26/03/2012 @ 20:00 UTC
nelson : Woodcut Maps - Maps turned into inlay wood veneer
joshua : Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you. - more than a little cool
simplebits : Woodcut Maps - Handmade wooden maps made from your crop of Google Maps. (via @shiflett)
#19/03/2012 @ 19:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Free Indie Games - new blog of interesting games by VVVVVV's Terry Cavanagh
joshua : freeindiegames
nelson : FreeIndieGam.es - Amazing set of screenshots for indie games
#3/02/2012 @ 11:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Avería, the average font - preview them all [via]
nelson : Avería, the average font - Synthetic font, actually quite beautiful
Rod Begbie : Avería – The Average Font - Font designed by averaging out the letterforms of a few hundred fonts. Surprisingly readable. #
#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 #
#19/08/2011 @ 02:00 UTC
simplebits : Golden Grid System - A folding grid for responsive design.
Andy Baio : Golden Grid System - from Joni Korpi, who also offers this nice trick for subtly hiding Typekit font replacement
philgyford : Golden Grid System - This looks very nice. Making a stretchable grid for web pages, that changes the number of columns depending on the page width. I want to play with this. (via Waxy)
#12/07/2011 @ 08:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Anil Dash on the triumph of the animated GIF - the Internet's native art form
nelson : Homage to animated GIFs - Appreciation of a simple format
Anil : Animated GIFs Triumphant - "If you can make it here...", Jamie Beck, 2011 It's been 84 years since talkies began their march towards dominance over silent film. But while 1.3 billion people in the U.S. bought a ticket for a motion picture with sound last year, I'd estimate that 3.
#13/06/2011 @ 22:00 UTC
philgyford : Playable Archaeology: An Interview with the Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Telehack sounds amazing. I always wanted to play a Spectrum game (I forget the name) that simulated hacking, never mind something this huge.
nelson : Telehack interview - Andy gets an interview with the anonymous creator of the retro Internet site
Andy Baio : Playable Archaeology: An Interview with the Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Telehack is the most interesting game I've played in the last year... a game that most users won't realize is a game at all. It's a tour de force hack — an interactive pastiche of 1980s computer history, tying together public archives of Usenet new
cobra libre : Andy Baio interviews the creator of Telehack [via] #
#16/05/2011 @ 17:00 UTC
nelson : Nanolaw with Daughter - Lovely short short about the future of IP law
Andy Baio : Paul Ford's "Nanolaw" - projecting a near-future where lawsuit bots are commonplace
cobra libre : Paul Ford: Nanolaw with Daughter #
#9/05/2011 @ 14:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Cool but Obscure Unix Tools - great list; I've used 11 of these and they changed the way I work [via]
joshua : Cool, but obscure unix tools :: KKovacs
Jeremy Zawodny : Cool, but obscure unix tools :: KKovacs - Cool, but obscure unix tools :: KKovacs: not all are obscure, but they are cool
#20/04/2011 @ 19:00 UTC
nelson : iPhone Tracker - iPhone records where you've been. Being pitched as a security problem, but I think it's kinda cool
joshua : petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub
Andy Baio : iPhone Tracker - your minute-by-minute movements are recorded and synced to your PC, but it makes pretty charts!
#8/04/2011 @ 21:00 UTC
joshua : Access Main Computer File
Andy Baio : Access Main Computer File - a Tumblr of fake GUIs in film
cobra libre : Access Main Computer File - "A visual study of computer GUI in cinema." [via] #
nelson : Access Main Computer File - Images from movie computer interfaces
#29/03/2011 @ 22:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Anil Dash consults an expert on the actual dangers of radiation exposure - "risk of harm is a function of both dose and dose rate"
cobra libre : Anil Dash: TMI: Fear, Fukushima and Facts #
Anil : TMI: Fear, Fukushima and Facts - Thirty-two years ago today, I noticed that things were odd at our pre-school. The teachers had drawn the blinds closed in a few rooms and at least one of the other kids had had his mom pick him up in a big wood-sided station wagon before the day was actua
#22/03/2011 @ 21:00 UTC
nelson : PhantomJS - A headless WebKit for running Javascript
Andy Baio : PhantomJS - headless Webkit lets you script a browser without display [via]
joshua : PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API - headless webkit renderer!
#28/02/2011 @ 23:00 UTC
cobra libre : placekitten - A simple service that lets you mock up web designs with placeholder images of kittens. #
Rod Begbie : {placekitten} - Better placeholders through kittens. [via] #
Andy Baio : placekitten - your source for placeholder images of kittens
#28/02/2011 @ 02:00 UTC
nelson : D3 - Mike Bostock of Protovis and Polymaps fame has a new Javascript library. It's sort of like jQuery, but good at SVG too
Andy Baio : d3.js, Javascript library for manipulating data-driven documents - some of the examples are jaw-dropping
joshua : d3.js - D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.
philgyford : d3.js, Javascript library for manipulating data-driven documents - Looks like a very flexible javascript thing for turning data into different kinds of diagram, chart, map, etc. (via Waxy)
#25/02/2011 @ 02:00 UTC
joshua : Pattern | CLiPS - web mining module
Andy Baio : Pattern, a Python module for mining web data - mining popular services, language parsing, and dataviz in one handy bundle [via]
philgyford : Pattern, a Python module for mining web data - Lovely looking module for grabbing data from a variety of web sources, analysing it, and displaying results in different ways. (via Waxy)
#4/02/2011 @ 19:00 UTC
nelson : DataWrangler - Research tool for turning free text data into something tabular for analysis
joshua : Data Wrangler
Andy Baio : Data Wrangler - web-based tool for cleaning up messy data, similar to Google Refine
#25/01/2011 @ 08:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Cathode, vintage terminal emulator for OS X - looks great in full screen
Rod Begbie : Cathode - OS X terminal application that emulates old & busted phosphor displays. Pointless and gorgeous. #
Eric Meyer : Secret Geometry: Cathode - I totally want this.
#23/12/2010 @ 02:00 UTC
Linkorama : The Blast Shack
Andy Baio : Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks - long, brilliant
philgyford : The Blast Shack - Bruce Sterling on WikiLeaks, Cablegate and Julian Assange. Worth a read, especially if you can do so with Sterling's weary drawl as your interior voice.
nelson : The Blast Shack - Absolute must-read on WikiLeaks, the cypherpunks history
Eric Meyer : The Blast Shack - "Here it is; a planetary hack."
#29/11/2010 @ 15:00 UTC
nelson : Google TCP tweaks - Evidence that Google may be running outside TCP spec to make connections faster
Simon Willison : Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? - Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?. Fascinating optimisation tricks by some of the big websites, which violate the RFC governing the TCP slow-start algorithm in order to perform better in the common case.
bmilleare : Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? - Interesting hack by Google and MS on the tcp slow-start algorithm to speed up http responses.
#23/11/2010 @ 00:00 UTC
Rod Begbie : Mashup Breakdown - Girl Talk - All Day - Visualization of the samples on the new Girl Talk album. Amazing! [via] #
philgyford : Mashup Breakdown - Girl Talk - All Day - This is a wonderful visualisation, as I can never pick apart the samples of mashups, even if I recognise them. More please. (via Cal)
Andy Baio : Mashup Breakdown - a better Girl Talk visualizer with three sources of sample metadata
#9/11/2010 @ 00:01 UTC
nelson : Facebook ephemera - Field notes about teenagers who use Facebook in an unusual way, not allowing persistent offline updates
Andy Baio : danah boyd on teens' unorthodox use of Facebook - deactivating accounts or deleting every posting regularly, persistence isn't vital for participation
Eric Meyer : Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook - As usual, those coming up devise sensible working strategies that would never have occurred and may seem alien to their elders.
#1/11/2010 @ 06:00 UTC
deusx : Up, not North - Automatypewriter - "The Automatypewriter is a typewriter that can type by itself: It can also detect what’s being typed on it. It can be used to send text to and/or receive text from a computer via USB. It was designed as a platform for playing interactive fiction g
Andy Baio : Automatypewriter - Arduino typewriter that plays interactive fiction games [via]
Rod Begbie : Automatypewriter - Old school electric typewriter, rejiggered to automatically type and read your typed input, so you can play Zork. #
#30/10/2010 @ 01:00 UTC
nelson : MapCrunch - Nice randomized Google Street View images
Andy Baio : MapCrunch - teleport to a random Street View location
philgyford : MapCrunch - Random Google Street View - Really simple idea, everyone's linking to it, and it's still very lovely. Instant momentary holiday.
#25/10/2010 @ 09:00 UTC
Rod Begbie : Firesheep - This is A Big Deal. Makes stealing session cookies from other computers on your local network as easy as clicking a button. Will be interesting to see how big sites respond. Are we finally going to see HTTPS deployed on all pages? [via] #
Simon Willison : Firesheep - Firesheep. Oh wow. A Firefox extension that makes sniffing for insecured (non-HTTPS) cookie requests on your current WiFi network and logging in as that person a case of clicking a couple of buttons. Always possible of course, but it’s never been made [via]
cobra libre : firesheep - A proof-of-concept tool that makes HTTP session hijacking over a local network quite easy. E.g., you can use this to steal another person's Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, or Flickr account. I used it to discover that I'm the only one at the office not worki #
Andy Baio : Firesheep, simple session hijacking on public networks for Firefox - the ethics of making it easy for non-techies to spoof Twitter/Facebook/etc accounts is being hotly debated
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