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Kevin Shaum

Kevin Shaum

Programmer from Houston, recovering geek, Second Lifer, and general dilettante
Whimsley: Online Monoculture and the End of the Niche - http://weblog.shaum.com/index...
@judell Maybe a 'dither' of architects?
Osbridge pre-kenote - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Osbridge pre-kenote
First breakfast, then off to #osbridge.
*Sniffle*. Meh. Nyquil, take me away...
@Lileks Everyone knows the leading source of Chicken is Egg. (Though Chicken may have come first.)
Dithering over whether to buy a MacBook before OSBridge. My WinXP Compaq is Jurassic in computer years.
@osbridge What's the background image in that sticker pic?
All jazzed about PHP now, which frankly surprises the hell out of me.
Just back from Rasmus Lerdorf's talk for the Houston PHP/MySQL user group. Packed meeting room. Went four hours with just one break.
Scripting for Android phones w/Python, Lua, Beanshell, (and later) Ruby, JavaScript. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
@lostokie I use Ubuntu these days. Consider it contained. :)
The value of professional copy-editing - http://alumnit.ca/~apenwa...
I'm tempted to leave that last one as my status for the next whole week. But no.
Free Association Man In The Moon Hits Your Eye Like A Big Pizza Pirates of The Caribbean #crapnames for superheroes
The Human Backslash and Tilde, the Boy Squiggle #crapnames for superheroes
Distractible Ma -- ooh, shiny! #crapnames for superheroes
The Deductor #crapnames for superheroes
I wonder if this is the reason GMail, and other Google services, are crawling today. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009...
"1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular[1]. In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"[2]." - Kevin Shaum via Bookmarklet
“Where do people find the time?”: a talk by Clay Shirky - http://www.clusterflock.org/2008...
Gin, Gilligan's Island, and Twenty Thousand Wikipedias -- and television as a "cognitive heat sink". The video is about 18 minutes long. - Kevin Shaum via Bookmarklet
I've licked one of those - Rodfather
and now a word from John Adams... - http://www.johncoxart.com/2009...
I'm finding the new Friendfeed much more addictive than the old design -- I'm Like-ing and Commenting more than before. Is the new design more approachable? Or is it just that the novelty has my attention for the moment?
Clark Aldrichs Style Guide for Serious Games and Simulations: Creating Artificial Personalities, not necessarily Artificial Intelligence - http://clarkaldrich.blogspot.com/2009...
Clark Aldrichs Style Guide for Serious Games and Simulations: Creating Artificial Personalities, not necessarily Artificial Intelligence
From the page: "Literally, as crass as this sounds, we have to have avatars that can serve as backboards to enable players to repeatedly practice actions and calibrate their actions against the response. These avatars need to be consistent, and often have visualizeable inner workings." - Kevin Shaum
The decline and fall of the newspaper industry -- tragedy or comedy? - Kevin Shaum
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