Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
22jun2005
Dave Roberts has good ILC 2005 writeups.
Capricorn PetaBox, nice to see they ship them now.
…and whenever he was again threatened by the sad thought that so many people in the world were so rich and he so poor, he merely thought of Herr Kannitverstan in Amsterdam, of his great house, his rich ship and his narrow grave. — Johann Peter Hebel, Kannitverstan
Google Maps now has world-wide satellite photos, but of varying quality. See where I live.
No one knows where she comes from
Maybe she’s a devil in disguise
I can tell by looking in her eyes.
— Jimi Hendrix, Little Miss Strange
Over the Hump for Open Source Geospatial Software, “From an arriviste’s perspective, it seems as if the reluctance of traditional GIS software vendors to open their specifications, their data formats and protocols, has driven innovation in geospatial software, of the open source flavour particularly.”
Without Jack Kilby, Computers would have been Much Heavier, a post-mortem.
And I still want you,
Love in the altitudes, no one but me and you.
— Dead Moon, In The Altitudes
Chunky Bacon Warrants Deletion, too bad.
Innovation Happens Elsewhere on lemonodor. Click on all links on that post, they are worth it. I didn’t know RPG was writing a book on Open Source.
Microsoft Plays Footsie with Dictators, Preston Gralla comments on China and MSN.
Bayosphere Citizen Journalism Pledge by Dan Gilmor commented by Joi Ito. I think it’s a very good idea.
Removing a pattern can simplify a system and a simple solution should almost always win. — Erich Gamma, Patterns and Practice
Backtracking, Interleaving, and Terminating Monad Transformers by Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-chieh Shan, Daniel P. Friedman and Amr Sabry.
Extracting Video from Cat Brains by mindpixel, truly impressive.
Crystal Scheme: A Language for Massively Parallel Machines via LtU.