Squaring the Triangle: Secure, Decentralized, Human-Readable Names, Aaron Swartz describes a way to provide a secure, decentralized and human-readable P2P DNS system.

The Year of Practical Thinking, “You learn something new every day, or so they say. In 2010, Giles Turnbull decided to keep track. Revelations, lessons, and the wisdom of dishwashers in 365 parts.”

bufferbloat, apenwarr on bad network/DSL buffering and how to fix it.

Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services, CIDR11 paper on Google’s storage. (More CIDR11 papers in the same directory).

mirrors.wikileaks.de provides a DNSSEC-signed round-robin mirror for Wikileaks.

Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design, Apple broke it, so why can’t others too.

Read the fucking HIG, this “worst of App Store”-tumblr reminds me of old Windows 3.11 shareware CDs.

Die Pinkelnde Petra (NSFW), diskutiertes Kunstwerk.