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kaninka.net : Noregsferð Sigmundar Davíðs og Höskuldar (via Framsókn) [via]
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kaninka.net : "Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River last..." - “Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River last January, was justly celebrated for his skill and courage. Less has been revealed about other players in the drama: those enigmatic geese, the engines
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kaninka.net : LA Sheriffs Unlawfully Detain Photographers’ Rights Advocate «
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deusx : Detroit: the new frontier? | Blog | Futurismic - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, wait, that's not The Onion. "Imagine for a moment that this trend continues – might Detroit become some sort of independent city-state, a mildly anarchic rough-and-ready town where the price of freedom is a willingne
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joshua : pyquery: a jquery-like library for python — pyquery v0.3 documentation
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kaninka.net : January 21, 1941. “Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park... - January 21, 1941. “Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park Plaza, New York. Popular Room.” 5x7 safety negative by Samuel H. GottschoLight Reading: 1941
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philgyford : The Online Photographer: Panasonic GF1 vs. Olympus E-P1, Part I - Solely for this quote: "These two [bundled] applications just can't possibly be as lame and useless as they appear to be ... They can't be—right? Because if faced with a choice of working day in, day out in one of these environments or pi
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philgyford : Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose - 8 November 2009 - "Dad, you make it sound like social media is ruining my life! It's NOT!"
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philgyford : Vintage Posters -- SSPL Prints - Hundreds of old rail posters etc reprinted for the purchasing of. Very tempting.
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Andy Baio : Paul Rogers draws Name That Movie - "Six drawings per movie, in sequence, no movie stars" [via]
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kaninka.net : bestoflife: Hand reaching over of glass imbedded in the... - bestoflife: Hand reaching over of glass imbedded in the newly-constructed Berlin wall which dvides the eastern & western sectors of the city. August 1961, Paul Schutzer
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kaninka.net : "Incredibly, people didn’t react when he photographed them. It surprised me because Winogrand..." - “Incredibly, people didn’t react when he photographed them. It surprised me because Winogrand made no effort to hide the fact that he was standing in way, taking their pictures. Very few really noticed; no one seemed annoyed. Winogrand was caught up w
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Greg Storey : * No Retweet Necessary. Unemployment Prohibited. - A fantastic contest from Authentic Jobs. #
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kaninka.net : "In mid-February 1999, an 11-page document called “The Rock Critical List” (download) landed on the..." - “In mid-February 1999, an 11-page document called “The Rock Critical List” (download) landed on the desks of several music editors and a music publicist in New York City. Squished into single-spaced Geneva and subtitled “Squirming in a box marked
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kaninka.net : Dois alegados traficantes de droga detidos durante uma operação... - Dois alegados traficantes de droga detidos durante uma operação da polícia no bairro de Acari, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil© João Pina Arte Photographica: Pina no El País
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Simon Willison : Fixing Poor MySQL Default Configuration Values - Fixing Poor MySQL Default Configuration Values. Some tips from Jeremy Zawodny on configuring MySQL for high traffic environments—he suggests skip-name-resolve, connect_timeout=20, thread_cache_size=not-zero, max_connect_errors=very-high-number, slave_
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nelson : Spatial indexing - Simple data structures for storing and finding geodata
Jeremy Zawodny : Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves - Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves: I want to come back and re-read this before too long... good stuff
deusx : Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves - Nick's Blog - "Spatial indexing is increasingly important as more and more data and applications are geospatially-enabled. Efficiently querying geospatial data, however, is a considerable challenge: because the data is two-dimensional (or sometimes, more), you can
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nelson : Using Google Closure - Nice notes from a Google engineer about using Google's Javascript compiler and library
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nelson : Eve economic newsletter - Latest quarterly report from the in-game economist. Interesting analysis of the impact of banning a bunch of gold farmers, also increasing the supply of a low level crafting material
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kaninka.net : fuckyeahsubtitles: Une Femme Est Une Femme (1961)
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deusx : AIH Beer Recipe Kits - Home Brew Kits for Homebrewing Beer - "Adventures in Homebrewing offers a full line of home brew recipe kits designed with BEER in mind. Often, homebrew kits are designed to stay in an acceptable price range. How can a cream ale cost the same as an IPA...It cannot. We do not allow the pr
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deusx : Beginning Homebrew Kit - Beer Making Equipment Kit - "Brewer's Best™ Equipment Kit Contains: * 6.5 Gallon "Ale Pail" Primary Fermenter with Drilled & Grommeted Lid * 6.5 Gallon "Ale Pail" Bottling Bucket with Bottling SpigotEasy Clean No-Rinse Cleanser * Airl
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deusx : node.js - "Evented I/O for V8 javascript. "
Simon Willison : node.js - node.js. “Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript”—a JavaScript environment built on top of the super-fast V8 engine which provides event-based IO functionality for building highly concurrent TCP and HTTP servers. The API design is superb—everything is ac
Jeremy Zawodny : node.js - node.js: that is sort of nuts but also kind of awesome
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Simon Willison : Django-Jython 1.0.0 released! - Django-Jython 1.0.0 released!. Now with database backends for PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL. The next release (planned for next month) should provide full compatibility with Django 1.1—the current release has 1.1 support for PostgreSQL but only 1.0 sup
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Simon Willison : Fabric 0.9.0 - Fabric 0.9.0. A Python-based SSH automation and deployment tool. Released today, 0.9.0 is finally the official “stable” release—which is good, as it breaks API compatibility with previous versions and caused me all sorts of confusion when I tried
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Andy Baio : NYT on confusion over how Kiva loans work - nonprofits carefully balancing effective marketing and donor expectations
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deusx : Droid Battery Life Requires New Charging Habits - Business Center - PC World - So... The Palm Pre gets totally slammed on battery life, but the Droid gets a pass saying we just need to change our habits? Sheesh. "Until battery technology changes to double or triple capacity, you will have to change your charging habits to fit
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