topics for April 2007

2007-04-30 From Architect to Wrangler [memeagora.blogspot.com]
The title of "Architect" for software developers has gotten so diluted that its meaningless anymore.

2007-04-29 Gåtan om ölens skumkrona löst [sydsvenskan.se]
Äntligen!

2007-04-29 5min - Life Videopedia [5min.com]
5min is a place to find short video solutions for every%apractical question and is also a place for people who want to share their knowledge.

2007-04-29 Amazon.com: An Introduction to Planetary Defense: A Study of Modern Warfare Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Invasion: Books: Travis S. Taylor,Bob Boan,R.C. Anding,T. Conley Powell [amazon.com]

2007-04-29 Motorola: I Hate My Customers [blog.tmcnet.com]
"I love my job. I hate my customers." - Ed Zander

2007-04-27 Official Google Blog: Racing to save the world [googleblog.blogspot.com]
I'm just back from running a marathon at the North Pole.

2007-04-27 C++ is a psycho hose beast [spewingblargh.blogspot.com]
I've had enough. You suck, C++. We're getting a divorce.

2007-04-27 Street Installations [xmarkjenkinsx.com]

2007-04-27 When is it time buy a new computer? [ninjapirate.com]

2007-04-27 baby diaper tracking graphs [infosthetics.com]
some of the data visualizations include a "sleep propability distribution chart" line-plot, an "awake, transition & asleep time period" chart, a "visual diapers" sparkline graph & a comparative "1 year ago" feature.

2007-04-27 Boys On Wheels -New Wheels On The Block [youtube.com]
"...in my wheeeelchair"

2007-04-27 Doom i javascript. [canvex.lazyilluminati.com]

2007-04-27 What Do 300 Calorie Meals Look Like? [diet-blog.com]

2007-04-27 The 4-Hour Workweek and Timothy Ferriss [fourhourworkweek.com]

2007-04-26 Installing Debian on the Thecus N2100 [cyrius.com]

2007-04-26 11 Tips for Using Flip Charts More Effectively [3m.com]
Although presenters are using computers and presentation software more and more, the flip chart continues to be a simple, effective way to get your message across.

2007-04-26 Gratis surfning nytt i Folkets Park [sydsvenskan.se]

2007-04-26 Dockan som är hundens bästa vän [expressen.se]
Dockan är försedd med ett litet hål, som enligt tillverkaren måste rengöras efter akten.

2007-04-26 I'm starting my own blog! [dilbert.com]

2007-04-25 Walken in L.A. [Christopher Walken on hot dogs] [freerepublic.com]

2007-04-25 NASA - Status of "Warp Drive" [nasa.gov]
Warp Drive, When?

2007-04-25 lolcats [lolcats2.com]

2007-04-24 Webbsnack Google testar ny layout i sökresultatet [webbsnack.wordpress.com]
Vill du prova den nya layouten? Gå till Google.com och kopiera nedanstående kod i din webbläsares adressfält

2007-04-24 The Latest on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia [nytimes.com]

2007-04-24 Boris Yeltsin [en.wikipedia.org]
Yeltsin dog igår

2007-04-23 How Wal-Mart's TV Prices Crushed Rivals [businessweek.com]
decided to slash the price of one of the hottest electronics items for the holidays - the 42-inch flat-panel TV - to $988

2007-04-23 Sheryl Crow's solution to deforestation: Wipe with one square of TP [hotair.com]
"I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting."

2007-04-22 Red eye (drink) [en.wikipedia.org]

2007-04-22 Erlang: The Movie [video.google.com]

2007-04-22 It 19s raining Samsung phones in Second Life [gearfuse.com]

2007-04-21 She told me we couldn't afford beer anymore and I'd have to quit... [i98.photobucket.com]

2007-04-20 Predictions of the Year 2000 [yorktownhistory.org]
from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900

2007-04-20 microdisplay [digitaltvdesignline.com]
the reflective LCD display provides an 800x600 resolution in a half-inch screen that uses only 45 milliwatts of energy...

2007-04-20 The Math of Text Readability [blog.wired.com]

2007-04-19 Schyffert: Brev från Kanalen [henrikschyffert.blogspot.com]
Vad fan gåller du på med!

2007-04-19 Why Apple shifted coders to iPhone [gigaom.com]

2007-04-19 Guys, I owe you an apology [craigslist.org]

2007-04-19 Apple iPhone Will Be Delayed Due To Complexity - Foxconn Insiders Say Quality Is A Problem [intomobile.com]
"the Apple software functions built into the phone are sucking juice out of the batteries to the extent that talk time is significantly compromised."

2007-04-18 "Kermit Needs to Check Into AA" [flickr.com]

2007-04-18 Xcite! [getxcite.com]
"The finest sexual equipment in Second Life"

2007-04-18 Needed: good editor for Chinese-English dictionaries [itre.cis.upenn.edu]
When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as "Nigger-brown."

2007-04-18 Mattias Flink [susning.nu]

2007-04-18 Google 19s Office Suite Complete: Google "PowerPoint" Confirmed [techcrunch.com]

2007-04-18 When In Doubt, Make It Public [codinghorror.com]

2007-04-17 Virginia Tech victims list and their myspace pages. [bloggingwv.com]

2007-04-17 Google's mobile user experience strategy [smallsurfaces.com]
Google breaks down mobile users into three behavior groups: A. "Repetitive now" B. "Bored now" C. "Urgent now"

2007-04-17 disk.jpg (JPEG Image, 477x395 pixels) [cs.helsinki.fi]

2007-04-17 Presidential Lectures: Douglas R. Hofstadter: Excerpts [prelectur.stanford.edu]
Excerpts from Hofstadter 19s Writings

2007-04-17 Running the Numbers [chrisjordan.com]
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper; 106,000 aluminum cans and so on.

2007-04-17 Broadband Cinema [pcmag.com]
I spent an exhausting week watching movies from five on-demand and download services

2007-04-16 Virginia Tech shootings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [en.wikipedia.org]

2007-04-16 Många döda på USA-universitet [dn.se]
Minst 32 personer har dödats och 28 skadats vid den värsta massakern på en amerikansk skola sedan 1927

2007-04-16 Betessläppning [skanemejerier.se]
Betessläppningen, eller släppet som det kallas, är en riktig höjdare för alla som älskar djur och lantliv. Och nu kan du få vara med och uppleva skådespelet

2007-04-16 Geek culture (awesome!) [thirdeyedumb.com]

2007-04-15 iPhone: Harder to Build than Apple Thought [businessweek.com]
Inte så lätt bygga telefoner.

2007-04-14 Crazy pictures of insane internet [eatliver.com]
EatLiver.com is your daily source of funny, unusual and bizarre pictures.

2007-04-14 ...a friend and I had the silly idea of sending rms a katana... [advogato.org]

2007-04-13 Annorlunda gubbar i Prag [dn.se]
En mängd trafikljus har bytt skepnad i Tjeckiens huvudstad Prag. Herr Gårman har fått konkurrens av Herr Pinkarman och Herr Drickerman.

2007-04-13 How to refer to the pointer thing on laptop keyboards [xkcd.com]

2007-04-13 Domain-Driven Design: What Is It? [domaindrivendesign.org]

2007-04-13 Some Call it Concatenation [worsethanfailure.com]
wtf

2007-04-13 YouTube - Mysigt på Möllan [youtube.com]
Möllerfilm.

2007-04-13 Sun buys mobile phone software maker SavaJe [news.yahoo.com]

2007-04-13 The Most Revolutionary Microsoft Technology You've Never Heard Of [marcja.wordpress.com]

2007-04-13 Posted to comp.lang.scheme on January 17, 1996, for Scheme's twentieth birthday [hacks-galore.org]

2007-04-13 List of places blurred out on Google Maps [en.wikipedia.org]

2007-04-12 Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth [lpf.ai.mit.edu]

2007-04-12 What is the opposite of absolute zero? [straightdope.com]

2007-04-12 Övergivna platser [jornmark.se]

2007-04-11 Mark from Greenacre can't spell AC/DC [danwarne.com]
Klassiker.

2007-04-11 Lightsaber combat [en.wikipedia.org]

2007-04-11 Don't Mess with America [techeblog.com]

2007-04-11 TAT » Conceptlab [tat.se]
Experience what our products, TAT Cascades and TAT Motion Lab, can do for your device UI.

2007-04-10 Real estate photos worth more than a thousand words [37signals.com]

2007-04-10 The Belt Flip Trick [what-the-news.com]

2007-04-10 An EPIC mount! [epicslut.ytmnd.com]

2007-04-09 Museumr > dumpr.net [dumpr.net]

2007-04-08 No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July [noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com]

2007-04-08 My Turtle Needs A Booty Call [craigslist.org]

2007-04-08 The Story behind The Photo: iPod saves Soldiers life [thetrukstop.com]

2007-04-07 All I Need To Know To Be A Better Programmer I Learned In Kindergarten [codist.biit.com]

2007-04-07 Microsoft is Dead [paulgraham.com]

2007-04-06 The Seven Steps to Photographic Enlightenment [pentaxk10dblog.blogspot.com]

2007-04-06 Heminredning - Slott & Koja Heminredning [slottochkoja.se]

2007-04-06 China Mobile Subscribers Surpass Total US Population [cellular-news.com]
Kina e stort.

2007-04-06 The Gravity Express [damninteresting.com]

2007-04-05 Google Maps [maps.google.com]
How to Create a Map

2007-04-05 Universal Plug and Play [en.wikipedia.org]

2007-04-05 Lisp is for Entrepreneurs [bc.tech.coop]

2007-04-05 play Nintendo 8-bit games online [nintendo8.com]

2007-04-05 Camels.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x600 pixels) [cs.helsinki.fi]
kameler i solnedgång

2007-04-04 Live Search Maps Adds New Features And Firefox 3D Support [searchengineland.com]

2007-04-04 Nya reavinstskatten gäller retroaktivt [dn.se]

2007-04-04 Upprört när grannen bötfälldes [sydsvenskan.se]
I 16 år har Peter Kristian parkerat sin egen bil framför sin egen carport. Igår fick han en p-bot för att han blockerade in- och utfarten till huset.

2007-04-04 Fastighetsskatten skrotas [sydsvenskan.se]
Fastighetsskatten slopas från och med den förste januari 2008. En kommunal avgift på 4500 kronor per bostad införs.

2007-04-04 No Impact Man: The No Impact Experiment [noimpactman.typepad.com]
For one year, my wife, my 2-year-old daughter, my dog and I, while living in the middle of New York City, are attempting to live without making any net impact on the environment.

2007-04-03 Firefox OS: Why My Hard Drive & Software are Obsolete [lifehack.org]

2007-04-03 Three Web-Based Mind Mapping Tools Reviewed [webworkerdaily.com]

2007-04-03 Why the new AppleTV should be in your car [autoblog.com]
If successful, you could theoretically pull into your garage and wirelessly sync the video and music on your desktop computer to your car.

2007-04-03 Your Homepage Should be The Application! [atank.interlogy.com]

2007-04-03 Free Barcode Software for Mac and Windows [pro-barcode.com]

2007-04-03 Solving FizzBuzz using compiler error messages [web.telia.com]
Using C++ template metaprogramming, I'll try to solve FizzBuzz by having the compiler output the solution as error messages.

2007-04-02 Functional Javascript [hunlock.com]

2007-04-02 Teleca och Cybercom i storaffär [di.se]
Teleca stoppar investeringarna i de nuvarande produkterna relaterade till Obigo samtidigt som tillgångarna skrivs ner. Över 200 anställda kommer att få anställning i Sony Ericsson, enligt ett pressmeddelande.

2007-04-02 Large Productivity Benefit of Telecom Investment in Emerging Markets [nmscommunications.com]
for a developing economy, investment in telecommunications is more productive than any other kind of investment 14 roads, electricity, or even education.

2007-04-02 The Myth About Creation Myths [fastcompany.com]
In other words, companies aren't born in garages. Companies are born in companies.

2007-04-02 Spritmoln närmar sig Vasa [vasabladet.fi]
Bättre än panta bajs

2007-04-02 About Gmail Paper [mail.google.com]

2007-04-01 Sony lanserar Aibo som mobiltelefon [idg.se]
Genom att integrera de båda teknikerna så har företaget lyckats ta fram en telefon som kan ta sig fram på egen hand genom att använda sig av fyra ben.