Distractions » Feeds

Torturted Soul – The Music Of Grant Morrison #1 6 Nov 2009
[music] The Music Of Grant Morrison: Torturted Soul / October … Grant Morrison on vocals with The Fauves … ‘There was talk of some sort of CD of GM related stuff being collected a few years back. […]
Rehovot Perl Mongers - First meeting - Matlab and PDL 5 Nov 2009
While trying to restart the meetings of the Israeli Perl Mongers I got an offer from Dr Jaime Prilusky, the Head of Bioinformatics in the Weizmann Institute of Science to hold the meetings in one of. […]
Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, millions of accounts exploitable 5 Nov 2009
Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, millions of accounts exploitable (via). Amazingly, both services had wide open holes in their crossdomain.xml files. Facebook were serving allow-acce. […]
Witches' Brews | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History 3 Nov 2009
an excerpt from Paul Devereux's The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock? - life - 19 October 2009 - New Scientist 1 Nov 2009
Adobe is Bad for Open Government 1 Nov 2009
Adobe is Bad for Open Government. The problem isn’t just that PDFs are a bad way of sharing data, it’s that Adobe have been actively lobbying the US government to use their PDF and Flash formats f. […]
עין הדג: גירסת הסושי
31 Oct 2009
יש הרבה סיבות לכך שאנשים נוסעים ליפן. גם כדי להתנסות במיני טכנולוגיות חדשות וחדשניות, גם כי זה הכי לא דומה לארץ. […]
gRaphaël—Charting JavaScript Library 30 Oct 2009
Javascript charts with SVG / VML
Splunk | IT Search for Log Management, Operations, Security and Compliance 30 Oct 2009
Log analyzer
How habitable is the Earth? 29 Oct 2009
(Pay attention at the back: this is a trick question.) We H. Sapiens Sapiens appear to be an infestation on this planet. After the slow-burning evolution of hominins in Africa, our ancestral populatio. […]
I demand the blattarian anti-urination gene-mod. STAT. 28 Oct 2009
Cockroach Superpower No. 42: They Don't Need to Pee To survive in hostile environments, cockroaches rely on their own vermin: Blattabacterium, a microbe that hitched a ride inside roaches 140 million. […]
Playing On A Wave 27 Oct 2009
Wave interacts with Google Maps in a way that could be great for play.If you’re not careful, Google Wave becomes just another play-by-chat option. Everyone’s typing at once, filing their character. […]
Testing with IE6, IE7 and IE8 on VirtualBox | Shape Shed 27 Oct 2009
a walkthrough on how to get a browser testing suite for free on OSX or Ubuntu.
The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See 23 Oct 2009
Nature has always been a source of inspiration for designers to look at things differently.We all know that a tree doesn’t always have green leaves, water is not blue and clouds are certainly not al. […]
Why I like Redis 22 Oct 2009
I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently. Redis is typically categorised as yet another of those new-fangled NoSQL key/value stores, but if you look closer it actually has som. […]
Zelazny in his Prime 20 Oct 2009
Every time I have occasion to write about Roger Zelazny, I mention a certain photo that appeared in LOCUS when RZ's obituary ran (August 1995). It struck me then as the height of Sixties SF Cool. Belm. […]
Book Review: Sunnyside, by Glen David Gold 19 Oct 2009
Like Glen David Gold’s last book, Carter Beats the Devil, Sunnyside is a work of fiction that draws heavily on real-life celebrities and historical figures to tell its story, but where Carter focuse. […]
הבחנה קצרה ולא מפתיעה
15 Oct 2009
מה לא מפתיע בפוסטר הזה, של הסרט החדש של טרי גיליאם? (אפשר ללחוץ לתמונה גדולה יותר). לא מפתיע לראות את העומס של הפ. […]
Suicide Magic: Or How The Higgs Boson Might Have Busted The Large Hadron Collider 13 Oct 2009
People who had problems with the time-travel theories in PLANETARY #27 should look away right now. There is a theoretical possibility that an elementary particle is reaching into the past to destroy i. […]
Synaptics Touchpad - Community Ubuntu Documentation 13 Oct 2009