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...
$Quid: Don't Go Boating If You Owe Money to a Giant Squid
http://io9.com/5041137/dont-go-boating-if-you-owe-money-to-a-giant-squidThis is great.
Are you peeling bananas wrong? - By Steven E. Landsburg - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2067407/My friend Chris reckons that bananas ripen from the end furthest from the stem. But I just ate one that was clearly ripest at the stem end. This article is inconclusive.
Dennis' Whiskey Corner: Rye
http://www.mindspring.com/~mccarthys/whiskey/rye.htm"The sky is free, but the earth lives. The earth brings all our needs, but the sky contains our dreams. Ultimately earth cannot not prevent our desires from going where we cannot walk. Old Overholt is of the earth, yet from there it leads my spirit far away."
IMG_2800 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21468745@N04/2147395103Sweet dress made from eyeball yarn
Insubordiknit Handspun Yarn Shop: Vitreous humor
http://www.insubordiknit.com/yarn/archives/000861.phpYarn with eyeballs!
Baby's First Teratoma
http://www.theanticraft.com/archive/samhain06/teratoma.htmMore things for Catie to knit
YouTube - Robot helping Human - correcting human error
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Gbgg-Vq34It's condescend-o-bot, the humiliator! The best part is the way he makes almost a complete circle with his arm before screwing in the nut, and the meat sack's eyes obligingly follow. (via engadget)
Ostrich Egg | Dead Programmer's Cafe
http://www.deadprogrammer.com/ostrich-eggThe baked ostrich egg roll at the end is surely a dailyhfs candidate
Language Log » The Big Penis Book
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=505Starts with "big penis book", ends up talking about why e.g. "penis lengthy article" is unacceptable but "penis indigenous nudity" is acceptable. I can't *not* bookmark this.
The Tombs of Asciiroth
http://www.icculus.org/asciiroth/This is a really impressive Web-based rougelike. Actually it seems like a pretty great roguelike and the Web part is incidental, which is itself quite an accomplishment imo
GoNintendo » Blog Archive » Will Wright defends Miyamoto ‘games are better than toys’ statement, shares more of his Nintendo love- What are you waiting for?
http://gonintendo.com/?p=52237"The Wii, the way it’s reading the controller, you actually have a lot more bandwidth. It’s still a straw, but it’s a big straw - and for me that’s the really interesting part about the Wii." -- interesting perspective from Will Wright.