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Insteresting stuff for January 12th through March 7th:

Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux - nt tree, see apt-file code example below. To find out what libraries are needed use the ldd command - be aware that the file you think starts the application is often a script, and you may have to dig […]

Insteresting stuff for January 4th through January 11th:

financial reality » Blog Archive » Minsky Has His Moment -
50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging : MoneyRumour.com -
ie7-js - Google Code -
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine -
Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection » Bad COPP No Netflix […]

Insteresting stuff for December 31st through January 3rd:

ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31) -
SRA / Society for Risk Analysis / April 2006 Press Release -
American Scientist Online - The Easiest Hard Problem -
Pay Option ARM’s - California’s Billion Pound Gorilla | Loan Modification & Loan Workout News -
Index of […]

These are my links for December 21st through December 30th:

Lawlor-Pollock News & Updates -
How SUVs Can Save the Climate � Sightline Institute -
pybeanstalk - Google Code -
Index of /~ben/funkload -
Nose Plugins: Home -
Johnny Chung Lee - Human Computer Interaction Research -
Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python - Michael G. Noll -
Is There Anything Good […]

Worth watching

As seen on the excellent music thing

Its coming to that time of year again, when a festival-goer has to consider the prospect of paying Anheuser-Busch or the like upwards of three pounds for the privilege of a cold beer. Since the wall has arrived, the number of vendors of cold beer has declined, allowing the ridiculous prospect of only getting […]

The MPAA to sue themselves.

I’m in Buenos Aires at a Freedom of Expresion Project conference this week. Last night, I went to a fantastic tango show.

Flash photography was not allowed, so I ended up taking these long exposure shots. I think they’re pretty cool.

I was playing around with random L-systems when I ‘discovered’ this shape. Random L-systems tend to be very, well, random so this symmetric image was quite interesting. The ruleset to produce it was very simple, so I decided to vary the parameters and see what other images would come out. Turns […]