Linkdump for June 21st
¶ by Rob Friesel-
Who else? Matt Taibbi, at Rolling Stone:
That doesn't sound like much. But when added to the other fractions of a percent stolen from basically every other town in America on every other bond issued by Wall Street in the past 10 to 15 years, it starts to turn into an enormous sum of money. In short, this was like the scam in Office Space, multiplied by a factor of about 10 gazillion: Banks stole pennies at a time from towns all over America, only they did it a few hundred bazillion times.
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James Coglan (The If Works) has just released Vault, a password generator to replace password managers:
The core idea of Vault is that it works without storing anything by default. This means no installation, no storage to secure and sync, and total portability: it’s just a static web page instantly accessible from anywhere.
Just read it. And even if you don’t use Vault, at least think about what he’s saying about your passwords.
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Paolo Bacigalupi at Wired.com:
Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn’t the future 15 minutes out—it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.
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Amaranth at futurebook.mit.edu:
It turns out that books are pretty resilient to technological change.
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"…inspired by jsFiddle." (Via Steven Levithan.)
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