They are the best. If you don’t like this, all I can say is ಠ_ರೃ.
#7 March 2012, evening time
GitHub recently fell victim to a security hole in Rails, the web application framework they use to build their site. A user of their site exploited the security hole and gave himself commit permissions on a repository that didn’t belong to him. I’m sure it was no coincidence that the repository that he chose to mess with was the official Rails repo.
All sorts of fancy web design, video, and photography.
##A complete from scratch recreation of Super Mario Bros. with a focus on perfectly imitating the feel the 1985 classic gave us. Then give Mario a portal gun, add puzzle game mechanics from Portal and there you go. And if that wasn’t crazy enough, play 4-player coop, with everyone having their own Portal gun!
CmdrTaco joins the Washington Post. I didn’t see that coming.
#The NYT writes about the (incredible) Bell Labs.
#Apparently someone mistook Shima for Mythilli’s nanny today.
(via Denise Balkissoon) # [1]Anil Dash grabbed some of the original people behind Blogger to talk about blogging.
#Glad to see that the Ford cronies on the TTC board got kicked to the curb.
(via Angry Robot) #Why would you do this to someone you love? I feel a rage coming just thinking about Mulholland Drive.
# [2]My favourite site on the Internet has redesigned. He even created a mirror of his site on Tumblr. What? (The only thing I dislike about the redesign are the share buttons: those things are the worse.) One of the focuses of his redesign was improving the way the site looks on mobile devices. When I originally created this site, I did so on an iBook with a 1024×768 display. At the time I also had fond memories of my PowerBook 5300cs with a 640×468 display. Now in 2012, the site actually looks quite good on the iPhone and the iPad. (With the exception of the header on the iPhone, where the links are too small.) I haven’t touched the design here in so long that I still have hacks to make sure the site is centred in IE5. For serious. I need to tidy things up here, at some point.
# [2]Laurence on some of the stupidness coming out of city council yesterday.
#6 March 2012, early morning
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
This weeks episode of RadioLab about Escape is particularly good. As I’ve said before, RadioLab is sole reason I now listen to podcasts: it’s incredible.
Square is doing some pretty awesome stuff. It’s embarrassing and not that surprising they are beating the payment processor industry to these sorts of innovations.
#Bruce Gilden went to Las Vegas and Reno to continue his series on foreclosed homes. I supported the project on Kickstarter.
# [2]Berardinetti isn’t the dumbest city councillor we have, but she certainly ranks.
#This is some shady-ass shit.
#Who knew?
#They never went out of style. You can read about agile this and that, with hopefully more stuff to come.
#There are so many good pull quotes in this article.
#A teaser of sorts for Prometheus.
#A Google Chrome extension that helps get rid of some of the stupid on the Internet.
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