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The 2010 Social Networking Map (via tor.com, with OP credit to xkcd)

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A Completely Awesome 2600 Cover

Check out the cover on the Summer 2010 edition of 2600, The Hacker Quarterly: I saw it at my local Barnes & Noble bookstore and had to buy it for its complete awesomeness. The one thing 2600 has, every issue, is cool cover art. I don’t know the exact system to which these tape cartridges [...]

New England GiveCamp 2010: What A Great Experience

The first New England GiveCamp was this weekend at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development building in Cambridge, MA, and it was, by far, one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in the 15 years I have been professionally coding. About 100 technical and non-technical volunteers spent the weekend of June 11-13 writing code for [...]

It’s All Chinese To Me: Reader Has Google Translate Built-In

I really like Google Reader; one of its great features is its recommendations. As long as you choose to “like” articles and media on a fairly consistent basis, Reader can do a very good job of finding new content and sources (provided, that is, they come from a Feedburner RSS feed). Because Google expected me [...]

Google’s Web Browser Has Its Problems, Too

Remember last month, when all the Internet was crowing about how “no one even attempts hacking Chrome” at Pwn2Own, an annual hacking contest with a primary focus on Web browsers? The implication was, of course, that the Chrome Web browser cannot be hacked; or, at least, that its architecture is so good, and that hackers [...]