http://taint.org/spicylinks/ Spicylinks - Level 1 en-us jm-spicylinks@jmason.org http://images.google.com/hosted/life <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/aehso">http://del.icio.us/aehso</a> : <span class=sl_title>LIFE photo archive hosted by Google</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>What a cool archive of world history...</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/hublicious">http://del.icio.us/hublicious</a> : <span class=sl_title>LIFE photo archive hosted by Google</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/tbyfield">http://del.icio.us/tbyfield</a> : <span class=sl_title>LIFE photo archive hosted by Google</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>millions of high-res photos, most never published &nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: image images magazine photography research search)</p> 2008-11-20T03:28:34Z image images magazine photography research search http://neil.fraser.name/news/2008/01/04/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/jm">Justin Mason</a> : <span class=sl_title>Wooden Brain</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>MRI scan, pasted onto a block of wooden bricks. want</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.groovymother.com/">Rod Begbie</a> : <span class=sl_title>Wooden Brain</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>MRI scans + wooden cubes = Interactive slicing and dicing of the human brain. Awesome!</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/blackbeltjones">blackbeltjones</a> : <span class=sl_title>Neil Fraser: News: Wooden Brain</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: 3d brains bricks craft infovis infoviz mri neuroscience puzzle scans sculpture want wood)</p> 2008-11-17T00:31:30Z 3d brains bricks craft infovis infoviz mri neuroscience puzzle scans sculpture want wood http://walterhiggins.net/projects/twixenate.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/topgold">http://del.icio.us/topgold</a> : <span class=sl_title>Twixenate ~ Twitter Profile Picture Editor</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>@walter shows another excellent use of the Twitter API.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/walterh">http://del.icio.us/walterh</a> : <span class=sl_title>Twitter Profile Picture Editor</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Does what it says in the title. Edit your twitter avatar image easily.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/jm">Justin Mason</a> : <span class=sl_title>Twixenate</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Walter&#039;s Twitter profile pic editing tool; enter your username and use the Pixenate image-editing tools to hack at your profile pic, then re-upload -- all from the browser. great demo of Pixenate</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: @sxoop avatar editing editor image-macros images picture pixenate profile pxn8 twitter x_ref125sm)</p> 2008-11-19T12:08:11Z @sxoop avatar editing editor image-macros images picture pixenate profile pxn8 twitter x_ref125sm http://hothardware.com/News/Swedens-UltraModern-Underground-Data-Center/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/lee">http://del.icio.us/lee</a> : <span class=sl_title>Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center - HotHardware</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Got your Bond-villain server farm right here.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/negatendo">http://del.icio.us/negatendo</a> : <span class=sl_title>Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Coolest NOC ever.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/n0wak">n0wak</a> : <span class=sl_title>Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center - HotHardware</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>dang</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: Architecture Awesome Design Geekery Tech architecture design net networking top)</p> 2008-11-18T16:59:13Z Architecture Awesome Design Geekery Tech architecture design net networking top http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/11/24/081124sh_shouts_handey <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Jack Handey's The Plan</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>it's foolproof [<a href="http://groovymother.com/2008/nov/19/shouts-murmurs-plan/#comments">via</a>]&nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.groovymother.com/">Rod Begbie</a> : <span class=sl_title>Shouts & Murmurs: The Plan</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>A *nearly* foolproof plan by Jack Handey. "The plan isn’t foolproof. For it to work, certain things must happen:"</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: )</p> 2008-11-20T01:13:19Z http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/nelson">http://del.icio.us/nelson</a> : <span class=sl_title>Bad ballots</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Great examples of the kinds of things that go wrong in election ballots</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/splodinvark">splodinvark</a> : <span class=sl_title>MPR: Challenged ballots: You be the judge</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Representatives from the campaigns of Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken have been challenging ballots across the state. It&#039;s your turn to play election judge. Tell us how you would rule in the case of these challenged ballots.</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: election hci politics usa userinterface via:metafilter)</p> 2008-11-20T17:59:29Z election hci politics usa userinterface via:metafilter http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/california_wildfires_yet_again.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>The Big Picture on the California wildfires</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>also: first-person coverage on <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+burned+down+home+OR+house">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?uploaded=w&search_query=fires&search_sort=video_view_count">YouTube</a>, like this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seo0d_Uy2oY">freeway on fire</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Drv1I_2-mw">aftermath</a> &nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ignatz">ignatz</a> : <span class=sl_title>California wildfires (yet again) - The Big Picture - Boston.com</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>what a great apocalypse</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: california fire news photography usa wildfire)</p> 2008-11-18T02:16:01Z california fire news photography usa wildfire http://etherpad.com/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur">http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur</a> : <span class=sl_title>EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/fozbaca">http://del.icio.us/fozbaca</a> : <span class=sl_title>EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: AJAX Collaboration Design Editor JavaScript Online Web Writing collaborative document editing productivity wiki)</p> 2008-11-19T19:44:45Z AJAX Collaboration Design Editor JavaScript Online Web Writing collaborative document editing productivity wiki http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer/wiki <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/hublicious">http://del.icio.us/hublicious</a> : <span class=sl_title>DBSlayer - Trac</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/jzawodn">Jeremy Zawodny</a> : <span class=sl_title>DBSlayer</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>&quot;a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP, meaning it&#039;s simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web framework you choose&quot;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: architecture craigslist database json mysql nytimes performance programming proxy scaling server)</p> 2008-11-18T17:34:52Z architecture craigslist database json mysql nytimes performance programming proxy scaling server http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/nelson">http://del.icio.us/nelson</a> : <span class=sl_title>Obama / Cotton</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Interesting correlation</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/werty">http://del.icio.us/werty</a> : <span class=sl_title>330 - From Pickin' Cotton to Pickin' Presidents: Strange Maps</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Love the information correlation in these maps</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: cottons elections interesting politics race slavery)</p> 2008-11-16T05:20:38Z cottons elections interesting politics race slavery http://peterhirschberg.blogspot.com/2008/11/adventure-for-iphone.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/nelson">http://del.icio.us/nelson</a> : <span class=sl_title>Atari Adventure for iPhone</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>classic Atari 2600 game ported</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>related: Chasing Ghosts will <a href="http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000747.html">finally be released</a> on <strike>BitTorrent</strike> Showtime in December [<a href="http://driph.com/words/2008/11/link-love-11-15-08/">via</a>]&nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: 2600 adventure atari games iphone via:Waxy)</p> 2008-11-18T18:04:24Z 2600 adventure atari games iphone via:Waxy http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0904/112.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/aehso">http://del.icio.us/aehso</a> : <span class=sl_title>Engineers Rule - Forbes.com</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Superb piece on the engineering lead corporate culture in Honda.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/pierce">http://del.icio.us/pierce</a> : <span class=sl_title>Engineers Rule - Forbes.com</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>On Honda&#039;s engineering culture.</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: business culture engineering environment honda lean technology via:aehso)</p> 2008-11-19T05:25:47Z business culture engineering environment honda lean technology via:aehso http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/negatendo">http://del.icio.us/negatendo</a> : <span class=sl_title>Let me google that for you</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Nice. Better and more linkable than justfuckinggoogleit.com.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.groovymother.com/">Rod Begbie</a> : <span class=sl_title>Let me google that for you</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Awesome -- a more polite version of justfuckinggoogleit.com!</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: google humor search tools web)</p> 2008-11-19T21:02:39Z google humor search tools web http://magicalnihilism.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/he-has-no-words-and-must-design/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/infovore">http://del.icio.us/infovore</a> : <span class=sl_title>He has no words and must design « Magical Nihilism</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>&quot;The next generation on from them - e.g. Jonathan Smith, Doug Church and of course Greg Costikyan (from whose classic essay on developing such a critical language the title of this post is lifted) are always eloquent, passionate and insightful speakers and spokespeople for their medium. Unlike Molyneux.&quot; Not too annoyed I missed this, given Matt&#039;s comments.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/warrenellis">warrenellis</a> : <span class=sl_title>He has no words and must design « Magical Nihilism</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>&quot;(Peter Molyneux)... didn’t have the critical language to describe what he (or more correctly, his teams) had created. He isn’t nearly as literate in why his own games work as the current generation playing his games.&quot;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: culture design games lecture media notes petermolyneux talk)</p> 2008-11-20T09:54:24Z culture design games lecture media notes petermolyneux talk http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/walterh">http://del.icio.us/walterh</a> : <span class=sl_title>Stevey's Blog Rants: Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Ejacs is just a toy, but I think it also shows a kind of promise. Scripting Emacs using JavaScript (if anyone ever actually implements it) could be really interesting. It could open up the world&#039;s most powerful, advanced editing environment to millions of people. Neat.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/jzawodn">Jeremy Zawodny</a> : <span class=sl_title>Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>the dude is crazy, I tell you... crazy!</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: coding elisp emacs javascript language lisp steveyegge toread)</p> 2008-11-17T11:17:51Z coding elisp emacs javascript language lisp steveyegge toread http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2007/11/19/Blaine-Lourd-Profile <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/aehso">http://del.icio.us/aehso</a> : <span class=sl_title>Blaine Lourd Profile - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>If you put a thousand people in barrels and push them over Niagara Falls,&quot; one of them says, &quot;some of them will survive. And if you take those guys and push them over again, some of them will survive. And they’ll write books about how to survive being pushed over Niagara Falls in a barrel.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/pierce">http://del.icio.us/pierce</a> : <span class=sl_title>The Evolution of an Investor - Blaine Lourd Profile</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: business economics finance money news via:aehso wallstreet)</p> 2008-11-19T06:57:59Z business economics finance money news via:aehso wallstreet http://walterhiggins.net/projects/avatar.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur">http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur</a> : <span class=sl_title>Twitter Profile Picture Editor</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/walterh">http://del.icio.us/walterh</a> : <span class=sl_title>Twitter Profile Picture Editor</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Does what it says in the title. Edit your twitter avatar image easily.</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: avatar editor picture profile twitter)</p> 2008-11-19T09:22:25Z avatar editor picture profile twitter http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>very complementary with S3 &nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/jm">Justin Mason</a> : <span class=sl_title>Amazon CloudFront</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Amazon&#039;s new CDN enhancement to S3; 17c per GB (plus an initial 10c/GB &quot;origin fetch&quot; charge), vs 10c/GB with basic S3. no upfront setup required, beyond S3 itself. Uses HTTP cache-control headers. nice! looking forward to playing with this</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: amazon aws caching cdn cloud cloudfront hosting http web)</p> 2008-11-18T14:37:36Z amazon aws caching cdn cloud cloudfront hosting http web http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=8269#8273 <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/negatendo">http://del.icio.us/negatendo</a> : <span class=sl_title>Great Caesar's ghost!</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>No. Way! &quot;During the conversation, apparently Zero Wing came up. You know, the Sega Genesis video game. I don&#039;t know how. And apparently, my friend made the off-hand comment of &#039;All your base are belong to us&#039;. And Obama leaned forward in his chair, quirked his eyebrow a bit, and responded &#039;What you say?&#039;&quot;</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/n0wak">n0wak</a> : <span class=sl_title>Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Great Caesar's ghost!</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>&quot;my friend made the off-hand comment of &#039;All your base are belong to us&#039;. And Obama leaned forward in his chair, quirked his eyebrow a bit, and responded &#039;What you say?&#039;&quot;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: Geekery Meme Politics cool geek obama politics via:revgeorge)</p> 2008-11-16T17:21:15Z Geekery Meme Politics cool geek obama politics via:revgeorge http://www.designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/lhl">http://del.icio.us/lhl</a> : <span class=sl_title>Social Patterns Wiki</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>meta-collection of design patterns</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/rabble">http://del.icio.us/rabble</a> : <span class=sl_title>Main Page - Social Patterns</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: design designpatterns interaction patterns reference socialmedia socialsoftware toread usability web2.0)</p> 2008-11-19T07:36:36Z design designpatterns interaction patterns reference socialmedia socialsoftware toread usability web2.0 http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2008/11/14/thomas-kincades-16-guidelines-for-making-stuff-suck.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/nelson">http://del.icio.us/nelson</a> : <span class=sl_title>Thomas Kinkade formula</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Direction to filmmakers: be insipid in 16 easy steps</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ignatz">ignatz</a> : <span class=sl_title>Thomas Kinkade's 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck: Culture and Celebrity: vanityfair.com</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>our foremost painter of light has guidelines on how to make movies</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: art culture failure film ha kinkade movie painting thomaskinkade via:metafilter)</p> 2008-11-18T23:24:14Z art culture failure film ha kinkade movie painting thomaskinkade via:metafilter http://www.typepad.com/blogging/bailout.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/bldgblog">http://del.icio.us/bldgblog</a> : <span class=sl_title>TypePad's Journalist Bailout Program</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/werty">http://del.icio.us/werty</a> : <span class=sl_title>TypePad - Why Blog - Journalist Bailout Program</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Love</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: blog blogs business economics humor journalism writing)</p> 2008-11-18T19:58:50Z blog blogs business economics humor journalism writing http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/chuck_klosterman_reviews <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/werty">http://del.icio.us/werty</a> : <span class=sl_title>Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy | The A.V. Club</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Great, great, great album review, and by &quot;album&quot; I mean &quot;15-year explosion of finality&quot;</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>mostly posting this just to beat <a href="http://fimoculous.com/">Rex</a> to it &nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: music writing)</p> 2008-11-19T22:53:37Z music writing http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/11/second-thoughts-on-emergent-narrative.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/infovore">http://del.icio.us/infovore</a> : <span class=sl_title>The Brainy Gamer: Second thoughts</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>&quot;But succeed or fail, my awareness of game design is omnipresent, and I like it that way. It enriches my experience of playing. The in-world experience remains my first thought, but my second thought is nearly always focused on the system, especially when that system demonstrates originality or beautiful execution. I don&#039;t think I&#039;m the only gamer who behaves this way.&quot; No, but it requires a certain degree of awareness of the medium to think about the second; the first is much more immediate, and the second is about an engagements with games, rather than a particular game.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/nelson">http://del.icio.us/nelson</a> : <span class=sl_title>Fallout design</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Interesting commentary on how the game and narrative work</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: choice design fallout freedom games narrative openworld rpg)</p> 2008-11-19T18:40:41Z choice design fallout freedom games narrative openworld rpg http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/lively-no-more.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/nelson">http://del.icio.us/nelson</a> : <span class=sl_title>Google Deadly</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Only product Google has launched that made me completely think WTF? Guess it&#039;s not a success.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Google to shut down Lively next month</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>the most baffling of all Google products, <a href="http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html">this one</a> is closing after less than six months &nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: deadpool google lively)</p> 2008-11-20T16:33:03Z deadpool google lively http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1786497 <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>no, raunchy photos don't accidentally attach themselves to outbound email &nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.groovymother.com/">Rod Begbie</a> : <span class=sl_title>Pictures automatically attach to e-mail?</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Woman finds sent email from husband to another woman with attached photo of him having a hand shandy. Husband claims this is a known iPhone bug. She turns to the Apple support boards for confirmation. "The future of my marriage depends on this answer!"</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: )</p> 2008-11-18T06:42:53Z http://www.offworld.com/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>good writing in a nice design from <a href="http://www.brandonnn.com/">Brandon Boyer</a>, former news editor of Gamasutra &nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/n0wak">n0wak</a> : <span class=sl_title>Boing Boing: Offworld</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>What the world needs now is another gaming weblog like I need a hole in my head</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: Gaming Weblog)</p> 2008-11-18T03:15:15Z Gaming Weblog http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/JS-909/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>through <a href="http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2008/11/17/">a hack</a>, it even works in IE 6 &nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ignatz">ignatz</a> : <span class=sl_title>JS-909</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Roland JS-909 drum machine simulator in a browser</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: drumming emulators music via:ethan_t_hein webtoys)</p> 2008-11-19T00:37:24Z drumming emulators music via:ethan_t_hein webtoys http://www.statusireland.com/statistics/property-house-price-statistics-for-ireland/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/aehso">http://del.icio.us/aehso</a> : <span class=sl_title>Status Ireland: Irish Statistics - property house price statistics for ireland</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Good stats source for Irish society metrics.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/pierce">http://del.icio.us/pierce</a> : <span class=sl_title>Status Ireland: Irish Statistics - property house price statistics for ireland</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Ouch.</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: climate finance ireland irish news population property statistics via:aehso)</p> 2008-11-19T23:17:03Z climate finance ireland irish news population property statistics via:aehso http://www.dollarshort.org/ds/2008/11/the-definition-of-a-slow-news-day.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>my favorite was <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mena/3039553260/">Space Mountain Snob</a> &nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/blog/">Les Orchard</a> : <span class=sl_title>Dollarshort: The Definition of a Slow News Day</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>&quot;I could go all defensive about this piece on Valleywag about our extravagant Disneyland trip, but I won&#039;t. Instead, I&#039;ll be gracious and help Owen during these troubled times for Valleywag. Here&#039;s a couple of story ideas based on a few photos from our weekend. Enjoy! &quot;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: disneyland funny parody sixapart trott valleywag)</p> 2008-11-19T01:57:24Z disneyland funny parody sixapart trott valleywag https://m.freshbooks.com/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/vielmetti">vielmetti</a> : <span class=sl_title>The Future home of FreshBooks Mobile Edi Client Login Page</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>unreleased entry point for mobile phone version of freshbooks</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: accounting finance freshbooks mobile money not-quite-ready-yet)</p> 2008-11-20T07:30:22Z accounting finance freshbooks mobile money not-quite-ready-yet http://www.rin.ac.uk/what-cost <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/hublicious">http://del.icio.us/hublicious</a> : <span class=sl_title>what does it cost and who pays? scholarly communications globally and in the uk | RIN</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: 2008-12-11 cal)</p> 2008-11-17T13:10:15Z 2008-12-11 cal http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/lhl">http://del.icio.us/lhl</a> : <span class=sl_title>ChucK => Strongly-timed, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>ChucK is a new (and developing) audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, performance, and now, analysis - fully supported on MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. ChucK presents a new time-based, concurrent programming model that&#039;s highly precise and expressive (we call this strongly-timed), as well as dynamic control rates, and the ability to add and modify code on-the-fly. In addition, ChucK supports MIDI, OSC, HID device, and multi-channel audio. It&#039;s fun and easy to learn, and offers composers, researchers, and performers a powerful programming tool for building and experimenting with complex audio synthesis/analysis programs, and real-time interactive control.</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: art audio livecoding music osx tools)</p> 2008-11-20T08:56:15Z art audio livecoding music osx tools http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/11/top-60-popular-japanese-words-phrases-of-2008/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/splodinvark">splodinvark</a> : <span class=sl_title>Top 60 popular Japanese words/phrases of 2008 ::: Pink Tentacle</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: culture japan language list slang)</p> 2008-11-20T18:47:34Z culture japan language list slang http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026821.300-dumb-ecoquestions-you-were-afraid-to-ask.html?full=true <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.groovymother.com/">Rod Begbie</a> : <span class=sl_title>Dumb eco-questions you were afraid to ask</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>"Can I put window envelopes in the paper recycling?", "If I'm stuck in a stop-start traffic jam, do I use more petrol turning my car on and off repeatedly or leaving it running?" and other questions I've often pondered.</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: )</p> 2008-11-20T09:24:20Z http://immersivespaces.com/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur">http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur</a> : <span class=sl_title>Immersive Workspaces | Solution | Home</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: 3d collaboration immersive office vw work workspaces)</p> 2008-11-19T15:44:22Z 3d collaboration immersive office vw work workspaces http://publicsuffix.org/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/szarka">http://del.icio.us/szarka</a> : <span class=sl_title>Public Suffix List</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: collaboration dns internet reference)</p> 2008-11-14T23:56:21Z collaboration dns internet reference http://simonwillison.net/2008/Nov/18/hackday/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://simon.incutio.com/">Simon Willison</a> : <span class=sl_title>Notes from Hack Day at The Guardian</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc> <div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2008/11/18/256/notes-from-hack-day-at-the-guardian/">Notes from Hack Day at The Guardian</a>. Our first hack day was a ridiculous amount of fun. Matt’s write-up includes a 15 minute highlight video, which includes my 90 second presentation of my crowdsourcing SVG-powered parliamentary constituencies hack.</p> </div> </span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: )</p> http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/papers/ijcv04.pdf <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/joshua">Joshua Schachter</a> : <span class=sl_title>Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: graphics)</p> 2008-11-14T03:45:59Z graphics http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-245989.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/gnat">gnat</a> : <span class=sl_title>Cloud-computing zombies for $299 per month | Tech News on ZDNet</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>&#039;Fraud as a service&#039;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: cloud security)</p> 2008-11-19T00:28:31Z cloud security http://blog.cdt.org/2008/11/03/global-internet-freedom-through-government-leadership/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/internetfreedom">http://del.icio.us/internetfreedom</a> : <span class=sl_title>Global Internet Freedom Through Government Leadership</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: internetfreedom unitedstates)</p> 2008-11-16T13:51:51Z internetfreedom unitedstates http://fontfeed.com/archives/top-ten-typefaces-used-by-book-design-winners/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/THRILLHO">http://del.icio.us/THRILLHO</a> : <span class=sl_title>Top Ten Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners | The FontFeed</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: design fonts reference)</p> 2008-11-14T08:25:53Z design fonts reference http://www.icc-ccs.org/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=visualization&controller=visualization.googlemap&Itemid=89 <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/warrenellis">warrenellis</a> : <span class=sl_title>Live Piracy Map</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>&quot;This map shows all the piracy and armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre during 2008.&quot;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: crime pol)</p> 2008-11-20T19:55:27Z crime pol http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/11/kentucky-dreami.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/splodinvark">splodinvark</a> : <span class=sl_title>New World Notes: Kentucky Dreaming: AM Radio's Latest Metaverse Installation</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: art secondlife tovisit)</p> 2008-11-20T08:43:08Z art secondlife tovisit http://lotusville.blogspot.com/2008/11/wastetopia.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/bldgblog">http://del.icio.us/bldgblog</a> : <span class=sl_title>Lotusville | Wastetopia</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: Japan infrastructure post-this waste)</p> 2008-11-19T16:28:19Z Japan infrastructure post-this waste http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPlkFPowCc <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Chicken Head Tracking</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>strangely hypnotic, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NXclg93-V8">other birds</a> have the same ability [<a href="http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2008/11/some-great-wiimote-ir-tracking-projects.html">via</a>]&nbsp;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: )</p> 2008-11-20T23:20:46Z http://www.furl.net/item/39981861/forward <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.furl.net/members/lbukys/">lbukys</a> : <span class=sl_title>Economy Recovery Plan - Philip Greenspun</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: )</p> 2008-11-20T13:29:28Z http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-White%20Guilt%20Emancipation%20Declaration&tp_preview=true <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/ignatz">ignatz</a> : <span class=sl_title>White Guilt Emancipation Declaration (@ National Black Republican Association)</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>&quot;We, black American citizens of the United States of America and of the National Black Republican Association, do hereby declare that our fellow white American citizens are now, henceforth and forever more free of White Guilt.&quot;</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: gaaaah politics race usa via:kellyramsey what)</p> 2008-11-19T00:31:57Z gaaaah politics race usa via:kellyramsey what http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719775(VS.71).aspx <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/apathetic">apathetic</a> : <span class=sl_title>Control Execution Lifecycle</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: aspnet microsoft)</p> 2008-11-14T10:18:26Z aspnet microsoft http://richardhulse.blogspot.com/2008/11/free-and-open-source-audio-player.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/gnat">gnat</a> : <span class=sl_title>Richard Hulse: A Free and Open Source Audio Player</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Radio New Zealand&#039;s first open source project: a Javascript-based media player built on jQuery.</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: javascript media nz opensource web)</p> 2008-11-20T20:18:07Z javascript media nz opensource web http://www.kottke.org/08/11/a-matter-of-loaf-and-death <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.kottke.org/">Jason Kottke</a> : <span class=sl_title>A Matter of Loaf and Death</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc><p>A Matter of Loaf and Death, the Wallace and Gromit short <a href="http://kottke.org/07/10/nick-park-and-aardman-animations-are-doing">formerly known as Trouble At' Mill</a>, <a href="http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/forum/read/20652/1">will be shown on the Beeb in the UK at the end of December</a>.</p> <blockquote><p>In this new masterpiece viewers will catch up with Wallace and Gromit who have opened a new bakery -- Top Bun -- and business is booming, not least because a deadly Cereal Killer is targeting all the bakers in town so competition is drying up. Gromit is worried that they may be the next victims but Wallace couldn't care -- he's fallen head over heels in love with Piella Bakewell, former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials. So Gromit is left to run things on his own when he'd much rather be getting better acquainted with Piella's lovely pet poodle Fluffles.</p></blockquote> <p>Rumor is that a US showing will soon follow.</p> (<a href="http://www.kottke.org/08/11/a-matter-of-loaf-and-death">link</a>)</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: )&#x