9/12/2011 @ 01:00 UTC
nelson : My Occupy LA Arrest - First person account of LAPD acting like thugs
Andy Baio : Family Guy writer's first-person account of his Occupy LA arrest - sickening treatment at the hands of the LAPD; there's absolutely no excuse for this
#7/12/2011 @ 00:00 UTC
nelson : Don't be a free user - Maciej's hysterical essay on the value of paying for web services
Andy Baio : Maciej Ceglowski on the dangers of free web services - if you love a service, demand that they find a business model or clone them yourself
#29/11/2011 @ 08:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Jamie Zawinski on Mike Arrington and the myths of startup success - "When a VC tells you what's good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers"
nelson : jwz vs arrington - Legendary hacker calls bullshit on a VC blogger
#28/11/2011 @ 21:00 UTC
nelson : Python Ecosystem - Excellent introduction to libraries and environments
Jeremy Zawodny : Python Ecosystem - An Introduction » mirnazim.org - Python Ecosystem - An Introduction » mirnazim.org: a fantastic introduction to getting started with python stuff. I wish most languages (hello Ruby and JavaScript/node.js) had a document like this
#19/11/2011 @ 18:00 UTC
nelson : Web Symbols typeface - Wingdings for the web
joshua : Web Symbols typeface
#15/11/2011 @ 20:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Google adds verbatim search mode - I like to think I had something to do with this
nelson : Verbatim search - Seems hidden away, but at least it's there
#14/11/2011 @ 23:00 UTC
nelson : Twitter 11:11 11/11/11 - Clever visualization
Andy Baio : Visualization of 11/11/11 11:11 activity on Twitter - love the second wave isolated to countries that use 12-hour time
#9/11/2011 @ 02:00 UTC
Andy Baio : The Social Graph Is Neither - "we have tasted of the blogroll and the lolcat and found that they were good"
nelson : Maciej on social graph - Ruminations on the complexity of human relationships
cobra libre : Maciej Ceglowski: The Social Graph is Neither - "We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage -- we call that person a sociopath. And both Google and Facebook have #
#8/11/2011 @ 09:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Meanwhile released for iPhone/iPad - Jason Shiga's mind-expanding puzzle comic ported to iOS by interactive fiction legend Andrew Plotkin
Rod Begbie : Meanwhile for iOS - Jason Shiga's outstanding "interactive" time-warping comic, reimagined as an iPad app. Highly recommended. [via] #
#6/11/2011 @ 18:00 UTC
nelson : 86th Birthday Rage - Totally sweet comic from an older generation
Andy Baio : 86th Birthday Rage - [via]
#3/11/2011 @ 20:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Chris Wetherell on dreams, discernment, and Google Reader - thoughts from its founder; related: Mihai's history of social features in Reader
nelson : cw on Google Reader - Another of Reader's initial creators weighs in
#3/11/2011 @ 18:00 UTC
nelson : Skinemax - nostalgic video mashup of 80s, 90s stuff
Andy Baio : Skinemax - "Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes"
#22/10/2011 @ 01:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Mourning the death of Google Reader's social features - and again, only a week's notice to save everything? really?
nelson : Google Reader social - I didn't know anyone used Reader this way.
#20/10/2011 @ 06:00 UTC
nelson : AD&D Coloring Book - so much awesome
cobra libre : The Official AD&D Coloring Album [via] #
#11/10/2011 @ 22:00 UTC
nelson : PMOG / Nethernet post-mortem - Long, sad story of a failed startup by one of the Internet's most promising people
Andy Baio : Justin Hall's GameLayers postmortem - emotional, thoughtful look at the failure of PMOG and The Nethernet, his browser-based MMO
#10/10/2011 @ 21:00 UTC
nelson : Qu8k rocket - Amateur launched a rocket to 120,000' at Burning Man
Jeremy Zawodny : Qu8k - Qu8k: wow, 121,000 feet up with a home built rocket!
#9/10/2011 @ 10:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Plink, a multiplayer audio experiment built with Node and Web Audio - see also: ToneCraft, by the same creator
nelson : Plink - Interactive multiplayer music toy / Chrome demo
#6/10/2011 @ 23:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Olson timezone database shut down over IP case - the volunteer-run open-source project is the definitive source for global tz info
nelson : Timezone DB debacle - Bogus copyright claim screws an important database
#6/10/2011 @ 08:00 UTC
Rod Begbie : Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 - The best obituary of Steve Jobs I've read this evening, by Steven Levy. [via] #
Andy Baio : Steven Levy's Wired obituary for Steve Jobs - the best I've read
#4/10/2011 @ 21:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Leigh Alexander on the rapture of Ian Bogost's Cow Clicker - a biting satire of Facebook games became frustratingly popular for its creator
nelson : Cow Clicker denouement - melancholy story of Bogost's satire game
#30/09/2011 @ 22:00 UTC
nelson : Waxy's PDX geek guide - Great suggestions for food, geek sights, etc in Portland
Andy Baio : Geek's Guide to Portland 2011 - I have a bunch of friends coming into town for ROFLCon Summit on Saturday, and rather than email them my suggestions of stuff to do in Portland, I thought I'd make it public. This is my guide to PDX for people like me: people who geek out about good food
#27/09/2011 @ 19:00 UTC
nelson : Glitch is live! - Some of the original Flickr team made an online game
Andy Baio : Glitch opens to the public - adorable MMO from the creators of Flickr, Game Neverending, and Katamari Damacy
#25/09/2011 @ 04:00 UTC
nelson : Project T-B.A.C - High school kid's balloon photography project
joshua : Project T-B.A.C - Home
#24/09/2011 @ 12:00 UTC
Andy Baio : QR Time - for additional obfuscation, when someone asks for the time, show them this
nelson : QRTime - A clock for robots.
#23/09/2011 @ 09:00 UTC
joshua : Bootstrap, from Twitter
Andy Baio : Bootstrap 2 released - here's the announcement
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