Jay Ridgeway - laconica ec2 image
http://jayridgeway.com/post/46565655/laconica-ec2-image
"You should now have an operational laconica instance using the default template. The webserver is apache2. Jabber provided by ejabberd and electronic mail courtesy of sendmail. There is also a script provided that will back up your database to s3."
Daily Kos: PALIN-tology - 45+ Problems for McCain's VP in just 35 hours
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/201818/606
Video - Doocy: Alaska is Next to Russia - Sarah Palin, World
http://beltwayblips.com/video/doocy_alaska_is_next_to_russia
"Fox & Friends anchor Steve Doocy says Sarah Palin has international experience because Alaska is near Russia."
Kilpatrick’s plea offer | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080830/NEWS01/80830054
0xDECAFBAD - UbiquityCommands
http://decafbad.com/UbiquityCommands
This page houses my experiments in creating Mozilla Labs Ubiquity commands. Feel free to subscribe to them, and hopefully I won't hose your browser. Oh yeah, and the first command posts to delicious.
Firebug :: Firefox Add-ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
"Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..."
Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity 0.1 Author Tutorial - MozillaWiki
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_Author_Tutorial
The great power of Ubiquity—from a developer standpoint—is how easy it is to create commands. With only a couple of lines of Javascript, Ubiquity enables even casual web developers to drastically enhance the features of the browser. From an 8-line command to insert a contact's email address in any text field, to a 50-line Twitter integration, this tutorial walks you through the process of being generative with Ubiquity.
Human Nature : Contraceptive Fudge: Addendum
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2008/08/29/contraceptive-fudge-addendum.aspx
"As a pharmacist, you have every right to refuse to fill contraceptive prescriptions. But your customers have every right to boycott your store, and your employer has every right to fire you. If you don't like your employer's policy, open your own pharmacy."
ArbCamp » Blog Archive » ArbCamp 2008: Publishing
http://arbcamp.org/2008/08/arbcamp-2008
Transcript - Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech - Text - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28text-obama.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
"The following is the transcript of Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, as recorded by CQ Transcriptions."
Chip pics
http://web.me.com/syl/Sylweb/Chip.html
"Here was Chip as I found him: curled up, cold, appearing to be dead, in the middle of a trail in the Olympics."
Gph: The Wiz - Official Announcement
http://gp2x-emulation.dcemu.co.uk/gph-the-wiz-official-announcement-141960.html
"The specs are quite powerful with an Arm9 533mHZ processor and 3D Accelerator and 64 MB of ram. Looks like the PSP, DS and even the Pandora will have a fight on."
Tinderbox: from Michael Bywater
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/updates/Tinderbox450/Bywater.html
"You put this stuff in without any plan, yet, like all good atoms, they form themselves into molecules."
webdev.stephband.info
http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax.html
"Parallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way."
ThinkGeek :: Nerd Glasses
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/933c
"You're smart, dammit. More importantly, you're not obsessed with impressing others. You are who you are, and you're proud of it. Maybe you scream it from the rafters, or maybe it's just in the privacy of your own home. Either way, you're comfortable in your own skin. You'll be comfortable in this heavyweight 100% cotton charcoal grey t-shirt, too. "
Chronogasm: Slick, lickable sci-fi watch makes us drool | MINE
http://mine.myxer.com/2008/08/27/chronogasm-slick-lickable-sci-fi-watch-makes-us-drool#comment-4164
"We’re smitten by this timekeeper, and while the price is nothing to sniff at — around $160 — we think we’ll start saving up for this slick gizmo."
Tokyoflash Rogue LED / LCD Hybrid watch.
http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/tokyoflash/rogue
"With its ever present LCD interface, the time can be read at a glance but can be further illuminated with sci-fi green LEDs at the touch of a button, bringing the display to life like a glowing radar screen."
Cross-Browser.com
http://cross-browser.com
Wow, "X" - what an unsearchably-named framework. "X is a collection of loosely-bound, cross-browser, Javascript functions and objects. It is intended to be a resource from which you pick and choose - you do not have to include the entire library in your application. It contains core DOM/Style functions, unobtrusive enhancements, utility functions, objects such as menus and tab panels, and also has some experimental stuff. I've been developing this library since 2001 (I started its predecessor around 1999). Thanks to thousands of people like yourself X has been extensively tested on a wide range of operating systems and browsers. Thanks to your contributions X continues to improve, grow and evolve."
New Flavored Fork Adds Taste Of Ham To Every Meal | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/new_flavored_fork_adds_taste
"Get ready for ham!"
Opentape
http://opentape.fm
Add a feed, and you've got a podcast. "Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player."
Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2008/08/gamesfrontiers_0825
"But what happens if the second self you create inside videogames turns out to be a total dick?"
JackDanger's jack at master — GitHub
http://github.com/JackDanger/jack/tree/master
Nerds race across Azeroth IRL, nearly die from shame - Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/26/nerds-race-across-azeroth-irl-nearly-die-from-shame
"Here are the facts: two dweebs thought it would be a good idea to hook up treadmills to their PCs, don brightly-colored wigs and cardboard swords, and race their avatars across about a mile of virtual turf by jogging in place with only a modicum of coordination and zero athletic ability."
Alt Text: 'World of Warcraft' Masters In-Game Bribery
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2008/08/alttext_0820
"Starting characters might be able to conjure fireballs or summon a demon, but put them in front of a horse and it's like integral calculus to a sleepy stoat."
Tinderbox: The Tinderbox Way
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/TinderboxWay/index.html
"Tinderbox is a tool for notes, a personal content assistant. The Tinderbox Way takes a close look at Tinderbox and its underlying ideas, exploring not just the program's mechanics but also its design and its spirit. "
Bob & Doug McKenzie's anniversary: Epic comedy "Strange Brew" turns 25 today. Don't be a hoser -- tap our review - KalamaBrew: Beer making, brewing and microbrews - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
http://www.mlive.com/kalamabrew/index.ssf/2008/08/if_ever_there_was_a.html
"Kalamazoo Gazette film critic James Sanford sat down this weekend and watched "Strange Brew," which celebrates its 25th anniversary today. He was kind enough to offer this review"
Questionable Content 1216: Why Does He Have A Purple One?
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1216
"Making you a BOX LUNCH because you're apparently still in HIGH SCHOOL"
jQuery PHP library
http://jquery.hohli.com
"jQuery-PHP is a PHP library that allows to tie jQerry with PHP most natural way. You don't need to think in terms of transmission, parsing and other boring staff. Now you have a bridge that brings DOM right onto your server :) and you can ealisy manipulate it in jQuerry-style way." This seems like one of the worst ideas - maybe it's just me, but "shortcuts" and other encapsulations of client-side JS within server-side code-generation in PHP / Ruby / Python / Perl / etc seems like one of the worst forms of magical obfuscation there is in webdev. Of course, I also feel the same way about most psuedo-ORM SQL / database abstractions.
riotclitshave:
http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1282225.html
"Sorta brings a whole new meaning to the term crowd surfing, doesn't it?"
Offical Shred Nebula Website
http://www.shrednebula.com
top-down shmup meets street fighter inspired multiplayer combat? out on sept 3 for XBLA apparently.
13-hour Arena match leaves Warlock the victor - WOW Insider
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/08/22/13-hour-arena-match-leaves-warlock-the-victor
"13 hours is a long time. Many of us have had shorter love affairs. It seems like a long time to chase a bear around an Arena, to me."
iconocla.st -- a weblog by Schuyler D. Erle
http://iconocla.st/index.cgi/2006/03/23#skull-on-your-desk
""When you put a thing on your to-do list, you are making a committment to do it," he says to me. "Meaning you aren't going to do some other things." He pauses. "So you have to choose between those things. Now, why do you have to choose?" ... I think about this for a second. "Because your time is limited?" I venture hopefully. ... "BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO FUCKING DIE," he responds. ... At this, the student was enlightened. ... Rich went on to observe that one's to-do list, in whatever form, is ultimately a skull on the desk, a memento mori, a reminder that our time here really is limited and we ought to make the most of it, in as much as the list is also meant to be a tool for helping one actually do so."
Infovore » Playing Together: What Games Can Learn from Social Software
http://infovore.org/talks/playing-together-what-games-can-learn-from-social-software
"MMO servers are currently limited by technological sizes. But what does a server where you know everybody (even a little) look like? What if we limited group sizes for social, not technological reasons? ... We wouldn’t have these servers that resemble sprawling cities; we’d build villages, and hamlets, and travelling camps. And as they grew too big, or small groups within the community grew, they’d break off and move to places where there’s more space for them. In one sense, that’s a more natural metaphor for our users, and it’s a scale that makes sense for them. ... I like this idea that everything, fundamentally, happens at a group level."
How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/howtolaunch
"Instead what happens when software developers try the Hollywood Launch, and I've seen this many times, is that users indeed do flood to your site on launch day but... Tomorrow, hardly any of those users come back. Your traffic graphs look like the sharpest mountain you've ever seen: a huge climb up and then, almost immediately, a similarly-sized crash back down. ... So what do you do then? Well, you do what you should have done all along: you grow the site."
Mercurial Queues - Mozilla Developer Center
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mercurial_Queues
"Mercurial Queues, or MQ, is a Mercurial extension that lets you keep work in progress as mutable patches, instead of as immutable changesets. ... The output of a developer (on a good day, anyway) is patches. The MQ extension lets you treat a stack of patches as works-in-progress. You can apply them as Mercurial changesets, unapply them, edit them, and when they're done, turn them into permanent changesets and push them."
quilt - Summary [Savannah]
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt
"The scripts allow to manage a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed, etc." Checkpoint and maintain floating uncommitted work-in-progress changes as a stack of patches atop a moving-target project.
Foxkeh Dance
http://foxkehdance.com
"Celebrating 10 years of Hampster Dance and 10 years of Mozilla"
Xmitter : The Royal Oak Drinkup Was Fun
http://xmitter.cc/2008/08/22/the-royal-oak-drinkup-was-fun
"It occurred to me today that I hadn’t yet written anything yet about the DrinkUP meeting that occurred here Wednesday night. Scott Beale, the founder and primary tentacle of Laughing Squid is in town this week and held a small informal get together at the Royal Oak Brewery. Much fun was had and many delicious beers were consumed."
Ma.gnolia Blog: The Open Road Ahead
http://ma.gnolia.com/blog/2008/08/22/the-open-road-ahead
At one point, I thought something like this would've been a good idea for Delicious. But, I never took time to think it through or make a case for it. Could be a horrible idea for all I know. It'll be interesting to see where and how far this goes: "As we develop M2, it means we’ll be posting the code for most pieces in the open and having regular discussions on both technical and non-technical subjects to get input from the community and to share our progress. ... Once M2 is launched, the open source aspects can be downloaded and run as a self-administered installation that can be independent or federated with other installations, including Ma.gnolia.com."
Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/ts_alt_afp/usitinternetenergychipcompanyintel
"Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units."
Velvet Crusher: Evil … yet awesome | MINE
http://mine.myxer.com/2008/08/22/velvet-crusher-evil-yet-awesome
"I’d lost perspective, and it took a velvet Wesley Crusher to bring it back."
mitten muses, rants and raves about life, the internet, web design and art » link posts
http://blog.mittenartworks.com/link-posts
I've had thoughts similar to this: "I’ve avoided having an automated bookmark posting plugin here, but now that Delicious allows 1000 character comments, it makes a good micro-blogging tool. So some Delicious posts should appear here and I’m going to take them out of the sidebar."
Atari: The Golden Years -- A History, 1978-1981
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3766/atari_the_golden_years__a_.php?print=1
"This four-year period -- from 1977 to 1981 -- contains some of the most exciting developments the company ever saw in its history: the rise of the 2600, the development of some of the company's most enduringly popular games (Centipede, Asteroids) and the development and release of its first home computing platforms."
Home — chain.js — GitHub
http://github.com/raid-ox/chain.js/wikis
"Chain.js is a jQuery plugin, providing data-binding capability that allows you to generate web contents automatically by binding your data to html."
The History of Atari: 1971-1977
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2000/the_history_of_atari_19711977.php?print=1
"When Bushnell finally decided on the name for his pioneering video game company, he called it “Atari”. In Go terms this is like saying “watch the hell out, I’m just about to win the game”."
Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/09/ST2008060900950.html
"Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts to those who make the least, while McCain would give the largest cuts to the very wealthy. For the approximately 147,000 families that make up the top 0.1 percent of the income scale, the difference between the two plans is stark. While McCain offers a $269,364 tax cut, Obama would raise their taxes, on average, by $701,885 - a difference of nearly $1 million."
» Sample Active Child Trades | Child Trader Child Exchange Network
http://childtrader.com
"Child Trader Child Exchange Network isn’t about not loving your children. Its about finding a family that can love them more."
Rochester Area Coworking (Rochester, MI) - Meetup.com
http://workathome.meetup.com/846
Coworking wiki / Coworking-Detroit-AnnArbor
http://coworking.pbwiki.com/Coworking-Detroit-AnnArbor
"I am interested in organizing a coworking environment in the Metro Detroit/Ann Arbor area for independent web workers, designers, startup entrepreneurs, writers and freelancers who want to enjoy a shared space and network with like-minded folks."
Jelly! - Casual coworking is awesome. wiki / JellyInDetroit
http://jellynyc.pbwiki.com/JellyInDetroit
"Jelly is an every-so-often casual coworking session. Anyone is welcome to come, bring a laptop, and work alongside other creative, fun people. Hope to see you there! See workatjelly.com and this blog post for more background. Email if you want to start your own!"
Coworking in the Metro Detroit Area | blog.detlog.org
http://blog.detlog.org/2008/08/16/coworking-in-the-metro-detroit-area
"I do love my home office and zero-mile commute (especially in winter), but there’s something about not having people around most of the day that’s starting to bother me again."
thedetroiter.com
http://thedetroiter.com
re: splash image - having seen this alignment of church and rencen on many morning commutes, I've always wondered if it was intentional.
State Legislation Impacts Creative Economy Initiative
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&EDATE=&STORY=/www/story/05-05-2008/0004806422
"Southeast Michigan's creative business community will get a boost as a result of Governor Granholm's signature on a series of bills that would make creative businesses eligible for state MEGA tax credits."
Warcraft ElF Tram Sex
http://www.se7en-x.com/yarhump
"Out of sheer boredom and the need to do a little PvP research, I recently found myself exploring the Deeprun Tram on a local roleplaying server. With exploration under way, I trekked deep within the confines of the tram and found something rather unusual. What was this standing before me? Two naked night elves of course."
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 20080820
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1262
"12,242 BC: The sex-pregnancy connection is discovered"
Software is hard | Extending Prism
http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/planet-mozilla/extending-prism
"I was playing with Prism recently, exploring how hard is to write an extension for it ... It turned out to be quite easy process and since I haven't found a tutorial ... how to write a first Prism extension, I decided to put one on my blog."
grinding.be » Blog Archive » Shokotan’s “cicada shell” look
http://grinding.be/2008/08/19/shokotan%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ccicada-shell%E2%80%9D-look
"Shokotan recently showed up at her latest concert wearing cicada molts on her head. She’s fascinated with them, and even showed them off in a television appearance. Those lucky enough to be in the first few rows may have caught one or two, as she tossed them to her enthusiastic crowd."
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter.
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/8/15burns.html
A New Way to Work
http://www.concentratemedia.com/features/newway0021.aspx
"four Ann Arbor companies take a similar approach to how their workspaces are unconventionally arranged. SRT Solutions, Google Ad Words, Dynamic Edge, and Menlo Innovations – all leading companies in software development and technology consulting – are kicking down the proverbial walls, and opening up their work spaces to encourage productivity, creativity, and above all, interaction and open, free-form collaboration amongs their employees."
Recent system:has:via Bookmarks on Delicious
http://delicious.com/tag/system:has:via
All bookmarks with a via:* tag, voluntarily showing where the goods were first found.
Detroit Beer Map | The Beer Mapping Project
http://beermapping.com/maps/citymaps.php?m=detroit#lat=42.42548395494743&lng=-82.7764892578125&z=7
Black Lotus Brewing Company
http://blacklotusbrewingcompany.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.html
"So, feel free to wander around, find the scrabble board and make yourself at home. Also, please tell us if there is anything else we can get you if you didn’t find it on the menu. If it’s legal, we will certainly try our best."
The World of Warcraft Armory
http://www.wowarmory.com/search.xml?searchQuery=%s&searchType=all
Recent system:has:shortcut Bookmarks on Delicious
http://delicious.com/tag/system:has:shortcut
"Recent system:has:shortcut Bookmarks" Still one of my favorite hidden Delicious features, partially because I wrote a version of it. Essentially a server-side rendition of Firefox's keyword shortcuts. Bookmark something tagged shortcut:foo, include a %s placeholder in the URL, then search for "!foo bar" and be redirected to the bookmarked URL with %s replaced by "bar". Good for search engine URLs and other command-line-esque URLs. It becomes especially handy if you have Delicious search installed in your search bar. This particular bookmark shows other bookmarks tagged with the shortcut: convention
MONTY PYTHON'S MODRZEW - Another Monty Python Record: Gumby Theatre, etc.
http://www.modrzew.stopklatka.pl/1971gumby.html
"Open the door THEN come in! ... I got my head stuck in the cupboard! ... Ohhhh... my brain hurts! "
die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog - Google Code Search
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog
delicious URL
http://delicious.com/url/view?url=%s
corner brewery
http://www.cornerbrewery.com
"Our public space is a sunny bar and tasting room with a big outdoor beer garden and a covered deck. Behind the scenes, we are a production brewery producing and bottling Arbor Brewing Company brand beers for distribution throughout the state" Can't believe I hadn't already bookmarked this.
Royal Oak Brewery - Home
http://www.royaloakbrewery.com
"The Royal Oak Brewery opened in 1995 in trendy downtown Royal Oak, Michigan. Located one block east of Main Street, it has become an area institution. The comfortable atmosphere and hometown feel make it a destination for locals and visitors alike. The brewery serves 6-7 fresh beers on tap daily. ... The menu features a broad selection of eclectic American cuisine, all prepared with the freshest ingredients. From delectable appetizers,fresh salads, pizzas and pastas to delicious entrees and unique sandwiches, the menu has something for everyone and a kids menu is available. ... The Bier Garden Patio features dining for up to 60 people and is open seasonally. Tucked away from the noise of the bustling downtown, it is the best kept secret in Royal Oak!"
YTMND - Super Mario Bros 3 - ualuealuealeuale
http://smb3ulae.ytmnd.com
Request Weblog #Frog: REST Request
http://www.crummy.com/2008/08/18/0
"But on a technical level, the point is not that "whatever!" is evil. The point is that if you chip a piece off "whatever!" and make it mean something specific, you can optimize around the constraints and reap the benefits."
Push to try Rooftop lab
http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/08/18/push-to-try
Twitter / Delicious / favourites
http://twitter.com/Delicious/favourites
"I'm Britta Gustafson, community manager intern. I find people talking about Delicious, and sometimes I talk back."
Secret Experiment » What I have been up to
http://secretexperiment.com/blog/what-i-have-been-up-to
"In the past month I have started a new job as the Creative Director of BlogTalkRadio, working several smart folks. I am ramping up on the world of podcasting which seems to me to be this insular sub-section of web geekdom who is trying like heck to go mainstream. "
Terrell Russell: This Old Network : WordCamp SF 2008 - DiSo and more
http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2008/08/wordcamp-sf-2008-diso-and-more
"There is a growing awareness of the need for self-hosted data - the individual should own and control their own stuff."
Digital Imaging: Photographs Enhance Video in Absolutely Unbelievable Ways
http://gizmodo.com/5038183/photographs-enhance-video-in-absolutely-unbelievable-ways
"Essentially, you shoot some crappy, low-rez video of a still scene. You then reshoot the same scene with a digital camera (with higher resolution). Software can automagically combine these images to upconvert the video AND fix problems in the image— all while compensating for 3D space."
Gruppler's Effect Demos
http://gruppler.dojotoolkit.org
"Here is a small demonstration of the many possible results achievable through the relatively small set of effects currently under development. Keep an eye on this page, because there are several more effects on the way! "
Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Just right for the garden: a mini-cow
http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2008/08/just-right-for-garden-mini-cow.html
"It's the little cow with a big future. Rising supermarket prices are persuading hundreds of families to turn their back gardens into mini-ranches stocked with miniature cattle."
GameVee.com | Halo 3 Video | Video | Best Rocket Race Win Ever
http://www.gamevee.com/viewVideo/Halo_3/GeeVee/Best_Rocket_Race_Win_Ever/613276
Thrown by enemy rockets straight into the finish line.
Mike Chambers » Blog Archive » Connecting to an XMPP / Jabber Server with the XIFF AS3 Library
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/08/14/connecting-to-an-xmpp-jabber-server-with-the-xiff-as3-library
"Here is a simple example that shows how to connect to an XMPP / Jabber server, join a room, and send a message to the room."
eyeD3 0.6.16
http://eyed3.nicfit.net
Looks like this can add cover art among other things. "eyeD3 is a Python module and program for processing ID3 tags. Information about mp3 files (i.e bit rate, sample frequency, play time, etc.) is also provided. The formats supported are ID3 v1.0/v1.1 and v2.3/v2.4"
LSDJ - 8bitpeoples
http://www.8bitpeoples.com/store/product/6
"Little Sound DJ transforms the original Game Boy / Game Boy Color into a full-fledged music workstation."
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Explaining REST to Damien Katz
http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/08/17/ExplainingRESTToDamienKatz.aspx
"At this point, the benefits of building RESTful services for the Web should be self evident. The Web has a particular architecture and it makes sense that if you are deploying a service or API on the Web then it should take advantage of this architecture instead of fighting against it. There are millions of deployed clients, servers and intermediaries that support REST and it makes sense to be compatible with their expectations. "
The Big Rewrite - ChadFowler.com Rails, Ruby, Software, and Stuff
http://www.chadfowler.com/the-big-rewrite
"But by making it a Big Bang release, you’ve maximized the chances that you’ll be behind schedule when you get to the end ... Imagine going to the hospital for a kidney transplant, and before and during the surgery saying to the surgeon: “Oh, and while you’re already in there digging around, I’ve had some problems with my lungs ... In many cases, these Big Rewrite projects have resulted in unhappy customers, political battles, missed deadlines, and sometimes complete failure to deliver. In all cases, the projects were considerably harder than the projects’ initiators ever thought they would be. ... While we’re all in the back creating the next revision of a product, who’s tending to the day to day issues of the existing product? Typically, it’s the domain experts and the original implementers of the product."
rc3.org — The candidates on evil
http://rc3.org/2008/08/17/the-candidates-on-evil
"Warren asked both candidates the same set of questions — Obama went first but McCain didn’t get to hear Obama’s answers before he had his turn. If I had to pick one question that pretty directly illustrates the differences between these two candidates, it was Warren’s audience-submitted question on evil."
Gregarius - Devlog - Gregarius 0.6.0
http://devlog.gregarius.net/2008/07/30/gregarius-060
Links » Quilt and SVN: A Slightly Unhappy Marriage
http://www.links.org/?p=278
"The issue comes when you finally get approval for your patch and you commit it to the tree. At this point, you want to delete it from the patch series - but quilt won’t let you, because it is applied. If you pop it, then you’ll undo what you’ve just committed. So, what to do? Here’s my ad-hoc recipe"
Making quilt and subversion work together | Carfax
http://www.carfax.org.uk/node/35
"apply the current quilt patch to the subversion repository, commit it using the patch comments from quilt as the commit message, and remove the patch from the quilt patch series."
BBC NEWS | Health | Broccoli may undo diabetes damage
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7541639.stm
"Our study suggests that compounds such as sulforaphane from broccoli may help counter processes linked to the development of vascular disease in diabetes"
Reformat the Planet: Chapter 01 | Pitchfork.tv
http://pitchfork.tv/week/reformat-the-planet/chapter-01
Kraftwerk: 1981 Merchandise pocket calculator
http://www.poecker.homepage.t-online.de/02/casio.htm
coign of vantage | Bobblebrook | Say it three times in a row!
http://www.bobblebrook.com/games/coign-of-vantage
"Put your spatial perception into perspective with this 3d puzzle game. Assemble as many images from an abstract cloud as you can before time runs out. ... Rotate the playing field with your mouse until the pixel-cloud matches the icon in the upper right."
WoW Forums - Mage Guide to takng Down Beach Murlocs
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?sid=1&topicId=8557213288
"This is so full of win I can't even see straight."
r4dsusa
http://www.r4dsusa.com/R4DSIII/R4DSIII-p7.html
Netcat Tar Pipe
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~djw/tarpipe.html
"So you have gigs of data to transfer between two machines over ethernet. A nice quick and dirty method is to use netcat and tar. This is by no means secure, but if you haven't got the time or desire to setup NFS, FTPd, Samba. Or wait hours for scp to do its job then this can save you a lot of time. "
BlueTrek BIZZ Bluetooth Headset - Bluetooth Headsets - Treonauts Store
http://shop.treonauts.com/bluetrek-bizz-bluetooth-headset/9A32A3931.htm
"By simply removing the speaker cover, it charges your headset and turns into a flash storage device. You can charge the headset directly from any USB port! Support up to 8GB* microSDHC format. With BlueTrek Bizz, your life has never been easier."
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
http://www.concentratemedia.com/videos/JollyPumpkinBrewing0020.aspx
"Jolly Pumpkin's handcrafted sour beers are loved all across the country. So much so that they take home gold medals for their distinctive oak barrel brews and Beer Advocate magazine ranked them the 8th Best Brewery in America. In fact, they are the only brewery in the U.S. to brew all of their beer in oak barrels. Why? It's all about the taste, man."
Lorem Ipsum Dolor necktie - CYBEROPTIX | online shop
http://cyberoptix.com/loremipsum.php
"The excerpt from Cicero's original passage began: Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit (Translation: "Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it"). It's petty darned dark for graphic designer's dummy text! In publishing and graphic design, "Lorem ipsum" is common placeholder text used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document without adding implied meaning of words the reader could understand. Shown: black on charcoal and dove gray on silver."
Frotz Review for iPhone | Touch Arcade
http://toucharcade.com/2008/08/13/frotz-interactive-fiction-comes-to-the-iphone
"Interactive Fiction (IF) fans will be pleased to hear that Craig Smith has released Frotz [App Store] for the iPhone through the iTunes App Store as a free download."
Soopa Coin Up Bros official site
http://esctoy.com/soopa.htm
"Erick Scarecrow's Soopa Coin-Up Bros. D-I-Y vinyl is now available for $29.99 at the ESC-TOY shop and coming soon to stores abroad."
Ronald Chevalier » Dr. Ronald Chevalier Is Now On Friendster!
http://ronaldchevalier.com/2008/07/dr-ronald-chevalier-is-now-on-friendster#comments
"Dr. Ronald Chevalier has recently discovered the joys of networking socially via the world wide web! He can now be found on Friendster, as well as such lesser known networking sites as Myspace and Facebook." You know, I forgot there still was a Friendster, let alone one being used ironically.
Tabs versus Spaces
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
"My opinion is that the best way to solve the technical issues is to mandate that the ASCII #9 TAB character never appear in disk files: program your editor to expand TABs to an appropriate number of spaces before writing the lines to disk. That simplifies matters greatly"
Castlevania: Preorder of Ecclesia - DS Fanboy
http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/08/13/castlevania-preorder-of-ecclesia
"Konami's Japanese special edition of Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, consisting of the game, a soundtrack CD, and a leather book cover with a notebook, is way awesome. It's currently only available for preorder from the Japanese Konamistyle store at a cost of 8,410 yen ($77)"
Rumor: Mega Man 9 Achievements are evil - Joystiq
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/13/rumor-mega-man-9-achievements-are-evil
Space Invader Magnet Collection ~ Black Color Set
http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/MYN433
"Here's a stupendous item for those who are still stuck in the 80s! This is a full set collection of collectable magnets featuring a "dot graphics" style design of the classic game by Taito called Space Invaders. Included are the four aliens (UFO, Squid, Crab, and Octopus) plus the Cannon characters from the game."
Lab-grown tendons gradually fade to bone - tech - 11 August 2008 - New Scientist Tech
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14512-labgrown-tendons-gradually-fade-to-bone.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
"In the body, gradients like this strengthen the ends of tendons that attach to bones. Currently, lab-grown tendons put into the body often fail at the attachment end because they lack this property, says García. ... His new technique should lead to more lifelike artificially-grown tendons, and better treatments for injuries like ruptured Achilles tendons."
Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Watching the eclipse
http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2008/08/watching-eclipse.html
Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Employee takes bath at Burger King
http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2008/08/employee-takes-bath-at-burger-king.html
"A teenage employee celebrated his birthday by taking a bath in the utility sink at the Burger King in Xenia."
Judge says UC can deny religious course credit
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/12/BAQT129NMG.DTL&tsp=1
"A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution. ... Rejecting claims of religious discrimination and stifling of free expression, U.S. District Judge James Otero of Los Angeles said UC's review committees cited legitimate reasons for rejecting the texts - not because they contained religious viewpoints, but because they omitted important topics in science and history and failed to teach critical thinking."
Olympic girl seen but not heard - CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/oly.kids/index.html
"Games organizers confirm that Lin Miaoke, who performed "Ode to the Motherland" as China's flag was paraded Friday into Beijing's National Stadium, was not singing at all. ... Lin was lip-syncing to the sound of another girl, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, who was heard but not seen, apparently because she was deemed not cute enough. ... "The reason was for the national interest," said Chen Qigang, the ceremony's musical director, in a state radio interview. "The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feeling and expression. ... Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects.""
Everyone's bookmarks for "Valley Center Public Schools - Home page" on Delicious
http://delicious.com/url/d65cbd419f243c65159bac02978dee49
So... This site got on the Delicious Hotlist. The people bookmarking it look like they just joined today. Spam or class project?
“Human luge” video amazes, gives us heartburn | MINE
http://mine.myxer.com/2008/08/12/human-luge-video-amazes-gives-us-heartburn
How Yahoo dropped the del.icio.us ball with a pointless 3 year rewrite (from mod_perl to PHP) : reddit.com
http://www.reddit.com/comments/6v4yw/how_yahoo_dropped_the_delicious_ball_with_a
I'm on pretty much the same page as Joshua. I was amazed it launched, which is a credit to the remaining team of heroes. It'll be interesting to see what happens now—given a 2-3 year innovation time-debt, a brand-new bespoke infrastructure, and a load of enqueued we'll-fix-it-laters. Selected joshu quotes: "I think the open question now is whether the remaining team will be able to innovate or be stuck in complicated codebase hell. ... I have significant regret over what ended up happening with Delicious. We could have gone so much farther. ... engineering was focused on the rewrite so nobody had time to replace the old search engine ... They had the technology, but the relevant staff had higher priorities."
Laughing Squid Detroit Drinkup in Royal Oak | Laughing Squid
http://laughingsquid.com/laughing-squid-detroit-drinkup-in-royal-oak
"I’m visiting the Detroit area next week and while there we will be hosting a Laughing Squid Detroit Drinkup on Wednesday, August 20th at the Royal Oak Brewery in Royal Oak. I’ll be there with Frank Escamilla, who just joined the Laughing Squid team. Rumor has it that Laughing Squid’s director of special projects John Law will be in attendance as well."
A VMware mistake may shutdown thousands of virtual infrastructures | virtualization.info
http://www.virtualization.info/2008/08/vmware-mistake-shuts-down-thousands-of.html
"This morning the VMware’s customers that upgraded their virtual data centers with the new Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2 (build 103908) had an awful surprise: any virtual machine that is turned off cannot be powered on again, and any attempt to execute a VMotion (the live migration of a VM from one host to another) fails. ... To further aggravate the situation, today is the so called Microsoft Patch Tuesday, so a number of guest operating systems are being automatically (or manually for those unaware of the issue) rebooted."
Salon Technology | Howl.com
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/03/22/howl/index.html
"I saw the best minds of my occupation destroyed by venture capital, burned-out, paranoid, postal,"
Toast Off: The Official io9 BSG Toaster Kitchen Challenge
http://io9.com/5035265/the-official-io9-bsg-toaster-kitchen-challenge
"Praise the gods, our shiny Battlestar Galactica toaster arrived this week. Besides the hilarity of being a real-life frakkin' toaster, it also burns the face of a Cylon centurion right into the bread."
Litter-Robot, the best automatic self-cleaning cat litter-box - Order Page
http://www.litter-robot.com/litter-robot.aspx?id=13
"The Litter-Robot's patented litter sifting system cleans the litter gently, reliably and dependably, every time. There is no rake mechanism that can jam or gum up and that requires frequent cleaning. After all, you want a self cleaning litter box to make your life easier. And of course, the Litter-Robot is completely safe for your cat!"
Bricksmith
http://bricksmith.sourceforge.net
"Bricksmith allows you to create virtual instructions for your Lego creations on your Mac. The magic is based on the LDraw library, a collection of 3D models of Lego building blocks created by enthusiasts from around the world. With Bricksmith, you never have to worry about running out of parts"
The Tombs of Asciiroth
http://www.icculus.org/asciiroth
"The Tombs of Asciiroth is a free, open source game you can play right now in your browser. It has arcade, puzzle and exploration-style game play in an extensive world of font-based abstraction. If it looks a little old school, it's only because I've been trying to make this game since 1980. But other things kept getting in the way. Hope you have some fun with it. "
Raphaël—JavaScript Library
http://dmitry.baranovskiy.com/raphael
"Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. In case you want to create your own specific chart or image crop-n-rotate widget, you can simply achieve it with this library. "
Database design and CakePHP (Articles) | The Bakery, Everything CakePHP
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/database-design-and-cakephp
"First of all you need to forget you are designing a database!" That, straight off, gives me the shakes.
SuperHappyDevHouse wiki / SuperHappyDevHouse26
http://superhappydevhouse.org/SuperHappyDevHouse26
PC World - Inside Nintendo's Classic Game Console
http://www.pcworld.com/article/148391/article.html
"Lots of Americans know the Nintendo Entertainment System. Fewer know the Japanese console it was based on, the Nintendo Family Computer, also known as the Famicom. We'll take a look inside the Famicom and its accessories, including a unique disk system attachment."