8 days ago
Andy Baio : Google.org tracking flu spread using search queries - brilliant use of search data; get a flu shot before it gets to your state! [via]
Rod Begbie : Google Flu Trends - Benevolent data-mining of Google's search logs -- but it does raise the question of what else they can predict… Does Google have "insider trading"-esque omnipotence for the whole stock market, for example? [via] #
jcgregorio : Google Flu Trends - Wish it had a feed...
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Waxy.org Redesigns - For the first time since I started blogging in 2002, I've redesigned Waxy.org. Over the last six years, I've grown pretty sick of the old design but never found the time to rework it. Mostly, the changes are cosmetic. Cleaner design, new logo, bigger t
plasticbag : Andy Baio has redesigned Waxy.org and it looks pretty great. - At some point when the current lunacy is over and my teeth are fixed, I have an apartment, Fire Eagle is completely launched, my taxes are done and Web 2.0 Expo and Where 2.0 are over I shall redesign too.
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8 month ago
plasticbag : I'm deeply troubled by Phorm. This seems to be a service that could only be reasonably offered to a site owner, not an ISP... - I mean, otherwise, there's a precedent for surveillance where we just sort of have to take Phorm's word for the idea that they're not tracking personal or private stuff. It seems particularly sinister to me.
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10 month ago
gleuschk : Main Page - Commalg - the Commutative Algebra wiki - a one-man labor of love, looks like. maybe I should lend a hand
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12 month ago
Rod Begbie : Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka: Celebrating ORG's Second Birthday - Danny outlines the achievements of the Open Rights Group in the political and media spheres in the UK. I've been proudly sending them my £5-a-month since they started, and consider it a bargain. You should join them too. #
philgyford : Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka - Celebrating ORG's Second Birthday - The Open Rights Group is doing fantastic things for the UK online world. I joined when they started and if you join now the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust will match your contribution. Go!
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14 month ago
plasticbag : I'm seriously considering getting myself some plasticbag.org branded M&Ms - They're just so totally awesome that I find it astonishing that I don't have them already. God knows what I'd do with them except give them to people at conferences...
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14 month ago
gleuschk : What might an expository mathematical wiki be like? « Gowers’s Weblog - a pretty different beast from the expository wiki I've been pondering for commalg.org
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15 month ago
plasticbag : Spot the Open Rights Group poster in new episodes of the I.T. Crowd! - I haven't really watched the show myself, but perhaps I should do so. Yay, Open Rights Group.
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16 month ago
43folders : A List Apart: Articles: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing - She's right. My team used to call it "blah blah" text, and I'll admit it's something I, for one, have again gotten lazy about. via:Anarchaia
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16 month ago
43folders : Getting Things Done, in Emacs - Emacs implementation of GTD [via Anachaia]
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16 month ago
43folders : bluishorange - "now it's just pictures of food, rss feeds and aggregated links, in 140 characters or less." [via: Mr. Torrez]
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17 month ago
Andy Baio : iPhone Dev Wiki's Latest Summary - daily updates of progress in unlocking and modding the iPhone
43folders : Latest Summary - The iPhone Dev Wiki - Progress updates on hacking the iPhone (via:Waxy.org)
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20 month ago
43folders : Out Box: Elements of E-style: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker - I've actually been trying to wean myself off email exclamation points. They strike me as both needy and spazzy. [via: Kottke.org]
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20 month ago
43folders : A Simple Code - Web Karma, Distilled - Works for me. [via:anarchaia.org]
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20 month ago
43folders : Ask the Wizard: Creating Competitors - "[an open API]...makes it easier for the rest of the world to extend your product or service rather than start competitors." [via:torrez]
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22 month ago
43folders : The Generic Casserole Recipe || kuro5hin.org - Casserole patterns.
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23 month ago
43folders : Scratch - "Scratch is a new programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, games, music, and art." You know, for kids. [via:anarchaia.org]
joshua : Scratch - development environment for children
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23 month ago
43folders : YouTube - Stephin Merritt on Good Day Atlanta - "Good Day, Atlanta." Vapid morning TV is a perfect vehicle for the bubbly sunflower that is Stephin Merritt. [via: what do i know]
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Victor Keegan writes quite glowingly about ORG and MySociety - He points out that he hasn't seen groups quite like these in any other country of the world. I think, after some initial reserve about their first projects, it would be difficult for me to find fault in the work that MySociety have done recently. Bravo.
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24 month ago
43folders : Skeuomorph - Wikipedia - "a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original..." via: David Galbraith
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43folders : cabel.name: Tragedii - "who fished what with the slingshot in the monkey basket now?" (via:mathowie)
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25 month ago
43folders : Dropping the addiction that is irc - "As of last night at 2 am I am attempting to drop my addiction." [via:Anarchaia.org]
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25 month ago
43folders : Tinfoil Hat Linux - "Useful if...The Illuminati are watching your computer..." Love the paranoid penguin icon. [via:Anarchaia.org]
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43folders : Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP 30-inch Wide-Screen Black Flat Panel Monitor - The huge-ass Dell monitor is down to $1,279.20. Damn. Apple's 30" is $1,999 and doesn't include card slots (but does have FW). [via:mathowie]
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26 month ago
plasticbag : The Open Rights Group is looking for a full-time Executive Director - "ORG now needs a full time Executive Director (ED) to build our supporter numbers and expand our activities. The ED reports to the ORG Board, and has the support of an Advisory Council of digital rights experts."
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