Month: August 2007

wikis.sun.com

wikis.sun.com i know a lot of companies who need something like this: “how to navigate our phone tree. how not to get charged $3000 for iphone data plans” etc

8 ma bacteria revival

this means ancient bacteria and viruses will come back to life as ice melts due to global warming.

HTML5 parser profiling

another problem benefitting from a large data set: parser optimization. by looking at the frequency distribution of markup constructs, you can infer parser optimizations.

Malthusian Evolution

higher survival rates of the medieval rich means we are all descendants of them and presumably their higher literacy / numeracy started the industrial revolution

4-way Galaxy Merger

4 massive galaxies are colliding in the largest galactic merger ever seen. The smash-up is shedding light on how the biggest galaxies in the universe form – and why many of them stopped giving birth to stars billions of years ago.

massive galaxies lose their gas early and do not create new stars.

Blogger Union?

i can’t believe that in 2007, people still think unions are anything other than a disease.

Referral Representative

basically, you walk around and enter businesses into google maps, and get paid for it.

Law is code

US Code is appropriately named since it has more in common with kernel32.dll than Project Gutenberg. Not only is code law, but law is code: a highly structured set of instructions that allows a state machine to function, ideally without any ambiguity.

Mining Software Archives

Prof. Zeller spammed me with yet another survey. a pretty weak one at that.

Embed KML

this is an interesting intermediate step until you can have kml markup directly inside html, and be rendered natively by the browser.