Organic architecture I think this is called. Many great houses and things. I like the one with the big stone in the middle of the room.
Found this link from this news piece:
"One of the many casualties of the California fires was the unique and lovely studio and residence of artist and architect James Hubbell"
Same webpage, different design. Very different design in fact.
Click on "Select a design" on the right hand side. There weren't many I really like but Stone washed could be cute. sub:lime is pleasant to look at but the text is too small.
PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
Nice little webpage that lists the same programming problems solved in many different programming languages. The nice thing about this listing is that suppose you know Python you can then learn other languages by comparing them with the ones you know.
From this I found this nice article about Haskell Worth reading.
"Haskell is a modern, standard, non-strict, purely-functional programming language."
"kung fu means skill from effort. kung foo means skill from badass-programming-powers."
Yet another funny T-Shirt from ThinkGeek
I want one of these t-shirts. Anybody in the London area soon about to make an order to ThinkGeek?
Amazon has added a wicked feature to their site. You can now search for words inside the books. That's like being able to search a library just like Google searches the web.
According to to this blob at Metafilter you can search some 33 million words. The blob also mentions some shortcomings of the feature which you'd expect.
Have a look at the very detailed review of the new Sony Ericsson"
The geek within me says I want one. The human within me says I wouldn't use it if I had it.
Actually, the reason I never used my otherwise lovely iPAQ was that it was too big to carry in a jeans pocket. Having the features of a handheld PIM would be nice if it'd fit in my pocket, which sadly the P900 still doesn't. I'll keep waiting.
Web Design Practices summarises what the "standard" conventions are on web design.
I find that my site almost always is like the most common way of doing web design.
All my web design principles I have learnt from the book Don't make me think by Steve Krug And to avoid thinking you follow the standards.
"Perhaps even more worrying - when confronted with the same map, only 89% of Americans could find their own country!"
Even Sweden youths did poorly:
"Not a single country managed the 42 points need for an A grade, even top scoring Sweden only got an average of 40 questions right."
"The WISP study for the 1990s has just been published, with Sweden and Denmark sharing first place, just ahead of Norway - a sweeping victory for the Scandinavian way of life, with Nordic neighbor Finland and the central European nations following after."
"measures the quality of life in 163 nations using 40 different social indicators"
Apparently Swedes and Danes are the most content people on earth about their quality of life.
It's just a short article this and notes that USA ends up on 27th place and "Afghanistan and nine African nations came bottom of the study."
I can't find the homepage for this research other than the news article.
