7/03/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Robert X. Cringely: Social Networking Is Just Another CB Radio - “What killed CB radio was that moment when its annoyance factor exceeded its utility.”
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7/03/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Daylight Saving Time actually raises utility bills - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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Rod Begbie : Swiss-Army-Knife Software Engineer at Bose Corporation, Framingham MA - My group at RhymesWithNose is hiring. I can honestly say that this is the most fun and challenging job I've ever had, so if you think you're hot stuff, or have any questions, let me know. We're working on some pretty damned cool stuff. #
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7/03/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : Cherry Blossoms (Sakura) - forecast: end of the month, drat
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7/03/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Laura Brunow Miner is JPG’s New Editor - Congratulations! The magazine’s in amazing hands. ∞
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7/03/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : Jeremy Smith's blog: Success! IE 6, 7, and 8 Running on Same Machine (Plus 5.5 and 5.01) - this is vital for all web developers. why can't microsoft make this easier? virtual images don't cut it.
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7/03/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
factoryjoe : /dev/null/kevin: What Your Avatar Says About You - "As social networking sites increase in popularity, so do the number of avatars that people use to represent themselves. Y'know, the little picture that appears next to someone's post or message. I've noticed that there are only a fini
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7/03/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : best of craigslist : to the guy doing my wife - best of craigslist : to the guy doing my wife: that is awesome
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7/03/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
Greg Storey : One of the most creative personal sites I've seen in a long, long time. - Golf clap.
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7/03/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
jcgregorio : It has begun - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog - "So it’s a very good guess that we will eventually be told that the second recession of the Bush administration began in December 2007 or January 2008."
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7/03/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
joshua : Hacker News | Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install? - yet another list
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Simon Willison : Windows Live Contacts API - Windows Live Contacts API. I didn’t realise Microsoft already have a contacts API for Live (which presumably covers hotmail as well). [via]
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7/03/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : Urban Horizon has written a very thoughtful piece on Fire Eagle and where it fits into the industry - My particular favourite line is about the "Twitter for Location" description. I really hate that one too. I don't think it explains what we made at all well.
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plasticbag : A Fire Eagle ruby gem + twitter bot from Jesse Newland - Want to update your location with Twitter? Now you can. Jesse did a version of Danger Day for the very first public alpha of Fire Eagle last year. Lovely to see him back with us again!
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plasticbag : The Guardian has this lovely story about a process that might restore old Black and White copies of colour TV programmes - like Doctor Who - Really looks pretty fascinating. Moreover, the picture of Jon Pertwee is wonderful. Explore! Explore!
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plasticbag : The funniest post I've read about Fire Eagle so far - did I say Fire Eagle? I meant Inferno Pigeon... - The thing I'm most proud of, I think, is that the quality of the team really shines through in the thing we made. However well it goes as a project, I think it's a classy thing.
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7/03/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer - Debbie Millman: How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer.
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gleuschk : A timeline (rather, 9 timelines) for the movie Primer - wow, I missed some stuff
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plasticbag : TechCrunch UK covers Fire Eagle pretty positively, only pausing to point out the lack of applications - It's a reasonable point, but it's worth remembering that this is a developer launch aimed at getting people to build applications against the Fire Eagle APIs. We'll be showing off some of these very soon.
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plasticbag : My colleague, Rabble Henshaw-Plath has written a post about the project and the launch - I'm going to give my perspective on the whole thing soon once my brain de-clenches. He got to thank the team before I did, which is a bit frustrating!
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plasticbag : The most detailed coverage I've seen of Fire Eagle is from Venture Beat. I talked to them a month or so before we launched. - If you're interested in Fire Eagle, I think this is the article I've read with the most substance.
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plasticbag : Erica Sadun has put Fire Eagle update functionality into her findme iPhone app (for hacked iPhones) - Our first iPhone location updater! Very exciting! Erica got this up and running in a couple of days (at most) from when she started playing with the API. Very cool.
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plasticbag : Giga Om has a good balance coverage of Fire Eagle complete with some really good-sized screenshots - Samantha Tripodi did the visual layer of design for Fire Eagle and she did an extraordinary job. She and I played for ages with different feels and stories until we found this one. It's gorgeous.
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plasticbag : Fire Eagle invitations are being shared and swapped over at InviteShare - It's a bit weird, but there you go!
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plasticbag : My colleague Skylar Woodward talks about a few launches around the place, including Browser Plus and Fire Eagle - Browser Plus is pretty interesting. At the moment my understanding of it is pretty slight. I need to dig further into that one.
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7/03/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Speaking of awesome web services, I'm a significant fan of the Google Contacts API that they've just launched. - Stops third party sites asking you to give them your logins. Now they can just get formal permission from you to access contact information instead.
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plasticbag : Plazes integration for Fire Eagle with the Presence Router OSX app. Woot! - "Users of the PresenceRouter OS X application to fling your Plazes presence about to Jaiku, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Wamadu, Frazr, Nabaztag" and now (alpha support) Fire Eagle!
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plasticbag : Read / Write Web's coverage of Fire Eagle talks particularly about the privacy controls - This post really made me happy. It's such a big deal for us that we work out how to give control back to the people using the service. Seems like we've got that at least partly right.
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plasticbag : Another little Fire Eagle app - this one is a Dashboard widget for OSX - It just allows you to update your location from a widget, but it was also put together in just a couple of hours which gives you some sense of how hard Fire Eagle is to develop against.
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Cameron Moll : Job opening: U.S. Banknote Designer - Filed under "rad jobs": U.S. Banknote Designer (Apprentice). "The incumbent develops designs in whole or in part; assisting and preparing models of various designs for use in determining approved and adopted designs for the production of United States cur
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Cameron Moll : Facebook "billionaire" with just $150 million in revenue - 23-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, becomes world's youngest self-made billionaire. What in the world is this based on? I'd love to know how one becomes a billionaire with $150 million in total revenue in 2007.
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nelson : Watchmen costumes - Good looking art direction, but all the actors are too young
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jcgregorio : Oils End - Outposts - Op-Extra Columnist - Opinion - - New York Times Blog - "There, a week ago, President Bush touted tax breaks for oil companies that have just posted the largest profits in the history of American business." And from there it starts to get really depressing.
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jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | AppClientTest - now with unit testing goodness
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deusx : OT: Rails is shitty [was top down programming in a bottom up language] - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups - "Rails is 100% magic with 0% design. It sports all the great quality and consistency you've come to expect from PHP, except with loads more magic."
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gleuschk : Leray in Edelbach - shockingly long and interesting article about the mathematical work of Jean Leray in a POW camp in Austria, 1940-45
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Ethan Marcotte : The Fear Factory - Stay the course. ∞
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Ethan Marcotte : abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz - (Via Tacita.) ∞ [via]
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deusx : YouTube - Dunkin' Donuts - Fritalian Commercial - "Funny commercial by Dunkin Donuts. I love coffee, it's great, but for the love of God, why must I need training to understand a menu?"
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7/03/2008 @ 06:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : STEWART LEE - ENGLISH HECKLERS IN NEW ZEALAND - Stewart Lee's essay on only needing, or *wanting*, 7,000 fans. #
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7/03/2008 @ 05:02 GMT
nelson : Full-Text RSS - Convert any truncated RSS feed into a full text feed
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7/03/2008 @ 03:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Home Chemistry: More Light and Chemistry-A Homemade Spectroscope
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7/03/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : Craig Maloney » 5-foot pothole ruining tires in Royal Oak - "Only in Michigan can you have a pothole about the size of a small child, and just as ravenous."
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7/03/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : abcde: Command Line Music CD Ripping for Linux - abcde: Command Line Music CD Ripping for Linux: cool
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7/03/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : #82 Hating Corporations (Stuff White People Like) - #82 Hating Corporations (Stuff White People Like): "White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like."
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7/03/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Introducing the Google Contacts Data API - Introducing the Google Contacts Data API. Brilliant! (and about time)—now there’s no excuse for asking your users for their Gmail username and password so you can import contacts from their address book. Yahoo! and Microsoft need to catch up on this
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