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August 2012

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m o t o | c u i s i n e : 2012

http://www.motorestaurant.com/
In recent years, chefs around the world have founded dedicated test kitchens as venues in which to create freely — without the pressures of a normal, working kitchen — and feed their restaurants new dishes, ideas, and techniques. Some of these projects delve into scientific, technological, and academic research: moto restaurant is one of these kitchens
#chicago #imported:pinboard #restaurants #vacation
archive.org #32701

m o t o | c u i s i n e : 2012

http://www.motorestaurant.com
In recent years, chefs around the world have founded dedicated test kitchens as venues in which to create freely — without the pressures of a normal, working kitchen — and feed their restaurants new dishes, ideas, and techniques. Some of these projects delve into scientific, technological, and academic research: moto restaurant is one of these kitchens
#chicago #restaurants #vacation
archive.org #22489

North Pond Restaurant | Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois

http://www.northpondrestaurant.com/
Situated within the grounds of Lincoln Park, at the edge of a pond overlooking the dramatic Chicago skyline, North Pond can easily claim the loveliest setting in the city. The structure that houses North Pond was originally built in 1912 as a warming shelter for ice skaters, and has been redesigned according to the Arts and Crafts tradition.
#chicago #dining #imported:pinboard #restaurants #vacation
archive.org #32702

North Pond Restaurant | Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois

http://www.northpondrestaurant.com
Situated within the grounds of Lincoln Park, at the edge of a pond overlooking the dramatic Chicago skyline, North Pond can easily claim the loveliest setting in the city. The structure that houses North Pond was originally built in 1912 as a warming shelter for ice skaters, and has been redesigned according to the Arts and Crafts tradition.
#chicago #dining #restaurants #vacation
archive.org #22488

RandyRants: SharpKeys 2.1.1

http://www.randyrants.com/2006/07/sharpkeys_211.html
SharpKeys is a Registry hack that is used to make certain keys on a keyboard act like other keys. For example, if you accidentally hit Caps Lock often, you could use this utility to map Caps Lock to a Shift key or even turn it off completely. This official release includes support for up to 104 mappings, an extensive list of available keys, and a "Type Key" option to help when managing mappings. As it relies on internal support within Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista you must be running one of these OS's for this Registry hack to work.
#hacks #imported:pinboard #keyboard #keys #registry #windows
archive.org #22462

The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real - Anil Dash

http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/the-pushbutton-web-realtime-becomes-real.html
Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook. The pieces of this platform have just come together to enable a whole set of new features and applications that would have been nearly impossible for an average web developer to build in the past.
#activitystreams #feeds #imported:pinboard #pubsubhubbub #realtime #social #webdev
archive.org #22458

Kitty Cams Reveal Shocking Truth | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/08/kitty-cams-shocking-truth
What, seriously? How about DON'T LET YOUR PET CATS OUTSIDE. That, or ACCEPT THAT YOUR OUTDOOR CAT FRIENDS ARE PREDATORS. "To stop Ursa's onslaught on animal-kind, Loewen took the advice of the UGA researchers and outfitted her naughty kitty with a cat bib and bell attachment (pictured below), effectively disabling any of Ursa's predatory prowess."
#animals #cats #imported:pinboard #to:fb
archive.org #22417

The GoPlate, A Snack Plate That Wraps Around Your Beer

http://laughingsquid.com/the-goplate-a-snack-plate-that-wraps-around-your-beer/
The GoPlate is described as the “answer to mobile socializing” and is seems to be one of those things you didn’t know you needed until you saw it existed. It’s a reusable snack plate made of BPA free plastic designed to wrap around a beer bottle (or really any kind of beverage vessel, like a wine glass or soda can), so you can hold your food and drink in one hand. It does come with a warning though, which should be heeded: “Always remove beverage before drinking.” The GoPlate is available in several colors and available to purchase online. Hold your plate and drink in one hand easily, then eat, greet, and cheer with the other hand. They’re perfect for tailgating, picnics, outdoor concerts, street fairs and more. The Go Plate has a specially engineered center cone that accommodates glass bottles and aluminum cans, resting comfortably and snugly around them, and it has a specially designed ridge that can also accommodate standard 16/18-ounce plastic cups. To enjoy your beverage, you just lift The Go Plate off. via Incredible Things
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32709

The GoPlate, A Snack Plate That Wraps Around Your Beer

http://laughingsquid.com/the-goplate-a-snack-plate-that-wraps-around-your-beer
The GoPlate is described as the “answer to mobile socializing” and is seems to be one of those things you didn’t know you needed until you saw it existed. It’s a reusable snack plate made of BPA free plastic designed to wrap around a beer bottle (or really any kind of beverage vessel, like a wine glass or soda can), so you can hold your food and drink in one hand. It does come with a warning though, which should be heeded: “Always remove beverage before drinking.” The GoPlate is available in several colors and available to purchase online. Hold your plate and drink in one hand easily, then eat, greet, and cheer with the other hand. They’re perfect for tailgating, picnics, outdoor concerts, street fairs and more. The Go Plate has a specially engineered center cone that accommodates glass bottles and aluminum cans, resting comfortably and snugly around them, and it has a specially designed ridge that can also accommodate standard 16/18-ounce plastic cups. To enjoy your beverage, you just lift The Go Plate off. via Incredible Things
#needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22416

arxiv.org

http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3982
"We consider a setting in which a single divisible good ("cake") needs to be divided between n players, each with a possibly di?fferent valuation function over pieces of the cake. For this setting, we address the problem of ?finding divisions that maximize the social welfare, focusing on divisions where each player needs to get one contiguous piece of the cake. We show that for both the utilitarian and the egalitarian social welfare functions it is NP-hard to find the optimal division. For the utilitarian welfare, we provide a constant factor approximation algorithm, and prove that no FPTAS is possible unless P=NP. For egalitarian welfare, we prove that it is NP-hard to approximate the optimum to any factor smaller than 2. For the case where the number of players is small, we provide an FPT (fixed parameter tractable) FPTAS for both the utilitarian and the egalitarian welfare objectives."
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22414

Introducing django-lazysignup — Stereoplex

http://www.stereoplex.com/blog/introducing-django-lazysignup
So I started wondering - what if we just created a real user for every person who visited the site? Django already has support for creating users with unusable passwords - so if we just create a user with an unusable password every time a new person comes along, log them in, and then at some future point (presumably once they've fallen in love with your site) they can set themselves up with a real username and password. And as a bonus, all that data that they created while messing about with the site sticks around, and carries over into their 'real' user.
#auth #authentication #django #imported:pinboard #lazuser #webdev
archive.org #22410

X-Robots-Tag: Control Google Indexing via HTTP Headers

http://www.intelligentpositioning.com/blog/2009/08/x-robots-tag-control-google-indexing-via-http-headers/
We’ve all got used to being able to control how the major search engines index our sites using a combination of robots.txt and the robots meta tag to add attributes like ‘noindex’ to individual pages. While this works great for the pages themselves, it’s not so good for non-HTML, indexable content such as PDFs or embedded media, as we have no HTML <meta> tag in which to insert the meta-information. In this article we take a look at a potential solution to this problem: the X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header.
#google #imported:pinboard #noindex #webdev
archive.org #32711

X-Robots-Tag: Control Google Indexing via HTTP Headers

http://www.intelligentpositioning.com/blog/2009/08/x-robots-tag-control-google-indexing-via-http-headers
We’ve all got used to being able to control how the major search engines index our sites using a combination of robots.txt and the robots meta tag to add attributes like ‘noindex’ to individual pages. While this works great for the pages themselves, it’s not so good for non-HTML, indexable content such as PDFs or embedded media, as we have no HTML tag in which to insert the meta-information. In this article we take a look at a potential solution to this problem: the X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header.
#google #noindex #webdev
archive.org #22406