http://del.icio.us/aehso : LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
What a cool archive of world history...
http://del.icio.us/hublicious : LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
http://del.icio.us/tbyfield : LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Andy Baio : LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google
millions of high-res photos, most never published
(Tags: image images magazine photography research search)
Justin Mason : Wooden Brain
MRI scan, pasted onto a block of wooden bricks. want
Rod Begbie : Wooden Brain
MRI scans + wooden cubes = Interactive slicing and dicing of the human brain. Awesome!
blackbeltjones : Neil Fraser: News: Wooden Brain
(Tags: 3d brains bricks craft infovis infoviz mri neuroscience puzzle scans sculpture want wood)
http://del.icio.us/topgold : Twixenate ~ Twitter Profile Picture Editor
@walter shows another excellent use of the Twitter API.
http://del.icio.us/walterh : Twitter Profile Picture Editor
Does what it says in the title. Edit your twitter avatar image easily.
Justin Mason : Twixenate
Walter'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
(Tags: @sxoop avatar editing editor image-macros images picture pixenate profile pxn8 twitter x_ref125sm)
http://del.icio.us/lee : Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center - HotHardware
Got your Bond-villain server farm right here.
http://del.icio.us/negatendo : Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center
Coolest NOC ever.
n0wak : Sweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center - HotHardware
dang
(Tags: Architecture Awesome Design Geekery Tech architecture design net networking top)
Andy Baio : Jack Handey's The Plan
it's foolproof [via]
Rod Begbie : Shouts & Murmurs: The Plan
A *nearly* foolproof plan by Jack Handey. "The plan isn’t foolproof. For it to work, certain things must happen:"
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http://del.icio.us/nelson : Bad ballots
Great examples of the kinds of things that go wrong in election ballots
splodinvark : MPR: Challenged ballots: You be the judge
Representatives from the campaigns of Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken have been challenging ballots across the state. It's your turn to play election judge. Tell us how you would rule in the case of these challenged ballots.
(Tags: election hci politics usa userinterface via:metafilter)
Andy Baio : The Big Picture on the California wildfires
also: first-person coverage on Twitter and YouTube, like this freeway on fire and aftermath
ignatz : California wildfires (yet again) - The Big Picture - Boston.com
what a great apocalypse
(Tags: california fire news photography usa wildfire)
http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur : EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
http://del.icio.us/fozbaca : EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
(Tags: AJAX Collaboration Design Editor JavaScript Online Web Writing collaborative document editing productivity wiki)
http://del.icio.us/hublicious : DBSlayer - Trac
Jeremy Zawodny : DBSlayer
"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's simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web framework you choose"
(Tags: architecture craigslist database json mysql nytimes performance programming proxy scaling server)
http://del.icio.us/nelson : Obama / Cotton
Interesting correlation
http://del.icio.us/werty : 330 - From Pickin' Cotton to Pickin' Presidents: Strange Maps
Love the information correlation in these maps
(Tags: cottons elections interesting politics race slavery)
http://del.icio.us/nelson : Atari Adventure for iPhone
classic Atari 2600 game ported
Andy Baio : Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app
related: Chasing Ghosts will finally be released on BitTorrent Showtime in December [via]
(Tags: 2600 adventure atari games iphone via:Waxy)
http://del.icio.us/aehso : Engineers Rule - Forbes.com
Superb piece on the engineering lead corporate culture in Honda.
http://del.icio.us/pierce : Engineers Rule - Forbes.com
On Honda's engineering culture.
(Tags: business culture engineering environment honda lean technology via:aehso)
http://del.icio.us/negatendo : Let me google that for you
Nice. Better and more linkable than justfuckinggoogleit.com.
Rod Begbie : Let me google that for you
Awesome -- a more polite version of justfuckinggoogleit.com!
(Tags: google humor search tools web)
http://del.icio.us/infovore : He has no words and must design « Magical Nihilism
"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." Not too annoyed I missed this, given Matt's comments.
warrenellis : He has no words and must design « Magical Nihilism
"(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."
(Tags: culture design games lecture media notes petermolyneux talk)
http://del.icio.us/walterh : Stevey's Blog Rants: Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs
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's most powerful, advanced editing environment to millions of people. Neat.
Jeremy Zawodny : Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs
the dude is crazy, I tell you... crazy!
(Tags: coding elisp emacs javascript language lisp steveyegge toread)
http://del.icio.us/aehso : Blaine Lourd Profile - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com
If you put a thousand people in barrels and push them over Niagara Falls," one of them says, "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.
http://del.icio.us/pierce : The Evolution of an Investor - Blaine Lourd Profile
(Tags: business economics finance money news via:aehso wallstreet)
http://del.icio.us/eirepreneur : Twitter Profile Picture Editor
http://del.icio.us/walterh : Twitter Profile Picture Editor
Does what it says in the title. Edit your twitter avatar image easily.
(Tags: avatar editor picture profile twitter)
Andy Baio : Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN
very complementary with S3
Justin Mason : Amazon CloudFront
Amazon's new CDN enhancement to S3; 17c per GB (plus an initial 10c/GB "origin fetch" 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
(Tags: amazon aws caching cdn cloud cloudfront hosting http web)
http://del.icio.us/negatendo : Great Caesar's ghost!
No. Way! "During the conversation, apparently Zero Wing came up. You know, the Sega Genesis video game. I don't know how. And apparently, my friend made the off-hand comment of 'All your base are belong to us'. And Obama leaned forward in his chair, quirked his eyebrow a bit, and responded 'What you say?'"
n0wak : Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Great Caesar's ghost!
"my friend made the off-hand comment of 'All your base are belong to us'. And Obama leaned forward in his chair, quirked his eyebrow a bit, and responded 'What you say?'"
(Tags: Geekery Meme Politics cool geek obama politics via:revgeorge)
http://del.icio.us/lhl : Social Patterns Wiki
meta-collection of design patterns
http://del.icio.us/rabble : Main Page - Social Patterns
(Tags: design designpatterns interaction patterns reference socialmedia socialsoftware toread usability web2.0)
http://del.icio.us/nelson : Thomas Kinkade formula
Direction to filmmakers: be insipid in 16 easy steps
ignatz : Thomas Kinkade's 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck: Culture and Celebrity: vanityfair.com
our foremost painter of light has guidelines on how to make movies
(Tags: art culture failure film ha kinkade movie painting thomaskinkade via:metafilter)
http://del.icio.us/bldgblog : TypePad's Journalist Bailout Program
http://del.icio.us/werty : TypePad - Why Blog - Journalist Bailout Program
Love
(Tags: blog blogs business economics humor journalism writing)
http://del.icio.us/werty : Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy | The A.V. Club
Great, great, great album review, and by "album" I mean "15-year explosion of finality"
Andy Baio : Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy
mostly posting this just to beat Rex to it
(Tags: music writing)
http://del.icio.us/infovore : The Brainy Gamer: Second thoughts
"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't think I'm the only gamer who behaves this way." 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.
http://del.icio.us/nelson : Fallout design
Interesting commentary on how the game and narrative work
(Tags: choice design fallout freedom games narrative openworld rpg)
http://del.icio.us/nelson : Google Deadly
Only product Google has launched that made me completely think WTF? Guess it's not a success.
Andy Baio : Google to shut down Lively next month
the most baffling of all Google products, this one is closing after less than six months
(Tags: deadpool google lively)
Andy Baio : Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch
no, raunchy photos don't accidentally attach themselves to outbound email
Rod Begbie : Pictures automatically attach to e-mail?
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!"
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Andy Baio : Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld
good writing in a nice design from Brandon Boyer, former news editor of Gamasutra
n0wak : Boing Boing: Offworld
What the world needs now is another gaming weblog like I need a hole in my head
(Tags: Gaming Weblog)
Andy Baio : JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash
through a hack, it even works in IE 6
ignatz : JS-909
Roland JS-909 drum machine simulator in a browser
(Tags: drumming emulators music via:ethan_t_hein webtoys)
http://del.icio.us/aehso : Status Ireland: Irish Statistics - property house price statistics for ireland
Good stats source for Irish society metrics.
http://del.icio.us/pierce : Status Ireland: Irish Statistics - property house price statistics for ireland
Ouch.
(Tags: climate finance ireland irish news population property statistics via:aehso)
Andy Baio : Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation
my favorite was Space Mountain Snob
Les Orchard : Dollarshort: The Definition of a Slow News Day
"I could go all defensive about this piece on Valleywag about our extravagant Disneyland trip, but I won't. Instead, I'll be gracious and help Owen during these troubled times for Valleywag. Here's a couple of story ideas based on a few photos from our weekend. Enjoy! "
(Tags: disneyland funny parody sixapart trott valleywag)