Interrupt-Driven

This (70MB Mp3) has been on boingboing some time ago but i’ve only managed recently to have a look at it. It’s is a recording of a speech given by one of my favorit authors Bruce Sterling at the LongNow Foundation.

Bruce talks about the subject of the Singularity. The Singularity is an idea quite popular in sci-fi which describes a point in time at which the speed by which technical progress is made can’t no longer be understood by human intelligence. The origins of this idea go back to von Neuman and Venor Vinge.

The speech showcases the major points of the Singularity and gives them a critical look. Besides the speech is also damn entertaining!

Bugmenot is a database which provides accounts for websites which are
free but require nontheless that you register and login (NY-Times for instance).

The bugmenot plugin is a
mozilla extension which provides quick access to this database. Upon
beinging presented with a login screen all you have to do is select
“Bugmenot” from the Mozilla context menu.
As an result you get a small popup containing some login credentials.

Some of you probably know this diagram which shows the history of the unix operating system familly. It’s IMHO less known that the same author also created a diagram which shows a detailed history of programming languages
(link).

To get a nicely printed version of this, fetch the recent Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung catalog. It has the timeline on it’s flipside.