- Germany sets new solar power record, institute says | Reuters
Just in case you can't be arsed to click though: Germany met 50% of it's national energy needs with completely clean energy at peak sunshine hours on Friday and Saturday. This doesn't mean that we're quite ready to get rid of other power sources yet, but seriously, if this is possible now, perhaps it's time for us to spend a bit more cash (read: any) developing solar power systems? Who knows how fast we might get to the point where many nations could power themselves with solar energy?
- Cinnamon And Nutmeg Iced Coffee, by Tom Francis
This does sound tasty.
Tag: power
Links for Friday August 19th 2011 through Monday August 22nd 2011
- rentzsch.tumblr.com: HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
If you are running the LAMP stack on your websites, and not doing all this, you need to do some work.
- Bootstrap, from Twitter
Here's a nice framework for building web-app interfaces. I can see myself using this to put stuff together.
- 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
I wish I'd been that clever when I was 13. Hell, I wish I was that clever now.
Bookmarks for August 19, 2011
- 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
I wish I'd been that clever when I was 13. Hell, I wish I was that clever now.
Bookmarks for August 11, 2010
- Jugaad – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Jugaad" is also a colloquial Hindi word that can mean an innovative fix, sometimes pejoratively used for solutions that bend rules, or a resource that can be used as such or a person who can solve a vexatious issue. It is used as much for enterprising street mechanics as for political fixers. In essence, it is a tribute to native genius, and lateral thinking.
- inessential.com: Flexibility and power
Excellent article on feature design. I think the art of building good apps is to have an underlying system engineered for maximum flexibility, with a user interface engineered for maximum power – that is: build systems that *can* do lots of things, as long as one can figure out a way to make accomplishing them trivially simple for the user. If you can't see how to do that, then it doesn't matter that that the system *could* do it, you shouldn't allow it to.
Bookmarks for April 1, 2009
- The Problem With Music
Steve Albini's breakdown of exactly how much a band can expect now to earn in a normal record industry contact. Figures would need to be adjusted for inflation, but I bet they're still proportionally the same. I've seen this a few times over the years, I just wanted to log it in case I need to refer to it again.
- Micro scope – The Engineer
Some notes about the practicalities of nanomachinery in the body – both the propulsion/navigation, and the means by which they might operate on us.
- Blood powered fuel cells.
Good to know that my future cybernetic implants aren't likely to need batteries.
- Jacek Utko asks, Can design save the newspaper? | Video on TED.com
After the links the other week, here's a talk about how they newspapers might yet be kept alive: by making them beautiful objects.
- Ramachandran on synesthesia, creativity and metaphor
A fascinating talk on the some of the possible neuroscientific explanations for some of the more remarkable and ill-understood operations of the brain.
- wrongcards
I shall be sending these in future. Well, maybe not, but there are a few things in here that made me laugh.)
- Anki – friendly, intelligent flashcards
This could be a really useful little learning tool.
Bookmarks for March 18, 2009
- Kingsnorth report reveals shocking police campaign of intimidation against protesters – Britcit
This one's worth circulating far and wide – police using the various powers they've been given over the last while to suppress a peaceful protest.
- 20 Great PHP Libraries You Need to Know | KomunitasWeb
There's plenty of non-geek stuff in today's pile of links. Just skip past this one.
- Undesigning the Emergency @Etech Benjamin H. Bratton
Highlight " Because as software becomes a medium through which the city is accessed and made social, the paired need for both open software and hardware is clear. The design of the open public space is dependent on the design of the open software which is, increasingly, dependent on the design of open cities."
- Søren Vind >> pc_user
Might be handy in future projects – one of the first things I almost invariable do it set up a user class to handle logins and similar rubbish, and it'd be nice to have a handy boxed-up model to do all that with.
- iPhone 3.0: everyware-ready? « Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones identifies the really interesting thing about yesterday's Iphone 3.0 announcement, and it's not copy-and-paste.
- Espionage – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This looks like a fairly decent starting point, anyway. Of course, that's probably just what the government wants me to think.
- Intelligence cycle management – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Today is "everything you didn't need to know about intelligence, and weren't afraid to ask" day.
- Category:Secret broadcasting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fascinating espionage-related stuff I had never heard of before now.
- Computer programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive – Telegraph
I probably don't need the little finger on my left hand, you know…