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The WebSocket API
Today's daily WTF: a draft spec web API for zero-polling two-way communication in HTML and JavaScript. Because nothing says "cool" like having some server be able to ram data down to your browser unrequested. … Actually, scratch that. Nothing says "insecure" like having some server be able to ram data down to your [...]

The movies of Clint Eastwood : The New Yorker
Thought provoking survey of Eastwood’s career on the cusp of 80.
(tags: movies)

Photos of rain and flooding submitted by Boston.com readers – Boston.com
It's been a wet day in the Boston area.
(tags: boston flood)

LastHistory » Visualizing Last.fm Listening Histories and Personal Streams
Cool visualizations of years of listening habits. Of course, it might take a year or more to pull the data stream down; I’ve been a Last.fm user since 2005.
(tags: apple api lastfm visualization)

Unearthed Rolling Stones Tracks Set to Debut on “Exile on Main Street” Reissue (Rolling Stone)
Guess I’ll be paying money for another reissue. Lost “Exile”-era tracks are like lost “Pet Sounds”-era tracks.
(tags: music rollingstones)

Firewall Change Request Form (Matasano)
Today’s clever marketing award goes to firewall management vendor Matasano, who provide a hysterically funny “FCR-1″ form on the [...]

Joanna Newsom, the Changeling – NYTimes.com
Strong interview with Joanna Newsom.
(tags: joannanewsom music)

Energizer Bunny’s software infects PCs
Backdoored battery chargers: They just keep going and going…
(tags: security)

Goodnight Forest Moon: nerdgasmic kids’ book parody – Boing Boing
Indeed. “Goodnight Force.”
(tags: books children humor starwars)

Turboencabulator – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I, too, have been long interested in automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. But the Turbo-Encabulator’s use of the drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration is nothing short of brilliant.
(tags: funny science)

Googler ships exploit to defeat ASLR+DEP | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
Address space randomization and data execution protection are no longer sufficient to keep buffer overflows from being exploited.
(tags: security windows google)

Guru of Gang Starr in coma after heart attack – Boing Boing
Bad, bad news. Here’s hoping we get Guru back soon.
(tags: music guru)

Peter Gabriel Takes [...]

Answering a call to arms: Ladies wrestle for charity in Charlottesville and more – washingtonpost.com
This is the most awesome thing I have ever seen. I think Boston–or maybe Somerville–needs a league.
(tags: ladyarmwrestlers)

Google facts and figures (massive infographic) | Royal Pingdom
Massive, obsessive graphic summarizing factoids and figures about everyone’s favorite Mountain View-based information overlords.
(tags: google)

Gartner Release Breakdown of Mobile OS Market Share | BlackBerry Cool
2009 market share numbers show iPhone at 14% of all mobile phones (not just smartphones), behind RIM but ahead of Windows Mobile.
(tags: iphone mobile)

YouTube Drops IE6 Support on March 13th – YouTube – Lifehacker
Videos will continue to work? “Deprecated” ain’t what it used to be.
(tags: ie6)

Announcement | IE6 Funeral
The actual IE6 funeral party.
(tags: ie6)

A Funeral Is Being Held For IE6 On March 4. Browser To Be Buried Without The Body.
With both Google and SalesForce announcing that IE6 will [...]

The Graphing Calculator Story
I don’t know how I missed this before, but this is simultaneously the coolest 1990s era Macintosh software story ever, and the best explanation yet why Apple lost its way in the 1990s.
(tags: apple mac development)

The Bill of Rights (Neely Bruce)
I love it–Neely Bruce set the Bill of Rights to music, and made the movement for the First Amendment freely available including free performance rights.
(tags: billofrights neelybruce)

XKCD’s “We Love the Internet” reenacted with Lessig, Gaiman, Nielsen Haydens, Schneier, and many others! (Boing Boing)
Nice though creepy (particularly the dude in bed [...]

Stop Being an Idiot – Ordered List
Don’t call your users idiots.You’re not doing yourself any favors.
(tags: design software usability)

Remember when Boston Edison became NStar and you thought that was almost as dumb as when Boston Gas became Keyspan? | Universal Hub
Glad Comcast is spending its money so effectively.
(tags: comcast)

Eric Holder and the battle over Khalid [...]