Control Structure #23: Enamored of Casinos

Andrew and Ian talk about Pinball, security, Google, Yahoo acting like Google, javascript, simplicity, AMD, download links, image formats, and podcast feedback.

Links

• Scavengr
• Boston bombing breaking news: Don’t watch cable. Shut off Twitter. You’d be better off cleaning your gutters. – Slate Magazine
• Lubeck 24x7x365 – YouTube
• Lubeck 24x7x365 – scene.org – file download
• Exploring The Student Debt Crisis
• Why aren’t younger Americans driving anymore?
• PAPA TV: Livestreaming Pinball by Pro-Am Pinball Association — Kickstarter
• Setting up Two-Factor Authentication for your Google account AND Microsoft account – Scott Hanselman
• Java 8: Secure the train | Mark Reinhold
• Google Fiber
• Google to buy $39m Provo fiber service for $1 | ZDNet
• Sharpening our focus – to bring you new Yahoo! products | Yahoo! Yodel – General – Yahoo!
• Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project
• Ian Buck – Google+ – Our website looks far worse in IE 6 than I could have…
• jQuery 2.0 Released | Official jQuery Blog
• Fox Sens Fraudulent Takedown
• Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think | TechCrunch
• Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | Video | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
• EmerytHacks: Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC
• The rise and fall of AMD: How an underdog stuck it to Intel | Ars Technica
• The rise and fall of AMD: A company on the ropes | Ars Technica
• “€œRight click and save as”€ needs to go away
• 4.12 Links€” HTML Standard
• Facebook tries Google’s WebP image format; users squawk | Internet & Media – CNET News
• JPEG XR – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• jxrlib – Home
• browser – Create a .png with zopfli – Super User
• PNGUtils
• sayurin/optipng-zopfli · GitHub
• BitTorrent Sync Alpha Now Open To All | The Official BitTorrent Blog
• If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today | PCWorld
• toilet/toilet/src/java/toilet/bean/BackupDaemon.java at master · praetoralpha/toilet · GitHub
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
• Tomorrow Corporation : Little Inferno Soundtrack*
• Fumboo by Anitek
• Dma-sc – Dosk-Opus*

*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 #79: CS #23 — You Named It Toilet!

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