Compromising electromagnetic emanations of wired keyboards - Amazing.

Reminded me of TEMPEST.

LHC rap - Geeky song

LHC big pictures - Science is beautiful

Alan Cox on Computer Security

Did you know that he (Alan) owns an MBA? I didn't; I was pretty surprised.

Edit: Added RSS autodiscovery.

3rd International Workshop on Plan 9 in Greece

Excellent news.

Nowadays, very few seem to care about memory footprints, resource usage and security risks in their applications. Depending on the raw computational power of modern hardware, few care about optimization and efficiency.
Which results in bloated applications and OSs.
"Works" is just not good enough. From many viewpoints.

Why userspace sucks [2006]
Why userspace (still) sucks [2007]

To quote someone at lwn.net:
"I'm glad we have free systems -- not only is it possible to spot these
problems, it's possible for people not originally involved in the
programs to step in and fix them."

Agner Fog's optimization manuals
Magnificent resources on optization and code efficiency. Much arcane knowledge in there.