How related: queries work.
Co-linked pages (pages that link to here also link to…).
Like customers also bought, but for a non-symmetrical rel.
Seems to suffer from the Harry Potter problem.
I'd like a version that uses covisits, ie live data instead of links. Though that could be bad privacy-wise.
I'd like a reverse version, that uses outbound links. That could be used to find good recommenders instead of good content. Careful with duplicates though. (think hubs vs authorities)

It is said to have improved since:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-onebox-for-similar-pages.html
http://glinden.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-launches-web-search-similarities.html

Top-sort produces something highly boring.
A lot of self-help in there too.
Ventilating by books helps.

network.dnsCacheEntries = 0, let dnsmasq do the caching.
Useful for troubleshooting ipv6, so that flipping network.dns.disableIPv6 takes effect immediately.

If you wanted to post an Ask Metafilter question that would generate a lot of controversy, a flamewar, or just incredulity, what would you post?

MeTa is over there: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/12086/What-Not-to-Post-to-AskMe

Serves as a counterpoint to a certain x264 developer: “oh noes h264 B-Frames aren't there clearly this codec is inferior”

The prints, and the books.
Edit: bought the books already.

Durability via replication, not disk writes. (delayed disk writes also available. A wide power loss would lose some transactions)
Faster than Cassandra on some benchmark.

Plug-ins tend to bypass the browser, leading to graphics issues (either not enough sharing or stepping on toes) (no z-index), security issues (can't be sandboxed), usability issues (keyboard and focus), general uglyness.
NPAPI — the plug-in API used by everybody but IE — needs to be richer, so that plugins don't call the OS anymore, letting themselves be sandboxed.
Now to jail flash into a place it can't set long-term cookies that work around browser privacy settings.

More:
https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/plugin-futures
https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/03/google-bakes-flash-into-chrome-hopes-to-improve-plugin-api.ars
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/bringing-improved-support-for-adobe.html

That + the timing enhancements: killer.
Possible solutions:
- a wand (Opera, the _secure login_ firefox extension)
- For sites that publish a description or are popular enough, mozilla labs' upcoming _account manager_

- Pål's solution, a fade-in.
- Limiting background changes (location, title and favicon). Allow other ways for legitimate sites to get attention. There's no way to prevent the rest of the page being changed, by js or flash.
- Limiting favicon changes (1-sec cycling at most for gif and apng, no js access).

Excellent usability, in service of safety.
The memorisation feature obsoletes the Certificate patrol extension; Herdict integration (trickier I suspect) partally obsoletes WOT (web of trust).
A follow-up: http://www.owlfolio.org/htmletc/more-ssl-errors/

Henceforth: JCN distance
Followup: http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/36/3/421.abstract
Followup: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?WordNet::Similarity::jcn

Uses: http://bibsonomy.blogspot.com/2010/02/stop-thinking-start-tagging-tag.html

Via: http://bibsonomy.blogspot.com/2010/02/stop-thinking-start-tagging-tag.html
Paper: http://kmi.tugraz.at/staff/markus/documents/2010_ICWSM2010_Detecting_Tagging_Motivation.pdf

That filter is stateful (beware). privacy ∈ {public,private,all}
Also affects tag clouds (good).
Only your own user (naturally).
Can't do /home?privacy= .

Software patents are interlocked and tend to create cartels.

Abusing XSS protections (or ie “restricted zones” or html5 sandbox attr) to inhibit the frame-busting script: devious.
-> a half-assed protection can be worse than none. Maybe mandate that implementors of html5 sandbox implement CSP first? That way protections overlap.

Via Simon Willison. His summary:
Clickjacking can be mitigated using framebusting techniques, but it turns out that almost all of those techniques can be broken in various ways. Fun examples include double-nesting iframes so that the framebusting script overwrites the top-level frame rather than the whole window, and a devious attack against the IE and Chrome XSS filters which tricks them in to deleting the framebusting JavaScript by reflecting portions of it in the framed page’s URL. The authors suggest a new framebusting snippet that should be more effective, but sadly it relies on blanking out the whole page in CSS and making it visible again in JavaScript, making it inaccessible to browsers with JavaScript disabled.

Related to the ask/guess concept expressed by a mefite.

So, this German court is ignoring EU law (software is not patentable).
This is terrible news. Precedent doesn't work like in the USA, but this still needs to be overturned.

LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/388643/
Wiki: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Software_patents_exist_in_Europe,_kinda

12€ TTC/month, more expensive than the cheapest rackspace and prgmr offerings.
However, very good performance for the buck (on paper, not benchmarked).
(dedicated hardware, virtualised storage, starting at 512Mo RAM)

At a $20 price point. Linode offers the best performance by far.

OVH's RPS are missing from this.
RPS2: 18€ ttc/month, 1Go RAM, dedicated hardware with virtualised storage

Love how the moves suddenly accelerate keyed to the beats. Musicality and dynamics.

Now landed into the nightlies: thanks!
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/06/webm_landed.html

Open standards, no software patents! (e-patents under w3c royalty-free covenant)
Getting rid of h264! Support in firefox, chrome, and opera, as of current betas! Youtube being entirely transcoded!
Matroska subset + VP8 + Vorbis
Shipping with the next flash plugin, within a year!
While MS is dragging its feet mumbling about security, patents, and hwaccel, the yet to be released ie9 will allow WebM as an html5 codec plug-in, a reversal from an “h264 only, and certainly no system codecs” stance: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2010/05/19/another-follow-up-on-html5-video-in-ie9.aspx
Sole holdout, Apple iThings.
Will the W3C finally specify an html5 codec, after closing the door just one week ago?

Tested on firefox, playback is smooth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQxbpryKKQo&html5=True
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfdboHvshg&html5=True

Fancy overlays and animation, with a project London trailer:
http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/vp8/

Once the system is updated and settled (and rebooted again and again), list autoruns and uninstall or disable some. Download sysinternals suite, or use the direct autoruns link (sadly, no ssl): http://live.sysinternals.com/autoruns.exe

Do this quick, preferably from firefox as it supports browser.plugins[index].version .

Do this quick, preferably before getting pwned. With pre-vista, do this before disabling ie entirely.

The 2010-05-13 Sintel trailer is whoa.

…Walter Jon Williams's Deep State, and Hannu Rajaniemi 's Quantum Thief.

A few more of the upstart/daemontools lineage: http://b0llix.net/perp/site.cgi?page=links

Missing: Confidence.
˘Right˘ brain: impulsiveness, libido.
˘Left˘ brain: laziness, intellect.

(would prefer a privacy-friendly version hosted by my own mail provider, though gpg does the trick)
(a mail-only api would be nice too, but then you'd have to deal with captchas and backscatter)

(ljplus.ru now belongs to SUP btw)

+1 to whoever plugged the AoQ reviews, re the Willow control vs addiction sidebar, it's a really good interpretation.

what.

(Such a huge dataloss, just like that?)

Similarity to Counting Heads's “probable news”, though with a different purpose.

Enormously spoilery, but also a solid rec for Halting state. re the full seminar, http://www.henryfarrell.net/stross/ is more complete than the CT index post.
Edit: got the book, enjoyed it.

Antibodies, Bear trap, a colder war…
Context: http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/Charles_Stross.html
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/toast-intro.html

” At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters -- to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy ”

Via: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/politics-free-trade-violence.html

Via cstross, re augmented reality perception filters: http://firedoglake.com/2010/03/21/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-charlie-stross-the-trade-of-queens-book-six-of-the-merchant-princes/#comment-2106912
A quick googling suggests the four novels (re-edited as two) can be read in any order.

Via this rec by Charles Stross: http://firedoglake.com/2010/03/21/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-charlie-stross-the-trade-of-queens-book-six-of-the-merchant-princes/#comment-2106885
Replying to a comment re Vinge's belief circles: http://firedoglake.com/2010/03/21/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-charlie-stross-the-trade-of-queens-book-six-of-the-merchant-princes/#comment-2106882

I believe I saw it recced before too, probably by a cstross commenter, but this one carries more weight.

ugh, the screencaps are making me fake-nostalgic

One more: http://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/243080.html
ETA: the bubble (also with David Mitchell) has a similar concept, except on the TV instead of radio:
http://users.livejournal.com/_toni/312481.html
Fair warning: author seems to be into RPF, RPS.

ETA: And it's in!

The parody writes itself.
Douse that lame movie in snark and set it on fire.

I'd have saved a bundle if I had known about these much earlier.

“I sometimes over analyze my work products which can cause me to fall behind in other tasks. To avoid that, I set aside a specific amount of time for review. When that time is up, I move to the next task on my list of priorities.”

The interviewer is quite likely to ask you a second time and often a third time. “What else?”, “Any more?” - if you get asked a fourth time (oh how exasperating that is) there’s a good way to handle that. “When I do this exercise, maybe once a quarter or so, the list might change from time to time. I limit my focus to three current weaknesses so I don’t become overwhelmed. If you ask me again in June, I might have a different answer for you then.”