Control Structure #5: Not A Lawn Ornament

This week, Andrew and Ryan discuss varied topics like the apocalypse, HTML, encryption, gaming, VoIP, databases, and Andrew's blog.

This week, Andrew and Ryan discuss varied topics like the apocalypse, HTML, encryption, gaming, VoIP, databases, and Andrew's blog.

Things:

Off World Backup – We can save your data, but we can’t save you
Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome Guido!
Microsoft pulls the plug on its Silverlight.Net site | ZDNet
HTML5 Definition Complete, W3C Moves to InteroperabilityTesting and Performance
HTML5
HTML 5.1
H.264 Support Lands in Firefox 20 Nightly on Windows
Introducing Qt 5.0 | Qt Blog
The UN’s telecom conference is finally over. Who won? Nobody knows. | Ars Technica
How To Communicate If The Government Obliterates The Internet | Mobile
cryptography – Why not use larger cipher keys? – IT Security
The Internet Archive Needs 3 Petabytes of Storage
How Big Is Amazon? | 500friends Lifetime Value Blog
THQ looking to Linux after Humble Bundle success – GameSpot.com
THQ weighing ‘costs and benefits’ of Linux for upcoming releases | Polygon
THQ Inc. Secures Asset Purchase Agreement with Affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. – Yahoo! Finance
The long, frustrating road to recovering my Wii downloads | Ars Technica
Pi Store
The Fast Fourier Transform | Math Programming
24 ways: How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour
Foundation: The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB
Wikipedia moving from MySQL to MariaDB | ZDNet
ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police” | TorrentFreak
I hate comments
10 Reasons Your Top Talent Will Leave You – Forbes
Computer Architecture of the 1960’s
The Gates-Funded Toilet Of The Future | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
Peter Nixey – My beautiful wife, Apple
Oracle VM VirtualBox
Cross-site request forgery – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Music:

Kyle Gabler – Are You Coming Home, Love MOM*
Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
Kyle Gabler – Productivity Tango*
Kyle Gabler – My Virtual World of Goo Corporation*
dma-sc – The First Blip Noel*

* used with permission of the respective musician

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #22: CS# 5 — A Ryan Voice!

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