Entries from March 2007 ↓

I have decided to stop spamming everyone with IM of cool stuff I read during the day and just make a small post with links to all of them… so here is the first one. And I hope they don’t become daily because then it will stop being fun.

First let me start with a nice blog post for all of us that are in love with OOP. Then some very interesting old but great slices from a Linux conference (so it seems) with a LOT of bash features, at least hidden for me, or as the author puts it, for those of us that think bash(1) is way too long. Last on the code stuff it’s a nice idea from someone with very nice ideas.

The next three are a good lesson, a story and a idea.

Lately a LOT of people at the office are into the Cube again, side note: The guy that made it up should have tons of money out of it and should probably puke when people tell him how great it is…

Someone told me the other day (sorry I forgot your name) that it may be related with a movie that’s around recently, and it could be people love to be “special”.

Now this post is really about a cool link I stumble upon. Which is the result of art + time (lots of it) + Rubik’s Cube. And yes it’s call Rubikubism, but wikipedia doesn’t knows about it yet, any takers?

In my daily surfing I found this great article The Dragon In My Garage by the excellent Carl Sagan.

Now based on that we can finally solve the issue of the Guy he listens X-Rays and sees ultrasound. For the ones not familiar with the subject here is a small recap. A while ago Ricardo was reading a book call Blindsight. In it one character (not even a secondary) was able to listen to X-Rays and see ultrasound, thru some implants that made him a Cyborg this develop a Holy war, with a smaller magnitude then the fact that vi kicks emacs ass.

One sides argument was that the only way that could ever be possible is that the implants let him transform the x-rays and ultrasound into something perceivable, for example it will emit a different sound for each length of the x-ray and therefore by relating sounds to lengths he could understand the patterns. But that the actual thing was not possible. The other sides argument was simple; the fact that it is not possible now doesn’t means it can’t be possible in the future. And I think Carl Sagan was on this side

What do you think?