Bill Cheswick's Links

Here are links to sites I find useful or really don't want to forget. I use too many computers to rely on the favorites list on a single host. (Note: these links go back into the deep past of the Internet, and many are probably dead.)

From friends

http://www.findagrave.com

http://www.deadpeople.info

http://www.deathlist.net

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/pages-nf/main

Bert and I

Colorblindness links

A Nurse's Guide to Assessing Color Blindness suggested by Anna Jones.

An overview and some resources.

http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/html/color_blind/, a web page advising scientists on color choices for presentations that are still useful to many colorblind folks.

Here is a good page summarizing various vision deficiencies. My thanks to science teacher (the best kind!) Sara Golding and her students for this pointer.

From a recent conference

hometech.com home automation web site.

perilscope.com, visualization of phishing host perils.

Cool Stuff from recent conferences

http://www.astrophoto.fr/iss_atlantis_transit.html, ISS Sun transit.

http://www.media.mit.edu/press/speechome/, the Speechome Project. Monitoring the home during an infant's first three years to document speech learning at its source. Pervasive udio and video monitoring lead to 300GB/day of data. I believe that computers in living spaces will monitor the occupants in the future, allowing ubiquitous communications, interaction with the living space, and health monitoring.

A cool UI design, along the lines of Minority Report.

http://stores.ebay.com/War-Driving-World (War Driving World), antennas for various Wifi cards.

http://helponmypc.com/ a way to share access to a PC over the net. Also, http://csanywhere.com/. I have not tried these products, nor checked their security. They were recommended by someone, so I am putting them here to save the links.

http://zabasearch.com, pretty good start for people searches.

Home Automation

http://www.homeautomationindex.com

http://www.bluerooftechnologies.com/ "develop state-of-the-art living facilities that will keep senior citizens safer".

Links from Renaissance Weekend, 2004-2005:

whynot.net: some ingenuity games and ideas by Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayers. The former gave a couple of interesting panels during the Weekend, including an intro to Nash equilibria, with George Dyson.

unclaimed.org: pointers to the lost accounts in the Various States.

hotornot.com: pointer from Esther Dyson, submit your picture for hotness testing. An exhaustive exercise in shallowness.

Security

Not exactly security, but what to do when someone is stealing your wireless service.

http://www.owasp.org, "the free and open application security community". Not sure what this is about, but it is interesting.

Shopping

Misc.

An excellent screed on bad science in news reporting.

Because papers think you won't understand the "science bit", all stories involving science must be dumbed down, leaving pieces without enough content to stimulate the only people who are actually going to read them - that is, the people who know a bit about science. Compare this with the book review section, in any newspaper. The more obscure references to Russian novelists and French philosophers you can bang in, the better writer everyone thinks you are. Nobody dumbs down the finance pages.

Past Supreme Court arguments.

It is all <language> to me. (Thanks to Steve Bellovin for the pointer.)

Nike: just do it.

How to interview possible employees: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.htm.

For those who liked my talk on Security Ideas from All Over (a.k.a. the castle talk, http://www.csoonline.com/read/040105/fort.html has an excellent article, and perhaps a place I'd like to visit. My thanks to Gadi Evron for bringing this to my attention.

woot.com: site that sells one closeout item per day.

shapeblock.com: surprisingly versatile blocks. A different kind of Lego-style building block.

An article concerning suspicious activity on an airline flight. Most of the visible airline security changes since 9/11 have been eyewash. Freedom is worth fighting for, but political correctness is not.

http://www.cynthiasays.com/Cynthia Says Portal. I am starting to make my web pages suitable for use my disabled users. This web site tests web pages for compliance with various accessibility standards. I am shooting for WCAG Priority 2 compliance. Priority 3 requires that I get rid of the bgcolor attribute and use style sheets, and I am not interested in adding that complexity to these pages.

http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/index.html. David Siegel's Web Wonk Page. Good typographic advice for web pages.

http://angry-economist.russnelson.com/ The Angry Economist. This guy's got his economics right.

http://www.flicklives.com/. Excelsior You Fathead.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/ Digital Photography Reviews: digital camera reviews and comparisons. It is easy to compare cameras by numerous features, and the reviews seem to be good.

http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php

From my todo list, tankless water heaters:

http://globaltowne.com/index.php/cPath/33_39/sort/3d
http://www.takagi.com/web2003/c07.htm
http://store.irawoodinc.com/tatmogastawa.html
http://www.onlytanklesswaterheaters.com/Results.aspx?query=Tankless%20Water%20Heaters&sessionid=ers1uf45n5xy4445ieulb1ze&cc=us&ns=1
http://www.boschhotwater.com/BoschHotWatercomHome/GasProducts/AquaStar250SX250SXO/FeaturesandSpecs/TechnicalSpecifications/tabid/364/Default.aspx
http://www.takagi.com/web2003/c07.htm

pyfuzz6 - an ipv6 protocol fuzzer to exercise the stability of an IPv6
stack.
http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=100395