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Category Archives: technology
Proposal: Making Web Browsing Safer
Overview There are a lot of really great ways to communicate securely over the ‘Net. The trouble is, they’re virtually all user-unfriendly. Today I’d like to start a discussion on making browsing safer and friendlier for everyone. I call it … Continue reading
Posted in authentication, privacy/secrecy/security, society/culture/news, technology, web
Tagged authentication, security, ssl
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Things I learned from the Chrome OS demo.
Today I watched the Google Chrome OS demonstration (11 minutes) video on YouTube®. Here is what I thought of it.
The BBC knows how to make web sites!
How the BBC makes web sites. Dang, the BBC has put a good deal of thought into information design. This is a great read for anyone interested in information architecture.
Honda’s Chicken Legs
Honda’s been at it again. First they make cute robots that can help people move a couch without having friends, now they’ve created a way to give the lame the ability to walk again, through the use of Lt. Dan-esque … Continue reading
Cross-Site Request Forgeries: what users need to know
There’s been a lot of talk about this new category of vulnerability: Cross-Site Request Forgeries (i.e. “CSRF”). Here’s a quick rundown of what they are and why they’re scary: operations such as “send an email,” “buy some stock,” or “donate … Continue reading
Posted in PSA, best-practices, technology, web
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Holy Crap Photoshop Does What?
Photoshop CS4 has been announced and they implement something that I saw as a SIGGGRAPH demo just last year, content-aware scaling. This means that you can resize an image without losing the important bits, such as people. Here’s the video … Continue reading
Posted in right-brain, technology
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Coming Soon: Google Navy?
Google is apparently readying off-shore data centers. Wisely, they are not moving to international waters, where they would have to provide their own naval protection. I think this is just an excuse to take a helicopter to work every morning.
Posted in society/culture/news, technology
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WAI-ARIA dynamic attributes?
I’ve got a question for the WAI-ARIA folks out there: can I add the attributes dynamically? I’m sure the best case is to set the attributes on the server, but let’s say I’ve got a JSP tag library that isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in best-practices, javascript, programming, technology, web
Tagged accessibility, aria, javascript, wai-aria
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Literary Organism Maps are neat!
Here’s a site that displays various types of text visualizations. My favorite is the literary organism map, at least in terms of abstract beauty. I’d be really interested in seeing something like this done with some of my favorite stories/books … Continue reading
Posted in art, technology, words/etymology
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13949712720901ForOSX
Count me in! OSX needs better Java support. First class citizenship for everyone! see here for details
Posted in apple/mac/ipod, java, politics/government, programming, technology, web
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