What Should I Do With My Life? The real meaning of success — and how to find it, from fastcompany.com, by Po Bronson who spent two years interviewing 900 people and getting to know 70 who have found their lot in life.
Thermal depolymerization — turn anything into oil. Well, anything carbon-based anyway. A bunch of people called Changing World Technologies have developed a machine that can convert carbon-based matter into oil. That includes humans, plastics, tyres, sewage, medical waste — and turkey guts. Which is why they’re building a new $20 million plant next to a turkey factory in Carthage, Missouri. Interesting.
But the M-Wunner is cool. Strap a live dolphin on the front so you can barge around your suburb shooting Chevys and crushing Chryslers with your big-ass gun and your 65-ton tank — operable by one person to discourage car-pooling! Funny.
The President’s real goal in Iraq!! To conquer the world. Surely not?
A slashdot post about writing high-availability services provided a fair few links to interesting stuff about writing high-load socket applications.
High Performance Server Architecture - from pla.typ.us
The C10K problem - from kegel.com
Joe’s spitting in the sawdust Erlang tutorials - sics.se/~joe/
Linux scalability: Accept() scalability on Linux - www.citi.umich.edu
I don’t have time to read it all. One day.
Moved the blog to a new server today, for several very complicated reasons. OK, a fairly simple one; but I’m not mentioning it here.
Friend of a Friend Project - “If people publish information in the FOAF document format, machines will be able to make use of that information. If those files contain “see also” references to other such documents in the Web, we will have a machine-friendly version of today’s hypertext Web”
Javascript guy
Favelets
Every day I get the SFGate morning fix — I don’t remember why I signed up to it, but I’m glad I did. Today’s had an article that discussed the USA’s invasion of Iraq, and how the invasion is being portrayed as a considerate invasion and that the military is treading lightly and avoiding civilians. Other sources suggest it’s not so clean and friendly, saying that the US military doesn’t even do civilian body counts, and that they’re trying to liberate a people who don’t really want to be liberated anyway.
But is the real reason we’re there to find weapons of mass destruction or to liberate the people from a leader the US itself put into place? Or is it to ensure American control in the Middle East? A group of eighteen influential people called PNAC (Project for the New American Century) hatched a plan in 1997 to coerce the president (then Clinton) to take military action in Iraq. Clinton didn’t, but George W. Bush did. Ten of the eighteen members of PNAC are in the Bush administration.
How good is Senator Richard Alston, Australia’s Minister for Communications, Technology and the Arts. He is blaming his Department for the massive budget blow-out on the Department’s website. Of course, Australian small business isn’t happy that he spent $4 million with multinational Fujitsu when a fraction of that money could have been better spent to achieve the same result had local industry not been ignored for the project.
Is Senator Alston, referred to as the world’s biggest luddite by The Register, a UK news website, the right person for the job of Australia’s minister for Communications, Technology and the Arts? I have my doubts.
How cool are insanely tough and big vehicle things. Check these ones out.
Big ass mining truck thing.
Crazy ass all-terrain vehicle with tracks like tanks.
Godwin’s Law FAQ. I read about Godwin’s Law tonight. It says that the longer a Usenet discussion goes on for, the probability of a discussion turning into a flame war and one of the participants being called a Nazi approaches one. At that point, the participant who is called the Nazi wins the flame war and the discussion is regarded as being over.
