HMS Friday – The Most Valuable Ballast : The Scuttlefish.

I wonder if Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon was partially influenced by this true story...

Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from a Single Depth Image - Microsoft Research.

Whether this is in the Kinect software API being released imminently, it's not clear, but it will certainly become available over time, presumably giving 2012-era Kinect games higher-quality recognition

The very valuable Bad Behavior plugin for WordPress causes conflicts with Google's recently introduced +1 button. The fix is very simple.

Symptoms: When you attempt to "+1" on a Word Press site that is using the Bad Behavior plugin, the +1 icon appears for a few seconds and then is …

I don't think literate programming is something that will ever enjoy widespread popularity, but for those who write about programming, it's something devoutly to be wished. It might be a good match for Python, which is a nice language for data exploration and demonstrating algorithms and techniques. This tool: pyreport …

The Architecture of Open Source Applications.

I've just skimmed a few chapters, which you can do as well at the above link, or you can buy it in paperback or PDF.

Scala is the implementation language of choice on the next big project I'll be working on. For me, that's a tiny bit of a disappointment, as I've been slowly building up my knowledge, not of Scala, but of Haskell. But the high-level software at the observatory is predominantly Java, so …

Guilty as charged: jQuery Events: Stop (Mis)Using Return False | Fuel Your Coding.

What ebook designers can learn from Bible-reading software - OReilly Radar.

This is a good article on eBook design, as informed by Bible-study software. Bible-study software is a niche that every software entrepreneur would do well to know about. It's a big market and it attracts enthusiastic and diverse developers who …

The Fun of Going Faster-Than-Light : Starts With A Bang.

To the extent I would have ever thought about it, by symmetry I would think that a tachyon entering a medium in which it moved slower than c would emit some kind of impossible-to-detect tachyon-y version of Čerenkov Radiation, but apparently …

Ramsey's Theorem.