Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29dec2006
15K people per hour, by transport mode, “From Vuchic’s Transportation for Livable Cities, what does it take to move 15,000 people/hour using different modes of transport.”
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) is an American political neo-conservative think tank, based in Washington, DC co-founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The group was established in early 1997 as a non-profit organization with the goal of promoting American global leadership.
sipsak is a small command line tool for developers and administrators of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) applications. It can be used for some simple tests on SIP applications and devices.
One last thing before I shuffle off the planet
I will be the one to make you crawl
so I came down to wish you an unhappy birthday
someone call the ambulance there’s gonna be an accident
— Placebo, Infra-Red
Java 7.0 language feature considered harmful, that’s the most tasteless feature I ever saw. :-P
Lighttpd powers 5 Alexa Top 250 sites, nice.
A Semantic Solution for Presenting NSFW Content, by PJ Doland and Jack Shedd. An interesting problem. SFW.
How old is the Grand Canyon? Park service won’t say, “In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. WJW.
GMail Disaster, Google confirmed the Mass Email Deletions. Even back up gone?, Hari K. Gottipati wonders. Looks like only 60 people are affected. Hardly a “disaster”. And yes, I POP my mails daily.
Why PUT and DELETE?, a Conversation with Elliotte Rusty Harold. REST 101.
The Siphoning Splat, _why says: “The splat is such a wildly devious little asterisk.”
2006: The Year in Construction, awesome shots.
The grass is high, it could use a trim
But it s so hot and dry
It might just turn brown and burn
— Dan Bern, Grownups
Going behind that door, enter Downing Street 10 online.
Hung Over, Damien Katz feels worse than I do. And a nice pun in the comments.
Identifying Hierarchical Structure in Sequences: A linear-time algorithm, by Craig G. Nevill-Manning and Ian H. Witten. “Sequitur is an algorithm that infers a hierarchical structure from a sequence of discrete symbols by replacing repeated phrases with a grammatical rule that generates the phrase, and continuing this process recursively. The result is a hierarchical representation of the original sequence, which offers insights into its lexical structure.”