Lots of other Desktop Tower Defense vids here.
Jan 12, 2008
metro-2100
The 175th metro station opened in Moscow this January. Here is what the Moscow metro will look like in the year 2100: metro-2100.jpg
Книга о вкусной и здоровой пище (Пищепромиздат, Москва, 1952 г.)
Книга о вкусной и здоровой пище (Пищепромиздат, Москва, 1952 г.)
The above link is to an entire PDF scan of the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food, published in the Soviet Union in 1952. My in-laws have a copy, and still refer to it to this very day.
Jan 8, 2008
Building a .com in 24 hours
Building a .com in 24 hours: "Do it in AJAX right away, it’s often much more simple than supporting plain HTML CRUD in the first place"
Jan 3, 2008
Underachieving
Weblogsky writes about underachieving, making me think again about whether or not I will ever have control over my life.
DJ Earworm - United State of Pop
DJ Earworm - Music Mashups » United State of Pop. Pure genius, Earworm manages to make 25 songs not sounds like a trainwreck.
Jan 1, 2008
rawdog
rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. Written in Python, it uses Mark Pilgrim's feed parser to read RSS 0.9, 1.0, 2.0, CDF and Atom feeds. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports per-feed customisable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, and gzip compression to minimise network bandwidth usage.
I am waiting for the Java/Perl version.
I am waiting for the Java/Perl version.
Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger
Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger: "Editor's note: Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom coined the term 'weblog' Dec. 17, 1997 -- 10 years ago Monday -- to describe the daily list of links that 'logged' his travels across the web."
Dec 27, 2007
A nation of prewalkers
Like most people in the metropolis called Moscow, I commute to work every day. This involves some work and planning on my part to make the trip from point X to point Y as close as possible.
Kottke once posted about prewalking, where you try to game the subway by getting on at the 'head' or the 'tail' of the train. In Moscow it's less of a sport and more of a necessity -- during the rush hour, the onrush of bodies will wear you down if you get out at the wrong end of the train and have to make your way to the far end of the platform.
Moscow is set up in such a way that 99% of the time the maximum number of lines you have to ride on is 2. This means that you have to be smart about prewalking for transfers too. Consider it a mathematical exercise; with over 100 stations and 10+ lines, where's a spot where you have to use more than two lines to get to where you're going? You can review the map here to see what I'm talking about.
Dec 25, 2007
Happy Xmas all!
I don't have a tree. I got a few presents. I'm at work today.
I don't feel like celebrating much. I never do. The last few Christmases, quite frankly, have sucked. Last year's Christmas we made a pretty decent go of it. Before then was just plain dismal. There's a reason why the title of this blog can be mispromounced as "the depression".
That having been said, I hope everyone I know has a merry christmas, and an even merrier new year.
Dec 22, 2007
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