it would take ~150 person-years to fully implement office xml in a competing product.. oy
Month: December 2006
General-purpose intermediation
It ought to be trivial to attach an observer and/or filter to HTTP pipelines. Among other things, it could shovel data into a search engine so that I could instantly recall a remembered transaction by search term, by date, or by site.
stefano’s pipelines coming to HTTP. this enabled jon to reverse engineer a gmail api
LAMPS on steroids
a happy user of the google performance tools, tcmalloc in this case.
Quantum mind
nice hack for the mind/body problem
Longterm NPV
the notion that there is no NPV in future generations is so obviously wrong. Probably a doctoral thesis in economics in there somewhere to explore and articulate why and when the concept of NPV breaks down. Some sort of generational phase transition?
Online Firefly
Landing Firefly on the Multiverse platform would seem to be a sure-fire promotional move. But satisfying the show’s committed fans will not be easy. Online communities like FireflyFans.net, the show’s premier fan site, have generated an endless stream of fan fiction, art, blogs, podcasts, meet-ups and even a fan-produced documentary, Done the Impossible, which briefly broke into the top 1000 in DVD sales on Amazon.com.
this has the potential for awesomeness and a huge timesuck. fuck that elves / mage shit
Wovel
if i were to stay in snowy climes, this might be useful
Our wheeled snow shovels are designed to greatly reduce the physical strain of shoveling and the related risks of back and heart injuries.
Google and Healthcare
What is needed in the field of healthcare isn’t palliatives. We don’t need measures that merely help doctors manage their practices or get a few more images into the operating theatre. We need to put control into the hands of the sick and their caregivers and to gently suggest that those who treat them, medicate them, test them, or diagnose them, are out of date if they do not instantly deliver this information to the patient.
they are building a health url.
Rolamite
As basic as the lever or pulley, the simple concept called “Rolamite” promises a revolution in mechanical design. What’s a Rolamite? It looks like a simple gadget made with 2 rollers and a steel band, but it’s much more. As basic as the wheel, the lever, or the hinge, it is the only elementary machine discovered this century. Its use will be widespread — in everything from switches, thermostats, and valves to pumps and clutches, and as almost frictionless bearings.
this makes me wonder if there is a list of basic mechanisms? sort of like the atoms of language, or the most fundamental algorithms
Twitter Curve
and they still call ADHD a disease when it is in fact the sign of our times. when was the last time you were in the zone?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 