- How Not To Sort By Average Rating
Scary looking maths for doing user-ratings based ranking that doesn't fall into a couple of common traps.
- Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: friends with benefits
Insight into why password security may be a flawed model for websites.
- Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace
How to take a simple sentence, and turn it into something that reads like David Foster Wallace.
Category: Writing
Bookmarks for February 12, 2009
- apiphile: zen and the art of hurtling towards the ground at a million miles an hour; a manifesto
With Valenties Day about to heave into view for another year, my friend Del writes about falling in love, and produces one of the finest, most impassioned and general beautiful pieces of writing I've seen in a while. Go and read it.
- Hacking the Earth by Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio is too clever by half. And he has written a book, for to expand your brains on the subject of climate engineering, and the ways in which we might survive these here end times what are upon us. Read it, unless you want to wind up a slave to the hideous race of lizard overlords that will doubtless come to dominate the planet once the ice caps melt and the atmosphere fills up with noxious fumes.
Bookmarks for January 9, 2009
- Hong Kong at Night
A fucking huge, and fucking lovely, photo of well, exactly what it says. No particular reason to link to it, it's just pretty, that's all.
- Stu Nathan's London Observations
My friend Stu is a bit handy with words, and a lot more aware of the word around him than I am, and he occasionally writes up the interesting people he encounters as he commutes or otherwise goes about his business in London. These are a beautifully rendered, and very real, slice of what life is like in the greatest city on earth. Go and read them.
Bookmarks for March 13, 2008
- NaBloPoMo
This might be fun. I’ll see what next month’s suggested theme is.