Specifying Performance - Unweary
http://unweary.com/2008/11/specifying-performance.html"What is performance?" mostly from an HCI perpsective
J & D's - Everything Should Taste Like Bacon: Our Story
http://www.jdfoods.net/ourstory.phpBlah blah 2-years-out-of-date bacon meme except they got this stuff certified as kosher.
Language Log » Fry on the pleasure of language
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=817Language is the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning light as you pluck from an old bookshelf a half-forgotten book of erotic memoirs.
Operating System Benchmarking in the Wake of Lmbench:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/vino/perf/hbench/sigmetrics/sigmetrics97.hbench.htmlSome interesting stuff on benchmarking. Wow, worst description ever. "interesting stuff on"? What? Sheesh.
Google Code Blog: Usability Research on Federated Login
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/09/usability-research-on-federated-login.htmlnonbeard 2008-10-30 12:40:53
Cursebird: What the f#@! is everyone swearing about?
http://cursebird.com/Real-time swearing on Twitter via daringfireball
YouTube - I proposed by hacking Chrono Trigger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HMLvLB7b0This is so awesome. I want to marry him too! *wipes tear from eye*
Medical Reviews of House
http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.htmlVia Mary. Kind of nit-picky for a TV show, but then again I'm kind of nit-picky for a person
Close vim you left open remotely - Vim Tips Wiki - a Wikia wiki
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Close_vim_you_left_open_remotelynonbeard 2008-10-20 06:33:14
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
http://learnyouahaskell.com/Fantastic, a non-annoying poignant guide. Not to Ruby however... (via Bryn)
Multiqueue networking [LWN.net]
http://lwn.net/Articles/289137/Ethernet approximates ATM? Linux support for cards with multiple transmit queues. What about multiple receive queues?
Debunking Linus's Latest
http://www.coyotos.org/docs/misc/linus-rebuttal.pdfShapiro has a talent for cutting through the crap. (but "latest" = "mid 2006")
Necrotic Erotic: Zombie Pin-Up Calendar Will Make Your Blood Race
http://io9.com/5063317/zombie-pin+up-calendar-will-make-your-blood-raceJamie! It's "Where beauty eats braaaains"!
THE ORWELL PRIZE
http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/Publishing Orwell's diaries in real time (mod 70 years :) as a blog. Nice idea (io9)
Bulk IPC transfer
https://www.systems.inf.ethz.ch/education/courses/fs08/aos/lectures/wk12-print.pdfIt's AB and Mothy's big fat guide to FBufs and friends!
The Spoony Experiment: Yor: Hunter From the Future Movie Review
http://spoonyexperiment.blogspot.com/2008/07/yor-hunter-from-future-movie-review.htmlNeeds more hemp
M/M/1 Queueing System
http://www.eventhelix.com/RealtimeMantra/CongestionControl/m_m_1_queue.htmYour standard joe six-pack queue. Queuing ghosts of ten years past!
John Travolta-style dancing is the way to a woman's heart - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3179332/John-Travolta-style-dancing-is-the-way-to-a-womans-heart.htmlThis guy is so freaking hot!
EROS Documentation -- EROS Windowing System
http://www.eros-os.org/papers/usenix-sec2004.psPretty nice
CritLink: Public Web Annotation
http://zesty.ca/crit/Cool, like that post-it-notes-on-sites idea.
Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture
http://playthisthing.com/shab-al-hiri-roachTabletop game. Emily Short liked it so it's probably good. :)
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=allSuddenly it seems like there may be a reason to own a house
Skim | Home
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/Read PDFs with built-in annotation support nicer than Preview.app's. Looks like it should be useful
The Origins of Microsoft's Oslo Software Modeling Platform
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/The-Origins-of-Microsofts-Oslo-Software-Modeling-Platform/nonbeard 2008-09-30 07:07:41
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallmanThe Guardian implies that RMS agrees with Larry Ellison about cloud computing. In fact, they have opposing views. Larry Ellison isn't complaining about the concept (offsite services), he's complaining about the language ("we already did all this before cloud computing came along"). RMS is complaining about the concept.
Rant: Zombie Feminism
http://io9.com/5053881/zombie-feminism"You've got a naked girl, strapped to a bed in a mental institution, being raped by a bunch of teenaged guys. Clearly a situation in need of a feminist zombie intervention if I ever saw one."
Channa (Chickpea) Chat with Chat Masala: A recipe « A Life (Time) of Cooking
http://vegeyum.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/chatting-away-chickpea-chat-with-chat-masala/Oh yeah.
Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org
http://waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_turk/Great idea, but: $2 per (admittedly small) job? Payment at employer discretion? No recourse for workers? Seems kinda evil.
FOXNews.com - New Iguana Species Found in Fiji - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425021,00.htmlThis is a really handsome-looking iguana!
Audio Atrocities (TM) :: Game Index by Name
http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/index.htmlHilariously bad voice acting in games, via Joystiq
David Foster Wallace (Harper's Magazine)
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003557Includes the complete "The Depressed Person"
Breaking: David Foster Wallace Dead of Suicide at 46
http://gawker.com/5049526/david-foster-wallace-dead-of-suicide-at-46"[L]earning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed."
Analemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnalemmaThe path traced by the sun (or moon) as viewed from a fixed position over the course of a year. Couldn't remember what these were when I saw one on the cover of Anathem. There, that's surely enough keywords for next time. :)
When I say centrifugal, I mean centrifugal! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/08/30/when-i-say-centrifugal-i-mean-centrifugal/Harrumph.
FreeBSD bike shed
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=506636+517178+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991003.freebsd-hackersTeehee
Nabble - Python - python-dev - An obscene computed goto bytecode hack for "switch" :)
http://www.nabble.com/An-obscene-computed-goto-bytecode-hack-for-"switch"-:)-td4910639.htmlEvil! I like it!
Bottle maturation, colour and ullage
http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/20070405Oxygen (does, does not) (retard, encourage) maturation. Also I learned a new word, ullage: "Free space above a liquid contained in a tank, drum or tank-container, expressed as a percentage of the total capacity."
Waterfootprint.org: Water footprint and virtual water
http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/homeInteresting
A Healthy Relationship
http://egypt.urnash.com/Illustration/AHealthyRelationshipGlaDOS scorned (via Bryn)
Pop Feminist: Masculinity and the "Fall" of Starbucks
http://popfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/09/masculinity-and-fall-of-starbucks.htmlWait, now *asceticism* is masculine? Long bow
Fragile Web Development with SQL on Rails
http://www2.sqlonrails.org/images/book/sorbook_large.png
nonbeard 2008-09-04 06:26:44
Burrows-Wheeler transform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows-Wheeler_transformMind is blown
PAX 2008: Ken Levine teaches us about comics, sex - Joystiq
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/29/pax-2008-ken-levine-teaches-us-about-comics-sex/Very funny talk about being a nerd. "Let me let you in on a little secret. When certain members of your D&D group start inappropriately buffing other members of your D&D group, when certain members of your D&D group start handing over primo loot drops to other members of your D&D group who don't necessarily deserve those loot drops, and the beneficiaries of this generosity happen to have names like Heather, Kelly, and Pam, the days of your D&D group are fucking numbered."
Deadprogrammer Visits Odessa : Part II : Balconies and Yards | Dead Programmer's Cafe
http://www.deadprogrammer.com/deadprogrammer-visits-odessa-part-iiDoorbells
Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python
http://effbot.org/zone/simple-top-down-parsing.htmThis is clever. I thought "what a well-written article!" before noticing it was by the effbot (and thus maybe letting my knowledge that he writes great articles bias my judgement).
Page F30: Five myths about languages and how to learn them
http://mithridates.blogspot.com/2008/08/five-myths-about-languages-and-how-to.html"Languages are not all equally difficult to learn" -- duh. "Children aren't just not gifted at learning languages, they actually suck" -- less obvious
Real-Time Concurrent Issues Drive Ada versus Java Choice | COTS Journal
http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/home/article.php?id=100827Freaking interesting (to me).
Cows point north thanks to in-built compasses - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2623809/Cows-point-north-thanks-to-in-built-compasses.htmlHeadline
Totally Heavenly Product
http://www.crummy.com/2008/08/25/2I must assert that I’m generally one that does not love shopping online, but my concept on that has changed since I ordered my RESTful Web Services from ebay...