- A Legend as Big as the Ritz – The history of the Paris Ritz Hotel
- Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs – Recommended reading, 7 misconceptions about startups
- Manhattan shoebox apartment: a 78-square-foot mini studio – A really tiny apartment, from a series ( 7 minute youtube video )
- I was an A-list writer on B-list production – Writer Stephen Harrigan on his career and screenplays.
Month: July 2012
Links: colocation, credentialism, Ph.d Grind, safe cracking
- Going Colo – A blog post from Maciej Cegłowski of pinboard.in about colocation
- Death by Degrees – The place of credentialism in America (N+1 magazine)
- The Ph.D. Grind – What getting a Ph.D is really like
- Illegal Engineering – An illustrated lecture about the history of Safes and Safe breaking
Links: Blade runner in watercolour, caching, Flying cars, Prometheus
- Blade Runner Aquarelle Edition (video) – 12 minutes of the classic film Blade Runner recreated with 3285 watercolour pictures. I’ve actually seen this film so many times that I can’t more or less quote the duologue as it happens.
- A Primer on Web Caching – Quick overview on different places that data is cached in web applications, the websites at my work use most of these
- Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit – Where did the 1950s/60s future go?
- Prometheus Pre-Prequel! (video) – There’s a reason the Prometheus crew is so effective at dealing with aliens: good training!