On Geekery.

19 Apr 2008

On the Big Picture

16 Apr 2008

On Essential Skills.

15 Apr 2008

On Big Science.

14 Apr 2008
The Neutrino Lab -- Soviet era big science. Via Warren Ellis.

On Brevity.

13 Apr 2008
Ten Tweetable Scripts -- Shell scripts in under 140 characters.

On Skip Graphs.

13 Apr 2008
Skip graphs are a novel distributed data structure, based on skip lists, that provide the full functionality of a balanced tree in a distributed system where resources are stored in separate nodes that may fail at any time. Via anarchaia.
Bruce Sterling on mobile devices and geolocation. His list of devices that have been subsumed into mobile phones is pretty astonishing.