12/04/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
Linkorama : StartupHappyDevHouse at Socialtext Coworking - By popular demand, we'll be holding a mini DevHouse on April 19th in Palo Alto to follow Startup School.
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12/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Greg Storey : NCSoft is looking for a web producer. - That's almost as cool as working for Blizzard, almost.
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12/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
Linkorama : Trust in Peers Trumps the "A-List," Study Finds - More Edelman Trust metrics
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12/04/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
jcgregorio : FreeRangeKids - Blog from the author of the NYTimes article: "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone"
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12/04/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : "Clitter" by Mindy Raf on CollegeHumor - "Clitter" by Mindy Raf on CollegeHumor: heh
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12/04/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Tweetable scripts - bash hacks that fit in under 140 characters
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12/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : HSCALE 0.1 released - Partitioning Using MySQL Proxy - HSCALE 0.1 released - Partitioning Using MySQL Proxy: "a MySQL Proxy Lua module that transparently splits up tables into multiple partitions and rewriting all queries to go to the right partition"
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12/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : Creative Review Blog (from a way back) presents pseudo-Google Earth visualisations of key episodes in the Bible - I love the way your brain attempts to rationalise this documentary-style footage of what's going on with the fantastic, allegorical and occasionally just insane stories from the Bible.
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12/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : Yay! Bruce Sterling mentioned Fire Eagle in a blog post. Well, he referred to its rhetorical spimeiness. Which is probably a dig. But still. Rock! - He probably hates it. I don't mind! I still think he's neat.
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12/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : Seems like I'd have posted this Fire Eagle powered pub-finder already, but del.icio.us doesn't seem to think I have.. - Awesome! Everyone likes pubs!
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plasticbag : I think it's in Swedish - an article about my thing at ETech that I don't understand in the slightest. Anyone help? - Particularly horrified by the picture, which captures my exhaustion and desire to get into trouble only partly as well as it gets my double chin and my 'raises handbags' gesture.
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12/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : Gramophone's recommended recordings gives you a quick and easy way to find out which version of a piece of Classical music you should buy - And then you can go straight over to Amazon MP3 to buy it. If you're in the US that is.
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12/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : Building a bookcase into a set of stairs is a pretty great idea, as is the way they've made some of the steps work better as seats - I can't help but wonder how easy it is to walk down without killing yourself though.
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plasticbag : Two videos of games for the iPhone that show what can be accomplished in two weeks - Also demonstrates some of the value and fun you can have with accelerometers.
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12/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : My tweet cloud reveals my most important and common words to be: going, work, think, bloody, day, people and trying - The next lot are a little less depressing: awesome, eagle, evening, fucking, new, think, totally, want. Top people mentioned: Biddulph, Brother, Cal, God, Jones, Paul, Simon.
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plasticbag : You have a limited amount of willpower which you must spend wisely, although you can train yourself to develop more! - You require willpower to develop willpower. Nasty. To be honest, this connects well with my experience. I've managed to make myself more focused, and my flat's normally a tip.
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plasticbag : Design Within Reach's frame-less hourglass is, "an elegant solution for timing any activity that lasts for 45 minutes" - It's hard to know how to respond to that, except to say that honestly, how many things last exactly forty-five minutes. I suppose you could time the TV shows you're watching.
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12/04/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : I've found an apartment! I get the keys today and move in on Tuesday. Here's the road on Google Street View! - Very happy about it. Spent quite a lot of yesterday early evening knocking up a quick scale drawing in OmniGraffle 5. I'll plug in the numbers today when I go around this afternoon.
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12/04/2008 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : Django auth wrapper for Fire Eagle makes getting your Django app all Eagled-up super easy - Constructed by Steve Marshall.
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12/04/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Multiple inheritance of newforms and modelforms - Multiple inheritance of newforms and modelforms. If you ever see “Error when calling the metaclass bases metaclass conflict: the metaclass of a derived class must be a (non-strict) subclass of the metaclasses of all its bases” when trying multiple i
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12/04/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : CSRF presentation at RSA 2008 - CSRF presentation at RSA 2008. It terrifies me how few people understand CSRF, years after at was discovered. I’ll say it again: if you’re a web developer and you don’t know what that acronym means, go spend an hour reading about it—because the
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12/04/2008 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Sharedance - Sharedance. “Sharedance is a high-performance server that centralize ephemeral key/data pairs on remote hosts, without the overhead and the complexity of an SQL database.”—ideally suited to session data, which is a poor fit for a full relational d [via]
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12/04/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Ironic Sans' idea for tactile feedback while driving - Rumble Pak on the steering wheel to sense cars in your blind spot
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12/04/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Celebrity Heights - determined by taking a photograph next to a person of known height [via]
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12/04/2008 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : TDD Rickroll - total abuse of the TRS, but still very funny
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12/04/2008 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Chuck Jones' Isolation Studies - brilliant supercuts created by a Chicago artist; the Loveline montages are amazing
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12/04/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
plasticbag : The lovely guys at Skyhook have announced that they're going to be opening up their mobile clients to update Fire Eagle - which rocks! - Those of you who have Fire Eagle invitations will - with any luck - have already noticed that we've started adding some select apps into the gallery. More to come. It's actually quite overwhelming.
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12/04/2008 @ 06:01 GMT
43folders : Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
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12/04/2008 @ 05:02 GMT
factoryjoe : redflag - Google Code - Red Flag is a Del.icio.us bookmark management client for all Mac OS X users. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: macosx, open source, del.icio.us
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12/04/2008 @ 05:01 GMT
Linkorama : From Al Gore’s Chief Speechwriter: Simple Tips for a Damn Good Presentation
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12/04/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Active on IRC in the past hour - Active on IRC in the past hour. New Django People feature in collaboration with Brian Rosner—DjangoBot now provides information on currently active IRC participants. There’s an opt-out privacy control and the bot sends you a message about it the fir
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12/04/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Obama v. Clinton: Ignore the Media Hype, This Race Isn’t Close - Obama v. Clinton: Ignore the Media Hype, This Race Isn’t Close: yikes!
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12/04/2008 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Slides for “Google Opening up to Developers” talk at Evans Data Conference - Slides for “Google Opening up to Developers” talk at Evans Data Conference: looks like a good summary
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12/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT
43folders : Tools for Thought — Explorations in thinking and doing - Gah! I knew I waited too long. Awesome idea! (*curses self*)
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12/04/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Portishead in Portishead // Current - Portishead concert, showing on Current TV over the next few weeks. Material from their splendid new album, Third. #
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12/04/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : Nice little piece on swarming structures that the author thinks could be an angle for future architectures - I'm not sure I like the sense of grazing and herding architectures. Although superficially bucolic, it has something horrible and locust-like about it if you think for any period of time.
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12/04/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : A detailed exploration of the effect on authors of being on the Colbert Report - With any luck the same effect will take Clay's book higher up the Amazon rankings.
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12/04/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : God this Table Football game is beautiful. Absolutely extraordinary piece of work. I want to spend all my money on it. - I don't need an apartment. I've never needed to play table football as much as I do right now. I wonder if it's okay to lick it.
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12/04/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : This 3d printer can churn out copies of itself, prefiguring a day when all things will be sentient 3d roaming printers - Occasional errors will be introduced through replication. For error correction 3d printers will connect to each other and blend their schematics. It's not quite what I expected as our future but it makes sense.
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