By adding extra code to a digital music file, they were able to turn a song burned to CD into a Trojan horse. When played on the car's stereo, this song could alter the firmware of the car's stereo system, giving attackers an entry point to change other components on the car.
via With hacking, music can take control of your car | ITworld.
Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com. Slide the slider left and right.
Programming Languages - Progopedia - Encyclopedia of Programming Languages. That was the programming language wiki I was looking for recently when the deletion frenzy struck Wikipedia again. I think I already mentioned it in the old blog.
Instagram now has official APIs. It completely passed me by. Maybe I can eventually get around Tumblr to get my Instagram pictures into the sidebar. On the other hand, Tumblr has been doing quite well lately, and why change something that works (the curse of any further development - good enough).
pdict.py at master from segfaulthunter/sandbox - GitHub. A PersistentHashMap for Python - so a functional data structure that does not allow changes, but provides a new structure with minimal change compared to an existing structure with substructure sharing to the original structure. A rather interesting implementation. There are also further explanations of the ideas behind it. And an alternative implementation of the same idea.