Crafting a README By Chris White, writing at the Engine Yard Developer Blog. Most of this should seem like common sense, but I'm also glad someone went to the trouble of writing it down. He mentions Markdown in the blog post, but I'd really try to underscore that point: that Markdown really ought to be […]
Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again Mat Honan at Wired.com's Gadget Lab blog: And that’s the thing: Flickr feels like a permanent home. Pretty much how I've felt about it all along. (Via DF.) (tagged: Flickr ) What’s new in CSS 4 selectors Dr. Axel Rauschmayer with the CSS4 selector "highlights". Specifying the […]
TSA Glass Box Mother Over Stored Breast Milk at X-Ray Nation (via DF; emphasis added): My patience wears thin and I start crying. It is hard to see on this video, but real tears wouldn’t stop streaming down my face. About 10 minutes into all this, a Phoenix PD comes to calm me down. I […]
“Exactly two things have made airplane travel safer since 9/11: reinforcing the cockpit door, and convincing passengers they need to fight back. Everything else has been a waste of money. Add screening of checked bags and airport workers and we’re …
JetBrains WebStorm via Ajaxian —"The best IDE for Web development with JavaScript, HTML and CSS" (tagged: css editor html html5 javascript software webdev work todo ) Futuristic mega-projects by Shimizu at Pink Tentacle (via Boing Boing) (tagged: research future architecture design environment energy inspiration scifi sustainability ) A multicellular organism that lives without oxygen at […]
New Russian botnet tries to kill rival at Network World (via /.) (tagged: spam security network research ) Estimating programming time at ITworld (via /.) (tagged: software programming work ) The government has your baby’s DNA at CNN.com (via /.) (tagged: politics news dna privacy genetics paranoia future research ) Google Plans To Deliver 1Gb/sec […]
Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam at threatpost (via B² (via /.)) (tagged: spam hacking crime politics security research ) The Physics of Space Battles at Gizmodo (via A.L.) (tagged: writing scifi science research physics todo ) Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study at International Space Fellowship (via /.) (tagged: […]
Burlington Farmers Market starts this Saturday! (tagged: Vermont burlington farm food ) Privacy in the Age of Persistence Bruce Schneier on Security: "Data is the pollution of the information age." (tagged: blog future society security essay ) Five Technologies Tim O’Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0 at ReadWriteWeb — all I can say is thank […]
Top 10 Ways to Lock Down Your Data a Lifehacker Top 10 ( lifehacks tech security ) SnowBan.com Burlington, VT · parking ban info, warnings and history ( Burlington Vermont ) William Gibson’s AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed at Slashdot ( scifi art entertainment ) Extending Reader and Proxy – An Ext Flickr Image Gallery ( […]
Do you use email encryption? via MacDevCenter (tags: Mac email security todo)