‘Nuf said!

To the people of Japan, and the world, Lord Tennyson has these words Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,– One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

If you weren’t in a hole the past few days, you would have heard about the iPad 2 launch. Here’s Conan’s take on it. I must say, the cover is a thing of engineering beauty. Kudos on that, Apple, and thanks for screwing over several thousands of your iPad 1 customers, who forked up 9.5 Billion in revenue in 9 months.

If you are not a UNIX user/not a geek, please turn away right now. Every year, I either chance upon something new, or remind myself of something interesting that I’ve forgotten. This is the latter case. On a *NIX shell, you can push a foreground process to background (obviously without terminating it): $ ./someprocess ... ... ... Ctrl-Z [1]+ Stopped ./someprocess $ bg [1]+ ./someprocess & To bring the process into foreground: ...

[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“506” caption=“linkedin-visualized”][/caption] Very cool

Need I say more .. Watch the full episode. See more American Masters.

Shared by shiva Very cool! Anger is Illogical, a film created by “OneMinuteGalactica”, takes audio from one of those “behavioural” films they used to show in schools in the 1950s and 60s and video from the original Star Trek TV series (run through a filter to make them look like they’re on 16mm film) and combines them for hilarious results. Here’s another amusing little film from OneMinuteGalactica: Luke Skywalker has OCD… ...

Some actors have the incredible talent of keen observation, and Mr Spacey is a master at it. Watch him channeling Pacino around 5:25. In few words, he makes you believe you’re seeing the real Pacino. The ‘Christopher Walken’ is also spot on.

DMU (Delete me Uncensored) is a group on Flickr, that was formed because a few people got pissed at Flickr censoring content. It is a very “lively” place on most days with a lot of colour and personality. Mostly its just a bunch of fine folks that have a common passion (photography), and express their opinions with almost no filters. It’s easy to mistake the group for being too rude, but you just have to hang around to ‘get it’. ...

Phew! What an awesome 23 hours! I’m just back from Barcamp Vancouver 2010 #bcv10. (Check out some pictures from the event). It’s been a while, since I have been this tired and excited at the same time. There are a thousand threads competing for the processor(s) in my head right now. I met a lot of very interesting people, and learnt about some great ideas. It has been a very educational weekend, in general. For all the great folks I met, I’m sure there were many more that I couldn’t chat with. To you, I say, “Let’s meet on the internets”. ...