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• Coilhouse » Friday Afternoon Movie: Alice In Wonderland (1903)
  This amazing little piece of history is the first ever *filming* of Alice in Wonder Land, from 1903! Yes it's over 100 years old. It's an amazing piece of heritage and slightly humbling to think (morbidly as I do occasionally) that everyone involved in it is dead (unlike most of our tv/movie heritage).
  (tags: Alice in Wonder Land)

I'm a little blown away that Ubuntu 9.10 still has no DVD support and can't even install it. Pretty amazing 0_o.

Ah well, after seconds of googling I found a slightly popup laden answer:
http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-make-ubnutu-910-karmic-koala.html

Not bad. a) install Mediabuntu repos, b) install DVD support.

Still, it's 2010 and Ubuntu has no support for DVDs. In any way. Lame.

• If You're Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code, You're Doing It Wrong
  Story about how hard it is to get Crypto + Auth right and secure. A few pointers at the end for where to start.
  (tags: crypto)

• A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat - good coders code, great reuse
  A good run through of netcat, Unix network swiss army knife
  (tags: netcat, linux)
• A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof - good coders code, great reuse
  A good run through of what lsof can be used for!
  (tags: lsof, linux)
• Charlie's Diary: Gadget Patrol: 21st century phone
  Interesting predictions on where Google and Android seem to plan on taking the phone/cell networks, somewhat against their will. I'm hopeful :)
  (tags: google, android, iphone, cell, internet)

• 70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace | /Film
  The definitive evisceration of the Phantom Menace. An amazing and detailed dissection and comparison of episode 1 and the original movies.
  (tags: Star Wars)

• The Bitch is Back: Books: GQ
  Interesting essay... well ok, lets call it a rant, about Ayn Rand and her effects on culture for the last handful of decades. Includes blaming her for the current economic crisis because as it turns out, people like Alan Greenspan are big Ayn Rand fans.
  Also, tired of intellectual snobs and wondering where the trend came from? this essay is for you!
  (tags: Ayn Rand, Geenspan, economic crisis, intellectual elitism)

• Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened | Vanish | Wired.com
  Story of disappearing with public chase in the 21C
  (tags: disappear, noir)

• briancarper.net :: I'm turning into a Lisp snob
  Brain Carper looks at Google's new Go language from an entrenched Lisp/Clojure perspective and is unimpressed
  (tags: Go, Clojure)
• I think (Algol) is richer, clearer and more expressive (than Go)
  A lua-users mailing list post that compares Go to Algol 68. Hilarious, interesting, and a little depressing
  (tags: Go, Algol)
• Lennart Poettering's 5cents on the OOM Situation
  Lennart Poettering explains how Out-Of-Memory errors should not be detected by NULL returns from malloc but from SIGKILL from the OS, or basically why it's OK to stop checking for NULL's from malloc :)
  (tags: OOM, malloc, Memory Management)

• Learn.GitHub
  "Here we have tried to compile the best online learning Git resource available. There are a number of articles and screencasts, written and arranged to try to make learning Git as quick and easy as possible."
  (tags: git, howto)

• Charlie's Diary: Merciless
  Charlie Stross on America and its lack of mercy with respect to jail, medicare and war