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Because obviously, dogs couldn’t possibly walk on their...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:26:31 -0500

Because obviously, dogs couldn’t possibly walk on their own and much prefer stupidly hanging from your back. Via chartier.

"Facing a new attack with an international audience playing close attention, religions have as little..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:59:47 -0500

“Facing a new attack with an international audience playing close attention, religions have as little rational argument in their favour as ever. There was a time when they could deal with dissent through more draconian measures: the kind that can still be practiced in, say, Saudi Arabia. Having lost the power of the gun in the West, apologists of religion have a new weapon: being offended.”

- The new crybaby theists | Michael Brull (via friendlyatheist) (via jou)

Willkommen meine Kinder

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:16:15 -0500

Willkommen meine Kinder:

By the way, these are not “metal umlauts”, “über” really has an umlaut.

I don’t know why, but I really like this, uh, feminist...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:13:11 -0500

I don’t know why, but I really like this, uh, feminist version of Rammstein. (via evathegerman)

datavis: Hooray in the Center via swissmiss

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:33:38 -0500

datavis:

Hooray in the Center via swissmiss

Language Log » How can we test that theary?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:27:41 -0500

Language Log » How can we test that theary?

yayaa: Between by Via Grafik Stunning effects. It kept me...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:16:13 -0500

yayaa:

Between by Via Grafik
Stunning effects. It kept me intrigued.

"It is futile to protest that “near miss” should be “near collision.” This expression is a condensed..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:08:03 -0500

“It is futile to protest that “near miss” should be “near collision.” This expression is a condensed version of something like “a miss that came very near to being a collision” and is similar to “narrow escape.””

- Non-Errors

I want that too. Imagine how awesome the world would be if all...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:04:48 -0500

I want that too. Imagine how awesome the world would be if all the religious kooks got raptured. Amen. Attempts at Rational Behavior.

Via Attempts at Rational Behavior.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:02:36 -0500

Via Attempts at Rational Behavior.

"COULD NASA CAUSE THE SUDDEN DEATH OF EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH? (…) I saw on the OCTOBER 9, 2009..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:54:00 -0500

“

COULD NASA CAUSE THE SUDDEN DEATH OF EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH?

(…)

I saw on the OCTOBER 9, 2009 news that NASA has been bombing the moon to see if there is water on it. You can’t find water by bombing! See the article below.

(…)

That’s not a good idea, as the bomb could push the moon out of orbit and cause part or all of it to crash, with a worst case senario, to crash into the sun or the earth!

”

- Let’s not get too optimistic here! Via Pharyngula.

"Im Dezember 2007 beantragte das Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend die..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:50:17 -0500

“Im Dezember 2007 beantragte das Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend die Indizierung des Kinderbuchs als jugendgefährdende Schrift.”

- Und weshalb? Weil das Buch die Sintflut erwähnt. WTF? Wo bitte geht’s zu Gott? fragte das kleine Ferkel – Wikipedia

Focus-Interview mit Michael Schmidt-Salomon, Religionskritiker, im Schweizer Radio DRS

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:45:06 -0500

Focus-Interview mit Michael Schmidt-Salomon, Religionskritiker, im Schweizer Radio DRS:

Interessantes Interview. Schön, dass wir in den Medien nun mehr solche Stimmen hören. Via Twitter / Nico Rohrbach.

"Ins Visier nahmen die hohen Herren von Hombrechtikon vor allem die Geschichte vom kleinen Ferkel und..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:39:17 -0500

“Ins Visier nahmen die hohen Herren von Hombrechtikon vor allem die Geschichte vom kleinen Ferkel und seinem Freund, dem Igel: «Ähnlich wie unsere Angestellten waren wir schockiert über den Text als auch über die Bilder.» Das Pamphlet sei «eine unglaubliche Beleidigung der darin aufgeführten Religionsgemeinschaften».”

- Ja, dann muss es natürlich schon aus der Bibliothek verbannt werden. Huh. Wo gehts zu Gott? Die Angst vor dem kleinen Ferkel - News Zürich: Region - tagesanzeiger.ch

"As you might have caught on from the last use-case, Chroma-Hash could be effective in mitigating the..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:18:14 -0500

“As you might have caught on from the last use-case, Chroma-Hash could be effective in mitigating the risk of a phishing attack. Similar to the account-specific images that online banking systems recently added, your password becomes a visual signature that you can look for. Websites can securely serve unique color signatures by issuing a hash salt through a browser cookie, for instance.”

- mattt* / Chroma-Hash, Revisited

Cross-Comain Browser Requests

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:56:46 -0500

Recently, Twitter has implemented lists. Their UI is not perfect, so I figured I’d implement a simple web page allowing easy drag-and-drop creation of lists. Unfortunately, I’m not sure this is possible.

At first, I figured I could use XMLHttpRequest to communicate with Twitter. But that doesn’t allow cross-domain requests in most browsers. While it’s possible to create cross-domain requests by dynamically adding script tags to the DOM tree, I can’t add headers to these requests, and I’d need to do that for basic authentication. I considered bridging requests via the server, but I really don’t want to see anyone’s passwords. I also considered using oauth instead of basic auth, but a cursory examination seems to imply that it’ll eventually cause the same problems as basic authentication, since it also requires me to add headers to requests.

Needless to say, I think JS needs a simple, secure way of making cross-domain requests. I think this would be possible by ignoring all browser states for the secure request. Ignore cookies (don’t send them, and don’t let the remote host set them), ignore cached credentials. There’s still some danger that the remote host would identify the caller based on its IP and falsely allow too many rights, I guess, but servers shouldn’t do that anyway.

WTF Pictures and WTF videos by Picture Is Unrelated » This...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:33:22 -0500

WTF Pictures and WTF videos by Picture Is Unrelated » This One Is Going In The Scrapbook, Kids!

"The story deals with the sensationalism of tabloid news and the political climate of panic over Red..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:56:21 -0500

“The story deals with the sensationalism of tabloid news and the political climate of panic over Red Army Faction terrorism in the 1970s Federal Republic of Germany. The main character, Katharina Blum, is an innocent housekeeper whose life is ruined by an invasive tabloid reporter and a police investigation when the man with whom she has just fallen in love turns out to be wanted by the police because of a bank robbery. Later it turns out that he is not a bank robber: he is a deserter from the Army who had stolen money from his camp before deserting. Ultimately she shoots the reporter, after she invited him to her house for an interview. The book’s fictional tabloid paper, Die Zeitung (The Newspaper), is modeled on the actual German Bild-Zeitung.”

- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Today Europe’s biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:55:22 -0500

“

Today Europe’s biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is going to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessing its website.

Now, readers will not only have to pay for the dedicated BILD iPhone app, but they also need to pony-up recurring fees for new articles.

”

- I welcome this news. The fewer people who can access Bild’s site, the better. Let’s hope other tabloids follow Bild’s lead. This might actually have a positive influence on average human intelligence. Europe’s biggest newspaper decides the iPhone browser isn’t welcome , via Twitter / Oliver Reichenstein

CodingComics: Regression, via Twitter / Max Howell

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:45:46 -0500

CodingComics: Regression, via Twitter / Max Howell