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Updated "building for Dream" instructions as the Google ones are pretty outdated now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

http://bunnitude.com/misc/files/pepsi_gravitational_field.pdf

Is this really a Pepsi marketing document? Because it's fantastic. Come for the perimeter oscillations, stay for the Pepsi supermarket-aisle gravitational field!

Apple - Support - Discussions - compressed textures in iPhone openGL ES ...

Generating and using PVR compressed textures for the iPhone OpenGL ES implementation

2D Goggles » The Origin/About

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage unite to save the world. Awesome! (via wonderland).

Eggplant Recipe - Eggplant Recipe

Eggplant recipe ;-)

Forth Dimensions

The entire archive of the Forth User Group periodical "Forth Dimensions". In case I am laid up in bed for a couple of weeks with a brain injury and decide to learn Forth.

mixed, not shuffled - (photo) Overstated memetic visual illustration:...

"2 cup girls": Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine. I guess the "waiting for the beta" joke is overdone?

Whither Sockets? - ACM Queue

A detailed description of the three major ways the sockets API sucks. (via benno)

Nasal sebum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Career and Work of Scribonius Largus

Early Roman medical doctor, 2-52 CE. First to recommend electroshock therapy for headaches and gout (he used sting rays to provide the electricity).

Dracula

Dracula is an epistolary novel -- here it is as a real-time blog. Nice idea. I'm reading it via RSS. (via tor.com)

Girlfriend in a coma review

Someone sums up every Douglas Coupland novel ever. "Aren’t we all a little sad about cancer?" (via mimi smartypants)

Language Log » Interesting sentences

Idiotic children's textbook author insists that simple factual statements are "uninteresting", and if you don't cram as much information into each sentence as possible you are not writing well. I remember this crap from my schooling and I am sure it has negatively impacted my writing.

Schneier on Security: Lie Detector Charlatans

These crooks got a dishonourable mention on Language Log a while back for convincing a journal to pull an unflattering paper about them, and now Bruce Schneier is having a go. The paper (linked from here, via Language Log) is very accessible and worth a read.

Most Consistent, Least Astonished | Tea Leaves

The Facebook news feed is completely unpredictable w.r.t. what it shows, and it's annoying.

Ian Bogost - A Television Simulator

We wanted to do something similar for our MAME box. Various emulators have "CRT" effects already, but they are simplistic -- drawing only every second vertical line to simulate the wider spacing on a TV, for example. This is a far more convincing implementation (via daringfireball)

The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan / Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell), 1861-1927

From these alone unjustly springs / The world-destroying wrath of kings.

origamihero.com

Home of A Game With a Kitty. Who makes pages without RSS feeds nowadays? Tut.

Let's talk about Google Android: Set proxy for android web browser

It's about how to set the a proxy for the Android Web browser. :)

HTC - Support - Flashing your Android Dev Phone with a Factory System Image

Android ADP1 official firmware update