Archive for March, 2006
En Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development
hay un artículo bien interesante sobre cómo escribir para gente ocupada.
Entre los puntos más importantes (pero lean el artículo completo, no es nada largo) están:
- Making important points up front
- Clear taxonomy of headings, and lots of them
- Writing clearly and succinctly
- No long, unbroken paragraphs or tracts of text.
- Preferring bulleted lists with clear points to paragraphs.
- Use of emphasis in formatting to make important things clear
[artículo completo]
March 28th, 2006
infoverse - octomatics
the octomatics-project is about a new number system
which has a lot of advantages over our old decimal system.
the name comes from the mixture of ‘octal’ and ‘mathematics’.
Interesantísimo… un nuevo sistema numérico basado en ocho números (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7). Permite una conversión directa y visual con el sistema binario. Fácil de sumar y multiplicar. Con los dedos, podemos contar hasta 24. Sirve para horas y calendario.
March 28th, 2006
SourceForge.net: ophcrack
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.
March 28th, 2006
Seed: Prime Numbers Get Hitched
There is an important sequence of numbers called “the moments of the Riemann zeta function.” Although we know abstractly how to define it, mathematicians have had great difficulty explicitly calculating the numbers in the sequence. We have known since the 1920s that the first two numbers are 1 and 2, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that mathematicians conjectured that the third number in the sequence may be 42—a figure greatly significant to those well-versed in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
It would also prove to be significant in confirming the connection between primes and quantum physics. Using the connection, Keating and Snaith not only explained why the answer to life, the universe and the third moment of the Riemann zeta function should be 42, but also provided a formula to predict all the numbers in the sequence. Prior to this breakthrough, the evidence for a connection between quantum physics and the primes was based solely on interesting statistical comparisons. But mathematicians are very suspicious of statistics. We like things to be exact. Keating and Snaith had used physics to make a very precise prediction that left no room for the power of statistics to see patterns where there are none.
March 28th, 2006
The Slanket:
The Slanket is a Gigantic fleece blanket with loose, oversized sleeves so you never feel constricted and you have total control of how to use them, while staying toasty. The Slanket is made of a thick and warm 310 gsm fleece that feels very soft on the skin. The slanket is great on a couch, a chair, in a hammock, on your bed or anywhere else you care to take it.
March 28th, 2006
No se si están al tanto del pleito de los Cientólogos con South Park, pero este artículo está bien interesante…
Para los que no se saben el rollo… en un capítulo reciente de South Park, se burlan de los Scientologists (como lo han hecho anteriormente con cualquier otra religión). Isaac Hayes, la voz del Chef se quejó - el es cientólogo - aunque nunca se quejó antes cuando se burlaban de las otras religiones (Lo raro es que al principio no se quejó, mas bien defendió a South Park. Link a audio de entrevista con Isaac Hayes en Opie & Anthony). Se retiró de la serie, y rápidamente se rasparon al Chef a la mejor manera de South Park (Chef has since been outed as a paedophile, fallen off a bridge, been mauled by a mountain lion and died.)
Comedy Central no ha querido volver a pasar el episodio, pero lo pueden ver en internet en el website de Comedy Central o en YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t8LkfRkIDk )
Lista de todos los South Park relacionados con Scientology en YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search=south+park+scientology&search_type=search_videos&search=Search
Aparentemente hay un set de capítulos nuevos en los que el Chef regresa.
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Website: Hey Chef, these guys are killing free speech - Sunday Times - Times Online
URL: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2103334,00.html
Orwell once remarked that one reason fascism never took off in Britain was because the sight of a goose-stepping soldier would prompt your average Englishman to giggle. Someone is now silencing the giggles. And our world is a lot creepier because of it.
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March 27th, 2006
Publiqué un nuevo set de fotos en Flickr… espero que les gusten. Tomadas en la Carretera “Vieja” Caracas-La Guaira.
March 24th, 2006
bookofjoe: What you look like after eating a Twinkie a day for 64 years (and counting)
Desde 1941 este señor (Louis Browning) se ha comido un Twinkie todos los días… unos 22,000 twinkies y pico pues. Na guará.
Hagan click en la foto del Sr. Twinkie para que aprendan muchas cosas sobre estos deliciosos manjares (por ejemplo, originalmente el relleno era de cambur).
March 22nd, 2006
Google Finance:
Google acaba de sacar Google Finance, en versión Beta -como todo lo de Google. Los gráficos de las acciones son atómicos…
Happy Trading!
March 21st, 2006
