blogmarks.net Get Firefox!

Eric Karjaluoto Interviews Debbie Millman

21/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT

Khoi Vinh : Eric Karjaluoto Interviews Debbie Millman

Tags : Three Star

  copy

Kitt-In Box from The Refined Feline: A Unique Desktop Cat Perch

21/04/2008 @ 22:00 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny : Kitt-In Box from The Refined Feline: A Unique Desktop Cat Perch - Kitt-In Box from The Refined Feline: A Unique Desktop Cat Perch: I could really use a couple of these...

  copy

Plazes has added support for Fire Eagle!

21/04/2008 @ 22:00 GMT

plasticbag : Plazes has added support for Fire Eagle! - And this blog post explains all the value that they're getting out of being involved. Very excited to have them with us!

Simon Willison : Plazes adds Fire Eagle Support - Plazes adds Fire Eagle Support. The Plazer software can now automatically update your location in FireEagle based on fingerprinting your laptop’s local network.

Tags : fireeagle plazes

  copy

John McCain's 1936 with Barack Obama's 1961.

21/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT

Greg Storey : John McCain's 1936 with Barack Obama's 1961. - Hi Mena, glad to see Dollar Short make a comeback.

Tags : Politics

  copy

Introducing the New BeenVerified.com | The BeenVerified.com Blog

21/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT

factoryjoe : Introducing the New BeenVerified.com | The BeenVerified.com Blog - "Late last week we pushed live a brand spankin’ new version of BeenVerified.com. The new version does a lot to trim the fat on some of the features that weren’t being used and focuses on making the important features even easier to u

  copy

OpenID getting more usable, a tiny bit at a time | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

21/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT

factoryjoe : OpenID getting more usable, a tiny bit at a time | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - "But the concepts of OpenID are still a bit too weird for ordinary mortals to use. It's in the interest of OpenID technology providers to fix that. "JanRain's OpenID Selector makes it much easier for users to understand OpenID logins.

  copy

CNN Shirt

21/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT

Rod Begbie : CNN Shirt - Awesome! CNN's new "Headline on a T-Shirt" service is Widdecombeable! [via#

Tags : cnn t-shirt widdecombe

  copy

Web App + Offline = Crappy Client App at The Furrygoat Experience

21/04/2008 @ 21:01 GMT

deusx : Web App + Offline = Crappy Client App at The Furrygoat Experience - "Really? Do people really want this?"

Tags : donotwant offline webdev

  copy

Barackula.

21/04/2008 @ 20:01 GMT

Greg Storey : Barackula. - The musical.

Tags : Previously

  copy

1977 video explains how the computer graphics in Star Wars were created

21/04/2008 @ 20:00 GMT

Andy Baio : 1977 video explains how the computer graphics in Star Wars were created - reminds me of the the Star Wars arcade game from 1983  [via]

  copy

Todd McHatton's Grass-Stained Twilight

21/04/2008 @ 20:00 GMT

Andy Baio : Todd McHatton's Grass-Stained Twilight - my brother-in-law's been recording and posting a song a week since January; reminds me of Shel Silverstein meets XTC's Apple Venus

  copy

CNN started selling t-shirts with their headlines on it

21/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT

Andy Baio : CNN started selling t-shirts with their headlines on it - look for the shirt icon on the homepage; also, it's fun to manipulate  [via]

  copy

mgran's ars technica: Downloading Binary Streams with Javascript XMLHttpRequest

21/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT

wearehugh : mgran's ars technica: Downloading Binary Streams with Javascript XMLHttpRequest

Tags : ajax binary binaryblobs javascript webdev xmlhttprequest

  copy

Reading binary files using Ajax « nagoon97’s Weblog

21/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT

wearehugh : Reading binary files using Ajax « nagoon97’s Weblog - IE+FF X-browser version -- IE path uses VBScript (!)

Simon Willison : Reading binary files using Ajax - Reading binary files using Ajax. There’s a simple trick for Firefox, and (amazingly) you can get IE to play along using a function written in VBScript.

Tags : ajax binary binaryblobs javascript webdev xmlhttprequest

  copy

Anatomy of a long photograph.

21/04/2008 @ 18:02 GMT

Greg Storey : Anatomy of a long photograph. - A grown-up response to no video on Flickr.

Tags : Photography

  copy

Six Apart expands it's empire.

21/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT

Greg Storey : Six Apart expands it's empire. - Acquires creative agency Apperceptive and announces a new blog ad network.

Tags : Internet

  copy

The Design Observer Playlist

21/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT

Cameron Moll : The Design Observer Playlist - The Design Observer Playlist. The comments are chock full of music suggestions if you're seeking to expand your work music library.

  copy

JetBlue Twitter

21/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT

Cameron Moll : JetBlue Twitter - JetBlue is twittering. Of course, so are many other companies (including Auth Jobs), but as John Gruber points out, this one comes across as more humanistic than some.

  copy

Creating tiles in Photoshop

21/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT

Cameron Moll : Creating tiles in Photoshop - Creating tiles in Photoshop, a brief tutorial by Sadhana Ganapathiraju.

  copy

GridFox

21/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT

Cameron Moll : GridFox - GridFox, a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website. (Default width? 960, huzzah!)

Richard Rutter : GridFox - Firefox plug-in for overlaying grids on web pages.

Tags : Browsers GridFox Firefox grids design plugin

  copy

Gravity Free Design Innovation Conference

21/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT

Cameron Moll : Gravity Free Design Innovation Conference - "GRAVITY FREE is a truly unique multidisciplinary design conference. Each year we pick a theme. Then we select 22 of the most passionate designers, design thinkers and innovators on the planet from 20 different design disciplines to help us explore the t

  copy

MySpace Developer Platform: Restful APIS

21/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT

Kellan : MySpace Developer Platform: Restful APIS - “This digital signing mechanism is the standards-based OAuth specification.” #

  copy

Amazon SQS Drops Price By 10,000%?

21/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT

Kellan : Amazon SQS Drops Price By 10,000%? - At the cost of reducing packet size to 8k, retention time to 4 days, and buffer size to 10 messages. Some folks will complain but it certainly looks like it sets the service up to compete better with installing your own MQ. #

  copy

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

21/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT

Kellan : Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle - And favorited your photo. #

  copy

Happy Valentine’s Day

21/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT

Kellan : Happy Valentine’s Day - Sent to me by my valentine. #

  copy

Amazon Developer Connection: Why S3 Failed

21/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT

Kellan : Amazon Developer Connection: Why S3 Failed - The authentication cluster was overloaded, and improperly monitored. Complex systems are like that, never know where the problems will arise. Good clear communication, but it should have been on the AWS blog. #

  copy

Steve Loughran: “How do you know you have a SPOF (single point of failure)? You always hav...

21/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT

Kellan : Steve Loughran: “How do you know you have a SPOF (single point of failure)? You always have one. How do you find it? You don’t: it finds you” - Truer words… #

  copy

Google Contacts Data API

21/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT

Kellan : Google Contacts Data API - Yay! You no longer need an NDA to use this. Shame it doesn’t support arbitrary keys associated with a user. Suppose you could always abuse the notes field. #

  copy

Exordium Draconis - The fiefs are falling in the stream, the River flows away

21/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT

Kellan : Exordium Draconis - The fiefs are falling in the stream, the River flows away - “Turns out feudalism was a complete flight of fancy on the part of 16th and 17th century historians looking at a 12th century legal text that was more theoretical than descriptive.” - I adore history. #

  copy

Play The Endless Zombie Rampage, a free online game on Kongregate

21/04/2008 @ 09:00 GMT

deusx : Play The Endless Zombie Rampage, a free online game on Kongregate

Tags : flash games gaming zombies

  copy

David Heinemeier Hansson's Startup School talk on sustainable web startups

21/04/2008 @ 09:00 GMT

Andy Baio : David Heinemeier Hansson's Startup School talk on sustainable web startups - completely sane message, but it's not being told enough

  copy

ISPs' Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web

21/04/2008 @ 08:00 GMT

Simon Willison : ISPs' Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web - ISPs’ Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web. Earthlink in the US served “helpful” links and ads on subdomains that failed to resolve, but the ad serving pages had XSS holes which could be used to launch phishing attacks the principle domain [via]

  copy

Sunday magazine.

21/04/2008 @ 06:02 GMT

Greg Storey : Sunday magazine. - Prepare for tears from laughter.

Tags : Previously

  copy

Title sequences.

21/04/2008 @ 06:02 GMT

Greg Storey : Title sequences. - A wonderful sample of work from Kuntzel+Deygas.

Tags : Design

  copy

Sailing, America's Cup style, sounds like hella fun,

21/04/2008 @ 06:02 GMT

Greg Storey : Sailing, America's Cup style, sounds like hella fun, - but so does three days of Forumla racing school..

Tags : Previously

  copy

Third!

21/04/2008 @ 06:02 GMT

Greg Storey : Third! - I had no idea! This week can't end soon enough...

Tags : Music

  copy

McCain, if elected, would be the oldest president ever.

21/04/2008 @ 06:02 GMT

Greg Storey : McCain, if elected, would be the oldest president ever. - Though he's still considered a teenager by Congressional standards.

Tags : Politics

  copy

YouTube - Never Gonna Give You Up by Tay Zonday

21/04/2008 @ 06:01 GMT

Rod Begbie : YouTube - Never Gonna Give You Up by Tay Zonday - The entire internet on one page, frankly. #

Tags : meme rickastley tayzonday

  copy

Python Decorators

21/04/2008 @ 05:01 GMT

joshua : Python Decorators

Tags : python

  copy

Satan says goodbye to the Pope.

21/04/2008 @ 03:02 GMT

Greg Storey : Satan says goodbye to the Pope. - The Devil wears JCPennys. Didn't know that did you?

Tags : News

  copy

Arete - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

21/04/2008 @ 03:01 GMT

deusx : Arete - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "In its earliest appearance in Greek this notion of excellence was bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function; the act of living up to one's full potential."

Tags : arete greek mythology

  copy

Charlie's Diary: Authorial input

21/04/2008 @ 03:01 GMT

deusx : Charlie's Diary: Authorial input - "The author is responsible for delivering the stuff between the covers of the book, and has a legal right to have their name on the cover ... and that's about where their involvement in the layout and design of their book begins and ends."

Tags : books scifi writing

  copy

Blake's 7: How To Get Into Rebel Space Opera Blake's 7

21/04/2008 @ 03:01 GMT

deusx : Blake's 7: How To Get Into Rebel Space Opera Blake's 7 - "But how can you discover this show for yourself? Here are some handy tips."

Tags : b7 blakes7 scifi

  copy

Texture Synthesis

21/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT

joshua : Texture Synthesis

Tags : graphics

  copy

Rob Fergus

21/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT

joshua : Rob Fergus

Tags : graphics papers

  copy

JSSh - a TCP/IP JavaScript Shell Server for Mozilla

21/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT

joshua : JSSh - a TCP/IP JavaScript Shell Server for Mozilla

Jeremy Zawodny : JSSh - a TCP/IP JavaScript Shell Server for Mozilla - JSSh - a TCP/IP JavaScript Shell Server for Mozilla: holy crap!

Tags : firefox

  copy

Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

21/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT

joshua : Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

Tags : tl vis

  copy

“Seals Stadium was a minor league baseball stadium that stood in San Francisco from 1931 th...

21/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT

Kellan : “Seals Stadium was a minor league baseball stadium that stood in San Francisco from 1931 through 1959…” - Found wikinear [via#

  copy

kewlchops: Spruiking, Breadcrumbs & Marching.

21/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT

Kellan : kewlchops: Spruiking, Breadcrumbs & Marching. - George on the emergent cultural phenomena of awards/achievements/bravos/celebrations in the Flickr community. Someone should write a PhD. #

  copy

InnoDB 1.0: “Fast index creation: add or drop indexes without copying the data”

21/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT

Kellan : InnoDB 1.0: “Fast index creation: add or drop indexes without copying the data” - Because the write locking happens at data copy time. If this pans out looks like they’ll have managed to stay focused post-Oracle acquisition. #

  copy

John Gruber calls out the sorry state of Twitter’s APIs (while talking about the lack of go...

21/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT

Kellan : John Gruber calls out the sorry state of Twitter’s APIs (while talking about the lack of good iPhone clients) - Me I just wish they’d bring back a delegated auth endpoint, whether their proto-OAuth, or a real OAuth endpoint. Meanwhile my only issue with m.twitter.com is I want the option to see only the subset of folks I have device notification turned on fo #

  copy

code.flickr: Web 2.0 Expo, you’re in our town now

21/04/2008 @ 02:01 GMT

Kellan : code.flickr: Web 2.0 Expo, you’re in our town now - I’ve just posted to the new Flickr Developer blog a list of all the various Flickr folks speaking at next weeks Web 2.0 Expo. Also, if you haven’t seen it, take a spin around the rest of code.flickr, a new site for the Flickr development comm #

  copy

David Heinemeier Hansson's Startup School talk on sustainable web startups

21/04/2008 @ 01:00 GMT

Andy Baio : David Heinemeier Hansson's Startup School talk on sustainable web startups - completely sane message, but it's not being told enough

  copy
xml
Upian.