[ By Steph in History & Factoids, Travel & Places. ]

From five lines of letters scrawled on the back of a dead man’s book to the taunting codes sent to police by the Zodiac Killer, some of history’s most legendary uncracked codes and ciphers represent a fascinating and frustrating challenge even for the world’s brightest cryptographers. … Read More

Originally posted 2010-09-02 09:12:21.

What is HTML5 and why should we all care? See the large version here.

(via @datavis)

Originally by swissmiss from swissmiss on June 9, 2010, 7:52am

Originally posted 2010-10-20 08:16:21.

Filed under: Developer, Features, Lists

As a relative newcomer to the world of web development, it sometimes seems to me as though there is a gulf in the field: The “pros” versus the “wannabe developers”. As if there’s a tight-knit clique of developers, all well-versed in arcane stuff like advanced user scripts, HTML5, or Ruby on Rails — and then there’s the “rest of the world”, composed of mere mortals just trying to hack something together that would somehow display and sort of work across multiple browsers. … Read More