February 2009
Katrina's Hidden Race War →
It’s disturbing to think these guys can be boasting about murdering and not be brought to justice.
This is My Process →
When I do a design project, I begin by listening carefully to you as you talk about your problem and read whatever background material I can find that relates to the issues you face. If you’re lucky, I have also accidentally acquired some firsthand experience with your situation. Somewhere along the way an idea for the design pops into my head from out of the blue. I can’t really...
AirBed & Breakfast: Hacker House in Palo Alto →
A house of YC startups have a spare room that any passing by hackers can crash in
Everything that’s wrong about Cappuccino, quoted... →
WatchEvery hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, a different person will make the Fourth Trafalgar Square Plinth their own. If you’re selected, you can use your time on the plinth as you like.
lastify →
adds Last.fm Love, Ban and tagging abilities to Spotify
Conference Call Golf →
The Impossibility Of Ticketing. →
I’m one of the BarcampLondon6 organisers and ticketing has been crazy. Our batches sell out in 15-60 seconds. We need to find a better approach than the current rush.
Whenever →
let’s you specify cron jobs inside your Ruby or Rails app
Grok →
I went to see a series of video installations tonight scattered around Carnaby Street called Grok that I found via unlike who launched a London version of it’s city events guides recently.
Etherpad Time Slider →
See Paul Graham write his latest Essay. Writing as a spectator sport. It’s fun to see what aproach people take to writing. Could be interesting for preventing cheating on essays etc too.
How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci →
Counting hours doesn't make sense →
“Events are cheap publicity. People who ordinarily wouldn’t come, come. You just...”
– Small Stores Find New Ways to Drum Up Traffic
Perl, the first postmodern computer language →
there are far too many tasty bits in this to quote them all. Well worth a read.
“It’s just that Modernism tended to take one of the pieces in isolation and...”
– Perl, the first postmodern computer language
“That’s why IMP is better for math students like me—we learn better...”
– Perl, the first postmodern computer language
StupidFilter →
is an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we’re collecting a ranked corpus of...
Banach–Tarski paradox →
is a theorem in set theoretic geometry which states that a solid ball in 3-dimensional space can be split into several non-overlapping pieces, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball
What I've Learned from Hacker News →
The downside of tuning a site to attract certain people is that, to those people, it can be too attractive. I’m all too aware how addictive Hacker News can be. For me, as for many users, it’s a kind of virtual town square. When I want to take a break from working, I walk into the square, just as I might into Harvard Square or University Ave in the physical world. [7] But an online...
“The most dangerous form of stupid comment is not the long but mistaken argument,...”
– What I’ve Learned from Hacker News
“The most dangerous thing for the frontpage is stuff that’s too easy to...”
– What I’ve Learned from Hacker News
Notes from LIFT Asia →
Lift is on my list of conference that I simply must get around to attending
“The worst part about creation is finishing, and throwing the end product out the...”
– Music, Alone — Thought Palace via Fraser Speirs & nikf
“The danger is that when you spend all your time deciphering what other people...”
– The media and Web 2.0
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rest-client, fetch RESTful resources effortlessly →
A simple REST client for Ruby, inspired by the Sinatra‘s microframework style of specifying actions: get, put, post, delete.
git-wiki →
git-wiki is a wiki that relies on git to keep pages’ history and Sinatra to serve them.
Writing (Ruby) Domain Specific Languages →
New Indie Videogame Movement
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Last.fm giving data to the RIAA? →
Glad this is untrue, but it would be totally possible to scrape this data from the last.fm site despite how protective the team are of user data
Accenture's next champion of waffle words →
This kind of premium bullshit is why I avoid large organisations like the plague.
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express...”
– Lord Kelvin
Liberty in Britain is facing death by a thousand... →
“This is the best time in history to have a worst time — the time at which our...”
– Cory Doctorow (via msg, wreckandsalvage)
