China Attacks

Robert Graham built a tool to analyze the traffic causing the DDoS attack on GitHub. He then used it to prove that the machine is “located on or near the Great Firewall of China”.

One has to wonder when politicians will take these virtual attacks as seriously as physical ones. As Robert points out, this attack is against a key part of the United States’ Internet infrastructure. What would we do if China took out all the Interstate highways leading into California?

/Applications/Utilities/Grapher.app

Today’s a good day to remind you about one of the coolest, and least well known, apps on your Mac: Grapher.

Grapher

Notice how the intersections of the circles plotted by the trigonometric functions form a unit square in radial coordinates. Symmetry is so cool.

Aspirations

Think about how much we’re talking about the Apple Watch, especially the gold editions. Then read this.

Aspiration is a powerful force. Both for Apple and its customers.