I know all you redditors have already seen this one, but it was worth a special mention. Linus Torvalds talks here about Source Control in general, and the proper way to do it - using a distributed model. What's special here is his outline of how we should
A tidy treatise on business and professional conduct. It was originally written in 1944 for engineers. The rules though can be applied everywhere. It's a good, concise read; instructive, comprehensive, and might make you wince for some of the unwritten rules you've broken. Link Posted by
I haven't had a fun crime-thriller since Layer Cake (book's way better than the movie). So I was pleasantly surprised when I picked up Total Chaos, while in the middle of another novel. Warning: semi-spoiler. At last Marseilles was revealed. From the sea. The way Phocian
It is so difficult to actually find historical and political analysis of Iraq before and after second the U.S. led Invasion. This is a documentary about the real events that have played out in that war shown beside the image portrayed by U.S. and British politicians and media.
I've been thinking about this issue for a while. How to make sure your data maintains its integrity and how to share it across various services securely? This post discusses the problem of data mobility across apps; tricky due to ownership issues and all the politics that entails.
"Thus, it would appear that both Barack Obama and Ron Paul were the primary targets of vote-rigging operations in New Hampshire.", reports the European Press. How is it that Diebold machines are still being used to run elections when it was shown they were rigged in the previous
Chomsky refers to this all the time. Where propaganda, had become a bad word near the beginning of the century, the term "Public Relations" began to be used. Propaganda was rooted in Freud's idea that human nature had hidden primitive sexual and animal forces. This series
Kraftwerk was a huge influence in dance and electronic music. Because they're still big name, I think most people forget that they were doing shows all the way back in 1970 & 71 (in Germany). Their big impact came in 1975, when they toured the US. Check out
I remember when a lot of house and techno were kicking up dust in Detroit and Chicago. And then I heard some sounds from London and the UK and they were just as devastating. I was in grade school and high school and I didn't really have an
Most people are aware that there is a Black reality. But in North America, it isn't connected with a Black consciousness in South America and the Carribbean (or Africa for that matter). This is a 1988 documentary about the Black experience in Brazil. Racism in Brazil is often
Sometimes I just get in music and video mode and wish I could do more music and youtube mashups than I do (sniff sniff). This is one of those "I really wish I were there" vids. Although I did catch amazing Yelle and "The Presets" shows
I've thought about this before (well many people have). NYTimes.com is taking user's submitted searches and feeding those search results to a feature called "Also Try". This is similar to Google's "Similar Pages", but the system operates on the