Sunday, 4th February 2007
skipdb (via) Small, fast BerkeleyDB style database using skip lists, by the creator of the Io programming language.
Why you should be using disambiguated URLs
Good URLs are important. The best URLs are readable, reliable and hackable.
[... 553 words]www. is deprecated. I wouldn’t go as far to say avoid www—just as long as you pick one and redirect the other.
Identifrac (via) Beautiful twist on identicons: use the IP address / other input data as the seed for a fractal.
Adam Vandenberg on disambiguated URLs. He was fighting for cache-friendly URLs at Encarta Online way back in 1998.
IronPython URLs. Mark Rees’ and Seo Sanghyeon’s collection of interesting URLs posted to the IronPython mailing list.
MySpace superworm creator sentenced to probation, community service (via) samy is still my hero.
If you found a hole in software that millions of people use, and is very high profile, you can sell that to the highest bidder for perhaps one or two million dollars.
Linus Torvalds: Super Kernel Sunday! Linux kernel version 2.6.20 is out, and includes virtualization thanks to KVM.
As ICD head analyst Walter Dickweed put it: "Releasing a new kernel on Superbowl Sunday means that the important 'pasty white nerd' constituency finally has something to do while the rest of the country sits comatose in front of their 65" plasma screens".