- Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities.
This is some shady-ass shit.
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- Goodbye, Bay Street. Hello... South Core?
Who knew?
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- My coworker Mustafa has a blog now.
They never went out of style. You can read about agile this and that, with hopefully more stuff to come.
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- TSA: Fail.
There are so many good pull quotes in this article.
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- Peter Weyland at TED2023: I will change the world.
A teaser of sorts for Prometheus.
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- Comment Snob.
A Google Chrome extension that helps get rid of some of the stupid on the Internet.
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- Why GNU grep is fast.
“Hi Gabor, I am the original author of GNU grep. …”
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- xkcd: So It Has Come To This.
Sometimes xkcd is just great.
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- A Year of Links.
This fellow has created (pretty nice looking) books out of his pinboard links.
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- Betsy Megas's answer to What does it feel like to have your spouse die?
You can ask all sorts of questions on Quora. This is all kinds of sad, especially if you know someone who has passed away from cancer.
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- Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire.
Some great reporting from the Verge on the rise and fall of RIM from its spot as the king of smartphones.
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- Safari Trackers.
Google (and some other advertising companies) have got in some hot water over the fact they were circumventing the privacy settings of people using Safari (which defaults to not accepting 3rd party cookies). The follow-up to this article is also well worth reading, as it shoots down a lot of the PR coming from Google and from its defenders. Daring Fireball also has a good response to this story.
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- IN STORE: Art and Crisis in Windsor Ontario.
Angry Robot is making a movie.
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- HTTP Status Codes.
Does what it says on the box.
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- Scar-bro? - MindSweeP
[42 Division is] the safest division in the city; this division includes north Scarborough. The safest part of Toronto is north Scarborough from Victoria Park Ave. to the Pickering border, north of Highway 401.
All about people’s distorted view of the greatest suburb in Toronto.
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- Matthew Avignone – Stranger Than Family.
Avignone has been photographing his (interesting) family, and the results are quite good.
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