December 2010
13 posts
“The secret to a successful life is hardly a secret; it requires you to be...”
– My Boring Ass Life » Witness the birth of the SMonologue!
Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses... →
in case you ever doubted that Saddam’s crazy-meter went to 11: “Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur’an”
The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess →
there’s really not a lot Gawker could have done worse in the response to being hacked
Daring Fireball: The Best Laid Plans →
this move, out-bidding the competition to add Cliff Lee to a pitching staff that was, already, arguably the best in baseball? It’s the sort of brash move that heretofore would have only been made by the Yankees. There’s now a second team in baseball that doesn’t just hope to win it all, but expects to
Gawker HACKED: Was your Gawker password hacked?... →
if you had an account at any Gawker media site, your password may have been hacked. Slate’s tool can tell you to see if it was decrypted or not
41Latitude - Google Maps & Label Readability →
neat post detailing some of the tricks Google uses to make its city labels more legible than its competitors map sites
NASA Finds New Life →
Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn’t share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything
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