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Last login: 15 months agoPiet Delport is a 23 year old guy from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
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&Ye cannae change the laws of physics!& | Tux Deluxe
Jun 8, 2007 6:02am    (2 reviews)  cyberculture, drm, encryption  http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/213
Excellent essay by Jeremy Allison on the futility of DRM.
Jeremy Clarkson Bugatti Veyron review | Driving - Times Online
May 24, 2007 8:57am    (1 review)  cars  http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...
Jeremy Clarkson reviews the Bugatti Veyron.
Manu Prakash: Bubble Logic
Feb 15, 2007 3:05am    (1 review)  logic  http://web.media.mit.edu/~manup/research...
Computation based on microfluidic bubble logic.
Nonlinear: Industrial Anti-patterns
Feb 2, 2007 2:55am    (1 review)  open-source  http://trevion.blogspot.com/2007/01/indu...
"The IT industry has come to a point where its engineering techniques have no way to cope with the coming technological change. This catastrophic failure will not by fixed by rearranging deck chairs - or even running around with a rivet gun and a bucket. We are advised to learn to swim."
The Worlds Most Dangerous Geek : Rolling Stone
Nov 17, 2006 5:52am    (4 reviews)  http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5...
A bit on the credulous side, but a good read.
http://jennykissedme.blogspot.com/2006/09/discerning-programmer-invent...
Nov 13, 2006 11:54pm    (1 review)  management  http://jennykissedme.blogspot.com/2006/0...
"MALMÖ, SWEDEN -- A reclusive computer programmer known only as 74573|=(_)1 has invented Digital Wrongs Management (DWM), a system of digital restrictions on aesthetically substandard work."
NVIDIA rethinks the GPU with the new GeForce 8800 - Ars Technica
Nov 9, 2006 9:06pm    (2 reviews)  computer-hardware  http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200...
Technical overview of NVIDIA's new G80 architecture. Interesting times.
The Computer/Domino Connection
Nov 4, 2006 3:37am    (2 reviews)  board-games  http://www.pinkandaint.com/oldhome/comp/...
Computation built on dominoes.
Essentialist Explanations
Oct 31, 2006 6:55am    (4 reviews)  linguistics  http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.ht...
A humorous list of "essentialist" language characterizations, of the form "Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z".
Lords of& the Logistic
Oct 19, 2006 5:33pm    (390 reviews)  humor  http://aistigave.hit.bg/Logistics/
The title says it all.