Archives for December 2008
на всю катушку
10 December 2008 | Google, Internet, Software | No Comments
гугл хочет еще основательнее подвешивать наши компьютеры:
Modern PCs can execute billions of instructions per second, but today’s web applications can access only a small fraction of this computational power. If web developers could use all of this power, just imagine the rich, dynamic experiences they could create. At Google we’re always trying to make the web a better platform. That’s why we’re working on Native Client, a technology that aims to give web developers access to the full power of the client’s CPU while maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability and safety that people expect from web applications. Today, we’re sharing our technology with the research and security communities in the hopes that they will help us make this technology more useful and more secure
хотя в целом забавно, конечно. нас ждет в том числе и Lively 2.0?
глазами детей
10 December 2008 | Art, Sex | No Comments
а в сообществе 
kidpix налицо вся коллекция мужских архетипов из сказок “Красавица и чудовище” и “Красная шапочка”. там же ссылка на детские книжки минувшего; очень познавательно.
зоопарк
10 December 2008 | Design | No Comments
прекрасное — компьютерный манипулятор типа “мышь”, сделанный из костей животного “мышь”. neanderthal-punk, ага.
к 2000 году
9 December 2008 | Architecture, Lifeform | No Comments
Victory City и жилищные проблемы:
Our present-day cities are already obsolete and are threatening to engulf the entire countryside, permanently destroying vast areas of our best food-producing land.
Victory City™ is the wave of the future. It’s an entire city all under one roof, to be built and operated by private enterprise alone. There will not be just one, but many such cities throughout the entire world.
Boasting no crime, no pollution, and no over-crowding, Victory City is a veritable utopia for those who’ve grown weary of trying to find solutions to today’s urban problems.
Welcome to the City of the Future.
помечтаем вместе.
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ограниченный доступ
9 December 2008 | Internet, Sex | 2 Comments
сегодня можно запросто отключить все, что угодно:
Six British ISPs are filtering access to Wikipedia after the site was added to an Internet Watch Foundation child-pornography blacklist, according to Wikipedia administrators.
дело было в обложке альбома группы Scorpions. а завтра речь пойдет и вовсе о мультфильмах.
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еще лучше
8 December 2008 | Software | No Comments
ack, между прочим, значительно удобнее, чем grep. по-крайней мере, так говорят.
доработать напильником
8 December 2008 | Google, Software | No Comments
после смены интерфейса в гуглоридере пришлось установить несколько дополнительных userstyles (1 + 2 + 3) для того, чтобы хоть как-то образумить это буйство красок и кнопок.
хронология
7 December 2008 | Journalism, Photo | No Comments
из прочих разных фотолетописей я неизменно выбираю The Big Picture в The Boston Globe — так они хороши и так человечны.
вчера и завтра
6 December 2008 | Hardware, Software | No Comments
листаю проошлое (1 + 2). заодно нашел два отличных рассказа: один про NeXT и сочувствующих, другой — о создании Apple I
а тем временем создан первый сверпроводимый транзистор:
Last year Andrea Caviglia and his colleagues at the University of Geneva in Switzerland grew a single crystal containing two metal oxides, strontium titanate and lanthanum aluminate, as separate segments. At the interface of these materials, the team found a layer of free electrons called an electron gas (Science, vol 317, p 1196). At 0.3 kelvin – just above absolute zero – these electrons flow without resistance and so create a superconductor.
Now the same group says it can switch this superconductivity on and off by applying a voltage to the interface. The result is a superconducting version of the field effect transistor (FET) – a mainstay of digital electronics.
новая эра
5 December 2008 | Culturology | No Comments
вот они, неизведанные пространства:
Welcome to the Atompunk@antenna.nl mailing list! Welcome to the Atompunk mailinglist. Share your ideas on Atompunk.
About Atompunk the cultural period 1945-1965,
Atompunk is a strictly pre-digital period, but it includes mid-century Modernism, the “Atomic Age,” the “Space Age,” and, especially, lots of Communism and communism paranoia in the USA. Communist analog atompunk is an ultimate lost world.
Sovjet styling, underground cinema, Googie architectuur, Space and Sputnik, moonlanding, superhero-comi, art & radioactivity, the rise of the US military/industrial complex & the fall-out of Tsjernobyl
Reallife Atompunk Projects will be March-Aug 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Sept 9-13, GOGBOT festival in Enschede www.gogbot.nl
more info/agenda: www.planetart.nl
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