I’ve assembled a little pictorial journey through the intriguing landscapes of waterfall, agile, portfolio management and stage gate [software development methods].
by Lost Garden (via Catenary) — Very nice diagrams, and an interesting read.
Occasionally a new building concept comes along that threatens to undermine satire and social comment, and moves the bar further up for architectural commentators, urban theorists, novelists and satirists.
Things Magazine (via kottke) — 510m high, one apartment per floor so no neighbours.
Description of attending an amazing talk by Stephen Hawking.
“In the beginning there’s a long pause. Really long. The applause dies down and then… crickets. For thirty seconds… a minute… two minutes. Then suddenly, Hawking’s synthesized voice: ‘Can you hear me?’ The climactic scenes of blockbuster movies are not as thrilling.”
Kotttke (by Robin Sloan at Snarkmarket) — Great story!
Load up any Gem into editorDr Nic's Journey — Very neat trick for TextMate. But I’m too lazy to type mate `find_gem hpricot` – so I replaced the last line of the script with `mate #{gem_path}` and renamed the script find_gem to mate_gem
Al-Qaida suspect 'confesses' to killing Pearl
It is not clear why Mr Mohammed would have wished to confess to such a wide-ranging number of attacks.
Guardian Unlimited — I think we can make a pretty good guess as to ‘why’
Where is Waldo, err, Khalid Sheik Mohammed?
And although we have had KSM in custody for 4 years, tortured at various secret facilities around the globe, it is only now, that he delivers a confession.
Larisa Alexandrovna at The Huffington Post — I suspect things are more like what is described here.
I'm no hero, says woman who saved 2,500 ghetto children
A Polish social worker [Irena Sendlerowa, 97] who saved 2,500 Jewish babies and children from the Nazi death camps was yesterday honoured as a national hero by the Polish parliament. … President Lech Kaczynski said she was a “great hero who can be justly named for the Nobel peace prize” … “She deserves great respect from our whole nation.”
In an interview [Mrs Sendlerowa] said: “I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.”
“The term ‘hero’ irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”
She was arrested in October 1943 and taken to Gestapo headquarters where she was beaten. Her legs and feet were broken and she was then driven away to be executed. But a rucksack of dollars paid by Zegota secured her release. She was knocked unconscious and left by the roadside. She still has to use crutches today as a result of her injuries.
Guardian Unlimited — Sounds like a hero to me. It is good to know that such people are around.
[Is] the action of taking down the content [after being threatened by a lawyer] some sort of agreement to give up the right to discuss the topic?
Techdirt — Trial court: yes ?!?, appeals court: no. That’s good, but surely it shouldn’t have required an appeal.
Walgreens marks up generics by 975%
Those aren’t typos. Walgreens charges $117 for a bottle of the same pills for which Costco charges $12.
Boing Boing — What? I’m going to have to check this out. (and it isn’t just Walgreens).
Strange Houses Around The World2Spare (via Core77 via MUG) — Wow.
