{"id":100595,"date":"2018-12-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=100595"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:11:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:11:42","slug":"20181231-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20181231-00\/?p=100595","title":{"rendered":"2018 year-end link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k\">    James Mickens USENIX Security 2018 Keynote<\/a>:     <i>Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep     Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?     Answer:     Because Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions     And Are Poor Role Models<\/i>. <\/li>\n<li>    Classical music comedians     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.twosetviolin.com\/\">TwoSet Violin<\/a>     perform     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eOjO4ekcJQA\">    Paganini Caprice Number 24 with Hilary Hahn while twirling a hula hoop<\/a>.     Also:     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7QA1GyU4Q1A\">    Professional pianist vs. Beginner pianist<\/a>.     (Here&#8217;s a secret:     The so-called beginner pianist is not actually     a beginner; he&#8217;s just pretending to be one.) <\/li>\n<li>Kate Wagner,     the author of the wonderful blog     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/mcmansionhell.com\/\">    McMansion Hell<\/a>,     teaches us how to look at buildings:     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MkkV4Oa_U68\">    The McMansion Hell Quick n Dirty Guide to Looking at Buildings<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    The script says &#8220;Bob picks up a book, flips through the pages,     and finds a movie ticket stub.&#8221;     Somebody has to create the book and fill the pages with content,     then create the movie ticket stub, then age them appropriately.     All for something that&#8217;s on screen for five seconds.     That person is     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.ross-macdonald.com\/\">Ross MacDonald<\/a>,     who creates paper props for movies and television.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/177343\/Ephemera\">    More links here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    One of my friends observed that some of the icicles hanging     from his eaves were curved.     Turns out     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/annals-of-glaciology\/article\/bent-icicles-and-spikes\/DCAD287326440BC3FBBD83AC1F977F81\/core-reader\">    there&#8217;s a paper on that<\/a>.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.physics.utoronto.ca\/Icicle_Atlas\/\">    Bonus icicle research<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p05d0gpt\">    How to swear like a Swede<\/a>.     Note that they misspelled <i>snusk&shy;hummer<\/i>,     so don&#8217;t forget the &#8220;h&#8221; to put that dirty lobster in his place. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y4oWTABwBEY\">    Three Manchester United soccer players vs 100 kids<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/2013\/12\/04\/peter-king-spends-week-with-nfl-refs\">    Game 150: A Week in the Life of an [NFL] Officiating Crew<\/a>.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/2013\/12\/05\/peter-king-spends-week-with-nfl-refs-part-two\">    Part 2<\/a>.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/2013\/12\/06\/peter-king-week-with-officiating-crew-part-three\">    Part 3<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/the-soviets-secret-map-of-seattle-tells-a-lot-about-us\/\">    The Soviets&#8217; secret map of Seattle tells a lot about us<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blondehistorian\/\">    Dr. Amy Kavanagh<\/a>     is visually impaired, and she explains     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blondehistorian\/status\/1006945021772353536\">    what the various bumps and grooves in the sidewalk mean<\/a>,     or at least what they mean in the UK.     If you like government specifications, you can read     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/guidance-on-the-use-of-tactile-paving-surfaces\">    Guidance on the use of tactile paving surfaces<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    The creators of the Atari 800 emulator     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.emulators.com\/xformer.htm\">Xformer 10<\/a>     have posted     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.emulators.com\">    a second video<\/a>     showing off all the awesome features.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20181206-01\/?p=100425\">Previously<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.robotron2084guidebook.com\/technical\/christiangingras\/\">    Christian Gingras: The Man Who Fixed Robotron<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/commitlog\/how-to-design-for-the-modern-web-52eaa926bae2\">    How to Design for the Modern Web<\/a>.     &#8220;Research has shown that modals that cannot be closed     have the best conversion rate.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>    What&#8217;s the deal about putting a <code>REPZ<\/code>     in front of a <code>RET<\/code> instruction?     The <code>RET<\/code> instruction is not repeatable.     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/repzret.org\/p\/repzret\/\">    REPZ RET<\/a> explains. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Toft6fMvByA\">    Gaming at 16K resolution<\/a>.     Linus Tech Tips hooks up sixteen 4K monitors to a single PC,     for a total resolution of (wait for it)     15360 &times; 8640. <\/li>\n<li>    Microsoft C 6 launched 25 years ago.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dirjtPAlZPM\">    Watch the launch video<\/a>,     starring Bill Nye, who at the time was merely a local Science Guy.     His educational show didn&#8217;t start until 1993. <\/li>\n<li>    Surprising honesty in a KB article:     <b>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/2544448\/the-message-recall-feature-in-outlook-fails\">    The Message Recall feature in Outlook fails<\/a><\/b>.     The last reason why Message Recall doesn&#8217;t work:     &#8220;Most users will see the recall request and     immediately rush to read the message.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms995355.aspx\">    Inner workings of the <code>Crypt&shy;Protect&shy;Data<\/code> function<\/a>,     for those who like gory details. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made it to the end!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-100595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We made it to the end!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}