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Hyperconnectivity Study – Validating our Thinking

15/05/2008 @ 23:01 GMT

factoryjoe : Hyperconnectivity Study – Validating our Thinking - Interesting research about "hyperconnectivity". Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: hyperconnectivity, research, nortel,:monkchips [via]

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Why I’m going to Vidoop

15/05/2008 @ 23:01 GMT

factoryjoe : Why I’m going to Vidoop - "So it’s not exactly news at this point, but it is indeed true that as of today I am now employed by Vidoop. This has been a few months in the making, so I figured I’d explain a little of why and how we got to this point." Saved By:

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Vidoop secures Messina and Norris » Silicon Florist

15/05/2008 @ 22:01 GMT

factoryjoe : Vidoop secures Messina and Norris » Silicon Florist - Great writeup and interview with me about joining Vidoop and the future ahead! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: vidoop, portland, openid, chris messina, will norris, diso

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California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban

15/05/2008 @ 22:00 GMT

Andy Baio : California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban - systemic discrimination of same-sex couples is unconstitutional, period

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Where do you connect with the Michigan Technology community? | Own Page One: Search Engine Visibi...

15/05/2008 @ 21:01 GMT

deusx : Where do you connect with the Michigan Technology community? | Own Page One: Search Engine Visibility Blog - Online Marketing Strategy and Tips - "In a conversation with an out-of-stater earlier this week, I was asked what’s going on in the Michigan technology community, and what were the groups to connect with?"

Tags : annarbor michigan tech

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Radical Cyclists Take to L.A. Freeways to Say Bikes Are Better | Autopia from Wired.com

15/05/2008 @ 20:00 GMT

deusx : Radical Cyclists Take to L.A. Freeways to Say Bikes Are Better | Autopia from Wired.com - "For the second time in two months, a bunch of Los Angeles bike advocates calling themselves Crimanimalz took to one of the busiest freeways in the world to make the case that, when your freeways are gridlocked, bikes are better."

Tags : california cycling la traffic

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Yahtzee on GTA4

15/05/2008 @ 19:03 GMT

nelson : Yahtzee on GTA4 - Everyone's favourite curmudgeon game critic

Tags : criticism games grandtheftauto gta4 gtaiv review rockstar yahtzee

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sparrow

15/05/2008 @ 19:01 GMT

bmilleare : sparrow - Sparrow is a really fast lightweight queue written in Ruby that speaks memcache.

Tags : caching queuing ruby scaling

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Flexihash

15/05/2008 @ 19:00 GMT

bmilleare : Flexihash - an open source consistent hashing implementation for PHP - super useful for cluster based hosting setups.

Tags : cluster hashing php

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PicArtia

15/05/2008 @ 18:03 GMT

Linkorama : PicArtia - PicArtia helps you create your photo mosaic online for free. It’s fast and easy to use.

Tags : design mosaic photography tools

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Street View face blurring

15/05/2008 @ 18:02 GMT

nelson : Street View face blurring - Pretty amazing application of facial recognition technology

Tags : facialrecognition google maps privacy

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Curtis Jenkins

15/05/2008 @ 18:00 GMT

Ethan Marcotte : Curtis Jenkins - Stupidly beautiful portfolio, but the identity work’s the real standout. ∞

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At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends

15/05/2008 @ 17:05 GMT

Linkorama : At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends - And that’s it. Lots of mobile phone predictions. Green energy. Water. And more phones.

Tags : VC collaboration evolution future innovation mobile predictions trends

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Comcast Bought Plaxo, Deal Closed Today

15/05/2008 @ 17:04 GMT

Linkorama : Comcast Bought Plaxo, Deal Closed Today - Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the purchase price is between $150 and $170 million. Plaxo, which was founded in 2002, has raised just under $30 million in venture capital.

Tags : m&a socialnetworking

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Dealing with Debian's ssh vulnerability

15/05/2008 @ 17:03 GMT

nelson : Dealing with Debian's ssh vulnerability - For two years the ssh keys generated by Debian have been broken.

Tags : bug debian hacking openssh openssl security ssh

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US Trailer for 'Life on Mars'

15/05/2008 @ 17:02 GMT

Rod Begbie : US Trailer for 'Life on Mars' - Preview clip of the US version of Life on Mars. Getting past the generic music and cheesy voiceover, this looks like it has the potential to get the right mix between the original's storyline and 70s Americana. Looking forward to seeing more. [via#

Tags : abc lifeonmars tv usa video

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Using Git as a versioned data store in Python

15/05/2008 @ 17:00 GMT

Simon Willison : Using Git as a versioned data store in Python - Using Git as a versioned data store in Python. gitshelve supports the same interface as Python’s built-in shelve module but stores things to a versioned Git repository instead of just a pickled dictionary. I’ve been casually wondering what a Git-pow

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CBS buys CNET for $1.8B.

15/05/2008 @ 16:03 GMT

Greg Storey : CBS buys CNET for $1.8B. - Insanity.

Tags : Economics

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The NonGuidebook Version of What to Do (and Not Do) in NYC

15/05/2008 @ 16:02 GMT

jcgregorio : The NonGuidebook Version of What to Do (and Not Do) in NYC

Tags : nyc

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DefCon CTF 2007 Qualifications

15/05/2008 @ 16:01 GMT

mmb : DefCon CTF 2007 Qualifications - DefCon CTF 2007 Qualifications via www.hackaday.com [via]

Tags : link

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Stars of the Lid @ Good Shepherd Faith Church, NYC - pics

15/05/2008 @ 15:01 GMT

jonhicks : Stars of the Lid @ Good Shepherd Faith Church, NYC - pics - I've missed them live a few times sadly, and these pics just make it worse.

Tags : sidenotes

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America's Recession-Proof Cities - Forbes.com

15/05/2008 @ 14:02 GMT

jcgregorio : America's Recession-Proof Cities - Forbes.com - Raleigh makes the top ten list, which is a nice change from the last downturn when the dot-com bust hit the area exceptionally hard.

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Rebecca MacKinnon's China Earthquake pledge

15/05/2008 @ 14:01 GMT

Isofarro : Rebecca MacKinnon's China Earthquake pledge - Rebecca MacKinnon pledges another $500 to the Chinese Earthquake fund if 500 people donate at least $20. I've donated, have you?

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NodeBox, OS X app to create 2D visualizations in Python

15/05/2008 @ 13:00 GMT

Andy Baio : NodeBox, OS X app to create 2D visualizations in Python - for a more practical example, see Tufte-style charts in 11 lines of Nodebox code

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Drawing Day 2008 - the worldwide drawing event

15/05/2008 @ 12:02 GMT

jonhicks : Drawing Day 2008 - the worldwide drawing event

Tags : sidenotes

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The Whitburn Project: 120 Years of Music Chart History

15/05/2008 @ 12:01 GMT

Andy Baio : The Whitburn Project: 120 Years of Music Chart History - For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they've cre

nelson : The Whitburn Project - Andy documents another awesome underground resource; a database of all the top songs since the 1890s

Tags : billboard charts music usenet whitburn

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Cubescape - Your own digital landscape

15/05/2008 @ 12:00 GMT

jonhicks : Cubescape - Your own digital landscape - Damn that Cameron Adams! I'm trying to work here!

Andy Baio : Cubescape, fun tool for building isometric pixel landscapes - some nice 8-bit art in the popular section

Tags : cubes sidenotes

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Crossdomain.xml Invites Cross-site Mayhem

15/05/2008 @ 10:00 GMT

Simon Willison : Crossdomain.xml Invites Cross-site Mayhem - Crossdomain.xml Invites Cross-site Mayhem. A useful reminder that crossdomain.xml files should be treated with extreme caution. Allowing access from * makes it impossible to protect your site against CSRF attacks, and even allowing from a “circle of t

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Cubescape

15/05/2008 @ 10:00 GMT

Simon Willison : Cubescape - Cubescape. Beautiful isometric cube building tool by Cameron Adams, written in JavaScript and jQuery.

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Engineering @ Facebook: Facebook Chat

15/05/2008 @ 09:00 GMT

Simon Willison : Engineering @ Facebook: Facebook Chat - Engineering @ Facebook: Facebook Chat. The new Facebook Chat uses Comet (long polling with a hidden iframe) against a custom web / chat server written in Erlang, designed to handle a launch to all 70 million users at once. It was tested using a “dark

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Games With A Purpose

15/05/2008 @ 08:00 GMT

Andy Baio : Games With A Purpose - humans playing games to teach computers, from the creator of reCAPTCHA and the ESP Game  [via]

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pinata bloopers by arnotheman @ YouTube

15/05/2008 @ 06:01 GMT

mmb : pinata bloopers by arnotheman @ YouTube - via Tumblr [via]

Tags : link video youtube

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MSI Wind Revealed: 10-Inch Mini-Notebook to Hit U.S. in June

15/05/2008 @ 06:00 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny : MSI Wind Revealed: 10-Inch Mini-Notebook to Hit U.S. in June - MSI Wind Revealed: 10-Inch Mini-Notebook to Hit U.S. in June: WANT!!!

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Sad Song is the best Apple ad to date.

15/05/2008 @ 05:02 GMT

Greg Storey : Sad Song is the best Apple ad to date. - I'd link to it directly but apparently Apple doesn't understand things like permalinks.

Tags : Apple

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Abstractioneer: XRDS-Simple (Yadis) + URI Templates

15/05/2008 @ 05:01 GMT

jcgregorio : Abstractioneer: XRDS-Simple (Yadis) + URI Templates - w00t, this is exactly the kinds of uses I've wanted to see for URI Templates.

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gopher://thegrebs.com/0/awesome.txt

15/05/2008 @ 05:01 GMT

mmb : gopher://thegrebs.com/0/awesome.txt - gopher://thegrebs.com/0/awesome.txt via URLs seen by clickolinko [via]

Tags : link

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Debian OpenSSL Predictable PRNG Toys

15/05/2008 @ 05:01 GMT

mmb : Debian OpenSSL Predictable PRNG Toys - Debian OpenSSL Predictable PRNG Toys via Popular pages on del.icio.us [via]

nelson : Debian ssh exploit - Someone published a list of all possible Debian ssh keys. In case you weren't sure the bug was serious.

Rod Begbie : Debian OpenSSL Predictable PRNG Toys - More details on the Debian openssl patch farrago. Important point: Every sysadmin needs to scan their boxes (not just Debian users) to find any compromisable .authorized_keys [via#

Tags : link debian hacking openssh openssl ssh security

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The new rules for buying a Mac

15/05/2008 @ 00:00 GMT

adamrg : The new rules for buying a Mac

Tags : apple guide mac rules sideblog tips

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