Holy crap. Time to tape over all connected cameras and mice; it's no longer tin foil hat territory.

Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ

• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone• Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images

www.theguardian.com

Follow the link for directions on how to opt out of Verizon's policy that can share your browsing history with others.

(via Ben Brooks.)

Bryan Clark

Seattle-based web developer & designer, working on climate.

clrk.it

He was a Ruby legend.

Put testing gems in both the development and test Gemfile groups · jimweirich/wyriki@d28fac7

Experimental Rails application to explore decoupling app logic from Rails. - Put testing gems in both the development and test Gemfile groups · jimweirich/wyriki@d28fac7

github.com

Cool! I've wanted to watch these, but never got enough of an urge to buy the discs. This will be fun with the kid.

The final episodes of ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ are coming to Netflix

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Wonderful read. I've never owned a Leica, but they are clearly the subject of much fascination amongst certain photographers. My wallet is glad I've never been bitten by that particular bug.

WTF?

Happy birthday to the Fourth Doctor!

Ha!

Yesssss!

‘Game of Thrones’ is returning on April 6th

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"In fact, if Nikon would drop that sensor in a stripped-down D700 body, call it the D700 II, and sell it for $1600, it would have another best-seller on its hands. You think?"

Yep.

Two things are interesting about this link: the book and the video. The book is really nice, and I recommend it. The video is him going through several of the images and telling stories about the portraits, and it's generous to get an two hour talk of this nature in its entirety. Heisler is not only a great portraitist, but he's a good storyteller too. Definitely worth the time to watch.

The staff from AllThingsD have struck out from their parent, The Wall Street Journal, and created this new site. While I'm sure the content will continue at the level of D, I find the site to be hideous. Hopefully that'll change as it matures, but right now I just don't want to go there.

"It’s been a transparent effort to reassure industry donors that the party's future isn't a bottomless pit of brainless Bachmanns and Cruzes and Santorums, all convinced our Harvard-educated president is a sleeper-cell Arab and that Satan is a literal being intent on conquering Nebraska with U.N. troops."

The whole piece is a great read, with choice nuggets in almost every paragraph.

So, yes, Sherlock is back as brilliant as ever and there's joy and entertainment and superb craftsmanship abounding in this first episode (you might feel like clapping in appreciation when it ends), but there's also the promise of more goodness ahead.

Can't wait. Well, since it's aired in the UK, I suppose I could be watching it now, so I guess I can literally wait. But, I'm waiting for anticipation for the 19th, when it airs on BBC America.

Sherlock: TV Review

The acclaimed detective, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, returns for season three as superb (and unscathed) as when he left.

www.hollywoodreporter.com