Shared links for 2007-10-27

• Single Threaded Memory Model
• “L Root” changing IP address on 1st November
• Comic for 26 Oct 2007
  Dilbert garbage man ftw.
• CURVING SPACE
  Love this.
• the discovery of france
  My great-grandparents often spoke in Norman, not French. The language degenerated into a little used patois after WW2.
• Restaurants I will not be eating at in 2008...
  Crazy.
• A Sense of Scale
  "Or to put it another way, turning Central Park into a solar electric generating station, like Kramer Junction (assuming, magically, the same solar conditions as the Mojave Desert), would power approximately 8-10% of Manhattan's households."