Chipping the web – conversation at risk
December 12th, 2006 1:40:28 pm pst by Sterling Camden
P(11): Perrin number 11 is 22 (that’s for you, apotheon).
A belated Happy Birthday to Grace Hopper, who would have turned 100 last Saturday. As much as I take issue with her vision for COBOL (that computer languages should be patterned after English), I admire her accomplishments.
“Teach a man to fish” … or loan him the money to buy his gear.
I’ve never tried to work with colors via HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness), but perhaps I should. Thanks, Assaf.
Scott Berkun: Why smart people defend bad ideas (thanks, Doug). Besides why, Scott reveals even more about how. Similarly, your own internal dialogue can also get in your way.
Tilt, Shift, and Swing, a photoblog that uses my tag cloud widget for WordPress. Thanks, allan! Nice use of shadow on this one.
Shelley Batts expounds on the latest in UGC: SpermCube. Now that’s art: a one cubic meter wet spot. They need contributors! As Scott Simmons says in a comment:
More fun math: with typical ‘output’ of 3 to 5 cubic centimeters per ‘event’, they’ll need about 250,000 vials to fill that thing. They’re going to need a lot of volunteers, or else they’ll be kept pretty busy for quite a while …
Oh, but it’s a job you can be passionate about, Scott. Honey, can you give me hand?…
It’s beautiful, it’s familiar, and it’s WordPress. Tara Hunt has made the jump from Blogger to WordPress, with some help from Adam Bouskila. Looking good, miss rogue!
Firefox 3.0 in alpha (thanks, Kiltak) I think I’ll try this one out on Linux. Anyone else download it yet?
The problem with Moore’s Law is that it lacks an enforcement clause. Jeff Atwood gives us the real performance history data.
Doc puzzles over the “Oyez” in Wikia’s announcement.
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Hah! Thanks. Maybe I’ll have better luck figuring out what “It has been proved that for all primes p, p divides P(p)” means after some sleep tonight.
Not yet. I’ll probably give it a whirl as soon as it makes its way into FreeBSD ports. Y’know, I only just started using Fx2.0 a few weeks ago.
I’ll have a look at some of those other links later, and maybe comment here about ‘em — unless something strikes such a chord that I need to comment at more length in SOB or Geekend. The “Why smart people defend bad ideas” thing sounds familiar, though, and I wonder if I might have read it before.
If p = 11, P(p) = 22, and 11 divides 22. The same is true for all values of p.
Geekend?
This is weird. It looks to me like your responses to my comments are showing up before my comments. Which one of us is time-traveling?
Yeah, Geekend:
The Trouble With Christmas
Logical Problem Solving
It was me, folding time. I adjusted the time offset on the blog.
Good stuff on the Geekend, apotheon. I didn’t realize that you contributed to those posts. I wish there were a way to get a feed of all of your TechRepublic posts, so I wouldn’t have to wade through all the other drivel over there.
I appreciate the implied compliment.
I only just started posting to the Geekend a few days ago, at the request of The Trivia Geek.
It was meant as such. The Trivia Geek is the only other TechRepublic author that I always enjoy.
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For all of you who may be curious about the alpha release:
A first look at Firefox 3.0
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061212-8409.html
Thanks for the link, Kiltak.
BTW, your comments are still always going to moderation. Could you try registering on this site? I’m hoping that would white-list you.