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2011-12-31: Audiofools and the need to feel special.
2011-12-31: Raiders of the lost archives. (YouTube)
2011-12-31: The dangerous effects of reading.
2011-12-31: A proposal to stress-test implementations of C++11 concurrency.
2011-12-30: Just ordered a ladle from Amazon ...
2011-12-30: The myth of Japan's lost decades.
2011-12-30: Bruce Lee plays pingpong and lights matches with nunchuks.
2011-12-30: What's the deal with RC4?
2011-12-30: Visualizing Reddit ranking with a bumps chart.
2011-12-30: Mob response - think before you weigh in.
2011-12-30: RED in a different light: Van Jacobson on active queue management.
2011-12-30: Take your DNSSEC with a pinch of salt: how authenticated denial of existence works.
2011-12-30: Why movie revenue is dropping.
2011-12-30: Brute forcing Wi-Fi Protected Setup.
2011-12-30: The coming war on general-purpose computation.
2011-12-30: High quality education in Finland.
2011-12-30: Can you explain why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript?
2011-12-30: The development of a storm surge barrier control system - revisiting the seven myths of formal methods.
2011-12-30: Fair use vs appropriation in contemporary art.
2011-12-30: Augmented reality with Processing: a tutorial.
2011-12-30: The incredible true story of the collar bomb heist.
2011-12-30: Some particularly stupid patents.
2011-12-30: The web browser platform should be radically refactored.
2011-12-30: California's equal marriage ban leads to constitutional challenge on tax raising restrictions.
2011-12-30: Digital fireplace.
2011-12-30: Remake: photographic reconstructions of classic art.
2011-12-30: What hackers learn that the rest of us don't: notes on a hacker curriculum.
2011-12-30: Occupy Babel explain LANGSEC in a few slogans.
2011-12-29: Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz.
2011-12-29: Radical honesty.
2011-12-28: Unofficial LEGO advanced building techniques guide.
2011-12-28: Maize rootworm evolves to resist Monsanto Bt corn.
2011-12-28: Google+ fingering profile pictures.
2011-12-28: "Blue hour" twilight photography.
2011-12-27: Lessons from suppressing research.
2011-12-27: The coming retail apocalypse.
2011-12-27: Launching the Kindle Fire in its current state was a mistake.
2011-12-27: The dumbest idea in the world: maximizing shareholder value.
2011-12-27: Why (and how) we've switched from Google Maps to Open Street Map.
2011-12-27: The amazing power of deflationary economics for startups.
2011-12-27: HTTP status dogs.
2011-12-26: GoDaddy breaks ICANN rules by delaying domain transfers.
2011-12-26: GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA.
2011-12-26: ByeDaddy: find out if a domain is registered with GoDaddy.
2011-12-26: The status of Cambridge and the Lucasian Chair of mathematics when Newton was appointed.
2011-12-25: James Bond: you know the rules, and so does he.
2011-12-25: Why didn't Thorium molten salt reactors happen?
2011-12-24: John Carmac on the value of static code analysis.
2011-12-23: Yossi Kreinin's history with Forth and stack machines.
2011-12-23: One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom.
2011-12-23: Five things Roger Ebert taught me about criticizing programming languages.
2011-12-23: Forty things about writing.
2011-12-23: A Christmas message from America's rich.
2011-12-23: Programming with technological ritual and alchemy.
2011-12-22: Step-by-step guide to transferring your domains away from GoDaddy.
2011-12-22: Folding cup eliminates need for plastic lids.
2011-12-22: Multiple sclerosis is a metabolic disorder, not an autoimmune disease.
2011-12-22: Convicted for words not deeds.
2011-12-22: Why not to expose your VM bytecode.
2011-12-22: Why do humans menstruate when most mammals do not?
2011-12-22: Smoke screening: how airport security accomplishes nothing, at enormous cost.
2011-12-22: Police militarization and the war on drugs.
2011-12-22: Thatcher state funeral should be privatised.
2011-12-22: JavaScript as a first language.
2011-12-22: How Harvey Mudd College increased female compsci enrolment to 40%.
2011-12-22: 20 JavaScript showcase sites of 2011.
2011-12-22: Jurors in New York need to know they can say no.
2011-12-22: Dropping a magnet through a copper pipe.
2011-12-21: Mozilla secures continued funding from Google search revenue.
2011-12-21: Stories from North Korea by Kim Jong Il's Russian tutor.
2011-12-21: Unfortunate Python features to avoid.
2011-12-21: There is no formal legal means in Texas to confess to a crime for which someone else has been convicted.
2011-12-21: Zombie Borders.
2011-12-21: Interview with ARM co-founder John Biggs.
2011-12-21: Five reasons why Trey Ratcliff doesn't care if his photos are pirated.
2011-12-21: A secret that Big Shaving has kept from you.
2011-12-21: Worst (and some best) Xmas happenings.
2011-12-20: An Indian inventor disrupts the period industry.
2011-12-19: Roller derby breastfeeding.
2011-12-19: A case for using CoffeeScript.
2011-12-19: Visualizing device utilization.
2011-12-19: Aeropress-gang.
2011-12-19: Lego is for girls - or should be.
2011-12-19: Federated account management using SAML and Shibboleth.
2011-12-19: Republic Lost: how government centralization and expansion puts democracy in the service of special interests.
2011-12-19: Prof David Nutt: science and non-science in drug policy. (23 Jan @ Churchill Coll)
2011-12-19: The changing face of the Lego minifigure.
2011-12-19: Collection of light: an LED taxonomy like an insect collection.
2011-12-19: Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook: an 1860s tourist guide.
2011-12-19: Britain's ghost trains.
2011-12-19: CoffeeScript is not a language worth knowing.
2011-12-19: Progress with the HTTP cookie opt-in consent regulations.
2011-12-19: The node.js aesthetic.
2011-12-19: Why CloudKick switched from Twisted Python to node.js.
2011-12-19: The orbit of the Moon around the Sun is convex!
2011-12-19: The recording industry likes to make its supporters look like assholes.
2011-12-18: Lord of the Buns: Tim Hayward and why saving Fitzbillies matters.
2011-12-18: PHP's problem: "no design and no plan".
2011-12-18: Goodbye World! The perils of relying on output streams in C. (video)
2011-12-17: Institutional memory, engineering archaeology, and reverse corporate espionage.
2011-12-17: GNU/Linux distribution timeline.
2011-12-17: POSIX close(2) is broken.
2011-12-17: A history of source code control in ten innovations.
2011-12-16: lua_udunits2
2011-12-16: UDUNITS: a library for manipulation of units of measurement.
2011-12-16: Anagram tube map.
2011-12-16: The surprise exam, and more surprises.
2011-12-16: GPU-accelerated RSA.
2011-12-16: A review of "Unjustifiable Risk? The Story of British Climbing".
2011-12-16: Why programmers work at night.
2011-12-16: Sun Java JDK evicted from Ubuntu following security vulnerability and withdrawal of licence by Oracle.
2011-12-16: Lego has lost its gender-neutral creativity.
2011-12-16: Fantasy armour and lady bits.
2011-12-15: Bug prediction at Google.
2011-12-15: CarrierIQ: the real story.
2011-12-15: Elevator algorithms.
2011-12-15: Best YA GLBTQ books of the year.
2011-12-15: A review of MoonScript, CoffeeScript-style syntactic sugar for Lua.
2011-12-15: Quel est le sexe des RFC ?
2011-12-14: GlobalSign web server compromise incident report.
2011-12-14: Long-form journalism highlights of the year.
2011-12-14: Cheap PID-controlled espresso machine. (Kickstarter)
2011-12-14: Louis C.K. on the production costs and profitability of his DRM-free comedy video.
2011-12-14: Some iOS apps for children.
2011-12-14: HTTP status cats.
2011-12-13: IBM CMS "Hartmann" pipelines.
2011-12-13: The Fox News approach to charting unemployment.
2011-12-13: As expected, retreat of arctic ice leads to extensive methane plumes.
2011-12-13: NOtES: nano-scale biomimicry for secure optical effects on cash.
2011-12-13: Using augmented reality to show what it is like to have anomalous colour vision.
2011-12-13: Statistical analysis of widespread Russian electoral fraud.
2011-12-13: Vim: revisited.
2011-12-12: Megaupload to sue Universal Music for false DMCA takedown.
2011-12-12: The growth of the NYC commuter cycling indicator.
2011-12-12: STFU about what women want.
2011-12-12: Do not go rioting with remaining eye.
2011-12-12: A skyscraper without windows: the AT&T long lines building at 33 Thomas St in Manhattan.
2011-12-12: EU bans export of thiopental for use in executions.
2011-12-12: DNSSEC validating stub resolver NSS plugin for glibc.
2011-12-12: Kindle Touch jailbreak via JavaScript in an ID3 tag.
2011-12-12: Why Spotify can never be profitable: the secret demands of record labels.
2011-12-11: Tanenbaum's law vs. SETI.
2011-12-10: Come bellringing in Cambridge on BBC Four.
2011-12-10: The moment that David Cameron lost his argument at the EU summit.
2011-12-10: René Carmille: founder of the French national statistics service, hero of the résistance, and hacker of IBM punched cards.
2011-12-10: How to dispel your illusions: Freeman Dyson reviews "thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman.
2011-12-10: A BBC Micro for the 21st Century?
2011-12-10: The deepening Fermi paradox.
2011-12-10: Getting value for money from cloud computing.
2011-12-10: RIAA musicians promote "rogue site" Megaupload. (Plus interesting business plan.)
2011-12-09: Australian exceptionalism.
2011-12-09: Painting the Forth Bridge now finished.
2011-12-09: Producing documents by programming in Postscript.
2011-12-09: The Crunchpad is proof that the iPad design is obvious.
2011-12-09: Cory Doctorow reviews "how to fix copyright" by William Patry.
2011-12-09: WebOS goes open source.
2011-12-09: Apple using patents to undermine open web standards again.
2011-12-09: New ice cream flavour: cookies and e. coli.
2011-12-09: An infographic describing the criminal enterprise of counterfeit drug spam.
2011-12-09: Popular xmas songs by decade of recording - UK version of today's XKCD.
2011-12-09: Deutsch Bahn ICE channel tunnel service delayed until 2015 owing to late arrival of trains.
2011-12-09: Buffer bloat: what's wrong with the Internet? - ACM Queue
2011-12-09: US immigration and customs enforceme unjust domain name seizure processes.
2011-12-09: An end to UK student loan phishing spam?
2011-12-09: Results of UK publicly funded research will be open access.
2011-12-08: DNSSEC deployment status at Comcast.
2011-12-08: Understanding prototypes in Javascript.
2011-12-08: Dutch government X.509 CA KPN Gemnet hacked via PHP MyAdmin.
2011-12-08: Some pictures of the St Pancras Lego christmas tree.
2011-12-08: Lads' mags use the same misogynist language as rapists to describe women.
2011-12-08: Cambridge Noir.
2011-12-07: Mandelbrot beats economics at modelling markets.
2011-12-07: Corruption and dumbing down in exam boards.
2011-12-07: Truly open data.
2011-12-07: Who looked at /etc/motd on ubuntu and thought, HEY, I KNOW WHAT THIS NEEDS – SHELL SCRIPTS!?
2011-12-07: Exploiting holes in deeper security layers of Intel CPUs.
2011-12-07: git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.
2011-12-07: Is your logo design phallic?
2011-12-07: "I like to urge designers to always ask themselves, does this logo look like a penis?"
2011-12-07: More news: C|Net download.com bundles adware trojans with free software.
2011-12-07: Google has raised the bar for intelligence gathering.
2011-12-06: Piumarta's cola: combined object/lambda architecture.
2011-12-06: The Kernel programming language: first class fexprs.
2011-12-06: Bringing a Norwich Pharmacal order as a litigant-in-person to identify a nasty online troll.
2011-12-06: The curious case of 128.0.0.0/16.
2011-12-06: C|Net download.com bundles trojan adware with free software downloads.
2011-12-06: PayPal says Christmas is for sick cats not poor people.
2011-12-06: Busway car traps are the new rising bollards.
2011-12-06: The Eurozone's terrible mistake: to guarantee banks' foolish lending.
2011-12-05: What do you do when an entire system of laws is flouted and unenforced?
2011-12-05: How integers should work in systems programming languages.
2011-12-05: American Christmas devil is coming!
2011-12-05: The discovery of dolphin language.
2011-12-05: Botnets in the UK: spam and hi-tech crime.
2011-12-05: Bulls Dairies - a preserved sign in Cambridge.
2011-12-05: Anti-Grain Geometry - accurate text rasterization.
2011-12-05: Animated Bézier curves in SVG.
2011-12-05: Cubic spline & bezier curves library.
2011-12-05: Hermite curve interpolation.
2011-12-05: Bezier curves - a primer.
2011-12-05: What powers Instagram.
2011-12-04: British public life is 78% male or worse.
2011-12-04: On the feasibility of maglev monorails.
2011-12-04: How Rachel Aaron went from writing 2000 to 10,000 words a day.
2011-12-04: A programming language for DNA-based computing.
2011-12-04: A review of "don't take no for an answer" on the Yes to AV campaign.
2011-12-04: Moving from SVN to Git in 1,000 easy steps!
2011-12-04: Has Mozilla lost its Google search revenue?
2011-12-04: Damn you autocorrect: top 25 of the year.
2011-12-04: The medical loss ratio: the bomb buried In Obamacare explodes today, Hallelujah!
2011-12-04: Beall's list of predatory "open-access" vanity publishers.
2011-12-03: The great Ivy League nude posture photo scandal.
2011-12-03: How Google killed the long tail of search ad keywords.
2011-12-03: This site's domain name has been stolen.
2011-12-03: Doug McIlroy's guide to Research Unix.
2011-12-02: The strange birth and long life of Unix.
2011-12-02: Dutch anti-piracy campaign and collection agency caught in big copyright infringement and corruption scandal.
2011-12-02: Skeuomorphism in iOS: the opiate of the people.
2011-12-02: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 lack-of support for DNAME.
2011-12-02: Eleven charts on inequality in America.
2011-12-02: How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street.
2011-12-02: Email problems at UC Berkeley.
2011-12-02: Will Abellio, Dutch operator of East Anglian rail franchise, improve cycle parking at Cambridge?
2011-12-01: Carrier IQ usage tracking on iPhones, and how to turn it off.
2011-12-01: A Lua DLZ back end for BIND.
2011-12-01: DNSSEC: how to deploy it, and why you should bother.
2011-12-01: How cleaning up the DNSChanger malware highlights the law's control over the IP address registries.
2011-12-01: Learning modern 3D graphics programming.
2011-12-01: Do data caps punish the wrong users?
2011-11-30: Software in the Public Interest associated projects.
2011-11-30: Frink: a programming language that knows about units of measurement.
2011-11-30: Ben Collins-Sussman on the ASF/git debate: "your community is not your tools".
2011-11-30: Amazing glass staircase wrapped around a huge cylindrical aquarium.
2011-11-30: Royal Flying Corps trainee Graham Donald tries a new manoeuvre with his Sopwith Camel.
2011-11-30: Norman Matloff's R programming language page.
2011-11-30: Making sure your site can be read by a screen reader just got a whole lot more important, wouldn’t you say?
2011-11-30: Amusing bug: can't type lowercase e on Amazon EC2 Linux server.
2011-11-30: Mary Beard on the Oxbridge interview.
2011-11-30: RFC 6441: time to remove /8 bogon filters.
2011-11-30: "My head teacher won't let me teach computing."
2011-11-30: Wikipedia on the Intercity Express Programme for new trains and electrified lines.
2011-11-30: Cambridge to get faster trains, up from 160 to 200 km/h.
2011-11-30: Monadic region-based resource management.
2011-11-30: Why one company is switching back from Scala to Java.
2011-11-30: Reddit discusses "simple made easy".
2011-11-29: Rich Hickey: simple made easy.
2011-11-29: Hank Paulson's inside jobs.
2011-11-29: There should never, ever be even a trace of the supernatural in the world of Scooby-Doo.
2011-11-29: ACLs in SQL for Geeklog2.
2011-11-29: How to build role-based access control in SQL.
2011-11-29: HTTP Strict-Transport-Security: protection against TLS stripping attacks.
2011-11-29: Certificate transparency: public audit logs for TLS.
2011-11-29: GitHub is the shape of things to come, but the Apache Software Foundation still has a role.
2011-11-29: Node.js is the most popular repo on GitHub.
2011-11-29: DNS DNAME is almost useless.
2011-11-29: A standard is open when it has an active open source implementation.
2011-11-29: Thinking of impact as re-use could be key to uniting funders and researchers behind open research.
2011-11-29: The real climategate.
2011-11-29: Idiomatic Python: code like a Pythonista.
2011-11-29: A basic tutorial on the pragmatics of Python.
2011-11-29: Some equations computer scientists should (at least pretend to) know.
2011-11-29: NPR interviews biographer of Hedy Lamarr, inventor of spread spectrum radio.
2011-11-29: Matrix multiplication is O(n^2.373).
2011-11-29: John Bercow's arms have an LGBT motto.
2011-11-28: Publishers are cutting their own throats by requiring DRM on ebooks.
2011-11-28: The death of Flash was eight years in the making.
2011-11-28: Cumbria police killed a man by repeated tasering.
2011-11-28: What a lender of last resort looks like: the Federal Reserve and Morgan Stanley.
2011-11-28: "The Dick Night" featuring Frank Miller.
2011-11-28: US Senate voting whether to allow indefinite military detention of US citizens without charge or trial.
2011-11-28: The rise and fall of Bitcoin.
2011-11-28: Male comic-book superheroes drawn like female ones.
2011-11-28: The King James bible, still in copyright in the UK after 400 years.
2011-11-28: libfaketime: a preload library that reports fake time to programs without having to change the system-wide time.
2011-11-28: Toy advertising and gender stereotypes.
2011-11-28: Burzynski clinic "cancer cure" quacks learn about the Streisand Effect from a school boy.
2011-11-28: A century of reactionary deceit fromt he copyright industry.
2011-11-28: Companies that ban Facebook are 30% more likely to have IT security breaches.
2011-11-28: LLVM 3.0 type system rewrite.
2011-11-28: Roll over, Frank Miller: or, why Occupy Wall Street is better than the Spartans.
2011-11-28: Alan Moore: meet the man behind the protest mask.
2011-11-27: How Spotify works.
2011-11-27: Pre-fabricated energy-saving homes from Hanse-Haus.
2011-11-27: Modern houses in Cambridgeshire.
2011-11-26: This stupid new housing policy takes us back to the glory days of Northern Rock.
2011-11-26: Mirth helps correct cognitive errors.
2011-11-26: HDCP cracked using leaked master key and cheap FPGA.
2011-11-26: Your moons are rubbish, astronomer tells Christmas card artists.
2011-11-26: Ten things to know about the King James bible.
2011-11-25: Daily Mail trying to force Leveson enquiry to reveal who is criticising the tabloids.
2011-11-25: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: a long, tangled tale.
2011-11-25: Evangelical churches in UK killing people with HIV by convincing them to stop taking medicine.
2011-11-25: Peter Losher from the ISC talks about running root DNS servers.
2011-11-25: Cory Doctorow on cold-brewed coffee.
2011-11-25: The Times and the Daily Mail attack a support group for victims of press intrusion.
2011-11-25: Three dying platforms: Flash, Silverlight, Win32.
2011-11-25: Good footage of American football is an NFL trade secret.
2011-11-24: What's wrong with OKCupid's matching algorithm.
2011-11-24: A more detailed summary of the ECJ decision against court orders that require indiscriminate filtering by ISPs.
2011-11-24: Air Traffic Control marches into the 1990s with new X.400 deployments!
2011-11-24: Prevalence of swearing in the Guardian, 1999-2009.
2011-11-24: European Court of Justice decision limits ability of member states to turn ISPs into copyright police.
2011-11-23: World's tallest Lego Christmas tree at St Pancras: 12 metres, 3 tonnes.
2011-11-23: Apache Software Foundation considered harmful.
2011-11-23: Google TLS services now support forward secrecy for Firefox and Chrome users.
2011-11-23: Porting TeX to the iPad.
2011-11-23: After this experiment we reckon the vodka tampon is an urban myth.
2011-11-23: Transactional memory in gcc 4.7+.
2011-11-23: New York reporters meet the fists of the law.
2011-11-23: Open source (almost) everything.
2011-11-23: The Atlantic's online ad revenue surpasses print.
2011-11-22: Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?
2011-11-22: Leave the history curriculum alone but teach it for longer.
2011-11-22: What's wrong with #firstworldproblems.
2011-11-22: Hospital patients forced to watch continuous message from Andrew Lansley, or pay £5 a day to a private company.
2011-11-22: Monopolistic tendencies in the domain name system.
2011-11-22: David Frum asks, when did Republicans lose touch with reality?
2011-11-22: How the automatic gearbox nearly killed off the sperm whale.
2011-11-22: Full disk encryption is too good, complain digital CSI teams, demanding more research to make it stronger.
2011-11-21: What is pepper spray and what harm does it do?
2011-11-21: Café threatened for unauthorized use of hobbit.
2011-11-21: Neelie Kroes, EU commission VP for the digital agenda: "trying to enforce copyright has not stemmed piracy".
2011-11-21: Iceland let the creditors of its banks hang. Ireland did not. Good for Iceland!
2011-11-21: Sovereign Keys: a proposal to make TLS more secure.
2011-11-20: Journals are the dinosaurs of academia.
2011-11-20: How the police treat abuse of women and minorities online.
2011-11-20: Improve diversity by making recruitment more objectively meritocratic.
2011-11-20: How the San Francisco Ruby meetup grew from 2% to 18% women.
2011-11-20: Militarized police treat prisoners better than students in California.
2011-11-20: Cleggmania round two?
2011-11-20: Cassandra's curse: how "The Limits to Growth" was demonized.
2011-11-20: Seven misunderstandings about classical architecture.
2011-11-20: Most laser printers add a tracking watermark to every page they print.
2011-11-20: eWAVE: the world atlas of varieties of English - online.
2011-11-19: Demonstrating should not be not a crime.
2011-11-19: One third of Americans are below the poverty line or just scraping by.
2011-11-19: Occupy HOPE.
2011-11-19: Clayton Christensen: how pursuit of profits kills innovation and the U.S. economy.
2011-11-19: Phonological change in English: the trap-bath split.
2011-11-19: Modest dressing.
2011-11-19: Declassified 7000 sq.m. nuclear bunker 65m under Moscow.
2011-11-19: How tabloids treat your family if you speak against their evil acts.
2011-11-19: Thoughts and ideas about teaching computing in school.
2011-11-19: How to fix copyright, by William Patry of Google.
2011-11-19: A review of the Kindle Fire.
2011-11-19: The systemd journal: a syslog replacement for Fedora.
2011-11-18: The Hotel Silken Puerta América in Madrid - different design and architecture on each floor.
2011-11-18: An experiment in extreme schooling at the Moscow New Humanitarian.
2011-11-18: The top ten supercomputers, illustrated.
2011-11-18: The United States Supreme Court has another chance to reverse the mission creep in patent law - Prometheus vs Mayo.
2011-11-18: In praise of clutter and paper.
2011-11-18: Are you reading too much? (Am I?!)
2011-11-18: "The police tried to provoke people to react violently [...] but we all supported one another and prevented the police from causing a riot."
2011-11-18: poll() vs select()
2011-11-18: On the Google WiFi mapping opt-out.
2011-11-18: The NTP nanokernel.
2011-11-18: Martian Time FAQ.
2011-11-17: Optimization tricks used by the lockless allocator.
2011-11-17: NeverWet coatings are superhydrophobic surfaces.
2011-11-17: Graphene improves lithium-ion battery capacity and recharge rate ten times.
2011-11-17: The mouse trap: the dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.
2011-11-17: Teaching good sex.
2011-11-17: Windows 8 secure boot is not secure.
2011-11-17: nixio: Lua networking + crypto + filesystem functions.
2011-11-17: WinKexec: a Linux bootloader implemented as a device driver for Windows.
2011-11-17: The fall of America's r-less class.
2011-11-16: Miss World and Mary Beard.
2011-11-16: The 3-D printing free-for-all. (Not for long!)
2011-11-16: What exactly is HMRC paying Capgemini billions for?
2011-11-16: Javascript minitel emulator.
2011-11-16: SPDY is not hard. Securing the Internet is.
2011-11-16: Zoho mail sends messages with a Status: header marking them as already seen.
2011-11-16: Men-only policy debates must stop.
2011-11-16: Oh dear, another BIND crash bug.
2011-11-15: "Verbatim" mode stops Google search from trying to be clever.
2011-11-15: Cracking Siri: how an iPhone 4S talks to the speech recognition engine hosted at Apple.
2011-11-15: PDP-10/X: a reimplementation of a PDP-10 on an FPGA, running ITS.
2011-11-15: sortu: sort | uniq in one.
2011-11-15: "My ICT teacher can't mark my homework" - a problem for children who can code.
2011-11-15: DNSSEC reality and utility.
2011-11-15: Lua-CodeGen: a template engine based on Terence Parr's ideas.
2011-11-15: Condorcet internet voting service.
2011-11-14: Observations of two "happy eyeballs" quick IPv6 / IPv4 connect implementations.
2011-11-14: Remembrance Sunday and Germans.
2011-11-14: The handling of sex offenders in the USA makes the problem worse.
2011-11-14: 101 - national non-emergency number for contacting the police.
2011-11-14: Google's smeared leap seconds vs. Markus Kuhn's smoothed leap seconds.
2011-11-13: Cheap drugs reduce violent crime.
2011-11-13: A memory of sexist abuse.
2011-11-13: The nocebo effect.
2011-11-13: In America some women who lose babies face murder charges.
2011-11-13: Grammatical variation in Irish English.
2011-11-12: Luma Labs discontinues their camera sling products to avoid patent litigation.
2011-11-12: Finally, a judge stands up to Wall Street.
2011-11-12: Planning for the post euro Irish economy.
2011-11-12: The Riot's catcaller form.
2011-11-12: "How I stopped worrying and learned to love OWS."
2011-11-11: The slow approach of the bananapocalypse.
2011-11-11: Bright: a C-like Lua derivative.
2011-11-11: How Fitzbillies was saved.
2011-11-11: Wittgenstein on fog-like sensations and road signs.
2011-11-11: 80 mph speed limit does not look so clever now.
2011-11-11: "The Eurozone countries most under threat aren't the ones with generous welfare states or effective social contracts."
2011-11-10: Confident code.
2011-11-10: Everson Mono font.
2011-11-10: Google+ does not understand its users.
2011-11-10: Online abuse: what about the men?
2011-11-10: OFCOM study on the state of DNSSEC deployment in the UK and internationally.
2011-11-10: Engineering the ten thousand year clock.
2011-11-10: Computer programming for children, minus cryptic syntax.
2011-11-10: Campaign against the "keep calm and carry on" trademark.
2011-11-10: Celebrating 50 years of human-powered flight.
2011-11-10: 60th birthday of the Lyons Electronic Office, the first business computer, based on EDSAC.
2011-11-10: More water rocket construction tutorials.
2011-11-10: NASA water rocket launcher build instructions.
2011-11-10: High-power paper rocket launcher.
2011-11-10: NASA water rocket build instructions.
2011-11-10: NASA project X-51: water rockets for kids.
2011-11-10: DTrace and Erlang.
2011-11-09: Comcast IPv6 deployment.
2011-11-09: Authenticated denial of existence in DNSSEC.
2011-11-09: xv6: 6th Edition Unix and Lions' commentary ported to ANSI C and x86 for teaching.
2011-11-09: A brief rant on the future of interaction design.
2011-11-09: HMG says open source is as secure as proprietary software, and should not be ruled out of the procurement process.
2011-11-09: The social graph is neither.
2011-11-08: 32 questions for sysadmins.
2011-11-08: Berp: a Python 3 to Haskell translator.
2011-11-08: Michael Lewis on Daniel Kahneman, "the king of human error".
2011-11-08: Non-errors in English usage.
2011-11-08: La Brea allows you to insert Lua scripts into a program without recompiling.
2011-11-08: The big sexy problem with superheroines and their "liberated sexuality".
2011-11-08: Nature reports on the Royal Society leap second meeting.
2011-11-08: Burj Khalifa has no sewers, so relies on trucking out the poo instead.
2011-11-08: libfiu: fault injection in userspace.
2011-11-08: Sir Paul Nurse on the Fracis Crick institute.
2011-11-08: Francis Crick institute building. (Should have used the plot to keep more books on site at the library.)
2011-11-08: The saggar maker's bottom knocker.
2011-11-08: Morality and the markets.
2011-11-08: Robert Fisk on remembrance poppies.
2011-11-08: Version numbers in Perl are not boring enough.
2011-11-08: Demystifying the chinese hacking industry.
2011-11-08: ACPO and UCAS now count as public bodies for freedom of information purposes.
2011-11-08: "All right, fine. I'll add a disclaimer to my emails."
2011-11-08: NY Times obituary of Norman Ramsey, whose work led to atomic clocks and nuclear magnetic resonance.
2011-11-08: Bayes' theorem not banned from British courts.
2011-11-08: What lies behind online misogyny?
2011-11-08: All Wired staff photos released under CC-BY-NC.
2011-11-08: The project to build Babbage's Analytical Engine.
2011-11-08: Ruby crypto key generation bug.
2011-11-07: What should we do about sexist abuse online?
2011-11-07: BozoCrack: depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker.
2011-11-07: Automated content: the future of sports journalism?
2011-11-07: Artificial intelligence is putting people out of work.
2011-11-07: The most amazing room in Queens.
2011-11-07: Chaitin's incompleteness theorem and the surprisingly small complexity barrier.
2011-11-07: IKEA's convoluted ownership and accounting.
2011-11-07: Google's tax dodge.
2011-11-07: "I think dead children should be used as a unit of currency. I know this sounds controversial, but hear me out."
2011-11-07: 1TB hard drive prices up 180% in a month due to floods in Tailand.
2011-11-07: Glass-Steagall Act: the senators and economists who got it right.
2011-11-07: Goldman Sachs is forcing up the price of aluminium.
2011-11-06: The origins of Scala.
2011-11-06: Eclipse Xtend: syntactic sugar for Java programmers.
2011-11-05: Is abuse really a necessary occupational hazard of blogging?
2011-11-05: The only way to have a successful revolution in any field of human activity.
2011-11-05: Words on plot and treason.
2011-11-05: DNSSEC-trigger on Mac OS X.
2011-11-05: L'énergie tirée des forêts polluerait plus que le charbon.
2011-11-05: When centralised purchasing wastes money.
2011-11-05: Capitalism can't just be about money.
2011-11-05: The thing about bullying.
2011-11-05: haveged: an entropy gathering daemon based on variable execution timing.
2011-11-05: Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP: another improved flow control algorithm.
2011-11-05: FileVault 2 and Find My Mac foil thieves.
2011-11-05: A woman's opinion is the mini-skirt of the Internet.
2011-11-04: Universal Music sued again for not paying licensing royalties to musicians.
2011-11-04: KON Getronics suspends CA operations after finding DDOS tool on web server.
2011-11-04: Patently absurd: copyright law provides enough protection for software.
2011-11-04: The BBC on the leap second debate.
2011-11-04: Gaslighting: belittling women and dismissing their legitimate emotions as unreasonable.
2011-11-04: Future of UTC meeting presentations.
2011-11-04: Women in finance.
2011-11-04: Apple's supply chain expertise.
2011-11-04: Not One-Off Britishisms: UK expressions that have taken hold in the US.
2011-11-04: Four ways men stunt women's careers.
2011-11-04: Gas mask, $20, ideal for occupying Oakland or Wall St.
2011-11-04: A senior police officer says brothels should be legal.
2011-11-03: An RFC 4819 secure shell public key subsystem implementation for OpenSSH.
2011-11-03: Mozilla revokes trust in a Malaysian intermediate CA, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd.
2011-11-03: Australian weather calendar 2012.
2011-11-03: How iAds support WebGL, and how developers can use WebGL on iOS.
2011-11-03: The Mac app sandbox is restrictive.
2011-11-03: Knot authoritative DNS server from nic.cz. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: Yadifa: beyond BIND and NSD. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: "Google release something, and I no longer have any faith that it’s going to be any good."
2011-11-03: The flat world of BGP: AS and prefix counts growing, but not update rate. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: IPv6 day: what did we learn? (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: DNSCCM: an implementation of the nameserver control protocol. (RIPE63).
2011-11-03: DNSSEC-trigger: mobile Unbound validator autoconfiguration. (RIPE63)
2011-11-03: The sheer volume of sexist abuse thrown at female bloggers is the Internet's festering sore.
2011-11-03: The Daily Mail and Hugh Grant: how tabloids intimidate privacy campaigners.
2011-11-03: Documentation about the ITO map.
2011-11-03: ITO Map: view hidden layers of Open Street Map.
2011-11-03: Copyright policy is Internet policy.
2011-11-03: Almost all BT Newzbin2 users are bypassing the court-ordered block.
2011-11-03: Yadifa: a full-featured DNS server in development at EURID.
2011-11-03: Knot DNS: full featured high performance authoritative DNS server from nic.cz.
2011-11-03: A beautiful ring counter clock.
2011-11-03: Don't give your users shit work: manually categorizing contacts is a waste of time.
2011-11-03: Studded bicycle tires.
2011-11-02: In-place modification/assignment patch for Lua.
2011-11-02: East Bergholt.
2011-11-02: Germany's difficulties caused by phasing out nuclear power.
2011-11-02: Inside the mind of the octopus.
2011-11-02: So you think Linux's capability model is bad? What about the web's?
2011-11-02: Did accounting help sink Corzine's MF Global?
2011-11-02: Ex Google Reader PM on the redesign.
2011-11-02: Chemistry and early hominid diets.
2011-11-01: Jamie Zawinsky discusses RSS feed readers.
2011-11-01: Ten years of ZFS.
2011-11-01: Notes d'EuroBSDcon 2011 en Français.
2011-11-01: Status of the ITU-R study of UTC.
2011-11-01: Key escrow from a safe distance: looking back at the Clipper chip.
2011-11-01: Telescript programming guide.
2011-11-01: Telescript language reference.
2011-11-01: Protesters decide they actually like wind turbines now they have been built.
2011-11-01: Three RSS feed readers.
2011-10-31: The mediaeval plutocracy at the heart of London.
2011-10-31: Android has swallowed the UK smartphone market in the last 18 months.
2011-10-31: Siri ported to jailbroken iPhone 4.
2011-10-31: Averia: an average font made using generative typography.
2011-10-31: jgrep: a grep for JSON written in Ruby.
2011-10-31: The OTCA metapixel: running Life inside Life, 4 million times bigger and 35 thousand times slower.
2011-10-31: The Dish celebrates its 50th birthday.
2011-10-31: A senior civil servant on the unavoidable truths about government IT.
2011-10-31: State schools are not properly guiding pupils through university applications; UCAS planning to move process after A-levels.
2011-10-31: The Guardian on the Janet 6 network upgrade project. (Wot no "super"?)
2011-10-31: Acoustic cryptanalysis: nosy people and noisy machines.
2011-10-31: Tachyon: a meta-circular optimizing JavaScript virtual machine.
2011-10-31: TLS out-of-band public key validation: divorcing TLS from X.509.
2011-10-31: TACK: Tethered Assertions for Certificate Keys. Convergence widens its TLS protection.
2011-10-31: The war on lemonade stands.
2011-10-31: Giving Haskell a promotion: kind polymorphism and typed type-level programming.
2011-10-31: All Chinese maps are subtly obfuscated.
2011-10-31: Brian Kernighan talks about Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-31: Extensible programming with first-class cases - a solution to Wadler's expression problem.
2011-10-31: The evolution of RISC technology at IBM.
2011-10-31: A Smalltalker reviews Google Dart.
2011-10-31: Freedom and crutches in programming language design.
2011-10-30: Open Access to scientific publications: a short summary.
2011-10-30: Wall Street isn't winning, it's cheating.
2011-10-29: kramdown-rfc2629: an xml2rfc back end for a ruby markdown processor.
2011-10-29: Markdown -> pandoc -> docbook -> xslt -> xml2rfc -> Internet draft.
2011-10-29: The EFF on SOPA: "Hollywood finally gets a chance to break the Internet."
2011-10-29: Why everything R2D2 says is bleeped out.
2011-10-29: DNSCCM: DNS Configuration, Control and Monitoring.
2011-10-29: Freshmeat renamed FreeCode.
2011-10-29: Publicly funded science should be published and practised in the open.
2011-10-29: Dr. Walter Bortz on his patient and friend, John McCarthy.
2011-10-29: Google Apps admins have unrestricted access to all their users' Google+ data.
2011-10-29: RSS vs social media.
2011-10-29: Copyright troll loses case for not owning rights; must pay nearly $120k costs.
2011-10-29: StackExchange's battles with the .NET garbage collector.
2011-10-28: Google staff being put on probation or sacked for arguing against the real names policy.
2011-10-28: Legal aid: the new poor law.
2011-10-28: Sexist reactions to feminism in open source.
2011-10-28: How Occupy Wall Street cost Caitlin Curran her job.
2011-10-28: Girls often driven away from STEM by their teachers.
2011-10-28: USPTO grants patent on obvious application of scientific method.
2011-10-28: If Google don't like your name they will delete the contacts from your Android phone.
2011-10-28: Why Dave Winer needs to learn about RFC 2136 DNS updates.
2011-10-28: Broadway: a JavaScript H.264 decoder.
2011-10-28: lolcat(1)
2011-10-28: Apple gift catalogue 1983.
2011-10-28: Codify: game and simulation development with Lua on iPad.
2011-10-27: An experimental evaluation of rate-adaptation algorithms for streaming over HTTP.
2011-10-27: Google nymwars, redux.
2011-10-27: Norman Davies on Europe's vanished states.
2011-10-27: EPO grants patent on broccoli.
2011-10-27: Brian Cox is wrong: blogging your research is not a recipe for disaster.
2011-10-27: PLoS Won: the success of open access journals.
2011-10-27: Playing the probabilities: blackjack, shuffles, and residual correlations.
2011-10-27: The EFF on the security of and attacks on TLS.
2011-10-27: Australian helmet cam study reveals motorists to blame in vast majority of cycling crashes.
2011-10-27: Android orphans: visualizing a sad lack of supported software updates.
2011-10-27: Valve: "The easiest way to stop piracy is to give people a service that's better than what they get from pirates."
2011-10-27: Paraglider survives encounter with thunderstorm.
2011-10-27: Parachuting through a cumulonimbus.
2011-10-27: Two amusing side channel attacks.
2011-10-27: Higher-Order Perl.
2011-10-27: Modern Perl.
2011-10-27: Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage).
2011-10-27: The making of Arduino.
2011-10-26: Sealand, HavenCo, and the rule of law.
2011-10-26: It has to work: the essential ingredient of successful software.
2011-10-26: French government "banning vegetarianism" in school canteens.
2011-10-26: The road to better web authorization.
2011-10-26: Cutting the Gordian knot of web identity.
2011-10-26: The forbidden story of Argentina's post-default economic success.
2011-10-26: Reminiscing about The Princess Bride.
2011-10-26: How the Joy of Sex was illustrated.
2011-10-26: The St Paul's protesters are taking health and safety more seriously, with more professional responsibility, than the Dean and Chapter.
2011-10-25: Visa and MasterCard want to use credit card activity to target web ads.
2011-10-25: Radiation and Reason: the impact of science on a culture of fear.
2011-10-25: The Register's obituary of John McCarthy.
2011-10-25: UN special rapporteur on health as a human right says all states must provide safe abortion and contraception.
2011-10-25: A randomly generated language is as easy as Perl for novice programmers.
2011-10-25: On parliamentary sovereignty.
2011-10-25: Software patents come to the UK.
2011-10-25: How to handle versioning in web APIs.
2011-10-25: Jamie Zawinsky's tribute to John McCarthy.
2011-10-25: Wired obituary of John McCarthy, father of AI and Lisp.
2011-10-24: Empirical software engineering.
2011-10-24: Who else was hit by the RSA attackers?
2011-10-24: How to break XML encryption.
2011-10-23: Tim O'Reilly on running a business, and the pursuit of passion rather than profit.
2011-10-23: "Cookie Monster" explains Occupy Wall Street.
2011-10-23: Congress warned in 1999 that deregulation would lead to cascade failures and make banks too big to fail.
2011-10-23: Space Alert's genius is in combining its madness-inducing ten minute time limit with a spectacular demand for player co-ordination.
2011-10-23: Holy Flying Circus: brilliant funny dramatization of the controversy over "Life of Brian".
2011-10-23: Find out why the onions are in there before changing the recipe.
2011-10-23: The Goertzel tone detection algorithm.
2011-10-23: 1e13 digits of pi.
2011-10-21: Susan Greenfield should write up her techno-scare stories for scientific review.
2011-10-21: How a tabloid ruins someone's life for no good reason.
2011-10-21: The Economist's obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-21: Centralized shared HR and finance services for the research councils fails to save money.
2011-10-21: The stilted grammar of telemarketing.
2011-10-21: Quasiquotation in Lisp.
2011-10-21: Labscam: Penn & Teller at Bell Labs, as told by Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-20: Design mistakes in mixed C / C++ and Lua projects.
2011-10-20: A list of AJAX webmail software.
2011-10-20: The case for copyright piracy.
2011-10-20: Why did the BBC compare sex education to paedophilia? Cowardly uninformative journalism.
2011-10-20: Buying second-hand goods for cash is illegal in Louisiana.
2011-10-20: Network effects in share ownership: the concentration of economic power in 147 companies.
2011-10-20: Cambridgeshire county councillors give themselves a 25% pay increase in violation of the council constitution.
2011-10-20: On the ethical conduct of News International's solicitors Farrers.
2011-10-20: EFF declares premature victory in the Google+ nymwars.
2011-10-20: The challenges of turning the Photoshop deblur prototype into a product.
2011-10-19: Using an iPhone accelerometer to decode what is typed on a nearby keyboard.
2011-10-19: How to create a fictional language in a day.
2011-10-19: Programming languages of the last five years.
2011-10-19: The guild of Silicon Valley.
2011-10-19: In defence of Objective-C.
2011-10-19: The digital replacement of film in cinema.
2011-10-19: Drawbridge: user mode NT for application sandboxing.
2011-10-19: Inserting synthetic 3D objects into 2D photographs.
2011-10-19: Hacker News recommends programming blogs.
2011-10-19: Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors - about an Internet hub, 60 Hudson St.
2011-10-19: In memoriam Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-18: The great tech war of 2012.
2011-10-18: A*: reweighting a graph for faster shortest paths.
2011-10-18: A review of the Guardian's iPad app.
2011-10-18: The Devenish-Phibbs memorial gallery.
2011-10-18: Mitigating the BEAST attack on TLS.
2011-10-17: A plaque on both your houses.
2011-10-17: Skyscraper builders get in trouble for re-creating photo safely.
2011-10-17: Lunch atop a skyscraper in London.
2011-10-17: OpenResty web app server basedon nginx + Lua.
2011-10-17: Why Stephen Bond is no longer a skeptic.
2011-10-17: WeatherSpark: beautiful weather graphs and maps.
2011-10-17: Amazon is now becoming a publisher in its own right.
2011-10-17: Summary of the judicial review of the charitable status of independent schools.
2011-10-17: Accessibility does not require reduced security. (Alec Muffett on Steve Yegge's Amazon / Google rant.)
2011-10-17: DNSSEC-Trigger updates your Unbound validating resolver configuration as your connectivity changes.
2011-10-17: Programming for children.
2011-10-17: Siri's favourite colour is octarine?
2011-10-17: The Cambridge Tab on the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-17: Metaphor to maturity: typography, the web, and ebooks.
2011-10-17: IANA Time Zone Database.
2011-10-17: Athene Donald on the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-17: Mary Beard on the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-17: There seems to be only one cloud icon in the entire universe.
2011-10-17: The Shen programming language.
2011-10-17: How much do Apple's factories cost?
2011-10-16: Fibonacci flim-flam.
2011-10-16: Document history of plan to pass TZ database to IANA.
2011-10-16: ICANN officially takes responsibility for TZ database.
2011-10-16: York University to get the Brian Blessed Centre for Quiet Study.
2011-10-16: Official result of the election of the Chancellor.
2011-10-16: The consequences of missing sex education.
2011-10-16: High-viz, women's clothing, and blaming the victim.
2011-10-16: Lord Sainsbury elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
2011-10-16: The Keaton music typewriter.
2011-10-15: How to reform copyright.
2011-10-15: More C programming tricks
2011-10-15: What is your favourite C programming trick?
2011-10-15: The LMAX architecture.
2011-10-15: Shit that Siri says.
2011-10-15: The Cambridge Science Centre initiative.
2011-10-15: The Department for Transport now allows "Except Cycles" to be added to "No Entry" signs.
2011-10-15: Amazon Kindle source code.
2011-10-15: Cambridge University official map switching to Open Street Map.
2011-10-15: Google Labs and Code Search killed.
2011-10-15: Google+ support staff will cancel your account if your name is too foreign.
2011-10-14: How to beat the CAP theorem.
2011-10-14: Lights: pretty WebGL demo.
2011-10-14: Speed up bloaty web apps with nginx microcaching.
2011-10-14: Rob Pike on Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: Throwable 360˚ panoramic ball camera.
2011-10-14: How Siri works.
2011-10-14: Why extended display identification data (EDID) is untrustworthy for DPI.
2011-10-14: The developer's guide to browser adoption rates.
2011-10-14: More news on the Astrolabe / Olson + Eggert TZ database lawsuit.
2011-10-14: Some funky new features in iOS 5.
2011-10-14: Do anything interesting in the tech world, and you will get sued for patent infringement.
2011-10-14: How to hide the iOS5 Newsstand icon in a folder.
2011-10-14: Parsing expressions by recursive descent.
2011-10-14: Top-down parsing of expressions.
2011-10-14: Ars Technica obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: Wired obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: NY Times obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: Guardian obituary of Dennis Ritchie.
2011-10-14: K&R and you.
2011-10-13: A profile of Dennis Ritchie in the Economist, 2004.
2011-10-13: The BLISS programming language: a history.
2011-10-13: Herb Sutter on Dennis Ritchie and C.
2011-10-13: Geoff Huston's progress report on IPv4 address exhaustion.
2011-10-13: Who uses RFC 2136 dynamic DNS updates.
2011-10-13: Smalltalk 80: the language and its implementation.
2011-10-13: Why a RIM outage affects users on a corporate Blackberry Enterprise Server.
2011-10-13: What our culture teaches about alcohol is all wrong.
2011-10-13: Siri says some weird things.
2011-10-12: Large scale pcap data analysis using Hadoop.
2011-10-12: My Blackberry isn't working.
2011-10-12: On blogging, death threats, and silence.
2011-10-12: Benford's Law and the decreasing reliability of accounting data for US firms.
2011-10-12: How Wall St salaries compare to the rest of New York.
2011-10-12: Crash-only software.
2011-10-12: Steve Yegge's Amazon vs Google platform rant.
2011-10-12: Why isn't everyone hacked every day?
2011-10-12: MDB: a memory-mapped database and backend for OpenLDAP.
2011-10-12: The disfunction of Google's Wave project.
2011-10-12: The search for a more perfect kilogramme.
2011-10-11: Photoshop "unblur" / blind deconvolution.
2011-10-11: Why your new programming language will not work.
2011-10-11: The vicious trademark battle over "keep calm and carry on".
2011-10-11: Why believe in Keynesian economics?
2011-10-11: Why Caitlin Moran and Grace Dent are never on panel shows... but should be.
2011-10-11: Dart has a feeble type system.
2011-10-11: That's not online! Library collections, archives and other information that aren't accessible online, and how to find them.
2011-10-11: The LONG and windy ROAD - a timeline of IPng and IPv6, 1991 - 1996.
2011-10-11: UK ISP porn filter plans have been blown out of all proportion.
2011-10-11: Radio 4 Long Wave's days are numbered - what will happen to Economy 7 radio teleswitching?
2011-10-11: Ignition! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants.
2011-10-11: What good is Wall Street?
2011-10-11: List of languages that compile to JavaScript.
2011-10-11: A first impression of Dart
2011-10-10: Type inference for first-class messages with match functions.
2011-10-10: Simple types are anti-modular.
2011-10-10: Netflix realises that the Quikster split was a stupid idea.
2011-10-10: Ben Pierce: "Types considered..."
2011-10-10: Defending against spear phishing with Exim's embedded Perl feature.
2011-10-10: Lambda The Ultimate discusses Dart.
2011-10-10: The Dart programming language: Google updates Javascript for programming in the large.
2011-10-10: Microtouch: AVR devel board with touch screen.
2011-10-10: "Electronic communications privacy act" lets US law enforcement secretly search email logs.
2011-10-10: The great American bubble machine.
2011-10-10: HP plans to release first memristor memory alternative to flash in 18 months.
2011-10-09: Vehicle and operator services agency: smoky vehicle report form.
2011-10-09: How beer saved the world.
2011-10-09: Edwin Land, the man who inspired Steve Jobs.
2011-10-09: Steven Pinker's history of violence.
2011-10-08: Margaret Dayhoff, pioneer of bioinformatics.
2011-10-08: TCP-clouds, UDP-clouds, "design for fail" and AWS.
2011-10-07: Understanding integer overflow in C and C++.
2011-10-07: Microsoft ISA server is incompatible with CIDR.
2011-10-07: LLVM IR is a compiler IR not a general-purpose bytecode.
2011-10-07: ZBar bar code reader.
2011-10-07: Infringement damages increased after CEO complains about patent system.
2011-10-07: Swedish copyright policy is dictated by the USA.
2011-10-07: Jason Kottke remembering Steve Jobs.
2011-10-07: TZ database lawsuit the result of an argument between astrological software companies?
2011-10-07: Answers to the IERS's UTC questionnaire.
2011-10-07: IANA TZ Mailman list info page, including archives back to 1986.
2011-10-07: F*: secure distributed programming with value-dependent types.
2011-10-07: TZ mailing list makes early move to IANA.
2011-10-06: Steve Jobs succumbs to alternative medicine.
2011-10-06: A portrait of Steve Jobs.
2011-10-06: Thanks, Steve.
2011-10-06: Astrolabe Inc. vs. Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert: complaint.
2011-10-06: Astrolabe, Inc. vs. Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert.
2011-10-06: Law suit shuts down Olson TZ database servers.
2011-10-06: Exploiting Apache httpd reverse proxy rewrite rules.
2011-10-06: Luca Cardelli: an accidental Simula user.
2011-10-06: Affirmative design / critical design / programming language design.
2011-10-06: Practical file system design with the Be file system.
2011-10-06: ICANN security and stability advisory committee preliminary report on DNS response modification.
2011-10-05: Organic farming outperforms industrial farming on every measure.
2011-10-05: Bluetooth 4 vs near-field RFID.
2011-10-05: Diplomatic blowback in the UN following the NATO action to enforce an "immediate ceasefire" in Lybia.
2011-10-05: Middleboxes in cellular networks.
2011-10-05: Patently misguided.
2011-10-05: Broadcom's pet patent troll is suing hotels and cafés that offer WiFi.
2011-10-05: Gaming security by obscurity.
2011-10-05: Apple Knowledge Navigator 1987 concept video, vs iPhone 4S.
2011-10-04: Cache directory tagging standard.
2011-10-04: Amon Tobin ISAM visualisation.
2011-10-04: Sampling and mixing by cutting and pasting vinyl records.
2011-10-04: A homemade receiver for GPS & GLONASS satellites.
2011-10-04: Homemade GPS receiver.
2011-10-04: Facebook promotes rape and violence against women.
2011-10-04: When archbishops propagate tabloid lies about the BBC's lack of editorial policy on dates.
2011-10-04: Domain name case law in the US.
2011-10-04: Nissan Computer vs. Nissan Motor domain name dispute.
2011-10-04: AC: composable asynchronous IO for conventional languages.
2011-10-03: MIT Technology Review special science fiction edition.
2011-10-03: Bitbucket now supports Git as well as Mercurial.
2011-10-03: Beloit College mindset list for this year's freshers.
2011-10-03: Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code.
2011-10-03: DNSMON view of the F-root Beijing node IPv6 route leak.
2011-10-03: BGPmon on the F-root Beijing node IPv6 route leak.
2011-10-03: Fanfic refugees get to grips with Pinboard, as it were.
2011-10-03: Pinboard gets to grips with the fanfic refugees from Delicious.
2011-10-03: Microsoft blacklists email from Oxford University.
2011-10-03: HTC Android phones log private data and expose it to unprivileged apps.
2011-10-03: Cameron wants to scrap the Human Rights Act but Clegg prevents him.
2011-10-03: Judge rules mathematical analysis of statistics and probability may not be used in court.
2011-10-03: Cambridge Geek Night 13 featuring Bill Thompson and Simon Peyton Jones.
2011-10-02: Innovation Starvation - Neal Stephenson.
2011-10-02: How the US FRA is regulating passenger rail out of existence.
2011-09-30: Browser speed tests: Opera wins, Chrome loses.
2011-09-30: Chrome to pass Firefox in popularity by the end of the year.
2011-09-30: Will Amazon buy Palm from HP?
2011-09-30: LuaNode: asynchronous I/O based on Boost.Asio.
2011-09-30: Whatever happened to the iPad rivals of 2010?
2011-09-30: A Lua binding for libuv.
2011-09-30: Cliff Stanford to appeal email interception conviction.
2011-09-30: Spam feedback loop n-gram analyzer.
2011-09-29: DJB's NaCl ECC-based cryptography library. No algorithm agility?
2011-09-29: C#-style async/await support for node.js.
2011-09-29: DJB vs. the IEEE on public domain papers and copyright assignment.
2011-09-29: Academics should stop giving free peer review services to closed journals.
2011-09-29: The BMJ on the Liberal Democrat drugs policy.
2011-09-29: Organize your cables with toilet paper rolls.
2011-09-29: ROBLOX FAQ for parents.
2011-09-29: Video promo for ROBLOX: lego-ish kids' game engine scripted with Lua.
2011-09-28: Tizen: Meego rides again.
2011-09-28: On the proportion of women on comedy panel shows.
2011-09-28: Luvit = node.lua = libuv + LuaJIT = node.js with Lua instead of JavaScript.
2011-09-28: UK ICO guidance on freedom of information legislation and research information.
2011-09-28: Can failure really be a spur to success?
2011-09-28: Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journals.
2011-09-28: How journalists willingly get stitched up by the Daily Mail.
2011-09-28: ThunderLOLcats.
2011-09-27: John Dee's calendar and God's longitude.
2011-09-27: libeatmydata
2011-09-26: The (political) science of salt.
2011-09-26: The engineers could [telnet into] the engine management system of a 747 [and] re-tune the engine in air.
2011-09-26: It's time to end the war on salt.
2011-09-26: Towards network reputation: analyzing the makeup of DNSBLs.
2011-09-26: D-Link calls typosquatting and unreliability "Advanced DNS Service".
2011-09-26: Identifying and characterizing anycast in the domain name system.
2011-09-26: Einar Stefferud, 1930-2011.
2011-09-26: Timelapse video of new bridge installation at Cambridge Station.
2011-09-26: We buy any cat!
2011-09-26: The simhash algorithm.
2011-09-26: A program written by Charles Babbage.
2011-09-26: Internal economic borders of the United States derived from tracking dollar bills.
2011-09-26: Subdivision of the world into rectangles containing equal numbers of geotagged tweets.
2011-09-26: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, reformatted for Kindle.
2011-09-26: ITU-R recommendation TF.460-6: standard-frequency and time-signal emissions.
2011-09-26: Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition.
2011-09-25: Why you should not go to medical school.
2011-09-24: Apple Thunderbolt display teardown.
2011-09-24: QR code clock.
2011-09-24: Security impact of the Rizzo/Duong CBC "BEAST" attack.
2011-09-24: Chrome and the BEAST.
2011-09-23: The Internet is secure enough.
2011-09-23: "Knot" authoritative DNS server from nic.cz.
2011-09-23: Bunnie Huang on Moore's Law and the future of open hardware.
2011-09-23: Squeak Smalltalk.
2011-09-23: Pharo open source SmallTalk.
2011-09-23: Mozilla's Rust programming language.
2011-09-23: One million concurrent TCP connections with FreeBSD and Erlang.
2011-09-23: Why SPDY is better than HTTP.
2011-09-23: The BEAST attack on TLS 1.0.
2011-09-23: Swedish Film Institute is accused of piracy based on BitTorrent IP address logging.
2011-09-22: Pipe organ desk.
2011-09-22: TOFU POP MONK: trust on first use, persistence of pseudonym, mesh overlay network keysigning.
2011-09-22: Perspectives: public "notary" servers monitor certificates used by websites to detect man-in-the-middle attacks without certificate authorities.
2011-09-22: Convergence: an agile distributed secure strategy for replacing certificate authorities.
2011-09-22: How to write unmaintainable code.
2011-09-22: University of Cambridge lecture list web site.
2011-09-21: Bankers: an anthropological study.
2011-09-21: Every time you make a PowerPoint, Edward Tufte kills a kitten.
2011-09-21: Simhash: hash-based similarity detection.
2011-09-21: Police attempted to make Guardian reveal phone hacking whistleblowers, but were prevented by the Human Rights Act.
2011-09-21: Google Chrome "stable" version now supports DNSSEC-chained TLS certificates.
2011-09-20: Patent trolls caused half a trillion dollars of lost wealth in the last 20 years.
2011-09-20: DigiNotar files for bankruptcy after being comprehensively hacked.
2011-09-20: Mining massive datasets.
2011-09-19: A toolkit for spotting prejudice.
2011-09-19: "He said, she said" binary journalism fails to inform the public.
2011-09-19: Tenzing: Google's implementation of SQL on top of MapReduce.
2011-09-19: The plot against the NHS.
2011-09-18: The MIT guide to lockpicking.
2011-09-17: Opening plain text files is not safe on Windows.
2011-09-16: Adaptve cruise control on 20% of cars greatly reduces traffic jams.
2011-09-16: Google Plus developer site and API documentation.
2011-09-16: Cory Doctorow on the Lib Dem IT policy paper.
2011-09-16: Google deploys Markus Kuhn's smoothed leap seconds to avoid having to audit code for leap second bugs.
2011-09-15: Most of you have no idea of what Martin Luther King actually did.
2011-09-15: You are all Johann Hari.
2011-09-15: An interview with David Graeber.
2011-09-15: David Graeber vs the Austrian shool of economics.
2011-09-15: Metalimericks.
2011-09-15: Eben Upton of Raspberry Pi answers some questions.
2011-09-15: The Internet's not-very-secret back door: government certificate authorities support man-in-the-middle attacks.
2011-09-15: Shock news: good ISPs and effective CERT teams lead to lower malware infection rates.
2011-09-15: Evidence is scarce that expensive classroom IT improves results.
2011-09-15: How money developed from debt accounting.
2011-09-15: Why we should teach our kids to code.
2011-09-14: Wonderful book sculptures anonymously left around Edinburgh "in support of libraries, books, words, ideas".
2011-09-14: Convergent encryption reconsidered.
2011-09-14: On the railways being a rich man's toy.
2011-09-14: Tubular Fells: a topological map of the Lake District.
2011-09-14: Are there any examples of good pie charts?
2011-09-14: The BSD pf firewall on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
2011-09-14: The HDCP magic inside Bunnie's NeTV.
2011-09-13: Hotfile sues Warner Bros. for copyright fraud and abuse.
2011-09-13: Dead Reckonings: a blog on nomograms and advanced mental arithmetic.
2011-09-13: COMAP: Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications: instructional resources for innovative educators.
2011-09-13: The lost art of nomography.
2011-09-13: Scratch: create and share your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.
2011-09-13: Royal Society education research and policy project on computing in schools.
2011-09-13: Computer science for fun.
2011-09-13: Alice: teaching programming in a 3D environment.
2011-09-13: Programming is the new literacy.
2011-09-13: Computing at school: a BCS / grass roots support + lobbying initiative.
2011-09-13: Things we should teach in school. (Read the comments!)
2011-09-13: Projet Gutenberg, son fondateur Michael Hart, et un objet mythique par excellence du monde geek: le plain-texte.
2011-09-13: Intel gives $2.5 million a year to several universities, provided they open source their work with no patents.
2011-09-13: Golomb-coded sets: smaller than Bloom filters.
2011-09-13: Ferguson Ariva 120 Combo digital TV receiver review.
2011-09-12: Global navigation space systems: reliance and vulnerabilities.
2011-09-12: Nerdy day trips.
2011-09-12: Copyright: you'd better swatch what you say.
2011-09-12: European copyright term extension is a cultural disaster.
2011-09-12: List of musical works with unusual time signatures.
2011-09-12: Big Trak. "Retro and cool."
2011-09-12: Programming doesn't fit into the primary school curriculum.
2011-09-12: Teach our children to code.
2011-09-12: Lua metatables are "hard".
2011-09-11: Some ways in which the film industry is evil.
2011-09-11: The fall and fall of Scottish Conservatism.
2011-09-11: The great prosperity, 1947-1970 / the great regression, 1970-now.
2011-09-10: Some papers every programmer should read.
2011-09-10: Fundamental concepts in programming languages. (Christopher Strachey, 1967)
2011-09-09: Helpful uranium-munching bacteria breath it through conducting nanowires.
2011-09-08: Why are black boxes so hard to re-use? Towards a new model of abstraction in software engineering.
2011-09-08: Which TLDs are most abused to support online criminal activity.
2011-09-08: Git is simpler than you think.
2011-09-08: How Google App Engine price changes are affecting the architecture of the hosted apps.
2011-09-08: JSTOR now provides free access to old out-of-copyright papers.
2011-09-08: Old papers from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society liberated from the paywall.
2011-09-08: Über die Stabilität von Oszillatoren und Frequenznormalen.
2011-09-08: Some similarities between Golang and Lua.
2011-09-08: Digital archeology with drive-independent data recovery: recovering Cray 1 software from a big old drive infested with wasps.
2011-09-08: What is the bandwidth of the IETF document publication process, in millibits/second?
2011-09-08: From sundials to atomic clocks.
2011-09-07: Shake to undo, for Mac OS X.
2011-09-07: Why can't PC manufacturers compete with the MacBook Air?
2011-09-07: What happens to your patent litigation after you shaft the inventors.
2011-09-06: The future of light is the LED.
2011-09-06: Please fix the dire cycle parking shortage at Cambridge Station.
2011-09-06: Jari Arkko's home network.
2011-09-05: Plan to revive the only UK built and launched satellite for its 40th birthday.
2011-09-05: The Great Bank Robbery - Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Spitznagel.
2011-09-05: Small memory software: patterns for systems with limited storage.
2011-09-05: Stupid in America.
2011-09-05: A first look at the literacy of America's adults in the 21st century.
2011-09-05: Mobile Web: Taiwan, Opera and WebOS.
2011-09-05: Lessons learned from giving bug bounties.
2011-09-05: Karl Marx may have been wrong about communism but he was right about much of capitalism.
2011-09-05: Publish or perish: peer review and the corruption of science.
2011-09-05: Achron: Starcraft with time travel.
2011-09-05: Professor Moriarty elected Drapers Professor of French in the University of Cambridge with effect from 1 September 2011.
2011-09-05: Open Science, Freedom of Information, and the big journal monopoly.
2011-09-05: GOVCERT.nl factsheet on DigiNotar X.509 CA disaster.
2011-09-05: The Pearl: erotica printed for the Society of Vice, 1880.
2011-09-05: Feature branches vs. continuous integration.
2011-09-05: Torvalds puts his Linux tree on GitHub to work around the kernel.org downtime.
2011-09-05: The costs of open source development in isolation and collaboration.
2011-09-04: Stop using unsafe keyed hashes: use HMAC.
2011-09-04: More on the extent of the damage done by the DigiNotar X.509 CA.
2011-09-04: A cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing.
2011-09-04: Seriously: stop with the booth babes!
2011-09-04: The true cost of 9/11.
2011-09-04: Reflections of a Republican Party operative who left the cult.
2011-09-04: BBC Radio 4: fighting the power of pink.
2011-09-04: How Western Governors University is disrupting education.
2011-09-03: What happens when disabled people ask for accessible web sites.
2011-09-03: Rob Pike: the good, the bad, and the ugly, of 1e9 seconds of Unix.
2011-09-03: No-one trusts DigiNotar now.
2011-09-02: Protothreads: a minor improvement to Simon Tatham's C coroutine trick.
2011-09-02: CS unplugged: computer science without a computer.
2011-09-02: Average speed of Cambridgeshire guided bus is 12mph.
2011-09-02: Intel's new "Bull Mountain" hardware random number generator.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>