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Archive for August, 2008

O’Reilly interview at OSCON

While I was at OSCON earlier this year, I did a 20 minute video interview with O’Reilly. I think the idea is to take a lot of interviews and edit them down to shorter segments for some kind of video supplement, but they’ve also posted the entire thing on Youtube.
I talk a little bit […]

A San Francisco Restaurant Health-map (with code)

If you’re just interested in a heat-map of restaurant sketchiness in San Francisco, here it is! If you want to learn about how it was done, keep reading below.

Click to see the interactive map
(In addition to showing the “sketchy areas”, it also is great just for seeing where the clusters restaurants are, which is really […]

The “excluded middle” of technical books

(ok, I know that “excluded middle” has a specific meaning in philosophy and I’m using it incorrectly here, but I like the way it sounds)
A couple of months ago I read a book called A Semantic Web Primer, published by the MIT Press. It was recommended to me by my coworker Jamie, who said it […]