Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com

• Charles Stross: Space Cadets – Why colonizing space would be fundamentally different from colonizing the Wild West, and why the libertarian-leaning people who like to talk about space colonization wouldn't like the reality.
• Life without language – The case of a profoundly deaf Mexican immigrant who grew up in a house with hearing parents who could not teach him sign language. At the age of 27 he still had no language.
• xkcd: Period Speech –
• Bad code isn’t Technical Debt, it’s an unhedged Call Option – Call options are a better model than debt for cruddy code because they capture the unpredictability. If I slap in an a feature without cleaning up then I get the benefit immediately. If I never see that code again, then I’m ahead and, in retrospect, it would have been foolish to have spent time cleaning it up. On the other hand, if a radical new feature comes in that I have to do, all those quick fixes suddenly become very expensive to work with.
• YouTube – Domino's Pulling the Cheese – All the work (and all the tricks) that go into shooting a pizza ad. Tweezers, screws, blowtorches…