Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog

Node.js: JavaScript on the Server [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6k8lTrAE2g mental note: watch this video

Google: The search party is over

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/29/google-the-search-party-is-over/ this reminds me a lot of Yahoo a few years ago...

Why Flowdock migrated from Cassandra to MongoDB

http://blog.nodeta.fi/2010/07/26/flowdock-migrated-from-cassandra-to-mongodb/ makes good senes

The partition helper - Improving usability with MySQL 5.1 partitioning

http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2008/12/partition-helper-improving-usability.html this could be very useful

For God's sake, follow your dreams

http://blog.rootein.com/2010/04/for-gods-sake-follow-your-dreams.html excellent advice

Crossing the pond with 100 milliwatts

http://www.nycresistor.com/2010/06/26/crossing-the-pond-with-100-milliwatts/ very cool

Op-Ed Columnist - Tweet Less, Kiss More

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/opinion/17herbert.html?_r=1 amen to that!

The Fault Tolerant Shell

http://www.cse.nd.edu/~ccl/software/ftsh/ anyone used this? seems pretty handy...

axiak's pyre2 at master - GitHub

http://github.com/axiak/pyre2 google's re2 lib wrapped for python in a way that's totally compatible (in theory) with re

parallel - build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel

http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html very handy looking tool

Ramy's blog: Soaring trip 6/21/10 - 7/19/10

http://yanetz.blogspot.com/2010/07/soaring-trip-62110-71910.html nice flying, Ramy!

DNode: Asynchronous Remote Method Invocation for Node.js and the Browser

http://simonwillison.net/2010/Jul/11/dnode/ wow, that is very cool

Airplane! (1980) - Memorable quotes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/quotes classics... classics, I tell you!

Darth Vader Calls Apple About His iPhone 4 Antenna [Video]

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/23/iphone-4-antenna-video/ ok, that's kinda funny

The Top Idea in Your Mind

http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html I often have my best ideas in the shower too...

Is It Better to Buy or Rent? - Interactive Graphic

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calculator.html handy visualization and computation tool

Practical, Visual, Three-Dimensional Pedagogy for Internet Protocol Packet Header Control Fields

http://righteousit.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/practical-visual-three-dimensional-pedagogy-for-internet-protocol-packet-header-control-fields/ using LEGOs to understand TCP works for me

NSTX (IP-over-DNS) HOWTO

http://thomer.com/howtos/nstx.html sweet hack

Extreme Hobbyists Put Satellites Into Orbit With $8,000 Kits

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/tubesat-personal-satellite sweet

PBXT 1.5.02 Beta adds 2nd Level Cache

http://pbxt.blogspot.com/2010/07/pbxt-1502-beta-adds-2nd-level-cache.html nice!

Analyzing the distribution of InnoDB log file writes | MySQL Performance Blog

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/07/16/analyzing-the-distribution-of-innodb-log-file-writes/ a handy little bit of shell scripting there

In Politics, Sometimes The Facts Don't Matter

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128490874 "New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds when presented with the facts -- and often become even more attached to their beliefs." hahaha... awesome

proxoid

http://code.google.com/p/proxoid/ Proxoid is a ProxyServer on Android. It allow users of not rooted phones to use their phone's internet access from a computer.

Editing PDFs On Ubuntu

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/06/18/editing-pdfs-on-ubuntu/ I had no idea most of these tools existed... Open Source FTW!

HowStuffWorks "ADSL Standards"

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/dsl2.htm I never understood the signal spitting until this article

Why never to ask favours from the designers

http://www.familybiking.com.tw/lost_cat.html this is funny because it's true--or at least inspired by truths

Cory Doctorow: What I Do

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2010/07/cory-doctorow-what-i-do/ good to see what he's using

bottle rocket in ass [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdtwizIiMQ yeah, it's pretty much what you think it is

fire fart gone wrong [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6yvtC8nWS8 that's gotta hurt!

kanaka's noVNC at master - GitHub

http://github.com/kanaka/noVNC that is insane... VNC in HTML5 (WebSockets and Canvas)

Interpolation search

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation_search a good description of a better than binary search algorithm when you know your data well

What's wrong with Flash Cookies?

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/whats-wrong-with-flash-cookies.html Yikes! Another reason to hate on Adobe