- Joel Spolsky: Can Your Programming Language Do This?
- Excellent article explaining Google’s MapReduce algorithm, a tool used internally by Google to parallelize tasks across their cluster.
- Dunning-Kruger effect
- Roughly, the effect that the ignorant think they know more than they do, while the expert think they know less.
- Pakistan accidentally launches massive denial of service attack on… Pakistan
- The Onion cannot hope to compete.
- Elephants Dream: Version control in the studio
- Version control systems are great tools for any kind of collaborative digital work. Unfortunately, to first order only programmers use them. This post describes the use of version control by an animation studio.
- Open and Shut?: Interview with John Wilbanks of the Science Commons
- Informative interview about what the Science Commons (part of Creative Commons) is up too.
- rush: the Ruby shell
- A domain specific language (DSL) which builds off Ruby, but which is oriented towards Unix shell scripting. I have no idea if the syntax is any good, but the idea is brilliant.
- Kevin Kelly: Tracking One Hour in Front of TV and One Year in Paris
- Fascinating visualizations of a family’s movements in front of the TV, and of a student’s wanderings through Paris over a year. I’ll bet mobile phone provides have lots of interesting data like this.
- LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
- I just started using this. So far it’s an awesome way of building a personal library online. Surprisingly useful for getting book recommendations, finding people with similar interests, and many other things. Weirdly compelling.
- Nascent: A tangled web we weave
- Nature is asking for input from physicists on how to deal with the growing mass of information on the web.
- Emacs for Rails « Software bits and pieces
- Simple but very useful notes for setting up Emacs for Ruby on Rails
- Wyrdsmiths: Making Light General Index
- An index for a single blog (the excellent Making Light). First time I’ve seen such an index. Not sure what such an index would be useful for; I’m sure that’s lack of imagination on my part. Probably helps Google make better decisions in searches.
- Making Light: Curating conversations (a meditation in the sunlight)
- Conversation curation; community curators; community design; these things have always been done, but they’re becoming more important than ever, and increasingly interwoven with technology
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