Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
26jan2007
Smart or Stoopid?, I scored 20 points, having no imagination of imperial units or deeper knowledge of American history.
Which programming language gets you the most sex?, Dan Zambonini becomes a master in asking dumb questions, truly.
Via’s incredible shrinking mobo line spawns “pico-ITX”, “The “Epia PX” board measures 3.9 x 2.8 inches and features a 1GHz C7 processor, along with rich audio/video I/O, albeit mostly on pin headers.” Neato.
You can ask which side I’m on
But all I see is horror
A war only death would win
When I’m looking at the skyline of Berlin
— David Rovics, Berlin
Smoking is good for you!, how to make smokey pictures.
Holy Land Maps online.
The Declining Quality of Mathematics Education in the US, by Coryoth. “The real tragedy is that, because mathematics is a heavily layered subject, each new topic building upon the previous ones, once students fall behind catching up can be a nightmare.”
HydraCube is an open source, free, parallel software to provide scalable Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) capabilities like aggregation, slicing and dicing of multi dimensional hierarchical data. It is an MOLAP server built on top of BerkeleyDB for efficient data handling and addresses sparsity very well using Bit Encoded Storage Scheme (BESS).
Sudoku Solver by Logic helps you when you’re stuck and tells you what you should have concluded. (Doesn’t work in Safari.)
Parsing Web Form Input in CGI Shell Scripts, by Chris F.A. Johnson. The nineties are calling…
Rails Cookbook: Released, Rob Orsini announces: “The Rails Cookbook is finally available! I wasn’t sure how the timing of the book’s production schedule and that of the release of Rails 1.2 would work out, but it looks like I nailed it.”
Tabu search is a mathematical optimization method, belonging to the class of local search techniques. Tabu search enhances the performance of a local search method by using memory structures.
I know I’ve dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don’t have much time
Faith has been broken tears must be cried
Let’s do some living after we die
— The Rolling Stones, Wild Horses
MySpace Allegedly Kills Computer Security Website,”Computer security guru Fyodor reports waking up yesterday to find his website SecLists.org essentially removed from the web by his domain registrar, GoDaddy.” Ouch.
9P: Plan 9 File Protocol, several implementations are available. I wonder how it maps to REST.
Melting Metals in a Domestic Microwave Oven, be careful.