Some of the scariest news may be the stuff you haven’t seen yet.
October 9th, 2007
David Phinney thought he’d struck journalistic gold. The veteran reporter, who has done freelance work for PBS, ABC, The New York Times, and other news companies, learned from a disgusted American contractor that the Kuwaiti company hired to build the U.S. embassy in Iraq was using forced laborers trafficked in from Asia.
He pitched the story to several news organizations and then waited months to hear back from them. Only NBC responded, but the network was only interested in his sources — so they could produce their own version of the story.
The Top 100 Fanboy Movies of All Time
October 8th, 2007
Earlier this year the American Film Institute re-voted their top 100 American movies of all time. The first list, compiled in 1998 sparked a great discussion, several TV specials and got people talking about some old classics they hadn’t seen in a while.
This year that list was updated to see how the films of the last 10 years would be ranked and to see how our tastes in culture had changed.
The Right Brain vs Left Brain Test
October 7th, 2007
From: news.com.au
Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
Stupid Programming Language Tricks
October 6th, 2007
From findinglisp.com
I spent a while last night reading about Tim Bray’s adventures with Erlang. Tim started investigating Erlang as a part of his “Wide Finder Project” in which he’s looking for programming languages that will help accelerate common tasks on the soon-to-be-very-popular CPUs with many cores but slower clock rates.
Tim works at Sun, and so this question and project makes perfect sense in light of Sun’s Niagra and T2 processors with many cores and CMT. It also makes perfect sense in light of Intel’s Tera-scale computing initiative where they have demonstrated chips with 80 cores. In short, the future is going to be very, very parallel, and we had better come to terms with that.
CSS/Style sheet resource link
October 5th, 2007
The Ballad of The Existentialist
October 4th, 2007
Amazingly rich site – this time for papers on graphics design
October 3rd, 2007
The Uprising
October 3rd, 2007
Courtsey of overcompensating.com
Very comprehensive programming links
October 3rd, 2007
Courtesey of codercorner.com.
Also check this iste for great tips in games programming:
A Revolution is Just Below the Surface
October 2nd, 2007
From venezuelanalysis.com.
On September 21, 2007, I had the extraordinary opportunity to interview Noam Chomsky in his office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The interview will be aired on Venezuelan and Latin American television as part of the promotion for the III International Book Fair in Venezuela, which this year focuses on the theme: “United States: Is Revolution Possible?” The transcription of the interview follows.