October 2010
11 posts
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People are partly made of pond scum →
Emerging research shows that bacteria have powers to engineer the environment, to communicate and to affect human well-being. They may even think.
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All About Polymorphics (1959) →
Simon Ramo’s concept of “polymorphic” computing is laid out in stop-motion animation, accompanied by acoustic guitar. The film anticipates parallel, distributed processing and the architecture of ARPANET and the Internet.
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US commute patterns viewer →
Overlays Google Maps with commuter data
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Jax Vineyards full page slider →
takes the standard sliding gallery to the next level by animating across the entire page. Let’s create a similar effect using jQuery.
The Creative internet (106 things) →
A best of… the internet. All the usual suspects collected in one nice presentation.
The Exciting World of South Korean Protests →
For a country of about 50 million people, there are a lot of protests in South Korea. With a national average of 11,000 public protests a year, the average South Korean riot policeman is mobilized to contain 85 demonstrations a year.
While the majority of such protests are probably pretty standard affairs involving marching, shouting, and possibly some violent clashes between protesters and...
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“The question of whether to use memcache or APC, depends entirely on your...”
– Vito Chin, Understanding APC
IE9, pinned sites and the taskbar →
IE9 allows developers to define how a site interacts with Windows 7 taskbar. Not clear what crossdomain support constraints there are. Feels a bit slapdash.
Kroc Camen argues they have done it all wrong and should be using the <menu> element. Have to agree.
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