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October 07 2011
Design Observations in the Wild
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had no idea about the gas tank direction icon.
Gas Tank Direction Icon
I recently learned that the gas pump icon near your car’s fuel gauge has an arrow indicating which side the gas tank is on.
Target – “I Want Candy” Aisle Label
I’m not sure if this is meant to tap our unconscious or to provide a script to small kids on exactly what to say to pester their parents.
DIY Sous Vide: Cook Perfect Steaks with Arduino Electronics at BioCurious!
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nice find, colin!
Come one, come all, science geeks, food lovers, Arduino hackers. Build a magical box with Arduino-inspired technology that will control the temperature of an appliance you hack, up to 0.1 degrees accuracy. October 15th at the BioCurious hackerspace in Sunnyvale!
- Date: Saturday, October 15th
- Time: 1 – 6pm
- Class fee: $115 (Includes an $80 Ember Kit to make your...
October 05 2011
Giving kids access to almost any book in the world
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reports that one in five adults worldwide is still not literate. In this interview, Elizabeth Wood (@lizzywood), director of digital publishing for Worldreader and a speaker at TOC Frankfurt, talks about the social and infrastructure issues affecting literacy and how Worldreader is making a difference. She says...
October 03 2011
Scala on Heroku
The sixth official language on the Heroku polyglot platform is Scala, available in public beta on the Cedar stack starting today.
Scala deftly blends object-oriented programming with functional programming. It offers an approachable syntax for Java and C developers, the power of a functional language like Erlang or Clojure, and the conciseness and programmer-friendliness normally found in...
Science and Bicycles: Frame Stiffness
Lightweight frames, made from high-strength tubing, were thought to be stiffer than ordinary frames. They performed better for most cyclists, but the conclusion that stiffer frames were better was erroneous. Eventually, this led the makers of steel bicycles down the wrong path and may have hastened their demise.
When the plague ravaged Europe during the 14th century, people noticed that the...
September 30 2011
September 29 2011
September 28 2011
Python and Django on Heroku
Python has joined the growing ranks of officially-supported languages on Heroku's polyglot platform, going into public beta as of today. Python is the most-requested language for Heroku, and it brings with it the top-notch Django web framework.
As a language, Python has much in common with Ruby, Heroku's origin language. But the Python community has its own unique character. Python has a...
Streets: TrustoCorp – “Drive Through Liposuction” (Brooklyn)
This summer saw TrustoCorp truly spread their satirical wings with smart and assertive street interventions on both coasts, critiquing the ugliness of pop culture with signature wry wit and multiple campaigns in Los Angeles and New York. In perhaps their most humorous, most direct, and most popular intervention to date, a series of faux trash mags were planted at news stands in and around...
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September 27 2011
Virtualizing the OpenBSD Routing Table
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I've written a blog entry about using routing domains on OpenBSD that I think might be of interest to Undeadly readers. It talks briefly about what routing domains are and how to configure them and then concentrates on how to pass traffic from one domain to another.
September 26 2011
The B-Team
Diesel Sweeties webcomic by rstevens
Woo! 2900 comics. Let's see if we can't make it to 3000. Thanks to every single one of you who reads this daily pinwheel of madness.
PREVIOUSLY in the War of Breakfasts.
September 23 2011
Chrome and the BEAST
Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo today demoed an attack against TLS 1.0's use of cipher block chaining (CBC) in a browser environment. The authors contacted browser vendors several months ago about this and so, in order not to preempt their demo, I haven't discussed any details until now.
Contrary to several press reports, Duong and Rizzo have not found, nor do they claim, any new flaws in TLS...
September 20 2011
Street Duplo
September 19 2011
host-meta approved as RFC - WebFinger | Google Groups
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very cool.
DNSSEC Certificates now in Chrome Stable
A few months back I described DNSSEC authenticated HTTPS in Chrome. This allows sites to use DNSSEC, rather than traditional, certificates and is aimed at sites which currently use no HTTPS, or self-signed certificates. Since Chrome 14 is now stable, all Chrome users now have this experimental feature.
(Also, the serialisation format has been documented.)
Maybe Soup is currently being updated? I'll try again automatically in a few seconds...
