Winner of the Cool Network Map Award!

Gotta hand it to the folks over at HE.  I stumbled across their network map, and it's SO stocked full of eye candy!  Other companies maps might do a better job at getting the information you want to you, but this think definitely wins the WOPR Blinkenlights award!

Water Cooled 72,000 Lumen LED Flashlight!!

Hats off to Samm Sheperd for making the coolest flashlight ever!  (so cool as in water cooled and beyond crazy bright!)

TCP Sucks

WAN Accelerators have been around for a while ( see Peribit ) to try and deal with how TCP blows over larger distances (latency).  The real goal is to bring that tech directly to the computers and rejigger the way computers talk to each other.  Looks like that is happening:

•  HTTP/3 (HTTP/QUIC) : Looks like IETF is making this formal.  

TLS Security

(not a bad form of modern security, right?  ... except for the not being able to hit anybody issue)

• João Poupino has a great writeup in probe.ly on "How to deploy modern TLS in 2018?" which covers what it is, it's background and history of TLS as well as recommendations for you to use.  Good for explaining to managers, as well as simply reading for yourself.  
• Sergiu Gatlan points out that TLS 1.0 / 1.1 Deprecated in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge Starting 2020 (IETF is expected to formally deprecate TLS 1.0 / 1.1 in 2018) 

Laser Replacement (Aero)

sailingscuttlebutt has a good article about the replacement for the laser and what he thinks of the new Aero boats.

You worry about this in your data center?!?!?

My favorite line in a legal agreement for a data center:

"The toilet rooms, urinals, wash bowls and other apparatus shall not be used for any purpose other than that for which they were constructed, and no foreign substance of any kind whatsoever shall be thrown therein."

Drone fillmed fireworks show

Slashdot noted of a fireworks show in West Palm Beach FL, that was filmed with a quad copter and a go-pro (somewhat illegally).

Shattered: 28 hours, 50 minutes

Jalopnk, has a great write up about Ed Bolian shattering Alex Roy's Cannon ball record, by completing the treck from NY to CA in 28:50.

Quantum Mechanics and Magnitisim

Veritasium and MinutePhysics has a really nice, easy to understand, overview on how magnets and electro-magnets work and how that relates to quantum mechanics.

"Fly my pretties! Fly! Fly! Fly!"

NPR notes that John Oliver's skit on his new show Last Week Tonight where he urges everyone to comment to the FCC about the insanity of the removal of the Net Neutrality laws has apparently crashed the FCC's comment web page from an overload of users!