Thursday, 20 October 2011
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
It’s funny how fickle fame can be
The software is an operating system called Unix and the record of how it achieved its current unacknowledged dominance is one of the great untold stories of our time. It emerged from Bell Labs — the R&D facility of AT&T, the lightly regulated monopoly that ran the US telephone network for generations.
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson were two bright Bell programmers who had been assigned to work with MIT on the design of a complex multi-user operating systemn - Multics. In the end, the plug was pulled on the project, with the result that Bell Labs found itself with two pissed-off hackers on its books. Back in the lab, Ritchie and Thompson decided that they would just have to build the operating system themselves. So, in a fantastic burst of creativity they wrote Unics. Inevitably the ‘cs’ became ‘x’ and Unix was born...
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Dennis Ritchie: The other man inside your iPhone who created Unix
Occupy Wall Street: Jesse Jackson Helps Save Medi-Tent from Cops
As the Occupy Wall Street movement readies for a march against police brutality today and another event for the same cause on Saturday, tense faceoffs continue.
Last night the Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. arrived at the protests' central location downtown just in time to save the medical tent from potentially being evicted by the NYPD. Reports Gothamist:
Things got tense again for a moment at Zuccotti Park last night when the NYPD tried to take away the Occupy Wall Street medical tent (which is against the rules) before no less than Jesse Jackson showed up. Yup. Fresh from DC, the civil rights activist swooped in just before midnight and appears to have helped persuade the NYPD not to remove the tent just yet (the human chain around it probably didn't hurt either).
The NYPD, for its part, says that officers were just making an inquiry about the tent but that they did not demand its removal..
The NYPD isn't just in the spotlight for its treatment of protesters. At Colorlines, Jorge Rivas has the low-down on the latest racist policing scandal in New York--and it's quite horrifying...
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
tomwaits Tom Waits (ANTI-)
The new @tomwaits album ‘Bad As Me’ is streaming now, check your email or go here to request an invite: badasme.com
The Melanie Iglesias Flip Book
The Melanie Iglesias Flip Book is a stop motion video made up of approximately 2,000 photos featuring Melanie Iglesias changing into different outfits. Photographed by Michael Creagh in just one take. No photos have been retouched.
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Monday, 17 October 2011
From Dust To Dust (Burning Man 2011 Time Lapse)
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From dust to dust, this time lapse covers over 5 weeks including the preparation of the event, from before the trash fence erection and after basically everyone except for DPW trickles out. Other than a few occasional pauses, the main event goes by at a rate of 3 hours every second.
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