Paul Graham is famous for creating Y Combinator, a venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups. But what is their linguistic intersection?
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The gallery is a application for Lamp to show their extensive collection of product images. Here are some of the features:
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Have just finished off Lamp Lighting Solutions, a microsite for a lighting-design competition being held by LAMP.
Although the site is in spanish, the competition is open to students and professionals from around the whole world. There are three categories of prizes:
For any architects, lighting designers or students out there, inscription is now open and you can submit your projects starting on the 1st of October 2007.
Using Firefox's web developer extension, I have been having fun using it to find unusual response headers.
Response Headers - http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:54:00 GMT Server: Apache Accept-Ranges: bytes GUpoweredBy: X-GUHTTPD-HAMSTER25 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 200 OK
Response Headers - http://www.philippines.hvu.nl/ Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:10:27 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/3.0.16 mod_perl/1.25 mod_ssl/2.6.5 OpenSSL/0.9.5a X-Disclaimer: The local sysadmins have *nothing* to do with the content of this server. Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:09:49 GMT Etag: "e805d-5a65-437a4e9d" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 23141 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html 200 OK
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:16:13 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Cotton: The Fabric of Our Lives X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Content-Length: 4884 Content-Type: text/html Cache-Control: private 200 OK
$ cd /usr/local/src $ snarf http://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/lispbox.tar.gz $ tar -xvzf lispbox.tar.gz $ cd lispbox/emacs-21.3/ $ ./configure $ make $ make install $ make clean $ apt-get install termcap-compat(The very last step there is the gotcha.)
Donderwolkje put up some great pictures of his great mussle and fries party on the rooftop if his barcelona apartment and also photos of what they got up to afterwards ... go have a look!
Last week I posted some news from smj that he had found mantra on the circuit board of his Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 synthesizer.
![[IMG: Printed circuit board from a Sequential Circuits
Prophet 5 synthesizer with possible mantra]](http://redmartian.com/prophet/DSC_0023.jpg)
After some debate on the SDF bulletin board it seems that the answer to the puzzle has been found.
User Marten reckoned it meant warranty void if mantra removed!
However
user pwyzlic thinks he's got it sussed:
TACKER: pwyzlic (Peter Wyzlic) SUBJECT: .. I need an INDIAN! DATE: 19-Sep-05 20:18:47 HOST: sdf That's a Sanskrit Mantra in Tibetan script. In a roughly transcribed version it reads: Om ma ni padme hum hrih It's fairly common in Tibet because it is related to Avalokitesvara (a Bodhisattva). The Dalai Lama is considered to be a reincarnation of Avalokitesvara. Peter
News in from Theo Simon of Seize the Day: A quiet, suburban, UK manufacturer implicit in torture and erosion of human rights.
This is a brief report of an action that Seize The Day were part of on Thursday (8th Sept) outside the Hiatts Shackle factory at 111-115 Baltimore Road Perry Bar, Birmingham, England. The protest was called by a local doctor who discovered that the Hiatts company were supplying the Shackles and Hand-cuffs used on people being held without trial or any hope of justice at the US prison-camp in Guantanamo Bay.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2005/09/322788.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1565811,00.htmlWe arrived on a flat-bed truck to lead 20 orange-clad dancers in "The Shackle Shuffle" before an audience of about 15 media, 2 coppers, and assorted local residents. Behind us, comedian Mark Thomas, in regulation Boiler Suit, held one end of a banner reading "Tackle the Shakles - Call Hiatt 0121 357 4347". After the song, Mark spoke passionately about the disgrace of the torture industry operating in our country. He was followed by Abu Bakr, whose brother Omar Deghayes is currently on Hunger Strike with over 200 other victims of gratuitous American military detention. The hunger strike is now in it's 5th week, and if the prisoners demands for humane treatment are not met soon, innocent men like Omar will start to die from starvation. The realities of Guantanamo abuses were spelled out by UK Lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, who represents many of the inmates, but is not permitted by the US authorities to tell the world everything which he has seen.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1566197,00.html
However thanks to the widespread reporting of this protest and the interest it generated through the BBC and the Guardian newspaper, the courageous and desperate struggle of the men and boys kidnapped by the Bush regime and deprived of their most basic human rights in the name of "defending democracy" is now in the news. Public awareness of the Hunger Strike may make a difference for people like Omar Deghayes. Please take the time to read about his case - he needs us.
http://www.save-omar.org.uk/ They all need us. Every "Human Right" we now take for granted was once a Human victory. If we do not protect them now, we may live to wish that we had when the same treatment is meted out to us, or those we love, in the future.
I hope that people reading this will think of other ways to apply pressure on the UK and US government to end the 3 year nightmare of Guantanamo. There are 3 issues:
- The export by Hiatts of shackles - their address and phone number are above, and MPs may also want to raise it in parliament;
- The plight of Omar Deghayes, who faces execution if the UK government force him to return to Libya upon his release;
- The restoration of Human Rights to all the detainees, so that the hunger strike can end.
Lastly, this protest was helped fantastically by people who we emailed in the Birmingham area. If you live in Britain, and would like to be potentially available for any future actions Seize The Day are involved in, please email me with details of which area you live in.
Love, Theo
www.seizetheday.org
Here is the recipe for my favourite dessert: apple crumble. I have tried this dish out on people from all over the world and it's always a hit :)
The following is enough to make a small crumble - enough for about 4 portions
If you want to make
custard to go with this, I recommend the recipe in Delia
Smith's Complete Cookery Course. Apple crumble also goes well with vanilla ice cream or plain fresh
cream if you can get it.Here's a dead quick and easy way to make the crumble topping:
First melt the butter in a large bowl. You can do this either on the hob or in a microwave. Then just stir
in the flour and sugar and watch it turn into crumble before your eyes. You will still need to get your
hands dirty to break up the big lumps, but it is much quicker than rubbing cold butter into the
flour.
If you want to make more there's a simple rule for the crumble. The Flour, sugar and butter are always mixed in proportions 4:2:1 respectively.
The Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith, a classic cookery book I picked up
on a recent trip to the UK - only 9 quid at Amazon :)Well, not literally, but while I was recently in England I picked up a copy of Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course. Now I am back I have been drooling over the recipes. I tried out the recipe for French Onion Soup which was a hit - the secret is to add an obscene amount of butter when frying the onions.
Next on the list is more traditional english stuff: steak and kidney pudding, fruit pies, flat meat and two veg. I really need to figure out how to make a decent custard too. More attempts will follow soon, if only I could pull myself away from delicious catalan mondonguillas or botifarra.
Video:
Found a very funny send up of Citroen's
C4 advert on Nothing to Do. Well, actually
I rediscovered it after someone sent it to me a few months ago - thanks Raoul!
The film is from x-bam.com and is also available from their site in WMV
format. X-bam also have some nice hi-res video
stills. They say:
Preliminary construction of the car/robot took 16 hours followed by 16 hours animation, 8 hours creating the carpark and city, then a further two days of tweaking, lighting and preparing for rendering. Further refinement was completed between renders over the next week, including addition of the cape and creation of the physics model for the culminating crash.
I was just listening to Revolver one of my favourite Beatles albums.
So when John, Paul, Ringo and George are searched against "The Beatles
| Beatle | Score |   |
|---|---|---|
| George Harrison | 16.74 | |
| John Lennon | 13.29 | |
| Paul McCartney | 12.31 | |
| Ringo Starr | 6.89 |
I have been trying out the Google Concepts linguistic intersection calculator (see 'Google Concepts Returns'). Here's what I have found so far...
Found anything interesting yourself? Write to me.
1Cake PHP, the fantastic rapid development framework for php based on Rails
Suppose you want to edit a file but not change the time modified - how do you do this? This could be useful for Blosxom bloggers, who want to edit their posts, without changing the order they are viewed on a page. Well, I came up with a solution in ksh:
#/bin/ksh
if [ test -a $1 ]
then
MTIME=`stat -t %Y%m%d%H%M.%S $1 | cut -d" " -f 9| sed 's/\"//g'`
else
MTIME=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S`
fi
if [ "$EDITOR" = "" ]
then
pico $1
else
$EDITOR $1
fi
touch -t `echo $MTIME` $1
Copy the above code and paste it into a file called 'blog'. Now make the file executable with chmod, thus:
$ chmod u+x blog
You can now re-edit old blog entries like this:
$ ./blog path/to/blog-post.txt
When you save and exit your editor will touch the file to update the modified time. Immediately afterwards the script will re-set the modified time back to what it was before editing.
User jlromano pointed out that you can do the same with perl, like this:
#!/usr/pkg/bin/perl
($accessTime, $modifiedTime) = (stat($ARGV[0]))[8,9];
system("$ENV{EDITOR} $ARGV[0]");
utime $accessTime, $modifiedTime, $ARGV[0];
Do you have a better way of doing this? Let me know!
Flying somewhere on holiday this year? Why not calculate the amount of C02 you will release!
Each time you fly, you are contributing to global warming. Aeroplanes use kerosene, which is a non-renewable fossil fuel that releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as it burns.
Climate Care has a CO2-emissions calculator which will tell you how many tonnes of greenhouse gas your flight will release - and offers a solution for those who may feel guilty!
I have just discovered my snarky letter to the Guardian regarding an article about Moir Lockhead, chief executive of FirstGroup, thanks to The Guardian's new search engine.
