The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements

Fascinating discussion of each element with reference to samples (click the elements)

Gigabyte Ga-eg45m-ud2h Update working 10.6.2 - InsanelyMac Forum

Installing 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

I'm actually a fan of chopstick string theory.

Giles Bowkett: OS X: Disable Front Row Keyboard Shortcut

' command-tilde WHOOPS command-esc "oh... hey front row..." *awkward pause* "ok, talk to you later." '

Dobbs Code Talk - Explicit Structural Typing (Duck Typing)

More on duck typing, structural typing, typing in general

Clive Hamilton clarifies position on web filtering | News.com.au

Clive Hamilton is after "transparency in the process" -- of a censorship system. Good luck with that?

Structural type system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"type safe duck typing" (via reddit flamewar about why go language sucks)

Expect controversy when sex robots arrive | GazetteOnline.com

"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

lol

Americans consume 3.6 zettabytes of data, most of it pixels

That's 34 gigabytes per American, per day, in 2008 -- but nobody knows what to make of that figure.

Glögg

Glögg is the Scandinavian version of Glühwein. Looks delicious!

Apple iPhone TechTalk 2009 Tricks.

OpenGL ES tricks. Somewhat reassuring to see that I was already familiar with them.

Vincent van Gogh: Visitor Submissions

"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

"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

'"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

ARM system on a SODIMM. Cool! (Engadget)

MyLifeIsAverage - Life is pretty normal today

Another FML-derived site (mmastertheone)

Nicole Dube : Knitting Mania | images | scaryideas.com

Fark: "Finally an iPhone game for your grandmother." For grandma Catie

Visual C++ Team Blog : /GL and PGO

MSVC 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

"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..

"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

It's the motherlode of old computer books, including my favourite, Computer Spacegames!

Narrative Logic in the Annunciation to Mary

Catie 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

Smoked 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

"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

Work 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

The Burghers of Calais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I saw the Victoria Tower Gardens cast of this yesterday. Interesting story behind the burghers, but also just a damn good sculpture.

Scratch | Project | Doodle

Draw a path to the exit

Scratch | Project | Cube World

Stupid boss

Scratch | Project | Mr HappyMan ep 5

Mr. Happy Man is happy.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/scratch/scratch-cacm.pdf

Scratch 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

(reddit)

DISQUS Comments | Powering Discussion on the Web

Prepackaged comment system (via deadprogrammerscafe)

Donkey Hottie

I am pretty much only bookmarking this for the Cervantes-referencing name.

Sweater curse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"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

Symlink 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

"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

Well 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

... 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.

ASM’s List of rumored and existing Android phones.

It's Android Social Media's list of rumoured and existing Android phones.

Splash 2 for Linux/x86 | Ken Barr

The Go Programming Language

Seems nobody takes you seriously unless you write your own programming language. I was all "yay yay yay, another type-inferencing, garbage-collected C" until I learned that its pretty-printer indents using tabs, not spaces. Now it sounds cool! :)

Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves - Nick's Blog

How to find the location of a particular point in a Hilbert curve. (via delicious popular)

Booko: Compare book & DVD prices in Australia with Booko

Finds the best price (including shipping) for books online, and presents it to you in Australian dollars. (thanks Bryn)

OpenOfficeMouse: The Multi-Button Application Mouse for OpenOffice.org

18-button mouse with 512K of flash, XML configuration, and attached joystick. I am kinder than John Gruber and am assuming this is a joke. (daringfireball)

Can anyone solve this clever joke? - Yahoo! Answers

Vertex buffer objects (VBO) in OpenGL ES on iPhone - iDevGames - Mac & iPhone Game Development Forum

Mer mer mer I have unpredictable and highly idiosyncratic performance look at me

OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs): A Simple Tutorial | PlayControl Software

Mer mer look at me I'm an underpowered handheld device with mid-90s-era graphics hardware *handstand*

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