Shared links for 2008-04-18

• The smallwig theory of optimization
  +1
• Facebook knows who you are, and that's worth more than you think
  Still, I think Facebook is grossly overvalued.
• Good Times
  Indeed.
• It is the future now
  ... in California.
• Natural History
  More from Andrew Bird and his next album.

Shared links for 2008-04-06

• Words Will Tell
  Andrew Bird on songmaking.
• Says it all really ....
  (applies to all online collaboration tools)
• Talk on disk as the new RAM
• Wii hacking and the Freeloader
  "Since such an important component failed open, it’s clear higher assurance development techniques are needed for software protection and crypto."

Shared links for 2008-03-24

• Why coding after a long drinking night is not a good idea
  Heh.
• Extension Developers - Better Background XMLHttpRequests
  Background content fetching that isn't canceled when the window closes, silences authentication prompts and SSL certificate dialogs... and this is supposed to be a good idea?!
• Jed’s Other Poem
  Still love this video.
• Monsters

Shared links for 2008-03-19

• Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets”
  Haha.
• Robots are getting better...the Big Dog robot can recover itself...
  Watch the video!
• Apple iPhone bootloader attack
• APIs: "Easy to Use" vs "Hard to Misuse"

Shared links for 2008-03-17

• Security futurists shun perimeter, anti-virus systems
• Battlestar Galactica Last Supper
  (warning, image contains spoilers)
• An hour and a half with Barack Obama
  He'd get my vote.

Shared links for 2008-03-02

• Comic for 02 Mar 2008
  I KNEW it!
• Coming Soon from VW: A 69.9 MPG Diesel Hybrid
• Real-world Performance Tuning with Callgrind
  Neat, but good old gprof would have caught that kind of thing too.
• Optical Illusion
  It works.

Shared links for 2008-02-23

• Switching editors is just as hard as switching languages
  Thoughtful. But Emacs gives you much more than an editor; with it you can customize your mail client, web browser, IRC client, file organizer, calendar etc until they fit you like a glove, or rather, like as many gloves as you need for all your daily tasks.
• TEDTalks: Raspyni Brothers (2002)
  100% pure awesome.

Shared links for 2008-02-22

• Peace! Huh! Yeah! What Is It Good For?
• Library of Lost Dreams
• The madness of a growing crowd
• join us now and eat the software
• Wired science features Chris Anderson's DIY UAVs

Shared links for 2008-02-15

• Comic for 14 Feb 2008
• Best Craigslist Ad Ever
• The Subterranean Farms of Tokyo

Shared links for 2008-02-09

• RISE Security vs ASUS Eee PC
  "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to root."
• Niall's technique for sniffing browser history to customize pages
  I'm still not sure if this is really neat, or really evil.
• Kevin Kelly has written a thoughtful post about how to...
  "When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable."
• Knee-Deep in the Dead
  More Microhoo drama.
• Mad Driving Skills

Shared links for 2008-01-29

• The Virtual Cable concept
• Security vs. Privacy
• Resolutions 2008, a found list
• A Softer World: 273
• Twist Ending

Shared links for 2008-01-21

• Steel
• If you’re looking for a laugh (or a cry)
• Deadlock in real life
• Why Prices End in 99s: Humans Are Mathematically Incompetent

Shared links for 2008-01-15

• The Future of Ideas is now Free
• Looking for Cash? VCs Have More Than Ever
• 3 at Normandy
  I love how technology enables people to do stuff like that.
• Lyons-Dubai
  I live there (Lyon, not Dubai) and I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.
• Buns
• SimCity goes free software
  Woo-hoo!

Shared links for 2008-01-10

• Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks?
  I hear Zune isn't doing so good either.
• Inside the Black Box
  Interesting.
• Signed Overflow

Shared links for 2008-01-08

• SSL PKCS padding attack
• Half-Hour Meetings
  +1
• GM Wonderland

Shared links for 2008-01-03

• 24c3: The history of guerilla knitting
• 24c3: Build your own UAV
  Neat.
• Stasis
  What if?

Shared links for 2007-12-31

• Steal This Film, Part II: the Internet makes us into copiers
  Awesome, features interviews with Eben Moglen, Yochai Benkler, Brewster Kahle (founder of The Internet Archive), Seth Schoen and Fred von Lohmann (EFF) and many others. Many of the themes covered in the movie can also be found in Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture if you're interested.
• Nintendo Wii hacked -- homebrew games ahoy!
  Had to happen sooner or later.

Shared links for 2007-12-09

• We've Got Your Number, Europe
  Hmm...
• The Best Way to Deflect an Asteroid
  (see also my previous post on the same subject)
• Hope Can Be Worse Than Hopelessness

Shared links for 2007-12-04

• Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management
• Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean?
• BMW uses Internet Protocol (IP) to network automotive controllers
  Still experimental, but it's pretty cool and it makes a lot of sense!
• Not Unexpected

Shared links for 2007-11-30

• Comic for 30 Nov 2007
  We all want the hats.
• Visual Dictionary.
  Neat.
• 'When Someone Beeps You, You Know the Reason'
  Read the full paper if you have the time, interesting stuff.
• Exciting Future
  Can't wait!