January 2010
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Four Tet — There Is Love In You [iTunes link]
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
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Cut Copy (16)
The Knife (11)
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Shaun: have you seen that BE are rolling out 40Mbps broadband?
Me: Yeah…but it's not that impressive when you consider South Korea are getting 1Gbps soon.
Shaun: Wow, imagine the porn you could download…
Me: Yup. At that point the forearm becomes the bottleneck.
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Explaining URLs is Surprisingly Hard
benjaminsteinpro:
I listened to a moderately interesting Security Now episode from a couple weeks ago. The topic was explaining security best practices to non-techno people. Specifically, can you tell if a URL is safe to click on. Turns out parsing URLs is a suprisingly hard problem that nerds completely take for granted.
Try explaining the following rules about clicking links to your...
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Apple vs Health & Safety
lewiskingblog:
Apple stores don’t have “no smoking”. Legally they need them but they “ruin the design of the store”, so for every apple store in the UK they pay £50 a day to keep their windows sign free. Crazy shit.