The Render

Anand Lal Shimpi:

While it would take 70 normal windows to max out the 512MB of video memory on a GeForce GT 120 at 2560 x 1600, it would take less than nine 12MP images open in Photoshop to do the same. And once again, you don’t get that memory back when you close your images - only after you exit Photoshop. Most other windows in OS X will give you your GPU memory back as soon as you close the window.

The post is a snippet of his full review of EVGA’s GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition video card. He's published it ahead of his full review to gather feedback on this new approach. I prefer the whole article instead of little snippets.

How Much Video Memory Do You Need in OS X? via AnandTech

Khoi Vinh on social networking:

We’re all blindsiding ourselves and one another with trivial obligations.

Excuse me while I go and post this to Twitter

Hehe.

A Good Day’s Busy Work Via Subtraction

Congrats to Code Sorcery on the release of Pukka 1.8. One of the major new features is search and although I haven't tried it yet, it looks pretty cool.

Pukka 1.8: now with search! Via Code Sorcery

Nice to see some coverage for Linux to-do list apps

Getting things done with Linux to-do list programs Via Ars Technica

Wow, that's an incredible amount of Twitter accounts!

Google accounts on Twitter via Google Blog

In one single day and one single night, God deals with a hundred thousand things: He takes away a whole people, He separates those who were close and scatters each of them in a different country, then He raises the wave of the sea of destiny and reunites those who were separated.

In one single day and night by Maulana Rumi Via SeekersPath

There's only one website in the top ten.

TIME's Best Inventions of 2008

Cocoatech's Path Finder hits version 5.0. It's by far the best replacement I've seen for Apple's Finder. Too bad this one's for Mac OS 10.5+ only...

Path Finder 5.0 is available, more file-management power Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Awesome.

University of Toronto to Acquire Canada's Most Powerful Supercomputer From IBM | Reuters

Via Alumni e-News (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering) October 2008 l Volume 2, Issue 10

Amazing video of brain scientist Dr. Jill Bolte recounting the details of her stroke as she lived through it.

Via TED | TED Blog

Great feature released by the Gmail team a few weeks back. Now there's finally a way to get rid of that pesky All Mail folder in Apple Mail! Note that you have to enable the feature in the Settings > Labs tab in your account.

New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls via Gmail Blog

Congrats to the folks at A List Apart on their 10 year anniversary. It's one of the best web design knowledge resources around.

"When Google was little more than a napkin sketch and the first dot-com boom was not even a blip, we started a magazine for people who make websites. Celebrate A List Apart's first decade. Join Zeldman for a look back at the way we were—and why we were that way. Find out what we've done and who did it with us, peek into our process, and get a clue about what's next."

Ten Years Via A List Apart

Been hearing a lot about "Dark Flow" lately...

"Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe: "DynaSoar writes 'NASA astrophysicists have discovered what they claim is something outside the observable universe exerting an effect on the observable. The material is pulling clusters of galaxies towards a region of space known not to contain sufficient matter to create the effect. They can only speculate on what the material is and how space might differ there: 'In these regions, space-time might be very different, and likely doesn't contain stars and galaxies (which only formed because of the particular density pattern of mass in our bubble). It could include giant, massive structures much larger than anything in our own observable universe. These structures are what researchers suspect are tugging on the galaxy clusters, causing the dark flow.''

Via Slashdot

Some of the comments on the Slashdot post are hilarious. Haven't laughed out loud like that while reading in a long time.

The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time (Slashdot article that provides the link to the article listing the error messages).

Experience Research

Looks pretty nice. Also noticed that the U of T homepage got a makeover too. Cool.

Via News@UofT September 2008 | Volume 8, Issue 9 (email)

Many congratulations to Ali and Maleeha on their marriage!

May Allah and put love and mercy between them and bless their marriage.

Interesting article on Scientific American about how beneficial sleep is to the brain. Amongst the examples cited in the article is the story of Friedrich August Kekulé whose dream about a snake eating its tail helped him discover the ring structure of Benzene.

Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter Via Scientific American

Came across this beautiful post today. Very touching.

Via SeekersPath

I've been doing some cooking lately. Of course, I've cooked before (read rice) but never the likes of meat. I was advised by my mom to start with chicken and it was great advice. Last week I bought like 7 pounds of chicken and started out on the road to becoming a chicken tikka expert.

I've seen my mom make it and it always looked easy. That was the same feeling I got when my mom told me the recipe too. So, I tried it out. The key to making chicken tikka is to allow the chicken to marinate in the masala-yougurt-mix for at least a day. The first time I made the dish, I separated the chicken into two portions. One I wanted to make right away and the other I wanted to make the next day. Needless to say, the first batch of chicken didn't taste as good as the second since it didn't have enough time to soak in all the masala-goodness. Not that it was bad, in fact, it was pretty good for my first time but the second batch was superb.

I cooked the remaining chicken this evening after coating it with marinate this morning. The first time I cooked it, I felt like I put on too much masala so this time I held back. I think I put in a little less than I should have but I guess it turned out fine.

So, this was the third time I cooked chicken all-by-myself. I have yet to top the second time I cooked it but I think the more I cook the better I'll get.

Chicken Tikka Recipe:

• Chicken legs / thighs
• Yogurt
• Kissan brand Tandoori Masala
• Cooking oil

According to an article on Ars Technica,

Spam accounted for 81.5 percent of all the e-mails sent in June, according to MessageLabs. In the US, Illinois was the most-spammed state, with 92.1 percent of all e-mails considered spam.

That’s a crazy amounts of spam. Catch the full article here.