Bookmarks for 28 Aug 2009
- How to recoup the costs associated with long URLs and variable names
"Long URLs and variable names increase transfer size which wastes bandwidth and moneyo3 magazine has a great article on the impact of long URLs on bandwidth; specifically on how much bandwidth is wasted by excessively long URLs and variable names within HTML, JavaScript, and CSS selectors.
What the author does not mention, and he really should, is that wasting bandwidth can translate into wasted dollars, as well." (url_shorteners bandwidth )
- GCSEs: East London academy surpasses all expectations | Education | guardian.co.uk
I loved this story: "As the first set of pupils to sit their GCSEs at Mossbourne community academy in Hackney, east London, received their results, there was one sound that rang out repeatedly above all the excited chatter."Oh my god, oh my god!" screeched girl after girl as they opened their envelopes." (news education gcses )
- Funny People | Film review | Film | The Guardian
"one of the most enjoyable films of the year." Well that was unexpected. (film review ) - July ABCe: Mail Online draws record 29.87m users | Media | guardian.co.uk
"Mail Online retained its position as the most popular UK newspaper website in July and in the process set a new record for monthly unique users. [...] This was the highest ever monthly figure for a UK newspaper website, beating the previous record set by guardian.co.uk with 29,811,671 uniques in January." (daily_mail abce Stats ) - Twitter Exploit Still Works
Twitter vulnerability explained: "Using the simple instructions below, it can be arranged so that if another Twitter user so much as sees one of these tweets – and they are logged in to Twitter – their account could be taken over.Imagine that for a moment. Simply by seeing one of these tweets, code can be run inside your browser impersonating you and doing anything that your browser can do." (twitter hacking security )
