September 2009
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Sep 30th
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Sep 30th
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Sep 29th
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Petition for Internet Neutrality →
Sep 29th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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What does UTC stand for?
UTC is the Coordinated Universal Time and it’s the time standard on which all time zones base their offset, i.e. the time on the Greenwich Meridian. E.g. Japan is at the time zone UTC+9 and New Work in the time zone UTC-5/-4. The point that always bugged me is that UTC is no—as one would expect—an acronym of Coordinated Universal Time. So one day I looked it up and I found this on the...
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 26th
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iPhone webpage with touch events →
This is a nice example of what you can do with javascript on a webpage for iPhone using touch events (opposed to normal mouse events). Observe that the page is only interesting if seen through an iPhone/iPod Touch.
Sep 26th
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Sep 26th
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“The pessimistic view is that the urge for this holistic understanding is offset...”
– John Frazer Themes VII: An Evolutionary Architecture (page 21). The Architectural Association, 1995
Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
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“Piracy is what people carrying guns on the high seas do: capturing ships,...”
– Dan Gillmor (via El Blog de Enrique Dans : Mediactive)
Sep 24th
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Sep 24th
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Sep 23rd
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Sep 23rd
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What is a chai wallah? →
Ever since I watched Slumdog Millionaire I wondered about the word chai wallah. This blog post makes a good job of explaining it n_n (via Seth Godin’s Blog)
Sep 23rd
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QuirksBlog: The HTML5 drag and drop disaster →
A funny rant—aren’t all rants funny?—about such a ranty topic as are web standards. This time HTML 5 and its drag & drop module.
Sep 22nd
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Sep 22nd
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Sep 21st
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What Google understands about the future of news... →
Interesting small article about Fast Flip, a new Google Product that’s basically a rethought UI for Google News.
Sep 21st
Testing mobile phones, or the masochist’s guide to... →
And I thought browsers on desktop computers were enough punishment…
Sep 20th
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Sep 20th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 19th
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“There’s a great story about Pablo Picasso. Some guy told Picasso...”
– Josh Olson I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script at The Village Voice (2009)
Sep 18th
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Sep 18th
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Sep 17th
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¿PC infectado? ¡Fuera de la red! →
Sep 16th
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Overlords for hire
Rackspace cloud says on their webpage they’re looking for a Linux Systems Overlord. I cannot help but to remember one of the best games ever.
Sep 16th
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Sep 15th
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“Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and...”
– Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (via Simon Willison) Full article
Sep 14th
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“A computer program is a blueprint and its execution at the same time. Like a...”
– Cramer, Florian “Concepts, Notations, Software, Art” (via buzzandersen:vellum:carvalhais)
Sep 13th
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“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my...”
– Bjarne Stroustrup, originator of C++
Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
404: The only winning move… →
Sep 12th
"It is not ‘your’ Facebook profile. It is... →
Sep 12th
has_many :through - Circle of death →
Sep 8th
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Virus size →
So it takes about 25 kilobits—3.2 kbytes—of data to code for a virus that has a non-trivial…
Sep 7th
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Respeto →
Sep 4th
Zapatero, espere a leer esto →
Sep 3rd