Beer Can Chicken Recipe at Simply Recipes — So simple; so delicious. (tagged: recipe food cooking beer grill ) ClojureScript Brings Clojure To The Browser via Javascript Werner Schuster writing for InfoQ on the introduction of ClojureScript — some of its hows and whats and whys. (tagged: javascript Clojure clojurescript essay todo ) An Ode […]
How to run an effective meeting by Kevin M Hoffman (writing in .net magazine) – a good piece but I would add two other pieces of advice: [1] never underestimate the value of a clock or stopwatch (e.g., “You have five minutes to explain starting… now.”); and [2] structure the meeting so you can dismiss […]
Vermont In Speculative fiction at Geek Mountain State (tagged: scifi Vermont ) JavaScript Strict Mode Angus Croll at JavaScript, JavaScript with (almost) everything you would want to know about ECMAScript 5's "strict mode". (tagged: javascript ecmascript strict_mode )
Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash: ‘92’s Eerie Cyber-Prophet at tor.com — C'mon… I can't help but link to a decent run-down of one of my Top 10 favorites of all time. (tagged: literature scifi )
The Blast Shack Bruce Sterling writing at Webstock.org: Diplomats are people who speak from nation to nation. They personify nations, and nations are brutal, savage, feral entities. (tagged: politics culture hacking privacy technology essay ) Angry Robot to open the floodgates for one month SFScope (tagged: scifi writing publishing todo ) Axe Cop. That is […]
Managing JavaScript Objects by Nicholas Zakas (at Script Junkie) — a best-practices review of how to keep your objects loosely coupled in JavaScript application design (tagged: javascript design dev essay ) The Taste of Starlight at Lightspeed Magazine (tagged: scifi literature todo ) JSConf.eu Videos at blip.tv (tagged: video JSConf.eu JavaScript todo )
Maximus Clarke talks with William Gibson about his “speculative novels of last Wednesday” by Maud Newton (via B²) (tagged: williamgibson fiction scifi interview writing ) George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay at Binary Bonsai (via B²) (tagged: starwars Chewbacca creativity design film essay todo ) jQuery Regular Expressions Review (Rev:20100921_1700) via @rmurphey (tagged: regex […]
“At the bookstore later in the day, my son stood in front of the Sci Fi section and said, in a very loud voice: “Mom, this is my new gender.†I bit back “genre,†which is something I also try to do when I am alone.†– Bhanu Kapil, Reading f…
Among other recommendations, A Fire Upon the Deep appeared on io9’s “Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life” post and after Newton’s Wake 1, I thought it would be a chance for that list to redeem itself a little. Though far from life-changing, this story is strong and plays with a number of […]
Researchers discover how to conduct first test of ‘untestable’ string theory via Slashdot—which says However, it will be very important to theoreticians because it will demonstrate whether or not string theory works, even if its application is in an unexpected and unrelated area of physics.' In other words, string theory may finally have shed its […]