24 days ago
Linkorama : Daily Grommet - Food/Drink Grommet - At the heart of it, we’re a bunch of regular folks with a passion for finding Grommets; wonderful products--with interesting stories--that people would love to know about. We’re independent—no one pays us to select a product. In fact, the best thing
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Andy Baio : New York Magazine's long profile of FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver - if you haven't, spend a little time reading about his methodology to understand how he's totally changed the game
gleuschk : How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections -- New York Magazine - 538.com is burning a hole in my screen
Rod Begbie : How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections - Great profile in New York Magazine of Nate Silver and the sterling work he's been doing at fivethirtyeight.com. Got to love anyone who can make a living from a combination of baseball, politics and obsessive number-crunching. [via] #
Greg Storey : Tom, forget Ann Coulter you need to follow this guy. - FiveThirtyEight is about as unbiased as it gets.
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3 month ago
deusx : thedetroiter.com - re: splash image - having seen this alignment of church and rencen on many morning commutes, I've always wondered if it was intentional.
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joshua : ISO50 - The Visual Work of Scott Hansen
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gleuschk : How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine - seemed interesting, at least on a skim
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6 month ago
veen : What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0 - "Instead of putting all the web-native content and publishing in the blog ghetto, like NYTimes.com does, why not make that the WHOLE site?"
Andy Baio : What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About the Web - great post about the Washington Post being held back by their print editions and mindset [via]
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7 month ago
joshua : Random Etc. - Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About
Richard Rutter : Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About - Aide-memoire.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Social Software: It's Not New, And It Includes e-Mail... - If we fail to acknowledge the lineage of social software in terms of its past (e.g., e-mail), present (e.g., blogs, wikis) and future - then we ignore many of the lessons learned along the way and we introduce the chance that we will repeat past mistakes.
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8 month ago
tehu : Textism: Alright. - Textism new chapter : back in France for love affairs.
Richard Rutter : Textism returns! - One the best and original blogs, and one which got me blogging.
Kellan : Textism: Alright. - The world is better for having Dean Allen in it. I missed Textism. #
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8 month ago
nelson : 1993 web log - I miss the old "What's new with NCSA Mosaic"
deusx : What's New! June 1993 - Sheesh, a blog with no RSS feed. Fail!
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9 month ago
nelson : Photoshop disasters - awesome collection of image editing mishaps
fastclemmy : Photoshop Disasters - Photoshop Disasters by fastclemmy & 1 other(s) photoshop blog pictures hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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Rod Begbie : Word Aligned - Excellent geekyblog recommended to me by a co-worker. Interesting articles, which delve into algorithms and some of the guts of Python I never consider. [via] #
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veen : John Gruber: A Mix of the Technical, the Artful, the Thoughtful, and the Absurd - "Leaving off the day before with something specific in mind for what to do next is an enormous aid to getting going."
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10 month ago
adamrg : Indecision 2008: Mitt Romney: Powering Doooowwwwnn... - t's not the same watching the Mike Huckabee's of the world; they don't know. They're innocent and befuddled by numbers. They still believe in miracles, fairies and affordable unicorn burgers.
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10 month ago
gleuschk : Damn Interesting » The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth - this is my new very-favorite blog. an astounding story, still relevant, about power and corruption and lack of foresight.
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10 month ago
gleuschk : Airplane on a Treadmill Definitive Analysis - and that should end that (but it won't)
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10 month ago
gleuschk : ruhlman.com: Guest Blogging: A Bourdain Throwdown - entertaining vitriol
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11 month ago
Andy Baio : Adam "Everyware" Greenfield self-publishing his new book - three cheers for cutting out middlemen; pre-orders are now available via Paypal
veen : New day rising « Adam Greenfield - "[W]e’re going to try a little experiment. We’re going to publish my next book, 'The City Is Here For You To Use,' ourselves."
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11 month ago
adamrg : Andrew Olmsted: Final Post - .
Andy Baio : Army Major Andrew Olmsted's final post - blogging from the front lines of the war, he was the first casualty of 2008 [via]
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11 month ago
gleuschk : The Perfect Pantry: Szechuan peppercorns - re-legalized in 2005!
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