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links for 2008-12-24
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Did this ever happen?
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Server side JavaScript with Google's v8 Javascript Engine as an Apache Module
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App Engine Site Creator is designed to be a highly extensible and light weight content management system. It features a user-friendly content editing interface, a high degree of flexibility and customization, a file sharing mechanism, full support for page hierarchies, and fine-grained mechanisms for user management and access controls. It is built to run on Google App Engine and to scale well with minimal engineering maintenance.
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This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion.
Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press "Nuke It!"
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links for 2008-12-23
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"The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca", from "pícaro", for "rogue" or "rascal") is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society. As indicated by its name, this style of novel originated in Spain, where it was possibly influenced by Arabic literature (specifically the maqama genre, which also featured the episodic exploits of a rogue character), flourished in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and continues to influence modern literature."
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"Ambient, experimental vocal music written to accompany Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem. Proceeds from this CD are being donated to the Long Now Foundation."
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The world's largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible.
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"Of course it’s crazy to imagine retargeting our industrial capacity in such dramatic fashion, and turning it on a dime, isn’t it? "
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Apple, AppStore and Book Banning
Apple gets into the book-banning business
Apple’s refused to allow an application called “Comic Reader” in the iTunes Store because they don’t like the comic book it ships with — effectively, they’ve gotten into the business of banning or approving literature.
Apple Forfeits eBooks By Banning A Comic Book!
Who at Apple has been set up to vet material? Specifically, why was Murderdrome vetted as an application and not as a publication? Apple has a Books category in the App Store. That’s where Murderdrome should have been placed.
The whole approval process is a problem with iPhone/iPod touch and all console games, Wii, PS3/2, Xbox, that require software distribution to go through the
device creator vs. third parties like with PCs. For
developers it is a bit more of a problem with Apple, the
vetting process doesn’t occur til after the app is created then submitted.
Traditionally with game consoles the original device creator, Sony,
Nintento, Microsoft, work fairly closely with developers from the
beginning so you know that your game/app is going to be allowed. Also with Apple the reality is there are not many consistent
guidelines other than “don’t compete with unless you are really
popular”. Which translates to your web browser, Opera Mini, will not
be allowed but a Gmail client will be allowed.
One intresting way around all this is to not make it an installed app
but run it through a website. Doesn’t always work with the iPod Touch
but does for an iPhone, one of the things I like about the iPhone vs.
the iPod Touch. Another way around would be to release the app with something more “friendly” and imediately allow for downloading the more questionable stuff like Murderdrome.
Regardless it is some good press for Infurious Comics.
And when all is said and done I still hold that the iPhone/iPod Touch maybe what makes eBooks and eComics work and I still want one of each 🙂
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links for 2008-12-11
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he Addonics NAS (network attached storage) Adapter is a convenient and economical solution for adding any USB storage devices onto your LAN (Local Area Network). Once on the network, the USB storage can be shared by any network user, just like an ordinary NAS device. When use in conjunction with Addonics Storage Towers or Storage Racks, a Multi-Tera bytes storage with various RAID capabilities can be instantly added to the LAN. With the NAS adapter, you can custom build you own NAS appliance with unlimited expansion and RAID capability using Addonics family of Drive Enclosures, Port Multipliers, and IO converters.
Come built-in with a USB 2.0/1.1 connection and a fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps connection, the NAS adapter supports both SMB (Server Message Block) and the open source Samba network protocols, allowing for cross-platform access of all shared data for most versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and various Linux distributions. For remote users who are not connected over the LAN, the N