December 2008
72 posts
Darwin's dangerous idea: Top 10 evolution articles... →
150 years after Darwin proposed it, evolution by natural selection continues to be both a battleground and a hotbed of ideas.
Predictions for the Cloud in 2009 →
What will 2009 bring in terms of the cloud computing landscape? Appistry offers a set of predictions on where cloud computing is going and what companies like Oracle, IBM, Amazon and others are likely to do.
Watchg-speak, is this what UIs will look like?
“And with the economy collapsing, and the tech sector one of the few showing any...”
– Silvio, you’re not alone! :-)
UK government wants to regulate the Inter Tubes
(via mkg)
Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom →
Rival, it never did. The launch of the search engine was nothing but a classic PR trainwreck, with much hype and little to show for. Cuil failed to deliver good enough results to drive anyone to change their search behavior, and quickly became the subject of backlash and criticism because of their poor performance and indexing methods that actually took websites down in the process.
A Christmas Present for SEOs: 10 Tips to Pick the... →
Top Ruby Frameworks Rails and Merb Join Forces →
Human Clock! →
If programming languages were religions... →
roamin:
Aegisub
C would be Judaism
Java would be Fundamentalist Christianity
PHP would be Cafeteria Christianity
C++ would be Islam
C# would be Mormonism
Lisp would be Zen Buddhism
Haskell would be Taoism
Erlang would be Hinduism
Perl would be Voodoo
Lua would be Wicca
Ruby would be Neo-Paganism
Python would be Humanism
COBOL would be Ancient Paganism
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“Whenever I go back and re-read an email that I wrote a long time ago, I usually...”
– Scott Simpson (via merlin)
Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms -... →
travors:
A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey’s bottoms.
Then some people still accuse Darwin of being wrong!
Believe Me, It’s Torture →
Christopher Hitchens undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it.
Netbook sales surge in economic downturn; where's... →
marco:
I think this misses a few key points:
Yes, netbook sales growth is high — primarily because this is their first year of noticeable growth. It’s easy to grow an impressive percentage from near-zero.
And Apple’s making a lot more on each $1600 laptop with healthy margins than these netbook vendors make on their $400 econoboxes with maybe $50 margins. The article did briefly mention...
“The Future of Book Publishing (Maybe)”
– see title of blog
The Urban Elitist
(via fluffynotes)
A good read
How SaaS can impact the Middle East market →
OpenZine - Create an online magazine -... →
(via mkg)
4 Unique Apps for Tracking Time →
Stanford University iPhone Development Course →
Google Image Ripper
travors:
If you often search for images on google, this is great and this is even better.
WatchPorting Zoho Creator apps to Google AppEngine
Hit Bush with a shoe, How to misuse Flash! →
“Money can’t buy you happiness. But it can definitely get you more space.”
– DropBox (When you upgrade to a 50GB space)
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
DropBox, amazing file share, sync, backup service! →
Microsoft coming to AppStore! →
“Every day you don’t practice you’re one day further from being good.”
– Ben Hogan (via tmblg)
Mozy is now part of Decho →
Is technology user friendly yet?
when I occasionally see users (friends, colleagues, etc) still type “www” before a web address, I wonder. There are easier options to do that for years, like Ctrl/Option+Enter or just typing the name of the website. (if you enter “nasa” it will redirect you to “www.nasa.gov”)
I mean common, this is the simplest example ever! Forget about shortcuts and all that...
Poll: JavaFx vs. Flash
Will JavaFX oust Flash?
The World's Most Valuable Digital Startups →