Category Archives: Geek

the difference engine

A video of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine in operation at the Computer History Museum. A larger and higher quality version of the video is also available.

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real time action drawing, indeed

This is what happens when you post a collaborative drawing app to a twitter account that has 1500 active followers. Time from posting to first drawing was about 6 seconds. I wish I had caught it from the beginning. Ogg … Continue reading

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some great quotes from today

I’m just going to post some stuff I found on the web and I really like.  Here goes. 1. Aza Raskin has a good overview of how people use the web in China.  There’s a service over there called QQ … Continue reading

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the colbert bump for firefox 3

The entire episode is full of awesome. Go watch it. His feeds are pretty awesome, too. (Thanks go to Jonathan Zittrain who set up the moment.)

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intelligence, modernism, communities and a little bit of fun

Some good stuff in my whoisi stream today. Enough of a pattern in order to draw some interesting lines between different posts. Fred Wilson posts some excerpts from an essay on what comes after post-modernism (tiny link). A little bit … Continue reading

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it’s like a little spy novel

I’ve often heard the mysterious and intentionally vague stories from David about his former employer – NDS. David just posted about an article in wired magazine that interviews one of the people at the heart of a great story. Worth … Continue reading

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some light weekend fare

I present to you: Pork and Beans. You’re welcome.

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geek poll: what do you have open?

1 firefox window 7 firefox tabs 7 emacs windows 25 emacs buffers 4 gnome-terminal windows 13 gnome-terminal tabs What about you? What do you have open at this very moment?

Posted in Firefox, Geek, GNOME, Kicking My Ass, Poll | 59 Comments