Easily the best Microsoft advertisement EVER
And, maybe, better than any ad that Apple has ever done…. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAhJTxC1C8w&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0]
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November 2010
[Geeky] RubyConf Summary (updated 2)
RubyConf 2010 was excellent. It was my first and probably not my last. Some general thoughts and then a master list of links (the real meat.) - Unlike most all ‘business’ type conferences and talks I have gone to, the RubyConf style of presentation (and perhaps the Rails or Ruby community — I don’...
Read more →By boat from Boston Harbor to the Lower Mystic Lake
This is very close to where I live, and people are amazed to know that you can actually go by boat from Arlington to Boston Harbor. This video is beautiful proof of that. [vimeo 16535358 w=400 h=225] The Mystic (in Three Minutes) from Sarah Ginsburg on Vimeo.
Overreaction
I tend to agree with this writer that: > “With respect to airport security, it is remarkable how we have come to place Sept. 11, 2001, as the fulcrum upon which we balance almost all of our decisions. As if deadly terrorism didn’t exist prior to that day, when really we’ve been dealing with the same...
Read more →[GEEKY] RubyConf
The problem with conferences is knowing what session to go to, right? Check out this talk called “ZOMG WHY IS MY CODE SO SLOW? Aaron Patterson. It’s really excellent. It has many specific pointers that I will be able to use as soon as I get back. (Yes, in case you wonder: ZOMG)
[RubyConf] Percentage of Windows users
Odd thing happened in a talk at RubyConf. Speaker asks all attendees who are using Windows to raise their hands. Looked to me like about 3% of folks here are on Windows. Now its a very biased audience but still an interesting number!
Definitious
Check out this cool site developed by some Brandeis students who participated in the bootcamp-like course that I taught this summer. It’s called Definitious and it’s kind of a collaborative, semi-serious, semi-silly dictionary where anyone can define any word they want and others can vote the definitions up and down. Definitious. By the way, we are in already planning an expanded version of the course for this coming summer. It’s going to be even better!
[GEEKY] CSS Deep Thoughts
I feel that I am finally mastering CSS and in doing so I am seeing some interesting patterns. It seems to me that it’s very easy to get into a situation where you have too many CSS rules that overlap and override each other in ways that are more complex than necessary. It seems like there could and ...
Read more →Will the App Store Accept Java Applications?
Check out Apple Begins Accepting Submissions for Mac App Store(from GigaOM: ** "At the Oct. 20 “Back to the Mac” event, the Mac App Store was announced alongside the next iteration of OS X,...
Read more →October 2010
[DESIGN] Typography Cheat Sheet
If you are into fonts and typography, you might enjoy this Infographic that will help you choose.
[GEEKY] Mac will be discontinuing support of Java
This is a weird development. Java is a super well established language, why would Apple decide to stop developing it: “Apple’s announcement that they would be ceasing future development of their versi...
Read more →Robot wars
Two very contrasting ways of looking at our relationship with Pakistan. I don’t know where I stand, to be honest. If you are interested in the topic you owe it to yourself to read both articles, because I had a hard time finding an appropriate section to quote in each case. [Here is Johann ...
Read more →Tunnel Vision
This article by David Brooks in the New York Times addresses a problem that I was wondering about too. New Jersey cancelled the building of a multi-billion tunnel into downtown New York City. Everyone without exception says that the tunnel i...
Read more →Do you procrastinate? I do…
Here’s an insightful New Yorker article about procrastination. There are some useful ideas and techniques in this article. One of my favorites is the concept of ‘self-binding’ (not a form of masochi...
Read more →Big Changes coming in Curaçao!
You may not follow the news, but Curaçao is undergoing major constitutional changes, as are all the Netherlands Antilles. In fact, as of this Sunday, Oct 10, (“10-10-10”) the Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist as a legal entity. The easiest way to explain this to Americans that I have come up ...
Read more →[PRETTY-GEEKY] Interesting article about secure elections
Check out Fort Knox vs. the Barking Dog(from Benlog: ** "The Barking Dog model is different. You still build fences. Maybe even a fancy lock. But more importantly, you get a well-trained dog, maybe ...
Read more →Yes but was it charged?
Check out Actor Tony Curtis Was Buried With His iPhone(from iPhone Download Blog: > "  all the time. - What was that movie about that we saw LAST WEEK? - How come did it take till page 102 before you realized you had alread...
Read more →Advice for New Graduate Students
If you know anyone in graduate school (oops, or if you are in graduate school yourself, or planning to go to one), this is interesting reading: Advice for New Graduate Students from [Freedom to Tinker](http://freedom-to-tinker.co...
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