Felipe Contreras

Phew, I have quite a lot of links to post this time.

• Map: Welcome to the Blogosphere
  A very interesting map of the blogosphere, with a nice analysis. I just hope I could find myself
  (tags: article blogosphere web2.0 interesting)
• Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like
  George Sparling says “My approach is bottom up: take the existing four-dimensional theory seriously and try to build up from it. This is very tough to do. Hopefully my ideas work. Note that my work only constitutes a possible beginning at a more inclusive theory.”
  This makes much more sense to me.
  (tags: interesting article science physics)
• SPACE.com: Out-of-This-World Hypothesis: Cosmic Forces Control Life on Earth
  I hope we are not near that 64 million cycle where we are no the cosmic north receiving those bow shock waves… weird.
  (tags: article evolution interesting science space)
• xkcd: Conspiracy Theories
  Great one!
  (tags: comics funny humor)
• Nanoscale ‘Coaxial Cables’ for Solar Energy Harvesting
  (tags: research nanotechnology environment article
  interesting)
• Next-generation, high-performance processor unveiled | Science Blog
  These babies process 16 instructions per cycle with up to 1,024 instructions in flight simultaneously.
  (tags: article future technology hardware)
• New project: Empathy
  Go Telepathy clients!
  (tags: gnome desktop instant.messaging)
• Axl Library (Another XML Library), XML Library, XML, XML Software, XML Parser
  Competition is good, specially since I have not found an XML Library that I really like.
  (tags: xml open.source library software.development)
• Computerworld – AI will surpass human intelligence after 2020
  Interesting article about the future. A little far-fetched, but great ideas.
  (tags: ai article future world web2.0 technology fiction)
• Conduit 0.3.0
  Sync/Export/Backup Flickr, Tomboy, iPod, gnomevfs, FSpot. Very interesting project.
• buzztard 0.2 sunrise is out
  The buzztard team has release version 0.2 “sunrise” of its buzz-alike music composer.
• A Guided Tour of Hotwire 0.333
  Hotwire is an innovative way of working with the “command line”, bash is so passé.
• xkcd: Online Communities
  Another great one from xkcd! A very funny map of the Internet.
• What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
  Noam Chomsky on “the Iran Effect”. Interesting points.
  (tags: politics war society article)

• What Should I Read Next?
  More recommendation stuff.
  (tags: recommendation books web2.9 social)
• Fear, shark attacks, and “Will it scale?” – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
  Luis Villa pointed this out… probably it’s worth checking.
  (tags: development fear psychology to-read)
• btjunkie – the largest bittorrent search engine
  It has great reviews.
  (tags: torrent search)