WikiLeaks Archive: A CAUCASUS WEDDING : Dagestan knows how to party. ‘The main activity of the day was eating and drinking — starting from 4 p.m., about eight hours worth, all told — punctuated, when all were laden with food and sodden with drink, with a bout of jet skiing in the Caspian’
(tags: russia government politics leaks wikileaks weddings funny dagestan caucasus)
Month: November 2010
Eric Cantona’s call for bank protest sparks online campaign : bank runs appear to be a hot topic at the moment
(tags: banking crisis economics finance protest france eric-cantona)Copyright and defamation law is repelling investors – The Irish Times : ‘UNLESS CHANGES are made to Ireland’s legal and regulatory framework in areas like copyright and defamation, digital businesses will be discouraged from locating operations here, say legal experts and businesses.’
(tags: law legal copyright defamation ireland irish-times)
The Dublin Science Gallery Greeting Cards are excellent!
Get ’em here, or pick up one of the great gadgets and gifts they have in stock.
(disclaimer: I am mates with the designer and the guy who runs the shop — but I still think they’re great work, regardless ;)
Copyright and defamation law is repelling investors – The Irish Times : ‘UNLESS CHANGES are made to Ireland’s legal and regulatory framework in areas like copyright and defamation, digital businesses will be discouraged from locating operations here, say legal experts and businesses.’
(tags: law legal copyright defamation ireland irish-times)
Anti-piracy lawyers ‘knowingly targeted the innocent’, says law body : ‘Following complaints to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), Davenport Lyons now stands accused of deliberately ignoring concerns over the standard of its evidence. It matched IP addresses captured from movie and videogame BitTorrent swarms with customer records obtained from ISPs by court order. David Gore and Brian Miller, two Davenport Lyons partners, will face disciplinary proceedings in March.’
(tags: piracy three-strikes uk law solicitors bittorrent filesharing shakedown)
GitHub outage post-mortem : continuous-integration system was accidentally run against the production db. result: the entire production database got wiped. ouuuuch
(tags: ouch github outages post-mortem databases testing c-i production firewalls)logstash : open-source app to manage events and logs; collect logs, parse them, store, search, with web UI
(tags: logs logging logstash metrics)Loggly : ‘Logging as a Service’ – a cloud-based logging service
(tags: logging loggly cloud logs data metrics)Fingal Open Data : quite a bit of open datasets from Fingal County Council. wow (via John Handelaar)
(tags: via:handelaar open-data open fingal ireland)Boxee Box issues feedback and response : ‘Using Boxee to play local files? having issues? Here’s what were going to do about it.’ It’s amazing to see this level of responsiveness from an appliance vendor!
(tags: appliances boxee set-top-box tv video home customer-service)
Tony Finch – Some notes on Bloom filters : more good Bloom Filter tips. he says: ‘I take a slightly different tack, starting with a target population in mind which determines the size of the filter. Also there’s a minor error regarding performance in the corte.si post. You only need to calculate two hash functions, and use a linear combination of them to index the Bloom filter. This simplifies the coding a lot, and if hash calculation dominates filter indexing, it’s also a lot faster.’
(tags: bloom-filters tips coding via:fanf false-positives)
GoCar : pay as you go car-sharing and short-term car rental in Dublin
(tags: cars travel dublin ireland)The National Wax Museum Plus – Join in the celebration of Irish scientific inventors, designers and scientists : wait a sec, I know someone whose likeness appears in the National Wax Museum?!
(tags: aoife-mclysaght wax-museum small-world science cool)
Free iPhone satnav app for UK and Ireland : hmm, must try this out
(tags: satnav ireland uk navigation iphone apps)
iPhone users not waking up on time due to DST bug : lots of people complaining about this on Twitter — seems the clock changes, but the alarms do not! Internationali[sz]ation Is Hard
(tags: apple iphone alarms dst daylight-savings i18n)
That mysterious J : “in e-mail from Microsoft employees, you may find a stray J […] The J started out its life as a smiley-face. The WingDings font puts a smiley face where the letter J goes. […] As the message travels from machine to machine, the font formatting may get lost or mangled, resulting in the letter J appearing when a smiley face was intended.” aha! mystery solved. Amazon is full of mysterious “J”s in emails, and now I know why
(tags: amazon j letters wingdings microsoft spoor fonts noise)Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders : discovered a previously-unknown optimal build strategy for the Zerg race — how cool is that
(tags: zerg-rush starcraft ga genetic-algorithms evolution gaming coding)