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Bookmarks for July 10, 2014

Five Computer Security Myths, Debunked by Experts
A collection of myths about security (as in, how people justify not being secure enough to themselves). Just in case anyone reading this is someone who might believe any of these.

Tags: security
danah boyd | apophenia » The Cost of Contemporary Policing: A Review of Alice Goffman’s ‘On the Run’
Bookmarking this as a reminder to pick this book up.

Tags: toread

Maximum Happy Imagination | Magical Nihilism
This has sort of crystallised something for me. From where we currently stand, we can just about see a "maximum happy imagination" future ahead of us – not a challenge free future, not by any means, but one where basic material needs can be catered for, for everyone, for free – and yet it seems we keep electing people who are ideologically set against taking the steps that would be required to achieve this. It's almost like pre-emptive future shock.

Tags: future, economics

Install MySQL on OS X 10.9 Mavericks. | Mac Mini Vault
Nice set of shortcuts to accomplish a reasonably common development task.

Tags: osx, mysql

Badger Map print
A print of a badger, on a map. This may actually be the best thing in the entire universe, ever.

Tags: maps, badger
Dorothy – Shop
A collection of really nice street map prints. Bookmarking this so I can buy a couple later on.

Tags: maps

Russell Davies: Consumers, users, people, mammals
On the importance of being precise about your relationships with the human beings who make up your user/consumer/customer/other base.

Tags: language

There's no konami code for operations – blog dot lusis
I think I may just fire this at my boss, then next time he asks why a given bit of work is going to take the time it does. Because this is at once the most technobabble filled bit of writing I've read in a while, and yet serves as a reasonable summary of how complex development has gotten over the last decade or so. "Can you understand this blogpost? No? Then you're not qualified to understand the time estimates you're asking for."

Tags: webdev, devops

All Our Patent Are Belong To You | Blog | Tesla Motors
Tesla have open-sourced their patents, in a bid to get the car industry to play catch-up. Their language is a bit fuzzy, but assuming they're for real, this is brilliant news.

Tags: business, tesla, patent
The Qwerkywriter – Typewriter Inspired Mechanical Keyboard by Qwerkytoys, INC — Kickstarter
If you loved me, you would buy me one of these.

Tags: keyboard, typewriter

pickadate.js
Starting to use this at work, as an alternative to the stuff that requires jQuery UI (as too heavy), just want to have a permanent reference to find the docs. Move along nothing to see here.

Tags: javascript, plugin, date

Comic Book Cartography
A lovely collection of maps and diagrams from comic books.

Tags: maps, inspiration

The London Evolution Animation – YouTube
Fascinating animation showing the growth of London, how it formed, and what has been protected over the centuries.

Tags: london