Hackers Documentary 2012-04-06
Hackers Documentary : Set around the Hackers Conference of 1984. Contains prototype RMS.
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Hackers Documentary : Set around the Hackers Conference of 1984. Contains prototype RMS.
Can birds fly into a headwind faster than their own maximum speed ?: An intriguing suggestion. I've long admired the eider duck's specialized adaption to a brutal climate.
The Bitch, the Stud and the Prawn: " It was a film called Crust. It told the story of a pub landlord who finds a giant seven foot mutant shrimp on a beach. The landlord then decides to teach the shrimp to box - and believes this will make his fortune. "
Creating retain cycles by misusing assertions : The documentation does state it, but it's always worth remembering that NSAssert is only for use inside Objective-C methods.
L'Inconnue de la Seine : The death mask of this unidentified Parisian teenage suicide became a popular early-20th century objet d'art , eventually the model for the face of the standard CPR training mannequin.
Cauliflower Hindenburg : taken from a series of model reconstructions of famous explosions, made from cauliflower.
'Supergiant' crustacean found in deepest ocean : 34cm amphipod discovered in the Kermadec Trench.
Faster Fourier Transform : MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that improves on FFT.
I knew Christopher Hitchens better than you : Neal Pollack clearly knew him very well indeed.
The cognitive benefits of chewing gum : Study shows chewing gum effectively boosts mental performance.
Ken Russell RIP : One of the 'name' directors that made me realise I was pretty interested in film.
Things that Turbo Pascal 3 is smaller than : The Turbo Pascal 3.02 IDE and compiler, for MS-DOS, was an executable slightly less than 40KB in size. Here's a list of computery things that are larger than that.
jwz hands-on user support : Another one gone. I'm only just starting to realise that all this time, I've been blessed to live in the time of the giants.
Behind the scenes pick of the day : AICN archive of cute on-set photographs taken from well-loved movies.
Airport-style metal detectors deployed at railway stations : Bath Spa Station is exactly the place I would expect a grass-roots totalitarian fascist regime to bloom.
Netscape Now! : I don't think anything says ' INTERNET ' to me louder than this iconography.