Wired: What are the challenges with working and making a communications network in space as opposed to a ground-based internet?

Cerf: Among the hard things, first of all, is that we couldn’t use the domain name system in its current form. I can give you a quick illustration why that’s the case: Imagine for a moment you’re on Mars, and somebody is trying to open up an HTTP web connection to Earth. They’ve given you a URL that contains a domain name in it, but before you can open up a TCP connection you need to have an IP address.

What did you work on today? I certainly didn’t work on anything as cool as figuring out how to click a link on Mars.

♺ — #http #internet #ip #mars #tcp/ip #url #vint cerf

I love reading everything Steve wrote himself—even emails. It’s all so clear, precise and to the point.

But that double spacing, man… I’d expect that from Cook.

#double spacing #steve jobs

We spend hours every day in front our computers, pushing the mouse around, but when we really want to think, when we really want to be creative, we switch to pen and paper. We think we can change that. And, I’m here to say that we have changed that, for the past year, I haven’t been using pen and paper anymore.

Sure, that’s a nice stylus (and app and ruler(!?!)), but no, it’s not a substitute for pen and paper.

Just look how slowly he works, and how he seems to be afraid to scratch the glass. Scratching the paper is the whole point.

#adobe #ipad #mighty #paper #pen #stylus

While recording, Daft Punk found time in their schedules to jam with Kanye West for his next album. At their Paris studio, they laid down a combination of live and programmed drums while Kanye worked out rough vocals on the fly. “It was very raw: he was rapping – kind of screaming primally, actually,” Thomas says. “Kanye doesn’t give a fuck,” Guy-Manuel adds. “He’s a good friend.” Director (and longtime Daft Punk compatriot) Michel Gondry says that Kanye recently played him “two songs” that sprang from the session. “One of them, I told him it sounded solid and powerful – I envisioned a cube when I heard it,” Gondry says. “He told me, Chris Cunningham’s already directing the video!”

“Kanye doesn’t give a fuck”. Can’t wait to see the video for that one…

Skateboard P, who’s evidently been basking around the fountain of youth, lays it down in the teaser ad for Daft Punk’s new album:

Go read the interview for a nice description of their well-played trick at Coachella. Good thinking behind that one.

♺ — #chris cunningham #daft punk #michel gondry #pharrell

Biggie a cappella, DJ Premier on the beats.

What a collaboration!

(Found it on the Danish magazine Euroman’s weekly link list. The by far best Danish magazine is turning into somewhat of a force to be reckoned with online, even with a sub-par web design.)

#dj premier #notorious b.i.g.

Ain’t it cool made this for the movie “Wrong“:

#movie #poster #wrong

Oh, that is brilliant.

But. Y’know… Google.

There’s nowhere bigger, or more ambitious.

The canvas is the future of everyday life, for nearly everyone.

It’s interesting how one of the principal designers from one of the most-admired design agencies still has this feeling towards Google.

Not that I disagree (on the contrary!), but this post just struck me as a love letter, more than a resignation notice.

♺ — #creative lab #google #matt jones #new york

Translated from Danish:

Version2.dk: In other words, you tell me Denmark’s IT-infrastructure hinges on an investment of around $10?

@s0x: Yes.

NemID (literally “EasyID”) is a Java-based login Danes use to log in to everything related to any kind of online interaction with the government, and other official entities (banks, insurance companies etc.), who want to use it.

I use NemID as a login for my bank, my online mailbox (where I get all of my bank statements, insurance papers, government-issued student loan statements, tax letters etc. etc.), the Danish tax services, my online medical records, and everything else you can think of would make sense to use a government-issued login for.

DDOS’ing that login method takes two, what, 14-year-old boys $10 to put down for hours on end. They found the link to the java-applet (applet.danid.dk—not that hard to find), then they bought access to a booter, and did a SYN-flood attack against the applet-server.

This prevents millions of people from accessing their bank accounts, change their addresses or book a doctor’s appointment.

The Cloud is nice, right up until there’s a storm coming.

♺ — #DanishLulzTeam #ddos #java #nemid

The latest in the “Bill Murray is fucking awesome”-chronicles.

A fan approaches Murray for an autograph, and gets this instead:

Murray apparently insisted on doing the slomo on set, not in post production.

100% badass.

#bill murray