This month
amoffat/pbs - GitHub
PBS is a unique subprocess wrapper that maps your system programs to Python functions dynamically. PBS helps you write shell scripts in Python by giving you the good features of Bash (easy command calling, easy piping) with all the power and flexibility of Python.
January 2012
HTML5 Please
PluginsNoLongerSupported - tenfourfox - Explaining plugin (non)support. - Mozilla for Power Macintosh - Google Project Hosting
No major plugin is being maintained for Power Macs any more: Flash stopped updates with Flash 10.1.102.64 in November 2010, and QuickTime 7 for the PowerPC was decommissioned with the release of QuickTime 7.7 and OS X Lion in August 2011. (Tiger users have not had an update since QT 7.6.4 in September 2009.)
Quel est la différence entre un Mac de 2003 et un PC de 2003 ? Le PC de 2003 peut encore servir et être mis à jour. Le Mac de 2003 a été abandonné, à commencer par Apple
December 2011
Smart Pad pour iPad sur l’iTunes App Store
Storefront for Art and Architecture | Exhibitions & Events: Exhibitions: Strategies for Public Occupation: Exhibition
“Strategies for Public Occupation” which invited submissions from architects, artists and citizens at large to offer their ideas for enabling acts of communication and action between the civil society and the structures of economic and political power. Gathering expertise from the various acts of civil occupation throughout the world during the last months
f a t i m a t a ly: "Pounding Light"
Terracotta chandeliers inspired by recurrent power cuts in Senegal, West Africa.
November 2011
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future | CNET UK
"Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."
Tornado Web Server
Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants - NYTimes.com
I COULD have contested the legality of the investigation and gotten a lawyer. But I thought that would make things messier. It was clear who had the power in this situation. And when you’re face to face with someone with so much power, you behave in an unusual manner. You dare not take any action. You rely on instincts and do what you need to survive. I told them everything.
Africa's mobile economic revolution | Technology | The Observer
Half of Africa's one billion population has a mobile phone – and not just for talking. The power of telephony is forging a new enterprise culture, from banking to agriculture to healthcare
WP Types & Views | Buy
October 2011
Japan Update: the Post-Tsunami Landscape | Architecture for Humanity
At the Mediatheque, and throughout the city, a policy developed to conserve electricity–rolling blackouts threatened the Tohoku region while the damaged Fukushima power plant conducted extensive safety tests. Indoor spaces remained dark and warm through the summer.
September 2011
AnandTech - The Apple Thunderbolt Display Review
Ever since I moved to a notebook as my main work computer I've become increasingly annoyed with the process of actually moving my notebook-as-a-desktop around. At my desk I've got DisplayPort, Ethernet, two USB, FireWire 800, speakers and power all plugged into a 15-inch MacBook Pro. What makes it frustrating isn't the first-world-problem of having to unplug seven cables, rather that it doesn't need to be seven cables - Apple could make the whole thing happen with just two.
Dans le monde des PC, ça fait 20 ans que ce problème est résolu, sans fil. Chez Apple, ils se trainent toujours avec ces fils à la patte.
Hacker News | Your point was, and I quote:"Javascript itself was developed by a company (Netsc...
The "free market" is a bogus political phrase. I'm in favor of markets: real ones that self-regulate by preventing fraud (a central clearing/blinding counter-party, bid/offer/open-interest/size transparency) and abuse of power (market winners capture governments -- this has happened throughout history, it's a big problem right now, see the Global Financial Crisis).
Sci.electronics FAQ
August 2011
Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog - IEEE Spectrum
An anonymous worker at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has written dozens of blog posts describing the ups and downs of his experience as one of the lead robot operators at the crippled facility.
Spice Girls launch Channel 5 (UK) - YouTube
Now we know where the whatwg got his inspiration…Easter Weekend 1997 and the Spice Girls launch Channel 5 in the UK with their song "Power of Five"
The Semantic Grid System: Page Layout For Tomorrow
The Enabling City | The Power of the Everyday
Social innovation for urban sustainability and participatory governance.



