crazy shit July 14, 2008

I was reading up this cool exploit (PDF) in flash found out by the great Mark Dowd. Seriously, it is crazy shit! The exploit. Then I read up the way Mark discovered and it is even crazier.
A choice quote :
Has Mark Dowd simply outclassed us? Should we pack it up and quit?
Yes. But don’t [...]

Local/Remote Computing Transparency February 19, 2008

Steve Vinoski on the different RPC(-esque) systems :

The layers of complexity required to maintain the resulting leaky illusion of local/remote transparency are reminiscent of the convoluted equations that pre-copernican astronomers used to explain how the sun and other planets moved around the earth.

(from some recent IEEE Internet Computing Issue)

Links February 17, 2008

Roy Fielding: “All links are wishful thinking. Guessed links are just somewhat more wishful than others.”

CSS3 selection color February 3, 2008

This is just beautiful. Has to be seen to be believed. (firefox and safari only).
(from CSS-Tricks)

Some Room for Improvement February 2, 2008

A friend introduced me to Graham’s number recently. It is the largest number every used, i.e the largest named number. I went to read it up at Wikipedia :
…too large to be written in scientific notation because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of atoms in the observable universe
….
Graham’s number is [...]