" ... and the fearsome Teutonic minions of the Chaos Computer Club" via The Blast Shack. Bruce Sterling on Assange and Wikileaks. Somehow, the sub-sentence threw me completely out of the reading rhythm.
Archive 23. December 2010
Oni Labs: Apollo. Interesting JavaScript runtime for browsers that translates StratifiedJS to JavaScript and thus allows asynchronous code to be written largely as one would write synchronous code. This can be very practical, especially with Ajax, because the actual algorithm is no longer buried in the many callbacks.
Jquery Snowfall Plugin 1.4 | Somethinghitme. I think a snowman is kissing me. And those who don't want to hack themselves can also use the Wordpress Snow Storm plugin.
MacBookAir3-2/Meerkat - Community Ubuntu Documentation. If anyone wants to equip the nice new MacBook Air with Ubuntu. Not really an option for me, especially since I found a really usable infrastructure for installing normal software with Homebrew.
Statement by the UN (ok, by a UN sub-organization that, among other things, deals with topics such as freedom of expression) on Wikileaks. Will this impress any of the unleashed prole-talkers with a biting reflex? Probably not.
Skype kaputt. Just reading the word "Mega-Supernodes" was worth it.
Outage: Skype unavailable for many users - Golem.de - hey, I rely on Skype. Stop the nonsense with the outages! And what do you mean by "appears to be offline" - if I don't get any contacts displayed and can't establish any connections, then it's factually offline, regardless of the technology behind it.
Denisovans Were Neanderthals’ Cousins, DNA Analysis Reveals - NYTimes.com. Wow. And parts of the Denisovan genome are found in today's inhabitants of New Guinea. As if they were all isolated.