chris @ November 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Country Codes of the European Union | bytelevel
18×24" poster / wall chart. Ships everywhere in the world.
(tags: poster dns countrycodes)
Chromium OS Builds on a USB stick | Hexxeh
USB version of Googles Chromium OS for various platforms.
(tags: google os software chromium usb)
chris @ November 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
An Engineer's Guide to DNS (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Useful tidbits about DNS lookup performance in real-life web situations.
(tags: DNS Yahoo! reference performance web)
chris @ November 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Understanding DateTime, tzinfo, timedelta & TimeZone Conversions in python — The Usware Blog - Django Web Development
A quick overview of Python's time and timezone related functions and objects. Very short, but useful.
(tags: python datetime tutorial i18n)
chris @ November 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
YouTube - Verner's Law, Part 1 of 3
Jocular video intro in 3 parts into proto-Germanic sound changes. A little too cute, but still remarkable. Huh.
(tags: linguistics video PIE Germanic)
The WHATWG Blog | Implementation progress on the HTML5 <ruby> element
HTML5 <ruby> element for annotations in East Asian typography, such as Japanese furigana. Note the graceful fallback […]
chris @ November 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
AG Queer Studies | Martin Büsser: Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Punk- und Hardcore-Szene
[German] Conference on gender relations in the punk and hardcore scene.
(tags: gender queer punk music)
chris @ November 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
AG Queer Studies | Martin Büsser: Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Punk- und Hardcore-Szene
[German] Conference on gender relations in the punk and hardcore scene.
(tags: gender queer punk music)
chris @ November 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Python Generator Tricks LG #100
Intro to Python generators with lots of examples from mathematical series.
(tags: python programming tutorial generators)
PEP 255 — Simple Generators
The PEP for generators. Good read.
(tags: python generators pep reference)
Charming Python: Iterators and simple generators
Intro to Python iterators and generators with examples from random walks.
(tags: Python programming tutorial generators)
chris @ November 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Cell Size and Scale | U Utah Genetics Lab
Awesome animation visualizing the size of small objects, from a coffee bean and a grain of rice down.
(tags: science visualization education biology)
chris @ November 8, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Wörter und Namen gleicher Herkunft und Struktur / Boris Paraschkewow | Google Books
Interesting dictionary of pairs of words with identical or related etymological origin. German.
(tags: linguistics German etymology books)
Mockingbird
Mockingbird is a hosted application to quickly make wireframes for ui development. Interesting.
(tags: tools development ui ux software wireframes prototyping)
chris @ November 7, 2009 # One Comment
Win-Vector Blog | “I don’t think that means what you think it means;” Statistics to English Translation, Part 1: Accuracy Measures
Explanation of statistics terms in understandable English.
(tags: statistics mathematics)
Call Me Fishmeal | Pimp My Code, Part 17: Lost in Translations.
In this post I’m going to explain to you what internationalization and localization are, how Apple’s […]