a more or less weekly digest of juicy stuff

• "stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. see the world. it's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.", fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury
• david eagleman and mysteries of the brain, clocks imply that time ticks steadily, predictably forward, when our experience shows that it often does the opposite: it stretches and compresses, skips a beat and doubles back. highly recommended read
• how clothes should fit
• fact or fiction? archimedes coined the term "eureka!" in the bath
• drugs and the meaning of life
• a brief history of the harp project, launching satellites from a 16 inch gun
• orwell 2.0 - die totale überwachung ist längst realität, a history of surveillance from 1919 till today (german)
• tell-all telephone, green party politician malte spitz sued to have deutsche telekom hand over six months of his phone data that he then made available to zeit online. we combined this geolocation data with information relating to his life as a politician, such as twitter feeds, blog entries and websites, all of which is all freely available on the internet
• everything you need to know about hash length extension attacks
• the underhanded c contest, an annual contest to write innocent-looking c code implementing malicious behavior
• okay, so how long to ux it? ux is not a verb
• css filters, gifs, and performance, if you're trying to convey an emotion in a presentation, it's hard to beat a well-chosen gif. alternatively, if you're procrastinating instead of writing your presentation, searching for the perfect gif will distract you for hours. it's a win-win
• beware your project's schwarzschild radius, unfortunately there comes a point when, like an overfed christmas turkey, your rocket needs so much fuel to get away from the planet that its too heavy to lift its own bloated self
• when zombies attack! mathematical modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection (pdf)
• the mathematics of catching a ride
• the old way of photo retouching, photoshop back in 1946
• link to the past, photography project by sergey larenkov
• blow job, photography project by tadas cerniauskas
• flying lesson sketch by monty python