Control Structure

This week, Andrew and Ryan discuss varied topics like the apocalypse, HTML, encryption, gaming, VoIP, databases, and Andrew's blog.

Things:

• Off World Backup – We can save your data, but we can’t save you
• Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome Guido!
• Microsoft pulls the plug on its Silverlight.Net site | ZDNet
• HTML5 Definition Complete, W3C Moves to InteroperabilityTesting and Performance
• HTML5
• HTML 5.1
• H.264 Support Lands in Firefox 20 Nightly on Windows
• Introducing Qt 5.0 | Qt Blog
• The UN’s telecom conference is finally over. Who won? Nobody knows. | Ars Technica
• How To Communicate If The Government Obliterates The Internet | Mobile
• cryptography – Why not use larger cipher keys? – IT Security
• The Internet Archive Needs 3 Petabytes of Storage
• How Big Is Amazon? | 500friends Lifetime Value Blog
• THQ looking to Linux after Humble Bundle success – GameSpot.com
• THQ weighing ‘costs and benefits’ of Linux for upcoming releases | Polygon
• THQ Inc. Secures Asset Purchase Agreement with Affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. – Yahoo! Finance
• The long, frustrating road to recovering my Wii downloads | Ars Technica
• Pi Store
• The Fast Fourier Transform | Math Programming
• 24 ways: How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour
• Foundation: The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB
• Wikipedia moving from MySQL to MariaDB | ZDNet
• ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police” | TorrentFreak
• I hate comments
• 10 Reasons Your Top Talent Will Leave You – Forbes
• Computer Architecture of the 1960’s
• The Gates-Funded Toilet Of The Future | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
• Peter Nixey – My beautiful wife, Apple
• Oracle VM VirtualBox
• Cross-site request forgery – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Music:

• Kyle Gabler – Are You Coming Home, Love MOM*
• Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
• Kyle Gabler – Productivity Tango*
• Kyle Gabler – My Virtual World of Goo Corporation*
• dma-sc – The First Blip Noel*

* used with permission of the respective musician

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #22: CS# 5 — A Ryan Voice!

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