20/07/2010 @ 22:00 UTC
Andy Baio : 4chan trying to take down Gawker - in response to their critical Jessi Slaughter posts and a post yesterday taunting them
#20/07/2010 @ 21:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Top Secret America - Washington Post's two-year investigation into federal use of private contractors after 9/11
#20/07/2010 @ 21:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Xbox 360 developer recounts the history of their achievements system - how it was developed and how they work [via]
Rod Begbie : Xbox Engineering Blog: Achievements Unlocked - Interesting piece on the creation of the Xbox 360 achievements system. #
#20/07/2010 @ 20:00 UTC
cobra libre : Paul Ford: Editors Ship #
philgyford : Real Editors Ship (Ftrain.com) - Good bit about the value of editors for online stuff. In my (sporadic) experience, old media are much, much more rigorous and able to Make (predictable, repetitive) Things Work than new media.
#20/07/2010 @ 20:00 UTC
Simon Willison : [UPDATE] Spatial Search in Apache Lucene and Solr - [UPDATE] Spatial Search in Apache Lucene and Solr. Spacial search is finally coming (back) to Solr—trunk now supports sorting and boosting by distance.
#20/07/2010 @ 20:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Easier custom Model Manager Chaining - Easier custom Model Manager Chaining. A neat solution to the problem of wanting to write a custom QuerySet method (.published() for example) which is also available on that model’s objects manager, without having to write much boilerplate.
#20/07/2010 @ 20:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Apple donates MacPaint/QuickDraw source to Computer History Museum - see Folklore.org's evolution of MacPaint and the long, great oral history
#20/07/2010 @ 20:00 UTC
Andy Baio : GQ's rare interview with Bill Murray - Sofia Coppola tells the story of trying to track him down for Lost in Translation
#20/07/2010 @ 19:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Three new features for reddit gold - Three new features for reddit gold. Reddit’s experiments with a subscriber program are interesting to watch. 9,000 people signed up as subscribers without there being any benefit at all, and they’re now being rewarded with the ability to opt out of
#20/07/2010 @ 18:00 UTC
Douglas Bowman : My Measures & Dimensions - I just discovered an iPhone app named My Measures & Dimensions that lets you take any photo and quickly draw dimensions on top of objects or spaces in the photo. Typically, I use a piece of scrap paper for this, and end up forgetting to bring it with
#20/07/2010 @ 17:00 UTC
Eric Meyer : Stubbornella will fix all your CSS problems - Seriously, don't mess with her. She will tear down your style until there's nothing left to take away. And then find more to take away.
#20/07/2010 @ 17:00 UTC
kaninka.net : Ég var að lesa: Shutting Themselves In - via Instapaper - Ég var að lesa: Shutting Themselves In - Instapaper: One morning when he was 15, Takeshi shut the door to his bedroom, and for the next four years he did not come out. He didn’t go to school. He didn’t have a job. He didn’t have friends. Month a [via]
#20/07/2010 @ 17:00 UTC
kaninka.net : Ég var að lesa: One teen boy, two teen girls, and homicide - St. Petersburg Times - via Instapaper - Ég var að lesa: One teen boy, two teen girls, and homicide - St. Petersburg Times - Instapaper [via]
#20/07/2010 @ 03:00 UTC
nelson : Dwarf Fortress university - Someone on Reddit is teaching people to play the infamously impenetrable but fascinating game
#20/07/2010 @ 01:00 UTC
nelson : Inception theory - Spoilers. Goes beyond "it's all a dream, duh!" to make connections to the director
#20/07/2010 @ 01:00 UTC
cobra libre : The Savage Detectives Machete - Reading T.S.D. as a roman à clef. [via] #
#20/07/2010 @ 00:00 UTC
kaninka.net : "After years of being bullied at school and having no friends, Y.S., who asked to be identified by..." - “After years of being bullied at school and having no friends, Y.S., who asked to be identified by his initials, retreated to his room at age 14, and proceeded to watch TV, surf the Internet and build model cars - for 13 years. When he finally left his [via]
#20/07/2010 @ 00:00 UTC
Rod Begbie : Two rare tapirs born in Sweden in one week - Hooray for Sweden! [via] #
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