Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
14jul2008
Fast, Inexpensive Content-Addressed Storage in Foundation, by Sean Rhea, Russ Cox, and Alex Pesterev. “Foundation preserves all of a user’s data and its dependencies—fonts, programs, plugins, kernel, and configuration state—by archiving nightly snapshots of the user’s entire hard disk. Users can browse through these images to view old data or recover accidentally deleted files.”
The urban ninja: a synergetic low wind kite project, cool.
Video: Jeff Dean’s Google I/O Presentation, an hour of video. First eight minutes are the architecture of Google’s former datacenters. Worth watching.
Oh until I don’t know where you end and, I begin
Until I just, carry it in me
Carry it in me, carry it in me
I wanna get lost, wanna get lost
Wanna get lost, lost
— Cocteau Twins, Tishbite
Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art. In a world obsessed with superficial appearance it is a refreshing change to be able to look beyond the surface. Check out the portfolio.
30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth, impressive.
Do you wanna party? It’s partytime
We gotta party! It’s partytime
Oh, she never had a chance
— 45 Grave, Partytime
A Language for Generic Programming in the Large, by Jeremy G. Siek and Andrew Lumsdaine. “Many programming languages provide generics and have features for describing interfaces, but none completely support the idioms used in generic programming. To address this need we developed the language G.”
Idea: Paintings of descriptions of the paintings, excellent.
The Akwizgran Discrepancy at BLDG BLOG.