Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Showing off your presentation slides with slideshare, PHP and a bit of JavaScript
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2007/10/31/showing-off-your-presentation-slides-with-slideshare-php-and-a-bit-of-javascript
"Taking this information it is pretty easy to build a viewer that allows people to click through all your presentations without having to leave your site."
Behnke's Blog: November 1st, 2007 - Upon Which Seeds Grow in Bullshit
http://jeffbehnke.blogspot.com/2007/11/november-1st-2007-upon-which-seeds-grow.html
"“Plant your flowers here! Look at all this bullshit! Something’s just GOTTA grow.” To me, this is what Google did."
Filter del.icio.us dailies from RSS feed using Yahoo pipes – The Pug Automatic
http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/06/delicious-pipes
"Filip has his RSS feed set up to include daily summaries of his del.icio.us activity. But I already get that data through my network feed. I just want his regular blog posts."
LifeAt Properties | Is there LifeAt Your Building?
http://www.lifeat.com
"A LifeAt representative will contact your building about setting up a LifeAt page for the building." Fail. The first resident to pipe up should trigger creation of a local social network.
YouTube - Kokoro Scan ココロスキャン ENGLISH SUBTITLE 英語字幕 KARAOKE in desc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpSpDXBnlVs
"The game uses the DS' microphone to detect stress levels in a voice, and then attempts to determine one's inner feelings. Watch the movie, you'll get the idea."
Portal: Soft, Cuddly Companion Cube
http://kotaku.com/gaming/portal/soft-cuddly-companion-cube-316532.php
"It's not "weighted". Sorry. But it is as heart-warming as the source material"
» Leopard Dock with black triangle » Silver Mac
http://www.silvermac.com/2007/leopard-dock-with-black-triangle
"quite a few users would love to see the return of the black triangle indicator to the Dock."
Tool opens iPhone, iPod Touch via web | Reg Hardware
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/29/iphone_web_jailbreak
"The code uses a known vulnerability with firmware 1.1.1, which it subsequently patches. Before doing so, it activates iPhones, jalbreaks both types of device to allow third-party apps to run, installs Installer, and allows the YouTube app to connect on n
Why every programmer should play NetHack - Litany Against Fear
http://www.litanyagainstfear.com/blog/4/why-every-programmer-should-play-nethack
"I have a place in my heart for an obscure text based game called NetHack."
Introduction and QuickStart | The Open Source Journal
http://portal.itauth.com/loggerfs-introduction
"It seamlessly passes log data through the file system and directly into a database. Unlike existing log parsers, which often run periodically and scan the entire file for changes, LoggerFS takes a unique approach by masking the database backend with a fi
YouTube - halo 3 traffic cone ownage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http://www.halownage.com/halo-3-videos/8571-halo-3-death-traffic-cone.html&v=ym0BtwmCvoc
"i was playing halo 3 and when the round started i shot the fusion core like i always do but this time i got owned by a traffic pylon."
jwz mixtapes
http://cerebrum.dnalounge.com/mixtapes
"I've decided to start putting together a weekly mixtape: a cassette-tape-sized chunk of music that I enjoy, and that you should enjoy too. Some will be new, some old."
Spatial Boundaries, Etiquette and Interpersonal Interactions at a Gothic Club
http://www.vamp.org/Gothic/Text/anthropaper.html
"The gothic club is one of the only institutions in which an individual who needs concrete personal space and privacy can enjoy dancing, social interaction and display a creative and expressive personality."
YTMND - Madonna I feel like I just got pwned
http://madonnapwned.ytmnd.com
YouTube - Cat Wake Up Call
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FMXCuW9LDps
Apartment Therapy - Now Available: Egg Pants
http://kitchen.apartmenttherapy.com/food/tabletop/now-available-egg-pants-034722
"Stubby-legged, slightly stretchy, and perfect for that morning egg and toast."
Annotea shared bookmarks development
http://www.annotea.org/mozilla/ubi.html
"Annotea Ubimarks is part of Annotea social bookmarks and topics work in Mozilla. It lets any user familiar with the common bookmark user interface metaphora to create metadata for Semantic Web while the complexities of the Semantic Web are hidden from th
The Raw Story | CNN's Cafferty: Bush putting the poor out in the cold to fund war
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_to_CUT_30_Million_Households_1023.html
"No money for kids' health insurance, no money to help poor families pay their heating bills but President Bush wants $190 billion additional for 2008 for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"
Batter Blaster: Pancakes in a can at Club Grub Blog
http://blog.clubgrub.com/2007/10/24/batter-blaster-pancakes-in-a-can
"This stuff is great. It’s real pancake batter–in a can. It’s not a simulation or an approximation. The resulting pancakes and waffles are light and tasty, and the only cleanup (besides the cooking implement) is rinsing off the tip of the can."
ASCII by Jason Scott: Flash
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000514.html
"So yeah; if you were wondering if anyone was collecting 4chan (and other) flash animations, I'm your point man. 9,000 of them, totalling over 12gb."
WebShell
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/webshell
"It runs on any browser capable of JavaScript and AJAX. You can use it from any computer or iPhone/smartphone."
'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Sing-Alongs Get Killed - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1571966/20071015/index.jhtml
"For the uninitiated, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" sing-alongs are kind of like midnight showings of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show.""
The 10 Most Terrifyingly Inspirational '80s Songs | Cracked.com
http://www.cracked.com/article_15636_10-most-terrifyingly-inspirational-80s-songs.html
"in the '80s there were a series of songs that inspired us to kick ass in every way possible. None inspired more ass kicking than these."
Posterity | Jeni's Musings
http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/59
"here I am using radically different software, in a completely different world, and these pieces from my past are lost, irretrievable because of the formats used to save them (as well as the hardware on which they’re saved: it’s getting harder to read
Site-specific browsers and GreaseKit | FactoryCity
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/23/site-specific-browsers-and-greasekit
Seems like a great combo - a single-site browser wrapping that site's UI with greasemonkey-style JS-based customizations.
Pipes Blog » Blog Archive » iphone.pipes.yahoo.com: Access your mashup while mobile
http://blog.pipes.yahoo.com/2007/10/23/iphonepipesyahoocom-access-your-mashup-while-mobile
"The Pipes team spent a hectic 24 hours as part of the recent internal Y! hack day (video coming soon) creating an iPhone interface for Pipes."
Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian Computing 5: Brushstrokes
http://markbernstein.org/Sep0701/Brushstrokes.html
"We should expect to learn. Sophisticated tools require study and effort, and they repay that effort by letting us do things we could not do otherwise"
Destructoid Interview: Castlevania's Koji Igarashi :: DESTRUCTOID - Hardcore Gamer Community :: Video Games PC PlayStation 2 Xbox 360 Wii PS3 GameCube PSP DS GBA PS2 PlayStation 3
http://www.destructoid.com/destructoid-interview-castlevania-s-koji-igarashi-50472.phtml
"I think with Metroid the new direction it has taken is great. I think it’s fabulous. With Castlevania, I want to do something like that."
Researchers Knock Out HIV
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071020103343.htm
"The so-called ‘combination therapy’ prevents HIV from mutating and spreading, allowing patients to rebuild their immune system to the same levels as the rest of the population."
Bern Rauch
http://www.artaud.org/Member_Pages/Rauch_Bern/home.html
"Studio #302. Paintings on canvas and digital compositions as giclee prints."
computers should be less friendly » Blog Archive » Synthesizers
http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50
"They produce not only code but content, documentation, opinions — they care about what’s out there and what they are putting out there."
Timberlines
http://timberlines.blogspot.com
"Thoughts and discussion on the pencil industry, forest management, California Cedar Products Company and the artistic and written creativity enabled by the wood-cased pencil."
Funny or Die Videos - Weng Weng Rap - by rroom
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2620
"Only 2 foot '9 inches tall, Weng Weng fights crime in the Phillippines as Agent 00. "
Actors Studio host Lipton was a pimp in France - Breaking News, Tampa Bay Weather, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota - ABC Action News
http://www.abcactionnews.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=0b3e52fa-dbd2-4d4d-a2fe-195173ea65e5
"The revered TV presenter, who has sat down with Hollywood's biggest names for in-depth chats about their life and work over the last 13 years, has revealed he once procured clients for French hookers."
Flickr: The My Cat's Birthday Pool
http://www.flickr.com/groups/my_cats_birthday/pool
Case-Hardening the Del.icio.us Tag-O-Meter Badge
http://kentbrewster.com/delicious-badge
Using McDonalds’ As Pizza Toppings
http://www.andiamnotlying.com/2007/using-mcdonalds-as-pizza-toppings-this-cannot-have-happened-above-the-mason-dixon-line
"This is a culinary Frankenstein cooked by Bizarro, a crude combination of deliciousness into an artery-jamming fatty Voltron."
Miscellany: INSERT COIN
http://kovaya.com/miscellany/2007/10/insert-coin.html
"This little perl program allows you to set the "Ready Message" on HP printers to whatever you'd like."
hpsetdisp.pl (INSERT COIN)
http://kovaya.com/perl/show.cgi?program=hpsetdisp.pl
"Connects to a JetDirect equipped HP printer and uses HP's control language to set the ready message on the LCD display. Takes an IP address and message on the command line. My favorite message is "INSERT COIN"."
Kung Fu Monkey: Farm Fetish
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/03/farm-fetish.html
"I am just, I guess, well and truly tired of being told what "Middle America" wants, when Middle America is my age and lives in a goddam city, just like I have for my entire life."
Taskpaper Web
http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper_web
"A web implementation of TaskPaper. Primarily designed as a lightweight viewer for documents you have created in TaskPaper. It also provides rudimentary editing facilities for quick edits on the move."
Taskpaper Vim
http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper_vim
"This package contains a Vim syntax file and file-type plugin for the simple format used by TaskPaper"
Taskpaper
http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper
"TaskPaper is a simple to-do list that's surprisingly adept. Unlike the competition, TaskPaper's text based interface offers you paper-like simplicity and ease of use."
ongoing · Portal
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/20/Portal
"Dear Marketing Professionals; when you think “message control” several generational cohorts of geeky target demographics are thinking about the Portal voice. Go play it, and shudder."
Navigating With Feedback From Fellow Drivers - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/technology/circuits/18basics.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=788b2c4937539d23&ex=1350360000&partner=rssuserland
"There’s this long chain of cars up ahead. What if the cars could talk to one another?"
Papercraft Star Wars Lego Stormtrooper
http://piromodel.fc2web.com/lego/storm/storm.html
Haunted Paper Toys
http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html
"The toys include a hearse playset, coffin gift boxes (with occupants), a little cemetery, several unusual board games, a gloomy little haunted house, a rusty old-style robot, and quite a few other dark delights."
'Mythbusters' test seeks to determine if cockroaches could survive a nuclear holocaust
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/v-printer/story/9390500p-9303503c.html
"A team from the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters is at the Hanford nuclear reservation this week to get to the bottom of the nuclear survival myth."
ectoplasmosis » Cthulhu Cthursday: Fanny Pack?!
http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2007/10/18/cthulhu-cthursday-fanny-pack
"Fanny-packs, one of the greater evils perpetrated on mankind by the ’80s. It is certain Cthulhu does not approve of this use of his awe inspiring visage."
SF Signal: Friday YouTube: Kuato Sings Chocolate Rain
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/005775.html
"Friday YouTube: Kuato Sings Chocolate Rain"
Pepakura Designer
http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en
"Pepakura Designer allows you to create developments for paper craft from 3D data from 3D CG software."
GNU Emacs video mode supporters are welcome
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/80956
"There is a 3 member community for using GNU Emacs as a video editor"
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Radiohead Album Available for Free, But Fileshared Anyway
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1215
"Why are some people getting In Rainbows from P2P rather than the band’s site? Probably because they find P2P easier to use."
Back to the Future
http://xanadu.com/XanaduSpace/btf.htm
"The real issue is: how improve on conventional space?"
No Shirts at Improv Everywhere
http://www.improveverywhere.com/2007/10/17/no-shirts
"For our latest mission, 111 men of all shapes and sizes shopped shirtless in the Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue here in New York."
/po/ - Papercraft & Origami
http://zip.4chan.org/po
4chan is brain-hurty and probably work-unsafe. But, neato papercrafts.
1192652466416.gif (GIF Image, 1300x1682 pixels) - Scaled (45%)
http://zip.4chan.org/po/src/1192652466416.gif
Unofficial World of Warcraft Papercraft
http://wowpapercraft.blogspot.com
"There's a bunch of papercrafts that i've made from the game World of Warcraft."
Today in Joystiq: October 17, 2007 - Joystiq
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/17/today-in-joystiq-october-17-2007
"It won't have the weight but it will have the flammability (although we do not recommend Fratricide). You can make your own Weighted Companion Cube papercraft"
Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists and Anger
http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/atheists-and-an.html
"This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once I'm going to fucking well let myself be angry."
Half-Life 2: Portal : Primotech
http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/17/half-life-2-portal
"How about the ability to play through Half-Life 2, HL2 Episodes, or other Source-powered games with the portal gun in-hand? We’ve been doing that very thing for the past few days now, and after hours spent experimenting with various techniques and tric
SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=44794
"The stars of The Golden Compass interacted and performed on set with stuffed green footballs and other devices that would later be replaced with computer-generated animals and creatures, visual-effects specialists at Rhythm & Hues told journalists this w
XSL Cache - Trac
http://code.nytimes.com/projects/xslcache
"The XSL Cache extension is a modification of PHP's standard XSL extension that caches the parsed XSL stylesheet representation between sessions for 2.5x boost in performance for sites that repeatedly apply the same transform."
Street Fighter IV Announced news from 1UP.com
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163721
"The short teaser is nothing more than some Ryu and Ken stylized artwork of them fighting, with no word on what platforms the game is coming to or a projected release date. Clearly, Capcom is strictly teasing at this point."
Automattic Acquires Gravatar « Gravatar Blog
http://blog.gravatar.com/2007/10/18/automattic-gravatar
"Scaling happens to be something my company, Automattic, is very good at, and as we started chatting with Tom Werner of Gravatar it became obvious there’s a lot of potential for combined forces"
YouTube - Portal - Cute Turrets' Speech
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RFhd4_-Zfe8
"Here are most of the things that the deadly yet cute turrets say in Portal."
Michael Gartenberg - Still not twittering
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/2007/10/still_not_twitt.html
"It looks like I could add Twitter into the flow of RSS feeds but do I really want to do that?"
I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome (Spoilers)
http://www.kfj.f2s.com/index.php/2007-10-15-gnome-quest
"It's really weird having yourself pop up in your feed reader. "Ooh, that sounds like my kind of thing. Wait, it is my thing.""
Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian 1: Civilization and its Discontents
http://markbernstein.org/Sep0701/NeoVictorian.html
"The short version: The Arts & Crafts movement failed in consumer goods, but it could succeed in software."
Yahoo! Plans Return to its Portal Roots
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_plans_return_to_its_portal_roots.php
"As we wrote in July, the platform is the killer app of today's web and Yahoo! needs to get on board."
Last.fm – the Blog · Spot the difference
http://blog.last.fm/2007/10/15/spot-the-difference
"From the moment Radiohead announced their plans for latest release ‘In Rainbows’ we’ve been itching to see how you, the listeners, would respond."
Waterhobo
http://www.waterhobo.com
"for the sake of this discussion we are talking about rabbits, however I must make a disclaimer that in motion detection and autofire if an unwitting person is tresspassing on my property and happens to walk into the field of fire... well we will refer to
Leopard: The Wow Really Starts Now ~ Chris Pirillo
http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/10/16/leopard-the-wow-really-starts-now
"If you read the entire page and still don’t want Leopard, there’s something seriously wrong with you. ... Even at twice the price, Leopard appears to be thrice nice as Windows Vista."
igdmlgd: AMAZON ONE-CLICK PATENT REJECTED BY THE US PATENT OFFICE AS A RESULT OF MY REQUEST
http://igdmlgd.blogspot.com/2007/10/amazon-one-click-patent-rejected-by-us.html
"In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006. "
taggedhype's bookmarks on del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/taggedhype
Holy massive collection of MP3 links: "All taggedhype's items (82921)"
Channel Your Inner Net Jackass in 'Team Fortress 2'
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/10/alttext_1017
"And yet, it's an astonishingly fun game. I believe that's because each of the nine classes in the game corresponds to a particular type of internet jackass. As long as you pick the right class, you can leverage your misanthropy for the greater good!"
Development/PlugIns/JavaScript - Colloquy - Trac
http://colloquy.info/project/wiki/Development/PlugIns/JavaScript
"There is a template script available in the JavaScript SDK section containing stubs and commentary for all available functions a JavaScript PlugIn for Colloquy can implement."
OAuth in PHP (for Twitter) - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2007/10/16/oauth-in-php-for-twitter
"Mike released HTTP_Request_OAuth today, so I spent a little while this evening coding up Service_Twitter as helper class for making OAuth authorized requests against the Twitter API."
Jim Minatel: ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax Book Editor: Wrox Blox in the editing Fastlane
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/2007/10/wrox-blox-in-th.html
"Having worked in books most of my career, I can say, that's fast. Having worked on a magazine for 2 years, I can say, that would even be too fast for most monthly magazines to turnaround."
Continuation-Passing Style, and why JavaScript developers might be interested in it
http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/cps
James Hibberd - 'Babylon Fields'—CBS’ Buried Zombie Necrophilia Pilot Unearthed - TVWeek - Blogs
http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/james-hibberd/2007/10/babylon_fieldscbss_buried_zomb.php
"The show explores the emotional and societal ramification of loved ones coming back from the dead. You know, like in “Pet Sematary.” But by the end of the episode, the zombie thriller is crossed with a crime procedural."
YouTube - SNL - Digital Short: Andy Punches
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WxIEjZUw8yg
"People Getting Punched Just Before Eating"
YouTube - Halo How Not To Be Seen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmU2IUH-bk
"Monty Python Sketch "How not to be seen" with Halo: Combat Evolved"
J!NX : World of Warcraft Shop - Kobold T-Shirt - Clothing for Gamers & Geeks
http://www.jinx.com/world_of_warcraft/men/kobold.html?catid=40
"Kobolds are notorious for being covetous with their precious candles. Is it because they provide sufficient lighting to mine, or is it due to a deep-seeded inability to share?"
J!NX : World of Warcraft Horde Crest Zip-up Hoodie - Clothing for Gamers & Geeks
http://www.jinx.com/world_of_warcraft/sweatshirts/horde_crest_zip_up.html?catid=40
"Make Thrall proud and wear this hoodie as a token of courage, power, and defiance."
1979 Buick Riviera gets pimped, Atari-style - Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/1979-buick-riviera-gets-pimped-atari-style
"Featuring what appears to be a Sears Atari 2600 clone and a 13-inch CRT with a custom fake-ice RIVIERA logo, there's no wonder Kevin, the owner, says this whip is his "absolute pride and joy.""
YouTube - "the fastest thing on no legs" Oscar Pistorius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http://www.openthefuture.com/2007/07/blade_runner.html&v=Zv46b0NULFs
"Incredible performance of Oscar Pistorius, also known as "the fastest thing on no legs. He's a double amputee athlete who runs with the aid of carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs."
ideasonideas » Blog Archive » How to disarm 10 difficult client observations/requests
http://www.ideasonideas.com/2007/10/disarm-10-difficult-requests
"I’ll share some of the best responses we have to questions that can often derail an otherwise effective solution."
A review of Halo 3. :: DESTRUCTOID - Hardcore Gamer Community :: Video Games PC PlayStation 2 Xbox 360 Wii PS3 GameCube PSP DS GBA PS2 PlayStation 3
http://www.destructoid.com/a-review-of-halo-3--42210.phtml
"Rendering a human face in the Halo 3 engine is an act of appalling violence. ... look like they have been formed from blocks of seasoned tofu by limbless children wielding garlic mallets."
portal_still_alive.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
http://itsthedoc.net/music/portal_still_alive.mp3
700.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
http://silentwulf.com/flash/700.swf
Mesmerizing dancing hot dogs.
PyGPU - Python for the GPU
http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Calle_Lejdfors/pygpu
"PyGPU is a compiler that lets you write image processing programs in Python that execute on the graphics processing unit (GPU) present in modern graphics cards."
Notional Slurry » ArbCamp
http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2007/10/13/arbcamp#respond
"We need to talk, to establish and then blend and grow communities, and use those interconnections to support our individual goals. We should have fun, and make things: software, businesses, money, social changes, art. And at the same time, we should expl
TagMindr
http://tagmindr.com
"Give us your del.icio.us username and we'll feed you anything that you've tagged as: "tagmindr" and "remind:YYYY-MM-DD". We'll remind you via RSS, SMS, Email or IM, so long as it's RSS."
TiVoDecode Manager
http://tdm.sourceforge.net
"TiVoDecode Manager (TDM) is a free Applescript Studio interface (i.e. "wrapper") for the tivodecode program that automates the process of downloading of standalone TiVo Series 2 files to your computer and decoding into MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 files."
Readeroo
http://www.monsur.com/projects/readeroo
"Readeroo is a simple Firefox plugin that lets you "queue up" articles you might not have the time to read now, and then access them later (the name comes from "Reader" and "Queue"). It is powered by del.icio.us."
Best Week Ever » Blog Archive » The Most Amazing Video Of A Girl Playing Star Wars On The Trumpet… EVER
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/10/11/the-most-amazing-video-of-a-girl-playing-star-wars-on-the-trumpet-ever
"And just when you think you’re about to be blown away by her unbelievable horn skills… she proceeds to pump out the most cacaphonous, ear-splitting rendition of the Star Wars theme imaginable"
YouTube - Code Monkey Guitar Hero Custom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcQe9IpfAa8
"This chart uses the master track (separated guitar and bass), with the permission of the author. The missed notes in the middle of the video are there to demonstrate this fact, as most custom songs just use commercial MP3s."
Damn Interesting » The Mechanical Battery
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=909
"When spun up to very high speeds, a flywheel becomes a reservoir for a massive amount of kinetic energy, which can be stored or drawn back out at will. It becomes, in effect, an electromechanical battery."
NPR: When Good Interviews Go Bad
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/10/when_good_interviews_go_bad.html
"last Friday the band showed up promptly at 11am (EDT) and commenced to give what is possibly the worst interview in the history of electronic media."
Neatorama » Blog Archive » Real Life Transformers (video)
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/11/real-life-transformers-video
"That is possibly the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. God bless uber-geeks."
PlannerHack.com | Mike Rohde's Custom Planner Hack
http://www.plannerhack.com
"The do-it-yourself guide to converting a pocket-sized, ruled Moleskine notebook into a custom weekly planner and task management system."
SQL on Rails
http://www2.sqlonrails.org
"Rails is a short-stack framework for developing database-contained web applications according to the Model-Model-Model pattern."
The Fart Button
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=COqjstPQtsSVIxCsAhjvATIIqd6kdkZFZJ8
"Press it. You know you want to."
Product Review Palm Centro Cellphone - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/technology/circuits/11pogue.html
"Palm hoped that by trimming the Treo’s size and price, it would create a totally different product, a new crossover phone for people who have never before owned phones with alphabet keys."
DAK Industries 2000 - What Happened to DAK 1?
http://www.dak.com/whathappened.cfm
"For over 30 years DAK Industries 1 was the most exciting, informative place to find electronic breakthroughs to enhance our productivity and our leisure time activities. So, what could possibly have gone wrong? Read on."
Why Is It That My Girlfriend Insists On Sticking Around While I Transform Into A Werewolf? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/why_is_it_that_my_girlfriend
"She's just going to run away as soon as the transformation is complete anyway, so why not listen to me and get a head start for once, rather than ask in muted horror what's happening to me as my nose and mouth painfully extend to 20 times their original
Radiohead - In Rainbows - The Pirate Bay
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3836344/Radiohead_-_In_Rainbows
Not that I downloaded it from here, but maybe a good backup distribution channel while inrainbows.com is flooded out. Nothing stopping you from paying later
The Top 10 Rap Songs White People Love | catsandbeer.com
http://www.catsandbeer.com/music/the-top-10-rap-songs-white-people-love
"And I mean fucking LOVE. When these songs come on, White People look at each other and say "Awwww yeah" or "Hell yeah" and are compelled to sing along. Sometimes, there’s also corresponding stupid dance move."
Jim Minatel: ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax Book Editor: ASP3Wiki at Wrox launches
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/2007/10/asp3wiki-at-wro.html
"Wrox's ASP3Wiki is the complete contents of one of the best-selling web programming books ever, Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0, free, online, in wiki format."
FOXNews.com - Radiohead's Web-Only Release Threatens Music Industry - Business And Money | Business News | Financial News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300549,00.html
"The release of popular rock group Radiohead's new album Wednesday is the latest wake-up call for a music industry still struggling to deal with the advent of digital music, experts say."
michael-mccracken.net » The editing pass
http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/2007/10/09/the-editing-pass
"Once you get a piece of code to the point where you believe it works - it’s passing its tests - go back over it and edit it. That is, go back and edit it for clarity, flow, and style. Just as if it were an essay."
Dodgeball? Jotspot? Jaiku! « Scobleizer
http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/09/dodgeball-jotspot-jaiku
"Imagine if Google made a more open social networking tool than Facebook all via RSS feeds? Stick that into your RSS feed reader and smoke it!"
ectoplasmosis » Your Daily WTF: Pony!
http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2007/10/09/your-daily-wtf-pony
"the insane anthropomorphical equine who jumps out of the bushes and, brandishing his monstrous erection at you, madly screams “Pony! PONY! PONNNNYYYYYYYYYYY! at you as he chases you back to your hotel."
Pet Shop Boys' Bar Code Manifesto (Three Minds @ Organic)
http://threeminds.organic.com/2007/10/pet_shop_boys_bar_code_manifes.html
"The whole package—music, message, meme, media—comes together nicely. Like the best cultural phenomena, this can be enjoyed at several levels of participation—at least one of which involves a dance floor."
Jaiku | Google Q&A
http://www.jaiku.com/help/google
"Google acquires Jaiku - Jaiku is joining Google. "
Wrox::Wrox Blox
http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-306088.html
"Excited about new technology? Stumped on a problem? Trying to keep up with new software releases but don't have time to read an entire book? Then Wrox Blox are the answer!"
The Changing Publishing Landscape - Introducing Wrox Blox » Chris Webb on Publishing, Media, and Technology
http://ckwebb.com/publishing/the-changing-publishing-landscape-introducing-wrox-blox
"Today we have launched Wrox Blox, a new product for programmers that hopefully will strike a chord with a market that often looks to the web for fast, bite-sized content."
Jim Minatel: ASP.NET, XML, CSS, Ajax Book Editor: Wrox Blox launches with Silverlight, Adobe AIR, IPhone and LINQ
http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/2007/10/wrox-blox-launc.html
"Wrox Blox are short, electronic-only, downloadable, and typically going to be on hot cutting edge topics. For short, these first few range from about 20-40 pages ... And, here's something I think you'll find cool: they're DRM free."
Slashdot's CmdrTaco Rob Malda Looks Back at 10 Years of 'News for Nerds'
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2007/10/slashdot10year
"Crowds work when you have a tightly knit group of people with similar interests, but when you have a loosely knit community you get "Man Gets Hit in Crotch With Football" and Everybody Loves Raymond, where it's just good enough to not suck."
This shirt says that only one person Diggs you | Crave : The gadget blog
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9792615-1.html?part=rss&subj=Crave&tag=feed
"the only way to get more Diggs with this T-shirt is to get punched in the sternum. It figures, doesn't it?"
Humanized Weblog: Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software
http://humanized.com/weblog/2007/10/05/make_oss_humane
"Do ... 1. Get a Benevolent Dictator ... 2. Make the Program Usable In Its Default State ... 3. Design Around Tasks ... 4. Write a Plug-In Architecture ... 5. User Testing, User Testing, User Testing!!"