Anton Peck Illustration - Gather eBook
You can download the PDF of Anton’s graphic novel Gather for free.
Link archive: August 13th, 2013
Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Servers”
We have lost an ally in the fight to maintain net neutrality. I wonder how Vint Cerf feels about his employer’s backtracking.
The specific issue here is with using a home computer as a server. It’s common for ISPs to ban this activity, but that doesn’t change the fact that it flies in the face of the fundamental nature of the internet as a dumb network.
I think the natural end point to owning your own data is serving your own data—something that Steven Pemberton talked about in his fateful talk.
We must fight these attempts to turn the internet into controlled system of producers and consumers.
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets - NYTimes.com
Metajournalism.
Human Interest by Trent Walton
Trent proposes a way to avoid implementing dark patterns: take a leaf from the progressive enhancement playbook and assume the worst conditions for your user’s context.
The perils at Great Falls - Washington Post
On the one hand, this is yet another Snowfall clone. On the other hand, the fact that it’s responsive is impressive.
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Improved support for high-resolution displays with the srcset image attribute
WebKit nightlies now have support for srcset. I’m pleased to see that it’s currently constrained to just handling the case of high-density displays; it doesn’t duplicate the media query functionality of picture.
I’ve always maintained that the best solution to responsive images will be some combination of srcset and picture: they each have their strengths and weaknesses. The “art direction” use case is better handled by picture, but the “retina” use case is better handled by srcset.
Federated uncertainty
Stuart nails it: the real problem with delegating identity is not what some new app will do with your identity details, it’s what the identity provider—Twitter, Google, Facebook—will do with the knowledge that you’re now using some new app.
This is why I want to use my own website as my identity provider.
Galaxy Zoo Quench
This is quite remarkable. Now that the Galaxy Zoo project from Zooniverse has successfully classified all its data (already a remarkable achievement), its volunteers are now collaborating on writing a scientific paper.
There’s something going on here. This isn’t just a “cool” or “cute” link—this is the first stirring of something entirely new that is made possible by network technology.
Line-mode browser dev days participants announced
These are the lovely and talented people who will be joining me at CERN for two days of historical hackery.
The House Of Lockwood
The Internet, day one. A sad tale of data loss.
EIRE signs of WW II | GPS of the past
A fascinating project to document markings from 1939—designed to be visible from the air—placed all around the Irish coast.
BBC - Blogs - Adam Curtis - BUGGER
Adam Curtis usually just pours forth apopheniac ramblings, but this is a really great collection of pieces from the archive on the history of incompetence in the spying world.
Y’know, the best explanation I’ve heard so far of the NSA and GCHQ’s sinister overreaching powers is simply that they need to come up with bigger and bigger programmes to justify getting bigger and bigger budgets. Hanlon’s Law, Occam’s Razor, and all that.
▶ 100 Robots - Spaceteam - YouTube
See that helmet? That’s my helmet. Jim borrowed it for this video.
And now I think that the Future Friendly posse has a theme song.
