Living World – How Did LEGO Become More About Limits Than Possibilities?
Rip open that new LEGO set and your mind races at the possibilities! A simple repertoire of piece types, and yet you can build a ninja boat, a three-wheeled race car, a pineapple pizza, a spotted lion…...
View ArticleTinycon — Favicon Alerts
Tinycon allows the addition of alert bubbles and changing the favicon image. Tinycon gracefully falls back to a number in title approach for browers that don’t support canvas or dynamic favicons.Alerts...
View ArticleIncubaid Research – Rediscovering the RSync Algorithm
Don’t walk the folder and ‘rsync’ each file you encounter. A small calculation will show you how bad it really is.Suppose you have 20000 files, each 1KB. Suppose 1 rsync costs you about 0.1s (reading...
View ArticleFrankie Roberto – Responsive Text
Some websites now contain ‘responsive images’. These scale (or crop) depending upon your screen’s viewing area, so the image sizes remain appropriate whether you’re looking at the website on a mobile...
View ArticleArsTechnica – High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack...
Most members of Anonymous would prefer to stay, well, anonymous. But as the group has engaged in increasingly high-profile attacks on government and corporate websites, doing so effectively and staying...
View ArticleMailinator™ Blog – How Mailinator compresses email by 90%
Given the title of this article, the first thing that should pop into your mind is probably — “well, use a compression algorithm — right?”.Right! Well, yes, well, not exactly. Read on.via Mailinator™...
View ArticleAbsolutely No Machete Juggling – The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order
Now I’d like to modify this into what I’ve named Machete Order on the off chance that this catches on because I’m a vain asshole.Next time you want to introduce someone to Star Wars for the first...
View ArticleThe Word of Notch – On Patents
But there is no way in hell you can convince me that it’s beneficial for society to not share ideas. Ideas are free. They improve on old things, make them better, and this results in all of society...
View ArticleDataGenetics – The Two Egg Problem
You are given two eggs, and access to a 100-storey building. Both eggs are identical. The aim is to find out the highest floor from which an egg will not break when dropped out of a window from that...
View ArticleApp Cubby Blog – The Sparrow Problem
Given the incredible progress and innovation we’ve seen in mobile apps over the past few years, I’m not sure we’re any worse off at a macro-economic level, but things have definitely changed and...
View ArticleSenate passes Internet sales tax in final vote, 69–27
The US Senate passed an online sales tax in a vote this afternoon after a heated final round of debate. A small group of anti-tax Republicans, as well as Democratic Senators from states without sales...
View ArticleApple deluged by police demands to decrypt iPhones
Apple receives so many police demands to decrypt seized iPhones that it has created a “waiting list” to handle the deluge of requests, CNET has learned. Court documents show that federal agents were...
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