smart stuff

new energy blog

good.myupdat.es/

Sex sells ..

Surprise, surprise .. :-). Men buy the DSL connections :-).

Took this picture in Hamburg at Hansenet (alice, Telekom Italia).

The model is Vanessa Hessler and she is playing in the latest Asterix movie.

Shiny polar cloud

I came across this great article on Slashdot.

Dryad talk

Dryad is the Microsoft copy from map-reduce.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhE5JCP2Ak

Got API.com

Thanks to Hal for passing this useful link: gotapi.com

It’s one of the few links that made it into the expensive real estate of my browser toolbar.

Google scalability conference videos

Enjoy! :-)

bluxte.net/blog/2007-07/06-39-54.html

Ceramics for Breakfast

Designboom has a bunch of interesting ideas on design.

Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon is a highly recommended SF-book.

Scientific development has always learnt a lot from SF. Maybe boody-sleeving will be next.

Download videos from youTube, Google, etc.

Smart firefox plugin.

Google Tech Talks

Google has tons of interestings videos worth watch about a range of different topics.

This morning I watched Kevin Kelly’s "The next 50 years of science".

The scientific method which provides us with so many … all technological goodies does not resemble the science of 1600. Ever since Bacon, science has undergone a slow evolution.

Landmarks in the history of the scientific method are the invention of libraries, indexes, citations, controlled experiments, peer review, placebos, double blind experiments, randomization, and search among others. At the core of the scientific method is the structuring of information.

In the next 50 years, as the technologies of information and knowledge accelerate, the nature of the scientific process will change even more than it has in the last 400 years. We can’t predict what specific inventions will arise in the next 50 years, but based on long-term trends in epistemic tools, I believe we can speculate on how the scientific method itself — that is, how we know — will change in the next five decades

Sven's idea scratchpad

Sven C. Koehler has finally put up his own blog "Symbol Thinking".

Top ten lines of entrepreneurs

Guy Kawasaki has a nice blog posting.

.. and here are the top ten lies of venture capitalists.

BSP on MPI

BSPonMPI is a platform-independent communication library for developing parallel (SPMD) programs. It implements the BSPlib standard and runs on all machines which have MPI.

Must read: Bjarne Stroustrup Interview about C++

hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000092/jokes/strup.html

View rendered source chart -- Firefox extension

Jennifer Madden has released an amazing firefox extension:

Creates a Colorful Chart of a Webpage’s Rendered Source Code
Displays Source in its Altered State After the DOM has been Manipulated by JavaScript

Source charting …

Clearly Defines Nested Containers
Easy Way to Identify Structure and Hierarchy
Great Visual Aid Tool for Learning Environments
Intuitive and Efficient Way to Analize Source
Dramatically Enhances Your Debugging Capability

The probabilistic age

Q: Why are people so uncomfortable with Wikipedia? And Google? And, well, that whole blog thing?

A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale. Great read

Ruby versus .. Perl5 versus XOTcl

Thanks to Michael Schlenker we added a XOTcl column to our OO comparison table.

Extended Object Tcl (for short: XOTcl, pronounced exotickle) is an object-oriented scripting language based on MIT’s OTcl.

Ten Wikipedia Hacks

Some good tips on using wikipedia.

Flatland online

Who hasn’t yet read the story of Flatland?

Flatland: A romance of many dimensions

Text by Edwin A. Abbott, 1884; copyright expired

Economics in one lesson

jim.com/econ/contents.html