18/05/2009 @ 22:00 GMT
Linkorama : The open, social web | FactoryCity - I was in Europe for the past week and half, ending up in Leuven, Belgium to speak at the Twiist.be conference. The topic of my talk was “The Open, Social Web.”
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Linkorama : Social Networks Eclipse E-Mail - Although Charles Buchwalter, senior vice president for research and analytics for Nielsen, said marketers had yet to master advertising on social media, he predicted that “over the next 12 months a model will emerge” that takes into account “the inf
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Jeremy Zawodny : Bam! Craigslist CEO Writes Best “You Owe Me An Apology” Letter Ever - Bam! Craigslist CEO Writes Best “You Owe Me An Apology” Letter Ever: yep
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Jeremy Zawodny : linuxmagazine on Twitter - linuxmagazine on Twitter: nice
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gleuschk : Surprise: Fox RENEWS 'Dollhouse' - Wha? I'd prepared myself!
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nelson : Maureen Dowd's cry for help - NYT editorialist steals a sentence from Talking Points Memo. Clearly she's asking to be let go
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Cameron Moll : Top 10 Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs - Related, Top 10 Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs. "How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?"
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Cameron Moll : Wolfram Alpha launched over the weekend - Wolfram Alpha launched over the weekend. I had previously tweeted that this might be Google's first real competitor in years, but I'm certainly not convinced of that yet. My initial test searches ("mobile web", "mobile users") yielded no results, which in
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Cameron Moll : 25 examples of architecturally appealing living spaces - 25 examples of architecturally appealing living spaces.
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Cameron Moll : Fingertype by Jonathan Looman - Fingertype by Jonathan Looman.
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Cameron Moll : Dollar ReDe$ign Project - Dollar ReDe$ign Project. "We need to rebuild our country, revive our economy, redesign the Dollar bill. Email us your ideas. Win a prize. Join in. In God we Trust. In Change we Believe." A few decent entries have already come in (scroll down).
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Andy Baio : Auto Tune The News #3 - last month, the New York Observer interviewed Michael Gregory about the series [via]
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Andy Baio : Last Day Dream - a 50-second short film [via]
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nelson : Reverse Nuremberg defense - Cheney, et al not guilty because they were only giving orders
deusx : Sympathy for the bad apples « The Poor Man Institute - "We’ve got what amounts to a reverse Nuremberg defense, where Bush administration officials are let off the hook because they were only giving orders. I’m not sure that’s such a great idea."
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kaninka.net : Fjöldi stjórnenda, sérfræðinga, bænda og fiskimanna 1991 - 2008 - Heimild: Hagstofan
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cobra libre : Sean Carroll: Rules for Time Travelers [via] #
deusx : Rules for Time Travelers | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine - "0. There are no paradoxes.1. Traveling into the future is easy.2. Traveling into the past is hard — but maybe not impossible.3. Traveling through time is like traveling through space.4. Things that travel together, age together.5. Black holes are
philgyford : Rules for Time Travelers | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine - Entertaining list of rules about time travel. (via Kottke)
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Andy Baio : Which of our beliefs will our grandchildren be appalled by? - Phil Dhingra highlights the best from a massive Reddit thread
philgyford : This is going into my "best ever" box of forum threads (Philosophistry) - Great future-y thought experiment: "So many of our grandparents were racist, and some of out parents are homophobes. Which of our own closely held beliefs will our own children and grandchildren by appalled by?" (via Danhon)
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Andy Baio : NYT's Maureen Dowd steals paragraph from Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall - it would've been more fitting if she'd plagiarized from Twitter instead
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18/05/2009 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : Thoughts on graduate school « Secret Blogging Seminar - some more good thoughts in the comments
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Simon Willison : resty - resty. 58 lines of bash provides a better command-line interface to RESTful APIs, using curl under the hood. This should save me from running “man curl” several times a week.
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Rod Begbie : The World's Best Illusion: The Secret of the Curve Ball - Simple Flash animation which explains the "breaking" of a curve ball. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Dark Night of the Soul - New album by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, with a shedload of guest contributors. Due to legal wranglings, you can't buy the album. But they will sell you a book of photos by David Lynch and a custom blank CD-R for $50, to which you can write any music #
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Rod Begbie : The Usability of Passwords - "It is 10 times more secure to use "this is fun" as your password, than "J4fS [via] #
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Simon Willison : The Little Manual of API Design (PDF) - The Little Manual of API Design (PDF). A concise, highly readable guide to designing APIs that are “Complete, Easy to learn and memorize, lead to readable code, hard to misuse, and easy to extend”, based on lessons learnt over many years of developm
philgyford : The Little Manual of API Design (PDF) - Sounds like a handy thing for future reference. (via Simon Willison)
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Simon Willison : python-daemon - python-daemon. A library for correctly creating Unix daemon processes in Python, implementing the proposed PEP 3143 API. [via]
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Simon Willison : New Features for EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch - New Features for EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch. EC2 now fulfils the promise of “magic scaling in the cloud” out of the box—CloudWatch monitors performance of your EC2 instances without needing to install any moni
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joshua : Build Your Own CNC Router Machine
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18/05/2009 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Amazon.com: Leslie Michael Orchar...'s review of Black & Decker Grass Hog XP 14-Inch 7.2 Am... - "Died of a melted plastic gear after less than a year"
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deusx : FML : I had a very intense sexual dream that made me come and left me panting when I woke up. It was the... - "Today, I had a very intense sexual dream that made me come and left me panting when I woke up. It was the best orgasm I'd ever had. The trouble was, it wasn't about a hot girl, or anything sexy. It was about bacon. FML"
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Andy Baio : Japanese trailer for "Muscle March" for WiiWare - defies description, the most intensely weird game I've ever seen
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Andy Baio : All Your Base dialogue, properly translated from Japanese to English - amazingly, I've never read the correct translation before
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