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

(postmodernbarney.com) » Uncomfortable Plot Summaries

LORD OF THE RINGS: Midget destroys stolen property. (via tor.com)

http://netgroup.polito.it/pubs/pdf/2008/08ICC-Flex_packet_filtering.pdf

NetPDL and Olivier Morandi seem to be doing Flick-like things in 2008/2009. Not very interesting unless you're writing my thesis or doing my research (and if you are, please let me know as it will save me a lot of time).

50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - ChronicleReview.com

"The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense." Mr. Language Log is fond of bitching about EoS, but this column is especially vitriolic.

The DiggBar controversy summarised in two easy screenshots. - The Fishbowl

I really like this post because it does exactly what the title advertises.

Weissbier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The pouring technique is demonstrated by robots. "This robot demonstrates the technique of holding the opening of the bottle close to the rim of the glass, while this robot uses the faster, but incorrect, immersion technique preferred by bartenders."

Scrabble and Other Games Have Overvalued Points - WSJ.com

Two interesting things: a) Scrabble was popularised by a man named Mr. Butts; b) Recently-added small high-scoring words ('qi', 'za', 'zzz') wreck the balance of the game. I approve of both assertions.

Using Gray code for rotary encoders - Scientific, embedded, biomedical, electronics contents.

Gray codes: good for angular movement detectors, highly-capacitative circuits, and (apparently) genetic algorithms.

My Pet Chicken: Which Chicken Breed Selector tool

My selected breed is "Araucana".

Ironic Sans: Idea: T-Shirts for Hairy-Chested Men

Totally sexy.

Review : www.ChocolatePartyHats.com

Best use for a Viking hat ever! Not safe for work.

Bluetooth JNI contaminated with GPL header files? - android-platform | Google Groups

Good definitive "api is a fact and not copyrightable" discussion which relates to me as I clagged a bunch of headers from Linux.

Mac OS X Pl2303 Driver Project

The USB-to-serial driver I have is a Prolific 2303, product 0x2303, vendor 0x067b

Australian government secret ACMA internet censorship blacklist, 6 Aug 2008 - Wikileaks

Highlights include: lemonparty, 2girls1cup, various totally innocent porn sites and various aggregators

World's hardest interview question

The answer is: half, unless the monkey doesn't like his hat. (via codinghorror)

http://www.tunespotting.com/search_play.asp

Tune search engine. First one of these that actually worked! It found Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms.

Katy Perry - Hot N Cold (LIPDUB*) on Vimeo

Great production values!

Exception and interrupt handling in ARM

The GPIO-to-interrupt-number magic seems to be unique to ARM?

Dr. Dobb's | Interrupt Management Under Linux | October 13, 2006

For Trout (G1) the only documentation is the Linux kernel source. Here's how that works.

CC - Games > The Space Game

I haven't played it yet but Emily Short says it's tower defense in space. Two things I love in the one game title!

Programming Textbooks

This guy channels the fortune teller in HHGTTG almost perfectly: "I think that modern IT is more in the problem domain than in the solution domain, i.e.: it has stopped contributing anything beneficial to humanity and is mostly used to cause suffering now. You may think otherwise, though. So go ahead, download my works. Maybe one of them turns out to be useful." (via delicious.com main page)

http://cosmo.nyu.edu/hogg/research/2006/09/28/astrometry_google.pdf

Clever spatial hash function to take any image of the sky and match it to a whole-sky catalogue, to find out which part of the sky it was of.

Pirate Bay Trial: The Hottest Ticket in Stockholm | Threat Level from Wired.com

The Pirate Bay trial sounds like a laugh. Scalped court tickets, the prosecution unexpectedly dropping half the charges on day 2, and free food. 'Your correspondent was served homemade "Creative Commons cookies" by teenage girls in fantasy genre garb. They said they wanted to support the good forces of the world and convert bad ones to their cause.'

Mind Hacks: Leadership can be based on quantity not quality

Fellows, I'd just like to bring to your attention this piece of information on the neuroscience of perceived leadership qualities in others. I personally found it, myself, very interesting and relevant to our customer base. It's a little brief and I would expect that were were to commit to it as one of our core competencies then additional research would be required, but I am sure we have the skillset here to implementise that option should the necessity arise. Mmm, these mini toasts really are delightful, aren't they? I really think that was a good idea of yours, Phil, to bring them to the meeting. Anyone else want one? Great. Speaking of behavioural psychology, though, what do you think about the recent research indicating that ethics professors don't behave as ethically as the average person? I think it's a beat-up, myself. Harrumph. Cheryl, do you have that report on elephants ready for me? Great, why don't you go ahead and present it to the group?

Give Up and Use Tables

"We've scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it's 47 minutes. When your time is up, we'll even give you the table code you need." (via daringfireball)

Norman Lebrecht: The clapped-out legacy of Karajan that impoverished classical music -

Herbert von Karajan's version of Beethoven's 7th symphony is the best one I've heard, so it's a pity he's a Nazi.

Weirdness Magnet - Television Tropes & Idioms

"For some reason, the character is always standing at the intersection of Strange Street and Bizarre Boulevard." This whole site is great.

Hot and Spicy Tofu - Allrecipes

Food.

Garlic Ginger Tofu - Allrecipes

Food.

Lentils And Spinach - Allrecipes

Scrambled Tofu - Allrecipes

Food.

Jura Books | Keen for Revolution?

Jeremy's bookshop (thanks Suzy!)

Mr McCloud's Cloud Quiz

"[Mr McCloud] carries a lightning walking stick that he uses to herd and scare people with and lives in a cloud environment, with a cloud house and cloud car etc. He has a cloud farm with a herd of fluffy cloud sheep." I love "cloud car etc". All the usual cloud accoutrements.

Understanding Version-Control Systems (DRAFT)

Weird, no references to cunnilingus or the female psyche.

The importance of stupidity in scientific research -- Schwartz 121 (11): 1771 -- Journal of Cell Science

Well I certainly feel stupid, so I must be on the right track. :) (via Hugh)

Jacket 17 - David Lehman - The Ern Malley Poetry Hoax - Introduction

Ern Malley

The recent boring "hoax" of Quadrant had one thing going for it: it introduced me to the Ern Malley caper.

"The Structure and Performance of Efficient Interpreters" - Google Search

So-called "direct threading" went into Python recently, resulting in up to 15% speedup on pybench. This paper covers a number of optimisations for interpreters, including direct threading. Humorously, currawong's concrete implementation in QEmu accidentally uses direct threading because it was easiest -- if I'd wanted performance I wouldn't then jump directly back to a large switch() statement!

George Bush to award John Howard the US freedom medal | The Australian

Hahahaha

#349916 - Pastie

Teehee, the Zune bug is an infinite loop in ConvertDays

Kloonigames » Blog Archive » Day 1: Crayon Physics Deluxe for the iPhone

Woohoo

Catching disk latency in the act : The Observation Deck

Talk softly to your disks.

Janus: Papers of the Board of Longitude

Board of Longitude. So awesome! This was essentially a science project established in 1714 and only truly finished in 1762, with the development of a sufficiently-accurate clock

http://www.socialfiction.org/gilgameshforapes.pdf

Too weird not to post. Come for the pictures, stay for the commentary at the end (Enkidu is an ape? WTF)