February 2012
11 posts
Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign... →
Have a .com domain? Then make sure it’s content does not violate any obscure US or it’s obscure states’ laws since it can be indicted there even if the domain was not registered through US-based registrar or does not operate there.
easyDNS:
“The indictment focuses on the movement of funds outside the U.S.” and that you can’t just “flout US...
Coding tricks of game developers →
Dodgy Coder lists 16 anecdotes and hints from game programmers:
If you’ve got any real world programming experience then no doubt at some point you’ve had to resort to some quick and dirty fix to get a problem solved or a feature implemented while a deadline loomed large. Game developers often experience a horrific “crunch” (also known as a “death march”),...
Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our... →
Andreas Klinger: Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation:
Addressbooks show what happens when technology providers start to make money too quickly and to easily. They get lazy and stop fixing underlying problems in their concepts.
If you think about it telephone numbers are IP addresses and Address books are your local /etc/hosts. You spend ages to type any potential IP...
Winter Tweed Run →
The second annual Winter Tweed Run was organized yesterday in Helsinki in almost arctic temperatures which froze some of the bicycles to the extent non-functionality.
Photoset of the event by Krista Keltainen
Cosmonaut Couture: Russian Photo Shoot Makes Space... →
Fashion photographer Arthur Elgort created a Cold War propaganda pastiche with Natalia Semanova in the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for Russian Vogue. Great looking photo set.
