What, then, is so wrong with the camera? Nothing, thought Ruskin initially… Yet Ruskin’s enthusiasm diminished as he observed the devilish problem that photography created for the majority of its practitioners. Rather than using photography as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used it as an alternative, playing less attention to the world than [...]
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Links for 30 August 2009
google-diff-match-patch – The Diff Match and Patch libraries offer robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text. (tags: diff patch software algorithms) The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get (tags: journalism writing) You work for me, Computer: Dropping Django (tags: python django) Liquidware Antipasto: Introducing the Illuminato X [...]
Links for 23 March 2009
Command-line Fu The best UNIX commands on the web – (tags: linux programming reference bash shell) Chrome Experiments – Detail – Browser Ball – “Open new windows. Throw a beach ball through them.” (tags: programming javascript) GlobalScale Technologies – SheevaPlug Dev Kit – (tags: linux embedded marvell) ack — better than grep, a power search [...]
Links for 06 August 2008
Leaving Yahoo – Chad Dickerson: "I'm leaving Yahoo! to pursue another very exciting opportunity: joining the Etsy team as CTO." (tags: blogpost etsy yahoo) AP News – Unlike McCain, many seniors depend on the Web – "How unusual is it for a 71-year-old American to be unplugged?" (tags: internet mccain politics usa) Freighter Travel – [...]
Links for 25 June 2008
Year 2038 problem – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Better get on with fixing this, we've only got 30 years… (tags: c code computers software unix y2k) Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition – Free Visual Studio, nice… (tags: c++ development free microsoft) Hanoi crazy night traffic on Vimeo (tags: timelapse traffic video vietnam) iBanjo – [...]
Links for 14 June 2008
Last-gasp win for Swans as Eagles falter – 8 June 2008 – "Sydney had to come from a 36-point half-time deficit to win this one, yet win it the Swans did — 12.11 (83) to 11.12 (78) — hitting the front for the first time in the match at the 32-minute mark of the final [...]