The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Winners, my favourite this year: “PEACE PRIZE: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining—by experiment—whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.”
Networking Named Content, by Van Jacobson, D. K. Smetters, James D. Thornton, Michael Plass, Nick Briggs, and Rebecca L. Braynard. “We present Content-Centric Networking (CCN) which takes content as a primitive—decoupling location from identity, security and access, and retrieving content by name. Using new approaches to routing named content, derived heavily from IP, we can simultaneously achieve scalability, security and performance.”
Anmut sparet nicht noch Mühe,
Leidenschaft nicht noch Verstand,
daß ein gutes Deutschland blühe,
wie ein andres gutes Land.Daß die Völker nicht erbleichen
wie vor einer Räuberin,
sondern ihre Hände reichen
uns wie andern Völkern hin.Und nicht über und nicht unter
andern Völkern wolln wir sein,
von der See bis zu den Alpen,
von der Oder bis zum Rhein.Und weil wir dies Land verbessern,
lieben und beschirmen wir’s.
Und das liebste mag’s uns scheinen
so wie andern Völkern ihrs.
— Bertolt Brecht, Kinderhymne (Festlied der Kinder)*
Das Hackerbrausenblog beschäftigt sich mit der magischen Welt koffeinhaltiger und anderweitig bewusstseinserweiternder Erfrischungs- und Genußgetränke und deren Symphatisantensumpf.
Stadlzeit, einfach nur genial. Lesebefehl!
Prince Rupert’s Drops are a glass curiosity created by dripping hot molten glass into cold water. The very high residual stress within the drop gives rise to unusual qualities, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer on the bulbous end without breaking, while the drops will disintegrate explosively if the tail end is even slightly damaged.
gselt watches the X selection and displays a menu of actions that can be done with the text that is currently selected. (A kind of plumb(1) alternative.)
LYSP, a tiny, lightweight Lisp interpreter closely following the tradition of the earliest implementations. By Ian Piumarta.
PDoc is an inline comment parser and JavaScript documentation generator written in Ruby.
REST Client, simple Ruby DSL for accessing REST resources. Nice!
Nginx Internals, slides and (chinese) video by Joshua Zhu.
The Self Handbook, now HTMLized.
Song To Dan, by the Union Maid. “Hey Dan Bern, I wrote you a song, …”
CD-Platine als Musikinstrument, very nice!
twisted pencil, recommended geeky math comic.
Project BLT, Make. Grow. Forage. A chart.
Business Reply Mail, must see.