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After years of reverse engineering the Windows filesharing protocols, Microsoft is finally compelled to document them for the samba team

New York Times with the local angle!

Ah, San Francisco, whose people will second guess killing a rampaging tiger

such a shame

The most common vulnerability in webapps today. Apparently Gmail was vulnerable.

"The zoo, festooned with holiday decorations was silent after the attacks, save for police helicopters and police officers sweeping the grounds for potential additional victims."

the War on Christmas is over, and we have won

Aperture Science wishes you a happy holiday

My favourite professor from the MIT Media Lab is moving on

Type criticism can be funny!

Werner breaks down some distributed system design choices

Neat little procedural toy

A whole blog and list of stupid cliches

"You just got poked with a walking stick, poke back?"

It's awful, but now I know who the hell Biggs is

Handy little map!

Amazing map

Simpledb's writes take several seconds to commit. That seems crippling to me.

Ryan explains what Amazon's SimpleDB really is

30 years of Lucas nerdism

A very thoughtful critique of where Google is weak

I give Amazon credit; they're doing very exciting things with web services

Mine is disgusting

Tooting my own horn, but a weblog endorsement from Anil Dash is pretty damn flattering

Long New Yorker article about an enormous African city

How a game developer destroyed the Windows install of thousands of customers

2002 briefing of Democrat leaders

Description of what the artist intended

Bittersweet and poetic, the review does it justice

Google's amazing chef has a book coming out

Anything to sell some pork

In 1992 he's advocating quarantining people with HIV

Particularly bad example of nonsensical Chinese to English translation. Quite funny.

Yay, I can cancel my little project

The client upgrade overwrites boot.ini. Good show, folks.

Report from the field; seems to work well for me, too

Excellent detailed account of tracing Ron Paul spam back into botnets and email spam services

Three short promos for the new season; the Omar one is pretty great

Backlash against indexing semi-public IRC channels

Mini-scandal about game reviews includes the publisher of Kane & Lynch making up positive reviews

Ryan implements Google's first OpenID product!

Great bit of Warcraft moviemaking about the evils of Moonkin, script from Halloween II. Probably only interesting if you play WoW and like lazer chikkens.

Nice appreciation for this bizarre game

2, 3, or 4 little kisses when in France? Depends on where you are

4 men go on the record by name describing their sexual relationships with Larry Craig