7/04/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
gleuschk : University Hill Transportation Study - see Final Recommendations: they'd create a new public square, re-configure Marshall Street, build a light-rail line (!), put in roundabouts, bus lanes, and bike lanes, and de-one-way-ify all the one-way streets. Wow.
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7/04/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
gleuschk : Users of Covers and Cozies, Ready-Made Souls in Platic Bags, Negligible Generalities | MetaFilter - Vladimir Nabokov discusses Lolita with Lionel Trilling on YouTube
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7/04/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Crooked Timber » » Efficient markets (addendum) - Putting a stake in the heart of the free market fairy.
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7/04/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
gleuschk : Price of a bottle of beer in Zimbabwe - Worldometers - holy cow, it goes up $10 between the shelf and the cash register
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7/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
dbow : MacBook Pro Specs on Wikipedia - Helpful chart with all specs of recent MBPs
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7/04/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Pitchfork.tv goes live - still beta and an awkward UI, but some great exclusive video including the full-length Pixies reunion documentary [via]
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7/04/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : NPR: Nina Simone’s 1968 Tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr - Three days after King was assassinated, Nina Simone and her band performed “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” a beautiful tribute written by their bass player Gene Taylor.
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7/04/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
jcgregorio : IS-STRICTLY-EQUIVALENT-TO-A - was inheritance a bad idea?
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7/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Imageshack launches free BitTorrent downloading service - for people who can't run BT or limited by their ISP, this sounds great
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7/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turkers reconstruct a $100 bill using custom drawing tools for 1 cent per drawing [via]
nelson : 10,000 cents - Mechanical Turk art project to recreate a $100 bill
Rod Begbie : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill. [via] #
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7/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
deusx : 8bitrocket.com: Am I a MID-CORE gamer? - "If you have a great action, sports, puzzle, RPG, simulation, or other type of game that costs about $20-$30 and can be played in one hour sessions, I’m your target market."
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7/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Crooks and Liars » McCain voted against MLK Day at almost 50 years of age! - McCain voted against MLK Day at almost 50 years of age!
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7/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Tet Happened, and No One Cared - New York Times - Mr. McCain’s doomed promise of military “victory” in Iraq is akin to Wile E. Coyote’s perpetual pursuit of the Road Runner, with much higher carnage. This isn’t patriotism.
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jcgregorio : McClatchy Washington Bureau | 03/31/2008 | Iranian who brokered Iraqi peace is on U.S. terrorist watch list - Iranian who brokered Iraqi peace is on U.S. terrorist watch list
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jcgregorio : CV08amaA4small.pdf (application/pdf Object) - CV08 - The suburban eating robot. Brilliant statement on suburban decay.
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7/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
nelson : Trader hand signals - Nice illustrated guide to floor trader hand signals
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7/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
nelson : gvn: svn wrapper - Google's wrapper for Subversion. Supports reviews before commit.
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7/04/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Nick Bradbury: Throwing Away Your Code - "When you see software which shows great attention to detail, keep in mind that some poor sleep-deprived geek spent weeks refining those details, even though they'd rather be playing Rock Band."
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7/04/2008 @ 08:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : The True Price of SMS Messages - (via anarchaia) [via]
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7/04/2008 @ 07:01 GMT
Greg Storey : Getting the Golden Gate Strait. - Wow, I'm gonna have to have this book.
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7/04/2008 @ 06:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Matias Half Keyboard & 508 Keyboard - Matias Half Keyboard & 508 Keyboard: maybe I need one of these...
deusx : Matias Half Keyboard & 508 Keyboard - "The revolutionary Half Keyboard and 508 Keyboard allow you type with just one hand, using your existing skills."
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7/04/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Revisionist XHistory
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7/04/2008 @ 04:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Bringing SVG and MathML to the mountain^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H web
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7/04/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
plasticbag : I talked on Radio 4 a while back about corporate blogging and the audio of it is up on igadgetlife.com - It's a decent piece that I in most part agree with. I'm a little disappointed (as ever I suppose) by the need to package up complex issues in a couple of minutes. My position is ... simplified ... let's say.
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7/04/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Chris Andersen: Of Fly Eyes and Newspaper Revenues - “If you’d ask me to describe the state of the newspaper industry based on the scary coverage about it alone, I would have guessed that it had fallen by half and that we were back to 1970s levels. Instead, it’s a US$45 billion busines
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7/04/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Build a quad-core, 8-gig server for $900 - Build a quad-core, 8-gig server for $900: drool...
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