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Posts from February 2008

links for 2008-02-29

The importance of global news and why we don’t have it
Haven’t see this yet but it’s hogging my tabs!
(tags: ted)

Suburbs: The Next Slum
(tags: finance housing realestate)

The Encyclopedia of Life, No Bookshelf Required - New York Times

Karen Armstrong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(tags: philosophy people religion ted)

TED | TEDBlog: TEDPrize.org launches today
(tags: ted)


Smoke on the water - Ancient Japanese style

Smoke on the water - Ancient Japanese style


links for 2008-02-28

Vitamin Features » How to recreate Silverback’s Parallax
Nifty CSS tricks
(tags: css)

John Graham-Cumming: Tonight, I’m going to write myself an Aston Martin
Interesting idea on how to automatically find doctored images. Based on work done in Suny Binghamton.
(tags: image processing)

World Wide Telescope
This looks awesome
(tags: microsoft ted space)


Google Sky

But if you don’t want to wait for World Wide Telescope, it’s already in the awesomest program EVER, Google Earth.
I can spend hours playing with that program. I think men are more into it than women as a rule, but whatever, it rulez.


Prince, even better

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xianjessen, originally uploaded by boyshapedbox.

If only there was a node for pancakes.


Song Map

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brianmn, originally uploaded by boyshapedbox.


Shark Jumping

The consensus over here at Benchcoach World Headquarters is that Paul Graham has jumped the shark. Six Principles for Making New Things:
Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a […]


Victory is Mine!

After Friday night’s moment of maturity, it looks like the situation has mellowed out.

Going back to my network now…
If I were him though I would have changed my wireless config SSID so it said something other than “Wireless”… like “Hi MLAX!” say, so that everyone could see it.


Maturity

Let the games begin!

In case you find yourself in a similar situation…

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU
# gem install dnssd
# gem install net-mdns
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘webrick’
require ‘net/dns/mdns-sd’

DNSSD = Net::DNS::MDNSSD

[”Music”,
“Mom’s Music”,
“Buddy’s Music”,
“Not Your Music”,
“Wide Open Wi-Fi’s Music”,
“Bad Valentine Day?’s Music”,
“Swinging Single’s Music”,
“Grumpy Brooklyn Mix”,
“Quick […]


Good Configurations makes Good Neighbors

I’m getting ready to head to the office this morning and as I’m unplugging the phone I see this:

Charming! Depending upon what wireless network my laptop deigns to connect to, I used to see Robin’s shared music (which is what you’d expect) or “mlax’s Shared Music”. mlax is, evidently, a little cranky this […]


links for 2008-02-12

Web Analytics Demystified | Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
(tags: article tools webanalytics analytics)

Introduction of R
(tags: economics pdf)


Michael Pollan and some permaculture

As a few of you know, I’m taking a permaculture course. I’m not sure that I’ve found the perfect venue for it, but anyway it’s a fascinating way of growing thing. It’s a fascinating way of looking at ecology, at least for me who has spent a lot of time building large systems […]


Withdrawal date: 12008

Obama version, from Will.i.am:

McCain version, from john.he.is:

10,000 years!


links for 2008-02-08

Alaska Resort Pioneers Revolutionary Hydrothermal Power | EcoGeek | Hydrothermal, Water, Chena, Using, Which
Pretty neat… they use ground water to get energy.
(tags: geothermal economics)


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