February 2011
21 posts
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William Shatner...
Bright Eyes Album Stream
nothingsoundsbetter:
Possibly because of it’s early leak, Bright Eyes have made their new album, The People’s Key, available to stream in full in advance of its February 15 release. I haven’t listened to Bright Eyes in ages, but the good reception this album has received has me intrigued.
You can stream the new album here.
- Kevin Michels
I’ve always dismissed Bright Eyes as a bit...
January 2011
29 posts
Using Tor To Bring Internet To A Censored Egypt →
soupsoup:
via streamsofwikileaks
There is a serious trade off to be made by users in hostile network environments with major political instability: Tor usage is possibly detectable with a skilled adversary. Connections made with questionable “privacy” or “security” proxy services are certainly easier than detecting Tor because of their static nature. The same is true...
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if you know anyone in egypt.
carpe-cerevisi:
If you know anyone in Egypt, please pass this on to them. To bypass government blocking of websites, use numerical IP addresses: Twitter ”128.242.240.52” Fb ”69.63.189.34” Google ”172.14.204.99”. A French ISP offers free dial up internet access ~ +33 1 72 89 01 50 Login password: toto. Please pass this on and share.
Does this really work? Simply using an external DNS service...
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Anonymous to Fax Wikileaks Cables to Egyptian... →
Members of the group are organizing to fax copies of the Egypt-related cables that WikiLeaks released today to schools in Egypt. The hope apparently is that if they can get the faxes into the hands of students, students will distribute them to other protesters. A source told Forbes the goal was to warn them that the police could not be trusted. The WikiLeaks cables, which describe human rights...
Vimium - (vim like) Keyboard Shortcuts for Google... →
this is going to make browsing docs while working in vim a lot easier.
Watchwreckandsalvage:
Palin’s Breath (by wreckandsalvage)
You can’t throw an extremely high res video up and expect me to ignore it. This is a quick chop.
I’m going to spend the rest of the day crank calling Suppendapo repeatedly and letting Palin do the heavy breathing for me.
worship the glitch: John Gruber: Questions for... →
jaredklett:
In addition to supporting H.264, Chrome currently bundles an embedded version of Adobe’s closed source and proprietary Flash Player plugin. If H.264 support is being removed to “enable open innovation”, will Flash Player support be dropped as well? If not, why?
Android currently supports…
This is exactly what I’ve been mulling over for the last hour.
The best I can come up...
Google removing H.264 support from Chrome
mikehudack:
kellysutton:
Blog post
Kind of a bummer. It’s fragmenting a nascent technology that only encourages fewer people to use it.
Are they trying to prop up Adobe or something?
this comes right on the heels of the WebM hardware encoder/decoder spec release. I actually feel kinda relieved that this stuff is happening—Now, if only Safari would support open codecs…
kateoplis: There will be Flacs available on the... →
homeofthevain:
There will be NO free downloads, there will be NO bonus tracks, there will be NO remixes, there will be NO hidden footage, there will be NO additional content, there will be NO corporate partners, there will be NO fashion lines, there will be NO tabloid pictures, there will be…
James Gorman on Eating Invasive Species →
There’s a new shift in the politics of food, not quite a movement yet, more of an eco-culinary frisson. But it may have staying power; the signs and portents are there. Vegans, freegans, locavores — meet the invasivores.
Seems to me that the human predilection to eat a species begins its domestication. I would worry that by providing an invasive species a heightened punctuated equilibrium,...
