July 2011
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CS50 OpenCourseWare →
I’ve been ‘attending’ Harvard University’s free online Computer Science class, and I wholeheartedly recommend it. I hope to plug some holes in my CS understanding, left from sometimes inadequate self-teaching and an academic background too focused on the end-user understanding of computers. Having had almost no direct contact with a foreign academic systems (except for a...
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Dumping core
Andy Rutledge has some thoughts on the terrible design of news websites, and some actual proposals at making it better. A very interesting read, and some very interesting proposals, but I have a feeling news websites are defective by design. There’s no advertising revenue on cutting down confusion and unnecessary clicking. Services such as Readability and Instapaper are allowed to let...
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How to Become a Scientist Over and Over Again →
A very interesing Scientific American article about Erez Lieberman Aiden, a twenty-first century Renaissance Man with work in lingustics, mathematics, engineering and genetics.
Although I strive to be interested in multiple things, this article made me feel like a very low-ranking amateur-division polymath, if ever. But even though there’s no contest there - some people are just geniuses...
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I like women. And I’m not as prudish as to look away whenever some cleavage appears in front of me, or at my computer screen. I’ll look. However, if I ever get a message “X started following you” in my dashboard, or “X likes <some months-old post>”, illustrated by some half-naked thumbnail, I’ll instantly ban you and report you as spam.
Are you...
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jQuery Enhanced Lightbox →
Do you like the ‘lightbox’ I use to display big images on my website? Now you too can download and use it. It’s free! And it is marginally superior to other lightbox scripts, which is why I made the effort:
You can add titles and descriptions to images;
Images automatically resize to fit in the browser window (but you can set an attribute to disable this). I’ve also...
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The best introductory books to everything →
The Web, always finding new ways to tempt me into spending money (I don’t have) in books (I don’t have the shelving space for). (via Kottke)
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Mutating memepool
James Gleick on what defines a meme. ¶
Practical tips on writing a book. Which is something I permanently want to start doing, soon. ¶
Werner Herzog explains ‘truth intensification’ to Steven Colbert. I quite enjoy Herzog’s candid approach to the subject; while his manipulative antics (mutant albino aligators!) might horrify some, the fact is manipulation is unavoidable. Like...
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June 2011
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