16 Jul 2009 - permalink
Khoi Vinh on Michael Mann:
Over the course of his career, Mann has produced a taut, stylistic and often brutally impersonal filmography that seems most interested in the concept of work. His movies are preoccupied with how men (almost always men) of extraordinary skills practice their craft — and the price they must pay for doing so.
10 Jul 2009 - permalink
Amazing!
9 Jul 2009 - permalink
John Paczkowski on the privacy implications of Google’s upcoming operating system Chrome OS:
Lest we forget, Google is in the behavioral targeting business. Why would people ever use an OS developed by a company whose business is based on meticulously recording and analyzing their online behavior?
7 Jul 2009 - permalink
Necessity is the mother of invention, this time from a two year old US law on energy efficiency to take effect in 2012. Described as “tough standards”, the law requires incandescent bulbs to be 30% more efficient that today’s (Wikipedia). In contrast, the EU has agreed to put a complete ban on incandescent bulbs by 2012.
“There’s a massive misperception that incandescents are going away quickly,” said Chris Calwell, a researcher with Ecos Consulting who studies the bulb market. “There have been more incandescent innovations in the last three years than in the last two decades.”
I wouldn’t go so far as the author and call it the cutting edge (they are still way behind compact fluorescent lamps), but there are certainly improvements on the way and with an estimated 90% of all private light sources in the United States being incandescent that is definitely needed.
Indeed, the incandescent bulb is turning into a case study of the way government mandates can spur innovation.
2 Jul 2009 - permalink
Magnified 400 times using a scanning electron microscope. Such a strange and alien creature.
1 Jul 2009 - permalink
Amazing graph of Michael Jackson tracks played per hour:
30 Jun 2009 - permalink
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Chris Anderson’s new book Free:
Although the magic of Free technology means that the cost of serving up each [YouTube] video is “close enough to free to round down,” “close enough to free” multiplied by seventy-five billion is still a very large number.
So very true.
30 Jun 2009 - permalink
BBC asks 13-year old Scott Campbell to use a Walkman over his iPod for a week:
It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.
4 Jun 2009 - permalink
Remarkable images of a type of clouds with no meteorological name. Looks a bit like a wavy sea seen from benath.
21 May 2009 - permalink
ZFDebug, previously known as Scienta ZF Debug Bar, has reached version 1.5 with lots of new functionality and a new home with GoogleCode.
mark() method to calculate delta memory usageVisit the ZFDebug homepage and have a look. As always, keep the good suggestions and bug reports coming.