A Great Math Site: Understanding the Analemma
When I was a kid I remember reading about this pattern. I never knew it was called a, what, Analemma??? Anyway, Check out this post from Good Math, Bad Math: ** By way of the [a...
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December 2006
OMG: Lotus Notes still alive and kicking ?
A million years ago I used Lotus Notes … I think it was version 3 and 4. I believe that it ran on Mac even then so I am not sure what the big news is. But look at this screen shot. It looks more similar than different to the old Lotus Notes. And among the Mac congesenti there’s always a lot of...
Read more →Joel on Software on bribing and ethics
If you’re a blogger or read blogs you might have come across the debate, such as it is, about "pay per post." Frankly I’ve not paid much attention to it other than noting the links go by without my clicking on them. But Joel’s stuff is often good. Check out [this post](http://www.joelonsoft...
Read more →Cool underwater restaurant…
Check out this post from Crave RSS: > 
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New search engine from Wikipedia-land
If you keep up, you may have heard abou this. A new search engine coming from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Check out this post from Mashable!for a pretty good update: > “Wikipedia foun...
Read more →In-depth analysis of Microsoft content syndication platform patent application
A bit of a debate is developing regarding Microsoft’s recent patent for (and here’s where the editorializing starts) "RSS". It’s only a slightly interesting question which is why I won’t pursue it, save to say that patents are very technical and narrow so it’s easy to jump to the wrong concl...
Read more →Blog tag, I’m it
I’ve been tagged in the new fangled blog tag game, and am now honor bound to reveal 5 things about me that you probably don’t know yet. - The “R” in R. Pito Salas stands for Ralph - My ancestors have been in Curaçao for over...
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‘Daybreak’ canceled, episodes to stream online
This is too bad. Daybreak was one of the new shows I was enjoying (not ‘must-see-tv but still entertaining.) It was basically “Groundhog Day meets ’24’. Anyway, check out this post from Lost Remote: > The new A...
Read more →MacSanta: 20% off popular Mac Apps
Check out this post from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): > Filed under: Software, Stocking Stuffers Almost a dozen companies are offering a 20% off sale until Christmas. Rogue Amoeba, Bare Bones, Potion Factory, Unsanity and more. You’ll find a full list of participating developers at the MacSanta site. (from: MacSanta: 20% off popular Mac Apps) For all you mac users out there 🙂
World’s Tallest Man Lends a Hand
I just thought this post was interesting and curious — thanks Dowbrigade News > FUSHUN, China — Bao Xishun, the world’s tallest man, reaches in to retrieve objects from the sto...
Read more →TIME 2006 Person Of The Year: What a cop out!
Time Magazine news "You?" as the person of the year? What a cop-out! Check out this post from BAGnewsNotes: > You? TIME’s ’06 Person of the Year is You? I mean, Me? (from: TIME 2006 Person Of The Year: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (No?))
Holiday gift for the geek who has everything
Everyone has a column or article these days of gift suggestions. Here’s mine for all of you who need to buy something for your favorite geek “who has everything.” I bet they would really like these sculptures. Check out the whole site, they start at about $80 for a pocket sized doohikee and go to like $300 for a larger one. Kind of pricey, I admit. Bathsheba Sculpture, via Kevin Kelley, Cool Tools
A good bit by Bruce Schneier about “Real-World Passwords”
Check out this post from Schneier on Security: > How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts? It’s a hard question to answer because data is...
Read more →Chess and Violent Meditation
Check out this post from empire state blues.: > "[snip…]Everything else is blotted out by the deafening sound of my own consciousness, the ascendant primate mind, churning on all of its terrifying and unknown cylinders. And playing chess is in some ways a taking of communion with this austere machine-mind; this family tree of decisions; this full blooming of abstract thought.[snip…] (from: Chess and Violent Meditation)
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JRuby 0.9.2
I was discussing with a friend yesterday, really, what’s the difference between a scripting language and a ‘real’ language? Is Java a ‘real’ language? After all it does run on top of an interpreter (the JVM.) But what’s an interpreter anyway? Is the only ‘real’ language C++? Even C# is quest...
Read more →[GEEKY] An interesting bit on an XML security vulnerability
Ok, this is definitely geeky, but I thought it was interesting: > “There’s a 4+ year old security hole in many XML parsers called XXE, the Xml eXternal Entity attack.” (from Some Bits: Nelson’s blog) Read the whole thing here.
Capital of Kazakhstan to be Covered in Gigantic Tent; Gizmodo HQ Moving to Kazakhstan
Check out this post from Gizmodo: > Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, will soon become one of the coolest cities in the world. Why...
Read more →fire at one broadway
My buddies at wis.dm had a real scare today as our offices and the rest of the building was evacuated in a big rush due to a terrible and terrifying explosion in the basement. I was in California at the time and got word of this when Brian called my cell phone while I was in...
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