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Dr. Strangelove is one of the few films that’s inside my bones.
Merlin Mann on the humor in Dr. Strangelove. Click through for the essay.
David X. Cohen's Fermat Near-Miss Finders in C
/* Fermat Near-Miss Finder Written by David X. Cohen May 11, 1995. This program generated the equation: 1782^12 + 1841^12 = 1922^12 For "The Simpsons" episode "Treehouse Of Horror VI". Production code: 3F04 Original Airdate: October 30, 1995 */
DXC's near-miss C code. Awesome. Simply, awesome.
Corporate Takeover of a Software Project
If you’re worried...
Matt Mackall, the lead developer of Mercurial, is one of the coolest project leaders out there. This whole list is great, but my favorite item is #8. Click through for the whole thing.
Hectic City » Blog Archiv » Mashup Breakdown : A Night At The Hip-Hopera
You may well have recently seen the excellent Mashup Breakdown site that was put together by Benjamin Rahn initially to display the sample data for Girl Talk’s “All Day” album – I certainly did as many of you emailed me a link! – However @bethgo on Twitter went one further than that and suggested to Ben that he do the same for “A Night At The Hip-Hopera”. I spotted the tweet, got in touch with them both, and, well, here you go – a complete (well, as complete as I can make it) visual breakdown of the entire album!
"A Night at the Hip Hopera" is easily my favorite mashup album -- and, unlike most others, it completely holds up. It's still in heavy rotation over here.
pax (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
pax is an archiving utility created by POSIX and defined by the POSIX.1-2001[1] standard. By default, it creates archives in ustar format, also defined by the POSIX standard. Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of UNIX, the IEEE designed a new archive utility. The name "pax" is an acronym for portable archive exchange. Furthermore, "pax" means "peace" in Latin, so name implies it shall create peace between the tar and cpio format supporters. The command invocation and command structure, is somewhat a unification of both, tar and cpio.
The interesting bit is at the bottom: it's required by the LSB,but only 6.36% of Debian systems have it installed. However, it comes by default on OSX, where it's used internally in the .pkg format.
There's a push to distribute Python in pax format, and supposedly Red Hat and others plan to move to it. Shaving even 10% off an enormous bandwidth bill would make sense. (Although of course, it seems unlikely the old formats are going to go away any time soon.)
Informa Healthcare - Journal of Mental Health - 19(4):363 - Full Text
I felt that all I had was a voice, and I should make it heard. It never occurred to me not to use it. I went on the net and told, well, everyone. I wish I could say it was an act of bravery. It wasn't and I find that suggestion very nearly obscene. How brave is it to say you have a disease that does not hint of a dissolute youth, riotous living or even terrible eating habits? Anyone can contract dementia; and every day and with a growing momentum, anybody does.
Pterry, discussing his illness.
Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Earth Engine
Today, we announced that we are donating 10 million CPU-hours a year over the next two years on the Google Earth Engine platform, to strengthen the capacity of developing world nations to track the state of their forests, in preparation for REDD. For the least developed nations, Google Earth Engine will provide critical access to terabytes of data, a growing set of analytical tools and our high-performance processing capabilities. We believe Google Earth Engine will bring transparency and more certainty to global efforts to stop deforestation.
