February 2008

130 bookmarks saved in February 2008

the ryan king » Introducing Conveyor

http://theryanking.com/entries/2008/02/26/introducing-conveyor
"The future for large websites’ data storage is likely a collection of special purpose data stores: GFS/MapReduce for batch jobs, inverted indexes for search and fast retrieval of small result sets and relational databases for smaller datasets which nee

Digital Journal - New Game Parodies Internet Stereotypes, But It's Not For Those Easily Offended

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/250340/New_Game_Parodies_Internet_Stereotypes_But_It_s_Not_For_Those_Easily_Offended
"A new role-playing game (RPG) mocking Internet culture is staking its own piece of the gaming pie. Forumwarz satirizes the flamewars, comment trolls and gibberish phraseology you’re bound to see in every corner of the Web. "

Greasekit and user style-sheets

http://www.lypanov.net/Web/Blog/Entries/2008/2/17_Greasekit_and_user_style-sheets.html
"No doubt this is an extremely subjective thing... but I really much prefer having a small fixed point and set colors for text and its background when reading websites with large chunks of text."

Escape Pod » EP144: Friction

http://escapepod.org/2008/02/08/ep144-friction
"Gruen was on the sixty-first master, and while his wisdom had grown steadily, he had worn very little. He was incredibly well-preserved–the palms of his three-fingered hands still sported the deep, swirling ridges that had worn to nothing in most peopl

Text + Image + CSS3 = Crazy Delicious

http://metaatem.net/highlite?colors=128&image=http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiced.gif&text=start+coming+up+with+overregularizations+like+%22goed%22+instead+of+%22went%22+or+%22playses%22+in+place+of+%22plays,%22+that+kind+of+attempt+at+applying+regular+morphological+rules+to+irregular+items,+is+when+you+might+say+they+are+acquiring+language+via+data+mining.+I.e.,+they+hear+a+form+used+often+enough+that+it+becomes+part+of+their+knowledge+about+words,+to+the+extent+that+that+form+is+unconsciously+applied+even+to+make+words+they+have+certainly+never+heard+in+adult+speech+before.+&width=120
"Hide an image in html"

A VC: delicious search

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/02/delicious-searc.html#comment-124223
"Here is to hoping Yahoo! figures out how to better leverage Delicious without killing it in the process. They have done an admirable job in not killing Flickr, and lets see if they can do the same for Delicious. In the meantime, kudos to Joshua and the D