5/05/2009 @ 23:01 GMT
joshua : Notification Strategies for Social Networks
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Andy Baio : Time interviews Louis CK about cynicism in consumerism - his anecdotes on Conan about complaining passengers were all about himself
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Jeremy Zawodny : Turn Storage Containers into Self Watering Tomato Planters - Turn Storage Containers into Self Watering Tomato Planters: I've been meaning to try this
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Jeremy Zawodny : Big Data: SSD's, R, and Linked Data Streams - Big Data: SSD's, R, and Linked Data Streams: sounds like an interesting video I should watch
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Greg Storey : Captain Chaos, dead at 75. - 1980's Dom, you will be missed.
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Greg Storey : Hoefler & Frere-Jones has been selected as a finalist in the National Design Awards. - Good luck boys!
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joshua : Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas - Stephen M Johnson's awesomely odd ideas
Cameron Moll : Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas - New York Times: Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas, an exploration of whimsical and inspiring ideas by Steven M. Johnson -- a desk turned sleeping chamber, the dashboard toaster oven, the wearable bike vest, etc. "As the 70-year-old told me last week,
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Rod Begbie : High-Tech Cellist Fuses Music, MacBook - Interview with Zoë Keating, and a clip of her performing one of her wonderful looped cello tracks. [via] #
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deusx : Addons in 2009 - "Presentation given at the company all-hands regarding the future of addons.mozilla.org"
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Greg Storey : "The Wisdom of Crowds theory does not mean that people are smart in groups—they're not. Anyone who's seen an angry mob knows it." - So true.
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Cameron Moll : '@' at least 473 years old - A brief history of the '@' symbol, whose first recorded use is from "a Florentine merchant named Francesco Lapi [who] used the symbol @ in a letter written 473 years ago today, on May 4, 1536."
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nelson : Windows 7 review - Simple rundown of the new features.
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Cameron Moll : “EBAY”, 2007 by François Curlet - “EBAY”, 2007 by François Curlet. Not sure I'd hang artwork depicting eBay (of all things) on my wall, the interpretation is beautiful.
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Cameron Moll : Fling's mobile workshop resources - Brian Fling has compiled a list of mobile development resources he's been using in workshops. Worth a look.
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Cameron Moll : JSM: Does the golden ratio have any use in web design? - Jason Santa Maria questions whether the golden ratio has any practical use in web design. "By its very nature the web is a medium of displacement; content is not tied to being viewed on a specific device, screen, browser, and most importantly, at a standa
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5/05/2009 @ 17:01 GMT
nelson : Crazy biology illustrations - Neat collection of 70s era biology textbook drawings
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nelson : Stealing a botnet - Good guys hijack a botnet for 10 days, see what the bad guys are getting
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Jeremy Zawodny : Sean Tucker Lands On Highway "Out Of Gas" - Sean Tucker Lands On Highway "Out Of Gas": FAIL
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Simon Willison : hash_ring 1.2 - hash_ring 1.2. A Python library for consistent hashing with memcached, using MD5 and the same algorithm as libketama. Exposes an interface that is identical to regular memcache making this a drop-in replacement.
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deusx : Gizmodo - A Tour of McDonald's Horrifying Mechanized Meat Factories - Mcdonald's meat factory - "a torrent of beef spews out of a giant mechanical meat-hole onto a speeding conveyor belt; tubs, pipes and boxes of various sizes and shapes carrying a roiling mass of beef slurry; countless, mysterious processing chambers, each of which does who kn
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joshua : Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
jcgregorio : Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
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Greg Storey : Must have quick reference for EE developers. - Put it next to your Farrah Fawcett poster.
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deusx : Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music | Music | guardian.co.uk - "The Norwegian study looked at almost 2,000 online music users, all over the age of 15. Researchers found that those who downloaded "free" music – whether from lawful or seedy sources – were also 10 times more likely to pay for music. T
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Greg Storey : Kindle Textbook to be announced on Wednesday. - Part of a pilot project with six universities.
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Greg Storey : McDonalds to spend $100M on a launch campaign for McCafe. - The results are "expected to add about $1 billion to McDonald's bottom line."
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nelson : Watchclocks - Interesting user interface device from 1901
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deusx : Accessing an IMAP email account using telnet :: bobpeers.com - "IMAP is an email protocol for organizing, storing and retrieving emails on a remote server. It was developed after POP and is a much more advanced system, one of the main differences being that all the mail is stored on the server so it remains acce
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deusx : » Defining What it Means to be Open « Laaker.com - Micah Laaker - "Below are the 13 facets of openness that I’ve been cataloging as a means to better describe this term. (They range on a scale starting on the technology side and ending on the side of the user’s experience.)"
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deusx : iStat menus, a Mac app by iSlayer - "With 8 separate and highly configurable menu extras, iStat menus will let you know exactly what’s going on inside your Mac."
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wearehugh : Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle - Ars Technica
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nelson : How Bernie did it - Detailed look into Madoff's history
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deusx : hackademix.net » Dear Adblock Plus and NoScript Users, Dear Mozilla Community - "I abused the power and wasted the enormous trust capital gained by the NoScript add-on through the years to prevent Adblock Plus from blocking stuff on four internet domains of mine, without asking an explicit preemptive user consent." The rest
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