Tony Finch – link log

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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 Benoït Mandelbrot in the Independent.
2010‑11‑30: Obituary of Benoît Mandelbrot in the Telegraph.
2010‑11‑30: Obituary of Benoït 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++.
2010‑09‑21: 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: 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.