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MeFi: War in Spaaaaaaaacccccce!

emmineb — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:35:12 GMT

A practical discussion of weapons that would work in space and orbital combat.

national flags by colors - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics

emmineb — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:09:13 GMT

a collection of national flags as pie charts. each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the color on the respective flag. [link: shaheeilyas.com/flags]

No Tech Magazine: Bookbinding: a tutorial

emmineb — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:52:04 GMT

Step-by-step instructions. More tutorials can be found here, here and here.

potatoland.org

emmineb — Wed, 30 May 2007 07:13:04 GMT

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radicalcartography

emmineb — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:27:54 GMT

f we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts — the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an Imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing) — then this fable has come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.

Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!

emmineb — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:07:53 GMT

But the volume of data obscures more than it reveals; financial reporting has become so transparent as to be invisible. Answering what should be simple questions—how secure is my cash account? How much of my bank's capital is tied up in risky debt obligations?—often seems to require a legal degree, as well as countless hours to dig through thousands of pages of documents. Undoubtedly, the warning signs of our current crisis—and the next one!—lie somewhere in all those filings, but good luck finding them.

Severn Barrage Lagoons (pdf)

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:17:00 GMT

Tidal lagoons in the Severn Estuary could both produce more electricity cheapier and be more environmtment friendly than a conventional barrage

Temple of the Seven Golden Camels

emmineb — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:58:05 GMT

Comic Strip Artist's Kit (Redux) learn how to sketch draw

The Joel Test 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software

emmineb — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:27:43 GMT

The Joel Test 1. Do you use source control? 2. Can you make a build in one step? 3. Do you make daily builds? 4. Do you have a bug database? 5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code? 6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule? 7. Do you have a spec? 8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? 9. Do you use the best tools money can buy? 10. Do you have testers? 11. Do new candidates write code during their interview? 12. Do you do hallway usability testing?

The New York Review of Books: Conspicuous Proliferation: War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to

emmineb — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:26:23 GMT

our revolutions in warfare since 1500 around which Max Boot chose to organize his book. It ends in a fog of acronyms for weapons still on the drawing boards, uncertainty about future military revolutions, and "The Danger of Too Much Change—and Too Little." In between Boot found many persuasive things to say about how changes in military technology and management affected the course of European and world history, illustrating each of his military revolutions with detailed accounts of three specific battles or campaigns.