January 2007
18 posts
links for 2007-01-25
MacFUSE
Finally I can mount an SSH connection as a local filesystem. Thank you Google.
(tags: Computers Free Mac Useful UNIX Sysadmin Software)
links for 2007-01-22
State Inmates Outlive People on Outside
It seems prison isn’t as dangerous as you might think.
(tags: Interesting Politics for:jerrybrito for:vanadium)
Video of Fallingwater in Half Life 2
The product of a game designer with too much free time.
(tags: Video Architecture Cool Design Games)
links for 2007-01-19
Damned Lies and Statistics
Guess what country has the highest number of criminal cases per capita?
(tags: Interesting Statistics Religion Politics)
links for 2007-01-17
The Diamond Age Coming to Sci Fi Channel
Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel will be made into a six-part television miniseries.
(tags: Scifi Television Movies Books)
links for 2007-01-16
A Morphable Model for the 3D Synthesis of Faces
Continuing progress in the quest to eliminate those pesky actors.
(tags: CGI Animation Cool Interesting Software Video)
Countries GDP as US States
A visual tool to help us Americans reinforce our sense of global superiority.
(tags: Cool Economics Politics)
links for 2007-01-15
New Frontiers in Cake-Cutting
What would John Rawls think?
(tags: Math Interesting)
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease (if It Doesn't...
I called Comcast yesterday to cancel HBO and Showtime.
The original programming offered by these two channels is great—some of the best shows currently on television. I loved watching this past season of Weeds, Dexter, Huff, and Big Love. I’m also eagerly anticipating the return of The Sopranos. It’s just that the movie selection has been sub-par as of late.
Combined, these...
links for 2007-01-12
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Possible Titles for To Kill a Mockingbird If It Had Been Based on What My Mother Said Was Sinful.
This was written by my (lovely) wife.
(tags: Funny Family)
links for 2007-01-11
Ikea Hacker
A modder community for semi-disposable Swedish furniture.
(tags: Furniture Interesting Design Cool)
Why Logic Puzzles Make Good Interview Questions
I always include at least one question like this when I interview a prospective employee.
(tags: Interview Logic Business)
The Snow...
They Go There for the Wings
When they’re not giving tens of billions of dollars away to promote global health, the world’s two richest men are just regular guys.
Well, not really.
Blind African-American Blues Musician or Pseudonym...
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Willie Dunn
Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Joe Death
Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Thomas
Blind Roosevelt Graves
Black & Blind: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8. White & Sighted: 2, 5, 7
Research in Motion Crapping Themselves
Right now Research in Motion is down 6.5% on Apple’s announcement of their new iPhone.
I wonder how they’re feeling about this ad they took out on Time.com right now:
Obligatory MWSF 2007 Keynote Predictions
Steve Jobs’ Macworld San Francisco keynote speech begins in just over two hours. Here are my predictions.
Leopard, the latest version of the Mac OS X operating system, will ship on or before January 29th. Why? Microsoft Vista is shipping to consumers on January 30th. This way Jobs can remind the attendees that Apple shipped five versions of Mac OS X while Microsoft was continually changing...
links for 2007-01-07
The Adventures of Prince Achmed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A mind-numbingly brilliant animated feature from 1926 that looks as if it could have been made yesterday.
(tags: Animation Art History Film)
links for 2007-01-06
Dance of the Flight Attendant
An elegant illustration of the in-flight safety demonstration.
(tags: Comics Art Illustration Travel)
Damask Wallpaper Patterns
Beautiful tiling backgrounds for use in design.
(tags: Design Cool Free Useful)
Fake Name Generator
Useful web application that...
links for 2007-01-05
Where Are All the Gaelic Speakers?
An Irishman travels around his country speaking only his native tongue.
(tags: Language Funny)
Taking Advantage of the NSFW Attribute Value
I was a little surprised by how much attention the last few posts have received over this past week. Who would have thought so many people would be interested in a standard machine-readable label for online NSFW content? The posts were featured on Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, Newsvine, Yayhooray!, and a number of other high-traffic tech-oriented sites.
There’s one question that people keep...
links for 2007-01-02
Power-Sipping Bulbs Get Backing From Wal-Mart
Why push compact-fluorescent bulbs when LED bulbs are even more efficient?
(tags: Energy Thrifty)