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Monthly Archives: June 2010
iCurses
I’ve previously written about getting fixed-width fonts to display properly on the iPhone. Today I’d like to add a little to that discussion, and show how you might create a (very simple) ncurses-like display on the iPhone.
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MoneyRank
Are you familiar with the logic behind Google’s PageRank algorithm? I was thinking about it the other day, and it occurred to me that its operation is rather reminiscent of the income flows in a free market. I expand on … Continue reading
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Wind Power
Let’s say that you really, really don’t like coal. How much would it cost to install a number of windmills sufficient to produce the energy that the U.S. currently generates from coal?
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Half-truths
“Lawrence of Arabia” is a pretty good movie, with a lot of great lines. For example, Feisal’s “[w]ith Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.” … Continue reading
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IE6 Hacks
Internet Explorer 6 is (finally) disappearing. This is a good thing. Whether you can consider it dead at this point is a question for the individual web developer. When I was putting together a page for Fightcard I decided to … Continue reading
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Quickie: Visualizing Height and Depth
Via Jonah at The Corner: Check out this chart.
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