Four short links: 27 November 2009
ProFORMA -- software which builds a 3D model as you rotate an object in front of your webcam. Check out the video below. (via Wired) BiwaScheme -- a Scheme interpreter written in Javascript. (via Hacker News) YMacs -- in-browser EMACS written in Javascript. Emacs, for those of you who were left in any doubt, is the only editor ever created by software engineers worth a

Four short links: 26 November 2009
1 in 3 Schools -- visual exploration of education data is the latest BERG project, and they've found a new application for a cute visualization and they're calling the result Chernoff Schools. Recommended reading for those interested in visualization or education. The Robots Podcast -- self-explanatory. (via So Where's My Robot?) Dive Into HTML 5 (Mark Pilgrim) -- absolutely gorgeous layout. The first t

Four short links: 25 November 2009
http-parser -- This is a parser for HTTP messages written in C. It parses both requests and responses. The parser is designed to be used in performance HTTP applications. It does not make any allocations, it does not buffer data, and it can be interrupted at anytime. It only requires about 128 bytes of data per message stream (in a web server that is per connection). Extremely sexy piece of coding. (via sungo on Twitter) Wikileaks to Release 9/11 Pager Intercepts -- they're trickling the half-million messages out in simul

Velocity 2010: Fast By Default
We're entering our third year of Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference.. Velocity 2010 will be June 22-24, 2010 in Santa Clara, CA. It's going to be another incredible year. Steve & I have set a new theme this year, "Fast by Default".  We want the broader Velocity community & to adopt it as a shared mission & mantra. The reason for this is simple... Fast isn't a Feature. Fast is a Requirement. At Velocity earlier this year Marissa Meyer explained why performance mattered so much to Google. Then Eric Schurman (Bing & Velocity Program Committee membe

Four short links: 24 November 2009
English Shellcode (PDF) -- paper presented at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, showing how to encode arbitrary x86 shell code (the payload in a malware or other attack that elevates privileges and pwns your machine) as something that looks, at first glance, to be English text. Impressive piece of work. (via Slashdot) The Twelve Scams of Christmas (McAfee) -- a press release, but one to send to all your civilian (non-computer-professional) friends. Scam IV: The Dangers of Holi