Chris' Ramblings

Jul 25

When Patents Attack! | This American Life -

If you work in the tech industry, you must listen to this … if you don’t, you should still listen. This is a fantastic overview of why our patent system is screwed up when it comes to software. Any lawyers or lawmakers out there that want to start a movement to eliminate software patents???

Apr 12

iPad 2 Head Tracking: Glasses-free 3D -

Very impressive work.

Mar 16

Japan Before/After Photos -

Arial side by side photos showing before and after the quake. Terrible.

Jan 04

Is ‘box’ not a word?

Somebody please tell me what I am missing??? I can’t find the word ‘box’ in any of the dictionary files on my Mac.

chris@The-Book dict $ pwd
/usr/share/dict
chris@The-Book dict $ ls -l
total 2176
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      516 Jun 22  2009 README
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      706 Jun 22  2009 connectives
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     8640 Jun 22  2009 propernames
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2486813 Jun 22  2009 web2
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1012730 Jun 22  2009 web2a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel        4 Aug 28  2009 words -> web2
chris@The-Book dict $ grep ^box$ *
chris@The-Book dict $ 

Dec 01

Possessions. -

What a wonderful way of looking at ‘things’.

Nov 02

8pen -

Fantastic. I can’t imagine it catching on, but it looks pretty cool.

Oct 28

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Oct 12

The Importance of Giving a Damn | Danilo Campos.blog -

Give a damn, dammit.

RCA student radically improves the UK plug | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE -

Brilliant.

Oct 01

App Shopper: Moonlit Mirror (Utilities) -

My Lucy is a celebrity now!

Oh, and you should download this app and click on the ads.