links for 2010-09-22
On 22 September 02010 with 2 comments
Samy Kamkar has written this brilliant bit of JavaScript that sets a cookie that is totally implausible to delete. Via eight different storage mechanisms (including a cached PNG with embedded data read back via HTML Canvas and brute-forcing fake URLs stored in the history) that can repopulate one another, this is both evil and really impressive.
This is my new favorite eggcorn. It's both wrong and entirely logical.
For a few years, one of the country's biggest performing groups was the wonderful Silver Leaf Quartette, from right here in Virginia. I'm a big fan of gospel, and I've really become fond of this group. (Another brilliant group was the Bright Light Quartet, from Weems, on the Northern Neck.)
There's no need to settle with wondering what a 51-star flag would look like—Slate has put together six algorithms to calculate what the U.S. flag would look like with up to 100 stars. In just about every version, it looks pretty reasonable.
Delaware U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, on O'Reilly's show: "American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains." I think I'm understanding why she, a la Sarah Palin, refuses to do any more big-girl TV interviews.
Without looking at the URL, what do you think the odds are that this is real?
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