RkTaggy - example Google Wave robot -
basic example of wave robot
mapping the interfaces between realtime and permanent storage -
Events happen in the world. Results of events are sensed by sensor and communicated to processors, processors create records of sensor readings in memory. And those records are what is fixed in permanent storage media.
TheFunded.com: Complete Set of Founder Friendly Legal Docs -
Is there such a thing as too founder friendly?
Cheat Sheets - PacketLife.net -
bunch of really well done networking cheat sheets.
NaCl - Networking and cryptography library. -
This is very interesting to me. One of the things I have thought a lot about recently is the disconnect between the effectiveness of cryptography and the ease with which it can be misused and misunderstood. It seems to me that productive work on the user interface to cryptographic operations could produce widespread benefits.
I’m glad to see that low level steps in this direction are happening.
Circos - visualize genomes and genomic data -
Must look for creating cool visualizations of lots of data.
Effects of Flash/SSD on PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL East 2009 - Jignesh Shah's Weblog -
(via kanbe)
I saw Jigdesh give his presentation at East and was very impressed by his thoroughness and scientific approach to measuring performance for Postgresql. He describes the different conditions under which SSDs can improve performance, and covers the areas where they are irrelevant to performance.
This is another instance of a QR code; encoding the URL of this blog. QR Codes are but one instance of embedding computation in the physical world.
Is Facebook a Cult? - ReadWriteWeb -
Marshall Kirkpatrick offers a very interesting question; is Facebook a cult?
He points out some of the relevant similarities, the groupthink, the social isolation from non-facebookers, the use of subtle social pressures to enforce norms.
Definitely meshes with the creepy feeling that facebook gives me; which is why I am a facebook refusenik.
