14/01/2009 @ 23:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Giant Bomb releases game database API - they're doing some interesting community stuff, mixing wikis with traditional game journalism [via]
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Rod Begbie : The change we need | Comment is free | The Guardian - Good riddance to President Gore! "Of course, the biggest disappointment was Gore's failure to handle Hurricane Katrina properly. Not only did the massive evacuation of New Orleans prove a costly and time-consuming overreaction, since the levees - fortifie [via] #
#14/01/2009 @ 22:00 UTC
Rod Begbie : Slacker Personal Radio - Slacker Radio on iPhone and iPod Touch - I prefer Slacker's personalized radio stations to Pandora, and their new iPhone app is top-notch. #
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philgyford : The Printed Blog | Home - A trial of a twice-daily very local newspaper in some US locations using content from blogs. It would be difficult to be any worse than, say, Metro, London Lite, Evening Standard, etc. in London.
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
Rod Begbie : House of Bendie - Bespoke hoodies(!) Not cheap, but wicked awesome. Might save my pennies up for one. [via] #
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
philgyford : Twee as Fuck - Fanzine, monthly London club night, record label. Looks great. (Warning: the naughty page plays music when it loads.)
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
philgyford : Requirements for an invoice | Business Link - Not thrilling, but useful and clearly presented, for UK businesses.
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
philgyford : Preoccupations: Our work (so far) this year - Going to talk to those pupils was great fun and this describes how incredibly lucky and clever they are. Very impressive (David and them, not me).
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
philgyford : Tabbloid - Will regularly email you a PDF of your chosen RSS feeds. Couldn't be much simpler. (via Russell Davies)
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
philgyford : Russell Davies: meet the new schtick (2) - Part two of a write-up of a talk Russell gave. Real-world things derived from the internet's good stuff make me excited.
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
philgyford : A Typographic Survey of the City of London on Vimeo - Lovely little video about the typography used in public throughout the City. Only criticism: sound recording is very poor quality. Otherwise, fab. (via Blech)
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
philgyford : Noisy Decent Graphics: All the ephemera that's fit to print - I haven't even seen one of these (yet) but it's already one of my favourite objects. I've wanted to do something like this for ages but Russell and Ben actually did it, and did it much better than I'd ever have done it.
Andy Baio : Ben Terrett on "Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet" - they printed 1,000 copies of a newspaper filled with tweets, blog posts, and miscellaneous writing from last year
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
Simon Willison : jQuery queue method - jQuery queue method. New in jQuery 1.3, but quite far down the release notes. This finally allows low-level control over the jQuery animation queue without needing an extra plugin.
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
Simon Willison : jQuery 1.3 release notes - jQuery 1.3 release notes. Sizzle (new selector engine, available separately), Live Events (a variant of event delegation), Feature Detection (instead of user agent sniffing), faster HTML injection and more.
#14/01/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Weezer's Pork and Beans, alternate video - much more chaotic with nearly twice the memes, including Badger Badger and Leeroy Jenkins cameos
#14/01/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
nelson : Dining with Dubya - Great little reminiscence from one of the Bush daughter's friends on his casual dinners with the family
#14/01/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
Simon Willison : jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation - jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation. The IP for jQuery and jQuery UI now rests with the Software Freedom Conservancy (a smart alternative to setting up a brand new foundation), while Sizzle is a separate project looked after by the Dojo Foundation.
#14/01/2009 @ 18:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : 2009 Rare Book Calendar from 42-line - 2009 Rare Book Calendar from 42-line. Gorgeous. Just ordered a copy for a mere $10. "[E]ach month is accompanied by a printed reproduction from an important piece of bibliographic history. January's Giovanni Battista Ferrari copperplate engraving of an am
#14/01/2009 @ 17:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : Anthropologie is seeking a Flash Developer - Anthropologie is one store I'm happy to visit with Suzanne. An eclectic palette of texture, color, and style makes it enjoyable to peruse. If you've got Flash chops, they're seeking a Flash Developer for Anthropologie.com.
#14/01/2009 @ 17:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : Miles From India - Miles From India. "Miles Davis meets the sounds of India in an endlessly compelling meeting of minds and cultures." This album includes a new version of "So What", which is one of the most imaginative jazz pieces I've heard in a while. Via typegirl. [via]
#14/01/2009 @ 17:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : font-weight values "100" to "900" - Richard Rutter on the font-weight values "100" to "900" few of us probably even knew about. "[T]here’s more to the lives of many typefaces than just bold and regular. There’s Ultralight, Extralight, Light.... Since its inception in 1996, CSS has provi
#14/01/2009 @ 17:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : Web Directions' State of the Web survey results - Web Directions' State of the Web survey results. Nothing too out of the ordinary from what I see in the results, but a good reference for seeing what's happening with web development across the industry.
#14/01/2009 @ 17:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : Grid Designer - Grid Designer is probably more technical than most of us need, but unlike the aforementioned Grid Buildrrr, it does include an export option (markup).
#14/01/2009 @ 17:00 UTC
deusx : Privateer: Ascii Sector - The Official Website - "Privateer: Ascii Sector is a 100% free space combat/exploration/trading game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You start with a simple spaceship and can then accept missions or trade goods to earn enough money to upgrade your ship or buy a new one. T
#14/01/2009 @ 17:00 UTC
deusx : welcome to the ficlets memorial « the ficlets memorial - "ficlets is no more. AOL decided to kill the product, but thankfully, since all the content on the site was licensed under Creative Commons, I decided that there's no reason to let the content die. So, consider this the ficlets memorial. I will
Simon Willison : ficlets memorial - ficlets memorial. Here’s a great argument for Creative Commons—AOL shut down Ficlets without providing an archive or export tool, but the license meant Ficlets co-creator Kevin Lawver could scrape and preserve all of the content anyway.
#14/01/2009 @ 17:00 UTC
deusx : Excess coffee linked to hallucinations - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent - The purple elephants have always been with me. "People who consume coffee and other caffeinated products are more likely to have hallucinations, according to a study published today."
#14/01/2009 @ 17:00 UTC
deusx : Seven Cups of Coffee a Day May Lead to Hallucinations - Bloomberg.com: U.K. & Ireland - Or.. *are* they there? I've seen the movie From Beyond. "Consuming the caffeine in seven cups of instant coffee a day may leave you more likely to see, hear and smell things that aren’t there, U.K. researchers said. "
#14/01/2009 @ 16:01 UTC
Greg Storey : Nortel Networks files for bankruptcy. - Doesn't seem possible.
#14/01/2009 @ 16:01 UTC
Greg Storey : On the remake of The Prisoner. - It's about damn time.
#14/01/2009 @ 15:00 UTC
Milo Vermeulen : but does it float
cobra libre : but does it float - Thank you, Dakota [via] #
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14/01/2009 @ 11:00 UTC
Simon Willison : The History of Python - The History of Python. “A series of articles on the history of the Python programming language and its community�, being compiled by Guido plus guest authors. [via]
#14/01/2009 @ 09:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Dan Bruno on the rhythm battle system in Mother 3 - one of the harder songs has a 29/16 time signature
#14/01/2009 @ 05:00 UTC
joshua : The Market for Lemons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
#14/01/2009 @ 05:00 UTC
gleuschk : At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - NYTimes.com - hm, to link this on my calculus class webpage, or not?
#14/01/2009 @ 04:00 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : Interview with an Adware Author - Interview with an Adware Author: heh
Andy Baio : Interview with a former adware programmer - the lengths they went to avoid detection was pretty incredible
nelson : Adware Anatomy - fascinating article about how evil malware works
#14/01/2009 @ 03:00 UTC
gleuschk : Dave Bayer doing the boards for an episode of Law&Order:SVU - I need to figure out how to get in on this gig
#14/01/2009 @ 03:00 UTC
gleuschk : Syracuse Housing Market #2 In Nation | WTVH-TV CBS 5 Syracuse, NY | Local News - the benefits of living in the economically depressed rust belt
#14/01/2009 @ 02:00 UTC
Linkorama : 7 Reasons Why Carol Bartz Is Right for Yahoo - “When I say find your passion, some people might say this is not the right time and that we need to be pragmatic. But our passions and dreams should not move to the back burner when things get tough. This is exactly the time that we need to tap into new
#14/01/2009 @ 01:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : New from TypeTrust: Black Monday by James Puckett and Silas Dilworth - New from TypeTrust: Black Monday by James Puckett and Silas Dilworth, "featuring three character sets in varying degrees of treatment and an advanced OpenType ligature feature which automatically substitutes obvious glyph repetitions."
#14/01/2009 @ 01:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : The current state of video in email - Campaign Monitor: The current state of video in email. "The results are quite conclusive -- the only reliable way to embed video in email is an animated GIF."
#14/01/2009 @ 01:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : Feltron Eight - It's been all over the internets today, and rightly so: Nicholas Felton's Annual Report, Feltron Eight this year, is always a treat to look forward to. A beautiful example of information design and self-promotion.
#14/01/2009 @ 01:00 UTC
Cameron Moll : El Capitan from Cathedral Beach - Flickr: El Capitan from Cathedral Beach. It's been years since I've seen El Capitan. Aside from seeing it in person, this is the most compelling capture of its magnificence I've seen since.
#14/01/2009 @ 01:00 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : Perl and UNIX Network Programming - Perl and UNIX Network Programming: there were a few handy tidbits in this presentation
#14/01/2009 @ 00:00 UTC
Ethan Marcotte : Richard Rutter on font-weight - As usual, Richard comes up with a couple great test cases to show us just how infuriatingly busted our browsers are. Yay, progress! ∞
#14/01/2009 @ 00:00 UTC
Andy Baio : The Hype Machine's Zeigeist 2008 - now that the whole thing's up, well worth checking out; all 50 top albums are streamable
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