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Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware

Essentially, Apple's patent provides for a device to investigate a user's identity, ostensibly to determine if and when that user is "unauthorized," or, in other words, stolen. More specifically, the technology would allow Apple to record the voice of the device's user, take a photo of the device's user's current location or even detect and record the heartbeat of the device's user. Once an unauthorized user is identified, Apple could wipe the device and remotely store the user's "sensitive data." Apple's patent application suggests it may use the technology not just to limit "unauthorized" uses of its phones but also shut down the phone if and when it has been stolen.

10K Apart Contest: Cheating by Compressing Your JavaScript and CSS to PNG Images

I wanted to share a technique that was invented by NIHILOGIC. The idea is to store the javascript code inside a PNG file to leverage the image compression and significantly reduce the size. And this technique can also be applied to CSS as well. I hope that my implementation would benefit someone before the 10K contest end.

Icons of the Web

The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its "www." counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons--those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach--are scaled to 16x16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440. Since your web browser would choke on that, we have created the interactive viewer below (click and drag to pan, double-click to zoom, or type in a site name to go right to it).

Stefan Sagmeister's piece with 200000 eurocent coins

Awesome bit of art by putting 200000 coins on a square in Amsterdam. I love the sentence it spells out too

10 things society unfairly expects of men

Interesting stuff; some common expectations that not every man (should have to) meet

Subsonic - Free Music Streamer

Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living room.

Looks nice. Might even try it soonish.

Avertible catastrophe

Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality.

The Dutch fall into the first group. Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill that then appeared to be underway. "Our system can handle 400 cubic metres per hour," Weird Koops, the chairman of Spill Response Group Holland, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, giving each Dutch ship more cleanup capacity than all the ships that the U.S. was then employing in the Gulf to combat the spill.

The first digital camera

1975 tech, awesomeness. I especially love the use of a cassette tape

Cheap tarpits for silly PHP vulnerability scanners

Tarpit your webserver against those pesty scans for phpmyadmin and such on your sites

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