13/12/2008 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : New York Times' Year in Ideas 2008 - love the selections, not fond of the un-weblike layout that's hard to link to
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Andy Baio : Rara Racer, meta racing game in the form of a YouTube playthrough - very clever, the narration reminds me of Night of the Cephalapods
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deusx : Compile (software company) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Compile was a Japanese video game company founded in 1983, originally named Programmers-3. Founded by Masamitsu Niitani (otherwise simply known as 'Moo'), they were responsible for developing some of the most colourful and popular action a
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Andy Baio : Parkour in the 1930s - from Gizmo!, a 1977 documentary about oddball inventions [via]
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Linkorama : Estonia to vote by mobile phone in 2011 - Parliament has approved a law making Estonia the first country to allow voting by mobile phone. Lawmakers approved a measure Thursday allowing citizens to vote by mobile phone in the next parliamentary elections in 2011.
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13/12/2008 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : RANDAR.png (PNG Image, 165x152 pixels) - Wow, finally I know this thing's name. Friends and I were semi-obsessed with various Compile games in high school, and we'd doodle this thing from time to time. "Randar/Lander: Known by various different translation, Randar is this smili
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deusx : Link's hat (life-size) - Nintendo Papercraft - The resource for all your Nintendo themed papercrafts! - "Some people have been waiting for this one to be released a long time. Others didn't know of its existance. Well, today is the day where I present you... LINK's HAT! (Including optional bonus hair!) This particular hat is from Twilight Pr
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13/12/2008 @ 19:00 GMT
Linkorama : The Path to Economic Recovery: Fear, Safety Zones, and One Day at a Time - What will fuel a recovery, more than anything, is a return to a more realistic, if not optimistic, perception of our economy that includes an understanding, and embracing, of its fragility as much as its potential. Much of the problem with bubbles is not
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nelson : Retro parkour - Fun video, I assume a contemporary thing
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deusx : Link's hat (life-size) - Nintendo Papercraft - The resource for all your Nintendo themed papercrafts! - "Some people have been waiting for this one to be released a long time. Others didn't know of its existance. Well, today is the day where I present you... LINK's HAT! (Including optional bonus hair!) This particular hat is from Twilight Pr
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13/12/2008 @ 18:00 GMT
Linkorama : Black/White - Symmetry/Asymmetry - Forum/Social Network - Search/Browse SmoothSpan Blog - Because of that use for finding who to follow, I value “subscribe to everyone” models for building communities and relationships early on. Once you’ve matured those, go in search of the “subscribe to person” model to reduce the information flow
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Kellan : 7 Free WikiPedia iPhone Apps Compared - This is the blog post I’ve been promising myself I’d write for 2 months. Though it also highlights the failure of the feature matrix based approach to classifying apps. The three-word summary of my once and future blog post: Quickpedia, it&# #
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wearehugh : Slashdot | Long-Term Personal Data Storage? - "I have less than 500GBs and only save things important to me." As one commenter suggests, and as one of my commenters suggested when I brought this up on my own blog way back when: There. Is. No. Long-Term. Data. Storage. Solution. There is o
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Simon Willison : Scaling memcached at Facebook - Scaling memcached at Facebook. Fascinating techie details on how Facebook forked memcache to use UDP and increase performance from 50,000 requests a second to 200,000. Now running on 800 servers with 28 TB of memory, and their code is on GitHub. (They m
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Simon Willison : ETags And Modification Times In Django - ETags And Modification Times In Django. Part of Malcolm’s series of tutorials on implementing advanced HTTP concepts in Django.
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Simon Willison : Yahoo! Query Language Console - Yahoo! Query Language Console. Neat developer tool for playing around with YQL.
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Simon Willison : YQL - converting the web to JSON with mock SQL - YQL—converting the web to JSON with mock SQL. YQL just got a whole lot more interesting to me—I had no idea they were exposing an HTML and RSS scraping tool over a JSONP API in addition to all of the Yahoo! web service methods.
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Simon Willison : Freebase Sets - Freebase Sets. Give it some topics and it will tell you what they have in common and show further topics matching the same rules. Kind of like the old Google Labs sets tool but this one shows its workings. [via]
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Andy Baio : Chef, an esoteric programming language where source resembles recipes - try the Hello World Souffle, discussed in Nick Montfort and Michael Mateas' paper on weird languages and code aesthetics [via]
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Cameron Moll : Photos from this morning's press check - Photos from a press check this morning for this poster.
Greg Storey : Photos from a letter press check.
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Andy Baio : Jeff Atwood on Swoopo, the most evil shopping site ever - it's a money-making machine, preying on hope and desperation
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Anil : My New Face - I regularly use about a dozen different social web services, with dozens more that I have accounts on. Historically, I've used one of a very small number of photos of myself as my avatar or user icon on these websites. The other evening, I spent about an
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Andy Baio : Jessica Delfino's I Wanna Be Famous - old, but new to me
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