Two inches to the right via mubix:

Jane Austen’s Fight Club via Wondermark:

A very cool visualization of the imigration / emigration data:

To remember: the relative sizes of countries / continents on most maps is not representative of the true ratios, because most map projections were not ...

Walking on Eggshells: Documentary about Remix Culture - via the comixtalk blog:

Internet is Freedom - a speech given by Lawrence Lessig at the Italian Parlament - via the Security4All blog:

PBS: Copyright Criminals - while the video is not online, you can watch the trailer and listen to some remixes inspired by it ...

In many (most?) systems performance is an important non-functional requirement. And even if you attained the required performance, it is useful to keep an eye on it to detect if a codechange involuntarily deteriorates it. Enter the Performance plugin for Jenkins. Using it you can record the performance (as in ...

Yet an other example for how simple steps can improve the audio quality considerably. The clip below is taken from this blogpost (which I originally found trough Hacker News). You can find the processed version here, or use the controls below to do a quick A/B comparison of the ...

As a response to George Starcher’s Removing Power Line Hum from Audio with GarageBand I would like to post a quick tutorial on how to do the same with Audacity:

This is something new for me: protein shakes. Medically I can’t offer advice about it (I’m weary about using foreign substances not recommended by a specialist), but the site certainly is has some positive ...

Usually it is as simple as: download, install, run. You can run into problems however if you have both the 32 bit and 64 bit JVMs installed (which is quite often) because it will try to use the 32 bit JVM. You can check which JVM is being used from ...

You can use vim as your pager and obtain two benefits: syntax highlight and access to all the advanced commands (like search). You can do this under ubuntu by adding the following line to your ~/.bashrc:

alias less='/usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/macros/less.sh'

Note:

• You have to have ...

Here are a couple of close friends’ blogs. They are just starting out writing, but hopefully giving them some link love will encourage them to write even more great content. Without further ado, in no particular order:

• No Such Host
• Scienti-XS
• VTopan