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Damn Interesting: Project Babylon: Gerald Bull's Downfall

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:00:27 GMT

"Bull nearly single-handedly resurrected the science of supergun artillery"

David MacKay FRS Sustainable Energy - without the hot air: Contents

emmineb — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:31:01 GMT

"For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading." Tony Juniper Former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth "At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining." Robert Sansom EDF Energy "The Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy." Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net "...a tour de force..." The Economist "... a cold blast of reality ... a must-read analysis..." Science magazine "...this year's must-read book..." The Guardian

Eric's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea: steampunk star wars

emmineb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:18:03 GMT

Inspired by this neat little project, I decided I wanted to reimagine the Star Wars universe in a steampunk context. I know, whenever anyone reimagines anything, they either make it a) adult and edgy (99%) or b) steampunk (1%), so I'm not getting any originality points, but it's still a pretty exciting idea for me. Meaning I'll be bored of it in a week and start drawing dogs wearing hats or something.

Feature Design Your Own Desktop with KDE 4

emmineb — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:21:06 GMT

One of the best things about KDE 4, the newest release of the mainstream Linux desktop manager, is something it doesn't do—force you to adapt to its way of running a computer desktop. Sure, the desktop environment boasts new 3-D effects, a polished theme, and improved functionality. But what KDE 4 does best is give users the ability to almost completely re-design their desktops, putting their programs, icons, and useful widgets wherever they see fit, on as many desktops as they want, to create their ideal workspace. I spent some time exploring the features of the less-than-week-old system, the results of which are after the jump.

Glossary for Medieval Art and Architecture

emmineb — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:06:45 GMT

Hanzi Smatter 一知半解: dedicated to the misuse of chinese characters in western culture

emmineb — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:10:53 GMT

Trendy Pro-Communism Purses

In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | By Chris Anderson | Wired Magazine

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:15:32 GMT

Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a very good article in his magazine on the desktop manufacturing revolution. It's definitely worth the read and is complimentary with thinking being done on this blog re: resilient communities. Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter who the best people work for; if the project is interesting enough, the best people will find it.

indi.ca » Google as Artificial Intelligence

emmineb — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:02:53 GMT

The way things are going, I think Google will be the first AI. That is, I think Google will become conscious. As a note, if I can have a conversation with something, I’ll consider it conscious. That’s the Turing Test for intelligence. Right now Google fails miserably. For example, I entered the terms Jesus will return and got: jesus will return to Kings Associated Press July End did did Nature build the worlds largest Sex personals site! I suppose nature can’t explain everything. I got an earlier response which was more relevant - it asked if Nature build the body and emotion, and said the brain was the most important invention … then it went on to mention the Quran and The Prophet by K

Is Design Dead?

emmineb — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:50:21 GMT

For many that come briefly into contact with Extreme Programming, it seems that XP calls for the death of software design. Not just is much design activity ridiculed as "Big Up Front Design", but such design techniques as the UML, flexible frameworks, and even patterns are de-emphasized or downright ignored. In fact XP involves a lot of design, but does it in a different way than established software processes. XP has rejuvenated the notion of evolutionary design with practices that allow evolution to become a viable design strategy. It also provides new challenges and skills as designers need to learn how to do a simple design, how to use refactoring to keep a design clean, and how to use patterns in an evolutionary style.

LLOYDIAN ASPECTS

emmineb — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:16:51 GMT

Here shall, in time, be a site which will I hope be of some genuine use to people who want to make ancient and medieval armour of various sorts. For the moment, I have just two sections. Choose, point, click.