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30 Sep 2009 (updated 29 Oct 2009 at 02:07 UTC) »

Electraflyer.com

An electric-propulsion refit kit for powered gliders (or will it be a product?).

Syndicated 2008-08-05 20:26:18 from Delicious/water451

Magazine Preview - Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling - NYTimes.com

Measured in terms of depravity, insularity and traffic-driven turnover, the culture of /b/ has little precedent. /b/ reads like the inside of a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line, or a blog with no posts and all comments filled with slang that you are too old to understand.

Syndicated 2008-08-01 19:29:34 from Delicious/water451

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Flatulence joke is world's oldest

Academics have compiled a list of the most ancient gags and the oldest, harking back to 1900BC, is a Sumerian proverb from what is now southern Iraq.

Syndicated 2008-08-01 17:14:12 from Delicious/water451

Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed - Software Development Times On The Web

Midori, a speculative incubated software project, tries to expand on their Singularity OS project for more network-connected and potentially commercial prospects. Asynchronous promise-based (and capability-based?) security and concurrency are alluded to.

Syndicated 2008-07-31 20:35:58 from Delicious/water451

littleb.org - home of the little b modular modeling language

The little b project is an effort to provide an open source language which allows scientists to build mathematical models of complex systems. The initial focus is systems biology. The goal is to stimulate widespread sharing and reuse of models.

Syndicated 2008-07-29 18:36:42 from Delicious/water451

Systems Software Research is Irrelevant - Robert Pike, 2000

This talk is a polemic that distills the pessimistic side of my feelings about systems research these days. I won't talk much about the optimistic side, since lots of others can do that for me; everyone's excited about the computer industry. I may therefo

Syndicated 2008-07-22 21:21:37 from Delicious/water451

Home - Pencil Project

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Syndicated 2008-07-22 00:20:44 from Delicious/water451

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Stories / Down on the Farm by Charles Stross

A story from the Laundry series, posted online for free as part of Tor's online efforts.

Syndicated 2008-07-21 20:19:01 from Delicious/water451

Timeframe

Allows selecting a time range easily in AJAX/DHTML applications.

Syndicated 2008-07-15 17:54:39 from Delicious/water451

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