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Check out this post from dzone.com: latest front page: > 
I just finished a fantastic book called "Algorithms", by Sanjoy Dasgupta, Christos Papadimitriou and Umesh Vazirani. Even better: this book is free and can be downloaded in PDF form from the authors’ web site. (from: Free book on "Algorithms" highly recommended)
I’ve been learning Ruby and Rails in my copious spare time. I found this post instructive on how to write idiomatic Ruby instread of Ruby as C: Idiomatic Ruby.
I am at the 2006 Fall Leadership Forum in Sonoma, CA. Wine is everywhere, even a free bottle in the hotel room. And all that wine and wine information is kind of squandered on me. So I won’t talk about wine, but here are some tidbits from the conferen...
Read more →Check out this post from ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed: 53% of People Prefer Pie Charts [The World’s Fair] Not sure if this is serious or not 🙂 Reminds me of the old joke "94% of all statistics cited are invented ON THE SPOT!
Check out this post from The Dilbert Blog: My Middle-Sized Problems Funny as usual! You should really follow this blog!
Check out this post from Lifehacker: Ask Lifehacker: The gift of a pre-loaded iPod This is a really good idea! I will use it this holiday season!
Check out this post from Schneier on Security: > "I’ll be the first to admit it: I know next to nothing about MySpace or Facebook. I do know that they’re social networking sites, and that — at lea...
Read more →Some clever scientists are trying to measure how fast meme’s travel on the web. My contribution to the experiment is to add a link to their article to my article. What’s a meme, anyway? Think of ideas as little organisms that l...
Read more →I wrote about this a little while back, but now it’s even easier! Do you want to embed a map of something or other on your site or your blog? Take a look at this site, fmatlas.com. It makes it sooooo easy! For exampe, here’s a map that I added here, in about 30 seconds, of my favorite lake: http://fmatlas.com/view/pitosalas/20061127_lakewinnepesaukee
Ok, assembled masses: I’ve rearranged my office and now my USB connected printers are farther away from the computer and closer to an ethernet connection. So, what I need is a USB hub which connects with an RJ45 rather than to a computer. I guess that would make it a Netwrok Enabled USB hub. Can’t find it on the web, but maybe it has a different name. Anyone know what I need? Technorati Tags: networking, USB
I’ve written about AllOfMp3.com before. I can’t say other than it’s a pirated music site. You can buy mp3’s of music of all kinds, from a nice catalog, at ridiculously low prices (like $3 or less for a complete album.) Some wags have suggested that [AllofMp3](http://www....
Read more →Kottke points to anamusing set of logic questions posted by “3 Quarks Daily” with the (silly – you’ll see why) suggestion that it might make good dinner table conversation this Thanksgiving (in the US , of course 🙂 I won’t repeat Kottke’s ...
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Yes, every year some wag writes a funny article about carving a turkey, but this one is really funny! Among the many chuckles: > All conversation dies when he picks up his weapons. The festive warmth that filled the room moments earlier is replaced by a merciless judgment that records every failure of knife work like points lost in a troubled double axel at the winter Olympics. From the Boston Globe: Carving out his niche – The Boston Globe
Came across Jonathan Coulton, the songwriter who embarked on a ridiculous challenge to write a song each week, for a whole year. Quite a crazy thing, but he pulled it off. > “Thing a Week is a project I’ve been working on since September 2005 in which I record and post a song a week as a podcast....
Read more →This just struck me as curious:“Letters to God end up in ocean, unread” > “The letters â_” about 300 in all, sent to a New Jersey minister â_” ended up dumped in the ocean, most of them unopened.” (from AP) powered by performancing firefox
For those of you who avidly follow Curaçao politics, yes, all two of you, and I know who you are, do you think this is a good thing? I am not so sure… > “The Dutch government has signed an agreement granting qualified autonomy to the territories of Curacao and St. Maarten, paving the way for the formal end of the Netherlands Antilles.” (from Radio Jamaica) We’ll see how it develops.
If you were intrigued by my previous post about the Clock of the Long Now, I came across a nice, philosophical and instructive article about it: “But even if the Clock of the Long Now fails to last ten thousand years, ev...
Read more →http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=blogbridge-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0465007805&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr I just finished...
Read more →Over on our new BlogBridge site, we’ve been working on a new set of Screencasts. We discovered various problems with what we had done before and thought, let’s try to make things better (as they say at Philips.) I thought I’d share my stream of consciousness notes from that experience. - Wow, thos...
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