Sausage sauvage!

"For one particular set of restrictions we ended up with about 7 million C functions. We then..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:54:14 +0100

“For one particular set of restrictions we ended up with about 7 million C functions. We then compiled each of these functions with 7 compilers: llvm-gcc, clang, Intel cc, Sun cc, various versions of gcc. We then looked for functions where a particular pair of compilers exhibited widely differing abilities to optimize.”

- [LLVMdev] speed and code size issues. This is pretty sweet. And not very long, only 10 paragraphs or so, actually.

"Thus, the real tragedy of the Wikipedia method is that it reduces intellectual contributions to such..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:26:33 +0100

“Thus, the real tragedy of the Wikipedia method is that it reduces intellectual contributions to such granular units that writing a 2000-word entry on Chabrol in one sitting feels like painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.”

- Boston Review — Evgeny Morozov: Edit This Page

Big Bird, Meet Dick and Jane | John Holt

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:52:03 +0100

Big Bird, Meet Dick and Jane | John Holt:

A critique of Sesame Street from 1971. So very, very good.

Muskatnuss, Herr Müller!

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:19:59 +0100

Muskatnuss, Herr Müller!

Wie geil ist das denn?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:17:30 +0100

Wie geil ist das denn?

"Your left brain has nothing right. Your right brain has nothing left."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:05:22 +0100

“Your left brain has nothing right. Your right brain has nothing left.”

- (via oncealways)

edouardbriere: quaranto: OpenOffice mouse. This can’t be for...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:01:11 +0100

edouardbriere:

quaranto:

OpenOffice mouse. This can’t be for real. via @eladmeidar

It is apparently for real.

I think Lionel is going to say how shit this is but still totally buy it.

Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : Click-to-Run: Delivering Office in the 21st Century

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:58:30 +0100

Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : Click-to-Run: Delivering Office in the 21st Century:

Streaming software. Interesting.

langer: The guys in the office knew I was freaking out about...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:47:43 +0100

langer:

The guys in the office knew I was freaking out about turning thirty, so they got me a birthday cake in hexadecimal to help soften the blow.

NERDS!

Ha!

Photo

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:03:56 +0100

Horses Inside Out. Aaaaand we have a winner for the best drawing...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:56:57 +0100

Horses Inside Out. Aaaaand we have a winner for the best drawing ever.

Nendo Sketchbook | Fubiz™

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:58 +0100

Nendo Sketchbook | Fubiz™

Bread Shoes by R&E Praspaliauskas. Tasty!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:20:08 +0100

Bread Shoes by R&E Praspaliauskas. Tasty!

A Children’s Book (via me on flickr)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:51:34 +0100

A Children’s Book (via me on flickr)

"Consider: in this day of powerful servers that connect computers around the globe, the link between..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:17:50 +0100

“Consider: in this day of powerful servers that connect computers around the globe, the link between the London Metropolitan Police’s communication system and that of the Tube’s Transport Police is a pleasant police officer named Vanessa, who reads reports of crimes in progress off of one system and inputs that news into the other. This is because the communication system of the Metropolitan Police is based on a Commodore 64 computer, which may be out of date and incompatible with the Windows operating system but it works fine and everybody in the department knows how to use it, and no one is going to invest the time or money to upgrade.”

- Big Bother - Jamie Malanowski (via German Joys)

"International Atomic Time (TAI, from the French name Temps Atomique International) is a..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:08:15 +0100

“International Atomic Time (TAI, from the French name Temps Atomique International) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth’s geoid. It is the principal realisation of Terrestrial Time, and the basis for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) which is used for civil timekeeping all over the Earth’s surface. As of 2009, TAI was exactly 34 seconds ahead of UTC: an initial difference of 10 seconds at the start of 1972, plus 24 leap seconds in UTC since 1972; the last leap second was added on December 31, 2008.”

- International Atomic Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:15:36 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles, by James Bridle, concerning Charles Babbage, Heath Robinson, MENACE and MAGE

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:08:45 +0100

A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles, by James Bridle, concerning Charles Babbage, Heath Robinson, MENACE and MAGE:

This is 100% awesome. (via @jonty)

Cell Size and Scale

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:39:26 +0100

Cell Size and Scale:

An amazing info graphic. (via @espiekermann)

MoinMoin

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:03:48 +0100

MoinMoin:

There’s a a wiki engine called MoinMoin! How awesome is that?!