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• 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.