December 2016

December 26, 2016 0 comments

Link blog: nuclear, history, vladimir-putin, ICBM

World War Three, by Mistake – The New Yorker: The author of “Command and Control” on the cheery topic of the degradation of the USA’s control systems and the possibility of cyber attacks. Also touches on Trump/Putin.
(tags: war history nuclear ICBM donald-trump vladimir-putin cold-war)

December 19, 2016 0 comments

Link blog: ghosts, supercut, christmas, dickens

Twelve Hundred Ghosts – A Christmas Carol in Supercut (400 versions, plus extras) – YouTube: YouTube supercut of a LOT of Christmas Carol versions (there’s Scrooge slash fiction? Of course there is), including the definitive Muppets version, Quantum Leap, and a bunch of over stuff.
(tags: dickens christmas supercut ghosts)

December 12, 2016 0 comments

Link blog: porthcurno, gchq, cornwall, edward-snowden

The Secrets Of Cornwall – Part 1 – Communications – YouTube: Blokes drive around Cornwall looking at manhole covers and work out the landing points of undersea cables, and where the GCHQ intercept points disclosed by Snowden might be.
(tags: cornwall cables telecommunications gchq internet edward-snowden porthcurno)

December 5, 2016 0 comments

Link blog: development, code, review, science-fiction

The best SF and fantasy books of 2016 | Books | The Guardian
Code review in remote teams – Hypothesis