Friday, May 28, 2004

Today in Manhattan the sun and sets exactly on every street’s centerline. Next time is on July 12.

Thursday, May 27, 2004

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

The Way We Eat Now is just scary.

Monday, May 24, 2004

The RPG The Rocket Propelled Grenade
Lua iss a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications.

Friday, May 21, 2004

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Speedo is an open source implementation of the JDO specification. Speedo 1.0 was released yesterday.

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking Java code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task.
Gmail Swap, profit off your gmail account
Googol may sue Google, Google is on the verge of being sued by the family of the man who coined the word 'Googol' to describe 10 raised to the 100th power. This is so greedy and stupid.

Monday, May 17, 2004

Morning Ritual: The Terminator
Disinfopedia, a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.
Alexandra Kerry at Cannes
Use Liquid Nitrogen to make Ice Cream The secret is in the rapid freezing. When cream is frozen by liquid nitrogen at ?196°C, the ice crystals that give bad ice cream its grainy texture have no chance to form. Instead you get microcrystalline ice cream that is supremely smooth, creamy and light in texture.
Inferno Fourth Edition Download, from some of the same people who brought you Plan 9 and Unix.
Multicasting is the ability to transmit a single stream to multiple subscribers at the same time. It does not need one stream per recipient, instead, there is one stream on any one segment of the network on which there is a subscriber. It is the task of the routers to track subscriptions and to create copies only on an as-needed basis. Segments on which there are no subscribers do not receive the stream.
THE GRAY ZONE How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib.
Object-relation mapping without the container. Develop a transactional persistence layer using Hibernate and Spring

Friday, May 14, 2004

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Java was influenced by Objective-C not C++
BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information.

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

The Misunderestimated Man: How Bush chose stupidity.
Nut Poppers from planters
Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh
Wolfgang's Steakhouse by a former headwaiter at Peter Luger's. And they take credit cards.
Interesting Nebula captured by Hubble

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

An Interesting Solution, but something definitely has to be done.

Saturday, May 08, 2004

A Semacode is a URL barcode. Snap a picture of a semacode, and with just one click the proper webpage will be loaded on your phone's browser.

Friday, May 07, 2004

pizza_party - text-based client for ordering pizza.
WSJ and Journalistic Ethics wtf, misleading as all hell even for an editorial

Thursday, May 06, 2004

Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook Following the Perl Cookbook which presents a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language, this project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the solutions in other programming languages.
BlackBox for Windows Explorer alternative for Windows based stylistically on the Blackbox WM for X

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Mother's Day is May 9th