Control Structure #34: Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Chris tells another roomie story, Andrew contemplates a potential case of time travel, then they discuss games, tornadoes, HTTP, Firefox, Microsoft, product design ideas, Valve, NSA, Chromium, and Y2K.

Links

• Shadowrun (1993 video game) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Oklahoma City hospital posts surgery prices online; creates bidding war | KFOR.com
• Tornadoes – Utah Extension Disaster Education Network – extension.usu.edu
• 1999 Salt Lake City tornado – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2.0draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04
• Lunatech Blog: What every web developer must know about URL encoding
• Firefox users pay less for car insurance than other browser users? | Digital Trends
• Blogpost: IPv6 :: lucb1e.com
• Microsoft Restructuring Set for Thursday – Kara Swisher – News – AllThingsD
• 11-X, WEP, Midway, CyberPlayGround, FACE – the rejected names for Microsoft’s first console | Features | Edge Online
• Product Strategy Means Saying No | Inside Intercom
• GoodUI
• Gamasutra – News – Ex-Valve hardware expert shares uncommon look inside the company
• PDF: Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
• PDF: OnlyAGame.pdf
• US court rejects state-secrets defense in NSA surveillance case | PCWorld
• ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome – chromium – Differences between Google Chrome and Linux distro Chromium – An open-source project to help move the web forward. – Google Project Hosting
• Chrome Browser
• Download Chromium – The Chromium Projects
• Tranquillity
• Blog Open Thoughts 2012 – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC): Different genders, different worlds
• 2000, the Year Formerly Known as the Future — We Live in the Future — Medium
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Back At It by Anitek
• Trapped Talent by Anitek

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #112: CS #34 — New Ball Crusher!

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