Delicious Deal at Seven Days — that's our café! (tagged: food Dealer.com ) Pandoc Well that looks… awesome. (tagged: markdown markup haskell text conversion todo ) A reading list for JVM-based developers at Prehensile Tail (tagged: jvm java work todo ) DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s Alan Taylor, The Atlantic; fascinating […]
JavaScript does not need classes Alex Rauschmayer on why JavaScript doesn't need classes. (tagged: javascript ) Why I want Classes in JavaScript David Flanagan on why he wants "classes" in JavaScript. For my money: I agree in spirit, but I think calling the syntax sugar by "class" sends the wrong message. (And no, I don't […]
Steampunk Gilgamesh: The Annotated Version (tagged: Gilgamesh history alternate versions steampunk ) A cultural thought experiment Charlie Stross on understanding the hyper-rich through the lens of tomorrow's history. (tagged: future wealth politics money society essay todo ) Improving Rhino CLI utility performance at NCZOnline: "That’s 3 seconds, down from 45 seconds before the change. Not […]
Officials: Fake weapons parts ‘ticking time bomb’ At the Associated Press. Fascinating story. (tagged: military politics counterfeit research ) Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours Thanks, Wired. (tagged: creative commons wired ) To Find Alien Cities, Look for City Lights on Distant Planets at Popular Science (tagged: Science Astronomy ) […]
Making Laws About Making Babies at NYTimes.com (tagged: research politics fertility ) One-Third of Sun-Like Stars Have Earth-Like Planets In Habitable Zone And (as usual?) the comment thread from pedantic astrophysics nerds is awesome. (tagged: Astronomy Science research ) Innovation Starvation Neal Stephenson (writing at World Policy Institute) on the demise of innovation. Mandatory reading. […]
Fiore Olive Oils (tagged: food todo gifts ) Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern at BBC News (via /.) — "I knew it!" (tagged: science physics research )
SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web at The Chromium Projects — Maybe I'm a little late in looking into this but… better late than never? Got about halfway through it; looks interesting and promising and I need to finish reading. (tagged: webdev tools google performance SPDY todo ) Optimising your Application with Grails […]
Code camp offers tech advice to local professionals The mention of me is basically just a copy/paste of the bio that I submitted to the conference… but hey: for some reason I got called out. (Maybe I made an impression?) (tagged: Vermont tech ) What teachers really want to tell parents Ron Clark: This one […]
Diamond planets, climate change and the scientific method Matthew Bailes: …I suspect we’d find a lot of commentators, many with no scientific qualifications, pouring scorn on our findings. People on the fringe of science would be quoted as opponents of our work, arguing that it was nothing more than a theory yet to be conclusively […]
HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack at rentzsch.tumblr.com, via DF (tagged: webdev web programming UTF-8 ) Chrome and Safari extension to rehabilitate disruptive footnotes. at Ideon Open Ideas — a great idea but sadly doesn’t work on blog.founddrama.net yet; it appears to be looking for footnotes with fn embedded in the href… so perhaps […]