29/04/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School - New York Times - """They are carrying out a “soft jihad,” said Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a trustee of the City University of New York and a vocal opponent of the Khalil Gibran school.""" Bigot.
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29/04/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - batting stances: red sox - Accurate and entertaining impressions of Red Sox players' batting stances. His "Youk getting a third strike" is uncanny. [via] #
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Andy Baio : Clustarack's impressive Rube Goldberg contraption - behind the scenes, 180 hours to build the contraption, 98 takes, 30 minutes to restore to initial state [via]
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29/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Maps adds Street View for driving directions - some clever tips in the video, like checking for toll roads and parking signs
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29/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Robot reassembles itself after being broken apart - it uses a camera to seek out its missing parts [via]
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29/04/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Antique children's book uses bellows and cones to make sounds - beats a tinny speaker playing the Dora the Explorer theme for 30 seconds [via]
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29/04/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Seth's Blog: Signal to noise - "Lately, the noise seems to be increasing and the signal is fading in comparison. Too much spam, too many posts, too little insight leaking through. I don’t use Twitter, but I know a lot of Twitter users are feeling this. So are folks
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29/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Ask H&FJ: The ampersand - Ask H&FJ: The ampersand. "Though it feels like a modern appendix to our ancient alphabet, the ampersand is considerably older than many of the letters that we use today.... As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction [via]
Khoi Vinh : Jonathan Hoefler on the Origins of the Ampersand - “Though it feels like a modern appendix to our ancient alphabet, the ampersand is considerably older than many of the letters that we use today. By the time the letter W entered the Latin alphabet in the seventh century, ampersands had enjoyed six h
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29/04/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Mobile browser concurrency test - Mobile browser concurrency test. "With mobile devices, the speed of web pages is even more important given bandwidth, processor and memory constraints.... To our knowledge, this it the only public test that attempts to determine the number of concurrent h
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29/04/2008 @ 15:00 GMT
gleuschk : short interview with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich | The A.V. Club - I've been listening to Radiolab podcasts on my walks to campus. Sometimes I walk slow on purpose.
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29/04/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
bmilleare : Dual-Master MySQL Replication Done Right
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29/04/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
bmilleare : A (fairly) simple Linux VPN - Simple Linux VPN over SSH using PPP... ideally I want this kind of setup without using PPP
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29/04/2008 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Penny Arcade, PVP launch live shows - streaming their desktop in real-time [via]
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29/04/2008 @ 08:04 GMT
43folders : TwitterSnooze! v0.1 - via del/andrewdparker
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29/04/2008 @ 08:03 GMT
veen : By the time I finish this talk, everyone here will want to run a marathon » SlideShare - Lane is very persuasive.
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29/04/2008 @ 07:03 GMT
Khoi Vinh : “Penguin Classics” Theme for Tumblr - Very witty.
jonhicks : Penguin Classics Tumblr Theme - Damn! I hate it when someone else does something I wish I'd done first
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29/04/2008 @ 07:02 GMT
deusx : PROCASE Macally Peripherals - "Suede wrist rest for comfort and also protects the surface"
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29/04/2008 @ 06:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Big Fan - Cabel Sasser's great story of fan noise on older Mac dev hardware
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29/04/2008 @ 05:02 GMT
factoryjoe : RIAA files copyright suit against Project Playlist | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - Music industry accuses company that makes embeddable music player of infringing on intellectual property. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on News Blog. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Riaa, copyright
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29/04/2008 @ 05:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Capital City Super Squad - WTF. THERE ARE NO “NICE NINJAS”. NONE. ∞
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29/04/2008 @ 04:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Safe as Milk » Blog Archive » Trademarks - Dave talks about the issues with trademarks and open source projects. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: trademark, community mark, intellectual property, open source
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29/04/2008 @ 04:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Twitt(url)y - Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter - Twitt(url)y is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, meme tracker
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29/04/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Holy Crap! Pepper // Peppermill // Mint: A Fresh Look at your Site - Hehe. Plugin for Mint which sends you an email if you get referrers from Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, etc. #
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29/04/2008 @ 01:01 GMT
cobra libre : léncyclopedie - Collages constructed out of images from Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopedia. [via] #
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29/04/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : A Whole New Relationship - Our latest project goes live. (Also: Airbag’s now a “Los Angeles design firm”? Sweet. Pass the ’gnac.) ∞
Greg Storey : "For a small magazine to launch a redesign of this magnitude on a live site is a bit like building an aircraft carrier while trying to land the plane." - Yeah but it was a fun ride!
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29/04/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
joshua : Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software
Jeremy Zawodny : Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software - Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software: not a bad list...
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29/04/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
nelson : Making chocolate - Home cook turns beans into chocolate bars
joshua : Chocolate from Beans to Bars
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