December 2008
Decline →
Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb think... →
(Thanks Clifford Pickover)
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Florida State victorious in a rout (42-13) woohoo!
Please make the Valkyrie adds stop. Seriously Tom, you’ve almost convinced me to root for Hitler.
Connect360 rules!
Google Trends →
Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS) →
Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for…
2008 Christmas Special →
riotclitshave @ 2008-12-21T16:35:00 →
Welcome to Solr →
Coders, make money by improving the Neuros LINK... →
Neuros has offered their bounties to programmers willing to create code for their Neuros Link set-top box. I love this model of development. It pays programmers for their time (if at what is…
[hivedb] http://is.gd/cndb Dave Peckham - * fixed a bug in the getCount* methods. The code was only looking at the query result from the …
More iPhone app developers need to embrace the idea of caching data locally.
Snipers →
Really interesting article on snipers: It might be because there’s another side to snipers and sniping after all. In particular, even though a sniper will often be personally responsible for huge…
A BRIC to the head →
There are certain terms in use in the English language that cannot help but reveal the person uttering them to be guilty of lazy thinking at the very least, and perhaps even an outright idiot.
If…
Good aim! Also, good reflexes. →
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Marshmallow Gun →
Making pancetta prune stuffing.
At the eye doctor listening to the worst imaginable christmas music.
Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The... →
Yesterday’s scandal over the UK Internet Watch Foundation’s attempt to censor a purportedly pedophiliac Wikipedia entry raises some important questions about unintended technical consequences of…
Hipster Albino Santa Christ to save Palm's... →
The only thing that really upsets me about this campaign is that I was pretty sure Hipster Albino Santa Christ was my schtick. Guess I’m buying a Centro now. The mistletoe is made of…
Stopping People From Spreading Your Ideas Doesn't... →
Reader Another Mike sent in a long, but interesting story in Fast Company about a supposed “Green Guru” named William McDonough. The profile is not particularly flattering, painting McDonough as a…
Legacy Futures →
Reading a talk given by science fiction author Ken Macleod, I came across this bit: I used the term ‘legacy code’ in one of my novels, and Farah Mendlesohn, a science-fiction critic who read it…
- The Merb Open Source Book - →
Hipster Albino Santa Christ to save Palm's... →
The only thing that really upsets me about this campaign is that I was pretty sure Hipster Albino Santa Christ was my schtick. Guess I’m buying a Centro now. The mistletoe is made of…
Giving songbird another shot as an itunes replacement…perhaps they have corrected the UI hideousness.
At work almost an hour early due to errands, this is my first opportunity to read the web in a week.
XRVG →
a ruby Vector Graphics Library
BART - For Developers →
jQuery on Rails: Why Bother? // RailsTips by John... →
calaboration - Google Code →
Agile development has turned me into an email/Twitter hermit
Watch“Prop 8 - The Musical” starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more… from FOD Team, Jack Black, Craig Robinson, John C Reilly, and Rashida Jones
