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Archive for July, 2012

Friday, July 27th, 2012

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.

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Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

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

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Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

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!

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