The World's 10 Most Magnificent Monasteries “While all monasteries are beautiful and mysterious in their own way, there are some that stand out from the rest.”
Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt “Consider a photo of someone you think is you eight years ago.”
25 Cinema 4D Tutorials for Spectacular Animations “Cinema 4D is a high-end 3D graphics application capable of procedural and polygonal modeling, animating, lighting, texturing, and rendering.”
Shoes vs. AIR “To really give you a sense of how sad I am as a human being, here%u2019s what I woke up thinking about”
Things Caches Do “I want to talk about gateway caches — or, “reverse proxy caches” — and consider their effects on modern, dynamic web application design.”
Blogging Like a Hacker “I wanted to write great posts, not style a zillion template pages, moderate comments all day long, and constantly lag behind the latest software release.”
Power, prescience, and the paradox of patterns “Language must follow patterns to achieve meaning.”
Malcolm Gladwell's Method “I fill my life with people from diverse backgrounds.”
Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? “There was plenty of time to check it twice.”
A Butler “Gene woke and nudged her once”
Wall Street Lays Another Egg “Credit and money, in other words, have for decades been growing more rapidly than underlying economic activity.”
The End of Wall Street's Boom “model for home prices had no ability to accept a negative number”
The Technium “Progress, intelligence, and life itself are all fueled at the fundamental level by bootstrapping, self-creation, autopoeis, auto-genesis — all names for recursive organization.”
Maldives seek to buy a new homeland
Tumblewagon “TV is a time waster, all too often sucking you into other people's lives when you should be living your own.”
100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps for Productivity “Read on for 100 of the best apps that will increase your productivity with Adobe AIR.”
Best Vim Tips
Why Do We Forget Things? “our memories also vary considerably in their precision.”
Submersed Songs | Canções Submersas from ∆LEX on Vimeo.
Technology / Internet Trends - Presentation from Web 2.0 Summit “Technology / Internet Trends - Presentation from Web 2.0 Summit”
Windows Azure - Links and Resources “I've collected a set of Windows Azure links and resources so that I have one central place to point people to.”
70 Amazing Houses from Around the World
On a tightrope “Being on a tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting. — Karl Wallenda”
More on Ruby FFI “The path from calling a ruby method, to marshalling the arguments, and calling the C function is very streamlined - the call path is all java, so it gets JIT'd easily, and it avoids boxing parameters where possible.”
CUFP 2008
Armored Against Turmoil, Lebanon Lures Investors “Lebanon's very instability, its 15-year civil war and frequent political crises, appears to have bred the banking sector's fiscal prudence, analysts say.”
Can Ruby, Rails Make Developers Shine in a Downturn? “"I think Rails developers are much better positioned to weather the storm as they generally stand for delivering more with less faster,"”
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library “"What's so wonderful about our knowledge of the human body is how remarkably constrained it has been over time,"”
Insecure Minds Wired for Pattern-Finding “A perfectly healthy human mind can trick itself into seeing things that are not there, and new research has exposed exactly the sort of conditions under which that happens.”
Developing Erlang at Yahoo “The slides can be viewed online and there is a PDF available.”
Advanced Programming Languages “it is oriented to researchers on programming languages .”
Learning REST “How do I learn about REST?”
Easy Role-Based Authorization in Rails “Once user authentication has been added to your Rails app, authorization isn%u2019t far behind. In fact, very basic authorization functionality exists the moment you implement user authentication.”
Rake task to transfer a Rails database, say from MySQL to Postgres and back again “Thanks to Ruby on Rails, transferring and converting database from one database platform to another only takes a few lines of code.”
Audioengine 2 powered loudspeaker “In nearly 25 years, it's been rare that I've reviewed an exciting breakthrough product.”
The 50 most significant moments of Internet history “We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped it explode, the litigation it endured on the way and disasters companies have suffered as a result of the Net's popularity.”
Recursive descent, LL and predictive parsers “Although I've written some recursive-descent (RD) parsers by hand, the theory behind them eluded me for some time. I had a good understanding of the theory behind bottom-up LR parsers, and have used tools (like Yacc and PLY) to generate LALR parsers for languages, but I didn't really dig into the books about LL.”
Superators Add New Operators to Ruby “I'm releasing this into the wild to hopefully see what mischief it stirs.”
How PowerTOP, LatencyTOP, and Five-Second Boot Improve Desktop Linux “To be honest we fixed effectively the entire Linux desktop space. It's not--PowerTOP is more--it's not just what we fixed with PowerTOP is not individual pieces. We fixed everything.”
Easier C++ : An Introduction to Concepts “Concepts is a language feature planned for C 0x that allows programmers to express the template requirements as part of the template's source code. Placing requirements on a template formalizes the contract between template author and user, allowing the compiler to ensure that both parties uphold their end of the bargain.”
Google Chrome “V8 on YouTube”
Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.
Memory: Making Your Influence Last “Therefore, memory is not simply recall, but reconstruction of the past.”
How brain cells make good connections? It’s a specialty involving vast numbers. There are an estimated 100 billion neurons in the average 3-pound human brain. Connecting them are as many as 10 trillion synapses, the circuitlike chemical pathways that link neurons to one another. “The power of higher brain areas,” said Murthy, “is in numbers.”
Metaphors “Metaphor is an attempt to understand one element of experience in terms of another.”
Assumption Reversal “The future is often a reverse of the assumptions of the present.”
List of cognitive biases “A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgement that occurs in particular situations (see also cognitive distortion and the lists of thinking-related topics).”
Is Your Brain in a Box? “You know how it goes: The left brain is logical and analytical; the right brain is spatially-oriented and creative. Careers and fortunes have been made off of this one, and people tend to get passionate about it. But the real story is much more complex. While there are clearly differences in how the hemispheres of the brain process sensations, neither side is %u201Cspecialized%u201D to the degree that more popularized left brain/right brain theories suggest. A normal brain acts in an integrated fashion whether it is focused on painting a masterpiece or analyzing a profit and loss statement.”
Thinking Cap using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation “Professor Allan Snyder and Dr. Elaine Mulcahy say they have completed experiments that proved they could increase the creative function of the brain using magnetism.
The device works by using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to temporarily shut down the left hemisphere of the brain, where speech and short-term memory are supported.”