The Correspondence of Michael Faraday - Google Books

Babbage on Ada: "that Enchantress who has thrown her magical spell around the most abstract of Sciences and has grasped it with a force which few masculine intellects (in our own country at least) could have exerted over it." (via 2dgoggles.com)

Stanislaw Lem: FAQ

Philip K. Dick became schizophrenic and petitioned the FBI regarding precious bodily fluids etc. "[Sci-fi writer Stanislaw] Lem is probably a composite committee rather than an individual, since he writes in several styles and sometimes reads foreign, to him, languages and sometimes does not - to gain monopoly positions of power from which they can control opinion through criticism and pedagogic essays is a threat to our whole field of science fiction and its free exchange of views and ideas."

Vibram Five Fingers: Discover the Barefooting Alternative

These look fun.

Issue 2454 - android - Cannot view html on sdcard because no file url - Project Hosting on Google Code

Android insanity -- how to load Webpages from the SD card, and how to trick the browser into not prepending "http://" to bookmarks (the latter trick is definitely a bug. The former trick is probably a bug)

Bobby McFerrin Plays the Pentatonic Scale Using the Audience at the World Science Festival (video) | The Stimulist

Very cool audience demonstration (via fark)

Klaus Havelund's homepage

Runtime verification work, for thesis

MergingUnrelatedRepositories - Mercurial

Merge unrelated repos. Didn't even know hg could do this. Cool!

THE 5LIGHTS PROJECT

"Halfway through my point, I realize it isn’t something you can say out loud, so I look out the window, bite the edge of my straw, wait." (via meaghano.com)

Traceview: A Graphical Log Viewer | Android Developers

Android's Traceview on-disk format

Android Tricks: Hello World C program using Android Toolchain

References Perl script which runs the compiler. Convenient. Also, perl. A blast from the past. :-)

Optimized DEX files

We Have Lasers!!!!!!!!!!

We never had a laser background option on our school portraits. My childhood was deprived, and I didn't even know. Fuck! (via wonderland)

FSR Sensor tutorial

Force-sensitive resistors

Mind Hacks: Unique like everyone else

The majority of people think they're above-average drivers, above-average workers ... and less susceptible than most to cognitive bias. Teehee

Al Gore prescribes more cowbell

Delphi method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Should be "Cttee members sit on a fume of poisonous gas and hallucinate the end of the Cold War" but sadly isn't

LEEKS

Lovers live by love, as larks by leeks -- anonymous; His eyes were green as leeks -- Thisbe

Command line Java on DalvikVM « Show me the code! – By Davanum Srinivas

.java, to .class, to .jar, to .dex.

rdar://7044974: UIViewController private method doesn't behave as undocumented

"The method attentionClassDumpUser:yesItsUsAgain:althoughSwizzlingAndOverridingPrivateMethodsIsFun:itWasntMuchFunWhenYourAppStoppedWorking:pleaseRefrainFromDoingSoInTheFutureOkayThanksBye: doesn't do anything." (via daring fireball)

In the Pipeline: Things I Won't Work With

A chemist talks about his least favourite compounds, such as thioacetone: "Two of our chemists who had done no more than investigate the cracking of minute amounts of trithioacetone found themselves the object of hostile stares in a restaurant and suffered the humiliation of having a waitress spray the area around them with a deodorant. " (via dadhacker.com)

"No Gods, No Masters": Margaret Sanger on Birth Control

"Is there any reason why women should not receive clean, harmless, scientific knowledge on how to prevent conception? Everybody is aware that the old, stupid fallacy that such knowledge will cause a girl to enter into prostitution has long been shattered." Margaret Sanger, "The Woman Rebel", March 1914. (Via Bryn)

S-exp vs XML, HTML, LaTeX (was: Why lisp is growing) - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups

"If GML was an infant, SGML is the bright youngster far exceeds expectations and made its parents too proud, but XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape." Erik Naggum brings the class. (Via Jason Grossman)

Fog-like Sensations

"At this point a philosopher might want to say: "He sees the fog but does not perceive its fogginess." Ask yourself what could possibly be the object of saying this." (via http://xeny.net/.Quotations)

Mind Hacks: 80% genetic, 20% polyester

Interesting article on why "disease X is Y% genetic" statements are misleading. "Imagine that we could study a population where everybody lived in an identical environment. They did the same things everyday; they ate identical foods, had identical relationships and were stressed by identical events."

Experiments in Sims 3 « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction

Emily Short explores emergent narrative in Sims 3 by pairing a hopeless romantic with commitment-phobe. "She hit on one of her housekeepers and managed to get him to kiss her, but then he left and a few days later the maid service had to be canceled"

Red Sweater Blog – Getting Pretty Lonely

Daniel Jalkut sums up my attitude towards the GPL, i.e. that a more liberal license (LGPL, BSD) is more likely to encourage collaboration. Seems to be a pretty common stance among Mac developers, perhaps because (as Daniel hints) liberal licensing enabled OS X.

Building Android 1.5 – Getting the source — Johan de Koning

Updated "building for Dream" instructions as the Google ones are pretty outdated now

Dawkins funds atheist summer camp « Derren Brown Blog

"In the Invisible Unicorn Challenge, any child who can prove that unicorns do not exist will win a £10 note". Okay -- unicorns, if you exist, show up for a free £5. *taps fingers* (via wonderland)

Atom (standard) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wow, Atom syndication format is almost a functionally-identical clone of RSS, with some very trivial enhancements. Looks like CNET is right -- the impetus must have been totally reactionary (against Winer) rather than innovative.

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker

"The real world is more complicated than predicted by your religion" (via daring fireball)

What The...Face?

Things that look like faces

Chart detailing Pokémon presence on Twitter | David Cole

Pokeymans with Twitter accounts. In-character accounts noted

Catfishing - A Wikipedia Category Guessing Game

Guess the Wikipedia article from looking at its categories. Fun. I suck at it. Via cogito ergo sumana. Update: Great on buses!

Roberto Paleari

This guy looks legit. Also, PyEA is exactly what I'm working on.

Porting a C extension module to Python 3.0

Progress? Humbug! *waves cane*

Stop Password Masking (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Nielsen's argument: "Let's eliminate locks on doors. Fumbling for keys is a real hassle. Criminals can break in anyway if they really want to. And most of the time, nobody is trying to burgle your house -- so most of the time, the lock is completely useless!"

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Okay, so thirty-six situations, one thousand faces... *licks finger, takes notes* (via emshort.wordpress.com)

Kowloon Walled City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Woah!

Etihad Airways Pet Policy

Diamond First Class: Up to 2 falcons per guest (per seat) are permitted. Charge for each falcon (which is considered 3 kg) is 3 times the normal excess baggage rate of the journey. (thanks Catie)

Grand Central Dispatch

This incorporates an extension to GCC which adds, essentially, closures.

Valgrind for Mac OS X

Good times.

Neurotic Poets - Neurotic Poets - 'Mad Girl's Love Song' by Sylvia Plath

One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop

How To Write Shared Libraries, by Ulrich Drepper

I always misthink (or something) Ulrich Drepper's name as "Uncle Rick".

Direct rendering methods

2D Goggles » Porlock Revisited

"My husband suggested the Difference Engine could have been used to tear a hole in the space-time continuum. I’m sorry, but we here at 2dgoggles do not indulge in such fancies. The Difference Engine *prints large tables of numbers without error*. If that is not cool enough for you, you are reading the wrong comic my friends."

Rhythm Methods

Language Log » Oh Noes

The millionth word is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not. Our only hope is t

UpFactory - Collants/Bas veines et artères - les queues de sardines

Best stockings ever. (Via street anatomy)

Hot water bottles in The AnswerBank: Science

My favourite parts of this British site: "Elf n safety gorne mad", and "Answerbag's on the blink again"