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<< 2012-01 >>

• 2012-01-31: Apache httpOnly cookie disclosure vulnerability.
• 2012-01-31: Environmental protection rules may be headed for government shredder.
• 2012-01-31: CuBox: small computer built around Marvell Armada 510 SoC.
• 2012-01-31: The caffeine curve.
• 2012-01-31: Sublime threats and ridiculous consequences as the works of 3 great English writers enter the global public domain.
• 2012-01-31: Tiny Core Linux 4.2 is a complete operating system in 64MB or less.
• 2012-01-31: GSM tracking: obvious in the UK. (para 46 et seq.)
• 2012-01-31: How to learn effectively.
• 2012-01-31: Python pbs: run commands as if they were Python functions.
• 2012-01-31: Desirability and density of urban design.
• 2012-01-31: Australia: the confusing country.
• 2012-01-30: Avoidable failures of peer review.
• 2012-01-30: A police state for benefits claimants.
• 2012-01-30: What is a "private-sector research work"?
• 2012-01-30: How the puffer fish gets you high, zombifies you, and kills you.
• 2012-01-30: Helmet cam secures conviction of motorist who assaulted cycling QC, despite police attempts to drop case.
• 2012-01-30: Windows Azure Storage: tackling the CAP theorem head-on.
• 2012-01-30: How should British vacancies in the European parliament be filled?
• 2012-01-30: What financial regulators can learn from nuclear reactors.
• 2012-01-30: Broderick? Broderick?
• 2012-01-30: Baby clothes without the pink-or-blue.
• 2012-01-30: The Führer speaks out on Downfall parodies.
• 2012-01-30: Format string vulnerability in sudo.
• 2012-01-30: 20th birthday of alt.fan.pratchett.
• 2012-01-30: The complexity of font sizes.
• 2012-01-30: American youth becoming even more godless.
• 2012-01-30: A serious flaw emerges in quantum cryptography.
• 2012-01-30: DNSSEC libraries for application developers.
• 2012-01-30: Wall Street Joirnal rejects climate essay from 255 National Academy of Science scientists; accepts anti-climate essay from 16 others.
• 2012-01-30: Why your network should go IPv6 only.
• 2012-01-30: The strong principle of charity.
• 2012-01-30: Really, Google is evil now? How about Apple?
• 2012-01-29: What is wrong with electronic academic journals?
• 2012-01-29: The P-versus-NP page.
• 2012-01-29: The Lancet: the Research Works Act is a damaging threat to science.
• 2012-01-29: A cold war missile silo converted to a private home in the Adirondacks.
• 2012-01-29: Google+ nymwar is not a matter of behaviour, it's a matter of aesthetic appearance of names.
• 2012-01-29: Why Twitter's new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates.
• 2012-01-29: Single-block collision attack on MD5.
• 2012-01-29: How the badly maimed BBC can stand up to parasitic Sky.
• 2012-01-29: Twitter's censorship is a gray box of shame for governments that impose it, not for Twitter.
• 2012-01-29: Wind electricity to be competitive with cheap natural gas by 2016.
• 2012-01-29: Inder's kitchen.
• 2012-01-29: The BBC's science problem.
• 2012-01-29: Hollywood edition: if computers were as user-friendly as movies.
• 2012-01-29: What have academic publishers ever done for us? And do we need them?
• 2012-01-29: IcedCoffeeScript: just add "await" and "defer" keywords.
• 2012-01-28: The why of WAT.
• 2012-01-28: Which computers star in which films.
• 2012-01-28: Our courtrooms make a mockery of "beyond reasonable doubt".
• 2012-01-28: Megaupload: a lot less guilty than you think.
• 2012-01-28: Why eating fat doesn't make you fat.
• 2012-01-28: Discussing the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split.
• 2012-01-28: The BBC pays Sky to broadcast their channels.
• 2012-01-28: Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split.
• 2012-01-28: Why does that QR code take me to justinsomnia.org?
• 2012-01-28: Universal Music abuses YouTube takedown process preventing independent band from posting their own song.
• 2012-01-28: Three faces of feminism: Louise Mensch, Laurie Penny, and Jodie Marsh.
• 2012-01-28: The soaring cost of gritting roads is forcing local authorities to gamble on weather derivatives.
• 2012-01-27: 1960s password hacks on MIT's CTSS.
• 2012-01-27: Identity slippage: when sensitive personal data goes to the wrong email address.
• 2012-01-27: Red bus photo copyright case spells trouble for reverse engineering.
• 2012-01-27: Let the robot drive: the autonomous car of the future is here.
• 2012-01-27: Vancouver cuts sexual assaults by targeting anti-rape ads at men.
• 2012-01-27: iPoo.
• 2012-01-27: European parliament rapporteur quits and denounces the "masquerade" behind ACTA.
• 2012-01-27: Smartphone-powered Lego robot beats human Rubik cube record.
• 2012-01-27: On the computational complexity of video games.
• 2012-01-27: What can the IETF do when an open spec is ambushed by a patent?
• 2012-01-27: A small bill in the US, a giant impact for research worldwide.
• 2012-01-27: ACTA: signed, not yet sealed - now it's up to us.
• 2012-01-26: Bueller? Bueller?
• 2012-01-26: Regarding regulation, we are all Internet exceptionalists now.
• 2012-01-26: The origin of the "Write Only Memory".
• 2012-01-26: Cars kill cities.
• 2012-01-26: Building memory-efficient Java applications.
• 2012-01-26: Copyright encounters of the third kind: physical goods. (2009)
• 2012-01-26: Beetles dressed as characters from Jurassic Park.
• 2012-01-25: Initial algebras and terminal coalgebras.
• 2012-01-25: A self-rendering digital image encoding.
• 2012-01-25: Photographers who compose a picture in a similar way to an existing image risk losing a copyright infringement lawsuit.
• 2012-01-25: Tinker Tailor: a guide to the perplexed.
• 2012-01-25: O2 fix their phone number exposure bug.
• 2012-01-25: O2 changing web content on the fly, inlining CSS @import.
• 2012-01-25: Striking a pose like women on fantasy covers.
• 2012-01-25: Dear Merriam-Webster, your dictionary is RUINING YOUNG MINDS!
• 2012-01-25: USA .gov DNSSEC deployment status.
• 2012-01-25: Gibson enquiry into complicity in torture cancelled in favour of a Met Police investigation. The Met say there is no such thing.
• 2012-01-25: Privacy leaks in mobile phone Internet access.
• 2012-01-25: How the Glock became America's weapon of choice.
• 2012-01-25: Large validating ISPs (eg. Comcast) make DNSSEC cockups (eg. NASA) visible and embarrassing.
• 2012-01-25: O2 send your phone number to every site you visit using their mobile data network.
• 2012-01-25: Are expensive batteries worth the extra cost?
• 2012-01-25: Quote Investigator: "The future has arrived — it's just not evenly distributed yet."
• 2012-01-24: USDA approves Monsanto's utterly useless GM maize - no more drought-tolerant than existing varieties.
• 2012-01-24: Measuring the speed of light using a microwave oven and cheese. (YouTube)
• 2012-01-24: Some devops rules.
• 2012-01-24: Jenga pistol.
• 2012-01-24: Norwegian Data Inspectorate rules corporate Google Apps breaches data protection law.
• 2012-01-24: It is landlords, not tenants, getting rich off benefit payments.
• 2012-01-24: Barack Obama, the post-partisan president, meets Washington gridlock.
• 2012-01-24: Stringly typed.
• 2012-01-24: Open source is like improv, so say "Yes, and...".
• 2012-01-24: SOPA stopped, so back to the ACTA arrête campaign.
• 2012-01-24: Form letter template for acquired startups.
• 2012-01-24: A review of the Simtec entropy key: random numbers for crypto.
• 2012-01-24: Tarantool: a high performance key/value storage server.
• 2012-01-24: Americans can be forced to decrypt self-incriminating data.
• 2012-01-24: How parents normalize teen password sharing.
• 2012-01-24: Patent inflation.
• 2012-01-24: Google's work to make TCP faster.
• 2012-01-23: Supply chains, Apple, and the American economy.
• 2012-01-23: It is time to end the failed war on some drugs.
• 2012-01-23: £35,000 on the speaking clock is quite reasonable.
• 2012-01-23: The SCOTUS warrantless GPS tracking decision is a near-optimal result.
• 2012-01-23: Cambridge is Britain's top city.
• 2012-01-23: What Google search results would look like if more relevant social network results took the place of Google+.
• 2012-01-23: The cost of knowledge: researchers taking a stand against Elsevier.
• 2012-01-23: SCOTUS rule that a warrant is required for GPS tracking of suspects' cars.
• 2012-01-23: Public speaking for normal people.
• 2012-01-23: Megaupload could spawn caselaw more destructive than SOPA.
• 2012-01-23: Another US Internet bill requires ISPs to keep detailed activity logs for 18 months.
• 2012-01-23: Is Ladies Learning Code awesome and feminist, or just awesome?
• 2012-01-23: US Customs ban on importing subversive or immoral goods.
• 2012-01-23: iTerm2 and tmux integration.
• 2012-01-23: The links between contraception, abortion, and maternal mortality.
• 2012-01-23: Harbin international ice and snow festival.
• 2012-01-23: HTML5 please: which parts of the spec are ready for use.
• 2012-01-23: Oovium: novel multi-touch calculator / spreadsheet for iOS.
• 2012-01-23: Better living without ads.
• 2012-01-23: Linux local privilege escalation via writing to /proc/pid/mem of setuid process.
• 2012-01-22: Security vulnerability in Oracle with deeper architectural implications.
• 2012-01-22: Old confused man tortured to death by Florida police.
• 2012-01-22: Copyright and Internet regulation, and the economics of sharing.
• 2012-01-22: Japanese multiplication. (video)
• 2012-01-22: Exercise and longevity: understanding the link.
• 2012-01-22: The copyright industry is putting its faith in god.
• 2012-01-22: Red flags of quackery.
• 2012-01-22: The Megaupload indictment, with a crash course in the DMCA and why they're totally fucked.
• 2012-01-22: The sad death of tactile feedback in car controls.
• 2012-01-22: "Alien" as told by the cat.
• 2012-01-22: Foolish attempt to block new nuclear power plants using competition regulation.
• 2012-01-22: The rise and fall of personal computing.
• 2012-01-22: Building instructions from LEGO.
• 2012-01-22: Mighttpd: a high performance web server in Haskell.
• 2012-01-22: Cartel-like behaviour can emerge naturally without collusion between sellers.
• 2012-01-22: The secret document that transformed China.
• 2012-01-22: strcpycat
• 2012-01-21: International governments using ITU to reduce US (and NGO?) control of the Internet.
• 2012-01-21: Why iPhones are not made in America.
• 2012-01-21: HTML5 codec popularity: Theora > WebM > H.264.
• 2012-01-21: "Publishers are in Amazon's sights and they're going to kill us."
• 2012-01-21: Rob Pike says rm should remove directories.
• 2012-01-21: Tim Gowers shuns evil Elsevier.
• 2012-01-21: Rape is R but consensual sex is NC-17.
• 2012-01-21: Clarks sexist shoes.
• 2012-01-21: The SOPA and PIPA demonstrations were a first rough beta test of the power to impact policy online.
• 2012-01-21: Any musicians noticed that since they shut down MegaUpload, the money has been POURING in?
• 2012-01-21: They wouldn't demand a longer jail term for streaming a Michael Jackson video than Jackson's own doctor got for killing actual Michael Jackson? Would they?
• 2012-01-21: A series of articles on Lords reform.
• 2012-01-21: Keyboard shortcut to break out of screen lockers on recent Xorg.
• 2012-01-21: Vim for iOS.
• 2012-01-20: The next SOPA.
• 2012-01-20: With MegaUpload down, who's next? RapidShare? SoundCloud? DropBox? - TechCrunch
• 2012-01-20: The non-infringing uses of Megaupload.
• 2012-01-20: Wat: Ruby and JavaScript misfeatures. (video)
• 2012-01-20: UK CET bill runs out of time in Commons.
• 2012-01-20: Live music red tape to be relaxed.
• 2012-01-20: Revisiting network I/O APIs: the netmap framework.
• 2012-01-20: Amazon DynamoDB: a fast and scalable NoSQL database service designed for Internet scale applications.
• 2012-01-20: ITU press release on the decision to revisit the leap second question at the next Radiocommunication Assembly in 2015.
• 2012-01-20: LEGO instruction booklet scans.
• 2012-01-20: US statement on leap seconds and the future of UTC.
• 2012-01-20: Top income tax rate: how does 83% sound?
• 2012-01-20: Are there fundamental laws of cooking?
• 2012-01-20: Making system configuration more declarative.
• 2012-01-20: Anti-employee control fraud: mistreatment of workers at Apple's suppliers.
• 2012-01-19: Leap second decision postponed to 2015.
• 2012-01-19: Russ Cox releases key parts of Google Code Search as open source.
• 2012-01-19: Will 2012 be the dawn of widespread DNSSEC deployment?
• 2012-01-19: A second here a second there may just be a waste of time. (NY Times front page story on leap seconds.)
• 2012-01-19: .nz DNSKEY RSA exponent encoding anomaly.
• 2012-01-19: McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite includes an open proxy.
• 2012-01-19: 1967 flying clock experiment.
• 2012-01-19: Rush to sign up for Free Mobile accounts overwhelms French number portability systems.
• 2012-01-19: World-wide time synchronization, 1966.
• 2012-01-19: Correlating time from Europe to Asia with flying clocks. (1us precision in 1965.)
• 2012-01-19: A new performance of the "flying clock" experiment. (Precise time transfer in 1964.)
• 2012-01-19: Time for decision on removing leap seconds.
• 2012-01-19: Leap seconds may have only hours to live!
• 2012-01-19: The murderous insanity of the War on Drugs.
• 2012-01-19: The ins and outs of gradual type inference for ActionScript.
• 2012-01-19: Performance of JavaScript vs type inference and ActionScript.
• 2012-01-19: Internet blackout in 1996 for the Communications Decency Act.
• 2012-01-19: PIPA supporters violate copyright laws, too.
• 2012-01-19: Pointer Analysis: haven't we solved this problem yet?
• 2012-01-19: Wanted: epitaphs for hot topics & retrospectives of academic fads.
• 2012-01-19: Inside Apple's secretive corporate culture.
• 2012-01-18: What happens when pirates have a better experience of your product than paying customers.
• 2012-01-18: Nature Publishing Group does not support the ban on open access to federally funded science.
• 2012-01-18: The politics (and lies) of the apostrophe.
• 2012-01-18: NASA blocks release of first sf movie made in space.
• 2012-01-18: Faster Fourier transforms.
• 2012-01-18: Marine biologist prosecuted for filming killer whales feeding.
• 2012-01-18: Notes on reducing Firefox's memory consumption.
• 2012-01-18: Jacob Rees-Mogg MP proposes to return Somerset to local mean solar time.
• 2012-01-18: Litigating time in America at the turn of the 20th century. (Describes Curtis v. March.)
• 2012-01-18: Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS.
• 2012-01-18: ZEVO: ZFS for Mac OS X.
• 2012-01-18: The tragedy of the Smurfs.
• 2012-01-18: Why UEFI secure boot is difficult for Linux.
• 2012-01-18: Copyright King: you have to pay for "I have a dream".
• 2012-01-18: Elsevier = Evil: more on the Research Works Act.
• 2012-01-17: Should evidence determine policy?
• 2012-01-17: The authoritarian cause will be defeated by its own cognitive dissonance.
• 2012-01-17: The captain of the Costa Concordia is totally screwed.
• 2012-01-17: Effective ways to improve school performance.
• 2012-01-17: Movie posters from another universe.
• 2012-01-17: Peacock's Tearoom, Ely.
• 2012-01-17: Delegates at the ITU are expected to vote on the abolition of leap seconds on Thursday or Friday.
• 2012-01-17: Mistruths and insults from the copyright lobby over the proposal to ban open access publication of federally funded research.
• 2012-01-17: Is it still possible to extend TCP despite interfering middleboxes?
• 2012-01-17: Review of Android's Roboto typeface.
• 2012-01-17: Submarine cable map.
• 2012-01-17: The first lawsuit to challenge the Payment Card Industry regulations and fines imposed on merchants.
• 2012-01-17: Quickly! Create this silly Tumblr before anyone else does!
• 2012-01-17: How the Hammersmith Flyover was cleverly constructed and why it currently has problems.
• 2012-01-17: Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000: Plover, the open source steno system.
• 2012-01-16: Spacewalk: Red Hat system provisioning, monitoring, and updating.
• 2012-01-16: Defining "creepy treehouse".
• 2012-01-16: Why e-safety isn't part of digital literacy.
• 2012-01-16: Academic publishers have become the enemies of science.
• 2012-01-16: Regarding the 5th amendment, is a password something you know or something you have?
• 2012-01-16: Blue Monday: a depressing day of pseudoscience and humiliation.
• 2012-01-16: ITU-R WRC-12 news report on UTC.
• 2012-01-16: Networking needs a VMware: part 1: address virtualization.
• 2012-01-16: Graph of latency of four million DNS queries.
• 2012-01-15: Cait Reilly on her campaign for a judicial review of unpaid work for unemployed people.
• 2012-01-15: Why the US is no longer the land of the free.
• 2012-01-15: The rise of the new groupthink.
• 2012-01-13: Name of the Year.
• 2012-01-13: Node.js/V8 postmortem debugging.
• 2012-01-13: Advanced DTrace tips, tricks, and gotchas.
• 2012-01-13: FreeBSD 9.0 release notes.
• 2012-01-13: Google apologise to Mocality for scamming their customers.
• 2012-01-13: PayPal feature doesn't exist and no-one knows how it works, says PayPal.
• 2012-01-13: Royal Society report on computing in schools.
• 2012-01-13: Google makes fraudulent phone calls to steal business from a Kenya business directory service.
• 2012-01-13: JNLua: Java <-> Lua bridge.
• 2012-01-13: China Daily on the abolition of leap seconds.
• 2012-01-13: EFF demands withdrawal of bogus time zone database lawsuit, Astrolabe v. Olson & Eggert.
• 2012-01-13: Analysis of DNS setups of Internet2.edu members.
• 2012-01-13: Microsoft confirms that UEFI secure boot will lock down ARM Windows devices.
• 2012-01-13: The Economist on the possible abolition of leap seconds.
• 2012-01-13: Android as we know it will die in the next two years.
• 2012-01-13: Libtask: a coroutine library for C and Unix.
• 2012-01-13: Copy elision, the return value optimisation, and passing by value in C++.
• 2012-01-13: Defining declarative programming.
• 2012-01-13: Only the Good Die Twice: the only man who can stop Bond ... is Bond.
• 2012-01-12: BSD-style Sedgewick 2-3 left-leaning red-black tree macros.
• 2012-01-12: Obituary of Ronald Searle by Nigel Molesworth in the Economist.
• 2012-01-12: Lua/Linux icons.
• 2012-01-12: Lualubit: bitwise operator patch for Lua.
• 2012-01-12: Museum volunteer forced to work unpaid at Poundland instead, in order to keep her job seeker's allowance.
• 2012-01-12: WhatDoTheyKnow.com: four years and 100,000 FOI requests.
• 2012-01-12: Why JavaScript will not get coroutines.
• 2012-01-12: Popular programming languages converge on CLispScript.
• 2012-01-12: JavaScript needs blocks.
• 2012-01-12: Good bye, Google Maps… hello OpenStreetMap.
• 2012-01-11: Intel gets serious about the fight with ARM for the mobile market.
• 2012-01-11: Guantánamo was a hole into which suspects would for all practical purposes disappear, never to be heard from again.
• 2012-01-11: Behind the scenes of the Cambridge undergraduate admissions process.
• 2012-01-11: The complexity of a change is closely correlated to the indentation of the code in the diff.
• 2012-01-11: Darknet Rising: private, secure and anonmyous meshnets are emerging.
• 2012-01-11: Out with ICT and in with a British computing renaissance.
• 2012-01-11: Police anti-protest technology: after the kettle, the cordon.
• 2012-01-11: Homemade synth: "Kitchen Music" by Stephen J Anderson. (YouTube)
• 2012-01-11: The iPad has great potential as a tool for teaching programming, if Apple would allow it.
• 2012-01-11: Congress proposing to ban open access to federally funded research.
• 2012-01-11: Why Raspberry Pi is not being assembled in the UK.
• 2012-01-11: Campaign of assassination of Iranian nuclear engineers.
• 2012-01-11: Rebooting computer science in schools.
• 2012-01-11: Free.fr disrupts the French mobile market.
• 2012-01-11: The anatomy of an American hospital bill.
• 2012-01-11: Android's broken openness promise and its failure to tackle the mobile network operators.
• 2012-01-11: Your body wasn't built to last: the Gompertz Law of human mortality.
• 2012-01-11: Rhombus Tech working on faster cheaper ARM board with Chinese SOC manufacturer and open source.
• 2012-01-11: Map of C++.
• 2012-01-11: TRESOR runs AES on x86 securely without RAM.
• 2012-01-11: Gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not calculation.
• 2012-01-10: the.pm: This is teh, best module evar!
• 2012-01-10: Common coding mistakes with wide character arrays.
• 2012-01-10: Comcast completes its DNSSEC deployment.
• 2012-01-10: An innocent German kidnapped and imprisoned by the US government in Guantánamo.
• 2012-01-10: An innocent Bosnian kidnapped and imprisoned by the US government in Guantánamo.
• 2012-01-10: Hedge fund managers take 84% of profits leaving 16% for their clients.
• 2012-01-10: Stockholm library interior architectural concept.
• 2012-01-09: The true complexity of Scala.
• 2012-01-09: Bifferboard: tiny £35 two-board 486SX computer (no graphics or floating-point).
• 2012-01-09: How Facebook will decline after its IPO.
• 2012-01-09: Report web sites incorrectly censored by mobile Internet providers.
• 2012-01-09: Comprehensive experimental analyses of automotive attack surfaces.
• 2012-01-09: A disturbing Trend: MAPS has lost its way. (We gave up on the RBL+ 2.5 years ago.)
• 2012-01-09: A warning to ducks.
• 2012-01-08: Diomidis Spinellis on his Greek Ministry of Finance mind map.
• 2012-01-08: Dara O'Briain on the Gilette Fusion Power Stealth. (YouTube)
• 2012-01-08: How Diomidis Spinellis tried and failed to fix Greek tax collection with software.
• 2012-01-08: A Moore's law for razor blades?
• 2012-01-08: Shaving product parodies.
• 2012-01-08: Bigger Than Cheeses on the razor size wars.
• 2012-01-08: The Onion predicts the Gillette Fusion.
• 2012-01-08: The restart page: simulated rebooting on vintage operating systems.
• 2012-01-08: Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes.
• 2012-01-08: Cello Wars. (YouTube)
• 2012-01-08: Video and description of pyroclastic flow on Mount Etna a few days ago.
• 2012-01-08: Obscenity law in doubt after jury acquits distributor of gay pornography.
• 2012-01-07: Lots of free programming eBooks.
• 2012-01-06: Solving the Sudoku minimum number of clues problem (=17).
• 2012-01-06: Sad Etsy kids.
• 2012-01-06: How SOPA can be used to wreck scholarly publication.
• 2012-01-06: Minimum viable SEO.
• 2012-01-06: UK national grid status.
• 2012-01-06: Punching through the Great Firewall of T-Mobile. (They need to read RFC 5068.)
• 2012-01-06: Investigating disk erasure using household chemicals.
• 2012-01-06: The USA is not the "land of opportunity": it is the least socially mobile rich country.
• 2012-01-06: The obscene publications act has become an anachronism.
• 2012-01-06: Evolutionary and Monte Carlo AI game design: the Shibumi challenge.
• 2012-01-06: Which of these drinks will dissolve a mouse fastest?
• 2012-01-06: Obscenity trial ends with "not guilty" verdict.
• 2012-01-06: It is time to stop pretending to endorse the copyright monopoly.
• 2012-01-06: Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency of Windows 8.
• 2012-01-06: Google+, Tumblr, and the importance of proper attribution.
• 2012-01-06: Google+ is going to mess up the Internet, says someone who really hates Google+.
• 2012-01-06: How Rick Santorum's official web site is worse than spreadingsantorum.com.
• 2012-01-06: The decline of the public good in America.
• 2012-01-06: Why you might like to read Foreign Affairs magazine this month…
• 2012-01-05: Le klaxophone. (YouTube)
• 2012-01-05: Why US cars have poor milage despite advances in fuel economy.
• 2012-01-05: Mogees: interactive realtime audio mosaicing by gesture recognition using contact microphones on any surface.
• 2012-01-05: A gross miscarriage of justice in computer chess.
• 2012-01-05: The depressing state of statelessness: Microsoft's war against thin clients.
• 2012-01-05: Esther Dyson on the ideals and reality of TLD expansion.
• 2012-01-05: SOPA protest effect on GoDaddy.
• 2012-01-05: Google+ is going to mess up the Internet.
• 2012-01-05: Why do we pay sales commissions?
• 2012-01-04: Dear Customer, who stuck up for his little brother ...
• 2012-01-04: Berlin's Pirate Party has "pony time" in their rules of order.
• 2012-01-04: Benedict Cumberbatch's violin coach for Sherlock.
• 2012-01-04: Error handling patterns
• 2012-01-04: Virtual values for extending JavaScript. (Just like Lua userdata metamethods?)
• 2012-01-04: A nice Apple-style monitor stand and USB hub.
• 2012-01-04: Live maps of North American power grid frequency and phase variation.
• 2012-01-04: Encrypted Ubuntu on a MacBook Air.
• 2012-01-04: Dallol: the world's weirdest volcanic crater.
• 2012-01-04: Why you should never fly into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
• 2012-01-04: Why time is difficult. (video)
• 2012-01-04: Paypal hates violins.
• 2012-01-04: Ronald Searle & the St Trinian's cartoons.
• 2012-01-03: Renationalise the railway.
• 2012-01-03: In Our Time: The Written World - every day this week.
• 2012-01-03: FaceTime for apes: Orangutans use iPads to video chat with friends in other zoos.
• 2012-01-03: What we would like to know about the railways over the last 30 years.
• 2012-01-03: The US presidential primary process is a meaningless sideshow.
• 2012-01-03: Best of Ronald Searle? the rake's progress.
• 2012-01-03: TVs are all awful: the horrors of overscan.
• 2012-01-03: End of the pro-democracy pretense.
• 2012-01-03: Copyright extension: good for Cliff and the Beatles, bad for the little guys.
• 2012-01-03: Violinists can't tell the difference between Stradivarius violins and new ones.
• 2012-01-03: The tactical advantage of the retreat against riot police.
• 2012-01-03: META: pragmatic parsing in Common Lisp.
• 2012-01-03: Physicists seek to lose the lecture as a teaching tool.
• 2012-01-03: Type inference and optimisation for an impure world.
• 2012-01-03: Obscenity trial will clarify what porn is illegal to publish and posess.
• 2012-01-03: How not to use symmetric encryption.
• 2012-01-03: 10% of .se domain names now signed using PowerDNSSEC.
• 2012-01-03: Microsoft's holodeck research project.
• 2012-01-02: The Linuxification of software development: platforms shifting to rapid update.
• 2012-01-02: SF gives us a vocabulary for speaking about the future.
• 2012-01-02: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett write Crowley and Aziraphale's New Year's resolutions.
• 2012-01-02: A top ten list of top ten lists of top ten lists.
• 2012-01-02: Lightweight static resources: sexy types for embedded and systems programming.
• 2012-01-01: Deca: a higher-level assembly language.
• 2012-01-01: Hungarian quick sort folk dance.
• 2012-01-01: De-duplicating streams with reservoir sampling and Bloom filters.
• 2012-01-01: Lego's various attempts to appeal more to girls.
• 2012-01-01: Why Obama was forced to sign the NDAA.
• 2012-01-01: Banks rejecting American customers because of the foreign account tax compliance act.
• 2012-01-01: Authors entering the Public Domain on 2012-01-01.
• 2012-01-01: A full-colour homemade laser projector.