Friday 28 November 2008 at 06:32 am
The true scale of the US Governments
Financial Bailout. Pretty epic. Makes you wonder how the world would be if they'd spent a fraction of that on feeding the poor, education, housing the homeless or free medical care . . .
Some brilliant gifts for science types
Glass Sculptured Molecules (I'll have the large MDMA please),
Plush Bacteria/Virus (MRSA for me) and finally
Particles (Neutron for me).
Pretty interesting -
My Job Interview at Google. I suspect interviewing for Apple or Microsoft would be similar.
Fascinating -
What Your Computer Does While You Wait.
Sadly the southbridge hosts some truly sluggish performers, for even main memory is blazing fast compared to hard drives. Keeping with the office analogy, waiting for a hard drive seek is like leaving the building to roam the earth for one year and three months.
Friday 28 November 2008 at 06:30 am
Get your
Wondermark Greeting Cards.
This is my fave for those that will suffer from
industrial strength chrimbo madness. Hope you survive unscathed.
Sunday 16 November 2008 at 6:35 pm
Fantastic - picking up where
KiwiTapes left off is
The Doledroms.
Slowly uncovering some wonderful music blogs out there including
Weedtemple &
Takethepills. They all tend to cross reference each other and add a few more so you can easily spend hours finding hidden or lost gems from your past.
Update - also check out
Youngmosstongue - some great stuff being posted over there. Almost one or two new items daily.
Tuesday 11 November 2008 at 9:06 pm
Hypnotic images of
The Sun. For some reason it disturbs me how much some of these remind me of a close up of human skin.
If you don't want to install cygwin but need 'tail' try
OpTail. Useful for keeping an eye on Windows log files.
Nice and free
ISO Creator.
Another visualisation blog -
Beatiful WWW. The wikipedia visualisations are particularly interesting.
Should be an interesting film -
The Lioness. On a related note
NZ scored 5th in the 2008 Gender Equality Survey after Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland.
A pretty interesting read -
The power of speech. A missionary tries to convert an amazonian tribe to Christianity but comes away as an athiest himself.
Seriously trippy -
Tilt shift photography. Hard to believe these are real.
Tuesday 11 November 2008 at 9:03 pm
These guys are doing some really awesome stuff -
Macro to Micro Etching as it relates to the
Rosetta Disk.
Think about
Very Long Term Backup.
This kind if thing is amazing - how long will anything you do now last ? As it stands the high-tech information we're all collecting and storing by the terabyte is likely to last no longer than 5 to 10 years. Sure you can throw it into the 'cloud' but who really trusts this medium and as file formats become obsolete, opening the files will become problematic.
Remember that plain text is your friend and if you have anything *really* important commit it to paper - it'll outlive your disks and PC.
Saturday 01 November 2008 at 08:33 am
Its that time of year again - gro' a mo' and raise some money for Prostate Cancer awareness, research and treatment.
So get your mates together and join in the
Movember fun.
Update - you can sponser me via this
link or my team the TECMO's (don't ask) by going
here, clicking on 'Donate to a Team', enter our team name 'tecmos' and the 'Donate' button.
