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Rod Begbie : BBC News - Reporter breaks an 'unbreakable' mobile phone at CES - Wonderful wonderful wonderful. [via] #
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Cameron Moll : FontShop: Top Type of 2009 - FontShop: Top Type of 2009. Of the "top fonts of 2009" lists, this is by far the most comprehensive I've seen. Well done.
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Cameron Moll : Designing for Mobile with CSS3 with Dan Rubin - Designing for Mobile with CSS3 with Dan Rubin (UK, April 1). Undoubtedly worth attending.
#11/01/2010 @ 15:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Al Gore requests a typeface tweak - the VP has an eye for type usability [via]
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Greg Storey : Fifty best comic book covers in 2009. - I love the colors found in this cover. #
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Greg Storey : The best CODMW2 kill ever. - Like, ever. #
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Greg Storey : "I think The Tablet is nothing short of Apple's reconception of personal computing." - As long as I can also use it as a hoverboard then I'm all for it. #
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Greg Storey : Biff's question song. - For those who have to work today: Have a laugh. #
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Greg Storey : Kerouac's Belief & Technique for Modern Prose. - A list to write to keep close at hand. #
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Greg Storey : The relative prices of different liquids. - Missing two key products: Milk and gasoline. #
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Greg Storey : "Worst Guy Ever: Ryan Irelan." - Kenny nails it. Oh, wait... #
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Greg Storey : Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart make brownies. - No sticks, no seeds, no stems. #
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Greg Storey : "Earth has a long and sad history of intra-racial and sectarian genocide." - Jeff retorts criticisms against the theme of Avatar and similar movies. #
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Greg Storey : The decade ahead in jobs. - Management FTW. #
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Greg Storey : Soliciting criticism. - "Designers are generally too kind to each other." #
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Greg Storey : Twenty years of FontShop with Erik Spiekermann. - The man can do no wrong. #
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Greg Storey : Fifty badges. - Stars and shields of the Los Angeles Police Department. #
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
Greg Storey : Hire for your career. - Bookmark this for any time you need to hire someone. #
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
jcgregorio : Nexus One Phone-Web meets phone. - Yay! Finally public!
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
jcgregorio : WebFinger | BitWorking | Joe Gregorio
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
jcgregorio : "Cousin Marriage Conundrum" by Steve Sailer for TAC
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
jcgregorio : How to Achieve Painless Registration - Excellent advice, and a well deserved call-out to tripit.
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
jcgregorio : Move Your Money - A fascinating piece of activism. I wonder if it will take off. We already use the local credit union, so nothing for us to do. The one downside is that most local banks just sell off their loans to the the megabanks, so you end up having to deal with them
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
jcgregorio : Happy birthday to me! I’m joining Google | FactoryCity - Awesome news that Chris Messina is joining Google!
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
jcgregorio : How America Can Rise Again - The Atlantic(January/February 2010) - Really interesting article, actually seems well researched.
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
jcgregorio : job and income growth per decade - not sure where this comes from originally
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jcgregorio : Airs – Ian Lance Taylor » Generics - Ian on Generics in Go. The last largest missing piece. Go was released w/o them in part so this conversation could take place in public. I'm really interested to see what gets implemented.
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jcgregorio : How America Can Rise Again - The Atlantic(January/February 2010) - ""He says that thanks to California’s famous Proposition 13, which has limited property taxes over the past 30 years, his annual taxes in California are about $600—one-twentieth of what they are for a similar property in New York.""
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
Cameron Moll : "Wicked Worn comes to iPhone" - "Wicked Worn comes to iPhone". Could have put this to good use in Rome.
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
Cameron Moll : 2010 HOW Board of Advisors - Somehow I've been lucky enough to have been recruited as one of the 2010 HOW Board of Advisors. Hopefully my advising leads to your benefit for HOW conferences, magazine content, and the like.
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
Cameron Moll : Introducing Machine Wash Deluxe - The good folk over at Mister Retro have rebuilt their super handy Machine Wash filters, which I blogged about way back when, packaging everything in plug-in compatible with Photoshop and Fireworks. You can download Machine Wash Deluxe and give it spin (pu
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11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
Cameron Moll : Digging into WordPress, the book - Contemplating the switch to WordPress or hoping to get the most out of it? Pick up a copy of Digging into WordPress authored by WP experts Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr.
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
Cameron Moll : Asterisk 52 - D. Keith Robinson: "Asterisk 52 is an old concept given new life.... I'll be updating this site once a week, for 52 weeks in 2010, with a new bit of writing paired with a new photograph or illustration." Keith's wisdom is always worth considering, as his
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
Cameron Moll : Andy Budd: Improve your public speaking - Gifted and seasoned speaker Andy Budd offers several ways to improve your public speaking. Lots of great advice here.
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joshua : Wheel Magic, Inc. - Onsite Wheel Repair Services
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
joshua : Vowpal Wabbit (Fast Online Learning) - text-oriented ml
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
joshua : How we create and deploy sites fast with virtualenv and Django | Open Source at The Washington Times
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
joshua : Hacker News | Django-forum - forum app for django
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
joshua : Arq - Online Backup for the Mac with Privacy and Control
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joshua : Charcuterie 101 - Sausage Fighter II Super Speecy Spicy Turbo Innuendo Edition! - Help / Advice Forum - Penny Arcade Forums
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joshua : flashpunk, flash sprite framework - competitor to flixel
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
Milo Vermeulen : trendbeheer: Sneeuwpret, sociale cohesie en buurtparticipatie II [via]
#11/01/2010 @ 12:13 UTC
Milo Vermeulen : The Hype Machine - Top 50 Artists & Bands of 2009, with a custom artwork for each [via]
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Milo Vermeulen : Strange Worlds - miniatures by Matthew Albanese
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Linkorama : The Listorious 140 - Who's Been on Twitter the Longest? - I'm the 92nd person who joined Twitter
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
Douglas Bowman : Looking Back at Google in 2009 - A fairly thorough retrospective of Google and the huge impact the company had over the past year. Check out the list of releases and new ideas Google pushed in 2009. Impressive and scary at the same time. I wish the little blip about me leaving earlier th
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
Douglas Bowman : Success secrets of graphic designer superstars - Worth skimming through, if even just for the eye candy. But also for each designer’s nuggets of wisdom. link
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nelson : 2009 MMO critique - harsh, but spot on critique of the online game industry
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nelson : Body scan = child porn - Get some popcorn, this debate oughtta be fun
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
nelson : Apollonia Poilane - Nice little interview with the improbable head of Paris' most famous boulangerie
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
nelson : Yola language - An English alternative from Ireland, now lost
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
nelson : Gallagher interview - Jaw dropping, but interesting
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nelson : Loran-C shutdown - pre-GPS radio navigation system is being shut down
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
nelson : Netflix sellout - Have to wait an extra month to watch Warner Bros. movies? Why, oh why, would Netflix agree to this?
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nelson : Loudness war graph - Great visualization of the decreasing dynamic range of music recordings
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
nelson : Grendel: cloud data protection - Wesabe is giving away their innovative technology for protecting data stored on a server. Data is stored encrypted, only decrypted in memory when the user is logged in
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nelson : Bear vs. plane - There's nothing you can't fix with duct tape
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nelson : DIY Drones - Why should the military have all the fun? Build your own UAV
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
nelson : MagickJack GSM - Interesting, an unlicensed femotcell for internet telephony on your cell phone
deusx : AP News: MagicJack's next act: disappearing cell phone fees - "The device is, in essence, a very small cellular tower for the home. The size of a deck of cards, it plugs into a PC, which needs a broadband Internet connection. The device then detects when a compatible cell phone comes within 8 feet, and places
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nelson : Google toilet paper - Is there any product category the Internet giant can't dominate?
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kaninka.net : fairphantom: Lupe Valez by George Hurrell, 1933
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kaninka.net : fairphantom: (via papertissue) [via]
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kaninka.net : melisaki: reclining nude photo by Lucien Clergue
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kaninka.net : Myndmál Morgunblaðsins á forsÃðu eftir "hrun" #4 - Gæsirnar og geimskipið - 5. desember 2008
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kaninka.net : "The UK authorities have just made their usual pious New Year’s resolution on our behalf: they..." - “The UK authorities have just made their usual pious New Year’s resolution on our behalf: they resolve that we shall all give up smoking this year. Hence 2010 has begun as 2009 ended, with yet another round of state-sponsored anti-smoking propaganda,
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
kaninka.net : danaewhispering: sharplydressedmen: sexual: libraryvixen: neck... - danaewhispering: sharplydressedmen: sexual: libraryvixen: neck
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kaninka.net : NIN - Closer You let me violate you You let me desecrate... - NIN - Closer You let me violate you You let me desecrate you You let me penetrate you You let me complicate you Help me; I broke apart my insides Help me; i’ve got no soul to sell Help me; the only thing that works for me Help me get away from m
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kaninka.net : Ó tÃundi áratugurinn! suede - metal mickey (live 94) (via... - Ó tÃundi áratugurinn! suede - metal mickey (live 94) (via meEskondo) [via]
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kaninka.net : Embarassing Jennifer Garner photo of the day
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kaninka.net : "A sparsely populated country with the self-inflicted misfortune to have had some very big and badly..." - “A sparsely populated country with the self-inflicted misfortune to have had some very big and badly run banks, Iceland now thinks of itself as a victim, which it is in part, except that Icelanders were happy to take the profits in the boom years. Back
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kaninka.net : A Short List of Works that Would Have Entered the Public Domain on Jan. 1 Were It Not For Our Outmoded Copyright Laws - crumbler: Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair (the fourth book in The Chronicles of Narnia) J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On the Mountain Ian Fle [via]
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kaninka.net : My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) - My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27): Elvis Presley (21) Pearl Jam (7) Tom Waits (3) R.E.M. (2) The Gaslight Anthem (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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kaninka.net : EpÃk hér: Dillibossar á Borginni á nýárs- myndir
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kaninka.net : Haustfundur miðstjórnar (via Framsókn) [via]
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kaninka.net : yamswool: shanolyno: 2001_102 (via Pierre Wayser) [via]
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
Rod Begbie : namebench - Handy open source tool from Google to analyze DNS servers and see if it might be worth switching away from your ISP's default. [via] #
nelson : namebench - Benchmark DNS servers
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Rod Begbie : Tweeteorites iPhone App - Features push notifications of your tweets being faved, so you can have your ego stroked IN REAL TIME! #
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Rod Begbie : How to keep your New Year's resolution - Solid practical advice on setting and sticking to New Years Resolutions. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : The tale of the Great Basset Hound Rescue - A heartwarming tale on a sad day for Joy & I: The story of Golden Gate Basset Rescue managing to save and foster 61 hounds after a puppy mill could no longer afford to keep them healthy. [via] #
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
Rod Begbie : SAY2K10 Doh - Justin Mason on the SpamAssassin Y2K10 bug that caused lots of false positives on Jan 1st. #
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Rod Begbie : Atlantic Records Time Capsule - Killer box set -- 165 tracks (11.5 hours!) spanning Atlantic Records's 60+ years. Stones, Zeppelin, Archie Bell & the Drells… all the greats are here. I *ahem* downloaded this a few days ago, and have been enjoying it thoroughly. Well worth seeking o #
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
Rod Begbie : Best of Bootie 2009 - This year's mash-up-mega-mix. Amazing as ever! #
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Rod Begbie : Comicraft Fonts $20.10 Sale - Comicraft does an annual new year's day sale where they sell all their fonts for ~$20. Completely bargainous, since they are usually priced in the $100s. I bought a bunch last year, and have found them indispensable. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Letterheady - I don't know why letterhead design interests me as much as it does, but I'm always fascinated by it. Random fact: As a kid, I collected "With Compliments" slips. #
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Rod Begbie : Snow across Great Britain - Fab satellite shot from NASA. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Muppets with Jimmy Fallon - One - Even my reasonably strong dislike for Jimmy Fallon couldn't stop me loving the little outtake of him rehearsing with the Muppets. [via] #
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cobra libre : The Bolaño Myth and the Backlash Cycle - A thoughtful rebuttal to Horacio Castellanos Moya's unfortunately patronizing "Bolaño, Inc." [via] #
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
cobra libre : An odd juxtaposition: George Washington and "Fanny Hill" - Why the HRC's copy of The Farewell Address of Gen. George Washington is bound with pages from Fanny Hill. #
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cobra libre : Willie Mitchell, R.I.P. - Hi Records producer who worked on records for Al Green, O.V. Wright, Syl Johnson, and Ann Peebles. #
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cobra libre : Calder's planes - One of which was destroyed in the filming of Bad Boys! [via] #
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
cobra libre : Early Modern Texts - Some greatest hits of early modern Western thought, rendered in plain contemporary English. [via] #
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cobra libre : Incredibly weird, inch-wide single-celled creatures discovered rolling across the sea floor - Bahamian Gromia, and what they mean for the Cambrian explosion. #
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cobra libre : Pisan Cantos: Kenner digression - "I have told the whole story in plain and simple words, in the same way my old nurse Mary Sheridan used to be telling stories from the Irish long ago, and I a child at Roxborough." #
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cobra libre : QualiaSoup: Substance Dualism - A refutation of substance dualism (e.g., mind/body dualism) in convenient 10-minute YouTube format, perfect for sharing with friends and family. #
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Richard Rutter : Web-safe Fonts - List of fonts likely to be installed – a bit like the font matrix.
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Richard Rutter : Browser Choice vs Font Rendering - Phinney on Fonts.
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deusx : thestar.com iPhone : The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother - ""Do you know why Israelis are so calm? We have brutal terror attacks on our civilians and still, life in Israel is pretty good. The reason is that people trust their defence forces, their police, their response teams and the security agencies.
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deusx : Lady GaGa vs. Human League (AplusD Mashup Mix) on Vimeo - "Lady GaGa - Bad Romance vs. Human League - Don't you want me."
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deusx : DICK THE COWARD - The Washington Monthly - "Democrats, at the time, didn't launch an assault against the Bush administration, and we didn't see Al Gore condemning the White House. It simply didn't occur to Democrats in 2001 to use the attempted mass murder of hundreds of Americ
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deusx : The Same Old Washington Blame Game | The White House - "President Obama doesn’t need to beat his chest to prove it, and – unlike the last Administration – we are not at war with a tactic (“terrorism�), we at war with something that is tangible: al Qaeda and its violent extremist allies. And we
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deusx : AndroidSPIN • View topic - [ROM] Drizzy's DROID 2.1 for G1 - "Our good friend Drizzy has been hard at work converting the DROID Android 2.1 ROM over to the HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1 and his dedication has paid off. YES, You did read that right. Drizzy has also made this DROID rom from Android 2.1."
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deusx : Review - Is DVD Digital Copy worth the trouble? - "Not only are you paying for a DRM infested file that will only play on a couple of devices and getting files which aren't optimized for the portable devices they're supposed to be designed for, you have to wait several weeks to get the sam
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
deusx : Rachel Maddow rips apart Cheney, GOP attack machine - Daily Kos TV (beta) - "Again, my friends and colleagues in the media have two choices in covering this. You can just copy down what the Republicans and Vice President Cheney are saying, and click "send," call it journalism, or you can actually fact-check those c
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deusx : Antennapedia - Journal migration tool - "I've written a command-line tool for migrating journal entries from any LJ-style server to any other LJ-style server. This tool needs testers. It should run on any system with a recent Python installed. That means OS X out of the box, most Linu
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
deusx : GPS-led travel goes amiss; 3 Ore. parties rescued - Yahoo! News - "If you are following your GPS and all of a sudden you find yourself in the middle of nowhere with snow all around, don't go there. Turn around."
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deusx : Taking Inventory » Blog Archive » The Upgrade Guarantee - "I GUARANTEE THAT IF YOU BUY THE GET LAMP DVD ONLINE THROUGH THIS SITE, ANY FUTURE EDITIONS OF GET LAMP WILL BE AVAILABLE TO YOU AT COST OR CLOSE TO COST."
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deusx : What Airline Passengers Can Learn - TIME - "This now familiar ritual distracts us from the real lesson, which is that we are not helpless. And since regular people will always be first on the scene of terrorist attacks, we should perhaps prioritize the public's antiterrorism capability â
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philgyford : Commentpress - "An open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text."
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
philgyford : NGM Blog Central - The Cost of Care - National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com - Nice infographic. Not understandable in a very quick glance but it shows a lot of info after a couple of seconds. Also, the UK looks nicely average. (via Kottke)
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philgyford : Westminster City Council - The Life and Loves of a Victorian Clerk - Least inspiring implementation yet of realtime-historical-diary-online? No RSS, links, weblog view. Does have pictures though. And pointless generic "Was this useful?" block.
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
philgyford : The Diary of a Nobody, as a daily weblog - From 'Punch' magazine in 1888.
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
philgyford : Looking Into the Past - a gallery on Flickr - Lovely photos featuring an old photo of the same view held between camera and background. Oh, just look, it'll make more sense.
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philgyford : Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk - If a pop science book is still too in-depth, this is a nice summary of the ideas in one. (Not sure where this is via as I belatedly read it on Instapaper.)
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philgyford : WW2: A Civilian in the Second World War - Another historical-diary-as-weblog, this time diaries from the home front in Essex during World War II.
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philgyford : Design 1968 Journal - VADS: the online resource for visual arts - A favourable period review of Britannic House, since revamped as City Point.
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philgyford : BLDGBLOG: Remnants of the Biosphere - Wow. Amazing to think this could be part of suburbs - I visited in 1997 and it was in the middle of nowhere.
Milo Vermeulen : BLDGBLOG: Remnants of the Biosphere [via]
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philgyford : Simon Reynolds's Notes on the noughties: The musically fragmented decade | Music | guardian.co.uk - The 200 best albums of the noughties weren't as good as the best 200 of the 1960s. But the 2,000 best albums were better than the 2,000 best of the 1960s.
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philgyford : Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers | Books | Interview | The A.V. Club - An interview. I like, and share, his bemusement at newspapers' reliance on wire stories when the world isn't short of writers. (via Tom Taylor)
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philgyford : Why Leslie Harpold's Sites Disappeared | Workbench - Sad-making. For the record, I would love it if everything I've ever put online remains available after my death. (via Haddock)
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philgyford : Dave's Mechanical Pencils: Uni Kuru Toga - A pencil in which the lead rotates when you press down so you don't get a sloping point. Plus: a blog about mechanical pencils! (via Crackunit)
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philgyford : Walking Off the Big Apple - "A strolling guide to New York City." I'm planning a few days there in March, and I like walking around cities. Looks like a good place to start.
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bmilleare : 100+ SMB Blogging Ideas to Kick Start 2010 - Good list by @lisabarone
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bmilleare : Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby - Excellent write-up of how to use Chef to manage a cloud.
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
bmilleare : Chef - Opscode - Infrastructure automation for the masses.
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bmilleare : Access DMA, Affiliation, Second Page, Exit Page and More in Google Analytics - Great bookmarklet to access extra dimensions within GA
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Simon Willison : Balsamiq: A look back at 2009 - Balsamiq: A look back at 2009. Peldi Guilizzoni from Balsamiq shares some numbers from 2009—$1.1 million profit on $1.6 million revenue, with a team of three people.
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Simon Willison : The Maximal Usage Doctrine for Open Source - The Maximal Usage Doctrine for Open Source. Yehuda Katz shares my own philosophy on Open Source licensing—stick BSD or MIT on it to maximise the number of people who can use it. The projects I work on are small enough that I don’t care if someone ma
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Simon Willison : rlisagor's freshen - rlisagor’s freshen. A Python clone of Ruby’s innovative Cucumber testing framework. Tests are defined as a set of plain-text scenarios, which are then executed by being matched against test functions decorated with regular expressions. Has anyone us
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
Simon Willison : FleetDB - FleetDB. Yet Another Key-Value Store: Schema-free, JSON protocol, everything cached in RAM, append-only log for durability, multi-record transactions... but what’s really interesting about this one is that it’s written in Clojure and takes full adva [via]
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Simon Willison : Timing attack in Google Keyczar library - Timing attack in Google Keyczar library. An issue I also need to fix in the proposed Django signing code. If you’re comparing two strings in crypto (e.g. seeing if the provided signature matches the expected signature) you need to use a timing indepen
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Simon Willison : Design and code review requested for Django string signing / signed cookies - Design and code review requested for Django string signing / signed cookies. Do you know your way around web app security and cryptography (in particular signing things using hmac and sha1)? We’d appreciate your help reviewing the usage of these conce
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Simon Willison : PythonInterface - OpenCV - PythonInterface—OpenCV. OpenCV’s new Python interface looks very nice. I’d love to see some full fledged examples of using it to solve real-world computer vision problems. [via]
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Simon Willison : last.fm for television - last.fm for television. Dale Lane’s neat hack to visualise his television watching habits. An Ubuntu / vdx home theatre stores TV events in SQLite, and graphs are generated using Python and Open Flash Chart 2. The really clever bit: the back-end captu
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Simon Willison : Current State of Unladen Swallow (Towards a Faster Python) - Current State of Unladen Swallow (Towards a Faster Python). The Unladen Swallow team are now planning to merge their work back in to the mainline Python 3 branch, adding a powerful incentive for Python developers to port their old Python 2 code (since t
#11/01/2010 @ 12:12 UTC
Simon Willison : GPS and Relativity - GPS and Relativity. GPS satellite clock ticks need an accuracy of 20-30 nanoseconds. The satellites move fast enough that their clocks fall behind by 7 microseconds a day due to time dilation, but orbit high enough that the curvature of spacetime due to [via]
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Simon Willison : BLPOP and BRPOP in Redis - BLPOP and BRPOP in Redis. Added over Christmas—Redis now has blocking list pop operations. This means you can use Redis to drive a queue server without the need for polling—simply BLPOP against a key and, if it’s empty, your client will block unti
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Simon Willison : What's new in Django 1.2 alpha 1 - What’s new in Django 1.2 alpha 1. Multiple database support, improved CSRF prevention, a messages framework (similar to the Rails “flash� feature), model validation, custom e-mail backends, template caching for much faster handling of the include [via]
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Jeremy Zawodny : Thinking Sphinx And Unicode - Thinking Sphinx And Unicode: this may prove to be useful in the not too distant future
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Jeremy Zawodny : Sweet and Spicy Chicken Curry - Sweet and Spicy Chicken Curry: this would be good to make
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Jeremy Zawodny : AeroDynamic Aviation: RHV Airport Webcam - AeroDynamic Aviation: RHV Airport Webcam: nice! now you can see where our airplane used to live [via]
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Andy Baio : Adam Parrish on The Joking Computer - a bot that can make up bad puns
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Andy Baio : Anil Dash on the perceived vs. actual value of Twitter's suggested user list - most new users aren't active or engaged, so clickthroughs and replies don't change with the influx
Anil : Life on the List - In the time it takes you to read this sentence, I'll have gained another follower or two on Twitter. Within an hour, I'll have added more followers than 99% of Twitter users ever have. On a typical day, I'll have averaged 100 new followers every hour. It'
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Andy Baio : Demo of Proswitcher, multitasking for jailbroken iPhones - the only thing that makes me jealous of the Pre [via]
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Andy Baio : Spam Assassin scores any email in 2010 as spammy - they hardcoded a regex for 2010-2099 as "grossly in the future"
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Andy Baio : The Kickstarter Awards, Part 1 - highlighting the most successful, popular, and prolific projects from our first eight months
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Andy Baio : Metafilter community on the tragic death of Brad Graham - I still can't believe he's gone
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Andy Baio : Rex's 30 Best Blogs of 2009 - thoughtful list following some interesting trends
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Andy Baio : Volker Shreiner's Counter, short film from 2004 - found footage from classic films counts down from 266, mostly using door numbers [via]
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Andy Baio : One Frame of Fame - crowdsourced music video, judged by Mechanical Turk and rendered with new frames hourly
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Andy Baio : 15,740 self-proclaimed social media gurus on Twitter - gurus, ninjas, and experts [via]
Simon Willison : Self-Proclaimed Social Media Gurus on Twitter Multiplying Like Rabbits - Self-Proclaimed Social Media Gurus on Twitter Multiplying Like Rabbits. 15,740 of them, including 2,091 social media consultants, 807 social media experts, 445 social media gurus and 68 social media stars. [via]
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Andy Baio : Daniel Raffel's favorite new geek projects of 2009 - an unusually great list [via]
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Andy Baio : Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network - "call it a space cam"
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Andy Baio : Boing Boing's guide to the IGF 2010 finalists - videos and descriptions for all 20
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Andy Baio : Project 880, summary of James Cameron's original Avatar treatment - more backstory, new characters, and more depth
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joshua : Vintage Ad Browser
Andy Baio : Vintage Ad Browser - Philipp Lenssen collected and categorized over 120,000 images from online and offline sources
Simon Willison : Vintage Ad Browser - Vintage Ad Browser. Fantastic. 100,000+ vintage advertisements scanned and organised by date and topic, going all the way back to the 1840s and covering every decade in between. An absolute gold mine.
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Andy Baio : Two Gentlemen of Lebowski - Wherefore the nihilist weeps and cries for 'fair'?
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Andy Baio : The Third & The Seventh - a nicely shot, but otherwise unexciting short film, until you realize it's 100% CGI
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Andy Baio : Roger Ebert on losing the ability to eat, drink, and speak - his journal's been consistently great lately
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Andy Baio : Maciej Ceglowski on six months of Pinboard - by charging a small fee, he's earned enough to work on it full-time [via]
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Andy Baio : 100 Games Cupcakes - here they all are in one image [via]
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Andy Baio : Gumby creator Art Clokey dies - don't miss Gumbasia, his pioneering Claymation film from 1953 that predated Gumby
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Andy Baio : Python script takes a webcam snapshot when code commits fail - and posts your frustrated face to Twitter
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Andy Baio : Russell Davies on RIG's dataviz Christmas ornaments - the more Twitter followers, the larger the snowman's head
Simon Willison : russell davies: datadecs - russell davies: datadecs. Personalised christmas decorations made from data from Twitter, Doppler, last.fm and Flickr. The Twitter snowman came from a 3D printer—the size of the head varies depending on your number of followers. Best of all though is
#11/01/2010 @ 12:11 UTC
Andy Baio : Newspaper Club announces prices for custom-printed papers - UK-only for now, includes delivery; examples: Last.fm's newspaper charts and Rev. Dan Catt's photo paper
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Andy Baio : Zach Gage's Antagonistic Books - from the creator of temporary.cc, a book that burns itself when opened and another that can't be closed [via]
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Andy Baio : What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google - the answers match up nicely [via]
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wearehugh : Google Chrome Extensions: HTML5 Local Storage APIs
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wearehugh : Working Group Decision on ISSUE-76 Microdata/RDFa (DRAFT)
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wearehugh : Pros and Cons about Python 3 » Armin Ronacher
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wearehugh : Hixie's Natural Log: Phone "support"
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wearehugh : jessenoller.com - Unladen Swallow: Python 3’s Best Feature.
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wearehugh : cortesi - Portrait of the Hilbert curve - I fucking love the Hilbert curve.
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wearehugh : Opera Core Concerns - (re-)Introducing <video>
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Anil : Life on the List - In the time it takes you to read this sentence, I'll have gained another follower or two on Twitter. Within an hour, I'll have added more followers than 99% of Twitter users ever have. On a typical day, I'll have averaged 100 new followers every hour. It'
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Anil : Nobody Has A Million Twitter Followers - Last week, I wrote a bit about what it's like to be on Twitter's suggested user list. The response to that post has been really gratifying, and I wanted to share a bit of what I've learned, as well some of the more interesting responses. First, to recap:
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