Tuesday, November 29, 2005
More links…
Franco is still dead, and Stanford B School researchers say that who you know dominates who get’s the job (abstract); now with improved with social networking.
Very fun screen cast of about the Java Script library known as Mochi.
Cool winter weather browser shows snow cover, percipitation, tempurature, elevation, etc. etc. etc. Those guys at [...]
Friday, November 18, 2005
Property rights – now a new major religion
Thrifty nude beaches?
Eating your own tail.
Users space filesystems are cool (language bindings).
For example you can finally build secure file systems doing things such as enforcing: ‘this guy can only make this pattern of requests’. How about edit Flickr in emacs?
Color Bubbles and temporary dyes.
Audio Search via speech [...]
This blog is totally on a roll!
For example this wonderful example of how one metric could lead you to entirely the wrong conclusions.
What, if anything, can be drawn from any of this? Not to put too fine a point on it, but people are scandal-mongers in private and they are helpful prudes in public.
Of course [...]
Decayed Machinery
I have a rule of thumb about signs. They send signals about the past. Once upon a time, someting didn’t go quite right. They got a sign.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
I’ve been messing around with mt.el (an emac mode for blog editing MovableType blogs) but currently it’s not working out just right. It appears that posting works, but when it retrieves the postings all the open angle brackets are converted to <. It appears that movable type is sending the postings back with [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Stu’s having fun! Translucent concrete, power free refrigerators, cheap around the world travel. It’s better than an old copy of popular science!
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Del.icio.us is neat.
What’s in it for me? I get an account where I can collect bookmarks and access them from all over the web. It’s easy, since I can add bookmarks to your account using a bookmarklet. So I can type cmd-2 and hit a button I’ve saved another URL.
What [...]
Photoshop Tatoos – Hehe, the media office at BYU decided to hide the tatoos on their basketball players.
Longhorn – Good reasonably short overview of longhorn by a VC.
I’m Above Average (pdf) – An amusing essay about the puzzle presented by reading the liturature that shows that people tend to rate themselves above average. Given [...]
Worse Mistake – Jarred Diamond opines that agriculture was a lousy deal for most of the population, but good for the elites. I think “Diamond” is a great example of a high signal value name.
Top Ten Lists – Is there anything more elite? … “The publication of multiple ten-best lists is probably a well-intentioned [...]
Monday, December 22, 2003
Six second videos – Art!
del.icio.us
THERE ARE ALSO LIMITS WHICH CANNOT BE EXCEEDED DUE TO THE STRUCTURE – but then, SQUOZE provides 4 bits for dynamic typing!
Loom — Excellent blog on genetics and biology.
CBO on 50 year deficit – bleck.
SeatGuru – Sad, but I need this. Where the good seats are on the airplane.
Commit Sluts [...]
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