12/08/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Edward Tufte’s Critique of iPhone Interfaces - In which the authority on information visualization discusses “computer administration debris” and his maxim “to clarify, add detail.”
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12/08/2008 @ 23:01 GMT
mmb : kwiry - text it before you forget it - kwiry - text it before you forget it via SMS: Kwiry Adds Netflix, Amazon, Calendar, and To-Do List Support [via]
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12/08/2008 @ 22:01 GMT
43folders : Dopamine | MetaFilter - "New research is linking dopamine to complex social phenomena and changing neuroscience in the process."
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12/08/2008 @ 22:00 GMT
cobra libre : Comment correcting software closes $25m funding - "If one of your expensive programmers comes across PERL instead of Perl he can spend thirty to forty-five minutes posting a correction, including extracts from two or three Wikipedia articles and Usenet archives. That's ten to fifteen minutes per uncapita [via] #
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12/08/2008 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : Maps of web users - Interesting breakdown of who uses websites by US state
Andy Baio : Google Insights shows state-by-state usage of popular websites - also: the spread Twitter and YouTube over time
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12/08/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : pessimistic (though generally accurate) life advice: - part of a pair with the next one
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12/08/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : optimistic (though generally accurate) life advice: - part of a pair with the previous one
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12/08/2008 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : Comic-Con 2008: Dr. Horrible Part 4 Plans Confirmed | SpoutBlog - wheee! also, soundtrack available for downloading soon
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12/08/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : NYT: <em>Rolling Stone</em> to Switch to Smaller, Rack-Friendly Format - “Gary Armstrong, chief marketing officer for Wenner Media, pointed to Vanity Fair, which has lower overall circulation than Rolling Stone, but nearly three times the single-copy sales. With a standard format, he said, it should be possible to raise
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12/08/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Otl Archer and the 1972 Munich Olympics - Holy moley, a treasure trove of iconic, exquisitely designed posters, tickets, stationery, pamphlets and more Games-related collateral from a modernist master.
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12/08/2008 @ 20:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Putting Our Hot Heads Together - "If more of us are thinking 'What can I contribute?' instead of 'Did I like this article?' the entire conversation is transformed."
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12/08/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : Laughing Squid Detroit Drinkup in Royal Oak | Laughing Squid - "I’m visiting the Detroit area next week and while there we will be hosting a Laughing Squid Detroit Drinkup on Wednesday, August 20th at the Royal Oak Brewery in Royal Oak. I’ll be there with Frank Escamilla, who just joined the Laughing Squid t
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12/08/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : How Yahoo dropped the del.icio.us ball with a pointless 3 year rewrite (from mod_perl to PHP) : reddit.com - I'm on pretty much the same page as Joshua. I was amazed it launched, which is a credit to the remaining team. It'll be interesting to see what happens now—given a 2-3 year innovation time-debt, a brand-new bespoke infrastructure, and a load
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12/08/2008 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : Car detailing - 55 hours cleaning up a sports car, obsessively documented
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12/08/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
nelson : Prince (squee!) - Awesome little animated photograph
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12/08/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
gleuschk : Sciencewomen : A reckless proposal, or "Scientists are people too, and it's time we started treating them that way." - thoughts about childcare and professional travel. I wonder if my dept would reimburse for childcare?
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12/08/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Bush Goes to the Olympics - Yes, I know it’s more than a little unsporting to catch the man in an undignified post near the end of his tenure—and it’s not exactly difficult or anything. But still: teh lulz. ∞
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12/08/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Jean-Louis Gasée on MobileMe, Synchronization and “Launchpad Chicken” - Insightful if not conclusive commentary on what went wrong with Apple’s shaky launch of the MobileMe service, from a veteran of Apple. He accurately characterizes seamless synchronization as an underestimated problem, but lets Apple off too easily.
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12/08/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Type treatments by Joshua M. Smith - Type treatments by Joshua M. Smith. Inspiring.
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12/08/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Raphaël---JavaScript Library - Sweet. Strongly considering using this to generate charts from the 2008 survey data.
joshua : Raphaël—JavaScript Library - vector images for the web
Andy Baio : Raphaël, JS vector graphics library - interactive charts and animation, and works perfectly on the iPhone
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12/08/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : Olympic song fake - 7 year old girl chosen to be pretty, lip syncs other 7 year old girl's singing
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nelson : Empty Olympics seats - It does seem odd how few people are actually watching the sport
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12/08/2008 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : Official Georgia warblog - Government of Georgia is communicating via blogger
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12/08/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : BMX Trickery (DVD) - Props How To: Beginner to Intermediate BMX Tricks (DVD). This is actually a pretty good video. Bought it for my son's 8th birthday. Covers techniques on dirt ramps, flat ground, peg work, and even a how-to for building a ramp.
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12/08/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It - The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It. "This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity--and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help o
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12/08/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing - WSJ: How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing). Honestly, this reads as if it were written in 1999. Unsubscribe. Via Jeff Croft. [via]
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12/08/2008 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Design Matrix of the 20th Century - "I was going through some old magazines the other day when I came across this: Design Matrix of the 20th Century," which was then translated (I believe) by the author, "Johnny Strategy". Via swissmiss. [via]
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Cameron Moll : The beautiful work of furniture designer Timothy Schreiber - The beautiful work of furniture designer Timothy Schreiber.
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12/08/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
mmb : Warcraft.SwagDog.com | BlizzCon 2008 - Warcraft.SwagDog.com | BlizzCon 2008 via SwagDog and Blizzard team up to offer custom t-shirts with guild and toon info - WOW Insider [via]
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12/08/2008 @ 16:01 GMT
mmb : Keyczar - Keyczar via Popular Bookmarks on Delicious [via]
Simon Willison : Keyczar - Keyczar. New open source cryptography toolkit from Google, designed to get algorithm selection, key rotation and versioning right so you don’t have to. Java and Python versions are available; the Python version depends on PyCrypto. [via]
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deusx : A VMware mistake may shutdown thousands of virtual infrastructures | virtualization.info - "This morning the VMware’s customers that upgraded their virtual data centers with the new Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2 (build 103908) had an awful surprise: any virtual machine that is turned off cannot be powered on again, and any attempt to execu
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12/08/2008 @ 15:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : NYT: The iTunes Store as Profit Machine - Saul Hansell contends that “the basic dynamics of the iTunes store are much better than those of Amazon,” and “the iTunes business model looks more profitable than that of eBay, which despite its current problems, has been the most succe
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12/08/2008 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Django snippets: RequestFactory - Django snippets: RequestFactory. I’ve been wanting this for ages; when I finally got around to writing it it turned out to only be a dozen or so lines of code. Makes it easy to create mock request objects in Django, which you can then use for testing
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12/08/2008 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Reviews of the Pownce app on the iPhone app store on Flickr - Reviews of the Pownce app on the iPhone app store on Flickr. I had to stitch together a screenshot because you can’t actually link to content in the App Store (unless you don’t care that people without iTunes won’t be able to follow your link). Th
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Simon Willison : Carphone crackdown on phone insurance scam - Carphone crackdown on phone insurance scam. Story from 2005 but relevant today: I’ve been pestered by scam calls about phone insurance since buying my iPhone from Carphone Warehouse yesterday—the scammers apparently wardial against Carphone Warehous
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12/08/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : IMG-2-JSON - IMG-2-JSON. I’m not the only person deploying simple JSON-P APIs on App Engine: Adam Burmister’s tool extracts dimension, mimetype and EXIF metadata when provided the URL to an image file. [via]
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12/08/2008 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Brett Erlich's Viral Video Film School - entertaining rambles about found footage on YouTube [via]
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12/08/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now - Back in 2004, I wrote about how high-quality videos from the Olympics in Athens were being digitized and posted online, in defiance of the networks and the IOC's rules. At the time, NBC's online coverage was pioneering, but still restrictive by today's
nelson : Pirating the Olympics - Andy does another nice investigation into TV downloads
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12/08/2008 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Doveman's Footloose - Thomas Bartlett covers the entire album for a friend, with absolutely no irony [via]
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12/08/2008 @ 09:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Exposure (iPhone app) behaves suspiciously - Exposure (iPhone app) behaves suspiciously. Exposure on the iPhone does OAuth-style authentication incorrectly—it asks the user to authenticate in an embedded, chromeless browser which provides no way of confirming that the site being interacted with
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12/08/2008 @ 07:01 GMT
43folders : Confusing Words - "Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused." via:http://www.metafilter.com/74043/Two-effect-theyre-effluent-capitol
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12/08/2008 @ 07:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Super Oors World - This comic is nothing short of WHITE HOT ROCKET-FUELED AWESOME™. ∞
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12/08/2008 @ 03:01 GMT
jcgregorio : HighTouch: Videoconferencing to replace business travel? - Not. The only thing that will happen is that there will be increased pressure to provide long range high speed rail within each megalopolis, and that any large company will have to have at least one office within each megalopolis.
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12/08/2008 @ 02:00 GMT
wearehugh : Sovereign Wealth Funds - Council on Foreign Relations - america is on sale. our prices are IN-SANE!
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12/08/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : craigslist seeks system administrator - craigslist seeks system administrator: seriously, we're hiring...
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12/08/2008 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Hadoop: When grownups do open source - Hadoop: When grownups do open source: "Yes, Twitter, the nonprofit web service known widely for its downtime, dropped its disaster-producing shitpile on the world. Why?" Heh.
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12/08/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Ronald Chevalier - “I’m Dr. Ronald Chevalier, acclaimed author of science fiction novels and novellas such as ‘Cyborg Harpies,’ ‘Brain Cream,’ and the all-new novel ‘Brutus & Balzaak.’ Welcome to my official internet websi
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12/08/2008 @ 00:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : WDJ: Viability of Web Apps as a Replacement for Traditional Software - “Clearly, a growing number of companies are looking into outsourcing at least some of their IT infrastructure. Google says it signs up roughly 3,000 businesses a day for its online bundle of programs… Whereas Microsoft Office can cost as much
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12/08/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
philgyford : Summary of China Rights Developments | Human Rights Watch - Just in case you're enjoying the Olympics so much you've forgotten all this stuff.
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12/08/2008 @ 00:00 GMT
philgyford : Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle) - Guy Debord's film in full on Google Video, with English subtitles.
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