I don’t know what order to post the clips but I think I’ve decided to paste them in the order that I found them. First we have Dan Grigsby on the Mobile Orchard: Wayne Pan benchmarked JavaScript on the iPhone 3.0 beta as compared to the 2.2 release and found performance improvements of 3-10x for [...]
Rosemary Greenway has been playing passages of opera and orchestral symphonies on the radio to the animals at her stables for more than 20 years, convinced that it helps soothe them. While not all of her staff are quite as fond of the output of Classic FM as she is, Mrs Greenway, 62, kept the [...]
Paul E. Davis brings us this insight into why “non-programmer” languages like COBOL and BASIC don’t get the respect they deserve… I find it interesting that languages designed for non-programmers always result in and epic fail. The two most well know examples are COBOL and Visual Basic. While the languages themselves took off, you rarely [...]
I can’t help it but the word “fuck” is one of the best words in the English language. Whether you think it started as an acronym for “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” or just comes from the Germanic “fuk” (“to strike”), you have to agree it’s very utilitarian. Here is an example of it being used [...]
Looks like the cat might be out of the bag for Windows 7. Mary Jo Foley and Ars Technica are reporting on a slip of the ol’ upload key that got caught. Looks like Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 will be release in May 2009. This will allow for plenty of “testing”, not like there [...]
I don’t know if you have used SVG style vector graphics. I have. A lot. I hate that no version of Internet Explorer supports this format (including the recently release Internet Explorer 8). Please, for the sake of the Internet adopting a great file format that saves space, is scalable at different resolutions, push Microsoft [...]
I briefly mentioned Elaine Wherry, a co-founder of meebo, yesterday in my Ada Lovelace Day post. Web chat service Meebo, always innovative with advertising, is trying out something fairly aggressive: full takeover ads that show a persistent advertisement in the background. The company says that they already got 1% or higher click throughs on existing [...]
“Oh, it’d take years to figure out the dynamics of this matrix.” – Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott And yet! That formula Scotty gave for transparent aluminum in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home very nearly exists in the form of aluminum oxynitride (known as ALONtm). Harder than diamond, ALONtm is far more shock resistant than [...]
Simply beautiful. Space shuttle Discovery undocked from the ISS on Wednesday, providing the dramatic first views of the space station with its full company of solar arrays unfurled. “Discovery, Alpha, Godspeed,” ISS commander Mike Fincke radioed after the shuttle departed. “Thanks for making us symmetrical, giving us full power, and all the other wonderful things [...]
This is great research for Alzheimers. This reminds me of the research on mental illnesses with the Amish. Relatively closed societies with a smaller number of environmental factors to rule out. It’s cool! Plus they get to keep the brains in jars! The Nun Study, as it’s called, has tracked the cognitive abilities and motor [...]
Martin over at gHacks posted this lucent and well thought out post about content copying…or…scraping as it’s called in the biz. I suggest you read the whole thing if you are interested in free back links because the “blackhatters” and I use that term very loosely here, can actually help your SERP position if you [...]
I dated a girl that worked on integrating electronics into rat brains. If I get brave someday, I might post a few of her emails and exactly what she thought of my rat brain. Considering that they have connected neurons to silicon…Terminators aren’t far off. Or keeping with our Battlestar Galactica finale week, CylonW skinjobs. [...]
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Wireless messages sent on a BlackBerry are so hard to intercept that the smartphones have become the device of choice for both criminals and law enforcement, police say. While some police admit that level of security makes [...]
Ok, I frakin’ gave in and opened a Twitter account. It’s just to get some SEO juice if that happens. The link is http://twitter.com/theminorityrepo Whatever…don’t bust my chops about it. I still have no idea why people Twitter and I feel really dirty right now. Oh and I’m using Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin to [...]
Wesley J. Chun brings us a twelve page article on the changes to the Python programming language in version 3. I’m guessing these changes have been discussed for a while due to this Python Regrets document from Guido van RossumW back in 2002. p.s. I think I’m running out of “clever” Python headlines… p.p.s. Guido [...]
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