January 2008
Late last year Crockford quietly released a new version of his JSON API that replaced his existing API. The important difference was that it used a single base object (JSON) instead of extending all native object prototypes
In an few hours from now The Pirate Bay team will probably be charged with aiding or facilitating copyright infringement. If they are found guilty, they could receive sentences of up to 2 years in prison, but the site will remain online, no matter what.
“Plenty of studies show it: Regular sex increases immunity from viruses, relieves stress, and even helps protect the health of a man’s prostate gland by emptying fluids held there. It also triggers the release of chemicals that improve mood and ease pain.” As if we needed a reason…
The Acid3 test is complete and at a new home.
Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment. “Design” is a uniquely very well done java script bookmarklet.
Quotes and snippets from various blogs of people from Opera, Safari WebKit, Mozilla, and the WaSP
Two months ago I walked through how to build a Hackintosh Mac on the cheap using PC parts. Since that post, the OSx86 scene has changed rapidly, and now you can install Leopard on your computer about as easily as installing Leopard on a Mac—no command line hacking required.
Here’s a video from an Xbox1 modder who collected 1500 original Xbox1 HDD over the years. As those 8/10GB drives aren’t too useful he decided to play a domino game with ‘em…
Opt-in to standards and opt-out of responsibility…
Lately I’ve been noticing that many Photoshop artists are mastering the horror makeup techniques and believed that it was time to gather a nice (er, sort of…) list of Photoshop tutorials filled with gore, splatter and blood. Some previews have been blocked just because the final effect was too explicit.
Fireclipse is an open source project to experiment with development tools for Javascript. Fireclipse adds a plugin to the Eclipse open source integrated development environment. Fireclipse overlays Firebug 1.1, to connect to Eclipse.
The Internet is in its infancy. Electronic information still travels along copper wires left over from the industrial revolution, but the information age is about to hit puberty. Fiber optic cables are sprouting in unexpected places. The piracy and chaos we are collectively experiencing is growing pains.
Techniques and software to get remote root access on the Archos 605 wifi personal media player.
It’s hard to believe though that bank sites - of all sites - create solutions that require a less secure browser than Opera. That’s right, the problem was the banks’ scripts violating Opera’s security policy!!
The issue is that we allow no cross-domain communication at all on https unless domains match. So if https://a.example.com tries to change the address of a frame from https://b.example.com Opera stops that script. Turns out we’re the only ones to do so, but we’d rather keep doing it and hope the other browsers will follow eventually.