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This is worth looking at: A couple of years ago, I got it into my head that I wanted to roast a whole chicken, just because. I wandered around my local Ralphs for a few minutes looking for poultry that hadn’t already been turned into individually shrink-wrapped meat units before asking for help. Link: http://ift.tt/1hHdpX1 My Blog
“Lift Off! Get me off this Planet has a casual space theme and never takes itself too seriously. My goal was to make an easy to learn, fast-paced game, where everyone feels engag...
This is worth looking at: It was an utterly unexpected rebirth. from the moment Freddie Mercury and the other members of Queen – guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bassist John Deacon – took the stage at London’s Wembley Stadium, on July 13th, 1985, at the historic Live Aid concert, the group captured the day. Here’s the full article.
Check out some really cool images: Soviet model makers built this spacecraft based on the designs and notes of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Late in his life, much of Tsiolkovsky’s theoretical work focused on ideas about transporting humans into space on board rockets. Although this model, reflecting the scientist’s ideas, grossly overestimates the living space available on board a rocket, it does convey a sophisticated understanding of the physical constraints of space travel for that time. Among Tsiolkovsky’s concerns were the effects of acceleration and weightlessness on the human body.
This is worth looking at: We’ve reached a bit of a turning point in the world of programming. Ten years ago, programmers were moving into dynamic languages. To many of us, those languages seemed like a bit of a fad, even if they made programming easier. Link: http://ift.tt/1xvv7S4 My Blog
This is worth looking at: “Checked the tax code,” wrote a friend who’s engaged to a woman from a low-tax country. “Unfortunately, marrying [my fiancee] does not entitle me to a tax inversion like the big US companies are getting. Thanks for nothing IRS.” That got me thinking.
This is worth looking at: LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H. — What do you do when you have a cozy cottage on an island and you need a new couch? If you’re Boxford, Mass.Who lives on those islands in Lake Winnipesaukee?
Here’s a crucial piece of social infrastructure that almost no one considers: the restaurant reservation. That is, until a service like ReservationHop comes along. ReservationHop was a small project to book tables under bogus names and then sell them. Tags: July 26, 2014 at 03:20PM via IFTTT
Check out this article that shows off how visualizations can help you understand how algorithms work. It’s an amazing piece of work: Creatively, he figured out how to illustrate an algorithm so I can better understand how it works; Technically, the code that implements these visualizations is itself very clever and elegant; and Aesthetically, the overall effect on the page itself is quite beautiful. I am jealous!
A very little known feature of Google+ Is the “auto awesome” feature. I want to sing its praises! On your smartphone. you can download the G+ application and configure it to automatically back up all your photos to Google+, even if you choose to keep them all private. A useful feature, but not uniq...
Read more →Maybe I’ve been out of the corporate world for too long. And I do wish Microsoft well because Google and Facebook and others need competition so they don’t totally ruin our world. So I read with interest [Satya Nadella’s email to employees which is available for all to read.](http://www.microsoft.co...
Read more →Email I just sent to Amazon. > Dear Amazon: I can’t believe you stoop as low as that and hide the ability to close my account so thoroughly that I now have to engage in a multi-message email discussion with you to convince you to do so. Please CLOSE my account! If you want to close your Amazon acc...
Read more →“We’re kickstarting a Super PAC big enough to make it possible to win a Congress committed to fundamental reform by 2016. We set fundraising goals and then crowdfund those goals.” Lofty goal but so vague I can’t tell which way is up! I remember something that sounded similar, a few years ago: It ...
Read more →We all have heard more than once that “VCs will NOT sign NDAs, don’t even ask!”. And we’ve also heard and said many times that “Ideas are cheap” and that many first time entrepreneurs are far too precious about their great ideas. They keep them top top secret, ask prospective customers to sign an ND...
Read more →Just playing with my new blogging platform to see if it works ok! 
I wrote recently about Fake Steve and wondered aloud how he could get away with what he gets away with. If that thread interested you at all, you’ve got to go look at the latest shenanigans that Fake Steve is reporting in his blog. [He’s being ...
Read more →Here’s an interesting article about how Ruby (the programming language not the gem) is interpretted or compiled. (It’s funny to contemplate what that question might mean to someone who thinks we are talking about a gem and not a programming language. ‘Is Ruby Interpretted or Compiled’ ? Say what??) ...
Read more →Maybe it’s because I just arrived from a long drive and stay in New York where I was guided by the nose by my TomTom GPS lady. Did you know that the Garmin GPS Lady gets a little annoyed when you choose a direction different from what is suggested? She says something like: “Incorrect Route, Recalcu...
Read more →About a week ago the new version of the Safari Browser came out for Mac OS X. I was swayed by the promotion and decided to use it for a while instead of Firefox 3.5. Here’s my take, subjective, not based on a scientific analysis: - If Safari 4.02 is faster than Firefox 3.5.1 it wasn’t immediately o...
Read more →Now I’ve been a mac for about 4 years now, so I generally don’t pay too much attention to Microsoft’s new product releases. But take a look at some of these videos about Office 2010. There’s are some impressive new developments. I am particularly impressed with the ‘backstage view’ which appears to...
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