1000 true fans

Kevin Kelly (former editor of Wired magazine) has a great article about how artists just need 1000 true fans to make a living.

wicd

wicd - an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

agave

agave is an intuitive colour palette manager for linux.

s3fs

s3fs - Fuse over Amazon S3. Nice.

earth and moon from mars

dextre

Dextre is the new CSA built hand for the ISS.

design

Design is in the details - From A List Apart.

mars avalanche

First avalance to be seen on Mars.

blue brain

The Blue Brain project is working on a simulation of neurons in the brain.

dvno

One of my podcast feeds, got me the DVNO video, highly recommended electro-house.

msramdmp

msramdmp - is a little bootable syslinux USB stick that manages to boot itself without overwriting the contents of RAM, which as was discovered recently by some Princeton researchers, can hold it's contents for some time after a computer is powered down.

I guess we now need a /etc/rc.d/init.d script that will overwrite the contents of your RAM before you shutdown your computer.

s3 faq

Amazon S3 FAQ. Nice.

zblog

zblog - web log engine in zsh. crazy!

Twining motion of vines

silent rm in zsh

Sometimes, very rarely, I want zsh to do an "rm *" without asking me for confirmation, you can do this by:

setopt rmstarsilent

mocks

Mocks Aren't Stubs - About mocking and stubbing as it relates to Test Driven Development (TDD).

svalbard northern light research lab

'Northern lights lab' switched on - Aurora observatory opens on remote Arctic island.

game controls as art

Shadow of the Colossus' controls are an exercise in art - very interesting article.

attachment_fu

How to tell attachment_fu to store it's files where you want it to. I use attachment_fu for all my file uploads in Rails, it rocks.

ruby try sugar

try is a little snippet for Ruby that extends the Object class so that instead of having to do:

@person ? @person.name : nil

you can instead just do:

@person.try(:name)

Just add the following to your Object class:

class Object
  ##
  #   @person ? @person.name : nil
  # vs
  #   @person.try(:name)
  def try(method)
    send method if respond_to? method
  end
end