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GCC - "We make free software affordable" - The H Open Source: News and Features
History of gcc. Mentions the fork that failed--libc. (It sometimes seems that forks generally succeed--but perhaps it's just that the the forks that succeed are remembered. e.g. Xorg.)
Journal of masak (6289)
Summary of what's been happening Perl 6-wise over the last decade.
The plot of "WWII" is unrealistic
"Apparently we're supposed to believe that in the middle of the war the Germans attacked their allies the Russians, starting an unwinnable conflict on two fronts, just to show how sneaky and untrustworthy they could be? And that they diverted all their resources to use in making ever bigger and scarier death camps, even in the middle of a huge war? Real people just aren't that evil. And that's not even counting the part where as soon as the plot requires it, they instantly forget about all the racism nonsense and become best buddies with the definitely non-Aryan Japanese."
Mike On Ads » Blog Archive » Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
Guess whether someone is male or female by looking at the sites they've been to.
GNU HURD - Altered visions and lost promise - The H Open Source: News and Features
Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan... | Foreign Policy
Photos of Afghanistan in the 50s, showing women working, Western dress, etc. These have the feel of propaganda photos, but they're revealing even as a simple record of what Afghanistan aspired to.
Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? | forgetomori
Investigation of whether a very modern-looking chap in a 1940s photo could've actually looked like that.
prototypes vs classes was: Re: Sun's HotSpot
Alan Kay: "Smalltalk is not only NOT its syntax or the class library, it is not even about classes ... I would say that a system that allowed other metathings to be done in the ordinary course of programming (like changing what inheritance means, or what is an instance) is a bad design. (I believe that systems should allow these things, but the design should be such that there are clear fences that have to be crossed when serious extensions are made.)"
The Secret Origin of Windows
About how the first few versions of Windows came to be.
What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997?
Loving profile of Steve Jobs: "But all of that’s ok. Because without Steve Jobs’ Apple the world would be a less colorful place. The man is a living legend and deserves his place in history. This Thanksgiving, Steve Jobs is one of the things that I’m thankful for. And I bet you are too."
Pobediteli
Military history of Russia in WWII, via Flash movie.
Letters of Note: Slaughterhouse Five
"I'm told that you were probably never informed that I was anything other than "missing in action." Chances are that you also failed to receive any of the letters I wrote from Germany. That leaves me a lot of explaining to do -- in precis:"
Norman Rockwell’s Photo Realism | PDN Photo of the Day
Norman Rockwell's painting were based on photos that he directed himself.
erik’s weblog » Blog Archive » Closure
Why Google's Closure is so named: "Closure was an attempt to bring a closure to this mess. The name is also a play on the programming language feature as well as the desire to make our js library be a closure of all the existing js code at Google."
Why do we have an IMG element?
Interesting and illuminating early history of the <img> element. (Only slightly annoying, unlike most of Mark Pilgrim's pieces!)
Living on $500,000 a Year
How F. Scott Fitzgerald lived: "What can be learned from Fitzgerald’s tax returns? To start with, his popular reputation as a careless spendthrift is untrue. Fitzgerald was always trying to follow conservative financial principles."
A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database « Jon Udell
A few notes on the strange history of timezones across the world, as told by comments in the olson timezone database.
Aza’s Thoughts » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use
10 Years of Virtual Machine Performance (Semi) Demystified
Small history of virtual machine performance--author alleges that most of the earlier bottlenecks have now been removed, mostly via the hardware become more virtualization-aware.
The Circular Letter of Credit
page explaining letters of credit, the means by which travellers were able to withdraw money in foreign countries before the advent of credit cards and atms, etc. the chief means of forgery detections seems to have been the signature.
What the Internet knows about you
using the :visited selector to figure out what site a user has visited
The Tennis Fashion Hall of Fame (and Shame) - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com
Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems
"The server would use neither a persistent connection nor a store-and-forward model, thus giving it all the worst features of both telnet and e-mail."
Charlie's Diary: How I got here in the end, part five: "things can only get better!"
Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 | Webdesigner Depot
Eric Vasilik: Code Karma
why innerHTML doesn't work with table elements in ie
File:Los Angeles Times front page 6 August 1945.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The death of a test pilot shared the front page with the bombing of hiroshima!
Unexploded Bombs in Germany: The Lethal Legacy of World War II - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
"In the whole of Germany, more than 2,000 tons of American and British aerial bombs and all sorts of munitions ranging from German hand grenades and tank mines to Russian artillery shells are recovered each year."
Versionista: Track changes to any Web site
WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
"And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded."
Robert A. Caro - Lyndon Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s Speech - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Hugh Trevor-Roper's 'The Invention of Scotland' - July 23, 2008 - The New York Sun
Cabinet Magazine Online - Fragments from a History of Ruin
"Romanticism turns the ruin into a symbol of all artistic creation; the literary or painted fragment is more highly prized than the finished or unified work"
285 - London’s Lost Rivers « Strange Maps
photographs of leaders before they became famous
Apple //c - a photoset on Flickr
apple //c unboxing!
torgo_x: Everything old
browsing the web with mosaic 0.93
Image:Carlos segundo80.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview - Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids (Prints andPhotographs ReadingRoom, Library of Congress)
the original image contains a thumb, which was airbrushed out--choose "jpeg image" or the link from the detail page to see it
interview with the creators of zfs
The 10 Downing Street Door
oh, england: the "0" on 10 downing street is fixed at an angle, because the original had a badly-fixed "0" also.
Wired 14.11: The Perfect Thing
American Scientist Online - Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island
easter island inhabited by humans much later than previously thought, and deforested by rats??
Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
World Leaders Youth Pics - Iran Defence Forum
Slavery and the American Revolution
The New Criterion — Tales from the crypt
history of the new yorker via a review of the cd anthology; attempts to diminish it
BBC SPORT | Football | World Cup 2006 | World Cup memories
Tony Rothman's Article on Evariste Galois
Dresden - Do Germans have a right to mourn their war dead? By Carly Berwick
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic
From Nineveh to New Orleans - Books - Times Online
Focus: White do-gooders did for black America - World - Times Online
Native ingenuity - The Boston Globe
The History Channel - Great Speeches: Politics & Government
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Review: Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler