Letter from Steve Jobs, and ahoipolloi’s take on it.

Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda Resigns From Slashdot, first time I went to /. for years.

I am nothing, read this.

SmartOS, Joyent’s OpenSolaris/Illumos fork, now also supports KVM next to Zones, ZFS and DTrace. (And terribly named, why not Joyix or something?)

ConTeXt has a whole bunch of possibilities to typeset tables. Some have good support for multi-page tables, which I found very hard to typeset in .

Obnam is an easy, secure backup program. Backups can be stored on local hard disks, or online via the SSH SFTP protocol. The backup server, if used, does not require any special software, on top of SSH. Does de-dup and encryption, I should check it out.

Why I do not want to work at Google, by Kragen Javier Sitaker.

Practical UNIX Manuals: mdoc is a guide for composing well-formed and maintainable UNIX manuals (“manpages”) in the mdoc language.

Biclique cryptanalysis of the full AES, reducing key-space by roughly 2 bits.

Heello is Twitter for Pretending, hilarious.

Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck?, by Errol Morris.

Reconnecting your SSH agent to a detached GNU screen session, easiest solution I found.

Interview with M.D. McIlroy, Murray Hill, 18 August 1989.

a letter from _why, from 2005.

Why Arabic is Terrific

Large Objects Shot as Miniatures Using a Giant Coin and Tilt-Shift Effects

5 Million Dollars 1 Terrabyte, art.

Kancho, WJW.

nano-origami

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50 Jahre Mauerbau: Infos und Gedenken im Web

Space Shuttle Discovery’s flight deck during decommissioning in the Orbiter Processing Facility. 360° view.

Etherpad Lite is based on node.js what makes it much lighter and more stable than the original Etherpad.

eclim provides an Eclipse plug-in that exposes Eclipse features through a server interface, and a set of Vim plug-ins that communicate with Eclipse over that interface.

VT220 serial console set up as a terminal for a Mac Pro.

That which we have now, having never been

Realtime Webcam Sudoku Solver, with feedback!

List of inventors killed by their own inventions

Crazy Walls

Functioning Anal Sphincter Grown in a Petri Dish

Gnome 3: I’m out, with so many people are leaving Gnome, there has never been a better time to found a new “desktop environment” (bleh).

Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes, by Sam Hughes. Pretty good.

A closer look at crankshaft, v8’s optimizing compiler, by Andy Wingo. Amazing.

Stephen Ramsay has a very good blog on CLI usage. Read everything.

pixz is a parallel, indexing version of XZ. With special support for .tar.

RetroBSD is a port of 2.11BSD Unix intended for embedded systems with fixed memory mapping.

x86 code compression in kkrunchy, sick stuff.

The quickest way to do nothing, how to make a 7-byte NOP.

Bob Dylan, Jack White and Norah Jones Record Unheard Hank Williams Songs

The Chelsea Hotel of NYC, surviving The Great Depression, fires, deaths, but maybe not a change of ownership

Way Out of the Box, by Theodor Holm Nelson.

Hitler is briefed about GNOME 3

Wau, ein Angedenken von Peter Glaser zu Wau Holland.

Learning from Doom, by Viktor Timofeev.

The geeks who saved Usenet (2002), on the UTZOO tapes.

Getting to know Anders Behring Breivik, “He’s bats, but batshit stupid rather than simply crazy.”

VVVV.js aims to bring the visual programming language VVVV to your web browser.

Opa: The cloud language, ML-based full cloud stack, not unlike Ur.

LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store from Google. Supports sorted keys.

Exporting QCOW2 images as network block devices, sounds nice!

Acme Mail on Unix, by Russ Cox. MH-driven.

The Campaign For Real Monopoly, if you don’t buy unowned property, it is auctioned.

Connecting the Dots and the answer.

Mona Lisa as a 6,239 dot-to-dot drawing.

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