Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
03oct2008
LHC Grid Fest, “When the Large Hadron Collider comes into operation, it will begin to produce an expected 15 million gigabytes of data every year, enough information to create a 21-kilometre-high stack of CDs annually. On 3rd October, the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid consortium announce the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), an e-infrastructure conceived and designed to support this data challenge.”
Ruby Manor, a promising conference idea.
Missed Connections, mapped by state.
das ist als wuerde der ORF
aufhoeren zu senden :) — Manuel Simoni
Moving Beyond Modernism in 6 Easy Steps, a simple guide for architects.
Tetris Tiles, want have!
So it’s fare thee well my own true love,
We’ll meet another day, another time.
It ain’t the leavin’
That’s a-grievin’ me
But my true love who’s bound to stay behind.
— Bob Dylan, Farewell
NetFlix Origami, The fun way to recycle your NetFlix flaps.
The XO abides, Danny O’Brien analyzes slow-cooked software.
Empty Boxes: a business idea, WJW.
The Fear, John Gruber has 2781 words on the NDA and remaining problems of the App Store.
On Wedding Design, marrying a designer: not the worst idea.
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
— Pete Seeger, Turn! Turn! Turn!
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841 9716939937510.com.
PocketGuitar is an application which turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a virtual guitar.
An update to the email standards, a diff.
Die Stimme Gottes: “Ich habe es nicht gewollt.” — Karl Kraus, Die Letzten Tage Der Menschheit
02oct2008
Let’s build an MP3-decoder! in Haskell. “The end result is a decoder that is inefficient and not standards compliant, but with hopefully readable code.”
Skunk Bomb?, Israel Takes Chemical Warfare to a Stinky New Level, WJW.
He’ll take you up, he’ll bring you down,
He’ll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low,
He knows exactly which way hes gonna go.
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
— Moody Blues, Legend Of A Mind
A Sysadmin’s Unixersal Translator (Rosetta Stone), or: What do they call that in this world? Very useful. Covers AIX, A/UX, DG/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NCR Unix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Reliant, SCO OpenServer, Solaris, SunOS 4, Tru64, Ultrix, and UNICOS.
The Credit Crisis and the Bailout in Plain English, by Liar. “It will explain the role of FNMA (Fannie Mae) and FHLMC (Freddie Mac), mortgage-backed securities, Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO), mark to market, prime, subprime, a run, the Community Reinvestment Act, and liquidity in the current situation. These terms will be introduced as gently as possible.”
I see the ships of a friendly fleet
And a song so sweetly sounding
And gentle souls who think not to defeat
As across the waves they are bounding
— Gene Clark, 1975
My concerns about the Senate financial services bill, without commentary, by Gregory Brown.
The iPhone Book is in Beta!, now that the NDA fell.
RFC 5321 and RFC 5322 now obsolete RFC 2821 (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and RFC 2822 (Internet Message Format). I wouldn’t have expected that.
01oct2008
Google 2001, “In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.” Amazing, but only up for a month.
Visibility is a pager-like thing for your X11 desktop, showing the icons of open windows.
CodeCity is an integrated environment for software analysis, in which software systems are visualized as interactive, navigable 3D cities.
Now you’re telling me you’re not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
— Joan Baez, Diamonds And Rust
Photoshop photo frame, the first ever analog “digital” photo frame. WJW.
Origami, the first folding editor, which is even programmable in a Lisp like language. Compiles with minor adjustments.
MilaX is a small size Live CD distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive. It is based on Solaris Nevada and includes its basic features. Installation needs ~300 megabytes of disk, GUI is optional, and I couldn’t find any Java stuff there—way to go for a Solaris server.
Well, I want you to know, I just had to go.
I want you to know, we just had to grow.
So it’s goodbye first love, and I hope you’re fine.
— The Incredible String Band, First Girl I Loved
Emiller’s Guide To Nginx Module Development, recommended.
Webmachine, a layer that adds HTTP semantic awareness on top of the excellent bit-pushing and HTTP syntax-management provided by mochiweb.
Gerrit macht sich frei – Teil 5: Das erste Jahr, Gerrit van Aaken berichtet über sein erstes Jahr als selbstständiger Designer. Sehr lesenswert.
Nothing is too trivial to test, that wouldn’t have happened in Haskell. ;-)
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