This article explores the practice of “beeping” or “missed calling” between mobile phone users, or calling a number and hanging up before the mobile’s owner can pick up the call. Most beeps are requests to call back immediately, but they can also send a pre-negotiated instrumental message such as “pick me up now” or a relational sign, such as “I’m thinking of you.” The practice itself is old, with roots in landline behaviors, but it has grown tremendously, particularly in the developing world.
“All around the world, rising prosperity and rising patriotism go hand in hand. But what sort of patriotism is India’s going to be? “
Amazing drum solo by Mike Portnoy
Visualizing empires decline
uci set registered.fonreg.registered=1
uci commit registered
echo option force_space >> /etc/opkg.conf
mkdir /usr/lib/opkg
wget http://srijith.net/pub/fonera/libstdcpp_4.1.2-14.1_mipsel.ipk
wget http://srijith.net/pub/fonera/uclibcxx_0.2.2-1_mipsel.ipk
wget http://srijith.net/pub/fonera/unrar_3.8.5-1_mipsel.ipk
opkg install libstdcpp_4.1.2-14.1_mipsel.ipk
opkg install uclibcxx_0.2.2-2_mipsel.ipk
opkg install unrar_3.8.5-1_mipsel.ipk
Picasso’s Guernica in 3D
Or, the State of the End-User Environment / Programming Onion…
So, in a confluence of events, I have been lately looking at Scala and
yesterday spent some time looking at Pike / Thompson / Google et.
al.’s “Go” language for “systems programming.” And Guido halts Python
syntactic evolution before the job is done…
And it fills me with despair and anger.
(pdf)”This paper investigates the state of popular virtual machine implementations for x86 systems, employing a combination of sourcecode auditing and blackbox random testing to assess the security exposure to the hosts of hostile virtualized environments.” Scary!
Sand Animation by Kseniya Simonova. Utterly amazing and moving.
