Now that I've upgraded to a better laptop, I'm starting to get interested in complex network visualization again. I have a vision for something similiar to Ben Bederson's zoomable user interface work (see also: informational physics), though I really just want to hack something together for experimentation. I'm surprised no one has taken the "tag ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of a good Web 2.0-ish way of keep track of reading lists? My "to read" pile is threatening to get out of hand. I tried AllConsuming.net, but their "should consume" seems to lump books, movies, etc. together. And there's no way to prioritize or sort by tags, and all of the other things we expect from our web apps these days ( Read more... )

I caused a minor plumbing emergency in my house on Saturday. As I was scrambling around, I grabbed a cheat sheet that I had sketched out of how to sweat copper pipes. On the back of the sheet, I had written the phrase "network recovery cluster". It's my own handwriting, but I have absolutely no memory of writing it down, or any possible context for ( Read more... )

I spent most of Sunday morning trying to figure out how to do a global search and replace in Unix. This led to a lot of reading and experimenting with grep and sed. I don't use these tools enough to feel really comfortable with them - something I need to get in the habit of doing ( Read more... )

Something intriguing came out of ETech today, via Matt Webb of Mind Hacks fame: playsh. Here's the relevant bit from the session desciption. Hacking is a playful act. In a primal sense, play is the investigation and experimentation with borders and combinations. It is how children establish a model of their surroundings and how animals explore ( Read more... )

This is an automatically generated post to address Ario's RSS to Livejournal dilemma. I grabbed the last five links from my del.icio.us account through the RSS feed and then posted using the Livejournal API. You can check out the source for the script over here.

Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It positive ecoomic overview of the lack of ( Read more... )

Note to future Justin-self: don't forget that you loaned your copy of Wireless Hacks to RevFry.

RecentChangesCamp (Feb. 3rd - 5th ( Read more... )

Sarah and I are deep into demolition of the first floor of the house. You can check out the pictures on Flickr. We're making a final push to fill up the dumpster this weekend - if anyone in the area wants to join us for some plaster-smashing fun, feel free to email me.

Dave Pollard has a great post up about applying the Wisdom of Crowds to predictions for the new year. John Robb expands on the idea a bit by adding a betting angle.