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• Contest to produce JavaScript demos no more than 1Kb
  Slashdot links to this now concluded contest that sort of reminds me of the demo scene in terms of the constraint to bum down code as much as possible. The results are a bit more diverse, including many interactive games as well as passive animations. More so than a lot of recent and fairly contrived “HTML5″ demos, the finalists in JS1K really showcase what modern browsers can do.
• Firefox Home adding more devices, social capabilities
  Chris Cameron at ReadWriteWeb shares news of Mozilla’s plans for their Sync client for iPhone. Personally, I cannot wait to get an Android powered replacement for my iPod Touch and start running Fennec, their full mobile browser, but in the interim I’m happy that Home is getting such attention from the lizard wranglers. I especially cannot wait for the password sync support planned for a future release.
• Congress passes internet, smart phone accessibility bill, Washington Post
• Update to private cloud-based file system, Tahoe-LAFS, BoingBoing
• Android software piracy rampant, Slashdot
• A Review of Jason Scott’s “Get Lamp”
  Text adventure games figured largely in my earliest experiences of computers. It was a no brainer for me to pick up a copy of Scott’s documentary on the subject. I enjoyed it immensely and am far from finished exploring all the material he has included in the two disc set. Jeremy Reimer at Ars Technica has a glowing review that resonates very strongly with my own experience of the work.
• EFF, others, support Microsoft in case trying to make patent invalidation easier, EFF
• Open HDCP software implementation released
  Ars Technica, among others, has news of researchers using the recently leaked HDCP keys to build an open source program capable of decrypting encoded digital video streams. Peter Bright questions the utility of the effort as it would still require some sort of hardware to connect into your home media ecosystem. I think the overlooks the very strong tradition of these sorts of proofs of concept developed by security researchers interested in the system more so than its applications.

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