3 month ago
Rod Begbie : Most complex crop circle ever discovered in British fields - Telegraph - This should be the calling card for xkcd geohashing meetups. [via] #
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5 month ago
Rod Begbie : COBOL ON COGS - COBOL ON COGS IS AN OPEN-SOURCE WEB FRAMEWORK THAT AIMS AT MAKING LEGACY INTEGRATION AS EASY, FUN AND LUCRATIVE AS FIXING YEAR 2000 BUGS. [via] #
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6 month ago
deusx : Create RSS feeds from system log files | Mac Geekery - "With the advent of RSS readers that can use so-called “local feeds” for various reasons, it was inevitable that some code monkey would convert his 250K system.log file to RSS."
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6 month ago
wearehugh : SparkFun Electronics: Portable Rotary Phone - Red
Jeremy Zawodny : Portable Rotary Phone - Portable Rotary Phone: just add sim card and go... heh!
Rod Begbie : Port-O-Rotary - Your very own red rotary phone, retrofitted with cellular access, a battery and a SIM card slot. Just the thing for answering at 3am when you're on the go. [via] #
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : iPhone stopwatch hits 1,000 hours - 41.666 days later... [via]
Rod Begbie : iPhone Stopwatch hits 1,000 hours - What happens when the iPhone stopwatch runs for 41 days and 16 hours. [via] #
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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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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : Amazon Kindle Real-Life Review (Verdict: Lightweight, Long Lasting and Easy to Grip... In Bed) - Best review I've seen of the Kindle so far. I'd be tempted to get one, but for the much-noted DRM restrictions. If I'm unable to "lend" or "borrow" e-books I've purchased, like I currently can with dead-tree, then it's of no interest to me. #
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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! | Technology | The Guardian - Stephen Fry reviews the iPhone for The Grauniad. "In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the joy. The jouissance as Roland Barthes liked to sa #
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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : ThinkGeek :: Ambient Forecasting Umbrella - I've been fancying getting a "gust buster" umbrella for a while. Getting one with a "Hey! You should bring me along today!" alerting handle sounds even better. #
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - I must confess that I have similarly designed heuristics and strategies for the T, as well as lane positioning on the Mass Pike, but I've never been geeky enough to write them down. [via] #
philgyford : Meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - Meg Pickard on the hierarchy of positions in a Hammersmith & City Line carriage. It annoys me that I already know this stuff. I don't want to.
plasticbag : Meg Pickard on the natural heirarchy of seats on the tube... - I don't agree with some of what she says - the idea of being trapped by the end door with the window open in a train would appall me. Hard to escape. Otherwise though, desperately and depressingly insightful.
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jonhicks : Oxford Geek Nights - 11th April 2007 - The next Geek Night is announced! I'll be doing a 15minute presentation on what typefaces are HOT and NOT this year.
Rod Begbie : Oxford Geek Nights - This looks like a format that'd be worth replicating in Boston. Informal meetups with scheduled 5 or 15 minute presentations, focused on cool web technology. [via] #
Simon Willison : Oxford Geek Night videos - Oxford Geek Night videos. The videos from the last Oxford Geek Night have now been posted.
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22 month ago
Rod Begbie : The first smart rabbit - Nabaztag - I've decided that the thing missing most from my life is a wi-fi enabled smart rabbit. Gonna get a Nabaztag/tag when it gets released later this month. #
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Rod Begbie : The first smart rabbit - Nabaztag - I've decided that the thing missing most from my life is a wi-fi enabled smart rabbit. Gonna get a Nabaztag/tag when it gets released later this month. #
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Rod Begbie : The Device Patented Process Indicating Apparatus ::Home:: - Gorgeously olde-looking "device". Use the gauges, glowing test-tube and red LED to display whatever values take your fancy. [via] #
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24 month ago
Cameron Moll : Indexed - Imagine trying to explain the world in which we live using only 3x5 index cards and (mostly) Venn diagrams. Behold Indexed.
Rod Begbie : indexed - Venn diagram humour. Pretty good. [via] #
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : SnapStream Blog » Project Hoover: Suck up every TV show in the new fall season, be your own TV critic - Build yourself an 11-tuner DVR so you can record every new show this season without having to think about it. [via] #
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26 month ago
merlinmann : Self-destruct Button USB Hub | Uncrate - Add extra USB ports while feeling like a crazed James Bond villain.
Rod Begbie : Self-destruct Button USB Hub | Uncrate - Pretend to be an evil villain whilst hooking up your digital camera. [via] #
Matthew M. Boedicker : self-destruct button USB hub - (via del.icio.us/merlinmann) [via]
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26 month ago
Simon Willison : Holux GPSlim (GR-236) Review - Matt Biddulph has one of these. They're awesome.
plasticbag : A pretty stunningly glowing review of the Holux GPSlim (GR-236) GPS unit - I need to get me one of these. I have no idea what to do with it, but it's pretty fascinatingly awesome...
Rod Begbie : Holux GPSlim (GR-236) Review - Tom Coates's ravings about this Bluetooth GPS receiver got me all excited, so I've ordered one for myself. $90 is a pretty good deal, since I have a cellphone, PDA and laptop that will all work with it. [via] #
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27 month ago
Jason Shellen : Filming locations of The OC - Finally technology that fills a dire need! #
Rod Begbie : My drive home tonight - Stupid GPS tricks. Captured with GETrack. #
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28 month ago
Nelson Minar : Animator's apprentice - Cute animation (via Populicious)
Rod Begbie : Animator vs. Animation - Flash objects fight back. [via] #
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28 month ago
jkottke : If you've got a Powerbook or MacBook with the built-in motion sensor, you can turn it into a lightsaber with MacSaber - If you've got a Powerbook or MacBook with the built-in motion sensor, you can turn it into a lightsaber with MacSaber. Didn't work too well with my Powerbook, but what a cool idea. (thx, jon)
Rod Begbie : MacSaber: Turn Your Mac Into A Jedi Weapon - Hah! Using the motion-sensor built-in to recent Mac laptops to synthesize lightsaber noises. Genius! [via] #
joshua : MacSaber: Turn Your Mac Into A Jedi Weapon
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28 month ago
Rod Begbie : M-Systems - SATA Products - mSSD Serial ATA 2.5" - 2.5" solid-state SATA drives. How long until these are cheap enough to use in laptops? #
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30 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : What's New in Python 2.5 - What's New in Python 2.5: I really, really, really need to learn me some Py one of these days... or years.
Rod Begbie : What's New in Python 2.5 [via] #
Nelson Minar : New in Python 2.5 - Quick summary (via Zawodny, who really should learn some Py)
Aquarion : What's New in Python 2.5
wearehugh : What's New in Python 2.5
jcgregorio : What's New in Python 2.5
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30 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : tunneling ssh over http - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
Rod Begbie : DAG: Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S) - Neat hack for the upcoming (I'm sure) day when I'm behind a firewall that blocks port 22. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S) - Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S): Neat Trick!
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30 month ago
Rod Begbie : Zazzle.com - 'Architecture Help Dark T-Shirt' T-Shirt - Spotted at ETech. Made me chuckle. #
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