. GMT argument in UK law.
2010-09-01: Charles Darwin terraformed Ascension Island.
2010-09-01: The fake telephone tech support scam - supportonclick, systemrecure and logmein123.com.
2010-09-01: Compile Haskell to synthesizable VHDL.
2010-09-01: Who would gain from copyright restrictions on fashion?
2010-09-01: Make Time Machine aware of your Mac's location.
2010-08-31: Wrongfully accused of copyright infringement? File for harassment.
2010-08-31: Shameful news industry sacrifices Wikileaks to get shield law.
2010-08-31: Commercialization of IP in Canadian universities is barely better than break-even.
2010-08-31: Man blows himself up trying to kill a spider.
2010-08-31: Google's acquisition appetite.
2010-08-31: On the typography and character set encoding of the apostrophe and quotation mark.
2010-08-31: Magnetic coasters on a table inlaid with compasses.
2010-08-31: Paul Allen becomes another ex-Microsoft patent troll.
2010-08-30: Live Irish electricity consumption graph.
2010-08-30: Computational necromancy: homebrew Cray-1A.
2010-08-28: Subliminal advertising of Apple logo makes viewers more creative than IBM logo.
2010-08-27: Touch application design for toddlers.
2010-08-27: A fast Bresenham-type algorithm for drawing ellipses.
2010-08-25: The war on children's playgrounds.
2010-08-25: Swimming and freedom: can liberals and libertarians agree on regulations they both hate?
2010-08-25: How Mono's new generational garbage collector rocks.
2010-08-25: Notes on retooling libraries: "The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else."
2010-08-25: British Library makes catalogue data available for free to non-commercial users.
2010-08-25: We don't need a github for data.
2010-08-25: Is there anything good about men?
2010-08-25: The story of the king and the calligrapher.
2010-08-25: The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements.
2010-08-25: Introduction to parallel & distributed algorithms.
2010-08-25: How anycast routing works for the ISC's F root DNS server.
2010-08-24: Support for TCP is now a REQUIRED part of a full DNS protocol implementation.
2010-08-24: The high cost of copyright - brilliant jazz recordings that cannot be sold.
2010-08-24: The great university con: why giving degrees out willy-nilly doesn't actually help the economy.
2010-08-24: PacketShader: a GPU-accelerated software router.
2010-08-24: Tamale: Erlang-style pattern matching for Lua.
2010-08-24: Why GNU grep is fast.
2010-08-24: Gnu grep's treacherous optimization.
2010-08-24: The self-tuning Boyer-Moore string search algorithm.
2010-08-23: How one driver can eliminate stop-go traffic.
2010-08-23: Looking back on the "free range kids" media storm.
2010-08-22: The Internet transit market ant the gravitational pull to $0/Mbps.
2010-08-22: Indian researcher arrested over anonymous source of voting machine.
2010-08-21: Why 3G is a worthless marketing buzzword.
2010-08-21: Lithium: robust distributed storage for virtual machines.
2010-08-20: Center for automotive embedded systems security.
2010-08-20: Jobs was right: Flash is bad on Android.
2010-08-19: Incorrect perceptions of energy consumption and saving.
2010-08-18: Fast incremental regular expression matching with monoids.
2010-08-18: C programming language reference manual. (1975)
2010-08-18: A Unix system implementation for the IBM S/370. (1984)
2010-08-18: Porting Unix to a 36-bit ones complement machine.
2010-08-18: Portability of C programs and the Unix system. (1978)
2010-08-18: C programming language reference manual. (1974)
2010-08-16: Inside Android's stripped-down libc.
2010-08-16: Companies should not be able to sue (or threaten to sue) for libel.
2010-08-16: Infants die of whooping cough while media stoke fear of vaccines.
2010-08-16: Schengen attracts tourists to the continent; fiddly visas repel them from Britain.
2010-08-16: Poor record keeping and pension fraud inflated number of Japanese centenarians.
2010-08-16: Detailed and systematic comparison of system configuration management tools.
2010-08-16: Five reasons why this is the only online SEO marketing blog entry you will ever need to read.
2010-08-16: Jef Poskanzer's oauth_sign software.
2010-08-16: The Ark Booktower at the Victoria & Albert museum.
2010-08-15: Strangest programming language features.
2010-08-13: The Swedish Chef makes pöpcørn :-)
2010-08-13: Andrew Odlyzko on bubbles and gullibility.
2010-08-13: HMRC throws a spanner in the wheels of the Cycle to Work scheme.
2010-08-13: How to get Apple Mail to work well with GMail's weird IMAP implementation.
2010-08-13: Nice profile of Hans Monderman and his shared streets.
2010-08-12: Old Spice Man vs. Feminist Hulk.
2010-08-12: Venting your anger does NOT reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family.
2010-08-12: Collisions in PDF digital signatures.
2010-08-11: Why the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (Ofquack) cannot succeed.
2010-08-11: Adobe fails at handling case-sensitive filesystems.
2010-08-11: Political arguments over the Islamic calendar and the start of Ramadan.
2010-08-11: A clearinghouse for news and analysis of Vinay Deolalikar's P != NP preprint.
2010-08-11: Soundmatters foxL v2 portable speaker.
2010-08-11: Jake Adelstein plays, reviews, and fact-checks "Yakuza 3" with real yakuza.
2010-08-11: The first English dictionary of slang (1699) republished from a copy found in the Bodleian.
2010-08-11: An infographic about infographics.
2010-08-10: Apple: Link different.
2010-08-10: Monsanto's soybean herbicide resistance patent cannot prevent EU sales of processed soybeans.
2010-08-10: A decade of debate over UTC and the abolition of leap seconds.
2010-08-09: Southampton FC bans unofficial photos to make money, so newspaper uses cartoons instead.
2010-08-09: David Tennant fails at Scottish fashion.
2010-08-09: Cambridge city centre speed limit reduced to 20mph.
2010-08-09: Antonio Porreca rounds up informed opinion on Vinay Deolalikar's claimed proof of P ≠ NP.
2010-08-09: Rubik's cube can be solved in 20 moves or fewer.
2010-08-09: Hacker News on Vinay Deolalikar's draft proof of P ≠ NP.
2010-08-09: P ≠ NP
2010-08-08: The evolution of the double-edge safety razor blade.
2010-08-08: The Moss shaving scuttle.
2010-08-08: Deprecating the observer pattern in favour of reactive programming.
2010-08-08: Monkeysphere - SSH and SSL authentication using the PGP web of trust.
2010-08-07: The early history of HTML: 1990 to 1992.
2010-08-06: Calculus made easy.
2010-08-06: How to read mathematics.
2010-08-06: What everyone should know about poo.
2010-08-05: YAZVS - yet another zone validation script with DNSSEC support.
2010-08-05: Type classes as objects and implicits (or, how to write Haskell in Scala).
2010-08-05: Evan Harris on Mephedrone and making policy by moral panic.
2010-08-05: A retrospective on SEDA (staged event-driven architecture).
2010-08-05: Fred Brooks explains how to design anything.
2010-08-05: Margin kerning and hanging punctuation in LaTeX.
2010-08-05: The beauty of LaTeX.
2010-08-05: Cheer yourself up with a happy password.
2010-08-05: Improving the look of papers written in Microsoft Word.
2010-08-05: Understanding and applying Operational Transformation.
2010-08-05: Rubber handles all tasks related to the compilation of LaTeX documents.
2010-08-05: Operational transformation - consistency maintenance and concurrency control for distributed groupware.
2010-08-03: Oniguruma multi-encoding regex library.
2010-08-03: Worst photo of Julian Huppert ever? (good interview, though)
2010-08-03: Corning discovers display screen bonanza in super-strong glass invented in 1962.
2010-08-02: Ultimate physical limits to computation.
2010-07-30: ISC creates DNS blacklists for recursive DNS servers.
2010-07-30: The longest photographic exposures ever.
2010-07-30: Top 20 countries on the Internet - Nigeria is 10th!
2010-07-30: Custom keyboard shortcuts do not work in Firefox on Mac OS X.
2010-07-29: Node, scaling in the small vs in the large, events vs threads.
2010-07-28: Frink: a programming language that understands units of measure.
2010-07-28: Lua program analysis, in particular for editors.
2010-07-28: How to meet interesting people in Cambridge.
2010-07-28: SAS vs World Programming: landmark UK case about copyright law and cloned software.
2010-07-28: The Guardian on Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
2010-07-28: Bookshelf porn.
2010-07-28: "Metro" on Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
2010-07-28: Bath University's press release on Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
2010-07-28: CommunityDNS's press release on their CEO Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
2010-07-27: BlueSniff: Eve meets Alice and Bluetooth.
2010-07-27: How secure is a Bluetooth keyboard against password sniffing?
2010-07-27: The Times loses 90% of its readers after putting up its paywall.
2010-07-27: Vulnerability found in WPA2.
2010-07-27: HyperMac - external batteries for Apple gear.
2010-07-27: Where should a new TLD get its registry and DNS services from?
2010-07-27: The .uk TLD is 25 years old.
2010-07-27: A study on the status of women faculty in science at MIT.
2010-07-27: Great informative rant about women in technology.
2010-07-27: Homemade scanning tunnelling electron microscope.
2010-07-26: The New Yorker on WikiLeaks and the war.
2010-07-26: Threaded blocking IO vs. async event-driven IO in Java.
2010-07-26: Managing data storage at the south pole.
2010-07-26: Celera's human genome trade secrets reduced research on affected genes by 30% despite their subsequent public domain release.
2010-07-26: The Gimli Glider - what happens when a Boeing 767 runs out of fuel in mid-flight.
2010-07-26: Autojump: a cd command that learns.
2010-07-26: Tips and tricks for the Mac OS X command line.
2010-07-25: "Open smartphone" is a lie.
2010-07-25: George Monbiot on the CPS's decision not to prosecute for the death of Ian Tomlinson.
2010-07-25: Jack of Kent on the CPS's decision not to prosecute for the death of Ian Tomlinson.
2010-07-25: Whitehall still trying to cover up Labour government's misdeeds.
2010-07-25: Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic.
2010-07-24: Tangent Labs discovers that threatening to sue is the best way to make a name for shit web design.
2010-07-24: The language we use affects the way we think.
2010-07-24: You have no free will but you are responsible for your actions.
2010-07-24: 437 people harmed by homeopathy.
2010-07-23: Objective measurements of the behaviour of drivers overtaking bicycles.
2010-07-23: Cambridge Geek Night 4 - Tue 3rd Aug, 19:00 at the Union.
2010-07-23: Speed cameras and accident statistics.
2010-07-23: Wayward Alzheimer's patients foiled by fake bus stop.
2010-07-23: Lesser-known but cool data structures.
2010-07-23: Character amnesia - the increasing romanization of Chinese.
2010-07-23: sshuttle - transparent proxy / vpn over ssh.
2010-07-23: NY Times "opinionator" blog on the Dunning-Kruger effect - "incompetent and unaware of it".
2010-07-22: World's first molten salt concentrating solar power plant.
2010-07-22: A second look at SCons performance.
2010-07-22: Low vaccination rates lead to deaths from whooping cough in California.
2010-07-22: Israeli police torture Palestinians to improve their management stats.
2010-07-21: Examining the structure of TCP/IP headers with Lego.
2010-07-21: Abolishing university fees in Ireland did not improve access by students from poorer backgrounds.
2010-07-21: Firefox 4 tabs-on-top fails to save vertical space. Why couldn't they copy the Safari 4 beta properly?
2010-07-21: Columbus discovered the Americas and venereal syphilis.
2010-07-21: The growing number of prosecutions in the USA for videoing the police.
2010-07-21: A Newport state of mind. (hilarious!)
2010-07-20: Will it Metablend? Recursively?
2010-07-20: A Java implementation of the Lua Language.
2010-07-20: Treventus ScanRobot automatic book scanner.
2010-07-20: Source code for MacPaint and QuickDraw (1984) - Computer History Museum.
2010-07-20: Three scripts to check your technical writing style.
2010-07-19: Pure-food worshippers put their health at risk - especially when they drink unpasteurized milk.
2010-07-19: Periodic table of visualization methods. (love the popups)
2010-07-19: How the iPhone broke AT&T's network.
2010-07-19: Stéphane Bortzmeyer on root DNSSEC, auto-translated from French (including a link to YT).
2010-07-19: BookLiberator: a set of free software and hardware to digitize books.
2010-07-19: Sexism hurts men too.
2010-07-19: Periodic table of irrational nonsense.
2010-07-19: Your Facebook friends had better be real friends or you may lose access to your account.
2010-07-19: Iljitsch van Beijnum on DNSSEC in Ars Technica (including a link to YT).
2010-07-18: Kimbolton Fireworks.
2010-07-18: Gamma correction failure in picture scaling.
2010-07-18: CoffeeScript - alternate syntax for JavaScript.
2010-07-18: Vibration-powered generator - an internal recharger for remote controls.
2010-07-17: Amazing automated underground car park in Budapest.
2010-07-16: Jakob Schlyter's DNSSEC trust anchor tool.
2010-07-16: anchors2keys - convert IANA XML trust anchors to BIND trusted-keys format.
2010-07-16: DNSSEC validator add-on for Firefox.
2010-07-16: DNSviz: a DNS visualization tool.
2010-07-16: .SE's DNS checker (also with DNSSEC support).
2010-07-16: Verisign's DNSSEC debugger.
2010-07-16: Root zone DNSSEC trust anchors.
2010-07-16: The Daily Mail moral underground map.
2010-07-15: Vince Cable's speech on higher education.
2010-07-15: Dumbster: a simple fake SMTP server for testing applications that send email.
2010-07-15: Hidden features of Python.
2010-07-14: Gender imbalance in various university subjects.
2010-07-14: Basic mailing list management guidelines for preventing abuse. (Nov 2000)
2010-07-14: Classic papers in OOP, including "Typestate: a programming language concept for enhancing software reliability."
2010-07-14: Fifteen more creative staircases.
2010-07-14: Nine creative staircases.
2010-07-14: An alternative to the war on drugs.
2010-07-14: The cache behaviour of large lazy functional programs on stock hardware.
2010-07-14: Glasgow Haskell Compiler performance variation with differing gc tuning parameters.
2010-07-14: Despair at the state of the art in build systems.
2010-07-14: Hacker News Daily - the top ten stories each day.
2010-07-14: Godbusters - "Don't cross the beams!"
2010-07-13: 'We Need Roots' - Englishness and the new folk revival.
2010-07-13: Brazil forbids the use of DRM where that hinders fair use.
2010-07-13: The Liberal Moment, by Nick Clegg. "The time has come for a new alignment of progressive politics..."
2010-07-13: Typography for visually-impaired people.
2010-07-13: Typefaces for dyslexia.
2010-07-12: What happens when Twitter gets consumed by the Great Old Ones?
2010-07-12: This week the root zone will switch to full DNSSEC production deployment.
2010-07-12: Accurate garbage collection in an uncooperative environment.
2010-07-12: Bitcoin: peer-to-peer electronic cash without a trusted third party.
2010-07-12: The Liberal Democrat journey to a Lib-Con coalition - and where next? by Richard Grayson.
2010-07-12: Artifactory, "the world's most advanced repository manager".
2010-07-11: Are teenagers hooked on porn?
2010-07-10: Why we hate HR.
2010-07-10: George Hart's rapid prototyping models.
2010-07-09: RedLaser barcode scanner for iPhone.
2010-07-09: How to control web browser quirks/standards modes.
2010-07-09: Jack of Kent on Hackney Council's bizarre treatment of the Conservative mayoral candidate.
2010-07-09: Whatever's Left - UK urban exploration.
2010-07-09: Graydon Hoare - the Rust programming language.
2010-07-08: UK urban exploration forums.
2010-07-08: The proton is 3x10^-17 metres smaller than previously thought.
2010-07-08: Petition to save the Silver Star unit.
2010-07-08: The "Silver Star" maternal medicine unit at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford.
2010-07-08: BT and TalkTalk challenge Digital Economy Act.
2010-07-07: Drowning does not look like drowning.
2010-07-07: Pro Git - complete book on line.
2010-07-07: How can a website cost £35m? Easily.
2010-07-07: The "num-utils" are a set of programs for dealing with numbers from the Unix command line.
2010-07-07: "moreutils" is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.
2010-07-07: Middle-aged men taking Viagra & Cialis three times more likely to have an STD than those not taking the drugs.
2010-07-07: 1&1 disables SpinProfiles lobbying watch web site for no good reason.
2010-07-07: Counter-terrorism chief says government policy promotes terrorism.
2010-07-07: Home birth scaremongering.
2010-07-06: The length of the year is complicated.
2010-07-06: How can you improve upon Debian's packaging system?
2010-07-06: LBW: run unmodified Linux applications on Windows.
2010-07-06: How could abundance be convincingly portrayed in the world of atoms as well as bits?
2010-07-05: Extracts from "iPhone Four" by George Orwell.
2010-07-05: Hackney Council threatens local paper with legal action over embarrassing recording.
2010-07-05: A relational version of the zoneinfo database.
2010-07-05: The Tea Party and the new right-wing Christian feminism.
2010-07-05: Apple's app store is filled with "App farms" being used to steal.
2010-07-04: Overclocking SSL.
2010-07-03: The state of open source text rendering.
2010-07-03: Andy Grove gripes about offshored tech jobs.
2010-07-03: Genetic test predicts who will have a long life.
2010-07-03: Speculators might not have caused commodity price rises.
2010-07-03: The Better String Library.
2010-07-03: Peer-to-peer edge caches should be free - the economics of content delivery.
2010-07-02: How Goldman Sachs caused starvation by creating the 2006-2008 food price bubble.
2010-07-02: Ratzinger failed to act as Roman Catholic abuse scandal grew.
2010-07-02: Pirate Party to run The Pirate Bay from inside the Swedish parliament and get immunity from prosecution.
2010-07-02: Christian science textbook says "Electricity is a mystery."
2010-07-02: The local government open spending data that isn't.
2010-07-02: UK government attitude to the morality of torture.
2010-07-01: I never knew an AT-AT could be so cute. (YouTube)
2010-07-01: Better food improves a school's results.
2010-07-01: Deputy Prime Minister crowdsources the great repeal bill.
2010-06-30: Self-administered eye test using a mobile phone app and a lens.
2010-06-30: ECHR confirms that section 44 stop-and-search powers are illegal.
2010-06-30: ECJ rules on reconciling data protection with freedom of information.
2010-06-30: Web sites that ban deep links: YOU ARE ALL CLOWNS!
2010-06-30: The mathematics of pathological tennis.
2010-06-30: New US banknotes are almost colourful!
2010-06-30: There are 99 infected legit websites for each infected porn site.
2010-06-30: How Google promotes its internal Mac OS training sessions.
2010-06-30: The continuing decline in UK energy production.
2010-06-30: Companies can't reject complainants who ticked a box saying they agreed to an unfair contract.
2010-06-29: SURFnet DNSSEC blog.
2010-06-29: Google IPv6 Implementors Conference - agenda and slide decks.
2010-06-29: "Print" on your Mac to send a document to iBooks on your iOS4 device.
2010-06-29: The presence of giant billion dollar companies suggests a market inefficiency of some sort.
2010-06-29: Sort vs Hash: Fast join implementations on multicore CPUs.
2010-06-29: Children could be put at greater risk by ContactPoint, not protected by it.
2010-06-29: An antenna + RF engineer on the iPhone 4 reception problems.
2010-06-28: Why τ = 2π is a better circle constant.
2010-06-26: Cutting through the confusion about Israel vs Palestine.
2010-06-25: PathScale aims to beat CUDA and OpenCL with their reverse engineered GPU compiler.
2010-06-24: Authoritarian politics in the USA.
2010-06-24: Replies to legal claims mis-addressed to Railtrack Ltd (not Railtrack PLC). (heh)
2010-06-22: Cambridge University Library API.
2010-06-22: 1 bit symphony.
2010-06-22: Science fiction air show.
2010-06-22: Your computer system almost certainly handles names incorrectly.
2010-06-21: Saharan solar power will be imported to the EU in 5 years' time.
2010-06-21: Information technology's environmental benefits vastly outweigh the environmental cost of its electricity usage.
2010-06-21: Reverse-engineering the ZX Spectrum.
2010-06-21: yagg - grammar-driven string generator / reverse parser.
2010-06-21: Thinkgeek fools the National Pork Board (and offers a tasty discount to celebrate).
2010-06-21: A cartoon guide to legal immigration to the USA.
2010-06-21: A theory of typed hygienic macros.
2010-06-21: How the fashion industry has managed to survive without copyright.
2010-06-20: Live map of trains on the London Underground.
2010-06-18: Deaths caused by unreasonable dedication to homeopathy.
2010-06-18: Estonia gets approval to join the Eurozone.
2010-06-18: "Numerous deaths have occurred after chiropractic manipulations. The risks by far outweigh its benefit."
2010-06-18: Why the AT&T iPad ICCID + email address exposure is worse than it seems at first.
2010-06-18: Facebook's 512 bit DKIM RSA key should be crackable.
2010-06-18: Hints on programming language design. (C.A.R. Hoare, 1973)
2010-06-18: "Significant Objects" - good stories make insignificant trinkets more valuable.
2010-06-18: Google Chrome obsoletes Adobe's PDF reader plugin.
2010-06-17: A review of administrative tools for DNSSEC (spring 2010 version).
2010-06-17: Students flood Sidney Sussex College so that they can punt at their May Ball.
2010-06-17: MEPs not welcome in the House of Commons but are in the House of Lords. (!)
2010-06-17: Stop the avalanche of low-quality research? (interesting comments)
2010-06-17: Why Peter Bregman returned his iPad - "being bored is a precious thing".
2010-06-16: Will Apple be crippled because Objective C is too low-level?
2010-06-16: Rebooting the computer science academic publication process.
2010-06-16: What to desire from the scientific publisher of the future?
2010-06-16: How to measure the speed of light using your microwave oven.
2010-06-16: USB mass storage business card.
2010-06-16: Thousands of patents declared state secrets in UK and USA.
2010-06-15: What makes a "rock star" sysadmin?
2010-06-15: The Economist's "Johnson" blog on the use and abuse of language.
2010-06-15: A discussion about the unpopularity of parallel languages.
2010-06-14: FOI request gets an answer where a parliamentary question does not!
2010-06-14: twttr sketch, July 2006.
2010-06-14: Academic publishers sue universities to control digital fair use.
2010-06-14: PHK on how you are getting server performance wrong.
2010-06-14: A report on the economics of copyright and digitization from the UK strategic advisory board for intellectual property policy.
2010-06-14: File sharing only hurts bad or mediocre films.
2010-06-14: Political judgments and the pre-budget economic forecast.
2010-06-14: Open source licences are all very well, but you should also run your project in an open manner.
2010-06-14: Peer review was designed to cope with scarcity; it has been obsoleted by abundance, so drop it.
2010-06-14: Ars Technica on Ofcom's survey of attitudes to bad language on television.
2010-06-14: Seq no more: better evaluation strategies for parallel Haskell.
2010-06-14: Scalable event handling for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler run-time system.
2010-06-14: The myth of radio spectrum scarcity.
2010-06-14: Increasingly practical computation on encrypted data without decryption.
2010-06-14: Differing meanings of "spastic" in UK and US.
2010-06-14: Online dictionary of playground slang.
2010-06-14: Submarine cable map.
2010-06-14: The behind-the-scenes logistics of Kenya’s mobile phone banking miracle.
2010-06-14: Once upon a time in Afghanistan...
2010-06-14: They Might Be Giants gig in the Babbage Lecture Theatre (of all places).
2010-06-14: Patients are less likely to die of planned vascular surgery in bigger hospitals.
2010-06-13: Bot-in-the-middle social engineering on IRC.
2010-06-12: Graphic novels are literature too.
2010-06-12: UK smoking ban reduces heart attacks by 100 per month.
2010-06-12: Puntcon, 25 July 2010.
2010-06-11: Sport journalism is simple enough that computers can do it.
2010-06-11: Capsicum: practical capabilities for Unix.
2010-06-11: Inside iPhone 4 "FaceTime" video conferencing.
2010-06-11: Apple iOS developer agreement updated to permit embedded interpreters such as Lua.
2010-06-11: The media are suffering from the change from scarcity to surfeit.
2010-06-10: Pornography does not encourage sex crimes.
2010-06-10: True Knowledge - the Internet answer engine.
2010-06-10: Risk management failures and the earthquake game.
2010-06-10: The Jedi census phenomenon.
2010-06-10: The copyright wars come to "Glee".
2010-06-10: Information Commissioner rules that Freedom of Information trumps copyright.
2010-06-09: Five hundred Wi-Fi networks in one room?!
2010-06-08: Raj Persaud on the psychology of the suicidal killing spree.
2010-06-08: What drives Israel?
2010-06-08: A classification of computer science research.
2010-06-07: Google's thoughts about how to save the news business.
2010-06-07: Economic consequences of British copyright and German freedom in publishing around 1800.
2010-06-07: PLT Scheme is changing its name to "Racket".
2010-06-07: Transport for London poster about CCTV has totalitarian style as well as substance.
2010-06-07: Travelling downwind faster than the wind in a purely wind-powered vehicle.
2010-06-06: Keeping ID cards by the back door?
2010-06-06: How to make perfect thin and crispy french fries.
2010-06-05: Justice Stevens' decisions for free expression on the net eroded by p2p fight.
2010-06-04: Government web sites to use open source software whenever possible.
2010-06-04: Grazing on Midsummer Common.
2010-06-04: Welcome to bug 323, where all x87 floating point errors in gcc come to die!
2010-06-04: Lago Fucino looks like a massive rendering error in Google Maps.
2010-06-04: The pitfalls of verifying floating point computations.
2010-06-04: The $3000 shirt.
2010-06-04: The Dalvik VM JIT compiler.
2010-06-04: I'm done explaining to people why fanfic is okay.
2010-06-03: Mississippi improves healthcare by copying Iran.
2010-06-03: Some esoteric but useful Linux commands.
2010-06-03: A New Yorker profile of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
2010-06-03: Government advice for publishing itemised local authority expenditure.
2010-06-03: This is the age of political conflict between the generations.
2010-06-02: Australia's CSIRO hopes to get $1bn from its WiFi patents.
2010-06-02: The saga of the Euston puddle.
2010-06-02: Flotillas and wars of public opinion.
2010-06-02: bup - git-based incremental backup software.
2010-06-02: Almost 80% support propotional representation and almost 75% want a majority government.
2010-06-02: Stopped by the police? Here's what to do...
2010-06-02: Keeping calm in the face of technical problems.
2010-06-02: Wikileaks was launched with documents intercepted from Tor.
2010-06-01: get_iplayer - perl script for downloading BBC programmes.
2010-05-31: David Cameron's letter to government departments on opening up data.
2010-05-31: China bans the use of evidence obtained under torture. (America and Britain should too.)
2010-05-31: How long is the optimal copyright term?
2010-05-31: How big would the public domain be without copyright term extensions?
2010-05-31: Francis Maude outlines the coalition's plans for government data publication.
2010-05-31: Summary of development plans for Ubuntu 10.10.
2010-05-31: Big media has trouble collecting Pirate Bay fines.
2010-05-31: Microsoft quietly patches some security vulnerabilities without identifying them.
2010-05-31: PortLand source code released - a data centre networking protocol.
2010-05-31: The resurgence of parallel computing research after a quarter century of neglect.
2010-05-31: Stimulus surprise: companies retrench when government spends.
2010-05-31: The Innovator's Dilemma: insights from the hard disk drive industry.
2010-05-27: Track the progress of the libel reform bill here.
2010-05-27: Caroline Lucas uses her maiden speech to attack Trafigura.
2010-05-27: The Independent loves Caroline Lucas.
2010-05-27: The royal appetite for secrecy can only invite scandal.
2010-05-27: The only weapons we have [in programming] are simplicity and convention.
2010-05-27: Documentation and code for manipulating Microsoft Outlook .pst files.
2010-05-27: Trafigura goes on trial next week in Amsterdam – will the UK media dare to report it?
2010-05-27: Compilers and Compiler Generators, by P.D. Terry.
2010-05-27: Compiler Construction, by Niklaus Wirth.
2010-05-27: Julian Huppert's Early Day Motion on repeal of the nasty bits of the Digital Economy Act.
2010-05-27: Julian Huppert's maiden speech.
2010-05-26: Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal. (BMJ)
2010-05-26: Dyson Air Multiplier fans and balloons. (YouTube)
2010-05-26: Johann Hari on Heavy Metal Muslims and Country and Western lefties.
2010-05-25: The Real Time Club - the oldest IT dining club.
2010-05-25: UNIX Tips for Mac OS X.
2010-05-25: DJB on DNSSEC.
2010-05-25: A programmers' wedding cake.
2010-05-25: Google will not be able to index stories behind The Times' paywall.
2010-05-25: Announcing the iPad XL - the power to run flash!
2010-05-24: Patent claim halts stem cell research into childhood brain diseases.
2010-05-24: 4K sector drives and Linux.
2010-05-24: Apple will soon be worth more than Microsoft.
2010-05-24: Julian Todd complains about funding for open democracy in the UK.
2010-05-24: Busting frame busting: a study of clickjacking vulnerabilities at popular sites.
2010-05-24: Daily Mail shows no respect for copyright in pictures.
2010-05-24: Michael Geist's fair copyright proposals for Canada.
2010-05-24: Anthony Lester QC, architect of the Human Rights Act, introduces libel reform bill in the House of Lords.
2010-05-24: Practical examples of siphons at work.
2010-05-24: How bells are rung in Bologna.
2010-05-24: Graphs of DNS RFC relationships.
2010-05-24: English judge complains at length about bad ECJ trademark ruling.
2010-05-23: Iteratees step-by-step.
2010-05-23: Brian Deer on the end of the Wakefield MMR enquiry.
2010-05-23: giffgaff - The people-powered PAYG mobile phone network.
2010-05-22: Why Verisign is leaving the X.509 business.
2010-05-22: Rumours of safety arguments between BP and Schlumberger on the Deepwater Horizon.
2010-05-22: Why to use the term "preferential voting" when campaigning for electoral reform.
2010-05-22: Bottom-up innovation will save us says Matt Ridley. (Unless IP squashes it?)
2010-05-22: David Davies MP thinks torture is a good thing.
2010-05-22: How the coalition deal was negotiated.
2010-05-21: Creating a Solaris IPS repository and adding your first package.
2010-05-21: "Email and bacon! This car has everything ..."
2010-05-21: Chocolate filled with Marmite!?!
2010-05-21: A Windows 3.1 clone running in your browser.
2010-05-21: Lightspark: Flash player for Linux accelerated with LLVM and GLSL.
2010-05-21: Cameron/Clegg (7)
2010-05-21: Superficially improving Google Reader.
2010-05-21: Wenlock and Mandeville welcome you to London 2012.
2010-05-20: Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth.
2010-05-20: A look at Lua 5.2.0-work3.
2010-05-20: Richard Feynman on judging (text)books by their covers.
2010-05-20: In order to complain to the TPS about phone spam, you must let them give the spammer your postal and email addresses.
2010-05-20: Australian customs officers can now search incoming travellers' laptops and mobile phones for pornography.
2010-05-19: You can do something about street harassment.
2010-05-19: How to prevent browser history sniffing.
2010-05-19: Mapping the demographics of American English with Twitter.
2010-05-19: The Associated Press's most popular stories are the fact-checking nonsense-debunking ones.
2010-05-19: AAAS Science Magazine interview with Julian Huppert MP.
2010-05-19: Verisign to concentrate on DNS registry business after selling X.509 business to Symantec.
2010-05-19: Symantec to buy Verisign's X.509 business.
2010-05-19: How to sniff the contents of a web browser's history.
2010-05-19: Warning signs in experimental design and interpretation.
2010-05-19: List of Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of possessing terrorist Casio watches.
2010-05-19: A great interview with Ben Goldacre about his philosophy.
2010-05-19: Interviews with Evan Harris and Julian Huppert.
2010-05-19: Harmful drinks in America - astonishing quantities of sugar.
2010-05-19: Writing systems and calligraphy of the world.
2010-05-19: Craig Murray debunks the coalition's first islamophobic terror scare.
2010-05-19: Experimental security analysis of a modern automobile.
2010-05-19: Lesbian Iranian film-maker denied asylum in Britain.
2010-05-18: Heather Brooke on CCTV.
2010-05-18: Monsanto's GM cotton and the increasing suicide rate amongst Indian farmers.
2010-05-18: Resistance to anti-piracy law by Swedish ISPs makes it harder to tackle serious criminals.
2010-05-18: The Reed Research Reactor is the only nuclear reactor operated primarily by undergraduates.
2010-05-18: DNSSEC in the root zone delayed two weeks.
2010-05-18: Proportion of women parliamentary candidates in each party.
2010-05-18: Kent police and the CPS think a private online chat is an obscene publication.
2010-05-18: Civil service chiefs made formal protests at Labour's excessive spending in their final months.
2010-05-18: Testing salted coffee with Tim Wendelboe.
2010-05-18: The lack of IP law enforcement in Spain - an entrenched culture of sharing.
2010-05-18: Mil-Spec chocolate chip cookies.
2010-05-18: Lynne Featherstone supports John Bercow as Speaker.
2010-05-18: On Liberal Conservatism.
2010-05-17: Electoral dysfunction: why democracy is always unfair.
2010-05-17: The Right Tool - a survey to find out how programmers pick languages.
2010-05-17: James K. Galbraith: Why the 'experts' failed to see how financial fraud collapsed the economy.
2010-05-17: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler LLVM back-end.
2010-05-17: Liam Byrne's handover letter to David Laws says Labour spent all the money, as if it were a joke.
2010-05-17: Forget about Goldman Sachs: the entire economy is built on fraud.
2010-05-17: Labour's record on civil liberties alienated its core supporters and drove voters to the Liberal Democrats.
2010-05-17: Skeptic Top Trumps.
2010-05-17: Will Aaron Sorkin's Zuckerberg biopic damage Facebook's reputation even more?
2010-05-17: Cambridge's response to the Browne review of higher education funding and student finance.
2010-05-17: Cameron/Clegg (6)
2010-05-17: Australia retaliates against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
2010-05-17: IP as censorship: a growing library of banned books.
2010-05-17: Jack o' Kent was a folk hero in the borderland of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire.
2010-05-17: How (not) to lobby a parliamentary candidate.
2010-05-16: The Orwell Prize blog shortlist.
2010-05-16: The electoral politics of the LibDem-Conservative coalition, according to Pippa Norris.
2010-05-16: Doc Searls on Steve Jobs, 1997 - right on the mark.
2010-05-16: Greed all about it - Radio 4 Friday play about Murdoch's move to Wapping.
2010-05-16: Tories ditched policies as fast as they listed them: 'Cameron wanted to bury party Right,' say Lib Dems.
2010-05-16: Labour hid ‘scorched earth' debts worth billions.
2010-05-16: BMA votes to end NHS funding for homoeopathy.
2010-05-16: Henry Porter says the voices of liberty have triumphed and Britain is better for it
2010-05-16: Leaked memo reveals what Whitehall really thinks of its new masters.
2010-05-15: Typographical problems with the iPad.
2010-05-15: Why Peter Serafinowicz steals movies ... even ones he is in.
2010-05-15: How to design a popular programming language.
2010-05-14: Tell the Electoral Commission about any problems you had with voting.
2010-05-14: Some pages from Willard Cope Brinton's 1939 book Graphic Presentation.
2010-05-14: Will the civil service scupper the Freedom Bill?
2010-05-14: Apple responds to Adobe's "We ♥ Apple" advertisement.
2010-05-14: Stop slutting up our girls.
2010-05-14: UK Government Twitter strategy.
2010-05-13: Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Transport, promises to "end the war on motorists".
2010-05-13: Cameron/Clegg (5)
2010-05-13: "Psychic" Joe Power and the two-man mob.
2010-05-13: Cameron/Clegg (4) [only slightly slashy]
2010-05-13: Police threaten and handcuff man in his home because of his silly Cameron poster.
2010-05-12: Cameron/Glegg (3)
2010-05-12: Henry Porter on the coalition's plans for civil liberties.
2010-05-12: Cameron/Clegg (2)
2010-05-12: ComRes says flakier voters failed to turn up and vote LibDem as expected.
2010-05-12: Channel 4 compares Tory and LibDem policies before and after the coalition.
2010-05-12: Open WiFi banned in Germany.
2010-05-12: The Spectator's view of the coalition.
2010-05-12: The impact of the fiscal stimulus on economic growth.
2010-05-12: Liberty responds to the Con/LibDem coalition agreement.
2010-05-12: Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition agreements.
2010-05-12: HMG will act on 10:10 campaign to cut CO2 emissions by 10% within a year.
2010-05-12: Ultrasound reveals breastfeeding mechanics.
2010-05-12: Cameron/Clegg.
2010-05-11: Eight websites you need to stop building.
2010-05-11: High Court rules that software liability disclaimers are unfair and unenforcable.
2010-05-11: Ten tips for coping with lots of rough nights.
2010-05-11: UK party policy Venn diagram.
2010-05-11: Yale delays switch to GMail owing to data ownership concerns.
2010-05-11: UC Davis scraps GMail pilot because of privacy concerns.
2010-05-10: Heather Brooke on the lack of accountability and oversight of UK election officials.
2010-05-10: Losing the fight against AIDS in Africa.
2010-05-10: Inspired by XKCD...
2010-05-10: Welcome to the post-meritocratic age - the increasing proportion of MPs from independent schools.
2010-05-10: The origin of HTML's blink tag.
2010-05-10: Tories and LibDems want to cancel the one-sided extradition treaty with the USA.
2010-05-10: Unprecedented rain in the high arctic in April.
2010-05-09: Britain's experience of electoral systems, published by the Electoral Reform Society, Apr. 2007.
2010-05-09: The experience of new voting systems in the United Kingdom since 1997, presented to Parliament by the Justice Secretary, Jan. 2008.
2010-05-09: Report of the independent commission on the voting system, presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, Oct. 1998.
2010-05-09: Where no woman has gone before - a map of women in parliament.
2010-05-09: Tories re-nationalise the London Underground.
2010-05-09: Clegg and Cameron explain the state of the negotiations to their parties.
2010-05-09: The 14-year-old voter tells his story. (ace!)
2010-05-09: HengeDocks - a well-designed docking station for unibody MacBooks.
2010-05-09: SecondBar and BetterTouchTool - Mac OS X user interface tweaks.
2010-05-09: An in-depth tutorial on Perl autovivification.
2010-05-06: Portillo tells Ed Balls how to lose.
2010-05-06: Robert Mugabe supports the Conservative party.
2010-05-06: What happened to the Wall Street Journal when Rupert Murdoch took over.
2010-05-06: HP printer cartridges are region-coded - WTF!
2010-05-05: A new record for Apple - iPad fastest product to reach $1 billion revenue?
2010-05-05: Johann Hari takes you on a tour of Cameron Land.
2010-05-05: The people's flag is palest pink: it's not as red as people think.
2010-05-05: The WhoShouldYouVoteFor.com election night party kit.
2010-05-05: A personal account of the smallpox outbreak in Bradford in 1962.
2010-05-05: The Tory plan for a hung parliament.
2010-05-05: The Soviet solution: nuke the gushing oil well.
2010-05-04: The Single Transferable Vote in action in the Republic of Ireland.
2010-05-04: Some details of LuaJIT's intermediate representation.
2010-05-04: The IBM film Powers of Ten.
2010-05-04: The scale of the universe - Powers of Ten as a flash app.
2010-05-04: Cameron does not understand proportional representation.
2010-05-04: File-sharers are content industry's best customers.
2010-05-04: FiveThirtyEight predicts Lib/Lab coalition would not have a majority - neither would the Tories.
2010-05-04: BNP uses ballot paper aliases to fool voters.
2010-05-04: What's in a name? - Pirate Party UK.
2010-05-04: Anti-brothel law puts prostitutes at risk. (ps. no relation!)
2010-05-04: Cameron to celebrate victory with Bullingdon-style trashing of UK.
2010-05-04: The utter failure of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project.
2010-05-03: Fear let the Labour Party abandon everything it stood for.
2010-05-03: MPEG-LA creates patent holding company to sue its own patent contributors. WTF.
2010-05-03: A better graph of support for Labour+Conservative vs LibDem bs others over the last 25 years.
2010-05-03: Automatic permanent background SSH tunnels - howto for unix, mac, windows.
2010-05-03: Julian Huppert says why he is against the Digital Economy Act.
2010-05-03: How to establish a pub's Mank Rating.
2010-05-03: Young adults ask, why isn't our parents' generation paying for us?
2010-05-03: Hung parliament guaranteed by Labour and Conservative both declining over more than 20 years.
2010-05-02: "When blowflies fight over a pile of elephant shit, their pecking order is a more elegant protocol than ICCCM."
2010-05-02: If only Arizona were the real problem - the Tea Party takeover of the Republican Party.
2010-05-02: Is Clegg throwing away his best cards?
2010-05-02: Why even strict vegans should consider eating oysters by the boatload.
2010-05-02: You owe licence fees to the MPEG-LA for anything you film with a video camera.
2010-05-02: The scary evangelical Christian tendency in the Conservative party.
2010-05-02: Quack in a Box: a game of medical malpractice.
2010-05-01: Michael Specter's TED talk on the danger of science denialism.
2010-05-01: Evan Harris argues against the Tories' extra pocket money for married couples.
2010-05-01: Full body scanners are a useless waste of money, says Israeli airport security expert.
2010-05-01: Wind power is starting to reduce the price of electricity.
2010-05-01: Tim Harford on electoral reform and Arrow's theorem.
2010-05-01: Political parties should be banned from handling postal vote applications.
2010-05-01: The public electoral register is a good defence against electoral fraud.
2010-05-01: A new init(8) called systemd.
2010-04-30: The Telegraph says long copyright terms are bad for business.
2010-04-29: An HTTP proxy server in 20 lines of node.js code.
2010-04-29: FiveThirtyEight's advanced swingometer.
2010-04-28: Mix tape amnesty.
2010-04-28: What do you get if you teach toddlers to take pictures?
2010-04-28: Guardian/ICM poll of marginal seats has LibDems in the lead.
2010-04-28: Monsanto applies for a patent on pork.
2010-04-28: Roman Catholic Church supports even non-Catholic abusers in US court.
2010-04-28: Strategy's golden rule: what your fiercest rival does badly, do incredibly well.
2010-04-28: Tony Juniper, Green Party parliamentary candidate for Cambridge (snigger).
2010-04-27: Microsoft Research Cambridge moving from University West Cambridge site to CB1 station redevelopment.
2010-04-27: XFS will be supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
2010-04-27: A 15,552,000 second exposure of the Clifton suspension bridge taken with a pinhole camera.
2010-04-27: The Institute for Fiscal Studies is generally positive about the LibDem manifesto.
2010-04-27: Wikipedia trumps Britannica.
2010-04-27: Toxic assets emerged from a shadow economy.
2010-04-27: Journalists and publishers worry about opaque and arbitrary Apple app store content rules.
2010-04-27: Problems with CAP, and its relation to Yahoo's little known NoSQL system.
2010-04-27: Murdoch Tory campaign is James's baby, not Rupert's?
2010-04-27: Avatar cinema attendance increases after DVD release.
2010-04-27: Twitter removes tweet after DMCA complaint - WTF in so many ways.
2010-04-26: What is David Cameron thinking?
2010-04-26: Jack Straw engages in illegal electoral treating - again!
2010-04-26: Choose your own UK government budget cuts.
2010-04-26: Beginning of the end of the floppy disk.
2010-04-25: Old media, new media, and the election.
2010-04-25: Microsoft is being very quiet about its vast and rapidly increasing quantity of debt.
2010-04-25: Why doesn't the Labour party respect copyright?
2010-04-24: BBC Newsnight's Michael Crick on YouGov's biased polling.
2010-04-23: The Byzantine solution to Afghanistan.
2010-04-23: How the Guardian decides who to support in the election.
2010-04-23: Party name twitter trend chart.
2010-04-23: Party leader 24h twitter trend chart.
2010-04-23: How the unexpected rise of a third contender broke the cosy two-party system.
2010-04-23: The Independent fisks the Tory press.
2010-04-22: The forces that block British democracy are becoming visible in this election.
2010-04-22: Anti-Clegg stories planted in the Tory press by Conservative central office, says the BBC.
2010-04-22: Google Trends view of Brown, Cameron, and Clegg.
2010-04-22: David Owen explains how to replace Trident with something much cheaper.
2010-04-22: JK Rowling's single mothers' manifesto.
2010-04-22: The Conservatives and Rupert Murdoch are gunning for the BBC.
2010-04-22: David Camerwrong presents a new vision for Britain.
2010-04-22: GitHub now supports git's smart HTTP protocol.
2010-04-22: The Guardian considers whether Rupert Murdoch will lose Britain.
2010-04-22: Surge in voter registrations makes election outcome even more volatile.
2010-04-22: Don't believe the twitter echo chamber.
2010-04-22: Do Daily Mail journalists cry themselves to sleep?
2010-04-22: It's all #nickcleggsfault.
2010-04-22: Ken Clarke agrees with LibDems Trident policy.
2010-04-22: Daily-Mail-o-matic: automatic headline generator - Nick Clegg special edition!
2010-04-22: Will Rupert Murdoch lose Britain?.
2010-04-22: How to build a cybernuke.
2010-04-22: Fuck yeah! Nick Clegg! :-)
2010-04-21: Guess which newspaper is most annoyed by the LibDem surge...
2010-04-21: Blowing up HTML5 video and mapping it into 3D space.
2010-04-21: Geek the vote.
2010-04-21: A vote for the LibDems is a vote against Rupert Murdoch.
2010-04-21: Copyfight in Ireland in the 6th and 21st centuries.
2010-04-20: How a hung parliament would work.
2010-04-20: How powerful is your vote compared to the UK average?
2010-04-20: UK polling report.
2010-04-20: Forecast UK: predicting the next general election.
2010-04-20: Electoral Calculus: general election prediction.
2010-04-20: How to vote if you want a hung parliament (and electoral reform)!
2010-04-20: Nice places to visit near Heathrow when there are NO PLANES.
2010-04-20: YouGov asks, could the LIbDems win outright?
2010-04-19: Amazing feats of error recovery by LLVM clang.
2010-04-19: Clay Shirky on the collapse of complex business models.
2010-04-18: An introduction to modern OpenGL.
2010-04-18: Finnish F-18 engine check reveals effects of volcanic dust. (with pictures)
2010-04-16: How not to print a document from an iPad.
2010-04-16: Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system.
2010-04-16: Political cartoon app rejected from app store because it "ridicules public figures".
2010-04-15: Apple removes Scratch programming language for children from the app store.
2010-04-15: The Guardian restores Simon Singh's article over which he was sued by the chiropractors for libel.
2010-04-15: What if the very theory behind patents is wrong?
2010-04-15: Laurie Taylor's experiences of a Roman Catholic boys' boarding school.
2010-04-15: How to print a document from an iPad.
2010-04-15: When record labels screw the musicians they claim to be supporting.
2010-04-15: US military says peak oil is coming in about two years.
2010-04-15: Chiropractors drop libel case against Simon Singh.
2010-04-14: Small wheels for adult cycles.
2010-04-14: Representing type information in dynamically typed languages.
2010-04-14: Common mistakes when attempting to design a RESTful protocol.
2010-04-13: This is not a spiral.
2010-04-12: Internet security is a failure.
2010-04-12: Technical drawings for the first prototype of the clock of the long now.
2010-04-12: This week is the 300th anniversary of copyright law in England.
2010-04-09: Pixels. (video)
2010-04-09: Tetris hell.
2010-04-09: Labour and Conservatives accused of copyright infringement.
2010-04-09: Patent lawsuit may allow competitors to copy a revolutionary food for treating malnourished children.
2010-04-09: Traffic in the IP address range 1.0.0.0/8.
2010-04-09: C: The Complete Nonsense: why you should not read Herb Schildt's books.
2010-04-08: TalkTalk will refuse any demand to disconnect its customers despite the Digital Economy Act.
2010-04-08: They work for the BPI.
2010-04-07: Memory management threads: exploiting fine-grained parallelism in C/C++ dynamic memory management.
2010-04-07: I made it to 2010 and all I got from the sf books of my youth was the lousy dystopian government.
2010-04-07: The Internet backchannel to live discussions, and the "oh shit" moment when the previously oblivious discover what is happening.
2010-04-06: The microwave mortuary: dead electronics.
2010-04-05: A visual git reference.
2010-04-05: Sharing code between projects with git subtree.
2010-04-05: A successful git branching model and workflow.
2010-04-03: Have you ever tried to sell a diamond? How the De Beers cartel keeps prices high.
2010-04-01: Robin Milner's obituary in the Guardian. (Much better than the Times!)
2010-04-01: Robin Milner's obituary on the Computer Lab web site.
2010-04-01: Insanely deep fractal zoom.
2010-04-01: Simon Singh wins his appeal against chiropractic accusations of libel.
2010-04-01: It's not a bug, it's a feature!
2010-04-01: Spoon feeding lazy journalists: Open Europe: the Eurosceptic group that controls British coverage of the EU.
2010-03-31: Where Tcl and Tk went wrong.
2010-03-31: Robin Milner's obituary in the Times. (Horribly garbled.)
2010-03-30: Labservative - for more of the same. (We've had 65 years to get it right, so what's another 5?)
2010-03-30: Python generators vs. coroutines.
2010-03-30: Random recipe generator :-)
2010-03-28: Dealing with font problems on Linux.
2010-03-26: Klein bottle opener.
2010-03-25: SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.
2010-03-25: Gerald Blanchard, master thief.
2010-03-25: Inside a global spyware ring.
2010-03-24: Great Firewall of China spoofing responses to DNS queries from outside China to nameservers hosted inside China.
2010-03-24: UK winning war against child poverty.
2010-03-24: Radio 4's You and Yours misleads its audience and prefers ill-informed debate rather than knowledgable guests.
2010-03-24: Emily Rosa (aged 11) published a paper in JAMA that demolished "therapeutic touch".
2010-03-23: Lua-ev: Lus interface to libev event loop library.
2010-03-23: How the internet came to be, by Vint Cerf, as told to Bernard Aboba.
2010-03-23: Scrap peer review and beware of "top journals", says Richard Smith (of PLoS) in the BMJ.
2010-03-23: The League of Movable Type - a collection of open source fonts.
2010-03-23: Yet another uptime counter wrap bug. (Sun StorageTek diak arrays)
2010-03-22: How to identify an undiscriminating skeptic.
2010-03-20: LuaJIT interactive performance comparison chart.
2010-03-18: Don't just do something, stand there! Constant reform has the public sector in shambles.
2010-03-18: Hollywood, please stop the teal and orange madness!
2010-03-17: Pseudo - an improved replacement for fakeroot.
2010-03-17: Folding plug wins design award.
2010-03-17: New Scientist's spam infographic.
2010-03-17: The Barrelfish operating system - your computer is already a distributed system; why isn't your OS?
2010-03-16: Sean Quinlan on Google GFS and BigTable - even Google suffers scalability problems :-)
2010-03-16: ISC AFTR: IPv4 / IPv6 transition protocol "Dual Stack Lite" reference implementation.
2010-03-15: Dear GNU Autohell, could you please die?
2010-03-15: Stop the autoconf insanity!
2010-03-15: Escape from GNU Autohell!
2010-03-14: The Calendar Zone -- Bringing Order to Calendrical Chaos!
2010-03-14: Partial evaluation, interpreters, compilers, and compiler-generators.
2010-03-12: PIR.org to start accepting signed DNSSEC delegations in .org in June.
2010-03-11: .ARPA TLD to be signed by 2010-03-18.
2010-03-11: The unspoken British constitution.
2010-03-11: The 100 most expensive petrochemical accidents.
2010-03-10: Opt-out form for the NHS national health records database.
2010-03-10: A working implementation of Codd's self-replicating cellular automaton - bonkers and amazing.
2010-03-10: 2012 is the centenary of Alan Turing, marathon runner and computer scientist.
2010-03-10: The Aegis software configuration management system.
2010-03-09: Stack Overflow's best programming jokes.
2010-03-09: Cambridgeshire County Council enumerates the guided busway screwups that their contractor refuses to fix.
2010-03-09: Reddit discusses LuaJIT with its author Mike Pall.
2010-03-09: Does a Lava Lamp work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter?
2010-03-08: The first rule of formal logic club is ...
2010-03-08: Strobeshnik: a clock hacked together from a hard disk drive.
2010-03-08: Scott and scurvy - how, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost.
2010-03-07: YikeBike folding elecric bicycle.
2010-03-07: Jonathan Rees's security kernel based on the Lambda Calculus.
2010-03-05: Ignition! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants.
2010-03-05: Liberal atheists are not actually much more intelligent than the others.
2010-03-05: There really is a liberal atheist intelligentsia.
2010-03-05: Paul Vixie says DNScurve doesn't solve any important problems, whereas DNSSEC does.
2010-03-04: Apple drops the iPhone patent bomb on HTC.
2010-03-04: Yorkshireman prosecuted for joking on Twitter about bombs.
2010-03-04: Kiosk mode on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
2010-03-04: Guide to creating kiosks on Mac OS X - plus demo app for tweaking the user interface.
2010-03-04: How to auto-hide the menu bar and dock on a per-app basis on Mac OS X.
2010-03-03: Nicholas Weaver reviews DNScurve and concludes it is catastrophically bad.
2010-03-03: Why DRM doesn't work.
2010-03-03: DNSSEC deployment is on track, says Verisign.
2010-03-03: What is the worst class/variable/function name you have ever encountered?
2010-03-03: DENIC now allows 2LDs to register DS records in their DNSSEC testbed.
2010-03-03: UK libel law is being used to suppress inconvenient scientific results.
2010-03-02: Koreans use sausages to control their iPhones in cold weather, because gloved hands don't work.
2010-03-02: Quick reference sheet: your rights if you get stopped by the police in the UK.
2010-03-02: A neutral collaboration point for everyone involved in "Teaching Open Source".
2010-03-02: One in four chiropractors under investigation for false advertising because they sued Simon Singh for calling them "bogus".
2010-03-02: The Cambridge tartan.
2010-03-02: Packrat parsers can support left recursion.
2010-03-01: Apple's successor to the iPad.
2010-03-01: Addressing the outmoded swapping and paging strategy in Mac OS X.
2010-03-01: Inside the iPad A4 chip.
2010-03-01: ENISA's guide to deploying DNSSEC.
2010-03-01: California wages war against the great evil that is flavoured vodka.
2010-02-27: The Munich taxicab experiment - risk compensation and anti-lock brakes.
2010-02-25: Using, not losing, your head regarding cycle helmets.
2010-02-25: Like, Python. (heh)
2010-02-25: FastMail's clever webmail session handling.
2010-02-25: The film companies keep telling you pirated DVDs are worse, hoping you won't find out they are better.
2010-02-24: Taking pictures of your own children is paedophilia according to the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland.
2010-02-24: What is a big salary?
2010-02-24: Stéphane Bortzmeyer on the OpenDNS / DNScurve absurdity.
2010-02-23: Comcast announces their DNSSEC deployment timeline and customer trials.
2010-02-23: OpenDNS adopts DNScurve - WTF? no-one else will.
2010-02-23: Bjørn Lomborg is a liar and a fraud.
2010-02-23: You can be arrested for photography because it is suspicious and anti-social, say the police.
2010-02-23: Radio 4 - Analysis - Failing better - excellent programme about evidence-based policy.
2010-02-22: Design and implementation of mobile client support in SSH.
2010-02-22: tmux: OpenBSD's replacement for GNU screen.
2010-02-22: DNSSEC HOWTO
2010-02-22: USA penalises other countries for supporting open source procurement.
2010-02-21: The Medieval Unicode Font Initiative.
2010-02-21: ConScript Unicode Registry - code point allocations for artificial scripts in the Unicode private use area.
2010-02-21: Meta-programming in Lua.
2010-02-19: How to configure BIND to automatically sign dynamic-update zones for DNSSEC.
2010-02-18: Nice picture from a Sinclair C5 meet in Cambridge this week.
2010-02-18: RFC 5782: DNS blacklists and whitelists.
2010-02-18: Wall Street's bail-out hustle - how they returned to profitability so fast.
2010-02-18: Cambridge buses no longer so confident about when the misguided busway will open.
2010-02-18: Petition against imprisonment of children seeking asylum in the UK.
2010-02-18: Measuring the gravitational red-shift predicted by general relativity using a caesium atom interferometer.
2010-02-16: Bertrand Meyer on IEEE 754's non-reflexive equality predicate.
2010-02-16: Layar: mobile augmented reality browser.
2010-02-16: Migrating Haskell code from the uvector to vector library.
2010-02-16: BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play 20 Feb 2010: Murder in Samarkand.
2010-02-15: Reworking Python's global interpreter lock.
2010-02-15: SpamAssassin ticket for adding support for the Spamhaus DBL.
2010-02-15: The Spamhaus domain block list - to be launched on 1st March 2010.
2010-02-15: How to configure secure NTP.
2010-02-15: How Python's global interpreter lock hurts performance worse than you expect.
2010-02-12: Notes on the resolution and other details of the human eye.
2010-02-11: Chip and PIN is broken, says the Cambridge computer lab security group.
2010-02-11: Sign the petition for UK libel law reform!
2010-02-11: Changes to .com/.net/.edu name servers in preparation for DNSSEC.
2010-02-10: SolidDNS secondary nameserver service supporting DNSSEC and IPv6.
2010-02-10: Pothole gardens.
2010-02-10: Monitoring the performance of the 100-year-old clock in the Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge.
2010-02-10: Roll over and die? Problems with key rollover in DNSSEC.
2010-02-10: Tracing the meta level: PyPy's tracing JIT compiler.
2010-02-10: The Journal of Craptology.
2010-02-10: Romantic cryptography - if XKCD were an academic paper...?
2010-02-09: How climate change skeptics propagated lies about the UEA CRU emails.
2010-02-08: Peppersmith natural chewing gum.
2010-02-08: Static detection of race conditions in Erlang.
2010-02-06: A principled, complete, and efficient representation of C++.
2010-02-05: Measuring DNS transfer sizes: first results.
2010-02-03: What Second Life can teach you about scaling Web apps.
2010-02-03: Problems allocating from polluted IPv4 address space.
2010-02-03: Pollution in the last few unallocated blocks of IPv4 address space.
2010-02-03: Bert's bad idea BOF.
2010-02-03: Improving TCP security with robust cookies.
2010-02-02: A discussion about implementing the Game of Life in Haskell.
2010-02-02: Facebook announces the open source release of their PHP to C++ compiler, HipHop.
2010-02-02: Quasiquoting for Haskell.
2010-02-02: Parsifal validating XML parser written in C.
2010-02-02: Clare Short says Tony Blair lied and misled parliament in the build-up to the Iraq war.
2010-02-02: Evolution of adaptive behaviour in robots by means of Darwinian selection.
2010-02-02: Boolean grammars.
2010-02-01: LGBT History Month in Cambridgeshire - council buildings are flying the rainbow flag.
2010-01-30: Initial .uk DNSSEC rollout to happen in March.
2010-01-29: Old-world vs new-world computers.
2010-01-28: Google says unicode nears 50% of the web.
2010-01-28: How Google Chrome protects itself from browser extension vulnerabilities.
2010-01-28: How to fail a PhD.
2010-01-28: Honey, I Shrunk Steve Jobs!
2010-01-28: Panopticlick: how unique and trackable is your browser?
2010-01-28: Markus Kuhn's One-Time Passwords.
2010-01-28: Steve Gibson's Perfect Paper Passwords.
2010-01-28: Cambridgeshire Architecture Gazette, the newsletter of the Cambridge Association of Architects.
2010-01-27: DNS-OARC stats covering the L.root-servers.net DURZ switch-on.
2010-01-27: L.root-servers.net statistics.
2010-01-27: Web4U.cz has nearly 15,000 DNSSEC delegations from the .cz TLD.
2010-01-26: British newspapers make things up and publish them as if they were true.
2010-01-26: North-West Cambridge development plans.
2010-01-26: Bryan Cantrill does not like transactional memory.
2010-01-26: P2P copyright enforcement can be blatantly incorrect and maliciously gamed.
2010-01-26: IKEA LackRack 19" table / server housing.
2010-01-25: More details about root zone DNSSEC deployment, including precise transition times.
2010-01-25: The Public Domain Manifesto.
2010-01-22: Top Google search result for each Unicode character.
2010-01-22: Number 10 responds to postcode database petition with a lengthy content-free brush-off.
2010-01-22: The Fantom programming language.
2010-01-21: A million-user comet application with Mochiweb.
2010-01-21: Stair Porn.
2010-01-21: Runtime object devirtualization: improving JIT compiler performance by inlining virtual function calls and memory accesses.
2010-01-21: French anti-piracy organisation Hadopi uses a pirated font in its logo.
2010-01-21: Systems of units of measurement defined such that certain universal physical constants are normalized to 1.
2010-01-21: The electric unicycle.
2010-01-21: LuaJIT 2.0 reaches sponsorship goal for x68-64 port.
2010-01-21: Man buried by Haiti earthquake survives using iPhone for first aid advice.
2010-01-20: Church of England parish finder and map.
2010-01-20: The era of black boxes.
2010-01-20: Let Over Lambda - a "hardcore" book about macro programming in Common Lisp.
2010-01-20: "Matters Computational" - a book containing a lot of bitwise hacks amongst other things.
2010-01-18: Nancy Reagan celebrates christmas with Mr T.
2010-01-18: How not to hinder Haiti.
2010-01-18: Nick Clegg's speech on science and politics to the Royal Society.
2010-01-18: The Cambridge Evening News asks which party you will vote for in the general election.
2010-01-17: Collective hallucinations and inefficient markets: the British railway mania of the 1840s.
2010-01-15: Virbl virus senders blacklist now lists IPv6 addresses.
2010-01-14: Root zone DNSSEC status update, 2010-01-14.
2010-01-14: Cambridge traffic regulation orders.
2010-01-14: Toppling a bogus-diploma empire of fraudulent "universities".
2010-01-14: AOL's postmaster team laid off en masse.
2010-01-12: UK "anti-terror" arbitrary stop and search law ruled illegal by European Court of Human Rights.
2010-01-12: Who is your liberal voice of the year?
2010-01-11: Capsicum: capability-secure sandboxing for FreeBSD.
2010-01-08: Google's book scanning technology revealed.
2010-01-08: Mercator Ocean maps and forecasts of ocean currents and temperatures, etc.
2010-01-07: Fitzwilliam College Cambridge offers place to 14-year-old.
2010-01-07: Johann Hari on the last years of summer ice in the Arctic.
2010-01-07: Gulf Stream temporarily stopped warming Northern Europe last week.
2010-01-07: Amazing satellite image of snow across Britain on 7th January 2010.
2010-01-06: Details of Microsoft Outlook 2007 auto account setup (in the absence of autodiscover support from the server).
2010-01-06: Unison claims to be "the best usenet browser".
2010-01-06: Cambridge to be testing ground for ID cards.
2010-01-05: Fabrice Bellard broke the world record for computing the digits of pi on 31 Dec 2009.
2010-01-02: The basic laws of human stupidity.
2009-12-30: Brian Krebs has a new web site to replace the Washington Post "Security Fix" blog.
2009-12-29: A Lua binding for Tokyo Tyrant.
2009-12-26: The C Programming Language by B.W.Kernighan & D.M.Richie & H.P.Lovecraft.
2009-12-23: Stranded passengers rescued from snow by steam train.
2009-12-23: Disable Space switching on Command-Tab in Mac OS X 10.5.2.
2009-12-23: Video reveals twists and turns of genital warfare in ducks.
2009-12-23: Apple's loss of ZFS.
2009-12-23: The status of the P vs. NP problem.
2009-12-22: "Overtime", a Laundry story by Charlie Stross.
2009-12-22: No. 10 petition to ban use of 084xxx and 087xxx numbers in the public sector.
2009-12-22: A review of administrative tools for DNSSEC.
2009-12-21: Government to ban the NHS from using premium rate phone numbers.
2009-12-20: Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses.
2009-12-20: Khoros: a Lua operating system.
2009-12-19: Has AT&T Wireless data congestion been self-inflicted?
2009-12-17: Object/relational mapping is the Vietnam war of computer science.
2009-12-17: James Randi, global warming, Bertrand Russell, and the nature of scepticism.
2009-12-16: Nominet deletes 1200 .co.uk domains that the police say are used by criminal counterfeiters.
2009-12-16: Current status of DNSSEC in various TLDs.
2009-12-16: Root-DNSSEC.org - information about DNSSEC for the root zone.
2009-12-14: .US TLD now signed with DNSSEC.
2009-12-14: A validator for iCalendar.
2009-12-12: Mathematical software and me: a very personal recollection by William Stein.
2009-12-11: Advice on the values to choose for DNSSEC configuration parameters.
2009-12-11: A silly shipping forecast. (YouTube)
2009-12-10: Preparing k.root-servers.net for a signed root zone.
2009-12-10: Can the grid cope with an all-electric car fleet?
2009-12-10: Police say being on the DNA database will harm your career, even if innocent.
2009-12-09: An infrastructure service anti-pattern.
2009-12-08: SIDN prepares to introduce DNSSEC for .nl zone.
2009-12-08: The Register's units of measurement (2)
2009-12-08: The Register's units of measurement (1)
2009-12-08: List of humorous units of measurement.
2009-12-08: The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.
2009-12-08: The Security Skeptic on ICANN's model for high security zone verification.
2009-12-08: The incompatible food triad.
2009-12-08: Mathematically correct breakfast: Möbius sliced linked bagel.
2009-12-07: Super-injunctions can prevent papers from reporting on parliament.
2009-12-07: The pernicious rise of the CRB Stasi - Manor Community College in Cambridge bans all un-checked visitors.
2009-12-07: Canadian recording industry is target of $60 billion copyright infringement lawsuit.
2009-12-07: List of unusual units of measurement.
2009-12-07: Cambridge T-shirts.
2009-12-06: Fox News insists on being able to knowingly broadcast false news reports.
2009-12-05: Live music in pubs tied up in red tape?
2009-12-04: Home Office suppresses drugs policy research despite FOIA.
2009-12-03: Anti-Grain Geometry - high quality 2D rendering engine for C++.
2009-11-30: Hazel Atkinson anodized aluminium jewellery (flash).
2009-11-30: Primodise - high resolution full colour images anodized into aluminium.
2009-11-26: James Hague on sufficiently smart compilers.
2009-11-26: The PI 14 pseudoacoustic infector.
2009-11-26: How science is shackled by intellectual property.
2009-11-25: Official repository for Erlang/OTP is now on github.
2009-11-24: How to make Homo Economicus and Homo Irrationalis disappear.
2009-11-24: Exploit shellcode that looks like English text.
2009-11-24: The "Mandelbulb" fractal.
2009-11-24: The British parliament is sick and decaying, says Graham Allen MP.
2009-11-24: The first person to be jailed in the UK for witholding encryption keys.
2009-11-23: Valerie Aurora describes the Featherstitch filesystem.
2009-11-23: Children's clothes and gender.
2009-11-23: Inflation-adjusted value of British coins and notes, 1900-2008.
2009-11-23: IE addons gallery - search providers. (Note the prominent omission!)
2009-11-23: News Corp wants to pay Microsoft to tell them how to use robots.txt.
2009-11-23: Carl Gutekunst provides data from Postini on the unverifiability of most MX server TLS certificates.
2009-11-20: The IETF's position on stupid email disclaimers.
2009-11-20: Telnic is worried about the UK government's plans to regulate DNS registries.
2009-11-20: Motorola Droid autofocus bug related to signed 32bit millisecond counter.
2009-11-19: Go vs. Algol 68.
2009-11-18: Nginx HTTP push module - comet for the people.
2009-11-18: Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security.
2009-11-18: An interview with John Gottman - couples therapy and marriage.
2009-11-18: Exploding high-pressure steam engines and computer software.
2009-11-18: Pigeon: Impossible.
2009-11-17: VT220 glyphs.
2009-11-17: The physical basis of the leap second.
2009-11-17: Securityfix article about donotreply.com.
2009-11-14: Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger.
2009-11-13: A20 gate compatibility problems.
2009-11-12: Jesus Weir Cambridge micro-hydro electricity generation report.
2009-11-12: Splay trees.
2009-11-12: Scapegoat trees.
2009-11-11: Johann Hari says we should end drugs prohibition.
2009-11-11: The Go programming language, from the Plan 9 team at Google.
2009-11-10: Google tech talk on inertial electrostatic confinement fusion.
2009-11-09: Guy Snape's bread secrets.
2009-11-09: Multi-touch visualizer for unibody MacBooks.
2009-11-07: List of cats with fraudulent diplomas.
2009-11-06: Joda Time - Java date and time API.
2009-11-06: PNUTS: Yahoo!s hosted data serving platform.
2009-11-05: David Howarth MP to stand down at the next election.
2009-11-04: The complete guide to publishing PGP keys in the DNS.
2009-11-04: What would happen if you gently lowered the moon to a kissing contact with the earth?
2009-11-04: Fully countering "Trusting Trust" by diverse double-compiling.
2009-11-03: Brewer's CAP theorem.
2009-11-03: Luasync - a Lua libevent binding.
2009-11-03: A Lua libevent binding designed to be a drop-in replacement for copas.
2009-11-03: Another Lua libevent binding.
2009-11-03: Notable implementation features of LuaJIT 2.
2009-11-02: LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta1 has been released.
2009-10-31: Quickmap version of the London Underground map.
2009-10-31: Google's disruptive "less than free" business model.
2009-10-29: Online resources for Cambridgeshire library users.
2009-10-27: The rel=vcs-* microformat (for links from web pages to source repositories).
2009-10-27: Scientologists convicted of fraud in France.
2009-10-22: Defending your cred against sexist (or otherwise biased) audiences.
2009-10-22: Redis: replicated data structure server.
2009-10-22: Alan Perlis's epigrams in programming.
2009-10-20: How Moody's sold its ratings and misled investors.
2009-10-19: Number 10 responds to postcode database petition with a lengthy content-free brush-off.
2009-10-19: How the Wall Street banks are making a billion dollars a month.
2009-10-18: 14 is the most likely age for a sex offender in the USA.
2009-10-16: The Taylor bell foundry in Loughborough rescued from bankruptcy.
2009-10-16: PetPorte RFID microchip controlled cat flap.
2009-10-16: Carter-Ruck still trying to stop Parliament talking about the Minton Report on Trafigura's pollution.
2009-10-15: Mike Pall's reading guide to the Lua source code.
2009-10-15: It is possible to booby-trap financial derivatives in a way that is intractable for a buyer to discover.
2009-10-14: Simon Singh gets leave to appeal Mr Justice Eady's decision in the chiropractic libel case.
2009-10-14: An obituary of Peter Carter-Ruck.
2009-10-13: A comparative study of costs in defamation proceedings across Europe.
2009-10-13: Why web development is hard.
2009-10-13: English Heritage blamed for throttling the belfry renewal business.
2009-10-13: The Telegraph on Taylor's of Loughborough, bellfounders.
2009-10-13: Warning: Time Machine may unexpectedly delete your backups.
2009-10-13: Guardian / Carter-Ruck / Trafigura link round-up.
2009-10-13: The Minton report on Trafigura's dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast.
2009-10-13: The Spectator on the Guardian / Carter-Ruck / Trafigura pollution cover-up injunction scandal.
2009-10-13: The Dyson air amplifier: a fan without blades.
2009-10-13: Dr Martens shoe for £100 with guaranteed replacements and repairs for the rest of your life.
2009-10-12: Guardian gagged from reporting parliament, in contravention of the 1688 Bill of Rights.
2009-10-12: How safe is Gardasil? (the HPV vaccine used in the USA)
2009-10-12: Dan Gillmor's 22 new rules of news.
2009-10-12: My local bus service cut by 50%
2009-10-09: Microsoft's time server code completely ignores leap seconds.
2009-10-09: Frank's compulsive guide to postal addresses: effective addressing for international mail from the USA.
2009-10-09: Government slaps Ofsted for trying to treat informal childcare arrangements like professional services.
2009-10-08: DRAM errors in the wild: a large-scale field study by Google.
2009-10-08: Number 10 petition for a free postcode database.
2009-10-06: DNSSEC for the root zone - roll-out between December 2009 and July 2010.
2009-10-06: Exchange 2003 suppress out-of-office replies to mailing lists.
2009-10-05: Objective Lua.
2009-10-05: Obfuscated Lua.
2009-10-05: Alpine's busy-waiting spinners.
2009-10-02: iPhone Wax: develop native UIKit apps in Lua.
2009-10-02: The Spamhaus CSS (Composite Snow-Shoe) blacklist.
2009-09-30: Windows DNS servers do not implement RFC 1982 SOA serial number arithmetic.
2009-09-30: Google catches up with what Lotus Notes did 20 years ago.
2009-09-29: A bit about the maths behind RAID Z3.
2009-09-29: UK social trends report, 2009 edition.
2009-09-29: Details of Reddit's markdown javascript escaping hole.
2009-09-29: Number 10 petition on reciprocal childcare.
2009-09-28: Xpra - persistent remote applications for X.
2009-09-28: NIC.AT's position paper on DNSSEC.
2009-09-28: The US healthcare debate: Jonathan Haidt on how our moral roots skew our reasoning.
2009-09-28: The no-nannying state.
2009-09-27: Flavours of programming.
2009-09-25: Gitolite: shared git repository hosting with access control.
2009-09-25: The framing of al-Megrahi.
2009-09-25: Cambridge architecture post 1945.
2009-09-25: Say No to 0870 application approved for iPhone store.
2009-09-24: Online dating advice: what exactly to say in a first message. (data from OKCupid)
2009-09-24: Best US->UK travel adaptor ever.
2009-09-23: What is a good first programming language?
2009-09-23: FreeBSD gitorious mirror.
2009-09-23: Complexity attacks on stateful firewalls.
2009-09-21: What is the right way to raise children?
2009-09-21: The report from ICANN's study into scaling the DNS root.
2009-09-20: The unspoken truth about managing geeks.
2009-09-20: New Scientist science fiction special.
2009-09-18: Attacks on Unix/Linux package managers.
2009-09-18: NetPGP - a pgp implementation that comes with NetBSD.
2009-09-18: BSD licensed OpenPGP implementation.
2009-09-18: Ars Technica on Apple's Grand Central Dispatch.
2009-09-17: Disabled people and terminology in the social model of disability.
2009-09-15: User community for the Windows subsystem for Unix applications, aka Interix.
2009-09-09: DAFT: disk-geometry-aware filesystem traversal.
2009-09-07: Prof. David Mackay appointed Chief Scientific Advisor in the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
2009-09-03: New ~~Dr Evil~~ F-Secure logo.
2009-09-02: A history of marriage.
2009-09-02: Emmanuel College Cambridge is willing to perform gay marriages.
2009-09-01: Bananajour: a Ruby program to share git repositories on your LAN using DNS-SD.
2009-08-27: SD is a distributed bug tracker, built on Prophet, a lightweight database designed for distributed and disconnected operation.
2009-08-16: David Mazières' rant on C++'s operator new.
2009-08-14: iPhone 3GS has slower floating point than the 3G.
2009-08-13: Computer vision algorithms for grabbing Sudoku puzzles with an iPhone.
2009-08-12: Jon Warbrick's blog.
2009-08-07: Nice visualizations of the computer languages benchmark game.
2009-08-06: The eradication of null dereferencing in Eiffel.
2009-08-06: DJB on the vulnerabilities in his dnscache.
2009-08-06: Rapid poisoning of djbdns dnscache.
2009-08-04: Tactical Corsets bring female operators MILSPEC features like MOLLE modular pouch attachment webbing and self-adjustable quick-release buckles in a load-bearing carrier designed to support the female form.
2009-08-04: The many ways in which Exchange+Outlook's "recall message" feature does not work.
2009-08-04: The perils of outsourcing your city mini-guides to the cheapest bidder.
2009-08-04: Trinity College, Cambridge in talks to buy Millennium Dome.
2009-08-04: Advice on designing scientific posters.
2009-08-03: A discussion of data quality improvements for LibraryThing.
2009-08-03: Objects as modules in Newspeak.
2009-07-31: Skype may be shut down because of a licensing dispute.
2009-07-28: Junio Hamano's implementation of Linus's "Newton-Raphson" idea.
2009-07-28: Linus Torvalds suggests using Newton-Raphson to search uniformly-distributed data faster.
2009-07-28: GPP is a general-purpose preprocessor.
2009-07-28: The Birthday Calendar: a modest proposal for calendar reform.
2009-07-28: A practical solution for scripting language compilers.
2009-07-24: Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up.
2009-07-23: Using the Newton-Raphson method to make a binary search faster on uniformly distributed data.
2009-07-23: Variants of the Almquist Shell.
2009-07-20: Best practices in automated systems administration and infrastructure architecture.
2009-07-19: Prospects for an engineering discipline of software.
2009-07-16: Maps of the UK in the 1940s, plus postcode data gathering.
2009-07-15: Sprint outsources its network, the core of its business, to Ericsson - nothing left but billing and customer service?
2009-07-14: Tony Sale, founder of the Bletchley Park museum.
2009-07-14: Remote code execution vulnerability in ISC dhclient - don't use DHCP on an untrusted network until you have upgraded!
2009-07-14: Guinness World Records fail at trademark protection.
2009-07-14: Andrew Tridgell on the history of Samba.
2009-07-14: Loss of root certificate authority private keys has serious consequences for German electronic health card.
2009-07-14: Google's Microsoft moment.
2009-07-14: The not-so-hidden politics of class online.
2009-07-14: 112-bit prime elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) solved using cluster of 200 PS/3 game consoles.
2009-07-14: Debugging a weather station rain sensor.
2009-07-14: Pupil banned from cycling to school.
2009-07-13: SMX: server macro expansion language.
2009-07-10: Photography advice from the Metropolitan Police.
2009-07-10: PubSubHubbub draft protocol spec.
2009-07-10: What English would look like if it were purged of its non-Germanic words and used German-style compounds instead of borrowings to express new concepts.
2009-07-10: H-Store: a next generation OLTP DBMS.
2009-07-10: "Creating the innocent killer: Ender's Game, intention, and morality" - John Kessel's more moderate examination of the story.
2009-07-10: Orson Scott Card has always been an asshat - some background to Radford's essay about Ender and Hitler.
2009-07-10: Ender and Hitler: sympathy for the superman.
2009-07-10: Microsoft Gazelle: the web browser as operating system. (I wonder how close Google Chrome gets to this research model.)
2009-07-10: VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network.
2009-07-10: PortLand: a scalable fault-tolerant layer 2 data center network fabric.
2009-07-09: How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide. (WTF?)
2009-07-08: A guide to the rights of photographers in the UK. (v.2)
2009-07-08: CADR - automated DNS registry delegation updates using DNSSEC.
2009-07-08: UK 3G mobile broadband coverage maps.
2009-07-07: Transforming RFC 2629 formatted XML through XSLT.
2009-07-07: A review of "The Tyrannicide Brief: the story of the man who sent Charles I to the scaffold".
2009-07-07: Mental models, consistency, and programming aptitude.
2009-07-07: Decentralized Deduplication in SAN cluster file systems.
2009-07-07: Arianna Huffington: obsessiveness is the greatest strength of online news.
2009-07-06: Groovy wouldn't exist if its author had had Scala instead.
2009-07-06: Diagrams of HGV blind spots.
2009-07-03: Brompton World Championship 2009 - a bike race with a collar-and-tie dress code.
2009-07-03: Elsevier fails to block release of its licensing deal with Washington State University.
2009-07-03: Debunking Canadian health care myths.
2009-07-03: Think again about Asia's rise.
2009-07-03: Excellent case study of an online banking exploit based on spam, malware, and dupes.
2009-07-02: The Management Myth - on the uselessness of MBAs.
2009-07-02: Thoughtcrime Experiments - an open source anthology.
2009-07-02: Heather Brooke's statement given to the parliamentary review of the expenses scandal.
2009-07-01: A review of the Polymath1 experiment in open collaborative mathematics.
2009-07-01: Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
2009-07-01: European Commission persuades mobile phone manufacturers to standardize on micro-USB for connecting chargers.
2009-07-01: Correlation between mass extinctions and the Earth's oscillation between galactic north and south.
2009-07-01: The Pumpabike commercially-available human-powered hydrofoil. (horrid flash site)
2009-07-01: The Cetan II human-powered hydrofoil, aiming to beat the water speed record.
2009-07-01: The "Decavitator" human-powered hydrofoil, holder of the water speed record.
2009-07-01: IBM uses water to cool a supercomputer to 60 celcius.
2009-06-30: Oxmail activity graphs.
2009-06-30: The computer of 2010 as predicted by Forbes in 2000 - hopeless.
2009-06-30: CCured is a source-to-source translator for C. It analyzes the C program to determine the smallest number of run-time checks that must be inserted in the program to prevent all memory safety violations.
2009-06-29: Hosting git repositories the easy and secure way.
2009-06-29: A basic guide to in-ear-canalphones.
2009-06-28: Evan Weaver's primer on distributed systems.
2009-06-28: Evolving Twitter's architecture.
2009-06-28: The toaster project: trying to build a toaster, from scratch, beginning by mining the raw materials.
2009-06-28: How Linux supports more devices than any other OS, ever.
2009-06-28: Spam and virus filter providers cannot be sued by blocked senders in the USA, says federal appeals court.
2009-06-28: Help vampires: a spotter's guide.
2009-06-26: The English Patient: A man gets lost in the Philadelphia health system "What is this, fucking Kafka?" and lives to tell about it.
2009-06-26: CSS Play - pure CSS dynamic layout demos.
2009-06-24: Problems with shared access to calendars in Microsoft Exchange.
2009-06-24: Brilliant folding power plug.
2009-06-21: Table of UK universities' environmental performance.
2009-06-19: Heather Brooke on "blackwash".
2009-06-19: $1.9 million fine for downloading 24 songs worth 99c each.
2009-06-19: Rental Rights: getting a fair deal for tenants.
2009-06-19: Telegraph publishes unredacted versions of MP's expenses claims, for comparison with the heavily blacked-out ones published by Parliament.
2009-06-18: File sharing and copyright.
2009-06-17: Harvard study finds weaker copyright protection has benefited society.
2009-06-17: Greener desktop computing at OUCS.
2009-06-17: 20 of the world's most beautiful libraries.
2009-06-17: Hot Library Smut
2009-06-17: Atlas Obscura: wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world.
2009-06-17: Washington is unable to call all the shots, says the Shanghai co-operation organization.
2009-06-16: The Wellcome Library's pragmatic orphan works policy.
2009-06-16: A review of "Against Intellectual Monopoly".
2009-06-15: SoftHSM: a software implementation of the PKCS#11 hardware security module interface.
2009-06-15: Up to 30% of Medicare spending is wasted on needless care.
2009-06-15: Mornington Crescent - deluxe edition!
2009-06-15: Police delays prevented prosecution for death of a cyclist.
2009-06-15: Student statement on the right to research.
2009-06-14: A brief history of distributed consensus and transactions.
2009-06-14: The FT covers MAAWG and gets rather excited about a "secret war" on "cyber-criminals".
2009-06-14: YouTube encodings compared to Ogg Theora/Vorbis.
2009-06-14: An exhibition about the Putney Debates of 1647, at St Mary's Church near Putney Bridge.
2009-06-14: Zombie operating systems and ASP.NET MVC - the same bug as in the story of mailx's aux.c source file.
2009-06-12: Copyright in science is holding us back; Ignore it.
2009-06-12: Two videos on intelligent traffic design.
2009-06-12: Is Mr Justice Eady a friend of a free Press? There are good reasons to believe that he isn't.
2009-06-10: The WHO cocaine report the US didn't want you to see.
2009-06-10: The Economist on Simon Singh and the British Chiropractic Association.
2009-06-10: Chiropractors take down their websites for fear of prosecution for false advertising.
2009-06-10: Metropolitan Police accused of waterboarding suspects.
2009-06-09: "Teach the controversy" t-shirts.
2009-06-09: Some of the technology behind Apple's Grand Central Dispatch.
2009-06-09: Pro-sw-patent lobby admits that the European patent litigation agreement aims to create software patents by the back door.
2009-06-09: What kind of people voted for the BNP?
2009-06-09: I think there's something wrong with your computer...
2009-06-09: John Lanchester writes about the financial crisis.
2009-06-09: Compaq's Personal Jukebox: the proto-iPod.
2009-06-09: 62% of personal bankruptcies in US due to medical costs. 78% of them had insurance.
2009-06-09: What the government doesn't understand about the Internet, and what to do about it.
2009-06-09: Cool "app wall" display at WWDC.
2009-06-09: New laws in the USA defend free speech against harmful UK libel trials.
2009-06-08: The Compensation Recovery Unit - recovers some social security costs from insurance providers.
2009-06-08: The history of ClariNet.com.
2009-06-08: Instruction manual to operate and maintain Charles Babbage's 2nd Difference Engine.
2009-06-08: Clarence Saunders, inventor of the self-service grocer's shop.
2009-06-08: Googlers talk about how they manage search quality.
2009-06-08: Swedish Pirate Party wins seat in EU parliament.
2009-06-06: Tom Swifties from Schott's Vocab Blog.
2009-06-05: US government gives DNS root key to Verisign.
2009-06-05: The impending demise of the university - going the way of the newspaper.
2009-06-05: Prospect Magazine says Tiananmen Square is irrelevant to young Chinese because they now have the freedom and prosperity they wanted.
2009-06-05: The maths gender gap is not innate.
2009-06-04: Typing the letters A-E-S into your code? You're doing it wrong!
2009-06-04: Linux Mag on NILFS2: a new implementation of a log-structured filesystem for Linux.
2009-06-04: Sign up to support Simon Singh's libel defence against the chiropractic quacks.
2009-06-03: Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
2009-06-03: Roald Dahl's daughter died of measels aged seven.
2009-06-03: Yay, UCL goes 100% open access - pity the FT repeats lies from the secret science lobby.
2009-06-03: US Supreme Court to hear appeal of "Bilski" - likely to restrict patents further?
2009-06-02: Why "robots.txt" and "favicon.ico" are bad ideas and should not be emulated.
2009-06-02: Why you should also not vove for UKIP.
2009-06-02: Why you should not vote for the Green party.
2009-06-02: LWN on the Debian flamewar over Okular's support for PDF copy restrictions.
2009-06-02: Prospect Magazine publishes two thirds of my letter in response to last month's "Email Tax" article.
2009-06-01: A woman talks about how havng sex with women is good for her self-esteem.
2009-06-01: Going to the dogs - Theodore Dalrymple criticizes the liberal consensus.
2009-06-01: Piracy is the next-generation media platform.
2009-05-31: Where fantasy and sf authors write.
2009-05-31: The audio output mess on Linux.
2009-05-30: Apple Unicode private use characters.
2009-05-30: Teach your children to argue.
2009-05-28: Wine on Windows - Wine has better compatibility with old Windows apps than Windows.
2009-05-28: Lessons on evidence-resistent theories from the vaccine–autism wars.
2009-05-28: Teaching Copyright the EFF way.
2009-05-27: Consistent overhead byte stuffing - efficient binary escaping.
2009-05-27: Using static and shared libraries across platforms.
2009-05-26: #ifdef considered harmful.
2009-05-26: An algebraic approach to file synchronization.
2009-05-26: Judge investigating accusations of bias in Pirate Bay case removed because of bias!
2009-05-25: Google Maps query parameters.
2009-05-24: Safari 4 hidden settings.
2009-05-24: Paxos made live - Google's implementation experience.
2009-05-24: Referendum 2010 - campaign for proportional representation.
2009-05-22: Unison file synchronizer.
2009-05-21: Rules for time travellers.
2009-05-21: ACLU challenges Myriad Genetics' patents on breast cancer genes.
2009-05-21: Lawrence Lessig rips Mark Helprin to shreds.
2009-05-20: Role models for adolescent boys.
2009-05-20: DNS TLD trust dependency graphs.
2009-05-20: Google builds Street View trikes to map UK footpaths.
2009-05-19: The safer the seat, the more likely the MP is to be involved in the expenses scandal.
2009-05-19: David A. Wheeler argues Unix pathnames should have a restricted character set.
2009-05-19: Sophos Klingon anti-virus.
2009-05-19: MS "fixes" architectural error in Exchange by throwing away X- headers.
2009-05-19: Helena Kennedy prescribes some medicine for a sick democracy.
2009-05-19: In Pursuit of Elegance: Guy Kawasaki interviews Matthew May.
2009-05-19: The Cobra programming language.
2009-05-18: Ordnance Survey disables Google Earth viewer for no clear reason.
2009-05-18: On designing and deploying Internet-scale services.
2009-05-17: The datacenter as a computer: an introduction to the design of warehouse-scale machines.
2009-05-17: A really good discussion about the links between analytic philosophy and the theory of computing.
2009-05-17: Time for proportional representation in Westminster?
2009-05-17: Five pieces of jun that turned out to be valuable artefacts.
2009-05-15: Yet Another Build System - a Python-based build system with automatic dependency detection.
2009-05-15: A generic program memoizer.
2009-05-15: MySociety says MPs expenses are the best example yet of why FOI is a good law.
2009-05-15: Ross Anderson, David Mackay, and others elected fellows of the Royal Society.
2009-05-15: How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing.
2009-05-15: How hard the MPs tried to keep their dirty secrets.
2009-05-13: HADOPI for print.
2009-05-12: Vesta: a configuration management system from DEC SRC.
2009-05-12: Killer driver escapes jail - cyclist to blame.
2009-05-12: List of Roman place names in Britain.
2009-05-11: The Oxbridge limericks game.
2009-05-11: git-central: scripts and hooks for use with a centralized git repository.
2009-05-11: Brilliant video - war of words?
2009-05-11: Gitosis - shared git repository sandbox.
2009-05-11: J.G-C's research resources for "The Geek Atlas", including why Wikipedia is better than Britannica.
2009-05-10: NYT TiernyLab discusses attention and concentration.
2009-05-10: Why can't we concentrate? A review of "Rapt: attention and the focused life" by Winifred Gallagher.
2009-05-10: MPs and the Guardian wake up to G20 agents provocateurs, a month after Craig Murray.
2009-05-09: UK IPO approves patent for scriptable components on a mobile phone. Good grief.
2009-05-08: A video of son and father writing the alphabet - cute calligraphy.
2009-05-08: Web designer sacked by TF1 for opposing HADOPI.
2009-05-08: Naked Wines helps to put wine producers in closer contact with their ultimate customers.
2009-05-08: A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages.
2009-05-07: Gareth Peirce writes about torture, secrecy and the British state.
2009-05-07: Most home news in UK papers is churnalism - recycled PR and wire copy.
2009-05-06: On the disconnect between theory and reality in the study of the connectivity of the Internet.
2009-05-06: Drug decriminalization is a success in Portugal.
2009-05-06: David Colquhoun explains that bacon doesn't cause cancer.
2009-05-05: Prospect Magazine publishes a sadly ignorant proposal for an email tax.
2009-05-05: Can we afford technological salvation? The increasing energy intensity of manufacturing and IT.
2009-05-05: The effectiveness of various contraceptives.
2009-05-05: This government has been the most right-wing since the second world war.
2009-05-01: Christians more likely to support torture.
2009-05-01: Good ways to glue this to that.
2009-05-01: Low-salt diets do not help to prevent heart disease or high blood pressure.
2009-05-01: Cowboy cost savings for boiler installation.
2009-04-29: Homebrew on an oceanographic research vessel using a filter coffee machine.
2009-04-29: The flip ship - bonkers!
2009-04-29: Parliament hears about UK government support of torture.
2009-04-29: UK Passport Service now vetoing changes of name!
2009-04-29: Cache-oblivious search trees.
2009-04-28: Using git for what it is not intended.
2009-04-28: Peter Serafinowicz on swine flu.
2009-04-28: Hilarious bug: "OpenOffice cannot print on Tuesdays".
2009-04-28: README file for the DNSSEC-tools SSHFP host key validation patch for OpenSSH.
2009-04-28: Uncopyright: feel free to steal my content
2009-04-28: Readability - a bookmarklet for stripping down web pages.
2009-04-27: Defining multiple environments with puppet for development/testing/production.
2009-04-27: Using a svn branch for testing puppet configurations.
2009-04-27: The MacGyver multitool - the only tool you'll ever need!
2009-04-26: Fast string encoding implementations - base64, hex, etc.
2009-04-26: Google Maps typography.
2009-04-26: The Pirate Google - a replacement for The Pirate Bay using a custom Google search.
2009-04-26: "Notebook" - a brilliant recursive animation featuring magical paper.
2009-04-25: Is the supremacy of object-oriented programming over?
2009-04-25: Derailing for Dummies: making discrimination easier!
2009-04-25: Being an offshore programmer in the oil industry.
2009-04-24: Compare Google Maps and OpenStreetMap using a semi-transparent overlay - cool!
2009-04-24: The origins of the BITC programming language.
2009-04-24: Scenic or not? Rate the UK's pretty places.
2009-04-24: Leo - a versatile data management platform. (outline/graph editor?)
2009-04-24: The Last Straw Man - how the UK is becoming a police state.
2009-04-23: CycleStreets - cycling route planner for the UK based on OpenStreetMap, produced by the Cambridge Cycling Campaign.
2009-04-23: Cambridge to join Eduroam in the summer - brilliantly easy international WiFi roaming.
2009-04-23: Small-scale benchmark of a few key/value stores - Tokyo Cabinet wins.
2009-04-22: How to display the date in the menu bar on Mac OS X.
2009-04-22: Taga - a neat convertible trike / pushchair.
2009-04-22: ISC starts development work on BIND 10.
2009-04-21: Bogus patent infringement claims against JMRI open source model railway software.
2009-04-21: Piracy is progressive taxation, and other online distribution lessons from Tim O'Reilly.
2009-04-21: How celebrity chefs changed the way we eat.
2009-04-21: Notes on distributed key-value stores - Tokyo Cabinet wins.
2009-04-21: Amazing urban bike tricks - cycle parkour!
2009-04-21: A history of bootlegs on Radio 4 - how illegal recording made a new market for music. (Available to listen until the 26th.)
2009-04-21: Pirates buy more music.
2009-04-21: Themes in contemporary analytic philosophy as reflected in the work of Monty Python.
2009-04-20: Shami Chakrabarti speaking in Cambridge on Friday.
2009-04-19: High-precision arithmetic libraries, including double-double and quad-double implementations.
2009-04-13: La Charronnière - my Mum's gites.
2009-04-11: The increasing frequency of black swan events - caused by greater efficiency and interdependence.
2009-04-11: Microsoft's increasingly aggressive patent enforcement policy.
2009-04-11: Inhalable chocolate aerosol - sounds like something Heston Blumemthal would do.
2009-04-11: A diagram of the many businesses that sprang from Star Wars.
2009-04-11: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 copyright waiver.
2009-04-10: A scientific approach to soft boiled eggs.
2009-04-10: Jenny McCarthy Body Count - disease and death in the US preventable by vaccination.
2009-04-09: Cory Doctorow loves David MacKay's book "Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air"
2009-04-09: Russian depopulation.
2009-04-09: Test cases for the Content-Disposition header and RFC 2231 / 2047 encoding in HTTP.
2009-04-08: Slack: configuration management based on rsync.
2009-04-07: Computer science should be taught using more interesting and motivating examples.
2009-04-07: The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
2009-04-07: 10% of CA-certified code is malware, and this malware is more effective than average.
2009-04-07: The IETF is an unusual example of a Habermasian discourse - a rulemaking proces that legitimates its own outcomes.
2009-04-07: DNS root to be signed by the end of the year?
2009-04-07: Akamai Application Accelerator caveats.
2009-04-07: Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity - the European trans-national grid.
2009-04-07: CSS is awesome - a mug for web developers.
2009-04-07: The dark side of Dubai.
2009-04-07: Steve Crocker explains how the Internet got its RFCs.
2009-04-02: CalConnect reflections and recommendations arising from the 2007 US DST change.
2009-04-02: Keep /etc in git or other DVCSs - etckeeper.
2009-04-02: What's the use of Twitter?
2009-04-01: Wrong Tomorrow - keeping track of predictions from pundits.
2009-04-01: Museum of Bad Art. (hilarious!)
2009-04-01: The man that wrote the software that turned mortgages into bonds.
2009-04-01: Continuous deployment in five easy steps.
2009-04-01: No, he can't - scathing article about Obama.
2009-04-01: Add command-line editing to arbitrary programs: rlwrap.
2009-03-31: Add command-line editing to arbitrary programs: with-readline.
2009-03-31: Reducing XSS by way of automatic context-aware escaping in template systems.
2009-03-31: Gibak: A better backup system built on Git.
2009-03-31: Why www is required for web servers under ox.ac.uk.
2009-03-31: Uighurs use unofficial timezone 2 hours behind Beijing.
2009-03-31: Clojure: functional programming for the JVM.
2009-03-31: Encarta to be discontinued.
2009-03-30: Anatole Kaletsky blames the crisis on politicians' love for the bogus axioms of academic economics.
2009-03-30: Two Cultures: 50 years on - a Royal Society debate. (I can guess what Ben Goldacre would say.)
2009-03-30: Lennart Augusstson releases cmonad, for writing Haskell in a C style. (brilliantly bonkers)
2009-03-30: Dan Geer's 1998 talk on information security, "risk management is where the money is".
2009-03-30: The Agena programming language.
2009-03-30: British team wins new land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle: 202.9 km/h.
2009-03-30: C++ draft standard.
2009-03-30: Another Aussie daylight savings change causes havoc.
2009-03-29: Aho & Ullman Foundations of Computer Science - now out of print but available online.
2009-03-29: Interview with David Simon, creator of The Wire - failed newspapers, political corruption, and life at the bottom.
2009-03-28: How to reverse yellowing of old plastics.
2009-03-28: UK government finally admits to receiving intelligence from torture.
2009-03-27: Top of the traditional British pie charts.
2009-03-27: The IMF's view of how to get out of a financial crisis: take power away from bankers.
2009-03-26: The number of Brits with amusing surnames has declined by up to 75 percent in the last century. (top quality headline)
2009-03-26: Googlers write about the unreasonable effectiveness of data in AI applications.
2009-03-26: Another computerish Devil's Dictionary.
2009-03-25: Overview of how Google handles outages.
2009-03-25: Fast HTTP polling with nginx, libevent, memcached.
2009-03-25: Abacus email ticketing system designed for handling email to abuse@.
2009-03-25: Valerie Aurora reviews "Women don't ask".
2009-03-24: Beej's guide to Unix IPC
2009-03-24: Some facts about Jon Skeet.
2009-03-24: The NASA Apollo guidance computer.
2009-03-24: Applications can force the clock to run fast on Windows.
2009-03-24: Akamai's parallel internet beats the public one, for their customers.
2009-03-24: The Express sort of apologises, not really understanding why they are so disgusting.
2009-03-23: Recording industry doesn't want to pay for anti-piracy efforts.
2009-03-23: Facebook does continuous deployment.
2009-03-23: And then they came for the vegetarians...
2009-03-23: Cambridge cabbies insist on parking illegally.
2009-03-22: Data storage and recovery problems at the US national archives.
2009-03-22: Perl script for Twitter-to-speech.
2009-03-21: Amazon EC2's strength is its simplicity.
2009-03-21: SOGo open-source groupware server.
2009-03-21: Forvo: all the words in the world, pronounced by native speakers.
2009-03-21: The Twouble with Twitters.
2009-03-21: A 1995 debate about online vs dead tree news.
2009-03-21: Value of a Yugoslav 0.1 Dinar coin.
2009-03-21: JISC provides advice on the use of Creative Commons licences in UK academia.
2009-03-20: Adam Roberts reviews Anathem, with funny neologisms.
2009-03-20: Building a better way of teaching the scientific method.
2009-03-20: Don't give prizes to people who hide exploitable security vulnerabilities.
2009-03-19: Steve Yegge investigates focus-follows-mouse on Mac OS X.
2009-03-18: And you thought you had too many books...
2009-03-18: Graham Linehan on that disgusting Sunday Express story.
2009-03-18: Google provides statistics on DMCA takedown abuse - 37% of notices are bogus.
2009-03-18: US Insurers must start disclosing how climate change is likely to affect their businesses.
2009-03-18: Emoji (Japanese phone emoticons) for Unicode.
2009-03-18: Some truths about Guantanamo Bay.
2009-03-18: AnandTech explains SSD performance.
2009-03-18: Intellectual property vices and crimes.
2009-03-18: RPC and its offspring are convenient yet fundamentally flawed.
2009-03-17: If you are a startup, don't do a big PR product launch.
2009-03-17: Microsoft reverts RFC 3484 brain damage in recent versions of Windows.
2009-03-17: rename(2) isn't atomic on Mac OS X.
2009-03-17: Linux TCP buffer autotuning causes congestion collapse.
2009-03-17: 9% of NTP pool servers failed to handle the leap second correctly.
2009-03-17: The average number of new students per department majoring in computer science is up 9.5 percent over last year. This is the first time enrollment increased in six years.
2009-03-17: Canada's science minister won't say if he believes in evolution. "I'm not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate."
2009-03-17: How to get a URL off the Google Safe Browsing list.
2009-03-17: Support for the Google Safe Browsing database in ClamAV.
2009-03-17: EPO seeks to validate software patents without the European Parliament.
2009-03-16: Operator overloading ad absurdum - I note that Haskell's type classes make disciplined operator naming easier.
2009-03-16: Statistics from the UK Vegetarian Society - 3% completely vegetarian plus 5% partly vegetarian.
2009-03-16: Copyright law is a "colossal cultural mistake".
2009-03-16: Newspapers are dying without piracy so the recording industry is wrong to blame its decline on piracy.
2009-03-16: More bogus propaganda about nonexistent terrorist reconnaisance.
2009-03-16: Making a radio in a POW camp - including making the components from scratch.
2009-03-16: Cambridge University standard entrance requirement to rise to A*AA.
2009-03-16: Mad conspiracy theory site about the Corpus clock.
2009-03-16: Article in Wired about the Corpus clock.
2009-03-16: Press Complaints Commission targets Sunday Express over vicious Dunblane non-story.
2009-03-16: How to straighten the leaning tower of Pisa - optical illusion.
2009-03-15: Nice memory map of Cambridge.
2009-03-15: David Mitchell on the public sector and online feedback.
2009-03-15: Old children's books may not be re-sold in USA because of fears over lead pigments.
2009-03-15: Apple DRM roundup.
2009-03-15: Understanding hypermedia as the engine of application state - on RESTful architecture.
2009-03-15: The death of business-method patents - the build-up to and possible effects of the Bilski decision.
2009-03-14: Grow-a-brain's compendious collection of clocks and watches.
2009-03-14: Unusual clock designs.
2009-03-14: Piracy has become mainstream.
2009-03-14: NHS Hounslow joins MMR campaign.
2009-03-14: Public health advertising for MMR - should have done this before take-up fell to 2/3.
2009-03-14: Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable.
2009-03-13: The architecture of the Burroughs B5000.
2009-03-13: SunOS C style guide.
2009-03-13: Amazon uses DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books.
2009-03-13: USA rules texts of prospective anti-counterfeiting and IPR treaty are state secrets.
2009-03-12: The history of classical music shows that copyright doesn't do what its supporters claim.
2009-03-12: Millions of Brits can't read well enough to keep up with karaoke lyrics. (sounds like bad science to me)
2009-03-12: Reverse HTTP - direct support for COMET using the HTTP Upgrade: mechanism.
2009-03-12: The Bayeux protocol - a formalized version of COMET.
2009-03-12: Sun to take on the router market using Solaris on commodity hardware.
2009-03-12: The world's biggest diamond heist.
2009-03-12: The bastards at the Sunday Express discover that teenagers are teenagers and decide to spew their bile on the survivors of the Dunblane shootings.
2009-03-12: Frank Miller's Charlie Brown.
2009-03-12: Did the BBC break the law by demonstrating how to use a botnet? (yes)
2009-03-12: Stupid filesystems are better (on top of complicated storage systems).
2009-03-12: Number 10 petition from retired senior police officer to repeal section 110 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and replace it with legislation that protects the individual from arrest unless specifically sanctioned under specific legislation relating to a specific serious offence punishable with imprisonment.
2009-03-12: Lithium breakthrough could result in batteries that charge in 10 seconds.
2009-03-12: Domain specific pidgins.
2009-03-12: The "is it a DSL or an API?" ten question checklist.
2009-03-12: Economists say copyright and patent laws are killing innovation and hurting the economy.
2009-03-11: Periodic table of typefaces.
2009-03-11: PolarClock - pretty screensaver time display.
2009-03-11: Practical RSA threshold signatures.
2009-03-11: Programming languages and security: a short reading list.
2009-03-11: How strictly to follow the test-driven development religion?
2009-03-11: Memories, Guesses, and Apologies - comparing the cost of real-world errors and database consistency errors.
2009-03-11: Cloud pricing and application architecture - fine-grained billing rewards optimization.
2009-03-11: Top 10 inventions of the middle ages.
2009-03-10: Why Rand's philosophy is poison to everybody.
2009-03-10: Scanwiches.
2009-03-10: Academic journal prices are unrelated to their "impact factors".
2009-03-10: Gay rare duck breeding failure.
2009-03-10: Billy Bragg and Dave Rowntree on Google vs. the PRS.
2009-03-10: The problem with integer division in old versions of Python.
2009-03-10: Performing Rights Society tries to milk YouTube, makingl music videos too expensive to remain available in the UK.
2009-03-10: Train your spouse like an exotic animal in a zoo.
2009-03-09: Deliberately unsustainable business models - live fast, die young, don't jump the shark.
2009-03-09: The history of Comic Sans - inspired by Watchmen!
2009-03-09: Old portrait of Shakespeare re-discovered - other known pictures of him are probably copies of this one.
2009-03-09: Face recognition used to register pupils' attendance at some schools in Cambridgeshire.
2009-03-09: German car sales up with payment for scrapping old cars.
2009-03-09: Informing ourselves to death - bonkers.
2009-03-08: Telegraph.co.uk hacked by SQL injection, subscriber details and passwords revealed.
2009-03-07: The National Institutes of Health copyfight.
2009-03-07: Enterprise fizzbuzz.
2009-03-06: More about the Microsoft / Tom Tom patent lawsuit.
2009-03-06: 20% of all servers bought by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Amazon.
2009-03-06: LLVM 2.5 release notes.
2009-03-06: Google demands patent reform.
2009-03-05: The Cult of Done Manifesto.
2009-03-04: Another episode in the war against photography.
2009-03-04: Native French speakers don't agree on the genders of nouns.
2009-03-04: Things to be considered for RFC 3484 revision.
2009-03-04: DJB just awarded $1000 for a security hole in djbdns.
2009-03-04: Charlie Brooker's screen burn on Heston Blumenthal's Feast. Bonkers hilarity.
2009-03-04: Wave nature of light demonstrated by hand.
2009-03-03: Popular UK CCTV statistics are based on fiction.
2009-03-03: Wired publishes lies about the Japanese opinion of the iPhone.
2009-03-03: Runtime support for multicore Haskell.
2009-03-03: Newspapers are often not so badly off as their parent companies.
2009-03-03: Native Client security contest: can you break out of the sandbox?
2009-03-03: Simple dot product benchmark of Data-Parallel Haskell on manycore machines.
2009-03-03: The netbook effect: how cheap little laptops hit the big time.
2009-03-02: Pseudodoxia, or Vulgar Errors.
2009-03-02: Eight design patterns for errorproofing.
2009-03-02: Twitter compared to IM, email and forums.
2009-03-02: The Economist, in Chinese. Just add 240 citizen translators.
2009-03-02: Cambridge local nature reserves.
2009-03-02: A journalist ignores corrections from scientists and prints a disredited story with a misleading quote.
2009-03-02: Who now can stop the slow death of Venice?
2009-03-02: Research shows that the economic implications of file sharing in the Netherlands are strongly positive in the short and long terms.
2009-03-02: How many top-level domains are there?
2009-03-02: Why Microsoft is likely to lose the TomTom case.
2009-03-02: LightCloud: distributed and persistent key value database, scriptable with Lua.
2009-03-02: The Fake Digital Britain Report - what it should have said.
2009-03-01: A capsule history of typesetting.
2009-03-01: Digital politics is different - preserving the COML discussion.
2009-03-01: Thousands in scramble for free books after Amazon supplier abandons warehouse.
2009-03-01: The benefits of stand-up desks in schools.
2009-03-01: Amish hackers.
2009-03-01: Microsoft sues TomTom for patent infringement.
2009-03-01: Parliamentary government matters. Jack Straw's right. (Not 100% convinced.)
2009-03-01: Calls to action from the Convention on Modern Liberty.
2009-02-28: Philip Pullman's piece on liberty which was pulled from the Times.
2009-02-28: Libel chills financial reporting at 'The Guardian'.
2009-02-28: TraceVis: performance visualization for TraceMonkey.
2009-02-28: Don't bet on Moore to grow your MySQL deployment.
2009-02-28: Amazon disables Kindle's speech synthesis feature following demands from Authors' Guild. Screw the partially sighted.
2009-02-27: Phorm threatens "Which?" with defamation and forces them to withdraw a press release that criticized Phorm.
2009-02-27: More things that Ryanair are planning to charge extra for?
2009-02-27: The surprisingly powerful effect of bad apples.
2009-02-27: YOU are the product that Google is selling.
2009-02-27: How FriendFeed uses MySQL as a non-relational data store to make changes easier.
2009-02-27: Beautiful pictures of waves.
2009-02-27: Magistrates want to keep their freedom to choose sentences.
2009-02-26: The professor behind "Slumdog Millionaire".
2009-02-26: The Liberal Democrats' freedom bill.
2009-02-26: Old Press / Mill Lane plans on the Cambridge City Council web site.
2009-02-26: Plans to redevelop the Old Press site in Cambridge.
2009-02-26: A lexicon of obfuscation mitigation.
2009-02-25: Open source permeates Microsoft - and they admit it.
2009-02-25: State of the programming languages book market 2008.
2009-02-25: UK government abandons evidence-based policy on copyright.
2009-02-25: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll quote Jamie Zawinski." Now they have two problems.
2009-02-25: You know digital is mainstream when the cool kids start putting compression artefacts into their videos for deliberate effect.
2009-02-25: The London Borough of Redbridge has a nice cannabis leaf logo (or so it seems at the first glance).
2009-02-25: When programming, start with the most difficult part (then get bored during the death-march completion stage).
2009-02-25: Photographs of London around 1880 - many mediaeval buildings.
2009-02-25: Paul Vixie says how the world will be better with DNSSEC.
2009-02-25: YesWeScan: Carl Malamud for Public Printer of the United States.
2009-02-25: Numbers everyone should know / scaling shared counters / paging through comments.
2009-02-24: The Squirrel programming language - another embeddable extension language.
2009-02-24: Misunderestimating open science.
2009-02-24: 12 tips for building and scaling a Ruby on Rails site.
2009-02-24: UK government action plan for open source, open standards, and re-use.
2009-02-24: Your grammar is worse than Hitler's.
2009-02-24: Video of a disk's zero-G sensor parking the heads when dropped.
2009-02-24: Andrews & Arnold against UK ISP censorship.
2009-02-24: Controlling academic IP harms research - NIH enforced openness improves it.
2009-02-24: The formula that killed Wall Street.
2009-02-24: A map of where books are set in London.
2009-02-24: 50 publicity stunts.
2009-02-23: Giving a presentation when the audience has an online back-channel.
2009-02-23: Ruben's tube - audio visualization with fire.
2009-02-23: Hacking Kindle.
2009-02-23: Really nice visualization of contributions to OpenStreetMap in 2008.
2009-02-23: Ex-director of public prosecutions says "good politics doesn't always make good policy" and that new laws have failed to make us safer and undermined trust that justice will be done (especially to bankers).
2009-02-23: David Blunkett, who introduced the idea of identity cards when Home Secretary, worries that Britain is becoming a "Big Brother" state. Oh well, better late than never.
2009-02-23: Typography affects how readers understand a text: easy to read implies easy to do.
2009-02-23: Implementation errors (buffer overflows, null dereferences, etc.) in NIST SHA competition entries.
2009-02-23: How Amazon is growing 20% faster than the rest of the e-commerce sector.
2009-02-22: The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna.
2009-02-22: Leaked letter reveals recording industry's copyright stance on NZ guilty-on-accusation law.
2009-02-22: Landshare: turning unloved gardens into allotments.
2009-02-22: Tweetminster: MPs who tweet.
2009-02-22: JWZ needs help to stop the California government putting him out of business.
2009-02-22: DEFRA drops plans to fix crumbling Pirbright laboratory for animal health.
2009-02-22: Everyone loves Google, until it's too big.
2009-02-21: Aligning Linux filesystems with SSD erase blocks.
2009-02-21: Legal precedent supporting Ben Goldacre against LBC's attempt to use copyright law to hide Jeni Barnett's idiocy.
2009-02-21: Ten American law schools call for law journals to ditch print and switch to open access online.
2009-02-21: Aardman meets Itchy and Scratchy.
2009-02-21: Nigerian pretends to be National Bank of Ethiopia in order to swindle CitiBank. Sounds like a Charlie Stross plot...
2009-02-21: An interview with Guy Garcia, author of "The Decline of Men".
2009-02-21: Bio-Synergy Skinny Water: low-calorie water fortified with poisonous chromium, for sale from Holland and Barrett. Boggle.
2009-02-21: ArRSe - Army rumour service.
2009-02-21: PPRuNe - Professional pilots rumour network.
2009-02-21: Ben Goldacre is top Google result for "willies".
2009-02-21: Cory Doctorow explains how the Internet will devour, transform, or destroy your favorite medium.
2009-02-21: After debugging, European emissions trading scheme starts to work.
2009-02-20: Vx32: portable, efficient, safe execution of untrusted x86 code.
2009-02-20: 13 funny software development quotes.
2009-02-20: The Register on the Busy Bees childcare voucher security failure.
2009-02-20: Impressive: presentation software that displays PDFs nicely, e.g. LaTeX \documentclass{beamer} slides.
2009-02-20: Why we immunize.
2009-02-20: The convention on modern liberty - Cambridge satellite event.
2009-02-20: The case of the 500 mile email.
2009-02-20: Weird consequence of dwimmery in perl's regex parser.
2009-02-20: Java logging libraries fighting with each other.
2009-02-20: Renesys detects BGP-based man-in-the-middle attacks,and finds none so far.
2009-02-20: Charles Arthur summarizes Aric Signan's social networking cancer paper.
2009-02-19: The actual paper by Aric Sigman published in the Biologist.
2009-02-19: The Stanford marshmallow experiment.
2009-02-19: C APIs in extension and extensible languages.
2009-02-19: UK polling report - independent political survey news.
2009-02-19: Law firm "Jones Day" in the stupidest trademark lawsuit ever.
2009-02-19: Oh dear, "science" by press release, and a bee in the bonnet about TV and computers.
2009-02-19: On the other hand the Daily Mail is still bonkers about the internet and cancer.
2009-02-19: Blimey, has the Daily Mail finally come to its senses about MMR?
2009-02-19: Exploring Lua for concurrent programming.
2009-02-19: Irish police confused by a bad Polish driver seemingly named Prawo Jazdy.
2009-02-19: Joyent discovers the good bits of Javascript.
2009-02-19: What colour are your bits?
2009-02-19: The intertwining of peak oil and climate change.
2009-02-18: A dangerous libel decision in the US: truth no longer a defence?
2009-02-18: How to avoid a terms-of-service disaster like Facebook's.
2009-02-18: Babies with more gestures become toddlers with bigger vocabs - an early correlation between wealth and achievement.
2009-02-18: Intel X25-M SSDs have horrible fragmentation problems.
2009-02-18: Scope-aware values for Lua.
2009-02-18: Exploiting WiFi to make mesh networks and spread malware from house to house.
2009-02-18: Unlike the iPhone, Android will span the range from phones to netbooks.
2009-02-18: Tufte's presentation tips.
2009-02-17: Free Culture vs. Fear Culture vs. Fee Culture.
2009-02-17: Open source medical imaging software for planning aortic stent graft surgery.
2009-02-17: Economists agree that action on climate change is cheaper than inaction.
2009-02-17: Unusual signs of independent thought from the BCS.
2009-02-17: Relenta's rather high prices.
2009-02-17: Switching from GMail to Relenta (cautiously).
2009-02-17: The (ir)rationality of mobile spending.
2009-02-17: 192 to 118: UK directory enquiries deregulation and the failure of choice.
2009-02-17: Violent video games are a good way of letting boys be boys.
2009-02-17: A water jetpack.
2009-02-17: The courts are in many cases unable to discover what the law is, or was at the date with which the court is concerned.
2009-02-17: It is a problem of substantial constitutional importance when relevant legislation is not accessible.
2009-02-17: Answering technical questions helpfully.
2009-02-17: Depression? Deflation? "D-process", says Dalio.
2009-02-17: Inside Steve's Brain.
2009-02-17: Ten ways to battle web site bureaucracy in a large organization.
2009-02-17: Problems with Lua's module() function.
2009-02-17: Greenwich's explanation for the zero longitude of WGS84 not matching the Airey transit instrument.
2009-02-17: Transactions across datacentres.
2009-02-17: Stella Rimington speaks out against government terrorization laws.
2009-02-17: Pricing iPhone apps.
2009-02-16: Dennis Richie's HOPL II talk - tangential to his paper on the history of C.
2009-02-16: 1st Edition Unix manual.
2009-02-16: Government will use BT to monitor customers of small ISPs.
2009-02-16: And then they came for the airline pilots...
2009-02-16: Metropolitan Police Federation speaks out against photographer terrorization law.
2009-02-16: Picking apart some lobbying against the Tories' open standards / open procurement / open source policy.
2009-02-16: Did you remember to test ... ?
2009-02-16: The bee die-off is due to a combination of factors.
2009-02-16: Commoditisation vs commodification.
2009-02-16: The UK government's official offshore torture policy.
2009-02-16: Nationalize the banks! We're all Swedes now.
2009-02-16: Dmitry Orlov's best practices for coping with financial and social collapse.
2009-02-16: Clifford Stoll talking at TED.
2009-02-16: DateJS - Javascript time/date library.
2009-02-15: How the crash will/should reshape America.
2009-02-15: How patent trolls are a tax on innovation - including some good ideas on patent reform.
2009-02-15: Become an autistic savant for a few minutes using transcranial magnetic stimulation.
2009-02-14: Honda FCX Clarity: 4x less efficient than the Tesla Roadster.
2009-02-14: Lennart Augustsson implements BASIC as an embedded language within Haskell !!!
2009-02-14: GlaxoSmithKline changes direction and heads for the moral high ground.
2009-02-14: Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit.
2009-02-13: Sub-editors are "a layer that can be eliminated", journalism lecturer and media commentator Roy Greenslade has told a publishing industry conference.
2009-02-13: Postbox - graphical MUA for Windows and Macintosh.
2009-02-13: PETA kills animals.
2009-02-12: Harvard slashes investment jobs after its endowment plummets in value.
2009-02-12: China's water woes.
2009-02-12: Busy Bees childcare voucher service taken offline after horrible security hole found.
2009-02-12: Measels outbreak amongst traditionalist religious communities in France (very low vaccine coverage) spreading to wider population.
2009-02-12: The Sun publishes a pro-MMR story.
2009-02-12: Copying in patent law: almost all patent infringement cases are against independent inventors and do not involve copying.
2009-02-12: iRetroPhone.
2009-02-12: Continuous deployment at IMVU: doing the impossible fifty times a day.
2009-02-12: 25 things about Linus.
2009-02-12: White eye (instead of red eye) in a photo is a sign of retinoblastoma (eye cancer).
2009-02-12: Email Effects - visual tool for creating ASCII art.
2009-02-12: Guide to hopeless state of CSS support in email clients.
2009-02-12: World's largest vacuum chamber - awesome!
2009-02-12: Which browsers support the latest HTML and CSS features?
2009-02-12: Two communication satellites collide over Siberia at 25,000mph.
2009-02-11: Americans don't get BS 1363.
2009-02-11: picoLua - Lua on a PIC.
2009-02-11: Reverse graffiti.
2009-02-11: Allan Brigham in the Guardian.
2009-02-11: Allan Brigham's walking tours of Cambridge for locals.
2009-02-11: Cambridge University to give honorary degrees to Allan Brigham (local tour guide and street cleaner) plus Bill and Melinda Gates - and others.
2009-02-11: Early day motion 754 on MMR and the media.
2009-02-11: Pruning reverse DNS zones.
2009-02-11: The learner-driver problem - variance and accident statistics.
2009-02-10: Kindle text-to-speech feature triggers copyright insanity.
2009-02-10: External university governors are proving to be a bad idea.
2009-02-10: Landmark settlement makes U.S. agencies acknowledge climate change.
2009-02-10: Could an iTunes-alike save the publishing industry?
2009-02-10: Free the Postcode!
2009-02-10: A graduate school survival guide: "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!"
2009-02-10: Red Dwarf 2009 FAQ.
2009-02-10: "The preposterous prejudice of the anti-MMR lobby" - more support for Ben Goldacre from the Times.
2009-02-10: This is what I think of whenever I see one of the new Pepsi ads.
2009-02-10: The "FDR failed" myth.
2009-02-10: One free interaction - a prospective user interface design pattern.
2009-02-09: Philosophical problems with folksonomies.
2009-02-09: Secularists of the year: Evan Harris MP and Lord Avebury.
2009-02-09: Motoring down, cycling up.
2009-02-09: Transactional Flash SSDs.
2009-02-09: Inside the 2,000 watt society.
2009-02-09: The problem with email clients.
2009-02-08: How willing are scientists to give up their cherished theories in the light of new evidence?
2009-02-08: More security wrong-headedness from Microsoft: they think UAC isn't broken and that users are just too stupid to understand it.
2009-02-08: Andrew Wakefield rigged the data for his 1998 MMR/autism paper.
2009-02-08: The yin and yang of acting Academy Awards.
2009-02-08: "The Prisoner" - the complete series available to watch online.
2009-02-08: Using chaos theory to revitalize fisheries.
2009-02-08: Worrying about Bolivia having half the world's lithium supplies.
2009-02-08: Phishing for free software.
2009-02-08: Cover letters from hell.
2009-02-08: Is the cloud the new subprime mortgage?
2009-02-07: The trough of no value.
2009-02-07: Where the recent snow came from.
2009-02-07: Intellectual Ventures backs study on patent troll litigation.
2009-02-07: Low-end Windows 7 restrictions will bolster Linux netbooks.
2009-02-07: The difference between FREE and 1 cent?
2009-02-06: 83% of spammed domains supported by only 10 registrars.
2009-02-06: 50 years of scientific discovery and sharing in Antarctica may end thanks to patent greed.
2009-02-06: "Encouraging" breastfeeding.
2009-02-06: Where Unix went wrong in filesystem access control.
2009-02-06: When a community gets too big and starts suffering from the tragedy of the commons, reboot it.
2009-02-06: Google China has the domain g.cn.
2009-02-06: Forrester's CEO is not panicing about 2009, at least where tech is concerned.
2009-02-06: Chudge, nowtrage and plebbledash - just three of the words to learn from Charlie Brooker's New Media Dictionary.
2009-02-06: Ben Goldacre receives legal threats from LBC Radio over Jeni Barnett's MMR scaremongering.
2009-02-05: Bogglesome security bug in Java's date handling code.
2009-02-05: Dear Internet, stop it. stop it now.
2009-02-05: Make love not porn - porn world vs. real world.
2009-02-05: New logos after the financial crisis.
2009-02-05: Problems with patents and fine-grained property rights in general.
2009-02-05: Engineering Windows 7 security by admonishment.
2009-02-05: Orkut is insecure and Google are bad at dealing with compromised accounts.
2009-02-04: Deer and cattle prefer to face north.
2009-02-04: Web hooks: event notification callbacks over HTTP.
2009-02-03: Rabin fingerprinting code.
2009-02-03: Unfolding the Earth: myriahedral projections.
2009-02-03: Safe threading for Python, without the global interpreter lock.
2009-02-03: How to make Firefox use Unix key bindings on Unix.
2009-02-03: Firefox "open in browser" extension.
2009-02-03: Universities! Spam your users and MAKE MONEY FAST!!
2009-02-03: Jeff Darcy argues with Biran Cantrill.
2009-02-03: Brian Cantrill says the NFS benchmark SPEC SFS is crap.
2009-02-03: How Google crawls through web forms.
2009-02-02: Microsoft's supposedly "immutable" law of security #1 is not true on a system which has proper sandboxing and follows the principle of least privilege (e.g. a capability-based system).
2009-02-02: Practical filesystem design with the BeOS filesystem.
2009-02-02: If English were written like Chinese.
2009-02-02: Why openness and licensing of data matters.
2009-02-02: Transport Chaos - current state "pandemonium"!
2009-02-02: Great programming quotes from Stack Overflow.
2009-02-02: Derivatives of regular expressions.
2009-02-01: Linux graphics drivers for the Vaio P series are a total mess.
2009-02-01: Only (?) one million SSL web sites - about 0.5% of the total.
2009-02-01: Heavy metal laundry tips.
2009-02-01: Interesting thread on cap-talk about the "ACLs don't" paper.
2009-02-01: Jumbograms on Internet2.
2009-02-01: Colm MacCárthaigh reacts to Cory Doctorow's post about working with interruptions, and explains how he gives himself a starting point each day.
2009-01-31: UK pedestrian casualties by type of colliding vehicle for the last 10 years.
2009-01-31: Ross Anderson on the history of Cambridge iconoclasts.
2009-01-31: Google explains the badware alert screwup.
2009-01-31: The story of Henrietta Lacks and human cell lines.
2009-01-31: George Soros on the consequences of the Lehman Brothers collapse.
2009-01-31: Vanity Fair's oral history of the GWB administration.
2009-01-31: Improving Aphrodite.
2009-01-31: Kevin Kelly on the two strands of connectionism - where are the mobiles?
2009-01-31: The case against credentialism.
2009-01-30: Dashing Tweeds.
2009-01-30: Less hashing, same performance - you only need two hash functions for any size of Bloom filter.
2009-01-30: An unusual approach to log parsing.
2009-01-30: Bruce Sterling panics about 2009.
2009-01-30: Google street view includes pictures from one of the cars as it runs over a deer!
2009-01-30: CNET compares Intellectual Ventures with the University of California.
2009-01-30: Fortune Magazine on Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures.
2009-01-30: Transmeta's valuable patent portfolio bought by patent troll Intellectual Ventures.
2009-01-30: EU still trying to make ISPs enforce copyright law.
2009-01-30: Green (energy efficiency) arguments against proof-of-work (which is a foolish idea that inexplicably refuses to die).
2009-01-30: So you can power your data centre using failing SQL servers, or something?
2009-01-30: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 will explode your data.
2009-01-30: Let's all grow up.
2009-01-29: How to do DAB properly.
2009-01-29: A single line of code filled with EPIC FAIL.
2009-01-29: ACLs don't.
2009-01-29: A Scheme to syntax-rules compiler.
2009-01-28: WHO surgical safety checklist.
2009-01-28: Ofcom issues blacklist of UK telephone scammers.
2009-01-28: The Daily Quail: coffee gives your children cancer.
2009-01-28: Taming perfectionism.
2009-01-27: James W. Taylor - time series forecasting, estimation of uncertainty, and exponential smoothing.
2009-01-27: How to calculate the standard deviation incrementally, including a useful pointer to Knuth.
2009-01-27: Simpsons sofa gags.
2009-01-27: Which tech firms have the healthiest bank balances.
2009-01-27: Solve the failure first.
2009-01-27: Cory Doctorow on writing without being distracted.
2009-01-26: Holt-Winters forecasting (triple exponential smoothing with a multiplicative seasonal component).
2009-01-26: The year in spam according to Google.
2009-01-26: Lib Dems call for support from sysadmins and open source developers.
2009-01-26: A profitless endeavor: phishing as tragedy of the commons.
2009-01-26: Rules for photographers on UK national rail and the London Underground.
2009-01-26: A guide to the rights of photographers in the UK.
2009-01-26: IT's a man's world?
2009-01-26: A long-lost text by Archimedes shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.
2009-01-26: The car of the future should arrive in October.
2009-01-26: Holt-Winters forecasting applied to Poisson processes in real time.
2009-01-26: Aberrant behavior detection in time series for network service monitoring - Holt-Winters forecasting for RRDtool.
2009-01-25: Google and the future of books.
2009-01-23: How to foil phishing scams.
2009-01-23: Blacklist Alert DNSBL checker.
2009-01-23: 64GB DRAM SATA SSD.
2009-01-23: Surveillance and profiling of "terrorist" black and asian music in London clubs.
2009-01-23: What is Occam's Razor?
2009-01-23: Steve Yegge's emacs tips: old news, except I didn't know about iswitchb-mode.
2009-01-23: BBC refuses to broadcast an appeal for aid to Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee.
2009-01-23: Craig Murray: "I cannot tell you how much emotion I feel that the US will no longer be flying people to Uzbekistan, to be tortured and often buried there. I lost my livelihood trying to stop it."
2009-01-23: The LEGO digital box uses augmented reality to demonstrate what completed models look like.
2009-01-23: Monty Python YouTube channel increases DVD sales by 23000%.
2009-01-23: US IP attachés take hard-line position on overseas IP enforcement.
2009-01-23: Tracing the peopling of the Pacific - bacterial genetics and linguistics agree.
2009-01-23: Blackberry to support Open Document Format.
2009-01-23: Will the public domain continue to lose out to the copyright expansionists under Obama?
2009-01-23: No2ID's page about the government's plans to eliminate data protection partitions in Whitehall.
2009-01-23: Counter-terrorism act 2008 to come into force next month. Depressing assault on our ability to hold the police to account.
2009-01-23: Dyson Medic - repair and servicing guides.
2009-01-23: The origin of the Labradoodle.
2009-01-23: Comscore's estimate of the Internet population passes a billion.
2009-01-23: Planes vs trains in the US.
2009-01-23: Similarities between the US economy 80 years ago and China's now.
2009-01-22: Bloodhound SSC - the second supersonic car targets 1000 mph.
2009-01-22: Colbert on remixing.
2009-01-22: Obama inauguration traffic data from Arbor Networks.
2009-01-22: The Guardian's civil liberties page.
2009-01-22: Google calls for a right to fair use of copyright works in the UK.
2009-01-22: The Dell cost of Windows.
2009-01-22: RIAA agnostic about DRM.
2009-01-22: Microsoft to make 5000 staff redundant.
2009-01-22: USPTO rejects all claims of the subdomain virtual web hosting patent.
2009-01-22: The Guardian on how the OCLC is keeping library catalogues closed and proprietary.
2009-01-22: How to approach an interview with a journalist (aimed at managers of techie startups).
2009-01-22: USPTO guts the Amazon one-click patent.
2009-01-22: Obama's staff find the White House in the technological dark ages.
2009-01-22: Al Gore's Mac.
2009-01-22: Akamai reports record traffic volumes during Obama's inauguration.
2009-01-22: Shut up.
2009-01-22: Popularity of version control software amongst Debian developers.
2009-01-21: Brian Kernighan on 34 years of Software Tools.
2009-01-21: Government U-turn on concealing MP's expenses.
2009-01-21: Whitehouse.com transformed from porn site to political news site.
2009-01-20: Polaroid film is no longer being made but some people are trying to resurrect it.
2009-01-20: In the news eight years ago this week.
2009-01-20: Bush forced to repeat a term after failing the end-of-year exams.
2009-01-20: George Monbiot on coping with financial crises by creating ad-hoc currencies.
2009-01-20: Implementing VisiCalc on the Apple ][.
2009-01-20: An evaluation of distributed key/value data stores.
2009-01-20: Visible CCD scan effects from the iPhone camera.
2009-01-19: The movement to reform healthcare has begun with stories about cruelty.
2009-01-19: C.A.R. Hoare's billion dollar mistake.
2009-01-19: ScavengerEXA - traffic analysis for outgoing email.
2009-01-19: The holographic universe.
2009-01-19: Suburbs are the next slums?
2009-01-19: TheyWorkForYou campaigning to keep MPs accountable.
2009-01-19: Why Google employees quit.
2009-01-19: How F-Secure counted 9,000,000 Downadup infections - I wonder if the count from the virus includes re-infections.
2009-01-19: NY Times on digital radio in Europe and elsewhere.
2009-01-19: Chris Wysopal on the need to take "theoretical" security vulnerabilities seriously.
2009-01-18: Tim Bray on the need for a decentralized Twitter.
2009-01-18: Python docutils, including "reStructured Text" lightweight markup.
2009-01-18: Building traffic on a gaming site.
2009-01-18: SO_LINGER and unreliable TCP shutdowns.
2009-01-18: Handmade fonts.
2009-01-18: William Gibson's blog.
2009-01-18: Mappa Mundi magazine.
2009-01-18: Why I do document and unit test.
2009-01-18: Why I don't document or unit test.
2009-01-17: Superuseless superpowers.
2009-01-17: The massive yet tiny engine.
2009-01-17: Tenants' rights for online services.
2009-01-17: The tourist's quide to Cambridge.
2009-01-17: Customer update for the Tesla high performance electric car.
2009-01-16: Continued fractions and intercalation.
2009-01-16: Craig Murray self-publishing success.
2009-01-16: A chart of SI units and their dimensions.
2009-01-16: LibraryThing on the OCLC policy change.
2009-01-16: OCLC delays its attempt to take proprietary control of library catalogue records.
2009-01-16: JISC developer happiness days.
2009-01-16: Stuart Cheshire looks forward to connector unification.
2009-01-16: MySpace to add webmail to their service.
2009-01-16: Neat solution to the problem of ethernet ports being too fat: put them behind the display hinge.
2009-01-16: Project your own bike lane.
2009-01-16: DRAM access timings on NUMA.
2009-01-16: IT departments should not fear the multicore future.
2009-01-16: The financial modellers' manifesto.
2009-01-16: Bush official admits torture occurred in Guantanamo Bay.
2009-01-16: The story behind the interview with the adware author - a reminder of how evil his employer was.
2009-01-16: An interview with James Howard Kunstler: urban planning, peak oil, and environmental change.
2009-01-16: Taxing financial transactions to put a brake on high-volume speculation.
2009-01-15: Odd eggs.
2009-01-15: Nude self portraits are popular amongst teens but very illegal.
2009-01-15: TLS extension IPR nightmare.
2009-01-15: Celebrity aptronyms.
2009-01-15: The $300 million button.
2009-01-14: Steve Jobs takes leave of absence for medical reasons.
2009-01-14: Secure PDAs for Barack Obama.
2009-01-14: Home chip fab.
2009-01-14: Craig Murray releases "The Catholic Orangemen of Togo" online for free.
2009-01-14: Bonkers gcc i18n braindamage.
2009-01-14: New Scientist's guide to common myths and misconceptions about climate change.
2009-01-14: Failure: the secret to success.
2009-01-14: Dave Cridland explains how to make TLS compression work with OpenSSL.
2009-01-14: Interview with an adware author.
2009-01-14: Work on stuff that matters.
2009-01-14: Building modules (such as lpeg) for Lua, including the special "-bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup" runes required for Mac OS X.
2009-01-13: Problems with AGAs.
2009-01-13: Rich people are the main users of cheap flights and the main beneficiaries of airport expansions.
2009-01-13: A conversation with Alan Kay.
2009-01-13: Why (American) "Pyrex" bowls explode.
2009-01-13: The top 25 most dangerous security bugs.
2009-01-13: Chromatic interviews Guido van Rossum about the evolution of Python 3.
2009-01-13: Differential synchronization.
2009-01-13: PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM THIS LIST!
2009-01-13: Score for a hole in the ground - interesting woodland acoustic art installation.
2009-01-13: Princess Bride 20th anniversary DVD - a very nice ambigram.
2009-01-13: SurLaLune annotated fairy tales.
2009-01-13: A VC asks, what if your economic model is wrong?
2009-01-13: Richard Dawkins is a Church of England atheist.
2009-01-13: David MacKay does his own calculations on the energy usage of Google and kettles.
2009-01-13: More numbers from Google on the kettle argument.
2009-01-13: The Register recommends setting fire to farts to reduce methane emissions.
2009-01-13: Google say they use less energy to serve a search result than the client does while waiting for it.
2009-01-13: Dodgy estimate that two Google searches use as much energy as boiling a kettle.
2009-01-13: iPhone web browser emulator.
2009-01-13: Web cookie parsing standards failure.
2009-01-13: A rant about the book shop business.
2009-01-13: Multi-touch works on the Android G1, with some limitations.
2009-01-13: "Going out of business" sales are not always a bargain.
2009-01-13: Wellcome Trust to audit compliance to their requirement for open-access publication.
2009-01-13: A warning about the real cost of microformats.
2009-01-13: David Malone's recordings of the leap second.
2009-01-13: Ukelele: Mac OS X keyboard layout editor.
2009-01-13: Studying Islam made me an atheist.
2009-01-13: Andrew Pelling MP pleased to be stopped and searched by police for taking photographs.
2009-01-13: Status of the StyleTap PalmOS emulator for iPhone.
2009-01-13: Ways of wearing a Buff.
2009-01-13: The Recently Deflowered Girl - the right thing to say on every dubious occasion.
2009-01-13: Keyboard Maestro - key macros for the Mac.
2009-01-13: Hacking # on Mac keyboards.
2009-01-13: Sendfile support for Erlang and YAWS.
2009-01-13: An overview of the context of the Israel/Palestine war.
2009-01-13: Withdrawal from heroin is a trivial matter.
2009-01-13: Some dubious stats on the popularity of web buzzwords - I would guess peak search rates are correlated with unfamiliarity not popularity.
2009-01-13: In what order should you teach a process to someone?
2009-01-13: Google IPv6 support.
2009-01-13: The CSS pixel.
2009-01-13: Russian nuclear-powered lighthouses.
2009-01-13: The cast of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, twenty years on.
2009-01-13: Rate-limiting with memcached.
2009-01-06: Kaspersky says covert police surveillance software would be treated as crimeware by AV software.
2009-01-06: Apple introduces revolutionary laptop with no keyboard.
2009-01-06: Parallel bzip2.
2009-01-06: Murdered by the BART police.
2009-01-05: Travel time to major cities: a global map of accessibility.
2009-01-05: Radio signals during the leap second.
2009-01-05: Oracle RAC leap second bug.
2009-01-04: Disk latency and vibration.
2009-01-01: Open source programing for kids.
2008-12-30: The Unix Haters Handbook.
2008-12-30: The Tao of Programming.
2008-12-30: Pointers to IRTF Routing Research Group discussions on the future of te Internet architecture.
2008-12-28: POSIX 2008.
2008-12-28: iToilet gallery.
2008-12-28: Caring for your introvert.
2008-12-26: Boo is a new object oriented statically typed programming language for the CLI with a Python-inspired syntax.
2008-12-26: Recordings of the sounds hard disks make when they fail.
2008-12-25: Fox vs WB copyfight screws up release of "Watchmen" film.
2008-12-23: Extreme bathing.
2008-12-23: Selected radiophonic works.
2008-12-23: 8 bit Jesus.
2008-12-22: Solid state disks: time to give up that iron oxide habit.
2008-12-22: Reducing your exposure to bank card fraud.
2008-12-22: How to set up a PS3 HPC cluster.
2008-12-22: Matroshka furniture.
2008-12-22: Recyclable present wrapping.
2008-12-22: Relativistic time dilation w.r.t. altitude.
2008-12-22: ERTMS: European rail traffic management system.
2008-12-22: The first ever photograph of the analemma, taken in the year 1978-1979.
2008-12-19: How to get faster (less safe) suspends on Mac laptops.
2008-12-19: Microwave ovens play "jingle bells".
2008-12-19: How to use the BBC HD test card. (via jm)
2008-12-19: ATA over Ethernet with Linux. (via jm)
2008-12-18: The researcher's bible.
2008-12-17: "Kochi" spear phishing reply detector.
2008-12-17: Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown.
2008-12-16: Furoshiki: giftwrapping without throw-away paper and sticky tape.
2008-12-15: Programmable concurrency in a pure and lazy language.
2008-12-15: Why it is safer to compile your own perl.
2008-12-15: On the difficulty of replicating human subjects studies in software engineering.
2008-12-15: Instant chocolate cake.
2008-12-15: London to Glasgow in five minutes.
2008-12-15: The Maillard reaction.
2008-12-15: How to use the dial telephone (1927).
2008-12-15: Lua Programming Gems now available.
2008-12-15: Jellyfish gone wild!
2008-12-15: V-CUBE - Verdes reinvented Rubik's cube to support higher numbers of cubies.
2008-12-14: If someone wants something then it must exist somewhere.
2008-12-12: Letter from the UK govt. about the continuing use of non-metric units.
2008-12-11: Nic Jasno - Lego pneumatic engines.
2008-12-11: Joseph Stiglitz writes about capitalist fools in Vanity Fair.
2008-12-11: How to add electroluminescent wire to clothing.
2008-12-11: Proceedings of HotPower08. (shouldn't it have been called "CoolPower08"?)
2008-12-11: A spin-up saved is energy earned: achieving power-efficient, erasure-coded storage.
2008-12-11: Memory-aware scheduling for energy efficiency on multicore processors.
2008-12-11: Val Henson explains how to debug silent data corruption.
2008-12-11: Amazon Web Services IP address ranges.
2008-12-10: Kansas city library car park.
2008-12-10: Eat Babe.
2008-12-09: Dublin cycle lanes.
2008-12-09: Henry Blodget on why Wall Street always blows it.
2008-12-09: The Atlantic's Icelandic infographic.
2008-12-08: Network-wide decision making: towards a wafer-thin control plane.
2008-12-05: The 7/7 GSM outage was a cockup not an overload.
2008-12-05: Hubble advent calendar.
2008-12-05: main.cc
2008-12-05: Re-feedback and Re-ECN: a new resource sharing mechanism for the Internet enabling new kinds of fairness.
2008-12-05: A fairer, faster TCP.
2008-12-05: Vietnamese iPhone unlocking - retail hardcore hardware hacking.
2008-12-04: Why Google is offering free speech-based services.
2008-12-04: The checklist in medicine.
2008-12-04: Patterns in network architecture: a return to fundamentals, by John Day.
2008-12-04: The path towards centralization of Internet governance under the UN.
2008-12-04: Timer-based mechanisms in reliable transport protocol connection management.
2008-12-03: Press release for David MacKay's book.
2008-12-03: Is that a toddler or is it Yoda?
2008-12-03: The Cogent/Sprint depeering.
2008-12-02: 10 renewable energy myths.
2008-12-02: Does the "broken windows" theory apply online?
2008-12-01: Grad school enrollment vs. employment rate.
2008-11-30: Teach yourself programming in 10 years.
2008-11-21: Addressing reality: an architectural response to real-world demands on the evolving Internet.
2008-11-21: Memory management in VMware.
2008-11-20: The CBL observes the McColo spam reduction.
2008-11-20: Ordnance Survey asserts its copyright and puts the brakes on lots of open government projects, so local authorities are switching to OpenStreetMap.
2008-11-20: Optimistic thread concurrency on the Azul Java machine.
2008-11-20: Cliff Click, David Moon, and Daniel Weinrab compare Azul Systems' Java machines and Symbolics Lisp machines.
2008-11-20: Monty Python on YouTube.
2008-11-19: Flare: dynamic load balancing without packet reordering.
2008-11-19: MIRO: multi-path inter-domain routing.
2008-11-19: A literature survey on traffic dispersion.
2008-11-19: Smith's mystery clock.
2008-11-19: Virtual ID routing.
2008-11-19: HLP: a next generation inter-domain routing protocol.
2008-11-19: Characterizing the Internet hierarchy from multiple vantage points.
2008-11-19: FARA: reorganizing the addressing architecture.
2008-11-18: Crossover Chromium uses Wine to run the open source version of Google Chrome on Mac and Linux.
2008-11-18: How they got rid of 10 tons of unwanted sodium in 1947.
2008-11-18: Temporary ice rink in Cambridge.
2008-11-18: The pleasures of counting, by Tom Körner.
2008-11-17: What has driven women out of computer science?
2008-11-17: An addressing-independent networking structure favorable for all optical packet switching.
2008-11-17: Congestion control for small buffer high speed networks.
2008-11-17: Decongestion control.
2008-11-17: Personal namespaces for network services.
2008-11-17: Towards a new internet routing architecture: arguments for separating edges from the transit core.
2008-11-17: Towards a next-generation inter-domain routing protocol.
2008-11-17: Some foundational problems in inter-domain routing.
2008-11-17: Decoupling policy from mechanism in internet routing.
2008-11-17: ROFL: routing on flat labels.
2008-11-17: Spoke-o-dometer.
2008-11-17: Modelling incentives for email blocking strategies - when does it make sense to blacklist an ISP's outgoing relays?
2008-11-15: Give up and use tables.
2008-11-14: Tim Skirvin's web<->news gateway.
2008-11-13: Apple localized keyboard layouts.
2008-11-12: Some stats on the effectiveness of DNSBLs from Nortel.
2008-11-12: The history of POSIX time_t according to chongo.
2008-11-12: Google tracks flu trends in the USA.
2008-11-12: Breaking up the transport logjam: Bryan Ford's ideas for decomposing the Internet trasport layer.
2008-11-12: Designing DCCP: congestion control without reliability.
2008-11-11: Mental health and incapacity benefit.
2008-11-11: Nested parens, by Jacob Applebaum and Don Knuth.
2008-11-11: Scenes from Antarctica.
2008-11-11: Dave Cridland reviews the DNS-SD spec.
2008-11-11: Spamhaus has 1,425,440,000 users on its books.
2008-11-10: On the naming and binding of network destinations.
2008-11-10: The Nimrod routing architecture.
2008-11-10: HTTP access to email stores.
2008-11-10: Patterns in network architecture: naming and addressing.
2008-11-05: Microsoft Exchange/Outlook 2007 autodiscover XML schema.
2008-11-05: Microsoft Exchange/Outlook 2007 autodiscover white paper.
2008-11-05: Overview of Microsoft Exchange/Outlook 2007 autodiscover.
2008-11-04: Obama vs McCain battleground bargraph.
2008-11-04: Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results.
2008-11-04: Why university webmail systems are attractive to spammers.
2008-10-31: Noel Chiappa: Endpoints and endpoint names: a proposed enhancement to the Internet Architecture.
2008-10-31: Mike O'Dell on loc/id split addressing.
2008-10-31: Perl's secret operators.
2008-10-31: The insecurity of cheques and the US banking system.
2008-10-31: Google's robots.txt has an easter egg.
2008-10-31: Knuth no longer writes reward cheques because they are too insecure.
2008-10-31: A discussion about static vs dynamic typing.
2008-10-29: These non-jokes are not hilarious.
2008-10-29: The story of mailx's aux.c source file.
2008-10-28: Web design tips for programmers.
2008-10-28: Team Cymru malware hash registry.
2008-10-27: Combining Kerberos and SMTP.
2008-10-27: From computers to ubiquitous computing by 2020.
2008-10-24: Do something serious about climate change.
2008-10-24: A history of wireless local area networks.
2008-10-22: Time series forecasting with Holt-Winters exponential smoothing.
2008-10-22: Donation is a campaigning action.
2008-10-22: How to remove stains at home.
2008-10-22: Multiple dispatch in practice.
2008-10-21: NY Times on botnets.
2008-10-20: Cambridge Teslathon 2008 - Oct 25-26 at the Museum of Technology.
2008-10-18: XKCD vs. the New Yorker.
2008-10-17: Boggling booleans.
2008-10-17: Ways to amuse small children with computers.
2008-10-17: The Nu-Phalt infrared road repair system.
2008-10-17: Writing zombie stories is a felony in the state of Kentucky.
2008-10-16: DisplayPort vs. HDMI.
2008-10-16: DisplayPort technical overview.
2008-10-16: Inside the new unibody MacBook Pro.
2008-10-16: About the United Parcel Service data centres.
2008-10-15: Evaluation of on-street bicycle facilities added to existing roadways.
2008-10-15: Iceland is unable to import anything and its supermarkets will empty in a couple of weeks.
2008-10-14: The Swiss Ephemeris - GPL astronomical calculations.
2008-10-14: iPhone feature comparison table.
2008-10-13: ACM Queue September 2008 - Concurrency - including great articles by Bryan Cantrill and Jeff Bonwick on kernel hacking, and Jim Larson on Erlang.
2008-10-13: UK house price predictor.
2008-10-10: Travelling light, the Lua way.
2008-10-09: Nine lessons and carols for godless people - a rational celebration for Newtonmas.
2008-10-08: Easter Act 1928.
2008-10-08: The Aleppo statement: towards a common date for Easter.
2008-10-08: UK railway map.
2008-10-08: Cory Doctorow on the maltreatment of immigrants by the British civil service.
2008-10-08: RESTful mailstore access?
2008-10-07: Ben Goldacre in Cambridge on 21st October: "How the media promote the public misunderstanding of science."
2008-10-06: Russ Allbery's system templating with "bundle".
2008-10-06: Compiling with Continuations, Continued.
2008-10-06: "Growing a language" by Guy Steele.
2008-10-06: An illustraton of the relative sizes of various planets and stars.
2008-10-03: Non-partisan system administration in the US House of Representatives.
2008-10-03: The Featherstitch filesystem project - a generalization of BSD softupdates. Fantastic!
2008-10-02: The Geisel Library at the University of California San Diego is also rather funky.
2008-10-02: Wikipedia on the rombicuboctahedron.
2008-10-02: The National Library of Belarus, Minsk - a very large rhombicuboctahedron.
2008-10-02: IEEE Internet Computing article about the new ICANN TLD procedures, featuring YT.
2008-10-02: The Bla programming language.
2008-10-02: The Equationator - on-line (La)TeX to PNG renderer.
2008-10-02: Cory Doctorow visits some data centres.
2008-10-02: Partisan system administration in the US House of Representatives.
2008-10-01: Anton van Straaten's object/closure koan.
2008-10-01: Experience with gradual typing in Erlang.
2008-10-01: Data management with Berkeley DB for Google's Internet-scale single sign-on.
2008-10-01: Power provisioning for a warehouse-sized computer.
2008-10-01: Google site reliability engineering.
2008-10-01: RFC ~~822~~ ~~2822~~ 5322 - Internet Message Format.
2008-10-01: RFC ~~821~~ ~~2821~~ 5321 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
2008-10-01: UK Energy in brief, July 2008.
2008-10-01: Digest of UK energy statistics, 2008.
2008-10-01: US household electricity usage in 2001.
2008-10-01: Google's green data centres.
2008-09-30: The Erlang rationale.
2008-09-30: Thomson Reuters (creators of EndNote) sues George Mason University for creating Zotero, interoperable open-source in-browser bibliography software.
2008-09-30: Corpus Chronophage web site.
2008-09-29: Functional inside-out closure objects in Perl.
2008-09-29: The anatomy of John Harrison's grasshopper escapement.
2008-09-29: Video map of world airline traffic over 24 hours.
2008-09-25: "Higher Ground" laptop bags.
2008-09-25: Acorn RISC OS goes open source.
2008-09-24: The iPhone development story.
2008-09-24: Dogs in elk.
2008-09-23: Investment banks switch status to casinos.
2008-09-22: The Corpus Christi Chronophage clock. (youtube)
2008-09-22: A chapter from the history of Freddie Mac.
2008-09-22: Can you name the shipping forecast sea areas?
2008-09-22: NYT Freakonomics blog on the banking crisis.
2008-09-22: Comparing banking bail-outs to the Chrysler crisis 30 years ago.
2008-09-22: Make My Vote Count - campaigning in favour of proportional representation.
2008-09-22: Ministry of Justice consultation document on weekend voting, including stupid moves towards electronic voting. They completely miss the point that you can't increase turnout with techno-fixes.
2008-09-22: ATS: Applied Type System language (current computer language shootout winner).
2008-09-19: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the limits of statistics, financial modelling, etc.
2008-09-19: Time magazine says John McCain is a no-good liar.
2008-09-19: Not another scripting language.
2008-09-19: C201X draft.
2008-09-19: C99 + TC{1,2,3}.
2008-09-19: Canada to join EEA?
2008-09-19: Squirrelfish Extreme - an even faster JavaScript interpreter/JIT.
2008-09-18: Stronly-typed memory areas: programming systems-level data structures in a functional language.
2008-09-18: Banks buying each other to get their hands on the data centres.
2008-09-18: Verifiable functional purity in Java / Joe-E.
2008-09-17: The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy.
2008-09-17: A comparison of IPv4 to IPv6 transition proposals.
2008-09-16: Some bitwise tricks.
2008-09-16: Impossible fractals.
2008-09-16: A.C.Grayling flames Steve Fuller to a crisp when reviewing Fuller's book defending "intelligent design".
2008-09-15: Why the creator of the GNU.FREE internet voting software decided to kill the project.
2008-09-15: BGP information derived from the Spamhaus DROP list.
2008-09-15: Simple static check for undefined global variables in Lua.
2008-09-15: Cameraria ohridella in Cambridge.
2008-09-15: Horse chestnut leaf miner moth (cameraria ohridella).
2008-09-12: I want to scream at my computer.
2008-09-12: What's wrong with Steve Jobs?
2008-09-12: Don't mess with the pancreas.
2008-09-11: Wired on the origin of the false United Airlines bankruptcy story.
2008-09-11: Dear Zoo.
2008-09-11: Best practices for system administration of perl installations.
2008-09-09: Unpacking the Google Chrome user agent string.
2008-09-09: Pictures of the Tesco Gerrards Cross tunnel collapse.
2008-09-09: Tesco Gerrards Cross.
2008-09-08: Map of root DNS servers.
2008-09-08: Linux tweaks for SSDs.
2008-09-08: US Naval Observatory UTC leap second survey.
2008-09-05: OpenBTS - open source GSM stack, including field test at Burning Man.
2008-09-05: Live action nethack.
2008-09-04: Political censorship is a fundamental of network architecture for the ITU?
2008-09-04: The awesome Japanese large helical plasma fusion device.
2008-09-04: Sunrise Data Dictionary: C library for lock-free hash table storage of arbitrary data.
2008-09-04: A scalable non-blocking concurrent hash table implementation with incremental rehashing.
2008-09-04: Lock-free resizable hash tables using split-ordered lists.
2008-09-04: Shared memory consistency models: a tutorial.
2008-09-04: Google Chrome's poitless title bar.
2008-09-03: Tom Rokicki's notes on his Hashlife implementation.
2008-09-03: More periodic tables.
2008-09-03: Alternative periodic tables.
2008-09-03: Periodic spiral.
2008-08-31: Tom Rokicki's Life In A Register.
2008-08-29: A better record type for Erlang suggested by Richard O'Keefe.
2008-08-27: UK postcode format.
2008-08-21: An A to Z of pet poisons. (so far only A is for Alcohol)
2008-08-19: Dave Crocker's view on the impact of email work at RAND in the mid 1970s.
2008-08-19: Neal McBurnett on the Verisign SiteFinder debacle.
2008-08-15: Perspectives: improving ssh-style host authentication with multi-path network probing.
2008-08-15: Ben Laurie on access control and capabilities.
2008-08-15: PostSpectacular - cool generative art for advertising etc.
2008-08-14: Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test.
2008-08-12: The Feltron Annual Reports - brilliant and utterly bonkers.
2008-08-11: Internet safety guidelines.
2008-08-11: "War on Terror" board game siezed by police.
2008-08-11: The next Bond?
2008-08-08: Poisoning BIND despite port randomization - requires 10 hours and gigabit ethernet.
2008-08-07: DNSSEC in 6 (or more) minutes.
2008-08-07: Apple can revoke iPhone apps and delete them from your phone when you next sync.
2008-08-07: Volatiles are miscompiled, and what to do about it.
2008-08-06: How to program the security chip in a stolen passport so it looks genuine.
2008-08-06: Gross greylisting server.
2008-08-04: Bike light comparison photos.
2008-07-30: The UPU dotpost sTLD.
2008-07-30: This is the 21st century, damnit! Where's my jetpack?
2008-07-30: The fact is that illegally-obtained games often run better than their legal counterparts.
2008-07-30: John Levine: "The reason that e-mail is uniquely useful is that you can exchange mail with people you don't already know. The reason that spam exists is that you can exchange mail with people you don't already know."
2008-07-28: The Rule.
2008-07-25: The 2 minute challenge: short films about the importance of computer science.
2008-07-25: DNSSEC @ ICANN: signing the root zone: a way forward toward operational readiness.
2008-07-24: Dr Evil logo.
2008-07-24: F-Secure logo.
2008-07-24: The Cambridge University Library paperchase.
2008-07-23: Towards high-performance virtual routers on commodity hardware.
2008-07-23: Protecting browsers from DNS rebinding attacks.
2008-07-23: Wired interviews Dan Kaminsky.
2008-07-23: Dan Kaminsky and his neice explain the DNS problem.
2008-07-23: Aggregated diamond nanorods.
2008-07-23: Scalable computer programming languages.
2008-07-23: Grafting functional support on top of an imperative language: how D 2.0 implements immutability and functional purity.
2008-07-23: Ben Edelman on the impending scarcity of IP addresses and what to do about it.
2008-07-23: Network World on IPv6 transition plans.
2008-07-22: The HAMMER filesystem in Dragonfly BSD.
2008-07-22: Crystal Clear LGPL icons.
2008-07-22: Instruction creep.
2008-07-22: Network World on dual-stack-lite.
2008-07-22: Comcast's "dual-stack lite" proposal to speed up IPv6 deployment.
2008-07-21: Combining global and personal anti-spam filtering.
2008-07-21: Scalaris: a transactional key/value store.
2008-07-21: Does genuine tech innovation happen better in a recession?
2008-07-18: You won't be prosecuted for driving into a cyclist.
2008-07-16: Petition against European copyright term extension.
2008-07-15: Legibility and correct punctuation.
2008-07-15: Brad Appleton's operating systems links.
2008-07-15: Advances in dataflow programing languages.
2008-07-15: Most borrowed authors.
2008-07-14: A radio receiver made from a carbon nanotube.
2008-07-14: Adeona: privacy-preserving tracking of stolen laptops based on OpenDHT.
2008-07-14: Boris's design competition for a new Routemaster-like bus for London.
2008-07-14: Communications of the ACM on Transactional Memory.
2008-07-14: Inside BEAM, Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine.
2008-07-14: A VW that does 100km per litre of fuel.
2008-07-14: Bush hid the facts.
2008-07-11: Compiling Mercury to high-level C code.
2008-07-11: The origins and nature of the Internet in Australia.
2008-07-11: Effective inline-threaded interpretation of Java bytecode using preparation sequences.
2008-07-11: Yeti: a gradually extensible trace interpreter.
2008-07-11: Context threading: a flexible and efficient dispatch technique for virtual machine interpreters.
2008-07-11: Towards type-safe, hierarchical, lightweight, polymorphic and efficient error management in OCaml.
2008-07-11: IMAP client feature table.
2008-07-11: Import Genius: real-time reporting of the contents of every shipping container entering the United States.
2008-07-09: Vote for Skylon!
2008-07-09: Select quotes from "Peopleware - productive projects and teams".
2008-07-09: Microsoft wants Yahoo!s search advertising patent.
2008-07-09: On the unpredictability of support for TLDs with MXs, especially resolver oddities.
2008-07-08: Hints for getting mail through various gateways to and from JANET (1990).
2008-07-08: An extensible dynamically-typed hierarchy of exceptions for Haskell.
2008-07-07: Linux signalfd() and timerfd() vs. kevent.
2008-07-07: How freakanomics is ruining the dismal science.
2008-07-07: REST anti-patterns.
2008-07-05: The origins and development of TOPS-20.
2008-07-04: Pringles are more like cakes or biscuits than potato crisps.
2008-07-01: Parallel generational-copying garbage collection with a block-structured heap.
2008-06-27: Vampire domestication.
2008-06-25: Plugin pros and cons.
2008-06-25: Let's talk about documentation.
2008-06-24: Ideas for a new Erlang.
2008-06-22: TICTOC problem statement - transmission of precision time over IP connections and transfer of clock.
2008-06-22: ITU-T recommendation X.743 - information technology - open systems interconnection - systems management - time management function.
2008-06-21: Xoc: an extension-oriented compiler for systems programming.
2008-06-21: Pointer Rijwielen B.V.
2008-06-19: ConneXions: the interoperabilty report, 1987-1996.
2008-06-18: Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
2008-06-18: James Follett on his stroke and recovery.
2008-06-18: $18000 for a 1900-year-old Roman D20.
2008-06-18: Pl. George Orwell in Barcelona.
2008-06-18: Life beyond distributed transactions: an apostate's opinion.
2008-06-17: Quick reference for ANSI 606A administrations standard for telecommunications infrastructure.
2008-06-17: Quadrilateral Venn diagram.
2008-06-16: What it is like to write a technical book.
2008-06-16: Markus Kuhn on Microsoft's lack of support for running PC real-time clocks in UTC.
2008-06-16: A practical scalable distributed B-tree.
2008-06-15: Wikipedia on Multiflow, with links to more papers.
2008-06-15: The Multiflow trace scheduling compiler.
2008-06-15: TERENA: trans-European research and education networking association.
2008-06-13: Why are our programs still represented by flat files?
2008-06-13: IEEE Spectrum special issue on the singularity.
2008-06-11: The Schmidt sting pain index - like wine tasing notes for insect bites.
2008-06-06: Announcing SquirrelFish: WebKit's new JavaScript interpreter.
2008-06-06: Virtual machine showdown: stack versus registers.
2008-06-06: The structure and performance of efficient interpreters.
2008-06-06: The Guardian on the G4G recreational maths conference.
2008-06-06: Fast, inexpensive content-addressed storage in Foundation.
2008-06-06: Design tradeoffs for SSD performance.
2008-06-06: An optimal Bloom filter replacement.
2008-06-05: A&A's retort to stupid email disclaimers.
2008-06-04: The design and implementation of dynamic hashing for sets and tables in Icon.
2008-06-04: Mac OS X Leopard security configuration guide. (240 pages)
2008-06-03: Problems with RFC 3484.
2008-06-03: Skydiving plane fails at 7000ft.
2008-06-01: A text pattern-matching tool based on parsing expression grammars.
2008-05-30: How to manage outbound email.
2008-05-30: A grocer's that sells unpackaged goods.
2008-05-30: Paul Vixie blocks free email providers.
2008-05-29: Joe Armstrong's standard Erlang lecture.
2008-05-29: The Labour loans scandal turns into a crisis that may bankrupt members of its national executive committee.
2008-05-28: Redundancy vs. dependencies - which is worse?
2008-05-28: HPC considered harmful.
2008-05-28: Sun "Lively" Javascript environment.
2008-05-28: FixMyStreet Cambridge RSS feed.
2008-05-27: The Economist on data centre energy use.
2008-05-27: Same-day money transfers come to the UK.
2008-05-25: Schroedinger's Cat.
2008-05-25: Some wet cats.
2008-05-23: Dual-head X11 RandR configuration.
2008-05-23: FreeBSD dev summit in Cambridge in August.
2008-05-23: RPC under fire.
2008-05-23: The future without IPv6.
2008-05-23: Bram Cohen's recommended version control practices.
2008-05-23: The CPS slaps the City of London police over the Scientology "cult" case.
2008-05-22: ESPN on Sam Whittingham and the HPV land speed record.
2008-05-22: Unbound - fast recursive cacheing DNS server.
2008-05-21: Broadband service infrastructure in Cambridge.
2008-05-21: Russ Cox on the stupid Debian OpenSSL vulnerability.
2008-05-21: DJB's pty program.
2008-05-21: Mark Crispin laid off by UW.
2008-05-20: Paul Vixie on the L-root decommission weirdness.
2008-05-20: GnuTLS remote execution vulnerabilities.
2008-05-20: An account of the Estonian Internet war.
2008-05-20: ICANN on the L-root DNS server decommission weirdness.
2008-05-20: The long, painful history of time.
2008-05-20: SOCA fails to keep NHTCU going, so Home Office will fund a replacement.
2008-05-20: Source of the famous "now you have two problems" quote.
2008-05-20: Blackboard Mac - cool!
2008-05-20: Erik Naggum's brilliant anti-XML rant.
2008-05-20: Erik Naggum on XML, Lisp, and "enamel".
2008-05-20: UK government wants to log all phone calls and emails.
2008-05-20: Channel 4 successfully sues police for libel after being accused of exaggerating Muslim extremism.
2008-05-20: Steve Bellovin on SPF.
2008-05-20: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology a cult.
2008-05-20: MailChannels traffic control available free for small sites.
2008-05-20: How to have a narrow keyboard.
2008-05-20: IBM model M clicky keyboards.
2008-05-20: Evoluent - interesting keyboards and mice.
2008-05-20: Home-made weather balloon experiment.
2008-05-19: Achieving line rate on a 10Gbit NIC.
2008-05-19: Which social network web sites are popular where?
2008-05-19: Thunderbird Lightning calendaring component.
2008-05-16: California supreme court overturns gay marriage ban.
2008-05-15: Concrete syntax for objects: domain-specific language embedding and assimilation without restrictions.
2008-05-15: Context-aware scanning for parsing extensible languages.
2008-05-15: Bashing twitter, or twittering bash?
2008-05-15: XKCD on randomness.
2008-05-15: Dilbert on randomness.
2008-05-14: An interesting approach to peer review.
2008-05-14: Evan Martin and I discuss format strings etc.
2008-05-13: An older stupid Debian security vulnerability.
2008-05-13: Ben Laurie on a stupid Debian security vulnerability.
2008-05-13: A sensible literary theorist. (Who'd've thought?!)
2008-05-13: MUTO: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. (amazing!)
2008-05-13: The "no dashes or spaces" hall of shame.
2008-05-12: One method at a time is quite a waste of time.
2008-05-12: 1000 blank white cards.
2008-05-12: An interview with Cliff Click (Java JITter).
2008-05-12: Java 6 performance white paper.
2008-05-12: A more self-defeating man with an angle grinder.
2008-05-12: Angle grinder man.
2008-05-12: "Something you had, something you forgot, something you were."
2008-05-11: C++ draft standard.
2008-05-11: eBay's lack of effective anti-fraud enforcement starts to hurt business?
2008-05-11: How Sun failed to apply experience from Objective C to Java.
2008-05-09: Heal warts with duct tape.
2008-05-09: Illegal mistreatment of asylum seekers by the Home Office.
2008-05-09: Nice password advice posters.
2008-05-08: Unvaccinated child dies of preventable disease.
2008-05-08: Igudesman & Joo.
2008-05-08: Rachmaninov had big hands.
2008-05-08: Defunctionalization at work.
2008-05-08: Discussion thread about co-operative DNS cacheing.
2008-05-08: The death of the SUV. (hooray!)
2008-05-08: Web 2.0 developers' cluelessness about Internet hosting.
2008-05-08: GreenFS: making enterprise computers greener by keeping their disks off most of the time.
2008-05-07: An ex-professor from Dartmouth who deserves to lose.
2008-05-07: Session startup mobile optimizations for XMPP.
2008-05-07: The eggcorn database of malapropisms.
2008-05-07: Black market prices of phished data.
2008-05-06: Making the compilation "pipeline" explicit: dynamic compilation using trace tree serialization (October 2007).
2008-05-06: Efficient just-in-time execution of dynamically typed languages via code specialization using precise runtime type inference (September 2007).
2008-05-06: Incremental dynamic code generation with trace trees (November 2006).
2008-05-06: HotpathVM: an effective JIT compiler for resource-constrained devices (June 2006).
2008-05-02: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (Nebula award winner by Ted Chiang).
2008-05-02: What's expected of us (by Ted Chiang).
2008-05-02: Richard Morgan on sfnal infighting.
2008-05-01: Extending the scope of syntactic abstraction in Scheme.
2008-05-01: Syntactic abstraction in Scheme.
2008-04-30: Programming languages and facial hair.
2008-04-30: SFTP sync (perl).
2008-04-30: Apple vs. Microsoft / product vs. platform.
2008-04-30: The real cost of motoring in the UK, 1987-2008.
2008-04-30: Syntax matters.
2008-04-30: Sex is good for you.
2008-04-29: ArseNIC: a user-accessible gigabit ethernet interface.
2008-04-29: Steps towards a DoS-resistant internet architecture.
2008-04-29: Using packet symmetry to curtail malicious traffic.
2008-04-29: La ligne du Haut-Bugey.
2008-04-29: IBM X10 experimental programming language.
2008-04-29: Making chocolate at home starting from raw beans.
2008-04-28: Rubik's cube can be solved in 25 moves or fewer (proved by Thomas Rokicki, also known for a hashlife implementation).
2008-04-28: First superheavy element found in nature.
2008-04-28: What programming languages should you know?
2008-04-27: David Woodhouse's exim+sqlite grelisting.
2008-04-27: Heiko Schlitterman's exim+perl greylisting.
2008-04-27: Guardian report on DTI human vital statistics survey.
2008-04-27: News Corporation hired a hacker to undermine a rival satellite TV network with pirated smart cards.
2008-04-27: Debian bug report: insuling source code in quodlibet.
2008-04-25: The Internet owes its success to Windows 95 with built-in TCP/IP.
2008-04-25: Lightweight version of official Dilbert website.
2008-04-25: Infection points everywhere in computing.
2008-04-24: The end of end-to-end?
2008-04-24: The silence of the Finns.
2008-04-24: Cable TV head-end photographs.
2008-04-24: Christiaan Postma's amazing clock.
2008-04-23: Another step towards augmented intelligence?
2008-04-23: Colemak keyboard layout.
2008-04-22: Turkish dotless-I can ruin your life.
2008-04-22: I can't believe I'm praising Tcl!
2008-04-22: Microsoft turns off remote access to Hotmail using standard protocols.
2008-04-22: The Darwin Correspondence Project.
2008-04-21: How Norway came to vote "yes" for MS-OOXML.
2008-04-21: Stirling-engine CPU fan.
2008-04-21: The Royal Observatory, Greenwich: a glance at its history and work.
2008-04-21: Cambridge's Richardson Candle street lighting.
2008-04-20: Funky Fun House.
2008-04-18: An engineer's guide to cats.
2008-04-18: "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow, reviewed by Farah Mendlesohn.
2008-04-18: The old Dilbert website.
2008-04-18: Dilbert without the flash crap.
2008-04-18: MIT's obituary of Edward Lorentz.
2008-04-17: US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#162289 - gcc silently discards some wraparound checks.
2008-04-16: Lolgrues (via jm).
2008-04-16: Apple buyers guide.
2008-04-16: Google spins down its "don't be evil" motto.
2008-04-15: How Wordpress keep track of 300 servers.
2008-04-15: A cat playing the Theremin.
2008-04-15: F-secure are against Phorm.
2008-04-15: Monster Cables gets a longer version of the response in Arkell vs. Pressdram.
2008-04-14: My LibraryThing profile.
2008-04-14: Healing backups in Venti archives.
2008-04-11: Bubble babble binary-to-text coding system.
2008-04-11: Boeing patent prevents recovery of satellite after failed orbit insertion.
2008-04-10: John Mashey on RISC vs CISC.
2008-04-09: Robust bilingual word alignment for machine-aided translation.
2008-04-09: An algorithm for structuring programs - converting Fortran to Ratfor.
2008-04-09: Read the fine little red book.
2008-04-09: Killough robot platform: omnidirectional motion with normal wheels.
2008-04-09: Airtrax fork-lifts etc. with Mecanum/Ilon wheels.
2008-04-09: Segway robotic mobility platform, with Mecanum/Ilon wheels.
2008-04-09: A short history of omnidirectional wheels.
2008-04-09: Modern wheel inventions, including omnidirectional wheels.
2008-04-08: On the scale and performance of co-operative web proxy cacheing.
2008-04-08: Networked Livermore Time-Sharing System.
2008-04-08: Unix file IO atomicity.
2008-04-08: Unix file offset semantics.
2008-04-07: Core Memory - coffee table book of vintage computer photographs.
2008-04-06: High-speed TCP variants.
2008-04-02: Renard numbers.
2008-04-02: A plan for scams.
2008-04-02: Protothreads - switch-based coroutines.
2008-04-01: Efficient deadline scheduling with annotated B-trees.
2008-03-27: What will life be like in 2008? Predictions from 40 years ago.
2008-03-26: Relative capacities of energy sources and users in the USA.
2008-03-26: Parametron circuit.
2008-03-26: Parametron - Japanese digital computer based on the phase of AC signals.
2008-03-26: Chatsworth Products - passive thermal management for data centre cabinets.
2008-03-26: Apple Store, Grand Arcade, Cambridge.
2008-03-19: Phorm: malware developers who want to intercept all your users' web traffic.
2008-03-19: Mac OS X getaddrinfo() unexpectedly looks up MX records for TCP connections to port 25.
2008-03-18: An executive infrastructure for TCB minimization.
2008-03-18: Trying to find Microsoft interop specifications.
2008-03-17: Match it for Pratchett.
2008-03-14: Run-time-system-level fault-tolerance for a distributed functional language.
2008-03-14: Mifare cryptanalysis.
2008-03-14: A safe way to use uninitialized memory.
2008-03-13: How to be a programmer.
2008-03-12: Jodrell Bank to be closed.
2008-03-11: A response to complaints about Erlang.
2008-03-10: Erlang warts.
2008-03-10: Studly Mac display hack.
2008-03-09: DTrace BIFs for Erlang.
2008-03-09: DTrace provider for Erlang.
2008-03-09: Monadic memoization mixins.
2008-03-09: Data types à la carte.
2008-03-09: The genuine sieve of Eratosthenes.
2008-03-09: Paul Lockhart's Mathematician's lament.
2008-03-07: Screen cleaner.
2008-03-07: Files in limbo wrt your VCS, and mistakes users make with git.
2008-03-06: One user group has been overlooked during the development of the UCS, namely that of young adolescent women.
2008-03-04: Solaris dldump(3C) - create a new shared object from (part of) a running process.
2008-03-04: Limerick database.
2008-03-04: Bundling Lua code in your ELF executable.
2008-03-04: Bundling Lua code into your Mach-O executable.
2008-03-03: A quick guide to the Lua interpreter.
2008-03-03: Haskell on a shared memory multiprocessor.
2008-03-03: Uniqueness typing simplified.
2008-02-29: Learning to lie.
2008-02-29: Van Jacobson on modern IP stack performance improvements.
2008-02-28: RIPE on the YouTube hijack.
2008-02-28: The true cost of Dubya's wars.
2008-02-28: YouTube hijacking summary.
2008-02-28: Computing at the Sanger Institute.
2008-02-28: The effectiveness of greet-pause.
2008-02-28: Better exception syntax for Erlang.
2008-02-28: Better exception syntax for SML.
2008-02-28: Semantics of value recursion for monadic IO.
2008-02-28: A recursive do for Haskell.
2008-02-28: A comparison of Java, Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby FFIs.
2008-02-27: A pro-thougt manifesto.
2008-02-27: The L.A. Times wonders if copyright should be taxed.
2008-02-27: Lincolnshire museum of etch-a-sketch artwork.
2008-02-27: Cunning hack using case-insensitivity in the DNS to provide more security.
2008-02-27: British Geological Survey earthquake questionnaire.
2008-02-27: Spam bots can solve ~~HoTMaiL~~ Windows Live Mail CAPTCHAs.
2008-02-27: Spam bots can solve GMail CAPTCHAs.
2008-02-26: Some fairly nice free icons.
2008-02-25: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are wed.
2008-02-25: Monkeypatching is destroying Ruby.
2008-02-25: What is a purely functional language?
2008-02-25: Sun Labs scalable synchronization research group.
2008-02-25: Sun's research into transactional memory.
2008-02-22: Firewire: all your memory are belong to bus.
2008-02-22: IPv4 global unicast address assignments.
2008-02-21: Hyperthreading timing attacks.
2008-02-21: Breaking disk encryption by recovering keys from uncleared DRAM after a reboot.
2008-02-21: Nominet requires mass registration transfers to be performed using Excel spreadsheets sent via email.
2008-02-20: When is a functional program not a functional program?
2008-02-20: Desktop RAID is a bad idea.
2008-02-20: An analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives (connected to NetApps).
2008-02-20: Sometimes all functions are continuous.
2008-02-20: Staircase/bookcase.
2008-02-20: Latent sector errors in disk drives.
2008-02-19: History of the lambda calculus and combinatory logic.
2008-02-19: Antikythera mechanism solved.
2008-02-19: Corrupted DNS resolution paths: the rise of a malicious resolution authority.
2008-02-19: Radio controlled clocks.
2008-02-18: Computer administrative debris.
2008-02-18: Microsoft Office document format specifications.
2008-02-18: Court of the Lord Lyon puts the heraldic slap-down on Donald Trump.
2008-02-15: Russ Cox on the Bourne shell.
2008-02-15: Justin Mason on the Bourne shell.
2008-02-15: MIT graphic identity - fonts.
2008-02-15: Eric Tetz on Tcl.
2008-02-15: RMS explains why you should not use Tcl.
2008-02-15: Explaining the link between autism and MMR.
2008-02-15: Some references about precision timekeeping.
2008-02-15: ICANN requests public comments on the effect of new gTLDs on the stability of the DNS.
2008-02-15: Using inlines to reduce code duplication.
2008-02-15: Embedding the photographer's iris scan in the image's EXIF data.
2008-02-15: Declining educational standards at Oxford.
2008-02-15: Density of water vs. alcohol.
2008-02-15: Childhood origins of adult resistance to science.
2008-02-14: The Bourne shell's infamous SEGV handler.
2008-02-14: Momail: free mobile email for everyone.
2008-02-14: Branding with Arial.
2008-02-14: The scourge of Arial.
2008-02-13: The determination and distribution of precise time (in 1966).
2008-02-12: Stretching the storage manager: weak pointers and stable names in Haskell. (Describes memoized functions, so might be useful for a nice implementation of hashlife.)
2008-02-12: Are C1 control characters permitted by W3C document formats?
2008-02-12: Oil firms' output is down, yet profits skyrocket. Peak oil is coming.
2008-02-12: World Health Organization style guide.
2008-02-12: Fight the fog: how to write clearly.
2008-02-12: The English style guide of the European Commission directorate-general for translation.
2008-02-12: UK government plans to require ISPs to ban users who share files.
2008-02-12: Do we need WADL?
2008-02-12: Should you believe what you write in your PhD thesis?
2008-02-12: UK intellectual property office issues statement on software patents.
2008-02-12: Online encyclopaedia of western signs and ideograms.
2008-02-12: A category-theoretic view of programming language design.
2008-02-11: A picture of me!
2008-02-11: In defence of the delete key.
2008-02-11: iTunes U - educational audio and video hosting and distribution by Apple.
2008-02-11: Multi-language extensions for the Java virtual machine.
2008-02-11: FontFocus - sounds much better than TrueType (though that isn't hard).
2008-02-11: Secure string interpolation in JavaScript.
2008-02-08: Observable sharing for functional circuit description.
2008-02-08: Data corruption in the Linden Labs network.
2008-02-07: Remote control for Airport Express / AirTunes.
2008-02-06: Clever hack using Exim's ratelimit features to implement auto-whitelisting.
2008-02-05: Impressive Asus eee PC hardware hackery.
2008-02-04: EJabberd s2s TLS certificate selection problems.
2008-02-03: Programming languages as operating systems (or, revenge of the son of the lisp machine).
2008-02-03: On the expressive power of programming languages.
2008-02-03: Composable and compilable macros.
2008-02-03: A theory of hygienic macros.
2008-02-03: C0X draft decomposed for searchability.
2008-02-03: "The new C standard: an economic and cultural commentary" updated to TC3.
2008-02-03: CEO of Alphabasic Records promotes piracy because mainstream retailers are stiffing him.
2008-02-02: Google Maps.
2008-02-02: More about LuaJIT 2 NaN tagging.
2008-02-02: A comprehensive approach to DRAM power management.
2008-02-01: Brad Fitzpatrick announces Google's social graph API.
2008-02-01: Some notes on LuaJIT 2.
2008-02-01: Neal Stephenson ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.
2008-02-01: A MacBook Air in pieces.
2008-02-01: How the US government has used bogus terrorism scares to bury inconvenient news.
2008-02-01: SIGPIPE misdesign in Python.
2008-01-31: Jump Networks co-location: £0 per month for rack space, 2x GigE ports, 1Mbps transit, OOB management, and masterswitch port (power not included).
2008-01-31: Undersea cable approaches around Cornwall and Brittany.
2008-01-31: Countries affected by the Mediterranean cable break.
2008-01-31: Deputy static checker for C.
2008-01-31: Asterisk and Jabber integration tutorial.
2008-01-31: NVIDIA Tesla GPU server.
2008-01-30: Itanium sales forecasts.
2008-01-29: Barracuda/ClamAV legal defence page.
2008-01-29: Trend Micro sues Barracuda for infringement of a patent on scanning email for viruses.
2008-01-29: Software patents to be allowed in the UK?!
2008-01-29: ICANN votes to make their 20c domain registration tax non-refundable in order to tackle domain tasting and front-running.
2008-01-29: A troll gets a patent on smartphones and sues everyone in sight.
2008-01-28: Perl cannot be parsed.
2008-01-28: Nokia buys TrollTech.
2008-01-28: All this online sharing has to stop.
2008-01-27: PLT Scheme eliminates the set-car! and set-cdr! functions.
2008-01-27: Google to prevent domain kiters from using AdSense, at last.
2008-01-25: Ian Fleming / James Bond bibliography.
2008-01-24: Fast queue runner for Exim.
2008-01-24: Google Health.
2008-01-24: Updated travel-time maps from MySociety.
2008-01-23: More about separate intent logs for ZFS.
2008-01-23: Level 2 ARC (flash cache) for ZFS.
2008-01-23: Separate intent logs for ZFS.
2008-01-23: Disabling PT_DENY_ATTACH on Mac OS X to make DTrace work properly.
2008-01-22: Compiler optimizations using data compression to decrease address reference entropy.
2008-01-22: jsMSX - the first MSX emulator 100% written in Javascript - modern software is beyond satire.
2008-01-22: The Last Empire: China's pollution problem goes global.
2008-01-22: John Levine's collection of UNCOL references from comp.compilers.
2008-01-22: The design and implementation of Typed Scheme.
2008-01-21: TSCP secure email spec.
2008-01-21: The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) publicly releases secure email specifications.
2008-01-21: Cyber-extortion or CIA scaremongering?
2008-01-21: Risk compensation deniers - more links from John Adams about road safety.
2008-01-21: Heathrow at night.
2008-01-21: Seat belt legislation and the Isles report.
2008-01-21: Google's secret 10 gigabit ethernet switch.
2008-01-21: Randy Bush enables IPv6.
2008-01-21: Ben Laurie on Deputy, Delta, and type checking in C.
2008-01-21: Official Internet protocol standards - RFCs indexed by topic.
2008-01-21: More about the OV-chipkaart from Freedom to Tinker.
2008-01-21: A parent's observations of a child using the OLPC.
2008-01-21: Software system longevity paradigms.
2008-01-21: RFID replay attack allows free travel in NL.
2008-01-21: Statement about the Mifare cipher exposure.
2008-01-21: The delta debugging tool.
2008-01-21: Delta debugging.
2008-01-21: Apple disables DTrace probes for some apps, including iTunes.
2008-01-21: Car bomb? Exploding hot water tank? Or bread maker?
2008-01-19: Fifty years of "How to lie with statistics".
2008-01-19: Oracle btrfs for Linux.
2008-01-18: Joke about side-effects in F# transactional memory.
2008-01-18: Google Maps mashup of average house prices by postcode.
2008-01-18: Stupidfilter - applying anti-spam technology to idiots in web fora.
2008-01-18: Prototype HUD contact lenses.
2008-01-18: AOL adds XMPP c2s access to the AIM/ICQ service.
2008-01-17: Cross-site printing.
2008-01-17: AXFR illegal in North Dakota.
2008-01-17: Penrose vs. Kleenex.
2008-01-17: Ancient Islamic Penrose tiles.
2008-01-16: Prologue to Iain M. Banks's new Culture novel, Matter.
2008-01-16: ACM classic books series, many with full text PDFs available on-line.
2008-01-16: The "freedom to tinker" blog on electronic voting machines.
2008-01-16: RFC 3974 is the de-facto standard for IPv6 MX routing.
2008-01-16: How IPv6 breaks IPv4 MX lookups.
2008-01-16: Rise of the stupid network.
2008-01-15: Markus Kuhn on ASCII and Unicode quotation marks.
2008-01-15: Other symbiotic colonies of bacteria and yeast.
2008-01-15: Kombucha / Manchurian Mushroom / tea fungus.
2008-01-15: Best GB/$ hard disk drives, graphed.
2008-01-14: Ada style guide - performance.
2008-01-14: GNAT performance considerations.
2008-01-14: Les Hatton's articles on MISRA C and other safe subsets.
2008-01-14: Cambridge city centre cycling map.
2008-01-14: CD recycling.
2008-01-14: The 3COM XJACK - utterly brilliant.
2008-01-14: Would you trust your data to these people?
2008-01-13: Some applications of Rabin's fingerprinting method.
2008-01-13: Recipient filtering in Exchange 2007.
2008-01-11: MAAWG abuse desk common practices.
2008-01-11: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy.
2008-01-10: Multi-purpose fuzzer "zzuf".
2008-01-09: Coffee portal.
2008-01-09: Microsoft's "Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?"
2008-01-09: Network Solutions seems to be domain tasting.
2008-01-08: Possibly the original description of the DJB times-33 hash function.
2008-01-08: Blue Vinyl: an environmentalist documentary about PVC building materials.
2008-01-08: A green house near Tahoe.
2008-01-08: The Register on Cambridge's VOIP project.
2008-01-08: Premake build script generator.
2008-01-08: Computer science education: where are the software engineers of tomorrow?
2008-01-08: Has chip+pin failed to foil fraudsters?
2008-01-07: Fair Deal Homeopathy: natural products to help you feel better about yourself.
2008-01-07: Government response to the petition to the Prime Minister to scrap the Huntingdon-Cambridge guided busway.
2008-01-07: Why do critics still sneer at sci-fi?
2008-01-06: Evolutionary programming and gradual typing in ECMAScript 4 - a tutorial.
2008-01-06: Steve Yegge on Java and code bloat.
2008-01-06: The in-flight passenger internet access network in the Boeing 787 is connected to the plane's control, navigation and communication systems.
2008-01-05: Let's make cows fart like kangaroos.
2008-01-04: The worker-wrapper transformation.
2008-01-04: Open multimethods for C++.
2008-01-04: J&: nested intersection for scalable software composition.
2008-01-04: Mark Nottingham's cache channels prototype for HTTP.
2008-01-04: Alan Ralsky on trial for penny stock fraud via spam.
2008-01-03: Logan's Run - plot summary.
2008-01-03: "If it works, it's not AI": a commercial look at artificial intelligence startups.
2008-01-03: Patterns of Software - tales from the software community by Richard P. Gabriel.
2008-01-03: Comments on the failure of Symbolics.
2008-01-03: Why did Symbolics fail?
2008-01-03: St James's Gate to be closed and sold off.
2008-01-02: Bruce Bethke on Cyberpunk.
2008-01-02: Satanism is alive and well.
2008-01-02: Brad Hicks on the end of the Bronze Age.
2008-01-02: The secret Mifare cipher has been broken.
2008-01-02: Dave Gorman solves our calendrical and time-keeping problems.
2008-01-02: A nasal spray of orexin A wakes up sleep-deprived monkeys.
2008-01-01: An empirical study into the security exposure to hosts of hostile virtualized environments.
2007-12-28: Smoking bans around the world, as of June 2007.
2007-12-19: Paddy Power's gambling advertisement teating problems.
2007-12-18: Perl-5.10 changes.
2007-12-18: perl-5.10 hits CPAN - browse the source.
2007-12-18: "Shimmering" in Tcl - a rare case where Perl doesn't have the cool jargon for an obscure feature.
2007-12-18: Nine Inch Noëls.
2007-12-18: Larry Wall: "scripting is a lot like obscenity".
2007-12-18: Happy 20th birthday, Perl. Release version 5.10 already!
2007-12-18: What's cooking for FreeBSD-7.0 - a good summary of the notable improvements.
2007-12-18: Top 10 tips for new bloggers from the first blogger, Jorn Barger.
2007-12-18: Worm propagation strategies in an IPv6 internet.
2007-12-18: free.fr deploys IPv6 for its 2.767 million ADSL customers. (French)
2007-12-18: Open-FCoE is the home of the Fibre Channel over Ethernet implementation for the Linux operating system.
2007-12-17: Amount of space required to transport the same number of people by car, bus, or bicycle.
2007-12-16: The case for energy-proportional computing.
2007-12-14: What to know before debating type systems.
2007-12-12: Meta 419 scam.
2007-12-12: Terry Pratchett announces "an embuggerance".
2007-12-12: Knuth does Hacker's Delight.
2007-12-12: GooglePages listed in the SBL. GooglePages URLs appearing in mail will trigger anti-spam systems, including SpamAssassin, until this is resolved. (via Justin Mason)
2007-12-12: Bogglingly bad vulnerability in Lotus Notes.
2007-12-12: Amateur time hackers play with atomic clocks at home.
2007-12-12: SPECpower_ssj2008 - performance per watt of server-side Java.
2007-12-12: How super-precise atomic clocks will change the world in a decade.
2007-12-11: Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child through centrifugal force.
2007-12-10: Language Log: The etiology and elaboration of a flagrant mistranslation.
2007-12-10: Soft hyphen - a hard problem?
2007-12-10: The design of the Inferno virtual machine.
2007-12-10: Henry Baker's archive of research papers, including several on linear languages.
2007-12-10: Linear logic bibliography.
2007-12-10: Continuations and Stackless Python.
2007-12-10: The case for virtual register machines.
2007-12-10: The 2003 workshop on interpreters, virtual machines and emulators.
2007-12-07: Hand-written home page.
2007-12-07: Stan Kelly-Bootle's Son of Devil's Advocate columns.
2007-12-06: Ryanair and Aer Lingus together account for 25% of passenger complaints about European airlines.
2007-12-06: Trying times in ISO's SGML committee.
2007-12-05: Email standards compliance project.
2007-12-05: Pictures of Cambridge's newest bridge.
2007-12-05: Building noarch RPMs.
2007-12-05: Microsoft wireless keyboards "encrypt" keystrokes using XOR with a one byte key.
2007-12-04: Problems with IP address sorting in glibc and RFC 3484.
2007-12-04: Cool glowy things.
2007-12-03: Why the BBC fails at the Internet.
2007-11-30: Frank Schilling on Dell's domain tasting lawsuit.
2007-11-30: Dell takes domain tasters to court - excellent news!
2007-11-27: A piece of stunning idiocy from ZDNet.
2007-11-26: A cry for web standards in email.
2007-11-26: Energy-efficient digital networks at LBL.
2007-11-25: No Starch Press page about Forbidden Lego.
2007-11-25: A review of the book "Forbidden Lego".
2007-11-25: How to be a homeopathic bioterrorist.
2007-11-22: Large meccano difference engine.
2007-11-22: Small meccano difference engine.
2007-11-22: Lego difference engine.
2007-11-20: Out-of-office autoreply suppression in Exchange 2003.
2007-11-20: Books about celestial mechanics and astronomical calculations.
2007-11-20: Matthew Garrett on Automatix.
2007-11-19: Open access to academic research in the US gets closer.
2007-11-19: Why the future doesn't need us - Bill Joy.
2007-11-19: The law of accelerating returns - Ray Kurzweil.
2007-11-19: KurzweilAI.net - articles on acceleratng technological change.
2007-11-19: Colossus rebuilt at Bletchley - National Codes Centre press release.
2007-11-19: Colossus rebuilt at Bletchley - BBC news report.
2007-11-19: Stephen Bates never wanted to be a religious affairs correspondent.
2007-11-16: PHP compiler and static analyser.
2007-11-15: RIPA section III in action.
2007-11-13: Jens Schweikhardt on writing man pages.
2007-11-13: Peter Seebach on writing man pages.
2007-11-12: Discussion of Maemo Alpine port.
2007-11-12: Nokia 770/800 Maemo applications, including Alpine.
2007-11-12: Improving TCP/IP security through randomization without sacrificing interoperability.
2007-11-11: Ivan Krstić on OLPC security.
2007-11-09: CIO 2007 - meeting of ivy league law school IT managers.
2007-11-09: Surf.NL Copyright Toolbox.
2007-11-08: RFC 5068 / BCP 134.
2007-11-07: MarkLogic XML / XQuery database - developer pages.
2007-11-07: SiCortex: teraflops from milliwatts.
2007-11-07: Cheap USB interfaces for easy prototyping.
2007-11-06: UK business taxes for telco infrastructure.
2007-11-06: Institutional access to staff and student IT accounts and IT equipment - model policy from JISC.
2007-11-05: A few facts concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO.
2007-11-05: Leap seconds and how they are handled by meinberg devices and NTP.
2007-11-05: What went wrong with the leap second?
2007-11-05: KSD solar diode window.
2007-11-04: DJB's thoughts on security after ten years of qmail.
2007-11-04: Bluffs: BSD logging updated FFS.
2007-11-04: Kris Kennaway's FreeBSD 7.0 preview slides.
2007-11-03: Can a bayesian spam filter play chess?
2007-11-02: Log writer library.
2007-11-02: OSSP l2.
2007-11-02: log4c.
2007-11-02: Malfunctioning central locking system jams other cars' RFID signals.
2007-11-02: The daily dose of IETF - summary of document state changes.
2007-11-02: Using the ssh agent with Mac OS X Leopard.
2007-11-01: The GHC commentary.
2007-11-01: ICANN IDN TLD test wiki.
2007-10-31: The mathematics of the ISO week calendar.
2007-10-31: ISO 8601:2004 in a zip file.
2007-10-31: OM NOM NOM NOM
2007-10-31: ISO/FDIS 8601:2000.
2007-10-31: LJ Brad's halloween costume.
2007-10-31: Google UK carbon footprint calculator.
2007-10-31: Challenge-response anti-spam systems like TMDA considered harmful.
2007-10-30: Git for computer scientists.
2007-10-29: More on PMCS.
2007-10-29: Post-micturation convulsion syndrome.
2007-10-29: The two cultures of mathematics.
2007-10-29: Undefined behaviour in Perl and other languages.
2007-10-29: In praise of implementation-defined languages.
2007-10-29: Nomic: a game of self-amendment.
2007-10-29: Jam - software build tool from Perforce.
2007-10-29: Rant - flexible, Ruby-based make.
2007-10-29: CMake - cross-platform make.
2007-10-29: SCons software construction tool.
2007-10-29: The Waf build system.
2007-10-29: Boost build system v2.
2007-10-29: Why the KDE project switched to CMake - and how.
2007-10-26: The SPEC Power and Performance Committee is developing the first generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating the power and performance characteristics of volume server class computers.
2007-10-25: The Zero Install system.
2007-10-25: Mailinator - throwaway email addresses.
2007-10-25: 1/6th of Library of Congress has been misplaced.
2007-10-25: Public svn repository for Alpine snapshots.
2007-10-25: L-root IP address change on the ICANN blog.
2007-10-25: L.root-servers.net IP address to change on 2007-11-01.
2007-10-25: UK academic open source advisory service: MX server survey.
2007-10-25: Baltimore County judge rules partial prints are not good enough for murder trials.
2007-10-25: Bytelevel two-letter country code world maps.
2007-10-23: IERS: on the use of Julian dates.
2007-10-23: Simon Josefsson's guidelines for free standards in the IETF.
2007-10-23: How not to coerce someone into a confession, and how not to try to cover it up.
2007-10-23: JANET mirror of the Spamhaus Zen blacklist.
2007-10-23: Zebra barcode reader.
2007-10-23: Flash webcam barcode scanner.
2007-10-22: McCullagh's law of politics.
2007-10-22: Structured programming using processes.
2007-10-19: Fusion io - large and fast flash storage for servers.
2007-10-19: Asus Eee PC - what RM are reselling as the Minibook.
2007-10-19: Zonbu at Wikipedia.
2007-10-19: RM Asus Minibook - another Linux appliance, this time aimed at schools.
2007-10-19: Zonbu - interesting subscription-based Linux appliance.
2007-10-18: Australia successfully questions the masculinity of speeding drivers.
2007-10-18: The Vulcan bomber flies again.
2007-10-17: GUIdebook.
2007-10-17: Nokia N810 pictures.
2007-10-16: American lawbreaking: drugs, porn, copyright, immigration.
2007-10-16: A history of multi-touch input devices and user interfaces.
2007-10-15: The telecommunications perfect storm.
2007-10-15: Sun's Project Blackbox - a data centre in a shipping container.
2007-10-15: PyGPU - program your GPU with Python.
2007-10-15: Tufte-LaTeX.
2007-10-15: Fun physics in the game "Portal".
2007-10-15: Browsing web 3.0 at 3.0 watts - lots of good mobile technology forecasting.
2007-10-15: Map of the Internet including IP addresses on the Spamhaus XBL.
2007-10-12: Caja - Javascript object-capability subset.
2007-10-12: Updated installer for EDTK+BDB.
2007-10-12: Erlang driver toolkit production-quality Berkeley DB interface.
2007-10-12: RJK asks about languages with non-nullable reference types.
2007-10-11: Steven Pinker writes a good essay about bad language.
2007-10-11: Marshall Rose on helicopters and submarines (SIP vs XMPP).
2007-10-09: Delegating responsibility in digital systems: Horton's "Who done it?"
2007-10-09: Dynamo: Amazon's highly-available key-value store.
2007-10-08: Programming models for hybrid CPU/FPGA chips.
2007-10-08: The Reduceron - an FPGA machine for executing Haskell.
2007-10-08: It's time to stop calling circuits "hardware".
2007-10-08: czip - turn data into zlib-compressed C source.
2007-10-04: Chad Fowler on the dangers of the big software rewrite.
2007-10-04: Colour Lovers - colour trends and palettes.
2007-10-04: WellStyled colour scheme generator.
2007-10-03: Building an IPv6 router with GNU/Linux.
2007-10-03: The Open Group Jericho Forum - arguing against hard-crunchy-outside soft-chewy-inside networks.
2007-09-30: Lego Mindstorms firmware development sources.
2007-09-28: Brian Candler on IM2000.
2007-09-28: Brian Candler on IPv6.
2007-09-27: Lua-5.1 test suite.
2007-09-27: Invisible college!
2007-09-26: Visualizations of the global routing table over time.
2007-09-26: Sutton Trust - interesting research into university admissions.
2007-09-20: USD and CAD reach parity.
2007-09-20: Erlang grammer from erlide.
2007-09-20: Principles of language design and evolution, by Bertrand Meyer.
2007-09-19: ASCII smiley created 25 years ago today at CMU.
2007-09-19: Thirty years later: lessons from the Multics security evaluation.
2007-09-19: Giganews's history of Usenet.
2007-09-18: RFC 2140: TCP control block interdependence.
2007-09-17: Philip Hazel's thoughts on a future MTA, from March 1995.
2007-09-17: JANET policy against inappropriate email bounces.
2007-09-17: Uniform boilerplate and list processing, or, scrap your scary types.
2007-09-17: The unmanaged internet architecture project.
2007-09-17: Structured streams: a new transport abstraction.
2007-09-14: When piracy is easier than legal purchase.
2007-09-14: One sixth of US GDP depends on limitations on copyright holders' exclusive rights.
2007-09-13: USPS on suspicious packages.
2007-09-13: Too much /proc is bad for you!
2007-09-11: Intel's rules for concurrent / multicore programming.
2007-09-11: Mike Dimmick's notes on parsing C++.
2007-09-11: Meta-compilation for C++.
2007-09-11: A key indicator for bubbles.
2007-09-11: An introduction to Ten15 - a personal retrospective.
2007-09-10: Cory Doctorow on DRM (3) Pushing the impossible.
2007-09-10: Cory Doctorow on DRM (2) Don't fall for the Potemkin scam.
2007-09-10: Cory Doctorow on DRM (1) Copy Killers.
2007-09-10: When cute acronyms go too far...
2007-09-07: Storm botnet attacks security researchers that probe it.
2007-09-07: A no-frills introduction to the Lua VM.
2007-09-07: SMS FoxBox - Linux embedded micro Web server and SMS gateway.
2007-09-07: Russian nuclear-powered lighthouses to be replaced.
2007-09-06: XHTML-only interface to GMail.
2007-09-05: Wellsolved environmentally-aware property maintenance.
2007-09-05: Someone petitions the Prime Minister to Outlaw social networking sites to assist the fight against crime.
2007-09-04: LinuxBIOS on AMD Geode platforms (including OLPC and ThinCan).
2007-09-04: Expert-TW StarBox product page.
2007-09-04: StarBox / TinyTuxBox manual.
2007-09-04: Transtec AMD Geode LX800 thin client.
2007-09-04: Artec ThinCan - AMD Geode computers.
2007-09-04: Linutop - ThinCan resellers.
2007-09-04: TinyTuxBox 4 - small cheap AMD GX2-466 computer.
2007-09-04: Picotux - the smallest Linux computer in the world.
2007-09-04: Pico-ITX PC motherboards.
2007-09-04: Eurostar UK rail speed record - 335km/h.
2007-09-04: Paris to London Eurostar speed record.
2007-09-03: SML and O'Caml, side-by-side.
2007-09-03: Communicating sequential processes - online edition of the book by C.A.R.Hoare.
2007-09-03: Chumby.
2007-08-30: Open source licences are contracts.
2007-08-29: Phidgets - simple USB IO adapters.
2007-08-24: Beyond pretty-printing: galley concepts in document formatting combinators.
2007-08-24: Stefano Mazzocchi on version control architectures, git vs svn, and the fear of displacing innovation.
2007-08-23: Luca Cardelli was an accidental Simula user.
2007-08-23: BarCamb.
2007-08-23: Higher-order and typed "HOT" pickles in Alice ML.
2007-08-22: Efficient manipulation of binary data using pattern matching in Erlang.
2007-08-22: Applications, implementation and performance evaluation of bit stream programming in Erlang.
2007-08-22: Ada 95 representation items.
2007-08-22: A bit syntax package for Haskell.
2007-08-20: Spamford Wallace gets sued yet again.
2007-08-20: Thirteen things to avoid in a blog.
2007-08-16: DHTML hyperlinked grammars for C#, Haskell, O'Caml.
2007-08-15: "Customer-arranged collection" for deliveries from UK to Falkland Islands?!
2007-08-14: Tiny threads - a tour of the code.
2007-08-14: Miranda prototypes in C (2).
2007-08-14: Miranda prototypes in C (1).
2007-08-14: Miranda methods in Java.
2007-08-14: Robodoc - language-independent in-source documentation extractor.
2007-08-14: ICANN request for information on domain tasting.
2007-08-14: BAARF: the battle against any RAID five four or f three.
2007-08-14: 2007 iMac disassembly.
2007-08-14: Bit-level binaries and generalized comprehensions in Erlang (full paper).
2007-08-13: Microsoft Windows "fibers".
2007-08-13: On compact routing for the Internet.
2007-08-13: Endpoints and endpoint names: a proposed enhancement to the internet architecture.
2007-08-10: Simulated annealing for interpreter optimization.
2007-08-10: Friendly copy and paste with xterm.
2007-08-10: Avahi mDNS implementation for Linux.
2007-08-09: Why numbering should start at zero.
2007-08-09: Tatham's device.
2007-08-08: Safe serialization under mutual suspicion.
2007-08-07: A lisp machine with very compact programs.
2007-08-07: ACM history of programming languages conferences.
2007-08-07: ACM HOPL I proceedings.
2007-08-07: ACM HOPL II proceedings.
2007-08-07: ACM HOPL III proceedings.
2007-08-07: Levine the genius programming language designer.
2007-08-06: Hazard pointers: safe memory reclamation for lock-free objects.
2007-08-06: Non-blocking hash tables with open addressing.
2007-08-06: A lock-free hash table for Java.
2007-08-06: Mythic Beasts Mac Mini and Apple TV dedicated servers.
2007-08-06: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to enforce the existing UK law on marketing and labelling of infant formula.
2007-08-06: Paul Graham on having too much stuff.
2007-08-06: 100% easy-2-read web pages.
2007-08-03: Dot-local lookup configurator for Mac OS X - for compatibility between multicast DNS and standard DNS.
2007-08-03: Microsoft's domain naming recommendations for their Small Business Server.
2007-08-02: "The only moral abortion is my abortion" - when the anti-choice choose.
2007-08-01: Musical solid-state tesla coils.
2007-08-01: C++ compiler exception support.
2007-08-01: Radical statistics.
2007-08-01: Sendmail meets Erlang: experiences using Erlang for email applications.
2007-07-31: Lotus Notes user interface hall of shame.
2007-07-27: Bill Kinnersley's language list.
2007-07-27: A dictionary of programming languages.
2007-07-27: Videos of TUG 2007.
2007-07-27: A book of Lua programming gems.
2007-07-27: Will the real "end-to-end principle" please stand up?
2007-07-27: The design philosophy of the DARPA Internet protocols.
2007-07-25: The pure pattern calculus.
2007-07-25: View patterns: lightweight views for Haskell.
2007-07-25: LOOP: Lua object-oriented programming library.
2007-07-25: Details of the iPhone / WiFi / Duke / Cisco ARP flood bug.
2007-07-25: Type inference for first-class messages with match functions.
2007-07-25: The third manifesto.
2007-07-25: Notes on how to design a programming language.
2007-07-25: Some links to interesting programming language research.
2007-07-24: Communicating process architecture for multicores.
2007-07-24: Xmos tips software-defined silicon.
2007-07-23: Optimizing pattern matching in O'Caml.
2007-07-23: ML pattern match compilation and partial evaluation.
2007-07-23: SML/NJ match compiler notes.
2007-07-23: Tree pattern matching for ML.
2007-07-23: When do match-compilation heuristics matter?
2007-07-22: Fast string matching on the GPU.
2007-07-20: Building effective enterprise distributed software systems.
2007-07-20: Chromatic's criteria for the world's most maintainable programming language.
2007-07-20: Hotmail fails to deliver up to 81% of messages with attachments.
2007-07-20: Puppet best practice, from Stanford.
2007-07-20: Laws of software development.
2007-07-19: Charles Miller describes email quoting as a design pattern.
2007-07-19: John Gruber on top.
2007-07-19: Dave Cridland on the crap security of iPhone / Yahoo! email.
2007-07-18: Rainbow's End, by Vernor Vinge.
2007-07-18: What American conservatives say when they think the rest of us aren't listening.
2007-07-18: Why David Mundie loves gema.
2007-07-18: Gema: general-purpose macro processor, with Lua hooks.
2007-07-18: The ML/1 macro processor.
2007-07-18: Nokia 770 internet tablet going cheap!
2007-07-18: iGo Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard going cheap!
2007-07-18: PerlHP is an attempt to give Perl the same simplicity and hackiness that PHP has spent years trying to forget.
2007-07-18: "Incandescence" by Greg Egan to be published May 2008.
2007-07-17: PseudoPOD: O'Reilly's markup language for perl books.
2007-07-17: Top-down operator precedence: Javascript-in-Javascript.
2007-07-17: Seeing Yellow - against colour laser printer watermarks.
2007-07-17: Running Pine on the Nokia 770.
2007-07-16: Possible Cambridge congestion charging zone map.
2007-07-16: Live code upgrades in Erlang.
2007-07-14: Anti-war quotes.
2007-07-13: How to disable the Mac OS X Dashboard.
2007-07-13: Another Lua Cairo binding.
2007-07-13: Lua Cairo.
2007-07-13: Environmental Justice Foundation round-table on sustainable cotton.
2007-07-13: Continental Clothing (wholesale blank t-shirts) and Uzbekistan.
2007-07-13: C.A.R.Hoare's hints on programming language design.
2007-07-13: Online bibliography of Haskell research.
2007-07-12: How to test high voltage capacitors.
2007-07-12: Petrol consumption per day, US vs. other countries.
2007-07-11: On the security of digital tachographs.
2007-07-11: Cambridge OpenGuide wiki.
2007-07-11: Lua-ML: embedding an interpreted language using higher-order functions and types.
2007-07-11: Rapid case dispatch in Scheme.
2007-07-11: An attempt to improve text rasterization algorithms using only publicly available information.
2007-07-09: Simply easy! (An implementation of a dependently typed lambda calculus.)
2007-07-08: Why the gods are not winning.
2007-07-07: In-program backtraces with glibc.
2007-07-06: Tail recursive stack disciplines for an interpreter.
2007-07-06: Design patterns as higher order datatype generic programs.
2007-07-06: Interview with Terrence Parr.
2007-07-06: Tutorial on good lisp programming style.
2007-07-06: The doctrine of the feline sedentation.
2007-07-06: A science fiction author asks, how would you explain World of Warcraft advertising hacks to someone thirty years ago?
2007-07-06: Self-righting objects.
2007-07-05: A correspondence between continuation passing style and static single assignment form.
2007-07-05: SSA is functional programming.
2007-07-05: Optimizing nested loops using local CPS transformation.
2007-07-05: Beware of the Turing tar-pit.
2007-07-05: A technical overview of Microsoft's common language runtime.
2007-07-05: Harlequin / Ravenbrook memory pool system.
2007-07-05: The memory management reference.
2007-07-05: Comprehensive comprehensions: comprehensions with "order by" and "group by".
2007-07-04: Composing contracts / how to write a financial contract - Simon Peyton Jones and Jean-Marc Eber (founder of LexiFi).
2007-07-04: LexiFi FAQ - describes the Modelling Language for Finance (MLFi).
2007-07-04: Haskell vs Erlang reloaded.
2007-07-03: A performance comparison of judy to hash tables.
2007-07-03: A cool and practical alternative to traditional hash tables.
2007-07-03: Cuckoo hashing for undergraduates.
2007-07-03: Cuckoo hashing.
2007-07-03: WTFPL.
2007-07-03: Email chain re: the Vernon Wilkes explosion.
2007-07-02: Face your pockets!
2007-06-30: Giant microwave oven turns plastic back into oil.
2007-06-28: What the heck is electronic mail?
2007-06-27: Lua code for traversing all live objects.
2007-06-26: Towards dependency-agnostic upgrades in distributed systems.
2007-06-25: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace.
2007-06-25: A type system for bounded space and functional in-place update.
2007-06-23: Functional pearl: inverting the Burrows-Wheeler transform.
2007-06-22: Arsehole-driven development.
2007-06-21: Mark Mayo explains why CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, etc. should be abandoned in favour of HTTP.
2007-06-21: Distributed computing economics.
2007-06-21: Whose name is it? Name ownership and databases.
2007-06-21: Curvy tube map by Maxwell Roberts.
2007-06-20: ABNF (superset) parser generator.
2007-06-20: Japanese live-action tetris.
2007-06-20: Dynamic Demand - the frequency of the UK national grid.
2007-06-19: ISO EBNF.
2007-06-19: The garbage collection mailing list.
2007-06-19: Typesetting with the Linotype in 1960.
2007-06-19: Python 3000 status update.
2007-06-18: SFSlite is a stripped-down version of the SFS asynchronous development libraries.
2007-06-16: The collapse of the Soviet Union: selling oil to buy wheat doesn't work when oil is too cheap.
2007-06-15: Abject-oriented programming.
2007-06-15: Accelerating OpenSSH connections with ControlMaster.
2007-06-15: Karmasphere VisiBL blacklist visualization system.
2007-06-14: Cache-oblivious data structures.
2007-06-14: First measels death in UK after 14 years.
2007-06-14: JANET outages.
2007-06-14: Cambridgeshire beekeepers association.
2007-06-14: LuaTeX is an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language.
2007-06-14: TypEr: A type annotator for Erlang code.
2007-06-13: Optimising TCP/IP connectivity: An exploratory study in network-intensive Erlang systems.
2007-06-12: Lambda-the-ultimate discusses C++.
2007-06-12: A functional description of TeX's formula layout algorithm.
2007-06-12: The self-pipe trick.
2007-06-12: Turing completeness considered harmful: component programming with a simple language.
2007-06-12: Islands and lakes.
2007-06-11: Open source Xara.
2007-06-11: History of Computer Concepts / Xara.
2007-06-11: Monty Python does HTTP authentication.
2007-06-10: The tao of programming.
2007-06-10: Frisby - parsing expression grammars for Haskell.
2007-06-10: LPeg - parsing expression grammars for Lua.
2007-06-10: Packrat parsing and Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs).
2007-06-09: ECMAscript 4 (JavaScript 2) specification and refeerence implementation.
2007-06-08: Seed7: the extensible programming language.
2007-06-08: Send-receive considered harmful: Myths and realities of message passing.
2007-06-08: Evaluating high-level distributed language constructs.
2007-06-08: Chilled cider warms lido.
2007-06-08: David Korn's shell coding guidelines.
2007-06-08: Solaris shell coding style.
2007-06-08: Electronic Arts STL.
2007-06-08: You can't make cheese from human milk because it does not curdle.
2007-06-08: A physics teacher complains about the destruction of the science GCSE syllabus.
2007-06-07: How UK Internet censorship works (or fails to).
2007-06-07: Home Office moving towards Internet censorship in the UK.
2007-06-07: Can the suspect tell his story backwards? If not, he's lying.
2007-06-07: Cycling in London.
2007-06-07: How lucrative domain parking can be.
2007-06-07: The art of wikigroaning.
2007-06-06: Effects of adding water to whisky.
2007-06-06: Promotion of unhealthy baby food in the Philippines by western governments.
2007-06-06: Lrexlib is a Lua binding of POSIX and PCRE regular expression libraries.
2007-06-06: Elite - text adventure version.
2007-06-06: The landscape of parallel computing research: a view from Berkeley.
2007-06-06: Merrimac - Stanford streaming supercomputer project.
2007-06-06: Brook for GPUs is a compiler and runtime implementation of the Brook stream program language for modern graphics hardware.
2007-06-06: Popular girls' names.
2007-06-06: Popular boys' names.
2007-06-05: Pregnancy and unscientific advice.
2007-06-05: "The Depot": JISC national online academic publication repository.
2007-06-05: Scheme-to-Erlang compiler.
2007-06-05: An amusing way to get the sack.
2007-06-05: Automated white-box fuzz testing.
2007-06-05: Ray Bradbury claims Fahrenheit 451 is not about censorship. (!)
2007-06-05: Crackpot checklist.
2007-06-05: Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006.
2007-06-04: Doctors change the way they think about death.
2007-06-04: London 2012 olympics logo.
2007-06-04: ACM curricula recommendations.
2007-06-04: Sophos global headquarters in Abingdon.
2007-06-04: London 2012 olympics logo.
2007-06-04: Inside Google's search quality department.
2007-06-04: Jack Straw guilty of "treating" (electoral corruption).
2007-06-04: Skoda Fabia cake ad.
2007-06-04: Termite is an Erlang-like distributed programming system written in Scheme.
2007-06-04: Compiling Erlang to Scheme.
2007-06-04: Distributing requests for DNS service using GNU Zebra, ISC BIND 9 and FreeBSD.
2007-06-04: London 2012 olympics logo.
2007-06-01: LOLsingularity.
2007-06-01: LOLpoets.
2007-05-31: What's wrong with doctors.
2007-05-31: How to get good science.
2007-05-31: LambdaVM - a JVM backend for GHC.
2007-05-31: Real world Haskell - the web site of the book.
2007-05-30: Patch to improve enhanced USB keyboard support in FreeBSD.
2007-05-30: Microsoft enhanced keyboard notes.
2007-05-30: Microsoft USB HID to PS/2 key code mapping.
2007-05-30: Top ten weirdest keyboards ever.
2007-05-29: LOLcode.
2007-05-29: A strange home-made keyboard.
2007-05-29: Engineering a sort function.
2007-05-29: Dylan programming.
2007-05-29: The Dylan reference manual.
2007-05-28: Practical Common Lisp.
2007-05-28: Common Lisp: a gentle introduction to symbolic computation.
2007-05-28: "On Lisp" online.
2007-05-28: Languages for programming the JVM.
2007-05-25: Revctrl wiki, for discussion about revision control systems.
2007-05-25: Low MMR vaccination leads to lots of measels in Coventry.
2007-05-25: Increasing the efficiency of quicksort.
2007-05-25: Optimal sorting of 5 objects with 7 comparisons.
2007-05-25: Can you sort five objects with seven comparisons?
2007-05-25: Introduction to the Puppet configuration manager.
2007-05-25: The SNOBOL4 programming language.
2007-05-24: Where is the centre of London?
2007-05-22: A brief look at C++0X.
2007-05-22: Keyboard vs. mouse (part 3).
2007-05-22: Keyboard vs. mouse (part 2).
2007-05-22: Keyboard vs. mouse (part 1).
2007-05-22: First principles of interaction design.
2007-05-19: Beat the stock market using good customer service.
2007-05-18: Ontology is overrated and tagging is the future.
2007-05-18: How to print floating point numbers accurately.
2007-05-18: How to read floating point numbers accurately.
2007-05-18: Making a film using CCTV and the Data Protection Act.
2007-05-18: No organic hives lost to bee colony collapse syndrome?
2007-05-18: "These come from trees" stickers.
2007-05-17: Sparkling wine in a can.
2007-05-16: Source repository formats matter.
2007-05-16: Lua quick ref.
2007-05-15: Creative business card designs.
2007-05-15: Pictures of Mirny diamond mine.
2007-05-15: Mirny diamond mine.
2007-05-15: Some interesting keyboards.
2007-05-15: John Graham-Cumming on France's national Signal Spam service.
2007-05-15: Living in the presence.
2007-05-15: So you want to learn Japanese...
2007-05-15: Why Chinese is so damn hard.
2007-05-15: Direct Cambridge-Paris rail link on track for success.
2007-05-14: Distributed multihead X.
2007-05-14: I'm in Ur... (2)
2007-05-14: I'm in Ur... (1)
2007-05-14: Charlie Stross on lifelogging.
2007-05-14: Lua helper threads.
2007-05-13: VMS cluster uptimes.
2007-05-13: LuaTask.
2007-05-13: Pretty dirty tops.
2007-05-13: Twelve steps to Scala.
2007-05-13: Martin's completely perfect language.
2007-05-11: ColourBrewer - online tool for choosing colour schemes for data graphics.
2007-05-11: A 3D fabricator that makes objects from sugar.
2007-05-10: What an anti-spam doorbell from 1933 teaches us about email spam.
2007-05-10: How not to praise your kids.
2007-05-10: Spamtrap.
2007-05-09: Uri Geller counter-sued for bogus copyright takedown demand.
2007-05-09: Robots are a soldier's best friend.
2007-05-09: Bit-level binaries in Erlang, including a very cute uudecode one-liner.
2007-05-08: A graphical notation for the lambda calculus with animated reduction.
2007-05-08: Alligators and eggs.
2007-05-08: Copas: coroutine oriented portable asynchronous services for Lua.
2007-05-08: Coplex: Lua co-operative multiplexing.
2007-05-08: LuaEvent.
2007-05-08: LuaJIT.
2007-05-07: Equal rights for functional objects, or, the more things change, the more they are the same.
2007-05-06: BEST waffle iron EVAR.
2007-05-06: A collection of functional pearls.
2007-05-06: Lehrer's elements, including the as-yet-to-be-discuvered ones.
2007-05-06: Form 1040 schedule CI - income from academic conflict of interest.
2007-05-06: The McNamara fallacy.
2007-05-06: Jim Horning's beard.
2007-05-05: Threads and IO in the synthesis kernel.
2007-05-05: The synthesis kernel.
2007-05-04: Steve Yegge: the next big language.
2007-05-02: A group is its own worst enemy.
2007-05-01: Learning quickly when irrelevant attributes abound: A new linear-threshold algorithm.
2007-05-01: Combining winnow and orthogonal sparse bigrams for incremental spam filtering.
2007-05-01: Quantum crypto broken.
2007-04-30: The implementation of functional programming languages.
2007-04-30: Implementing functional languages: a tutorial.
2007-04-30: Notes on optimizing "ditionaries" (hash tables) in the Python source.
2007-04-30: Teaching real-time programming using model trains.
2007-04-30: Elsa is a C and C++ parser.
2007-04-30: Is a fungus the cause of bee colony collapse disorder?
2007-04-30: Hedge funds and institutional investors funding patent trolls.
2007-04-30: OECD broadband statistics to December 2006.
2007-04-30: The general-purpose storage revolution.
2007-04-30: A layman's guide to a subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER.
2007-04-30: LOL geeks.
2007-04-30: Ceph - petabyte-scale distributed storage.
2007-04-26: Proect Honeypot - five days of announcements.
2007-04-25: Highly automated RAID box.
2007-04-25: Links to reviews of The Execution Channel by Ken Macleod.
2007-04-25: Adventures of a functional programmer on Wall Street.
2007-04-25: Let's cut to the chase.
2007-04-19: draft-fanf-smtp-quickstart-a-00
2007-04-19: draft-fanf-smtp-quickstart-b-00
2007-04-18: WTF! Little children get arrested in Florida.
2007-04-18: Changes to jemalloc.
2007-04-18: Roads are for bikes too.
2007-04-17: Useless cat.
2007-04-17: Resources for Cambridge parents.
2007-04-17: FreeBSD revision control requirements.
2007-04-17: Mozilla revision control requirements.
2007-04-16: Encapsulating plurality.
2007-04-16: Optimizing dynamically-typed object-oriented languages with polymorphic inline caches.
2007-04-15: History of the Emerald programming language.
2007-04-15: "Type" is not a type.
2007-04-15: Anatomy of a click-fraud bot.
2007-04-15: 15-year-old jailed for 12 days because of US DST confusion.
2007-04-15: Little fingers keyboard.
2007-04-15: My first keyboard.
2007-04-15: When the CRC and the TCP checksum disagree.
2007-04-13: Bill Gates wanted ACPI to be Windows-specific.
2007-04-12: What do you get if you cross Ubuntu with Solaris?
2007-04-12: ARC - adaptive replacement cache - balances most-frequently-used and most-recently-used.
2007-04-12: "Technical debt" and "technical inflation".
2007-04-12: ZFS the movie, starring Bart Simpson as Jeff Bonwick.
2007-04-12: Why ZFS matters to Mac users.
2007-04-12: Otterly silly.
2007-04-12: LEGO digital designer.
2007-04-12: The solution to C++ threading is Erlang.
2007-04-12: Hamster shredder.
2007-04-11: Cambridge University Library's tower stands 157 feet tall, six feet shorter than the top of St John's College Chapel and ten feet taller than the peak of King's College Chapel.
2007-04-11: Gnome Mail Notification icon, with IMAP IDLE support.
2007-04-11: draft-fanf-smtp-quickstart-01
2007-04-11: Ski down the longest escalator in Europe.
2007-04-11: 6502 compatible compiler and emulator in javascript.
2007-04-11: Dr Aas is an advocate of faecal bacteriotherapy.
2007-04-10: SMS spam in Ireland.
2007-04-10: Apache gets stroppy with Sun about Java open licensing.
2007-04-10: Neat home-made chain reaction video.
2007-04-06: ZFS is now part of FreeBSD.
2007-04-06: Nix is a purely functional package manager.
2007-04-06: FizzBuzz implemented in C++ templates.
2007-04-05: "Daylight saving" fails to save energy in the US, just like Oz.
2007-04-05: Pixelator.
2007-04-04: A con as big as the Ritz.
2007-04-04: Karen Spärck Jones (26 August 1935 - 4 April 2007).
2007-04-04: draft-fanf-smtp-quickstart-00
2007-04-03: Best games by UCSC "intro to game design" students.
2007-04-03: Vista's code signing compromised - the return of the boot sector virus?
2007-04-02: Google seppuku.
2007-04-02: JavaScript hijacking.
2007-04-02: Alexander Sotirov presents a JavaScript library with functions for setting up the heap in a controlled state before triggering a heap corruption bug. This allows him to exploit very difficult heap corruption vulnerabilities with great reliability and precision.
2007-04-02: Email outage at MIT.
2007-04-02: Hume (Higher-order Unified Meta-Environment) is a strongly typed, mostly-functional language for concurrent, real-time, safety-critical systems.
2007-04-02: Information software and the graphical interface.
2007-03-31: xmpp4moz.
2007-03-30: Successor-ML.
2007-03-30: Cambridge JANET traffic accounting data - email uses 3% of the University's bandwidth.
2007-03-29: Support for PEP in ejabberd.
2007-03-29: Comparison of the concurrency concepts of Ada, Chill, Erlang, and Java.
2007-03-29: Description and comparision of the concurrency concepts of Ada, Java and CHILL.
2007-03-29: Erlang flexible process registry.
2007-03-29: Googlephone press release.
2007-03-28: Microsoft Windows 2000 TCP/IP implementation details.
2007-03-28: TCP over WAN performance tuning and troubleshooting.
2007-03-27: I just found out that EastNet (i.e. Cambridge) now has an uplink to Leeds as well as London.
2007-03-27: The effect of file sharing on record sales: an empirical analysis.
2007-03-27: Liability of ISPs for third-party material.
2007-03-27: The UK's e-commerce regulations.
2007-03-27: OUCS cleartext email shutdown.
2007-03-27: del.icio.us and academic research.
2007-03-27: The world's most important 6-second drum loop - the "amen" break.
2007-03-26: Why security is hard - an economic perspective.
2007-03-26: RFC humo(u)r.
2007-03-26: How Emily tamed the Caml - Emily is a subset of OCaml that uses a design rule verifier to enforce object-capability principles.
2007-03-24: Stanford University wins lawsuit against James Joyce's copyright ghouls.
2007-03-23: Borderware IP address reputation database.
2007-03-23: Watford Electronics is no more.
2007-03-23: Martin Keegan's obituary of Chris Lightfoot.
2007-03-23: Dutch government blackmailed by e-voting manufacturer.
2007-03-22: Alternative software development.
2007-03-22: What every computer scientist should know about floating point.
2007-03-21: Simon Schubert's simple stub unix mailer.
2007-03-20: Video of Luminox - the Oxford fire art festival.
2007-03-20: Connecting web spammers with advertisers.
2007-03-20: The Nullarbor Nymph.
2007-03-20: Auralex Acoustics is the industry leader in acoustical treatment products.
2007-03-20: Class and web design.
2007-03-20: Fantastic anti-spam story.
2007-03-18: Stupid email disclaimers.
2007-03-18: Google Gapminder World 2006.
2007-03-18: Gapminder applications.
2007-03-17: The PSYC developers on XML.
2007-03-17: The PSYC developers on Jabber.
2007-03-16: Torben Mogensen's "basics of compiler design".
2007-03-16: Isn't it alanic ... dontcha think?
2007-03-16: "Pith Helmet" ad blocker for Safari.
2007-03-16: "Saft" adds lots of features to Safari.
2007-03-16: "Pith" Safari crash recovery tool.
2007-03-16: Enable the Safari debug menu.
2007-03-16: "Microsoft is not a security company. Security is important, but it's just a little part of Microsoft." -- Arno Edelmann, Microsoft's European business security product manager.
2007-03-16: Orwell on "politics and the English language".
2007-03-16: Knuth on "mathematical writing".
2007-03-16: "Considered harmful" essays considered harmful.
2007-03-16: Twitter growth graph from Alexaholic.
2007-03-16: Geomerics "Enlighten" real-time radiosity demo. (YouTube)
2007-03-16: Accessible train timetables.
2007-03-16: Real-world DRM.
2007-03-16: Obituary of Chris Lightfoot in The Times.
2007-03-14: Markus Kuhn on academic publication.
2007-03-14: The primary component of [SPEC CPU 2006 perlbench] is the Open Source spam checking software SpamAssassin.
2007-03-14: Wrongfully imprisoned? You still have to pay for your stay.
2007-03-13: Scalable statistical bug isolation.
2007-03-13: Network partitions and Erlang/OTP.
2007-03-13: Pirahã Exceptionality: a Reassessment.
2007-03-12: Beautiful code: leading programmers explain how they think. (Amazon)
2007-03-12: My Twitter page.
2007-03-12: Open source at Joost.
2007-03-12: Ejabberd + jwchat.
2007-03-11: Juggling in a gravity well.
2007-03-11: Juggling in a cone.
2007-03-09: Microsoft customers melting down over daylight saving patches.
2007-03-09: stunserver.org
2007-03-09: GTalk-to-VoIP.
2007-03-09: libjingle includes a STUN server.
2007-03-09: Vovida STUN server.
2007-03-08: SEC cracks down on spam-driven small stocks.
2007-03-08: Disk failures in the real world: what does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?
2007-03-07: Alternative keyboards listed by the adaptive technology for information and computing group at MIT.
2007-03-06: Using packet symmetry to curtail malicious traffic.
2007-03-06: Nigerian dead parrot sketch.
2007-03-06: Encouraging people towards piracy.
2007-03-05: No2ID obituary of Chris Lightfoot.
2007-03-05: MySociety obituary of Chris Lightfoot.
2007-03-05: Chris Lightfoot 1978-2007.
2007-03-05: Tim O'Reilly: Concurrent programming: Erlang, Haskell...and XSLT.
2007-03-04: Programming Erlang - software for a concurrent world - Joe Armstrong.
2007-03-01: Metalua - language extensions in and for Lua.
2007-02-28: Economic controls for corporate intranet junk email?
2007-02-28: Walking times between tube stations in zone 1.
2007-02-27: Veniamin's human slinky.
2007-02-27: "Beamer" is a LaTeX class that allows you to create presentation slides and handouts.
2007-02-27: LaTeX links from CUED.
2007-02-27: MailChannels server survey, reported in O'Reilly SysAdmin magazine.
2007-02-27: Dan Shearer's MTA comparison.
2007-02-27: Mail server survey, April 2003.
2007-02-27: Mail server survey, April 2004.
2007-02-27: The Cray XMT platform can scale to a system with over 8000 processors providing over one million simultaneous threads and 128 terabytes of shared memory.
2007-02-27: Children swimming with polar bears.
2007-02-26: Interlocking 3D puzzles.
2007-02-23: Failure trends in Google's large disk drive population.
2007-02-22: An SMTP proxy written in Perl.
2007-02-22: Ejabberd module API documentation.
2007-02-20: Autoyast documentation.
2007-02-20: Canadian time zone anomalies.
2007-02-20: Hied-emailadmin list archives.
2007-02-20: MX server survey - Exim at number 3!
2007-02-20: See-through car.
2007-02-20: MS Exchange and its catastrophic handling of the USA DST rule change.
2007-02-19: Darwin Calendar Server.
2007-02-16: Office boaties.
2007-02-15: Music industry executives don't like DRM.
2007-02-14: Wired magazine on Bitfrost.
2007-02-14: OLPC security architecture: "Bitfrost".
2007-02-14: Threading in JavaScript 1.7.
2007-02-14: Linux syslets - generic async chained syscalls.
2007-02-14: Hennesy & Patterson talking about trends in computer architecture.
2007-02-14: Brendan Eich says threads suck.
2007-02-14: No news is good news.
2007-02-13: Bundle sysadmin automation tool.
2007-02-13: Clarissa Dickson-Wright.
2007-02-13: Finger trees: a simple general-purpose purely functional data structure.
2007-02-13: Mersenne Twister non-crypto random number generator.
2007-02-13: How to remove a lobster's shell without damaging the flesh inside.
2007-02-12: Lawrence Lessig on the Republicans, the Internet, and innovation.
2007-02-12: Gillian McKeith is astonishingly ignorant of basic nutritional and medical science
2007-02-11: The public lives of modern youth.
2007-02-08: Calvin's snowmen.
2007-02-08: draft-fanf-smtp-rfc1845bis-01
2007-02-08: Colour schemes for graphs.
2007-02-07: BBC web design principles.
2007-02-07: Diagrams of system call traces comparing Apache on Linux to IIS on Windows.
2007-02-07: Proebsting's Law.
2007-02-07: Apple makes it clear they are anti-DRM.
2007-02-07: Matthew Garrett on ACPI.
2007-02-06: Team Cymru DNS name server status pages.
2007-02-05: Piece of sh- Symbian.
2007-02-05: Why the iPhone is ARM but not Symbian.
2007-02-03: Does extending daylight saving time save energy? Evidence from an Australian experiment.
2007-02-02: RabbitMQ - a complete open-source implementation of the advanced message queue protocol.
2007-02-01: Breastfeeding pharmacology.
2007-02-01: The Jacobson and Appel "fastest scrabble program in the west".
2007-02-01: Hardware acceleration for ClamAV.
2007-02-01: Risks of Windows Vista's speech command feature.
2007-01-30: How to write shared libraries.
2007-01-30: US radio spectrum allocations.
2007-01-30: Bumptop.
2007-01-30: Tupper's self-referential formula.
2007-01-29: Definitional interpreters revisited.
2007-01-29: Definitional interpreters for higher-order programming languages.
2007-01-29: Orange Problems.
2007-01-29: 53 CSS techniques you can probably live without.
2007-01-29: Assessing the security threats of looping constructs.
2007-01-28: Houses to be built by 3D concrete inkjet printers.
2007-01-28: Programming the greedy CAM machine.
2007-01-27: Is god an accident?
2007-01-26: An empirical study of spam traffic and the use of DNS black lists.
2007-01-26: Comparative graphs of DNS blacklists.
2007-01-26: The shadow tells the time.
2007-01-26: draft-fanf-smtp-rfc1845bis-00
2007-01-25: Switzerland's valley of death.
2007-01-25: Standard video screen sizes.
2007-01-25: The tao of debugging.
2007-01-25: Hierarchial data format, good for time-series data.
2007-01-25: Cable-lacing howto.
2007-01-24: ENECO has developed the Thermal Chip, a new type of semiconductor device for direct energy conversion between heat and electricity.
2007-01-24: The greatest drunk on earth.
2007-01-24: Outlook renders inline message information as an attachment, deliberately ignoring RFC 2183.
2007-01-24: Experience deploying high density 802.11 networks.
2007-01-24: Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results.
2007-01-24: Get lost.
2007-01-24: OMG facebook LOL.
2007-01-23: Elections in Georgia (USA) are run by Kennesaw State University. (!)
2007-01-23: More porn leads to less rape.
2007-01-23: Joel Spolsky on the 1900 leap year bug.
2007-01-23: OOXML propagates the Lotus 123 / MS Excel 1900 leap year bug and the Mac/PC Excel epoch incompatibility.
2007-01-23: Live pagerank.
2007-01-23: Resistance to anti-TB drugs in populations is a phenomenon that occurs primarily due to poorly managed TB care. Problems include incorrect drug prescribing practices by providers, poor quality drugs or erratic supply of drugs, and also patient non-adherence.
2007-01-23: Extreme drug resistant TB.
2007-01-22: Books on ethics are stolen more than other philosophy books.
2007-01-22: Direct measurement of spam zombie activity in a residential broadband network.
2007-01-22: Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions report on circuit path diversity.
2007-01-22: BT deploys zombie detection on its broadband network.
2007-01-22: Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing.
2007-01-22: Errors of fact in Richard Dawkins's "The God Delusion".
2007-01-22: The suggestion that women are not advancing in science because of innate inability is being taken seriously by some high-profile academics. Ben A. Barres explains what is wrong with the hypothesis.
2007-01-22: UW IMAP "mix" format mailboxes.
2007-01-22: How R2D2 and Chewie led the Rebelloin.
2007-01-21: Customer sends in bailiffs to seize bank's computers.
2007-01-21: The near future of digital photography.
2007-01-21: Disastrously bad American maths curricula.
2007-01-17: First jury conviction under CAN-SPAM act.
2007-01-17: More about marine cable repair.
2007-01-17: Boxing Day earthquake cable repair problems.
2007-01-17: Telegeography map of the submarine cables damaged by the Boxing Day earthquake.
2007-01-17: Response to the petition to the Prime Minister for a private copying exemption to copyright.
2007-01-17: Upgrade your iPod with a blender.
2007-01-16: The technology and stats of the 2007 MacRumorsLive keynote coverage.
2007-01-16: Arkell vs. Pressdram.
2007-01-16: gross - greylisting of suspicious sources.
2007-01-16: Spreadsheets, Improv, and other improvements.
2007-01-15: "Reading design"
2007-01-14: GIOVE-A becomes official, but where's the rest of Galileo?
2007-01-14: GSM operators, coverage maps, and roaming information.
2007-01-14: Why Oyster's e-money plans hit the buffers.
2007-01-14: Dimmable compact fluorescent bulb - works with normal dimmer switch.
2007-01-14: Dimmable compact fluorescent bulb - works with normal binary light switch.
2007-01-14: Nazi raccoons invade Europe!
2007-01-12: Occam-π.
2007-01-12: What Ryan Lackey did next.
2007-01-12: HavenCo: what really happened.
2007-01-12: Supreme court says patent licensees can sue to be released from future licence fees before they risk infringing the patent.
2007-01-12: Keep the lasagna flying.
2007-01-12: Amnesty International demonstration against Guantanamo Bay.
2007-01-11: The Oxford and Cambridge Act 1571.
2007-01-11: Dove's guide for church bell ringers.
2007-01-11: DB Fletcher Capstan Table.
2007-01-11: LG KE850 vs Apple iPhone.
2007-01-11: Map of dioceses in England.
2007-01-11: Cambridge Garden Centres.
2007-01-11: Beautiful expanding circular table.
2007-01-11: ... then they came for the librarians ...
2007-01-11: "Until literature departments take into account that humans are not just cultural or textual phenomena but something more complex, English and related disciplines will continue to be the laughingstock of the academic world that they have been for years because of their obscurantist dogmatism and their coddled and preening pseudo-radicalism."
2007-01-10: Walking with dinosaurs - LIVE!
2007-01-10: A substitute school teacher in Connecticut has been found guilty of exposing children to spyware.
2007-01-10: MS Outlook 2007 uses MS Word to render HTML, not MSIE!
2007-01-10: 6.5% of British people are stupid and greedy.
2007-01-10: Andrews & Arnold compliance with email requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
2007-01-10: The world's most accurate NTP hardware?
2007-01-09: Conformal projections.
2007-01-09: Polyhedral maps.
2007-01-09: Multi-touch user interface.
2007-01-09: Experimental demonstration of General Relativity is child's play.
2007-01-08: Symmetricom bought HP's atomic clock business from Agilent.
2007-01-08: Information about the DARPA chip-scale atomic clock project from their contractor Symmetricom.
2007-01-07: The plant by my desk is an "epipremnum".
2007-01-06: Harrison's deliberately imperfect chronometer.
2007-01-06: A blog of strange maps.
2007-01-05: How well-prepared is the US for economic collapse?
2007-01-05: A history of the international date line.
2007-01-05: The shock of the old.
2007-01-05: Querty vs. Dvorak.
2007-01-05: Wikileaks - untraceable mass document leaking and analysis - a system enables everyone to leak safely to a ready audience is the most cost effective means of promoting good government.
2007-01-04: Save Milton Country Park.
2007-01-04: Religions in SF.
2007-01-03: The LanguageLog on Vicky Pollard.
2007-01-03: British aviation futurology from 1920.
2007-01-02: Electromagnetic analysis of synchronous and asynchronous circuits using hard disc heads.
2007-01-02: A4 cut-paper art.
2007-01-01: Hilarious French self-parody.
2007-01-01: Lung hyperpermeability and asthma prevalence in schoolchildren: unexpected associations with the attendance at indoor chlorinated swimming pools.
2006-12-29: Getting started with amateur time and frequency.
2006-12-29: Calendars as types: data modeling, constraint reasoning, and type checking with calendars.
2006-12-29: UTC is an observational calendar.
2006-12-29: David W. Allan - brilliant time metrologist, but perhaps a bit batty in his old age?
2006-12-28: The National Bureau of Standards atomic time scale: generation, stability, accuracy and accessibility.
2006-12-27: The Guardian on MovieOS.
2006-12-27: Jakob Nielsen on MovieOS.
2006-12-27: Syntonicity and the psychology of programming.
2006-12-27: Programming antiobjects.
2006-12-26: Republic of Terra calendar specification (bonkers).
2006-12-26: International conference held at Washington for the purpose of fixing a prime meridian and a universal day.
2006-12-24: Prime Minister's strategy unit policy review on crime, justice and cohesion (part 2).
2006-12-24: Prime Minister's strategy unit policy review on crime, justice and cohesion (part 1).
2006-12-24: A cost analysis of Windows Vista high-definition video content protection.
2006-12-22: Atomic time-keeping from 1955 to the present.
2006-12-22: Beautiful concurrency.
2006-12-21: Unifying Atomic Time and the post-Gregorian calendar corrections.
2006-12-21: What to do if International Time hits the International Date Line?
2006-12-21: Timecounters: Efficient and precise timekeeping in SMP kernels.
2006-12-21: The nanokernel.
2006-12-21: On the chronometry and metrology of computer network timescales and their application to the network time protocol.
2006-12-20: A translation of Gregory's Papal Bull on calendar reform.
2006-12-20: More on Roman calendar reform.
2006-12-20: Roman calendar reform.
2006-12-20: Errata for "Calendrical Calculations".
2006-12-19: Switchy McLayout - width-adaptive web pages.
2006-12-19: Gilbert Heaton on dates and times.
2006-12-19: Frequently asked questions about calendars.
2006-12-19: Unicode common locale data repository.
2006-12-19: TAI - UTC according to the USNO (same data as from the IERS but more readable).
2006-12-19: IERS Bulletin D - DUT1.
2006-12-19: Relationship between TAI and UTC from 1961.
2006-12-19: Offsets and step adjustments of UTC from 1961.
2006-12-19: The Olson tz database.
2006-12-19: Paul Eggart's modernized <time.h> proposal.
2006-12-19: Clive Feather's struct tmx proposal.
2006-12-19: DJB's libtai.
2006-12-19: Markus Kuhn's proposed new <time.h>.
2006-12-19: Jonathan Lennox's proposal for thread-safe time zone information in C and POSIX.
2006-12-19: SRFI 19: Time data types and procedures for Scheme.
2006-12-19: David Tribble's struct timezone proposal.
2006-12-19: David Tribble's struct calendar proposal.
2006-12-19: David Tribble's longtime_t proposal.
2006-12-19: The Russians had a nuke in their embassy in Washington, DC.
2006-12-18: Perl 5.10 advanced regexes.
2006-12-18: Time thing of the year: 1982 vs 2006.
2006-12-18: Joel on simplicity.
2006-12-18: Simplicity is highly overrated.
2006-12-17: Great works in programming languages.
2006-12-15: OSBF-Lua: text classification using orthogonal sparse bigrams and exponential differential document count confidence factors.
2006-12-14: Bulldozers tear down giant religious teapot.
2006-12-14: How to claim back bank penalty charges.
2006-12-14: Joseph and Mary discuss breast feeding.
2006-12-14: Everything you didn't want to have to know about spam.
2006-12-14: World's tallest man saves dolphins.
2006-12-14: Practical type inference based on success typing.
2006-12-14: Any attempt to improve the security of PHP from the inside is futile. (Let alone the outside?)
2006-12-14: Jason Scott: "Mythapedia".
2006-12-14: textfiles.com
2006-12-14: Cambridge regional war room (no fighting!).
2006-12-14: Brooklands Avenue bunker saved from demolition.
2006-12-14: The BBC on the bunker.
2006-12-14: Cambridge 2000 on the bunker.
2006-12-14: Brooklands Avenue bunker (scroll down 50%).
2006-12-14: A nuclear bunker.
2006-12-12: How I Broke Bath, and other stories.
2006-12-11: Identification of sources of failures and their propagation in critical infrastructures from 12 years of public failure reports.
2006-12-10: Nikodemus's Common Lisp FAQ.
2006-12-09: Most-cited computer scientists, according to their h-numbers.
2006-12-09: Eskimo: experimenting with skeletons in the shared address model.
2006-12-09: Commercial users of functional programming, 2006.
2006-12-09: Google's thread-cacheing malloc().
2006-12-09: Are High-level Languages suitable for Robust Telecoms Software?
2006-12-09: What would happen if you were to connect all the ZIP codes in the US in ascending order?
2006-12-04: Petrovich - an operating system based on reward and punishment.
2006-12-04: Intelligent design sort.
2006-12-04: Erlang SMTP client.
2006-12-04: Sanesecurity ClamAV signatures.
2006-12-04: The Wolfson Foundation: a historical perspective.
2006-12-03: Some characteristic features of natural languages.
2006-12-03: Joshua Bloch on how to design a good API and why it matters.
2006-12-01: Beixo - yet another shaft-driven bike.
2006-12-01: CERNY.schema
2006-12-01: iBar
2006-12-01: Literate Haskell JPEG decoder.
2006-11-30: Alpine: Apache-licenced Pine.
2006-11-28: The ceiling cat is watching you.
2006-11-28: Java (DSpace) developer job at the Computing Service.
2006-11-26: London: a life in maps - an exhibition at the British Library.
2006-11-24: Exceptions and side-effects in atomic blocks.
2006-11-23: Air-port security.
2006-11-23: Why Michael Dillon's final, ultimate solution to the spam problem isn't.
2006-11-23: Simon Peyton Jones and Tim Harris talk about transactional memory.
2006-11-23: Bill Bailey and Billy Bragg performing "Unisex Chip Shop".
2006-11-22: Waves and bubbles in a large free sphere of water.
2006-11-22: MGM to release Obree movie in the U.S.
2006-11-21: Passive versus active voice.
2006-11-21: The things mentioned here are not debatable, they are facts about English that can easily be checked, and it is about time copy editors were told to stop wasting millions of hours on pointlessly correcting them when they were correct in the first place.
2006-11-21: Computer-generated recording of the mega-tittums touch on 16 handbells from the Ancient Society of College Youths' dinner.
2006-11-21: WTF-8.
2006-11-20: The layers principle: Internet architecture and the law.
2006-11-20: linogram is the constraint-driven diagram-drawing program described in Chapter 9 of Higher-Order Perl.
2006-11-20: Franchise jurisdictions - relevant to odd obsolete things like the university and heraldic courts.
2006-11-17: No2ID petition on the Prime Minister's petitions web site.
2006-11-17: Why SOAP sucks.
2006-11-17: Stuff that's broken.
2006-11-16: The radioactive boy scout.
2006-11-16: Waterken web calculus.
2006-11-16: Waterken: secure multi-user distributed applications.
2006-11-16: The next mainstream programming language: a game developer's perspective.
2006-11-16: Least privilege and more.
2006-11-16: The Oz-E Project: design guidelines for a secure multiparadigm programming language.
2006-11-16: Nick Szabo's essays, papers, and concise tutorials.
2006-11-16: Scarce objects.
2006-11-16: The Scala experiment.
2006-11-15: The utterly brilliant Leopold Tea Tube.
2006-11-15: Can abstract state machines be useful in language theory?
2006-11-15: Vulnerabilities in scriptable multiplayer online games.
2006-11-15: The Cambridge CAP computer.
2006-11-15: Monitor your Linux computer with machine-generated music.
2006-11-15: Busting blocks: appropriate legal remedies for wrongful inclusion in spam filters under U.S. law.
2006-11-15: George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, talks up Linux and Wikipedia.
2006-11-15: Stop Spam Alliance - talking shop for intergovernmental agencies.
2006-11-14: Sideways bike.
2006-11-14: Advanced tools for operators at Amazon.com.
2006-11-13: Writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell.
2006-11-13: How XLib is implemented, and what we're doing about it.
2006-11-13: The need for asynchronous, zero-copy network IO.
2006-11-13: TV licensing abandons case against unlicensed TV owner.
2006-11-12: Applied pi - a brief tutorial.
2006-11-12: The polyadic pi calculus: a tutorial.
2006-11-12: Overloading whitespace in C++.
2006-11-12: The long road to 64 bits.
2006-11-11: Indirection is not abstraction.
2006-11-10: Neko vs. Lua.
2006-11-10: The joy of #!
2006-11-10: Low-level virtual machine / compiler infrastructure.
2006-11-10: Neko embeddable programming language.
2006-11-09: Petition against copyright term extension for recorded music.
2006-11-08: Comments on the Adobe/Mozilla deal.
2006-11-08: Adobe/Macromedia Flash's scripting engine to be made open source and given to Mozilla.
2006-11-07: "Reactable" synth controller videos.
2006-11-06: The Dockum drug store sit-in in Wichita, Kansas, July-August 1958.
2006-11-06: ikiwiki.
2006-11-06: Markdown wikitext syntax.
2006-11-06: More details of Fastmail's Cyrus replication deployment.
2006-11-06: Patterns of Software by Richard P. Gabriel.
2006-11-06: Continuum fingerboard - amazing synth controller.
2006-11-01: Time-lines of computer science research, development, and commercialization.
2006-11-01: nbsmtp - no-brainer SMTP client, not sendmail-compatible.
2006-11-01: esmtp - sendmail-compatible stub SMTP client with local delivery support.
2006-11-01: msmtp - sendmail-compatible stub SMTP client.
2006-11-01: 3D triangles in Javascript.
2006-11-01: Fastmail has fully deployed the Cambridge Cyrus replication code.
2006-10-31: Optimizing HTTP page load time.
2006-10-31: mailsync - another IMAP mailbox synchronizer.
2006-10-31: isync - another IMAP mailbox synchronizer (predecessor of asis).
2006-10-31: imapsync - another IMAP mailbox synchronizer.
2006-10-31: offlineimap - another IMAP mailbox synchronizer.
2006-10-31: asis - fast IMAP disconnected mode mailbox synchronizer.
2006-10-31: The view source key.
2006-10-26: Batten on the OSI / Internet wars.
2006-10-26: The anatomy of a loop.
2006-10-26: Multi-return function call.
2006-10-25: Erlang: the movie.
2006-10-20: Ryan Finnie's MIME torture test.
2006-10-20: MIME examples, including a torture test.
2006-10-19: Flow rate fairness: dismantling a religion.
2006-10-16: Here comes Bod.
2006-10-12: The church of Google.
2006-10-12: Lightning exits woman's bottom.
2006-10-11: ICANN on the Spamhaus / e360Insight lawsuit.
2006-10-11: Future versions of Qualcomm Eudora to be based on Mozilla Thunderbird.
2006-10-09: Turning off disk caches on an Infortrend Eonstor.
2006-10-08: A very modal model of a modern, major, general type system.
2006-10-07: Sub-woofers.
2006-10-05: Sunifdef - Symbian unifdef.
2006-10-04: Higher pay for long service ruled illegal.
2006-10-04: BURL in action.
2006-10-03: Death-by-committee of the first-mover advantage.
2006-10-03: Web 2.0 versus HTML 2.0?
2006-10-03: Ministerium fuer Heimatsicherheit?
2006-10-03: Daniel Davies on the loss of confidence in public sector IT.
2006-10-02: Implementation and performance evaluation of a safe runtime system in Cyclone.
2006-09-30: Philip Wadler's page about computational thinking, including a wildly off-the-mark quote from Dijkstra.
2006-09-30: Strange tale of Boris Johnson and his US passport.
2006-09-29: Douglas Adams - Hyperland - 1990. (google video)
2006-09-28: Clinton advocates ubuntu.
2006-09-28: BBC gets into bed with MICROS~1.
2006-09-28: Program yourself. (youtube)
2006-09-27: Live train map of the UK. (Google Maps mashup)
2006-09-27: Google working on efficient computer power supplies.
2006-09-26: Ron Rivest's ThreeBallot voting system.
2006-09-26: Flash animation of middle eastern empires in the last 3500 years.
2006-09-25: Which services should remain offline?
2006-09-25: John Baez's crackpot index.
2006-09-25: Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit.
2006-09-25: Greg Egan pleas to save New Scientist.
2006-09-24: OMG girlz don't exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1
2006-09-24: Domain models are aspect-free.
2006-09-22: AJAX and mobile computing.
2006-09-22: HP optical mouse without scroll wheel.
2006-09-21: Weaknesses in HMAC?
2006-09-20: Blackbeard the Pirate's Rugged Tampons.
2006-09-20: Turn a Brompton into a kiddie-tandem.
2006-09-20: Don't spam your own ISP's abuse desk when joe-jobbing Spamhaus.
2006-09-20: What 11th September means to Chileans.
2006-09-20: Russ Allbery on community.
2006-09-19: Whit shud we feed tha burds fur?
2006-09-19: Earliest uses of symbols of operation.
2006-09-19: Overview of the Internet in Zimbabwe in 2000.
2006-09-19: No bread in Zim either.
2006-09-18: Zimbabwe cut off from the Internet.
2006-09-17: Microsoft Research: Singularity: a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools.
2006-09-17: Thirty years is long enough: getting beyond C.
2006-09-15: New anti-phishing algorithm in ClamAV.
2006-09-15: GMail's sender reputation system.
2006-09-15: Automatic indicator lighs for bikes.
2006-09-14: Why Johnny can't code.
2006-09-14: A roadmap for the TCP specification documents.
2006-09-14: Tom and Jerry: the lost episodes.
2006-09-14: Royal Society archive online.
2006-09-14: Imperial College high performance computing data centre hosting service.
2006-09-14: Imperial College data centre refurb project page.
2006-09-14: Trox Advanced IT Cooling Systems.
2006-09-14: Modern Building Services journal on the Trox CO2 rack cooling system installed at Imperial Colege.
2006-09-13: History of AppleScript (draft).
2006-09-13: First-person shooter specs.
2006-09-13: Hakka chinese restaurant.
2006-09-12: Analyzing large ddos attacks using multiple data sources.
2006-09-12: Stupid email disclaimers and the IETF.
2006-09-11: Secure IMAP with a Blackberry.
2006-09-11: Edinburgh University email upgrade project.
2006-09-11: Does Visual Studio rot the mind?
2006-09-11: The New Yorker on the Poincaré conjecture.
2006-09-10: Craig Murray's book "Murder in Samarkand" banned by UK airport security.
2006-09-05: W3slidy.
2006-09-05: Criminal terrorism enforcement in the United States during the five years since the attacks on 11th September 2001.
2006-09-04: Characteristics of fascism.
2006-09-04: CERT secure coding standards.
2006-09-04: Spamhaus "zen" combined block list.
2006-09-04: Spamhaus policy block list.
2006-09-04: Dave Hayes unhinged ranting.
2006-09-04: Some one is spamming on behalf of Dave Hayes, anti-anti-spam kook.
2006-09-03: Software reliability.
2006-09-03: What if there is a silver bullet?
2006-09-03: There is a silver bullet.
2006-09-01: More complaining about ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES.
2006-09-01: British people have been brainwashed by the government and media about terrorism.
2006-09-01: The children's database - yet more government centralizing stupidity.
2006-09-01: DAMP 2007: workshop on declarative aspects of multicore programming.
2006-08-31: #haskell stats.
2006-08-31: History of Haskell timeline.
2006-08-31: PowerDNS performance graphs from xs4all.
2006-08-31: Truce in the war on copying?
2006-08-31: Gradual typing for functional languages.
2006-08-30: Telemarketer annoyance device.
2006-08-30: mutt-ng.
2006-08-30: Reflective program generation with patterns.
2006-08-30: USA bans its own citizen from returning home.
2006-08-29: Alexey Melnikov agrees.
2006-08-29: I rant about ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES.
2006-08-29: Opt out of junk mail.
2006-08-29: Junk mail preference service.
2006-08-29: Junk mail reduction.
2006-08-29: Porous concrete paving.
2006-08-29: Pool tricks (youtube).
2006-08-29: Exim patch for hooking into Dovecot's SASL daemon.
2006-08-29: Cory Doctorow: I, row-boat.
2006-08-29: I am not a terrorist.
2006-08-29: Early history of the electromagnetic telegraph.
2006-08-28: Upstart: a replacement for init.
2006-08-27: TSA whistle-blower thinks the state of U.S. aviation security invites another attack.
2006-08-27: More magnets, please.
2006-08-27: The magnetism of carbon.
2006-08-25: Don't download this song.
2006-08-25: What are the odds?
2006-08-25: Threat levels.
2006-08-24: "Christ, what an asshole!" is the answer to the New Yorker magazine caption contest.
2006-08-24: Ragel state machine compiler.
2006-08-23: Suspension trauma.
2006-08-23: List of fictional expletives.
2006-08-23: List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock.
2006-08-22: Credit card issuers given an exemption from the data protection act to cancel cards used in child porn offenses.
2006-08-22: What is the wheel-driven land-speed record?
2006-08-22: JCB diesel-powered land speed record.
2006-08-22: Imail: email-over-xmpp.
2006-08-22: Bryan Ford's packrat parsing page.
2006-08-22: Neil Mitchell's Haskell parser.
2006-08-22: Frisby: Haskell implementation of packrat parsing.
2006-08-21: "Matt" on security checks.
2006-08-21: Exploding Li-Ion batteries.
2006-08-21: Tom Flynn - outlawing unbelief.
2006-08-21: Animator vs animation (flash).
2006-08-21: BBC - the power of nightmares.
2006-08-21: Jerry Fishenden - biometrics: enabling guilty men to go free?
2006-08-21: Petr Skrabanek's Publications.
2006-08-21: Eric Rescola: is finding security holes a good idea?
2006-08-21: Mulberry MUA rescued from Cyrusoft's creditors and now available for free (though not Free).
2006-08-16: Mitch Benn's myspace page.
2006-08-15: C-Store: a column-oriented DBMS.
2006-08-15: Chicken Yoghurt on John Reid's distorted view of reality.
2006-08-15: Spam from Google.
2006-08-15: A review of the Falklands War as if it were alternate history.
2006-08-15: David E. H. Jones on the stability of the bicycle.
2006-08-14: Google Internals described by a non-googler.
2006-08-14: Daily Changes by Name Intelligence - details of registrar activity; good for spotting spammers.
2006-08-14: Robert Pape on the motivation of suicide bombers.
2006-08-14: Piet - a graphical programming language in the style of Mondrian.
2006-08-14: The zombie programming language.
2006-08-14: The Daily Show featuring Aasif Mandvi in Beirut.
2006-08-14: Pepper Pad 3 - Linux-based web computer.
2006-08-14: Rocket belts for sale in Mexico!
2006-08-14: Why the government wants to exaggerate the risk of terrorism, and why they should not.
2006-08-14: 21st century newsflash - Women achieve EQUALITY.
2006-08-14: Euro coinage spacial diffusion observatory.
2006-08-12: Noises that indicate a defective hard drive.
2006-08-11: Implications of power laws for policing homelessness etc.
2006-08-11: On the implausibility of the explosives plot.
2006-08-11: The GHC typechecker is Turing-complete.
2006-08-10: Rich Kulawiec: dealing with spam. (nanog)
2006-08-09: Archiveopteryx - SQL-based IMAP/POP/server.
2006-08-08: Terrorists can be defeated simply by not becoming terrorized -- that is, anything that enhances fear effectively gives in to them.
2006-08-07: Cameroon typosquats .com.
2006-08-07: General-purpose tool-building factory factory factory.
2006-08-04: How little do you need to bring a Linux box back to life?
2006-08-04: dbmail - SQL-based IMAP/POP server.
2006-08-01: IETF Montreal EAI WG meeting Jabber log.
2006-08-01: IRON filesystems.
2006-07-31: Karl Ulrich: the environmental paradox of bicycling - increased energy use from longer life expectancy cancels out reduced energy use from efficient transportation.
2006-07-31: Bcfg2 is a tool that aids in the administration of complex environments.
2006-07-31: Puppet configuration management tool.
2006-07-31: AISK - classifying spam using neural nets.
2006-07-31: The size of the Earth relative to other planets and stars.
2006-07-26: Problematic Firefox extensions.
2006-07-26: Yet another live lightning mapper.
2006-07-26: Live map of UK traffic trouble spots.
2006-07-26: Programming as if performance mattered.
2006-07-26: Too many silver bullets.
2006-07-25: IRA has ceased its criminality.
2006-07-25: Using wave generators to draw letters on the surface of water.
2006-07-24: URIBL.
2006-07-24: The proposed Trumpington Meadows housing estate.
2006-07-24: This can be taken as a comment on the perennial usefulness of the incipit, on the natural origins of the incipit, or it can be a reflection of the lack of modernity of these computer systems.
2006-07-24: No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!
2006-07-24: AMD and ATI to merge.
2006-07-23: Wouldn't a connection-id be a useful thing to have?
2006-07-23: Google searches for vulnerable code.
2006-07-23: The Little Artists (John Cake and Darren Neave) immortalize iconic artists and their artworks in un-manipulated Lego.
2006-07-23: ENORMOUS harbour construction in Shanghai, including the longest bridge in the world.
2006-07-20: Ejabberd + Active Directory shared rosters.
2006-07-18: Cold Blood - antarctic/sf/horror on BBC radio 7.
2006-07-14: History of Haskell.
2006-07-14: Event-based programming without inversion of control using Scala.
2006-07-13: AngloHaskell hacker gathering.
2006-07-13: The evolution of the IM worm since the beginning of 2005.
2006-07-13: Ejabberd LDAP patches.
2006-07-12: journald: User-space generic journalling daemon.
2006-07-11: Workplace temperature and thermal comfort.
2006-07-07: Split windows in irssi.
2006-07-06: Funniest WLIIA? episode EVAR.
2006-07-05: Open proxy honeypot project, including reports of zombie control hosts.
2006-07-05: MAAWG on ports 25 and 587.
2006-07-05: Joe St Sauver - filtering spam at your leisure, using the gap between a message being received and read.
2006-07-05: UK noise mapping.
2006-07-05: W and liberty.
2006-07-04: Hotmail uses expired accounts as spam traps.
2006-07-04: About the hash function while(len--) hash = hash*33 + *ptr++;
2006-07-04: Elastic tab stops - nice!
2006-07-03: DANGER: falling dot-coms!
2006-07-03: NY Times: A search engine that's becoming an inventor.
2006-07-03: Internet News: Peeking into Google.
2006-07-03: Colm MacCarthaigh's history of electronic voting in Ireland.
2006-07-03: Getting Exim to reject messages early that Mailman would bounce.
2006-07-03: Unknown rc script y2038 bug.
2006-06-30: Western Digital loses class-action lawsuit over the size of a gigabyte.
2006-06-30: Transport strategy in the East of England does not suffer from an "infrastructure deficit", but instead it should focus on "demand management and climate change mitigation".
2006-06-30: Vanity Fair is a terrorist publication?
2006-06-30: MIME-compatible binary ordered compression for Unicode.
2006-06-30: AOLserver y2038 bug.
2006-06-28: Map of noise levels in London.
2006-06-28: Standard compression scheme for Unicode (designed by Reuters).
2006-06-28: Sudden giant trunk nostril.
2006-06-28: Sudden giant nostril gallery.
2006-06-28: The power of seven.
2006-06-28: MicroID.
2006-06-28: Mac the Ripper.
2006-06-27: Tom Kistner's anti-spam timeban script.
2006-06-27: Cambrige Mountain Rescue.
2006-06-27: Simon Tatham has successfully geneticall modified the Newton-Raphson iterative fractal, pumped it full of drugs in a secret government laboratory, and then captured some striking video footage of it. People of a nervous disposition and pregnant women, beware.
2006-06-27: Brian Deer: excellent health journalism, including work on Andrew Wakefield and company.
2006-06-27: A page about one of Andrew Wakefield's insane supporters.
2006-06-26: Dave Prosser's corrected and annotated C preprocessor algorithm: document X3J11/86-196.
2006-06-26: Rethinking the design of presentation slides.
2006-06-26: Securing the .NET programming model.
2006-06-26: The Gold Casino proves fair dealing with PhatHash.
2006-06-23: D-BUS specification.
2006-06-23: Domain kiting - abuse of short-term un-paid-for registrations.
2006-06-23: Dave Cridland on top-posting and mobile email.
2006-06-23: Was it said by Adolf Hitler or Ann Coulter?
2006-06-22: Table of condiments that periodically go bad.
2006-06-22: Mum's new place in France.
2006-06-22: Administration-free Thursdays.
2006-06-22: Mac Mini in a Prius.
2006-06-21: Carplus Cambridge residents' survey.
2006-06-20: The rise and fall of CORBA - there's a lot we can learn from CORBA's mistakes.
2006-06-20: A flaw in the child porn witch-hunt.
2006-06-19: How Boyer-Moore works.
2006-06-19: Extensible Binary Meta Language specification.
2006-06-16: Plash: tools for practical least privilege.
2006-06-15: Broken Windows Theory.
2006-06-15: B3ta roadsign challenge.
2006-06-15: Numerical representations as higher-order nested datatypes.
2006-06-15: TenDRA open-source crown copyright licence.
2006-06-15: A principled approach to operating system construction in Haskell.
2006-06-15: Haskell users' operating system and environment.
2006-06-15: CMU software engineering + CERT: managed strings library for C.
2006-06-14: Funnel: programming with functional nets.
2006-06-14: The Corruptibles: how Hollywood is trashing your rights - video from the EFF.
2006-06-13: On the future availability of helium.
2006-06-13: The Windows malicious software removal tool: progress made, trends observed.
2006-06-13: ICMP filtering.
2006-06-13: Ages of consent around the world.
2006-06-13: No lobbyists as such - the war over software patents in the European Union.
2006-06-09: RIP Act part III to be activated - government seizure of crypto keys.
2006-06-09: David Hembrow on the Arbury Camp development.
2006-06-09: Des Phillips on the Arbury Camp development.
2006-06-08: Convergence in language design: a case of lightning striking four times in the same place.
2006-06-08: Getling: a high-performance web server.
2006-06-08: The rising tide: DDoS by defective designs and defaults.
2006-06-08: Spanish castle colour illusion.
2006-06-07: Tiscali Jukebox legal music download service is "too interactive" for the recording labels.
2006-06-07: Nominet public consultation on the scope of their business.
2006-06-06: Spoof Cambridge computer science tripos papers.
2006-06-05: The Encap package management system.
2006-06-02: Cambridge train performance data.
2006-06-02: Jakob Nielsen's usability fighting styles.
2006-06-02: On the lifestyle of Erlang developers.
2006-06-02: Lout document formatting system.
2006-06-02: Ant is not TeX.
2006-06-02: Worse-is-better is worse.
2006-06-02: Tiny Threads - hilarious thread context allocation.
2006-06-01: JPEG patent claims ruled invalid.
2006-05-31: Cambridge curry house scores.
2006-05-31: Just because you can, Mr Lightfoot, that doesn't mean you should.
2006-05-31: Patent goo: self-replicating Paxil.
2006-05-31: Linux desktops at the University of Oxford.
2006-05-25: Qt Cryptographic Architecture OpenSSL interface, including XMPP support.
2006-05-25: See Cambridge: panoramic views of the historic university city.
2006-05-25: Apple's portable computer sudden motion sensor.
2006-05-25: Miscalculating the area and angles of a needle-like triangle.
2006-05-24: "Hatracks", i.e. places to hang your hats, i.e. XMPP-to-XMPP gateways.
2006-05-24: XMPP-to-XMPP gateway.
2006-05-24: How Java's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere.
2006-05-19: Security in Windows Vista: to 2002 and beyond!
2006-05-19: Rubberhose transparently and deniably encrypts disk data, minimising the effectiveness of warrants, coersive interrogations and other compulsive mechanims, such as U.K RIP legislation.
2006-05-19: Chaffinch: confidentiality in the face of legal [RIPA] threats.
2006-05-19: Part 3 of RIPA may come in to force - UK Government to demand handover of encryption keys.
2006-05-19: Verisign buys another SSL CA competitor.
2006-05-18: GTalk Profile can help you find other Google Talk [and Jabber] users from around the world.
2006-05-18: UOregon recommended email configuration.
2006-05-17: Martin Howe QC on the problems with the EU.
2006-05-17: A bare SURBL implementation for Exim.
2006-05-17: Freetalk: console-based jabber client.
2006-05-17: 19th c. US currency.
2006-05-16: MUCkl - a version of JWchat tuned for multi-user chat.
2006-05-15: Jason Evans' new threaded malloc() for FreeBSD.
2006-05-15: Al Gore on Saturday Night Live. (QuickTime)
2006-05-15: Web presence icons for ejabberd.
2006-05-15: A notation for dates on linear time scales.
2006-05-10: JEP-0124 HTTP binding patch for ejabberd.
2006-05-09: Roundcube webmail (PHP, XHTML, CSS, AJAX).
2006-05-08: Freedom of speech banned in UK.
2006-05-08: Extending NTP for the interplanetary internet.
2006-05-08: Tracking plane flight on the Internet with BGP.
2006-05-08: HAKMEM count set bits algorithm adjusted for 32 bit words.
2006-05-08: Wikipedia on leet speak.
2006-05-08: Wikipedia on professional farters.
2006-05-08: Rob Pike on the history of UTF8.
2006-05-05: Using load balancers in front of an eJabberd cluster.
2006-05-02: Prescott's local government revolution.
2006-05-01: Links: web programming without tiers.
2006-05-01: Firms face new tax on staff email to friends.
2006-04-28: The monkeysphere.
2006-04-28: The Dunbar number.
2006-04-27: Practical dynamic software updating for C.
2006-04-27: Blue poster lunar calendar.
2006-04-27: Is the pace of change really such a shock?
2006-04-27: Delayed sleep-phase syncrome.
2006-04-26: A survey of DNS security: most vulnerable and valuable assets.
2006-04-26: The Camelford water contamination scandal.
2006-04-26: Grand illusions toy shop.
2006-04-25: All about Jabber PubSub.
2006-04-25: Shrove Tuesday Public Licence.
2006-04-25: Design and engineering of the PowerDNS recursor.
2006-04-24: NFSv4 RDMA for Linux.
2006-04-24: Direct Access Transport collaborative.
2006-04-24: Direct Access File System presentation by NetApp.
2006-04-24: Evolution of the Virtual Interface Architecture.
2006-04-24: Virtual Interface Architecture book from Intel.
2006-04-24: I guess the Internet Watch Foundation wasn't bureaucratic enough.
2006-04-23: Aligning security and usability.
2006-04-23: User interaction design for secure systems.
2006-04-23: Why events are a bad idea for high-concurrency servers.
2006-04-23: The problem with threads - Edward Lee.
2006-04-23: Co-operative taks management wihtout manual stack management.
2006-04-23: Security in Plan 9 (2002).
2006-04-23: User-level protocol servers with kernel-level performance.
2006-04-23: Interoperation of copy avoidance in network and file I/O.
2006-04-23: Usenix HotOS X proceedings - inaccessible until June 2006.
2006-04-23: Type inference for first-class messages with match-functions.
2006-04-23: QuickTunes - iTunes status in the menu bar (ignore the ugly windows).
2006-04-21: SQLite copyright disclaimer.
2006-04-21: How to (re)start screen automatically on remote logins.
2006-04-21: Chris Lightfoot on PHP.
2006-04-21: Iraq crater.
2006-04-21: Idiot lawyer threatens Google over its lovely Joan Miro commemoration logo.
2006-04-21: Fastmail backscatter protection - I wonder what they do with vacation messages...
2006-04-21: Using a Cray as a compression server.
2006-04-19: Universiteit Utrecht Department of Computer Science - email architecture 2002-present.
2006-04-19: Universiteit Utrecht Department of Computer Science - email architecture 1998-2002.
2006-04-19: Renew your passport in May 2006 - resist compulsory ID card registration.
2006-04-19: USPS guide to shipping hippopotamuses.
2006-04-18: Correct forms of address.
2006-04-18: TRIAD: a scalable deployable NAT-based internet architecture.
2006-04-18: Robust Composition: towards a unified approach to access control and concurrency control - thesis about the E distributed object-capability programming language.
2006-04-14: Xerces faster than flex?
2006-04-12: How to write a good research paper, and give a good research talk.
2006-04-12: Cambridge station area redevelopment plans (789).
2006-04-12: Cambridge station area redevelopment plans (456).
2006-04-12: Cambridge station area redevelopment plans (123).
2006-04-11: Link.
2006-04-11: "I have a nightmare in which the entire Internet is clogged by spammers sending out messages which the recipients throw into black holes..." - Philip Hazel, October 1996.
2006-04-10: The design of the Postgres storage system.
2006-04-10: Crash-only software.
2006-04-10: Eric Brewer: Lessons from giant-scale services.
2006-04-10: IP addresses per capita in each country.
2006-04-10: Joe Armstrong - Erlang stuff.
2006-04-10: CIL - infrastructure for C program analysis and transformation.
2006-04-10: The design and implementation of an intentional naming system.
2006-04-10: Idle Sense: an optimal access method for high throughput and fairness in rate diverse wireless LANs.
2006-04-09: ... in which he blurs the line between corporate participation and outright mockery.
2006-04-07: Making the workd of communications a different place.
2006-04-07: Infinite extensibility tends to encourage duplication of effort, whereas a co-ordinated registry brings value in shared data and protocols.
2006-04-07: Responsive yet stable traffic engineering in the style of XCP.
2006-04-07: Harnessing TCP's burstiness using flowlet switching.
2006-04-07: Machine-readable passports (ICAO doc 9303 / ISO 7501).
2006-04-07: Oakdale Arms Easter beer festival.
2006-04-07: Local governments of Britain.
2006-04-07: The counties of Britain.
2006-04-07: Open letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism.
2006-04-06: Can TRIPS serve as an enforcement device for developing countries in the WTO? (online access for free from CUDN)
2006-04-06: Can TRIPS serve as an enforcement device for developing countries in the WTO?
2006-04-06: Antigua planning to stop enforcement of American patents and trademarks?
2006-04-06: UMich email architecture.
2006-04-06: simta - A Simple Internet Mail Transfer Agent.
2006-04-05: Asterisk and Jingle interop.
2006-04-05: A brief history of the Internet.
2006-04-05: Internet growth requires new transmission protocol.
2006-04-05: eXplicit congestion Control Protocol
2006-04-05: A delay-based approach for congestion avoidance in interconnected heterogeneous computer networks.
2006-04-05: Congestion control with explicit rate indication.
2006-04-04: Why phishing works - how users approach browser security.
2006-04-04: The ESP game.
2006-04-04: Vulnerability to flooding in Britain.
2006-04-04: TCP performance tuning.
2006-04-04: Internet2 land speed records.
2006-04-04: SSH for high-performance networks.
2006-04-03: DHTML Lemmings.
2006-04-03: eduroam: 802.1x + Radius across multiple Universities.
2006-03-30: Man-in-the-middle defences.
2006-03-30: LCFG: automatic configuration and installation system from Edinburgh University.
2006-03-29: Patricia Waller's freaky soft toys.
2006-03-29: Automated server software updates - an interesting use of XMPP.
2006-03-28: Paul Vixie on the history of the f-root nameserver and PAIX.
2006-03-28: Reverse-engineering Skype.
2006-03-28: We do not need a djb-quality encrypted remote login.
2006-03-28: Cambridge student-run wiki.
2006-03-28: Man-in-the-middle attacks in tunnelled authentication protocols.
2006-03-27: How to get Apache-1.3 DAV to work with Windows XP.
2006-03-27: Interview with Tim Berners-Lee, including some mad alternative URL syntax ideas, and stuff about the semantic web.
2006-03-27: Map of the US Internet.
2006-03-27: Updates to Derek Jones's The New C Standard: An Economic and Cultural Commentary.
2006-03-27: David Maher - Reporting to God - a trademark lawyer's retrospective on the Internet revolution.
2006-03-27: Tornado + no offsite backups = ?
2006-03-18: The CSV format and its variants.
2006-03-16: Shelving books according to colour.
2006-03-16: Nixie Cron.
2006-03-16: The three laws of military robotics.
2006-03-14: C99 + TC1 & TC2.
2006-03-14: A more up-to-date archive of C standards committee documents.
2006-03-13: That Varsity article (see page 7).
2006-03-13: Text generator - for those bored of lorem ipsum.
2006-03-13: FreeBSD's mailhub blew up.
2006-03-13: Warner Losh melted his laptop with a runaway CPU.
2006-03-11: Continuous partial attention.
2006-03-11: Google spam site report form.
2006-03-10: Using LEDs as sensors.
2006-03-10: Multi-touch interaction research.
2006-03-10: Sesame Street is NP-complete.
2006-03-10: Your rights during and after a section 44 "anti-terrorism" stop-and-search.
2006-03-10: Teachers' guide to Cambridge admissions.
2006-03-10: How to invalidate a patent application with prior art
2006-03-10: Weird things that surprise academics trying to commercialize a static checking tool (Coverity).
2006-03-10: Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test.
2006-03-10: South Cambridgeshire key facts from the Government Office for the East of England.
2006-03-10: Cambridge key facts from the Government Office for the East of England.
2006-03-06: Chiltern Railways centenary.
2006-03-06: Milton Village from the air in WWII.
2006-03-03: Google Underground map.
2006-03-03: DJabberd CVS.
2006-03-03: Brad Fitzpatrick's Perl-based DJabberd.
2006-03-03: F-Secure world map.
2006-03-03: Mozilla bug discussing support for TLS server name indication.
2006-03-03: Web sites that don't support SSL3+.
2006-03-02: DNS protocol conformance tester.
2006-02-28: POWER inquiry executive summary.
2006-02-28: Tom Baker says...
2006-02-28: The Guardian reporting the FBI's opinion of animal rights terrorists.
2006-02-28: Optimus: A keyboard with a colour display in every key.
2006-02-27: Give cyclists room!
2006-02-26: Wine marketing via blogs.
2006-02-24: Fractal noughts and crosses.
2006-02-24: Home-made pipe organ.
2006-02-23: What is MySpace and why is it popular?
2006-02-22: Hula - scalable calendar and mail server.
2006-02-21: Jim Gray and David Patterson on the hugeness and slowness of disks.
2006-02-21: TeraScale SneakerNet: using inexpensive disks for backup, archiving, and data exchange.
2006-02-21: Jane Elliott's blue eyes / brown eyes racism teaching exercise.
2006-02-20: Richard Bornat's home page.
2006-02-20: A brief look at C++0X - Bjarne Stroustrup.
2006-02-20: Passive DNS replication.
2006-02-17: Government consultation on revisions to the Highway Code.
2006-02-17: College email address FAQ.
2006-02-16: The physics of skipping a stone on the surface of water.
2006-02-16: Running a diesel on veg oil.
2006-02-16: Dan Kaminski on the collusion between anti-virus vendors and DRM rootkit vendors.
2006-02-16: How Google use Berkeley DB.
2006-02-16: Oracle has bought Sleepycat.
2006-02-16: European spreadsheet risks interest group - news stories.
2006-02-16: Spam Stock Tracker - Just how much can you lose?
2006-02-15: Arcing in high voltage power equipment.
2006-02-14: Anamorphic pavement art.
2006-02-14: Richard Clayton on challenge-response.
2006-02-14: Windows access control demystified: automated discovery of privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
2006-02-13: Movie makers tube map.
2006-02-13: Cambridge Usability Group.
2006-02-10: London Underground anagram map.
2006-02-09: Converting server activity to sound.
2006-02-09: LEGO Difference Engine.
2006-02-07: Ordnance Survey research publications.
2006-02-07: A history of the Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox user interface.
2006-02-06: The topology of covert conflict - attack and defence strategies for networks.
2006-02-06: A good explanation of the discrepancy between WGS84 and the original Greenwich meridien.
2006-02-06: Annual lecture series in sustainable development at CUED.
2006-02-03: Mini patch leads: only wrong by two orders of magnitude.
2006-02-02: The I.T. Crowd - C4 sitcom.
2006-02-02: Backups only work if you don't delete them.
2006-02-01: THUS sells Demon.NL.
2006-01-31: The ox.faq on -ise vs -ize.
2006-01-30: Children are becoming less able and exams are getting easier.
2006-01-29: Harry Porter's relay computer.
2006-01-29: The Mathematical Bridge at Queens' College.
2006-01-29: Dorodango - shining mud ball.
2006-01-27: XMPP/SIMPLE feature comparison.
2006-01-27: Post office branch finder.
2006-01-27: Flyspray is an uncomplicated, web-based bug tracking system for assisting with software development.
2006-01-27: Waterfall 2006 - hilarious.
2006-01-27: StPeter's ETel presentation about Jabber - somewhat Takahashi.
2006-01-27: Blackworm infection stats from LURHQ.
2006-01-27: Google cache deemed fair use in court.
2006-01-26: OpenWengo multi-platform SIP softphone.
2006-01-26: There are no SIMPLE folk out there to chat with.
2006-01-26: XML situps.
2006-01-26: AJAX is no overnight success.
2006-01-26: Banned Xbox360 ad.
2006-01-26: Implementing cryptography on TFT technology for secure display applications.
2006-01-26: Video of Robert Watson talking about TrustedBSD.
2006-01-25: Axe-throwing.
2006-01-25: Jabphone: a Jingle to POTS gateway.
2006-01-25: ~~The No Foundation - say no to everything.~~
2006-01-25: Google's web authoring statistics.
2006-01-25: University of Cambridge students can now access key textbooks online, thanks to a new project called ebooks@cambridge.
2006-01-25: Best wikipedia edit EVAR!
2006-01-25: Law students show contempt for Alberto Gonzales.
2006-01-23: The problem with precedent.
2006-01-23: Interpretation act 1978.
2006-01-23: Statutory interpretation.
2006-01-23: Common sense and the law.
2006-01-20: The Night Climbers of Cambridge, by Whipplesnaith.
2006-01-19: Feds try to get indiscriminate porno surveillance data from Google.
2006-01-19: Large-format digital photography using a flatbed scanner.
2006-01-18: The aargh page.
2006-01-17: Build your own Segway.
2006-01-16: "Spam will be a thing of the past by [24th Jan 2006]" -- Bill Gates.
2006-01-16: Ranking of the world's largest economies, including countries and corporations.
2006-01-16: X-ray of an Apple laptop.
2006-01-15: TCP control block interdependence.
2006-01-15: The BBC 1 Computer Originated World.
2006-01-15: MICROS~1 embraces and extends RSS instead of using Atom.
2006-01-14: The HP ScanJet PLAY TUNE command, with video.
2006-01-14: The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute.
2006-01-13: Aeroplane seat layouts.
2006-01-13: The YOU-CAN-SPAM act does not override local anti-spam policies.
2006-01-11: GOSSiP is a massively distributed, peer-to-peer reputation system for email.
2006-01-11: Why TCP-over-TCP is a bad idea.
2006-01-11: V.iruses I.nfections S.pyware T.rojans A.dware
2006-01-11: An interesting use for Jabber.
2006-01-10: Performance characteristics of application-level security protocols.
2006-01-10: SER SIMPLE/XMPP gateway module.
2006-01-10: Attack-resistant trust metrics.
2006-01-10: Tube time-travel map.
2006-01-10: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
2006-01-10: Don't invent new XML languages.
2006-01-10: Nice physical + political map of the world.
2006-01-10: Google movie search in Cambridge.
2006-01-10: A pixel is not a little square.
2006-01-10: Maritime lawsuit served by email is valid.
2006-01-06: Floating point arithmetic in C++ templates.
2006-01-04: Key-bumping revisited.
2006-01-04: Toool's bumpkey alert movie.
2006-01-04: A video to do with security patches etc.
2006-01-03: Urban railway maps for your iPod photo.
2006-01-03: The solar system is just a theory.
2006-01-03: Chemistry is just a theory.
2006-01-02: Tim Bray on character strings.
2005-12-31: A log, painful, history of time.
2005-12-30: Countering trusting trust through diverse double-compiling.
2005-12-29: Cambridge pubs and Google maps.
2005-12-29: Kitten war!
2005-12-24: Ingy: the name change with rock dots.
2005-12-23: Comparison Of Secure Email Technologies: X.509 / PKI, PGP, and IBE.
2005-12-22: A critique of Abelson and Sussman: why calculating is better than scheming.
2005-12-22: The structure and interpretation of the computer science curriculum.
2005-12-22: The undergraduate language course: what to do?
2005-12-21: An excellent IPv6 deployment report.
2005-12-18: Efficient method dispatch in PCL.
2005-12-18: Composing Contracts: and adventure in financial engineering.
2005-12-18: Comparison of dynamic string libraries.
2005-12-18: Interactive Connectivity Establishment via NATs for SIP
2005-12-18: Security for JEP-0065.
2005-12-16: Gatewaying Jingle and SIP.
2005-12-16: Jingle mailing list archives.
2005-12-16: Jabberd2 storage backend migration.
2005-12-16: Notification of new email via Jabber with procmail and perl.
2005-12-14: The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.
2005-12-13: Edinburgh guided bus doesn't work (2).
2005-12-13: Edinburgh guided bus doesn't work (1).
2005-12-13: Mac Rumours buyers' guide.
2005-12-12: Proto-JEPs.
2005-12-12: Jabber MUC ChatBot.
2005-12-12: Bank Holidays in England.
2005-12-12: tcpcp - TCP connection passing.
2005-12-12: CryoPID - single-process software suspend for Linux.
2005-12-09: Matthias Wimmer's Jabber software.
2005-12-08: ML Module Mania.
2005-12-08: Bob Jenkins: filling space with orbiting satellites.
2005-12-08: Bob Jenkins: Hash functions and block ciphers.
2005-12-06: RFC 4287: the Atom syndication format.
2005-12-05: Palaver: Jabber multi-user chat component written in Python.
2005-12-05: Jabberd2 patches.
2005-12-05: Implementing Ken Thompson's 1968 regex algorithm.
2005-12-05: University of Cambridge Raven project.
2005-12-05: University of Washington pubcookie.
2005-12-05: Stanford Webauth v3.
2005-12-05: Yale Central Authentication Service.
2005-12-05: Linux web browser with bells and whistles on FreeBSD.
2005-12-04: Twisted: a Python networking library.
2005-12-04: Dave Cridland's IMAP and ACAP stuff.
2005-12-02: Text-to-XML conversion using XSLT 2.0.
2005-12-02: Brompton frame parts in a box.
2005-12-01: David Tribble's longtime_t proposal.
2005-12-01: Tunnels at CMU.
2005-12-01: Bullets hitting fruit etc.
2005-12-01: Over-engineered chair repair.
2005-12-01: The history of short names of USA federal legislation.
2005-11-29: Peter Saint-Andre's draft JEPs.
2005-11-04: A timelapse film made by Tom.
2005-11-04: IETF Jabber chat rooms.
2005-11-04: Podcast of the SICP lectures.
2005-11-02: Reserved identifiers in C and C++.
2005-11-01: Proposed Haskell time library.
2005-11-01: Sony installs rootkits on customers' machines.
2005-11-01: Collaborative English Law Glossary.
2005-11-01: Maps of UK climate.
2005-11-01: Threads cannot be implemented as a library.
2005-11-01: Shared memory consistency models: a tutorial.
2005-10-31: "Enterprise software" is a social, not technical, phenomenon.
2005-10-31: Grice's Conversational Maxims.
2005-10-31: Oxford University Library Service organization plan.
2005-10-26: Technical reasons for the dual function/value namespaces in Lisp.
2005-10-26: Haskell inner-loop compilation: jhc vs. ghc.
2005-10-25: Official UK bird flu logo (from the Foreign Office).
2005-10-25: More Google Print satire.
2005-10-24: Causes of resonance in London's Millennium Footbridge.
2005-10-24: Torotrak continuously-variable transmission.
2005-10-24: Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming used against Lispers.
2005-10-24: Tim O'Reilly on Google Print.
2005-10-24: Stanford on iTunes.
2005-10-24: John C. Dvorak on the Mac-biased tech media.
2005-10-24: MICROS~1 research tutorial on filtering spam.
2005-10-24: Student-oriented information about computing facilities at Cambridge.
2005-10-21: Fallbrook Technologies NuVinci continuously variable planetary transmission.
2005-10-21: Rogue banks and phantom withdrawals.
2005-10-21: Sadly, I can never un-read anything.
2005-10-20: Recordings of seminars hosted by the Long Now Foundation.
2005-10-20: C#: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: An Interview with Anders Hejlsberg, Part 1.
2005-10-20: Messaging anti-abuse working group: managing port 25.
2005-10-20: Andy Oram: Why they are talking about "Internet governance".
2005-10-20: Interview with Larry Wall.
2005-10-19: OSCON 2005 keynote from Dick Haardt about Identity 2.0.
2005-10-19: Composable transations for concurrent programming in Haskell.
2005-10-19: Maurice Herlihy's composable transactions for C#.
2005-10-19: Company-wide instant messaging with jabberd.
2005-10-19: Efficient software transactional memory.
2005-10-19: The Gmail trademark dispute gets nastier.
2005-10-18: Tact filters.
2005-10-17: Reverse engineered colour laser printer watermarks.
2005-10-17: Ozgur Simsek and David Jensen: Decentralized search in networks using homophily and degree disparity.
2005-10-17: Pedestrian == terrorist.
2005-10-17: Tim O'Reilly: What is web 2.0?
2005-10-13: Google 2084.
2005-10-13: How to write like a wanker.
2005-10-11: The 1986 Domesday project.
2005-10-10: DHCP and OS fingerprinting for campus network security.
2005-10-07: The canonical Internet vs X.400 debate.
2005-10-07: Smack my bitch up / Orinoco flow.
2005-10-07: BCP 78 is broken.
2005-10-07: A natural history of the @ sign.
2005-10-06: Optimising for fun.
2005-10-06: (Re-)Recordable DVD compatibility.
2005-10-04: Alphamail - webmail software that doesn't hammer the IMAP server.
2005-10-04: Cyrusoft, producers of Mulberry, go bankrupt.
2005-10-04: Rodney Haywood's anti-Outlook page.
2005-10-04: Lots of stuff about UW Pine.
2005-10-04: Design patterns for hiagh availability.
2005-10-04: Architecture of safety-critical systems.
2005-09-30: PBS: a class divided - a documentary of Jane Elliott's brown eyes / blue eyes racism teaching exercise.
2005-09-30: Satellite photo with tube map superimposed.
2005-09-30: A live chat with Rod Chavez of Google Talk.
2005-09-29: List of zip codes, including international codes.
2005-09-29: Say no to 0870 - translate expensive phone numbers into geographical numbers.
2005-09-28: Continuations from Generalized Stack Inspection.
2005-09-27: Another kind of pump-and-dump spam.
2005-09-26: Web 2.0 is here - tags, ajax, blogs, wikis.
2005-09-26: Theiving Bromptons and fencing them via eBay.
2005-09-26: Absurd multi-wheeled cycles.
2005-09-23: Choose your secondary nameservers carefully.
2005-09-22: The law of standards.
2005-09-16: Failure to Thrive: QoS and the Culture of Operational Networking
2005-09-16: The New Highway Code.
2005-09-16: East Coast Main Line strategic review.
2005-09-15: ARPA-DARPA-Internet: a history of the introduction of TCP/IP.
2005-09-15: RFK 821: SMTP polymorph command
2005-09-13: Google - Extracting knowledge from the WWW.
2005-09-12: Documentation for CompleteWhois DNS IP lists.
2005-09-12: DNS blacklist accuracy, Aug 2005, according to SpamAssassin.
2005-09-12: 20 years ago in the IETF.
2005-09-12: "Botnets are a kind of industrial revolution in hacking."
2005-09-09: Why architectural complexity is like body fat.
2005-09-09: Bit-twiddling powers of 2.
2005-09-09: Salon.com: Religious right would kill to stop safe sex
2005-09-08: Survey of uses of the word "envelope" in the RFCs.
2005-09-08: A survey of bad science reporting.
2005-09-06: Dynamic cyclic data structures in lazy functional languages.
2005-09-06: Burwell to Wicken Fen cycle route - council press release.
2005-09-05: New Orleans is vital to the US economy.
2005-09-05: Object-oriented programming in ANSI C.
2005-08-30: MD5 collision, visualized.
2005-08-30: GNU mailutils.
2005-08-30: libEtPan - email access library.
2005-08-30: IETF 63 survey results.
2005-08-30: Inductive graphs and functional graph algorithms.
2005-08-30: Rugby MSF slow code.
2005-08-26: Java sucks.
2005-08-26: (dot)local: developer resources for zeroconf, mDNS, and DNS-SD.
2005-08-26: DNS service discovery.
2005-08-25: Brad Fitzpatrick's disk cache checker.
2005-08-24: Vulnerabilities in tamper-evident PIN letters.
2005-08-20: A Google programming language for large-scale data mining.
2005-08-20: Breakdancing Transformers.
2005-08-18: Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68.
2005-08-18: Algol 68 genie.
2005-08-18: Damian Conway's papers, including SPECS: an alternative syntax for C++.
2005-08-18: Infixing operators in SML.
2005-08-18: Comparing implementations of a ray tracer in different languages.
2005-08-17: Red car / black car.
2005-08-16: A Dictionary of units of measurement.
2005-08-15: Knot hacks.
2005-08-15: SGO party calendar.
2005-08-15: Some non-spam stats.
2005-08-12: Building a monocycle for Scrapheap Challenge.
2005-08-12: Google factory tour.
2005-08-12: A board game based on cat chess.
2005-08-12: Cat chess.
2005-08-11: Where are all the three button mice?
2005-08-11: User interface design for secure systems.
2005-08-11: Why type systems are interesting.
2005-08-11: Photograph taken at the instant of destruction of the camera.
2005-08-11: A FAQ about spinning pens.
2005-08-10: Efficient submatch addressing for regular expressions.
2005-08-10: The TRE regex library.
2005-08-08: Using Exim and LDAP to query an Active Directory for valid users.
2005-08-08: A profile of Andrew Ritchie.
2005-08-08: Bike speed and power calculator.
2005-08-08: Digital Needle: a virtual gramophone.
2005-08-03: SPF loses mindshare.
2005-08-02: Alt-N Technologies.
2005-08-02: DKIM implementation from Alt-N Technologies.
2005-07-29: Suresh Ramasubramanian on SPF.
2005-07-29: DDOS mitigation techniques.
2005-07-28: "email is something you use with old people"
2005-07-28: Personal Offshoring.
2005-07-27: Podsafe music links.
2005-07-27: DSN support for Exim.
2005-07-27: Cisco remote-code-execution hole cover-up?
2005-07-27: Pay and Grading graces.
2005-07-27: Pay and Grading notice.
2005-07-27: Proposed amendments to the Pay and Grading graces.
2005-07-26: Jezlife.
2005-07-26: Completewhois multi-rbl lookup.
2005-07-26: MAAWG SPF & SID white paper.
2005-07-26: DHTML Lemmings.
2005-07-26: Blame-shifting and credit-stealing in ICMP vulnerability disclosure.
2005-07-25: Conference on email and anti-spam 2005 papers.
2005-07-25: Spread: high-performance reliable multicast.
2005-07-25: Microsoft explains how to ask for help.
2005-07-25: Photographs of my wedding.
2005-07-25: Blogging survey results.
2005-07-07: Type system support for units of measurement. (Andrew Kennedy)
2005-07-06: The design of C++0X.
2005-07-05: Precision sundials.
2005-07-04: A talk about problems with software patents, by Wookie from Aleph-1.
2005-07-04: SRP: Secure Remote Password.
2005-07-04: TV-B-Gone.
2005-07-04: Automatic coin sorter.
2005-07-03: Design Concepts in Programming Languages - draft of book.
2005-06-28: The successor to C99: working document.
2005-06-28: Grammatical errors in "The New C Standard".
2005-06-28: FTC spam zombie recommendations.
2005-06-26: Risk factors in cycling.
2005-06-26: On some broken email auto-responders.
2005-06-24: De facto standards are more effective than de jure.
2005-06-24: Live lightning map.
2005-06-24: Logicalware mailmanager: email response management software.
2005-06-24: Popular spellings of braaaaaaaaaains.
2005-06-23: FTC email authentication feedback.
2005-06-23: Rambling Rosa "Kiftsgate".
2005-06-23: PSP grey imports are illegal.
2005-06-23: Fast queue runner for Exim.
2005-06-22: Inside a Sturmey-Archer 8-speed hub gear.
2005-06-22: An RSS-to-email gateway.
2005-06-21: All about the TGV.
2005-06-21: Trains are better than planes.
2005-06-21: "The New C Standard - An Economic and Cultural Commentary" complete PDF.
2005-06-21: "The New C Standard - An Economic and Cultural Commentary" will not be published.
2005-06-20: SUSE packaging conventions.
2005-06-20: Cambridge makes you happy and Oxford makes you sad.
2005-06-18: The importance of RSS.
2005-06-18: Open-air art and sculpture in Cambridge.
2005-06-17: Oxford and Cambridge cycling survey results.
2005-06-16: Linux syslogd sometimes hangs and wedges the whole machine.
2005-06-16: IRC in Latin.
2005-06-16: Bottom-Up Beta-Substitution: Uplinks and Lambda-DAGs.
2005-06-15: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi (pub. MIT Press).
2005-06-15: USA to ban flag-burning.
2005-06-15: Digital TV broadcast from a monitor.
2005-06-15: Music radio broadcast from a monitor.
2005-06-14: Fight over LEMONADE and the Multimedia Messaging Service.
2005-06-14: Group authentication for the web (see also OpenID).
2005-06-14: "I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10,000 other people will also make this same pledge."
2005-06-13: Where is London Underground under the ground?
2005-06-13: Geek Image: display an updating image on the Mac OS X dashboard.
2005-06-13: Some behind-the-scenes Mac OS X options.
2005-06-13: CLIX Mac OS X power tool.
2005-06-13: SSH key chain for Mac OS X.
2005-06-13: London cycling design standards.
2005-06-10: Funniest wikipedia edit wars ever.
2005-06-08: Team Cymru / NSP-sec network health reports.
2005-06-08: NSP-sec NANOG BOF.
2005-06-08: NSP-security mailing list.
2005-06-03: Ajax Reconsidered.
2005-06-02: Logo hell.
2005-06-02: The Invisible Train: augmented reality on handhelds.
2005-06-02: So does Norman Foster.
2005-06-02: James Dyson loves Alex Moulton's bikes.
2005-06-01: A list of latin phrases.
2005-06-01: Philip Hazel's music typesetting software.
2005-05-30: Find fonts by sight.
2005-05-29: ID cards will be expensive.
2005-05-27: ZMail easy secure email.
2005-05-27: Pen: a load balancer for "simple" tcp based protocols.
2005-05-27: You and your research - Richard Hamming.
2005-05-27: Long hours don't work.
2005-05-27: Suresh Ramasubramanian on Spam for the OECD.
2005-05-26: Swatch: log watcher.
2005-05-26: Some cycling rules.
2005-05-26: RFC 3339: Date and time on the Internet: Timestamps.
2005-05-26: Jef Poskanzer on spam filtering.
2005-05-25: Other Jim Austen computers.
2005-05-25: Where Phoenix went after Cambridge.
2005-05-19: Google content blocker.
2005-05-19: mIDm self-identification on the world wide web.
2005-05-19: OpenID distributed identity system.
2005-05-16: TV piracy.
2005-05-13: The Pedersen bicycle.
2005-05-12: The Laws of Identity.
2005-05-11: [Exim] exilimit.c
2005-05-11: Living in the future.
2005-05-10: Julian Wiseman on financial markets and electoral systems.
2005-05-08: The Algol Bulletin.
2005-05-08: Die Homepage von W.B.Kloke - Algol 68 stuff.
2005-05-05: Estimated constituency result declaration times.
2005-05-05: Time series analysis.
2005-05-05: On the effectiveness of rate-limiting mechanisms.
2005-05-05: DNS root anycast stability.
2005-05-05: Smoothing of data.
2005-05-05: Usenet poster rate limiting.
2005-05-04: A cycling glossary.
2005-05-04: Interdoc: The first international non-governmental computer network.
2005-05-04: llama llama llama
2005-05-03: GCC 3.4 vs. GCC 4.0.
2005-05-03: [Exim] Deferring email when clamd is down.
2005-05-03: On the analysis of anti-spam software performance.
2005-05-02: Building a free PVR.
2005-05-02: The Monad Reader - a Haskell web mag.
2005-04-29: Email performance and reliability testing.
2005-04-29: Bit twiddling hacks.
2005-04-28: USB Ethernet on Macs.
2005-04-27: About Bagle (3).
2005-04-27: About Bagle (2).
2005-04-27: About Bagle (1).
2005-04-27: Combating Web Spam with TrustRank.
2005-04-27: Mac Mini accessories.
2005-04-27: Dictionary of idioms.
2005-04-27: Rewards are punishments.
2005-04-27: DNS zone checker.
2005-04-27: TLD configuration problem checker.
2005-04-27: Snails faster than ADSL.
2005-04-21: The root of the matter: hints or slaves.
2005-04-20: Greylisting CVS.
2005-04-20: DNS cacheing and performance analysis.
2005-04-20: MIT Disco Dance Floor.
2005-04-19: Messaging hygiene at Microsoft.
2005-04-19: Bridge of CRTs.
2005-04-15: Spoof papers for fraudulent "scientific" conferences.
2005-04-13: Mad bike.
2005-04-12: Systems analysis of spam by Gabriel Weinberg.
2005-04-12: Joe on Zombies.
2005-04-12: Joe St Sauver - uoregon mail admin.
2005-04-12: Excellent port 25 blocking advocacy.
2005-04-11: Over-engineered bike lights.
2005-04-11: Simon Moore's University house style LaTeX macros.
2005-04-10: Poke the penguin.
2005-04-09: Another view of a Moebius strip with a circular edge.
2005-04-09: Maple code for drawing Moebius strips.
2005-04-09: Moebius strips with circular edges.
2005-04-08: Sennheiser HD 212 Pro specifications.
2005-04-08: The lies of the RIAA.
2005-04-07: Green electricity supplier.
2005-04-07: Domestic wind power.
2005-04-07: Rack mounted wine storage.
2005-04-05: The Manchester/Ferranti Atlas and the Cambridge Titan/Atlas 2.
2005-04-04: The Concrete Jungle by Charlie Storss.
2005-04-03: Anti-hagiography.
2005-04-01: Charlie Stross trancends.
2005-03-29: Interview with Robin Milner.
2005-03-29: Haskell Quotes.
2005-03-29: DNS Anycast at Berkeley.
2005-03-29: ISC DNS Anycast.
2005-03-29: Deploying IP Anycast at CMU.
2005-03-25: Fractal borders between the Netherlands and Belgium.
2005-03-24: V.A.T. and food.
2005-03-22: Funky time signatures.
2005-03-21: Haskell Users' Operating System and Environment.
2005-03-20: The Third International Conference on Trust Management.
2005-03-18: FreeBSD PXE boot guide.
2005-03-02: A celebration of David Wheeler.
2005-02-28: Unitarians of Transylvania.
2005-02-18: A fluffy guide to hash algorithms.
2005-02-17: CodeWorker: A universal parsing tool and a source code generator.
2005-02-16: JWZ on groupware.
2005-02-16: Cryptographic hash function lounge.
2005-02-11: SSL considered harmful.
2005-02-09: An SMTP daemon written in Haskell.
2005-02-04: The Porter Stemming Algorithm.
2005-02-04: hOp: Haskell operating system.
2005-02-03: The New York Review of Books on the US versus the EU.
2005-02-03: IMAP products database.
2005-02-01: RFC errata.
2005-01-30: EU news fact-check.
2005-01-27: A modern Newspeak dictionary.
2005-01-27: A Newspeak dictionsry.
2005-01-26: Some Mac software recommendations.
2005-01-24: Paper Enigma machine.
2005-01-24: Online form for reporting non-dangerous highway defects.
2005-01-24: Cambridgeshire County Council highways maintenance.
2005-01-24: Anti-spam news archive (subscribers only).
2005-01-21: Spheres of Chaos.
2005-01-21: M$ Outlook Live.
2005-01-21: Apatheism.
2005-01-19: Ian's shoelace site.
2005-01-18: John Perry's small discoveries.
2005-01-18: The social life of paper.
2005-01-18: Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
2005-01-18: History of the logarithmic slide rule.
2005-01-18: Most persistent bugs.
2005-01-18: Bayesian Noise Reduction.
2005-01-18: Honeypot project: Life expectancy of unpatched Linux increasing.
2005-01-16: Ben Hamilton-Baillie's humanist road designs.
2005-01-10: Pew Internet Report on Internet Evolution.
2005-01-10: Apple support for old products.
2005-01-10: Old Apple software downloads.
2005-01-06: The Edge annual question 2005.
2005-01-05: Google MapReduce.
2005-01-05: "I will suck the smell of grilled moron greedily down into my lungs."
2005-01-04: Some other linguistic devices.
2005-01-04: More zeugmata.
2005-01-04: Zeugma or syllepsis.
2005-01-04: Schneier on illegal aliens, drivers licences, and security.
2005-01-04: Sugar! Gosh darn it to heck!
2005-01-04: Linotype maintenance and operation.
2005-01-04: A description of the Linotype machine.
2005-01-01: Where to buy a large tippe-top.
2005-01-01: A nice large tippe-top.
2005-01-01: Hand-drawn holograms.
2005-01-01: Levitron: an amazing invention and a patent failure.
2005-01-01: Levitron: spin-stabilized magnetic levitation.
2005-01-01: A big tippe-top.
2005-01-01: The Science Museum large object archive at Wroughton.
2005-01-01: Tippe-top inversion as a dissipation-induced instability.
2005-01-01: The "tippe-top": a self-inverting spinning toy.
2005-01-01: The rigid body dynamics of unidirectional spin.
2005-01-01: The "rattleback": a self-reversing spinning toy.
2004-12-22: HEFCE self-assessment tool for people management in HEIs.
2004-12-22: Graham Higgins on the Apple web site.
2004-12-22: Thank Poland for stopping the EU software patents directive.
2004-12-22: The creation of the Apple Mac graphing calculator.
2004-12-17: A blog about RSS bandwidth management.
2004-12-15: Rechargeable LED lights.
2004-12-15: The creation of Kerberos in four scenes.
2004-12-15: More cycle farcilities.
2004-12-15: Watching a genius laying down the very foundations of science.
2004-12-13: Berkeley email namespace policy.
2004-12-13: HP Labs qprof.
2004-12-13: Another death waltz.
2004-12-13: A death waltz.
2004-12-13: Online Etymological Dictionary.
2004-12-13: Python Warts.
2004-12-13: Eric Mayer's S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System.
2004-12-10: Cycling Farcility of the Month.
2004-12-08: Tim Hunkin's web page.
2004-12-06: MIME message/partial vulnerabilities.
2004-12-06: IP over DNS.
2004-12-03: Excellent Tube map links.
2004-12-03: PowerPoint Centimeters Different from Actual Centimeters.
2004-12-03: Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts.
2004-11-25: The Home Computer in 2004.
2004-11-23: Le Guin on the Earthsea film.
2004-11-22: Disclaimer stickers for school textbooks.
2004-11-22: Google tech talk at Imperial College next week.
2004-11-22: Kit Williams and Masquerade.
2004-11-22: Omniglot: a guide to writing systems.
2004-11-18: Emperor Norton Utilities.
2004-11-16: The EFF on anti-spam collateral damage.
2004-11-15: Crash Bonsai.
2004-11-11: Illiterate?
2004-11-11: Something worth having in Cambridge too.
2004-11-09: Another asynchronous resolver library.
2004-11-09: Drinking doesn't affect my driving?
2004-11-06: A compendium of US election maps.
2004-11-04: Another MUA configuration guide.
2004-11-03: NSA guide to OS X security.
2004-10-31: Cambridge Monopoly.
2004-10-29: Wooden mirror.
2004-10-27: The film "Rogue Farm" from the story by Charlie Stross.
2004-10-26: List of email DNS black and white lists.
2004-10-21: IMHO Webmail.
2004-10-18: Perl DNS server framework.
2004-10-18: Two pound coins.
2004-10-16: Security considerations for impersonation and identiry in messaging systems.
2004-10-15: Department of Cryptozoology, University of Birmingham.
2004-10-15: St. Mischa's College, University of Oxford.
2004-10-15: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration.
2004-10-14: Flash guide to electronic music genres.
2004-10-14: Big Ben.
2004-10-14: DNS resources directory.
2004-10-14: Ethical approaches to postmastering.
2004-10-07: osx2x
2004-10-07: Weapons of mass destruction.
2004-10-06: AOL states that SPF can't be used to reject email.
2004-10-06: AOL states that SPF doesn't work 20% of the time.
2004-10-06: Binaries of Emacs for Mac OS X.
2004-10-04: ESR in "loon" shocker.
2004-10-03: Qmail anti bogus bounce system.
2004-10-01: FIPR workshop in Cambridge.
2004-09-28: Client SMTP validation.
2004-09-28: Amusing satires.
2004-09-24: Mezzo bike.
2004-09-23: Death to Sender-ID.
2004-09-22: Using OpenBSD's pf OS fingerprinting to throttle email from Windows boxes.
2004-09-22: Misreading the Lord of the Rings.
2004-09-19: Stanford WebAuth v3.
2004-09-19: Another FTC spam summit link.
2004-09-19: Pete Resnick on Resent-From and Sender-ID.
2004-09-17: Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Statement of Intent.
2004-09-16: The Microsoft Sender-ID patent application.
2004-09-16: FTC email authentication summit.
2004-09-16: AOL dumps Sender-ID.
2004-09-16: Gates goes to Washington.
2004-09-14: Internet Analysis Report 2004.
2004-09-07: All about Support Vector Machines.
2004-09-06: Retro phones of the future.
2004-09-03: Drawing The Union Jack Accurately.
2004-09-03: Links to style guides.
2004-09-03: Furbeowulf.
2004-09-02: Legalistic synonymy, etc.
2004-09-02: Setting up and troubleshooting the GSSAPI authentication of SASL.
2004-09-02: ARPANET network diagram.
2004-08-31: Problems with the REPLY function in email.
2004-08-18: David Wheeler's cool stuff.
2004-08-18: Selecting cryptographic key sizes.
2004-08-17: SRS in sendmail rulesets.
2004-08-12: Live UK weather maps.
2004-08-12: Hijacked IP address blocks.
2004-08-11: Brown Bear web calendar software.
2004-08-10: Sieve extensions support matrix.
2004-08-09: One of my rants about why SPF et al. are bad ideas.
2004-08-06: SubEthaEdit: real-time collaborative editing.
2004-07-26: ATI Radeon 7000 PC to Mac conversion.
2004-07-24: About the early development of TCP/IP.
2004-07-24: Netizens: a book about the history of Usenet and the Internet.
2004-07-19: Control Mac OS X iTunes from within emacs.
2004-07-15: An excellent comparison of statistical spam classifiers.
2004-07-14: ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee report on SiteFinder.
2004-07-11: Chairman's report from the ITU WSIS spam meeting.
2004-07-11: Spam filtering for MXs.
2004-07-09: Unified SPF.
2004-07-07: Virtual desktops for Mac OS X.
2004-07-06: Even more maths jokes.
2004-07-06: More maths jokes.
2004-07-06: Maths jokes.
2004-07-05: Consumer broadband and traffic shaping.
2004-07-05: Rugby Radio station, including the recent demolition works.
2004-07-02: Weather movie.
2004-06-25: Steve Allen on leap seconds.
2004-06-25: Proceedings of the ITU colloquium on UTC.
2004-06-25: Markus Kuhn on leap seconds.
2004-06-25: Metrologia on the history of the leap second.
2004-06-25: Archives of the LEAPSECS mailing list.
2004-06-25: Bus jam.
2004-06-25: Greylisting with Exim and MySQL.
2004-06-23: Japanese for programmers.
2004-06-18: The NTP server pool project.
2004-06-17: A good Cambridge History site.
2004-06-17: Another email kook for your amusement.
2004-06-14: The Chord p2p project.
2004-06-08: Exchange 2003 SMTP-time recipient verification.
2004-06-07: Internet-Draft archive.
2004-06-06: What is the speed of an unladen swallow?
2004-05-20: Solving CAPTCHAs by obtaining work from humans in return for porn.
2004-05-19: Pretty Cambridge pictures.
2004-05-18: The Merton Time Ceremony.
2004-05-18: DomainKeys specification published.
2004-05-18: Exploiting a JVM using a desk lamp to induce memory errors.
2004-05-17: The Yost serial device wiring standard.
2004-05-15: Common Errors in English Usage.
2004-05-13: The Infinite Cat Project.
2004-05-13: Coping with Windows.
2004-05-13: Sieve tips.
2004-05-12: The Arbory Trust -- woodland burial.
2004-05-12: The Museum of Broken Packets.
2004-05-11: Balkanized North America.
2004-05-11: A guide to British Pub etiquette.
2004-05-11: More graphics-related magic.
2004-05-11: Fast inverse square root from Quake 3.
2004-05-11: Base41 not usable everywhere.
2004-05-11: Base41 for encoding 2 bytes in 3.
2004-05-10: IMail <> bogosity.
2004-05-09: European multi-language proverbs.
2004-05-05: How the Wombles came to the New Museums Site, and other stories.
2004-04-29: The gallery of regrettable food.
2004-04-27: The Standards for Efficient Cryptography group.
2004-04-26: You might be an anti-spam kook if...
2004-04-26: The Great Satan is giving away vector graphics software for the Mac.
2004-04-26: Chaos: World of Motion.
2004-04-26: To or For By With or From Everybody: A Transport of Delight.
2004-04-23: Hacker's Delight on the web.
2004-04-23: Da Vinci does badgers.
2004-04-21: Call-by-value is dual to call-by-name.
2004-04-21: The discoveries of continuations.
2004-04-20: Vacuum coffee brewers.
2004-04-19: Anti-spam at Aberystwyth University.
2004-04-14: The Lions Book on-line.
2004-04-13: Not the American Psycho view of getting into a New York restaurant.
2004-04-13: Comparing Hoare and Wirth.
2004-04-08: A nicely altered Slashdot.
2004-04-07: Why your solution to spam will not work.
2004-04-07: Email disclaimers and the law.
2004-04-07: ACAS document about email policies.
2004-04-07: Sharpe drinking game.
2004-04-01: Friendly-name email addresses considered harmful.
2004-04-01: CCTLDs and their TLD-like subdomains.
2004-04-01: Leap year FAQ.
2004-03-30: The Guardian Underground Telephone Exchange.
2004-03-29: War Rationale, version 10.0.
2004-03-26: LOAF: Friend-of-a-friend information exchange for email.
2004-03-25: Go to jail fast.
2004-03-24: Curiosities of biological nomenclature.
2004-03-23: Tube Prune.
2004-03-23: 213 things you are not allowed to do in the US Army.
2004-03-19: Online Sieve script tester.
2004-03-18: Paul Vixie's registry of personal colo providers.
2004-03-17: RISKS on the source of semantic content in bit streams.
2004-03-16: DocBook SGML and XML processing path.
2004-03-16: Seeking science fiction citations for the Oxford English Dictionary.
2004-03-15: A working postcode finder that does not require registration.
2004-03-15: St Totteringham's day.
2004-03-09: The Bovine Rectal Palpation Simulator.
2004-03-08: Classic papers in Computer Science.
2004-03-08: The International Journal of Unconventional Computing.
2004-03-08: Bogon filtering templates.
2004-03-04: The Burroughs B5000 - 40 years later and still ahead of the times?
2004-03-03: Stripping down an anti-virus engine.
2004-03-03: AV research weblog from F-Secure.
2004-03-03: A faster CiteSeer mirror.
2004-03-03: Decommissioned Halon fire suppression system control panel.
2004-03-03: Van Jacobson's stillborn 4.4BSD network stack.
2004-03-02: A WING and a cake.
2004-03-02: CUDN border port blocks. (Cam only)
2004-03-01: Military PKI usability and scalability.
2004-03-01: Greylisting.
2004-03-01: N1040: DTR 19769 - Extensions for new character data types
2004-03-01: N1021: DTR 18037 - Extensions for Embedded-C
2004-02-24: DSPAM server-side anti-spam filter.
2004-02-23: End-to-end arguments in system design.
2004-02-23: A BBC BASIC de-tokenizer.
2004-02-23: Review of the Matrix Reloaded.
2004-02-23: Cambridge and St. Ives guided busway Transport and Works Act order information.
2004-02-23: Exim DATA ACL for Received: header DNSBL checks.
2004-02-23: A legal lexicon with lots of latin translations.
2004-02-20: Standard C Rationale.
2004-02-18: IETF Calendaring and Scheduling working group.
2004-02-18: Stopping spam text messages for Orange users.
2004-02-18: Exim Wiki.
2004-02-18: Exim web forums.
2004-02-13: Virtual Matthew Garrett.
2004-02-12: Selective spam filtering at Glasgow.
2004-02-12: Selective spam filtering at Loughborough.
2004-02-12: Some entertaining movie records.
2004-02-11: What is yak-shaving?
2004-02-10: Train departure information for Cambridge.
2004-02-10: Ken Moody's continued enthusiasm for my Turing Machine.
2004-02-09: A silly DHTML game.
2004-02-05: BBC2 television channel idents.
2004-01-29: The one-question test for email virus filter authors.
2004-01-28: Robert Sedgewick analyses the Shell sort.
2004-01-26: Project Evil.
2004-01-26: CVS training manual.
2004-01-25: The world's most accurate home clock.
2004-01-23: OpenGroupware collaboration software.
2004-01-23: Orca log statistics graphing software.
2004-01-21: Berkeley troff -ms documentation.
2004-01-21: UNIX Text Processing.
2004-01-21: Forbes Magazine likes spammers.
2004-01-20: Managing trolling in a feminist forum.
2004-01-19: Qmail security broken.
2004-01-15: Big box, small contents.
2004-01-13: Showing full email headers with various software.
2004-01-12: Q249 is also good for detecting collateral spam.
2004-01-12: Some email verification links re: porkhash and q249.
2004-01-12: A DNS checker.
2004-01-08: All sorts of control sequences.
2004-01-08: XTerm control sequences.
2004-01-08: Mac OS X hacking tools.
2004-01-07: Speed kills.
2004-01-07: Louis Wain's psychotic cat pictures.
2004-01-07: Drawing on an acid trip.
2004-01-06: Tangerines and mandarins.
2004-01-05: Greylisting using MySQL.
2004-01-05: NASA report on clarity in technical writing.
2004-01-05: Five geek social fallacies.
2004-01-05: IEEE mass storage reference model.
2004-01-05: FreeBSD remote installer.
2003-12-18: Full-screen X display benchmarking.
2003-12-03: My old BBC BASIC V and ARM assembler implementation of the Game of Life.
2003-12-03: Real-life examples of apostrophe abuse.
2003-12-02: C coding guidelines for the free thinker.
2003-11-26: Antiword: a Microsoft Word file reader.
2003-11-26: Egg-breaking machines.
2003-11-20: The Finkelstein / Shattock report.
2003-11-19: The eight fallacies of distributed computing.
2003-11-17: Incompatibilities between C and C++.
2003-11-14: DAB and Linux.
2003-11-14: Animal noise onomatopoeia.
2003-11-14: Stream mp3s over ethernet to the SLIMP3 player.
2003-11-12: SMTP client for testing MTA configurations.
2003-11-06: International E-road network.
2003-11-06: The Art of Automounting.
2003-11-04: Unix incompatibility notes.
2003-10-29: The World Beard and Moustache Championships.
2003-10-22: Computer Science Unplugged.
2003-10-17: Silly London Underground maps.
2003-10-16: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
2003-10-15: Burnt-out UPS.
2003-10-15: The Barefoot Doctor gets a close examination.
2003-09-29: Dalek salt and pepper shakers.
2003-09-24: Peugeot 404 not found.
2003-09-23: Stack Computers: the new wave.
2003-09-15: Angle-Grinder Man.
2003-09-11: Some CompSci-ish quotations.
2003-09-11: TAI, UTC, GPS, aargh.
2003-09-11: Anti-Spam Research Group document tracking.
2003-09-09: Large efficient diesel ship engines.
2003-09-03: Magic Roundabouts.
2003-08-12: "The New C Standard" book review material.
2003-08-11: Live map of lightning in the British Isles.
2003-08-06: ShortTalk: Dictation Made Rewarding.
2003-08-05: Lithium-Ion battery FAQ.
2003-07-09: The Battle of Imjin River.
2003-07-04: Bell Labs and Hoare's CSP.
2003-07-03: Joi Ito's Emergent Democracy.
2003-07-03: Small Pieces Loosely Joined
2003-07-03: An excellent essay on group dynamics and social software.
2003-07-03: What does a GSR wish for?
2003-07-03: On the usable bandwidth of Ethernet.
2003-07-02: These weapons of mass destruction cannot be displayed.
2003-07-02: Martijn Bevelander is a spammer.
2003-07-01: Code bloat explored.
2003-06-30: Improved data mark-up languages.
2003-06-30: Books about climbing the buildings of Cambridge.
2003-06-17: The theology of The Market.
2003-05-21: The definition of "bikeshedding".
2003-05-20: First mention of the Central Registration Service?
2003-05-20: Clothes made out of duct tape.
2003-05-19: An example Computer Science Tripos examination paper.
2003-05-12: 30th Cambridge Beer Festival.
2003-05-12: How to construct a Limerick.
2003-05-08: Live video from a model rocket.
2003-04-28: The Lloyds Bank Turd.
2003-04-16: Translucent windows in X using OpenGL (like Mac OS X).
2003-04-06: History of computing at MIT.
2003-03-31: CVStrac: bug and patch-set tracking software.
2003-03-28: Cycling up-hill.
2003-03-28: The Garbage Collection Page.
2003-03-27: A brief history of spam.
2003-03-23: The Gulf War II Drinking Game.
2003-03-21: Patent-related subtleties of the GPL.
2003-03-19: The Striker Scenario.
2003-03-15: MHTML test messages.
2003-03-12: Some more RPM spec files: exim, adns, userv, secnet.
2003-03-12: A Cadbury's Creme Egg Car.
2003-03-12: Another Cadbury's Creme Egg Car.
2003-03-10: The Internet Health Report.
2003-03-10: Seeing capillary circulation in one's own retina.
2003-03-10: The Internet Storm Centre.
2003-03-09: Schott's Original Miscellany.
2003-03-07: USB toothbrush.
2003-03-07: Exim RPM spec.
2003-03-04: Bart's Internet punishment.
2003-02-28: All your base are belong to terrorist.
2003-02-20: Casting metal objects using a domestic microwave oven.
2003-02-13: The Unix Haters' archive.
2003-02-07: If you're happy and you know it, bomb Iraq.
2003-02-05: Spam is the same thing lots and lots of times.
2003-02-04: A call for the complete elimination of joke haiku production on the Internet.
2003-02-04: A glossary of typography.
2003-01-30: Photos at the top of the Telecom Tower in London.
2003-01-29: I do not like green cards and spam!
2003-01-28: Bedtime reading for George W. Bush.
2003-01-23: What does that sideways eight mean?
2003-01-21: A daemon made from balloons.
2003-01-15: A computer accessory for smokers.
2003-01-09: Entrances to Hell in the UK.
2003-01-07: Paul Graham's list of spam filters.
2003-01-07: SIMD within a register.
2003-01-07: Magic algorithms and bit-twiddling hacks from The Aggregate.
2003-01-07: Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
2003-01-06: On the design of display processors.
2003-01-06: Security problems associated with T/TCP.
2003-01-06: How to disappear in America without a trace.
2002-12-31: Lightbulb voltage regulators.
2002-12-31: Student chemistry experiments.
2002-12-23: The Spike Bike.
2002-12-20: Confessions of a Local Authority Cycling Officer.
2002-12-19: The "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" ...while Samantha... page.
2002-12-19: Stupid email disclaimers.
2002-12-18: "So I decided to explore randomness and some of the principles of quantum mechanics, through poetry, using the medium of sheep."
2002-12-18: BBC Variety Programmes Policy Guide for Writers and Producers.
2002-12-18: The pencil-user's pencil.
2002-12-17: Xeyes for the web generation.
2002-12-13: Christopher Hitchens on Mother Theresa.
2002-12-09: A Japanese guide to English football chants.
2002-12-09: Some good C programming tips.
2002-12-09: Hello Cthulhu.
2002-12-05: Linux jeans in Istanbul.
2002-12-03: Condorcet's voting system.
2002-12-03: Atmospheric optics.
2002-12-02: Some documents about ELF.
2002-12-02: The perils of driving in Cambridge without due care and attention.
2002-11-29: This mountain can only be seen for 12 days each year.
2002-11-20: The comp.basilisk FAQ.
2002-11-20: A nice collection of optical illusions.
2002-11-20: So you want the moon on a stick?
2002-11-20: Gulf Wars!
2002-11-15: Une diablotine très coquine!
2002-10-17: The telemarketing counterscript.
2002-10-16: Picture an earworm.
2002-10-16: The Downland Gridshell.
2002-09-26: The Campaign for Cambridge Freedoms.
2002-09-26: The Adelson checker-shadow illusion.
2002-09-23: Death of Silly Putty.
2002-09-20: If airlines sold paint...
2002-09-20: Swirly rainbow cloud.
2002-09-19: An interesting Project.
2002-09-12: Parsons code music finder
2002-09-02: An overview of the programming language C, more or less.
2002-08-12: This is the house that Jack built.
2002-08-05: Orkney's Italian Chapel.
2002-07-23: Not Mr Bunny's Big Cup Of...
2002-07-17: Problems of growth in development teams.
2002-06-28: Looking back at Knuth.
2002-06-27: Map of the world of spam.
2002-06-18: Mechanical automatic gearing in Lego.
2002-06-18: Cambridge Cycling Campaign Bike Week 2002.
2002-06-08: The joy of making the world.
2002-06-05: The world's flags given letter grades.
2002-06-05: Smartsuite at Sourceforge.
2002-06-05: UCSC SMART Suite seems to be the daddy of all this stuff, but their web site is broken.
2002-06-05: The ide-smart tool does yet more diagnostic stuff.
2002-06-05: IDE hard drive temperature reading under Linux.
2002-06-04: A motherboard with an on-board valve amp.
2002-06-04: Am I cute or not?
2002-05-31: An excellent tour of typography in London.
2002-05-29: A better syntax for exceptions in ML.
2002-05-28: If you were a Debian package, what would you be called?
2002-05-28: HAKMEM programming hacks in C.
2002-05-28: HAKMEM programming hacks.
2002-05-28: Alan Mycroft's clever programming tricks.
2002-05-28: Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming.
2002-05-27: RISC vs. CISC.
2002-05-23: Bullshit generator.
2002-05-22: IMAP/POP3 redirecting proxy.
2002-05-16: Roads of Britain.
2002-05-15: The emblem of the Univerity of Cambridge.
2002-05-15: What copyright looked like to Macaulay in 1841.
2002-05-15: Not all CDs are CDs.
2002-05-15: When Pulp Fiction meets Star Wars.
2002-05-15: The bomb-technician's T-shirt.
2002-05-15: Learn what "begging the question" is and why you shouldn't refer to it when you've just thought of something to ask.
2002-05-15: Top posters to new-httpd.
2002-05-14: It's a while since I wrote this, but here's an amusing war story.
2002-05-14: MacSween, the haggis specialists.
2002-05-14: The great cheiftan o' the puddin' race.
2002-05-13: The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant 10000 year marking system.
2002-05-13: The principle of least astonishment.
2002-05-13: Secure signal handling.
2002-05-10: Some people need to learn about siphons.
2002-05-09: An X server implemented as a Java applet.
2002-05-09: Vippy helps with BGP configuration.
2002-05-08: Caption competition.
2002-05-08: The joy of #!
2002-05-08: The shopping forecast.
2002-05-08: No, it isn't ironic.
2002-05-07: The story of Human evolution.
2002-05-07: The New Scripting Language.
2002-05-07: IP over DVB.
2002-05-03: The BIOS from hell.
2002-05-02: The Millennium Bridge problem.
2002-05-02: Great Concert Disasters.
2002-05-02: I see dead people.
2002-05-02: Liberals winning at US political debate?
2002-05-02: How to protest nicely on May Day.
2002-05-02: Knit your own ITV Digital monkey.
2002-05-02: Lisp: Good news; Bad news; How to win big. (Including The Rise of Worse is Better.)
2002-05-01: MultiSensit: a tool for extracting emotions from plain text.
2002-05-01: XCOM2002: Extreme computing -- the NTK/Mute festival of inappropriate technology.
2002-05-01: The Open Source Heathcare Alliance.
2002-05-01: Flame Warriors.
2002-05-01: Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet.
2002-05-01: Squeeze++: post-link-time whole-program optimization.
2002-04-30: info.eagle.current.status
2002-04-30: info.world.current.status
2002-04-30: info.us.election.current.status
2002-04-30: Miscellaneous Phoenix stuff.
2002-04-30: Adolf Hitler action figure.
2002-04-30: Stephen Wright jokes.
2002-04-30: Geek holiday destinations.
2002-04-29: Learning to shag is learning to be a Southerner.
2002-04-29: Wes and Sandra are current members of the Competitive Shagger's Association.
2002-04-26: The four condiments of the apocalypse.
2002-04-25: This page sucks and cannot be displayed.
2002-04-19: The Mallard Society of All Souls College, Oxford.
2002-04-19: By ye bloud of King Edward, it was a swapping, swapping mallard!
2002-04-19: What makes a fuckhead?
2002-04-19: What makes a fuckwit?

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>

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