Control Structure #28: T-Rex on a Soccer Field

Andrew and Chris review nicknames, talk about space, laugh about Microsoft, and discuss browsers, social networking, X.Org, open offices, chat federation, SQL, Singapore, no more free pop, Ted Nelson, and listener feedback.

Andrew and Chris review nicknames, talk about space, laugh about Microsoft, and discuss browsers, social networking, X.Org, open offices, chat federation, SQL, Singapore, no more free pop, Ted Nelson, and listener feedback.


Links

Cleared of Charges, Honor Student Goes to Space Camp – ABC News
My Teenage Son Does Not Know How To Mail A Letter, And I Blame Technology – ReadWrite
Xbox 360’s Kinect causes trouble for users during next-gen livestream reveal | Polygon
Internet Explorer’s post on Vine
Microsoft: no way to support WebGL and meet our security needs | Ars Technica
Discover the new Opera – Opera Software
Getting started with login verification | Twitter Blog
Social Networking is Like Fast Food — Jon H.M. Chan
Garrus Vakarian | LinkedIn
[ANNOUNCE] X.Org Security Advisory: Protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries
The Government Wants A Backdoor Into Your Online Communications | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick – Quartz
Scutigera coleoptrata – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ralph Meijer – Google+ – Google defends dropping chat federation with inaccurate and…
5 HTML5 Features you need to know — Adnane Belmadiaf’s Blog
Using HTML5 prerendering to speed up a multi-page registration process | Holovaty.com
Colourco.de – find your colour scheme
Color Trends + Palettes :: COLOURlovers
Jitbit’s SQL interview questions
Why practice actually makes perfect: How to rewire your brain for better performance – The Buffer Blog
Consistency Demotivator® – Demotivational posters from Despair.com
Is Online Obscurity Better Than Popularity? | The Contrarian
WordPress Is 10 Years Old Today
Singapore to regulate Yahoo, other online news sites | Reuters
Editor’s Choice | Reuters.com
The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free | Steve Blank
The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009) | Hacker News
Ted’s ComParadigm in OneLiners
Project Xanadu – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WinFS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ted Nelson’s Computer Paradigm Expressed as One-Liners (1999) | Hacker News
Skyline Chili – Restaurant Locations
BBC News – Sony stops production of PlayStation 2
History of video game consoles (seventh generation) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History of video game consoles (eighth generation) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PlayStation (console) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zopfli and The Windows Command Line | the Andrew Bailey
The Real Christopher Titus
Iancest | The Nexus
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

Younnat – Radar
SCAR (lukhash.com) by LukHash*
We Ain’t Finished Yet (lukhash.com) by LukHash*
Inside Of Me (lukhash.com) by LukHash*

*Permission obtained from the musician for the purposes of this podcast.

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #96: CS #28 — Only Vaguely!

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