- Why we are wrong to demonize Jimmy Carr. | Chiller
A superb and savage deconstruction of UK tax law, and its avoidance by the rich.
Links for Thursday June 21st 2012
- The Bastards Book of Photography by Dan Nguyen
This looks great.
Links for Monday June 18th 2012
- Sky City: Chinese company proposes world’s tallest building
A new tallest building is not that interesting. What is interesting is that they're saying that can build it in 90 days.
Links for Thursday June 14th 2012
- The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) | NCZOnline
I would absolutely kill to be certain that from 1:30 to 5:30pm I would not be interrupted by anyone, and could just get on with work. If I could implement just one recommendation from this (very resonant) article at my company, this would be it. Hack days, meeting free days, these would be lovely, but the really big one would be interruption free time.
Links for Wednesday June 13th 2012
- Has L.A. changed since the 90s? – losangeles | Ask MetaFilter
A hundred-year history of LA. Makes the place sound interesting.
Links for Friday June 8th 2012
- LeakedIn: Is your password safe?
Here's a good tool that will let you check if your password was among those exposed by linked.in earlier this week. FWIW, even if your password is not in the leaked lot, I would suggest changing it anyway, as linked.in have been recently proved unsafe.
Links for Wednesday June 6th 2012
- 6.46 million hashed LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online | The Verge
Pay attention, this one's very very important: if you use linked.in, then you need to change your password, *right now*. And they you need to change the password on any accounts you have on any other online sites that use the same password, because it's just been made public, paired with your email address. - The world’s worst password requirements list
Some of these are mind-blowing. Security is a compromise between usability and safety, whch is why you get password requirements like "must contain mixed case and a number" of things like that, but most of these decrease usability without increasing safety. - Limerence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated" - cityofsound: Essays: An edible urbanism
The design of street food culture.
Links for Friday June 1st 2012
- EightMedia/hammer.js · GitHub
JS library to handle multi-touch inputs on mobile devices. Oh look, you've all gone to sleep. Don't care this'll be be handy for work.
Links for Thursday May 31st 2012
- best practices – What sysadmin things should every programmer know? – Server Fault
This is all good stuff. - Meshu – Welcome
Personalised jewellery made from location based data, including direct links with Foursquare checkins. Lovely. - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs
Er, yes, this exactly. - Netherlands rejects Acta, and forbids any similar legislation (Wired UK)
Well done, the Dutch. Now we can only hope that our mob of cretins will temporarily locate enough spine to do the same…
Links for Wednesday May 30th 2012
- UNDO DEL IUMA « ASCII by Jason Scott
The Internet Underground Music Archive is back. It's, ah, a bit trial and error, but basically, there's this absolutely vast pile of free music out there again. If you can't find something in here that you like, I'll eat my socks. - Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks – Bloomberg
Light as an architecture of control. Creepy as fuck – "we're just going to let poor people sit in the dark, in the hope that making their neighbourhoods less safe will make them move" is, well, not the subtext here, but the outright *text*.