The Weekly Weird - 2015-02-13
Plenty of stuff for you this week.
- I assume we're all reading Marginal Revolution anyway but: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/02/are-desserts-in-decline.html
- I'm not sure if I mentioned it in one of these emails but there was a weird one-bit-flip corruption that someone blogged about a while back: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html
- Well it only took 2 years but someone with enough pull finally noticed it (or a nearly identical but unrelated bug) and got it fixed: http://blog.edgecast.com/post/110230974176/being-good-stewards-of-the-internet
- An interesting article about automation outliving the automator: https://medium.com/message/deathhacks-b767903b7c15
- It makes me just so inordinately happy that googling for "singlehandedly avoided starting a nuclear war" requires further disambiguation: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/27/vasili-arkhipov-stopped-nuclear-war (viz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov )
- More "brains are weird": https://hbr.org/2015/02/pronouns-matter-when-psyching-yourself-up (full study:http://cpl.psy.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Kross-et-al-.pdf )
- TRESSELATOR: http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/02/nasa-niac-spiderfab-status-update-on.html (see also http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/02/nasa-niac-tethers-unlimited-asteroid.html )
- Not super surprising but air gaps are less 'gappy' than you think they are: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/11/air_gap_feature/
- A great example of the tail wagging the dog: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364
- Ocaml. TLS. Bitcoin. http://amirchaudhry.com/bitcoin-pinata/