- 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.
Tag: humor
Bookmarks for February 9, 2009
- YouTube – Penn and Teller Explain Sleight of Hand
One of those things that requires a stack of practice, but something I wouldn't mind getting good at. I'm the sort of person that like to be able to see how the trick is done, so this sort thing is catnip to me.
Bookmarks for January 29, 2009
- Stephen Fry – Don't Mind Your Language
I'm a bit of a linguistic conservative – my objection to neologisms like "squee" and "woot" is well-documented. But I'm also in firm agreement with Mr Fry here, even if my method of expressing it would be 180 degrees from his own. But then, that's why he's a national treasure and I'm not.
- WebHome < Main < Reprap
I know fuck all about engineering, electronics, or most of the tools this might be useful for. And yet still, I want one.
- London from above, at night – The Big Picture
Some staggeringly beautiful shots of my hometown. There is a small, mean part of me whispering that anyone who was half competant with the right kit and a helicopter could produce these. This is untrue, because he has (I assume) put time, effort and work into getting to a point in his career where it is economically viable for him to do so.
- More of London from above, at night – The Big Picture
More shots by the same photographer. And I know that small mean part of me is dead fucking wrong. These are superbly composed, beautifully shot exposures that evoke feeling and mood, that betray a really bloody good eye. Even were I up there with the right kit, I'm sure I'd miss most of the more interesting shots here.
Bookmarks for June 25, 2008
- Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile
First they came for the omnibologists…
This simultaneously winds me up something rotten, and makes me laugh – the incongruity of the headline, and the word “omnibologist”. Say it with me now… - YouTube – Vinni Puh Part/Chast 1
Soviet animations of Winnie the Pooh. Love the aesthetic.
- TidBITS Safe Computing: How to Protect Yourself From The New Mac OS X Trojans
Yes, apparently there’s a fairly dangerous OSX exploit in the wild. But look: a couple of paragraphs of instruction on how to make your Mac immune to it, until it’s patched. Ever seen something like that for a Windows exploit? No, me neither.
- firefox-mac-pdf – Google Code
Handy plugin to get FF3 to finally display PDFs inline on OSX. Hallelujah!
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!