Tony Finch's link log

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

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• 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.