October '11

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I am a programmer | jacquesmattheij.com

Admitting that may be career suicide, or possibly it will cost me dearly because 'software engineers' are raking in the big bucks these days, but the fact of the matter is that I'm a programmer. http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/I+am+a+programmer

iPod Oddities

Ten years ago today, Apple unleashed a potent musical force upon the world. I speak of the iPod, that tiny white box of a thousand songs that captivated the world for years after its introduction. In honor of this anniversary, I decided to look back weird accessories, strange artistic tributes, and other odd sidelights of the world’s most iconic digital music player. http://technologizer.com/2011/10/23/ipod-anniversary/

Jeff Somers's N Queens Solutions

http://jsomers.com/nqueen_demo/nqueens.html A version which prints out the board positions for each solution is here . Note that printing out the board positions slows down the program quite a bit, so you may want to pipe the output to a text file ( nqprint 16 > output.txt ) & then examine the results after the program has been run. My program is a heavily-optimized C program, yet it still takes over a week for an 800 MHz PC to calculate the number of solutions for a 21 x 21 board.
This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive.

List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - StumbleUpon

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Richard Dawkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clinton Richard Dawkins , FRS , FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins , is a British ethologist , evolutionary biologist and author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/10/i-think-theyre-mad-inside-the-48-hour-battle-to-build-the-best-video-game.ars Why would one coding team drive itself to the edge of exhaustion to create a fully fledged video game—one featuring badgers—in the course of a single weekend? Why would 20? We sent our man in Australia to a 48 hour "game jam" to find out, and he came back with an amazing 24,000 word answer.

"I think they're mad": Inside a 48 hour battle to build the best video game

Hot Startups, Cool Ideas from UnPluggd Bangalore « Virtual Thoughts

Its been couple of weeks since I attended UnPluggd at Bangalore, an event for wannabe entrepreneurs to learn from those ‘been there, done that’ folks. http://virtualthoughts.org/2011/hot-startups-cool-ideas-unpluggd-bagalore/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism Postmodernism describes a range of conceptual frameworks and ideologies that are defined in opposition to those commonly associated with ideologies of modernity and modernist notions of knowledge and science , such as, materialism , realism , positivism , formalism , structuralism and reductionism .

Postmodernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Movie shorts, or short animations are a unique form of art, which can inspire and enlighten just like any other art form. http://www.deepspirits.com/life-changing-arts/movies/animated-short-movies.php

Animated Short Movies » Life-Changing Arts

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What's your name? This free service is a side project from the creators of Screencast-O-Matic.com and is still in BETA.
Beautiful animated short movies are excellent for tedious coffee breaks and uninspiring monday mornings.

25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies - Smashing Magazine

You’ll watch in this article some of the best short animated movies that were created, most of them awarded or nominated for the Academy Awards.

22 Of The Best Short Animated Films

CodeSprint Fall 2011 - InterviewStreet

Chachii.com is bringing to India what TaskRabbit is bringing to the US.
False memory syndrome ( FMS ) describes a condition in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by memories which are factually incorrect but are strongly believed. Peter J. Freyd originated the term, which the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) subsequently popularized.

False memory syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia