Wolbachia Resources
http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/wolbachia/resources.htmlWolbachia is a bacteria that is very common in insects. Among other things, it can allow females to reproduce without males, can kill all infected males of a species, and can (through "cytoplasmic incompatibility") prevent infected males from successfully fertilising uninfected females -- thus conferring a reproductive advantage to infected females, because only infected females can mate with all males. Offspring of infected females are themselves infected. Clever! (ars technica)
Platform
http://kafkaskoffee.com/junk/Platform.htmlCollect the coins! (via Bryn)
Download Bergensbanen in HD
http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/Via Catie, the trip from Bergen to Oslo. All 6 hours and 23GB of it. It's very pretty and relaxing.
Nationaltheatret to Bergen, Norway - Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Nationaltheatret&daddr=bergen&hl=en&geocode=FeI5kgMdJrujACnL2Ks-fm5BRjEZU0b7XBydeA%3BFehymQMdi1tRACmr3sBxv_g8RjEgKbMoJncBBA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=59.894448,8.591309&sspn=4.178922,6.624756&ie=UTF8&ll=59.778522,9.645996&spn=8.397812,13.249512&z=6Walking directions from Oslo to Bergen. 4 ferries (cheating?) and 1 day, 4 hours.
Vertex Buffer Objects - OpenGL.org
http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Vertex_Buffer_ObjectsHelpful VBO tutorial
dilettante: The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Belgium" in a Serious Screenplay.
http://oaklanddilettante.blogspot.com/2007/08/most-gratuitous-use-of-word-belgium-in.htmlI had to explain to Catie why "Belgium" is the most horrifying word in the known Universe.
Palladio's Italian Villas-Home
http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/It's Palladio's Italian villas.
Lightning prods shiitake to multiply | The Japan Times Online
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100101f3.html'Inspired by the saying "lots of lightning gives a good harvest of mushrooms," the high-voltage experts in the city of Morioka developed a device...' I love this saying. Lots of lightning gives a good harvest of mushrooms. As they say in Japan.
Atheist Ireland Publishes 25 Blasphemous Quotes | blasphemy.ie
http://blasphemy.ie/2010/01/01/atheist-ireland-publishes-25-blasphemous-quotes/Bjork, 1995: “I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men… I’ve been reading about reincarnation, and the Buddhists say we come back as animals and they refer to them as lesser beings. Well, animals aren’t lesser beings, they’re just like us. So I say fuck the Buddhists.”
'The Inferno' for iPhone shows how to adapt Dante's Inferno
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/29/the-inferno-for-iphone-shows-how-to-adapt-dantes-inferno/#continued"They made the timeless classic into Frogger. How enlightened."
The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements
http://periodictable.com/Fascinating discussion of each element with reference to samples (click the elements)
Gigabyte Ga-eg45m-ud2h Update working 10.6.2 - InsanelyMac Forum
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189914&start=0&p=1338882&#entry1338882Installing OS X on this motherboard, for theoreticians who are interested in the abstract implications of this sort of thing.
Towards a grand unification of cutlery
http://gondaba.com/post/292668806/towards-a-grand-unification-of-cutleryI'm actually a fan of chopstick string theory.
Giles Bowkett: OS X: Disable Front Row Keyboard Shortcut
http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/03/os-x-disable-front-row-keyboard.html' command-tilde WHOOPS command-esc "oh... hey front row..." *awkward pause* "ok, talk to you later." '
Dobbs Code Talk - Explicit Structural Typing (Duck Typing)
http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Explicit-Structural-Typing-Duck-Typing-.html&Itemid=29More on duck typing, structural typing, typing in general
Clive Hamilton clarifies position on web filtering | News.com.au
http://www.news.com.au/technology/clive-hamilton-clarifies-position-on-web-filtering/story-e6frfro0-1225791578676Clive Hamilton is after "transparency in the process" -- of a censorship system. Good luck with that?
Structural type system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_system"type safe duck typing" (via reddit flamewar about why go language sucks)
Expect controversy when sex robots arrive | GazetteOnline.com
http://gazetteonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2009/12/13/expect-controversy-when-sex-robots-arrive"If you just take a few minutes to think about it, robots are just not machines. Inadvertently, there is some internal mechanism that makes some robots more powerful than others that are built exactly the same." (fark)
12.12.39 « THE ORWELL PRIZE
http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/12-12-39/lol
Americans consume 3.6 zettabytes of data, most of it pixels
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/12/americans-consume-36-zettabytes-of-data-most-of-it-pixels.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rssThat's 34 gigabytes per American, per day, in 2008 -- but nobody knows what to make of that figure.
Glögg
http://www.ling.su.se/staff/evali/glogg.htmGlögg is the Scandinavian version of Glühwein. Looks delicious!
Apple iPhone TechTalk 2009 Tricks.
http://fabiensanglard.net/appleTechTalk2009/index.phpOpenGL ES tricks. Somewhat reassuring to see that I was already familiar with them.
Vincent van Gogh: Visitor Submissions
http://www.vggallery.com/visitors/poetry/ryan.htm"so forever sorry / after losing you one starry starry / night / when you gave up the fight / when you turned out your light / when two wrongs / became right". Terrible poetry day continues
The Poetry of Rosemary Winters Tracey
http://rwinte82.freeyellow.com/"Once upon a time I had teeth / They were old and cracked / But, they were mine / And had been for over 40 years". It's terrible poetry day on delicious!
Hot sex in Copenhagen | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs
http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2009/12/07/hot-sex-in-copenhagen/'"The UN institutions are professional beggars, and beggars go where the money is,” he said. “So you get “culture and AIDS”, “kids and AIDS”, “fish and AIDS”. I’m just waiting for “climate change and AIDS". It wasn’t until months later that I saw the first headlines linking HIV to climate change.'
Cortex-A8 module ships with baseboard, Linux BSP - News - Linux for Devices
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Direct-Insights-TritonTX51/?kc=rssARM system on a SODIMM. Cool! (Engadget)
MyLifeIsAverage - Life is pretty normal today
http://mylifeisaverage.com/Another FML-derived site (mmastertheone)
Nicole Dube : Knitting Mania | images | scaryideas.com
http://www.scaryideas.com/content/14924/Fark: "Finally an iPhone game for your grandmother." For grandma Catie
Visual C++ Team Blog : /GL and PGO
http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2009/12/01/gl-and-pgo.aspxMSVC compiler saves about 16% benchmark execution time by using profile-guided optimisation. Is that good? I guess it's good. (reddit)
Male Scientist Writes of Life as Female Scientist - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/12/AR2006071201883_pf.html"Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister's." Zing! (reddit)
Home - My Life Is Twilight | I don't think I could be any more obsessed..
http://www.mylifeistwilight.com/"Today I asked my boyfriend if he would hold ice to his lips for a minute before he kissed me, so I could pretend I was kissing Edward. He did. MLIT" (via /b/)
Index of /pub/sinclair/books
http://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/books/It's the motherlode of old computer books, including my favourite, Computer Spacegames!
Narrative Logic in the Annunciation to Mary
http://personal1.stthomas.edu/dtlandry/mary.htmlCatie and I realised that the Catholic annunciation story didn't seem to make sense. Here is a very detailed page on it. Still doesn't seem to make sense.
Candy Chang - Fine Art - Milk and Muffin
http://www.candychang.com/design/pages/milk_and_muffin.htmSmoked Swiss cheese analogy as argument in favour of being a generalist (via reddit)
The Mechanics of Morality: Why Moral Choices in Video Games Are No Longer Fun | Blasphemous Geometries | Futurismic
http://futurismic.com/2009/11/11/the-mechanics-of-morality-why-moral-choices-in-video-games-are-no-longer-fun/"I would argue that any political or moral decision that can be reversed by a mass killing is in fact not a political or moral decision at all." (via emshort)
Procrastination hack: '(10+2)*5' | 43 Folders
http://www.43folders.com/2005/10/11/procrastination-hack-1025Work for 10 minutes, break for 2 minutes, repeat with the next thing on your to-do list. Via donkey hottie (more, it turns out, than just a cool name)
jCquard: The Do Less, Punch More JavaScript Library
http://www.outstandingelephant.com/jcquard/nonbeard 2009-11-24 22:15:04
The Burghers of Calais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_CalaisI saw the Victoria Tower Gardens cast of this yesterday. Interesting story behind the burghers, but also just a damn good sculpture.
Scratch | Project | Doodle
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Graham/21904Draw a path to the exit
Scratch | Project | Cube World
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Tanner-FBI/107478Stupid boss
Scratch | Project | Mr HappyMan ep 5
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/TheExplodingCheez/758640Mr. Happy Man is happy.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/scratch/scratch-cacm.pdf
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/scratch/scratch-cacm.pdfScratch is a programming language with a core audience primarily between the ages of 8 and 16. It is colourful, easy to understand, and tightly integrated with a Web site and forums. Looks really cool :) This is the most "nonbeard" of many recent bookmarks. (lambda the ultimate)
Buy Bad Code Offsets | CodeOffsets.com
http://codeoffsets.com/Buy.aspx(reddit)
DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web
http://disqus.com/Prepackaged comment system (via deadprogrammerscafe)
Donkey Hottie
http://www.1984produkts.com/donkeyhottie/I am pretty much only bookmarking this for the Cervantes-referencing name.
Sweater curse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweater_curse"in which a knitter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, who quickly breaks up with the knitter. [..] Despite its name, the Sweater Curse is treated in knitting literature not as a superstition governed by paranormal forces, but rather as a real-world pitfall of knitting that has real-world explanations and solutions." (Via Catie)
Lazy bottom: Tackling Android's Donut Branch Part II
http://lazybottom.blogspot.com/2009/08/tackling-androids-donut-branch-part-ii.htmlSymlink parts of the SDK build into the non-sdk directory in order to create AVDs. Somewhat mysterious and probably not The Right Thing, but works
Connectionism
http://www.crummy.com/2009/11/14/0"like a modernist fool I told Adam one of my rules of narrative. I discovered that the easiest way to write a novel is to throw a bunch of characters into a situation. If you get stuck, throw in more characters. If you can come up with enough characters, you'll eventually come up with some that have interesting interactions with each other and with the situation" -- works for adventure games
Sad moments in mathematics
http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/log/?m=200911#14Well there you have it, folks: there is nothing about the relationship between 2, 5, and 32 that can be used in any way whatsoever. That's it. It's over. Move on to the other numbers, 'cos there ain't nothing for you here.
Building Android kernel images
http://www.cianer.com/androidg1/28-building-android-kernel-images... if you don't want to get the whole Android tree (and kernel isn't part of the default manifest now anyway). Donut is 2.6.29.