Leap Motion

Posted: July 16, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: cybernetics, future, hardware, Uncategorized, video | Comments Off

ooh, nice. Just saw this company mentioned in the comments of an HN thread.

scaling at dropbox

Posted: July 16, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: configuration management, devops, engineering, information, resiliency, Uncategorized | Comments Off

I highly recommend this DevOps Weekly mail out.

The latest one has a bunch of good links, and one i found especially was this “Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1“.

another cardboard computer scientist portrait

Posted: May 17, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: comic, history, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Seymour Cray

Seymour Cray

The Cardboard Computer Scientists series 2012

Apple culture

Posted: January 31, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: apple, history, speculation, Uncategorized, video | Comments Off

Quite an interesting interview with Adam Lashinsky, author of a new book “Inside Apple”:

/* via OS X Daily */

robot

Posted: January 24, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: comic, cybernetics, future, history, puppet, science, Uncategorized, video | Comments Off

crazy short film Jim Henson did for the Bell Business Communications Seminar back in 1963 –

// found via Laughing Squid //

1923 video of Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity

Posted: December 28, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: abstraction, future, history, infographic, Uncategorized, video | Comments Off

found via Boing Boing, excellent 20min short from 1923 –

bank robber, Moran Cerf

Posted: December 9, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off

hah, great (real-life) story -

(( via Bruce Schneier ))

NeXT documentary

Posted: December 8, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: apple, history, Uncategorized, video | Comments Off

Bookmarked this video via Boing Boing last week, but only got round to watching it tonite – pretty interesting little 20 minute documentary series called “Entrepreneurs” doing an episode on Steve Jobs and NeXT back in 1985