There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves Orcs. -John Rogers< Two Novels that can change your life...
29 October 2011
Apple
Nice Steve Jobs presentation on OpenDoc, Focus, etc.
Two apple bits of software - Apple lossless codec and xquartz
Lisp
Paul Graham's Roots of Lisp
Heroku is a cloud provider for ruby et al
Common Lisp X server.
Some presentations about Nick Levine's Lisp Book
System Admin
19 October 2011
Computers
Do a local Apple software update repo
SSD failure rates
SmartOS is an OpenSolaris dervied system
Blackblaze pod, 135TB, 4U rack, $12K
Jeff Ullman's Mining of Massive Datasets
Rage, and why not to have done that in spite it being beautiful
Society
Japanese Migrant sex workers - Part 1 and Part 2
Retire on 7k per year, a blog
Markets
Graphics
Virtual Globe blog
Siggraph 2011papers
WebGL
DropBox - Building your own secure storage space
IPv6 day
Yea, I know, a long time ago. The links should still be interesting
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. - Eric Shinseki
08 October 2011
Finance
On-line data Sources
More on-line data - NASDAQ sysbols. StackExchange on symbols. And Market Data
Networking
Cool DSL/3G router which uses 3G as a backup.
Computers
FAUmachine - a new way of doing virtualization. An article about it
TZ database is closed
Steve Wolfram on Steve Jobs
World Community Grid
Plan9 Port
Bruce O'Neel
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