zecg's Bookmarks About 2008-02-06

Inconsolata

"Inconsolata draws from many inspirations and sources. I was particularly struck by the beauty of Luc(as) de Groot's Consolas, which is his monospaced design for Microsoft's upcoming Vista release."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 linux · font · fixed · width · editor · shell · typeface · typography · writing · software

http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html - cached - mail it - history

Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

"In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 shirky · tags · internet · categorization · classification · bibliography · ontology · statistics

http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html - cached - mail it - history

Gmail Beautifier 2.3 – Userscripts.org

"Hides/Shows ads in Gmail, widens email body, removes beta from Gmail logo (disabled by default), & gives buttons a better look."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 software · firefox · extension · greasemonkey · script · google · gmail · email · javascript · plugin

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8212 - cached - mail it - history

Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags - New York Times

U Irskoj, porez od 33 centa po plastičnoj vrećici već nakon nekoliko tjedana doveo do 94% pada korištenja.

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 plastic · ecology · legislature · tax · law · ireland · eu · zakon · porez · ekologija · vrećice · plastika

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/europe/02bags.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print - cached - mail it - history

LOST

"A mixture of online game/street art/social network, Lost is a community of people connected through links written down and left in random places all over the world."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 lost · game · fun · social · six_degrees · network · web · meatspace · interesting

http://www.lost.eu/about.php?keyword=idea - cached - mail it - history

YouTube - Frozen Grand Central

"From ImprovEverywhere.com, over 200 people freeze in place on cue in Grand Central Station in New York."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 ImprovEverywhere · flash_mob · new_york · nyc · time · Video · prank

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo - cached - mail it - history

VectorMagic | Index

"This site converts bitmap images to vector images - it's an online auto-tracer."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 tools · software · svg · photos · photography · online · imaging · images · image · illustration · converter · graphics · vector · design · free

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ - cached - mail it - history

Liquid Rescale GIMP plugin: Welcome

"GIMP plugin called Liquid Rescale is a free, open source frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library, which provides an implementation of the Seam Carving algorithm"

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 article · photography · photos · plugin · gimp · graphics · image · imaging · images · linux · software · tools

http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/ - cached - mail it - history

the electric sheep screen-saver

"Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 3D · computer · free · distributed_computing · philipkdick · visual · visualization · web2.0 · software · linux · windows · osx · screensaver · interesting · internet · macosx · mathematics · fractal

http://www.electricsheep.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World | OEDb

100 free podcasts from universities on very diverse subjects.

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 audio · college · download · e-learning · economics · education · engineering · globalization · health · internet · law · psychology · podcast · physics · philosophy · research · resource · school · lecture · tutorials · university · video

http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/skip-the-tuition:-100-free-podcasts-from-the-best-colleges-in-the-worl... - cached - mail it - history

Lamby’s Blog » Blog Archive » “Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?”

"Damn right you can."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 linux · unix · shell · sysadmin · bash · funny

http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/01/24/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-progress-bar-like-wget/ - cached - mail it - history

Why I'm not buying the U.S. dollar (Warren Buffett)

"But since one generation of Squanders gets the free ride and future generations pay in perpetuity for it, there are -- in economist talk -- some pretty dramatic "intergenerational inequities.""

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 currency · debt · Dollar · economics · economy · entrepreneurship · finance · money · news · politics · warrenbuffett

http://www.pbs.org/wsw/news/fortunearticle_20031026_03.html - cached - mail it - history

I Am Legend - The Filthy Critic

"Where they could use their deep pockets to make a masterpiece of pant-shitting scariness they instead choose to puff themselves up like syphilitic peacocks."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 movie · film · review · filthy

http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/iamlegend.html - cached - mail it - history

loseby.net - floret

"floret is a very simplistic, static content management system that I have written in Perl."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 floret · cms · software · simple · static · filesystem · perl · web

http://loseby.net/software/floret - cached - mail it - history

Basic Concepts in Science: A list

"This is a list of the Basic Concepts posts being put up by Science Bloggers and others."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 biology · chemistry · computer · education · evolution · learning · physics · reference · science · teaching · tutorial · list · compilation

http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2008/01/basic_concepts_in_science_a_li.php - cached - mail it - history

Ten myths about nuclear power | spiked

"In short, there is more than enough uranium, thorium and plutonium to supply the entire world’s electricity for several hundred years."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 energy · to_read · environment · nuclear · politics · science

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4259/ - cached - mail it - history

YouTube - Hiromi Uehara

Return of Kung-Fu World Champion (live)

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 music · live · hiromi · uehara · jazz · video · youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00fKuTD52gQ - cached - mail it - history

The Moral Instinct - New York Times

Bertrand Russell wrote, “The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell.”

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 to_read · nytimes · pinker · morality · psychology · moralization · for:ognjen · reason · smoking · religion · anthropology

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&ref=magazine&pagewanted=print&oref=slogi... - cached - mail it - history

Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World

"A documentary showing how dangerous artificial sweetner Aspartame is. From its history, to its effects. Aspartame is a toxic food that came into the world as an investment By Donald Rumsfeld..."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 video · googlevideo · aspartame · health · food · rumsfeld · for:mestwina

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-566922170441334340 - cached - mail it - history

Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Fullblown Panic

"The United States is so broke, its people at every level from the Federal Reserve on down don't know whether to shit or go blind."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 economy · america · subprime · mortgage · market · economics · blog · writing · kunstler · funny · humour

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2008/01/fullblown-panic.html - cached - mail it - history

LatencyTOP

"LatencyTOP is a Linux tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where system latency occurs, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 linux · software · latency · intel

http://www.latencytop.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Toy Chest (Online or Downloadable Tools for Building Projects) - UCSB English Department Knowledge Base

""Toy Chest" collects online or downloadable software tools/thinking toys that humanities students and others without programming skills (but with basic computer and Internet literacy) can use to create interesting projects."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 tools · software · humanities · community · mashup · mapping · learning · internet · web_2.0 · research · online · teaching · technology · education · download · computers · collaboration · communication · freeware · english

http://wiki.english.ucsb.edu/index.php/Toy_Chest_(Online_or_Downloadable_Tools_for_Building_Projects) - cached - mail it - history

Handwritten kanji recognition

Ben Bullock's hand-written kanji interface

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 kanji · reference · 日本語 · writing · interesting · language · japanese

http://kanji.sljfaq.org/draw.html - cached - mail it - history

Tim May, The Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto and Modern Cryptofinance

"In reality, pirates are altruists that prevent black-market information economies from forming." / "In a sense, we are all pirates. This is in the nature of our relationship with information."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history_of_computing · IT · economy · cryptography · intel · riaa · piracy · intellectual_property · software · finance · cryptofinance · interesting

http://www.thenewfreedom.net/wp/2008/01/04/tim-may-the-crypto-anarchist-manifesto-and-modern-cryptofinance/ - cached - mail it - history

Soulja Boy dance, MIT style

"For your freedom, watch with Gnash!"

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 stallman · dance · funny · linux · video · rms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pube5Aynsls - cached - mail it - history

In Defense of “Extreme Apriorism” (Murray N. Rothbard) (PDF)

"Economic science establishes existential laws, of the type: if A, then B. Mises demonstrates that this science asserts that laissez-faire policy leads to peace and higher standards of living for all..."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 libertarian · liberty · mises · finance · economy · austrian_school · pdf · economics · society · libertarianism · praxeology

http://www.mises.org/rothbard/extreme.pdf - cached - mail it - history

iMacros for Firefox

"If you have created or found iMacros that you think might be useful to others, simply tag them “for:imacros”. We will review the submissions and add the best ones to our collection for all iMacros users to enjoy."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 firefox · software · macro · recording · ajax · browser · extension · mozilla · plugin · record · useful · extensions · web · del.icio.us

http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/ - cached - mail it - history

Schneier on Security: Talking to Strangers

"I think "don't talk to strangers" is just about the worst possible advice you can give a child."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 parenting · security · schneier · kids

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/talking_to_stra.html - cached - mail it - history

reddit.com: Why I Will Not Be Using Facebook - Fierce yet detailed attack on the social networking site.

"I know exactly what Facebook and other social networking sites are."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 facebook · sociology · society · networking · psychology

http://reddit.com/info/65fjp/comments/c02w7vp - cached - mail it - history

With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian

"Share" is Facebookspeak for "advertise".

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 internet · web · facebook · politics · privacy · guardian · web_2.0

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook? - cached - mail it - history

Opinion: Between a rock and a countertop

"In his book Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantalize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, Barber says all this material consumption is holding adulthood at bay and killing the citizen in us all."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 consumerism · psychology · marketing · manufactured_needs · economy · government · america · choice · lifestyle

http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/13/Opinion/Between_a_rock_and_a_.shtml - cached - mail it - history

Why We Fight

"WHY WE FIGHT, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war ..."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 video · google_video · documentary · history · war · america · fascism · military · corporatism · economy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3405669348838274375&q=why+we+fight&total=36030&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&p... - cached - mail it - history

A new way of looking at race and conspicuous consumption. - By Ray Fisman - Slate Magazine

"...the further a family of either race slips behind the average income of nearby households of the same race (becoming too poor to compete in the signaling game), the less it spends on these visible goods."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 psychology · consumption · consumerism · economics · economy · demographics · race · research · society · wealth

http://www.slate.com/id/2181822/pagenum/all/ - cached - mail it - history

Coding Horror: The Enduring Art of Computer Programming

"Jeffrey Shallit compiled an excellent set of links commemorating the 70th birthday of this legendary figure..."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 knuth · it · links · history_of_computing · tex · geek · programming · happy_birthday

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001034.html - cached - mail it - history

TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video)

"Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will make them stronger and smarter and actually safer."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 video · tinkering · ted · education · parenting · kids · children · learning

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/202 - cached - mail it - history

Turtles All The Way Down

"Here are some web pages that have very little in common except that they include the phrase "Turtles all the way down.""

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 science · turtles · lore · phrase · hawking

http://members.tripod.com/TheoLarch/turtle.html - cached - mail it - history

O'Reilly Radar > Supernova 2005: Attention

"With continuous partial attention we keep the top level item in focus and scan the periphery in case something more important emerges."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 continuous_partial_attention · psychology · anthropology · philosophy · cognition · collaboration · internet · lifestyle · market · media · mind · network · organization · productivity · social · social_software · web · technology · culture · future · for:mandrak · for:to_mi · for:ognjen · email · geek · history · interesting · article

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/supernova_2005_2.html - cached - mail it - history

Barry Chamish and the Ringworm Children Hoax from Planck's Constant

"So that's the real story: X-ray treatments were given to Sephardic youths, which long range problems were not known by the state at the time."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 ringworm_children · debunking · israel · jews · medicine

http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2007/03/ringworm_hoax.html - cached - mail it - history

Are There Really Continents of Floating Garbage? | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

"A Dutch study in the North Sea of fulmar seabirds concluded 95 per cent of the birds had plastic in their stomachs."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 conservation · earth · environment · green · pollution · science · ocean · garbage · trash · plastic · problem

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/12/are-there-reall.html - cached - mail it - history

Habermas’ heritage: The future of the public sphere in the network society

"In a sense, the public sphere has always been virtual: Its meaning lies in its abstraction."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 book · culture · democracy · media · networks · philosophy · public · research · social · society · sociology · theory · web · Internet · habermas · article · social_software

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/boeder/ - cached - mail it - history

Israel compensates for ringworm treatment -- Siegel-Itzkovich 310 (6976): 350 -- BMJ

"He was 16 and had come from Syria. "The nurse shaved our heads and poured hot wax on to remove all the hairs from their roots. Then we were sent for radiation. I myself never had ringworm,""

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · israel · radiation · america · crime

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/310/6976/350/a - cached - mail it - history

The Ringworm Children: Zionist Genocide against Jews using Radiation

"In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba flew to America and returned with 7 x-ray machines, supplied ... all » to him by the American army."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 documentary · film · israel · history · radiation · to_watch

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7749694216572836816 - cached - mail it - history

The World of Tomorrow - New York Times

"People will want artists to return them to certain periods. They will suffer what I call hyper-nostalgia as they look back to a time when people talked robustly about ideas like democracy."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 prediction · predictions · new_york · history · future · 100_years_from_now · nytimes · science · art · economics · interesting · for:mandrak · nyc

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/nyregion/thecity/30year.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=thecity&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin - cached - mail it - history

israelinsider: Views: Ringworm and Radiation

"Every Sephardi child was to be given 35,000 times the maximum dose of x-rays through his head. For doing so, the American government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 children · holocaust · racism · radiation · israel · america · factcheck · documentary · film · history · ww2 · sephardi · genocide

http://web.israelinsider.com/views/3998.htm - cached - mail it - history

Bhutto sent Blitzer security e-mail | AP

"Bhutto, who was assassinated on Thursday, wrote to Blitzer that if anything happened to her, "I would hold (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf responsible."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 politics · bhutto · pakistan · america · fascism

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bhutto_blitzer;_ylt=Aix8ro46jtuPD1ICToYGi8ys0NUE - cached - mail it - history

Alison Jackson - M+B Gallery Los Angeles

"These Mimeses use look-a-likes of celebrities and public figures to create a photographic or filmic image, which challenges the observers' perception of reality by creating a false reality."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 photography · photograph · photographs · 写真 · jackson · politics · celebrity · culture · for:mandrak

http://www.mbfala.com/Jackson/Jackson_Confidential.html - cached - mail it - history

YouTube - Frost over the World - Benazir Bhutto - 02 Nov 07

Quoth Benazir Bhutto: "Omar Sheikh, the man who murdered Osama Bin Laden"

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 interview · video · al_jazeera · benazir · bhutto · youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ&eurl=http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=Benazir_Bhutto&oldi... - cached - mail it - history

» Best picture quality with 6 megapixels!

"6 megapixels- the best compromise between number of pixels and image noise. As shown here: the increase of details with more pixels and the increase of errors if the pixels become too small."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 compact · photography · camera · digital_photography · 写真

http://6mpixel.org/en/? - cached - mail it - history

Rollback the Lead-Free Initiative - HSDD Newsletter

"Environmentalists who favor restriction of lead in electronic circuits point out that the reactor didn't actually explode, and that we shouldn't have nuclear reactors, anyway. I don't find that response very satisfying."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 criticism · electronics · environment · eu · hardware · history · lead · politics · pollution · technology · solder · pcb · tin · rohs

http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/news/10_01.htm - cached - mail it - history

Naughty Adolf on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

"Der Fuehrer enjoyed simple pleasures like this game of "Blind Man's in Zer Buff" with some Rhinemadchens"

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · photo · photograph · 写真 · hitler

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nutfield2/518142043/ - cached - mail it - history