topics for May 2008

2008-05-31 Det perfekta kriget [inslag.se]
Hur vi än försöker, kommer vi aldrig att kunna överträffa det kriget. Därför kommer det aldrig att bli ett tredje världskrig. Det är inte lönt. Går inte att toppa tvåan.

2008-05-31 The Shell Game [learcapital.com]

2008-05-30 Conway's Game of Life in one line of APL [catpad.net]

2008-05-30 Toyota chief: refrain from using PowerPoint [presentationzen.com]
(in the good old days?) they used to use one piece of paper to make a clear point or proposal, or to summarize an issue, but now everything is in PowerPoint

2008-05-30 Notes on A History of Erlang [sauria.com]

2008-05-29 Incredible pictures of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows [dailymail.co.uk]
defiant

2008-05-29 hitta.se 3D [hitta.se]

2008-05-29 Långtradare som kör om [inslag.se]
En långtradare som kör om en annan långtradare är helt enkelt ett litet stycke fungerande samarbetsnorm ute på motorvägen.

2008-05-29 Christopher Alexander on the difference between a fifty-year-old carpenter and a novice [37signals.com]

2008-05-29 Memristor man says the computer age is yet to begin [theinquirer.net]
"Memristance is not a quantum effect, but it's another effect that becomes more important as things get smaller."

2008-05-29 delete cookies? [jeremygaddis.com]

2008-05-28 Are FP and OO Incompatible Syntactic Styles? [michaelfeathers.typepad.com]

2008-05-28 Alice and Bob [en.wikipedia.org]

2008-05-28 It's the hat. [scaryideas.com]
.jpg

2008-05-28 Why Agile Doesn 19t Really Work [elegantcode.com]

2008-05-28 Peter Principle [en.wikipedia.org]
Aldrig har en princip stämt så bra som denna.

2008-05-28 Chicken chicken chicken [youtube.com]

2008-05-28 Escher's "Relativity" in LEGO [andrewlipson.com]
Escher-teckning i fysisk form mha Lego

2008-05-28 Första olyckan i rulltrappan [sydostran.se]
Ronneby, rulltrappa, rullator - finn minst ett fel.

2008-05-28 Huge Hole in Open Source Software Found, Leaves Millions Vulnerable [dailytech.com]
The Valgrind code caused errors, so the programmers simply commented out all the code, including the other methods of generating randomness on accident.

2008-05-28 Villaägarna vill ha krig mot sniglar [sydsvenskan.se]
snart har vi 8 miljarder sniglar i sverige. stoppa dom.

2008-05-28 Six Degrees of Wikipedia [netsoc.tcd.ie]

2008-05-28 An Erlang Course [erlang.org]
This is the content of the Erlang course

2008-05-27 Why Facebook chat scaled so well [thefactoryfactory.com]
The answer is 26.aside from having a pretty amazing dev team of course, yep, Erlang.

2008-05-27 BIGGEST DRAWING IN THE WORLD [biggestdrawingintheworld.com]
With the help of a GPS and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet.

2008-05-27 The Road we didn't go down [armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com]
Corba vs Erlang RPC

2008-05-27 Home | burdastyle.com [burdastyle.com]
open source sewing

2008-05-27 Swedish only [thepiratebay.org]
Igår fick vi två oberoende tips från väldigt säkra källor (insiders som det heter) om att den 31-åriga mannen som blev dömd till villkorlig dom för fildelning, har fått sina böter och rättegångskostnader betalda av upphovsrättslobbyn

2008-05-27 Telia säljer Iphone [sydsvenskan.se]

2008-05-27 Scoble has a productivity problem [scobleizer.com]

2008-05-27 How Many Friends Do You Have? [howtosplitanatom.com]

2008-05-27 New York Times API Coming [readwriteweb.com]

2008-05-26 Twitter 19s business model is to sell the company [flaptor.com]

2008-05-26 Cannabis blunder at Tokyo airport [news.bbc.co.uk]

2008-05-26 We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video) [boingboing.net]
Jodåsåatte...

2008-05-26 ConfigureMyPhone - Mobile Email Web MMS & Java Settings [configuremyphone.com]
The fastest way to configure your mobile phone for web browsing, MMS, email and Java applications

2008-05-26 Evolution of game controllers [liftlab.com]

2008-05-26 Apple takes delivery of 188 mysterious ocean containers [apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com]
they've spotted a "major spike" since mid March in ocean containers marked with a mysterious new label: "electric computers"

2008-05-26 HTC Touch Diamond Demo [smallsurfaces.com]

2008-05-26 This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix [nytimes.com]
om xkcd

2008-05-26 tapeter som ändrar färg beroende på rummets temperatur [yatzer.com]

2008-05-25 Västra Hamnen in High Dynamic Range Imaging [flickr.com]

2008-05-25 Bilbrand i Malmö vart tredje dygn [sydsvenskan.se]
brinnande bilar är ett tecken på att det finns folk som är beredda att göra värre saker.

2008-05-25 Humane Code Highlighting and js2-mode [toolness.com]

2008-05-25 Bike Commuting for Newbies [firedoglake.com]

2008-05-24 Miljökatastrof på Årets bild [svd.se]
"Jag fick massor av mejl efter att Svenska Dagbladet publicerat reportaget. De flesta var från människor som var skitförbannade för att de just köpt en etanolbil", säger Karl Melander.

2008-05-24 Alla bilder är subjektiva [journalisten.se]
Han hade precis tittat på en etanolbil hos sin bilhandlare men ångrade sig efter att ha sett mitt reportage om etanolproduktionen. Bilhandlaren hade då sagt att "den där Årets bild-bilden är falsk och manipulerad i Photoshop, inget att tro på".

2008-05-23 Javascript Super Mario Kart [nihilogic.dk]

2008-05-23 Can slackers go corporate? [economist.com]

2008-05-22 Who Is This "Licklider" Guy? [moserware.com]

2008-05-22 An Unorthodox Approach to Database Design : The Coming of the Shard [highscalability.com]

2008-05-22 The Quest For Every Beard Type [dyers.org]

2008-05-22 The infographic that saved a million lives? [37signals.com]
om artiklen som fick billg att bestämma vad han skulle lägga sina pengar på

2008-05-22 Svensken som bygger ny mobilplattform i Indien [idg.se]
193 lång och med rött hår är han ingen vanlig syn i Indien. - Det är som att vara tjej på Ericsson 13 alla vet vad man heter även om man inte träffat dem förut.

2008-05-22 Why I 19m switching to Yahoo Search [benlog.com]

2008-05-22 He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died [mentalfloss.com]

2008-05-21 Zlatan hyllad av Maradona [svd.se]
"Zlatan behärskar bollen och de andra kan bara hålla käften."

2008-05-21 Jättepungen är uppfunnen [expressen.se]
Äntligen!

2008-05-21 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Using a Lot of Disk Space to Scale [highscalability.com]

2008-05-21 Dömda killar från Rödeby togs för fylla [blt.se]
Moppefylleri i gangsterbyn

2008-05-21 Geohashing [xkcd.com]

2008-05-20 You Can't Soak the Rich [online.wsj.com]

2008-05-20 Social network death spiral: How Metcalfe's Law can work against you [andrewchen.typepad.com]

2008-05-20 Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit 14And You Should Too [discussionleader.hbsp.com]

2008-05-20 "Let It Crash" Programming [blogs.teamb.com]

2008-05-19 Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed [scobleizer.com]

2008-05-19 AirCar - runs on compressed air [gadgets-reviews.com]

2008-05-18 CouchSurfing [couchsurfing.com]
Soffor att låna när du är ute och reser.

2008-05-18 Utredning 2003: "FRA bryter mot grundlagen" [rickfalkvinge.se]
Senast sedan år 2000 är det alltså helt klargjort att de inblandade måste känt till att det inte ens är i en gråzon, utan solklart bryter mot lagen. Grundlagen.

2008-05-17 Cartoonist arrested for 'insulting people' [msnbc.msn.com]
A Dutch political cartoonist was arrested this week on suspicion of insulting people

2008-05-17 Dr Alban och Haddaway gör duett [expressen.se]
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

2008-05-17 Vänta till efter fem för då har åklagaren hunnit gå hem [veckovis.blogspot.com]
Sydsvenskans instruktioner till sin web-redaktion

2008-05-17 Har ni sett och hört på maken? [niklasstromstedt.blogspot.com]
Niklas Strömstedt läxar upp Se & Hör

2008-05-17 Debunking the Laundry List Fallacy: Why Doing Less is More Impressive [calnewport.com]

2008-05-17 Saying Goodbye to Air Travel [globalpublicmedia.com]

2008-05-16 SVT:s jurister vs Boyahed - Historien om en fejkad DVD-annons [boyahed.com]
"En representant från SVT:s rättsliga avdelning, Birgitta Adamson, mejlade vårt webbhotell, Servage, och fick dem att stänga ner sajten under torsdagen."

2008-05-16 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man 19s Library [artofmanliness.com]

2008-05-16 WIFIKARTAN: Sveriges nya wifi-sajt [wifikartan.se]
Hitta caféer och andra ställen i Sverige som har gratis trådlöst internet för sina gäster!

2008-05-16 Kraftwerk - Tanzmusik (1973) [youtube.com]

2008-05-16 Det goda svenska köket i Malmö [detgodailivet.blogspot.com]
Härom veckan var jag på lokal med vänner i Malmö 13 på Svea Bar och Bistro för att vara exakt. Jag är lyrisk!

2008-05-16 My experiment with smart drugs [johannhari.com]
Viagra for the brain?

2008-05-16 Close Up Topp 100 [closeuptopp100.blogspot.com]
I Close-Up Magazine #100 så listades de 100 bästa albumen mellan 1991-2008, enligt tidningens samlade skribent- och recensentkår. Eftersom jag är listskadad kunde jag inte motstå att lyssna igenom hela listan

2008-05-15 Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator [lipsum.com]
"Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s"

2008-05-15 The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces [readwriteweb.com]

2008-05-15 Google Maps [maps.google.com]
nu med foto och wikipediaartiklar

2008-05-14 You find $140,000 in the street... what do you do next? [dailybreeze.com]
"I'm not going to say it wasn't tough, but I know returning the money was the right thing," Estrada said with a small smile Tuesday.

2008-05-14 Twitter + Bash == Bad Idea [blog.unixdaemon.net]

2008-05-14 The Narcissism of Small Code Differences [weblog.raganwald.com]

2008-05-13 XML: The Angle Bracket Tax [codinghorror.com]

2008-05-13 Muto - an ambiguous animation painted on public walls [blublu.org]

2008-05-13 Lifecycle Messaging [redeye.firstround.com]

2008-05-12 Jacqueline Stallone's Rumpology¨ [jacquelinestallone.com]
"Just as a print of your fingertips, palms, soles and ears tell a story, so does your rump". Jacqueline Stallone = Mamma Stallone.

2008-05-12 Be Good [paulgraham.com]
if you start the kind of startup where users come back each day, you've basically built yourself a giant tamagotchi. You've made something you need to take care of.

2008-05-12 Political Loyalties in Web Frameworks [plope.com]

2008-05-12 Folding your arms can help your brain [canada.com]

2008-05-11 Cash-Burning Facebook Borrows $100mm...Because It Couldn't Sell Stock? [alleyinsider.com]

2008-05-11 The coolest thing I saw at JavaOne 2008 was... [blogs.sun.com]
...the Livescribe Smartpen

2008-05-11 Säg hej till mygg- sommaren 2008 | Nyheter | Aftonbladet [aftonbladet.se]
jotack, det märks redan.

2008-05-11 Steven Seagal Emotion Chart [farm4.static.flickr.com]

2008-05-10 Undervattensbegravning i korallrev [dn.se]

2008-05-10 "äktenskap är ett förhållande där den ena personen har rätt och den andra är mannen." [deeped.tumblr.com]

2008-05-10 Marrakeazh [marrakezh.se]
En produkt om dagen. Som woot.com fast på svenska.

2008-05-10 How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 1 [codingthewheel.com]

2008-05-09 How Advertising Works, and Why It Won 19t For Facebook [mattmaroon.com]

2008-05-09 Processing.js [ejohn.org]

2008-05-09 tinydb [tinydb.org]
store some tiny data in a tiny url

2008-05-08 YouTube - GNEVE - GNU Emacs Video Editor mode demo [youtube.com]

2008-05-08 Corporate Information - Google User Experience [google.com]

2008-05-08 Accidental Emacs [wordaligned.org]

2008-05-08 Chinese firms bargain hunting in U.S. [latimes.com]
States are aggressively trying to lure companies looking to grow. Incentives and a weak dollar are spurring investment.

2008-05-07 Death of the SUV [globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com]

2008-05-07 twittearth [twittearth.com]

2008-05-07 Killing Twitter Before It Can hurt Us [whydoeseverythingsuck.com]

2008-05-07 Why Apple is more expensive than Amazon [weblog.raganwald.com]

2008-05-07 MVC - Xerox Parch 1978-1979 [heim.ifi.uio.no]
I spent a very happy and inspiring year as a visiting scientist with the Smalltalk group at Xerox PARC from the summer of 1978 to the summer of 1979

2008-05-06 Scipy - the embarrassing way to code [vetta.org]

2008-05-06 The day the music died [diveintomark.org]

2008-05-06 An open letter to environmentalists [wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com]
Here 19s what 19s wrong with that: the science is not valid. There is no Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is wrong. Dead wrong.

2008-05-06 vi implementerat i javascript [gpl.internetconnection.net]

2008-05-06 Meanwhile, in his spare time... [politico.com]
...Obama seems to have brought peace to the Niger Delta. No joke.

2008-05-06 Your Life Ambition [phdcomics.com]

2008-05-05 Tio topputvecklare [computersweden.idg.se]
2. Jimmy Nilsson

2008-05-05 Why Japan didn 19t create the iPod [blog.gatunka.com]

2008-05-05 ny skiva från nin. [theslip.nin.com]

2008-05-04 Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal (Updated) [techcrunch.com]

2008-05-03 6 Reasons to Visit the World 19s Happiest Country [fourhourworkweek.com]

2008-05-03 The best investment advice you'll never get [sanfranmag.com]

2008-05-03 Let's skip the meeting [sethgodin.typepad.com]
"Meetings - The Practical Alternative to Work"

2008-05-02 Beware Pseudo-Arrays [okasaki.blogspot.com]

2008-05-02 Is Office the new Netscape? [roughtype.com]

2008-05-02 Google Now Lets You Place Ads On TV [mashable.com]

2008-05-01 Adobe - Open Screen Project [adobe.com]

2008-05-01 Så lät det då [metrobloggen.se]
Den 14 maj 1979 varnar statstelevisionens Rapport för att diskoteken hotar att slå ut dansbanden, ett helt okritiskt snyftreportage regisserat av Musikerförbundet.

2008-05-01 Lesbos islanders dispute gay name [news.bbc.co.uk]
The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians.

2008-05-01 Volvo's 2020 vision: The injury-proof car [sciam.com]
In the very long run, Volvo's Ivarsson said, we may all drive the ultimate vehicle: the uncrashable car.

2008-05-01 Architecture astronauts take over [joelonsoftware.com]

2008-05-01 doing-it-wrong.jpg [xach.com]