What is it about nines and movie titles this year?

Linux kernel swear counts is a graph of swear words in the Linux kernel. There are step changes in the total number of swear words in the kernel around every major release - presumably because of a large increase in code. Also graphed is the swear words per line which tends to 2e-5 per line i.e. 0.00002 per line. Could this be used as a new measure of software maturity?

LegoMatrix is a frame accurate Lego re-enactment of The Matrix Bullet Time dodge scene. 440 hours of work! Wow. It’s embedded below from YouTube.

Ommwriter is a new full screen editor for the Mac. What makes this one different is that it includes ambient sounds (think new age relaxation and aromatherapy), very subtle keyboard sounds and interesting backgrounds. In my brief test, this post was written in ommwriter, it works well but I did find the ambient music to be too loud relative to the keyboard fx. It would be nice to have a control on the relative levels. But this is about minimalism (the fewer controls the better) and it’s only a beta release. It’s a very interesting project and it…

If you do any flying inside of China you get used to flight delays. So you sit on uncomfortable chairs in drafty waiting halls hoping your laptop battery will last and await the coming announcement with news of your flight. With a classic piece of circular logic the announcement usually goes something like: “The flight is delayed due to an aircraft delay.” In general the question is not if the flight is delayed, it is by how much. There’s a startup called FlightCaster which, in the US at least, claims to accurately predict flight delays early. I’m planning…

The Guardian have put together a decent Flash app illustrating the history of the internet as part of their internet is 40 series.

A video appeared on YouTube recently (embedded below) of diners in a restaurant discussing the dish in front of them. The diners are speaking Cantonese so I assume they are in Guangdong or somewhere down south. I don’t speak Cantonese but I can imagine what they’re saying. Now, there’s nothing unusual about diners discussing what they’re eating except that in this case what they’re eating is alive. Or at least appears to be alive. There has been the predictable wave of outrage on the net about this video. I am not going to judge. I…