Rands In Repose: N.A.D.D.
If you’re still with me, it might mean you know that you already suffer from some type of NADD-related disorder. Let’s find out:
Great article. My answer to his question: editing a paper, running profiling code, idling in IRC, scping data to my desktop machine, and trying to write a meshlab importer plugin. I think I have NADD.
Reason Screencast on Vimeo
We're trying out something new with yt. Cameron made a screencast introducing a new major feature in the latest release. It's been viewed over 30 times since announcement about a day and a half ago -- this is a success! I think we'll do this again for other major features.
Bruce Springsteen's Eulogy for Clarence Clemons | Rolling Stone Music
Bruce Springsteen has released the text of the eulogy that he delivered at the funeral of Clarence Clemons on June 21st at Royal Poinciana Chapel in Palm Beach, Florida.
Walking Randomly » In defense of inefficient scientific code
Reporting these speed-ups to colleagues (along with the techniques I used) gets various responses such as ‘Well, they shouldn’t do time-consuming computing using high level languages. They should rewrite the whole thing in Fortran’ or words to that effect. I disagree!
The fundamental message is absolutely, 100% correct: CPU time is far, far cheaper than Person Time. This has to be shouted from the rooftops.
Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78 - NYTimes.com
Robert Morris, a cryptographer who helped developed the Unix computer operating system, which controls an increasing number of the world’s computers and touches almost every aspect of modern life, died on Sunday in Lebanon, N.H. He was 78.
RTM's father, and a giant in the field.
Pan-STARRS telescope spots new distant comet
“The comet has an orbit that is close to parabolic, meaning that this may be the first time it will ever come close to the sun, and that it may never return,” said Wainscoat.
Poetic, really.
10 Questions for a Cosmologist: Tom Abel | DOE Blog
After talking to Dr. Tom Abel, going back in time takes on a whole new meaning. Abel, a cosmologist working at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, uses supercomputer calculations to help learn about what happened in the first billion years of the history of the Universe.
Song And Vision No. 2: "The Power Of Love" and Back To The Future | The A.V. Club
Interestingly, it's a period piece made in 1985 that depicts 1985 as an era as distant-seeming as its version of 1955.
Read the whole thing.
Tom West; engineer was the soul of Data General’s new machine - The Boston Globe
“It offends me when people think they know me because of the book,’’ he told Wired magazine in 2000, more than a dozen years after he retired to relax and sail in a community where few knew he was the soul of “The Soul of a New Machine.’’
Mr. West, who performed in folksinging circles in the late 1950s and worked at the Smithsonian observatory in Cambridge before computers caught his intellectual fancy, was found Thursday in the kitchen of his Westport home, where he had collapsed. He was 71, and his family believes that he might have died of a heart attack.
From Exile's NIN EP has finally arrived | Atlanta Music Blog | Atlanta Concerts & Shows | Crib Notes | Creative Loafing Atlanta
Since June of 2009 there has been much talk about the perpetually forthcoming Nine Inch Nails covers EP from blackened and prog. metal masters From Exile, and now it has finally arrived
It's pretty good! Definitely worth a listen.
