Maelstrom

Had a chance to see Roxy Paine’s Maelstrom on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier this month:

Maelstrom

Warning, Contains Assembly Language

C, like an AK-47: when you absolutely, positively gotta kill every last CPU cycle in the room. Slides from Felix von Leitner’s talk on C and compiler optimizations (PDF).

(via Hacker News)

There are wedding presents…

Hiking to the Nothing

Hike to the Nothing Hiking with Lily, Matt, Mike and Susan through the Alakai Wilderness, the highest swamp in the world.

Google Building Maker

Google addresses an incredibly complex task with scale and grace:

(via googleblog.blogspot.com)

6 AM

Sunrise Office Every morning working from the Lanai; equipped with sunrise & coffee.

Top of the Harry

Best viewed large. (via Zim)

The 1400 & Biofuel

Algae

The Southern Utes, one of the nation’s wealthiest American Indian communities thanks to its energy and real-estate investments, is a major investor in the professor’s company. It hopes to gain a toehold in what tribal leaders believe could be the next billion-dollar energy boom.

But from the tribe’s perspective, the business model here is about more than business. “It’s a marriage of an older way of thinking into a modern time,” said the tribe’s chairman, Matthew J. Box, referring to the interplay of environmental consciousness and investment opportunity around algae.

(via the NY Times)

Tony Jaa is Huge

Ong Bak 2

West From the High Line

looking west from the high line. (via Eric Alba)