July 2010
8 posts
“Under Singapore law, the government can buy the land at any time, at a...”
– Singapore Prepares to Gobble Up Its Last Village - NYTimes.com
“Je crois sincèrement que la meilleure critique est celle qui est amusante et...”
– Charles Beaudelaire, 1846.
June 2010
8 posts
"Apple of My Eye" - an iPhone 4 film on Vimeo →
Entirely shot & edited on the new iPhone 4. Impressive.
“It is good for the PlayStation I think, but I don’t know how well it is...”
– Mark Webber about the new stupid idea from the FIA for F1 next season (2011): Adjustable rear wing.
“A good (board)game is a game in which one is always lacking one action point,...”
– Wolfgang Kramer
May 2010
7 posts
“Musique. Elle isole ton film de la vie de ton film (délectation musicale). Elle...”
– Robert Bresson (Notes sur le cinématographe).
“Facebook is a Ponzi scheme run by a very bad actor. The best way to
express our...”
– Jason Calacanis in his email.
Ponzi scheme is a good way of putting it.
WatchTasteful video about swimmingpools in California.
The Enemy Within - Magazine - The Atlantic →
The tale of the Conficker worm. A good introduction to computer worms (there are 4 pages, don’t miss them).
April 2010
7 posts
“A consumer is something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled...”
– William Gibson
March 2010
8 posts
2 tags
Single Table Inheritance in Rails [Alex Reisner] →
Important article Rails article if you are going to use STI.
“L’ensemble de l’univers Facebook est ludique à consulter, sauf les paramètres...”
– LeTemps.ch | La guerre pour sauver la vie privée
Average 84 db.
Thank God we getting out of here...
February 2010
17 posts
Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages - NYTimes →
via Mr Gruber.
The sound of money.
“[…] Dans un pilote de série TV, beaucoup de choses sont amorcées sans être...”
– Roland Kermarec à propos du pilote devenu Mulholland Drive.
Firecrackers for CNY 2010 at Tam Kong...
“[…] But on the other hand, the game systems are all cleverly designed and...”
– Bruno Faidutti about El Grande
Oh, sweet memory.
lonelysandwich:
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LLVM compiles itself. →
I always love those stories of compilers compiling themselves…
Just like the chicken & egg paradox…