January 2010
163 posts
Not So Fast: We Crack Open a 1999 Time Capsule →
drops →
December 2009
39 posts
The power of origami →
Rise of the Tablog → Put Things Off →
“open("/dev/dsp","wb"){|h|s=%q{d=["-KQW[UZbgu*HNT+]TNOOOTZ+cZTUUUUUZbagmssUZbagm
s...”
– Merry Quine-mas
Wow. Synthesizes Joy to the World, and prints the lyrics syllable-by-syllable in time to the music, has a picture of a Christmas tree and the words MERRY XMAS in space, and is a quine. Impressive.
Genetos →
The history of shmups via a schmup.
We The Giants →
“The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the...”
– Samuel Johnson (via Futility Closet)
Derailing for Dummies →
Stripes: A Conceptual Operating System User... →
Very nice. There are a couple of things I’m not huge on; the large unused screen space, the vertical menu, the way the contextual menu shows up. Also, the inability to arrange multiple windows on the screen at one time. But these can be fixed with relative to ease. Would be especially great with a full touch interface (can’t wait till we get those standard).
Continuity: A Flash Puzzle Platformer →
The first few levels are a bit too easy, but some of the later ones get tricky.
“I’m not paying you anything extra to do the website because it is simply a...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend... →
Great writeup by the brilliant Rohit Khare.
“extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing...”
– incunabula (singular incunabulum)
Data Blogging for Fun and Profit →
Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit →
Cliff Young, 61 Year Old Farmer Who Won World’s... →
“I don’t even have any very sophisticated Emacs jiggery-pokery.”
– Simon Peyton-Jones
Zomia, the other Asia →
Voco - Clocks that talk, featuring Stephen Fry →
A Blueprint for a Quantum Propulsion Machine →
Sadly, my quantum physics knowledge isn’t good enough to understand this, but the bloggy summary here is nonetheless readable. (Really, I just wanted to have the words “Quantum Propulsion” on my blog.)
“There’s a little-known fact that I don’t usually tell anybody, but...”
– Stop Paying for Windows Security; Microsoft’s Security Tools Are Good Enough - Security - Lifehacker
How to Report Bugs Effectively →
“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so...”
– C. A. R. Hoare
360° MP3 player UI demo (SoundManager 2):... →
Quite cool.
WatchPandoras Box Quite cool, although could possibly use some sound.
