Nitty gritty, down and dirty technical guides. We’ll keep adding, so check back soon. Liquid Nitrogen in the Kitchen Transglutaminase, aka Meat Glue Hydrocolloids Rotary Evaporation in the Kitchen Low-Temperature and Sous-Vide Primer Purdy Pictures: The Charts Part I. Introduction to Low-Temperature…

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. I have since returned and am now in New York City enjoying a few days of winding down the last activities of the year before spending the holidays here with family. Do not expect too many blog…

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June 8, 2012 On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their previous engine. This time is was the turn of idTech4 which powered Prey, Quake 4 and of course Doom 3. Within hours the GitHub repository was forked more than 400 times and people started to…

LinkedIn has open sourced Cleo under the Apache Software License 2.0. Cleo is a flexible software library for enabling rapid development of partial, out-of-order, real-time typeahead and autocomplete services. It is powering the typeahead search services at LinkedIn. Check out the Cleo source code…

Ralph Langner’s Stuxnet Deep Dive is the definitive technical presentation on the PLC attack portion of Stuxnet. He did a good job of showing very technical details in a readable and logical presentation that you can follow in the video if you know something about programming and PLC’s. The main…

Welcome to 2016. We now have 44 years of super bowl commercials. I repeat. Forty-four, FORTY-FOUR! 44 years of super bowl ads! This year they dropped the roman numeral system, so it's "Super Bowl 50", as a sole “L” would have looked a little odd. Welcome to the worlds largest archive of superbowl…

William Gibson, ca. 2007. Photograph by Fred Armitage Get more interviews like this—plus fiction, poetry, art, and more—and subscribe to The Paris Review today! Vancouver, British Columbia, sits just on the far side of the American border, a green-glass model city set in the dish of the North Shore…

// Jonathan Blow & Marc Ten Boch: Designing the Universe IndieCade 2011 Conference Jonathan Blow & Marc Ten Boch, Designing the Universe, October 7th, 2011. Video shot by Ida Bendentto. Conference Chairs: Colleen Macklin, John Sharp, Andy Nealen Video Squad Producer: Scott Stephan Any system of…

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Shirley perches on the gravestone, holding her purse on her lap. Her stomach gurgles lightly as she pulls a neatly-wrapped brownie from its depths. It’s one of her favorites, peanut butter and chocolate swirl, but she just nibbles at it. No telling how long she’ll be here. The nights when she just…

Fading the Vig: A Gambler’s Guide to Life - - - - David Hill is a gambler. Each column will tell the story of a single bet that he made and examine what that bet reveals about life in America. - - - - Ads via The Deck - - - - $100 Hand of Blackjack, Foxwoods Casino (12/7/2011) $5 Chess Game,…

Once upon a time, in an age long forgotten because it was somewhat boring and contrived, there was this picturesque hamlet full of God-fearing wholesome people. En Français En Español They had everything they could ever wish for—with a healthy side-serving of strong moral fibre—and yet their lives…

A Webzine of Astonishing Tales Issue #13. Spring, 2012 Albrecht, Ashby, Cha, Deitch, Garcia, Garrison, Hayes, Highsmith, Rucker, Quaglia, Salinas, Watson, What, Worrad! Issue #13 Online: [ Or See Ebook Version ] Rudy Rucker Jane and the Roadspider James Worrad Eye-High Seth Kallan Deitch The Gaon of…

About the video Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. A one-hour long documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and broadcast by BBC, 2010. A DVD is available to order from Wingspan Productions. Director & Producer; Dan Hillman, Executive Producer:…

That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen by Frederic Bastiat, 1850 In the department of economy, an act, a habit, aninstitution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a seriesof effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; itmanifests itself simultaneously with its cause…