The Weekly Weird - 2015-12-18
- Lead is horrific. I just learned that sub-Saharan Africa banned lead in gasoline in 2006.
- I'm really hoping this whole thing is just a viral promotion for a Bill Murray heist movie. Strange time to be alive. More on this toolbag.
- Finally, I'm safe against the Advanced, Persistent Threat of backspace.
- I'm cautiously optimistic about the new Expanse series from SyFy. I enjoyed the books.
- WebAssembly is happening!
- I used to make fun of the 'purely free' extremist sect of the free software movement, obviously the intervening time has proved them right and me quite wrong. It's nice to see that there are still efforts to make completely free hardware though of course we're not there yet.
- Kerberos on Windows is not so hot
- In all seriousness, I wish the BATS team the best of luck with their second try at IPO.
- Java has hard-coded 65535-entry limits on a whole bunch of things. 64k ought to be enough for anyone, eh?
- The best phrase in science is "that's funny...". I also like the phrase "nowhere near moving champagne even vaguely close to the fridge".
- Life imitates Chuck Jones.
- I...can't imagine attaching giant, hydrogen-filled balloons to the electricity grid would work out well but it's a mighty fine image.
- 'SCP-grade psychic biohazard.'
- You guys know that Archduke Ferdinand's assasination was actually a showdown between time-travelers, right?
- Japan leads the world in finding inventive uses for drones.
- "You must notify BIS and the ENC Encryption Request Coordinator via e-mail of the Internet location (e.g., URL or Internet address) of the publicly available encryption source code or provide each of them a copy of the publicly available encryption source code."
- I've always thought that language is more important to thought than we think.
- I need to learn tensorflow.
- Onion soup! Note this is kind of gross so don't read at lunch.
- Imaginary Irony Loops.