Here's how to get over it! (December 29th, 2009, 0)
go hungry because you can't afford food, not because you can't cook. Everything follows this rule. (December 27th, 2009, 0)
your favorite authors define you... how did you do? (December 27th, 2009, 0)
This is just priceless. (December 22nd, 2009, 0)
Mag+
Mag+ is a prototype for the nextgen magazine. I like the idea behind it, but honestly, it’s about time for an affordable gadget that works as a tablet, ebook reader, magazine, and so on to be made available. Something akin to Crunchpad/JooJoo (without the drama), or Courier (maybe without the microsoft?). Something I can browse the web with, check my emails, read ebooks and newsfeeds, take a few notes, make some simple sketches and so on… until then, I guess I’ll have to do with sexy concepts and rough prototypes…
Drinking Like Mad Women
The ladies at Double X magazine decided to try to go through a typical work day like the boys from “Mad Men”. I’d like to try that too, sometime.
A desktop that works as a desktop is supposed to. Absolutely fantastic! (October 14th, 2009, 0)
Yeah but no but yeah.
True story, but it might as well be a Mitch Hedberg joke: Stewardess, right after Cptn. turns on seatbelt sign: “ladies and gentlemen, it is now 6:30 pm San francisco local time. the captain has informed me that we will be landing at 7:20, so in around 30 minutes. therefore, I would suggest you all get up and move around a little. actually I just noticed the seatbelt signs, so don’t. that will be all.”
This message will self-destruct in 5. 4. 3.... An interesting approach to electronic data privacy. (October 1st, 2009, 0)
Hollywood movies, plots and scenes from a mathematician's point of view. Fun read. (September 13th, 2009, 0)
a NOSQL non-relational hmmm
Digg apparently has started using Cassandra (a structured key-value store) as an alternative to MySQL for some of their features. MySQL is pretty much the standard for a wide range of large SNS (including Facebook, Flickr, and Digg itself). As someone who’s done his fair-share of work scaling, federating, sharding, and doing other -ings to databases to speed up and optimize large amounts of data for web applications, it’s interesting to see where this experiment leads to.
note: Cassandra was originally developed by Facebook, released as open source in ‘08, and is now an apache incubator project. Don’t you just love the web?
Patterns in nature
Nature composed the music. This guy just wrote it down.
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
The prophets descendants are a litigative bunch! (August 31st, 2009, 0)
This story about a snake biting a British tourist on Holiday in Bavaria is not THAT interesting... the comments on the other hand are hilarious! (August 20th, 2009, 0)
The merits of project planning: Suicide bomber killed by suicide bomber while en-route to target!
Terrorist leaders have called the incident a "wake-up call." "No one likes to see a senseless waste of a willingness to take human life," said al-Qaeda operative Salih al-Shimiri, in a videotaped message aired on Al-Jazeera Monday evening. "However, there are worse problems than having too many suicide bombers on our streets."(August 20th, 2009, 0)
Uncomfortable plot summaries
Uncomfortable, sometimes funny, and politically incorrect plot summaries of popular movies.
my favorites:
300: Gays kill blacks.
BLADE: Obsessed loner stalks minority group.
STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE: Religious extremist terrorists destroy government installation, killing thousands.
STAR WARS: EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Boy is abused by midget, kisses sister, attempts patricide.
TERMINATOR: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications.
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: Mel Gibson fulfills fantasy of showing a Jew beaten to a bloody pulp and killed on-screen.
ROCKY: White man beats black man.
(via kottke.org)
TV Shows opening credits
Dexter has got to have the coolest opening credits clip (the “morning routine“) on TV right now.
A close-but-not-VERY-close second is “True Blood“.
Thoughts? Other candidates?
