5 -- http://www.natpryce.com/articles/000748.html http://delicious.com/negatendo : What do Programmers Feel About their Software? Fun idea for dataviz. Joshua Schachter : What do Programmers Feel About their Software? Affect and emotion analysis of open source commit messages, artistically visualized cobra libre : What do programmers feel about their software? "I've written a little program to find out. It works by extracting the comments from the source code and feeding them into Synesketch, a textual emotion recognition and visualization engine." ignatz : Mistaeks I Hav Made: What do Programmers Feel About their Software? tool that extracts comments from source code and displays its interpretation of the programmers' emotional experience mendel : Mistaeks I Hav Made: What do Programmers Feel About their Software? neat little java tool that draws based on the emotional content of source code comments (Tags: art despair dev emotion graphics java programming software tools via:joshua via:mendel vis visualization) 4 -- http://blog.newspaperclub.co.uk/ http://delicious.com/hublicious : Newspaper Club - A work in progress Andy Baio : Newspaper Club building a customizable newspaper printing service in 60 days; they're using InDesign as the backend   Phil Gyford : Newspaper Club - A work in progress Just down the corridor Russell, Ben and Tom are doing some marvellous things, and sharing their progress. This will be awesome. gnat : Newspaper Club - A work in progress (Tags: 4ip benterrett blogs crowdsourcing journalism media newspaperclub newspapers printing reallyinterestinggroup russelldavies tomtaylor top) 3 -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/30/martin-freeman-alexander-armstrong-sir-clive-sinclair-bbc4-drama Rod Begbie : Battle between ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro to be BBC4 comedy drama The story of Sir Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry is being turned into a one-off BBC comedy-drama. To British nerds of a certain age, this is the most exciting news ever. blackbeltjones : Battle between ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro to be BBC4 comedy drama | Media | guardian.co.uk yoz : Battle between ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro to be BBC4 comedy drama | Media | guardian.co.uk Starring Alexander Armstrong as Sir Clive and Martin Freeman as Chris Curry. I'm looking forward to seeing both the pub slap-fight and the QL advert re-enacted. (via rOD) (Tags: 80s MENTAL Nostalgia computers nostalgia retro sinclair telly top tv uk zxspectrum) 3 -- http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody http://delicious.com/adactio : camen design · Video for Everybody! The smart way to put video on the web: don't choose one single delivery method. http://delicious.com/fozbaca : Video for Everybody! http://delicious.com/tbyfield : camen design · Video for Everybody! (Tags: IE MP4 QuickTime browsers development embed firefox flash h264 html html5 iphone javascript markup ogg reference safari video web) 3 -- http://wonderfullyflawed.com/2009/07/02/get-your-api-right/ http://delicious.com/dano : Get Your API Right « Trek http://delicious.com/rabble : Get Your API Right « Trek vielmetti : Get Your API Right « Trek Every project I’ve worked on in the last two years has heavily involved the use of web APIs. Libersy at the time (no idea about now) had an architecture that was extensively API based, even for communication between internal applications (an architecture I strongly argued against, bee tea dubs). Since then I’ve futzed with web APIs almost exclusively. From very narrow focused uses like University of Michigan’s Bluestream Service, to more broad but still fairly local APIs like the Ann Arbor District Library’s soon-to-be-updated API, all the way to APIs of major web applications like Twitter and Flickr. (Tags: api architecture design howto http rest restful via:trek webservices) 3 -- http://southernfriedscience.com/2009/02/16/the-ecological-disaster-that-is-dolphin-safe-tuna/ http://delicious.com/manuel : The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna "In other words… the only species that “dolphin safe” tuna is good for is dolphins! The bycatch rate for EVERY OTHER species is lower when fishing dolphin-associated tuna vs. floating object associated tuna!" ignatz : The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna « Southern Fried Science Dolphin safe tuna is a classic hippie disaster. Surprise! splodinvark : The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna « Southern Fried Science (Tags: dolphins doom environment failure fish fishing greenpeace tuna via:splodinvark yeesh) 2 -- http://thereifixedit.com/ ignatz : There, I Fixed It. "Epic kludges and adventures in home pwnership." Jerry-rigged and ductaped disasters. splodinvark : There, I Fixed It. epic kludges and adventures in home pwnership (Tags: blog blogs failure ha hacks heh onejoke photos) 2 -- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196479/Pictured-The-battered-bruised-face-burglar-got-wrong-72-year-old-boxer.html Andy Baio : 72-year-old retired boxer beats up knife-wielding knucklehead the inane Facebook photos make this story even more delicious   Les Orchard : Pictured: The battered and bruised face of a burglar who got on the wrong side of a 72-year-old former boxer | Mail Online "The blows were so powerful that McCalium, who had just lunged at Mr Corti with the knife, was left looking like he had been in 'a car accident'." (Tags: boxers burglars crime facebook funny haha lol morons) 2 -- http://2lmc.org/iphone/ http://delicious.com/nedrichards : 2lmc. a word about your iPhone. An old classic. Updated. blackbeltjones : 2lmc. a word about your iPhone. (Tags: 2lmc attention iphone message) 2 -- http://slate.com/id/2213025 http://delicious.com/pierce : Why No More 9/11s? (consolidated version for printout) - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine "I spent the Obama transition asking various terrorism experts why the dire predictions of a 9/11 sequel proved untrue and reviewing the literature on this question. The answers boiled down to eight prevailing theories whose implications range from fairly reassuring to deeply worrying." cshirky : Why No More 9/11s? (consolidated version for printout) - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine (Tags: america culture history iraq news politics psychology religion security slate terrorism toread via:cshirky world) 2 -- http://blog.everyblock.com/2009/jun/30/source/ http://delicious.com/fozbaca : EveryBlock source code released / The EveryBlock Blog Andy Baio : EveryBlock releases source code it was a requirement of their funding from the Knight Foundation   (Tags: @toread Django code journalism news opensource python) 2 -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm http://delicious.com/migurski : Ant mega-colony takes over world "But whenever ants from the main European and Californian super-colonies and those from the largest colony in Japan came into contact, they acted as if they were old friends. These ants rubbed antennae with one another and never became aggressive or tried to avoid one another. In short, they acted as if they all belonged to the same colony, despite living on different continents separated by vast oceans." kevan : BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world "Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another." (Tags: antoverlords ants apocalypse colony doomed genetics globalization micromegafauna via:adamgreenfield world) 2 -- http://pinboard.in/ http://delicious.com/hublicious : Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking Andy Baio : Pinboard, Maciej Ceglowski's lightweight del.icio.us clone on the roadmap: "Get acquired by Yahoo and slowly grow useless"   (Tags: ) 2 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBlUQguvyw http://delicious.com/szarka : YouTube - Sour 'Hibi no neiro' Andy Baio : Sour's "Hibi no Neiro," crowdsourced music video choreographing 64 fans with webcams [via]  (Tags: *best collaboration music video) 2 -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=684332 http://delicious.com/dano : Hacker News | Best Online To-Do Lists Joshua Schachter : Hacker News | Best Online To-Do Lists (Tags: pim toread) 2 -- http://www.marcsteinmetz.com/pages/fluchtstuecke/efluchtstuecke_minis.html ignatz : Marc Steinmetz Photography | Escape Tools Arts and crafts time! Prisoners' escape tools, a nice set. kevan : Marc Steinmetz Photography | Escape Tools Scratch-built tools and weapons. "Shotgun made from iron bedposts; charge made of pieces of lead from curtain tape and match-heads, to be ignited by AA batteries and a broken light bulb." (Tags: design diy germany improvisation prison technology tools via:amuchmoreexotic via:regine) 2 -- http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/Twitter-Architecture http://delicious.com/manuel : Twitter, an Evolving Architecture Justin Mason : Twitter, an Evolving Architecture good info on Twitter's current architecture. lots of memcached (Tags: architecture caching java memcached microblogging performance queue ruby scalability twitter web) 2 -- http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7/32091-the-five-minute-rule-20-years-later/fulltext Jeremy Zawodny : The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later thoughts on the tradeoffs of disk vs memory, etc. Justin Mason : The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later interesting CACM article updating Gray and Putzolu's "Five-Minute Rule" for RAM and disks (which postulated that a 1KB record accessed more frequently than once every 5 mins should be stored in RAM, rather than on disk). modern price/performance indicates that this still holds, once 256KB records are used. The article also suggests that a new tier of persistent flash storage should be considered, adding a new set of 5-minute-rule transitions for 2KB records migrating from RAM to flash (Tags: 5-minute-rule acm caching disk flash jim-gray memory optimization performance programming ram storage toread) 2 -- http://www.fancyfastfood.com/ bos : Fancy Fast Food n0wak : Fancy Fast Food "These photographs show extreme makeovers of actual fast food items purchased at popular fast food restaurants. " (Tags: Food Tumblr Weblog cooking food funny photography) 2 -- http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2009/06/30/shownar/ http://delicious.com/infovore : Pulse Laser: Shownar "Shownar tracks millions of blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, and finds people talking about BBC telly and radio. Then it datamines to see where the conversations are and what shows are surprisingly popular. You can explore the shows at Shownar itself. It’s an experimental prototype we’ve designed and built for the BBC over the last few months. We’ll learn a lot having it in the public eye, and I hope to see it as a key part of discovery and conversation scattered across BBC Online one day." Matt talks about Shownar on Pulse Laser. Phil Gyford : Pulse Laser: Shownar This is what I've been working on, off and on, for the past while, with the lovely folks at Schulze & Webb. Is good. (Tags: bbc blog discovery mattwebb radio schulzeandwebb shownar television top tv uk) 2 -- http://www.shownar.com/ http://delicious.com/adactio : Shownar An experimental prototype that tracks the online buzz around BBC programmes (before they disappear down the memory hole of the iPlayer's time-restricted playback). http://delicious.com/infovore : Shownar "Shownar tracks the online buzz around BBC shows. It's an experimental prototype and we want your feedback." What I've been working on in the first three months at Schulze & Webb, and is now live. Exciting! (Tags: bbc buzz discussion iplayer popularity prototype radio scheduling shownar television trends tv whatshouldiwatch) 2 -- http://www.thetoasterproject.org/ http://delicious.com/tbyfield : The Toaster Project Justin Mason : The Toaster Project Artist attempting to build a toaster from scratch -- 'beginning by mining the raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99.' fascinating (Tags: art build capitalism consumption crafts design diy economics hardware manufacturing mass-production technology toaster) 2 -- http://blog.whatfettle.com/2009/06/22/etsi-2-0/ http://delicious.com/pierce : Paul Downey :: ETSI 2.0 Good rant, starts with IMS and complaining about WS standards, moves onto references to 'The Ministry of Telco', then into a Web 2.0 / OpenSource / Shirky thing. bos : Paul Downey :: ETSI 2.0 I'm no fan of IMS, a prejudice re-enforced by hearing use-cases which sound like water companies standardising how to pipe around coffee and soup. (Tags: agile business ims innovation location mobile opensource rest shirky technology web) 2 -- http://tweetcraft.codeplex.com/ http://delicious.com/nelson : TweetCraft Twitter inside World of Warcraft. A bit awkward; requires a 10 second UI reload to send or receive tweets. Neat hack though. Andy Baio : TweetCraft, in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft supports uploading screenshots with TwitPic [via]  (Tags: games lua twitter warcraft wow) 2 -- http://lifehacker.com/5305094/how-to-crack-a-wi+fi-networks-wep-password-with-backtrack http://delicious.com/WIZARDISHUNGRY : Lifehacker - How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password with BackTrack - wep A nearby WEP-enabled Wi-Fi network. The signal should be strong and ideally people are using it, connecting and disconnecting their devices from it. The more use it gets while you collect the data you need to run your crack, the better your chances of success. http://delicious.com/rabble : Lifehacker - How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password with BackTrack - wep (Tags: computers hacks lifehacker linux network security tech tutorial wardriving wep wifi wireless) 2 -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/06/shownar_reflecting_online_buzz.html http://delicious.com/infovore : BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Shownar: reflecting online buzz around BBC programmes why do it? To borrow from the site's About pages: "First, it will help you find shows that others have not only watched, but are talking about. Hopefully it'll throw up a few hidden gems. People's interest, attention and engagement with shows are more important to Shownar than viewing figures; the audience size of a documentary on BBC FOUR, for instance, will never approach that of EastEnders, but if that documentary sparks a lot of interest and comment - even discussion - we want to highlight it. And second, when you've found a show of interest, we want to assist your onward journey by generating links to related discussions elsewhere on the web. In the same way news stories are improved by linking out to the same story on other news sites, we believe shows are improved by connecting them to the wider discussion and their audience." Dan Taylor explains Shownar from the BBC's perspective http://delicious.com/pierce : BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Shownar: reflecting online buzz around BBC programmes Sounds interesting ... "Shownar; a new prototype from BBC Vision which aims to track online buzz around BBC TV and radio programmes and reflect it back in useful and interesting ways, aiding programme discovery and providing onward journeys to discussion about those programmes on the wider web... Shownar was designed and built by Schulze & Webb" (Tags: bbc behaviour blogpost community culture discovery discussion radio search shownar socialnetwork technology tv twitter web) 2 -- http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=459 http://delicious.com/infovore : auntie pixelante › level design lesson: in the pyramid "this is good level design." A lovely dissection of a couple of screens from Super Mario Land; detailed, spot-on, carefuly analysis from Anna Anthropy. Amazing what you can do with four types of block. yoz : auntie pixelante › level design lesson: in the pyramid Great piece explaining the cunning design of a small chunk of Super Mario Land (1989). Note how the designers have balanced challenge, reward and fairness in a way that keeps the player interested. (via infovore) (Tags: analysis criticism design game games levels ludology retrogaming space supermarioland top) 2 -- http://laughingsquid.com/pez-suing-burlingame-museum-of-pez-memorabilia/ Andy Baio : Pez sues Burlingame Museum of Pez for copyright infringement so disappointing   Les Orchard : Pez Suing Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia "Pez Candy Inc. is suing the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia over copyright infringement. The suit, filed last week, claims that the museum deceives the public into believing they are operating under the authority of Pez and asks that the museum’s 7 foot tall replica of Pez dispenser be destroyed. The lawsuit also takes issue with the museum’s sales of toy truck Pez dispensers which had been modified with Obama and McCain logos during last years elections. The museum has been opened since 1995 and is said to be the only place in the world were you can see every Pez dispenser ever made." (Tags: assholes burlingame california copyright lawsuits museums pez) 2 -- http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=629 http://delicious.com/gregorrothfuss : Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? "Today, scientific publishers are production companies. In 10 years, scientific publishers will be technology companies." Graham Leuschke : Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? this is a really fantastic essay. pushes all my buttons (Tags: blogs business future innovation internet journalism media openaccess publishing science tech technology)