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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.
2011-09-02: Our children are mostly getting training in Microsoft Office rather than ICT education.
2011-09-02: Doorstep "charity" clothes collection bags are a scam.
2011-09-01: Unofficial Lua FAQ.
2011-09-01: No, git does not magically make the kernel.org compromise harmless.
2011-09-01: Sodastream kicked out of Swedish Co-op shops owing to factory in occupied West Bank.
2011-09-01: Skeptics in the Pub: contacts, links and resources.
2011-09-01: Low-overhead breakpoints for Lua.
2011-09-01: Using git to work on the FreeBSD source code.
2011-09-01: DigiNotar breach: the story so far.
2011-09-01: The Carlton Arms new website.
2011-09-01: Well, that about wraps it up for SCO.
2011-09-01: Charlie Stross reinvents zombies.
2011-08-31: Adrian Cockcroft of NetFlix is looking for AWS competitors, and OpenStack isn't up to it.
2011-08-31: "We have to monetize more of what ordinary people do, or we make them into wards of the state" - Jaron Lanier.
2011-08-31: What shapes do dice have?
2011-08-31: With 95% probability, the Higgs boson does not exist within the energies the LHC has explored.
2011-08-31: Bit-squatting: DNS hijacking using random bit-flip errors.
2011-08-31: It is not clear that IPv6 will secure sufficient following to attain market viability. (John Curran, 1994)
2011-08-31: Intel's plans to keep Moore's law going.
2011-08-31: Flickr: automatic privacy settings based on photo locations.
2011-08-31: That coloured road surface isn't a bike lane, it's a door zone.
2011-08-31: Britain should be proud of the Human Rights Act – and protect it.
2011-08-31: To kill a mocking name.
2011-08-30: Facebook improves privacy controls.
2011-08-30: FixMyTransport: report, view, and resolve public transport problems.
2011-08-30: IETF very strongly urges Google and OpenDNS to follow the EDNS0 option code allocation procedure.
2011-08-30: UK government supports copyright term extension despite the recommendation of the Hargreaves report.
2011-08-30: The world time system.
2011-08-30: Tony Sale, computer conservationist at Bletchley Park, has died.
2011-08-30: OpenDNS and Google public DNS deploy workaround to fix CDN geo-IP pessimization.
2011-08-30: Vasco press release on the hacking of their subsidiary X.509 CA DigiNotar.
2011-08-30: "Cat women of the moon": Radio 4 programme on science fiction and relationships between the sexes.
2011-08-30: Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist.
2011-08-30: DigiNotar X.509 CA portal hacked by Iranians years ago?
2011-08-30: Mr.Hermes: simple Python debug/test SMTP server.
2011-08-30: "High Table, Lower Orders": Cambridge comedy murder mystery currently on Radio 4 Extra.
2011-08-30: Data mining the Science Museum catalogue: "inordinately fond of bottles".
2011-08-30: Google and Mozilla revoke trust in a CA that issued a GMail man-in-the-middle cert.
2011-08-30: Not Tetris 2 - Tetris with physics.
2011-08-30: Microsoft fails at data-driven UI design.
2011-08-30: The case for a free market in IPv4 addresses.
2011-08-30: Trading IPv4 addresses will end in tears.
2011-08-29: The Daily Mail's repeated deliberate photo copyright infringement.
2011-08-27: Pacific Northwest superquake and megatsunami.
2011-08-27: Schiehallion experiment to measure the density of the Earth.
2011-08-27: From System F to typed assembly language.
2011-08-27: ichbins: a self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 6 pages of code.
2011-08-27: Bootstrapping a metacircular PEG-to-JavaScript parser generator.
2011-08-27: An incremental approach to compiler construction.
2011-08-27: Stories about the B5000 and the people who were there.
2011-08-27: Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers.
2011-08-26: Ellen Ripley saved my life.
2011-08-26: How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves.
2011-08-26: UK's atomic clock is world's most accurate.
2011-08-26: Corrections and clarifications on Iceland.
2011-08-26: Why Iceland should be in the news, but is not.
2011-08-26: Hints for computer system design from Butler Lampson.
2011-08-26: Papers every computer scientist should read.
2011-08-26: Tomasulo's algorithm for out-of-order instruction scheduling.
2011-08-26: Out of the tar pit: minimizing complexity.
2011-08-26: What would it be like walking around on a cube-shaped planet?
2011-08-26: The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold.
2011-08-26: "Climategate" was a fake scandal.
2011-08-26: Peter Norvig on Christopher Strachey's checkers program from Scientific American, Sept. 1966.
2011-08-26: King's Cross Station redevelopment.
2011-08-26: Paddington Station refurbishment.
2011-08-25: Capanography helps emergency services know when not to give up CPR, even after 96 minutes.
2011-08-25: Students don't know how to find information in libraries or online.
2011-08-25: List of scientific equations named after people.
2011-08-25: Google+: too much unnecessary drama.
2011-08-25: NewsBlur online feed reader.
2011-08-25: It's easy to steal PINs from cash machines using a thermal camera.
2011-08-25: Where is Physics Barbie?
2011-08-25: Free version of ISO 32000-1 PDF specification from Adobe, with the official ISO boilerplate filed off.
2011-08-24: Intel product rosetta stone.
2011-08-24: The financial industry has become a threat to the global economy again.
2011-08-24: The 1922 New York straw hat riot.
2011-08-24: Paul Krugman on Google+, or not.
2011-08-24: The amazing disappearing BSD licence!
2011-08-24: Org mode: an Emacs extension for notes, project planning, and authoring.
2011-08-24: TiddlyWiki: a serverless wiki.
2011-08-24: Operating system popularity statistics on Windows XP's tenth birthday.
2011-08-24: List of enclaves and exclaves.
2011-08-23: "OK Go and the Muppets? That sounds pretty exciting!" "Nah, let's watch cat videos."
2011-08-23: Rob Pike says "don't write lexers and parsers with regular expressions".
2011-08-23: Bretton Woods and the gold standard vs. floating exchange rates and paper money.
2011-08-23: How to transport 211 tonnes of gold from London to Caracas?
2011-08-23: The Register on BlueGene/Q.
2011-08-23: BlueGene/Q includes hardware support for transactional memory.
2011-08-23: Sales of non-iPad tablets vs. obscure game consoles.
2011-08-23: Chinese military reveals a cyber-warfare tool on TV.
2011-08-23: Ericsson's Computer Science lab: the first ten years.
2011-08-23: luatrace: tracing, profiling and coverage for Lua.
2011-08-23: Charlie Stross is not on Google Plus.
2011-08-22: Reflections on diglossia.
2011-08-22: The discovery of an underlying disease process for all types of ALS.
2011-08-22: BHyVe: KVM-style hypervisor for FreeBSD.
2011-08-22: European unitary patents could bring unlimited software patents over here.
2011-08-22: Software patents: foolish business (says the Guardian).
2011-08-22: Cherry Box Pizza: interesting toppings in Cambridge.
2011-08-22: Vodka nation.
2011-08-22: Peudonymity, privacy and responsibility on Google+.
2011-08-22: Met Office building in Exeter - spot the supercomputer hall.
2011-08-22: Smileua: an alternative syntax for Lua inspired by MoonScript.
2011-08-22: Arabic language history.
2011-08-22: Arabic is terrific.
2011-08-20: Threads without locks - the Plan 9 / Golang approach to concurrency.
2011-08-20: DNSSEC and trust agility. (Doesn't realise that hierarchial trust protects against foreign bad actors.)
2011-08-20: $1 billion that nobody wants.
2011-08-20: 66 metre sundial / cable stay bridge in Redding, California.
2011-08-20: Google+ must stop this identity theatre.
2011-08-20: 13yo designs solar panel mount using the Fibonacci sequence in trees.
2011-08-20: Jamie Zawinsky on the nym wars.
2011-08-19: A ban on programming language module imports.
2011-08-19: How personal names differ around the world.
2011-08-19: London Tube map with distance grid.
2011-08-19: A more geographical version of the London Tube map.
2011-08-19: Apple doesn't do concept products.
2011-08-18: David May, creator of the transputer.
2011-08-18: Writing a macro processor for Erlang.
2011-08-18: How web browsers work.
2011-08-18: $80 Huawei Android phone sells like hotcakes in Kenya.
2011-08-18: Pigeons are better at the Monty Hall problem than people.
2011-08-17: Redefining the SI units based on fixed values of fundamental constants.
2011-08-17: An extended comparative study of language support for generic programming.
2011-08-17: Termination combinators forever.
2011-08-17: The Kitchen Sink DNS resource record type.
2011-08-17: Judge Andrew Gilbart QC sentencing remarks on the Manchester riots.
2011-08-17: A comparison of C++ "concepts" and Haskell type classes.
2011-08-17: AKS primality test.
2011-08-17: SpaceX to fly to ISS in November.
2011-08-17: Vinay Deolalikar's claimed proof of P!=NP, one year later.
2011-08-16: Secure dynamic DNS update howto.
2011-08-16: Standard-ish secure dynamic DNS updates with Mac OS X, wide-area Bonjour and DNS service discovery.
2011-08-16: Experiences porting KVM to SmartOS.
2011-08-16: Joyent SmartOS.
2011-08-16: Pandoc: a universal document converter.
2011-08-16: Goodbye, cruel Word.
2011-08-16: IBM pulls the plug on high performance computer systems research.
2011-08-16: False confessions are easy to extract.
2011-08-16: Building with Legos: immutable virtual servers.
2011-08-16: Dark matter may be an illusion caused by gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum.
2011-08-16: How the head of Fox News is making Americans more right-wing, ignorant, and terrified.
2011-08-15: The Black Blood of the Earth - triple cold-extraction coffee.
2011-08-15: Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages.
2011-08-15: The sunny side of smut.
2011-08-15: How to create a sparsebundle without relying on Time Machine.
2011-08-15: Time Machine - backing up to a locally-connected sparsebundle.
2011-08-15: Apple's sleek new Fifth Avenue glass cube.
2011-08-15: Evil traffic interception by US ISPs.
2011-08-15: I'm sorry, but were you actually trying to remember your passwords?
2011-08-15: The ethics of artificial intelligence.
2011-08-15: Automated testing on iOS and Android.
2011-08-15: Perlis languages.
2011-08-14: The shapes of CSS.
2011-08-13: Google finds 80 Flash exploit in four weeks using large scale fuzzing.
2011-08-13: How to create an account on a Mac when you don't know its passwords.
2011-08-13: AeroFS: file sync without servers.
2011-08-13: How to put your logo into a QR code.
2011-08-12: Research is in crisis and young scientists are suffering.
2011-08-12: Independent police monitor beaten up in back of police van, while monitoring policing of riots.
2011-08-12: Petition for no homeopathy on the NHS.
2011-08-12: Design patterns are a sign of missing language features.
2011-08-12: Armed Response Technologies, home of the DeathStation 9000.
2011-08-12: An enlightened social contract is not built on subsidies or "handouts" — whether to the impoverished or to bankers.
2011-08-12: What if Bertie Wooster, rather than being a mere layabout, was also Batman?
2011-08-12: DragonFly Mail Agent - a small and secure MTA for edge systems.
2011-08-12: Mac OS X Lion recovery disk assistant.
2011-08-12: Death to the ‘noreply' mailbox.
2011-08-12: Hooking up a VT220 to a Mac.
2011-08-12: LSI launches MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 SSD caching software.
2011-08-12: Do not leave concentrated nitric acid unattended.
2011-08-12: Charging and convicting rioters is not a simple matter.
2011-08-12: Riot against moral relativism.
2011-08-12: Patent-infringement lawsuit against Fark settled for zero dollars, sans NDA.
2011-08-11: The patent system is broken, not us.
2011-08-11: How terrorism laws brought back 1980s riots.
2011-08-11: How BlackBerry BBM fed the riots.
2011-08-11: How nice it is to change someone's mind on the Internet :-)
2011-08-11: Deep structural problems lie beneath the London riots.
2011-08-11: Reducing redundant RETURN opcodes in Lua.
2011-08-11: Some fun C tricks and tips.
2011-08-11: Graphs of rent prices in Cambridge used to set the Local Housing Allowance.
2011-08-11: The eyesore on I-4.
2011-08-11: The economic consequences of Gordon Brown.
2011-08-11: Weapons of Lua.
2011-08-11: Moonscript: an alternate syntax for Lua inspired by CoffeeScript.
2011-08-11: The strange propaganda of the now-famous riot cleanup broom bic.
2011-08-11: CAPTCHAs to keep idiots out of comment threads.
2011-08-10: The GOES time code service, 1974–2004.
2011-08-10: Metrologia special issue on modern applications of timescales.
2011-08-10: What happens to the 13 to 20% of kids who walk away from school with no qualifications?
2011-08-10: Google's list of bad words.
2011-08-10: Index of multiple deprivation / riots map mashup.
2011-08-10: "Self-pitying scumbags" - Tony Parsons on the rioters.
2011-08-10: How have Europeans grown so tall?
2011-08-09: Philips LED bulb tear-down.
2011-08-09: How bad is News Corporation?!
2011-08-09: Gamification is marketing bullshit.
2011-08-09: Mac OS X Lion for unix hackers.
2011-08-09: RetroBSD is a port of 2.11BSD Unix to Microchip PIC32 embedded MIPS systems.
2011-08-09: An experiment with the Google+ profile abuse handling process.
2011-08-09: Google employees whose G+ names violate their policy.
2011-08-09: Policing riots: stand and watch or get stuck in?
2011-08-08: The obfuscated vote counting competition.
2011-08-08: Chuck out that tough Aussie bloke stereotype and bring back the laid-back Aussies.
2011-08-08: Warren's Abstract Machine for Prolog: a tutorial reconstruction.
2011-08-07: Enthusiasm to learn and marking school work.
2011-08-07: Dan Carlin podcast on the death throes of the Roman Republic.
2011-08-07: An explanation of Microsoft's anti-Google patent FUD.
2011-08-07: "My name is me: your freedom to choose the name you use online.
2011-08-06: The Economist on the moon - ultimate headline winnage.
2011-08-06: In search of stupidity.
2011-08-06: Realize that fold is nothing but replacing each n-ary constructor of an algebraic data type with an n-ary function.
2011-08-06: Real name policies are an authoritarian assertion of power over vulnerable people.
2011-08-06: Google IPv6 adoption statistics.
2011-08-06: Lion, IPv6, happy eyeballs.
2011-08-06: You can steal my ideas but I'm still the best person to carry them out.
2011-08-06: Vince Cable anti-Murdoch leakers were bribed by News International.
2011-08-05: "Phlebomania Hancocksia": prevalence of a previously undescribed psychomotor disturbance.
2011-08-05: Google+ names policy explained.
2011-08-05: Craig Murray was right about the UK's pro-torture policy.
2011-08-05: Coalition cock-up or conspiracy?
2011-08-05: This is an article about a statistic.
2011-08-05: cython-ifdef: basic preprocessor support for cython using unifdef.
2011-08-05: In love with Sheffield's architecture.
2011-08-04: Another big miscarriage of justice.
2011-08-04: What interests Google associates with your ads cookie.
2011-08-03: When patents attack Android.
2011-08-03: Charles' Rules of Argument.
2011-08-03: Student journalists try producing a paper using 1980s tech.
2011-08-03: The US legislation that could kill Internet privacy.
2011-08-03: The mother of all interview questions.
2011-08-03: The C2I2 hypothesis: customers vs. collaborators; implementations vs. inventions.
2011-08-03: ViTunes: control iTunes from vim.
2011-08-03: Standard LEDs can make a 800Mbps wireless network.
2011-08-03: The myth of the sole inventor.
2011-08-03: The Exonomist says America's intellectual-property system is a travesty which threatens the wealth and welfare of the whole world.
2011-08-02: Efficient and practical distributed currency.
2011-08-02: Liberty / Justice femslash.
2011-08-02: Beware of Greeks bearing bonds.
2011-08-02: The little manual of API design.
2011-08-02: They could have had the moon but instead they got Afghanistan.
2011-08-02: Your shoes make you walk wrong.
2011-08-02: Moore's law hits a snag with power budgets.
2011-08-02: Venture capital has stopped funding the future.
2011-08-02: How fake money saved Brazil.
2011-08-02: Oslo: Reflections on U.S. and Norwegian reactions.
2011-08-01: Playgrounds can be too safe.
2011-08-01: The Left might actually be right.
2011-08-01: Everyone plays Monopoly wrong.
2011-08-01: How Bush and Obama have affected US debt.
2011-08-01: Time does not exist.
2011-08-01: How not to do conference wifi.
2011-08-01: Skud's survey of suspended Google+ accounts.
2011-08-01: Freedom of the press implies that if you don't own the press, you don't get the freedom.
2011-08-01: Test your vocabulary.
2011-08-01: False Witnesses 2.
2011-08-01: False witnesses, malicious liars.
2011-08-01: God hates German words.
2011-07-31: American patent reform may strengthen patent trolls.
2011-07-31: Forbes says the US Supreme Court should invalidate software patents.
2011-07-30: The secret ingredient flavouring your orange juice.
2011-07-30: IPv6 brokenness problems are being fixed.
2011-07-28: Moom: grid-based window positioning for Mac OS.
2011-07-25: More people caught out by proliferation of US federal offenses.
2011-07-22: Enable TRIM support for all SSDs in OS X Lion by editing a kext binary.
2011-07-22: PowerDNS authoritative server 3.0 released - now with DNSSEC support.
2011-07-22: ClojureScript is a dialect of Clojure that targets JavaScript as a deployment platform.
2011-07-21: Nokia takes a nosedive. "Osborne Effect" henceforth known as "Elop Effect".
2011-07-21: The Columbia Journalism Review summarizes the criminal activities of News Corporation.
2011-07-21: Aaron Swartz’s reckless open access activism.
2011-07-21: Nominet DNSSEC signing service.
2011-07-21: Open Cambridge - see inside places that are usually closed - Sep. 9-11.
2011-07-19: Mork keeps on giving: When the database worms eat into your murder trial.
2011-07-19: The reasoning behind changing daylight saving time in North America in 2007.
2011-07-18: Connie Willis may be the worst writer in existence.
2011-07-18: Fox News claims the News of the World was a VICTIM of phone hacking.
2011-07-18: Paul Krugman on the insanity of the Republican Party.
2011-07-18: How the Guardian broke the Murdoch scandal.
2011-07-18: Why aren't the earliest sunset and latest sunrise on the same day as the winter solstice?
2011-07-18: Higher-order Venn diagrams.
2011-07-17: A literary appreciation of the Olson TZ database.
2011-07-16: How Ethernet grew from 3Mbps to 100Gbps.
2011-07-16: How Stuxnet was revealed to be a sophisticated cyberweapon.
2011-07-16: The algebra of data, and the calculus of mutation.
2011-07-16: Is there anything good about men?
2011-07-15: The rise and fall of the independent software developer.
2011-07-15: Small businesses sued after MacroSolve gets a patent covering HTML forms.
2011-07-13: For the first time ever, the government publishes its consolidated accounts.
2011-07-13: "Rupert Murdoch has done more to harm journalism in America and Britain than any other person." - Roger Ebert.
2011-07-13: Floppy disks: it's too late.
2011-07-13: A major improvement to BIND 9 startup performance with lots of zones.
2011-07-13: TIME's Lev Grossman on fan fiction culture.
2011-07-13: How the Metropolitan Police tries to cover up their mistakes with lies and corruption.
2011-07-13: How New Corporation blackmailed a Fox Sports anchorman over his health.
2011-07-13: Csmith is a compiler testing tool that generates random C programs which conform to the standard.
2011-07-13: Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?
2011-07-13: The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient and immune to dust.
2011-07-12: How News Corporation gets massive tax refunds from the US government.
2011-07-12: Edward Tufte's slopegraphs.
2011-07-12: Women in national parliaments.
2011-07-12: Garbage collection is fast, but a stack is faster.
2011-07-12: A library of high-level control operators based on continuations.
2011-07-12: A retrospective on region-based memory management.
2011-07-11: A reply to criticisms of the Knight and Leveson N-version programming experiment.
2011-07-11: NSA SIGINT style guide.
2011-07-11: This scandal goes to the heart of the way this country has been run, under both parties, for decades.
2011-07-11: Analysis of increased query load on root name servers.
2011-07-11: NY Times on the corruption and criminality of News International.
2011-07-11: Royal Society event discussing UTC for the 21st century.
2011-07-11: The Mine! project: open source online data and relationships logistics.
2011-07-08: IERS surveys opinion on the possible redefinition of UTC.
2011-07-08: Advanced Lawnmower Simulator. (almost as good as the Sinclair version)
2011-07-08: Research on innovation by James Bessen et al.
2011-07-08: A generation of software patents.
2011-07-08: SURFnet on deploying DNSSEC validation on recursive nameservers.
2011-07-08: Code in academic papers.
2011-07-08: Nature: why scientific programming does not compute.
2011-07-08: Microsoft's Android shakedown.
2011-07-07: How mobile phone voicemail hacking worked.
2011-07-07: IRA vs. al Qaeda.
2011-07-07: The machine to build the machines. (NeXT promo video from 20 years ago.)
2011-07-07: Revolution, hacktivism, lulz, and memes.
2011-07-06: Brewing gluten-free strawberry beer with animated GIFs.
2011-07-06: Dear photograph.
2011-07-06: Google to retire Blogger and Picasa in favour of Google+.
2011-07-05: Have cities in the developed world reached peak car use?
2011-07-05: The (Deutsch)-Schorr-Waite graph marking algorithm, developed with style.
2011-07-05: Police bail in the dock.
2011-07-05: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO.
2011-07-05: High speed rail in China.
2011-07-05: Who holds Greek debt.
2011-07-05: Once Greece goes…
2011-07-05: A funny little calculus textbook.
2011-07-05: Babbage - the language of the future.
2011-07-05: Fukushima cover-up unravels.
2011-07-04: Dutch beer glass sundial.
2011-07-04: A beer glass with a built-in sundial.
2011-07-04: Homophobic primary school stops community opera at last minute.
2011-07-02: Decentralised currencies are probably impossible, but let's at least make them efficient.
2011-07-01: How to safely store a password.
2011-07-01: fexl: function expression language based on combinators.
2011-07-01: Why do game developers prefer Windows? Direct3D vs OpenGL.
2011-07-01: Hacker News discusses broadband competition.
2011-06-30: Why Europe has fast cheap broadband, but America has arguments about net neutrality.
2011-06-30: I like the buttery biscuit bass.
2011-06-30: Jellyfish: networking data centres randomly.
2011-06-30: Norvig vs. Chomsky and the fight for the future of AI.
2011-06-30: No-nose bicycle saddles are better for you.
2011-06-30: The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable.
2011-06-30: Chip-scale atomic clock GPS-disciplined oscillator.
2011-06-30: dotjs - Google Chrome plugin for easily adding your own JavaScript to web pages.
2011-06-30: Programming in Clojure for beginners.
2011-06-29: Root DNS server load up by factor of four in last 24 hours.
2011-06-29: Why Programming Languages?
2011-06-28: Designing GitHub for Mac.
2011-06-28: How a code editor can indicate nesting level without indentation.
2011-06-28: Cambridge's Richardson Candle street lights have been listed for preservation.
2011-06-28: TCP Hybla: a transmission scheme for long RTT wireless networks.
2011-06-28: Petition to ignore the EDL march in Cambridge.
2011-06-28: How to make a clock run for 10,000 years.
2011-06-28: Using Yubikey with Fastmail.
2011-06-28: Inexpensive OATH OTP tokens.
2011-06-28: Duo Security: two factor authentication made easy.
2011-06-28: TCP over 2.5G and 3G wireless networks.
2011-06-28: Why mobile networking sucks: bufferbloat and TCP over 3G.
2011-06-28: American Scientist article on the future of UTC by pro-leap-second astronomers.
2011-06-28: Update on revised spec for UTC and leap seconds.
2011-06-27: JavaScript is dead. Long live JavaScript!
2011-06-26: 10,000 year clock.
2011-06-26: The road to gay marriage in New York.
2011-06-26: Lua 5.2 reference manual, annotated with changes from 5.1.
2011-06-25: Cross-browser non-ASCII download file names.
2011-06-24: Institute for the Future predicts effects of IT in 1982: right effects, wrong tech.
2011-06-24: Kind of Screwed: fair use in action.
2011-06-24: Top 10 most sinister PSYOPS mission patches.
2011-06-23: Lytro light-field camera will take photos that can be refocussed during post-processing.
2011-06-23: Graphics programming black book, by Michael Abrash.
2011-06-23: Rateless codes and big downloads: a peer-to-peer system based on linear-time rateless erasure codes.
2011-06-23: Digital fountain codes for forward error correction.
2011-06-23: GitX (L): a fork of GitX.
2011-06-23: GitX: a git GUI for Mac OS X.
2011-06-23: Offline GitHub for Mac.
2011-06-23: Leap-of-faith trust aka TOFU/POP for https.
2011-06-23: Health and safety has little to do with timid risk aversion.
2011-06-23: Tube Map in German.
2011-06-23: Georgia's new anti-immigration law causes a farm labour crisis.
2011-06-22: Fighting for the public domain in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.
2011-06-22: Yahoo!s list of things to do to speed up your web site.
2011-06-21: How Google notifies you of "search customization".
2011-06-21: Escape your search engine Filter Bubble!
2011-06-21: Broken Koans and other Zen debris.
2011-06-21: Zen Koans.
2011-06-21: Facing up to insolvent infrastructure and debt-ridden services.
2011-06-18: jsmad: pure JavaScript mp3 decoder.
2011-06-17: DNSSEC authenticated HTTPS in Google Chrome.
2011-06-17: How magnets work.
2011-06-17: Why you might say to MySQL, "I am a dummy."
2011-06-17: DNSvis diagram of DNSSEC trust and delegation chains for dotat.at.
2011-06-16: ORM is an anti-pattern.
2011-06-16: Designing good multiple-choice questions.
2011-06-15: The sleepsort algorithm: an O(n) sort implemented in bash.
2011-06-15: Samuel L Jackson reads a bedtime story: "go the fuck to sleep".
2011-06-15: An abridged history of the Internet.
2011-06-15: Are auto-login links in email a good idea?
2011-06-14: The Gosu programming l.anguage
2011-06-14: Scala: static checking that feels dynamic.
2011-06-14: Matt Groening's promo cartoons for Apple.
2011-06-14: Reverse DNS considerations for IPv6.
2011-06-14: Common scenarios in which Exchange may lose or confuse calendar data.
2011-06-14: Python idioms and efficiency.
2011-06-14: How to write a spelling corrector.
2011-06-13: Andy Baio interviews the creator of telehack.
2011-06-13: How to increase procurement costs: use economies of scale rather than competition.
2011-06-13: What is "loatheware"?
2011-06-13: Terry Pratchett starts the process to take his own life.
2011-06-13: Pink stinks: a campaign to challenge the culture of pink which invades every aspect of girls' lives.
2011-06-13: 6rd: IPv6 rapid deployment.
2011-06-13: Cisco on their success with IPv6 in France.
2011-06-13: From dust to edge: making a blade starting from ore.
2011-06-13: The Reduceron: high-level symbolic computing on an FPGA.
2011-06-10: A Haskell combinator library for the design of full-size railway track layouts.
2011-06-10: Patients are not consumers.
2011-06-10: 90 gaffes from Prince Philip in the Mirror.
2011-06-10: 90 gaffes from Prince Philip in the Independent.
2011-06-10: Internet access in th USA is a disaster.
2011-06-10: Normalize CSS: an alternative to CSS resets.
2011-06-09: Wait, what does your startup do?
2011-06-09: Bacon Ipsum.
2011-06-08: DENIC says .de has the most 2LDs signed with DNSSEC.
2011-06-08: Two stage filtering for email over IPv6.
2011-06-08: The Radio 4 Today Programme's fighty interviews are boring and poisonous.
2011-06-08: Oxford Electric Bell: a scientific instrument running for 170 years.
2011-06-07: Ten physical gestures that have been patented.
2011-06-07: How the Tube Map affects journey planning decisions.
2011-06-07: Alan Kay asks about significant new inventions in computing since 1980.
2011-06-07: Sample of DNS server IPv4 and IPv6 addresses querying maps.vix.com.
2011-06-07: Microsoft AD DNS fails to keep SOA serial numbers in sync, which breaks zone transfers to slaves.
2011-06-07: Cambridge Geek Night 11: Monday 13th June, 19:00 at the Union.
2011-06-07: Lua enters TIOBE programming language top ten.
2011-06-07: Library of the future: box up the books in shipping containers and lend out their contents over the web.
2011-06-07: Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling.
2011-06-07: Telehack: huge interactive retrocomputing archive.
2011-06-06: National Heritage map of England.
2011-06-06: Experimental observations of dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 services.
2011-06-06: Spamhaus IPv6 block list strategy.
2011-06-06: The Energy Limit Model: Industrialism is no longer able to outrun energy costs.
2011-06-06: Translations of common mathematical understatements.
2011-06-06: The Economist's Johnson blog with more on cultural misunderstandings.
2011-06-06: Languagelog on European understanding of British understatement.
2011-06-05: A collection of programming and management laws.
2011-06-05: How I failed, failed, and finally succeeded at learning how to program computers.
2011-06-04: A benchmarking case study of C++, Java, Scala, and Golang.
2011-06-03: netmap: memory mapping of network devices to drive 10gigE at line rate with FreeBSD.
2011-06-03: Microsoft's unenthusiastic support for IPv6 day.
2011-06-03: Sony gets massively hacked a dozen times.
2011-06-02: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy votes to reject the IEEE copyright policy and adopt the USENIX policy instead.
2011-06-02: The Santa Barbara county courthouse tower clock website (including a disturbance from Japan's earthquake in March).
2011-06-02: Skype reverse engineered.
2011-06-02: Requirements for handling leap seconds in NASA's common data format for space physics.
2011-06-02: The case against the em dash.
2011-06-02: Dissecting gzip and deflate.
2011-06-01: The Phoenix compiler framework: Microsoft's answer to LLVM.
2011-06-01: No, she went of her own accord.
2011-05-31: Depixellating pixel art.
2011-05-31: Convert between miles and kilometers using only addition.
2011-05-31: Bypass Cisco RA Guard by fragmenting your spoofed router advertisements.
2011-05-31: CBBC "Horrible Histories" spoofs Apple excellently.
2011-05-31: Limits to Growth.
2011-05-31: Rock star programmers.
2011-05-31: Linux 3.0rc1 - at last a bit of sanity in version numbering.
2011-05-30: Twenty reasons why revolution is kicking off everywhere.
2011-05-30: Thermoacoustic hot air engine.
2011-05-30: A refrigerator that runs without artificial energy input.
2011-05-29: "Peak Civilization": the fall of the Roman Empire.
2011-05-28: P.G. Wodehouse's American Psycho.
2011-05-28: The GFDL is possibly one of the worst licenses ever.
2011-05-27: Things in PHP which make you sad.
2011-05-27: Phonotactic reconstruction of encrypted VOIP conversations - amazing traffic analysis exploit.
2011-05-27: Polygonal map generation.
2011-05-27: Haynes manual for the 60163 "Tornado" Peppercorn class A1 Pacific steam locomotive.
2011-05-27: Roger Ebert on dim Sony 3D projectors.
2011-05-27: Stop sign.
2011-05-26: What papers should every computer scientist read?
2011-05-26: Floating point formats.
2011-05-26: route53d: gateway between standard DNS UPDATE / IXFR messages and Amazon's HTTP-based protocol.
2011-05-25: Peak oil, Hubbert curves, thermodynamics, and limits to economic growth.
2011-05-25: Branch descriptions in git.
2011-05-25: IPv6 eye chart: which websites can you see?
2011-05-25: Paul Francis's networking publications.
2011-05-24: A treatise on font rasterisation.
2011-05-24: The Ryan Giggs affair would have remained private if he had not taken out the injunction.
2011-05-24: Never mind naming Ryan Giggs, the RBS and FSA are the real secrecy scandal.
2011-05-24: How to deconstruct almost anything.
2011-05-24: An algorithms textbook by Dasgupta & Papadimitriou & Vazirani.
2011-05-24: ShaperProbe: a tool to detect traffic shaping by ISPs.
2011-05-24: Lactase persistence, quasi-pastoralism, and the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
2011-05-24: Should apples be regulated?
2011-05-24: EU IPR policy is crippling the digital economy.
2011-05-24: DENIC currently rolling out DNSSEC for the .de zone.
2011-05-24: Mouse + VOIP phone. Try using your computer and phone at the same time...
2011-05-24: The HTML keygen element generates a cryptographic key pair and submits the public key as part of an HTML form.
2011-05-23: Semantic versioning: a sensible software release numbering scheme.
2011-05-23: Linux version numbering to change to 2.8.x.y or 3.x.y?
2011-05-23: Loopsofzen: a little puzzle game for IPv6 users only.
2011-05-23: OMG IPv6 day! (the tl;dr version)
2011-05-23: Test your IPv6 connectivity.
2011-05-23: Richmond golf club temporary rules, 1940.
2011-05-23: A thoughtful piece about privacy law vs. global media.
2011-05-23: How the No to AV campaign won.
2011-05-23: Yes to AV post-mortem self-flagellation.
2011-05-23: RIBA pylon design competition.
2011-05-23: A Toronto couple are trying to raise a genderless child.
2011-05-23: MessagePack: like JSON but fast small and binary.
2011-05-23: Repairing corrupted ZIP files by brute force scanning.
2011-05-23: Scottish newspaper claims immunity from English superinjunction. Hilarity ensues.
2011-05-22: It is not a crime for investment banks to stiff their clients.
2011-05-22: Fighting the lower Mississippi river. (1987)
2011-05-21: How a Schillings superinjunction ensures everyone will hear your secret.
2011-05-21: Lambda the Ultimate discussion of proper tail call optimization.
2011-05-21: Why object-oriented languages need proper tail call optimization.
2011-05-20: Why we resist the idea that carbs are worse for you than fat.
2011-05-20: Unix system programming in Objective Caml.
2011-05-20: Run jslinux on node.js.
2011-05-20: Kirkus Reviews gives a star to Rule 34 by Charlie Stross.
2011-05-19: Wadler's criticism of SICP.
2011-05-19: A criticism of SICP and a rationale for HtDP.
2011-05-19: Amazon now selling more Kindle books than dead tree books.
2011-05-19: Carlton Arms to re-open towards the end of July.
2011-05-19: Decentralized Internet resource discovery revisited.
2011-05-18: Nominet completes rollout of DNSSEC for its .uk 2LDs.
2011-05-18: The influence of the embedding/extending API on the design of Lua.
2011-05-18: The recursive internet architecture.
2011-05-18: Assessing the security of the RINA clean-slate internet architecture.
2011-05-18: The definitive Tube map.
2011-05-18: Changes to the Internet architecture affect privacy.
2011-05-18: The periodic table of biscuit urban legends.
2011-05-17: Heaven: a fool's paradise.
2011-05-17: "Tubular Bells" played on an awesome collection of classic synths. (YouTube)
2011-05-17: Lost Type - pay what you like for fonts.
2011-05-17: Urban vs online spaces, cosmopolitan vs parochial, and designing for serendipity and flâneur.
2011-05-17: Serendipity: How the vogue word became vague.
2011-05-17: The untold story of the search business model.
2011-05-17: Dutch is essentially ...
2011-05-17: A another brief bio of Fabrice Bellard.
2011-05-17: Chief reviwer of NHS reforms says they are unworkable and will destroy essential services.
2011-05-17: The state of Unicode fonts in 1998.
2011-05-17: A somewhat fluffy bio of Fabrice Bellard.
2011-05-17: The L programming language and system.
2011-05-17: DNSSEC monitoring tools.
2011-05-17: Unintentional goatse.
2011-05-17: Programming language popularity.
2011-05-17: JavaScript madness.
2011-05-17: This PC emulator is written in Javascript. (Another stunning hack by Fabrice Bellard.)
2011-05-17: Fair Trade revealed as a feel-good hoax.
2011-05-16: Why Kate Griffin does not write about customer service.
2011-05-16: Physics lolcats.
2011-05-16: MISC: an experimental LISP-like language based on maps.
2011-05-16: What the Spitfire can teach us about nurturing innovation and radical ideas.
2011-05-16: Vint Cerf wants YOU to use IPv6.
2011-05-16: How the secretary of state for health proposes to abolish the NHS in England.
2011-05-16: validns - DNSSEC-aware zone file validator.
2011-05-16: Scientific evidence and government dietary guidelines.
2011-05-15: The worst algorithm in the world, or, how to calculate Fibonacci numbers.
2011-05-15: Web comments need to be reinvented.
2011-05-15: The dark side of C++.
2011-05-15: Imagine a (virtual) world without guns.
2011-05-15: Core totally demolished at Fukushima Daiichi No. 1.
2011-05-15: How to make WiFi work at tech conferences.
2011-05-15: A guide to undefined behaviour in C and C++.
2011-05-15: Anti-competitive licensing requirements in the USA.
2011-05-15: The "as-if infinitely ranged" integer model for avoiding overflow bugs.
2011-05-15: What every C programmer should know about undefined behavior.
2011-05-15: JSON is not a subset of JavaScript - lol Unicode.
2011-05-15: Markov generators and reservoir sampling.
2011-05-15: The suprising security model for NFC payments.
2011-05-14: DNSSEC, and trusting Internet names.
2011-05-13: Lexadecimal: meaningful colour numbers.
2011-05-13: UK higher education policy should not look towards the Ivy League.
2011-05-13: Symmetricom chip-scale atomic clock now for sale.
2011-05-12: Anglo-EU translation guide.
2011-05-12: The humiliation of the Yes to AV campaign.
2011-05-12: What happens to Asian-American overachievers after graduation?
2011-05-11: Realism in user interface design.
2011-05-11: An electoral reform post mortem.
2011-05-11: Build your own probability monads.
2011-05-11: Home-made core memory for the Arduino.
2011-05-11: The "Country Life" magazine list of 39 basic life skills.
2011-05-10: The war on access to information.
2011-05-10: Creative Commons and the enemies of creators' rights.
2011-05-10: EU "cookies" directive: interactive guide to 25th May and what it means for you.
2011-05-10: Exploit for Google Chrome (sandbox/ASLR/DEP bypass) - would Capsicum stop it?
2011-05-09: Cool but obscure unix tools.
2011-05-09: Oxford vs. Yale.
2011-05-09: There's more to HTML escaping than &, <, >, and "
2011-05-09: Irish jobs minister says current copyright law is bad for the economy.
2011-05-09: Samoa to switch from East to West of the Date Line.
2011-05-08: The CALM principle: distributed consistency as logical monotonicity.
2011-05-06: An alternative vote, Cambridge fashion.
2011-05-05: The Economist on the Fukushima nuclear reactor problems.
2011-05-05: Blunkett admits No campaign lied about costs. #yes2av
2011-05-05: Nominet announces that me.uk and co.uk are now signed with DNSSEC.
2011-05-05: Intel's 22nm tri-gate transistors.
2011-05-05: Results from Gravity Probe B confirm that Earth's spin twists space-time as predicted.
2011-05-05: Motivated almost exclusively by rage.
2011-05-04: A history of copy-on-write memory management.
2011-05-03: A celebration of Joanna Russ, 1937-2011.
2011-05-03: Antihydrogen trapped for 1000 seconds.
2011-05-02: Reasons in favour of lazy evaluation.
2011-05-02: LuaMacro2 - a lexical preprocessor for Lua.
2011-05-02: The file(1) / libmagic home page.
2011-05-02: BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.
2011-05-02: What Colour are your bits? "Paranoia" and Intellectual Property.
2011-05-02: Measuring C compiler standards conformance in the early 1990s.
2011-05-01: Atomic22 infiniti3D secure bike component fasteners.
2011-05-01: TiGr: titanium ribbon bike lock.
2011-05-01: Another patent used to kill innovation.
2011-04-30: Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS outage.
2011-04-30: Teletext 1970-2012: the life and death of a medium.
2011-04-28: Is your cat confused about the referendum for fairer votes? (YouTube)
2011-04-28: Power on/off symbology explained.
2011-04-28: Redis and scripting (with Lua).
2011-04-28: Hens say "yes!" to fairer votes.
2011-04-28: Jim: a small implementation of Tcl.
2011-04-28: Vote "yes" to fairer votes (and beer!)
2011-04-28: Why you should extend Python rather than embedding it.
2011-04-28: Yahoo! sells del.icio.us to YouTube founders.
2011-04-28: That's What She Said: automatic double entendre identification.
2011-04-28: The grim threat to British universities.
2011-04-27: A perfectly crazy voting system.
2011-04-27: Koninklijk Eise Eisinga Planetarium - the oldest planetarium.
2011-04-27: The Chancellor's wife is in town today.
2011-04-26: Why I just spent three days changing my passwords on over 300 web sites.
2011-04-26: Digital policy in the coalition government.
2011-04-26: Corruption, tax fraud, torture, and murder by Russian officials.
2011-04-26: Anatomy of bloat in Mozilla's SVG code.
2011-04-26: Fitzbillies to re-open under new management.
2011-04-26: SecSpider: the DNSSEC monitoring project.
2011-04-25: Dutch postal privatization.
2011-04-25: Everyone is to blame for this continued expectation that magic distributed storage is possible.
2011-04-25: An elegant computer desk.
2011-04-24: Algorithmic pricing on the Amazon marketplace.
2011-04-23: Immix garbage collection: fast collection, space efficiency, and mutator locality.
2011-04-23: Smalltalk 80: bits of history, words of advice.
2011-04-23: Google and Linux infringe linked list patent.
2011-04-23: The bouncing torpedo.
2011-04-23: The Black Team finds a bug in a tape driver.
2011-04-23: Everything popular is wrong: making it in electronic music, despite democratization.
2011-04-22: 1D glasses.
2011-04-22: 2D glasses.
2011-04-22: We should have got AV 93 years ago.
2011-04-21: PCH DNS service architecture.
2011-04-21: "Fun" with PHP arrays.
2011-04-21: Apple's location data collection is mentioned in the terms of use you didn't read.
2011-04-21: A better way to teach maths.
2011-04-21: TCP/IP illustrated, volume 1: the protocols (2nd edition). By Richard Stevens and Kevin Fall.
2011-04-20: Ugly memoization with unsafePerformIO.
2011-04-20: Elegant memoization with functional memo tries.
2011-04-20: An amazing surreptitious tour of London's disused underground mail railway.
2011-04-20: Is the ACS:Law case the beginning of the end for "three strikes" copyright laws?
2011-04-20: BT and TalkTalk lose their legal challenge to the Digital Economy Act anti-filesharing provisions.
2011-04-20: How the Erlang generic server works.
2011-04-20: Parallelism is not concurrency.
2011-04-20: A monad for deterministic parallelism.
2011-04-20: What is the status of multicore programming in Haskell?
2011-04-20: Education as a commodity.
2011-04-19: The Taxpayers' Alliance has bought yes2av.org and redirected it to no2av.org. Classy.
2011-04-19: Mozilla should add Honest Achmed's root CA certificate.
2011-04-19: Size of Google's and similar map tiles at different scales.
2011-04-19: The science of why deniers refuse to believe science.
2011-04-19: Trade IPv4.
2011-04-19: Haskell for the cloud: Erlang-style distributed concurrency.
2011-04-19: ARIN seems to agree that Nortel can treat its old IP space as property.
2011-04-19: Intel agrees with Oracle that Itanium is obsolete.
2011-04-18: 10 best tricks to fool yourself to work.
2011-04-18: In favour of juries being allowed to throw out bad patents.
2011-04-18: What's at the back of your web page?
2011-04-18: AV and dog shit.
2011-04-18: LuaJIT performance on an ARM (interpreter only, no JIT yet).
2011-04-18: Artificial almost-intelligence will trigger the spam apocalypse.
2011-04-18: Woo! Cold fusion!
2011-04-18: Extruding Conway's Game of Life.
2011-04-17: Examples of robberies from data centres.
2011-04-17: Photo tour of Facebook's new datacenter.
2011-04-17: I2P anonymous network.
2011-04-17: The Lisp curse.
2011-04-16: CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computing.
2011-04-16: TCP incast congestion collapse.
2011-04-15: A stable bicycle without gyros or trail.
2011-04-15: Cisco PIX firewall SMTP content filtering evasion vulnerability.
2011-04-15: Data Protection and Cambridge University's Google Calendar service.
2011-04-15: A closer look at the Level 3 + Global Crossing merger.
2011-04-15: Sugar: the bitter truth. (YouTube)
2011-04-15: Is sugar toxic?
2011-04-15: Matt Sergeant has written a new SMTP server using node.js.
2011-04-14: Asia/Pacific IPv4 exhaustion approaches.
2011-04-14: Teaching binary arithmetic using the Socratic method.
2011-04-14: UK Political Studies Association media briefing paper on the Alternative Vote.
2011-04-14: "Kettling" of peaceful protestors by Metropolitan Police ruled illegal.
2011-04-14: Electricity around the world.
2011-04-13: Zooko's tetrahedron.
2011-04-13: Zooko's triangle: names can be two of decentralized, secure, meaningful.
2011-04-13: Hugh Grant, phone hacking, paparazzi, secret recordings, and the News of the World scandal.
2011-04-13: Gazelle: a system for building fast reusable parsers.
2011-04-13: Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks.
2011-04-13: User-friendliness and fascism.
2011-04-12: Justice is impossible if we cannot trust police forces to tell the truth.
2011-04-12: Solaris has a MACHINE_THAT_GOES_PING.
2011-04-12: LISP network element deployment considerations.
2011-04-12: LISP (locator/Identifier separation protocol) beta network site status.
2011-04-12: In praise of eggs.
2011-04-12: The Olson timezone database (tzdata and tzcode). (New homepage since twinsun is down.)
2011-04-12: AMSS: the AM radio data signalling system.
2011-04-12: Specification of BBC phase-modulated data transmissions on Radio 4 long wave.
2011-04-12: ShairPort: an open source AirTunes server with a copy of the necessary private key.
2011-04-12: Hormel sues for "SPAM" trademark infringement.
2011-04-12: Toddler app user interface guidelines.
2011-04-12: Binary vs. UTF-8, and why it need not matter.
2011-04-11: Programming in Standard ML by Robert Harper.
2011-04-11: Circular "roundabout" observation bridge at Hiyoshi Springs.
2011-04-11: Castle in the sky: the story of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux.
2011-04-11: The rise and fall of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
2011-04-10: Classification of the principal programming paradigms.
2011-04-10: Programming paradigms for dummies: what every programmer should know.
2011-04-10: lorempixum - categorized placeholder images.
2011-04-10: Optimizing cache performance on a rapidly growing site.
2011-04-10: An encyclopaedia of programming languages.
2011-04-10: Relaxed memory models must be rigorous.
2011-04-09: A watch with a gnomon.
2011-04-09: Facebook's Open Compute Project server.
2011-04-09: A collection of articles about game physics.
2011-04-09: A unified framework for rigid body dynamics.
2011-04-09: Physics engines for dummies.
2011-04-09: Using coprime overlays to make non-repeating backgrounds.
2011-04-09: Brian May use prime numbers in the sound design for "We Will Rock You".
2011-04-09: In praise of "The C Programming Language".
2011-04-08: Rob Pike's C style guide.
2011-04-08: C Craft - waking from a programming nightmare.
2011-04-08: PHK on leap seconds in ACM Queue.
2011-04-08: Security problem excuse bingo.
2011-04-07: When Harry Met Sally 2, starring Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren.
2011-04-07: 75-year-old copper thief finds a single point of failure in Armenia's Internet connectivity.
2011-04-06: OpenSSL memory usage in node.js and Twisted Python.
2011-04-06: Testing prime numbers using pcre.
2011-04-05: Heap Layers: C++ templates for building high-performance allocators such as Hoard.
2011-04-05: Guardian.co.uk is switching from Java to Scala.
2011-04-05: "Yes to AV" bikes.
2011-04-04: Dan Kaminsky on DJB and secure DNS.
2011-04-04: A discussion about DES between Stanford CS researchers, NBS, and NSA, in 1976.
2011-04-04: gTLD DNSSEC at Verisign. (March 2011)
2011-04-04: Minority Report user interface available for real world use.
2011-04-04: "Predator" algorithm for tracking unknown objects in unconstrained video streams.
2011-04-04: Be prepared to accept security vulnerability reports.
2011-04-04: Rules for readable web sites.
2011-04-04: The continuing saga of the breast cancer gene patent case.
2011-04-02: Zenburn colour scheme for vim.
2011-04-02: Solarized - colour scheme for terminal programs.
2011-04-02: Product design at GitHub.
2011-04-01: Graph showing number of DNSSEC domains with secure delegations in .com, .net, and .edu.
2011-04-01: Quantum random bit generator service (with mathematical CAPTCHA).
2011-03-31: Linux distros move /var/run to /run to support programs starting early in bootup.
2011-03-31: RSA Inc. was hacked by the Chinese?
2011-03-31: Wired magazine interview with Paul Baran.
2011-03-30: How to insult a computer scientist.
2011-03-30: C++ member function pointers and fast delegates.
2011-03-30: Canada's broad anti-poly law.
2011-03-30: La Meridiana: a house built around a sundial. (stupid Flash photo gallery)
2011-03-29: Hacker releases private key of fraudulent Comodo X.509 certificate.
2011-03-29: A ballroom under a lake near Godalming...
2011-03-29: Juggling quadrocopters. (YouTube)
2011-03-29: INWG and the conception of the Internet: an eyewitness account.
2011-03-29: DJB's CurveCP: a monolithic replacement for TCP+TLS, plus discussion of transport protocol design.
2011-03-29: Mozilla follow-up on the Comodo X.509 certificate authority security breach.
2011-03-29: Rima: a mathematical modelling toolset using Lua.
2011-03-29: Twin babies have a conversation. Cute! (YouTube)
2011-03-28: Niall Ferguson on military overstretch, fiscal deficit, and the collapse of empires.
2011-03-27: National Executive Committee for space-based positioning, navigation, and timing on LightSquared and GPS.
2011-03-27: Unladen Swallow (Python JIT) retrospective.
2011-03-27: Bulletproof Node.js coding.
2011-03-27: Cornell library rejects NDAs and will reveal journal prices.
2011-03-26: f8 Facebook conference badges / booklets.
2011-03-26: Field vs. Google: robots.txt and copyright.
2011-03-26: Left-leaning red-black trees.
2011-03-26: Hopscotch hash table.
2011-03-25: The tale of a 15-year-old T/TCP bug in FreeBSD.
2011-03-25: Symmetricom's chip-scale atomic clock.
2011-03-25: Autotools Mythbuster.
2011-03-25: Autotools Tutorial.
2011-03-25: Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power.
2011-03-25: Das Leben ist zu kurz für den falschen Job.
2011-03-25: Ross Anderson asks, can we fix the security economics of federated authentication?
2011-03-24: Bankrupt Nortel sells its IPv4 addresses to Microsoft for $7.5 million.
2011-03-23: How glow.mozilla.org visualizes Firefox 4 downloads.
2011-03-23: How to sync an iPhone with multiple computers.
2011-03-23: Oracle ditches support for Itanium.
2011-03-23: Peter Gutmann: "A mighty fortress is our PKI"
2011-03-23: Japan Registry Service DNS server user-side evaluation.
2011-03-23: Jacob Appelbaum detects Certificate Authority compromises and web browser collusion.
2011-03-23: X.509 certificate revocation doesn't work.
2011-03-23: Google snappy: a fast compressor/decompressor.
2011-03-22: What is the bandwidth of a human ejaculation?
2011-03-22: What Johann Hari has in common with Jamie Oliver's kids.
2011-03-22: Over-provisioning an Intel X25-M SSD for greater performance and durability.
2011-03-22: IPv6 consumer edge router interoperability.
2011-03-22: How many times has a URL has been shared on various social networks.
2011-03-21: How to fill in your census form without Lockheed Martin profiting.
2011-03-21: John Hemming MP on secrecy orders made by the courts. Utterly scandalous.
2011-03-21: Hyper-injunctions can stop you from talking to your MP.
2011-03-21: Brian Krebs on the Rustock botnet takedown.
2011-03-19: Subsurface liquefaction on reclaimed land in Tokyo caused by the Sendai earthquake.
2011-03-19: Life and times of J root.
2011-03-19: Analysis of anycast anomalies on the J root DNS server.
2011-03-18: Query storm affecting .cl TLD.
2011-03-18: Integer hash functions.
2011-03-18: Non-cryptographic hash function zoo.
2011-03-18: How Backblaze build cheap cloud storage.
2011-03-18: A plea for baked weblogs.
2011-03-18: Paul Vixie on blocking DNS - but when will an RPZ service be announced?
2011-03-17: Fantastic Japanese "Jurassic Chocolate".
2011-03-17: Safety of different energy sources measured in deaths per TWh.
2011-03-17: MOD conducts regular GPS jamming exercises in the UK.
2011-03-17: Abusing switch() to delay a loop test in C.
2011-03-16: Are you protected by DNSSEC?
2011-03-16: What is the definition of a "blue moon"?
2011-03-16: Parsing: the solved problem that isn't.
2011-03-16: Why is TeX still used? What are some good, modern alternatives?
2011-03-15: List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock, before it was deleted by morons.
2011-03-15: The case of the flat panel TV scream.
2011-03-15: CV Dazzle: camouflage to hide from face detection software.
2011-03-15: Print 1 to 1000 without loop or conditional statements.
2011-03-15: Police ruin seized evidence after CPS drops charges.
2011-03-14: A mind-blowing history of science fiction.
2011-03-14: CERT C programming language secure coding standard.
2011-03-14: C99 + TC1 + TC2 + TC3
2011-03-14: Datum Inc. handbook of time code formats.
2011-03-14: Hidden warning message found inside Samsung Galaxy tablet.
2011-03-14: iPad 2 introduces new headphone jack.
2011-03-14: DRM is so bad it isn't even wrong.
2011-03-13: Toxic MP3s can 0wn your car.
2011-03-13: Coalition to save our GPS from LightSquared.
2011-03-13: Sundial buyer's guide.
2011-03-13: nowjs creates a magic namespace "now" accessible by both server (node.js) and client.
2011-03-13: The food bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it.
2011-03-13: Why oil is so expensive today (it's not Libya).
2011-03-12: iPad + ZAGGmate w/keyboard = the return of the Psion Netbook?
2011-03-12: Japan quake caused day to get a wee bit shorter.
2011-03-11: Washington Advanced Systems for Programming: Cecil, Vortex, etc.
2011-03-11: Clozure Common Lisp.
2011-03-11: Why Livejournal moved each user to a separate subdomain.
2011-03-11: DNS prefetching on discussion sites with per-user subdomains.
2011-03-10: Broadcom NIC remote code execution vulnerability.
2011-03-10: Muppets alignment chart.
2011-03-10: Will the MIT Media Lab's brilliant algorithmic logo lead to algorithmic trademarks?
2011-03-10: TeX vs. GUI word processors.
2011-03-09: Jim Reekes on "sosumi" and the other Mac OS system sounds.
2011-03-09: You are not a Jedi.
2011-03-08: HP BladeSystem VirtualConnect broken by the allocation of IP block 49.48.46.0/24.
2011-03-08: MS Exchange 2010 skips every 50th message in a mailbox with more than 2046 messages.
2011-03-08: Adobe Wallaby: convert Flash to HTML5.
2011-03-08: Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems.
2011-03-08: d3.js: amazing dynamic data-driven documents.
2011-03-08: The solid facts on Christchurch liquefaction. (huge 1-page PDF)
2011-03-08: SCOTUS to make a decision on copyright and the public domain.
2011-03-07: Pictures of a Russian nuclear power plant.
2011-03-07: Why Austalia's major cities are in decay.
2011-03-07: Engaging a multi-generational workforce: practical advice for managers.
2011-03-06: Agora: the Scheme of object-orientation.
2011-03-05: Ecdysis: open-source nat64.
2011-03-05: Anti-vaxxers use libel to suppress the truth about their evil acts.
2011-03-04: The best magazine articles ever.
2011-03-04: Linux's inconsistent system call credential checking.
2011-03-04: Show me kittens.
2011-03-04: Cambridge analogue television switch-off dates.
2011-03-04: A list of radio positioning and surveying systems.
2011-03-04: The crypto gardening guide and planting tips.
2011-03-04: The blind man who taught himself to see.
2011-03-04: Microsoft and Google jointly sue patent troll GeoTag Inc.
2011-03-04: The Wikipedia FAQK.
2011-03-04: The case against drop-down identities.
2011-03-04: Why gender is a text field on Diaspora.
2011-03-04: What you need to know about mobile Internet censorship.
2011-03-03: Ingredients of the Arabian revolutions. (NY Times)
2011-03-03: Draft C1X standard, with diff marks relative to C99.
2011-03-03: O2 and Vodaphone are arbitrarily blocking "adult" web sites.
2011-03-03: Cleaning up alkali metals with superheated steam.
2011-03-03: Memory models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware.
2011-03-02: Knuth on academic publishing.
2011-03-02: The ACM and the IEEE are shaking down computer science.
2011-03-02: Why sodium produces a bigger bang than more reactive alkali metals.
2011-03-02: The bipolar Lisp programmer.
2011-03-02: Great books for programmers.
2011-03-01: Pictures of Nyiragongo volcano.
2011-03-01: CloudFlare anycast geoIP reverse proxy web accelerator service.
2011-03-01: Pictures of kittens to use as placeholders in your web site designs.
2011-03-01: Weightings for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.
2011-03-01: Playstation 3 imports seized for violating LG's BluRay patents.
2011-03-01: Interesting photos from Google Street View.
2011-03-01: Anyone want to buy the domain os.com?
2011-03-01: Microsoft Windows development process.
2011-03-01: The very rich indie writer.
2011-02-28: "I don't want to be a teacher any more."
2011-02-28: Every revolution is different: 1848 vs. 2011.
2011-02-28: Geekhack forum for discerning keyboard users.
2011-02-28: US DoC National Telecoms and Info. Administration notice of inquiry re. IANA and ICANN.
2011-02-28: First come first served source address validation for locally-assigned IPv6 addresses.
2011-02-28: A real-world MAC address spoofing incident.
2011-02-28: mcpp: a portable C preprocessor with validation suite.
2011-02-27: The flocking algorithm.
2011-02-25: How to write a script that is understood by both the shell and by Lua.
2011-02-25: Intel BIOS implementation test suite.
2011-02-25: Alan Turing's papers saved for the nation.
2011-02-24: Inside the mind of a police dog.
2011-02-24: What Islamist terrorist threat?
2011-02-24: FBI counterintelligence techniques for detecting liars.
2011-02-24: Intel Thunderbolt (aka Light Peak) technology brief.
2011-02-24: A list of bugs in qmail.
2011-02-23: Understanding XCP equilibrium and fairness.
2011-02-23: GPS and the legal traceability of time.
2011-02-23: Precise time and frequency for military systems.
2011-02-23: How to choose chart types.
2011-02-22: TCP congestion control with a misbehaving receiver.
2011-02-22: P99 - preprocessor macros and functions for C99.
2011-02-22: How to detect an empty argument list given to a C99 variadic macro.
2011-02-22: How to count the number of arguments given to a C99 variadic macro.
2011-02-22: Money won't buy Yanks health insurance.
2011-02-22: A critical review of "end-to-end arguments in system design".
2011-02-22: Why flow completion time is the right metric for congestion control.
2011-02-21: UK census office says you can call yourself a Jedi if you like.
2011-02-21: AFNIC report on problems caused by DNSSEC bug in BIND.
2011-02-21: C/Invoke connects high-level code to C libraries at runtime.
2011-02-20: Using space-filling curves for multi-dimensional indexing.
2011-02-20: Spatial indexing with quadtrees and Hilbert curves.
2011-02-20: Visualizing genomic data with the Hilbert curve.
2011-02-20: Mapping 3D RGB space to a plane using Hilbert curves.
2011-02-20: Using space-filling curves to sort colour dictionaries.
2011-02-20: Using space-filling curves to find good travelling salesman tours quickly.
2011-02-18: JANET: the first 25 years.
2011-02-18: Experience with Grapevine: the growth of a distributed system. (Xerox PARC, 1984)
2011-02-18: Grapevine: an exercise in distributed computing. (Xerox PARC, 1982)
2011-02-18: Unfriendly user interfaces are more efficient.
2011-02-17: OK Go: This too shall pass (awesome Rube Goldberg version).
2011-02-17: Bufferbloat.net.
2011-02-17: Van Jacobson rants about queues.
2011-02-17: So long, and no thanks for the externalities: the rational rejection of security advice by users.
2011-02-17: Gyro-stabilized electric unicycle.
2011-02-17: The Last Ringbearer: Middle Earth from Mordor's point of view.
2011-02-16: Homeland Security shuts down 84,000 websites ‘by mistake'.
2011-02-16: Clay: a language for generic programming.
2011-02-16: Save the Lion Yard loos!
2011-02-16: Monosodium glutamate.
2011-02-16: CCTF notes on UTC.
2011-02-16: CCTF 18th meeting discusses redefinition of UTC (see section 8).
2011-02-15: Time and frequency dissemination in the UK.
2011-02-15: Research into interpreters by Anton Ertl and David Gregg.
2011-02-15: Mike Pall on the difficulty of compiling interpreters.
2011-02-15: Dirty secrets of search engine optimization.
2011-02-15: Chat bots and Turing tests.
2011-02-15: Nine traits of a veteran unix admin.
2011-02-15: Map of global alcohol consumption.
2011-02-15: Nokia Plan X.
2011-02-14: Great oscilloscope display hacks.
2011-02-14: Keep your government hands off my medicare!
2011-02-14: Darwinian valentines.
2011-02-14: XML <-> Unix text processing tools.
2011-02-14: The British Government's continuing evil treatment of the Chagos islanders.
2011-02-14: ZFS-Linux (from KQ Infotech).
2011-02-14: ZFS on Linux (from LLNL).
2011-02-13: Banning drugs does not reduce their availability.
2011-02-13: QuickLZ: fast compression library for C, C# and Java.
2011-02-13: New substring search algorithm.
2011-02-12: Optimizing an Erlang Git daemon.
2011-02-11: What to know before debating type systems.
2011-02-11: Staying alive in cold water.
2011-02-11: JavaScript obfuscated coercion rules.
2011-02-11: Egypt changed its clocks four times in 2010!
2011-02-11: Lawyers celebrate MPs' vote to deny prisoners their democratic rights.
2011-02-11: Remnants of a disappearing user interface.
2011-02-11: IBM Watson to play against human Jeopardy winners on TV.
2011-02-11: How the FCC plans to let LightSquared wreck the GPS.
2011-02-10: Special vs. general relativistic time dilation on the earth's surface.
2011-02-10: An automated bot uploads pages to Deletionpedia as they are deleted from Wikipedia.
2011-02-10: Why liquor store clerks often win the lotto.
2011-02-10: Bach's Toccata and Fugue for floppy disk drives.
2011-02-09: Loops in PKIX certificate chains.
2011-02-09: Spotify is the second larges single source of revenue for record labels in Europe.
2011-02-09: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs.
2011-02-09: Links to large email service postmaster and feedback loop pages.
2011-02-09: Prebake: an efficient build system.
2011-02-09: Build system benchmarks.
2011-02-09: Your version control and build systems don't scale.
2011-02-08: I bike San Francisco.
2011-02-08: The Manchester Egg.
2011-02-08: Problems caused by unsigned int in C-like languages. (Google Groups)
2011-02-08: BBC to delete historical content from their website.
2011-02-08: BBC will develop a permanent online archive.
2011-02-08: UTF-16 bad, UTF-8 good.
2011-02-08: A guide to terrestrial coordinate systems in Great Britain.
2011-02-08: Fitzbillies gone bust.
2011-02-07: The new kilogramme is approaching.
2011-02-07: The BBC does not like "electoral reform".
2011-02-07: The United Kingdom explained with a Venn diagram.
2011-02-07: ISC announcement about BIND's new DS record DNSSEC validation bug.
2011-02-07: Open research issues in Internet congestion control.
2011-02-06: Manifesto for half-arsed agile software development.
2011-02-06: Understanding Git conceptually.
2011-02-06: Git from the bottom up.
2011-02-06: Photographs along the Regent's Canal.
2011-02-06: The lost rivers of London.
2011-02-06: J for C programmers.
2011-02-06: J interpreter.
2011-02-05: Unlicense yourself: set your code free.
2011-02-04: ECJ to rule that sports broadcasting must be a single market?
2011-02-04: Why rockets were an inevitable technological development.
2011-02-04: The MIME guys: how two Internet gurus changed email forever.
2011-02-04: Shipping forecast glossary.
2011-02-04: Official USA time zone map.
2011-02-04: Timezone boundaries in multi-zone countries.
2011-02-04: Administrative divisions of countries.
2011-02-04: Geographical boundaries of the timezones of the world.
2011-02-03: All Icelandic literature to go online?
2011-02-03: Pump-and-dump share spammer charged with fraud.
2011-02-03: The natural colour system.
2011-02-03: How colour vision actually works.
2011-02-03: Spam is now Verified by Visa.
2011-02-03: Immigration officer put wife on no-fly list.
2011-02-03: Australian government becomes more friendly to open source.
2011-02-02: Data-dense analysis of cycling habits in Dublin and four other cities.
2011-02-02: Oneybike: funky folding recumbent penny-farthing.
2011-02-02: Michael "Liar's Poker" Lewis on Ireland's economic crisis.
2011-02-02: Problems with SERVFAILs from BIND after .net was signed by DNSSEC.
2011-02-02: Gold rush for the last IPv4 addresses.
2011-02-02: Egypt Internet connectivity graphs.
2011-02-02: Awesome world record Rubik's cube solution, in slo-mo. (youtube)
2011-02-02: Mailman does not parse RFC 822 headers correctly.
2011-02-02: Homeland Security siezes domain name of Spanish business that had been declared legal in court.
2011-02-02: A statistician cracks a scratch-card lottery.
2011-02-02: Bikes of San Francisco.
2011-02-02: Unixy JSON record stream manipulation tools.
2011-02-02: Probable RIR IPv4 exhaustion dates.
2011-02-01: Cisco's preliminary plans for DNSSEC validation in all their products.
2011-02-01: Last five /8 blocks to be allocated on Thursday 2011-02-03.
2011-02-01: Java hangs when converting 2.2250738585072012e-308.
2011-02-01: Securing BGP routing with RPKI and ROAs.
2011-02-01: T-mobile stealing other networks' addresses to use for their access networks.
2011-02-01: Interesting graph of RIR IPv4 burn rate.
2011-02-01: Comcast activates first users with IPv6 native dual stack over DOCSIS.
2011-02-01: IPv4 exhausted: two /8s allocated to APNIC from IANA.
2011-02-01: ATM skimmers that never touch the ATM.
2011-01-31: Louis Essen writes about time scales. (Metrologia, 1968)
2011-01-31: Recent developments regarding the future of leap seconds.
2011-01-31: Best of Hacker News.
2011-01-31: Pretty froggy stained glass sundial.
2011-01-31: Free programming eBooks.
2011-01-30: A collection of famous bugs and glitches.
2011-01-30: Linear logic and permutation stacks: the Forth shall be first.
2011-01-30: How organized crime is taking control of Google's search results.
2011-01-29: Peter Naur's Anti-Philosophical Dictionary.
2011-01-28: Why Python pickles are insecure.
2011-01-28: Lambda the ultimate political party.
2011-01-28: Ben Goldacre on what makes a newspaper worth paying for.
2011-01-25: Professionals lament the demise of the 4:3 laptop.
2011-01-25: Jettons or reckoning counters.
2011-01-25: ACM considered harmful.
2011-01-25: How to avoid long timeouts when connecting to a server over IPv4 + IPv6.
2011-01-25: Cathode: vintage terminal emulator.
2011-01-25: Why 3D doesn't work and never will.
2011-01-24: The BBC and "the astrology controversy that has raged in science for literally almost none of the last couple of centuries".
2011-01-24: Expect a PR splash when the last IPv4 /8s are allocated to the RIRs.
2011-01-24: How Nigerian fraud harms Nigerians.
2011-01-23: Commercially available chip-scale atomic clock.
2011-01-23: IPv6 doom: the rogue RA bug.
2011-01-23: The secret invention of public-key cryptography at GCHQ.
2011-01-20: The truth wears off: is there something wrong with the scientific method?
2011-01-20: Nicely modernized Dutch bike.
2011-01-20: The Italian Hours / Babylonian Hours sundial at Selwyn College.
2011-01-20: Nautical time and civil date: change the date at 180°? at midday or midnight?
2011-01-19: Opportunity knocks; management fails to answer.
2011-01-19: How the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition.
2011-01-19: Eek! A Man!
2011-01-18: What not to do when Spamhaus tells you your network is infested with criminals.
2011-01-18: They call it "design patterns", don't they?
2011-01-18: Stuxnet is way behind the virus state of the art.
2011-01-18: VX Heavens - huge computer virus site.
2011-01-17: DNSSEC comes to ac.uk starting on Wednesday 2011-01-19.
2011-01-17: What it is like for a woman to pass as a man.
2011-01-17: Glasgow Haskell compiler development moving from darcs to git.
2011-01-17: A book printed with a chain of four desktop printers with different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976.
2011-01-17: Chomsky on postmodernism.
2011-01-17: Major record labels pay $45m compensation for pirating music.
2011-01-17: Networking in UK Academia in the early 1980s.
2011-01-17: "I should have pushed Haskell 10% towards Fortran instead of pushing Fortran 90% towards Haskell" - Guy Steele on Fortress.
2011-01-17: Hacker News discusses djb redo.
2011-01-15: Luma - Lua macros inspired by Scheme and using LPEG and Cosmo.
2011-01-15: Dogs don't understand basic concepts like moving house.
2011-01-15: "Why wasn't I consulted?" - how websites become popular.
2011-01-15: Why you should never ever put two spaces after a full stop.
2011-01-14: Frequently made mistakes about the origin of Internet email.
2011-01-14: Can Belgium win the world record for the time taken to form a government?
2011-01-14: From punched cards to flat screens: a technical autobiography by Philip Hazel.
2011-01-13: Iolaus: experimental darcs-alike git porcelain.
2011-01-13: Best of reddit 2010.
2011-01-13: A localization horror story - it could happen to you!
2011-01-13: Ice formations from diurnal freeze-thaw cycles.
2011-01-12: The MMR scare started with a money-making scam.
2011-01-12: A review of hardware security modules.
2011-01-11: Akin's laws of spacecraft design.
2011-01-11: Canada only allows brown soft drinks to contain caffeine.
2011-01-10: The Chinese eco-disaster, or, where not to build a dam.
2011-01-10: What not to do with a US electronic communications subpoena.
2011-01-10: Yahoo!locaust.
2011-01-10: Uncomfortable lessons from the reaction to WikiLeaks.
2011-01-10: Home Office suppressed embarrassing ID card report.
2011-01-10: Epidemiology and public health significance of Norovirus.
2011-01-10: The way the world works, and the god that sucks.
2011-01-10: How economics works in the real world.
2011-01-09: Semicolon wars! The proliferation of programming languages.
2011-01-07: The decline of Google search quality.
2011-01-07: Detailed comparison of syntax across several programming languages.
2011-01-07: One year in one image.
2011-01-06: PowerDNS now with DNSSEC.
2011-01-06: Wakefield's anti-MMR paper was even more fraudulent than previously reported.
2011-01-06: Justice Scalia says the 14th Amendment does not give women equal protection under the law.
2011-01-06: What does it mean for Americans to support terrorists?
2011-01-06: First Past the Post: a damning report on a system that 'fails the fairness test'.
2011-01-05: Objects have failed: notes for a debate.
2011-01-05: Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer in Europe.
2011-01-04: PHP hangs on numeric value 2.2250738585072011e-308.
2011-01-04: What if the FCC had regulated the Internet?
2011-01-04: Straight men kissing more as homophobia disappears amongst young people.
2011-01-04: jemalloc() improvements at Facebook.
2011-01-03: How the oldest surviving sundial works.
2011-01-03: Chinese military multi-tool.
2011-01-01: Inside LuaJIT 1.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>