This site uses advanced css techniques With the recent news of weaknesses in some common security algorithms (MD4, MD5, SHA-0), many are wondering exactly what these things are: They form the underpinning of much of our electronic infrastructure, and in this Guide we'll try to give an overview of…

Posted Monday 01/09/2012 by Davy Rothbart We went to California to investigate the real lives of people we watch way too much online. It was stranger than expected, a world where sex freaks are fantasy geeks and where, for the very first time, Dungeons & Dragons is hot. On a haunted schooner, bound…

Quick note: Though you may have read about this property before, most articles have simply reprinted the same stock real estate photos over and over. As always, all pictures are my own work, and I don’t think you’ll find a tour like this anywhere else. When you first see it in the distance, you…

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT! There are important plot and story spoilers in this post, so if you haven't seen UP yet, you should really wait and look at this until AFTER you've watched the movie. *ALL ARTWORK PROPERTY of PIXAR/DISNEY* TEPUI ETCHING. Ellie as a girl, has "procured" some pages (including…

One of the infrastructure tools that we've identified for the future internal architecture of Second Life is messaging. Message queuing systems allow systems that send messages to not have to worry about how they will be delivered, and allow consumers of messages to gather whichever ones interest…

Article summarizing some new programming languages you may not have heard of http://t.co/bN7nupmR LMK if any of them rock your world

Lawyer Ron Allan Hatcher was at the centre of a complex assortment of real estate deals that led to his suspension by the Law Society of Upper Canada. One expert said the deals had "red flags" that pointed to possible mortgage fraud. Something strange was going on in The Junction. At least seven…

What are some products on Amazon that have hilarious reviews? Like this $87k watch: http://www.amazon.com/Zenith-96-... ...or this really awesome wolf shirt: http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-T... • Neville Fogarty, Cruciverbalist | Math Grad Student 25 votes by George Nicholas Newman, Tamara Troup,…

Posted by Steve Salevan on Dec 16, 2011 in Blog, Common Crawl | 21 comments Common Crawl aims to change the big data game with our repository of over 40 terabytes of high-quality web crawl information into the Amazon cloud, the net total of 5 billion crawled pages. In this blog post, we’ll show you…

I've noticed that lately I'm treating startups much more critically. Today I chewed into an entrepreneur who was pitching me a new thing that was sort of like Oink, or maybe it was Foursquare, or maybe it was Foodspotting. It's the third company I've told off lately. I figured it was worth talking…

What's it like working with Zuck at Facebook? See note from a FB emplyee: http://t.co/iuZj9wcG TIP: let him thnk it was his idea..jk ;)

Scale to over a million writes/s on #AWS using @DataStax Cassandra http://t.co/rrynhyZ0

Four things I learned on a round-the-world yacht race http://j.mp/pA0SuE

[This was originally published on the now-defunct Infogami and was surprisingly hard to find online, so I put it here. I’ve added commentary, with our now internet-decades of hindsight, in brackets. I’ve also summarized the names mentioned (and alluded to) along 7 dimensions: Evocativity, Brevity,…

31 Aug 2011 I travel all over the place teaching Git to people and nearly every class and workshop I’ve done recently has asked me what I think about git-flow. I always answer that I think that it’s great - it has taken a system (Git) that has a million possible workflows and documented a well…

It has been almost two months since Mansions of Madness, the board game of horror and investigation for 2-5 players, started haunting tabletops all over the world. Drawing players into a sanity-bending Lovecraftian narrative, each game tells a unique story from beginning to end, and provides the…

It’s sad but inescapably true: Your email inbox is your life. If you’re of a slightly older bearing, or if you’re a stickler for the heft of a meaty, cylindrical instrument grasped in your hand, and the coarse texture of pulped dead tree beneath your fingers, you might still take part in written…

The last company Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker started together was Napster, over a decade ago. Now they are teaming up again to create a new startup called Airtime (previously codenamed Supyo). The two have completed an $8.3 million series A financing from Founders Fund, Accel Partners, Andreessen…

Hidden Wi-Fi Diagnostics Application In OS X Lion http://t.co/2gboDmy

In 1983, my little software company was lucky to be invited to work on Apple's new computer in development, the Macintosh. Back then Apple wasn't as secretive as it is today. Everyone knew something was coming. We knew what it was called, but no one was saying what it was. I gladly signed the…

Best Buy CTO Envisions Arduino Section …”each store has an Arduino section instead of DVDs” http://t.co/VNEq5HkB

A letter from Sean Parker to Spotify - good read: http://t.co/bQaG0Obf

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Fantasy author Michele Lee has the most eloquent response so far to DC Comics' "sexed up" version of Starfire, the voluptuous alien member of the Teen Titans. Instead of ranting about the changes herself, Lee asked her seven-year-old daughter what she thought. The results are thought-provoking. I'm…

If you don’t have your very own Arduino yet you should get one. What exactly are you waiting for? Arduinos are tons of fun, especially once you hook up some servos and start driving them around. Add a few pieces of military grade weaponry and you have your very own deathbot! One of the first things…

A good list of 10 SEO myths that aren't true: http://t.co/YVuO1cF

Such an awesome interview with Mark Zuckerberg from 2005 http://t.co/xkXMyav via @alexia

Visualizing your email box using R http://j.mp/od5iE8

Learn how to make a cool treasure chest via @MarthaStewart: http://ow.ly/5Prit

Alderaan: A Retrospective. What we've lost and what we've learned, one year on. http://bit.ly/npPp6Y #StarWars

celery-tasktree 0.3.2: Celery Tasktree module http://bit.ly/mRxaj3

Taking @ev's advice and naming a new project with a one-syllable everyday English word. Yay! http://t.co/NF7Nxhc