Our New Year’s resolution, here at Linkapalooza, is to use real random numbers, not just pretend to use them. Many of you may have noticed that the Playstation 3 was hacked over the Christmas break, and it was all because Sony, for some reason, used the exact same “random” number every time it generated a key on the device. Well done, sirs!

Root keys for PS3 released. Or not. Read the comments.

How to: multi-domain SSL, Nginx, 1 IP address…

My favorite interview question…

Maze generation…

Designers versus engineers…

Ad hoc data anlysis from the UNIX command line…

Today’s random Wikipedia entry: Pink Knotweed