Tony Finch's link log

This page lists some recently popular links.

• 2012-01-30 5V75V 198 Why your network should go IPv6 only.
• 2012-02-05 BCZG5 149 Google's horrible January.
• 2012-02-01 ZV7HN 136 Transgender people are completely banned from boarding airplanes in Canada.
• 2012-02-04 Y8R27 108 Three things Twitter has not got right yet.
• 2012-02-03 YX8HJ 102 The 64-bit counter-revolution.
• 2012-01-29 J999J 102 Single-block collision attack on MD5.
• 2012-01-31 PCZ56 98 Sublime threats and ridiculous consequences as the works of 3 great English writers enter the global public domain.
• 2012-01-30 T6KHR 93 Helmet cam secures conviction of motorist who assaulted cycling QC, despite police attempts to drop case.
• 2012-01-31 9FLMW 91 Australia: the confusing country.
• 2012-01-31 7VYXB 90 The caffeine curve.
• 2012-02-01 FT9ZZ 88 People are spouting nonsense about Chinese manufacturing.
• 2012-01-30 R6B2H 87 A serious flaw emerges in quantum cryptography.
• 2012-02-03 MJ7MF 86 Why oh why do those nutheads use vi?
• 2012-02-01 N8DFM 84 The founder of PLoS on the research works act and publishing failed experiments.
• 2012-01-30 29KLT 83 Baby clothes without the pink-or-blue.
• 2012-02-04 J7P8W 76 Atheism in America.
• 2012-01-30 P2TFR 75 Really, Google is evil now? How about Apple?
• 2012-01-29 99Y7X 73 How the badly maimed BBC can stand up to parasitic Sky.
• 2012-01-30 N8LRX 70 Format string vulnerability in sudo.
• 2012-02-05 8YP78 69 Don't store that in a float.
• 2012-01-29 YBZ5T 68 The BBC's science problem.
• 2012-02-01 XFW7H 67 The trouble with popularity: repetitive fun memes crowd out meaningful content.
• 2012-02-02 7WLHF 67 DMARC anti-spam protocol leads to private information leakage.
• 2012-01-29 6VPZF 67 The P-versus-NP page.
• 2012-01-31 2N9F6 67 Apache httpOnly cookie disclosure vulnerability.
• 2012-01-29 8VGVM 66 Hollywood edition: if computers were as user-friendly as movies.
• 2012-01-30 6YRB7 66 The complexity of font sizes.
• 2012-01-29 GBF9G 63 Inder's kitchen.
• 2012-02-05 6C87L 63 The U.S. kills people with drones, then fires on the rescuers and others who arrive at the scene.
• 2012-01-30 C9GNV 62 20th birthday of alt.fan.pratchett.
• 2012-02-05 WRFY6 61 Can your smartphone stand the cold?
• 2012-01-30 W6Z8M 60 How the puffer fish gets you high, zombifies you, and kills you.
• 2012-01-31 8WG7J 60 How to learn effectively.
• 2012-01-30 5L8WG 60 A police state for benefits claimants.
• 2012-01-29 J9BTB 59 Google+ nymwar is not a matter of behaviour, it's a matter of aesthetic appearance of names.
• 2012-01-30 C6K6F 57 DNSSEC libraries for application developers.
• 2012-02-01 VWPZ5 56 Some of the world's most beautiful book shops.
• 2012-02-03 PRX7Y 56 Opposition to intellectual property laws is starting to look like a political winner for the Republican party.
• 2012-02-04 8VYG8 56 Genetic IP reduces innovation and product development by 20-30%.
• 2012-02-01 7WZCV 56 The sky is rising! The growth of the entertainment industry in the Internet age.
• 2012-01-30 7TNC9 56 Broderick? Broderick?
• 2012-01-30 85Z6G 55 The strong principle of charity.
• 2012-01-30 JHPY7 54 What financial regulators can learn from nuclear reactors.
• 2012-01-31 HYMW5 54 GSM tracking: obvious in the UK. (para 46 et seq.)
• 2012-02-05 C6G8P 54 The decline of the amateur expert.
• 2012-01-31 89BRN 53 Tiny Core Linux 4.2 is a complete operating system in 64MB or less.
• 2012-02-05 7B6FB 53 Four touchscreen-compatible gloves reviewed.
• 2012-01-29 5V6GP 53 A cold war missile silo converted to a private home in the Adirondacks.
• 2012-01-30 YB2XF 52 Windows Azure Storage: tackling the CAP theorem head-on.
• 2012-02-01 KZFM9 52 Reducing the retrieval time of scatter storage techniques: Brent's variation on hash tables.
• 2012-02-01 5WJW7 52 Lua to be Wikipedia's template scripting language.
• 2012-02-02 XF5CR 51 It is time for the rebirth of the university press.
• 2012-01-31 V5PDY 51 CuBox: small computer built around Marvell Armada 510 SoC.
• 2012-02-03 8NK7X 51 Darkness. (Wonderful 24 hour comic.)
• 2012-02-01 2X8XT 51 Why Lua?
• 2012-02-01 X8RW7 50 No, that's not snow: pesticides coat California's central valley.
• 2012-01-31 Z2RGF 49 Python pbs: run commands as if they were Python functions.
• 2012-01-30 FDLT9 49 American youth becoming even more godless.
• 2012-01-29 BLM6M 49 What is wrong with electronic academic journals?
• 2012-01-30 6VZK8 49 What is a "private-sector research work"?
• 2012-01-30 98YG8 48 Avoidable failures of peer review.
• 2012-01-29 8827H 48 Why Twitter's new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates.
• 2012-02-01 H8BJP 47 The Jackdaw database package. (1974) (The current version of Jackdaw is Oracle on Solaris.)
• 2012-01-30 22R6W 47 The Führer speaks out on Downfall parodies.
• 2012-02-01 M2PY9 46 Piracy is the new radio: it's how music gets around.
• 2012-02-04 YX2BL 45 Justice Department says prison rape accounted for majority of rapes committed in US in 2008.
• 2012-01-29 YN2GJ 45 IcedCoffeeScript: just add "await" and "defer" keywords.
• 2012-01-29 LKHX6 45 What have academic publishers ever done for us? And do we need them?
• 2012-02-03 FD2TM 45 Why Mark Jaquith is an atheist.
• 2012-02-01 7GJK8 45 Lua vs Javascript for MediaWiki.
• 2012-02-05 DK6H5 44 From sand to silicon: the making of a chip.
• 2012-01-31 FC8W6 42 Environmental protection rules may be headed for government shredder.
• 2012-01-29 758DZ 41 Wind electricity to be competitive with cheap natural gas by 2016.
• 2012-02-05 F6XWR 40 You will never kill piracy, and piracy will never kill you.
• 2012-01-31 722YR 40 Desirability and density of urban design.
• 2012-01-30 ZGWH8 39 How should British vacancies in the European parliament be filled?
• 2012-01-29 Z79BK 39 The Lancet: the Research Works Act is a damaging threat to science.
• 2012-02-05 559TP 39 Why did PledgeBank fail when GroupOn and Kickstarter flew?
• 2012-01-28 BVF7Z 38 Discussing the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split.
• 2012-02-02 6Y5RJ 38 On Temple Island Collections v New English Teas, the Westminster bus photograph copyright case.
• 2012-02-05 9MZ6P 37 DNSSHIM: hidden master DNSSEC signer. (Java)
• 2012-02-03 VZ87Z 36 The Prince vs Cariou copyright case has a chilling effect on appropriated images in art.
• 2012-02-04 P5W65 36 On the ethics, pragmatics, and politics of cryptographic application design.
• 2012-01-29 NHTW5 36 Twitter's censorship is a gray box of shame for governments that impose it, not for Twitter.
• 2012-02-01 L7MTH 36 Linotype: The Film.
• 2012-01-28 J2P6G 34 Which computers star in which films.
• 2012-02-06 8BJZT 34 The Tesla valve: one way flow without moving parts.
• 2012-02-06 27GPP 34 The sociology of drunkenness.
• 2012-01-28 MKK55 33 Megaupload: a lot less guilty than you think.
• 2012-02-04 96KN2 33 Journals boost their impact factor by asking academics to pad their citations.
• 2012-02-05 ZP6LF 29 Police hired out to work for private companies.
• 2011-12-20 86JY9 29 An Indian inventor disrupts the period industry.
• 2012-01-28 7T6VL 29 The BBC pays Sky to broadcast their channels.
• 2012-01-28 HF7KB 27 Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split.
• 2012-02-05 59JK9 27 Maillardet's writing automaton.
• 2011-12-26 MZV7R 23 ByeDaddy: find out if a domain is registered with GoDaddy.
• 2012-01-28 5FXJK 20 Why eating fat doesn't make you fat.
• 2012-01-28 BZ9TN 19 Why does that QR code take me to justinsomnia.org?
• 2012-01-01 N689G 18 Authors entering the Public Domain on 2012-01-01.
• 2011-12-14 R5LZM 16 HTTP status cats.

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