25/09/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
Greg Storey : "Open Up. Sense More." - Wacom tablets are the new Viagra.
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25/09/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : Google workers - Ann Arbor News Extra - MLive.com - Kind of a fluff piece, doesn't tell me much about what's going on at Google A2. It's all "Wow, kooky Californian office space with weird carpet and massage chairs and sunlight! How can you get any work done?"
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25/09/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : Hacking the Atari Flashback 2 Console - Cartridge Port Mod - "here are the basic details to help assist you in hacking/modding your console into a full fledged Atari 2600 system that can use your original cartridges."
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25/09/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : Garlic fries - ArborWiki - "Information smells like garlic fries. Here's where you can get them in town."
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25/09/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Hat Heads vs. Bed Heads - Lovely little article on creative project management by Keith LaFerriere, a colleague and friend of mine. Said article is accompanied by the baddest of bad-ass Kevin Cornell illustrations. ∞
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25/09/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : John Harvard statue gets Spartan’d - This is awesome in its most distilled form. Like, you know, a robot unicorn leaping over six exploding Ferraris. Just like that. ∞
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25/09/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Is TechCrunch Doomed to be Replaced? « Dawnkey Notes - Some well-deserved criticism for TechCrunch. I'd suggest that folks realize that in the end, TechCrunch in just a blog; if you really want to market your product, start with building relationships with your customers, one at a time. Sav
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25/09/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
jcgregorio : The Municipal Art Society of New York - Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York - Something to do in NYC.
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25/09/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Does exercise really make us thinner? - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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25/09/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
deusx : 57 Things We Know Because We Game on Gamerhelp.com - "Who says video games can't teach you anything useful? The Fecal Jesus names 57 bits of wisdom that anyone can pick up simply from playing video games."
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25/09/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
philgyford : Johnaugust.com - I finally got round to reading a few months of John August's weblog -- he's the screenwriter of 'Go' and 'Big Fish' among others -- and it's great stuff. Honest, open and useful.
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25/09/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
philgyford : Johnaugust.com » Quitting, and the age question - "It’s not harder for an older writer to start. It’s just easier to quit." Replace "writer" with pretty much any profession. Harsh truths.
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25/09/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Great Divide Mountain Bike Route - Great Divide Mountain Bike Route: From Canada to Mexico... that's a crazy-assed bike ride!
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25/09/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : SkySectionals - SkySectionals: "SkySectional Charts are the same chart information you find on an FAA/NACO sectional but provided in a much more managable letter-sized 'panels'."
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25/09/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Female "ninjas" rob gas station - Wanna-be amateurs. ∞
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25/09/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
philgyford : Ops on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Oops indeed. What kind of vehicle did that sort of damage? Somewhere near the Barbican apparently, Silk Street or Moor Lane?
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philgyford : "An Ilustrated Life" Preview - Lovely collection of pages from "artists, illustrators and designers'" sketchbooks. Awful slidy Flash interface though. Illustrators are worse than estate agents in their use of appalling interface techniques. (via Ted Mills)
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25/09/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
philgyford : Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - I like timelines. One day I'll draw a great big one on a very long wall. (via Kottke)
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25/09/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
Greg Storey : "I love Halo 3 but I hate Halo 3 fanboys, Master Chief dies in the end." - Absolutely brilliant!
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25/09/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com MP3 Downloads - Amazon's un-DRMed 256kbps MP3 store launches. It's got the full EMI and indie catalogues that iTunes has DRM-free, plus the Universal catalogue. There's an optional downloader for Windows and Mac that allows you to queue up entire albums and import them #
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25/09/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Bug in Excel 2007 - microsoft.public.excel | Google Groups - Wow -- Calculations in Excel 2007 that come to 65,535 get displayed as 100,000. "Oops" [via] #
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25/09/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
factoryjoe : The Future of Share This | alexking.org - Alex King discusses the future of his Share This plugin. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: share this, alex king
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25/09/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : On ringtones and copyrights - A link for all the people who keep ignorantly complaining about ringtones in iTunes. If you're going to complain, people, do it knowledgeably! [via John] [via]
Rod Begbie : Macworld: On ringtones and copyrights - Good summary of what Apple would be up against even if they *wanted* to let you turn your MP3s into ringtones for free. [via] #
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25/09/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : CSS Grid Positioning Module Level 3 - “This module describes integration of grid-based layout (similar to the grids traditionally used in books and newspapers) with CSS sizing and positioning.” Currently in draft; uses my Yeeaahh! design as an example.
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25/09/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Mister President’s Flowchart Translated into German - German speakers: is it funnier than in English?
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25/09/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
43folders : Getting things done with mutt - "Mutt is extremely powerful, but lacks a little when attempting to implement GTD and the 'Inbox Zero' concept." Looks like a cool patch.
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25/09/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : DRM-free MP3 downloads from Amazon - DRM-free MP3 downloads from Amazon. The good: they have what looks like the entire Universal and EMI catalogues in DRM-free 256bit MP3s. The bad: you need a US billing address! So close...
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25/09/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Linkorama : Open Source Unlocks IT? - Open source is truly the best way to unlock the value of information technology, Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, said at the annual Gartner Open Source Summit here Sept. 20.
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25/09/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Linkorama : 'Digital Natives' are Driving Web 2.0 - "They bring with them a set of expectations of how they will interact and the tools they'll use to interact, and they can be woefully disappointed walking into organizations that don't have some of the Web 2.0 tools that they're used to using for bui
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25/09/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Off-the-Record Messaging secure IM - (via cypherpunk.capital-gains) [via]
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25/09/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : eavesdropping on a fiber optic cable - (via schneier) [via]
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25/09/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
joshua : tufte-style graphs in matplotlib
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25/09/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Federal Agent Indicted for Cyber-Stalking - Filed away for ammunition the next time someone excuses gov't massive-database-building with the platitude "If you haven't done anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about." [via] #
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25/09/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Zimki is to shut down - Zimki is to shut down. I guess they were just too revolutionary for Canon Europe, the corporate mothership, to understand.
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adamrg : Adrian Pasdar's Emmy Night Footage - Includes a really awesome dance scene with my biggest TV crush -- Kristen Bell
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25/09/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
joshua : Computational photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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25/09/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
gleuschk : It's Sea Otter Awareness Week! - Cute Otters - be aware of an otter near you!
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25/09/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : OpenSAM Simple Ajax Mashup Techniques - OpenSAM Simple Ajax Mashup Techniques: "OpenSAM (Open Simple Application Mashups) is a set of recommendations and techniques for integrating SaaS applications into incredibly powerful and flexible solutions."
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25/09/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : IT Conversations: Edward Iacobucci - IT Conversations: Edward Iacobucci: "Joining Jon Udell on this episode of Interviews with Innovators is Edward Iacobucci, co-founder of DayJet." Not a bad podcast if you're a flying geek like me.
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25/09/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The World In Only 7 Pictures - The World In Only 7 Pictures: heh
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25/09/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Zimbra users vexed by Yahoo deal - Zimbra users vexed by Yahoo deal: I guess this shouldn't come as much of a surprise...
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25/09/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
Greg Storey : Lights out San Francisco. - Great idea. Should become public policy.
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25/09/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Greg Storey : The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City. - Looks interesting.
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25/09/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : InfoCamp Seattle 2007 - American Society for Information Science and Technology - Pacific Northwest Chapter - InfoCamp Seattle 2007 - a BarCamp conference for information architecture, libraries, user experience design, interaction design, usability, user-centered design, and information science research Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details |
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25/09/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : France Telecom Supports OpenID! - France Telecom Supports OpenID!. France Telecom is the parent company of Orange. Apparently all 40 million France Telecom subscribers now have an OpenID.
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25/09/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : why I am not going on the academic job market - why I am not going on the academic job market: "I feel the need to explain why I'm not going on the job market in a public way..."
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25/09/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Richard Dawkins lays the cranial smack down. - ∞
deusx : Richard Dawkins responds to Jerry Falwell's students • videosift.com
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25/09/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Generic gravatar cache - Currently looking into this to speed up the Journal pages; EE's own Gravatar plugin just isn't working out. ∞
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25/09/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : lxml.cssselect - lxml.cssselect. lxml includes an implementation of CSS 3 selectors, which compiles them to XPath expressions. Should be a useful tool for parsing Microformats from Python. [via]
jcgregorio : lxml.cssselect - Compiles CSS Selector notation down into xpaths.
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25/09/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : AppleInsider | Apple says iPhone unlocking may cause permanent damage - why am i having flashbacks from "brazil"?
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25/09/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Greg Storey : SEED Conference. - It's going to be one day of amazingness.
factoryjoe : Seed Conference | Chicago | 29 October 2007 - A One-Day Conference on Design, Entrepreneurship & Inspiration, by 37signals, Segura Inc. & Coudal Partners Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: seed, conference, 37signals, coudal partners, jason fried
Khoi Vinh : Beautiful Typography for SEED Conference Site - Exquisite handiwork from Coudal.
jonhicks : Seed Conference | Chicago | 6 June 2008 - A truly inspirational site, showing how Times New Roman can look great in the hands of someone that knows what they're doing
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25/09/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Greg Storey : CSS Grid Positioning Module Level 3. - Crazy.
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