August 2008
66 posts
Commentary: Beverly "Hillary-billies" come to... →
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton owes some big bucks, as in tens of millions of dollars. So if you’re at the convention this week and you see her out in front of the hall selling pencils, buy one. She…
An Epic Introduction to PyObjC and Cocoa →
NJ License Plate Program - FormSpring →
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How Facebook dealt with Memcache Scaling →
23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac →
Worldbuilding: The Rules of Quick and Dirty... →
oldmoe: 101 Reasons Why PostgreSQL is a better fit... →
MySQL cannot utilize more than one index per query. I believe this is worth repeating: MySQL CANNOT UTILIZE MORE THAN ONE INDEX PER QUERY.
Does The New Business Of Music Change The Way... →
âWho the fuck wants to see a show at The Staples Center?â
Mythbusters to Tackle Moon Hoax Aug 27th | Wired... →
Since 2001, when FOX aired a television show called, “Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?” the myth that the Apollo Moon landings were faked has become part of the cultural fabric. FOX:…
RossBoucher.Com » Funk Rock » Blog Archive »... →
Iain Banks » Iain Banks email Q&A July 2008 →
Another of the Scots scifi authors making waves of late. Haven’t read his stuff, but this interview makes me think I should, esp. his talk about loving the “special effects” budget Scifi authors get.
Lawsuit seeks EPA pesticide data →
Strong evidence that a newish pesiticide introduced by Bayer is the cause of Colony Collapse, but EPA is refusing to release data. Lovely.
Gawking tourists not welcome in the Castro →
In the last three months, large tour buses have begun to park in the area on Thursday and Sunday afternoons, opening their doors and sending hundreds of tourists out to gawk and snap photos of the…
Court: Passengers can challenge no-fly list →
Critics of the government’s secret no-fly list scored a potentially important victory Monday when a federal appeals court ruled that would-be passengers can ask a judge and jury to decide whether…
Civil Liberties Examiner - Juror asks: What right... →
“Where if 2/3 of both houses of congress voted in 1919 that it was necessary to amend the constitution to give congress the power to ban mere possession of [alcohol] is the constitutional grant of…
dojox.gfx 1.1 documentation →
Vernor Vinge | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine →
What is futurist Vernor Vinge reading? His coffee tableâa metal bookcase topped with a piece of plywoodâis âcovered by a deep layer of books,â Vinge says, as are most other surfaces in his…
Brizzled: Why is Python more fun than Java? →
Burning Spear Beats Down Babylon, Takes Back... →
Reggae artist Burning Spear (a.k.a. Winston Rodney) says his musical career started to take off when he ran into a young Bob Marley in a field in Jamaica. Marley told him to head over to the Studio…
Curbed: CurbedWire: Leaky Chupi, Bad Apple in... →
The SoHo Alliance writes: “The SoHo Community - residents and the high-end retail stores - have been besieged ever since Apple SoHo moved in. The last straw was last Tuesday when thousands of…
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Selections From... →
What black arts could have stripped this chocolate of its natural hue? The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle’s complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.
HP ruggedizes ultraportable laptops →
Hewlett-Packard Co. today introduced ultraportable laptops that can easily switch between wireless 3G broadband networks and withstand harsh environmental condition
ErrorKey - Search engine for Error codes and... →
Search engine for Error codes and messages.
Teleportation? Very Possible. Next Up: Time... →
From the perspective of science, time travel was impossible in Newtonâs universe, where time was seen as an arrow. Once released, it could never deviate from its past. One second on Earth was one…
Teleportation? Very Possible. Next Up: Time... →
Some of the most far-out sci-fi is eminently do-able.
What's new in Pylons 0.9.7? - Pylons Cookbook -... →
For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time -... →
Outside a handful of majors — engineering and some of the sciences — a bachelor’s degree tells an employer nothing except that the applicant has a certain amount of intellectual ability and…
Steve’s Blog » Blackjack Optimal Strategy... →
Physicists spooked by faster-than-light... →
the photons had communicated … [at] at least 100,000 times faster than the speed of light â something nearly all physicists thought would be impossible.
Jean-Louis Gassée Returns from Obscurity… to Talk... →
Just like Australiaâs rabbit plague or Jim Hensonâs fatal âflesh eating bacteriaâ strep infection, the wild landscape and creative potential of personal computing was overrun and destroyed by…
NYC Panopticon Plans Take Shape | Danger Room from... →
Just about anything would set [Police radiation detecters] off — like a patient getting chemotherapy, for example.
Serial Evictees In San Francisco →
keyczar - Google Code →
Keyczar is an open source cryptographic toolkit designed to make it easier and safer for devlopers to use cryptography in their applications. Keyczar supports authentication and encryption with both…
Too Weird for The Wire - Kevin Carey →
The series of events that led to the prosecution of Willie Mitchell et al are as convoluted, tragic and intermittently absurd as an episode of HBOâs acclaimed Baltimore crime drama, The Wire.
adhearsion wiki →
Adhearsion is an open source framework that, in simplest terms, improves the way the world writes “voice” applications. It rests above a popular open-source platform called Asterisk, abstracting its…
Bob’s Other Job « →
Plz Send Me The Code →
This blog is a collection of all the stupid, silly, frightening comments and forum posts you see clogging up the normal, every day conversations of software engineers.
Did PIN thieves grab hacking's Holy Grail? - The... →
Could a hacker steal enough information from a store youâve shopped at to print up fake debit cards in your name and withdraw cash from your checking account at an ATM? Even if youâve never told…
Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart |... →
CleverCSS →
CleverCSS is a small markup language for CSS inspired by Python that can be used to build a style sheet in a clean and structured way. In many ways it’s cleaner and more powerful than CSS2 is.
How viral is GPL? (Scripting News) →
Balsamiq Mockups Makes Big Impression on Hacker... →
Balsamiq Mockups is a new product launched on the Adobe AIR platform which allows developers to make mockups of their designs in no time. Think MSWord for hackers.
Metaclasses in Python 3.0 [1 of 2] →
Helpers — Pylons v0.9.7 documentation →
[Python] Unicode HOWTO →
Tiny open source computer made from six ICs →
A tiny embedded development startup called Linuxstamp is shipping a tiny open-source computer comprised of only six integrated circuits (ICs).
A Coder in Courierland || kuro5hin.org →
Interview: Charles Stross Explains Why UK Scifi Is... →
had asked Stross, somewhat off the cuff, why so many Scottish SF writers are kicking ass these days (I was thinking in particular of Ken MacLeod, Iain M. Banks, Grant Morrison, and Stross himself).
The Post Money Value: From the Trenches: OS Who? →
You know, IBM’s latest build of OS/2 is really starting to stick with high performance, multi-threaded and security hardened sites. Have you guys spent any time reviewing the new Arthur Anderson…
Developing a vehicle tracker with the Telit... →