1/11/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
Greg Storey : "The grass was green and the sky was blue. But it was very black and white." - NPR should run this story. #
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deusx : ohnotheydidnt: Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof are Kangaroos...not Bunnies - "Getting into the holiday spirit, Alyson Hannigan and her husband Alexis Denisof toook baby Satyana out for her first Halloween in Santa Monica on Saturday (October 31). The happy family dressed in matching kangaroo outfits, strolling about the city
#1/11/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
deusx : Self-Steered Tractors and UAVs: Future Farming Is (Finally) Now | Wired Science | Wired.com - "The new precision farmers are hacking together a way of making food in which the virtual and physical worlds are so tightly bound that having his tractor steered by GPS-guidance with inch-level accuracy is ho-hum. "
#1/11/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model - Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model: less than free is better than free... whee....
#1/11/2009 @ 18:00 UTC
deusx : Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D - Ars Technica - Still don't quite see a use for Google Wave, but I wonder if this would be fun?
#1/11/2009 @ 15:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Cartographer.js - Cartographer.js. “Thematic mapping for Google Maps�—which means an easy way of adding heat maps (aka chloropleths), pie charts and point clusters as a layer over a Google map.
nelson : Cartographer.js - Library for overlaying data on Google Maps
philgyford : Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps - Javascript library for mapping data nicely onto Google Maps. Area-scaled circles, choropleth, etc. (via Simon Willison)
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1/11/2009 @ 14:00 UTC
philgyford : In which Phil uses his loaf for once « West End Whingers - (A different Phil.) The National Theatre made out of bread.
#1/11/2009 @ 14:00 UTC
philgyford : My DebugBar | CompanionJS / HomePage - More tools with which to beat IE into submission. (via Haddock)
#1/11/2009 @ 14:00 UTC
philgyford : DebugBar - IE extension for web developer : DOM inspector, Javascript debugger, HTTP headers viewer, Cookies viewer - Looks useful. (via Haddock)
#1/11/2009 @ 14:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Traffic Server - Traffic Server. Mark Nottingham explains the release of Traffic Server, a new Apache Incubator open source project donated by Yahoo! using code originally developed at Inktomi around a decade ago. Traffic Server is a HTTP proxy/cache, similar to Squid a
#1/11/2009 @ 14:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Adobe is Bad for Open Government - Adobe is Bad for Open Government. The problem isn’t just that PDFs are a bad way of sharing data, it’s that Adobe have been actively lobbying the US government to use their PDF and Flash formats for open government initiatives.
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1/11/2009 @ 13:00 UTC
Simon Willison : 4store Amazon Machine Image - 4store Amazon Machine Image. Instructions for firing up an EC2 AMI running the recently released 4store high performance triple store and loading in 1.14 billion statements collected by crawling the semantic web.
#1/11/2009 @ 13:00 UTC
Simon Willison : pudb - pudb. A full-screen, curses console based visual debugger for Python, built using the urwid console UI library.
#1/11/2009 @ 13:00 UTC
Simon Willison : No PDFs! - No PDFs!. The Sunlight Foundation point out that PDFs are a terrible way of implementing “more transparent government� due to their general lack of structure. At the Guardian (and I’m sure at other newspapers) we waste an absurd amount of time man
#1/11/2009 @ 09:00 UTC
joshua : Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
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