Author: jedreynolds
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Mighty Good Story: Shannon’s Law (Escape Pod)
Episode 291 of Escape Pod is Mur reading Shannon’s Law, by Cory Doctorow, a chapter from the Bordertown anthology. I love the idea of actually building a TCP/IP network using carrier pidgeon, ogre’s laundry lines and the dust on the wings of a butterfly.
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Copy Protection for Our Identities
Another idea sprouted: I love the concept that Doc Searls discusses about the Intention Oriented Economy. This is the reverse of the identity oriented economy where we supplicate our commercial oligarchy with our percious identifiable information for free stuff so they can better advertise to us. Rather–it makes much more sense to develop an anonymous…
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Javascript Object Inheritance
http://phrogz.net/js/classes/OOPinJS2.html This is as clear an example of Javascript object inheritance as I’ve yet found, and I’m grateful to have found it!
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Bottled Water: Vastly Wasteful
I am amazed at the amount of resources bottled water consumes. http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/infographic-day-bottle-water-really-bad-yes
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Tiny Computers: 4 for $100
This would be an awesome exhibit for LinuxFest Northwest 2012: small usb computer kit.
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Quick thot on MySQL
Had a good question in my MySQL talk about how to monitor performance, and of course I suggested turning on the MySQL slow query log. What I neglected to mention, however, was mytop. This little utility is found in the rpmforge repo and it’s like a top(1) for your mysql queries. The basis for it…
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