Everyone is all abuzz about plasmonic invisibility, which renders things invisible by preventing them from scattering light. But if you actually read the preprint it's predictably far from a Romulan cloaking device. First, it only cloaks objects that are about the same size as the wavelength of the radiation hitting …

There's a wiki for sharing tricks for hacking Google Maps. Dotted IP for the address, so we'll see how long it stays up, but for now...

God. Ever have one of those weeks when you think one thing is going to take, like half a day, and then there it …

::: {.Section1} Eric Gunnerson is listing tools that provide code metrics for .NET (check the comments, too).  As a development manager, I always wanted to like code metrics, thinking they could give me insight into a codebase I couldn’t stay intimately familiar with. However, most developers don’t like them …

Mike's Classic Cartoon Themes and Images has downloadable music from cartoons old and new Link [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Boing Boing]

The unbelievable thing is that I remember, like, all of the cartoons that debuted from 5 years before my birth to those that debuted when I was in Junior …

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One thing that always triggers off a mini-rant in my mind is misuse of 7 +- 2 urban legend... via [Cook Computing]

Me too. The part that drives me crazy is that people think it has something to do with menu design. Not even close. :::

Jon Udell's walking tour / GPS / Google maps screencast is absolutely stunning. I have GPS / photo montages locked up in proprietary software (DeLorme mapping software), but this is incredibly inspiring.  I haven't read his links on how he actually built it -- I can't wait to start doing something similar for the …

::: {.Section1} Tina and I saw “Aliens of the Deep” when we were in San Francisco. We liked it more than Greenspun, but his description of the climax as “big-eyed snails who’ve built themselves an Indian casino” is perfect:

James Cameron, director of the movie Titanic, goes 3000' to 10 …

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This site is a candy store. OpenSourceCMS gathers together a large number of CMS-ish apps (classic CMS, Wikis, Blogs, Forums and more) into one testable site. The server gets rebuilt every two hours, but in that time, you can try out a number of apps, including such fan favourites …

[ This link does a good job of detailing the steps necessary to sell on Amazon, which basically boils down to “get a UPC and a barcode: []{lang="en-us"}[[Cool Tools]{.underline}]{lang="en-us"}[]]{lang="en-us"}

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[T]he PyCon 2005 keynote session Python on the .NET Platform on Wednesday March 23rd will hopefully coincide with the release a much more complete implementation.  [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Cook Computing]

Jim Hugunin has been MIA for months. I talked to …