Control Structure #40: Everyone Loves XML

Chris and Andrew wonders whether or not you should have this much jargon or snails, game genre alphabet soup, reckless twittering, filesystems, Google, Windows 8, XML, the NSA (yet again), war on general computing, and more games.

Links

• Do I Really Want All This Stuff? — Editor’s Picks — Medium
• Do I Really Want All This Stuff? | Hacker News
• Jargon Generator
• Inside Boy’s Knee, Sea Snail Egg Grew And Hatched (VIDEO)
• [Project Phoenix] Japan’s indie RPG feat. AAA talent! by Creative Intelligence Arts, Inc. — Kickstarter
• As the climate warms up, apple quality is going down | The Verge
• After Fatal Crash With Cyclists, Driver’s Tweets Help Spur Murder Charge : The Two-Way : NPR
• Conservancy Helps Samsung Resolve GPL Compliance Matter Amicably – Software Freedom Conservancy
• Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead – Quartz
• Some SecureRandom Thoughts | Android Developers Blog
• (UPDATED 21/08) Windows 8 Results (Temporarily) Not Accepted At HWBOT – Benchmark Result Veracity Compromised
• XML Can Give the Same Performance as JSON
• NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds – The Washington Post
• NSA Spying: The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation | Comment is free | The Guardian
• White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention of Guardian Reporter Greenwald’s Partner – Washington Wire – WSJ
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Abolish The NSA And Give Snowden A Parade | Techdirt
• Groklaw – Forced Exposure ~pj
• Untitled: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html
• Bastion | the Andrew Bailey
• Humble Origin Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• SCAR by LukHash*
• Younnat – Old Movies Not Terrible

*used with permission

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #126: CS #40 — What A Deal!

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