I would love to see someone take V8 and the Shell.cc sample, build it for all platforms and make it available as a binary download. Perhaps someone has already done it, but I can’t seem to fi...
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear, and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains to destroy us. – Duino Elegies I have not read Rilke before, ...
I bought my daughters two XO Laptops via the G1G1 program for the holiday. A couple of things about this program: As a result of our involvement, two laptops are going to children in the developing w...
There is a interesting comment thread going on my One World post. I closed my response to the comments by asking a question that I want to raise in a top-level post. If we roll the clock forward 200 ...
It is time for us to embrace that we live on “Spaceship Earth” (read the operating manual here). There is a huge debate about how to “run” such a “ship” and what p...
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A few folks on the “Oslo” team (SpankyJ, Gudge, Sells and John Doty) wrote Spork to demonstrate the utility of “Oslo” for, of all things, games. Below are two screenshots wort...
I have lived here for more than 8 years. This is the most snow I have seen at ~sea level in that time.
I just learned that Blagojevich quoted Kipling’s If at his recent press conference. You can think what you want about Kipling (see The White Man’s Burden) , this particular poem (likely K...
We are celebrating the winter solstice today. Follow my thoughts about this (it is long causal chain)… The solstice made me think of the Ancient of Days (below). William Blake has been on my mi...
I am writing an iPhone version of FFSync as a little weekend project. As I was thinking about finally writing the code to upload photos, it struck me that FriendFeed could make my job a lot easier by...
I have been thinking more about Post-American World. It turns out that there was something a little deeper there for me to grok; the importance of Soft Power. This has always been applicable to natio...
I am a fan of Fareed Zakaria, but this book is very close to “Give me my money back” territory. It reads like a The Rise and Fall of Great Powers-lite. Reviewing my notes, I don’t b...
I am still thinking a lot about how to get the market to reflect the “true” cost of carbon-based assets. You could completely disagree with the merits of the climate change argument and ...
I just completed Hot, Flat, and Crowded. I previously claimed that Warfighting was the best book that I read all year. That is still true, but Hot, Flat and Crowded is the most important book that I ...
21 years old. Still germane. The interesting thing is the primary spine of the demo. It is personally ironic since I am reading Hot, Flat and Crowded (more in another post on this). For feedreaders:...
http://www.treehugger.com/file s/2008/12/most-popular-stories -of-the-week-dec-7-14.php
I just finished reading Joel’s article on Amnesia. Much of it really hit home for me. We have the razor scooters. We even have a Segway that we use to get around campus (here good picture of ...
I have been reading John Dvorak for a long time. I am drawn to his writing in the same way that I am compelled to the read the cover of the celebrity magazines at the checkout stand. I just can’...
People said it was impossible, but [Dean] Kamen hates that word. Don’t tell me it’s impossible, he says, tell me you can’t do it. Tell me it’s never been done. Because the onl...
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire /index.php?id=62611 Skip to the last 5 minutes for a recap of that latest season.
http://dayoftheninja.com/ I didn’t even get him a present. But I did get him a cool poster for his excellent work at PDC.
I made the call 6 months ago that David Gregory would get the Meet the Press gig. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28 037561/ Now if I can just see where the market is going tomorrow. Maybe I need more mel...
You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis...
I have started to teach my kids to program. They are 5, turning 6. Since I started programming at age 12 and they are roughly 2x smarter than me (nature: their mother’s genes. nurture: they ...
Unbelievable writer. How did I miss him so far?
http://blog.jclark.com/search/ label/Oslo Good read.
http://www.amazon.com/Warfight ing-U-Marine-Corps-Staff/dp/03 85478348 You can get it online (latest edition) at http://www.dtic.mil/doctrin e/jel/service_pubs/mcdp1.pdf. Do not let the title make you t...
I try to run the Seattle Half-Marathon each year. This year, I decided to take some pictures as I did the run. Below was the best picture I took.
http://www.amazon.com/Traffic- Drive-What-Says-About/dp/03072 64785/ Fair trade Prior to reading this book, I was a supporter of mass transit in terms of voting and outlook. This book provides complete...
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