33 month ago
Rod Begbie : Linotype: The Film - Nerdgasm! I had a fab discussion with a friend last week about the amazingness (and sheer impossibility) of the Linotype machine, so am thrilled that there's a documentary being made about it. #
#33 month ago
Rod Begbie : Icons of the Web - Poster of favicon.ico files scaled according to their prevalence on the web. [via] #
Andy Baio : Icons of the Web - map of the top million websites' favicons, sized by popularity
#34 month ago
Rod Begbie : karthick18's inception - Programatic representation of the underwhelming movie, Inception. "Running the program would unravel the entire sequence in the movie. Reading the code would explain the movie Programmatically." [via] #
#35 month ago
Rod Begbie : Commit Message Generator - For those times when you don't know what to put in your commit message. "oops, forgot to add the file" [via] #
#37 month ago
Rod Begbie : nerdnite – San Francisco - Fun looking night of presentations and drinking. "Come welcome Nerd Nite SF and see why dead fish in stinky jars matter, how scientists are using your lipoproteins to create medicine nano-taxis, and how World of Warcraft gold can be exchanged for real se [via] #
#38 month ago
Simon Willison : A Turing Machine - A Turing Machine. Someone finally built a real turing machine—and it’s beautiful. All calculations are carried out on a tape, which has 1s and 0s written on it by a robotic dry-erase marker. Hypnotic.
Rod Begbie : A Turing Machine - I love, love, LOVE this. Someone has built a real-world turing machine which loads programs from an SD card, and uses a dry-erase pen to write on 35mm film leader. Gorgeous. [via] #
#39 month ago
Simon Willison : Unit Testing Achievements - Unit Testing Achievements. A plugin for Python’s nose test runner that adds achievements—“Night Shift: Make a failing suite pass between 12am and 5am.�
Rod Begbie : Nose Achievements - Fabulous! Xbox-style achievements for your Python unit tests. "Heisenbug: Make a passing suite fail without changing anything." [via] #
Andy Baio : Unit Testing Achievements - I'm still waiting for a ticket tracker with game mechanics [via]
#44 month ago
Rod Begbie : unix-jun72 - The original source for Unix 1st Edition, scanned from a printout, ready to run in a PDP-11 emulator. This fills me with geeklove. [via] #
#48 month ago
Rod Begbie : Flip Flop Fly Ball - "A love of baseball plus a love of infographics equals Flip Flop Fly Ball." Lots of great stuff, the comparison of ballpark ticket prices being my favourite. [via] #
nelson : Flip Flop Fly Ball - Great collection of sports infographics
Andy Baio : Flip Flop Fly Ball, Craig Robinson's baseball infoviz - Ballpark Orientation, Major League Fields, Ball Size Comparison and the Wu-Tang vs. E Street Band [via]
#48 month ago
deusx : BREADBOX64 :: v a n . d e n . b r a n d e :: - "BREADBOX64 is a twitter client for the C64/128 which allows you to tweet from a real C64 and show your friends timeline. It uses Contiki, a very nice embedded OS, and the MMC Replay cartridge with the RR-Net add on for the physical connection to the
Andy Baio : BREADBOX64 - a Twitter client for the Commodore 64/128 [via]
#49 month ago
Anil : EXCLUSIVE UNBOXING FOOTAGE - I have to admit, I was a little bit gobsmacked when I saw that our little nerd world is becoming so mainstream that Jimmy Fallon had a gadget blogger featured on his show the other night — and it wasn't even for an iPhone launch! Now, I believe Mr.
#51 month ago
Anil : EXCLUSIVE UNBOXING FOOTAGE - I have to admit, I was a little bit gobsmacked when I saw that our little nerd world is becoming so mainstream that Jimmy Fallon had a gadget blogger featured on his show the other night — and it wasn't even for an iPhone launch! Now, I believe Mr.
#51 month ago
Anil : EXCLUSIVE UNBOXING FOOTAGE - I have to admit, I was a little bit gobsmacked when I saw that our little nerd world is becoming so mainstream that Jimmy Fallon had a gadget blogger featured on his show the other night — and it wasn't even for an iPhone launch! Now, I believe Mr.
#53 month ago
Rod Begbie : jQuery SWFObject Plugin - Quite handy in its own right, but make sure and hit play to hear the "JQuery SWFObject Plugin" theme song. [via] #
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56 month ago
wearehugh : Stay on Target: Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs
Eric Meyer : Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs - These new-fangled operating systems just take all the wonder out of programming.
Rod Begbie : Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs - What happens when a Tron lightbike exits the grid, and heads into the lands of unprotected memory. [via] #
#60 month ago
Rod Begbie : Most complex crop circle ever discovered in British fields - Telegraph - This should be the calling card for xkcd geohashing meetups. [via] #
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63 month ago
Rod Begbie : COBOL ON COGS - COBOL ON COGS IS AN OPEN-SOURCE WEB FRAMEWORK THAT AIMS AT MAKING LEGACY INTEGRATION AS EASY, FUN AND LUCRATIVE AS FIXING YEAR 2000 BUGS. [via] #
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63 month ago
deusx : Create RSS feeds from system log files | Mac Geekery - "With the advent of RSS readers that can use so-called “local feeds� for various reasons, it was inevitable that some code monkey would convert his 250K system.log file to RSS."
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63 month ago
wearehugh : SparkFun Electronics: Portable Rotary Phone - Red
Jeremy Zawodny : Portable Rotary Phone - Portable Rotary Phone: just add sim card and go... heh!
Rod Begbie : Port-O-Rotary - Your very own red rotary phone, retrofitted with cellular access, a battery and a SIM card slot. Just the thing for answering at 3am when you're on the go. [via] #
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64 month ago
Andy Baio : iPhone stopwatch hits 1,000 hours - 41.666 days later... [via]
Rod Begbie : iPhone Stopwatch hits 1,000 hours - What happens when the iPhone stopwatch runs for 41 days and 16 hours. [via] #
#64 month ago
Rod Begbie : Word Aligned - Excellent geekyblog recommended to me by a co-worker. Interesting articles, which delve into algorithms and some of the guts of Python I never consider. [via] #
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67 month ago
Rod Begbie : Amazon Kindle Real-Life Review (Verdict: Lightweight, Long Lasting and Easy to Grip... In Bed) - Best review I've seen of the Kindle so far. I'd be tempted to get one, but for the much-noted DRM restrictions. If I'm unable to "lend" or "borrow" e-books I've purchased, like I currently can with dead-tree, then it's of no interest to me. #
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67 month ago
Rod Begbie : Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! | Technology | The Guardian - Stephen Fry reviews the iPhone for The Grauniad. "In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the joy. The jouissance as Roland Barthes liked to sa #
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68 month ago
Rod Begbie : ThinkGeek :: Ambient Forecasting Umbrella - I've been fancying getting a "gust buster" umbrella for a while. Getting one with a "Hey! You should bring me along today!" alerting handle sounds even better. #
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73 month ago
Rod Begbie : meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - I must confess that I have similarly designed heuristics and strategies for the T, as well as lane positioning on the Mass Pike, but I've never been geeky enough to write them down. [via] #
philgyford : Meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - Meg Pickard on the hierarchy of positions in a Hammersmith & City Line carriage. It annoys me that I already know this stuff. I don't want to.
plasticbag : Meg Pickard on the natural heirarchy of seats on the tube... - I don't agree with some of what she says - the idea of being trapped by the end door with the window open in a train would appall me. Hard to escape. Otherwise though, desperately and depressingly insightful.
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