Control Structure #28: T-Rex on a Soccer Field

Andrew and Chris review nicknames, talk about space, laugh about Microsoft, and discuss browsers, social networking, X.Org, open offices, chat federation, SQL, Singapore, no more free pop, Ted Nelson, and listener feedback.

Links

• Cleared of Charges, Honor Student Goes to Space Camp – ABC News
• My Teenage Son Does Not Know How To Mail A Letter, And I Blame Technology – ReadWrite
• Xbox 360’s Kinect causes trouble for users during next-gen livestream reveal | Polygon
• Internet Explorer’s post on Vine
• Microsoft: no way to support WebGL and meet our security needs | Ars Technica
• Discover the new Opera – Opera Software
• Getting started with login verification | Twitter Blog
• Social Networking is Like Fast Food — Jon H.M. Chan
• Garrus Vakarian | LinkedIn
• [ANNOUNCE] X.Org Security Advisory: Protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries
• The Government Wants A Backdoor Into Your Online Communications | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick – Quartz
• Scutigera coleoptrata – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Ralph Meijer – Google+ – Google defends dropping chat federation with inaccurate and…
• 5 HTML5 Features you need to know — Adnane Belmadiaf’s Blog
• Using HTML5 prerendering to speed up a multi-page registration process | Holovaty.com
• Colourco.de – find your colour scheme
• Color Trends + Palettes :: COLOURlovers
• Jitbit’s SQL interview questions
• Why practice actually makes perfect: How to rewire your brain for better performance – The Buffer Blog
• Consistency Demotivator® – Demotivational posters from Despair.com
• Is Online Obscurity Better Than Popularity? | The Contrarian
• WordPress Is 10 Years Old Today
• Singapore to regulate Yahoo, other online news sites | Reuters
• Editor’s Choice | Reuters.com
• The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free | Steve Blank
• The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009) | Hacker News
• Ted’s ComParadigm in OneLiners
• Project Xanadu – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• WinFS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Ted Nelson’s Computer Paradigm Expressed as One-Liners (1999) | Hacker News
• Skyline Chili – Restaurant Locations
• BBC News – Sony stops production of PlayStation 2
• History of video game consoles (seventh generation) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• History of video game consoles (eighth generation) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• PlayStation (console) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Zopfli and The Windows Command Line | the Andrew Bailey
• The Real Christopher Titus
• Iancest | The Nexus
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Younnat – Radar
• SCAR (lukhash.com) by LukHash*
• We Ain’t Finished Yet (lukhash.com) by LukHash*
• Inside Of Me (lukhash.com) by LukHash*

*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 #96: CS #28 — Only Vaguely!

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