October 2007
106 posts
U.S. Navy kills pirates near Mogadishu, Somalia →
A North Korean freighter carrying benzene, a carcinogenic chemical used in plastics, was overtaken by pirates. The U.S. Navy then re-took the ship for the North Koreans after a firefight which killed some of the pirates. The lesson, as always, “don’t steal benzene in waters patrolled by the United States Navy.”
“This is the age of the bogus survey. I woke up recently to the news that 95 per...”
– The Financial Times
Intellectual American cities
In terms of residents over 25 with a bachelor’s degree:
1) San Francisco
2) Washington, D.C.
JavaScript libraries →
by John Resig
The Future of Firefox and JavaScript →
by John Resig
Creative Commons content →
Audio, video, photos, writing. Free, often searchable.
“You can’t eat your cake before your birthday.”
– Manny Ramirez
HTML 5 →
Working specification document.
The history and future of JavaScript →
JavaScript 2 will take its cues from Python, including iterators.
“The way you program things that weren’t hardwired into browsers like HTML is with JavaScript. More and more people are just using JavaScript because it’s certainly fast enough and it’s powerful enough now with help from all the surrounding APIs that are in browsers,” said Brendan Eich, the creator of...
Better Rails fixtures →
Some neat stuff in there.
Red Sox' historic Game One of the 2007 World... →
The offense is setting all kinds of records.
iPhone developer center →
Designing web apps for the iPhone.
Stored procedures are evil →
Agreed.
Pixels of hate →
There’s a guy in Boston who is shutting down jihadist web sites by tracking their Internet Service Providers (ISPs), then pounding those companies with emails and phone calls until they pull down the websites.
This reminds me of the hacker in the U.S. who took over a jihadist website and pulled down all their hateful content.
This New York Times article talks about the two sides of this...
“A shortsighted and often just plain stupid federal government has allowed itself...”
– Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal
“We’ve got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy...”
– President George W. Bush
“What are the most important habits of highly effective governors?
It’s a...”
– Commonwealth magazine
“0-6 Miami knows the ‘07 Pats could knock the ‘72 Dolphins out of the...”
– Bill Simmons
Court3nay's empty Rails app →
Particularly helpful for the RSpecs on SessionsController.
RSpec tutorial →
Not sure this will answer my questions.
MultiAppRouting →
Named routes across multiple Rails apps on various hosts.
China's government redirects Google and Yahoo to... →
The Great Firewall redirects traffic to American search companies’ websites, Google and Yahoo, to their own search engine, Baidu.
Every second of the Daily Show now online →
Yup. thedailyshow.com
Stub HTTP_USER_AGENT in RSpec for Rails
request.stub!(:user_agent).and_return('Mozilla')
Amazon web services for Ruby developers →
Yup.
Krugle →
Code search for developers.
Next New Networks →
They buy vertical video sites. Build bostonsportsvideos.com and sell it to Next New Networks.
Web 2.0 driving demand for diesel generators →
Data centers need electricity, and need contingency plans for backup power. Enter the diesel generator.
“It looks like the scheme of the deliciously-named Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-Va.)...”
– Reason magazine
New Amazon EC2 server instance types →
Announcement.
New Amazon EC2 server instance types →
Official page.
Getting started with Rubinius II: Coding →
Coding, coding Rubinius… more approachable than I thought.
“Turkey has warned us that if Congress passes a resolution calling the 1915...”
– Kevin Drum, Political Animal
Stumble Upon →
Millions of users. Blowing “Is it Christmas?” up.
Is it Christmas? →
No
MySQL table indexes in Rails →
Good overview by Evan Weaver.
“I am no angel but a christain,This would be short and simple until i get your...”
– Today’s “spam of the day” from my inbox, entitled “PROFIT IN THE NIGERIAN MUSIC”.
The mass of the internet →
The total weight of the daily worldwide internet usage in electrons and photons is about the same as a grain of sand. Sweet.
The total electricity output to move those bytes around, however? Large.
WatchLou Holtz’ pep talk this week includes Lou’s four Rules of Life:
1) you need something to do, something you’re passionate about
2) you need someone to love
3) you need something to believe in
4) most importantly, you need something to hope for
“Looking back, following the Celtics was almost like being in prison — the...”
– Bill Simmons