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April 07 2010
April 06 2010
Warren Ellis: On space travel
People argue that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Honestly, that's an argument that can be applied to pretty much anything. Imagine how many starving people could be fed if, say, a 100 per cent Simon Cowell tax was levied on any instance of Simon Cowell. Imagine if anyone caught spending money on Stephanie Meyer novels could be rendered down into their constituent chemicals and scattered on barren land as organic fertiliser.
April 05 2010
Denial of expertise ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
At a certain point, you have to admit you aren’t good enough to do something better than an expert could do it even if the technical option exists for you to give it a shot anyway.
via Denial of expertise ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto.
jfernandezs acts_as_php at master – GitHub
Urban Dictionary is built using Ruby on Rails even though URLs end with php.
April 04 2010
PAX East Panel Video (Rough Cut)
While you’re waiting DVD release, and before I take it and smooth it over with a couple second camera sources I have been given, I wanted to share the PAX East Panel that occurred after the screening. I know a lot of people wanted to see this, and the room got so packed a few people who wanted to see the panel got turned away, so there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to properly see it. So here’s a “rough cut” of the panel, split into two pieces because of a size limit on Vimeo.
Panelists, left to right: Dave Lebling, Don Woods, Brian Moriarty, Andrew Plotkin, Nick Montfort, Steve Meretzky, Jason Scott. It’s about 1 hour and 8 minutes.
GET LAMP Pax Panel: Part 1 (Rough Cut) from Jason Scott on Vimeo.
and part 2:
GET LAMP Pax Panel: Part 2 (Rough Cut) from Jason Scott on Vimeo.
March 17 2010
March 16 2010
Eddie Izzard – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2008, in his Stripped tour, Izzard began using Wikipedia itself as part of his stand-up act, reading from a live copy of an article (via an iPhone) and mocking Wikipedia's self-referential editorial style. To date, he has read from a variety of different articles.
Sandbox gaming vs. adventure paths: in defense of highly narrative adventures « The Lost Level
To oversimplify things a bit, D&D draws heavily from at least two very different strands of fantasy literature: the grim and sometimes savage world of “swords and sorcery” (think Conan); and epic, heavily plotted, highly moral high fantasy (think Tolkien). The influence of Conan-esque swords and sorcery can be seen in many core elements of D&D: dungeons to explore; treasure and money as a prime motivation for adventuring; the heavy representation of rogue-ish classes like the Thief, Bard, Assassin, and Illusionist; a very deadly world; and more. The influence of Tolkien-esque fantasy can be seen in many other elements: the character races available for play; lots of strange and interesting magic weapons and items; parties of adventurers who all work together; and countless “classic” monsters.
via Sandbox gaming vs. adventure paths: in defense of highly narrative adventures « The Lost Level.
Norrie May-Welby – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
norrie mAy-welby is the artistic signature of Norrie (born 1961 Paisley), a Scottish-Australian person who became the first person in the world officially declared to be neither a man nor a woman,[1] making Australia the first country in the world to recognise a “non-specified” gender.[2]
March 15 2010
Me entrevistan en el diario Hoy de Extremadura [es]
Ayer domingo tuve la oportunidad de aparecer en una de las páginas del diario con más tirada de Extremadura. En dicha página me preguntan sobre cómo empecé a dedicarme a esto del diseño de interacción, qué tal va Voota y mi opinión sobre otros detalles relacionados con el mundo de la tecnología (entrevista completa).
Cuando lo ves sobre el papel, enseguida te das cuenta de cosas que cambiarías porque no han salido justamente como las has dicho tu, pero esa es también la labor del periodista, al fin y al cabo. Simplemente quiero dejar bien claro que no soy “el fundador de varias start-ups”, puesto que parezco el único artífice de ellas. Junto a mi hay gente muy valiosa tan involucrada como yo.
Aparte de esta puntualización, uno no puede evitar esbozar una sonrisa al verse reflejado en un diario, por supuesto.
Va por mis padres, siempre a mi lado apoyándome en todo lo que hago.
Y ya que estamos en Extremadura, aprovecho para comentaros que estaré como ponente en The Evnt: un evento en Cáceres sobre nuevas tecnologías que tendrá lugar el próximo 9 y 10 de abril. Por si alguien se anima…
(Dani, gracias por la fotinga! Al final valió para algo! ;)
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Geohash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geohashes offer properties like arbitrary precision and the possibility of gradually removing characters from the end of the code to reduce its size (and gradually lose precision).
As a consequence of the gradual precision degradation, nearby places will often (but not always) present similar prefixes. On the other side, the longer a shared prefix is, the closer the two places are.
Bookmarks for March 1st through March 15th
These are my links for March 1st through March 15th:
- Geohash – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Geohash is a latitude/longitude geocode system invented by Gustavo Niemeyer when writing the web service at geohash.org, and put into the public domain. It is a hierarchical spatial data structure which subdivides space into buckets of grid shape.<br />
Geohashes offer properties like arbitrary precision and the possibility of gradually removing characters from the end of the code to reduce its size (and gradually lose precision).<br />
As a consequence of the gradual precision degradation, nearby places will often (but not always) present similar prefixes. On the other side, the longer a shared prefix is, the closer the two places are. - gameQuery – a javascript game engine with jQuery – gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make javascript game development easier by adding some simple game-related classes
- SaTScan – Software for the spatial, temporal, and space-time scan statistics – SaTScan™ is a free software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics
- neo4j open source nosql graph database » – You can think of Neo4j as a high-performance graph engine with all the features of a mature and robust database. The programmer works with an object-oriented, flexible network structure rather than with strict and static tables — yet enjoys all the benefits of a fully transactional, enterprise-strength database.
- OBLIGE Home – OBLIGE is a random level generator for various classic games, such as DOOM and DOOM II (more coming soon). The goal is to produce high quality levels which are fun to play.
March 14 2010
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March 14 2010
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