Link lists, round-ups, recaps, Delicious.com dumps, and other sometimes somewhat salacious sundry sediments and sentiments.
If We Taught English the Way We Teach Mathematics… via kuro5hin.org: “…because mathematics, as the art of abstraction, provides us the with ability to make simple statements that have incredibly broad application. For example, the reason that numbers and arithmetic are so unreasonably effective is that (tags: essay language education math research)
The Once and Future Republic of Vermont by Ian Baldwin & Frank Bryan (via ozgallagher): The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State. (tags: Vermont secession essay politics research todo history) Functional JavaScript Lisp? Scheme? Erlang, Haskell? Forget about them! The most widely deployed functional programming language is Javascript. Borrowing a trick […]
Who’s Listening To Your Shared iTunes Music? via Hackszine.com (via LifeHacker): perfect for those late-night shutdown routines to delay the actual shutdown until after all the connections have been closed… (tags: Terminal OSX iTunes hack lsof todo)
Jott.com via kr8n (via LifeHacker?): Mobile Note Taking and Hands-Free Messaging (tags: lifehacks productivity research tools todo)
Chernobyl-based birds avoid radioactive nests earth – 28 March 2007 – New Scientist Environment (tags: chernobyl science biology research environment evolution todo)
You can’t have everything, where would you put it? via destraynor (via DF): follow-up piece to Tantek’s UI essay (the same points but without the math?) (tags: essay UI usability design todo) waffle → Now in glorious HTML5 (tags: html essay todo) PTGui Photo stitching software 360 degree Panorama image software (tags: panoramic software photography […]
Internet Explorer and the CSS box model via 456 Berea Street: very thorough explanation of IE6 deficiencies w/r/t/ the CSS box model and how to work in and around those deficiencies/limitations/quirks (…let’s start by going strict) (tags: CSS IE essay webdev todo)
Bruce Sterling in Belgrade YouTube link: Bruce Sterling in Belgrade on the future of cities (tags: design future video architecture research)
Mephisto “The best blogging system ever” (Ruby-on-Rails blogging/CMS app; no plans to switch F_D to it at this time…) (tags: blog Rails Ruby mephisto research)
Whither The Hard Stuff? via Futurismic: Norman Spinrad on “hard” sci-fi (tags: fiction literature scifi essay todo) Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X The Technocrat (via TUAW) — an intriguing hack w/r/t/ your Mac and Bluetooth… (tags: Mac OSX security Bluetooth essay todo hack)