"Solving
Tic-Tac-Toe: Game Tree Basics"
Free Gary
Daily life in Belarus:
(Photo description: The woman at right is a Lithuanian citizen, standing in the Lithuanian village of Norviliskes. She is speaking with her Belarusian relatives, behind a fence that is built on the border between Belarus and Lithuania, while a Belarusian border guard watches over the scene on Friday, May 2, 2008. The border between the two countries runs right through the middle of this village. The diverging paths taken by the two countries since the 1991 Soviet collapse have left former neighbors in this border village separated not only by an imposing fence but by increasingly different ways of life. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits))
As someone who lives in the inversion, I found this
article interesting.
Also, as someone who works on Drupal in Emacs, I've found Sacha Chua's site to be most
informative. Today's
post on syntax checking with flymake is as good a place as any to
start. (It's worth clicking around.)
The
Stages of Grief as illustrated by the Dan Kaminsky DNS vulnerability
discovery. (Did I already mention that sensepost was dead on in
calling this a great infosec soap opera. (It's like
l0pht and @stake or something.))
Apple is the new Microsoft. Can't we all just get along?
Recently in computers Category
Estelle Getty,
R.I.P. Entertainment Weekly has collected their favorite Estelle
Getty moments, via YouTube, in rememberance.
"Edupunk"
Stevie Wonder:
Your
Free Will Astrology for the week
Science Labs at Night
Kahimi Karie & Momus - Lolitapop Dollhouse [live]
Versus CluClu Land is my new favorite blog.
Mysterious
Chinese Tunnels, via. BLDGBLOG
Still thinking.
Dan Kaminsky's DNS 'sploit is out. Broken internets.
Good stuff:
If you like poker, you should watch NBC's Poker After Dark. Last
week's cash game was great fun, and this week promises to be good as
well.
On Max Apple
I'm really enjoying Fantastic Contraption (although I could waste
years of my life).
Have I already
pointed to The Vice Guide to North Korea? Why not?
This
pretty much nails my thoughts on Batman, although I'm not sure the
lack of emotion is a bad thing. (And there's that scene in
American Psycho on the stairs with the chainsaw where I'm pretty sure
Christian Bale can't be accused of "under-emoting" (at least he really
scares the crap out of me in that scene).)
Bruce
Schneier: "I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch." Words
of wisdom.
I've
been looking for a reason to link to something about Omaha, which is
the game of champions. Poker News's coverage of the 2008 WSOP has
been first rate, and I'm always glad to see Erik Seidel in there.
"John
Ashbery's Optional Apocalypse," by Chris Nealon
Russian hackers
planning attacks agains Baltic countries and Ukraine. Where's
Gadi?
"Watching nonprogrammers trying to run a software company
is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf."
Joel Spolsky taken out of context.
Hacker conference videos for your viewing pleasure.
As everyone's pointed out:
Information on Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards.
Life as a programmer. (From the comments "I personally thought it was going to be alot like the movie Swordfish, drinking wine with hot chicks while making virtual cubes on my octo-monitor setup.")
Conversational Reading v. Nicholas Carr
The Fluidity of Russian Football
Lessons from the cyberattacks in Estonia. Gadi Evron's work on this topic is also worth checking out. (There's a PDF write-up by Evron as well as his presentations at Black Hat and Defcon (which google has failed to find).)
Mother Jones has the torture playlist. Songs include Prince's "Raspberry Beret," Deicide's "Fuck Your God," and the Barney theme song.
Unplug your coffeemaker from the internets.
Happy Juneteenth!
"got fuel to burn / got roads to drive"
Spend the day with KLF.
OTO Fight Night!. I love the litigious politics of esoteric religious groups! Almost as much as I love exclamation points! Hooray!
Your Free Will Astrology for the week. (A new service.)
"Sergey Karjakin at eighteen." (He was grandmaster at 12.)
Gay Arabs Partying.
Steve Yegge makes some good points on Rhino, Javascript, and the future of the web.
Old computer music.
Princess Leia and Salman Rushdie:
Congratulations, George Takei.
THE PRESS RELEASE FOR MY ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR HOLDING BREATH UNDERWATER. BY RICK STOECKEL
Stan Winston died this weekend.
Ryan Trecartin's "A Family Finds Entertainment" and "(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me)" (on ubuweb).
Nonconceptualist Manifesto Part 1
Interior design for the Computer Science set.
Mozilla Rhino: Javascript for Java.
Daniel Lanois discusses Bob Dylan's "Most of the Time."
It's Bloomsday. My only Bloomsday in Dublin was World Cup 2002. I watched Mick McCarthy's Irish (sans Roy Keane) lose to Spain.
"We're all ops people now"
Premiere League fixtures are announced.
Tim Berners-Lee's "Principles of Design"
Dancho Danchev visualizes malicious doorways.
"Utopia on the sidewalk": Fritz Haber, atomic bombs, science fiction, Bloomsbury, and poison gas.
"A 30-picowatt processor for sensors" - I link to the ZDNet article because there's all kinds of good links.
Modern Art and Rubbish
The ever amusing Zed Shaw emerges from the rubble of Bear Sterns to preach the truth about programming, IDEs, the financial market, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and on and on. I look forward to his posts with unhealthy amounts of glee.
It's a SCADA party! More here and here and, of course, here.
An interview with Alan Moore.
The Stuckist Manifesto (I love a good manifesto. Maybe that's what I like about Zed Shaw's writing. It all feels like a manifesto.)
Ultra Large Systems
