#10: Go Ugly Early

This week with Dave and Gunnar: Open Data Policy, Scratch update, Facebook’s OSS network hardware, intentional and unintentional declassification, Red Hat Support up in your screen, how the DOD is using OpenShift, markdown, and Year 0 of the Meeting Jihad .

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• Federal Open Data Policy released
• Fund grad students to implement the Declassification Engine
• Speaking of declassified: Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency
• Scratch 2.0 is out!
  • Check out Lauren’s guinea pig game code right in your browser
• Linux kernel still “benchmark of quality” in this year’s Coverity Scan
• Facebook Rattles Networking World With ‘Open Source’ Gear
  • Don’t forget Red Hat Storage for all your Software Defined Storage needs
• Dave’s Beyond the Bits webinar, for real this time
• Gunnar at the Dallas PaaS Road Tour. on Wednesday, May 15
• Gunnar in Albany with Accenture APSP on Thursday, May 16th
• Dan Juengst goes ugly early at FedScoop’s 4th Annual Tech Shoot-Out
• DISA STAX. SUPER EXCITED. Hear more from Gunnar about this on Gordon’s Cloudy Chat.
• Markdown Protip: create a markdown file, share a link to the file through dropbox, and dropbox will render the markdown in HTML. Sweet! eg., Gunnar’s advice for travel to Oahu
• pandoc, the universal translator for markdown (and much else)
• Word and picture of the week: skeuomorphism
  • Using skeuomorphism at cocktail parties which you don’t want invited back: “What are your thoughts on iOS 7 pulling back on skeuomorphism?”
• Must see TV: Merlin Mann’s meeting presentation at Twitter

Cutting Room Floor

• Onion’s Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
  • They did the right thing. Don’t cover up that you’ve been hacked
  • Related (but we still need two factor auth): “Honeywords” plan to snare password thieves
  • They also provided helpful tips and assurances that this won’t happen again
  • The Onion’s Tips On How To Prevent Your Major Media Site From Being Hacked
  • Onion Twitter Password Changed To OnionMan77 – ‘That Ought To Do It,’ Company Sources Confirm
  • Then they actually talked about it for real
  • How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion
• Army and Navy Top 100 Innovators
  • Government agencies made the list for the first time in 2012, represented by the U.S. Department of the Army and the U.S. Department of the Navy
  • Gunnar bait: “This proprietary program recognizes the 100 most innovative companies in the world according to a series of patent-related metrics that get to the essence of what it means to be truly innovative.”
• When you want to take a break from Scratch: Game Editor open-source game creation application that lets you design and create exciting, interactive games for fun or profit
• How to Build a Working Digital Computer… out of paperclips

We Give Thanks

• Gordon Haff for letting Gunnar crash his show and bore him about DISA STAX.
• John Scott for the Declassification Engine tip
• Chris Williams for the Red Hat Support screen sharing tip
• Eric Rich of Red Hat Support for putting Crossing Guard source on github
• Erich Morisse for putting his R on OpenShift implementation on github