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Retro Gadgets: The 1974 Breadboard Project | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2023/08/29/retro-gadgets-the-1974-breadboard-project/
It is hard to imagine experimenting with electronics without the ubiquitous solderless breadboard. We are sure you have a few within arm’s reach. The little plastic wonders make it easy to throw together a circuit, try it, and then tear it down again. But, surprisingly, breadboards of that type haven’t always been around, and — for a while — they were also an expensive item. Maybe that’s what motivated [R. G. Cooper] to build Slip-n-Clip — his system for quickly building circuits that he published in a 1974 edition of the magazine Elementary Electronics.
#electronics #history #imported:pinboard #projects
archive.org #30598

Part & Parcel – Summit Sips

https://summitsips.com/2013/05/part-parcel/
Here’s another Toby Maloney great that’s nice to have at the ready for anyone who says they want a good vodka cocktail. It’s also an opportunity to play a little switch-a-roo on your friend to demonstrate how much better it is with gin! This is called Part & Parcel, and it’s something we have been making for years, ever since Mr. Maloney shared the recipe online.
#cocktails #gin #imported:pinboard #vodka
archive.org #30600

The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ TV remote were a mechanical marvel - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month
The Zenith Space Command, one of the first wireless television remotes ever to exist, is a monument to a time before we took the remote for granted. It also just so happened to contain one of the most influential and intriguing buttons in history.
#engineering #hardware #imported:pinboard #technology #tv #zenith
archive.org #47

Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/21/seven-rules-for-internet-ceos-to-avoid-enshittification/
Anyway, I’d like to posit seven basic rules for any internet CEO looking to avoid the enshittification death cycle. Think of these as the rules that Steve Huffman maybe should have learned years ago, rather than whatever the fuck he’s doing now.
#business #enshittification #imported:pinboard #reddit #socialmedia
archive.org #30605

a blog by biggiemac42

https://btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/
Select any pattern that can be built in Life – for example, the Waterbear. Begin with a small number of gliders (now 15) in an otherwise empty Game of Life universe. After enough time goes by, those gliders need to build that pattern. No extra leftover debris, no stray scaffolding, just a pure synthesis of whatever you chose.
#compsci #conway #imported:pinboard #life #math
archive.org #30607

Open-Source LLMs - Schneier on Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/06/open-source-llms.html
We have entered an era of LLM democratization. By showing that smaller models can be highly effective, enabling easy experimentation, diversifying control, and providing incentives that are not profit motivated, open-source initiatives are moving us into a more dynamic and inclusive AI landscape. This doesn’t mean that some of these models won’t be biased, or wrong, or used to generate disinformation or abuse. But it does mean that controlling this technology is going to take an entirely different approach than regulating the large players.
#ai #imported:pinboard #llm #ml #opensource #security
archive.org #29339

Server-side rendering (SSR) – Lit

https://lit.dev/docs/ssr/overview/
Lit supports server-side rendering through the Lit SSR package. Lit SSR renders Lit components and templates to static HTML markup in non-browser JavaScript environments like Node. It works without fully emulating the browser's DOM, and takes advantage of Lit's declarative template format to enable fast performance, achieve low time-to-first-byte, and support streaming.
#html #imported:pinboard #javascript #lit #webcomponents #webdev
archive.org #30612

ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft. | America Magazine

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/05/15/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-theft-245283
But in calling these programs “artificial intelligence” we grant them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue. Each of those tokens used by programs like ChatGPT—the “language” in their “large language model”—represents a tiny, tiny piece of material that someone else created. And those authors are not credited for it, paid for it or asked permission for its use. In a sense, these machine-learning bots are actually the most advanced form of a chop shop: They steal material from creators (that is, they use it without permission), cut that material into parts so small that no one can trace them and then repurpose them to form new products.
#ai #capitalism #chatbots #chatgpt #imported:pinboard #llm #ml #writing
archive.org #29328

Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s — Amy Goodchild

https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/computer-art-50s-and-60s
My original vision for this article was to cover the development of computer art from the 50’s to the 90’s, but it turns out there’s an abundance of things without even getting half way through that era. So in this article we’ll look at how Lovelace’s ideas for creativity with a computer first came to life in the 50’s and 60’s, and I’ll cover later decades in future articles.
#art #computer #computers #history #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #29327

Relay List - Connecting the Fediverse

https://relaylist.com/
Relay List is a site that indexes and tracks various ActivityPub relays that have been shared with the public or with the creator. Each relay is checked every 30 minutes, updating the number of participating servers, the registration status, and if the relay is online. This information is useful for server administrators when considering adding a relay to their instance.
#fediverse #imported:pinboard #mastodon #metablogging #relays #social
archive.org #30616

Setting up a Mastodon RSS Bot with Home Assistant – George Hotelling

https://g13g.blog/2023/04/12/setting-up-a-mastodon-rss-bot-with-home-assistant/
Then I realized Home Assistant has all the parts I need. Specifically it has an RSS integration called Feedreader and a notification integration for Mastodon. All that I needed to do was configure them, per their docs, and create an automation to post new RSS items. Here’s the automation I initially came up with:
#homeassistant #imported:pinboard #mastodon
archive.org #30620

Interactive Intro to WordPress Playground Public API – Adam's Perspective

https://adamadam.blog/2023/04/12/interactive-intro-to-wordpress-playground-public-api/
WordPress Playground public API allows you to run and control an entire WordPress stack in your browser. You can use it to build an entirely new kind of a web app, like an in-browser WordPress IDE we built at CloudFest Hackaton 2023. In this post, you will learn how to get started.
#dev #imported:pinboard #metablogging #wordpress
archive.org #30621

Opinion | How to meet the climate crisis? Redefine ‘abundance.’ - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/15/rebecca-solnit-climate-change-wealth-abundance/
What if we imagined “wealth” consisting not of the money we stuff into banks or the fossil-fuel-derived goods we pile up, but of joy, beauty, friendship, community, closeness to flourishing nature, to good food produced without abuse of labor? What if we were to think of wealth as security in our environments and societies, and as confidence in a viable future?
#climate #environment #future #imported:pinboard #solarpunk
archive.org #30632

FloppyEMU HD20: Using a FloppyEMU emulated HD20 with my Macintosh Plus – David and Steve's Blog

https://www.savagetaylor.com/2020/03/29/booting-a-macintosh-plus-with-floppyemus-hd20-support/
Recently I pickup a few Macintosh Plus systems, so I’ve decided to play around with the FloppyEMU’s HD20 support with the hopes of writing some future blog posts for maxing out a Macintosh Plus. This guide will also work for the SE, Classic, Classic II, Portable, IIci, IIsi, or LC.
#apple #imported:pinboard #mac #macintosh #retro
archive.org #30636

Ventoy

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.
#boot #imported:pinboard #software #tools #usb
archive.org #29275

ActivityPub is the new FidoNet

https://l33t.codes/2023/02/04/ActivityPub-is-the-new-FidoNet/
It occurred to me today that ActivityPub is the new, modern FidoNet(-style) networking. Sure you have W3C publishing official specifications, but what you mostly have is every day “hackers” putting the protocol to work building decentralized communications. Anyway, the specifications are quote vague at best, which in this case, I’m going to consider a feature. In other words, a lot like FidoNet.
#activitypub #bbs #fidonet #history #imported:pinboard
archive.org #30643

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
It’s possible that, in the future, we will build an A.I. that is capable of writing good prose based on nothing but its own experience of the world. The day we achieve that will be momentous indeed—but that day lies far beyond our prediction horizon. In the meantime, it’s reasonable to ask, What use is there in having something that rephrases the Web?
#ai #chatgpt #compression #imported:pinboard #ml #writing
archive.org #29259

Embedding Our New React UI in Go | Flipt Blog

https://www.flipt.io/blog/embedding-react-in-go
The UI is served over HTTP directly from the binary using Go’s fantastic http.FileServer implementation from the standard library. Sometime around February 2021 was the Go 1.16 release, which came with native embedding of files into Go binaries. Flipt quickly took advantage of this feature for bundling the static UI assets directly into the binary. Go has a handy wrapping function that adapts the embed.FS into the required http.FileSystem interface to integrate it seamlessly into an http.Server. You can find the current (v1.16.0) embed directive in Flipt here.
#flipt #go #golang #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #29245

SQLite as a document database

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
This makes it possible to insert JSON straight into SQLite and then have it extract data and index them, i.e. you can treat SQLite as a document database. This has been possible with PostgreSQL and obviously is what something like Elastic provides but having it available in an embedded database is very nice for lightweight stuff.
#database #imported:pinboard #json #nosql #sqlite
archive.org #29240

Transcribing all our conversations 24/7 will be weird and also useful maybe (Interconnected)

https://interconnected.org/home/2022/12/14/transcription
Sooner or later, every single conversation I have will be recorded and transcribed and I’ll be able to look back at it later – details from a phone call with the bank, in the hardware store asking a question, someone mentions a book at the pub, an idea in a workshop. Ignoring the societal consequences for a sec lol ahem… how should the app to manage all that chatter work?
#ai #cyborg #future #imported:pinboard #ml #tools
archive.org #29225

1990: LambdaMOO

https://if50.substack.com/p/1990-lambdamoo?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNDg4OTkwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNjMwNDk0NSwiXyI6IlFVeHZjIiwiaWF0IjoxNjIxNjUwOTM1LCJleHAiOjE2MjE2NTQ1MzUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMzU2MDQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.VrhkcDxfDp4duAL0zWbQuA10odv1nB3q244xM2xaBmc
#Unread #imported:pinboard
archive.org #28989

How Polarization Ate Our Brains

https://zeynep.substack.com/p/how-polarization-ate-our-brains?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNDg4OTkwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDY1NTYxNSwiXyI6ImpwekFWIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE3MzE3MDcyLCJleHAiOjE2MTczMjA2NzIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xMTg0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.ecZ4mMJCjeXyaMh-7-larxMVw0XjH-aKrvTJCGttUPU
#Unread #imported:pinboard
archive.org #28947

ZoomIt - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit?WT.mc_id=-blog-scottha
ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations.
#imported:pinboard #presentation #streaming #tools #windows
archive.org #28891

StreamFX (for OBS Studio) | OBS Forums

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/streamfx-for-obs-studio.578/
StreamFX is a plugin to libOBS (OBS Studio, StreamElements OBS Live) that adds new sources, filters and transitions to give you the ability to drastically improve your stream and recording setup past what was possible in OBS Studio until now. Whether it is blurring out a region, moving something in 3D, or just writing your own shaders as a new transition, source or filter - StreamFX has it all.
#imported:pinboard #obs #streaming
archive.org #30743

Setting up an LCD screen on the Raspberry Pi, 2019 edition | by Avik Das | Medium

https://medium.com/@avik.das/setting-up-an-lcd-screen-on-the-raspberry-pi-2018-edition-d0b2792783cd
The installation of the hardware was straightforward, but setting up the Pi to display onto the new LCD didn’t go so well. It turns out this LCD, and many similar ones, ask you to enable the LCD via scripts in the LCD-show project. On my first attempt, I simply ran the relevant script (LCD35-show) as requested, but I ended up not being able to connect to my WiFi anymore!
#hardware #imported:pinboard #lcd #rpi #screen
archive.org #28841

Twitter

https://twitter.com/Reductress/status/1283114317722931201/photo/1
Move Over, 'Cottagecore': Here’s Why I Fantasize About Living In An Old Mine Shaft:
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28583

Twitter

https://twitter.com/JenMsft/status/1283103845304815618/photo/1
Looking through photos trying find one I can use to introduce myself to the interns, and honestly this one about sums it up
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28582

I don’t know where a lot of those concerned about remote working have been for the past 30–40 years. | by R.E.A.L Human Rights | Jul, 2020 | Medium

https://medium.com/@realhumanrights/i-dont-know-where-a-lot-of-those-concerned-about-remote-working-have-been-for-the-past-30-40-years-12b8d1bbb5c8?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
I don’t know where a lot of those concerned about remote working have been for the past 30–40 years. Remote working and remote brainstorming was aggressive back in the late 20th century 1980s and 1990s, with conference calls, and of course we have had virtual “white boards” for at least 20 years that I can easily recall. Finally, making remote work as a routine mainstream activity in 2020 is about “revolutionary” as those finally ending their reliance on dial-up modems or thermal paper fax machines. Yes it is change, but it is also long overdue change. Depending on a physical office for productivity and creativity is something from the 1960s, like bell bottom jeans. There is no doubt there is value to it, and many still also like 1960s fashion too, but the idea you need to physically “look in the eyes” of a coworker for creative brainstorming is a really “old-fashioned” concept. Hopefully, we can communicate as human beings, in more sophisticated and multi-layer means at this point in the 21st century.
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #28581

Twitter

https://twitter.com/chriscoyier/status/1283088207303737345/photo/1
Did I mention on here we have posters for sale for CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid? Here's mine in my office. Flexbox: Grid: ✨ Which are designed by @lynnandtonic! ✨
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28578

Twitter

https://twitter.com/lmorchard/status/1283141139311161344
"being high on dry erase markers and needing to pee" explains a lot about Facebook or most other tech companies honestly.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28577

Twitter

https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1283114423008329729/photo/1
"Demand Sausages Everywhere" is a 1937 Soviet poster made by the People's Commissariat for Food Industries. Celebrate the art of sausage! Demand Sausages Everywhere Shirt
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28574

Twitter

https://twitter.com/vogueandcode/status/1283095992057749504/photo/1
Cleaning my bag of badges + stickers and stumbled upon this keepsake 🥰 I can remember it like it was yesterday 🥺
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28570

Twitter

https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1283086394584444928/photo/1
Letter Bari signed: people shouldn’t have to fear professional consequences for their views Today’s Bari letter: NYT employees who don’t like me should have been “met with appropriate action.”
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28568

Twitter

https://twitter.com/OregonGovBrown/status/1282751757378977793
Limiting personal parties but excluding restaurants, churches, and gyms will. not. work. We need to close everything, give people money, and limit travel into the state. Just give people money and shut it down!
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28565

Twitter

https://twitter.com/michaelcoyote/status/1282859893997752320/photo/1
I think this is a pretty generous offer to Ellis and he should consider taking them up on it..
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28564

Twitter

https://twitter.com/katiewest/status/1282600062107947008
I think this is a pretty generous offer to Ellis and he should consider taking them up on it..
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28563

Twitter

https://twitter.com/lmorchard/status/1282836683856113667
The Handspring Visor was the first time I could carry a library’s worth of public-domain books in my pocket, and it felt like goddamned magic.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28561

Twitter

https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1282828248410255360/video/1
to get new email and your calendar for the day, you had to put it in this dock and push the sync button. then it made a cute little chirp when it was done.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28556

Twitter

https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1282825161004077057/photo/1
today i dug up my first mobile computing device. i bought this over 20 years ago. i wonder if it still works... 📱
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28555

Twitter

https://twitter.com/prendella/status/1282690426709794816/photo/1
horrible gremlin lesbians love to receive a proposal of marriage and immediately counter-propose marriage. what do you mean, you’re marrying me. i’m marrying you.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28550

Twitter

https://twitter.com/jeremymorrell/status/1282015831711453184
I am too enraptured by their gorgeous hair to pay attention to the chai tbh, but this is very wholesome.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28544

Twitter

https://twitter.com/DylanMercury/status/1282139924125409282
It was too late and I was too tired when I saw this last night to properly convey my actual feelings, so I shall attempt to do so now. OH MY GOD, HOLY SHIT CONGRATULATIONS, PEYTON ST. LANDRY PARISH, LET'S GOOOOOOOOO 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28535

Twitter

https://twitter.com/bikinatroll/status/1282354719458045953
This is exactly what @DrButtar does in his video. He refutes his own argument within 5 minutes. For anyone interested, you can find that episode here:
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28533

Twitter

https://twitter.com/adhd_alien/status/1191403158825848832
@dirtbagboyfren i also recommend reading through @adhd_alien comics and following them. DM if if you wanna talk more!
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28529

Twitter

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1281679899607142400
oh noes. no one can eat black beans unless they come in a Goya can. Cubanity is cancelled. no, you cannot soak the beans you bought in a bag and cook them as God intended.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28524

Twitter

https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/1281658605821988864/photo/1
Just a reminder that all my visitors are immediately greeted with a large print of me beating the shit out of someone and, upon entering my bedroom, see a big pro-choice statement and a picture of me surrounded by naked people so... go big at your home, people.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28522

Twitter

https://twitter.com/thecitywanderer/status/1281580914276028416
Look I don’t love the “Fortune Favors The Bold” thing but generally speaking this is a good apartment and I support this person’s interior decorating skills
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28521

Twitter

https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1281260502824497154
He had it comin He had it comin He only had himself to blame If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it I bet you you would have done the same
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28518

Twitter

https://twitter.com/ohiowa89/status/1281365294296920065
Write a fanfic for every story you read/watch and love. No, I'm serious. Every single one, even if it's just a couple hundred words. Solidify what you're taking away from it. You'll accumulate ideas that way. And if anyone shames you for it, bite them.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28517

Twitter

https://twitter.com/martynpercy/status/1280990823438565379
(whiny-mocking-my-husband-voice) You don’t need a 3D printer! What would you even do with it? 👇😠
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28516

Twitter

https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1281425521197424641/photo/1
At some point, after you have been reduced to explaining epidemiology via a game of peekaboo, you just blow up and start shouting. The next day you're replaced by a golden retriever in a lab coat.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28514

Twitter

https://twitter.com/cosmic_cassie19/status/1281343141547855872/photo/1
One day we'll have in-person conferences again, and when we do, I'll be ready. Thanks @startorialist for this beautiful Curiosity rover scarf! Perfect dimensions for a hijab. I have the linen in light blue 🌌💙
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28513

Mars Curiosity Scarf – STARtorialist

https://shop.startorialist.com/collections/accessories/products/mars-curiosity-scarf?variant=31744170229824
One day we'll have in-person conferences again, and when we do, I'll be ready. Thanks @startorialist for this beautiful Curiosity rover scarf! Perfect dimensions for a hijab. I have the linen in light blue 🌌💙
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28512

Twitter

https://twitter.com/YvetteMo_/status/1281351715443408896/photo/1
To all my Hispanics boycotting #goya this a really good alternative to adobo. CEO of Goya forgot that 95%of his buyers are latinos, which trump called us animals and rapists and has our children in cages! So yes #boycottgoya
#boycottgoya #goya #imported:pinboard
archive.org #28506

Twitter

https://twitter.com/HunterZ0/status/1281297313172819968/photo/1
@lmorchard Turns out it's more like Monty Python, at least when it comes to people with large platforms who get called out for saying stupid things.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28503

Twitter

https://twitter.com/GEATHJERK/status/1281003847553560576
This is a really good thread! Out of scope, but I also would like to add that pressuring people to pass as cis is bullshit. Not everyone can, not everyone wants to, and for some of us, there's no such thing as "passing" in the first place.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28502

Twitter

https://twitter.com/lmorchard/status/1281077022886752261
everyone go home this is the highest compliment I will ever receive on my music ("Matrices" literally has two musical nods to the soundtracks of Legacy and Uprising)
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28500

Twitter

https://twitter.com/MC_Spacebat/status/1280950224425496587/photo/1
RT @MC_Spacebat: so-called "scientists" don't want you to know about the beef mines
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28498

Twitter

https://twitter.com/quatoria/status/1280559020575723521
Just stop worshiping people because they made a thing you enjoy. They're just people and that unhealthy relationship will compound any dumb things rattling inside their brains.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28493

Twitter

https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1280643791037140992/photo/1
let's look at some more vintage Computer Design magazines. these issues are from 1967 (if you couldn't tell by the cover art!)
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28492

Twitter

https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1279841360019947522
large breed domestic rabbits like flemish giants/continental giants are child protectors, like they will watch over your baby or small child. fae bodyguards
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28491

Twitter

https://twitter.com/TrekCaptions/status/1280381164696399874/photo/1
Khan’s bangs are the best choice a human ever made. When he was stranded on Ceti Alpha V and dreamt of revenge, he also dreamt of bangs.
#imported:pinboard
archive.org #28490

SAM: Software Automatic Mouth

https://www.simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam
Sam is a very small Text-To-Speech (TTS) program written in C, that runs on most popular platforms. It is an adaption to C of the speech software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64 published in the year 1982 by Don't Ask Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.). It includes a Text-To-Phoneme converter called reciter and a Phoneme-To-Speech routine for the final output. It is so small that it will work also on embedded computers. On my computer it takes less than 39KB (much smaller on embedded devices as the executable-overhead is not necessary) of disk space and is a fully stand alone program.
#gamedev #imported:pinboard #retro #speech #tts
archive.org #28386

BEST FRIEND; a NeoCab review. - Mikey Zee - Medium

https://medium.com/@quantum_dot/best-friend-a-neocab-review-ca046cc72f0e?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
It’s winter. I’m laying on my best friend’s bed, in her house. We’re snuggled close together, watching Skins on her laptop. (I am still, to her, a girl. A woman. I have not yet decided to be anything but, anywhere but online.) We watch Maxxie’s fumbles through a world of straight people, trying to define what queerness means to him, together. “You know,” she says, after the episode comes to a close. “I’m okay with gay people. I just don’t want them to be gay anywhere near me. They should respect that.” “Oh,” I say, even as I try to disentangle her position with better words, and my heart sinks in my chest a bit with a feeling I hadn’t even recognized until that point. Oh. It’s spring. My best friend has a new boyfriend. I haven’t seen her in weeks because she is so busy, she explains. Her boyfriend is living at her house. He was a Marine, like her dad, and her dad loves him. He is finally taking care of the bushes in their front lawn. He’s a bouncer at a club in the city. They’re very much in love. It’s summer. I’m miles away from home, in a ramshackle lake cabin my parents rented for a week to fish. It’s almost dinner time, and I’m huddled over my laptop, leeching wifi from the cabin next door. I get a Facebook message from my best friend, who I have not heard back from in months. “He let me log into his Facebook. He cheated on me. I saw the messages. Can I call you?” “I’m about to have dinner,” I write back, looking furtively at my expectant family. “We haven’t spoken in months. Why now?” “Can I please call you? I need to talk to someone. You’re my BEST FRIEND.” I eat my dinner instead. — It’s like that. NeoCab: 4.5/5 stars
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #28195

Eureka Mignon Silenzio: Setup Guide Video

https://support.clivecoffee.com/eureka-mignon-silenzio-setup-grinder-dial-in-video?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-811gnPPu7-vNrlY5S1jPoxhG4YEbSul0EEAMIqNktt-GTa0LHtB1YMtDDiyZxWYNOrCPPlklwJYuf5jhxg8nyld_2gzxPbzwmyJMJLe2h-lHu3iGM&_hsmi=65759773
Join Victoria as she demonstrates how to set up and dial-in the Eureka Mignon Silenzio Espresso Grinder. Please note that Clive Coffee also offers a grinder dial-in service if you prefer to have someone else do the hard work for you!
#coffee #grinders #imported:pinboard
archive.org #28173

New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/6/16/18680941/new-hampshire-basic-first-historical-marker-beginners-all-purpose-symbolic-instruction-code
New Hampshire has installed what appears to be the first historical highway marker honoring computer programming, according to the Concord Monitor. The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language that was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964.
#basic #history #imported:pinboard #programming
archive.org #28165

Collaborating with Anne McCaffrey: An interview with Elizabeth Moon – Kate Macdonald

https://katemacdonald.net/2016/12/08/collaborating-with-anne-mccaffrey-an-interview-with-elizabeth-moon/#comments
I had been a teenage McCaffrey completist, but once I’d read Sassinak – an engrossing space opera about planet pirates, orphan enslavement, naval training, in-ship subversion and space heroics with the totally magnificent Commander Sassinak (her only name) – I put the Dragons of Pern into a box and moved off into space with Elizabeth Moon.
#imported:pinboard #mccaffrey #moon #scifi
archive.org #31164

The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned – Steven Pressfield

https://stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned/
Nobody wants to read your shit. Let me repeat that. Nobody–not even your dog or your mother–has the slightest interest in your commercial for Rice Krispies or Delco batteries or Preparation H. Nor does anybody care about your one-act play, your Facebook page or your new sesame chicken joint at Canal and Tchopotoulis. It isn’t that people are mean or cruel. They’re just busy.
#creativity #empathy #imported:pinboard #marketing #writing
archive.org #31176

Every Major Female "Star Trek" Character, Ranked By Lesbianism | Autostraddle

https://www.autostraddle.com/every-major-star-trek-character-ranked-by-lesbianism-452811/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
The lesbian rankings contained herein are based on highly subjective criteria you will undoubtedly disagree with. It includes opinions from esteemed sources like your pal and mine Sally, who has seen all the Star Treks, as well as Autostraddle writers Al(aina), Kayla, and Senior Editor Carmen, the only three Autostraddle team members who wanted to join my Star Trek Slack Channel.
#imported:pinboard #scifi #startrek
archive.org #31177

Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you

https://www.fastcompany.com/40510522/meritocracy-doesnt-exist-and-believing-it-does-is-bad-for-you
Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal. It’s false, and believing in it encourages selfishness, discrimination, and indifference to the plight of the unfortunate.
#imported:pinboard #meritocracy #psychology #society
archive.org #28125

How Inuit Parents Raise Kids Without Yelling — And Teach Them To Control Anger : Goats and Soda : NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger
But if you practice having a different response or a different emotion at times when you're not angry, you'll have a better chance of managing your anger in those hot-button moments
#anger #children #development #emotion #imported:pinboard #parenting #psychology
archive.org #28115

Creating an RSS Reader in Godot Engine (part 1) – Andrew Wooldridge – Medium

https://medium.com/@triptych/creating-an-rss-reader-in-godot-engine-part-1-3abe0068b6b1
This article will discuss my own efforts to create a simple application using Godot Engine — specifically an RSS reader. It’s probably one of the more common simple applications one might create for a given framework — which tests out things like networking, parsing, rendering, and saving preferences.
#gamedev #godot #imported:pinboard #rss #tech #tutorial
archive.org #28112

SAM: Software Automatic Mouth

https://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam
Sam is a very small Text-To-Speech (TTS) program written in C, that runs on most popular platforms. It is an adaption to C of the speech software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64 published in the year 1982 by Don't Ask Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.). It includes a Text-To-Phoneme converter called reciter and a Phoneme-To-Speech routine for the final output. It is so small that it will work also on embedded computers. On my computer it takes less than 39KB (much smaller on embedded devices as the executable-overhead is not necessary) of disk space and is a fully stand alone program.
#c64 #imported:pinboard #retro #sam #speech
archive.org #28105

DRY Switching with CSS Variables: The Difference of One Declaration | CSS-Tricks

https://css-tricks.com/dry-switching-with-css-variables-the-difference-of-one-declaration/?unapproved=1674473&moderation-hash=4e9cb4ef4344732a9e5a5ca87b6d0849#comment-1674473
This is the first post of a two-part series that looks into the way CSS variables can be used to make the code for complex layouts and interactions less difficult to write and a lot easier to maintain. This first installment walks through various use cases where this technique applies.
#css #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #31187

<Now Go Bang!> Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC)

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography
The time it takes for the phosphor to become fully activated is actually longer than the pulse representing the timing to draw a single pixel (40 nanoseconds). Meaning, if we were to attempt to display just a single pixel, the phosphor on this particular spot will never reach its full activation level resulting in a fuzzy image of varying brightnesses between dimmer, thin strokes and heavier, thick strokes. So the typography has to adjust for this, by streching the pulses to double width (80 ns), at least, in order to provide an even image and legible text and to work around the shallow flanks of the screen intensification.
#computer #design #imported:pinboard #retro #typography #vintage
archive.org #28070

The Embroidered Computer | Irene PoschIrene Posch

http://www.ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/
The Embroidered Computer is an exploration into using historic gold embroidery materials and knowledge to craft a programmable 8 bit computer. Solely built from a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glas and metal beads, and being inspired by traditional crafting routines and patterns, the piece questions the appearance of current digital and electronic technologies surrounding us, as well as our interaction with them.
#art #computing #electronics #embroidery #imported:pinboard
archive.org #31238

Enabling CORS in Synology WebDav

https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/issues/703#issuecomment-326404286
ssh ip-synology cd /var/packages/WebDAVServer/target/etc/httpd/ sudo vim conf/httpd.conf-webdav add LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so sudo vim conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf-webdav add : Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Headers "origin, content-type, cache-control, accept, authorization, if-match, destination, overwrite" Header always set Access-Control-Expose-Headers "ETag" Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, OPTIONS, MOVE, DELETE, COPY, LOCK, UNLOCK" Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true" RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} OPTIONS RewriteRule ^(.*)$ blank.html [R=200,L,E=HTTP_ORIGIN:%{HTTP:ORIGIN}] cd /var/packages/WebDAVServer/target/tools sudo ./start_stop.sh start restart
#cors #imported:pinboard #synology #webdav #webdev
archive.org #27997

The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work | Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/06/artificial-intelligence-ai-humans-bots-tech-companies
It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #27957

All you ever wanted to know about the colors of the commodore 64

http://unusedino.de/ec64/technical/misc/vic656x/colors/
The whole issue of VIC-II color-emulation is so mis-guiding and irritating, because every c64-emulator uses different palettes and these have been created by using cheap frame-grabbers/digitizers with strange color-behaviour or by moving around some rgb-sliders until it looks quite right. Many people have forgotten how the colors on a real C64 look, because they use emulators for a long time.
#art #c64 #commodore64 #imported:pinboard #retro #vic
archive.org #31246

What's a senior engineer's job? - Julia Evans

https://jvns.ca/blog/senior-engineer/
most (all?) of the senior engineers I know take on a significant amount of helping-other-people work in addition to their individual programming work. The challenge I see me/my coworkers struggling with today isn’t so much “what?? I have to TALK TO PEOPLE?? UNBELIEVABLE.” and more “wait, how do I balance all of this leadership work with my individual contributions / programming work in a way that’s sustainable for me? How much of what kind of work should I be doing?“
#career #development #engineering #imported:pinboard #senior #work
archive.org #31248

The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-hack-single-sign-on-data-exposed/
On Friday, Facebook announced that hackers had leveraged three separate bugs to collect 50 million users’ so-called access tokens, which are the equivalent of digital keys to a Facebook account. With those tokens, hackers can take full control of users’ Facebook accounts, but because of Single Sign-On, they can also access any other website that those 50 million users log into with Facebook.
#facebook #imported:pinboard #oops #security
archive.org #31250

Seal Slaps Man With Octopus but Is Probably Just Hungry in Viral Video | Inverse

https://www.inverse.com/article/49351-seal-slaps-man-with-octopus-and-it-s-hilarious
Getting slapped in the face is uniquely embarrassing among the various ways a person can be humiliated. But getting slapped in the face by a seal wielding an octopus, as one kayaker in New Zealand recently experienced, is an exercise in utter submission. A now-viral video of the kayaker getting completely owned shows the unlikely event in all its unbridled, bizarre glory. The video, uploaded to Instagram by filmmaker/surfer/skydiver and GoPro family member Taiyo Masuda, shows another kayaker, Kyle Mullinder, receiving the wet, eight-armed slap as they explore the waters around Kaikoura, New Zealand. “My face happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Mullinder told Yahoo7 News. Read More... Seal Slaps Man's Face With Octopus, but It's Probably Just Trying to Eat Lunch
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #27881

Special counsel Robert Mueller is now investigating his MacBook - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/9/26/17907408/robert-mueller-apple-store-tech-support-genius-bar
Robert Mueller surfaced from the Russia investigation this afternoon to ask for help — tech support, specifically. The special counsel and former FBI director was spotted in the Georgetown Apple store today, working with a Genius bar employee to get help with a MacBook Pro. The photo was taken by Meghan Pianta, who works in communications in DC; we initially caught it via Washington Examiner reporter Kelly Cohen. In the photo, you can see a pained, confused look on the special counsel’s face. What is he looking at? We tried calling the Apple store to find out, but were stymied by endless phone trees. An investigator who went on location on behalf of The Verge said there was no sighting of either Mueller or the employee seen helping him. ... Continue reading…
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #27880

Join in the chant! Massive new Nitzer Ebb box set on the way / Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/25/join-in-the-chant-massive-new.html
Electronic body music pioneers Nitzer Ebb are releasing a career-spanning retrospective box set. From Pylon Records, "Nitzer Ebb: 1982-2010" features 10 LPs with all five of the band's Geffen/Mute albums along with bonus tracks and 12" club mixes. Below, the "Join in the Chant (Burn!)" 12" mix. Lies, lies, lies, lies. Gold, gold, gold, gold. Guns, guns, guns, guns. Fire, fire, fire, UH!
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #27868

TIL the reason why clocks run clockwise. They do because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast shadow : todayilearned

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9igxcd/til_the_reason_why_clocks_run_clockwise_they_do/
It’s a total cop-out to say that clocks run clockwise because that’s how clocks run...but it’s also kind of true. The modern convention is no arbitrary design choice, but rather a direct adaptation of the original timepiece: the sundial. Way back when, a sundial told time by casting a shadow with its gnomon around a circular platform. In the northern hemisphere, that meant the shadow moved (to use a compass analogy) from north to east to south to west as the sun traveled, and when mechanical clocks started appearing, they were designed to operate in a similar fashion. Which begs the question, would clocks run the opposite direction if we’d based them on sundials in the Southern Hemisphere? Yes! Sundials work counterclockwise below the equator, and we’d be reading our watches totally differently if modern clock-makers had used them as an example. If you’re already into the old-school style of an analog display, the fact that it's a throw-back to even older time-telling devices makes the design that much cooler. submitted by /u/Mass1m01973 to r/todayilearned [link] [comments]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #31275

Gamasutra: Sebastien BENARD's Blog - Building the Level Design of a procedurally generated Metroidvania: a hybrid approach.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SebastienBENARD/20170329/294642/Building_the_Level_Design_of_a_procedurally_generated_Metroidvania_a_hybrid_approach.php
My name is Sebastien Benard and I'm currently working as the Lead Designer on Dead Cells, a procedurally generated Metroidvania. As you would expect, questions about the quality of our procedural generation pop up very regularly, with both players and other devs. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #27845

These $530 pre-distressed sneakers are pissing people off / Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/22/these-530-pre-distressed-snea.html
Would you spend $530 on a pair of sneakers that were described like this? Crumply, hold-it-all-together tape details a distressed leather sneaker in a retro low profile with a signature sidewall star and a grungy rubber cupsole. Yeah, neither would I, and neither would these folks (aka "the internet"): Golden Goose comes out with a pair of sneakers listed at $530 that are worn down and kept together by tape. Since when is it a trend to glorify the appearance of used sneakers and poverty? pic.twitter.com/1yLTuitIBX — Bryan Heckman (@b_hecky) September 20, 2018 Poverty is real, I’ve been bullied for wearing thrifted clothes before thrifting was “cool”, and now we have high end brands capitalizing upon many people’s past and current poverty related suffering. Thank you Golden Goose. I hope the designer that came up with this is happy. https://t.co/iixNhxip7T — 1-800-ARE-YOU-DYIN (@evelyn_art_) September 20, 2018 The new fashion is wearing worn out looking shoes that include taped one that costs a bomb from $530 to $1340. Glorifying poverty or making a mockery of poverty, can't decide. #fashionstyle #GoldenGoose pic.twitter.com/k8mxvchw4n — Kumar Manish (@kumarmanish9) September 20, 2018 There's a quote from something, wish I could remember what, but it goes something like "the rich kids all want to be poor and the poor kids all want to be dead". Seems relevant — steph (@Thespookysteph) September 20, 2018 Once available at Nordstrom online, these held-together-with-tape sneakers by Italian luxury brand Golden Goose are currently sold out (or removed??). Not to worry, they have plenty of other filthy, overpriced shoes to choose from.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #27837

Help Us Bring Back the Creative Web! – Glitch – Medium

https://medium.com/glitch/help-us-bring-back-the-creative-web-6ee232678417?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Show us how you got started building the web. Bring back your first web projects and share them with the world. It’s easy to forget in this era of billion-dollar Internet startups, that many people got started on the web by learning to tweak HTML creating a GeoCities page, or fiddling with CSS to perfect their MySpace profile. Back then, people were almost as likely to make a web page as to read one — it was a rite of passage growing up. Now though, things are a little different. Many modern websites all look the same, and people spend most of their time online using just three apps. So it seems more important than ever to remind ourselves that the web is still a thing we all make, not just something we consume. We know the good, fun internet is still out there. Help us bring back the creative web and show everyone how you got started building the web. Bring back your first web projects and share them with the world, and help encourage a diverse community of creators to experiment with their broadest set of ideas. Bring Your First Site Back To Life To help you out, we’ve created the Wayback Importer. An easy way for you to grab your first website from archive.org and bring it back to life on Glitch. It’s complete with an authentic early-web design of course — check out that cursor animation! And we’re showcasing peoples’ first websites in a collection, alongside some classic layouts from sites like LiveJournal, Neopets, Movable Type and many other old-school ways of publishing a web page. If you were on the Internet back then, or are just curious about web history, you should check it out, and remix some sites to make your own new classic. If you do make a page, let us know by sharing it on social media. We can’t wait to see what you create❣️ Help Us Bring Back the Creative Web! was originally published in Glitch on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27828

Create Your Own ESP8266 Shields | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/07/create-your-own-esp8266-shields/
The ESP8266 has become incredibly popular in a relatively short time, and it’s no wonder. Cheap as dirt, impressively powerful, Arduino-compatible, and best of all, includes Wi-Fi right out of the box. But for all its capability and popularity, it’s still lagging behind the Arduino in at least one respect. Namely, the vast collection of add-on “Shields” which plug into the Arduino to add everything from breadboards to GPS receivers. Until such time as the free market decides to pick up the pace and start making standardized shields for the various ESP8266 development boards, it looks as if hackers are going to have to pick up the slack. [Rui Santos] has put together a very detailed step-by-step guide on the creation of a simple shield for the popular Wemos D1 Mini board, which should give you plenty of inspiration for spinning up your own custom add-on modules. Presented as a written tutorial as well as a two part video, this guide covers everything from developing and testing your circuit on a breadboard to designing your PCB in KiCad and sending it off for fabrication. The end result is a professional looking PCB that matches the footprint of the stock D1 Mini and adds a DS18B20 temperature sensor, PIR motion detector, photoresistor, and some screw down terminals. [Rui] goes on to show how you can utilize the new sensors shield via a web interface hosted on the ESP8266, and even wraps the whole thing up in a 3D printed enclosure. All worthwhile skills to check out if you’re looking to produce more cohesive finished products. If you’re looking for a similar project for the ESP32, [Rui] has you covered there as well. You may also be interested in the series of ESP8266 tutorials we recently highlighted.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #31279

Outreachy internship with Mozilla: First lambda function

https://medium.com/@shruti9520/outreachy-internship-with-mozilla-first-lambda-function-5fe17995367c?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Hi there! In this blog post, I will be talking about generating AWS lambda functions. Let’s go ahead. :) First things first- You should have an Amazon Web Services account. I got mine through Mozilla dev account. Awesome! :D So, here I am logged into my AWS console. It looks like this- As we have already seen in my last blog post that AWS Lamda is a part of compute domain. You can certainly see “Lambda” under “Compute” heading in the above image. Now, click on “Lambda” to create a new lambda function. As an example, I will be writing a function to calculate volume of cone in NodeJs. Now you can create a function code all by yourself or you can use some of the blueprints that amazon gives you. In the image below, you will see a number of blue prints ( some basic codes that amazon gives you). In order to create a new lambda function, you should provide a name, choose a role ( if you don’t have any previous created role then create a new role and provide a role name to it), runtime etc. Now, let’s talk about how a basic AWS lambda function looks like. AWS Lambda invokes your Lambda function via a handler object. A handler represents the name of your Lambda function. For example- Here, in order to invoke our function, we should write the name of the file along with the name of the function in Handler section ( as you can see in above image i.e index.handler). Now, let’s take a look on parameters of the function. Here you can see three parameters- event, context and callback. Callback is something that is used when you want to return something back to the user. The general syntax is- Callback(error, success). Here success can be a string message or the object you want to return. I will talk about event and context in my next blog(API Gateway). In AWS, each lambda function is executed in a container and you can explicitly specify the memory, time etc settings of each container as shown below- Once you are done with writing function, you can create a lambda function by clicking on “create button”. After that you can see a success message on your console- “Congratulations! your lambda function ‘xyz’ has been created successfully”. After that you can test your code and the test results would be somelike like this- Here you can see the response object, response ID, execution time, memory size etc. Well, this is the basic example of generating lambda functions. A lot more things like including triggers etc will be discussed in my next blog ( API gateway). So, stay tuned. :) Thanks for reading! Cheers!
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27791

Sad Without a SID? This Comes Pretty Close | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2018/07/24/sad-without-a-sid-this-comes-pretty-close/
The MOS Technologies 6851, popularly known as the SID, is a legendary sound synthesiser integrated circuit from the early 1980s that is most famous for providing the Commodore 54 home computer with its ability to make noise. At the time it was significantly better than what could be found in competitor machines, making it a popular choice for today’s chiptune and demo scene artists. There’s a snag for a modern-day SID-jockey though, the chip has been out of production for a quarter century and is thus in short supply. Emulation is a choice, but of little use for owners of original hardware so it’s fortunate that [Petros Kokotis] has produced a SID replacement using a Teensy 3.6. The operation is simple enough, the Teensy provides all the requisite SID data lines via some level shifters for the host microcomputer, and uses [Frank Boesing]’s ReSID library to do the heavy lifting part of being a SID. You can download the code from a GitHub repository, and he’s posted a video we’ve put below the break showing a prototype in action with a real Commodore 64. The audio quality isn’t brilliant due to a phone camera recording from a very tinny speaker, but notwithstanding that it has the air of the real thing. This isn’t the first SID we’ve seen here. How about a MIDI synth using one?
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #31284

Outreachy internship with Mozilla: AWS Lambda – Shruti Singh – Medium

https://medium.com/@shruti9520/outreachy-internship-with-mozilla-aws-lambda-651eb2ac6e81?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Hi there! In this blog post, I will be talking about AWS Lamda. Let’s start with a little introduction. AWS ( Amazon Web Services ) is a cloud services platform that offers services like database storage, content delivery, compute power/domain etc. AWS Lamda is a part of compute domain. Basically, there are three main services in compute domain- EC2 — It is like a raw server. We can also say that it is like a personal computer that we are working on remotely. It can install any kind of operating system which is supported by AWS infrastructure and then you can use it in any manner i.e one can configure it to become a server etc. Elastic Beanstalk- This is an automated version of EC2. Here, you don’t get the access to the operating system but you still have control over the configuration. Here, you can directly upload the code and then application is deployed on AWS infrastructure. AWS Lambda- This is also an automated version of EC2. But here, you son’t have neither have access to the operating system nor you have any control over the configuration. All you do is to upload your code and it executes. AWS Lambda is not used to deploy applications. It is used to execute background tasks. So, we can say that- “AWS lambda is a serverless compute service ( i.e you are not choosing the kind of configuation you want). The developers don’t have to worry about which AWS resource to launch or how to manage them. Just put the code on Lambda and it runs”. Once you upload the code, your code will be executed on your behalf using Amazon’s infrastructure. Each piece of your code is called a function on Lambda platform. All of the functions that you upload has to be stateless. Now, the question is- How to trigger a Lambda function? Lambda funnctions can be triggered by events ( events from AWS services i.e S3 is also allowed), https calls etc. In order to use AWS Services, you have to set up an AWS account. I got mine through mozilla. Next is to learn and implement some practical examples. I will write my experience with AWS lambda along with examples in my next blog. Thanks for reading! Cheers!
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27787

How to set up your own private RTMP server using nginx | Open Broadcaster Software

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/
Most people who stream enjoy using services such as Twitch.tv or Ustream to deliver video to viewers, and that works well enough. But sometimes you want some more control over your stream, or you want other people to be able to stream to you, or you want to stream to multiple places, or any number of things that requires you to have access to an actual RTMP stream from an RTMP server. This guide will cover the very basics of setting up a simple RTMP server on a Linux computer. Don't worry, it's not too complicated, but having familiarity with Linux will certainly help.
#imported:pinboard #nginx #rtmp #server #streaming #video
archive.org #31290

Salvation Code by Scandroid | Free Listening on SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/scandroidofficial/salvation-code
https://ift.tt/1TYszcN Red and Raven have scoured the depths of the ancient wasteland they call home for something lost and buried, something revolutionary. What they unearthed was the New Retro sound of a forgotten era. Together, they formed Scandroid to bring that sound into their world. Based in an abandoned warehouse in Old Tokyo, they are surrounded by ancient technology and sound from the era of the 1980s. Beneath the shadow of the elite and unreachable Neo-Tokyo, they plan their revolution… https://ift.tt/2K1EP0o https://ift.tt/2Ik7OXp http://www.twitter.com/ScandroidMusic http://www.youtube.com/ScandroidOfficial https://ift.tt/2K02ONm Listen to Scandroid on Spotify! - http://spoti.fi/11Mpl2h
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archive.org #27749

Introducing Firefox Color and Side View – Firefox Test Pilot – Medium

https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/introducing-firefox-color-and-side-view-20fa66c01ff4?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
We’re excited to launch two new Test Pilot experiments that add power and style to Firefox. Side View enables you to multitask with Firefox like never before by letting you keep two websites open side by side in the same window. Firefox Color makes it easy to customize the look and feel of your Firefox browser. With just a few clicks you can create beautiful Firefox themes all your own. Both experiments are available today from Firefox Test Pilot. Try them out, and don’t forget to give us feedback. You’re helping to shape the future of Firefox! Introducing Firefox Color and Side View was originally published in Firefox Test Pilot on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27717

Outreachy Internship with Mozilla:Week-2 – Shruti Singh – Medium

https://medium.com/@shruti9520/outreachy-internship-with-mozilla-week-2-959d05fe9808?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Hello folks! This week was good. Last week I learnt about building themes and this week I actually implement these. In this blog I’ll explain about building dynamic themes. Introduction A theme and browser extension functionality cannot be defined in one package. One can, however, programmatically include a theme in an extension using the Theme API and those themes are called dynamic themes. I made one dynamic theme where themes are changing according to the time of day. After that I added an additional functionality using browser action. So, a user can add an alarm to it’s forefox page using browser action button.After setting alarm( in hours), whenever the hour matches with the alram time hour, the page produces a sound and theme is changed for one minute. After one minute the theme is again resumed with the particular day time theme. It was fun making this. :-) Getting Started First you need to create a manifest.json file within your main folder. This file specify basic metadata and theme components. My manifest.json file looks as follows- manifest.json Here “permissions” is necessary to request “theme” for building Dynamic themes. For including browser action, we add “browser_action” in manifest.json. But what is browser action? A browser action is a button that your extension adds to the browser’s toolbar. The button has an icon, and may optionally have a popup whose content is specified using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Here the popup content is specified in “alarm.html”. In this pop up you can set alarm ( in hours). Next, you need to build a JSON object containing the information about your theme. See the example below- Theme that appears when alarm hours matches with the current time( written in alarm.js file). Day, night themes ( written in background.js file)- Lastly, pass the JSON object in a theme.update() call as shown below- So, building a dynamic theme is fun. All you need is to keep some points in mind and tada~ theme is built. :-D I would like to attach a GIF of the dynamic theme. Note that I am writing this blog during day time, so the GIF has day theme along with an alarm theme which user can set at any hour. At the end, I would like to thank my awesome mentor Les Orchard. :-) He is assigning some cool stuffs to me and answers all my doubts. :-D Thanks for reading. If you are having any suggestions or thoughts on this, be sure to leave a comment. :-) Bye Bye :-D
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archive.org #27715

Outreachy Internship with Mozilla: Week-1 – Shruti Singh – Medium

https://medium.com/@shruti9520/outreachy-internship-with-mozilla-week-1-d56223db51f7?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Hi there! My first week of Outreachy internship with mozilla was as good as expected. I got LDAP credentials. But wait, what does that mean? It means you get mozilla specific email address, own profile at mozilla Phonebook, access to all mozilla websites, access to their slack/ircCloud account and what not? You get to take part in their team meetings too which is pretty cool. :-) So, the first day of my internship started with a warm welcom from the community and my mentor Les Orchard. My mentor is an awesome person. :) He gave me an outline of what work he expects me to do. So, I started with learning about building themes ( both static and dynamic). I would like to give a rough idea about what I leant. Theme is something that enables you to change the look of the browser. You should have a little idea about WebExtension API before building a theme. So, theme can be static or dynamic. STATIC THEMES- We can’t share static themes with other users. Creating a static theme is simple. You need to include image inside a folder ( same folder where manifest.json [Web extension] file is present).In manifest.json file “theme” is the main object which consist of “images,”color” etc. Static image themes can consist of single or multiple images.We can also build static animated images. DYNAMIC THEMES- We can share static themes with other users. Dynamic theme uses theme API for controlling theme using JS code. For including theme API fiirst you need to request “theme” permission in the extension’s manifest.json file. Then you build a JSON object same as static theme and lastly you pass the JSON object in a theme.update() call. Whatever I have written above might be a confusing to you. Don’t worry! My next week work is based on implementing “building themes” and I will write an elaborated blog with some code snippet. :-) Lastly, I would like to thank Les Orchard for guiding me and also for inviting me to attend weekly Firefox Color meeting on Vidyo. It was very nice meeting Wil, John, Marnie and all members of FireFox Color team. It feels grate when cool people like them acknowledge your presence even when you have nothing much to say. :-) Thank you! :-D
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archive.org #27712

How to set up a custom domain name for Lambda & API Gateway with Serverless

https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-api-gateway-domain/
With Serverless, it's easier than ever to deploy production-ready API endpoints. However, using AWS API Gateway results in odd hostnames for your endpoints. Further, these hostnames will change if you remove and redeploy your service, which can cause problems for existing clients. In this guide, I'll show you how to map a custom domain name to your endpoints.
#aws #dns #imported:pinboard #serverless
archive.org #31293

SIO

https://www.atarimax.com/jindroush.atari.org/asio.html
The SIO stands for the "Serial Input/Output". It is a data transfer protocol used by the Atari 8-bit machines to communicate with a printer, disk drive, modem etc. via the SIO connector. These transfers are controlled by the POKEY chip.
#atari #imported:pinboard #pokey #sio
archive.org #27638

Rocket - A Rust game running on WASM

https://aochagavia.github.io/blog/rocket---a-rust-game-running-on-wasm/
After seeing the examples on hellorust.com, I thought it would be interesting to try to adapt my game Rocket to work on the browser through the wasm32-unknown-unknown target. The project was a great way to figure out how far you can go when porting a project that is a bit more complex than a hello world. I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that most of the code could be reused. Particularly, the game logic code was barely touched at all.
#dev #game #gamedev #imported:pinboard #mozilla #rust #wasm
archive.org #31313

Interactive Storytelling

https://books.google.com/books?id=C90LCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq=quality+based+storytelling&source=bl&ots=QVAjYf9RBW&sig=hb3F1VgG4-N6ZqX9QiFaAQi9Zug&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyg4jO75zYAhUn44MKHdCYBw4Q6AEIIDAG#v=onepage&q=quality%20based%20storytelling&f=false
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archive.org #31314

When you refuse to vote, your intent might be “none of the above,” but your impact is “any of the…

https://medium.com/@andrew.r.mckenzie/when-you-refuse-to-vote-your-intent-might-be-none-of-the-above-but-your-impact-is-any-of-the-defd9a97d75e?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
When you refuse to vote, your intent might be “none of the above,” but your impact is “any of the above.” Think about the impact of your choices.
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archive.org #27533

Raspberry PiBoy – Building a Handheld Gaming System from Walnut and Carbon Fiber – MICHAEL K CASTOR

http://www.mkcastor.com/raspberry-piboy-handheld-gaming-system-in-walnut-and-carbon-fiber/
Portable Raspberry Pi enabled gaming system projects seem to be everywhere. The concept is relatively simple; get an old GameBoy (or other old portable) shell, stuff in a Raspberry Pi Zero as well as some switches, LiPo battery and charger, an LCD screen, and maybe an audio amplifier and you’re set (except for the giant mess of wires.)
#diy #gaming #hardware #imported:pinboard #raspi #retro
archive.org #31318

Our Older Brother – Firefox Test Pilot – Medium

https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/our-older-brother-97eace639103?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
A new look for a new browser Today is a huge day for Mozilla. We’re launching Firefox Quantum which is the fastest, best-looking, and generally most awesome browser we’ve ever released. Until you ship significant amounts of code in Firefox, as our team did last month with Screenshots, it’s hard to get your head around exactly how detail-oriented, strategic, and precise you have to be to steer such a large, powerful ship. We couldn’t have shipped Screenshots without the gracious, patient support of many, many people on the Firefox core team. This is a huge day for these folks and we couldn’t be happier to celebrate all of the care, consideration, and hard work they’ve put in to make today possible. We’re also excited because today marks the second time that a Test Pilot experiment has graduated into Firefox proper. In Firefox Quantum, Activity Stream will be the default homepage for Firefox! The Activity Stream team has done tremendous work overhauling one of the most visible features in Firefox. Activity Stream was one of the first experiments in Test Pilot, and we’re thrilled to see it become a core Firefox feature. At Test Pilot, we wanted to celebrate in our own little way. The redesign of Firefox gave us a new logo, new style guide, and a lot of ideas about updating our look for the Quantum release. We took these cues and integrated them into Test Pilot, and today, the site has an all-new look to match the new Firefox UI. We think the new design will serve us well as we roll out some exciting new experiments and Test Pilot features over the next few months! Our Older Brother was originally published in Firefox Test Pilot on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27493

Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. via Pocket
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archive.org #27484

Nintendo Switch - Matt Gemmell

https://mattgemmell.com/nintendo-switch/
The main feature, of course — even the eponymous feature, if you like — is that it’s neither tethered to your TV, nor an exclusively squint-inducing handheld device. This is a fundamentally humane and grown-up move. I have a home office, but I don’t want a man cave or boy’s room or whatever you might call it. I’m married, and I like my wife. I prefer to be in the same room as her, even if we’re both doing different things and only periodically talking to each other (this is also one of the fab things about marriage). The Switch lets me shut off the TV but keep playing, without having to go to another room. I keep all my games stuff in the living room.
#adulthood #gaming #imported:pinboard #nintendo #switch
archive.org #31326

Retroist Thriller Podcast - The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2017/10/31/retroist-thriller-podcast/
Welcome to the Retroist Thriller Podcast. On today’s show I talk all about the music video masterpiece, Thriller. I start off talking about how I was terrified by the monologue from this song while visiting a Ground Round. Then I move onto Michael Jackson and the song, album and video he brought to the world. […] The post Retroist Thriller Podcast appeared first on The Retroist.
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archive.org #31327

www.geek.com

https://www.geek.com/culture/this-kfc-bath-bomb-will-have-you-smelling-like-fried-chicken-1721445/?source
KFC Japan has some very, shall we say, unique approaches to promoting its food in Japan, with some pretty strange things on offer to get people to eat there. We’re talking entire bento […] The post This KFC Bath Bomb Will Have You Smelling Like Fried Chicken appeared first on Geek.com.
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archive.org #31329

The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/the-underground-story-of-cobra-the-1980s-illicit-handmade-computer/
Among the clones manufactured by the Communists was the Cobra or CoBra. The name stands for COmputere BRAsov, with Brasov being the town in central Romania where these machines were assembled to be used by enterprises. Of course, ordinary people couldn’t buy them—which is what first led several students at the Politehnica University of Bucharest deciding to build them themselves.
#diy #hardware #history #imported:pinboard #retro #tech
archive.org #31330

Funko Isn’t Lying About These SAGA Funko Pop Figures | Nerdist

https://nerdist.com/funko-pop-saga-image-comics-lying-cat/
Aside from The Walking Dead, one of the biggest hits to ever come out of Image Comics is Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples‘ fan favorite series Saga. First published by Skybound Entertainment back in 2012, and still going strong today, Saga is the epic sci-fi/fantasy story of Alana and Marko, two lovers from long-warring alien races, as they flee authorities from both sides of a massive galactic war. Traveling with their newborn daughter, Hazel, the pair encounter astonishing aliens, fearsome bounty hunters and a host of allies and enemies alike as they try and keep their new family safe. Now the characters from Saga are the latest comic book icons to join the Funko family. Starting in February 2018, Saga fans will be be able to pick up Pop! vinyl figures of characters such as Lying Cat, Alana, Marko, Prince Robot IV, and The Will. Fans will be able to purchase a bloody version of The Will as a chase variant, a rarity of 1-in-6. Also, Izabel the ghostly babysitter will be available as a Hot Topic exclusive, and Lying Cat will have two different variants — a bloody version, available at your local comic book shop and a pink version, available only at Barnes & Noble stores. Saga is one of the wildest and most inventive comic book series of the 21st century, proving that Runaways and Y: The Last Man’s Brian K. Vaughan was anything but two-hit wonder. With the series quickly approaching its 50th issue, Saga fans will want to celebrate their love for all things Alana and Marko with these adorable Pop! figures. You can check out the entire Saga wave one below in our gallery. Are you as stoked as we are to see the characters of Saga get their own adorable Pop! figures? Be sure to let us know in the comments. Images: Funko See more Funko toys! Horror icons as 8-bit Funko Pop toys. Disney Afternoon action figures. Masters of the Universe Pop vinyls.
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archive.org #31336

Wolfenstein 2 isn't getting multiplayer | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/25/wolfenstein-2-isnt-getting-multiplayer-because-it-would-dilute-the-storytelling-says-machine-games/
With us living in the age of ‘games as service’, there’s been a bit of hand-wringing about the death of single-player games. Of course, there are still plenty of single-player games in development, and in the case of Machine Games’ Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, the studio say they’ve made a concerted effort to not let anything detract from that solo experience. (more…)
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archive.org #31337

A 976 Number to talk to Kitt from Knight Rider! - The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2017/10/25/976-number-talk-kitt-knight-rider/
As a kid I was a sucker for a good 976 number. I called the Chipmunks, Howard the Duck, Santa and many more. All of this without my Mom’s permission. Which caused some issues. So it was probably a good thing that I did not live in California, where I could have called Kitt from […] The post A 976 Number to talk to Kitt from Knight Rider! appeared first on The Retroist.
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archive.org #31338

1600 sprites for your starkly old-school 1-bit games / Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/19/1600-sprites-for-your-starkly.html
For twenty dollars, you can download 1600 1-bit sprites for use in artwork, games, icons or whatever other project you desire. [via] You can use this game assets for personal/commercial projects, no credit needed. If you do, please let me know to promote it on my twitter! ;) Made by Davit Masia, it's such an incredibly vast and deep set of work. Expect to see its DNA in pixel-art inventories and villages for years to come.
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archive.org #27440

A curiously incomplete history of the early years of DRM / Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/19/no-dmca.html
Ernie Smith's Motherboard article on the early years of DRM gets into some fascinating stories about things like IBM's Cryptolope and Xerox PARC's Contentguard (which became a patent troll), Intertrust's belief that it is "developing the basis for a civil society in cyberspace" and the DeCSS fight. (more…)
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archive.org #27439

Netflix's 'Voltron' Brings Heart to Giant Fighting Robots | Inverse

https://www.inverse.com/article/37528-voltron-legendary-defender-netflix-season-4-review
There’s one episode of Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix that sums up the series as a transcendent piece of science-fiction: In Season 2, the heroes of Voltron need a crucial “Teludav” — a device that creates wormholes — to stand a chance against King Zarkon of the Galra Empire. Princess Allura’s advisor Coran knows the only place to get it: a dangerous trading outpost, home to a wretched hive of scum in a corner of the galaxy where baddies do business. Dressed in apocalyptic disguises to assimilate among the shady pirates, the heroes arrive at the outpost… and it’s a mall. As in, a space mall, with a food court and bored teenaged employees. You wouldn’t think a marketplace on a distant intergalactic planet would look like New Jersey. And it’s inside this surprisingly suburban space mall where the Paladins of Voltron, who survive danger and emerge victorious almost every episode, escape the clutches of a rent-a-cop, Varkon, a schlub who fancies himself as King Zarkon’s “Number Two.” Read More... Netflix's 'Voltron' Gives a Beating Heart to Giant Robots
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archive.org #27438

Every Episode Of Rick And Morty Is The Same (And We Like It That Way) | Inverse

https://www.inverse.com/article/37544-every-episode-of-rick-and-morty-is-the-same-and-we-like-it-that-way
For a show that has multiple dimensions and purge planets, Rick and Morty seems like the last show to follow a structure. Co-Creator Dan Harmon, however, has been a staunch Joseph Campbell fan since his 20’s, and that strict adherence to structure has help make Rick and Morty the show it is today. Read More... Every Episode Of Rick And Morty Is The Same (And We Like It That Way)
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #27437

The Trouble With Twitter – jeffmueller.net

https://jeffmueller.net/2017/10/18/the-trouble-with-twitter/
We need an alternative to Twitter. I don’t know what that looks like, but I have a feeling it’ll involve tight control of micro-communities where users have the ability to ban people for bad behavior. Whatever it is, I hope it surfaces soon and gets enough traction to pull my friends (and some third-party app developers) away from Twitter for good.
#imported:pinboard #microblogging #social #twitter
archive.org #31340

Web Audio Modem

https://martinmelhus.com/web-audio-modem/
Lately, I've been working with a client where my development computer is not connected to the Internet. This is a huge inconvenience, as the unavailability of Google and Stack Overflow vastly impact my productivity. Only recently have I begun to grasp how much of my time is actually spent copy/pasting between Visual Studio and the browser. My office also features an Internet connected laptop and my development computer expose 3,5 mm jack sockets for audio devices. And thus my problems can be solved! Here's how I made a modem for closing the gap with Web Audio.
#audio #fun #html5 #imported:pinboard #retro #web
archive.org #31341

A Web-Based Modem | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2017/10/18/a-web-based-modem/
If you are beyond a certain age, you will recall when getting on the Internet was preceded by strange buzzing and squawking noises. Modems used tones to transmit and receive data across ordinary telephone lines. There were lots of tricks used to keep edging the speed of modem up until — at the end — you could download (but not upload) at a blazing 56,000 bits per second. [Martin Kirkholt Melhus] decided to recreate a modem. In a Web browser. No kidding.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #31342

2007/09/25 - 0xDECAFBAD Bucket

https://decafbad.com/bucket/entries/2007/09/25
Once up on a time, before my writing brain had been *entirely* swallowed up by Twitter. One of the most productive daily public writing tools I used was the OPML Editor and a daily outline always open on my desktop ready to receive thoughts. Kind of like Twitter, I guess, except it was a *thing* that I added to over the course of the day. I could edit it, publish it whenever, not publish it until I had my words straight. This is one of the best short things I wrote with it - meditations on my Dad after his passing.
#imported:pinboard #metablogging #writing
archive.org #27423

No, the FCC can't shut down TV stations just because Donald Trump is mad at the news • The Register

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/17/fcc_trump_tv_licenses_fake_news/
America hasn't gone full-blown crazy, yet The head of America's telly watchdog, the FCC, said he cannot follow up on Donald Trump's threat to revoke the broadcast licenses of TV networks that run unflattering news coverage of the US president.…
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archive.org #31343

My adult novels are being reissued with covers to match Walkaway! / Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/18/walkaway-loves-company.html
When I first saw Will Stahle's cover art for my novel Walkaway, I was pleased beyond all reason (and not least because I am an unabashed Stahle fanboy, as he is behind some of the greatest covers of our era, from Yiddish Policeman's Union to Autonomous to A Darker Shade of Magic to All the Birds in the Sky). (more…)
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #27419

The movement of David Fincher’s camera is a surrogate for your eyes

https://kottke.org/17/10/the-movement-of-david-finchers-camera-is-a-surrogate-for-your-eyes
This is a really keen observation by Evan Puschak about the camera movement in David Fincher’s films: it mimics your eyes in paying attention to the behavior in a scene. The effect is sometimes subtle. When a character shifts even slightly, the camera keeps that person’s eyes and face in the same place in the frame, just as you would if you were in the room with them. Tags: David Fincher   Evan Puschak   film school   movies   video
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archive.org #27418

A Little Beagle Puppy Groans, Whimpers and Rubs His Eyes In an Adorable Effort to Wake Himself Up

https://laughingsquid.com/beagle-puppy-attempts-to-wake-up/
A really cute beagle puppy named Oliver pulled every trick in his arsenal to wake himself up when he felt his beloved human nearby. The little dog stretched, groaned, whimpered, barked and repeatedly rubbed his eyes until he felt ready to face the day. Enormous adorableness ensues as Oliver wakes up from a long nap. Be sure to turn the sound up on this one. Oliver is also very good at not waking himself up, particularly when it comes to going for an unwanted walk. via reddit Maymo the Lemon Beagle Systematically Pops a Bunch of Balloons and Scares Away His Little Sister Australian Shepherd Puppy Wakes Up to Sing Along to ‘Let It Go’ and Goes Back to Sleep Once the Song Ends Maymo the Lemon Beagle Pushes His Sister Penny in a Shopping Cart in an All Around Town Adventure
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #31344

jwz: Facebook bans Ladyada

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/10/facebook-bans-ladyada/
Hey look! Facebook banned another of my friends! It must be a day ending in "y". Of course, Limor has no idea why this happened. Because commenting on specific accounts, even to the owners of those accounts, is "against policy". If you work for Facebook, quit: There are more Russian bots or whatever they are on Facebook than USA female EEs & CEOs from MIT on Facebook that have USA manufacturing companies in the USA, way to set the world on fire Mark. Zuckerberg, 2010: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Bro McBro]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks It of course goes without saying that, having banned someone with connections and influence, there may shortly be a fauxpology saying that "upon review", whatever triggered this ban did not actually violate their terms of service. (Implied: "this time"). Maybe they will even, in passive voice, throw an anonymous sweatshop contractor under the bus and abstractly "regret" any "inconvenience". People without such influence don't get even that level of royal treatment. This is your irregularly-scheduled reminder: If you work for Facebook, quit. It is morally indefensible for you to use your skills to make that company more powerful. By working there, you are making the world an objectively worse place. I'm sure you can find a job working for a company that you don't have to apologize for all the time. You can do it. I believe in you. Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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archive.org #31347

Retro Arcade Art By CTupa: Dig Dug (1982) - The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2017/10/16/retro-arcade-art-ctupa-dig-dug-1982/
Friends, feast your eyes on Christopher Tupa‘s Dig Dug illustration! Not only is it CTupa’s pick for this weeks Retro Arcade Art. Obviously. But it also happens to be one of my favorite video games as well. Much like Pac-Man, there are elements of Dig Dug that match maze games. However in this case you […] The post Retro Arcade Art By CTupa: Dig Dug (1982) appeared first on The Retroist.
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archive.org #31348

Scandroid Cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" : outrun

https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun/comments/75xid1/scandroid_cover_of_michael_jacksons_thriller/
Scandroid, the synthwave project of Detroit producer Klayton, is quickly becoming a go-to resource for synth-driven and seasonally appropriate covers: His rendition of Star Wars‘ “The Force Theme” was perfect for May The Fourth, and now he’s getting ready for Halloween with an electric cover of Michael Jackson’s spooky classic “Thriller.” The track premieres today exclusively on Nerdist, and while Jackson’s original doesn’t need any improving, the bombastic synths and punchy percussion make it feel like you’re driving through the set of Miami Vice at 200 miles per hour. The song comes from Scandroid’s upcoming album Monochrome, which also includes the aforementioned Star Wars cover and a bonus remix of “Thriller” by synthwave producer PYLOT. Klayton says that once he decided to put a Halloween-themed track on the album, he knew instantly that “Thriller” was the one: “I knew when I started the album (Monochrome) that I wanted to do a Halloween-related track. It only took me 1/4 of a second to conclude this would be my perfect chance to cover a track I loved during the 80s. I probably watched the ‘Thriller’ music video 100+ times on my parents VCR after I recorded it from MTV.” Monochrome comes out on October 27 and is available for pre-order now. Watch the video for “Thriller” above, listen to the track on Spotify, and check out the album tracklist below.   1. “2518” 2. “Afterglow” 3. “Rendezvous” 4. “Thriller” 5. “Oblivia” 6. “Monochrome” 7. “The Force Theme” 8. “Future Bloodline” 9. “A Thousand Years” 10. “On The Face of The Deep” 11. “The Veil” 12. “Searching For a Lost Horizon” 13. “Thriller (PYLOT Remix)” Featured image: Scandroid submitted by /u/jimmy_rhodes to r/outrun[link] [comments]
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archive.org #31353

Simon's Cat Unintentionally Spooks His Skittish Human in a Series of Amusing Halloween Vignettes

https://laughingsquid.com/simons-cat-halloween-special/
In a really amusing series of vignettes for Halloween 2017, a very curious Simon’s Cat unintentionally scares his rather skittish human who’s deeply afraid of both spiders and things that go bump in the night. On a rare trip to the attic, a bored Simon’s Cat happily played with the light switch, which unfortunately brought out the resident spiders and left Simon fearfully clutching his childhood teddy bear. A curious cat uncovers a coven of creepy crawlies. Simon’s Cat FINALLY gets into the attic and gives Simon a spooky surprise! Later on, while Simon was watching a scary movie, Simon’s cat got stuck inside the new retractable sofa and tried to escape in the most convenient of ways. Simon’s Cat Tries to Get His Human’s Attention While Playing With a Spider in ‘Scary Legs’ Simon’s Cat Encounters a Scary Cucumber While Exploring Groceries Bought For a Romantic Dinner Simon’s Cat Tries to Gain Entry Into the Trash Bin Where Yummy Dinner Scraps Waited For Him
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archive.org #31354

A Church of the SubGenius documentary is in the works / Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/12/a-church-of-the-subgenius-docu.html
Folks, there's going to be a documentary about that crazy cult/religion known as the Church of the SubGenius. But only if you send J.R. "Bob" Dobbs boat loads of cash! Now more than ever we feel that the story of the Church of the SubGenius needs to be told. There's a core of ideas within the SubGenius ethos – of fighting oppression with humor, community and creativity, of using absurdity as a nonviolent weapon, giving time, permission and priority to expression, creation, and zaniness with friends – that we think has great value we believe these ideas are necessary in today's world and that our film about the SubGenius is the perfect way to invoke them. Amongst all the spaceships, frop, pipes, eye-bludgeoning graphics, bulldada, yeti ancestors, (and yes, ‘macho spoutings’), we hope you will fund this film so you can join our merry band of pranksters on the culture-jam of the century! It’s going to be a lot of fun!!! Previously: Crowdfunding a Church of the Subgenius alien contact beam (RED)
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archive.org #27383

A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for “BASIC Month” and a Chat with Its Author | Byte Cellar

http://www.bytecellar.com/2017/10/03/a-program-from-a-35-year-old-magazine-for-basic-month-and-a-chat-with-its-author/
July was BASIC Month over at r/Retrobattlestations and for that competition I decided to reach for my TI-99/4A and type in a TI Extended BASIC game called Pearl Harbor from the 1983 issue of Electronic Fun with Computers & Games…for the second time in 35 years. via Pocket
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archive.org #31357

302 Found

https://hackernoon.com/blockchains-dont-scale-not-today-at-least-but-there-s-hope-2cb43946551a
The first Bitcoin paper was first released in 2008. My excitement about the potential of blockchain technology has been building ever since.  Decentralized digital currency, once just a far-fetched goal, is finally making inroads into the mainstream. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #27319

Sleepy Hollow Cocktail — The Jewels of New York

http://www.thejewelsofny.com/recipe/2014/10/21/sleepy-hollow-cocktail#_a5y_p=2954877
½ ounce absinthe 2 ounces mezcal 1 oz st. elizabeth allspice dram 2 dashes angostura bitters rosemary sprig, for garnish Pour absinthe into a rocks glass; swirl to coat, and discard liqueur. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, then add mezcal, st. elizabeth, and 2 dashes of bitters. Strain cocktail into a glass over ice. Light rosemary with a lighter or culinary torch until smoking and place it in the glass. Serve immediately.
#absinthe #cocktails #imported:pinboard #mezcal
archive.org #27225

Looks like free market economics at work to me. – Dave Stagner – Medium

https://medium.com/@davestagner/looks-like-free-market-economics-at-work-to-me-7a9a58bafa7e?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Looks like free market economics at work to me. Over a thousand people clearly want a Penguicon that is all of these things you decry. If you don’t like it, don’t buy a membership. If you want more of a say in how the con is run, join the volunteers on concom. Or start your own con.
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27162

I’m sorry posters about consent to remind people of the rules left you feeling triggered, but…

https://medium.com/@jenniferkozak/im-sorry-posters-about-consent-to-remind-people-of-the-rules-left-you-feeling-triggered-but-9975bb0bcd17?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
I’m sorry posters about consent to remind people of the rules left you feeling triggered, but “consent culture” isn’t BS, and neither is rape culture. Your failure to get on board with the ideas says nothing about whether the concepts are valid. As a member of the LGBT community, and a minority member at that, Penguicon is one of the few conventions I attend (and I attend PLENTY) that provides what I feel is a community space that is trying to meet the needs of its least protected attendees. As someone who has been sexually assaulted at conventions…groped in elevators, had their behind smacked on convention grounds, often by repeat offenders, this is the bare minimum of what is acceptable for me to feel comfortable at a convention. If you don’t like being reminded that you share a world with other people because it ruins your enjoyment of a shared interest, you are more than free to excuse yourself. A flounce on your part is not required. I’m sure there are other backwards conventions that will cater to your need to not be reminded that you aren’t the only thing that matters. I would point out that anyone who has to learn the “hard way” that someone is a “hard-core feminist” is likely acting in a way that is incompatible with a space so full of feminists. Your ideas in this vein will not be missed. Good on you though for making sure that current and future attendees to Penguicon will know exactly why so many people are loyal to it, and for removing yourself from the situation before you do something that requires your removal.
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27161

The web was supposed to be a thing we make – Glitch – Medium

https://medium.com/glitch/the-web-was-supposed-to-be-a-thing-we-make-c023b6e7f56a?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
It’s easy to forget in an era of billion-dollar Internet startups that the original vision of the web was that it’s something we make, not just something we consume. So Glitch is helping us to remember. Retro never goes out of style on the World Wide Web. From its earliest days, people made personal webpages about their nostalgia for pop culture. When we launched a collection of First Websites on Glitch, it’d be easy to think we were just carrying on that great tradition. We painstakingly mimicked classic layouts from sites like LiveJournal, Neopets, Movable Type and many other old-school ways of publishing a web page. If you were on the Internet back then, or are just curious about web history, you should check it out, and remix those sites to make your own new classic. But our inspiration went a little bit deeper: It was also about remembering that millions of people created their own websites in the era before today’s social networks took over. Learning to tweak HTML to create a GeoCities page, or to customize CSS to make a MySpace page look perfect, was a rite of passage for the first 10 0r 15 years of the web. At Fog Creek, we’ve thought a lot about how to help more people create their own websites, apps, and software. We were inspired to create Glitch because we know there used to be a time when people on the web were almost as likely to make a web page as to read one. In a time when people online spend most of their time using just three apps, it seems more important than ever to encourage a diverse community of creators to experiment with their broadest set of ideas. And what better place to do so than a friendly, helpful community like Glitch? So while it’s fun to click around old-fashioned (and, well, sometimes not very pretty) old websites, we also hope you’ll also take a few minutes to think about how you’d leave your mark on the web. But what if you’ve never made a web page? Don’t worry: You can check out this simple video we made of talking you through building your first web page on Glitch. If you do take a few minutes to make a page, either for the first time or just for the first time in years, let us know by sharing it on social media. We can’t wait to see what you create! The web was supposed to be a thing we make was originally published in Glitch on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27137

302 Found

https://theestablishment.co/being-a-nerd-is-different-now-that-im-a-girl-5f9231389b09?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
People thought my nerdy interests would change. They didn’t — but my relationship with them did. Continue reading on The Establishment »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27077

ElectroHarmonograph - i3Detroit

https://www.i3detroit.org/wiki/ElectroHarmonograph
A Harmonograph is 19th-century mechanical device which draws geometric patterns based on the motion of pendulums. (For a real example, see Marie-therese's Maker Faire project - A 3-pendulum Harmonograph. Also, search youtube for videos like this one) By adjusting the physical parameters of the device, and initial conditions of the pendulums, you can vary the patterns it can make.
#arcade #hardware #i3detroit #imported:pinboard #projects
archive.org #27075

302 Found

https://psmag.com/on-the-milo-bus-with-the-lost-boys-of-americas-new-right-629a77e87986?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
What happens when a movement of gamers recognizes they’re not players, but pawns? Continue reading on Pacific Standard »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27060

302 Found

https://theestablishment.co/everyone-who-enabled-milo-yiannopoulos-shouldve-seen-this-coming-e6778af8f0a1?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
There’s poetic justice in Yiannopoulos’ precipitous fall from grace. Continue reading on The Establishment »
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archive.org #27054

Announcing ⛱ Sandpit – superhighfives – Medium

https://medium.com/superhighfives/announcing-sandpit-a5da86fd49ed?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
https://sandpitjs.com A playground for creative coding using JavaScript and the canvas element. I’ve long been fascinated with blurring the line between art and technology, and there are few places where exploring it is more easily achievable, or enjoyable, than the web. Browsers have come a long way since the heady days of IE6, and building complex visualisations and / or GPU-powered looping cat gifs is just a few tutorials away. My experiments, over time, have relied more and more on the tag. The wealth of incredible tools and resources available to manipulate this seemingly innocuous DOM element seem limitless, and I built Sandpit as a love letter to them. 🤓 So, what is it? At its heart, Sandpit is a library that helps simplify creative coding. It does what it can to help, and gets out of the way when it can’t. Because you always have access to the object, and to its context, you only have to use Sandpit when it benefits you. It looks like this: const sandpit = new Sandpit('body', Sandpit.CANVAS) The key features of Sandpit: Custom settings are easy to automagically configure, and then manipulate, with dat.GUI. For example, the following will give you a colour picker with red as a default: sandpit.settings = {strokeColor: {value: 'red', color: true}}console.log(sandpit.settings.strokeColor) // 'red' The current state is stored in the query string, making it simple to copy and paste your exact configuration to anyone who’s got the same settings as you—like in a staging environment, or locally. Tweak it, then paste it in Slack (👍, says your friend / client / co-worker). The animation loop is ready to go via sandpit.loop(), without needing you to write a single requestAnimationFrame. Inputs are normalised, from mouse to touch to gyroscope data, and there are event hooks, like sandpit.move(), to access them. Support for 2D or 3D canvases — it plays nice with libraries like Three.js, too, in case you just want simple access to touch inputs or the animation loop. Canvas resizing is automatically handled, with a preference towards setting and respecting the size in CSS (and a hook to override that). A bunch of related tools and libraries that are simple to access, including maths helpers, Color, and Victor. A growing suite of demos and documentation, and support for ES6, ES5, and the
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27052

302 Found

https://extranewsfeed.com/an-open-letter-to-jason-chaffetz-from-someone-who-attended-his-town-hall-41d3ff348c9f?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
This is what I saw as one of your constituents (who was paid nothing for attending). Continue reading on Extra Newsfeed »
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archive.org #27043

302 Found

https://theestablishment.co/white-people-i-dont-want-you-to-understand-me-better-i-want-you-to-understand-yourselves-a6fbedd42ddf?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Your survival has never depended on your knowledge of white culture. In fact, it’s required your ignorance. Continue reading on The Establishment »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #27033

Smoke in the Woods | The Straight Up

https://drinkstraightup.com/2013/08/19/smoke-in-the-woods/
Mix equal parts Knob Creek (or other Bourbon), Campari and Carpano Antica in a large glass jar or other suitable storage vessel. Add about 1lb of 100% Natural Hardwood Charcoal, cut into smaller pieces if needed. Let sit in a cool, dark place for 7-10 days. Start tasting around day 5 and see what you like best. Strain the mixture through a coffee filter multiple times (use a fresh one each time) until most of the sediment has been removed. This is the most painful part of the process, but the end product will be more than worth it.
#bourbon #cocktails #imported:pinboard #smoked
archive.org #31387

We say we don’t hate our audiences. Our mobile strategies suggest otherwise.

https://medium.com/@s_m_i/we-say-we-dont-hate-our-audiences-our-mobile-advertising-strategies-suggest-otherwise-60c1cc8e1f4a?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Some people’s phones are filled with photos of their families, of their friends, of beautiful landscapes, of adorable pets. My phone is a museum of rage-inducing mobile experiences. I had the opportunity to channel that rage into an Ignite talk at a journalism conference. This post is an adapted version of that presentation. POYMAAAS: Pissing Off Your Mobile Audiences As A Service Almost everything I do on the internet, I do on my phone. Which means that every single day, I am provoked to John McEnroe-esque reactions by what Ye Average Media Organization forces audiences to endure. Like the, “oh, you wanted to do that thing? First jump through several hoops to download our app”: Apple: punishing you for having deleted their not-at-all-best-in-class Podcasts app.Pinterest: judging you for daring to want to check out Disney Princess tattoos in your mobile browser. Or the “sign up for our newsletter that might or might not have anything to do with the story you want to read but now can’t because of this full-screen call to action that our growth team insisted we force upon you”: On the left, Fusion. On the right, Blavity. At least neither of them went for the guilt and shame strategy. Or the “how many things that are not the thing you want can we put between you and the thing you want”, in which the distractions from the journalism include “and now some content from our sponsor” that takes up an entire screen: What exactly do you want me to do here, HBR and Runners World? Or the “please allow us to passive aggressively shame you as only the English can even as we take that sweet, sweet money from Outbrain and Taboola”: And we haven’t even gotten to the proliferation of the “Read More” button, a way for publishers to make your user experience worse so they can prove to advertisers that someone saw the ad that immediately follows your dispirted tap. Or the inescapable ad that autoplays as you try scrolling past it: Or the truly evil forced browser redirect to the app store, where you might be prompted to download an app you already own or one you would never even consider because wow, ad targeting is terrible: And so I ask: what have our audiences done to deserve any of this? And why do we think we deserve to have any audience at all when this is how we treat them? I’m spending my year as a 2016–17 JSK Fellow at Stanford University trying to improve mobile news experiences. If you’re someone with ~opinions~ and perspectives on these issues, please do get in touch.
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archive.org #26927

As someone who maintains an OSS project of a similar popularity to Babel I fully understand where…

https://medium.com/@photonstorm/as-someone-who-maintains-an-oss-project-of-a-similar-popularity-to-babel-i-fully-understand-where-c2548aa1ea0a?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
This isn’t about having a ‘thick skin’, it’s about educating them about what is acceptable. If they come back with the exact same issue… Continue reading on »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #26907

I loved your description of the ultra modern fixtures and the tiled tubs in the colonial up the…

https://medium.com/@thejaytaylor/i-loved-your-description-of-the-ultra-modern-fixtures-and-the-tiled-tubs-in-the-colonial-up-the-8800344911ef?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
We never could find the perfect home, but we loved the rest of the home enough to look past the awkward tubs and futuristic LED lights. At… Continue reading on »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #26877

A letter to “open minded, genuinely kind, educated, willing to listen and learn white assholes” out…

https://medium.com/@thistechgirl/a-letter-to-open-minded-genuinely-kind-educated-willing-to-listen-and-learn-white-assholes-out-40ccf808e933?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Tonight a (white) friend posted on her Facebook wall that when she has recently talked to people about the secret group Pantsuit Nation… Continue reading on »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #26858

thereisonlyr.com

https://thereisonlyr.com/now-would-be-a-good-time-for-oculus-to-quadruple-their-investment-in-diversity-129948ea028d?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3&gi=8e7c539634f
A VR pioneer is unmasked as sponsor of a white supremacist troll network Continue reading on There Is Only R »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #31414

Ian Bell's Text Elite Page

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/text/
Text Elite is a C implementation of the classic Elite trading system in a text adventure style shell. I originally coded this to formalise and archive the definition of the Classic Elite Universe, but have released it, with sources, now that Christian Pinder has publicly reverse engineered BBC Disk Elite trading into C.
#c #elite #gaming #imported:pinboard #pico8
archive.org #31415

tapDancer Virtual Datasette - Android Apps on Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.kica.tapdancer
tapDancer converts archives of vintage games and other software into audio waveforms that your classic 1980's-era computer(s) can understand and plays them back, allowing you to once again use these programs on your cherished system(s) using your mobile Android device, and a tape-interface cable or CD-to-cassette adaptor (depending on the computer.)
#c64 #hacks #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #26659

PockulusC.H.I.P. or: How an April Fool’s Joke Turned PocketC.H.I.P. into the Most Affordable VR Headset in the World! — Blog. by Next Thing

http://blog.nextthing.co/pockulusc-h-i-p-or-how-an-april-fools-joke-turned-pocketc-h-i-p-into-the-most-affordable-vr-headset-in-the-world/
PockulusC.H.I.P. started as a joke. But then we actually got it working. That’s right, the most affordable standalone virtual reality headset in the world started as a joke and it works!
#3dprinting #diy #hardware #imported:pinboard #pocketchip
archive.org #31423

Setting up PocketCHIP

https://stevemcgrath.io/setting-up-pocketchip/
So I got a couple of these fantastic little embedded systems from Next Thing, and started to try to set one of them up how I would like to see it setup. Basically I was looking for a web browser, SSH installed, and a few aliases to make things easy to work with.
#debian #imported:pinboard #pocketchip
archive.org #31425

I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won’t Believe What Happened Next — friendship .js — Medium

https://medium.com/friendship-dot-js/i-peeked-into-my-node-modules-directory-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-b89f63d21558?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
The left-pad fiasco shook the JavaScript community to its core when a rouge developer removed a popular module from npm, causing tens of… Continue reading on friendship .js »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #26641

matt.haughey.com

https://matt.haughey.com/15-minutes-in-the-morning-pokemon-go-9834565f57fe?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3&gi=c67b31db7da4
Ingress is an AR/real-world game released years ago. It was Android-only for the longest time and I only had one friend that was way into… Continue reading on Technology Musings »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #31459

howwegettonext.com

https://howwegettonext.com/the-unquestioned-pursuit-of-weight-loss-had-us-eating-wrong-for-years-e43a0e60a1?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3&gi=c86968c8c13e
Our quest for thinness is actually making us far less healthy—even killing us—and not for the reasons you’d think Continue reading on How We Get To Next »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #31472

It has to be kept secret because people get tired of rude, smug, patronizing responses like yours … — Medium

https://medium.com/@streever/it-has-to-be-kept-secret-because-people-get-tired-of-rude-smug-patronizing-responses-like-yours-796e8244077b?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
Vote for whoever you like! No one owes you anything. The woman who wrote this piece is not on the payroll: she just actually prefers… Continue reading on Medium »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #26530

How about this: Instead of 6 “rules” for women to behave, we just make 1 for the men: Don’t be an… — Medium

https://medium.com/@tkissing/how-about-this-instead-of-6-rules-for-women-to-behave-we-just-make-1-for-the-men-dont-be-an-959bd49ef664?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
asshole and confuse a professional conference with your personal dream about a world where every woman is just waiting for you to hit on… Continue reading on Medium »
#imported:pinboard #medium #recommended
archive.org #26504

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Man arrested for allegedly running around naked with bells hanging from his genitals

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2016/05/man-arrested-for-allegedly-running.html
A man from Riverton, Utah, was arrested on Thursday for what police are describing as a “rather unique” way of exposing himself. At about 4:50pm, police responded to a report of a man “running around naked with bells hanging from his genitals” near the Diamond Fork hot pots in the Spanish Fork Canyon, according to Sgt. Spencer Cannon of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office. Cannon said multiple girls at the hot pots, ranging from 8 to 16 years old, witnessed the man running around naked and called police. When officers arrived they found the man, identified as 64-year-old Kenneth Allen Beck, fully clothed by a trailhead parking lot, Cannon said. Cannon added Beck told deputies he did it to “see their reaction” and that Beck was cited by police on suspicion of lewdness involving a child, a Class A misdemeanor. According to Cannon, Beck was convicted of a Class B misdemeanor for indecent exposure stemming from a lewdness case in 2005.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #26481

A controversial theory may explain the real reason humans have allergies

http://qz.com/689806/a-controversial-theory-may-explain-the-real-reason-humans-have-allergies
For me, it was hornets. One summer afternoon when I was 12, I ran into an overgrown field near a friend’s house and kicked a hornet nest the size of a football. An angry squadron of insects clamped onto my leg; their stings felt like scorching needles. via Pocket
#Unread #favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #26479

Six nifty ES6 tricks

http://www.2ality.com/2016/05/six-nifty-es6-tricks.html
const Storage = Sup => class extends Sup { save(database) { ··· } }; const Validation = Sup => class extends Sup { validate(schema) { ··· } }; You can use them to compose a class Employee as follows. class Person { ··· } class Employee extends Storage(Validation(Person)) { ··· }
#imported:pinboard #javascript #programming #tips
archive.org #26477

Inside the NSA’s shockingly successful simulated hack of the U.S. military.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/03/inside_the_nsa_s_shockingly_successful_simulated_hack_of_the_u_s_military.html
Excerpted from Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan. Out now from Simon & Schuster. On Wednesday, March 9, Kaplan will discuss his book in New York; for more information and to RSVP, visit the New America website. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #26468

The breadth and power of Prince's activism begins to be revealed after his death

http://dailykos.com/story/2016/04/22/1518865/-The-breadth-and-power-of-Prince-s-activism-begins-to-be-revealed-after-his-death?detail=email&link_id=15&can_id=e619d2f687fee2fe8c185e44468e58a4&source=email-trans-teen-physically-removed-from-ted-cruz-rallyhere-is-the-16-year-olds-excellent-response&email_referrer=trans-teen-physically-removed-from-ted-cruz-rallyhere-is-the-16-year-olds-excellent-response&email_subject=trans-teen-physically-removed-from-ted-cruz-rally-here-is-the-16-year-olds-excellent-response
#Unread #imported:pinboard
archive.org #31492

Paul Ryan's 'golden boy' days are officially over with this Politico story

http://dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/20/1517944/-Paul-Ryan-s-golden-boy-days-are-officially-over-with-this-Politico-story?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=e619d2f687fee2fe8c185e44468e58a4&source=email-paul-ryans-golden-boy-days-are-officially-over-with-this-politico-story&email_referrer=paul-ryans-golden-boy-days-are-officially-over-with-this-politico-story&email_subject=paul-ryans-golden-boy-days-are-officially-over-with-this-politico-story
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archive.org #31494

36 year-old DESTROYS 29-year-old millennial who “ripped” 25-year-old Yelp employee who got fired… — Listen To My Story — Medium

https://medium.com/listen-to-my-story/36-year-old-destroys-29-year-old-millennial-who-ripped-25-year-old-yelp-employee-who-got-fired-aa91972dedff?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3
On Friday, a Yelp/Eat24 employee wrote a blog post to her CEO about her minimum wage compensation, which she said came out to about $8 an… Continue reading on Medium »
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archive.org #26286

Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web
Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a stream of pointless social trivia Late in 2014, I was abruptly pardoned and freed from Evin prison in northern Tehran. via Pocket
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archive.org #26228

Doug Engelbart | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21581696-doug-engelbart-computer-engineer-died-july-2nd-aged-88-doug-engelbart
WHEN you are a visionary, it’s hard to get other people to see as you do. When you have a plan to save the world through men and computers working together, as Doug Engelbart had, it’s hard to enlist the guys at the water-cooler to take part in the crusade. via Pocket
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archive.org #26225

LOVECRAFTIAN CYBORGS AND THE ALIEN AESTHETIC: Part 1 – Cyborgs of the Abyss | Journal of a Cosmic Anthropologist

http://m1k3y.com/2015/09/02/lovecraftian-cyborgs-and-the-alien-aesthetic-part-1-cyborgs-of-the-abyss/
What follows are my extended thoughts and personal reflections a week two weeks after watching Bruce Sterling deliver a lecture on Alien Aesthetics. It’s a look at the weirder side of cyborg life and our posthuman future. via Pocket
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archive.org #31523

'I have lived over half of my life' | Life and style | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/aug/14/miranda-sawyer-midlife-crisis-mortality
I don't know what to call it, really. Midlife crisis sounds so flamboyant, so ridiculous, so… exciting. And I haven't run off with a builder, or moved to Thailand to find my real self, or embarked on a brand-new drug habit, or taken up free rock climbing. via Pocket
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archive.org #26222

thebillfold.com

https://thebillfold.com/a-story-of-a-fuck-off-fund-648401263659?source=rss-f9133b07a948------3&gi=cdcd3994ec55
You will be the kind of woman who can tell anyone to fuck off if a fuck off is deserved, so naturally you start a Fuck Off Fund. Continue reading on Medium »
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archive.org #31530

What does it mean to be a man in the age of austerit...

https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-man-in-the-age-of-austerity
When Gary Gilbert lost his job, it was devastating. A tradesman, he had joined his employer’s company only because he thought it offered a bit more security than endlessly chasing the next gig as a freelance operator, and that he could then provide a better future for his son. via Pocket
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archive.org #26172

mobile.nytimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/magazine/how-privilege-became-a-provocation.html?_r=1
This spring, the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie put a new spin on the commencement speech, that most staid of genres. Speaking at Wellesley College, she didn’t emphasize how the graduates had been helped by their education, but how they had been hindered by it. via Pocket
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archive.org #26096

Nick Szabo -- The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/micropayments.html
A micropayments system assumes a solution to the mental accounting problem. If somebody could actually solve the this problem, rather than merely claiming to have solved it via some mysterious means ("intelligent agents", et. al.), the savings would be enormous even in existing business such as long distance and Internet service -- not to mention all the new possibilities possible by lower transaction costs.
#business #economics #imported:pinboard #internet #micropayments
archive.org #26028

Kmart Week of....

https://archive.org/details/@davismv?and[]=subject%3A%22Kmart%22
This is a digitized version of an in-store cassette tape that was played within a Kmart store. See the title of the file for the month and year. I worked at Kmart between 1989 and 1999 and held onto them with the hopes that they would be of use some day. Enjoy!
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archive.org #31549

The CompuServe of Things

http://www.windley.com/archives/2014/04/the_compuserve_of_things.shtml
On the Net today we face a choice between freedom and captivity, independence and dependence. You may view that statement as melodramatic, but the near future will incorporate computers into more facets of our lives than we can imagine. via Pocket
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archive.org #25967

How to embrace loneliness: a modern guide | Nell Frizzell | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/20/modern-guide-how-to-be-lonely?CMP=fb_gu
Loneliness can creep through your bones like a disease, wash over you unexpectedly as if a stranger’s vomit, or sit in the pit of your stomach for weeks like undigested chewing gum. Especially, it turns out, if you’re young. Of course it’s easy to be lonely in your 20s. via Pocket
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archive.org #25941

console - Mozilla | MDN

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tools/console#Logging_Levels
The logging level defaults to "error". extensions.sdk.console.logLevel: if set, this determines the logging level for all installed SDK-based add-ons. This includes add-ons being developed using the Extension Auto-installer.
#addons #debug #dev #imported:pinboard
archive.org #25887

Sega-16 – Unofficial Shmups Glossary

http://www.sega-16.com/2005/04/unofficial-shmups-glossary/
Bulletmagnet from the Shmups forum has compiled this awesome glossary of shmup terms, which is great for those just getting into the genre, as well as those with questions about what certain terms mean or are called. Some terms were also taken from the Shooter Lingo section of the now-defunct shmup site Starbase299.
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archive.org #31564

Tesla’s Solid Metal Snake Will Have Sex with Your Car to Charge It | Nerdist

http://nerdist.com/teslas-solid-metal-snake-will-have-sex-with-your-car-to-charge-it/
On the last day of last year, Elon Musk tweeted this: Btw, we are actually working on a charger that automatically moves out from the wall & connects like a solid metal snake. For realz. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2014 For realz y’all. Now, just 8 months later, Tesla Motors tweets this: Charger prototype finding its way to Model S. https://t.co/L9E4MR642G — Tesla Motors (@TeslaMotors) August 6, 2015 Totes realz. Tesla looks like it will indeed deliver an automated snake charger that Teslas will charge with once you park your car in the garage. It’s a fascinating and undeniably cool concept that just also happens to look totally like robot sex in real life. So, watch it plug in over and over again? Awww yeah. I feel like this is NSFWIYAAR (not suitable for work if you are a robot), but I can’t look away. Creepiness aside, the tech on display here is impressive. Both the snake and the car have to first know that they are in range of each other, the car has to open its charging port, and then the snake has to utilize some kind of three dimensional data and dozens of motors to carefully articulate itself into the port. See? That doesn’t sound so NSFWIYAAR…right?
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archive.org #31565

The Moon crossing the sunlit face of the Earth

http://kottke.org/15/08/the-moon-crossing-the-sunlit-face-of-the-earth
This is just flat-out incredible... NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captured a series of photos of the Moon as it moved between it and the Earth. The image shows the "dark side" of the Moon, which we can't see from Earth because it's always pointed away from us. The lunar far side lacks the large, dark, basaltic plains, or maria, that are so prominent on the Earth-facing side. The largest far side features are Mare Moscoviense in the upper left and Tsiolkovskiy crater in the lower left. A thin sliver of shadowed area of moon is visible on its right side. "It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface." I don't know why, but this image gives me chills up my spine! Is anyone else freaking out about this? Tags: Earth   Moon   NASA   space
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archive.org #25872

Towards a Mass Flourishing

http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/towards-a-mass-flourishing##A+big+implication+is+immediately+clear%3A+the+asymptotic+condition+represents+a+consumer+utopia.+As+consumers%2C+we+will+enjoy+far+more+for+far+less.+This+means+that+the+biggest+unknown+today+is+our+future+as+producers%2C+which+brings+us+to+what+many+view+as+the+central+question+today%3A+the+future+of+work.
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archive.org #25852

Getting Reoriented

http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/getting-reoriented##Young+or+old%2C+those+who+are+unable+to+adopt+the+Promethean+mindset+end+up+defaulting+to+what+we+call+a+pastoral+mindset%3A+one+marked+by+yearning+for+lost+or+unattained+utopias.+Today+many+still+yearn+for+an+updated+version+of+romanticized9+1950s+American+middle-class+life+for+instance%2C+featuring+flying+cars+and+jetpacks
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archive.org #25851

A World Without Work

http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294##Video+games%2C+despite+the+derision+aimed+at+them%2C+are+vehicles+for+achievement+of+a+sort.+Jeremy+Bailenson%2C+a+communications+professor+at+Stanford%2C+says+that+as+virtual-reality+technology+improves%2C+people%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%9Ccyber-existence%E2%80%9D+will+become+as+rich+and+social+as+their+%E2%80%9Creal%E2%80%9D+life.+Games+in+which+users+climb+%E2%80%9Cinto+another+person%E2%80%99s+skin+to+embody+his+or+her+experiences+firsthand%E2%80%9D+don%E2%80%99t+just+let+people+live+out+vicarious+fantasies%2C+he+has+argued%2C+but+also+%E2%80%9Chelp+you+live+as+somebody+else+to+teach+you+empathy+and+pro-social+skills.%E2%80%9D
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archive.org #25850

Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100306/1649198451.shtml
Every so often we hear about a random blog or website that freaks out and claims that ad blockers are "stealing" or somehow damaging websites. But it's quite a surprise to see a similar argument from a site like Ars Technica -- one of the top techie sites out there, which is now owned by Conde Nast. via Pocket
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archive.org #25846

The Death Of Expertise

http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise
I am (or at least think I am) an expert. Not on everything, but in a particular area of human knowledge, specifically social science and public policy. When I say something on those subjects, I expect that my opinion holds more weight than that of most other people. via Pocket
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archive.org #25969

Unit testing React components without a DOM – simonsmith.io – Portfolio and blog of a London based front-end web developer

http://simonsmith.io/unit-testing-react-components-without-a-dom/?imm_mid=0d3af7&cmp=em-web-na-na-newsltr_20150617
the idea of shallow rendering is to instantiate a component and get the result of its render method, which is a ReactElement. From here you can do things like check its props and children and verify it works as expected.
#apps #imported:pinboard #react #testing #webdev
archive.org #31582

Behold the $15,000 Ultra-Limited Edition PAC-MAN Watch | Nerdist

http://nerdist.com/behold-the-15000-ultra-limited-edition-pac-man-watch/
You’re going to need an awful lot of quarters if you want to literally wear your Pac-Man love on your sleeve. For a cool 1,900,000 yen (approximately $15,480.46 USD), you can waka waka walk away with an officially licensed “Pacman Level II 40 Colours” watch from Romain Jerome. The Swiss company is a purveyor of fine luxury watches, but they’re really focusing on exclusivity this time around; in fact, only 20 of the video game-inspired time pieces will be available worldwide. To make it even more challenging for potential customers, the watch can’t be ordered online. Rather, you must buy it in person from a list of pre-approved retailers. Hint: that weird guy Derek who always has watches taped to the inside of his trenchcoat isn’t one of them. In case you’re a gearhead or Sylar from Heroes, here’s the official description from Romain Jerome’s site: “46mm. Black PVD-coated titanium case. Grainy-textured stellar-patterned back with Pac-Man medallion. Black 3D dial. Pixelated PAC-MAN characters and strawberries lacquered with different colours. Black rubber with grainy-textured interior of stellar-patterned strap.” Ooh la la, right? In addition to Pac-Man, Romain Jerome also has a collection of watches inspired by Batman, Space Invaders, and Back to the Future. And yes, you’d likely have to be as rich as Bruce Wayne if you wanted to buy them all. What other classic video game franchises deserved to be turned into absurdly overpriced luxury watches? Let us know in the comments below. Dan Casey is the senior editor of Nerdist. You can follow him on Twitter (@Osteoferocious). HT: Crunchyroll
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archive.org #31593

Will Superintelligent AI Ignore Humans Instead of Destroying Us? | Motherboard

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/will-superintelligent-ai-ignore-humans-instead-of-destroying-us?trk_source=homepage-lede
We’re marching toward the singularity, the day when artificial intelligence is smarter than us. That has some very smart people such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk worried that robots will enslave or destroy us—but perhaps there’s another option. via Pocket
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archive.org #25704

Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja (CHAPPIE OST) by indomoviemania.com | Free Listening on SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/indomoviemania/die-antwoord-enter-the-ninja-chappie-ost
Theme song of Chappie (2015) Artis: Die Antwoord Title: Enter The Ninja
#"Chappie #"Enter #"Movie #&quot;Chappie #&quot;Enter #&quot;Movie #(2015) #(2015)" #(2015)&quot; #Chappie #Enter #Ninja" #Ninja&quot; #Ost #Ost" #Ost&quot; #Song #Song" #Song&quot; #favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #movie #ninja #soundcloud #the #theme
archive.org #25690

Industrial Head (NIN / KMFDM / Nitzer Ebb / Ministry / Front 242 +) by LeeDM101 | Free Listening on SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/leedm101/industrial-head-nin-kmfdm
Sources used: Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole (vocal and chant samples) Nine Inch Nails - Sanctified (drum stem) KMFDM - Animal Out (loops) Nitzer Ebb - Captivate (drums) Nitzer Ebb - Lightning Man (bass loop) Ministry - Thieves (12" remix) Ministry - Bad Blood (sample) Front 242 - Paradise (sample) Front 242 - Manhunter Rammstein - Rammstein (sample)
#"free #"front #"head #"nine #"nitzer #&quot;free #&quot;front #&quot;head #&quot;nine #&quot;nitzer #2015 #242 #242" #242&quot; #a #download #download" #download&quot; #ebb #ebb" #ebb&quot; #favorites #free #front #head #hole #hole" #hole&quot; #ifttt #imported:pinboard #inch #industrial #kmfdm #leedm101 #like #mash #mashup #ministry #nails #nails" #nails&quot; #nin #nine #nitzer #rock #soundcloud
archive.org #25673

You Won’t Be Able to Ride This Bike | Nerdist

http://nerdist.com/you-wont-be-able-to-ride-this-bike/
Riding a bike is just like…riding a bike, right? Once you learn how to propel yourself along on two wheels, you’ll never forget how to do so, and it’s always easy to jump back in the seat. But change just one skill that riding a bike involves — the way the handlebars turn — and everything falls apart. Below, Destin from Smarter Everyday shows that the bike riding “algorithm” our brains develop is actually quite fragile. You can’t change any aspect of riding a bike without unlearning how to ride a bike in the first place: I had the same thought Destin had: I would be able to figure it out pretty quick even with the steering reversed. But only after months and months of practice could he master the new locomotion. When he finally was able to move more than a few feet, he couldn’t ride a normal bike anymore. Destin may be making a lot of claims based on a few people’s experiences, like that his son could master the bike more quickly because of brain plasticity, for example, but I think he has a point. The brain comes up with models of the world that work most of the time, and burns them into neural pathways that are harder to change the more they are used. The eureka moment was when Destin could suddenly ride the normal bike again, after eight months of trying to unlearn it. His brain apparently switched back to a model it was more familiar with. The video is a great example of how we learn, and how knowledge and understanding are not the same thing. And it’s a great idea for an unwinnable bet…
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archive.org #31608

Erector Sets are more fun than the Sum of their Parts | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2015/04/23/erector-sets-are-more-fun-than-the-sum-of-their-parts/
Here is a great ad for Erector from the early eighties that features a kid floating in a field of Erector parts and sets. I always thought that, like Lego, Erector would only grow in popularity. Sadly, while Erector is still going strong, it is nothing like the success of those toy bricks.
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archive.org #31617

Capt. Janeway cosplayer anticipating real coffee aboard International Space Station | Polygon

http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/17/8444831/star-trek-janeway-coffee-international-space-station
On Tuesday Space X launched another shipment of supplies off to the International Space Station, and there to receive it today is none other than Captain Janeway. Sam Cristoforetti is an Italian astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station. She's been in orbit since November of last year, and from the looks of it she did a little extra packing for the trip. She's clearly wearing a Starfleet uniform and a tiny ISS pin in place of the traditional chevron. "There's coffee in that nebula"... ehm, I mean... in that #Dragon. pic.twitter.com/9MYrqIOXnI — Sam Cristoforetti (@AstroSamantha) April 17, 2015 The text of her tweet is an in-joke that fans of the Star Trek: Voyager series will recognize. In Voyager's fifth... Continue reading…
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archive.org #25614

PC Music x DISown Radio ft. A. G. Cook, GFOTY, Danny L Harle, Lil Data, Nu New Edition and Kane West by PC Music ♩ - Hear the world’s sounds

https://soundcloud.com/pcmus/pc-music-x-disown
http://disown.pcmusic.info DISown Radio broadcasts on http://radio.dismagazine.com every Sunday from 2 EST and live at Red Bull Studios New York 00:00 - A. G. Cook @agcook 10:00 - GFOTY @gfoty 20:00 - Danny L Harle @dannylharle 30:00 - Lil Data @lil-data 40:00 - Nu New Edition @??? 50:00 - Kane West @kane-west-official Visuals by Kim Laughton
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archive.org #25503

SqueakJS by Bert Freudenberg

http://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/
SqueakJS executes Squeak in a web page without a plugin. It is a fully capable virtual machine implemented in pure JavaScript running unmodified Squeak images. Squeak is a modern implementation of Smalltalk, the original dynamic object-oriented programming environment. It runs bit-identically on virtually any platform, and now in the web browser, too.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #programming #smalltalk #squeak #vm
archive.org #31689

Contributing to Atom

https://atom.io/docs/latest/contributing#git-commit-messages
Use the present tense ("Add feature" not "Added feature") Use the imperative mood ("Move cursor to..." not "Moves cursor to...") Limit the first line to 72 characters or less Reference issues and pull requests liberally Consider starting the commit message
#atom #emoji #git #imported:pinboard
archive.org #25437

The Tapir's Tale: Lambda, Javascript Micro-Services on AWS

http://anders.janmyr.com/2014/12/lambda-javascript-micro-services-on-aws.html
Amazon just released a bunch of new services. My favorite is Lambda. Lambda allows me to deploy simple micro-services without having to setup any servers at all. Everything is hosted in the AWS cloud. Another cool thing about Lambda services is that the default runtime is Node.js!
#amazon #aws #imported:pinboard #lambda #node #s3
archive.org #25432

Pain Really Does Make Us Gain - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/pain-really-make-us-gain
Or, as Bastian puts it, “Pain is a kind of shortcut to mindfulness: it makes us suddenly aware of everything in the environment. It brutally draws us into a virtual sensory awareness of the world, much like meditation.” The real bonding power of pain, then, may be in the pleasure we feel so acutely in its wake.
#groups #imported:pinboard #psychology
archive.org #25422

Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures - mGBA

https://endrift.com/mgba/2014/12/28/classic-nes/
From a GBA emulation perspective, the games were especially interesting. The average Game Boy Advance game is extremely buggy, and the platform itself contains a number of safeguards to prevent games from crashing. As a result, emulators tend to need to be bug-compatible with the original hardware to ensure that the games actually work. However, the Classic NES Series goes above and beyond the average game in an attempt to ensure they don’t work in emulators.
#emulation #gameboy #gaming #imported:pinboard #nintendo
archive.org #31712

Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About 'The Internet' in 2012 - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674/
Five simple reasons: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. Many people use, as a kind of shorthand, The Internet to mean a wide variety of things related to this series of tubes. The Internet could mean the culture made and distributed on the Internet, the LOLCATZ, memes, etc. via Pocket
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archive.org #31714

Why David Byrne is wrong about Spotify | Dave Allen | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/16/why-david-byrne-wrong-spotify-thom-yorke
It feels strange to sit down and begin writing a rebuttal to the declamation of a musician who I really admire. David Byrne wrote an article last week for the Guardian in which he states: "I've pulled as much of my catalogue from Spotify I can. via Pocket
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archive.org #25404

CBM FileBrowser

http://www.vic20.it/cbmfilebrowser/
CBM-FileBrowser is a program launcher for Commodore machines. Even if it was originally intended for devices with sd2iec firmware, it works also with any CBM drive (without sd2iec functions of course).
#c64 #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #31720

Hobbyist inter-networking and the popular Internet imaginary: forgotten histories of networked personal computing, 1978-1998 :: University of Southern California Dissertations and Theses

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/444362/rec/2
Popular social computing began in the late‐1970s with the emergence of dial‐up bulletin‐board systems (BBS). For nearly two decades before the privatization of the state‐sponsored internet, tens of thousands of dial‐up computer networks were run out of the homes and offices of hobbyists, volunteers, and entrepreneurs throughout North America. It was on these bulletin‐board systems that personal computer owners first began to use their machines for popular communication. The history of BBSing portrays amateurs, hobbyists, and enthusiasts as key agents in the development and diffusion of social computing. Indeed, the users and administrators of early BBSes were the first to confront the fundamental challenges of living and working in online communities. Their experiences and experiments with anonymity, identity, privacy, sexuality, and trust established norms and values that were reproduced in the commercial services and social media systems to follow. Restoring the popular memory of the BBS movement confers legitimacy on amateur users to speak with authority about the present and future of internet technology and policy.
#bbs #imported:pinboard #papers #retro
archive.org #25374

Renegade BBS in Ubuntu Linux - Telnet|Multi-Node

http://www.instructables.com/id/Renegade-BBS-in-Ubuntu-Linux-Telnet-Multi-Node/
There are many open source BBS resources out there for Linux, but I came up short in finding anything even remotely mentioning renegade and Linux in the same sentence. This left me feeling nostalgically challenged so I set out to find a way to run a telnet multi-node Renegade BBS from my Ubuntu system. In this instructable, I will show you how I achieved this and hopefully inspire some much needed creative improvements as well.
#bbs #dos #hacks #imported:pinboard #linux #renegade #telnet
archive.org #31724

The Myth Of AI | Edge.org

http://edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-ai
That mythology, in turn, has spurred a reactionary, perpetual spasm from people who are horrified by what they hear. You'll have a figure say, "The computers will take over the Earth, but that's a good thing, because people had their chance and now we should give it to the machines. via Pocket
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archive.org #25352

The web idealists have a point: content can't truly blossom in walled gardens | Advertising news | Campaign

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/russell_davies/article/1298102/the-web-idealists-point-content-cant-truly-blossom-walled-gardens/
The movement being what it is, there is not necessarily a canonical, single set of principles, but here’s something close, and it sums the idea up pretty well: "Your content is yours. When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #31727

The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It - WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/the-web-is-dying-apps-are-killing-it-1416169934-lMyQjAxMTI0NTEwNzAxMTcwWj
Everything about apps feels like a win for users—they are faster and easier to use than what came before. But underneath all that convenience is something sinister: the end of the very openness that allowed Internet companies to grow into some of the most powerful or important companies of the 21st century.
#imported:pinboard #internet #open #web #webdev
archive.org #25343

Easy Dinner Recipe: Viking Chicken — Recipes from The Kitchn | The Kitchn

http://www.thekitchn.com/viking-chicken-182165
The basic idea behind Viking Chicken is that you are cooking the really nice chicken on top of a bed of fruit (sweet) and vegetables (savory). The sweet and savory combo, mixed with chicken fat, butter and salt, is killer. And you don't need to be too picky about what the veggies are. You can clean out the refrigerator with what you've got if you like. That's why I call it "Viking," because it's sort of low brow and hard to mess up.
#chicken #dinner #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #25338

Seth Ladd's Blog: Minification is not enough, you need tree shaking

http://blog.sethladd.com/2013/01/minification-is-not-enough-you-need.html
I believe that web developers need a better workflow that automates tree shaking, dead code elimination, minification, and more. Stop caring how big a library is, and instead let a tool or build step produce the smallest output possible for you, ideally by tree shaking the application.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #webdev
archive.org #25335

Triumph of the Wrong - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/opinion/paul-krugman-triumph-of-the-wrong.html?smid=fb-share
But the biggest secret of the Republican triumph surely lies in the discovery that obstructionism bordering on sabotage is a winning political strategy. From Day 1 of the Obama administration, Mr. McConnell and his colleagues have done everything they could to undermine effective policy, in particular blocking every effort to do the obvious thing — boost infrastructure spending — in a time of low interest rates and high unemployment.
#government #imported:pinboard #politics #republicans
archive.org #25312

The Old Guard – Rands in Repose

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-old-guard/
The Old Guard is the cultural bellwether of the company. I believe that culture is a slippery thing to fully define, but I do believe it is the responsibility of the Old Guard to not only take the time to define the key values that are the pillars of that culture, to communicate the nuance of those values over and over again, and, lastly, when it becomes apparent they are no longer serving the company, they must be willing to let those values evolve.
#culture #imported:pinboard #management #work
archive.org #31737

I Hope Twitter Goes Away - The Blagoblag

https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/
It's for all these reasons that I hope Twitter genuinely ceases to be. I want a product that enables me to build and participate in communities, that encourages discussions and expressing meaningful ideas. Not one that systemically encourages harassment, abuse, and shouting as loud as you can, and which on its best day, is a glorified link aggregator. And not a very good one.
#community #imported:pinboard #social #twitter #web
archive.org #31741

“Saturday Night Live” and Richard Pryor: The untold story behind “SNL’s” edgiest sketch ever - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/03/saturday_night_live_and_richard_pryor_the_untold_story_behind_snls_edgiest_sketch_ever/
Up until the mid-1970s, the networks had little interest in Saturday late-night shows. After the eleven o’clock news, the airwaves were a bone-yard for local affiliates, the final resting place for schlock movies from the 1950s and ’60s. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #31744

Emoji rebus puzzles

http://kottke.org/14/01/emoji-rebus-puzzles
Using pictures to represent words dates back to Egyptian hieroglyphics and Chinese pictographs. But in the 1500s in France, a particular format of picture writing called the rebus was invented. A rebus is a word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words (or parts of words). The rebus became very popular in Europe and elsewhere.
#emoji #imported:pinboard #language #mobile #rebus
archive.org #25265

20 years of blogging

http://scripting.com/2014/10/07/20YearsOfBlogging.html
Mike Arrington once said they would erect a statue in my honor in Palo Alto. I said it'll never happen. A couple of years later the same guy asked me why everyone hates me so much. Or something like that. In both cases I'm paraphrasing. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #25261

What’s Wrong with Twitter’s Latest Experiment with Broadcasting Favorites — The Message — Medium

https://medium.com/message/whats-wrong-with-twitters-latest-experiment-with-broadcasting-favorites-a7c0c81896f7
Last month, I was invited to Twitter to give a talk. Twitter has made a huge, positive difference in my life, and changed the landscape of politics in multiple countries I studied, including my home country, Turkey. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #25259

Monsanto Harvest-Resistant Corn Now Engulfing Most Of Midwest | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/articles/monsanto-harvestresistant-corn-now-engulfing-most,37223/
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the genetically modified crop, which Monsanto originally enhanced with traits to provide resistance from pests, diseases, and environmental conditions such as drought and frost, has become completely impervious to industrial reaping machinery and has spread uncontrollably across 700,000 square miles of land. With the unharvestable corn growing through asphalt roadways and airport tarmacs all over the Midwest, FEMA has been leading efforts to evacuate millions of residents before the plants obstruct all travel in the central United States.
#agriculture #corn #funny #imported:pinboard #monsanto #theonion
archive.org #31751

Moved Permanently

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/io9/vip/~3/RKrTUzICrjs/the-nopest-cat-is-here-for-all-your-gif-needs-1648320558
This is Momotaro, a cat whose documented response to unwanted food is a universal expression of "No. No. No. No. No." This cat has ruined my allegiance to the Nope Octopus. Read more...
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #25243

Using the Wrong Screw: A Painful Lesson in iPhone Repair

http://hackaday.com/2014/10/19/using-the-wrong-screw-a-painful-lesson-in-iphone-repair/
If you’ve ever had to repair an iPhone for a friend, you’ll know they have a ridiculous number of screws. Most companies standardize screws in their products, but since Apple doesn’t expect you to fix a phone yourself… they may have let this one slide. You see, each of these screws is different. The red ones are 1.7mm long, the yellow one, 1.3mm, and the orange one, 1.2mm. Guess what happens if you install either red or yellow screws into the orange spot, since your eyesight isn’t good enough to notice a 0.1mm difference? The screw will cut into the PCB and break several 50 micron traces, as shown in the picture above, causing a blue screen error on the phone. Fun stuff. [Sam Schmidt] is the owner of a repair outfit called iRepairNational, and he and his team spent a day trying to figure out the problem – it’s not exactly easy to spot. They’ve managed to repair it by cutting thin strips  of copper foil (the width of a human hair) and floating it into place using the surface tension of the flux they were using for soldering. On average it takes them around 2 hours to do the repair, though they’ve done a few in just under an hour. Since discovering and sharing the problem, they’ve had customers around the world sending in phones for repair – often at the fault of someone else trying to repair something completely different in the phone, and then using the wrong screw as they put it all back together. Filed under: Cellphone Hacks, iphone hacks
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #31752

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Woman who hit own car while driving employer's van seeks payment from them for damage done

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2014/10/woman-who-hit-own-car-while-driving.html
By her own recollection, Megan Campbell, an employee of St. Paul Parks and Recreation in Minnesota was driving a supply van back from a city storage building when she turned a corner, causing serious front-bumper damage to a parked car. The damaged 2001 Nissan Pathfinder in question wasn't just anybody's vehicle. It was her own. Now, Campbell has filed a claim against the city seeking $1,600 to $1,900 from public coffers for damage caused to her personal vehicle by a city worker - herself. "Because I was working for the city and driving the city vehicle, I feel they are responsible for paying for the damage done to my car," Campbell wrote in a "notice of claim" form received this week by the city clerk's office. Campbell, a 2014 college grad, has worked for the Parks and Recreation Department since May. "I think I can safely say this is a very unusual claim," said City Clerk Shari Moore. Parks department spokesman Brad Meyer said the incident will be reviewed by the city's accident review board, as is customary for any accident involving city employees driving city vehicles. "The outcome of that will determine next steps with the employee ... and help inform the claim proceedings," he said.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #25211

The Legalization of Marijuana Could Reduce Alcoholism

http://io9.com/the-legalization-of-marijuana-could-reduce-alcoholism-1644742208
Across the U.S., people are indulging in a drug that is imposing huge costs on themselves and society. It's called alcohol, and its excessive use has led to approximately 88,000 deaths per year. A growing body of research suggests marijuana could lower that number, since people who smoke pot tend to drink less. Read more...
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #25206

This Dungeons and Dragons Animated Series Illustration is ALL Action | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2014/10/09/this-dungeons-and-dragons-animated-series-illustration-is-all-action/
I would love to say “when”, but sadly I still must say “if” they ever reboot the Dungeons and Dragons Animated Series, they should take a look at this illustration by Alan Patrick. Every bit of the paper is filled … Continue reading →
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #31769

Growing up unvaccinated: A healthy lifestyle couldn’t prevent many childhood illnesses.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/01/growing_up_unvaccinated_a_healthy_lifestyle_couldn_t_prevent_many_childhood.html
So the anti-vaccine advocates’ fears of having the “natural immunity sterilized out of us” just doesn’t cut it for me. How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time?
#health #imported:pinboard #medicine #science #vaccination
archive.org #25191

Short logic (Reddit’s crappy ultimatum to remote workers and offices)

http://shortlogic.tumblr.com/post/99014759324/reddits-crappy-ultimatum
It’s hard not to get worked up about something that seems so unfair and so shitty to the people who did their part to get Reddit to where they are today. It feels like using people in the worst possible way. It smells like hopeless inadequacy to subject your workers to such a huge life change based on such flimsy justification.
#imported:pinboard #reddit #telecommuting #to:twitter
archive.org #25187

David Graeber: “Spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded” - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1s_sick_and_twisted_new_scheme/
David Graeber is an American anthropologist who teaches at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the classic “Debt: The First Five Thousand Years” and played an important role in the launching of Occupy Wall Street. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #31775

Mount / Unmount Android System images | My Cellar Door

http://javigon.com/2012/09/04/mount-unmount-android-system-images/
There are many reasons for wanting to unpack Android’s system image. The most obvious is modifying it. System.img is in the end an ext4 loop file system (such as the Linux system image), that can be mounted, modified and repacked in order to be burned afterwards in an embedded system. Android’s system image can be obtained from the google factory images.
#android #hacking #imported:pinboard #linux
archive.org #31777

God, Darwin and My College Biology Class - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/god-darwin-and-my-college-biology-class.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0
EVERY year around this time, with the college year starting, I give my students The Talk. It isn’t, as you might expect, about sex, but about evolution and religion, and how they get along. More to the point, how they don’t.
#biology #evolution #imported:pinboard #religion #science
archive.org #31778

Ken Shirriff's blog: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html
I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. But performing the algorithm manually is a good way to understand exactly how it works.
#bitcoin #crypto #imported:pinboard #sha256 #to:twitter
archive.org #25158

artisan - Visual scope for coffee roasters - Google Project Hosting

https://code.google.com/p/artisan/
Artisan is a software that helps coffee roasters record, analyze, and control roast profiles. When used in conjunction with a thermocouple data logger or a proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller), this software can automate the creation of roasting metrics to help make decisions that influence the final coffee flavor.
#coffee #diy #electronics #imported:pinboard #roaster
archive.org #31781

What Twitter could have been

http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been
As I understand, a hugely divisive internal debate occurred among Twitter employees around this time. One camp wanted to build the entire business around their realtime API. In this scenario, Twitter would have turned into something like a realtime cloud API company. The other camp looked at Google’s advertising model for inspiration, and decided that building their own version of AdWords would be the right way to go.
#advertising #api #business #design #imported:pinboard #twitter
archive.org #25145

The Satanic Temple’s hilarious response to a pro-religion court ruling - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/16/satanic_temple_hands_out_activity_books_to_schools_in_response_to_judicial_ruling/
Last month a judge ruled that religious pamphlets could be distributed in a school district in Orange County, Florida, according to Raw Story. In the wake of this ruling, the Satanic Temple is handing out its own religious literature to Orange County schools: “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities.”
#christianity #imported:pinboard #religion
archive.org #31785

The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
"The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor."
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #youtube
archive.org #25110

How to manually mount a USB Hard Disk, including a disk that was part of a RAID1 array - SynologyWiki

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_manually_mount_a_USB_Hard_Disk,_including_a_disk_that_was_part_of_a_RAID1_array#How_to_mount_a_USB_enclosure_containing_a_RAID1_disk
This wiki shows you how to manually mount a USB Drive enclosure containing a Hard Disk. The term "mount" is the Linux term for adding a data device to a system so that its contents are navigatable. The procedure also describes the steps necessary if the Hard Drive in the USB enclosure was previously part of a working RAID 1 configuration (e.g. removed from another Synology Server). The same procedure will also probably work for RAID 0 drives, but I have not tested that.
#imported:pinboard #linux #storage #synology
archive.org #25085

Vectrex Thrust Source

http://www.emix8.org/static.php?page=VectrexThrustSource
Here is the complete source code for my game Vectrex Thrust. This game would never have been possible to write without all the information people have shared on the web, so releasing this source code is my way of giving something back and hoping that someone will find it useful.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #source #vectrex
archive.org #25080

Replacing obsolete video game circuits with Xilinx CPLDs | EE Times

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1274659
In this article, designer In Choi describes a project for his home business in which he replaces a defective part in a 1980s game system to show his full-time employer that they can adopt a methodology using Xilinx programmable devices to replace a range of parts that other semiconductor vendors are no longer producing.
#electronics #hacks #imported:pinboard #vectrex
archive.org #25079

A Man Renovating His Home Discovered A Tunnel... To A Massive Underground City

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/410/A-Man-Renovating-His-Home-Discovered-A-Tunnel-To-A-Massive-Underground-City
In 1963, a man in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall of his home. Behind it, he discovered a mysterious room and soon discovered an intricate tunnel system with additional cave-like rooms. What he had discovered was the ancient Derinkuyu underground city in Turkey.
#cities #imported:pinboard #secrets #turkey #underground
archive.org #25078

From the Archives: frog’s Early Apple Tablet | Blog | design mind

http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/from-the-archives-frog-s-early-apple-tablet.html
The “Bashful” — named after the story-book dwarf in Snow White — was created alongside the Apple II computer series as an extension of the Snow White design language that frog Founder Hartmut Essligner helped create for the company in 1983. Concepts for this early pre-touch tablet included one with an attached keyboard and one with a floppy disk drive and convenient handle for maximum portability.
#apple #design #imported:pinboard
archive.org #25077

Hunter S. Thompson On Finding Your Purpose | Your Friends House

http://www.yourfriendshouse.com/2014/hunter-s-thompson-on-finding-your-purpose/
In April of 1958, a 22 year-old Hunter S. Thompson wrote a letter on the meaning of life when asked by a friend for advice. What makes his response all the more profound is the fact that at the time, the world had no idea that he would become one of the most important writers of the 20th century. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #31813

Bad Crazy in Internet Space - Page 3 | Ten Ton Hammer

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/65475/page/3
It was determined that 'The Enslaver' and his Avatar-class Titan had to go. I was approached by one of the leaders of Red Alliance to help make this happen, but almost immediately we were down the rabbit hole. Much to my surprise, the RA director didn't want in-game information from me; he wanted us to use the forensic resources of our intelligence agency to trace down The Enslaver's home address. At a coordinated time, armed with this information, a RA member would apparently cut the power to The Enslaver's house in the real world, and in EVE a RA capital fleet would assault the abruptly pilotless Titan. Yikes.
#eve #funny #gaming #imported:pinboard
archive.org #25046

Codestarter Blog — How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids

http://blog.codestarter.org/post/93985346780/how-we-turn-199-chromebooks-into-ubuntu-based-code
After perhaps a hundred re-installs of Linux, countless hours reading Stack Overflow posts, and a roller coaster of triumph and failure, I’m proud to say that we’ve landed on an Ubuntu installation script that meets our needs and makes it trivial for us (or you!) to create a Codestarter laptop.
#chrome #chromebook #imported:pinboard #ubuntu
archive.org #25039

Why Web Components Aren't Ready for Production... Yet -Telerik Developer Network

http://developer.telerik.com/featured/web-components-arent-ready-production-yet/
Web components and Polymer are exciting technologies that may fundamentally change the way we develop web applications, but because of the large performance gap between browsers that support the technologies natively (aka Chrome 36+) and those that don’t (aka every other browser), it will be difficult for most developers to use web components until they’re implemented everywhere, and there’s no way of knowing how long that will be.
#imported:pinboard #polymer #webcomponents #webdev
archive.org #31826

The Landline

http://omnireboot.jerrickventures.com/2014/the-landline
I GOT SOME BOXES, I GOT THEM BY ACCIDENT. I GOT THEM BY A LANDLINE PHONE CALL. NEW FICTION FROM BRUCE STERLING. The teenage kids hanging out at my machine shop didn’t know why I wanted a telephone. A plug-in phone, with wires hanging out of it, was a joke to them. via Pocket
#Unread #favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #25790

Thoughts on Technology: HOWTO: Scale Your Display under Linux

http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2011/09/howto-scale-your-display-under-linux.html
Something that has always annoyed me about a good deal of netbooks is the fact that someone decided that 1024x600 was an acceptable maximum resolution. While this isn't always an issue, it becomes extra annoying when you attach an external display to your tiny computer. By default your are typically forced into one of two choices:
#imported:pinboard #linux #tweaks
archive.org #24993

DISTRIBUTED: Remote Employees are Happier, Healthier and More Productive | Intridea Blog

http://www.intridea.com/blog/2014/6/26/distributed-remote-employees-are-happier-healthier-and-more-productive
Yep, you read that right. While it’s no surprise that remote employees are happier than their commuting counterparts, many business owners are shocked to learn distributed employees are also more productive. How could that be? It’s actually pretty simple. Psychologists have proven time and again that a happy employee is also a productive employee.
#distributed #imported:pinboard #productivity #remote #work
archive.org #24992

The Interval: A Bar With Robots, Books & a Spiral Staircase :: Sosh :: San Francisco

http://sosh.com/san-francisco/the-interval-at-long-now/the-interval-a-bar-with-robots-books-a-spiral-staircase/a/s3Cu/?fb_action_ids=10152629536456874&fb_action_types=soshdragon%3Abookmark&fb_ref=fb_share_timeline_activity
Circle up the spiral staircase and past the vintage surgery lamps and meet The Interval. As the latest project from the Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit that is dedicated to exploring long-term thinking, The Interval is equal parts bar, library, museum, and cafe.
#imported:pinboard #interval #sf #todo
archive.org #31843

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.1.html
Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.
#alcohol #booze #imported:pinboard #prohibition
archive.org #24965

About Us | The Digital Game Museum

http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/about-us/
Our office and collection storage in at 3553 Ryder Street, Santa Clara, CA. We don’t have enough space to put up exhibits, so we show exhibits at events like Maker Faire Bay Area, PAX Prime, and others, and we place small exhibits in interesting places. We hope to move to a space that will include changing exhibits and game play space in the near future. To do that, we need your financial support and the support of corporations. Can you help?
#california #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #31846

Atari Party 2014, June 14th in Sunnyvale

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/2014/
"Atari Party" is free event celebrating decades of video game and computing history of Atari. They've been held annually since 2009, typically in Davis, California. This year, Atari Party once again migrates to Sunnyvale, California (long-time home to Atari, Inc. and Atari Corp.), where it's being hosted by the Sunnyvale Public Library.
#atari #california #imported:pinboard #sunnyvale
archive.org #31847

Real-Time Chat With Node.js' Readline & Socket.io - Tuts+ Code Tutorial

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/real-time-chat-with-nodejs-readline-socketio--cms-20953
Node.js has an under-appreciated module in its standard library that is surprisingly useful. The Readline module does what it says on the box: it reads a line of input from the terminal. This can be used to ask the user a question or two, or to create a prompt at the bottom of the screen. In this tutorial, I intend to show off the capability of Readline and make a real-time CLI chatroom backed by Socket.io. The client will not only send simple messages, but have commands for emotes with /me, private messages with /msg, and allow for nicknames to be changed with /nick.
#imported:pinboard #node #nodejs #sockets
archive.org #24958

Easy accelerated 3D Games in a browser with JavaScript and WebGL using Three.js or Babylon.js - Scott Hanselman

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasyAccelerated3DGamesInABrowserWithJavaScriptAndWebGLUsingThreejsOrBabylonjs.aspx
Let's ignore that we haven't got a web-agreed-upon way to do just about anything, much less basic line-of-business apps with data-bound text boxes over data, and just revel in the fact that we can do hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in our browsers with WebGL. This works today in all the latest browsers.
#3d #games #imported:pinboard #webdev #webgl
archive.org #24957

Dark Arts | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/culture/2014/3/19/5475122/dark-arts-tumblr-cyberpunk-renaissance
We’re in a weird time for the way the future looks; somehow House of Cards can slyly introduce a floating text-message interface to their present-day political drama without so much as blinking, but most of our iconic near- and far-future worlds run on tracks laid down well before the ’90s. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24955

Social loafing: A meta-analytic review and theoretical integration. - PsycNET - DOI Landing page

http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0022-3514.65.4.681
"Social loafing is the tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually. A meta-analysis of 78 studies demonstrates that social loafing is robust and generalizes across tasks and S populations. A large number of variables were found to moderate social loafing. Evaluation potential, expectations of co-worker performance, task meaningfulness, and culture had especially strong influence. These findings are interpreted in the light of a collective effort model that integrates elements of expectancy-value, social identity, and self-validation theories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)"
#collaboration #imported:pinboard #psychology #socialloafing #to:fb #work
archive.org #31855

DrPetter's homepage - sfxr

http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
This is a little tool I made in connection with the 10th Ludum Dare competition held in December 2007. Its original purpose was to provide a simple means of getting basic sound effects into a game for those people who were working hard to get their entries done within the 48 hours and didn't have time to spend looking for suitable ways of doing this.
#audio #effects #games #imported:pinboard #sound
archive.org #24942

The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/
A trio of boys tramps along the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. “The Land! It opens in half an hour.” Down a path and across a grassy square, 5-year-old Dylan can hear them through the window of his nana’s front room. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #31857

my year of mixtapes: Week 42: The Year In Rave—1992 (Part 1)

http://yearofmixtapes.blogspot.com/2010/03/week-42-year-in-rave1992-part-1.html
Ok, so 1992 was pretty much the best year ever for music. The Rave scene was blowing up, and every week it seemed like dozens of amazing records were coming out—way more than little 10-year-old me could buy. This was the year that the UK really took the reins from Belgium & the States w/r/t dance music, and when the idea of "rave music" as a distinct thing from house/techno started to emerge.
#audio #imported:pinboard #mixtapes #music #rave
archive.org #24936

Moog Sound Lab | Phantogram | Moog Music Inc

http://www.moogmusic.com/sight-and-sound/sound_lab/phantogram
Vocalist/keyboardist Sarah Barthel sings hauntingly through an MF-104Z Analog Delay while playing not one, but two Moog synthesizers. Her left hand is in charge of the Minimoog Voyager Select Series providing big fat bass lines; the Little Phatty Stage II is arpeggiating in latch mode throughout the entire song. It is also being MIDI synced with the drum machine that percussionist Tim Oakley is performing on. In addition to the drum machine, Tim uses the Minimoog Voyager XL for a percussive sound. Meanwhile, guitarist/vocalist Josh Carter covers both the full sustain and the mute modes of the Moog Guitar. Going through an MF-104Z Analog Delay and the MF-102 Ring Modulator, Josh creates an ethereal backdrop with the tremolo arm of the Moog Guitar..
#imported:pinboard #moog #music #phantogram
archive.org #24925

Ordering burritos from my SPARC

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos
Tired of standing in line at La Costena? This file documents an automatic facility for sending a fax to La Costena that orders 1 or more burritos, quesadillas, tacos, and whatever. The command will compose the fax, and send it to your favorite PostScript fax printer, for direct transmission to La Costena, and no paper at this end will be generated. Then, when you get there, your food will be waiting. No worries
#burritos #fax #imported:pinboard #lore #postscript
archive.org #24918

The Ultimate Fully-Loaded Bloody Mary | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/06/the-ultimate-fully-loaded-bloody-mary-recipe.html
Note: The most important part of a Bloody Mary is the tomato juice. Use a high quality juice, preferably not from concentrate. No need to use your best vodka here. Bottom shelf stuff will do fine. You can replace the celery salt rim with a salt and pepper rim if you prefer. Every ingredient should be adjusted to suit your own personal taste. I love horseradish. You might not.
#cocktails #drinks #food #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24913

French 75 | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/03/french-75-cocktial-gin-champagne-lemon.html
According to Ted Haigh (aka Dr. Cocktail), the French 75 is one of two cocktails named after the French 75-mm field gun, which was commonly used in World War I. "One barman in 1947," reports Haigh, "called it a Tom Collins with champagne instead of club soda. Vive la difference!" Here's Haigh's version of the recipe, from his wonderful book, Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails.
#alcohol #cocktails #gin #imported:pinboard #recipes #wine
archive.org #24912

Time for a Drink: the Sidecar | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/11/sidecar-drink-cocktail-recipe.html
Add another drink to this list: the Sidecar. As with most cocktails, the origins of the drink are hazy (be suspicious of those who state with certainty when or where the Sidecar was first mixed), but this entrancing mixture of brandy, lemon juice and orange liqueur started making the rounds in the most fashionable watering holes in London and Paris during the 1920s. Very simple in structure, the Sidecar is complex enough in flavor to satisfy even the most jaded palates, but not so over-the-top with mixological gewgaws as to frighten away the casual tippler.
#cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24911

Fresh Margaritas | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/08/fresh-margaritas-recipe.html
This recipe uses the International Bartenders Association's ratios of tequila, cointreau, and citrus juice, which makes a pretty strong margarita. Feel free to add extra syrup or to water it down some to suit your own tastes. To make short work of your lemons and limes, read our citrus juicer review here.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #margaritas #recipes
archive.org #24910

Time for a Drink: Daiquiri | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/05/daiquiri-recipe.html
But an old-school daiquiri is an exercise in purity, as beautiful in its unadorned simplicity as a well-made martini or Manhattan. Of course, "well made" is a big factor here, as well: to fully realize the daiquiri's inherent beauty, be sure to measure your ingredients; free-pouring, while easier and cooler-looking than eyeballing a measuring cup, frequently leaves you with an odd-tasting drink. And while you can mix the daiquiri with different rums or in one of its fruit-enhanced variations, the use of fresh lime juice is absolutely essential; those little green plastic limes and day-glo bottles of Rose's should stay as far from your daiquiri as possible.
#alcohol #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes #rum
archive.org #24909

The Brooklyn Cocktail | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/02/the-brooklyn-cocktail-rye-maraschino-vermouth.html
The Brooklyn may be less well-known that its neighbor, but it's equally delicious. The maraschino liqueur (we recommend Luxardo) adds a rich sweetness, which compensates for the fact that dry rather than sweet vermouth is used. You may have trouble tracking down Amer Picon, a French version of Amaro, an apertif most commonly made in Italy. Amer Picon is difficult to find in the United States, but an Italian Amaro such as Ramazzotti will substitute quite well. Or, you can skate by with a few dashes of bitters.
#alcohol #cocktails #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24908

Martinez | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/09/martinez-cocktail-gin-cocktail-recipe.html
The Martinez cocktail may be a predecessor to the martini, but these drinks could hardly be less alike to the modern palate. The Martinez starts with equal parts gin and sweet vermouth, and this alone distinguishes it in two ways from the modern martini. You then add a teaspoon of maraschino liqueur and either Angostura or orange bitters.
#cocktails #drinks #gin #imported:pinboard #recipes #vermouth
archive.org #24906

Negroni | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/04/negroni-cocktail-recipe-gin-campari-vermouth.html
While enjoyable at any time of year, the crisply bitter Negroni seems particularly well-suited to springtime imbibing. Composed of only three ingredients measured in equal amounts, a Negroni is also remarkably difficult to foul up (though I won't way it hasn't happened) even by novice bartenders.
#alcohol #campari #cocktails #drinks #gin #imported:pinboard #recipes #vermouth
archive.org #24905

Time for a Drink: Boulevardier | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/09/boulevardier-recipe.html
This isn't a Negroni. It is, however, the Negroni's long-lost autumnal cousin. First noted in print in 1927 in a slender volume called Barflies and Cocktails, and forgotten almost ever since, the Boulevardier takes the same Negroni formula--a good dose of gin brushed up with equal parts Campari and sweet vermouth--and gives it a twist by substituting whiskey for the gin.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24904

Time for a Drink: The Sazerac | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2007/07/cocktails-recipes-the-sazerac.html
That's one reason why, every year, hundreds of spirits and cocktail aficionados from around the world converge in the swampy heat of New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail, a five-day conference celebrating everything shaken and stirred. Now in its fifth year, Tales of the Cocktail is currently in full swing, and countless tipplers--myself included--are scouring the French Quarter, asking bartenders at venerable watering holes such as the Carousel Bar, the Napoleon House and Tujaque's to mix up a perfect Sazerac.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24903

Ramos Fizz | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/06/time-for-a-drink-ramos-fizz.html
Perfectly suited for a hot afternoon or evening, the Ramos Fizz holds special appeal as a breakfast or brunch drink. I'll be in New Orleans in two weeks for Tales of the Cocktail, and I expect to get on the outside of several of these during the week. But for a drink this good, it's best to start warming up now—who's with me?
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #gin #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24901

Time for a Drink: Mint Julep | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/04/how-to-make-a-mint-julep-recipe-derby-day.html
With a formula almost as old as the republic, the mint julep is a product of an era in which things were done much slower. Somewhat labor-intensive to properly make, a good mint julep can't be rushed, and cranking them out by the hundreds using prepared mixes and flavored syrups can only result in sadness.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes #whiskey
archive.org #24900

Mai Tai | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/03/time-for-a-drink-mai-tai-recipe.html
Spawned from the rum-soaked genius mind of "Trader Vic" Bergeron, the mai tai is one of the most regal refreshments in the exotic-drink universe. Originally made with 17-year-old Jamaican rum, imported French orgeat, Dutch curaçao and fresh-squeezed lime juice, the mai tai quickly became a phenomenon; it also quickly became perverted. Hordes of Trader Vic-wannabes took wild stabs at recreating Bergeron's long-secret recipe, and the result is what we all-too-often experience now: a sweet, murky drink filled with assorted fruit juices and syrups, with little resemblance to the original swoon-worthy concoction.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24898

Time for a Drink: Planter's Punch | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/07/planters-punch-cocktail-recipe.html
The Planter's Punch flowed out of the rum-rich Caribbean well over a century ago, and its origins date back centuries. Originally a simple combination of a full-flavored rum with lime juice, sugar, some form of spice and plenty of ice, the Planter's Punch morphed over the decades into elaborate concoctions containing pineapple juice, grenadine, several types of rum and so on, and the drink is the common ancestor of all those tiki drinks and punches that are once again in vogue.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24897

Time for a Drink: Tom Collins | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/08/tom-collins-recipe.html
The Tom Collins dates back more than a century and a half, but its welcoming crispness keeps it fresh always. So established in the libational world, the Tom Collins even has its own eponymous glass (tall, with plenty of room for ice). Over the years, the drink has faced some challenges--bottles of Holland House Collins Mix in my parents' liquor cabinet spring to mind. Was squeezing a lemon really so difficult? But successfully navigating its course from horse-and-carriage days to the digital age, the Tom Collins is built for survival. Keep some lemons and soda water on-hand this weekend and knock together a Collins in between grilling stints.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24895

What Sibling Rivalry Has Wrought - WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123578523945698543
Cooper Brothers Cocktail 1&frac12; oz bourbon &frac12; oz St-Germain elderflower liqueur &frac14; oz Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur Stir, stir, stir with ice and then strain into a stemmed cocktail glass. Twist a piece of orange peel over the top of the drink. Garnish with a fresh orange twist.
#cocktails #domainedecanton #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes #stgermain
archive.org #24884

pts.blog: How to fix the adb no permissions error on Ubuntu Lucid

http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-fix-adb-no-permissions-error-on.html
This blog post explains how to fix the no permissions error the Android Debugger displays when running the adb devices command Linux. The solutions presented here have been tested and found working on Ubuntu Lucid, but they should also work on other Ubuntu and Linux versions as well.
#android #imported:pinboard #linux #ubuntu #usb
archive.org #24880

Yes, That’s a Tampon in My Mouth: The Swiss Army Survival Tampon — 10 Survival Uses | The Art of Manliness

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/06/05/survival-tampon/
Do me a favor for the next five minutes. Try to forget everything you know about tampons. I know, it’s hard. But pretend that this is the first time you have ever seen or heard of the item below, and it is a new survival product on the market: the Tactical Adventure Medical Preparedness Outdoors Necessity (T.A.M.P.O.N.).
#imported:pinboard #survival #tampons
archive.org #31871

What managers do at a company that’s trying to replace them with software -

http://qz.com/210996/asana-trying-to-replace-managers-with-software
The enterprise software company Asana manages to serve multi-billion-dollar startups such as Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox and Pinterest with only 65 employees. That’s because streamlining workflow is what the company, whose motto is “Teamwork without email,” is designed to do. via Pocket
#Unread #favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #25087

APIs.json

http://apisjson.org/
The objective of APIs.json is to help fix this problem by making it easy for people to signpost where the APIs on a given domain are and provide information on how they work. The format is simple and extensible and can be put into any web root domain for discovery.
#apis #apis.json #gluecon #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #31874

App Store Year Zero: How unsweetened web apps and unsigned code drove the iPhone to an SDK | iMore

http://www.imore.com/history-app-store-year-zero
Apple introduced the App Store on July 10, 2008. Over the course of the next week we're going to take a look back at the origins and development of App Store, and forward towards its potential future. To do that properly, however, we have to start at the beginning, with the original iPhone in 2007. And with the original iPhone, there was no App Store, and no third party apps. At least not at first...
#apple #appstore #history #imported:pinboard #ios #mobile
archive.org #24865

Company « Cloudsoft

http://www.cloudsoftcorp.com/company/#about-us
AMP simplifies the modelling, monitoring and management of applications: enabling application migration, accelerating the development of cloud first applications; and delivering policy-based application elasticity, scalability and portability.
#cloudsoft #gluecon #imported:pinboard
archive.org #31881

API First

http://www.slideshare.net/synedra/a-pi-first-upload
API First talk from Gluecon '14, talking about putting the API behind all of your products and having a single stack. Presenter notes are included and probably necessary for when you don't have my interpretive dance to watch.
#apis #gluecon #imported:pinboard
archive.org #24858

Insentricity :: Making a Raspberry Pi into an unified retro peripheral ::

http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/207/MakingARaspberryPiIn
If you've been following along here or on Twitter or Google+ you've no doubt seen the experimenting I've been doing with interfacing a Raspberry Pi in various ways with several retro computers like the Atari 800 and Commodore 64. My first project was using the Raspberry Pi to act as a converter for a USB gamepad to turn it into an Atari 2600 style joystick.
#diy #hacks #imported:pinboard #raspberrypi #raspi #retro
archive.org #24841

How ARM Holdings Dominates the Chip World - Businessweek

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-24/the-unlikely-tale-of-how-arm-came-to-rule-the-world#r=hp-ls
This is a story about ARM Holdings (ARMH), the mobile technology company. But before it gets going, here are a few things you need to know:  1. ARM is a company made up mostly of chip engineers. They design parts of chips—such as graphics and communication bits—and they design entire chips. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24836

Cheap, overkill Amiga network adapter - blog.jmp.no

http://jmp.no/blog/cheap-overkill-amiga-network-adapter
Since the Raspberry Pi was just sitting there, and the Amiga lacked (*) a network adapter - why not just connect the dots and get something up and running? I did, and it worked. Here's a quick writeup on what I did - if anyone's interested I can write a more detailed post with all the information I have.
#amiga #diy #hacks #hardware #imported:pinboard #networking #raspberrypi
archive.org #24814

The Fantasy and Abuse of the Manipulable User, by Betsy Haibel | Model View Culture

http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-fantasy-and-abuse-of-the-manipulable-user
Enthusiastic consent is not a legal rubric. Instead, it's a tool that reframes consent as active - as more about “yes means yes” than “no means no.” Sex educator Heather Corinna emphasizes that consent is an “active process of willingly and freely choosing” the activity consented to. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24792

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol: The Craziest Superhero Story Ever Told - Noah Berlatsky - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/doom-patrol/360616/
A quarter century ago, a young writer broke free of comic-book cliches by using sheer, brave goofiness. If only he, and the rest of the industry, had kept that spirit alive. For most superheroes, fighting for truth and justice means fighting for the status quo. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #31944

Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/12/capitalism-isnt-working-thomas-piketty
Suddenly, there is a new economist making waves – and he is not on the right. At the conference of the Institute of New Economic Thinking in Toronto last week, Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century got at least one mention at every session I attended. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24756

The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale | Enterprise | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/novena/
Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross want to sell you a laptop you can completely trust. Earlier this year, the two Singapore-based engineers fashioned a laptop made almost entirely from open source hardware, hardware whose designs are freely available to the world at large. via Pocket
#articles #favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket #starred
archive.org #31948

How In-app Purchases Has Destroyed The Industry (by @baekdal) #opinion

http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/how-inapp-purchases-has-destroyed-the-industry/
I don't like writing negative articles that don't include a solution to the problem, but in this case, there is no solution. The state of in-app purchases has now reached a level where we have completely lost it. Not only has the gaming industry shot itself in the foot, hacked off their other foot, and lost both its arms ... but it's still engaging in a strategy that will only damage it further.
#development #freetoplay #gaming #imported:pinboard #microtransactions #mobile #to:fb
archive.org #32020

Urban Dictionary: Riker's Beard

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Riker%27s%20Beard
The opposite of jump the shark, i.e. when a TV show goes from unspectacular/boring/outlandish to completely awesome. It references Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was unspectacular until season 2, when Commander Riker grew a beard. The show kicked ass from then on.
#beards #imported:pinboard #riker #startrek
archive.org #32021

My last word on DRM | Studio Tendra

http://studiotendra.com/2014/01/27/my-last-word-on-drm/
It involves inflicting a recurring technical, infrastructural, and administrative cost on all of their sales in perpetuity to solve a problem they can’t prove exists. By tying their entire catalogue, in perpetuity, to the fate and competence of a single external service provider (whoever provides the DRM solution) publishers are taking a business risk of unfathomable proportions. These are the kinds of risks that sink large companies.
#books #drm #imported:pinboard #publishers #reading
archive.org #32023

Gamasutra: Carsten Germer's Blog - "Not So Random Randomness" in Game Design and Programming

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/CarstenGermer/20131118/204997/quotNot_So_Random_Randomnessquot_in_Game_Design_and_Programming.php
As production of "Pavel Piezo - Trip to the Kite Festival" draws to a close later this year I reviewed the material I collected for the Postmortem and found it too much and too diverse to put in one huge article. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24504

enoughalready » San Francisco Is Eating Itself

http://alexcastle.net/2014/01/17/san-francisco-is-eating-itself/#comment-432
It’s just such a bummer to see a place that I remember as openminded, laid back, creative, nonjudgmental erupting with all this anger, everyone pointing fingers, blaming people that really aren’t to blame. Come on, guys. You’re better than this.
#apple #california #facebook #google #imported:pinboard #sanfrancisco #tech #to:fb #twitter
archive.org #32031

Veterans Day 2013: Technology demands we bring back the draft.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/11/veterans_day_2013_technology_demands_we_bring_back_the_draft.html
One of the most significant contributions to a reduction of domestic social tension in the United States as the Vietnam conflict wore down was the ending of the draft in 1973. (The Selective Service system, which is the administrative backbone of the draft, remains active. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24493

HoRNDIS: USB tethering driver for Mac OS X | Joshua Wise's domain

http://joshuawise.com/horndis
HoRNDIS (pronounce: “horrendous”) is a driver for Mac OS X that allows you to use your Android phone's native USB tethering mode to get Internet access. It is known to work with Mac OS X versions 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) through 10.9 (Mavericks – see notes below), and has been tested on a wide variety of phones. Although you should be careful with all drivers that you install on your computer, HoRNDIS has been tested at least well enough for the author (and many others) to run full time on their own personal computers.
#android #imported:pinboard #networking #osx #tethering #usb
archive.org #24475

Beyond pushState — building single page applications — Joys of JavaScript — Medium

https://medium.com/joys-of-javascript/4353246f4480
Single page applications are on the rise, and in many cases they make the web faster, richer, and more interactive. The HTML5 history APIs have allowed us take advantage of the benefits of SPAs while still allowing pages to be deep linkable, server renderable, and easily shareable. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24469

OCRAD.js: Pure Javascript OCR via Emscripten – Blog

http://antimatter15.com/wp/2013/12/ocrad-js-pure-javascript-ocr-via-emscripten/
The idea of the extension was kind of simple and also kind of magical: a browser extension that allowed users to highlight, copy, and paste text from any image as if it were plain text. Of course the implementation is a bit difficult and actually relies on the advent of a number of newfangled technologies.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #ocr #webdev
archive.org #32049

Why Doesn't the Constitution Guarantee the Right to Education? - Stephen Lurie - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/why-doesnt-the-constitution-guarantee-the-right-to-education/280583/
Every country that outperforms the U.S. has a constitutional or statutory commitment to this right. “The Learning Curve,” the global ranking of education systems produced by the publishing company Pearson, is by most accounts a beautiful publication. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #32066

Only Openness Can Power The Next Wave Of Human Progress – ReadWrite

http://readwrite.com/2013/11/21/only-openness-can-power-next-wave-of-human-progress#awesm=~onVEbPwblleyIB
Mitchell Baker is contributing as part of #TheOpenAgenda—a campaign by Telefónica Digital to provoke debate around the benefits of an open philosophy for digital, technology and innovation. Get involved with the debate using #TheOpenAgenda on Twitter or view more at www.theopenagenda.com via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24422

The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android - Fred Vogelstein - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-day-google-had-to-start-over-on-android/282479/
Google was building a secret mobile product to fend off chief rival Microsoft. Then Apple announced the iPhone, and everything changed. In 2005, on Google’s sprawling, college-like campus, the most secret and ambitious of many, many teams was Google’s own smartphone effort—the Android project. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #32067

MAME 0.151 ROMs : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs
MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".
#archives #gaming #imported:pinboard #mame #mess #videogames
archive.org #24389

Web Components: Why You're Already An Expert - Mark Dalgleish

http://markdalgleish.com/2013/11/web-components-why-youre-already-an-expert
Web Components are going to fundamentally change the nature of HTML. At first glance, they may seem like a complicated set of new technologies, but Web Components are built around a simple premise. Developers should be free to act like browser vendors, extending the vocabulary of HTML itself. via Pocket
#Unread #favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24810

Hordes Of Novices | 8th Light

http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/11/19/HoardsOfNovices.html
Is the software industry trying to write the script for Hamlet by hiring a million monkeys to bang on keyboards? Perhaps we should rethink that strategy and hire one bard instead. Perhaps, instead of hordes of novices, we need a small team of professionals. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24367

Gamasutra - The new gen's most important question: Who cares?

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/205224/The_new_gens_most_important_question_Who_cares.php
It's unpopular to say you don't care about consoles, to suggest you don't need to care. It feels like disloyalty to the industry. But what's becoming clear, even if it feels controversial and treacherous to say -- even if it threatens the industry and its loyal consumers, galvanizes them to internet arguments -- is that the console business and the industry models that built it are no longer the main avenue for the medium of games. They're probably not even the most important, even though they remain the most visible to your average person.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #indie #playstation #to:fb #xbox
archive.org #24364

Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?hp&pagewanted=all&_r=0
There are strong arguments against minimum or basic incomes, too. Cost is one. Creating a massive disincentive to work is another. But some experts said the effect might be smaller than you would think. A basic income might be enough to live on, but not enough to live very well on. Such a program would be designed to end poverty without creating a nation of layabouts. The Mincome experiment offers some backup for that argument, too.“For a lot of economists, the issue was that you would disincentivize work,” said Wayne Simpson, a Canadian economist who has studied Mincome. “The evidence showed that it was not nearly as bad as some of the literature had suggested.”
#imported:pinboard #income #poverty #to:fb #welfare
archive.org #32090

Paul O’Shannessy - Do We Need Node?

http://zpao.com/posts/do-we-need-node/
So what do I want? I want a world where the core JS engine is swappable. Maybe I’m deploying on an architecture not supported by V8 (Node on SPARC came up while working on SpiderNode). Maybe my employer only wants to use the JVM. Or maybe Microsoft can get some performance wins by using Chakra for Windows Azure. Back to modules, I don’t want to get rid of npm. Or maybe I do and I want something that only supports ES6+ modules.
#future #imported:pinboard #js #node #to:fb #webdev
archive.org #32091

The Art and Animation of Kurt Hartfelder: Batman: The Animated Series Storyboards

http://kurthartfelder.blogspot.com/2010/08/batman-animated-series-storyboards.html
The storyboards above are the original production boards for the series intro. The camera work, screen design, transitions, and compositions are fantastic - and the infamous Batman music playing above it all really tops it off. I knew that this show was great when they were still producing episodes for it back in the early 90's, but after looking at this book again, I have a whole new respect for the artists who designed it and the producers who made it possible.
#90s #animation #awesome #batman #imported:pinboard #to:fb
archive.org #24336

With A Brooklyn Accent: Letter to Governor Christie from the New Jersey Teacher He Screamed At

http://withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com/2013/11/letter-to-governor-christie-from-new.html
You are setting up teachers to take the blame for all of this. You have portrayed us as greedy, lazy money-draining public servants that do nothing. I invite you to come do my job for one week Governor Christie. I invite you to come see my students, see how little they really have during the school day as they are being forced to keep learning for a single snapshot of their educational worth. For that one end-all, be-all test, the NJASK. The one that the future of my job and my life is now based upon.
#christie #education #imported:pinboard #politics #teachers #to:fb
archive.org #24330

Kopi Luwak is crappy coffee | Chazzano Coffee

https://shopchazzanocoffee.com/kopi-luwak-is-crappy-coffee/
If you ask me about Kopi Luwak, I will supply the usual answer, “Why would I want to drink crappy coffee?” However, the true reason is that there is no food product that is worthwhile if it causes undue stress or pain to an animal. However, if anyone wants to buy some of the best specialty coffee ever, I am willing to sell any of my coffees for $200/ lb.
#chazzano #coffee #imported:pinboard #kopiluwak #to:fb
archive.org #32098

Rocky's Boots (1982) (The Learning Company) : Free Streaming : Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/Rockys_Boots_1982_Learning_Company
Rocky's Boots is an educational logic puzzle game by Warren Robinett and Leslie Grimm, published by The Learning Company in 1982. It was released for the Apple II, the CoCo, the Commodore 64 and the IBM PC. It was followed by a more difficult sequel, Robot Odyssey. It won Software of the Year awards from Learning Magazine (1983), Parent's Choice magazine (1983), and Infoworld magazine (1982, runner-up), and received the Gold Award (for selling 100,000 copies) from the Software Publishers Association. It was one of the first educational software products for personal computers to successfully use an interactive graphical simulation as a learning environment.
#design #electronics #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #24302

Review: Composition Tools Fargo, Medium, Editorially, Marquee, and More | MIT Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/review/520246/as-we-may-type/
In 1984, the personal-computer industry was still small enough to be captured, with reasonable fidelity, in a one-volume publication, the Whole Earth Software Catalog. It told the curious what was up: “On an unlovely flat artifact called a disk may be hidden the concentrated intelligence of thousands of hours of design.” And filed under “Organizing” was one review of particular note, describing a program called ThinkTank, created by a man named Dave Winer.
#cms #design #imported:pinboard #outliners #software #writing
archive.org #32121

www.nytimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/opinion/krugman-free-to-be-hungry.html?_r=1&
The word “freedom” looms large in modern conservative rhetoric. Lobbying groups are given names like FreedomWorks; health reform is denounced not just for its cost but as an assault on, yes, freedom. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #32132

Why Fundamentalist Christians Fear Intellectualism - The God Article

http://www.thegodarticle.com/7/post/2013/10/-why-fundamentalist-christians-fear-intellectualism.html
Intellectualism invites the constant assessment of the “correctness” of a person's belief system. That's dangerous ground for a fundamentalist Christian. When you confront them on a particular belief you are not only confronting them on an idea that they have held to more rigidly for a longer time than most other folks but you are confronting the very core of who they understand themselves to be. For them, it is on those core beliefs upon which their salvation hangs in the balance, at least in part. Questioning it doesn't just question the thought but, for them, it puts into question a lifetime of holding on tightly to that thought.
#christianity #imported:pinboard #intellectualism #religion #to:fb
archive.org #24248

Astronaut and a Writer at the Movies - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/space/an-astronaut-and-a-writer-at-the-movies.html
As we recall from bitter memory, the Hubble and the space station are in vastly different orbits. Getting from one to the other requires so much energy that not even space shuttles had enough fuel to do it. The telescope is 353 miles high, in an orbit that keeps it near the Equator; the space station is about 100 miles lower, in an orbit that takes it far north, over Russia. To have the movie astronauts Matt Kowalski (Mr. Clooney) and Ryan Stone (Ms. Bullock) zip over to the space station would be like having a pirate tossed overboard in the Caribbean swim to London.
#gravity #imported:pinboard #movies #science #space #to:fb
archive.org #24246

Imperfect Circles – Aesthetic imperfection with fractal subdivision | Rectangle World – HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript: Tutorials and Experiments

http://rectangleworld.com/blog/archives/413
Getting a computer to draw a shape in the way that a human would requires programming in some imperfection. The simple idea is to add in some randomization of drawing coordinates, which could be done in various ways. Below are two examples of imperfect circles drawn in an HTML5 canvas with JavaScript, where the imperfection has been added through the use of a fractal-like subdivision algorithm. The imperfection can be subtle, but it is enough to make the image appear to be human-drawn. Although the images are quite simple I find them quite nice to look at.
#canvas #fractals #graphics #html5 #imported:pinboard #math #webdev
archive.org #24242

Star Wars vs Star Trek Technology: Shields vs Physical Impacts

http://stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Shields/Impact.html
As you can see, even if it was possible to build a deflector shield generator of virtually infinite strength, the overall effectiveness of the system would still be limited by good old-fashioned structural limits. Ultimately, the survivability of a shielded spacecraft against physical impacts could (and would, given sufficient shield strength) conceivably come down to a set of bolts holding a shield generator onto the ship's spaceframe. This example highlights the severe problem with most attempts to rationalize sci-fi technologies, which is that people tend to look for the strongest link in the chain, not the weakest link in the chain.
#imported:pinboard #physics #scifi #shields
archive.org #24238

My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It - Matt Duron - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/my-son-wears-dresses-get-over-it/279333/
A lot of marriages don’t survive raising a gender-creative son who is, statistically speaking, most likely going to be gay or transgender as an adult. I wish I could to talk to those men. I wish I could be there for their kids. I've been a police officer for more than 15 years. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #32139

Poverty and cognitive impairment: Study shows money troubles make decision-making difficult. - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/09/poverty_and_cognitive_impairment_study_shows_money_troubles_make_decision.html
How much money do I waste in a given month by doing most of my grocery shopping at the Whole Foods that’s directly on my route home rather than taking the three-minute detour to Safeway? I have no idea. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24225

David Berreby – The obesity era

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/david-berreby-obesity-era/
Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ‘I am fat,’ it began. ‘I am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #32141

Make a Neon Vector Shooter in XNA: Particle Effects | Gamedevtuts+

http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/implementation/make-a-neon-vector-shooter-in-xna-particle-effects/
In this series of tutorials, I’ll show you how to make a neon twin stick shooter, like Geometry Wars, in XNA. The goal of these tutorials is not to leave you with an exact replica of Geometry Wars, but rather to go over the necessary elements that will allow you to create your own high-quality variant.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #tutorials #xna
archive.org #32143

Announcing Artillery's Project Atlas, a Hardcore RTS for the Browser - The Artillery Blog

http://blog.artillery.com/2013/09/project-atlas-and-the-artillery-platform.html
The Artillery Platform, which Atlas is built upon, uses JavaScript and WebGL to deliver a high-quality, low-latency multiplayer gaming experience to anyone with a modern web browser. The platform is centered around 3D experiences with real-time multiplayer capability and strong community support. The JavaScript-based game engine features a component-entity design, a modern deferred rendering pipeline, and development tools designed to allow creative expression and super-fast iteration.
#gaming #html5 #imported:pinboard #nifty #to:twitter #webdev #webgl
archive.org #24207

How Atari box art turned 8-bit games into virtual wonderlands | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/19/4716444/how-atari-box-art-turned-8-bit-games-into-virtual-wonderlands
The original Atari featured a wealth of games with box art that was quite a bit more imaginative than the “grizzled man holding a gun” template that’s so popular today. The concept of playing a video game in your house, on your television, was still in its infancy in the late 1970s, and Atari needed a way to market its games. One solution was to commission intricately detailed covers that sold the idea of a game much better than any simple screenshot could. “The game-playing experience wasn’t 100 percent of the experience,” says Tim Lapetino, an artist and designer currently working on a book about the history of Atari cover art. “Part of what made the world complete was the artwork that conjured up this other place. I wasn’t sitting in my living room anymore; I was on this desolate planet or in space. And it was mostly because of that art.”
#art #atari #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #24202

NextDraft: Adolescence in the Age of Pay-Per-Minute Porn

http://nextdraft.com/2010/09/08/adolescence-in-the-age-of-pay-per-minute-porn/
The four-finger method worked for seven days. And during that unforgettable week, my neighborhood shut down. Nerf footballs sat untouched on driveway blacktops, tumbleweed rolled across emptied bike paths, dust gathered on Intellivision gaming consoles, zero progress was made on bar mitzvah haftorah portions.
#cable #imported:pinboard #porn #retro #to:fb #tv
archive.org #32149

Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut : The Salt : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/223345977/auto-brewery-syndrome-apparently-you-can-make-beer-in-your-gut?ft=1&f=1001
The patient had an infection with , Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch — a bagel, pasta or even a soda — the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut. Cordell and McCarthy the case of "auto-brewery syndrome" a few months ago in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.
#beer #health #homebrewing #imported:pinboard #yeast
archive.org #32150

In Search of Scanlines: The Best CRT Monitor for Retro Gaming - Tested

http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/456719-best-crt-retro-games/
Your 1080p HDTV may be great for Blu-ray movies, but it sucks for SNES games. Adopting new television technology means saying goodbye to the advantages of older hardware. And yes, there are advantages. There's no such thing as a best TV for all eras of content. And for retro gaming, diehard gamers and collectors turn to old CRTs and specialty scaling hardware in search for that perfect picture.
#arcade #crts #gaming #imported:pinboard #monitors #retro #tvs
archive.org #32155

Our Lady Peace: Curve | PopMatters

http://www.popmatters.com/review/157172-our-lady-peace-curve/
And then Mike Turner left. And no matter how many times the band’s members insist his departure didn’t matter all that much, the group’s legacy has subsequently been divided into The Years With Mike Turner and The Years Without Mike Turner. To this day, it’s hard to put a finger on what exactly it is that changed. Gravity, the 2002 album that brought Our Lady Peace its most mainstream success to date behind the infectious “Somewhere Out There”, was guitarist Steve Mazur’s first go-around with the band, and combined with Bob Rock’s production tricks, the effort showcased a decidedly harder sound with a more polished edge. So, you can point to that when trying to figure out where the change came from, if you’d like. But after the disappointing and rushed (their words, not mine) Healthy in Paranoid Times, they erased Rock from the equation and yet Burn Burn, Our Lady Peace’s first DIY-fueled album, still didn’t quite measure up to those first four records.
#imported:pinboard #music #ourladypeace
archive.org #32156

Tuition Aid From a Zombie Elf - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/tuition-aid-from-a-zombie-elf.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Last year, Mr. Johnson received one of the first two grants given by Gamers Helping Gamers, a nonprofit organization founded by a group of successful young New Yorkers to assist a very specific group of students: those who play the fantasy trading card game Magic: The Gathering.
#education #gaming #imported:pinboard #magic #mtg #to:fb
archive.org #32158

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: On the NSA

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/on-nsa.html
All of this is a long way of saying that I was totally unprepared for today's bombshell revelations describing the NSA's efforts to defeat encryption. Not only does the worst possible hypothetical I discussed appear to be true, but it's true on a scale I couldn't even imagine. I'm no longer the crank. I wasn't even close to cranky enough.
#crypto #imported:pinboard #nsa #privacy #security
archive.org #24162

Crypto prof asked to remove NSA-related blog post | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/crypto-prof-asked-to-remove-nsa-related-blog-post/
Today, Green's academic dean contacted him to ask that "all copies" of the blog post be removed from university servers. Green said that the move was not "my Dean's fault," but he did not elaborate. Were cryptology professors at Johns Hopkins not allowed to say, as Green had, things like:
#academia #crypto #fairuse #imported:pinboard #nsa #security #tech
archive.org #32161

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: A note on the NSA, the future, and fixing mistakes

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/a-note-on-nsa-future-and-fixing-mistakes.html
The question to me -- as an American and as someone who cares about the integrity of speech -- is how we restore faith in our technology. I don't have the answers to this question right now. Unfortunately this is a long-term problem that will consume the output of researchers and technologists much more talented than I am. I only hope to be involved in the process.
#academia #crypto #imported:pinboard #nsa #security #tech #to:fb
archive.org #24160

BrewPony Coffee Powers The Interwebs | BrewPony

http://brewpony.com/brewpony-coffee-powers-the-interweb/
If you’re in the United States and have ever contributed to a Free/Open Source project in any way, please email our hospitality Ponies telling them to which project(s) you’ve contributed and how and we’ll email you back with a coupon code worth 10% off any BrewPony product. For as long as you (or we) live.
#coffee #devs #discounts #imported:pinboard #opensource #to:fb
archive.org #32164

The Wonderbrewer of Nowheresville by Kevin Koczwara Narratively - Narratively: Local stories, boldly told.

http://www.narrative.ly/drinking-buddies/the-wonderbrewer-of-nowheresville/
I'm a bit nervous when I finally turn down the long dirt road to the brewery after a two-hour drive. The road doesn't seem to lead anywhere. I'm in the middle of nowhere and there is no brewery in sight. It certainly doesn't seem like the most logical place for one. There is no major city nearby. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #32165

BearDuino: Hacking Teddy Ruxpin with Arduino | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/bearduino-hacking-teddy-ruxpin-with-arduino/
The BearDuino is a hardware-hacked Teddy Ruxpin—the infamous animatronic talking story-time teddy bear unleashed in all its uncanniness on the world in the 1980s—that has been turned into a kit for use with an Arduino microcontroller, ready for would-be makers to use for good or evil.
#arduino #diy #hacks #imported:pinboard #retro #teddyruxpin
archive.org #32167

Why the Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray is going to rip you off

http://io9.com/why-the-star-trek-into-darkness-blu-ray-is-going-to-rip-1222160195
The official Blu-ray has seven mini-featurettes. Seems kind of bare bones for such a major summer release, eh? Indeed it does, because Paramount has divvied up all the other features — including the commentary tracks with the cast and director J.J. Abrams, and several additional featurettes — have been given exclusive to the Target release, the Best Buy release, and the iTunes download. Meaning 1) if you buy the normal version you're getting less than half the special features created for the home video release, and 2) if you want all of them you're going to need to purchase at least three separate versions.
#bluray #imported:pinboard #paramount #scifi #startrek #to:fb
archive.org #24121

Should JavaScript devs build real things? | Technology Treason

http://ajfisher.me/2013/08/21/should-javascript-devs-build-real-things/
If you’re a web developer and you’re looking at playing with hardware, don’t shy away from the electronics. There are no magic bits of hardware that will give you full control of the physical world in a box – though there are plenty of attempts at this. Develop your knowledge the same way you do with the web – by reading, tinkering, playing with code and breaking stuff. Go join a hackerspace, get some learning materials, visit electronics shops, pull things apart and learn how they work.
#drones #hardware #imported:pinboard #javascript #tessel
archive.org #32168

Taming Macbook Pro’s Trackpad in Ubuntu 12.10 Linux « Chris Reilly

http://www.chris-reilly.org/blog/technotes/macbook-trackpad-in-ubuntu/
I’ve been working much more in Ubuntu Linux lately on my 2011 Macbook Pro, and the lack of integration for the trackpad has really been driving me crazy. The default synaptics driver does an ok job, but when it comes to things like gestures, the details make all the difference.
#drivers #imported:pinboard #macbook #tips #ubuntu
archive.org #32170

Manning Is Guilty and So Is the Army That Sent Him Overseas - The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/22/manning-is-guilty-and-so-is-the-army-that-sent-him-overseas.html
Manning is no hero but the army knew he was unfit and sent him anyway. How we ended up with a known security risk guarding classified secrets. Brian Van Reet explains. Bradley Manning is not Edward Snowden and he is most definitely not a hero. Let’s get that straight, for starters. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24103

Poletown East, Detroit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poletown_East,_Detroit
Poletown East is a neighborhood area of Detroit, Michigan bordering the enclave city of Hamtramck. The area was named after the Polish immigrants who originally lived in the area. A portion of residential area known as Poletown became the Hamtramck auto assembly plant in 1981 with those residents relocated by the city of Detroit which claimed eminent domain in order to make way for an automobile plant
#detroit #imported:pinboard #poletown
archive.org #24101

How to trap a whistleblower - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/16/how_to_trap_a_whistleblower/
Drake’s story puts the lie to the notion that internal channels serve as anything other than a trap for unwitting whistleblowers. What is so revealing is that if Snowden had gone through internal channels, the outcome would have been worse: the United States would have charged him with espionage and he’d be in jail for, in essence, spying on his own country on behalf of the public. It should not require martyrdom for a free citizen to challenge government abuses of power. It should not require choosing one’s conscience over one’s career, citizenship, or freedom.
#espionage #government #imported:pinboard #manning #nsa #politics #snowden #to:fb #whistleblowers
archive.org #32175

Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows

http://www.squared5.com/
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.
#imported:pinboard #presentations #tools #video
archive.org #32179

The Third Core's Revenge | Restricted Data

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/08/16/the-third-cores-revenge/
By the end of August 1945, there had been a total of three plutonium cores created in the entire world. Everyone knows about the first two. The first was put into the Gadget and detonated at Trinity in July 1945. The second was put into the Fat Man and detonated over Nagasaki in August 1945. The third, however, has been largely overlooked. The third core was the one that was destined to be the Third Shot dropped on Japan, had there been a Third Shot. Instead, it has a different story — but it was still not a peaceful one.
#atomic #history #imported:pinboard #nuclear #physics
archive.org #32183

An introduction to the Crafty game engine - Build New Games

http://buildnewgames.com/introduction-to-crafty/
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how Crafty makes it easy to make simple, 2D games and I’ll walk you through the process of making a very simple game from start to finish. By the end of the tutorial, you’ll know how to start making your own games from scratch using Crafty and you’ll have our example game built and running in your own development environment which will give you a great jumping-off point for future projects.
#development #games #html5 #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #32189

Case Study: Auto-Resizing HTML5 Games - HTML5 Rocks

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/gopherwoord-studios-resizing-html5-games/
In the summer of 2010, we created Sand Trap, a game that we entered in a competition on HTML5 games for mobile phones. But most mobile phones either displayed only part of the game or made the game too small—making it completely unplayable. So we took it upon ourselves to make the game fluidly adjust to match any resolution. After a bit of re-programming and using ideas outlined in this article, we had a game that scaled across any modern browser, whether it ran in a desktop or a mobile device.
#css #gaming #html #html5 #imported:pinboard #js #webdev
archive.org #32191

Loper OS » MicroWriter Redux.

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1066
I have decided to publish some of my “archaeological” work from last year on Cy Endfield’s MicroWriter. The original objective was to produce a cycle-accurate emulator. I do not currently have the free time to complete this project, so I will post my results here for anyone who might care to pick up the torch. Click on some of the images to see the full-resolution version.
#hacks #hardware #imported:pinboard #keyboards #microwriter
archive.org #24053

Chuck E. Cheese's, Silicon Valley Startup: The Origins of the Best Pizza Chain Ever - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/chuck-e-cheeses-silicon-valley-startup-the-origins-of-the-best-pizza-chain-ever/277869/
This great American franchise, and by extension, childhood itself, almost never existed. You may not know this, but Chuck E. Cheese's -- yes, the pizza place -- has its origins as firmly planted in the soil of Silicon Valley as Apple, HP, or Intel. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #32196

Stellar Track (Game)

http://www.giantbomb.com/stellar-track/3030-20288/
Stellar Track was a conversion of a college mainframe Star Trek game released by Sears in 1981. It is a suitably primitive game where you have to run scans to locate enemies and starbases on a 6 x 6 galactic map. You run scans to find the enemies then must warp to their quadrant to confront them with either phasers or photon torpedoes. You use the joystick to determine the numerals of where you intend you to travel to.
#atari #gaming #imported:pinboard #odd #startrek
archive.org #32200

The Weekend Interview with Kevyn Orr: How Detroit Can Rise Again - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324635904578642140694511474.html
What do northwest Washington, D.C., South Beach Miami and upper Manhattan have in common? Less than 50 years ago, the now vibrant communities didn't look much different from most of Detroit, says emergency manager Kevyn Orr—whom Gov. Rick Snyder tapped in March to revive the broken Motor City. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24026

codeartisan: Using HTML as the Media Type for your API

http://codeartisan.blogspot.de/2012/07/using-html-as-media-type-for-your-api.html
There is an ongoing (and interesting) discussion on the API-craft mailing list revolving around designing new media types for enabling hypermedia APIs primarily for programmatic consumption. As some folks may know, I like to use HTML as the media type for my hypermedia APIs. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24019

A Chronological Presentation of Fucks I Give., My sister asked if the events of “The Labyrinth"...

http://glamdamnit.tumblr.com/post/55713093884/my-sister-asked-if-the-events-of-the-labyrinth
Sarah is Hebrew name. So, it is common, and has been in use for thousands and thousands of years. It does not take long (for him) to find a dark haired girl named Sarah, who has a younger sibling, and who feels that she is treated unfairly by her step mother. In a fit of rage he kidnaps this other child and spirits it away to the fairy world. Perhaps this new Sarah dies in the quest to find the child, perhaps she wins her sibling back and flees.
#bowie #henson #imported:pinboard #labyrinth #stories #to:fb
archive.org #24009

Why Go Out? — Human Parts — Medium

https://medium.com/human-parts/f5c7d9d06be6
For many years I have asked myself, Why do you spend time with other people? but I never really attempted to come up with an answer. I always believed I was asking myself a rhetorical question, but this week I thought I would try and find an answer, because a question you ask yourself a thousand times eventually deserves to be answered.
#imported:pinboard #people #social #to:fb
archive.org #24008

Sous vide at home: Why thermal immersion circulators are the microwave of the future. - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2013/07/sous_vide_at_home_why_thermal_immersion_circulators_are_the_microwave_of.html
In August 2005, the New York Times Magazine published an article by Amanda Hesser that effectively introduced sous vide—the process of cooking bagged, vacuum-sealed food in a precisely controlled, low-temperature water bath, sometimes for days at a time—to the American public. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #23996

Dropbox login using only curl, sed and bash | commandlinefu.com

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/12496/dropbox-login-using-only-curl-sed-and-bash
Use the command line to log into Dropbox. You have to replace me@yahoo.com with your Dropbox email (note the URL-encoding of "@" as %40). Also replace my_passwd with your Dropbox password. (Note: special characters in your password (such as #) must be url-encoded. You will get a cookie (stored in file "cookie") that you can use for subsequent curl operations to dropbox, for example curl -b cookie https://www.dropbox.com/home. Debug note: If you want to see what data curl posts, use curl's --trace-ascii flag.
#dropbox #imported:pinboard #unix #webdev
archive.org #23987

Overnight Crockpot Steel-Cut Oatmeal - Ann Kroeker. Writer

http://annkroeker.com/2008/03/25/overnight-crockpot-steel-cut-oatmeal/
With only a few seconds of preparation the night before, you can awaken to steamy, creamy, perfectly prepared steelcut oatmeal. It’s like you’re suddenly transported to a cozy bed-and-breakfast where the hostess bustled around in the kitchen early in the morning in order to serve you this healthy breakfast treat at the moment you’re ready.
#breakfast #crockpot #imported:pinboard #oatmeal #recipes #to:fb
archive.org #32217

Middle Class Must Assert Its Worth & Take its Share Of Wealth

http://egbertowillies.com/2013/07/21/middle-class-must-assert-its-worth-to-assure-their-share-of-americas-wealth
It is time for the middle class to stop accepting crumbs for their labor and innovation. It is time for the middle class to demand, not ask, for programs that recover ill-gotten gains from a system that by design penalizes work and glorifies capital. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24020

“The Smell of a Boy’s Anus” Scented Oil on Sale Now in Japan (In Case You Were Wondering) | RocketNews24

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/11/02/the-smell-of-a-boys-anus-scented-oil-on-sale-now-in-japan-in-case-you-were-wondering/
(I didn't know this was a thing...) Sold under the tagline, “The forbidden scent…experience that smell one more time”, The Smell of a Boy’s Anus is a “real anal smell bottle” that captures the “pheromone emitted from the anus of a cute boy.”
#anus #imported:pinboard #japan #odd #what
archive.org #32224

Concurrency in JavaScript | TypedArray.org

http://typedarray.org/concurrency-in-javascript/
Web Workers are now broadly available in most browsers even on mobile (caniuse.com stats for Web Workers) and give you the power of concurrency from within JavaScript. It will allow you to move expensive computations to other threads, to permit best responsive programming, and ideally open the doors in the future to true parallelization in JavaScript. Let’s have a look at the reasons why you may be interested into leveraging Web Workers.
#concurrency #imported:pinboard #javascript #webdev #webworkers
archive.org #32246

The Secret to Finland's Success With Schools, Moms, Kids—and Everything - Olga Khazan - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-secret-to-finlands-success-with-schools-moms-kids-and-everything/277699/?single_page=true
"It seems to me that people in Finland are more secure and less anxious than Americans because there is a threshold below which they won't fall," said Linda Cook, a political scientist at Brown University who has studied European welfare states. "Even if they face unemployment or illness, Finns will have some payments from the state, public health care and education."
#finland #imported:pinboard #politics #to:fb #welfare
archive.org #32250

PRAW: The Python Reddit Api Wrapper — PRAW 2.1.4 documentation

https://praw.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
PRAW, an acronym for “Python Reddit API Wrapper”, is a python package that allows for simple access to reddit’s API. PRAW aims to be as easy to use as possible and is designed to follow all of reddit’s API rules. You have to give a useragent that follows the rules, everything else is handled by PRAW so you needn’t worry about violating them.
#bots #imported:pinboard #python #reddit
archive.org #32272

A standing desk for $22

http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dollars.html
I’ve been interested in standing desks for a while. I keep reading things like: he who sits the most dies the soonest. All the options online are expensive. Until now. Ryan of Opani, our deskmate who does amazing big data analytics and I combined our brains to see if we could come up with a better solution:
#desk #furniture #ikea #imported:pinboard #office #standing
archive.org #23804

After my 4th time coming back to eve (since 2009) this time I actually look forward to playing it. : Eve

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1gbypm/after_my_4th_time_coming_back_to_eve_since_2009/
After creating my character in 2009 and getting into mining I found eve dull and boring so I quit playing then picking it back up again then I'd get bored again...2 months ago I decided I'd get back into it once again but this time I would leave mining behind (except to make isk because my skills are fairly decent) I decided to pick up pvp...I found a nice, small corp in Pizza who are extremely helpful and friendly and now I'm hooked! I can't believe I kept coming back to mining instead of trying something...well, fun! For all the new players here, dont lose interest after a couple of months, if you find the game boring try a different career path, I guarantee there will be something you enjoy about the game! submitted by Anonymoose9311 to Eve[link] [19 comments]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #reddit
archive.org #32275

Does anyone else share my strange space hobby because I don't want to feel alone : Eve

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1gfcix/does_anyone_else_share_my_strange_space_hobby/
Hi friends I regularly put the minimum bounty amount (100k) on random people that I find in all parts of space. When they die I get a notification of them dying, and then I can go on eve-kill or whatever and see what they died in and who killed them and where. I see my duties similar to those of a wild life ranger - tagging animals in the wild to monitor their movements and social behaviors. I plan to keep my findings neatly organized in an excel document to be published in Nature. Anyone else do this because it's pretty neat submitted by Ohh_Yeah to Eve[link] [17 comments]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #reddit
archive.org #32276

Stop Doing Internet Wrong. - Scott Hanselman

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/StopDoingInternetWrong.aspx
Some days...some days it's frustrating to be on the web. We're compiling C++ into JavaScript and running Unreal in the browser but at the same time, here in 2013, we're still making the same mistakes. And by we, I mean, the set of web developers who aren't us, right Dear Reader? Because surely you're not doing any of these things. ;)
#design #imported:pinboard #internet #tips #webdev
archive.org #23783

Ladda

http://lab.hakim.se/ladda/
A UI concept which merges loading indicators into the action that invoked them. Primarily intended for use with forms where it gives users immediate feedback upon submit rather than leaving them wondering while the browser does its thing. For a real-world example, check out any of the forms on slid.es.
#buttons #css #design #imported:pinboard #ui #webdev
archive.org #32277

Persona and Surveillance - Identity at Mozilla

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/52729477874/persona-and-surveillance
It’s also worth pointing out that we do take certain technical measures to limit the data we collect. We’ve designed Persona so that the identity provider – including the fallback Identity Provider that we run – does not learn your browsing history. We consider that a good security practice, not specifically because of surveillance, but generally because collecting data without a user benefit just creates risk.
#imported:pinboard #mozilla #persona #privacy #security #to:fb #web #webdev
archive.org #23769

Matt Parkinson » Blog Archive ReadyNAS TimeMachine Verification Issues » Matt Parkinson - It always seems impossible until it's done

https://www.mattparkinson.eu/readynas-timemachine-issues/
Every so often, when my laptop runs out of battery during a backup, I receive the following: “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.”
#apple #fixes #imported:pinboard #mac #timemachine #tips
archive.org #32278

Appeals Court Makes Monsanto Promise Not To Sue Organic Farmers | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/06/11/2133121/appeals-court-monsanto-not-sue-farmers/
On Monday, a federal appeals court dismissed organic farmers’ lawsuit against the biotech firm Monsanto Company — but extracted a binding promise from Monsanto that they would not sue farmers whose crops were inadvertently contaminated with their product. Monsanto, which owns the patents to the vast majority of genetically modified staple crops in the U.S., devotes $10 million a year and a staff of 75 specifically to investigate and sue farmers who use their GM technology without paying royalties. To date, they have pursued more than 800 patent infringement cases.
#agriculture #farming #gmos #imported:pinboard #monsanto #to:fb
archive.org #32279

The Greatest Science Fiction-Themed Bars and Restaurants on Earth

http://io9.com/the-greatest-science-fiction-themed-bars-and-restaurant-512256764
You may never get to drink at the Cantina — but you can still visit some real-life watering holes that celebrate your favorite stories. We've already shown you science-fictional bars we'd like to visit and people whose homes are based on spaceships, but here are real joints that boast a TARDIS, AT-ATs or the Martian landscape.
#bars #imported:pinboard #scifi #to:fb
archive.org #23764

Sparkle Donkey Tequila

http://www.sparkledonkey.com/
The story of the Sparkle Donkey — or El Burro Esparkalo as he is better known — began as little more than a local anecdote about a humble-yet-noble creature that, in dire times, delivered liquid salvation to many who were in need. But as time passed and word of his strange, lustrous aura and invigorating, ambrosial drink spread, the Sparkle Donkey became a powerful symbol of hope — an iconic and inscrutable totem that resonates to this very day.
#donkey #imported:pinboard #odd #sparkle #tequila #to:fb
archive.org #32280

The snake whose bite can send you back through puberty

http://io9.com/5878200/the-snake-whose-bite-can-send-you-back-through-puberty
In a study published in The Lancet, about twenty-nine percent of patients who recovered from Russell's Viper venom had signs of hypopituitarism or Sheehan's Syndrome. Both conditions have unremarkable symptoms, like a constant feeling of cold and an unusual amount of fatigue. What distinguishes them is a sort of reverse-puberty in adults. They lose their sex drive. They lose fertility. They lose their body hair, especially pubic hair. Men lose facial hair and muscles. Women lose curves as the condition causes them to lose weight. Some doctors even report loss of mental faculties as the condition progresses.
#animals #imported:pinboard #medicine #science #snakes #venom
archive.org #23760

Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% « ACEs Too High

http://acestoohigh.com/2012/04/23/lincoln-high-school-in-walla-walla-wa-tries-new-approach-to-school-discipline-expulsions-drop-85/
A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln – and, safe to say, at most high schools in this country – is automatic suspension. Instead, Sporleder sits the kid down and says quietly: “Wow. Are you OK? This doesn’t sound like you. What’s going on?” He gets even more specific: “You really looked stressed. On a scale of 1-10, where are you with your anger?”
#culture #discipline #education #imported:pinboard #psychology #school
archive.org #32281

New Study Confirms Obamacare's Birth Control Mandate Will Reduce Abortion Rate | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/05/966121/obamacare-birth-control-abortion/
A new study focusing on low-income women in St. Louis, MO concludes that expanding access to free contraception — just as the health care reform law does through its provision to provide birth control without a co-pay — leads to significantly lower rates of unintended teen pregnancy and abortion. Researchers found that when women weren’t prohibited by cost, they chose more effective, long-lasting forms of birth control and experienced many fewer unintended pregnancies as a result.
#abortion #contraception #health #imported:pinboard #pregnancy #to:fb
archive.org #32283

Mad Men recap: Solving the mystery of Bob Benson. - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/tv_club/features/2013/mad_men_season_6/week_9/mad_men_recap_solving_the_mystery_of_bob_benson.html
My bet is that the joke is on us, that there is no great reveal. Bob Benson is a way for the writers to show us how, in the world of Mad Men, the very qualities that define a real go-getting American businessman, here, in this office, with these people, look like vile perversion. To propose that Bob Benson is a spy is, frankly, to dance on Dutch Reagan’s grave. If you suspect Bob, you suspect the backbone of American commerce. If you suspect Bob, you suspect opportunity itself.
#advertising #bob #imported:pinboard #madmen #to:fb
archive.org #23748

The Secret Apartment in the Mall

http://www.trummerkind.com/mall/What_Happened.html
Starting in 2003 I committed to the idea of creating a luxury apartment in the mall. Over the course of the years to come I systematically coordinated the movement of the core elements that start to define a home. The space in the mall achieved a base-level of comfort, with enough amenities to qualify itself as a livable domestic space. Life from within the mall was committed to the pursuit of normalcy and the purchase of objects and clothing that would help define me an active participant in the great things the mall has to offer. The apartment was a superb space for hosting guests and I only regret that we didn’t have a working toilet. I will do my best to share thoughts about its creation and the aftermath with regular writing here.
#art #homes #imported:pinboard #malls #to:fb
archive.org #23747

Monopoly auction rule: Official? Yes. Smart? No.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/03/monopoly_auction_rule_official_yes_smart_no.html
An old blog post about an “unknown” Monopoly rule has been making its way around the Web the past few days, starting with a piece on BuzzFeed, then spreading to MSN, Yahoo, HuffPo, and a slew of other places. The gist is simple: When landing on a property, you’re allowed to auction it off, with the highest bidder paying the bank, rather than just purchasing it yourself.
#funny #gaming #imported:pinboard #monopoly #to:fb
archive.org #23745

Game Over Man: Video games in movies - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OT5D2M6VeA
Favorite: Game Over Man: Video games in movies, by Slacktory A twenty-minute montage of video games and arcades in film. Edited by Travis Greenwood and Brett Roberts http://www.buzzfeed.com/travisrandg http://www.youtube.com/user/brettramone Source movies, in order: WarGames (Audio snippet) Nightmares ("The Bishop Of Battle") Shaun Of The Dead The Beach Tron Joysticks Nightmares ("The Bishop Of Battle") Joysticks Night Of The Comet Joysticks Hollywood Hot Tubs The Avengers WarGames Rancho Deluxe The King Of Kong Boyz N The Hood Grosse Pointe Blank Parenthood Brainscan Terminator 2: Judgement Day Fast Times At Ridgemont High Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare The Wizard Wreck-It Ralph Tron The Last Starfighter The Thing The Hurt Locker Adventureland The Last Starfighter WarGames Cloak & Dagger Airplane! Snakes On A Plane Toy Story The Wrestler Bloodsport Jackie Chan's Street Fighter (City Hunter) Surf Ninjas Ferris Bueller's Day Off High School U.S.A. Midnight Madness Back To The Future 2 Ghostbusters 2 Joysticks 40 Year Old Virgin Mallrats Paul Blart: Mall Cop Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Lost In Translation The Karate Kid (2010) The FP Superbad Reign Over Me The Wackness Swingers Robocop 2 Wasabi Juice Inside Man Crank 2 Dawn Of The Dead (1978) Superman III D.A.R.Y.L. Encino Man Jaws Monster House The Princess Bride Rookie Of The Year Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Stay Alive Soylent Green Eddie Macon's Run Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again Scanners 2 Nightmares ("The Bishop Of Battle") Aliens (Audio snippet) Visit http://www.slacktory.com Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slacktory Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slacktory For more, go to http://www.mydamnchannel.com
#imported:pinboard #videos #youtube
archive.org #23740

Hexagonal Grids

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
Hexagonal grids are used in some games but aren’t quite as straightforward or common as square grids. I’ve been collecting hex grid resources for nearly 20 years, and wrote this guide to the most elegant approaches that lead to the simplest code, largely based on the guides by Charles Fu and Clark Verbrugge. I’ll describe the various ways to make hex grids (I’ve counted 74 so far!), the relationships between them, as well as some common algorithms. Many parts of this page are interactive; choosing a type of grid will update diagrams, code, and text to match.
#dev #games #gaming #hex #imported:pinboard #programming
archive.org #32286

Fluent 2013: Brendan Eich, "JavaScript at 18: Legal to Gamble" - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrf9ONmtXbM
Favorite: Fluent 2013: Brendan Eich, "JavaScript at 18: Legal to Gamble", by OreillyMedia Almost two decades after the birth of JavaScript, I will give an update to my "JavaScript at 17" keynote last year, including the latest on the next version of the JS language, ES6. I'll then show where the JS leading edge is going: ASM.js, a compiler technology for translating C and C++ programs including high-end games into JS and WebGL. I will close by talking about how JS can satisfy all these demands and remain a coherent, healthy, and extremely popular programming language.
#imported:pinboard #videos #youtube
archive.org #23732

Pibow Belt Base for Raspberry Pi by pburgess « adafruit industries blog

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/03/08/pibow-belt-base-for-raspberry-pi-by-pburgess/
REQUIRES PIBOW CASE – this is ONLY a replacement bottom layer. Laser cut from 3mm (1/8″) acrylic. The belt is made from 1.5″ nylon webbing (better-equipped hardware, sewing or camping stores will stock this and related fittings), but it’s also perfectly suited to most camera straps if you have a DSLR + Raspberry Pi project in mind. The USB battery pack is an item from the Adafruit shop, held in place with cable ties.
#adafruit #imported:pinboard #pibow #raspberrypi #to:fb #wearables
archive.org #32295

Note to Self - Git

http://git-scm.com/blog/2010/08/25/notes.html
Wouldn't it be nice if you could add data to a commit without changing its SHA? If only there existed an external mechanism to attach data to a commit without modifying the commit message itself. Happy day! It turns out there exists just such a feature in newer versions of Git! As we can see from the Git 1.6.6 release notes where this new functionality was first introduced:
#git #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23715

libgit2

http://libgit2.github.com/
libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings.
#git #github #imported:pinboard #libgit2 #library
archive.org #32298

The Weird Stuff Warehouse is where old tech goes to retire | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/the-weird-stuff-warehouse-is-where-old-tech-goes-to-retire/
Tucked neatly between Yahoo! headquarters and Lockheed Martin is a row of unmarked warehouses. To the common passerby, it's nothing more than an office park surrounded by perfectly manicured lawns. But to those who are in on the secret, there's a place full of technology treasures waiting to be unearthed. It's called the Weird Stuff Warehouse, and for more than 27 years it's been providing the Bay Area with a surplus of old and new technology. It's not just a Goodwill for antiquated hardware, though—it's also a step back through time. Inside this warehouse, it's an era when RAID controllers were the size of a modern-day sound card and Windows 95 reigned supreme.
#awesome #bayarea #history #imported:pinboard #tech #to:fb #weirdstuff
archive.org #32299

Cereal Box Design: New Closure | New Republic

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113319/cereal-box-design-new-closure
But here's something you may not realize (or if you do, it's probably on a subliminal level): There are actually two different types of tabbed box-closure mechanisms out there. One is the kind described above, with a perforated slot. The other format involves two interlocking box flaps that snap together without the need for a perforated slot. You can see the differences between the two designs by looking here.
#cereal #design #imported:pinboard #product #to:fb
archive.org #23708

Understand How It Works - Martin Rue

http://martinrue.com/posts/12/understand-how-it-works
If you simply remember how to do something, then all you can do is use it the same way over and over, but if you understand how it works, you can reason about it. Once you can reason about something in your mind you can contemplate why it is the way it is, you can apply your entire creative mind to making the most of it, and you can implement and question improvement – you own it intellectually.
#diy #imported:pinboard #learning #life #make #to:fb
archive.org #23704

Announcing StrongLoop Node 1.0 GA – an Enterprise Ready Node.js Distribution | StrongLoop

http://blog.strongloop.com/announcing-strongloop-node-1-0-ga-an-enterprise-ready-node-js-distribution/
Back in March we first announced the availability of StrongLoop Node, our commercially supported distribution of Node.js based on v0.10. After three Beta releases, lots of feedback from the community and our customers, plus testing and more testing, we are pleased to announce the general availability of StrongLoop Node 1.0.
#gluecon #imported:pinboard #javascript #node #strongloop
archive.org #32303

progrium / gitreceive

https://github.com/progrium/gitreceive
Creates an ssh+git user that creates repositories on the fly and lets you run scripts or hit HTTP endpoints when you push code. Build your own Heroku. Push code anywhere. It's just not a post-receive hook. It's a powerful wrapper around pre-receive giving you easy access to the code that was pushed while still being able to send output back to the git user.
#cloud #docker #gluecon #imported:pinboard #lxc #sysadmin #virtualization #vm
archive.org #23700

Cross-client Identity - Google Accounts Authentication and Authorization — Google Developers

https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/CrossClientAuth
When developers build software, it routinely includes modules that run on a Web server, other modules that run in the browser, and others that run as native mobile apps. Both developers and the people who use their software typically think of all these modules as part of a single app. Google’s OAuth2 implementation supports this view of the world
#auth #gluecon #google #identity #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23689

Codebits: The Codebits Digital Signage Project (Part I)

https://codebits.eu/s/blog/c89f80ca02910f48ac4cede8c3ce5cd7
We’ve been so busy we haven’t had time to do a proper write-up of this yet, but this year we decided to revamp the on-site displays (both overhead projections and LCDs). And given that 2012 is pretty much the year of the Raspberry Pi, we decided to have a go at it using these amazing little boxes – after all, they’re pretty much perfect for the job given that they have an HDMI output, an Ethernet port and more than enough smarts to run a browser and playback H.264 video.
#codebits #imported:pinboard #raspberrypi #webdev #webkit
archive.org #23684

Documentation/HowTo - OpenStack

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/HowTo#First-time_Contributors
At the core of OpenStack is the community and collaboration that we do - the same rules for the code apply to documentation too. Ideally any code contribution that is merged into the base has documentation to go with it. Anne Gentle is the coordinator for all documentation efforts, both community-based and "official" docs. This page describes the methods we use to create the basis for world-class documentation for OpenStack developers and users.
#documentation #gluecon #imported:pinboard #openstack
archive.org #23682

<i>OpenStack Operations Guide</i>: One Week, One Book - The Official Rackspace Blog

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/openstack-operations-guide-one-week-one-book/
A book in a week? Yes, a book in a week. It can be done! It’s called a book sprint, and it’s intense. As the documentation coordinator for OpenStack, I knew we’d find the right book to write with this technique. In February, it all came together thanks to generous funding from the OpenStack Foundation for $10,000 to fly the team into our Austin Rackspace location.
#books #gluecon #imported:pinboard #openstack
archive.org #32308

M/M/c queue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M/M/c_queue
In queueing theory, the M/M/c queue is a multi-server queueing model.[1] In Kendall's notation it describes a system where arrivals form a single queue and are governed by a Poisson process, there are c servers and job service times are exponentially distributed.[2] It is a generalisation of the M/M/1 queue which considers only a single server. The model with infinitely many servers is the M/M/∞ queue.
#cloud #gluecon #imported:pinboard #operations #testing
archive.org #23667

Web-enable your Research/Project with an API | Mashape Blog

http://blog.mashape.com/post/49307674943/web-enable-your-research-project-with-an-api
This post is intended to help data scientists and engineers who in some capacity have implemented routines/algorithms/data that does a specialized function (e.g. machine learning) using a dynamically typed language, such as Python. The goal is to web-enable these routines/algorithms using an application programming interface (API).
#apis #gluecon #imported:pinboard #machinelearning
archive.org #23656

Liskov substitution principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle
Substitutability is a principle in object-oriented programming. It states that, in a computer program, if S is a subtype of T, then objects of type T may be replaced with objects of type S (i.e., objects of type S may be substituted for objects of type T) without altering any of the desirable properties of that program (correctness, task performed, etc.).
#apis #compsci #design #gluecon #imported:pinboard #liskov #oop #programming #software
archive.org #23654

Metroid Password Format Guide

http://games.technoplaza.net/mpg/password.txt
This document is a guide to the password system used by Metroid for the NES. It applies to the original Metroid 1 released in the US and Europe. I believe the information is also accurate for the hidden Metroid 1 game that can be unlocked in Metroid Prime, and for Metroid Zero Mission for Game Boy Advance.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #metroid #nes #nintendo
archive.org #23637

Firefox OS for Raspberry Pi: Now Available

http://www.philipp-wagner.com/blog/2013/04/firefox-os-for-raspberry-pi-now-available/
It has been quite some time since my last post about Firefox OS running on a Raspberry Pi, but the questions didn’t stop to come in “when will it be released”? Well, I’m sorry that it took so long (sometimes finding time is not that easy), but finally, here we are: the sources and build instructions are available!
#firefoxos #imported:pinboard #linux #raspberrypi
archive.org #32337

Wiring the Cobbler to the LCD | Drive a 16x2 LCD with the Raspberry Pi | Adafruit Learning System

http://learn.adafruit.com/drive-a-16x2-lcd-directly-with-a-raspberry-pi/wiring
Whenever you come across a LCD that looks like it has 16 connectors it is most likely using a HD44780 controller. These devices provide the same pinouts making them relatively easy to work with. The LCD uses a parallel interface meaning that we will need many pins from our raspberry pi to control it. In this tutorial we will use 4 data pins (4-bit mode) and two control pins.
#diy #electronics #imported:pinboard #lcd #raspberrypi
archive.org #23616

3-Wire Serial LCD using a Shift Register

http://www.electronics-lab.com/projects/mcu/015/
HD44780 based character LCDs require at least 6 I/O lines from microcontroller to display data. Therefore, they are not suitable for low-pin microcontrollers like PIC12F series microchips. In this project, I am going to show how to drive an HD44780 based LCD display with only 3 pins of a microcontroller. I am going to demonstrate it with PIC12F683 microchip. The character data and command from the microcontroller is transferred serially to a shift register (74HC595), and the parallel output from the shift register is fed to LCD pins.
#diy #electronics #imported:pinboard #lcd #raspberrypi
archive.org #32341

A Nation of Wimps | Psychology Today

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200411/nation-wimps?fb_action_ids=10200996900466134&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B10150092467549083%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.likes%22%5D&action_ref_map=
Parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take the bumps out of life for their children. However, parental hyperconcern has the net effect of making kids more fragile; that may be why they're breaking down in record numbers.
#imported:pinboard #kids #nurture #psychology #to:fb
archive.org #32342

MPEG1 Video Decoder in JavaScript - PhobosLab

http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/05/mpeg1-video-decoder-in-javascript
An MPEG1 decoder sounded like a relatively simple and fun weekend project. While the real world use cases for this are of course a bit limited, I still learned a whole lot about video codecs in the process. The size of the source is just around 15kb gzipped and the performance is quite okay-ish - a 320x240 video easily plays with 30fps on the iPhone5.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #mpeg1 #to:fb #video #webdev
archive.org #23607

Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS SDK for Node.js - Now Generally Available

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/aws-sdk-for-nodejs-now-generally-available.html
The General Availability (GA) release of the AWS SDK for Node.js is now available and can be installed through npm as aws-sdk. We have added a number of features since the preview release including bound parameters, streams, IAM roles for EC2 instances, version locking, and proxies.
#amazon #aws #imported:pinboard #node
archive.org #23598

Ode to James Socol | morgamic.com

http://morgamic.com/2013/05/06/ode-to-james-socol/
James Socol is a force of good. He can usually be found getting shit done and pushing forward every day. I’ve worked with James for about four years as his manager. He possesses both sound principles and a wicked work ethic. He was reliable and never said, “that’s not my job.” He’s the kind of guy you want on your side.
#imported:pinboard #jsocol #mozilla #to:fb
archive.org #32350

Overview | Drive a 16x2 LCD with the Raspberry Pi | Adafruit Learning System

http://learn.adafruit.com/drive-a-16x2-lcd-directly-with-a-raspberry-pi
Adding a LCD to any project immediately kicks it up a notch. This tutorial explains how to connect a inexpensive HDD44780 compatible LCD to the raspberry pi using 6 GPIOs. While there are other ways to connect using I2C or the UART this is the most direct method that get right down to the bare metal.
#diy #electronics #imported:pinboard #lcd #raspberrypi
archive.org #23596

Raspberry Pi in a NES Case - Part 1 - Wiring up the front panel and external connectors // Igor's Blog

http://www.igorkromin.net/index.php/2013/01/08/raspberry-pi-in-a-nes-case-part-1-wiring-up-the-front-panel-and-external-connectors/
When mine arrived, I didn’t really know what to use it for, but then it hit me: I can build an emulator box for all the NES and SNES games that I loved to play as a child.
#diy #emulation #gaming #imported:pinboard #nes #raspberrypi
archive.org #32352

Atari Combo Controller has what you need for any cartridge

http://hackaday.com/2013/05/03/atari-combo-controller-has-what-you-need-for-any-cartridge/
Retro gaming enthusiasts take note: this joystick is what you need to play any Atari game on the original console. It plugs right into the original console hardware and removes the need to choose the joystick, paddle, or keypad controller separately. You just leave this puppy hooked up and move your hands to the set of controls used on each game.
#atari #gaming #imported:pinboard #joystick #to:fb
archive.org #32360

Deep Inside Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

http://www.fastcompany.com/3008346/deep-inside-taco-bells-doritos-locos-taco
To Creed, the partnership between Taco Bell and Frito-Lay is more than a one-off collaboration. Like Android is to Google or iOS is to Apple, Doritos-based flavors represent a whole new framework for Taco Bell to build on. "It's not just a product; it's now a platform--Nacho Cheese, Cool Ranch, Flamas," Creed beams. "We're going to blow everyone away in the next few years in terms of how big this idea and platform will become."
#food #imported:pinboard #odd #platforms #tacobell #to:fb
archive.org #23582

After Checking Your Bank Account, Remember To Log Out, Close The Web Browser, And Throw Your Computer Into The Ocean | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/articles/after-checking-your-bank-account-remember-to-log-o,32260/?ref=auto
At Chase Bank, we recognize the value of online banking—it’s quick, convenient, and available any time you need it. Unfortunately, though, the threats posed by malware and identity theft are very real and all too common nowadays. That’s why, when you’re finished with your online banking session, we recommend three simple steps to protect your personal information: log out of your account, close your web browser, and then charter a seafaring vessel to take you 30 miles out into the open ocean and throw your computer overboard.
#banking #funny #imported:pinboard #privacy #to:fb
archive.org #32365

Remember When You Could Order Dungeons And Dragons From The Sears Wish Book? (1984) | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2013/04/30/remember-order-dungeons-and-dragons/
I came to play Dungeons and Dragons a little later than most and as I look at the prices for the likes of the Player’s Handbook and Monster Manual…I think I know now what the first thing I need to do is when I finally invent that time machine.
#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #gaming #imported:pinboard #rpg #sears #to:fb
archive.org #32367

Researchers find high-fructose corn syrup may be tied to worldwide collapse of bee colonies

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-high-fructose-corn-syrup-tied-worldwide.html
The researchers aren't suggesting that high-fructose corn syrup is itself toxic to bees, instead, they say their findings indicate that by eating the replacement food instead of honey, the bees are not being exposed to other chemicals that help the bees fight off toxins, such as those found in pesticides.
#agriculture #bees #corn #hfcs #imported:pinboard #to:fb
archive.org #23575

Tuning your Synology NAS for speed | Jeffrey Costa

http://blog.jeffcosta.com/2012/12/29/tuning-your-synology-nas-for-speed/
If you own a Synology NAS device at home, you know its an incredible machine for the money. However, it likely has a small amount of RAM (mine has 256MB) and that poses a problem. I have found that if you are not using many of the programs (Disk Station, iTunes server, File Station, etc…), you can free up a great deal of RAM by disabling unused services. This gives precious RAM back to processes that can actually use it, and frees up CPU power.
#hacks #imported:pinboard #nas #synology
archive.org #32368

Multiplayer Game 'Eve Online' Cultivates a Most Devoted Following - Businessweek

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/multiplayer-game-eve-online-cultivates-a-most-devoted-following
“At the time, I had been dating a girl for only three weeks and was terrified,” says Joshua Goldshlag (Eve name: Two Step), a 35-year-old CSM member and computer programmer from Massachusetts. “I certainly did not want to mention that I had been elected as an Internet space politician.”
#eve #gaming #imported:pinboard #spacepoliticians #to:fb
archive.org #23568

MAKE | Arduino Uno vs BeagleBone vs Raspberry Pi

http://blog.makezine.com/2013/04/15/arduino-uno-vs-beaglebone-vs-raspberry-pi/
The three models (all of which we use here at Digital Diner) are the Arduino, Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone. We chose these three because they are all readily available, affordable, about the same size (just larger than 2″ x 3″) and can all be used for creating wonderful digital gadgets. Before we get to the comparison, here is a brief introduction to each one.
#arduino #diy #hacks #hardware #imported:pinboard #raspberrypi
archive.org #32371

Pizza Hut launching Xbox 360 app that lets console owners order pizza from Xbox Live | Polygon

http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/22/4252934/pizza-hut-for-xbox-360-app-kinect
The Pizza Hut for Xbox app makes the chain's entire menu accessible to users, who can then build their own customized pizzas and place orders via Kinect motion controls, voice commands or the controller. Users can link their Xbox and PizzaHut.com accounts and save their order settings to streamline future purchases, as well as view and take advantage of deals at local stores.
#fat #gaming #hut #imported:pinboard #pizza #to:fb #xbox
archive.org #23566

Ken's Programming Blog: I Knew a Programmer that Went Completely Insane

http://startingdotneprogramming.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-knew-programmer-that-went-completely.html
It may be hard to swallow but the extra effort and hours that you put into your job as a software developer does not usually amount to someone higher up thinking you should run the company. It has been my experience that good producers are more likely to be asked to continue to produce. If they moved you to a higher position and better pay then who would produce the software?
#dev #humanity #imported:pinboard #productivity #software #to:fb #work
archive.org #23564

A few thoughts about RSS news readers from someone who thinks about them way more than you probably do - Russell Beattie

http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/a-few-thoughts-about-rss-news-readers-from-someone-who-thinks-about-them-way-more-than-you-probably-do
It might appear like gloom and doom (actually, if it doesn't, you're not looking), but really it's a massive opportunity. Again, anyone who uses a news reader can't imagine having to live without one, yet I see the feed ecosystem slowly deteriorating with no replacement in sight. That's the opportunity, in my mind. It's not about simply mimicking Google Reader (which I would never do anyways, as I've never liked it), but about bootstrapping off the system we have today, in order to create a new type of news reader for tomorrow. The future of news readers, so to speak. ;-)
#aggregation #feeds #google #imported:pinboard #metablogging #reader #rss #to:fb
archive.org #23563

The $12 Gongkai Phone « bunnie's blog

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040
Recently, I paid $12 at Mingtong Digital Mall for a complete phone, featuring quad-band GSM, Bluetooth, MP3 playback, and an OLED display plus keypad for the UI. Simple, but functional; nothing compared to a smartphone, but useful if you’re going out and worried about getting your primary phone wet or stolen.
#china #electronics #gadgets #hardware #imported:pinboard #mobile #phones #to:fb
archive.org #32374

Why feed reading is an open web problem, and what browsers could do about it – Luis Villa

http://tieguy.org/blog/2013/04/21/why-feed-reading-is-an-open-web-problem-and-what-browsers-could-do-about-it/
I’ve long privately thought that Firefox should treat feed reading as a first-class citizen of the open web, and integrate feed subscribing and reading more deeply into the browser (rather than the lame, useless live bookmarks.) The impending demise of Reader has finally forced me to spit out my thoughts on the issue. They’re less polished than I like when I blog these days, but here you go – may they inspire someone to resuscitate this important part of the open web.
#feeds #firefox #imported:pinboard #metablogging #openweb #to:fb #web #webdev
archive.org #32375

getFavicon

http://getfavicon.appspot.com/
Retrieves the relevant favicon for a URL, or returns a default icon should it not be able to find it. Works better than the Google version as it will find favicons specified by an HTML page's <link> element. Feel free to hotlink, although it would be nice if you could email me if you're going to make more than a couple of requests a second.
#api #favicons #http #imported:pinboard #service #webdev
archive.org #32376

IMAP as the Proto Personal Cloud

http://www.windley.com//archives/2013/04/imap_as_the_proto_personal_cloud.shtml
If you have used IMAP to connect an email client to an email server, then you already know the benefits that a personal cloud will provide to you. IMAP and SMTP create an email ecosystem where the user is in control. That's what personal clouds do for other applications.
#cloud #imap #imported:pinboard #mail
archive.org #32379

Change Computer History Forever: Well, Here We Are « ASCII by Jason Scott

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3947
This is it, folks. This is the ideal world I’ve heard whispered about, referenced, and planned for a very long time. It’s here. I know you might have expected it to land with an earth-shattering boom but it was a slow and steady flowering on the Internet Archive’s servers. The Archive of Historical Computer Software is here, and it is very, very large. Blow me away.
#archives #history #imported:pinboard #software #to:fb
archive.org #23551

Nomiku

http://shop.nomiku.com/
Food lovers no longer have to salivate in vain at the delicious foods their favorite chefs make in immersion circulators for sous vide cooking. Now you can make 72 hour sweet and sticky ribs and Heston Blumenthal's scrambled eggs conveniently in your own kitchen.
#cooking #gadgets #imported:pinboard #kitchen #nomiku #want
archive.org #32382

Inventing the Mouse | collective iq

http://collectiveiq.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/inventing-the-mouse/
In the 1950s, Doug Engelbart set his sights on a lofty goal — to develop dramatically better ways to support intellectual workers around the globe in the daunting task of finding solutions to larger and larger problems with greater speed and effectiveness than ever before imagined. His goal was to revolutionize the way we work together on such tasks. He saw computers, at the time used only for number crunching, as a new medium for advancing the state of the art in collaborative knowledge work
#collaboration #engelbart #imported:pinboard #mouse #to:fb
archive.org #32384

Oculus Rift Teardown - iFixit

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Oculus+Rift+Teardown/13682/1
Let's face it, the year is 2013. Where are our flying cars? Why isn't deep space travel a thing yet? Why hasn't virtual reality become, well, reality? The Oculus Rift seeks to fill that lack of virtual reality in our lives. Still in its early developmental stage, the Oculus Rift promises to deliver VR gaming to the yearning public. Join us as we take a peek inside the Oculus Rift and its hardware.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #oculusrift #to:fb #vr
archive.org #23543

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Fluffed-up ferrets on steroids sold as toy poodles

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2013/04/fluffed-up-ferrets-on-steroids-sold-as.html
The unnamed pensioner from Catamarca discovered he had been duped when he took the two animals to his local veterinarian to be vaccinated. The ferrets had been given steroids to increase their size and had been groomed to make their coats resemble those of pedigree poodles.
#animals #ferrets #imported:pinboard #pets #poodles #to:fb
archive.org #23542

Ambient Light Events and JavaScript detection ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/ambient-light-events-and-javascript-detection/
The idea with an API for ambient light is to be able to detect the light level around the device – especially since there’s a vast difference between being outside in sunlight and sitting in a dim living room – and adapt the user experience based on that.
#imported:pinboard #light #mobile #mozilla #webapi #webdev
archive.org #32387

Why Are There So Few Resurrected Corpses in the United States? - Heather Horn - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/why-are-there-so-few-resurrected-corpses-in-the-united-states/274681/
I suspect United States is in fact ahead of the African nations in bringing the dead back to life. It's hard to find a good estimate of how many bodies are resurrected in the U.S. each year, but let's go with this vastly oversimplified figure: 92,000. 92,000 is the number of people the American Heart Association estimates are saved in the U.S. each year after their hearts or their lungs have stopped moving, i.e. by CPR. Or let's go with a percentage: 45.3%. That's the success rate in the bottom-quarter of American hospitals in a 2012 study in restoring circulation to a body whose heart has completely flatlined. 14.5% of the bodies treated managed leave the hospital. And that's in the hospitals with the lowest performance. Wait till you see American rates for getting the lame to walk and the blind to see.
#faith #imported:pinboard #medicine #religion #to:fb
archive.org #32388

Yahoo! Has Probably Destroyed the Most History, Ever – And Historians Need to Wake Up | Ian Milligan

http://ianmilligan.ca/2013/04/03/yahoo-sucks-historians-wake-up/
This stuff matters. If we want to be the profession that leads the way in understanding and interpreting the past, we should be part of this conversation, or at the very least learn and see how we can help out. I should note here, quickly, that I know there are historians who care. I follow them on Twitter and they’re awesome. But they’re a small minority of the profession, and that needs to change. This doesn’t just affect digital historians, it affects historians. Our very profession.
#archives #archiveteam #archivists #historians #history #imported:pinboard #messages #preservation #to:fb #yahoo
archive.org #32392

CLI all the things: Introducing Josh.js - ILoggable

http://www.claassen.net/geek/blog/2013/03/cli-all-the-things-introducing-josh-js.html
Everytime I click my way through a hierarchy tree, I long for a simple BASH shell with TAB completion. It’s such a simple thing, but TAB completion (usually implemented via the trusty Readline library) still ranks as one of the most productive tools in my book. So as I was once again trying to navigate to some page in a MindTouch site, I thought that all I really want is to treat this documentation hierarchy like a file system and mount it with a bash shell.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #shell #shells #webdev
archive.org #23521

Celebrating 15 Years of a Better Web | Mitchell's Blog

https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2013/04/02/15-years-of-a-better-web/
In the coming era both the opportunities and threats to the Web are just as big as they were 15 years ago. As the role of data grows and device capabilities expand, the Internet will become an even more central part of our lives. The need for individuals to have some control over how this works and what we experience is fundamental. Mozilla can — and must — play a key role again. We have the vision, the products and the technology to do this. We know how to enable people to participate, both by contributing to our specific activities and coming up with their own ideas that advance the bigger cause of enriching the Web.
#imported:pinboard #mozilla #open #to:fb #web
archive.org #32394

How the internet is making us poor – Quartz

http://qz.com/67323/how-the-internet-made-us-poor/
Barring a civilization-ending event, technology is not going to move backward. More and more of our world will be controlled by software. It’s already become so ubiquitous that, argues one of my colleagues, it’s now ridiculous to call some firms as “tech” companies when all companies depend on it so much.
#automation #economy #future #imported:pinboard #jobs #software #technology #to:fb #work
archive.org #32396

Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600

http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
It turns out that E.T. isn't a bad game after all. With a few simple changes we were able to dramatically improve an already good game by eliminating the most common complaints. With a few additional changes, we were able to clear up any confusion for players who care about the score, and were confused by the differences between what the manual claims and what actually happens in-game. Next time someone tells you that "E.T. for the Atari 2600 is the worst game ever made" you can tell them that this is not the case. It's been fixed, and you know how.
#2600 #asm #atari #atari2600 #et #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #32397

Unaware He Was a Christian Activist, the Right Freaks Over Chavez Easter Google Doodle

http://www.politicususa.com/unaware-christian-activist-freaks-easter-chavez-google-doodle.html
The ironic thing is that Cesar Chavez was a Christian activist, basing his civil rights rallies upon Jesus’ example of achieving social justice through non-violence, and as such, is an iconic hero to Mexican Americans. The Right is up in arms on Twitter, threatening to switch to Bing as revenge against Google for honoring a Christian activist on Easter.
#chavez #google #imported:pinboard #labor #to:fb
archive.org #23515

Will changing your Facebook profile picture do anything for marriage equality? | PsySociety, Scientific American Blog Network

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psysociety/2013/03/28/marriage-equality-and-social-proof/
So, no. The fact that you’ve replaced that picture of yourself mugging for the camera with a red square and an equal sign will not cause Justice Kennedy to bang his gavel or stomp his foot and say that he’s come to a final decision on the matter, and that it’s all because of your new profile picture. Changing your Facebook image will not have a direct impact on our legislation. But a widespread descriptive norm implying that it is socially acceptable to advocate for same-sex marriage and that most people in contemporary American society seem to be pro-marriage-equality? Now that just might.
#avatars #imported:pinboard #socialmedia #to:fb
archive.org #32398

webiopi - Raspberry Pi REST framework to control GPIO and more - Google Project Hosting

http://code.google.com/p/webiopi/
WebIOPi is a REST framework and a webapp which allows you to control your Raspberry Pi's GPIO. Just install it on your Pi, and use any browser from your network. It's useful to start enjoying GPIOs and also to debug some circuits without writing any line of code. It also allows to control your Pi's GPIOs over Internet, so it's a good starting point for home remote control.
#imported:pinboard #python #raspberrypi #webdev
archive.org #32406

Overview | MCP230xx GPIO Expander on the Raspberry Pi | Adafruit Learning System

http://learn.adafruit.com/mcp230xx-gpio-expander-on-the-raspberry-pi
While the Raspberry Pi packs and awful lot of punch for the price, and it's fairly flexible where HW expandability is concerned, there are situations where you might want a bit more basic digital IO. Thankfully, it's an easy problem to solve with an I2C-enabled device like the MCP23008 (for an extra 8 GPIO pins) or the MCP23017 (for an extra 16 GPIO pins). This tutorial will show you how you can get up and running quickly with either of these chips.
#electronics #imported:pinboard #io #raspberrypi
archive.org #23491

FrontPage - Raspbian

http://www.raspbian.org/
Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your Raspberry Pi run. However, Raspbian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi.
#arm #debian #imported:pinboard #linux #raspberrypi
archive.org #32411

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Seven-year-old boy's armpit farting act deemed inappropriate for school talent show

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2013/03/seven-year-old-boys-armpit-farting-act.html
"I got a call from the principal yesterday morning. She informed me that bodily noises were inappropriate and would not be acceptable in the talent show. Everybody takes things so serious. We're talking about a seven-year-old and armpit farts. There could be so many other worse things, and I don't agree with her decision, and I think I have hundreds and hundreds of people that stand behind the way I think," she said.
#armpit #farts #funny #imported:pinboard #to:fb
archive.org #23483

Single source publishing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_source_publishing
Single source publishing, also known as single sourcing, allows the same content to be used in different documents (deliverables) or in various formats. The labour-intensive and expensive work of editing need only be carried out once, on one document. Further transformations are carried out mechanistically, by automated tools. You may also add new output formats in the future, as your organization's needs change.
#imported:pinboard #publishing #writing
archive.org #23475

Backup your Linux system to Dropbox | Personal website of Dave Hope

http://davehope.co.uk/Blog/backup-your-linux-vps-to-dropbox/
As an adovate of Dropbox I’ve been keen to find a simple way to backup by webserver/VPS to Dropbox. With up to 10gB of storage space for free there’s plenty of capacity for me to backup some MySQL databases and webroot. Unfortunately the Linux command line dropbox client doesn’t provide any way to synchronise a specific directory.
#backup #dropbox #imported:pinboard #linux #tools
archive.org #32415

Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet-the-men-who-spy-on-women-through-their-webcams/
If you are unlucky enough to have your computer infected with a RAT, prepare to be sold or traded to the kind of person who enters forums to ask, "Can I get some slaves for my rat please? I got 2 bucks lol I will give it to you :b" At that point, the indignities you will suffer—and the horrific website images you may see—will be limited only by the imagination of that most terrifying person: a 14-year-old boy with an unsupervised Internet connection.
#imported:pinboard #privacy #rat #ratters #security #to:fb
archive.org #32418

Horseplay « meandering wildly

http://blog.johnath.com/2013/03/08/horseplay/
So last week we bought them their own horse head. And yesterday mconley delivered it to their office. They invited him in. They brought the box over to the window where we could see. They gathered around their window and we gathered around ours. And when they opened it and realised what it was they actually jumped up and down, and applauded, and mouthed “thank you” through the window at us.
#canada #horseheads #imported:pinboard #mozilla #world
archive.org #32421

What happened to Orson Scott Card? - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/07/end_game_for_orson_scott_card_partner/
What I cannot quite wrap my mind around is how the mind which wrote such a beautiful meditation on empathy can be the same one that argues for the violent overthrow of the American government because of its failure to ban gay marriage and to outlaw homosexuality generally.
#endersgame #homosecuality #imported:pinboard #orsonscottcard #politics #scifi #to:fb
archive.org #32424

MWC 2013, Firefox OS, and More Web API Evolution | Brendan Eich

https://brendaneich.com/2013/03/mwc-2013-firefox-os-and-more-web-api-evolution/
The missing APIs must be added to the web platform in order to enable the billions of new mobile users who will be coming online in the next few years to have affordable web-based phones, tablets, and apps. Emerging market consumers and developers generally cannot afford increasingly higher-end, native-app-advantaged smartphones from the two bigs.
#apps #firefoxos #imported:pinboard #mobile #mozilla #openwebapps #to:fb #web
archive.org #32425

Kitbashing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitbashing
Kitbashing or model bashing is a practice whereby a new scale model is created by taking pieces out of commercial kits. These pieces may be added to a custom project or to another kit. For professional modelmakers, kitbashing is popular to create concept models for detailing movie special effects. Commercial model kits are a ready source of "detailing", providing any amounts of identical, mass-produced components that can be used to add fine detail to an existing model. Professionals often kitbash to build prototype parts which are then recreated with lightweight materials.[1]
#imported:pinboard #kitbashing #mashup #modelling #models
archive.org #23455

The AR-15 Is More Than a Gun. It's a Gadget | Danger Room | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/ar-15/all/
In the past two decades, the AR-15 has evolved into an open, modular gun platform that’s infinitely hackable and accessorizable. With only a few simple tools and no gunsmithing expertise, an AR-15 can be heavily modified, or even assembled from scratch, from widely available parts to suit the fancy and fantasy of each individual user. In this respect, the AR-15 is the world’s first “maker” gun, and this is why its appeal extends well beyond the military enthusiasts that many anti-gun types presume make up its core demographic.
#ar15 #culture #gadgets #guns #imported:pinboard #politics #to:fb
archive.org #32430

240 Killed In Stampede After Bucketful Of Oscars Just Dumped On Stage | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/articles/240-killed-in-stampede-after-bucketful-of-oscars-j,31429/
LOS ANGELES—In one of the most devastating tragedies in the history of the Academy Awards, 240 attendees were killed in a deadly stampede at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater Sunday after a bucketful of Oscars was just dumped onto the stage, triggerin...
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32431

Unsuspecting Movie Stars Follow Fake Red Carpet Into Back Of Kidnappers’ Van | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/articles/unsuspecting-movie-stars-follow-fake-red-carpet-in,31427/
HOLLYWOOD, CA—Los Angeles police confirmed that Denzel Washington, Naomi Watts, Joaquin Phoenix, and nearly a dozen other top-name actors had gone missing ahead of Sunday’s Academy Awards after following a fake red carpet laid outside the Dolb...
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32432

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Man faces jail for romantic releasing of heart-shaped helium-filled balloons

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2013/02/man-faces-jail-for-romantic-releasing.html
Love was in the air for Anthony Brasfield when he released a dozen heart-shaped balloons into the sky over Dania Beach, Florida, with his sweetheart. Brasfield, 40, and his girlfriend, Shaquina Baxter, were in the parking lot of the Motel 6 on Dania Beach Boulevard when he released the shiny red and silver balloons and watched them float away on Sunday morning. Also watching the romantic gesture was a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, who instead noted probable cause for an environmental crime. Endangered marine turtle species and birds, such as wood storks and brown pelicans, seek refuge in John U. Lloyd State Park, about 1.5 miles east of the motel. Brasfield was charged with polluting to harm humans, animals, plants, etc. under the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Act. The third-degree felony is punishable by up to five years in prison.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #23442

mini. Quiet Babylon | The Singularity Already Happened; We Got Corporations

http://mini.quietbabylon.com/post/44276219648/the-singularity-already-happened-we-got-corporations
What if the private pursuit of profit was—for a long time—proximate to improving the lot of humans but not identical to it? What if capitalism has gone feral, and started making moves that are obviously insane, but also inevitable?
#ai #corporations #imported:pinboard #politics #singularity #to:fb
archive.org #23439

Focal Store

http://www.focaluprightfurniture.com/store/
Constructed of aluminum, steel, molded furniture-grade plywood and polymers. The seat can comfortably accommodate a person ranging in height from 4’11″ to 6’8″ and up to 300 lbs. Range of seat motion laterally is 15º. Fore-aft motion ranges from 5º to 20º forward. Available with a choice of either an American walnut or white oak base and a choice of three colors for the EVA seat cushion. Upgrades include a nubuck seat cushion and an anti-fatigue mat. The seat is sourced globally and assembled in Rhode Island. See Product Guide for a complete list of materials.
#chairs #design #ergo #furniture #imported:pinboard #office #want #wishlist
archive.org #32433

Aaron Swartz Was Right - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/article/Aaron-Swartz-Was-Right/137425/
Until academics get their acts together and start using new modes of publication, we need to recognize that actions like Aaron Swartz's civil disobedience are legitimate. They are attempts to liberate knowledge that rightly belongs to all of us but that has been acquired by academic publishers through tens of thousands of contracts of adhesion and then bottled up and released for exorbitant fees in what functionally amounts to an extortion racket.
#aaronsw #academia #copyfight #imported:pinboard #publishing
archive.org #32437

JavaScript Stardate Converter

http://www.stevepugh.net/fleet/stardate.html
These conversion routines convert to and from Star Trek: The Next Generation style Stardates. These stardates take the form YYXXX.XX where the first two digits refer to the year with 2323 being year zero and the remaining digits being the decimal portion of the year. The last digit before the decimal point is one stardate and is approximately eight and three quarters hours in length.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #nerd #stardate #startrek
archive.org #23424

The rise and fall of webOS is an epic tale; webOS != Web OS on Dion Almaer's Blog

http://almaer.com/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-webos-is-an-epic-tale-webos-web-os
in my heart I long for someone to come along with a true Web runtime that lets developers write to a standards-based multi-vendor platform that no one company owns. Democracy is messy, but the Open Web is worth it. Don’t read one article and think that it can’t be done.
#b2g #firefoxos #history #imported:pinboard #mobile #openweb #palm #web #webdev #webos
archive.org #23422

Despite Yahoo Ban, Most Tech Companies Support Work-From-Home Policies - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD

http://allthingsd.com/20130225/survey-says-despite-yahoo-ban-most-tech-companies-support-work-from-home-for-employees/?mod=ATD_featured_posts_widget
From pinboard.in/deusx: "Top sources told me that Mayer has been particularly irked about Yahoo parking lots that are slow to fill in the morning and quick to empty by 5 pm — which is atypical at other tech companies such as Google. (Mayer was a longtime exec at the search giant.)"
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32439

On working remotely - wonko.com

http://wonko.com/post/on-working-remotely
From pinboard.in/deusx: "Telling effective and responsible remote workers that they can no longer work remotely — not because they’re bad at it, but because some other people might be bad at it — will only make those people less effective at their jobs. "
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23396

Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance :: Hacking, Distributed

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/
Look, I realize that we live in a TL;DR culture. I lived through 8 years of a non-reading president along with everyone else. I know that the brogrammers out there are constantly getting texts from their buddies to plan the weekend's broactivities, trying to decide in whose mancave they'll be setting up their lan party, and are thoroughly distracted in between futzing with their smart phones and writing a few lines of code per day by cutting and pasting it from stackoverflow. But it's really not ok to act functionally illiterate when you're not actually illiterate, when an advanced society that once put a man on the moon worked so hard to educate you.
#amen #brogrammers #imported:pinboard #literacy #mongodb #nosql #reading #writing
archive.org #32443

How to run Continuum (SubSpace) on a Mac - wonko.com

http://wonko.com/post/how-to-run-continuum-on-a-mac
In the past I've run Continuum in a VirtualBox VM, but that's a pain and it's not as fast as I'd like. This time I decided to see if I could get it running in Wine, which would make it easier to play, and faster as well. It turns out a fellow calling himself spiffyguy on the SubSpace forums had already gotten this working!
#continuum #gaming #imported:pinboard #mac #subspace
archive.org #23383

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/print/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "What are the reasons, good or bad, that cancer means a half-million- or million-dollar tab? Why should a trip to the emergency room for chest pains that turn out to be indigestion bring a bill that can exceed the cost of a semester of college? What makes a single dose of even the most wonderful wonder drug cost thousands of dollars? Why does simple lab work done during a few days in a hospital cost more than a car? And what is so different about the medical ecosystem that causes technology advances to drive bills up instead of down?"
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32447

Pretty Eight Machine | Inverse Phase

http://inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-eight-machine
From pinboard.in/deusx: "This is Pretty Hate Machine, re-imagined in its entirety on eight different 8-bit systems, so I've named it "Pretty Eight Machine". Sound configurations include: SID/6581 (Commodore 64), POKEY (Atari 800), straight 2A03 (NES), AY/SCC+ (MSX+Metal Gear 2 or Snatcher cartridge), SN76489 (Sega Master System), 2A03+VRC6 (Famicom+Castlevania 3 cartridge), LR35902 (Game Boy), and OPLL (MSX-MUSIC or Japanese Sega Master System). "
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23370

It's Okay To Be Smart • “Hi, I’m a giraffe. When I’m not munching on the...

http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/43598537346/hi-im-a-giraffe-when-im-not-munching-on-the
“Hi, I’m a giraffe. When I’m not munching on the finest arboreal snackitude and generally looking like a tall drink of awesome, I’m checking out the internet’s finest nature GIFs on Head Like An Orange.” Seriously. You guys are following Head Like An Orange, right? Glorious stuff.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #23364

Build a MAME Cabinet in 24 Hours

http://chris.polymathic.net/cabinet/index.shtml
Okay, so now I've got your attention - it's true - the cabinet construction was completed in 24 hours, but it took about three months to get around to the last few bits (like decorating the unit), so don't complain if after one day you don't get something that looks like the unit on the left!
#arcade #diy #howto #imported:pinboard #mame
archive.org #23358

In Norway, TV Program on Firewood Elicits Passions - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/world/europe/in-norway-tv-program-on-firewood-elicits-passions.html?hp&amp%3B_r=0&_r=3&
From pinboard.in/deusx: " “We received about 60 text messages from people complaining about the stacking in the program,” said Lars Mytting, whose best-selling book “Solid Wood: All About Chopping, Drying and Stacking Wood — and the Soul of Wood-Burning” inspired the broadcast. “Fifty percent complained that the bark was facing up, and the rest complained that the bark was facing down.” "
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #35818

In Norway, TV Program on Firewood Elicits Passions - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/world/europe/in-norway-tv-program-on-firewood-elicits-passions.html?hp&%3B_r=0&_r=3&
From pinboard.in/deusx: " “We received about 60 text messages from people complaining about the stacking in the program,” said Lars Mytting, whose best-selling book “Solid Wood: All About Chopping, Drying and Stacking Wood — and the Soul of Wood-Burning” inspired the broadcast. “Fifty percent complained that the bark was facing up, and the rest complained that the bark was facing down.” "
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32455

In Norway, TV Program on Firewood Elicits Passions - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/world/europe/in-norway-tv-program-on-firewood-elicits-passions.html?hp&_r=0
“We received about 60 text messages from people complaining about the stacking in the program,” said Lars Mytting, whose best-selling book “Solid Wood: All About Chopping, Drying and Stacking Wood — and the Soul of Wood-Burning” inspired the broadcast. “Fifty percent complained that the bark was facing up, and the rest complained that the bark was facing down.”
#imported:pinboard #norweigian #odd #to:fb #wood
archive.org #32456

John McCain Attacked By His Hate Filled Misinformed Constituents At Town Hall Meeting (VIDEO)

http://egbertowillies.com/2013/02/20/john-mccain-attacked-by-his-hate-filled-misinformed-constituents-at-town-hall-meeting-video/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "This misinformed constituent is of the belief that most undocumented workers are on welfare. The reality is that this is one of the biggest fallacies put out by the Right Wing echo chamber. The work ethic of the undocumented worked many times exceeds that of the American worker and many times employers turn a blind eye to find these workers. There would have been no housing boom without these workers. The lifestyle of the suburban families with lawn service and homecare would be much less appealing as they travelled into the inner cities to work during the day and flee by night."
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32457

Drones, war, and civilian casualties: How unmanned aircraft reduce collateral damage. - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/02/drones_war_and_civilian_casualties_how_unmanned_aircraft_reduce_collateral.single.html
From pinboard.in/deusx: "Drones kill a lower ratio of civilians to combatants than we’ve seen in any recent war. Granted, many civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other such wars were killed by our enemies rather than by us. But that’s part of the equation. One reason to prefer drones is that when you send troops, fighting breaks out, and the longer the fighting goes on, the more innocent people die. Drones are like laparoscopic surgery: They minimize the entry wound and the risk of infection."
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23348

BBC Column: Why cyclists enrage car drivers « Mind Hacks

http://mindhacks.com/2013/02/18/bbc-column-why-cyclists-enrage-car-drivers/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "I’ve got a theory, of course. It’s not because cyclists are annoying. It isn’t even because we have a selective memory for that one stand-out annoying cyclist over the hundreds of boring, non-annoying ones (although that probably is a factor). No, my theory is that motorists hate cyclists because they offend the moral order."
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32463

Not Safe For Work Corporation | This Is How You Healthcare: American Death In London

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/this-is-how-you-healthcare
From pinboard.in/deusx: "I cannot imagine how any civilised country could do better. I cannot see how any country can be truly civilised without it. If my family and I had had to deal with the vagaries of insurance, forms, debt, extra disaster or extra anything, I suspect we would have proceeded directly to becoming burdens on the system ourselves. "
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23334

Deadpool and Harley Quinn both lose their minds in their own version of The Notebook

http://io9.com/5984822/deadpool-and-harley-quinn-both-lose-their-minds-in-their-own-version-of-the-notebook
Some people like their romantic comedies with a heaping scoop of blood. This past week, CBR's The Line it is Drawn paid dubious tribute to the wonders of love by asking their guest artists to draw comic book characters coupled up. Some of the fictional pairings enjoyed romantic rooftop dates while others painted the town red with the blood of their enemies. (Let's just say that you don't want to get between Damien Wayne, Hit Girl, and their root beer float.) This nutty take on The Notebook comes from Marco D'Alfonso, who is no stranger to putting Deadpool in unexpected places. Check out the rest of the entries at The Line it is Drawn, via Xombie DIRGE.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #23328

What you can learn from the monster LibreOffice project | Open Source Software - InfoWorld

http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/what-you-can-learn-the-monster-libreoffice-project-212908
How did the community form in the first place? A core of developers carried over their work from the former OpenOffice.org community, but the key move was to make it easy and fun to join in with development, so the project avoided barriers to participation. The mailing lists were tuned to welcome newcomers rather than to favor existing developers; a page of "easy hacks" created for newcomers had small, tasty morsels to chew over, and extensive README files were made easily findable.
#community #dev #imported:pinboard #libreoffice #openoffice
archive.org #23315

Living in a Plain Text World (Tools We Use) | Savage Minds

http://savageminds.org/2013/02/15/living-in-a-plain-text-world-tools-we-use/
If you look through the archives of Savage Minds you will find a lot of posts that are seemingly unformatted. Most of these are by Rex, who was an early fan of Markdown, a "a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers" developed by John Gruber. Unfortunately, the plugin we were using to make those posts appear pretty was sucking up a lot of server resources so we disabled it until we could find something better. There are probably better options out there now, but we haven’t looked at them. I personally write my blog posts in raw HTML and never saw the advantage of learning Markdown… until now.
#imported:pinboard #markdown #text
archive.org #32473

why you need to host your own stuff | D’Arcy Norman dot net

http://darcynorman.net/2013/02/15/why-you-need-to-host-your-own-stuff/
“Use Posterous,” they said. “It’s easy. Just write your posts there. No need to run your own blog.” Today, Posterous announced they’ll shut down in 3 months. On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as of April 30, Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit. Posterous will no longer be available to either view or edit. Boom. Gone. Yet another hosted service that made it so super-easy to do stuff that you’d never ever have to waste time running your own stuff, because only stupid luddites that don’t get how awesome hosted services are would bother to waste their time doing that. If you don’t manage your own online stuff, it will eventually disappear. If you do manage your own stuff, you need to have backups so that you can spin your stuff up on a different hosting provider when your current provider disappears. Reclaim. Own your stuff. Step up. Pick up your game, people.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32474

Sessions The vim Feature You Probably Arent Using - Bocoup

http://weblog.bocoup.com/sessions-the-vim-feature-you-probably-arent-using/
When you’ve been working for awhile and you’re all moved in to your new digs – maybe it’s the end of the day, maybe it’s been 71 days and you finally have to give in and restart your computer, you just save the session file to anywhere you’d like (I like ~/.vim/sessions/) using :mksession (or :mks)
#dev #imported:pinboard #sessions #vim
archive.org #32475

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Giant stomping rabbit scared burglar out of family home

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2013/02/giant-stomping-rabbit-scared-burglar.html
A petrified burglar fled a family home in the middle of the night after coming face to face with their giant pet rabbit. Kimberley May, her fiance Martin, and their three-year-old daughter Olivia were all sound asleep when the thief broke into their house. But as the raider rifled through cupboards the noise woke up Toby the family’s British Giant bunny in his kitchen cage. The 4.5kg, two-feet long pet began stomping so loudly on the floor that the intruder was caught on the hop and left. Kimberley, 30, said: “We went to bed on Wednesday at about 10pm. In the early hours of the morning Toby our rabbit did five loud thumps. I sort of half woke up then realised he’d stopped and went back to sleep. When I went downstairs every single cupboard and drawer were open, there were bits out everywhere, then we started noticing things were missing and we phoned the police.” Kimberley is convinced that two year-old Toby’s thumping scared the thief off from their house in Plymouth, Devon. She found a hoard of items left piled up on the sofa which she thinks the burglar was preparing to take but left behind. She added: “We think that when the rabbit thumped it scared the burglar off and they left all the stuff they were going to take. He’s like a little dog, if you whistle him he comes. “The rabbit was just traumatised in his cage, shaking. He’s usually really friendly but he tried to go for the policeman.” Although the thief managed to take some valuables Kimberley fears the break-in could have been even worse had it not been for Toby. She added: “If he hadn’t been scared off he could have come upstairs looking for things. My daughter was asleep up there – it could have been really dangerous. Toby has done the job of a guard dog. We’re so proud of him.”
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #23286

We can't stop watching Kyle MachLachlan dance the Twin Peaks Harlem Shake

http://io9.com/5984325/we-cant-stop-watching-kyle-machlachlan-dance-the-twin-peaks-harlem-shake
Holy crap someone got Kyle MachLachlan to do a Twin Peaks style Harlem Shake. It's.. hurting... our brains. So much amazing and so much terrible wrapped into one tiny video. Hate it or love it, you won't be able to stop watching it. For those unaware, the Harlem Shake is a dance. For more information see here, here and here. H/T to Russ Fischer
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #23283

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Man set fire to packet of peanuts before trying to make love to ambulance at bus station

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2013/02/man-set-fire-to-packet-of-peanuts.html
A man set fire to a packet of peanuts and tried making love to an ambulance, North Devon Magistrates' Court has heard. Calum Ward, 25, of Barnstaple, was spotted by police at  Barnstaple bus station on November 12. Ward was spotted on CCTV in a phone box setting light to a packet of peanuts while also punching them. He then approached a nearby ambulance and spread himself in front of it. Mark Haddow, for the defence, said the attending police officer commented: "It looks as though he is attempting to make love to the front of the ambulance." After being searched Ward was found to be in possession of cannabis and amphetamine. Ward was sentenced to a community order with a supervision requirement for six months and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £60.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #23282

I will miss the “Douglas Crockford of browsers” | Christian Heilmann

http://christianheilmann.com/2013/02/13/i-will-miss-the-douglas-crockford-of-browsers/
I always called Opera the Douglas Crockford of browsers as it was ruthless in its implementation of standards. If something didn’t work in Opera there is a good chance that you did something wrong. Even better – fixing it in Opera in most cases meant looking at how the W3C standard meant things to work and write your code accordingly, which in most cases meant no change in other browsers, but cleaner code overall. Opera was my linting tool.
#imported:pinboard #opera #webdev #webkit
archive.org #32481

Client-side Messaging Essentials

http://freshbrewedcode.com/jimcowart/2013/02/07/client-side-messaging-essentials/
"Most people throw around the term “pub/sub” to describe any kind of eventing/messaging – but I think this term fails to adequately communicate the abstraction. Yes, ultimately, something is subscribing to what something else is publishing. But the level at which publishers and subscribers are encapsulated has the power to make a good pattern turn to the dark side. So, what’s the difference?"
#imported:pinboard #js #messaging #pubsub #webdev
archive.org #32484

Fractal Magic DIY HDTV Antenna

http://www.instructables.com/id/Fractal-Magic-DIY-HDTV-Antenna/?ALLSTEPS
After reading an article about the use of fractal mathmatics in the design of cell phone antennas that have incredible bandwidth in spite of their extremely small size, I began to experiment with using a very simple fractal pattern, the Koch Snowflake, as the basis for an easy to build indoor HDTV antenna.
#antennas #fractals #hdtv #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32485

Inverse Phase Discusses His 8-Bit Nine Inch Nails Tribute ‘Pretty Eight Machine’

http://loudwire.com/inverse-phase-discusses-8-bit-nine-inch-nails-tribute-pretty-eight-machine/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "In June of last year, we wrote an article about an 8-bit re-imagining of the classic Nine Inch Nails album ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ created by an artist by the name of Inverse Phase. The post became a huge hit, and we were recently able to talk to Inverse Phase about the project."
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32486

memeorandum: New Study Finds Koch Bros. Tried to Start Tea Party Movement in 2002 (Kevin Grandia/Firedoglake)

http://www.memeorandum.com/130211/p95#a130211p95
Kevin Grandia / Firedoglake:New Study Finds Koch Bros. Tried to Start Tea Party Movement in 2002  —  Were David Koch (and his brother Charles) planning to astroturf the Tea Party even earlier than formerly suspected?  —  Shattering the public perception that the Tea Party is a spontaneous popular citizens movement …
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #23252

Print - The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden... Is Screwed - Esquire

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313?page=all
From pinboard.in/deusx: "But the Shooter will discover soon enough that when he leaves after sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis, tendonitis, eye damage, and blown disks, here is what he gets from his employer and a grateful nation: Nothing. No pension, no health care, and no protection for himself or his family."
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23249

forums.uberent.com

http://forums.uberent.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp%3Bt=43145
From pinboard.in/deusx: "First, we are sorry there hasn’t been more communication about the state of Moon Breakers. The current state is that development has effectively been halted on the game. Imba, the developer and owner of the game, ran out of money and the Moon Breakers team was disbanded. "
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #35820

forums.uberent.com

http://forums.uberent.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&%3Bt=43145
From pinboard.in/deusx: "First, we are sorry there hasn’t been more communication about the state of Moon Breakers. The current state is that development has effectively been halted on the game. Imba, the developer and owner of the game, ran out of money and the Moon Breakers team was disbanded. "
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32490

Pololu - Zumo Robot Kit for Arduino (No Motors)

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/2505
This combination deal contains most of the parts you need to build an Arduino-controlled Zumo robot. It consists of a Zumo Shield for Arduino, a Zumo chassis kit, and a Zumo blade. You will also need a pair of micro metal gearmotors, four AA batteries, and an Arduino to complete your Zumo robot (motors, batteries, and Arduino sold separately). This product is a kit; assembly (including soldering) is required.
#arduino #imported:pinboard #robots #tamiya #zumo
archive.org #23242

Ask Chris #139: An Extensive Discussion Of Batman Punching Animals - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/02/01/batman-punching-animals-ask-chris-139/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "In the last issue of Batman, Batman punched a horse. Is there a list of animals that Batman has punched? Would a shorter list be "Animals NOT punched by Batman"? What is the most awesome animal Batman has punched?"
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32493

Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space? | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/surface-pro-versus-macbook-air-whos-being-dishonest-with-storage-space-7000011009/
Here’s the tl;dr version. The MacBook Air 128 gives you 77.3 percent of the advertised storage space for user data. The Surface Pro 128 gives you 75.2 percent of its advertised capacity for storing data. And with one minor tweak that doesn’t affect the system’s capabilities in any way, you can increase the amount of data storage space on the Surface Pro to 81.8% of the advertised capacity.
#apple #hardware #imported:pinboard #microsoft #surface
archive.org #32501

Soon, 3D printers could be building houses on the Moon out of lunar dust

http://io9.com/5980863/new-proposal-for-3d-printed-houses-on-the-moon-made-from-lunar-dust
London-based design firm Foster+Partners aims to partner-up with the European Space Agency, and build structures on the Moon from the regolith found on the surface. The inflatable scaffolding would be manufactured on Earth, then transported to the Moon and covered with a durable shell constructed by robotically-driven 3D printers. All images courtesy Foster+Partners. This is such a brilliant idea. The scheme would take advantage of the raw materials already found on the lunar surface, while at the same time offering a highly scalable and efficient model for construction. Indeed, the idea of using the lunar dust — known as regolith — has been considered for many years. And in fact, back in 2010, researchers from Washington State University discovered that artificial regolith — a compound consisting of silicon, aluminium, calcium, iron, and magnesium — could be used by 3D printers to create solid objects, including tools. Should the plan be put into action, a research expedition or colony would set up base in the southern polar regions of the Moon where sunlight is constant. During construction, the base would be inflated to become a dome to provide the initial scaffolding. Layers of 3D printed material would be iteratively layered over the dome to create a strong, protective shell. To ensure strength, the structure would be made of hollow closed-cellular structures. Each house would be able to accommodate four people, and could be extended should the need arise. For now, Foster+Partners is still in the design and proof-of-concept phase. So to that end, they're looking to create a smaller version using artificial regolith in a vacuum chamber. Sources: Foster+Partners | DesignTaxi | BBC
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #23205

Gender-flipped fairy tale princes ditch their glass shoes and let down their beard hair

http://io9.com/5981164/genderflipped-fairy-tale-princes-ditch-their-glass-shoes-and-let-down-their-beard-hair
Yudi Chen has a series of wonderfully stylized fairy tale illustrations with one important difference: the genders of all of the characters have been reversed. That means that the Beast must win the heart of Beau, the evil king demands the heart of his stepson Snow White, and Rapunzel has the most amazing beard you've ever seen. We're suckers for genderflipped art in our pop culture, but it's especially interesting to reconsider these classic stories with the gender roles reversed. You can see the rest of the series and purchase prints from Chen's Society6 store. Gender Reversed Fairy Tales [Yudi Chen via The Mary Sue]
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archive.org #23204

Do We Really Know That Cats Kill By The Billions? Not So Fast : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/02/03/170851048/do-we-really-know-that-cats-kill-by-the-billions-not-so-fast
From pinboard.in/deusx: "Demonizing cats with shaky statistics, however, won't help us build the pillar of understanding required to strike a satisfying balance between the needs of cats and their supporters with the needs of wildlife facing a feline threat."
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23181

Laptop to Desktop Conversion

http://www.instructables.com/id/Laptop-to-Desktop-Conversion/?ALLSTEPS
In this instructable, you will learn how to transform an old, broken laptop into a nice desktop. This project involves a total rework of the computer case. With this mod, you can give new life to an old laptop.In order to do this, you do not need any advanced craftmanship or tools (but if you have them, they will come handy).
#diy #hacks #imported:pinboard #laptop
archive.org #32524

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup | Kalzumeus Software

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/01/31/what-the-rails-security-issue-means-for-your-startup/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails. Other startups don’t but, like the Rails community, may one day find themselves asking What Do We Do When Apocalyptically Bad Things Happen On Our Framework of Choice? I thought I’d explain that for the general community."
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archive.org #32530

ReadWrite – 6 Signs Yahoo May Actually Get It (Finally)

http://readwrite.com/2013/01/25/yahoo-comeback
From pinboard.in/deusx: "The most underrated thing that bodes well for Yahoo is that we're rooting for it. Tired of Apple, Google and Facebook duking it out, many people want to see Yahoo make a comeback. It's an era of deep distrust of big companies commanding big data for big money, but Yahoo has been down for so long there's an undercurrent of Web users who inexplicably want to see it get back up. "
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archive.org #23134

fuck yeah dementia!!1!

http://fuckyeahdementia.com/post/41372683383/off-the-wall-geek-so-i-went-on-omegle-today-out
off-the-wall-geek: So I went on Omegle today out of boredom and I meet up with three police officers from Iraq. We all became best friends and had a competition of “who can balance an object on their head the longest.” I chose a shoe and they chose a gun. I ended up winning with the shoe. I think this screenshot really captures the spirit.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #23132

Jonathan Coulton

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2013/01/18/baby-got-back-and-glee/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "If it is, I have some questions about how IP works in terms of this song. It’s a cover of a Sir Mix-a-Lot song obviously, but I wrote a new melody for it, which this recording uses. Back when I released it, I bought the statutory license to distribute my version of this song through Harry Fox. Creative Commons doesn’t come into play because it’s a cover song, and anyway my CC license specifies Non-Commercial."
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archive.org #32536

Will Continuum Destroy the Sci-Fi Police Procedural? | Tor.com

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/01/will-continuum-destroy-the-sci-fi-police-procedural?et_cid=30139586&amp%3Bet_rid=1476560523&amp%3Blinkid=Continuum+has+premiered
From pinboard.in/deusx: "These kinds of ethical and paradoxical questions alone could potentially make Continuum not only a good time travel show, but maybe, just maybe, a sci-fi cop show that intelligently critiques its own existence."
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archive.org #35821

Will Continuum Destroy the Sci-Fi Police Procedural? | Tor.com

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/01/will-continuum-destroy-the-sci-fi-police-procedural?et_cid=30139586&%3Bet_rid=1476560523&%3Blinkid=Continuum+has+premiered
From pinboard.in/deusx: "These kinds of ethical and paradoxical questions alone could potentially make Continuum not only a good time travel show, but maybe, just maybe, a sci-fi cop show that intelligently critiques its own existence."
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32538

Will Continuum Destroy the Sci-Fi Police Procedural? | Tor.com

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/01/will-continuum-destroy-the-sci-fi-police-procedural?et_cid=30139586&et_rid=1476560523&linkid=Continuum+has+premiered
These kinds of ethical and paradoxical questions alone could potentially make Continuum not only a good time travel show, but maybe, just maybe, a sci-fi cop show that intelligently critiques its own existence.
#cops #imported:pinboard #police #scifi #to:fb
archive.org #23113

Toolness » Blog Archive » Building Bridges Between GUIs and Code With Markup APIs

http://www.toolness.com/wp/2013/01/building-bridges-between-guis-and-code-with-markup-apis/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "Markup APIs give superpowers to HTML. Through the use of class attributes, data attributes, X-Tags, or other conventions they effectively extend the behavior of HTML, turning it into a kind of magic ink. Favorite examples of mine include Twitter Bootstrap, Wowhead Tooltips, and my own Instapoppin."
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32541

Senator Rants At Secretary Clinton, Says Something Incredibly Insensitive — And Spectacularly Wrong

http://www.upworthy.com/senator-rants-at-secretary-clinton-says-something-incredibly-insensitive-and-spe?g=2&c=upw1
Bengazi was the "worst tragedy since 9/11"? Really, Rand? You really mean that? Worse than the Iraq War, school shootings, weather disasters, and the BP oil spill that happened since then? Really tired of the Republican brats and their hyperbole.
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32542

One step ahead and two steps back: are apps really the future? | Christian Heilmann

http://christianheilmann.com/2013/01/15/packaged-apps/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "A lot needs to change till we realise that we have a wonderful way to distribute media called the Internet. Media that can stay fresh, can get updated when we need and discarded when we don’t want it any longer without having to download lots and lots of data each time."
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archive.org #32546

Brave teen defends Central Michigan University rape victim from crazed attacker by hiding her in his bathroom, wielding hunting knife as sex fiend tried to break into his home - NY Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/rape-suspect-posts-facebook-moments-shot-dead-article-1.1243611
Holy shit. Teen hides escaped rape victim kidnapped from the SAC at Central Michigan in his house, while the attacker rages outside and starts to set the place on fire. When the cops come, the attacker flees, rams a cop car with his SUV, then steals a sanitation truck and rams another cop. And at some point before police catch up with and shoot him, the rapist managed to post a Facebook update, "Well folks, I’m about to get to get shot. Peace"
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23082

danah boyd | apophenia » processing the loss of Aaron Swartz

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/01/13/aaron-swartz.html
From pinboard.in/deusx: "If we want to achieve the values and goals that are core to the geek community, I don’t think that we’ll ever make a difference by creating more martyrs that can be used as examples in a cultural war. As we collectively mourn Aaron’s death and channel our anger into making a difference, I think we need to look for an approach to change-making that doesn’t result in brilliant people being held up as examples so that they can be tormented by power."
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archive.org #23049

The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime” « Unhandled Exception

http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartzs-crime/
From pinboard.in/deusx: "If I had taken the stand as planned and had been asked by the prosecutor whether Aaron’s actions were “wrong”, I would probably have replied that what Aaron did would better be described as “inconsiderate”. In the same way it is inconsiderate to write a check at the supermarket while a dozen people queue up behind you or to check out every book at the library needed for a History 101 paper. It is inconsiderate to download lots of files on shared wifi or to spider Wikipedia too quickly, but none of these actions should lead to a young person being hounded for years and haunted by the possibility of a 35 year sentence."
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archive.org #32557

Lessig Blog, v2

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully
From pinboard.in/deusx: "Fifty years in jail, charges our government. Somehow, we need to get beyond the “I’m right so I’m right to nuke you” ethics that dominates our time. That begins with one word: Shame. "
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23047

From the Editor

http://roastmagazine.com/currentissue/page192/fromthepublisher.html
Holy cow, that's a crazy insane markup on coffee pods: "In a 2012 article, New York Times coffee writer Oliver Strand calculated that Nespresso capsules are loaded with 5 grams of coffee each—which adds up to roughly $51 per pound of coffee. At press time, Stumptown Coffee Roasters was offering a 12-ounce bag of Panama Esmeralda Especial Peaberry for $45 (or $60 per pound)." And Panama Esmeralda Especial Peaberry is like the nirvana of the coffee world at $60 a pound. Not like the decent and drinkable $7 a pound Target coffee beans.
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23034

Obesity expert says daily workouts can't undo damage done from sitting all day - Rock Center with Brian Williams

http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/09/16431050-obesity-expert-says-daily-workouts-cant-undo-damage-done-from-sitting-all-day?lite
Standing all day isn't 100% better, but this is why I have a standing desk now and a tall stool for occasional resting. Much easier than a sitting desk and remembering to occasionally stand - my legs naturally tell me when to take a break. Think I've lost about 15 lbs doing this, too, and my legs are in great shape
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archive.org #32560

Stefan Arentz

http://stefan.arentz.ca/signing-aws-requests-with-your-arduino.html
From pinboard.in/deusx: "Are you nervous when you include that Amazon Web Services secret key in a config file? Fear no more. With this weekend hack you can turn your Arduino Due into a device that securely stores your AWS credentials and let it sign AWS API requests."
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #23002

Sudden empty / blank page for large posts with WordPress

http://www.undermyhat.org/blog/2009/07/sudden-empty-blank-page-for-large-posts-with-wordpress/
It isn’t fair: you spend a few hours on creating your most marvellous blog post ever, the one and only that will surely enlist you in the Hall of Famous Bloggers, but then you click Publish or Preview and all you see is an empty post. Totally panicked you click “Edit” (never do that!) on that empty post only to find yourself in an editing screen that’s, well, empty (!!). Before you try to commit suicide, I hope you do a bit of googling and find yourself here or on one of the many other helpful / not so helpful posts on the subject.
#imported:pinboard #long #problems #wordpress #writing
archive.org #32578

Google Chrome Is My Browser Of Choice, Even On The Famicom - Attract Mode

http://attractmo.de/google-chrome-is-my-browser-of-choice-even-on-the-famicom/
Courtesy of Morgan Conley comes the Famicom Software Project, which emphasizes the latter half of the console’s full name, that being the Family Computer. To be honest, it’s not the wackiest ideas in the world. After all, Nintendo did release Family BASIC in Japan, which allowed one to create their own games for the platform. The above reminds of the time someone created a special cart that allows the Sega Genesis to run Mac OS, which again is not too far-fetched, given how that system’s main processor is the Motorola 68000, which was the heart of Macintosh during its earliest days. Unfortunately, I’m unable to find any images online, circa 2013 (happy new year, by the way). Though this old Sega-16 forum thread has some details. Anyhow, Conley also created the following to show what the Famicom version of Photoshop would be like… Thanks to Albotas for the head’s up! The post Google Chrome Is My Browser Of Choice, Even On The Famicom appeared first on Attract Mode.
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archive.org #32579

Supreme Court Justices Drowsily Bid One Another Good Night While Drifting Off To Sleep In Giant Shared Bed | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/articles/supreme-court-justices-drowsily-bid-one-another-go,27624/
WASHINGTON—As night settled over the nation’s capital Wednesday and a bright, full moon hung amid the twinkling stars and cast long shadows over the National Mall, all nine Supreme Court justices could be overheard drowsily bidding one another...
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archive.org #32580

Using Travis-CI with Python and Django - David Cramer's Blog

http://justcramer.com/2012/05/03/using-travis-ci/
I’ve been using Travis-CI for a while now. Both my personal projects, and even several of the libraries we maintain at DISQUS rely on it for Continuous Integration. I figured it was about time to confess my undenying love for Travis, and throw up some notes about the defaults we use in our projects.
#django #imported:pinboard #python #testing #travisci
archive.org #32584

Of Course House Republicans are Trying to Stop Hurricane Sandy Relief Funds

http://gawker.com/5971985/of-course-house-republicans-are-trying-to-stop-hurricane-sandy-relief-funds
Hurricane Sandy relief efforts continued over the holidays with volunteers dropping off meals on Christmas eve and confidential documents being returned from the wreckage to their rightful owners. But good will can only go so far and victims in the north east are still waiting for federal aid to trickle in. More »
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22975

Tips on Roasting Coffee in Cool Weather - The Captain's Coffee

http://www.thecaptainscoffee.com/single-page-fix-learning-center-articles/51-tips-on-roasting-coffee-in-cool-weather
Most people choose to do their coffee roasting outdoors. Typically, they do it on a porch or in the garage. Aside from it being a nice excuse to be outside, it also makes dealing with the smoke from the roast a non-issue. And the great smell makes the neighbors jealous. But what to do when the weather gets cold?
#coffee #homeroasting #imported:pinboard #roasting
archive.org #22951

A virus that reprograms your pacemaker to deliver an electric shock

http://io9.com/5969986/a-virus-that-reprograms-your-pacemaker-to-deliver-an-electric-shock
What's likely to become a health threat you never expected next year? 4Chan griefers could actually deliver death or injury from the safety of their forums with a virus designed to infect medical devices. Many of these devices, such as pacemakers, can be reprogrammed wirelessly. And that means bad guys could reprogram your pacemaker (or insulin delivery system) with some bad code. No, it's not science fiction. The John J. Reilly Center at University of Notre Dame has released its first annual "List of Emerging Ethical Dilemmas and Policy Issues in Science and Technology" for 2013, and near the top of the list is "hacking into medical devices." They write: Barnaby Jack, a hacker and director of embedded device security at IOActive Inc., recently demonstrated the vulnerability of a pacemaker by breaching the security of the wireless device from his laptop and reprogramming it to deliver an 830-volt shock. Because many devices are programmed to allow doctors easy access in case reprogramming is necessary in an emergency, the design of many of these devices is not geared toward security. We don't yet have evidence of a hacker breaching the security of a medical device with malicious intent, although we now know that it's possible, and over the last few months, government and health care agencies have been discussing the best ways to protect patients. This fall, the US Government Accountability Office released a report detailing their concerns about how hostile actors could attack people with remotely-programmable medical devices in their bodies. The GAO notes reassuringly: Although researchers have recently demonstrated the potential for incidents resulting from intentional threats in two devices-an implantable cardioverter defibrillator and an insulin pump-no such actual incidents are known to have occurred, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). So nobody has been hurt yet, thankfully. But if we take no steps to secure these medical devices, next year could mark the first assassination by computer virus. Read more of the Reilly Center's report on emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues on their website.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22931

As Commander Riker ponders, the Enterprise loses another member of her crew

http://io9.com/5970847/as-commander-riker-ponders-the-enterprise-loses-another-member-of-her-crew
As if traveling into deadly anomalies and encountering hostile aliens wasn't bad enough, occasionally the Enterprise loses a (figurative) redshirt just because Riker is lost in thought. Inspired by scifi pulp covers, artist Melanie Schultz created this squidy portrait of our beard-stroking Number One. William T. Riker [Melanie Schultz via Ian Brooks]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22924

Cory Booker Once Fisted a Man's Gunshot Wound

http://gawker.com/5970894/cory-booker-once-saw-a-guy-get-shot-and-then-stuck-his-hand-an-open-chest-cavity
Here's a picture of Cory Booker reacting to Peggy Noonan on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. This was his expression when he heard her say that video games were to blame for gun violence in America. It's the same look that TV viewers at home have been giving to Peggy Noonan for years. Major props to Cory Booker for putting it out there on national TV. More »
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22922

My Shame is TL;DR, So You Want to Arm the Teachers

http://thefourthvine.tumblr.com/post/38515024680/so-you-want-to-arm-the-teachers
From pinboard.in/deusx: "No. No, no, a thousand times no. If this is your plan, if this is the best you can do, then you really, really, REALLY need not to be firing guns, or carrying guns, or in the presence of guns. You are exactly who should not be armed. Because you’re fucking dangerous, out of touch with reality, frothing at the mouth rabid. And I thank you for showing me how to vote. I will absolutely vote to take your guns away. "
#facebook #ifttt #imported:pinboard
archive.org #22918

Where we're going, we don't need roads, but we do need this official Back to the Future Lego set

http://io9.com/5970475/where-were-going-we-dont-need-roads-but-we-do-need-this-official-back-to-the-future-lego-set/gallery/1
We're probably not getting hoverboards in 2015, bt at least we have the consolation of knowing that Lego approved an actual, licensed Back to the Future DeLorean set for release in the middle of next year. The set - which should include the necessarily Legos to modify the DeLorean for all three movies, as well as various figures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown - was submitted to Lego's Cuusoo site, where it reached the necessary 10,000 votes to be considered and was chosen by Lego for actual production. What's super-cool is that Masashi and Team BTTF, the people who designed and submitted the set, are donating all of the royalties they'd receive from the set's sales directly to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to help fight Parkinson's disease. Apparently the next judging period includes a Portal 2 set. Cross your fingers. Back to the Future II Version Back to the Future III Version Marty and Doc minifigures DeLorean close-ups
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22912

The Website Counting Down to Gangnam Style's Billionth Hit Turned to Porn Ads When It Happened

http://gawker.com/5970468/the-website-counting-down-to-gangnam-styles-billionth-hit-turned-to-porn-ads-when-it-happened
If you were counting down to "Gangnam Style"'s one billionth YouTube view on the site BillionCount.com, you might have been a little confused at what happened when the counter hit 1,000,000,000: it turned into a porn site: the "Xpress Cougar Dating Club." "When it was getting closer to 1 billion views I figured I had to do something with it," the site's creator told us. More »
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22911

They're really making a live-action movie about Wile E. Coyote's favorite supplier, the Acme Company

http://io9.com/5970659/theyre-really-making-a-live+action-movie-about-wile-e-coyotes-favorite-supplier-the-acme-company
We'd heard reports about an Acme Company movie ages ago, but now it's apparently really happening. And producer Dan Lin explained to Collider that it's not an animated film, it's a live-action comedy — and Acme's most famous customer, Wile E. Coyote, won't be in it. Said Lin: We're not going to use Looney Tunes in the ACME movie, it's a live action movie. What were so excited about is the lead character is a Steve Jobs meets Dean Cameron kind of character and because it's ACME you can create some incredibly funny, wacky inventions that you can't do on any other movie. So naturally it's just a super imaginative movie. Meanwhile, Lin said there's actually a screenplay for the long-delayed movie of DC's Suicide Squad comic, written by Justin Marks — but it's not actually happening any time soon. Said Lin, "I think Warner Brothers wants to finish their A-list stories first and then we'll talk about stories like Suicide Squad." In the right hands, a Suicide Squad film could obviously be amazing — but only if they're able to nail the bleak, character-oriented tone of the 1980s Ostrander comics. Tons more details at the link. [Collider]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22908

Firefox 3D John Hancock Center

http://shaneriley.com/firefox_skyscraper/
Introducing a new use for Firefox 3D view: Creating sculptures using DOM elements! For my first project using 3D view, I figured I'd take a skyscraper in Hashrocket Chicago's neighborhood and attempt to recreate it using DOM elements and absolute positioning. The resulting building ended up being inspired by the design of the John Hancock Center, but is not a scale replica by any means.
#3d #firefox #imported:pinboard #nifty #webdev
archive.org #32604

Remove Old Kernels in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric ocelot) | Liberian Geek

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/11/remove-old-kernels-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/
When you’re running Ubuntu and updating your system frequently, there is a high chance that older kernels that are no longer needed are still installed on your system. Over time, if these older kernels are not removed, precious hard disk space may be wasted and your system’s performance may suffer.
#boot #imported:pinboard #kernels #linux #ubuntu
archive.org #32610

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Tiny puppeteer spider observed building bigger spiders as decoys

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/12/tiny-puppeteer-spider-observed-building.html
An Amazon spider has been caught pulling the strings behind intricately built arachnid decoys. Biologist and science educator Phil Torres says the artful arachnid is the first discovered that builds "replica" spiders with eight legs. Mr Torres has recorded the spiders amazing work in a blog for ecological tourism firm Rainforest Expeditions which operates a combined lodge and research centre in the Tambopata national park in Peru. "It (first appeared) to be a medium sized spider about an inch across, possibly dead and dried out, hanging in the centre of a spider web along the side of the trail. Nothing too out of the ordinary for the Amazon," he said. "As you approach, the spider starts to wobble quickly forward and back, letting you know this spider is, in fact, alive. "That spider form you were looking at is actually made up of tiny bits of leaf, debris, and dead insects," he said. The culprit was spotted hiding behind its articulated arachnid-shaped shield: a tiny spider about 5mm wide. Mr Torres said he believes the fake spider is positioned as a decoy to distract and confuse predators and prey.The puppeteer spider sitting above one of its constructions. About 25 of the spiders - believed to be a member of the Cyclosa family - have been spotted in the floodplain surrounding the research centre since first spotted in September. However, none have yet been found further afield. Mr Torres said specimens would now have to be collected and carefully recorded before an article could be submitted to a scientific journal before it could officially be named a new species.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22890

Unhosted 1: Personal servers and unhosted web apps

https://unhosted.org/adventures/1/Personal-servers-and-unhosted-web-apps.html
Since we move all the application features out of the personal server and into the browser, the actual personal server becomes very simple. It is basically reduced to a gateway that can broker connections between unhosted web apps and the outside world. And if an incoming message arrives while the user is not online with any unhosted web app, it can queue it up and keep it safe until the next time the user connects.
#imported:pinboard #remotestorage #unhosted #webdev
archive.org #22886

The Web We Lost - Anil Dash

http://dashes.com/anil/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html
The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be.
#blog #blogosphere #culture #history #imported:pinboard #internet #metablogging #web #web1.0
archive.org #22863

George Lucas cut female X-wing pilots out of Return of the Jedi at the last minute

http://io9.com/5968305/george-lucas-cut-female-x+wing-pilots-out-of-return-of-the-jedi-at-the-last-minute
The original Star Wars trilogy isn't really known for having a lot of roles for women — but it turns out that the third film, Return of the Jedi, featured some female pilots in the Battle of Endor. Two of these fighter pilots are featured among the deleted scenes and extras on the recent Blu-ray release, but not the two female X-Wing pilots. And curiously, we still haven't seen the deleted scene featuring Vivienne Chandler (left) as a X-Wing pilot, who had a full page and a half of dialogue in a cockpit set. Apparently, Chandler actually went to a screening of the film that included her scenes, and then when it was actually released, they were gone. You can glimpse the female pilots in the briefing scene before the battle. One of them was actually included for a split second, but her one line of dialogue, "Got it," was replaced by a male voice in post-production. Did George Lucas decide that showing female pilots getting blown up was too intense? Or was there some other reason why he wanted an all-male fighter squad? We'll probably never know — but it's weird that Chandler's footage has never turned up, in any form, after being in an early cut of the film. More details at the link. [Star Wars Afficionado and Star Wars Afficionado via BuzzFeed]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22861

Here is the biggest goddamn snow blower you've ever seen

http://io9.com/5968510/here-is-the-biggest-goddamn-snow-blower-youve-ever-seen
Add this to your ever-growing list of things you never knew existed but now desperately need: a BNSF rotary snow blower. The video up top is of a model currently in operation clearing railroad tracks in Aurora, NE, but you'll find them all over the country, churning through formidable heaps of tightly packed snow like so many styrofoam packing peanuts. Like pretty much all snow blowers, the various models of BNSF rotaries work by virtue of an engine-powered blade that pulls powder into the apparatus before jettisoning it far away from the area being cleared. The only difference is that BNSF's blowers look like someone spliced genes from the Death Star's Concave Dish Superlaser with a Langolier and mated the outcome with a locomotive. Can you think of anything scarier than finding yourself on the business end of one of these monsters? I mean just look at these things: Terrifying and awesome and terrifying. All at the same time. [Spotted on boingboing]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22860

R. Umar Abbasi subway photo: Google Glass, surveillance means more of this phenomenon. - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/12/r_umar_abbasi_subway_photo_google_glass_surveillance_means_more_of_this.single.html
Little Brother is burgeoning, too. More and more people are carrying cameras with them. Typically, these come in the form of mobile phones, but wearable cameras are growing in numbers and shrinking in size. Not too many years from now, lots of people will be wearing “heads-up” camera/display combos (such as Google Glass) that capture videos of pretty much everything they see. Unless we turn from the course we've set as a society, we'll soon arrive at a day when every square foot of every subway station—of just about every place, really—is being recorded at all times, and probably from multiple views. And all of these devices, capturing higher and higher resolution images plus audio, will be connected at high speeds to digital networks.
#cameras #imported:pinboard #mobile #politics #video
archive.org #22854

baudehlo/Haraka · GitHub

https://github.com/baudehlo/Haraka
Haraka is an SMTP server which uses a plugin architecture to implement most of its functionality. It uses a highly scalable event model to be able to cope with thousands of concurrent connections. Plugins are written in Javascript using Node.js, and as such perform extremely quickly. The core Haraka framework is capable of processing thousands of messages per second on the right hardware.
#email #haraka #imported:pinboard #js #mail #node #nodejs #services
archive.org #22852

Mechanics of Flite - Underappreciated NPM Commands Developers Should Know About

http://mechanics.flite.com/blog/2012/12/11/underappreciated-npm-commands/
npm, the package manager that comes bundled with node.js, is generally described as “awesome”. While it was originally a separate project, npm has been bundled with node.js for the past few releases and the number of npm packages available in the npm registry has exploded.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #js #nifty #node #npm #tools #utils #webdev
archive.org #32619

Combining HTML Hypermedia APIs and Adaptive Web Design – Jayway

http://www.jayway.com/2012/08/01/combining-html-hypermedia-apis-and-adaptive-web-design/
HTML is the lowest common denominator in a world where the number of devices are steadily growing. In such a world, our API should be hypermedia driven and we should consider choosing HTML as the media type for our APIs. If we choose this, we can enhance the API with CSS and JavaScript, making the API human-friendly as well. Further, we can use Adaptive Web Design to make the best possible experience for all types of browsers and devices. This kind of solution has some risks and technical issues related to it though. And it is not a silver bullet.
#html #hypermedia #imported:pinboard #rest #webdev
archive.org #32620

Fuck You, Slow Walkers

http://jezebel.com/5967553/fuck-you-slow-walkers
When we have to share common space, I feel like we are all better served when each of us takes reasonable measures to ensure we are not announcing ourselves too loudly. That we're not taking up more than our share of the sidewalk, talking at unnecessary volumes on the phone, or occupying the seat next to us with our bag even as the train fills to standing room only. Those kinds of acts are, I feel, deeply selfish.
#funny #imported:pinboard #knowthatfeel #to:fb
archive.org #22850

The Big Budget Mumble - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/opinion/krugman-the-big-budget-mumble.html?_r=0
Now Republicans find themselves boxed in. With taxes scheduled to rise on Jan. 1 in the absence of an agreement, they can’t play their usual game of just saying no to tax increases and pretending that they have a deficit reduction plan. And the president, by refusing to help them out by proposing G.O.P.-friendly spending cuts, has deprived them of political cover. If Republicans really want to slash popular programs, they will have to propose those cuts themselves.
#fiscalcliff #imported:pinboard #politics #republicans #to:fb
archive.org #22846

The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library - Falkvinge on Infopolicy

http://falkvinge.net/2012/12/07/the-pirate-bay-is-the-worlds-most-efficient-public-library/
It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive, and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency.
#bittorrent #copyfight #imported:pinboard #libraries #piracy #piratebay
archive.org #32623

Client: We would like to have a shot of the sun...

http://clientsfromhell.net/post/37570454079/client-we-would-like-to-have-a-shot-of-the-sun
Client: We would like to have a shot of the sun rising and setting over the ocean. Me: We can shoot the sunset, but it’s impossible to get the sunrise right. Client: Why? Me: Well, the sun rises from the East. The coast we are shooting from is on the western part of the country. Client: So what?
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22843

Our first peek inside the new TARDIS interior is inscribed with Gallifreyan

http://io9.com/5966821/our-first-peek-inside-the-new-tardis-interior-is-inscribed-with-gallifreyan
Along with his new companion, the Doctor is getting a new TARDIS interior. BBC America released this small hint to the new design—cold metallics with Circular Gallifreyan inscriptions. Anyone want to take a crack at translating it? (Or, rather, hazard a guess as to what it's about?) [BBC America via Nerd Approved]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22838

What a Wonder is a Terrible Monitor « ASCII by Jason Scott

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3786
The vector lines, which are created by aiming a beam DIRECTLY AT YOUR EYES only to be stopped by a coated piece of glass, have a completely different feel. The phosphor glows, the shots look like small stars floating across the glass, and a raster line is not to be seen. It’s an entirely different experience, and the teenagers at MAGfest had never seen it before, and unfortunately, it is well on its way out.
#arcade #asteroids #emulation #history #imported:pinboard #raster #to:fb
archive.org #22835

Archivists' Toolkit | For archivists by archivists

http://www.archiviststoolkit.org/
The Archivists’ Toolkit™, or the AT, is the first open source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives. It is intended for a wide range of archival repositories. The main goals of the AT are to support archival processing and production of access instruments, promote data standardization, promote efficiency, and lower training costs
#archives #imported:pinboard #metadata #tools
archive.org #32625

I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/i-dont-want-to-be-part-of-your-fucking-ecosystem/
I just want us all to get along. I want my disparate equipment to talk to each other. I don't want to live in a house where ever component has to be made by the same company otherwise nothing works correctly. I don't want to be stuck using a crappy product because they're the only ones offering service X.
#amazon #apple #copyfight #drm #ecosystem #google #imported:pinboard #mobile #to:fb
archive.org #32644

Kanban? No, it can't

http://aidylewis.heroku.com/2012/11/18/kanban-no-it-cant/
That's an... interesting perspective: "Kanban is a paternalistic project management theory that aims to set developers on the right path. It promotes the idea that the manager is the arbiter of success and the deliverer of change. And like its forbear Scrum, its major proponents are those who don’t code for a living."
#agile #coding #dev #imported:pinboard #kanban #process #scrum #to:fb #work
archive.org #32646

Deconstructing Agile Communication

http://aidylewis.heroku.com/2011/01/15/deconstructing-agile-communication/
We need to return to the communication medium of writing as a skilled, and sometimes arduous craft. We should favour neither speech nor writing above each other, or as binary opposites. Both mechanisms should exist equally in our world and each be used correctly in their appropriate contexts.
#agile #dev #imported:pinboard #to:fb #work
archive.org #32648

Daily Kos: Inside the Hostess Bankery

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/18/1162786/-Inside-the-Hostess-Bankery
I keep hearing how this strike forced them to liquidate. How we should just take it and be glad to have a job. What an unpatriotic view point. The reason these jobs provided me with a middle class opportunity is because people like my father in law and his father fought for my Union rights. I received that pay and those benefits because previous Union members fought for them. I won't sell them, or my coworkers, out.
#business #hostess #imported:pinboard #politics #to:fb #unions
archive.org #22771

Marty Kaplan: GOP Smart on Copyright for 24 Hours

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/gop-smart-on-copyright-fo_b_2155931.html
It is delicious to watch a young conservative apply conservative principles to demolish oligopolistic claptrap, even if those industries finance the campaigns of the members of Congress who pay his salary. It is sad to watch his bosses -- who never tire of railing against political correctness - place fealty to corporate elites above the spirit of intellectual inquiry.
#copyfight #imported:pinboard #mpaa #politics #republicans #riaa #to:fb
archive.org #22770

Pulse-Eight. Control your TV from XBMC, or vice versa! USB - CEC Adapter

http://www.pulse-eight.com/store/products/104-usb-hdmi-cec-adapter.aspx
All modern TVs support HDMI-CEC a technology that allows devices to talk with each other over the HDMI cable, using this feature this adapter will send and receive remote key presses to XBMC or MythTV or Windows Media Centre or any other app that supports libCEC on your PC
#hardware #hdmi #hdtv #imported:pinboard #remotes #tv #usb #xbmc
archive.org #22766

Who Killed the Twinkie? : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/who-killed-the-twinkie.html
Perhaps the most striking response to the Hostess news, in that sense, was the tweet from conservative John Nolte, who wrote “Hostess strikers had pension. PENSIONS! What is this 1962?” It was once taken for granted that an industrial worker who worked for a big company for many years would get a solid middle-class lifestyle, and would be taken care of in retirement. Today, that concept seems to many like a relic. Just as Wonder Bread does.
#imported:pinboard #politics #to:fb #twinkies #unions #work
archive.org #22765

Chili Twinkie

http://www.instructables.com/id/Chili-Twinkie/
This project is a fun project for both chili pepper afficianados and those with a sense of humor. This is my 12-year old son's creation! It is sort of a Russian roulette with homemade twinkies. We made four twinkies, and filled one with a Thai dragon pepper filling. Will you get the fiery one or will you get a normal one? Either way, it is delicious!
#chili #imported:pinboard #recipes #to:fb #twinkies
archive.org #32650

Republicans skip Benghazi hearing; complain about lack of information on Benghazi | The Cable

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/11/15/republicans_skip_benghazi_hearing_complain_about_lack_of_information_on_benghazi
But although McCain had time to speak on the Senate floor and on television about the lack of information provided to Congress about the attack, he didn't attend the classified briefing for senators Wednesday given to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, of which he is a member.
#bengazi #imported:pinboard #mccain #politics #republicans #to:fb
archive.org #22744

JS adolescence – James Padolsey

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/js-adolescence/
For me there was a time that can only be described as adolescence in the field of programming and more specifically JavaScript. This period was characterised by a certain laziness and hubris. I thought I was right. I thought others were wrong. I could see no path but the very strict one that I had boxed myself into through a process in which I longed for certainty and the expulsion of realistic doubt.
#imported:pinboard #javascript #programming #to:fb #webdev
archive.org #32654

A Case Study of Republicans vs. Democrats on FEMA | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/fema-case-study-difference-between-democrats-and-republicans
The lesson here is simple. At a deep ideological level, Republicans believe that federal bureaucracies are inherently inept, so when Republicans occupy the White House they have no interest in making the federal bureaucracy work. And it doesn't. Democrats, by contrast, take government services seriously and appoint people whose job is to make sure the federal bureaucracy does work. And it does.
#fema #government #imported:pinboard #politics #sandy #storms #to:fb
archive.org #22724

Reproductive Rights

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/reproductive-rights
Third, I see birth as a firm dividing line because until then the fetus inhabits a woman’s body. A woman’s body is private property – it’s hers. She shouldn’t be forced to let another creature live in it. Once that other creature is out of her body, that’s when it gets rights. Until then, any rights it gets would be taking away from the woman’s rights over her own body. And to me, that matters.
#abortion #imported:pinboard #politics #religion #rights
archive.org #22723

How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement.html
The reality is that so-called pro-life movement is not about saving babies. It’s about regulating sex. That’s why they oppose birth control. That’s why they want to ban abortion even though doing so will simply drive women to have dangerous back alley abortions. That’s why they want to penalize women who take public assistance and then dare to have sex, leaving an exemption for those who become pregnant from rape. It’s not about babies. If it were about babies, they would be making access to birth control widespread and free and creating a comprehensive social safety net so that no woman finds herself with a pregnancy she can’t afford. They would be raising money for research on why half of all zygotes fail to implant and working to prevent miscarriages. It’s not about babies. It’s about controlling women. It’s about making sure they have consequences for having unapproved sex.
#abortion #babies #feminism #imported:pinboard #politics #religion #republicans #to:fb
archive.org #22722

pyx: Getting Started Developing for Firefox OS Screencasts

http://donovanpreston.blogspot.com/2012/10/getting-started-developing-for-firefox.html
As we are ramping up newer developers to help with the project, we need clear documentation of the development process. The Gaia/Hacking page is the canonical reference for how to do absolutely everything, but it's overwhelming. To help with this, I made a series of 5 screencasts that cover the basics of using b2g desktop nightly builds, remote debugging with b2g desktop, hacking on gaia itself in b2g desktop, flashing a phone with gaia changes, and what to do if Firefox OS asks you to choose from two homescreens or if remote debugging does not show your source for your app.
#b2g #firefoxos #gaia #imported:pinboard #mozilla #screencasts #webdev
archive.org #22718

Past Midnight: Debugging Firefox OS

http://blog.astithas.com/2012/10/debugging-firefox-os.html
A few months ago, long before the Firefox debugger had shipped, I had tried to see what it would take to get it to debug B2G, or as we call it now, Firefox OS. The hack proved successful and with time it grew into an important debugging target for us. I demoed it at JSConf last April, but at that time a lot of the debugger frontend functionality had not been available in nightlies. As of yesterday, however, nightly builds of Firefox can debug nightly builds of Firefox OS, both in the device and desktop versions. Let me give you a quick rundown of the necessary steps.
#b2g #debugging #firefoxos #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #22717

Django Development Server with HTTPS - xster.net - Never relearn twice

http://tech.xster.net/tips/django-development-server-with-https/
Sometimes you can’t avoid using HTTPS right starting from development (such as for developing Facebook canvas applications). You can setup Apache on your local machine and go through a bunch of trouble setting up your domain and setting up the certificate etc but there’s an easy way of using Django’s python manage.py runserver to work with HTTPS.
#django #https #imported:pinboard #python #ssl #stunnel #webdev
archive.org #32667

marijnh/Presence

https://github.com/marijnh/Presence
Presence is an IRC logger and client that is optimized for my specific use of IRC — scan logs for a few specific channels, respond to direct messages and mentions, and only occasionally participate in discussion. It probably won't work for you if you're a heavy IRC user.
#imported:pinboard #irc #js #node #webdev
archive.org #22644

The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them) - Business - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/print/2012/09/the-case-for-abolishing-patents-yes-all-of-them/262913/
Critics have suggested plenty of reasonable reforms, from eliminating software patents to clamping down on "trolls" who buy up patent portfolios only so they can file lawsuits. But do we need a more radical solution? Would we be possibly be better off without any patents at all?
#imported:pinboard #innovation #patents #tech #to:fb
archive.org #32668

Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/28/firefox_legacy/
Given technology's focus on the latest and greatest, it's easy to forget that much of this "latest and greatest" wouldn't even be possible without the work Mozilla did for years with Firefox. Or that dominating the browser market was never Mozilla's aim with Firefox. Quixotic as it may sound, the purpose of Firefox was always to spread Web freedom.
#firefox #future #imported:pinboard #mozilla #past #tech #to:fb
archive.org #32669

Write Code That Works by Reid Burke

http://reidburke.com/2012/09/27/write-code-that-works/?awesm=reid.in_l6
If you’re writing tests for code that’s rapidly changing, you’re going to spend more of your time writing tests instead of shipping features. For code that’s brand new, I typically only test-first a small amount of code and wait a while before hitting that green bar on a code coverage report.
#code #imported:pinboard #tests #work
archive.org #32672

What Is the Ash Pit in a Fireplace For? | eHow.com

http://www.ehow.com/info_12077813_ash-pit-fireplace-for.html
An ash pit is a compartment at the base of the fireplace that holds fireplace ashes. This compartment, usually a cavity surrounded by cinder blocks or concrete, is reached through a small metal access door mounted flush in the fireplace floor or wall. Open the door and sweep ashes into the holding pit until they can later be removed. Does this Spark an idea?
#fireplace #home #imported:pinboard
archive.org #22624

Ash pits safety, clean out doors, ash dump doors | 301 Chimney

http://301chimney.com/learn-about-your-chimney/335/
Question: There was a black metal plate in the rear of my fireplace and it fell into a cavity below the freplace foor/hearth. What is the purpose of this cavity? What will happen if live embers fall into the cavity? There is no opening in the basement to access the cavity. How can I access it and remove the ashes I see down there?
#ashpits #fireplaces #home #houses #imported:pinboard #safety
archive.org #32674

Grimes (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes_(musician)
In 2009, Boucher and her then-boyfriend from Tennessee constructed a 20-foot houseboat, named the "Velvet Glove Cast in Iron", with the intention to sail it down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans. The cargo included chickens, a typewriter, 20 pounds of potatoes and a gifted copy of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. However, the chickens caught eastern equine encephalitis virus and perished soon into the trip. Boucher and her companion adopted the names "Varuschka" and "Zelda Xox" for the trip.[14] Due to engine trouble and subsequent harassment from the Minnesota police, the journey was cut short and the houseboat and chickens were impounded.[14] Their diet consisted mainly of potatoes.[15]
#grimes #imported:pinboard #music #odd #to:fb #wtf
archive.org #22618

How to Automatically Download Virtually Anything as Soon as It's Available

http://lifehacker.com/5943163/how-to-automatically-download-virtually-anything-as-soon-as-its-available#viewcomments
The internet really does have everything, and it's all available for download without lifting a finger. A series of helpful scripts, all installable in a few minutes, can transform your computer into an automatic media downloading machine.
#hacks #imported:pinboard #pirates #tips
archive.org #22615

In Obama campaign, tech industry donors could be outspending their Hollywood counterparts | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/16/3341412/obama-tech-industry-fundraisers
A set of internal documents published by the New York Times has shed light on the "bundlers" who help raise money for Obama's campaign, and many of them are from the world of technology. After analyzing the data, BuzzFeed found that through 2011 and 2012, $27 million of the $180 million raised came from people in the tech industry, including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. What's more, tech industry donors could be outspending their counterparts in the entertainment industry, long a powerhouse in Democratic fundraising. BuzzFeed counted only $9.5 million from the entertainment sector over the same period of time, although Los Angeles donors still outspent those in Silicon Valley. Since the data only covers the Obama or general Democratic... Continue reading…
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22590

A portable, WiFi-enabled Kinect - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2012/09/16/a-portable-wifi-enabled-kinect/
By making the Kinect portable, [Mike] et al made the Microsoft’s 3D imaging device much more capable than its present task of computing the volumetric space of the inside of a cabinet. The Reconstructme project allows the Kinect to be used as a hand-held 3D scanner and Kintinuous can be used to create a 3D model of entire houses, buildings, or caves.
#diy #hacks #imported:pinboard #kinect
archive.org #32676

New Hardware Rave: Freespace 2 Looks F%#*ing AMAZING! | Space Game Junkie

http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/oped/hardware-rave-freespace-2-fing-amazing/#more-4149
So a couple of nights ago, I went through the familiar steps of manually adding the Freespace Source Code Project files to my GOG copy of Freespace 2. This time, however, I added all the extra high-resolution stuff from the MediaVPs (i.e. all the optional stuff) because I figured my new rig could run it (my last one totally choked when I added all the optional MediaVPs). Once it was all said and done, I ran the launcher and set up everything as ordered (as well as adding Spidey’s lighting settings) and ran the game at maximum resolution with everything set as high as possible for my first time ever. What resulted was nothing short of breathtaking.
#freespace #freespace2 #gaming #imported:pinboard #space #to:fb
archive.org #32678

Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex - davidcelis.com

http://davidcelis.com/blog/2012/09/06/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex/
No, I’m not joking. Just send your users an email. The activation email is a practice that’s been in use for years, but it’s often paired with complex validations that the email is formatted correctly. If you’re going to send an activation email to users, why bother using a gigantic regular expression?
#email #imported:pinboard #regex #usability #validation #webdev
archive.org #32680

Speech and Kirk Cameron – Whatever

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/03/07/speech-and-kirk-cameron/
Well, Kirk Cameron, here’s the thing. You are correct when you say you should be able to express your moral views on social issues, and as a staunch defender of the First Amendment, I will defend to the death your right to say whatever ridiculous, ignorant and bigoted thing that has been fermenting in that cracked clay pot you call a brain pan. But the First Amendment also means that when you say such things, other people have the a right to mock you and the silly, stupid words that have dribbled out of your skull through that word hole above your chin. If you call someone “unnatural,” they might call you an “asshole.” That’s the deal.
#funny #gay #homosexuality #imported:pinboard #kirkcameron #religion #scalzi #speech #to:fb
archive.org #32681

Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/science/03oil.html?_r=2&hp
Today, a principal tenet of geology is that a vast majority of the world’s oil arose not from lumbering beasts on land but tiny organisms at sea. It holds that blizzards of microscopic life fell into the sunless depths over the ages, producing thick sediments that the planet’s inner heat eventually cooked into oil. It is estimated that 95 percent or more of global oil traces its genesis to the sea.
#energy #imported:pinboard #oil #plankton
archive.org #32682

Ward Cunningham on "The Wiki Way" | To the best of our KNOWLEDGE

http://ttbook.org/book/wiki-way
Before there was Wikileaks, before there was Wikipedia… Before there was Facebook and Twitter and blogs… there was a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham. He’s the guy who, back in 1995, invented the wiki. He also did something even more radical. He didn’t patent it. He passed up billions of dollars in potential revenue, because he believed the internet needed to be more democratic. And why did he invent the wiki in the first place?
#imported:pinboard #podcasts #to:fb #wardcunningham #webdev #wiki
archive.org #22547

BrewBlogger Version 2.3.2 - The Browser-Based Homebrew Logging Solution

http://www.brewblogger.net/
BrewBlogger 2.3.2 is a easy to set up, easy to use, browser-based homebrew logging and calculation suite. It is a PHP/MySQL-based system that provides today's brewer not only a fast and easy way to record their brewing activities, recipes, and awards, but also forum to share their zymurgistic efforts and expertise with the homebrewing community around the world.
#blog #homebrewing #imported:pinboard #metablogging #mysql #php #web
archive.org #32685

Introduction - Google Cloud Storage — Google Developers

https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/getting-started
Google Cloud Storage is a new service for developers to store and access data in Google's cloud. It offers developers direct access to Google's scalable storage and networking infrastructure as well as powerful authentication and data sharing mechanisms. Developers can store objects of any size and manage access to their data on an individual or group basis using Google Cloud Storage.
#imported:pinboard #storage #webdev
archive.org #22536

WidgetWorx > SpriteLib

http://www.widgetworx.com/widgetworx/portfolio/spritelib.html
SpriteLib is a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites). It was created to provide hobbyist game developers with an assortment of images to use in their creations. Because of SpriteLib, developers don't have to waste precious time or money creating graphics from scratch.
#art #gaming #graphics #imported:pinboard #javascript
archive.org #22533

This Sun-like star is surrounded by sugar

http://io9.com/5938970/this-sun+like-star-is-surrounded-by-sugar
A team of European and American astronomers have found signs of a simple sugar molecule, glycolaldehyde, in a gas cloud surrounding a young sun-like star. Located 400 light-years away, it's the first time that sugar has been located around such a celestial object — and this indicates that the early building blocks of life are present when planets start to form around stars. To make their finding, lead researcher Jes Jørgensen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). It's an extremely sensitive radio wave receiving device that's capable of capturing exceptionally short wavelengths, and without this feature the discovery would have been impossible. By using ALMA, the researchers were able to pick up on the characteristic radiation signatures emitted by the sugar molecules. ALMA was able to capture these signatures from radio waves, which the researchers were then able to map and identify. This is not the first time that glycolaldehyde has been found floating in the depths of interstellar space — but it is the first time that it has been spotted near a sun-like star at distances comparable to the distance of Uranus from the Sun in our solar system. As a result, the discovery is a strong indication that the chemical compounds required to sustain life are already in existence at the time of planet formation. Specifically, glycolaldehyde is a key component to RNA, which like DNA, is an integral precursor to life. Moreover, the gas containing the sugar molecules is falling in towards one of the stars in the system. "The sugar molecules are not only in the right place to find their way onto a planet, but they are also going in the right direction," Jørgensen noted through a release. Moving forward, the astronomers are hoping to gain an understanding of just how complex these molecules can get before they're incorporated into new planets — an important clue about the early composition of new planets, and the chemical compounds they carry that could eventually ignite the processes of life. The entire study will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters. I'll update the link once the paper has been published online. Image: ESO/L. Calçada & NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22523

Captain Picard Hunts Robot Fox in Futurama's Double-Shot Season Finale | Underwire | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/futurama-patrick-stewart/
Futurama powers down Wednesday night until next summer. Patrick Stewart is probably going to need the breather.Image courtesy Comedy Central The thespian who played Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard joins Bender in a not-so-jolly robot fox hunt in “31st Century Fox,” the first of Futurama‘s back-to-back midseason finale episodes Wednesday. And let’s just say that the real thing is not really his thing. “In real life, Patrick Stewart is actually an anti-fox hunt crusader,” Futurama executive producer David X. Cohen told Wired earlier this summer as the seventh season of The Sci-Fi Toon That Wouldn’t Die booted up. “31st Century Fox” airs Wednesday night alongside “Naturama,” which transforms Futurama‘s snarktastic space messengers into animals locked in sexual struggle (see a clip below). In “Naturama,” Fry, Leela and Zap navigate a salmon love triangle, Bender battles back hordes of haters encroaching on his elephant seal harem and Professor Farnsworth faces down extinction and solitude as a Galapagos tortoise. Cohen told Wired that Futurama‘s artists nearly went metaphorically extinct after first seeing how far they were being asked to push their impressive skill sets. It’s one of those episodes where “our animators have heart attacks and collapse in front of us after we hand them the script,” he said. “Because they have to redesign the entire universe and all of the characters three times instead of once. These episodes are always our favorites, but they’re difficult.” Futurama‘s back-to-back midseason finale airs Wednesday night at 10 p.m./9 p.m. Central on Comedy Central. (The remaining episodes of Futurama arrive next summer.) runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1811364368001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences();
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32690

Enabling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing - Amazon Simple Storage Service

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/cors.html
Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) defines a way for client web applications that are loaded in one domain to interact with resources in a different domain. With CORS support in Amazon S3, you can build rich client-side web applications with Amazon S3 and selectively allow cross-origin access to your Amazon S3 resources.
#amazon #cors #imported:pinboard #s3 #webdev
archive.org #22509

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

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

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

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

Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds 'Global Warming Is Real', 'On The High End' And 'Essentially All' Due To Carbon Pollution | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/28/602151/bombshell-koch-funded-study-finds-global-warming-is-real-on-the-high-end-and-essentially-all-due-to-carbon-pollution/
Our results show that the average temperature of the earth’s land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.
#climatechange #imported:pinboard #politics #science #to:fb
archive.org #32712

Computers are very good at the game of Go

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/02/23/computers-are-very-good-at-the-game-of-go
Zen19 is beating extremely strong amateurs, but it hasn't beaten professionals in games with no handicap yet. That said, now that we know that Zen19 is using Monte Carlo strategies, the reason why it seems to be getting stronger as it's fed more CPU time is revealed: these strategies are the most obviously parallelizable algorithms out there, and for all we know this exact version of Zen19 could end up becoming World Champion if a few more orders of magnitude of CPU time were made available to it. Which would feel like a shame, because I was really looking forward to seeing us figure out how brains work.
#ai #games #go #imported:pinboard #programming
archive.org #22388

Yes, Government Researchers Really Did Invent the Internet | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/23/yes-government-researchers-really-did-invent-the-internet/
In truth, no private company would have been capable of developing a project like the Internet, which required years of R&D efforts spread out over scores of far-flung agencies, and which began to take off only after decades of investment. Visionary infrastructure projects such as this are part of what has allowed our economy to grow so much in the past century. Today’s op-ed is just one sad indicator of how we seem to be losing our appetite for this kind of ambition.
#government #imported:pinboard #internet #research #to:fb
archive.org #32713

Daily Kos: Elizabeth Warren: 'Why aren’t we rebuilding America?'

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/28/1114390/-Elizabeth-Warren-Why-aren-t-we-rebuilding-America
It really is that simple. The nation's roads, bridges, electrical grid, water systems, national parks—the whole infrastructure—is crumbling. At the same time unemployment remains persistently high. Put people to work fixing the stuff that's broken. It's not rocket science. It would be that simple, except for a Republican Party that won't do what's best for the country, won't attempt to fix these things because fixing these things might help reelect President Obama and Democrats in Congress. Furthermore, making the country work proves that government works, and Republicans want none of that.
#economy #imported:pinboard #jobs #politics #to:fb #warren
archive.org #22385

The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient bittorrent site

http://thepiratebay.se/blog/210
With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we're going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.
#bittorrent #drones #imported:pinboard #internet #piratebay #punknet #raspberrypi #to:fb
archive.org #22381

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Food fetish lecturer who asked female student to stuff a pie down his pants struck off

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/07/food-fetish-lecturer-who-asked-female.html
A lecturer who asked a female student to stuff a pie down his pants has been struck off by Scotland's teaching watchdog. Gavin Bradford, 37, asked other girls to smear themselves in ketchup and eggs and pour sour milk into their underwear. In the bizarre exchanges, which happened online late at night when Bradford was teaching in Canada, he asked more than 20 girls — some as young as 12 — to switch on their webcams so he could watch them. The General Teaching Council (GTC) panel heard that Bradford told one girl he would "take delight in slowly pushing a gooey pie in her face" and asked two others to make a video of them urinating. He also told students his favourite swear words and demonstrated using them in a sentence. The Ontario Discipline Committee panel, which revoked Bradford’s teaching certificate in November 2011, said: "The behaviour may have started out innocently but escalated to the point of using vulgar language and making improper suggestions of an explicit sexual nature."Photo from here. On Tuesday, the Fitness to Teach panel of the GTC ruled that Bradford was not fit to teach in Scotland. Bradford, from Glasgow, fled home after the Canadian scandal and got a job as a performing arts lecturer at Coatbridge College in Lanarkshire in January 2010, where he took charge of a production of the musical Chess — telling staff there he had left Canada because his marriage had broken up. However, the Ontario authorities tipped off their Scottish counterparts. Bradford did not turn up at the hearing in Edinburgh, where GTC presenting officer Paul Reid said his conduct fell significantly short of the standards expected of a registered teacher. He highlighted the nature of the correspondence between Bradford and his pupils in Canada, in particular the fact the "inappropriate and vulgar communications" had taken place outside of school hours. He said there was a need to protect children and maintain the confidence of the public in the teaching profession.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22376

Proposed standards for the care and feeding of user generated content – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

http://www.zeldman.com/2012/07/25/proposed-standards-for-the-care-and-feeding-of-user-generated-content/
Treat our data like it matters. Keep it secure and protect our privacy, of course—but also maintain serious backups and respect our choice to delete any information we’ve contributed. No upload without download. Build in export capabilities from day one. If you close a system, support data rescue. Provide one financial quarter’s notice between announcing the shutdown and destroying any user-contributed content, public or private, and offer data export during this period. And beyond that three months? Make user-contributed content available for media-cost purchase for one year after shutdown.
#cloud #data #imported:pinboard #services #to:fb
archive.org #32714

The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition

http://www.elezea.com/2012/07/sparrow-google-acquisition/
You see, for a long time we’ve chanted this refrain wherever we could: If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold. We point to Facebook and Delicious and ad-supported sites and lament the fact that we’re all just a set of eyeballs being sold to advertisers. So we came up with a solution. We decided that we don’t want to be free users any more. We decided that we want to pay independent developers directly so that they can have sustainable businesses and happy lives.
#business #google #imported:pinboard #indie #software #sparrow #to:fb
archive.org #32715

Power Pwn: This DARPA-funded power strip will hack your network | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/power-pwn-this-darpa-funded-power-strip-will-hack-your-network-7000001331/
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s Cyber Fast Track program helped funded the development of the Power Pwn. Pwnie Express, which developed the $1,295 gizmo, says it's "a fully-integrated enterprise-class penetration testing platform." That's great, but the company also notes its "ingenious form-factor" (again, look at the above picture) and "highly-integrated/modular hardware design," which to me translates to: it's the perfect tool for hacking a corporate network.
#hardware #imported:pinboard #nifty #plugcomputers #pwnie #to:fb
archive.org #32716

Matt Kantor prepares a nine-course meal inspired by Rush | Appetizer | Life | National Post

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/07/21/plates-of-prog-rock-an-epic-nine-course-meal-inspired-by-rush/
Kantor’s ambitious dinner was a testament to his Rush fandom (the New York state native fell in love with the band as a junior-high-school student in the early ’80s and never looked back), and also his latest foray in a culinary crusade. He hopes to help bring what he calls “thinky” food — reminiscent, let’s say, of a well-wrought Neil Peart lyric — to a city whose gastronomic endeavours, he finds, veer closer to the Top 40.
#dinner #food #imported:pinboard #music #rush #to:fb
archive.org #32718

Hallo.js, a simple rich text editor for the web - Henri Bergius in Berlin, Germany

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/hallo-editor/
Hallo.js is a simple rich text editor built as a jQuery UI widget and utilizing the HTML5 contentEditable functionality for allowing in-place editing. This sort of real in-place editing differs from more traditional editors like TinyMCE in that the content is never detached from its place on a page, and so for instance all CSS rules apply to it. This makes the editing experience much more true WYSIWYG.
#cms #editors #imported:pinboard #javascript #mdn #webdev #wysiwyg
archive.org #32719

Laughing in Purgatory: Mississippi Passes Anti-Richard Dawkins Legislation

http://www.laughinginpurgatory.com/2012/07/mississippi-passes-anti-richard-dawkins.html
Today we struck a blow for religious freedom in the great state of Mississippi. For too long our children have been unprotected against the nefarious teachings of Richard Dawkins. I have personally talked to many concerned parents who said that they were horrified when their children told them that God was a delusion or that human beings are simply carbon-based robots who took orders from the D-N-A. This law puts the end of that nonsense now. Let's pray that Mississippi will be a beacon of hope for the rest of our Christian nation.
#dawkins #funny #imported:pinboard #mississippi #religion #satire
archive.org #22359

Bill Nye to CNN: ‘The two sides aren’t equal’ on climate change | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/02/bill-nye-to-cnn-the-two-sides-arent-equal-on-climate-change/
“There are a couple of things that you can’t really dispute,” Nye explained to CNN’s Carol Costello. “Sixteen of the last 17 years have been the hottest years on record. That’s just how it is.” “I appreciate that we want to show two sides of the stories — there’s a tradition in journalism that goes back quite a ways, I guess — but the two sides aren’t equal here. You have tens of thousands of scientists who are very concerned and you have a few people who are in business of equating or drawing attention to the idea that uncertainty is the same as doubt. When you have a plus or minus percentage, that’s not the same thing as not believing the whole thing at all.”
#billnye #climatechange #environment #imported:pinboard #politics #science #to:fb #weather
archive.org #32723

Chrystia Freeland | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com

http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2012/07/12/the-1-percent-vs-president-obama/
The Democrats are challenging that win-win story of American capitalism. Their contention is that the U.S. economy is failing the middle class. They argue that those at the top need to contribute “a little more” to help rebuild the American middle. Even more threateningly, they point out, as in their critique of Bain Capital, that some of the business strategies that have enriched the elite have actually hollowed out the middle.
#imported:pinboard #obama #occupy #politics #to:fb
archive.org #32724

7 Compromises Google Made To Put Chrome on iPhone and iPad

http://www.chromestory.com/2012/07/7-compromises-google-made-to-put-chrome-on-iphone-and-ipad/
Google Chrome for iPhone and iPad is here. But as you all know by now, it is not the complete Chrome experience on iOS. There are many compromises (platform limitations, as Google calls it) that Google had to make to bring Chrome to iOS. Let’s take a look at 7 of them.
#browsers #chrome #google #imported:pinboard #to:fb #webdev
archive.org #32725

Basic instinct: how we used to code • Reg Hardware

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/27/retro_week_basic_instinct/
I’ve recently caught myself, like some horrific solo re-write of the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch, waxing lyrical to my two iPod-wielding young ‘uns about the good old days; when men were men, computers were effectively clockwork, and computer games… well, come to think about it, they still cost about 69p. But you didn’t download them from an app store. Oh no. They came bound into computer magazines and had to be typed in by hand. And oh yes, they were in an arcane language called Basic.
#imported:pinboard #oldschool #programming #retro #to:fb
archive.org #32730

John Resig - Secret Omens: Book Update

http://ejohn.org/blog/secret-omens/
To the point of Jeff’s post, I would absolutely not write a technical book again. It’s a tedious process and unless you LOVE writing and are really good at it (like Nicholas Zakas or Dave Flanagan) then I suggest that you stick with the medium that is truly successful: Writing long-form articles/blog posts and possibly spinning them off into purchasable ebooks. (As an example, I’d point to Juriy Zaytsev and Peter-Paul Koch both of whom could get any JavaScript position in the world purely based upon the quality of their articles and sites, without ever having written a book.)
#books #ebooks #imported:pinboard #javascript #publishing #to:fb #writing
archive.org #32731

Node.js WiFi-Extending Robot

http://glench.com/make/nodejs-robot/
The beast above is a robotic system intended to be operated remotely in hazardous areas where network infrastructure is scarce. The robot is controlled over a WiFi network that originates on the robot and is extended by dropping the black repeater units on its back. I and seven other computer and electrical engineers built this monster as part of a senior design project at Northeastern University.
#imported:pinboard #nifty #node #robots #to:fb #wifi
archive.org #32732

Pee-Wee Herman dubs the Dark Knight Rises trailer, should dub the whole movie - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/07/12/pee-wee-dubs-dark-knight-rises.html
Pee-Wee Herman took part in a bit on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in which he narrated the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. Great, now this movie is going to be hilarious when it's definitely not supposed to be, and I'm just going to have to see it twice so I don't hear Pee-Wee Herman the second time. Also: John Cleese should also dub this trailer. (via Gawker)
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22315

Inflatable Cthulhu Arm, A Giant Wearable Tentacle

http://laughingsquid.com/inflatable-cthulhu-arm-a-giant-wearable-tentacle/
Archie McPhee’s Inflatable Cthulhu Arm is a giant wearable tentacle that fits over your hand so you can pretend that you’re turning into Cthulhu, the “unspeakable horror from beyond space.” It would also be great if you want to costume up as the Laughing Squid logo, kind of like Dan’l did with their Cthulhu tentacles (but, of course, on a much larger scale). The also carry a less menacing version, the Inflatable Tentacle Arm. Cthulhu is a mythical dark god from another dimension that every nerd knows about…good for squid costumes and having tentacle fights with your pals.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32733

Twitter follows Facebook down the walled garden path | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/9/3135406/twitter-api-open-closed-facebook-walled-garden
Ben Popper, writing for The Verge: Twitter set off alarm bells across the web in recent weeks when it ended its partnership with LinkedIn and reiterated its warning that it would be cracking down on the terms of its API. The company didn’t offer any explanation for why it removed tweets from LinkedIn, but speaking with sources familiar with the company’s plans, The Verge has learned that major changes are coming in the next few months which will move Twitter from an open platform popular among independent developers towards a walled garden more akin to Facebook. I can’t think of a more ominous four-word description of Twitter’s future than “More akin to Facebook”. For me, Twitter isn’t just a little bit better because of third-party clients — it’s vastly better because of third-party clients. Whatever it is Twitter is planning, I sure hope it isn’t going to cut third-party clients loose.  ★
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22309

Romney Receives 20-Minute Standing Ovation At NAAWP Event | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://da.feedsportal.com/c/34529/f/632231/s/21419994/l/0L0Stheonion0N0Carticles0Cromney0Ereceives0E20Aminute0Estanding0Eovation0Eat0Enaawp0H28750A0C/ia1.htm
HOUSTON—During an address Wednesday to the National Association for the Advancement of White People, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney received a lengthy standing ovation from the group of 2,000 Caucasians who had gathered to hear him sp...
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22307

Origin of the @reply – Digging through twitter’s history | Anarchogeek

http://anarchogeek.com/2012/07/09/origin-of-the-reply-digging-through-twitters-history/
Twitter’s been around for over 6 years now, and it’s most of it’s early history has been forgotten. The amazing thing about twitter as a platform and community is that it’s evolution has come through it’s use. Through use, people together evolve new ways of communicating. The #hashtag, the retweet, the @reply, follow friday, trending topics, real time twitter search, explaining twitter trends, cc-ing users, etc… These were all creations of the user base, people tried out ideas and build them. Twitter the company later adopted the conventions of it’s community and formalized the tools. This letting the community of users create, and then adopting the practices is critical to how Twitter’s grown to be such an amazing platform. It’s also why new efforts to deliver a ‘consistent experience‘ are a terrible idea and if they succeed will kill twitter’s future innovation.
#apis #history #imported:pinboard #social #to:fb #twitter #webdev
archive.org #32736

Map pinpoints the 2,284 US temperature records broken in June

http://io9.com/5924257/map-pinpoints-the-2284-us-temperature-records-broken-in-june
Yes, June was a hot a month for folks in the US, but just how hot? According to the National Climactic Data Center, US states and territories saw 2,284 temperature records broken in June and 998 records tied. The center has conveniently mapped out all 3,282 of those record temperatures. The National Climatic Data Center contains the world's largest active archive of weather data, and has a handy interactive map that lets you see the record highs, lows, precipitation, and snowfall for various parts of the United States. In playing around with this application, NPR noted that so far this year has been heavier on the record highs than last year; 2012 so far has seen 23,283 record highs set while by this time in 2011, 13,582 records had been set. Head over the NPR for more weather record insights. The map above doesn't show all 3,282 temperature records met or broken in the US, as some were set in Alaska, Hawaii, and US territories. Visit the National Climatic Data Center website to see the sites of all the US's new temperature records. [National Climatic Data Center via NPR via Geekosystem]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22294

Spelunky review: Obtainer of rare antiquities, giver of aneurysms | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/04/spelunky-review/
Spelunky, an Xbox Live Arcade revamp of a free PC indie game, straddles the line between insurmountable addiction and a precise extractor of self-hatred. Like other rare indie gems, such as Metanet's N series, Spelunky is equal parts diabolical and ingenious. The concept is simple: explore worlds filled with treacherous obstacles while collecting treasures and attempting to survive. You start the game with a standard whip along with a few climbing ropes and bombs, which are used to carve out a path to the level's exit. Each randomly generated level is filled with traps, enemies, and environmental disasters awaiting your unnamed adventurer. Survival may be the primary goal, but Spelunky's secondary objective is to make players regret the follies of poor split-second decisions. It's the kind of experience you hate yourself for loving, but love it you shall. Gallery: Spelunky (XBLA) Continue reading Spelunky review: Obtainer of rare antiquities, giver of aneurysms Spelunky review: Obtainer of rare antiquities, giver of aneurysms originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32737

Good guy Ron Perlman reprises his Hellboy role for a very special audience of one

http://io9.com/5924190/good-guy-ron-perlman-reprises-his-hellboy-role-for-a-very-special-audience-of-one
It's not Hellboy 3 but it's a scene that warms our Hellboy-loving hearts. Ron Perlman donned the red makeup again not for a movie or a promotional event, but to fulfill a young boy's Make-a-Wish dreams. Young Zachary's heart's desire was to meet Hellboy and become Hellboy himself. The Make-a-Wish foundation made it happen, having Zachary and his family meet a made-up Perlman down at the makeup effects studio Spectral Motion. Perlman, ever the good sport, ordered up a "Hellboy sized" sampler of burgers, shakes, and fries for everyone involved and Zachary even got to play Hellboy himself, sitting in the Spectral Motion makeup chair and putting on the big red horn stumps. Forget another Hellboy movie. We'll happily watch 90 minutes of Ron Perlman cheering up sick kids — maybe with a cat or two for good measure. Make a Wish day with Zachary [Spectral Motion Facebook via Geekologie]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22278

Scripting News: Twitter is a Corporate API

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/07/twitterIsACorporateApi.html
Conclusion -- corporate APIs are good for the corporations that own them, and pretty much bad for everyone else. I would be reluctant to develop on any corporate API unless I was prepared to have my work completely deleted or obviated or usurped by the platform vendor. You really don't have any power. However it's pretty much impossible to avoid them. But try to. And don't be a crybaby when you get hurt. permalink
#apis #imported:pinboard #twitter #webdev
archive.org #22277

Golgo 13 watches, guys. You can live your life... - Tiny Cartridge - Nintendo DS, DSi, & 3DS News, Media, Videos, Imports, Homebrew, & Retro Junk

http://tinycartridge.com/post/26705988002/golgo-13-watches-guys-you-can-live-your-life
Golgo 13 watches, guys. You can live your life always asking “What Would Duke Togo do?” during those times (hur hur) when you have to make hard decisions, without having to actually wear one of those corny bracelets. Seiko is releasing these two limited edition models (total of 1,500 units produced) in Japan today for around $725 and $800, and they’re going for around that much on eBay right now. My birthday is in seven days, y’all, and if you’re wondering what Duke Togo would get me for a present, this is what he’d buy — a watch with his own face on it. Buy: Golgo 13 stuff See also: Lots of Golgo 13 posts [Via @feitclub]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22276

Super Metroid poster by Ian Wilding. It’s a little... - Tiny Cartridge - Nintendo DS, DSi, & 3DS News, Media, Videos, Imports, Homebrew, & Retro Junk

http://tinycartridge.com/post/26666645165/super-metroid-poster-by-ian-wilding-its-a-little
Super Metroid poster by Ian Wilding. It’s a little different from the “minimalist” thing that’s happening with a lot of posters/fanart, but it’s still simple, and just really nice to look at. Plus, it serves as a reminder that Super Metroid exists, which is an important public service. The print is available in a variety of sizes from Wilding’s Society6 shop. Buy: Metroid: Other M Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more See also: Lots more Metroid posts
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22275

Never Use Source Control GUIs! « late.am

http://late.am/post/2011/09/27/never-use-source-control-guis
In 5 years, something like 90% of the source control mishaps I’ve seen can be attributed to GUIs hiding complexity of what they’re doing. Git can be a beast to learn, for sure; but at least once you develop an intuition, you can be reasonably safe in performing even advanced operations at the command line tool, in a way I’ve never felt (or felt from co-workers) about GUI tools.
#control #git #guis #imported:pinboard #source
archive.org #22272

Will Your Children Inherit Your E-Books? : NPR

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/21/155360197/will-your-children-inherit-your-e-books
What happens to our books when we die? Many books disappear before we do, of course; they fall apart, or we put them out on the stoop for scavengers. A book like this one, however — a text that is still read and reprinted, that has played a notable role in the 20th-century imagination, and then a copy of the text that played an especially interesting role — is likely to be passed down carefully as long as we can preserve and recognize it. Like the Bibles some families use to record their histories, it traces a chain of readers through time.
#archives #books #ebook #imported:pinboard #inheritance #to:fb
archive.org #22269

Amazon's helpful algorithm reveals that customers like to make explosives

http://io9.com/5923485/amazons-helpful-algorithm-reveals-that-customers-like-to-make-explosives
This is definitely the perfect screenshot for today, as Canadians recover from the weekend's fiery festivities and people in the US celebrate Independence Day by going online and ordering the ingredients for explosives. In this screenshot, you can take joy in the friendly way Amazon informs us that people who buy one ingredient for thermite often buy all of them together (thermite contains aluminum powder and iron oxide powder, and is usually lit with magnesium ribbon). Now these are the kinds of product recommendations we need. What could go wrong? Over at the fine site "How to Make Stuff," we learn the hard way to make thermite by scrounging the ingredients at local machine shops and paint stores. But why dig around and deal with finding stores in the real world when Amazon makes it so easy for you? To see this for yourself, just search Amazon for aluminum powder. Also, PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THERMITE AT HOME.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22266

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Woman trying to kill bedbugs burns down apartment block making 30 people homeless

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/07/woman-trying-to-kill-bedbugs-burns-down.html
Authorities say a Kentucky woman trying to kill bedbugs accidentally started a fire that destroyed several apartments in downtown Carlisle in Nicholas County. It took firefighters from several counties to put it out. Not only had to battle the flames, but the extreme heat as well. You could see the flames shooting out from the apartment's roof from several blocks away. "I was scared to death for my husband because he was in the apartment," says Vicky Bussell, who lived there. Firefighters disappeared into the smoke as they climbed the ladder to make sure everyone was out the building. It took hours to get a handle on the out of control fire. "I've never really seen anything like this before," says Brianna Ross. About 30 people lost their homes. Six families in the apartment building where the fire started, and ten families next door. "It damages you. It's hard when you lose everything," Bussell says. The Carlisle Fire Chief says a woman doused her couch in alcohol to try to get rid of bed bugs, and when she dropped her cigarette, the fire started. "They're just belongings, you can replace them anytime. Main thing is, nobody got hurt," says Randal Lutes, who lost everything. While everyone did make it out, four people were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Jackie Bond's mother was one of them: "My mom's bed ridden. I take care of her everyday. I don't know where I'm going to take her, I don't know what to do." Red Cross will be helping some of these people with a place to stay Friday night, but after that, many of these fire victims say they don't know where they'll go. "I guess i just work until we build everything back up," Bond says. "Everybody's alive. As long as everybody's alive, I'll find a way. I'll have to."
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22242

Great Scott! DeLorean-Inspired Time Circuit Clock with Adafruit gear! « adafruit industries blog

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/07/02/great-scott-delorean-inspired-time-circuit-clock-with-adafruit-gear/
From the moment these LED displays made an appearance on our weekly Ask an Engineer show, comparisons were being made to the DeLorean time circuit from the Back to the Future films. It was a moral imperative then to make a demo! If you’re handy with Arduino and some shop tools, you should be able to pull off something similar (better, even), or adapt the ideas to other projects. This was quickly built in fun, so please don’t expect the same level of polish as a finished product tutorial.
#arduino #bttf #clocks #diy #electronics #hacks #imported:pinboard
archive.org #32742

Mozilla Thimble

https://thimble.webmaker.org/en-US/
Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create your own web pages. Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser. Instantly preview your work. Then host and share your finished pages with a single click. Easy, huh?
#imported:pinboard #mozilla #webdev
archive.org #32743

Nelson's Weblog: culture / games / diablo-hardcore-monk

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/culture/games/diablo-hardcore-monk.html
Contemporary games are designed so the player can never lose. No matter how badly you play you can always recover or reload and keep going. It’s good design, it encourages players to explore, it avoids frustration. But not being able to fail removes some challenge. If you can’t lose, then is winning really that interesting? I’m proud because this weekend I got my Hardcore Monk to level 60. Hardcore mode in Diablo 3 is a game you can lose. It’s permadeath; if you screw up your game is done, your character is gone, you have to start over. Most players of Diablo don’t play hardcore; in a normal game if you die you just reload. I played through the game in normal mode first myself. But hardcore is more exciting. And while I didn’t beat the hardest challenge in the game yet, I have played the guy for 45 hours without ever screwing up too badly. The tension is amazing. For example the boss fights; once you jump into the arena with Diablo you can’t leave. One of you is going to die. But the bosses aren’t the hardest part of the game, the optional champion packs are. And there the anxiety is incredible. I see a group with something hard like molten + frozen + vortex and have to make an instant choice. Do I risk fighting them? Do I avoid them and look for easier targets? Most of the time I engage because I’m playing for the challenge. And then sometimes things go badly and I’m running for my life, for my 45 hours invested, and those moments of fear and excitement are some of the most visceral experiences I’ve had playing a game in years. Since playing Eve Online, really. So I’m loving hardcore Diablo. It helps that I’m winning, I imagine I’m going to be pretty angry when I finally screw up. I’m not a very good loser.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22219

It's Okay To Be Smart • An Alzheimer’s Researcher Ends Up on the Drug She...

http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/25949745551/an-alzheimers-researcher-ends-up-on-the-drug-she
An Alzheimer’s Researcher Ends Up on the Drug She Helped Invent Dr. Rae Lyn Burke was working on a vaccine to help reverse Alzheimer’s dementia symptoms, when she began to succumb to the very disease she was researching. Through her ongoing work in the lab, and now as a patient advocate, she’s calling for more research and especially more understanding of what Alzheimer’s really means: “It would be good to overcome this stigma, particularly for younger-onset individuals. We educate the public about handling physical disabilities but not so well for people with mental disabilities. We can walk fast, but we think slow. People should know more about the nature of the mental disability. Also, we need to educate the public that this is not just a disease of the elderly. Younger people too can be cut off in their prime.” More at The Atlantic, a great read. (via The Atlantic)
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22200

OK Go…Be a Webmaker! | Zythepsary

http://www.zythepsary.com/techie/ok-go-be-a-webmaker/
On Thursday Mozilla Popcorn ran it’s first Storycamp Livecast with Damain Kulash from the wildly successful band OK Go! For an entire hour Damian talked about his band’s web videos, their success, inspiration, where ideas take hold. Damian talked about the web as a canvas and overcoming adversity, sticking to your guns and how failure is part of the process. He talked about coming up with ideas and iterating on them. He talked about creativity, fear, and what the secret of going viral is. While it was fascinating for those of us that have seen the famous treadmill video, I feel like there was a little (and I mean very small) cultural gap between us OK Go fans and the youth participating in Storycamp. (Some of the feedback we received said as much, am I really so old?) Part of the problem is that Damian’s fame likely dictates his schedule, meaning that although he took the hour to speak to all of us, he likely didn’t have time to read into what Storycamp is about. But that’s ok, he was totally on the ball. Damian said a few things that would inspire anyone: And he’s proven with his testimony on Net Neutrality to be a friend of the Open Web. We definitely got some great feedback from all of the instructors running Storycamp in their organizations, and a huge win in week one (and mirrored ever so spectacularly by the weekend launch of the Mozilla Summer Code Party) was our learn by making philosophy. Jacob Caggiano is going to be blogging about the Robots template (will link as soon as it’s written), a project that uses Popcorn to create a procedural story. Everyone is diggin’ the Robots template, so go try it out! Part of what’s awesome about releasing early and releasing often is that the feedback you receive will take your work in directions you didn’t think possible or necessary. I’ve already got initial ideas on how we can improve Storycamp’s content and resources, what new stuff we should create, and how we can better support those brave people that take our Alpha work and run with it. I can’t wait to see what this week’s speaker, Cory Doctorow, has for us, but even more than that, I can’t wait to hear the feedback from the instructors and participants on the ground. We can’t wait to hear what you dislike, what you love, what you wish were different about everything we’re doing. Tell us everything, and share your webmaking experiences! Related articles The weekend the world learned the web (openmatt.org) And we have #StoryCamp liftoff! (zythepsary.com)
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32746

The earliest known panda-like fossils have been found - in Spain!?

http://io9.com/5913676/the-earliest-known-panda+like-fossils-have-been-found-+-in-spain
This little feller is Agriarctos beatrix, which roamed the forests of Spain some eleven million years ago. It represents the earliest known member of the giant panda's evolutionary subfamily, and it was pretty much just ridiculously adorable. Agriarctos beatrix is a member of the Ailuropodinae subfamily, which is one taxonomic level below the Ursid family in which all bears are a member. The Ailuropodinae subfamily is a lonely bunch, with the giant panda the only living member. This particular species, found near Nombrevilla in Zaragoza, Spain, is one of the most distant relatives of the panda that we've discovered, and we only know it from a pair of fossilized teeth. Still, even with so little to go on, the team from Spain's National Museum of Natural Sciences and the University Valencia have been able to make some intriguing guesses about just what the bear was like, as you can see in the reconstruction above. Researcher Juan Abella explains: "This bear species was small, even smaller than the Sun bear — currently the smallest bear species. It would not have weighed more than 60 kilos. This fur pattern is considered primitive for bears, such as that of the giant panda whose white spots are so big that it actually seems to be white with black spots. Its diet would have been similar to that of the sun bear or the spectacled bear that only eat vegetables and fruit and sometimes vertebrates, insects, honey and dead animals." My favorite detail though has to be this one from the press release, which sounds wonderfully unlike typical bear behavior: Agriarctos beatrix, from the Ursidae family and related to giant pandas, would have lived in the forest and could have been more sessile that those bears that tend to hunt more, such as the brown or polar bears. According to researchers, the extinct bear would have escaped from other larger carnivores by climbing up trees. Via Estudios Geológicos. Image by SNIC.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #22191

Bear McCreary – Official site

http://www.bearmccreary.com/#blog/albums/moon-breakers-soundtrack/
There’s little that ignites my imagination more than the swashbuckling outer space dogfights of yesteryear. So, I was excited to write a bombastic, retro-infused soundtrack for “Moon Breakers” – a multi-player online combat game from Imba Entertainment / Uber Entertainment that is now available to play for free on Steam.
#bsg #gaming #imported:pinboard #moonbreakers #music #nifty
archive.org #22190

ZoneMinder - ZoneMinder: Linux Home CCTV and Video Camera Security with Motion Detection

http://www.zoneminder.com/
ZoneMinder is an integrated set of applications which provide a complete surveillance solution allowing capture, analysis, recording and monitoring of any CCTV or security cameras attached to a Linux based machine. It is designed to run on distributions which support the Video For Linux (V4L) interface and has been tested with video cameras attached to BTTV cards, various USB cameras and also supports most IP network cameras. A partial list is given in the Wiki and Support sections, please give feedback in the Forums if it works with yours. ZoneMinder also requires MySQL and PHP, and is enhanced by a webserver such as Apache.
#cameras #imported:pinboard #linux #software #surveilance
archive.org #32748

Why Django Sucks, Except When It Doesn’t « Coffee on the Keyboard

http://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/why-django-sucks-except-when-it-doesnt-664/
If you’re prototyping a new project, or if you’re a start-up and need to ship something, or if you’re just one person working on a little app with a few (even a few tens of thousands) of users, odds are that none of those benefits are worth losing the nice stuff Django gives you, or the time it takes to build APIs (even using existing apps to do it) or abstraction layers between the silos.
#django #imported:pinboard #python #webdev
archive.org #32757

News Center being remodeled to facilitate employee relocation / LJWorld.com

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/jun/14/news-center-being-remodeled-facilitate-employee-re/
Also, as part of a plan to re-emphasize a digital and local focus, Mediaphormedia, which created the internationally accepted Django Web framework, released 10 employees and will phase out its commercial software operations to serve only the company’s specific internal needs. The change was announced to employees and clients earlier this week.
#django #imported:pinboard #layoffs #ljworld #to:fb
archive.org #32758

Issue 128748 - chromium - [Regression] Unable to install extensions by running .crx file downloaded in Chrome - An open-source browser project to help move the web forward. - Google Project Hosting

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128748
First of all, we understand that this will be frustrating to extension developers, and our decision wasn't made lightly. We went to a lot of effort in the design of the extension system to make it possible for people to self-host. All of the formats and protocols involved in the extension system were made simple with the idea that developers could re-implement them. It makes us sad to take off-store install away.
#chrome #extensions #google #imported:pinboard #to:fb #web
archive.org #22033

Google's undocumented favicon to png convertor

http://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/30/favicons/
Google's undocumented favicon to png convertor (via) Showing the favicon of a domain next to a link is a really nice trick, but it’s slightly tricky to achieve as IE won’t display a .ico file if you link to it from an img element, so you need to convert the images server-side. This undocumented Google API does that for you, meaning it’s much easier to add favicons as a feature to your site.
#favicon #google #icons #imported:pinboard #png #webdev
archive.org #32761

Create Your Own Posterous with Jekyll, PHP, Mailgun, and S3 : jazzychad's blog

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/03/12/create-your-own-posterous.html
A few weeks ago, I decided to create an email-powered blog that is hosted in an Amazon s3 bucket as a website. I wanted to be able to email new posts to the blog and have them published automatically. I use the email subject line as the title of the post and the email body as the text of the post (written in markdown).
#blog #imported:pinboard #jekyll #s3 #webdev #webhooks
archive.org #22018

Technology - Alexis Madrigal - The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/04/the-next-time-someone-says-the-internet-ruined-literature-show-them-this-chart/255572/
All this to say: our collective memory of past is astoundingly inaccurate. Not only has the number of people reading not declined precipitously, it's actually gone up since the perceived golden age of American letters.
#books #imported:pinboard #internet #reading #to:fb
archive.org #32768

DigitalPreservation 2012: Annual NDIIPP Meeting Set for July 24-26 « The Signal: Digital Preservation

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/digitalpreservation-2012-annual-ndiipp-meeting-set-for-july-24-26/
Since 2005, the Library of Congress has hosted annual meetings with digital preservation partners, collaborators and others committed to keeping a record of our time. The meetings have served as a forum for sharing information about concepts, tools and best practices, and have also helped promote a vibrant community of practice. We are pleased to announce this year’s meeting, DigitalPreservation 2012.
#archivists #digital #imported:pinboard #libraryofcongress #preservation
archive.org #32783

Digital Preservation 2012 Meeting, Meetings & Events - Digital Preservation (Library of Congress)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/ndiipp12.html
Digital Preservation 2012 is the annual meeting of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. DP 2012 brings together the brightest minds exploring solutions to the challenges of stewarding digital content over the long-term. The theme of the meeting is access to digital content under stewardship.
#archival #archives #archivists #digital #imported:pinboard #libraryofcongress #preservation
archive.org #21912

Nick Bradbury: Old Farts Know How to Code

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2012/05/old-farts-know-how-to-code.html
"Old farts" are often excluded from that culture, not because we're lousy coders but because we won't put up with that shit. We have lives, we have families, we have other things that are important to us. We're not about to sleep at our desks and trade watching our kids grow up for the promise of striking it rich. Especially when the people who really strike it rich aren't the ones writing code.
#career #coding #imported:pinboard #life #programming #shit #to:fb #work
archive.org #21911

The Nerf Jolt EX-1 is small, concealable, accurate, and it stings a little | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/12/the-nerf-jolt-ex-1-is-small-concealable-accurate-and-it-stings-a-little/
I included the image of the Nerf dart next to the Jolt EX-1 in the above picture so you can see the size of this new gun. It's tiny. It fits in your hand, it's easy to conceal, and you can whip it out quickly and shoot someone in the face with it. I would not suggest doing so in a social situation unless you are much larger than the victim. This is why I chose, once again, to test the gun on my children. The surprising thing about the gun, which sells for around under $10, is that it's powerful. Read the comments on this post
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32784

PSA or Read Me ! / Main forum / Moon Breakers

http://moonbreakers.userecho.com/topic/102787-psa-or-read-me/
Ventrilo Server : moonbreakers.darkstarvent.com Port 3997 this is a free download that allows you to talk (or just listen) to us "cool" people while you play the game. this can help organize better strategy with your teammates and ask some tactical questions of the Praetorian (really good pilots or the people you love to hate).
#gaming #imported:pinboard #moonbreakers #vent
archive.org #32787

An Open Letter to Jay Leno About Stealing My Video and Then Getting It Removed From YouTube | Splitsider

http://splitsider.com/2012/05/an-open-letter-to-jay-leno-about-stealing-my-video-and-then-getting-it-removed-from-youtube/
First off, my intention is not to fight you on this. You have more cars than I have dollars, and so I know I don’t stand a chance legally, and on top of that, I don’t really understand how legal stuff works. But the truth is you kind of fucked up my shit and I need to talk to you about it.
#copyfight #copyright #google #imported:pinboard #jayleno #to:fb #youtube
archive.org #32796

Archiveteam

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done our best to save the history before it's lost forever. Along the way, we've gotten attention, resistance, press and discussion, but most importantly, we've gotten the message out: IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.
#archive #archives #archiveteam #at:aadl #backup #history #imported:pinboard #internet #via:textfiles
archive.org #21871

MESS in a browser!

http://jsmess.textfiles.com/
You are looking at a javascript version of the MESS emulator, a program that emulates hundreds of machine types and will, eventually, be capable of running most known computer software programs. What you see here (and if you don't see anything, we apologize) is a Colecovision emulator running the homebrew Colecovision cartridge "Cosmo Fighter 2", in demo mode.
#at:aadl #emulators #imported:pinboard #javascript #jsmess #via:textfiles #webdev
archive.org #32801

UNDO DEL IUMA « ASCII by Jason Scott

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3613
6 years ago, John Gilmore (yes, That John Gilmore) saw that IUMA was in a zombie state and very unlikely to ever get out of the ICU. So he grabbed a copy of all he could – which wasn’t all of it, of course, but it was a hell of a lot of it. He stored them on some backup tapes, and as the site went down, disappeared, and faded into the mists of memory, he looked for a chance to have someone get a copy up somewhere. I was that person.
#archive #at:aadl #imported:pinboard #iuma #music #via:textfiles
archive.org #21865

IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive) Collection : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

http://archive.org/details/iuma-archive
The Internet Underground Music Archive was better known by the acronym IUMA. The IUMA was started in 1993 by three students at the University of California at Santa Cruz: Jeff Patterson, Jon Luini and Rob Lord. The three men worked together to create an online music archive that would help musicians and bands who weren't signed by a major label. The site allowed these unsigned artists to upload files and send them to fans. The site also enabled the artists the opportunity to talk with their fans. The IUMA was first part of the Usenet newsgroups.
#archive #at:aadl #history #imported:pinboard #internet #iuma #music #via:textfiles
archive.org #21864

The DNA Lounge Live Collection : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

http://archive.org/details/dnalounge
Founded in 1985, the DNA Lounge (Dance Not Art) has provided live music acts as well as DJs and special events to the San Francisco area, and is one of the longer-surviving clubs of its kind. In 1999, the club was purchased by Jamie Zawinski, remodeled extensively, and re-opened in 2001. Since that time, it has hosted thousands of performances, all of which have been broadcast over the web and available for a short time after the event. These broadcasts have been downloaded over the last decade and compiled into this archive of shows, matched with information from the DNA Lounge website.
#archive #at:aadl #dnalounge #imported:pinboard #music #via:textfiles
archive.org #21863

Shoe-fitting fluoroscope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
A fluoroscope was a metal construction covered in timber approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) high in the shape of short column, with a ledge with an opening where the child (or the adult customer) would then place his or her feet in the opening provided and while remaining in a standing position, look through a viewing porthole at the top of the fluoroscope down at the x-ray view of the feet and shoes. Two other viewing portholes on either side enabled the parent and a sales assistant to observe the child's toes being wiggled to show how much room for the toes there was inside the shoe. The bones of the feet were clearly visible, as was the outline of the shoe, including the stitching around the edges. The exposure time would have been around 15 seconds.
#at:aadl #fluoroscope #imported:pinboard #shoes #via:textfiles #xrays
archive.org #21860

Ritual Combat at the India-Pakistan Border - TIME

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1689795,00.html
At the Wagah border post that separates northern India from eastern Pakistan, the distance between the throngs of Muslims that gather on the Pakistan side and the mostly Hindus and Sikhs congregated on the Indian side is but a few feet. But it feels like miles for those old enough to remember the days when they could walk from one side to the other without ever leaving India. And although the nightly border guard ceremony here may be grounded in a bloody history of partition conflict, for locals and the occasional tourist it remains a symbol of a peaceful back-and-forth between two neighbors who have fought each other in three wars. And for Pakistan, the changing of the flag ceremony represents a rare refuge of decorum amid the swirling chaos that engulfs their country.
#at:aadl #imported:pinboard #india #pakistan #via:textfiles #war
archive.org #21859

Wagah border ceremony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagah_border_ceremony
The Wagah (Punjabi: ਵਗਾਹ) border closing 'lowering of the flags' ceremony is a daily military practice that the security forces of India (Border Security Force) and Pakistan (Pakistan Rangers) have jointly followed since 1959.[1] This ceremony takes place every evening before sunset at the Wagah border, which as part of the Grand Trunk Road was the only road link between these two countries before the opening of the Aman Setu in Kashmir in 1999. The ceremony starts with a blustering parade by the soldiers from both the sides, and ends up in the perfectly coordinated lowering of the two nations' flags. It is called the beating retreat border ceremony on the international level. One infantryman (Jawan) stands at attention on each side of the gate. As the sun sets, the iron gates at the border are opened and the two flags are lowered simultaneously. The flags are folded and the ceremony ends with a retreat that involves a brusque handshake between soldiers from either side, followed by the closing of the gates again. The spectacle of the ceremony attracts many visitors from both sides of the border, as well as international tourists.
#at:aadl #imported:pinboard #india #odd #pakistan #via:textfiles #war
archive.org #21858

WARC, Web ARChive file format

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000236.shtml
The WARC (Web ARChive) format specifies a method for combining multiple digital resources into an aggregate archival file together with related information. The WARC format is a revision of the Internet Archive's ARC File Format [ARC_IA] format that has traditionally been used to store "web crawls" as sequences of content blocks harvested from the World Wide Web. The WARC format generalizes the older format to better support the harvesting, access, and exchange needs of archiving organizations. Besides the primary content currently recorded, the revision accommodates related secondary content, such as assigned metadata, abbreviated duplicate detection events, and later-date transformations.
#archival #archive #archiving #at:aadl #formats #imported:pinboard #standards #via:textfiles #warc #web
archive.org #21856

RIAA claims Limewire owes it $72 trillion—that's "trillion" with a "T" | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club

http://www.avclub.com/articles/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-it-72-trillionthats-tril,75555/
According to documents recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the RIAA was asking for damages of about $72 trillion dollars, a figure that the judge in the case said is "absurd." Judge Kimba Wood wrote in a recent decision that, "An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to 'more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877.'"
#assholes #copyfight #copyright #imported:pinboard #limewire #music #riaa #to:fb
archive.org #32805

Silicon Valley tech executive nabbed in false barcode scheme involving Lego toys - San Jose Mercury News

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_20675946/silicon-valley-tech-exec-gets-popped-allegedly-stealing
But "loss prevention" officers at the Target on Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino had never seen anyone take an interest in bar codes quite like Thomas Langenbach, a top Silicon Valley executive with the global software giant SAP. Prosecutors charged Monday that Langenbach used the tools of his trade -- computer codes and the Internet -- to steal a Santa's workshop worth of Lego toys. They say Langenbach brought his own bar code stickers to the store, used them to cover up the real ones, and then purchased his plastic prey at enormous discounts.
#barcodes #bayarea #compulsion #imported:pinboard #lego #odd #to:fb
archive.org #21850

Quick QR Codes In Django

http://www.acedevs.com/blog/2011/07/25/quick-qr-codes-django/
Creating QR codes is a quick and easy process using a few model signals and the PyQRNative port. The hardest part of this implementation was finding a way to use the Django ContentFile object to save the generated QR code using our selected storage backend. This was important because you would not have to worry about changes to your system architecture effecting your QR generation code. An example would be moving from local filesystem storage to S3 using Django Storages (django-storages).
#code #dango #images #imported:pinboard #qr #qrcodes #webdev
archive.org #32821

Coffee Drinkers Live Longer. Who Cares, Really?

http://gawker.com/5911093/coffee-drinkers-live-longer-who-cares-really
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that over a 13-year period studied, there "was a significant inverse association between coffee consumption and mortality," meaning that people who drank coffee had a lower risk of death, particularly from "heart disease, respiratory problems, strokes, injuries and accidents, diabetes and infections." More »
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21822

Nine-Year-Old Stands Up to Westboro Baptist Church with One-Boy Counter-Protest

http://gawker.com/5911068/nine+year+old-stands-up-to-westboro-baptist-church-with-one+boy-counter+protest
When nine-year-old Josef Miles spotted members of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church doing their hate-mongering thing on the Washburn University campus in Topeka, he asked his mother, Patty Akrouche, if he could stage a small counter-protest to their message of intolerance. More »
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21821

Bill Maher Has No Interest In Your Bullshit Religious University

http://gawker.com/5911650/bill-maher-has-no-interest-in-your-bullshit-religious-university
It's graduation time and that means various notables are giving commencement addresses like nobody's business. Last week, Mitt Romney spoke at Liberty University, which provided Bill Maher with a jumping off point on tonight's Real Time. I know this is gonna shock you, but Maher isn't a big fan of any part of it.
#billmaher #education #imported:pinboard #mittromney #religion #university
archive.org #21820

Do we worry too much about keeping astronauts safe?

http://io9.com/5911743/do-we-worry-too-much-about-keeping-astronauts-safe
Sixteen years ago, aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin wrote The Case for Mars, outlining his plan for a manned mission to Mars. Since then, we haven't put a human on the Red Planet or returned to the moon, and Zubrin argues that one reason is that we are too obsessed with the safety of astronauts. Zubrin's article "How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?" appeared in the February issue of the magazine Reason. The gist of his argument is laid out in the video above: that NASA fails to perform an appropriate cost-benefit analysis when deciding whether to send astronauts on missions, instead valuing the life of the astronaut above all. Zubrin notes that other government agencies do these analyses all the time; for example, the Department of Transportation will reject a safety improvement proposal if the proposed expenditure will cost more than $3 million per life saved. Even if we valued an astronaut's training and skills at $50 million per astronaut, Zubrin argues that doesn't justify, for example, the cancellation of the mission to save, repair, and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004 due to risk of astronaut death. Zubrin is arguing in part for allowing astronauts to decide for themselves whether to accept the risk of manned missions to Mars and the moon, but also for risking human life to maintain and improve pieces of our space research infrastructure. I suspect, though, that NASA is considering not only the individual worth of an astronaut, but also how the death of an astronaut affects the public's view of the space program. It will be interesting to see if, with the advent of commercial space ventures, astronaut death will become a more routine aspect of space exploration, and whether the public at large will accept those deaths as a cost of human expansion into space. What is an Astronaut's Life Worth?: An Interview with Robert Zubrin [via reddit]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21814

MAKE | Updated Power Glove with Bluetooth and Arduino

http://blog.makezine.com/2009/04/03/updated-power-glove-with-bluetooth/
Matt Mechtley is responsible for this maker’s dream project: getting a classic Nintendo Power Glove to work with custom games by replacing it’s brain with an arduino, implanting an accelerometer for motion detection, and using a bluetooth modem for wireless connectivity. He’s outdone himself with downloadable code, schematics, this awesome video, and an Instructable to top it off.
#arduino #bluetooth #gaming #hacks #imported:pinboard #nintendo #powerglove
archive.org #32832

Mystery over Bridgeport arrests: Molotov cocktails or brewing equipment? - chicagotribune.com

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/natosummit/chi-bridgeport-arrests-molotov-cocktails-or-brewing-equipment-20120518,0,2015209.story
According to law enforcement sources and police reports obtained by the Tribune, the arrests were the result of a monthlong investigation into a group suspected of making Molotov cocktails — crude bombs usually created by filling glass bottles with gasoline. But the National Lawyers Guild criticized the police raid, saying the nine NATO protesters only had beer-making equipment in their possession.
#homebrewing #imported:pinboard #nato #occupy #police #protests #to:fb
archive.org #21811

Client: We won’t be paying. We didn’t use your...

http://clientsfromhell.net/post/23045751725/client-we-wont-be-paying-we-didnt-use-your
Client: We won’t be paying. We didn’t use your material. Me: You didn’t? I saw the brochure today, it is exactly what I designed for you. Client: No, it isn’t. You sent us a PDF of the document. We did not print the PDF, we took a screen capture of it and pasted it into Word. That’s what we printed. Me: Regardless of format, I designed it. I delivered what we agreed upon in the contract you signed. Client: Well, we didn’t print from your file, we used it in a different format.  Me: Okay, I think you’re misunderstanding something. I’ll have my lawyer explain it to you on Monday.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21810

Scripting News: Outlining and my father

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/05/19/outliningAndMyFather.html
So now I'm on the cusp of releasing a tool that allows you to write directly onto the web in an outliner. The distance between the content on your machine and it being on the web is one mouse-click. That's exactly how far you want it to be. My father is not alive to see this, but if he were, he'd probably die from excitement. This is something he and I shared, at a genetic level, in our DNA, is this idea that the human mind can reach outside of itself, onto a computer, to make even more powerful and useful intellectual structures. Honestly, I wish he were here to share this with me. permalink
#davewiner #imported:pinboard #outlines #outlining #web #webdev
archive.org #21807

Shelf (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf_(computing)
The Shelf is an interface feature in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and is used as a repository to store links to commonly used files, directories and programs, and as a temporary "holding" place to move/copy files and directories around in the file system hierarchy. In Mac OS X, items may be dragged onto the sidebar area of the Finder while holding the Apple key, but these do not behave as placeholders and cannot be manipulated in the below manner.
#imported:pinboard #mac #nextstep #osx #shelf #utils
archive.org #21804

Mark Finkle’s Weblog » Firefox for Android: Where’s the Error Console?

http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2011/12/firefox-for-android-wheres-the-error-console/
The new native Android UI version of Firefox does not ship with a dedicated Error Console. Instead, all console messages are redirected to the Android system log – also known as logcat. If you have the Android SDK installed, you already have a way to view the logcat:
#android #firefox #imported:pinboard #logging #mozilla #webdev
archive.org #32836

Narrowed It Down To The Guy I Recognize - Television Tropes & Idioms

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize
You're watching one of the various Law & Order shows, the story is starting to pick up, and as the detectives start going through the usual Red Herring suspects, they interview the victim's mom and it's Angela Lansbury. Or their poolboy is Ian Somerhalder. Or William Mapother. Or "Trey" from The O.C.. Even though the detectives pass them over at first, you just know that they're going to be important in the episode, because they wouldn't have paid to cast a well-known actor in a throwaway role. It is very common that the most recognizable actor is the guilty party.
#funny #imported:pinboard #pointofinterest #tropes
archive.org #21797

Rands In Repose: Please Learn to Write

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/05/16/please_learn_to_write.html
Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter catching your its and it’s issues or reminding you of the rules regarding that or which. Here’s the rub: there is a compiler and it’s fucking brutal. It’s your readers. Your readers are far more critical than the Python interpreter. Not only do they care about syntax, but they also want to learn something, and, perhaps, be entertained while all this learning is going down. Success means they keep coming back - failure is a lonely silence. Python is looking pretty sweet now, right?
#coding #imported:pinboard #programming #writing
archive.org #21796

FACEBOOK'S WORST NIGHTMARE: With GM Pulling Its Ads, Here's How The Other Dominoes May Fall - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-worst-nightmare-with-gm-pulling-its-ads-heres-how-the-other-dominoes-may-fall-2012-5
It appears to be dawning on clients who control the U.S.'s major ad budgets that if your marketing content is interesting enough you don't need to advertise on Facebook. Advertising on Facebook is free, if you can create something compelling enough to go viral without a major media spend behind it.
#facebook #imported:pinboard #marketing #viral
archive.org #21789

Oracle Goes for Broke in Court Battle With Google | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/google-schmidt-page-damages/
But Judge Alsup wasn’t convinced. He told the court he had learned to code in Java for the trial — implying that he knew other languages as well — and he said that he had written some of the infringing code at least a hundred times since Oracle filed its suit in August 2010. “I can do it. You can do it. It’s so simple,” he said, adding that it takes less than five minutes. Then looked directly at Boies. “You’re one of the best lawyers in America — how can you make that argument?” he demanded.
#coding #google #imported:pinboard #judges #law #oracle
archive.org #32841

A federal judge learned to code - O'Reilly Radar

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/judge-alsup-codes.html
The last couple of days, there's been a fair amount of blogosphere angst over Coding Horror's "Please Don't Learn to Code." Ironically, the best argument for learning to code appeared this morning, when it turned out that Judge William Alsup in the Google case could program, and learned Java in the course of the trial, and wasn't going for Oracle's claim that a short range-checking function was days of work. Alsup recognized immediately (and says he wrote the function hundreds of times during the course of the trial) that it's just a few minutes work for a competent programmer.
#coding #google #imported:pinboard #law #learning #oracle #politics
archive.org #21787

Coding Horror: Learn to Read the Source, Luke

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/learn-to-read-the-source-luke.html
The transformative power of "source always included" in JavaScript is a major reason why I coined – and continue to believe in – Atwood's Law. Even if "view source" isn't built in (but it totally should be), you should demand access to the underlying source code for your stack. No matter what the documentation says, the source code is the ultimate truth, the best and most definitive and up-to-date documentation you're likely to find. This will be true forever, so the sooner you come to terms with this, the better off you'll be as a software developer.
#code #dev #development #imported:pinboard #viewsource #webdev
archive.org #21786

How electronic payment services are earning cabbies an extra $144 million in tips every year | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/electronic-payment-services-earning-cabbies-extra-144-million-214935642.html
Tipping: It's a pain. Not so much because we don't like rewarding good service — we absolutely do — it's just that we never have any idea what's customary to tip for service outside a restaurant. I mean, what do you tip a New York City cab driver, 10%? It turns out that's exactly what most people used to tip cabbies — 10%. Used to, that is, until cabs were forced to install touch screen payment systems that accept credit cards.
#cabs #imported:pinboard #payment #tips
archive.org #21781

Tweet-a-Watt starter pack ID: 143 - $90.00 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits

http://www.adafruit.com/products/143
Tweet-a-Watt is a DIY wireless power monitoring system. The project uses an 'off the shelf' power monitor called the Kill-a-Watt and adds wireless reporting. Each plug transmits the power usage at that outlet to a central computer receiver. The receiver can then log, graph and report the data. This pack contains nearly everything* necessary to build a single outlet monitor and receiver. To monitor additional outlets, you will need an add-on transmitter pack. One outlet can monitor up to 1500 Watts.
#diy #electronics #imported:pinboard #killawatt #tweetawatt #wireless
archive.org #21777

javascript - Convert Data URI to File then append to FormData - Stack Overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4998908/convert-data-uri-to-file-then-append-to-formdata
I've been trying to re-implement an HTML5 image uploader like the one on the Mozilla Hacks site, but that works with WebKit browsers. Part of the task is to extract an image file from the canvas object and append it to a FormData object for upload.
#canvas #formdata #html5 #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #21775

Uploading directly from HTML5 canvas to imgur — Jonas Wagner's Blog

http://29a.ch/2011/9/11/uploading-from-html5-canvas-to-imgur-data-uri
For an upcoming canvas project I want to give the users the ability to upload the content of the canvas to an image sharing service. When looking for a suitable API I came across imgur.com the registration was trivial, and they support CORS and base64/dataurl uploads, perfect!
#canvas #html5 #imgur #imported:pinboard #javascript #webdev
archive.org #21771

snowdeal.org - recipe: red bell pepper ringed sunny side up eggs!

http://snowdeal.org/2012/05/recipe-red-bell-pepper-ringed-sunny-side-up-eggs/
here’s an easy but satisfying twist on regular ol’ eggs. slice a cross section of red bell pepper so you get a nice circle-ish shape. take care to cut it so it will sit flat on a pan. heat both sides of the pepper in a frying pan for a minute or two, so that the pepper starts to soften but not too much. then, crack open an egg and put it right in the middle of the pepper.
#breakfast #cooking #eggs #imported:pinboard #peppers #recipes #tasty
archive.org #32850

God Bless America (Official Movie Site) - From stand-up comedian and director Bobcat Goldthwait - Starring Joel Murray and Tara Lynne Barr - Now on Demand and In Theatres - Trailers, Pictures & More

http://www.magnetreleasing.com/godblessamerica/
Frank (Joel Murray) has had enough of the downward spiral of American culture, which he sees as overrun with cruelty, stupidity and intolerance. Divorced, recently fired, and possibly terminally ill, Frank truly has nothing left to live for. But instead of taking his own life, he buys a gun and decides to take out his frustration on the cruelest, stupidest, most intolerant people he can imagine—starting with some particularly odious reality television stars. Frank finds an unusual accomplice in a high-school student named Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement, and together they embark on a nation-wide assault on our country’s dumbest, most irritating celebrities.
#comedy #funny #imported:pinboard #movies
archive.org #32853

Mind Thoughts... with Michael Ian Black - Let’s Not Fuck, Shall We? | VICE

http://www.vice.com/read/mind-thoughts-with-michael-ian-black-lets-not-fuck-shall-we
Why is sex such a dominant cultural theme now, and why does it seem to only be getting worse? Women have been rightly bitching about this for years, but men never seem to complain. Personally, I hate it. I hate the way men are stereotyped as sex-starved cock robots. It’s just such a basic pop culture premise that it doesn’t even get questioned; men want to fuck. All the time. Ideally while watching shit blow up.
#culture #funny #gender #imported:pinboard #men #sex
archive.org #21757

Tardy the Man Pony, and other crappy vintage toys that never existed

http://io9.com/5909790/tardy-the-man-pony-and-other-crappy-vintage-toys-that-never-existed
The artwork of Randy Regier channels the dime store toy aisles and the flashy comic book advertisements of the 1950s and 1960s. His toys promise rip-roaring thrills on their colorful packages...and deliver confusion, horror, and crushing disappointment once de-boxed. Let's take a look at some of Randy's unabashedly rip-off playthings like John Manshaft the misleading action figure — he comes with hand-painted socks! — and the gasoline-fueled "electric Sun." Regier's toys are filled with various forms of snake oil sleight of hand. A box that screams ELECTRIC TRAIN SET contains small print denoting it's actually an ELECTRIC man waiting for a TRAIN SET — the locomotive is nowhere to be found. His John Manshaft line boasts exciting box art of the hero in space and medieval times, but most boxes only contain a single forlorn, bug-eyed action figure in his underwear (Manufacturer Gypco Toys covertly informs the consumer to "cut out box lid for clothes and accessories.") Still other doodads are plain unsettling — look no further than the prancing abomination Tardy the Man Pony. Here's a sampling of Regier's many demented playthings. "Ric was apparently a regional politician who had these sets made to give the children of potential supporters. Set is filled with miniature campaign signs bearing Ric's name, but no cars are in evidence." "Note fine print on box front, 'not actual size.' Actual toy in box is red tin sedan scarcely four inches in length." "American Battery Using Astronaut — requires seven batteries but has no apparent functions." "Fine print on box says, 'See end panel for model this kit builds.' End panel says, 'Pot with lid and spatula.'" "Made of cast iron, weighs over 100 pounds." "Block of wood comes with carving knife attached. Knife in this kit has been broken." You can see many more of Regier's Americana hellhole artifacts at his Flickr account and website. And if you're especially lucky, he must just have a spare Tardy action figure on the market, looking for a loving home. [Spotted on I♥C]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21752

Compromising with Lawyers

http://everwas.com/2012/05/compromising-with-lawyers.html
True Story. A large consumer internet company where I worked sent in a team of lawyers to check over the fledgling social network I was building. The registration flow concerned them. There needed to be a check where the person registering was required to submit their date of birth so that we could ensure they were over 13. The advice of the lawyers was to throw an error if someone underage tried to register. “What kind of error?” I asked. “A generic error, something like, Your registration has failed or The system is down for maintenance.“ As a product guy, if there is one thing I hate more than a generic error message it’s a deceptive one. I want to give the user a specific error message that tells them what went wrong. “Can I just tell them that they are too young to use the service?” “No, then they would just adjust their date of birth and re-register,” said the legal department. We all know this is what happens anyway, it’s one of the great collective nod and winks of the internet along with checking the [I understand and grok completely] boxes on the End User License Agreements we find across the web. I argued that we must give them a more specific error so it doesn’t look like our service is broken. Legal didn’t want me to tip our had too much. What to do? We compromised. The new error message? The agreed upon language? You cannot use this service . . . at this time.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21749

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Man stole horse-drawn carriage before punching horse

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/05/man-stole-horse-drawn-carriage-before.html
Police have arrested a man they say attacked the driver of a horse-drawn carriage then took the reins in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday night. Police said the victim was steering a horse-drawn carriage southbound on 8th Street between Chestnut and Market around 8:25 p.m. when he saw the suspect running toward him. Authorities said Johnny Medina, 40, jumped into the side of the carriage and hit the victim in the head with a cane. Medina then took control of the reins and the victim jumped out of the carriage, according to police. A witness in the area called police, who responded to the scene and followed the carriage. Police said the horse, whose name is Harry, continued pulling the carriage and ran back to his barn at the St. Louis Carriage Company stables, located at 1000 Cerre Street. The carriage then crashed into and damaged a trolley bus on the parking lot. Police said another employee of the carriage company ran out and started to remove the horse from the carriage to get it back inside the stable. Medina then jumped down from the carriage and started punching and kicking the horse. Police said the employee and witnesses pushed Medina to the ground and detained him until police arrived. Carriage company employees told police the horse did not have any visible injuries, but would be checked by a veterinarian. The victim refused medical treatment at the scene. The suspect was taken to the hospital and remains in custody. Medina has been charged with second degree robbery and third degree assault. With news video.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21744

Biff's business card answers all of your burning Back To the Future questions

http://io9.com/5909718/biffs-business-card-answers-all-of-your-burning-back-to-the-future-questions
Tom Wilson, better known as the bully Biff from Back To the Future, gets asked a lot of questions about his legendary role. Instead of being uptight and refusing to talk about one of the greatest movie franchises of all time, he created this business card. Behold. And if you still have even more BTTF questions, Wilson has a song for you. Sadly he doesn't answer if he ever received my fanfic, titled Biff's Revenge. [via Shaun Usher at @LettersOfNote]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21743

Pixel-fitting by Dustin Curtis

http://dcurt.is/pixel-fitting
The difference is subtle, but the comparison makes it very clear. There are several major problems with the computer-created icons that leaves them looking blurry and unimpressive. For example, in the transition from 66x40 to 48x30 pixels, the human version drops the border down to exactly 2 pixels but the computer drops it to 2.8 (that's two solid black pixels, plus one half-pixel at 80% intensity), which gives it an incorrect soft edge. The computer has no way of knowing that the border should always be sharp, so it ignorantly tries to maintain the ratio of the originally-specified image at the expense of sharpness. The result is not great.
#design #graphics #imported:pinboard #markdown #webdev
archive.org #21739

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Pier collapses during prom photo shoot

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/05/pier-collapses-during-prom-photo-shoot.html
Teenagers can spend weeks thinking about their prom outfits and the whole day getting ready. A group of them in Wisconsin expected their perfect looks to last all night. Instead, they were soaking wet in a matter of minutes. "It's completely unexpected. It doesn't even happen on TV, and all of a sudden here it is happening to us," said Matt Timm. A group of friends went to waters off of Lac La Belle in Oconomowoc on Saturday to take a group photo before prom. Little did they know as they stood on a wooden pier that they were about to make a life-long memory when the pier suddenly collapsed. Soaking wet, the girls and guys were pulled from the water. Trying to dry off before prom, they ran so many hair dryers they blew a breaker inside a home. But with some borrowed shirts for the guys and some touch-up makeup for the girls, the group finally made it to the big event. "We're laughing about it now and it's hilarious, and I'm sure my kids will laugh at it. It'll be remembered a long time," said one of the teens. There's a news video here.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21727

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Scottish woman gave up alcohol for a month

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/05/scottish-woman-gave-up-alcohol-for.html
Aberdeen woman, Stacey Summers, 25, who gave up alcohol for a month and persuaded her friends to join her, has spoken of the experience. Stacey, whose dad Gavin passed away after battling an alcohol-related illness, said: “I struggled. I really, really did. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.”
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21726

U.S. Still Not the Best Place to Be a Mom, Despite Unparalleled Access to the Doritos Locos Taco

http://gawker.com/5909133/us-still-not-the-best-place-to-be-a-mom-despite-unparalleled-access-to-the-doritos-locos-taco
The United States is a slightly better place to be a mom this year than it was last year, according to the annual State of the World's Mothers report released by the Save the Children international aid organization earlier this week. More »
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21725

Microsoft to block browser choice in Windows RT, says Mozilla | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/9/3010982/microsoft-block-browser-choice-windows-rt-mozilla
Mozilla has already announced that it's working on a Metro-style version of the Firefox browser for Windows 8, but the company is now crying foul over what is says are Microsoft's intentions to limit user choice for browsers on ARM-based devices. At issue is Windows RT, which as Mozilla states in a blog post will feature two environments: Metro, and the more-traditional Windows Classic. According to the company, however, the only browser that will be allowed to run in Windows Classic mode will be Microsoft's own Internet Explorer, locking out any third-party options. Given that other browsers can run in the Metro environment, Mozilla points out that there should be no technical limitation preventing apps from being able to run in Classic... Continue reading…
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21718

Iain Banks: My Favourite Game - Edge Magazine

http://www.edge-online.com/features/iain-banks-my-favourite-game
Novelist Iain Banks might be better known as Iain M Banks, the pen name under which most of his speculative fiction is published. Of this oeuvre, his Culture series is most widely celebrated, depicting a utopian, galaxy-spanning civilisation whose citizens (when they aren’t meddling in the affairs of lesser races) have plenty of time for gaming.
#culture #gaming #imported:pinboard #scifi #to:fb
archive.org #21717

Why Mark Zuckerberg Needs His Hoodie - Technology - The Atlantic Wire

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/05/why-mark-zuckerberg-needs-his-hoodie/52106/
Zuckerberg didn't get where he is today by trading in his signature look for something that looks more CEO friendly. He built the Facebook magic wearing a hoodie -- at least according to The Social Network. At the very least he did it in a place where hoodies are fashion-appropriate. Since then he has worn the hoodie. And also since then, Facebook has grown and he's made lots of money. Coincidence? Maybe. But Zuckerberg clearly doesn't think so.
#facebook #hoodies #imported:pinboard #to:fb #zuckerberg
archive.org #32865

Why is Anyone Surprised that Kindles Are Too Breakable for Children? | iFixit

http://ifixit.org/2446/why-is-anyone-surprised-that-kindles-are-too-breakable-for-children/
Perhaps the best implementation of educational technology in the developing world, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) designed their own laptop—it’s durable, light, can withstand extreme conditions, and, most importantly, is easily repairable by the children themselves. Remove four Phillips screws, and the screen’s off. Four more screws, and the motherboard’s off. Their repair and troubleshooting guides are available on each laptop and online, and they are also developing a list of sources for repair parts.
#duh #ewaste #imported:pinboard #kindle #olpc #repair
archive.org #32868

grinding.be » Blog Archive » TSA break 16y.o.’s insulin pump with scanner

http://grinding.be/2012/05/09/tsa-break-16y-o-s-insulin-pump-with-scanner/
From ABC4: After participating in a DECA conference in Salt Lake City with several classmates last week, Savannah, who is a type one diabetic and wears an insulin pump 24 hours a day, says she ran into TSA agents who were not prepared to deal with her medical situation. “I went up to the lady and I said, I am a type one diabetic. I wear an insulin pump. I showed her the pump. I said, what do you want me to do? I usually do a pat down – what would you recommend?” Savannah then showed agents a doctor’s note explaining that the sensitive insulin pump should not go through the body scanner. She says she was told to go through it anyway. “When someone in a position of authority tells you it is – you think that its right. So, I said, Are you sure I can go through with the pump? It’s not going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you’re fine.” The 16-year-old walked into the scanner with some serious reservations “My life is pretty much in their hands when I go through a body scan with my insulin pump on.” She was right to be worried. She says the pump stopped working correctly. “Coming off an insulin pump is rough. You never know what is going to happen when you are not on the insulin pump.” via Cat Vincent | /.
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archive.org #32869

Underwear Bomber 2.0 was CIA double agent - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/underwear-bomber-2-0-was-cia-d.html
Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt in The New York Times dig deeper into yesterday's news of a new would-be Al Qaeda underwear bomber, "dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner." He was a double agent for the CIA who infiltrated Al Qaeda, and "volunteered for the suicide mission." He also provided intelligence that led to Sunday's drone strike killing a USS Cole bombing suspect. Snip:
#imported:pinboard #intelligence #terrorism #to:fb
archive.org #21709

Fox News guest laments ‘mistake’ of letting women vote | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/07/fox-news-contributor-laments-mistake-of-letting-women-vote/
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a tea party activist that’s appeared several times on Fox News, and founder of an organization where Sean Hannity serves as an advisory board member, said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that America’s greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in “the good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to deal with them.”
#fox #imported:pinboard #politics #voters #women
archive.org #32874

The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record | TorrentFreak

http://torrentfreak.com/the-avengers-why-pirates-failed-to-prevent-a-box-office-record-120508/
Despite the widespread availability of pirated releases, The Avengers just scored a record-breaking $200 million opening weekend at the box office. While some are baffled to see that piracy failed to crush the movie’s profits, it’s really not that surprising. Claiming a camcorded copy of a movie seriously impacts box office attendance is the same as arguing that concert bootlegs stop people from seeing artists on stage.
#avengers #copyfight #imported:pinboard #movies #piracy #to:fb
archive.org #32875

Adam Yauch and Paul’s Boutique: How dumb court decisions have made it nearly impossible for artists to sample the way the Beastie Boys did - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/adam_yauch_and_paul_s_boutique_how_dumb_court_decisions_have_made_it_nearly_impossible_for_artists_to_sample_the_way_the_beastie_boys_did.single.html
How dumb court decisions and bad laws have made it all but impossible for musicians to sample the way the Beastie Boys used to.
#beastieboys #copyfight #copyright #imported:pinboard #music #remix #sampling #to:fb
archive.org #21701

Sit, Ubu, sit! …Good dog! | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2012/05/08/sit-ubu-sit-good-dog/
Ubu Productions is an independent production company founded in 1982 by producer Gary David Goldberg. Ubu’s had made some pretty famous shows, including Family Ties and Spin City. If the name sounds familiar, it might be that you love those shows or it is more likely because at the end of many Ubu produced shows, you had a photo of a black Labrador Retriever with a Frisbee in his mouth.
#imported:pinboard #nifty #retro #to:fb #to:tumblr #ubu
archive.org #32877

no-www considered harmful - defunct

http://www.less-broken.com/blog/2012/05/no-www-considered-harmful.html
I remember reading about the no-www movement years ago. At that time it struck me as a cool thing to do, but I now know that no-www is a really bad idea in general. That’s because the DNS system lets you assign CNAME records to subdomains, including the www subdomain, but only A or AAAA records to root domains. In other words, you can say that www.example.com is the same as test.example.org, but you can only say that example.com is the same as a particular IP address.
#dns #imported:pinboard #nowww #webdev
archive.org #21699

Demoing and displaying JavaScript at the same time using CSS | Christian Heilmann

http://christianheilmann.com/2012/05/08/demoing-and-displaying-javascript-at-the-same-time-using-css/
If you do a view-source you find no other script in use, yet it displays in the page. What is this sourcery*? Simple, and it was Mathias Bynens who got me onto it: just display script elements as block and add some generated content to show the “Source” text:
#css #imported:pinboard #javascript #source #webdev
archive.org #32878

memeorandum: Bank of America Starts Mortgage Reduction Effort (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

http://www.memeorandum.com/120508/p43#a120508p43
Natasha Singer / New York Times:Bank of America Starts Mortgage Reduction Effort  —  Bank of America has started sending letters to thousands of homeowners in the United States, offering to forgive a portion of the principal balance on their mortgages by an average of $150,000 each.  —  The reduction for qualifying homeowners …
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21697

Paul's Boutique would be impossible today

http://kottke.org/12/05/pauls-boutique-would-be-impossible-today
Matt Yglesias argues that because of the way copyright is viewed by the public and interpreted by lawmakers and the courts, making an album like The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique would be nearly impossible today. The death on Friday of Adam Yauch, best known as the Beastie Boys' MCA, surely sent many of us back to old albums we may not have heard for a while. And anyone who threw on Paul's Boutique, the Boys' best album, was surely struck by the sense that they don't make records like that anymore. That's not just because tastes and styles have changed. The entire album is based on lavish sampling of other recordings. "Shake Your Rump," which leads Slate's #MCATracks playlist, features samples of 14 songs by 12 separate artists. In all, the album is thought to have as many as 300 total samples. The sampling gave Paul's Boutique a sound that remains almost as distinctive today as it was when it was released in 1989. Perhaps the main reason-and certainly the saddest reason-that it still sounds distinctive is that a rapidly shifting legal and economic landscape made it essentially impossible to repeat. Tags: Beastie Boys   copyright   legal   Matt Yglesias   music
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21696

MAKE | Fun Skill Patches Offered by Adafruit

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/05/07/beautiful-skill-patches-offered-by-adafruit/
Phil Torrone of Adafruit sent me a bag full of maker skill patches. When my 9-year-old daughter came home from school today, her eyes popped out like a Tex Avery wolf. I told her she could have them all, but she has to earn them! I’ll work with her to help her earn the LED patch first.
#adafruit #badges #diy #hacks #imported:pinboard #nifty
archive.org #32879

Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed for Developers | DevOpsANGLE

http://devopsangle.com/2012/05/07/dell-announces-a-linux-laptop-designed-for-developers/
A few years ago Dell began offering the Ubuntu distribution of Linux on its desktops and laptaps, but quietly dropped the option from its online store in 2010 (though it’s still possible to order certain machines with Ubuntu). Today at the Ubuntu Developers Summit Dell announced that it is dipping its toes into back into the Linux laptop market with Project Sputnik, a developer-centric laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 on Dell’s XPS13 Ultrabook hardware.
#dell #imported:pinboard #laptops #linux #ubuntu
archive.org #32880

Mastering the Margarita - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303592404577362134104442856.html?mod=e2tw
Like any other drink, it is only as good as its worst ingredient. Fortunately, the basic margarita only has three: tequila, triple sec and lime juice. Choose a spirit made of 100% agave, stock your bar with a solid orange-flavored liqueur, squeeze fresh lime juice—think of how strong your forearms will get!—and nail the proportions and you'll have a wonderfully balanced sweet, tangy, slightly earthy (that's the 100% agave) drink to sip this Cinco de Mayo and throughout the summer.
#alcohol #booze #drinks #imported:pinboard #margaritas #tequila
archive.org #21688

recruiter recruiter template — Gist

https://gist.github.com/2597193
Hi! I'm not currently looking for a job as I'm pretty happy at my current job. However Mozilla is looking for a recruiting manager in Mountain View. Mozilla also has deep ties in the open source communities and it sounds like it might be an interesting fit for you. <OPTIONAL-ADDITIONAL-TEXT> If you're interested in applying, check out our careers link: http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/ojYkWfwh Looking forward to hearing from you! <SIGNATURE>
#imported:pinboard #mozilla #nifty #recruiters #recruiting
archive.org #21687

Why Publishers Don't Like Apps - Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40319/
Last fall, we moved all the editorial in our apps, including the magazine, into a simple RSS feed in a river of news. We dumped the digital replica. Now we're redesigning Technologyreview.com, which we made entirely free for use, and we'll follow the Financial Times in using HTML5, so that a reader will see Web pages optimized for any device, whether a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet, or a smart phone. Then we'll kill our apps, too.
#apps #business #html5 #imported:pinboard #publishing #web
archive.org #32883

The Real Reason They Still Play 'Mrs. Robinson' On The Radio

http://www.upworthy.com/who-controls-90-of-everything-americans-watch-hear-and-read
Stations haven't been playing "Mrs. Robinson" for 32 years just because everyone likes Simon & Garfunkel (although I really do love them!). It's because 80% of stations' playlists match all across the country. So much for thinking that media exposes us to new and different ideas, eh?
#consolidation #imported:pinboard #infographics #media #politics #visualization
archive.org #21685

Photos Allegedly Show High School Seniors Mainlining Amino Acids while Cramming for Chinese College Entrance Exams

http://gawker.com/5908167/photos-allegedly-show-high-school-seniors-mainlining-amino-acids-while-cramming-for-chinese-college-entrance-exams
Photos of questionable veracity posted on Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo by a person alleging to be a high school senior from the city of Xiaogan claim to show students studying for their National College Entrance Exams while hooked up to IV drips containing an unknown substance. More »
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21684

'Bespoke' Is the Latest Word to Be Ruined by Advertising

http://gawker.com/5907721/bespoke-is-the-latest-word-to-be-ruined-by-advertising
"Artisan." Remember the word "artisan?" Perfectly valid word. Described an actual type of thing. Until the ad world got ahold of it, put it on the street, and pimped it out until every last chemical food concoction assembled by robots out of petroleum byproducts was marketed as "artisan." Totally killed the word. "Bespoke?" You're next. More »
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21682

1920s engineers believed the Electric Age would die a quick death

http://io9.com/5906821/1920s-engineers-believed-the-electric-age-would-die-a-quick-death
Our electrical infrastructure spans the globe, lighting up every place on Earth. But it all relies on one singular metal: copper. And back in the early years of the 20th Century, many economists and engineers worried that we would run out of copper in no time. They looked at the fast pace of our copper usage, and fretted that the world's copper reserves would quickly be outpaced by humanity's desire for an electric world. Top image: Douglas Wheelock/International Space Station Peak Copper Theory80% of copper mined over the course of human history is in use right now — the copper streets lining the circuit board of your computer may be the same pieces of copper that once constructed a medieval chalice. The rate at which humanity used copper to install electric lights and form the foundation of our current infrastructure alarmed a number of miners, engineers, and economists in the early 20th Century. In the 1924 article Copper and electricity to vanish in twenty years?, copper mining engineer Ira Joralemon said: [T]he age of electricity and of copper will be short. At the intense rate of production that must come, the copper supply of the world will last hardly a score of years. [...] Our civilization based on electrical power will dwindle and die. This belief is yet to die — copper is necessary to build the infrastructure of any country, and as we continue through the Electronic Age, developing powers like Indian and China continue to devour copper. Should the world's copper supply run dry, electronics makers would turn to more expensive metals with similar properties, like silver (copper currently costs 24 cents per ounce, while silver hovers around $31 an ounce). Aluminum is another possible replacement for copper, but use of aluminum for electrical wiring brings about an increased chance of combustion and burning a building down. So copper is at least somewhat irreplaceable. In that case, why is it still so cheap? The copper economy is fragile Yasuo Hamanaka, a Japanese businessman, sought to artificially increase the value of copper by hoarding massive quantities of the metal, and in doing so, taught the world about the delicate nuances of the world's copper supply. By the mid-1990s, Hamanaka controlled 5% of the world's copper reserves. 5% does not sound like a lot, but copper is a not a commodity that can be moved around easily due to its mass, leaving Hamanaka's control of a small percentage to send waves through the world economy. Renewed mining efforts in China along with several financial probes intp Hamanaka's actions unraveled his scheme, with Hamanaka eventually serving seven years in prison for trading violations. Improved recovery methods 40% of the world's copper is mined in Chile, with mines holding a steady output, after a brief drop-off during 2008. Copper is durable and lasts an extremely long time — copper plumbing can last three centuries before substantial pitting occurs from water moving through the tubes. Copper is also extremely robust — the quality of recycled copper is extremely high, and very little mass is lost during the recycling process, allowing re-purposed copper to demand a price only a few percentage points below newly mined copper. This property of copper is essential, as it moves copper away from the category of expendable resources like petroleum and closer to the terrain of renewable resources. A combination of an increase in known reserves since the early 1900s and the current ability to turn a profit on ore containing less than 1% copper suggest a supple future for the world's copper reserves. Extreme recycling The ability to easily recycle copper may one day lead to a cottage industry of industrial-scale electronics recycling, with the process turning discarded laptops, televisions, and smartphones into scraps of useful copper, much like small scale recycling schemes currently recover gold and platinum from deceased electronics. Image by jakedolan/Flickr. In a dire situation, existing copper parts of our infrastructure could be removed and outfitted with plastic or other alternatives. Copper pipes buried underground could be replaced with PVC, while slowly oxidized, green copper roofs become black sheets of asphalt. No doubt an extreme and labor intensive undertaking, but a believable one if a profit motive exists. Wars fought over natural resources are not unheard of — could we see the day when countries go to war over copper mines? Not a likely scenario in our lifetimes, due to increased mining and recycling possibilities, but one that makes for interesting science fiction fodder. At the very least, our ancestors' fears of a small and finite copper supply appear to have been overcome, allowing us to sleep with the lights on. Images courtesy of Great Mining and Berry Mill Scrap. Sources linked within the article.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21679

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake! - The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-king-tax-me-for-f-s-sake.html
Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn money—is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America without America.
#america #economics #imported:pinboard #politics #stephenking #taxes #wealth
archive.org #21677

"Dark Warrior epilepsy," a ridiculously rare medical condition named after an arcade game

http://io9.com/5907488/dark-warrior-epilepsy-a-ridiculously-rare-medical-condition-named-after-an-arcade-game
Back when Pokémon were just a seizure-inducing flicker in Nintendo's eye, there was "Dark Warrior epilepsy," a form of epilepsy that was only reported once in the history of medicine. Nonetheless, this malady is responsible for one of the strangest paragraphs ever to grace a medical journal. In 1982, the British Medical Journal published a report from the Department of Neurology at Bristol's Frenchay Hospital. This article — simply and sinisterly titled "Dark Warrior epilepsy" — recounted how a 17-year-old girl with probable photosensitive epilepsy lost consciousness after playing the arcade game Dark Warrior (see gameplay below). As the researchers noted: She had played Space Invader, Asteroids, and Lunar Rescue and not suffered any known adverse effects. The patient subsequently avoided playing Dark Warrior, and her fits ceased. But that wasn't enough for our enterprising doctors. No, after witnessing terms like "Space Invader wrist tendonitis" and "Space Invader epilepsy" (which was erroneously coined during a case study of the game Astro Fighter) gain cachet in medical circles, these doctors were gung-ho to leave on a mark on the neuroscientific lexicon. Behold this magical paragraph: The term Space Invader epilepsy is, in fact, a misnomer, since no cases have been reported with the Space Invader video game itself. We suggest, therefore, that Astro Fighter and Dark Warrior epilepsy be classified under "electronic space war video game epilepsy" and this as a special category of photoconvulsive epilepsy. Video games other than space war games-for example, Super Bug and Munch Man-appear to be less epileptogenic. Electronic space war video game epilepsy has yet to be reported with Defender, Space Fury, Lunar Rescue, or Asteroids war games. I hope Munch Man's PR team exploited the hell out of that pull quote. And the next time I end up in the emergency room, I will slip "electronic space war video game epilepsy" among my list of complaints. (This is how to determine who was awake during med school.) Also, is Dark Warrior epilepsy is any way linked to outbreaks of Pac-Man Fever? This requires further inquiry. Semi-related: Another journal paragraph somehow penned with a straight face. [Via Mind Hacks]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21670

What if Edward Gorey drew Lovecraft's unspeakable horrors?

http://io9.com/5907828/what-if-edward-gorey-drew-lovecrafts-unspeakable-horrors
Edward Gorey was the master of understated terrors, and if he'd ever illustrated the madness-inducing monsters of HP Lovecraft, they might look like John Kenn Mortensen's Post-It Monstres, in which horrific beasts loom over remarkably unperturbed kiddies. What's especially lovely about Mortensen's monster doodles is that, while Gorey is clearly an influence, it doesn't appear that he's fully aping Gorey's character design. And his empty-eyed monsters, occasionally tentacled and occasionally all teeth and hair, lend the scenes a sense of unavoidable doom. I wonder if the children will be the victims or instigators of that doom. Perhaps they will be both. You can see more of Mortensen's illustrations on his blog or in his Post-It Monstre art book. [via Lovecraftzine via MetaFilter]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21669

Client: We need this done right now. Me: So does...

http://clientsfromhell.net/post/22261226131/client-we-need-this-done-right-now-me-so-does
Client: We need this done right now. Me: So does that mean you’re sending the assets and copy changes I need to make the changes right now? Client: No! Me: So should I wait until you do? Client: No, I need this pamphlet finished right now. Me: So there aren’t copy changes and new images to include? Client: There are… Me: But you’re not sending those right now? Client: No, we’re not. Me: So you want me to send the previous version? Client: No, we want the new version with the copy changes and new images. Me: I think you and I aren’t understanding each other. Client: What do you mean?
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21660

Thalience — KarlSchroeder.com

http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/thalience
Now maybe you can see how science could have a successor: thalience would use objective truth as an artistic medium and merge subjectivity and objectivity in a creative activity whose purpose is the re-sanctification of the natural world. To believe in an uplifting and satisfying vision of your place in the universe, and to know that this vision is true (or as true as anything can be) would be sublime. Thalience would be an activity worthy of post-scientific humanity, or our own biological or post-biological successors.
#ai #cogsci #fiction #imported:pinboard #science #scifi #thalience
archive.org #21656

Walter P. Reuther on National Healthcare - Walter P. Reuther Library

https://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/8610
Although current talk of national healthcare may seem new and revolutionary, it is far from the first time this issue has received national attention. Long before last year’s debate on national healthcare, prior to the healthcare discussions posed by Hillary Clinton in the 1990s, concerns over rising costs and the provision of healthcare in the United States generated attention in the late 1960s.
#healthcare #imported:pinboard #nifty #to:fb
archive.org #21653

A chubby cat and a bunch of video game consoles,... - Tiny Cartridge - Nintendo 3DS, DS, Wii U, and PS Vita News, Media, Comics, & Retro Junk

http://tinycartridge.com/post/22233478573/a-chubby-cat-and-a-bunch-of-video-game-consoles
A chubby cat and a bunch of video game consoles, drawn by Kyle Fewell for Matt Hawkins’ long delayed but still anticipated FORT90ZINE4ANSWER. Fewell posted a similar awesome piece last week, but I didn’t get a chance to share it here before it blew up on Tumblr like whoa. Look at this cat. Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more See also: More fanart [VIa Kyle Fewell]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21649

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Drunk grandparents towed child in toy car

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/05/drunk-grandparents-towed-child-in-toy.html
A grandmother and grandfather from Sarasota, Florida, are facing numerous charges for towing a toy plastic car from behind their SUV with their grandchild seated inside. According to the arrest report, a Sarasota deputy on patrol spotted the SUV on Sunday, pulling a small plastic Hot Wheels car with the 7-year-old girl inside. The toy car was connected to the SUV with dog leads tied to the trailer hitch. The vehicle was travelling about five to 10 miles per hour, and a woman was riding in the rear with the hatch open, cheering the child on. The little girl had on a bathing suit, and no protective gear. The deputy immediately pulled the vehicle over, and in the arrest report states the driver of the SUV, 49-year-old Paul Berloni, had a strong smell of alcohol on him. Berloni told the deputy his drivers licence had been suspended for 10 years for DUI and at first said he had only two or three drinks. He later allegedly told the deputy he drank more, but wouldn't say how much. Berloni refused to take a field sobriety test and was placed into custody. The woman riding in back, 47-year-old Belinda Berloni, was also reportedly intoxicated and told the deputy that while she knew it was dangerous to drag the toy car, they were "just having fun and had been doing this all day."YouTube link. The child's father was called to the scene and was reportedly became very upset when he learned what happened. He reportedly said to his mother, Belinda, "Are you f---ing stupid? You should know better!" The father told investigators he believed both grandparents have a drinking problem. Paul Berloni was charged with DUI, driving while licence suspended and child neglect/endangerment. His Belinda Berloni was charged with child neglect/endangerment. Investigators say the child was unharmed in the incident.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21648

View Firefox page source in an external editor - Mac OS X Hints

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110106101920874
To do this, you need to enter about:config in Firefox's URL bar, then accept the warning when prompted. In the Filter box, type source.editor, which will show you three variables. Double-click on view_source.editor.external first, to change its Value to true. Next, double-click on view_source.editor.path, which will drop down a small sheet in which you enter the path to your preferred editor. The path must be a full complete Unix-style path, and point to the actual executable (not the app bundle). So for Coda, I used:
#editors #firefox #imported:pinboard #mac #tips
archive.org #21598

Grant Morrison says Batman is gay, internet basically shrugs

http://io9.com/5906112/grant-morrison-says-batman-is-gay-internet-basically-shrugs
Ever since the days of Fredric Wertham, people have been pointing out the homoerotic elements in Batman. There are hundreds of GIFs of Batman in his pink costume, or that famous scene where all the other DC heroes worry about their girlfriends, and Batman worries about Robin. There's even a Wikipedia entry on "Homosexuality in the Batman Franchise," complete with an image from a 1954 comic showing Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson apparently sleeping in the same bed. Top image: Frank Quitely/Playboy. So when Batman, Inc. writer Grant Morrison said in a Playboy Magazine interview that he thought the concept of Batman (not Batman himself) was gay, the fan reaction was muted. Here's what Morrison says: He's very plutonian in the sense that he's wealthy and also in the sense that he's sexually deviant. Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I think that's why people like it. All these women fancy him and they all wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn't care-he's more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid. He also points out that Wonder Woman was only really popular when she was having lots of bondage and strange lesbian stag-hunts. In any case, I've seen articles claiming that Morrison's comments caused a huge internet hub-bub... but I haven't quite been able to locate the hub-bub yet. There have been a few grouchy comments here and there, and a number of people pointing out that Batman is currently boinking Catwoman thus proving that indeed, "as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual." And a few other people have wondered what, exactly, the "pejorative sense" of gay is. The main critical comment I've come across thus far? Over at the Bleeding Cool forums, Phantom309 asks, "Why is Captain Picard about to crush all those characters?"
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21594

NES, the shoulder bag. Have you ever wanted to be... - Tiny Cartridge - Nintendo DS, DSi, & 3DS News, Media, Videos, Imports, Homebrew, & Retro Junk

http://tinycartridge.com/post/22047104645/nes-the-shoulder-bag-have-you-ever-wanted-to-be
NES, the shoulder bag. Have you ever wanted to be the guy carrying a notebook around in a hollowed out NES, with velvet glued to the inside and big lunch box clasps? And a little NES controller card case to go with it? I’d kinda want to get one of these to carry a third-party Famiclone in. Just because. Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more See also: More Famicom junk
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archive.org #21585

Olympics 2012: A Bruce Schneier Moment - Charlie's Diary

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/olympics-2012-a-bruce-schneier.html
The security theatre is getting surreal: The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics. An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a "Higher Velocity Missile system" could be placed on a water tower. ... But estate resident Brian Whelan said firing the missiles "would shower debris across the east end of London". ... "It [the leaflet] says there will be 10 officers plus police present 24/7." Lunacy on stilts. (Oh, and let me add, the residents don't get any choice over having missiles billeted on top of their homes.) If one of those things is ever fired, either in anger or by accident, it'll shower white-hot supersonic shrapnel across the extremely crowded residential heart of a city. Hmm. It's a good thing I'm a novelist who dabbles in technothrillers, not a terrorist. If I was a terrorist I'd be licking my lips, trying to work out how to trigger a missile launch. Using a motor-powered model aircraft, free flight design (no radio controls to jam) aimed vaguely towards the Olympic stadium, with a nice radio beacon or some sort of infra-red source (a flare, perhaps) on its tail to make it easy to track? These missiles will be the close-in option, because we know the RAF will already be flying combat air patrols over London; they won't have much time to evaluate threats or respond intelligently. So launch from the back of a panel van, like the IRA mortar attacks on places like Heathrow or 10 Downing Street. The twist in the scheme would be to aim past the missile launchers along a vector that would attract a hail of hypervelocity missile launches in the direction of, say, a DLR station at rush hour. Olympic security is out of control and irrational; the best solution would be to designate a permanent Olympic venue somewhere isolated — Diego Garcia would be a prime candidate — and hold the games there permanently so that they don't endanger life, limb and civil liberties. Alas, that would reduce the corruption corporate sponsorship opportunities, and the games are entirely about milking the host nation for money these days. Fuck the Olympics in 2012. (Oh, and incidentally it would be illegal for me to say this if I happened to live in London or my blog was hosted in England—the enabling laws for the Olympics override our basic civil rights, including free speech. Luckily I'm north of the border in a country that remains semi-free. But if a future independent Scotland even thinks about bidding to host the Olympics, you bet I'll be organizing street marches in opposition ...)
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archive.org #21577

Protocols vs Styles

http://www.subbu.org/blog/2012/04/protocols-vs-styles
My RESTful Web Services Cookbook has been out for nearly 26 months. From Feb 2010 till the end of 2011, O’Reilly sold 13,052 copies (both print and eBook format combined, per the royalty statements received to date) of this book. Given that O’Reilly’s eBooks are DRM free, I would like to think that several thousands more copies were downloaded for free on torrent sites, but there is no way to know. Writing this book was a painful exercise. I spent most of 2009 writing the drafts – at that time Yahoo allowed me to spend about 20% of my time for nearly 4 months to write the first draft (for which they own the copyright of the book). It was painful because REST was about style. Not having seen all aspects of the style work in reality, I was not fully convinced about parts of the style. Separating style from protocols was a time consuming yet learning exercise. How could I say that following such and such Roy Fielding’s constraint leads to evolvability without dissecting evolvability into concrete details? The last thing I wanted was to write a book that paints a nice picture with the benefits one would get out of REST without discussing the specifics. I wanted to avoid handwaving at all cost. In these two years, I changed quite a bit. I no longer actively engage myself in discussions about REST. I unsubscribed out of rest-discuss in 2011. I don’t even subscribe to Roy’s idea that REST APIs must be hypertext-driven or that “A REST API should spend almost all of its descriptive effort in defining the media types”. What I learned in these two years were the following: Don’t confuse styles with protocols. Understand what you are going to interoperate with and make tradeoffs as necessary. Interoperating between style deviations is more important than arguing for style adherence. Interoperability is partly a protocol problem and partly a software problem. Architecture styles are guides, but protocols specify rules. Roy’s REST codifies (to some extent reverse-engineeres) the Web into a set of constraints. Constaints are what they are – guides sans context. They are subject to tradeoffs. They postulate benefits when applied. But protocols are different. They set ground rules for different systems to work together. Just like you don’t start driving on the left side of the road (in the US), you don’t break TCP or HTTP’s messaging formats. When you break such protocols, you prevent networked systems from working together. But we tend to mistake the style (i.e, REST) for the protocols. I made that mistake several times (shame on me!) in the past, and I still see it being made. I took care to avoid this while writing the book, but I may not have succeeded fully. Strong belief in a style often leads to zealotry. This is no different from the zealotry we see in socio-political debates. Yet not all Protocols are the same. I tend to view protocols making up a pyramid. Where a protocol stays in this pyramid shows how widely it helps interoperability. / / / /______ Towards the bottom are protocols that strive for the widest range of interoperability possible. TCP is an example. HTTP is another example. As you go up the pyramid, the amount of relevance and influence a protocol carries becomes narower. For instance, I would keep RFC 2616 towards the bottom of the pyramid, but an RFC like 5023 (AtomPub) towards the top. AtomPub’s reign of influence was limited then and is even now. I would similarly place a media type like application/json towards the bottom, and a type like application/my-grand-fathers-facebook-profile+json at the top. A perspective of where a protocol belongs in this pyramid certainly helps ration energy. So, would I write this book differently now? I certainly would. I would change the title to something along the lines of “Recipes to Build Client Server Apps Using Web Protocols”, though the editor might ask me to change to include some current trending words. I would emphasize even more on protocols. I would cut down or clearly demarcate the parts of the book that suggested design styles (such as designing formats). I would spend a big chunk on how to interopere without necessarily agreeing on the style. If you’ve read my book, and built some interoperable Web based systems, you might come to the same conclusion as I did. If that happens, I count my book as a success.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21576

The Text Triumvirate

http://www.drbunsen.org/text-triumvirate.html
This post aims to provide an overview of how to create a highly functional and easy to configure Text Triumvirate for those new to this tool chain. I try to focus on aspects of how to integrate zsh, vim, and tmux with particular focus on my experiences with two common problems—copy/paste functionality and color aesthetics.
#commandline #dev #imported:pinboard #shell #tips #tmux #vim #zsh
archive.org #21575

All Night Diner : How to get a development instance of AMO set up in about 10 minutes

http://micropipes.com/blog/2012/04/10/how-to-get-a-development-instance-of-amo-set-up-in-about-10-minutes/
Last year we set up landfill.amo to give contributors an easy base to set up the addons.mozilla.org site. Easy is relative here, of course, but it was a big leap over what we had at the time. Kumar leapfrogged that milestone by adding Vagrant configuration scripts to our repository. Now you can have a running version of AMO on your local system in about 3-5 commands[1]. Check out the steps to install AMO with Vagrant to see how. I set it up on OS X last week and aside from waiting for the download it only took a few minutes. Drop by #amo on IRC if you run into any troubles. [1] Setting this up on Windows is apparently more difficult although one contributor did find success after fighting with it for some time. Edit: Updated the installation instructions URL
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32922

Paintball with human "fox" as target - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/paintball-with-human-fox-a.html
In an attempt to satisfy hunters left wanting due to hunting bans in parts of England, UK Paintball is now offering a "fox hunt" where participants target a human dressed in a fox suit. (I just hope this doesn't turn into open season on furries.) Does the idea remind you of Richard Connell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game," about a rich man who hunts human prey on his private island? Turns out, the two gents who invented paintball in 1976 were inspired by Connell's story! UK Paintball's "Fox Hunt" (via Metro.co.uk)
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archive.org #21569

2,000 patents have been granted for shaped pasta - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/2000-patents-have-been-grante.html
Dan sez, "Macaroni and cheese seems like a pretty docile product -- I mean, it's just pasta and orange powder in a box. But Kraft and others use the fun macaroni shapes to help market the products, and to protect their marketing tool, they often seek patents for their shapes. Yes, patents. And... they get them. A Google Patent Search shows about 2,000 patents for shaped pasta." Cooked to Perfection (Thanks, Dan!)
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21568

ZOMBIES BACK ROMNEY | Weekly World News

http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/44402/zombies-back-romney/
Mitt Romney was reeling when he heard that aliens from Planet Zeeba were backing President Obama and forming a super-Pac. He wanted to reach out to other “minority” Americans. He met with the Werewolf Association and a prominent Vampire Pac, but both of them rejected Romney. He looked into the Ghost Lobby, but they were also unimpressed with Romney.
#funny #imported:pinboard #romney #to:fb #zombies
archive.org #32923

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Corky the cat born with back-to-front rear legs given life-changing surgery

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/04/corky-cat-born-with-back-to-front-rear.html
A cat born with his back legs back to front has been given a new lease of life after pioneering surgery. Corky was found by little boy dragging himself along a pavement in Fargo, North Dakota, and was taken into a shelter, where he was due to be put down. Corky the night before he had surgery.YouTube link. But Gail Ventzke and Carol Stefonek, co-founders and directors of CATS Cradle Shelter, heard about the brave moggy and were intent on saving his life. The seven-month-old kitten suffers from a congential deformity known as ‘Bilateral Arthrogryposis', which causes his legs to be the wrong way round. His limbs were also criss-crossed like a corkscrew, leading staff at the shelter to name him Corky. The courageous kitty learned to drag himself around on his two front paws at the CATS Cradle shelter, until Gail and Carol asked for the help of a local vet. Corky after surgery.YouTube link. Dr. Dan Burchill of Castleton Veterinary Services invented a surgery to bring Corky's back legs the right way round. Corky is still in bandages but thanks to intensive physical therapy sessions he's doing well.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21553

RasterWeb! DIY Cell Phone

http://rasterweb.net/raster/2012/04/27/diy-cell-phone/
How much do I love this DIY cell phone? Quite a bit! I’m not trading in my iPhone for this (yet) but I love the idea of being able to order parts from SparkFun and Adafruit and dropping in a SIM card and having a mobile phone for under $200. I can also imagine that such hardware could be incorporated into various projects where voice or text communication could come in handy. I know that some folks attach phones to balloons or incorporate them into other remote monitoring systems… so what if you could extend this simple DIY phone hardware to be exactly what you want to fit your project? I also love many of the other projects I’ve seen from the High-Low Tech group at MIT. (If only I could have met some of the people involved with the group while I was at MIT last month!)
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #32925

Untitled

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1661983.html
The only thing that could make this better would be if you could actually watch your poop plummet. (Please do not click through; this web site does one of those horrible pop-up "CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE!!eleven" things and do not deserve your ad impressions. Also there's no additional info. Designer's web site is even more worthless.) This penthouse in Guadalajara, Mexico, designed by Hernandez Silva, features a dizzying bathroom with a glass floor over an abandoned elevator shaft with a 15-floor drop. Mirrored from jwz.org.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21549

At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/nyregion/at-92-movie-bootlegger-is-soldiers-hero.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1
“Big Hy” — his handle among many loyal customers — would almost certainly be cast as Hollywood Enemy No. 1 but for a few details. He is actually Hyman Strachman, a 92-year-old, 5-foot-5 World War II veteran trying to stay busy after the death of his wife. And he has sent every one of his copied DVDs, almost 4,000 boxes of them to date, free to American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
#copyfight #dvds #imported:pinboard #military #movies #to:fb #videos
archive.org #21519

Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons | Christian Heilmann

http://christianheilmann.com/2012/04/16/of-parser-fetishists-and-semi-colons/
I think it is a sign that as developers we are either terribly bored or we are out of ideas when we start to go down to bickering about violating accepted ways of development. We should concentrate on building amazing tools and experiences for users out there rather than smugly trying to undo conventions we’ve been following for years now. The web standards movement was not about enforcing arbitrary code syntax on poor developers who now have to type a few keys more. It is about making code predictable, extensible and easy to explain to newcomers. Confusing these matters doesn’t help the cause of making a new generation of developers embrace the web as a platform. Don’t be that guy.
#amen #code #coding #imported:pinboard #javascript #standards #to:fb #twitter #webdev
archive.org #32942

Scripting News: In defense of the open web

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/04/16/inDefenseOfTheOpenWeb.html
Over the weekend an interview with Google founder Sergey Brin was published in the Guardian. In it he says some things, about the open web, that are very true. He says that Google was built out of the open web. And this part he doesn't say, but is also true. If Google is going to continue to thrive, so must the open web. However, Google is moving away from the open web. Most of its investments are going to create a competitor to Facebook, although they deny it's just a competitor. From the point of view of the open web their system is just as opaque as Facebook is. Just as problematic. I'm not suggesting that Google shouldn't compete directly with Facebook. They can do what they want. But they're big enough and rich enough that they could make investments in the open web at the same time as they invest in their fortress. If they really put their hearts in it, and their checkbook, and make a commitment to support open formats and protocols that gain traction, no matter where they come from, I have no doubt that the open web will flourish, and perhaps that will mean their silo will founder. I suspect that this is why, as an organization, they don't want to make these investments. But Brin is independent, powerful, an imaginative and a skilled techologist, and frankly rich enough, to do what he wants no matter what his organization dictates. Maybe he'll read this. If so, since he is a computer scientist, as I am, let me put my advice in technical terms. If I need an API to access my data it's not good. If I hold my data in my own space, where I can do with it as I please, and at the same time it can be part of the structures Google builds, whether it is a search engine or a discussion board, then it works. Then we can try out a million ideas, and they can build off each others' momentum, and they all have a chance to be the next collaborative phenomenon. If APIs control access to the data, if my program logic has to flow through someone else's pipes, then there will be monoculture, and that never thrives. There are countless examples in the history of computers that illustrate this principle. If you want to know why it doesn't work, just observe how decisions are made inside Google. Brin is one of the few people who really could make a difference in the battle for online freedom. I hope he takes the next step and in addition to noticing there's a problem, does something to solve it.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21508

Why the iPad Has to be Made in China | iFixit

http://ifixit.org/1856/why-the-ipad-has-to-be-made-in-china/
Today, an American electronics company can only be exempt from China’s rare earth export quotas by manufacturing within China. So that’s what most companies, including Apple, are doing. The only other solution is for us to stop consuming so much—an option that people rarely find appealing. Not as appealing as a retina display, at least.
#apple #china #environment #gadgets #hardware #imported:pinboard #rareearths #tech #to:fb
archive.org #32945

Welcome To The Hudson Cafe - Detroit

http://www.hudson-cafe.com/index.html
Classically Trained French Chef Tom Teknos, along with his partners Stavros Adamopoulos & Maurice bring their concept of a brunch cafe to Downtown Detroit. We believe in the importance of revitalizing Downtown, and our customers are an integral part in helping us play our role in the rebirth of this wonderful city. Come join us!
#detroit #food #imported:pinboard #todo
archive.org #21496

Tor/Forge E-book Titles to Go DRM-Free | Tor.com

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/torforge-e-book-titles-to-go-drm-free
“Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,” said president and publisher Tom Doherty. “They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased e-books in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another.”
#awesome #copyfight #drm #ebooks #imported:pinboard #scifi #to:fb #tor
archive.org #21495

The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia's Source Code From Digital Death | Game|Life | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/prince-of-persia-source-code/?pid=2480&viewall=true
He saved all the videotape he took in October 1985 of his brother running and jumping around their old neighborhood, footage that he rotoscoped into the animations for his Apple II game Prince of Persia. He saved all of the meticulous journals he kept of the production process, documenting each tiny step of the creation of the landmark hit game.
#apple #awesome #gaming #imported:pinboard #princeofpersia #retro
archive.org #32951

Descriptive Camera

http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.
#amazon #cameras #hacking #imported:pinboard #mturk #nifty #photography #to:fb
archive.org #32952

Content Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web | Fast Company

http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-web
Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide a consistent update regarding what's interesting, happening, and cool in their focus. Curators tend to have a unique and consistent point of view--providing a reliable context for the content that they discover and organize. To be clear, Pinterest both creates tools to organize the noisy web and, at the same time, creates more instances of information in a different context. So it's both part of the problem, and a solution. The trick is finding the Pinterest pinboards that you like, and tune out the rest.
#bookmarking #curation #imported:pinboard #pinterest #social #to:fb
archive.org #21480

www.portionpadl.com

http://www.portionpadl.com/
"When the consumer is paying for a slice of pizza and given the choice between a bigger slice and a smaller one, it is human nature to want the bigger piece. If you’re an owner of a pizza business, convenience store, the head nutritionist of your school cafeteria, or any other business selling pizza by the slice, you realize that cutting your pizzas into equal slices is very important, by not a simple task."
#food #funny #imported:pinboard #kitchen #pizza #portionpadl #to:fb
archive.org #32956

Interxion Readies Staff 'Sleeping Pods' for Olympics » Data Center Knowledge

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/04/12/interxion-readies-staff-sleeping-pods-for-olympics/
Interxion today unveiled “sleeping pods” at its London data center campus, allowing staff to sleep amongst the racks to ensure that the facility will be fully staffed throughout the Games. allowing engineering staff to stay on site 24/7 should congestion on the travel and road networks become too severe, making it difficult for critical staff to travel to and from the site in a timely fashion.
#datacenters #imported:pinboard #it #pods #sleeping #tech #to:fb
archive.org #32998

Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out -- Daily Intel

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/facebook-and-instagram-when-your-favorite-app-sells-out.html
When people write critically about Facebook, they often say that “you are the product being sold,” but I think that by now we all get that. The digital substance of our friendships belongs to these companies, and they are loath to share it with others. So we build our little content farms within, friending and upthumbing, learning to accept that our new landlords are people who grew up on Power Rangers. This is, after all, the way of our new product-based civilization — in order to participate as a citizen of the social web, you must yourself manufacture content. Progress requires that forms must be filled. Thus it is a critical choice of any adult as to where they will perform their free labor. Tens of millions of people made a decision to spend their time with the simple, mobile photo-sharing application that was not Facebook because they liked its subtle interface and little filters. And so Facebook bought the thing that is hardest to fake. It bought sincerity.
#business #facebook #imported:pinboard #instagram #to:fb
archive.org #21384

I drink for a reason

http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/i-drink-for-a-reason.html
The way we got to this point, this place where we’re all friends and don’t tolerate sexist and homophobic behavior, is in no small part thanks to booze. If we want to continue to expand this community and make the rest of the world a more tolerant place we’ll have to continue to value the personal over the professional.
#booze #community #events #imported:pinboard #tech #to:fb
archive.org #21382

hitch

http://www.jeffdesom.com/hitch/
I dissected all of Hitchcock's Rear Window and stiched it back together in After Effects. I stabilized all the shots with camera movement in them. Since everything was filmed from pretty much the same angle I was able to match them into a single panoramic view of the entire backyard without any greater distortions. The order of events stays true to the movie's plot.
#art #hitchcock #imported:pinboard #nifty #rearwindow #video
archive.org #33013

Craig Maloney » Post Topic » The Agony and Ecstasy of Radio Shack

http://decafbad.net/2012/04/03/the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-radio-shack/
If there is one place that should be an enjoyable experience to shop, it’s Radio Shack. Where else can you go and find Arduino boards, wire, solder, and light bulbs (and sockets) for every occasion? Damn few, places, that’s for sure. Unfortunately heading into a Radio Shack is always more painful than it should be. Yesterday JoDee and I braved the local Radio Shack to find some flashlight bulbs. We tried Home Depot, but they didn’t have exactly what we wanted. But, nearby was a Radio Shack. JoDee gruntled “they look like they have more phones than bulbs”, but we persisted. We walked in, past the advertising for new phones, phone service, and iPads, over to the parts area to look for the bulbs. We were surrounded by wire, solder, and parts, and intently looking at things not-phone related, when suddenly one of the associates popped into the hallway. “Let me ask you about your phone service”. “And this is why we hate coming to Radio Shack” is what went through my mind, but JoDee quickly retorted “We’d rather you didn’t”. He persisted, but JoDee deftly let him know that this line of questioning would prove futile. One of my big pet peeves with shopping at Radio Shack is that I can’t get in and or out of the store without being pestered about a phone, or some stupid battery bullshit. It’s like going to Game Stop and being asked if I want a warranty on a Nintendo DS cartridge. I get really tired of the up-sell bullshit in these stores. And inevitably, Radio Shack always has some stupid battery club, or other battery-related nonsense going on that they try really, really hard to sucker you into. It’s like the ebb and flow of the tides. And lo, when we proceeded to the check-out: “We’ve got some batteries here that…” God Dammit, NO! No, I don’t want your batteries. No, I don’t need a fucking phone. NO, I don’t need a warranty, NO, I DON’T WANT TO SAVE 10 FUCKING PERCENT BY OPENING A GOD DAMN CREDIT CARD! I just want the items that I came into your store to purchase. I’m perfectly capable of looking at your counter and seeing the packs of AA batteries carefully laid out, looking for a home. I can see quite clearly that you sell cell phones. Every time I go to Radio Shack, I hope that things change, and they don’t try to sell me a phone, or batteries, and every single time I leave Radio Shack, I vow that until they cut out this bullshit, I’ll never go back. I want to love Radio Shack. I want to learn to solder, and wire up all sorts of bizarre little contraptions, and put them in blue boxes to show off to my friends. Maybe it shouldn’t bother me as much as it does, and maybe I should just “get over it”. But, as the adage goes: “the customer is always right”. And right now, I’m dreading the next time I go to Radio Shack. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #33014

SUMO and migrating large amounts of data

http://embrangler.com/2010/12/migrating-large-amounts-of-data/
Data migration is a complicated problem. It’s one of those things nobody wants to do, because it’s mostly tedious, not engaging, and also important to get right. Often times you have to compromise. I’ll talk a bit about the history of SUMO’s data, decisions the product and development team have made regarding its migration, and things I’ve learned from the experience.
#data #imported:pinboard #migration #mozilla #sumo #webdev
archive.org #33015

Custom Admin Views and Reversing Django Admin URLs - Ian Lewis

http://www.ianlewis.org/en/reversing-django-admin-urls
The key parts are the get_urls function and the admin_update_feeds view. The get_urls method returns the urls for this admin to which we are adding our custom view. The custom view does the updating of the lifestream feeds and returns the user to the Item model's changelist view. We get the url for that view by calling reverse with the pattern "<namespace>:<app>_<model>_changelist" which in our case is "admin:lifestream_item_changelist" since the django admin uses the admin namespace.
#django #imported:pinboard #python #webdev
archive.org #21372

MAKE | Using Quadrotors to Assemble a Building

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/11/using-quadrotors-to-assemble-a-building.html
A clever idea, first reported by Gareth a couple years ago: Architects are trying to figure out how to use quadrotors to haul and place individual bricks. The above link is in French; here’s a Google translation. In 2011, Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea launched a pioneering project around training dynamic and robotic procedures applied to architecture. Belonging to the younger generation of architects exploiting the digital tools in the architectural design and construction, Gramazio & Kohler join the engineer Raffaello D’Andrea, whose work concerns the study of algorithms and development of systems autonomous innovation. Together, they hired Flight Assembled Architecture, an architectural research on the potential of a revolutionary assembly tool, revealing joint spatial and material previously unpublished. Flight Assembled Architecture is the first installation entirely by flying robots. Designed as an architectural structure on the scale of a “vertical village” of 600 meters, Assembled Architecture Flight testing a new paradigm of design and manufacturing, through a physical process of automated dynamic training. This project builds on the simultaneous use of multiple mobile agents. Considered as tools for adaptive production, these flying robots are programmed to interact and to capture, transport and assemble the modules to build architectural structures. They synthesize and the pragmatism of Gramazio & Kohler Architecture and visionary approach to Raffaello D’Andrea in engineering dynamics. The FRAC Centre supports this new project, which will then in its collections devoted to experimental architecture. This collaborative project will be exposed only to the FRAC Centre in Orléans. After an initial phase of several days devoted to assembly and assembly by robots flying a model of 6 m high and 3.5 m in diameter – made of polystyrene foam modules 1500 prefabricated – the exhibition will the “megastructure” in its final form, and a film performance and restoring the entire design process. [Via BLDBLOG]
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #21359

Beer & Tech Community Events | groovecoder

http://groovecoder.com/2012/04/05/beer-tech-community-events/
Obviously, "brogrammers" aren't the only ones in our community who enjoy alcohol. Ryan correctly points out that drinking is widespread, yet "brogrammers" are, thankfully, a small though obnoxious minority. So we can ask bigger questions - What is it about alcohol that we like? What does it do to us? Then finally, how should we incorporate it into community events?
#alcohol #drinking #imported:pinboard #meetups #tech #to:fb
archive.org #33027

At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/at-airport-gate-a-cyborg-unplugged.html
"Without a fully functional system, he said, he found it difficult to navigate normally. He said he fell at least twice in the airport, once passing out after hitting his head on what he described as a pile of fire extinguishers in his way. He boarded the plane in a wheelchair."
#funny #imported:pinboard #sad #stevemann #to:fb #wearable
archive.org #21337

Readability, Instapaper, the Network and the Price we Pay - Anil Dash

http://dashes.com/anil/2012/04/readability-instapaper-the-network-and-the-price-we-pay.html
Because when I would spend my time flinging zingers at Matt Mullenweg about the merits of Movable Type vs. WordPress, you know who was winning? Mark Fucking Zuckerberg. Facebook won the blogging wars. The web became a more closed place than if either Movable Type or WordPress had evolved into the tool that powered social networking.
#blogging #imported:pinboard #reading #web
archive.org #21331

Mass Effect 3 - Ending Movie Comparison - All the Colors - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPelM2hwhJA
Favorite: Mass Effect 3 - Ending Movie Comparison - All the Colors, by Crosscade Watch and compare the various ending movies of Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect 3's ending movies reuse most of the same movie clips outright or are just a recolored version. I've pieced together the endings so that the reused clips run side by side to empathize how similar they are. From Left to Right, the endings are as follows: Destroy Good, Destroy Bad, Destroy Vaporization Control Good, Control Bad Synergy Good (there is no bad version of this) Bioware's poor attempt at an ending to this outstanding series is a huge let down. It is almost universally agreed by gamers that the endings are not consistent with or are worthy ending to the Mass Effect Trilogy. Let Bioware know that they need to fix this lazy ending. An interesting read on how the ending let down the fans: http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-ending-hatred-5-reasons-the-fans-are-right/ Music: Mass Effect 1 - Victory Mass Effect 1 - Vigil
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archive.org #21323

Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong. - Mordin Solus Death - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lfJMIwHDEM
Favorite: Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong. - Mordin Solus Death, by Ilidor9 The title says all. Enjoy ;) (See it on 1080p) If you want to see a very goog ending of Mass Effect 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtagiqfhvI Se vuoi vedere una fantastica ending di Mass Effect 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtagiqfhvI
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archive.org #21322

A Stairlift Designed for Obese Pets

http://laughingsquid.com/a-stairlift-designed-for-obese-pets/
The Stair of the Dog 2022 is a prototype stairlift created by pet and home insurance company More Th>n to highlight the issue of pet obesity. According to Daily Mail, More Th>n predicts “that over half of the nations dogs will be overweight by 2022.” via Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of Awesome images via Daily Mail
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archive.org #33044

Turkish bootleg Star Wars figures of the 1980s - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/24/turkish-bootleg-star-wars-figu.html
Here's a rare complete photographic catalog of Uzay, the Turkish bootleg Star Wars figurines, which are delightfully shonky and off-model. No line of unlicensed Star Wars figures is as sought after as the Turkish line known as Uzay. Produced sometime in the latter part of the 1980s, the primary charm of the Uzay figures lies in their blister card art; not only are the card images incredibly cheesy, at their best they border on the psychadelic. To some collectors, a figure like the Imperial Gunner, the blister card of which shows the figure standing beside a cleverly-photographed calculator, is just too goofy to resist. And don't get me started on the Chewbacca blister. Do you think they really have gourds on Kashyyyk? Trying to complete a set of Uzay carded figures is a daunting task; it might even be impossible. For one thing, the figures are exceedingly rare. Although certain figures, such as the AT-AT Driver and Stormtrooper, have turned up on the collector's market with some degree of frequency, others, among them the mysterious Head Man figure, are thought to be one-of-a-kind pieces....and their owners are often not easily persuaded to sell. Additionally, the packages of these figures are quite fragile; their bubbles, for instance, are made from a very weak and brittle plastic, which often breaks given the slightest abuse. In short, if you're a collector who wants to start collecting Uzay figures, you'd better be prepared to 1) spend a lot of money, and 2) accept lesser-condition pieces when the situation necessitates it. But don't worry, such concessions are made in the interest of collecting high quality, beautiful merchandise, right? Um...right? The Comprehensive Guide to Uzay Carded Figures (via IZ Reloaded)
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archive.org #21314

Theaters will charge premium on 2D movies in order to lower the cost of 3D movie tickets - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/24/theaters-will-charge-premium-o.html
Writing for Screen Trade Magazine Joe Paletta, CEO of Spotlight Theaters, announces that cinemas will begin to eliminate the premium charges on 3D movies and raise the prices of 2D movies to make up the difference. This gives me the rage. 3D movies give me a headache and eye-strain, and I actively avoid them. I hate the idea that I'd be charged a premium on the few 2D movies I can find in order to subsidize 3D screenings. As Roger Ebert put it, "Oh, no! In a move to recoup their unwise investment in 3D, theaters discuss, and I quote, 'patrons will have a single price for both 2D and 3D films. 2D prices will increase and 3D prices will decrease.' In other words, punishing those who dislike 3D." Among the bigger changes will probably see the 3D-upcharge disappear. 3D charges will help increase the overall ticket-price but, as an industry, I think we’ll see a blend begin to emerge in 2012, where patrons will have a single price for both 2D and 3D films. 2D prices will increase and 3D prices will decrease. Joe Paletta - screentrade (Image: 3D glasses, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from mattneale's photostream)
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archive.org #21313

Virgin boy piss eggs a treat in China - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/29/virgin-boy-piss-eggs-a-treat-i.html
"[It's] the start of busy times for dozens of egg vendors across the city, deep in coastal Zhejiang province, who ready themselves to cook up a unique springtime snack favored by local residents. Basins and buckets of boys' urine are collected from primary school toilets. It is the key ingredient in "virgin boy eggs", a local tradition of soaking and cooking eggs in the urine of young boys, preferably below the age of 10." [Reuters]
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archive.org #21312

robohara.com » Arcade Games and Saber Tooth Tigers

http://www.robohara.com/?p=4358
This is going to sound stupid, but nothing makes me feel cooler than hauling arcade games around on the back of my truck. So many collectors never get to show off their collections to outsiders — and when they do, typically it’s done online. Seeing pictures of someone’s collection can be kind of neat, seeing an item in real life is much cooler, in my opinion. I’ve never been hunting so I don’t really know what it’s like to take down a big animal or anything, but … I don’t know, I have this visual image of a caveman returning from the hunt with a saber tooth tiger hoisted up on top his shoulders or something. And the caveman enters his cave where all the other cavemen are hanging out, and throws down the carcass on the floor and it goes BAM and … in that one little moment, he’s the MAN. And that moment, that feeling … that’s how I feel when I’m driving slowly through the neighborhood with an arcade game on the back of my truck. It’s like I’m the caveman. And the arcade game is the saber tooth tiger. And my club is … well, a credit card. And I know deep down that 99% of the people I pass could not care less about the fact that some random stranger is driving around with an arcade game in the back of his truck. When I think back to when I was a kid … there was this family that lived in our neighborhood, the Sloans, and one time we went over to their house and they had an arcade game in their house and I remember thinking that they must be rich. And maybe they were, I don’t really know, but … the point is, especially as a kid who hung out in arcades and liked playing arcade games, the thought of actually ever owning a real, full size arcade cabinet was like … indescribable. It would have been the ultimate toy and the ultimate status symbol all wrapped up into one 300 pound chunk of wood and electronics. It’s not that way any more, of course. I mean, the people I’m impressing, or at least the people I think I’m impressing, it’s not the 10-year-old kids out playing in their front yard. To those kids, I might as well be hauling antique junk off to to the dump. Those aren’t the kids that grew up feeling like a rock star because they got to enter their initials into a Centipede cabinet for achieving the high score. It’s the people my age I get the looks from, the people like me who saved a little bit of their lunch money so they would have an extra quarter or two in their pocket the next time they ran across an arcade game in the grocery store, or the convenient store, or the laundromat. The other day I was delivering a couple of machines over to a friend’s house. Facing to one side of my trailer were two machines, Speed Buggy and Karate Champ. I pull up to a stop light and can feel the guy next to me at the light waving, so I look over and this guy is at first waving, then he points to the arcade games, and then he gives me two thumbs up while he’s grinning from ear to ear. He was obviously pretty excited to see them (I’m guessing he was excited over Karate Champ; nobody gets that excited about Speed Buggy). And then I gave him a nod back and a smile, acknowledging that, at least in that moment, I’m the caveman with a couple of saber tooth tigers on the back of my trailer. And then the light turned green and I turned left and I never saw him again. The funny thing about this encounter was, I think I paid a hundred bucks for that Karate Champ machine. The last time I filled up my truck, the day I was moving those games, it cost me $112. I was literally carrying more money in gasoline in my truck right then than I had invested in that machine. Of course, nobody has good memories of spending their formidable years playing with gasoline … unless they were a pyromaniac or something. Or maybe they sniffed a lot of gas as a kid, and even then, they may no longer have any memories of those years. Over the past decade and a half I bought somewhere around 60 machines, give or take. Of those, 2 I had delivered; the rest I moved myself. Many of those games were located out of state and purchased through eBay. I’ve hauled games from Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. When we sold our old house, I had to move the 30 machines I currently owned to storage. Of those 30, I ended up moving 15 or so to my new house. Of the ones I’ve sold, I’ve delivered many of them. During my time in this hobby I’ll bet I’ve moved 200 machines, maybe more, and every time I drive through my neighborhood or down Main Street with a machine or two in tow behind me, I get that same feeling. And part of it, I won’t lie, is wanting to be seen with those machines, but another part of it, the bigger part of it, is wanting those machines to be seen. Similar Posts: Sayonara, Shinobi. Weekend Summary Cactus Jack’s Arcade Visit Share on Facebook
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archive.org #21308

Good Afternoon, Lana Del Rey and Marilyn Manson Are Dating?

http://gawker.com/5895889/good-afternoon-lana-del-rey-and-marilyn-manson-are-dating
German publication B.Z. has shed some light on the apocalyptic coming together of the Manilow*, Manson, Del Rey trio, pictured together at the Echo Music Awards in Germany: Marilyn Manson and Lana Del Rey are dating. B.Z. is supposedly in possession of photographic evidence that the once-rumored Wonder Years star and forever-rumored self-fellating rocker is having hotel sleepovers with Lana Del Rey. More »
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archive.org #21307

Opinion: Shutting down your gadgets at takeoff and landing: not such a bad idea

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/in-defence-of-the-faas-ban-on-the-use-of-electronic-gadgets-during-take-off-and-landing.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
Those brief stints in which we must turn off our machines—the few minutes between push back from the gate and the extinguishing of the seatbelt sign, and the corresponding blackout at landing time—are something almost unique in modern life. Those rare moments in which our entertainment must come from within, not without. This is a perfect time to reflect on the journey ahead or the trip just taken. An all-too infrequent opportunity to quietly contemplate the world we live in and our place in the universe. A brief calm juncture in our otherwise hectic lives.
#gadgets #imported:pinboard #planes #screwthisguy #to:fb #travel
archive.org #21296

The old-fashioned: A classic cocktail gets a revival | OregonLive.com

http://www.oregonlive.com/mix/index.ssf/cocktails/the_old-fashioned_a_classic_cocktail_gets_a_reviva.html
The renewed appeal of the Old Fashioned comes as no surprise, Knox says. If anything, this most simple of cocktails makes perfect sense in an increasingly Byzantine world. "Cocktails are getting so complicated," he says, with bartenders using smoke guns, centrifuge-separated juices and barrel-aging behind the bar. "Sometimes you need to step back, and just have a simple, strong drink. You can really appreciate something like that."
#cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #oldfashioned #spirits #to:fb
archive.org #21295

Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later – Video Games Reviews, Cheats | Geek.com

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/prince-of-persia-creator-finds-lost-source-code-23-years-later-20120329/
he managed to misplace the original source code for that first Prince of Persia game and has been searching for it ever since. Yesterday he found it, and the discovery is all thanks to his father. The three packs of 3.5″ Apple ProDOS disks had been safely stored away in a brown box along with a load of Amstrad copies of his 1984 game Karateka. The problem he faces now is how to extract the code from those old 3.5″ disks to his MacBook Air, but he has a friend on board with the requisite skill set.
#archival #gaming #imported:pinboard #princeofpersia #retro #to:fb
archive.org #33049

The Truth About the U.S. Postal Service by Jim Hightower on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

http://www.creators.com/opinion/jim-hightower/the-truth-about-the-u-s-postal-service.html
In 2006, the Bush White House and Congress whacked the post office with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act — an incredible piece of ugliness requiring the agency to PRE-PAY the health care benefits not only of current employees, but also of all employees who'll retire during the next 75 years. Yes, that includes employees who're not yet born!
#imported:pinboard #mail #politics #to:fb #usps
archive.org #21291

BrowserQuest – a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/
BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No princess to save here, just a dangerous world filled with treasures to discover. And it’s all done in glorious HTML5 and JavaScript.
#browserquest #gaming #html5 #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #33063

The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction - Apollo 18+20

http://pr-if.org/event/apollo-18/
So, a bunch of us made some interactive fiction games, one game per track on the album Apollo 18 by They Might Be Giants. The regular tracks are generally short games. The Fingertips tracks are one-move games (however the authors interpreted that). Here’s They Might Be Giants. They have lots of great albums besides this one, and you should go buy them all. Here’s the original post about the tribute, and here are the games. You can play them online via the links below, or you can download them to play offline (updated March 26, 2012, 1337 EDT). See “How Do I Play?” at the left if you’re unsure what to do.
#apollo18 #culture #gaming #ifiction #imported:pinboard #tmbg #to:fb
archive.org #33067

Rush is a Band Blog: Rush reference on season 3 finale of FX's Archer

http://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2012/03/23/3038/Rush-reference-on-season-3-finale-of-FXs-Archer
There was yet another Rush reference on FX's Archer during last night's Season 3 finale Space Race: Part 2 (thanks to Eric at Power Windows for the heads up). In this episode the mural on Krieger's van gets updated with a Caress of Steel-themed mural with the lettering reading Caress of Krieger (screenshot here). This makes the 3rd such Rush-themed mural that has appeared on his van; on the finale of season 2 the van had an Exit ... Stage Left-inspired mural which read Exit ... Van Left (screenshot here), and earlier in season 3 the mural had been updated to a Rush Hemispheres theme (screenshot here). There was also a major Rush reference on episode 8 of season 3 just a few weeks ago. In that episode Kreiger is trying to learn YYZ on his Neil Peart-inspired drumkit. ...
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archive.org #21264

Rush is a Band Blog: Yet another Rush reference on latest episode of FX's Archer

http://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2012/03/09/3022/Yet-another-Rush-reference-on-latest-episode-of-FXs-Archer
There was another Rush reference on FX's Archer during the latest episode Skin Game (Season 3, Episode 8) which aired last night (thanks to Eric at Power Windows for the heads up). Towards the beginning of the episode, Archer is accompanying Krieger to his lab to see a surprise. When they enter the room there's a large Neil Peart style drumkit in the middle of the room. The conversation proceeds as follows: ...
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archive.org #21263

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Man sues shops for refusing to serve him and his mini horse

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/03/man-sues-shops-for-refusing-to-serve.html
A paraplegic man claims in court that GameStop and Marshalls violated his civil rights by refusing to let him enter their stores with his assistance animal: a miniature horse named Princess who pulls his wheelchair. Jose Estrada sued GameStop and Marshalls in separate complaints in Superior Court, claiming they denied him and Princess access to their stores in Downey last month. Estrada, who says he "has been a paraplegic, confined to a wheelchair, and suffering from overuse syndrome of the elbows, shoulders, and wrists," seeks injunctions and damages of $4,000 from each store. "Plaintiff's miniature horse, Princess, has been individually trained and certified by a professional trainer to assist him by pulling him in his wheelchair," the complaint against GameStop states. "The training further consisted of behavior modification, leading and heeling, turning on forehand and haunches, sidepassing, laying down on command, standing still, entering a handicapped-accessible van and confined spaces, and desensitization." Estrada says that both stores "refused to permit said animal to accompany plaintiff therein, even though they were told that the animal in question was a service animal." The complaint adds: "Princess' height is 29 inches. Her width is 12 inches. Her length is 31 inches. Her weight is 115 pounds. Plaintiff has been professionally trained to control Princess and can do so without difficulty. Defendants' facility is large enough to accommodate Princess. Princess is housebroken. Princess' presence in defendants' facility does not compromise the legitimate safety requirements that are necessary for its safe operation." Estrada seeks damages for violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act. Estrada's attorney Morse Mehrban of Sherman Oaks said that neither business was in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). "They haven't been training their employees efficiently to be knowledgeable about people with service animals," Mehrban said in an interview. "But the ADA requires that you implement a policy and train your staff regarding admission of service animals into your place of business. Including miniature horses. Miniature horses are not pets. They're specifically trained to assist a disabled person."
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archive.org #21258

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: German pensioner accused of poisoning chocolate bunny thief

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/03/german-pensioner-accused-of-poisoning.html
An elderly German man fed up with local children pilfering his Easter decorations has been accused of poisoning a 10-year-old boy with a spiked chocolate bunny. Each year 68-year-old Joerg-Werner Lubbe from the town of Markneukirchen, in southeastern Germany, decks out his yard with tasty Easter treats. And every time, the decorations prove irresistible to children in the neighbourhood, who help themselves. Determined that this year would be different, the Easter scrooge allegedly laced a batch of chocolate bunnies with ammonium hydroxide and hung them from a tree in his front yard. A sweet-toothed 10-year-old fell for the trap and gobbled down a baited bunny. He was violently ill and had to be rushed to the hospital. Police said they were investigating Lubbe for grievous bodily harm and said they found six more poisoned bunnies in the yard. They said adults would have immediately noticed the smell of the chemical, but a hungry child may have been unable to resist the lure of chocolate.
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archive.org #21257

Hipster He-Man and Other High-Fashion Cartoon Heroes

http://io9.com/5896179/hipster-he+man-and-other-high+fashion-cartoon-heroes
He-Man has been around since 1980, and it's high time he got a wardrobe update. Illustrator Fabian Ciraolo is happy to oblige, designing new looks for the prince of Eternia and other cartoon favorites: the Thundercats, Jem, Captain Planet, and She-Ra all earn themselves a fashion makeover. Ciraolo's Oldschool Heroes series does look like it came from the Instagrammed pages of an Urban Outfitters catalogue, but he's come up with some fun color schemes for his cartoon fashion play. I can't help but wonder, were spots for Cheetara just too much on the nose? [Fabian Ciraolo via Geek-Art] Some images at both links are NSFW
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archive.org #21237

World Wide Words: Nerd

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ner1.htm
Cartoonists, illustrators and other artists have used nerds to mean eraser crumbs for more than sixty years. When I worked at newspapers in the sixties, we had a special brush for getting rid of nerds before inking a drawing because the tiny pieces of rubber would cause blots and blobs on the art.
#funny #imported:pinboard #nerd #to:fb #words
archive.org #21221

Bring back the 40-hour work week - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/singleton/
Robinson writes: “If they came to work that drunk, we’d fire them — we’d rightly see them as a manifest risk to our enterprise, our data, our capital equipment, us and themselves. But we don’t think twice about making an equivalent level of sleep deprivation a condition of continued employment.”
#health #hours #imported:pinboard #life #productivity #psychology #work
archive.org #33074

Introduction to text manipulation on UNIX-based systems

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-unixtext/index.html
This introduction to text manipulation on UNIX platforms provides an overview of some common commands widely available and installed standard on most UNIX-based releases. Many times these standard utilities are ignored in favor of more modern text-processors such as Perl, Python, or Ruby, which are not always installed on a system. An introductory review of these tools helps practitioners who are learning UNIX or Linux or those who may be looking to renew forgotten knowledge.
#imported:pinboard #shell #text #tips #unix #utils
archive.org #21214

How To Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) - Scott Hanselman

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToGuideToInstallingAndBootingWindows8ConsumerPreviewOffAVHDVirtualHardDisk.aspx
Cool. If you have Windows 7 now then you can "boot to a virtual hard disk (VHD)" and get all the loveliness of Windows 8 running on hardware without any risk to your hard drive. Don't like it? Delete the VHD and update your boot record.
#imported:pinboard #microsoft #vhd #windows #windows8
archive.org #21174

15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage? Why Conservatives Are Criminalizing Pregnant Women | Gender | AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/151508/15-year-old_girl_faces_life_in_prison_for_a_miscarriage_why_conservatives_are_criminalizing_pregnant_women
Gibbs is the first woman in Mississippi to be charged with murder relating to the loss of her unborn baby. But her case is by no means isolated. Across the US more and more prosecutions are being brought that seek to turn pregnant women into criminals.
#abortion #imported:pinboard #law #murder #to:fb #whackos #women
archive.org #21164

Red Tape - Up against the Wall! Should district be allowed to demand middle-schooler's Facebook password?

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/13/10657012-up-against-the-wall-should-district-be-allowed-to-demand-middle-schoolers-facebook-password
"(The student now) fears that the school could make her give up her passwords at a moment's notice, at any time, for any reason," the lawsuit claims. It also alleges that password prying is standard practice at the Minnewaska Middle School, which the student still attends. "(Officials) have compelled other students to disclose their private information and have accessed students' online accounts on multiple occasions," it states.
#education #facebook #imported:pinboard #privacy #school #social #socialsoftware #youth
archive.org #21149

Mass Effect 3 - Blasto 6 Easter Egg - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPENu9REJ_8
Favorite: Mass Effect 3 - Blasto 6 Easter Egg, by IGNentertainment Check out the Blasto 6 Easter Egg that can be found in the Presidium Commons in the Citadel. We've collected every single walkthrough video in this handy playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8MJChLTX_g&list=PLE9A662E2ADBC192C&index=2&feature=plpp_video And if you're just looking for side quests or achievement help click here! http://www.youtube.com/masseffectign For more Mass Effect 3 tips and guides, check out our wiki: http://www.ign.com/wikis/mass-effect-3/Walkthrough
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archive.org #21143

Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation

http://io9.com/5886178/why-mass-effect-is-the-most-important-science-fiction-universe-of-our-generation
Mass Effect is epic. It's the product of the best parts of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and more with a protagonist who could be the love-child of Picard, Skywalker, and Starbuck. It's one of the most important pieces of science fiction narrative of our generation. Mass Effect goes so far beyond other fictional universes in ways that you may not have yet realized. It is cosmic in scope and scale.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #masseffect #scifi
archive.org #21139

"Sunshine on a Stick" - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaVWM1mqG74
Favorite: "Sunshine on a Stick", by halrkane http://www.youtube.com/user/halrkane?feature=mhum Link Sponsored by: NEXXUS INTERACTIVE MEDIA CORPORATION "Time for Timer was the collective title for a short series of public service announcements broadcast on Saturday mornings on the ABC television network starting in the early 1970s." - Wikipedia MESSY, FROZEN, JUICE BRICKS I love the fact that Timer thinks 12 orange juice cubes are a weeks supply of snacks. At 6 years old, I was so impatient that I never gave them the chance to freeze completely, and would scarf them down immediately! My little sunshines on a stick where effected by global warming! I'd check on them every 2 minutes, and after checking on them 5 times, well, they seemed frozen enough to me. I'd "carefully" remove the plastic wrap, which in-turn, would dislodge ALL of my "sticks", and after popping them out of the tray, I was left with 12 messy, partially frozen, ice juice cubes on a sticky dinner plate. There was orange juice still sloshing around inside of them! After picking one up, the juice cube would collapse sending a trail of orange juice cascading down my arms that would pool up under my elbows and drip to the floor. "SPLASH!!!" 12 orange juice cubes didn't last for a week, they lasted 5 minutes! And as far as nutrition goes, I was lucky if I received even .0000002975% of my daily requirement of vitamin C from those messy, frozen, juice bricks! But that was okay, because I was proud to have made a "healthy after school snack" for myself, thanks to some helpful advice from a weird little lemon-drop named, Timer. I hope that you enjoy this treasured blast-from-the-past as much as I do. Best wishes, ~ Hal R. Kane Check out this link for more animated fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ApKlFduvMA Link Sponsored By: NEXXUS INTERACTIVE MEDIA CORPORATION
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archive.org #21132

The Juggalos Now Have Their Very Own Facebook, JuggaloBook

http://gawker.com/5890596/the-juggalos-now-have-their-very-own-facebook-juggalobook
The majority of the American Juggalo population only gets together once a year, at the annual Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, Ill., and so it makes perfect sense that the community has now established its very own online base: JuggaloBook is the Juggalos' very own Facebook. More »
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archive.org #21127

Dear Prudence dissects Limbaugh's horrible apology - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/05/dear-prudence-dissects-limbaug.html
"I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke. My remarks about her were false, cruel, and repulsive. There’s no excuse and I offer none. I seriously crossed the line and I am sorry." That's how Limbaugh ought to have apologized, says Emily Yoffe, who writes Slate's "Dear Prudence" column. I agree. A real apology will win you points on both sides. I wonder what prevented Limbaugh from doing this? How Not To Apologize: Rush Limbaugh’s statement on Sandra Fluke was a textbook example of what not to say.
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archive.org #21126

AOL quits Rush, "working on" removing ads - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/05/aol-quite-rush-working-on.html
AOL is the latest advertiser to bail on radio host Rush Limbaugh following his description of activist Sandra Fluke as as a "slut" and "prostitute". Reuters' Anthony De Rosa cites an AOL source as saying it's "working on" removing Rush-linked promotions from the site. It's strange to think of website so vast and operationally complicated that one is literally incapable of changing what's on it in a hurry. Perhaps the servers are ringed by moats of lava and defended by crocodiles. Don't you just hate it when that happens? UPDATE. Say hello to bg_hero-NoRush.jpg, who lacks Rush's weirdly coquettish stance, but hints at a greater majesty with his purple attire and Mediterranean countenance.
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archive.org #21125

Yahoo's New CEO Preps Major Restructuring, Including Significant Layoffs - Blogrunner

http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/2/0/yahoos_new_ceo_preps_major_restructuring_including_significant_layoffs/
According to multiple sources both inside and outside the Silicon Valley Internet giant, Yahoo's CEO Scott Thompson is preparing a massive restructuring of the company, including layoffs that are likely to number in the thousands. Go to Blog Post
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archive.org #33101

Build PHP 5.4 on CentOS 6.2 - Ben Ramsey

http://benramsey.com/blog/2012/03/build-php-54-on-centos-62/
In case you haven’t heard the news, the PHP project released version 5.4.0 last Thursday. Naturally, I decided it was time to install and give it a try. I chose to install to a clean and bare-bones CentOS 6.2 virtual machine using VirtualBox. I did this for two reasons: 1) I wanted a clean environment for the build, and 2) I wanted to play with CentOS. At the time of this writing, there are not yet any official CentOS RPMs for PHP 5.4, so I had to build PHP from source. What follows are the notes I took during the installation and build process. I hope you find them helpful. Set up a CentOS virtual machine First of all, go grab the CentOS 6.2 netinstall ISO. Depending on the mirror, it will likely be located somewhere like centos/6.2/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.2-x86_64-netinstall.iso (note that I’m using the 64-bit version). Following that, create a new basic VirtualBox VM (512 MB RAM, 8 GB HDD, 12 MB video RAM) for your CentOS installation (use “Red Hat (64 bit)” as the Version) and follow these instructions for a CentOS 6.2 netinstall. I chose the 64-bit version, using the netinstall URL of http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/. Since the VirtualBox video RAM selected is only 12 MB, it won’t boot into the graphical mode shown in the netinstall installation guide. Don’t worry about this. Also, it will make some assumptions (e.g. it won’t install Gnome or KDE), since you aren’t in graphical mode. What you’ll have at the end is a very bare-bones server installation. After installation, I like to power down the VM and adjust my settings to set up port forwarding so that I can shell into my VM from my Mac terminal. Feel free to configure things as you like. See the screenshot for an example of forwarding ports in Virtual Box. Once set up, you can boot the VM and then use your favorite local terminal to SSH to the instance: 1 ssh -p 2222 root@localhost You’ll probably want to create a user for yourself, so that you’re not using root all the time, but since this is a VM on your local machine, it’s not a huge deal. If this was a box out in the open, I’d recommend locking it down and creating a user with much more restricted permissions. Install packages needed for PHP Once logged in to the VM, you’ll need to install some basic build stuff, like gcc, etc. 1 2 yum install man wget yum groupinstall "Development Tools" Next, update iptables to allow connections to the VM over ports 80 and 8000. 1 2 3 sed -i '/22/ i -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT' /etc/sysconfig/iptables sed -i '/22/ i -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT' /etc/sysconfig/iptables /etc/init.d/iptables restart For the PHP configuration that I’m using, install the following packages. There will be a bunch of dependencies it will ask you to install. Just say yes to them all. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 yum install libxml2-devel httpd-devel libXpm-devel gmp-devel libicu-devel t1lib-devel aspell-devel openssl-devel bzip2-devel libcurl-devel libjpeg-devel libvpx-devel libpng-devel freetype-devel readline-devel libtidy-devel libxslt-devel For some reason, libmcrypt isn’t available in the main CentOS repositories, so add the RPMForge repo to install it. 1 2 3 4 5 wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm # Verifies the package rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm yum install libmcrypt-devel Now, the environment is all ready for building PHP 5.4! Build PHP 5.4.0 All that’s left is to get the PHP 5.4.0 release package and build it. Choose a mirror closest to you and run the following commands to configure, make, and install PHP. 1 2 3 wget http://www.php.net/get/php-5.4.0.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror tar jxf php-5.4.0.tar.bz2 cd php-5.4.0/ What you want to enable and build into your PHP installation will vary, but here’s the configure line that I used for this build: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 ./configure --with-libdir=lib64 --prefix=/usr/local --with-layout=PHP --with-pear --with-apxs2 --enable-calendar --enable-bcmath --with-gmp --enable-exif --with-mcrypt --with-mhash --with-zlib --with-bz2 --enable-zip --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --with-iconv --enable-intl --with-icu-dir=/usr --with-gettext --with-pspell --enable-sockets --with-openssl --with-curl --with-curlwrappers --with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-xpm-dir=/usr --with-vpx-dir=/usr --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-t1lib=/usr --with-libxml-dir=/usr --with-mysql=mysqlnd --with-mysqli=mysqlnd --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd --enable-soap --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl --with-tidy=/usr --with-readline --enable-pcntl --enable-sysvshm --enable-sysvmsg --enable-shmop Assuming the configure script ran perfectly, you’re ready to make and install PHP. 1 make && make install Now, you’ve got a fully-functioning build of PHP 5.4.0 on CentOS 6.2! Trying out the build Now, that PHP is installed, it’s time to try out a few things. Create a simple phpinfo() script, make sure Apache knows to parse .php files as PHP, and start Apache. 1 2 3 echo "
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archive.org #33104

Memetic prophylactic recommended - Charlie's Diary

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/03/memetic-prophylactic-recommend.html
Op-ed found on internet: "Who is speaking up for the mothers who, under HHS mandate, have been falsely coerced into feeling that to be a woman means to have 'control' of their own bodies?" Okay, so the author of that op-ed is a fringe Lutheran. Doesn't make it all right, though. Once again, I feel the need to shout: The Handmaid's Tale was written as a warning, not a road map! He goes on to define contraceptives as "death-dealing prescriptions". It would appear that the junior anti-sex league has a posse. (Moderation note: refer to this blog's moderation policy before commenting. Also note that yr. hmbl. blggr. is of the opinion that any quibbling over the absolute right of a pregnant woman to demand an abortion, for any reason, at any point during pregnancy, is symptomatic of misogyny: it implies at a minimum that the quibbler doesn't credit pregnant women with being able to make an informed decision about a matter of pressing personal importance, which is pretty much the bedrock of civil rights.) PS: Don't mind me, I'm just having a bad news week. This nonsense follows hot on the heels of the government deciding that the Way Forward requires them to privatise the Police. Science-fictional dystopias? Take your pick!
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archive.org #21120

Tourney | Auch on Water

http://auchonwater.com/2012/03/04/tourney/
“Tourney” is a game that barely exists. It’s the shadow of an idea that slipped into the world last week during a free-wheeling conversation about design, agency, failure, and whether games can make meaningful statements about the nature of tragedy. To help the discussion along we invented a few imaginary games that could serve as stable reference points in unfamiliar terrain. One of the things we dreamed up is Tourney, a game about maintaining one’s integrity in the face of inevitable decline.
#gaming #if #ifiction #imported:pinboard #nostalgia #tragedy
archive.org #33105

Mattel now selling Back to the Future Hoverboards | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2012/03/05/mattel-now-selling-back-to-the-future-hoverboards/
If you are a fan of Back to the Future, you may have already heard that last week Mattel began accepting pre-orders for Hoverboards! Other than the fact that they don’t actually hover, these new replica boards from Mattel reportedly look indistinguishable from the ones appearing in the films Back to the Future 2 and 3. Prior to last week, the only way to get one of these was to either order a non-authorized unofficial replica prop or build one yourself. The official boards from Mattel are currently available for pre-order from now through March 20th for $120 (plus tax and shipping). Anyone pre-ordering one of the boards will also receive a scaled-down version of the board, suited for 6″ action figures. As a guy who just dropped $100 on a Wampa rug for his den, I’m still on the fence in regards to this one. While it’s a good looking replica, I’m thinking about waiting until 2015 for the ones that hover to arrive. ;)
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archive.org #33106

Disney's Only Black Princess Hawks Watermelon Candy

http://gawker.com/5890481/disneys-only-black-princess-hawks-watermelon-candy
Surely it's just a coincidence that Tiana, the only black princess in the storied history of Disney animated films, is the face of Dig 'n Dips watermelon-flavored candy? And that Cinderella Aurora of Sleeping Beauty is the vanilla-flavored dipping stick? Yeah, that's totally a coincidence. Right, guys? Guys? [via Sociological Images] More »
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archive.org #21116

I received an email from a potential client. My...

http://clientsfromhell.net/post/18749042254/i-received-an-email-from-a-potential-client-my
I received an email from a potential client. My name is Jose. I live in California.  Client: I am interested in one of your illustrations. I have a budget of $30 U.S.D. Me: I am truly sorry sir, but that budget isn’t adequate for my illustration services. Client: I don’t think you understood, thats $30 dollars American, not pesos, amigo. I need that illustration done by tomorrow, in other words…pronto. can you do it? Me: Wow. Client: Yeah, now you get it. That should pay for a whole month of cerveza and tacos.
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archive.org #21109

The GOP can no longer avoid its Rush Limbaugh problem - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-can-no-longer-avoid-its-rush-limbaugh-problem/2012/03/02/gIQA1xvVnR_story.html
What we are saying is that Mr. Limbaugh has abused his unique position within the conservative media to smear and vilify a citizen engaged in the exercise of her First Amendment rights, and in the process he debased a national political discourse that needs no further debasing. This is not the way a decent citizen behaves, much less a citizen who wields significant de facto power in a major political party. While Republican leaders owe no apology for Mr. Limbaugh’s comments, they do have a responsibility to repudiate them — and him.
#contraception #gop #imported:pinboard #politics #republicans #rushlimbaugh
archive.org #21107

A Metroid marriage proposal that would make the Chozo proud | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/29/metroid-marriage-proposal/
Marriage is a sacred commitment; it's no kind of small thing to consider. You need to show you mean business. You need to put some effort into a proposal. Jered McFerron did when he decided to rewrite the code for the 1986 NES classic, Metroid, in the C++ programming language. This undertaking wasn't initially to propose to his love, Jenni, but struck as an inspiration mid-project when he knew she was the gal for him.
#aww #diy #gaming #homebrew #imported:pinboard #marriage #metroid #nes #nifty #nintendo #to:fb
archive.org #33108

Post Position » Computational Narrative and Games T-CIAIG Issue

http://nickm.com/post/2012/02/computational-narrative-and-games-t-ciaig-issue/
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (T-CIAIG) Call for papers: Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games Special issue editors: Ian Horswill, Nick Montfort and R. Michael Young Stories in both their telling and their hearing are central to human experience, playing an important role in how humans understand the world around them. Entertainment media and other cultural artifacts are often designed around the presentation and experience of narrative. Even in video games, which need not be narrative, the vast majority of blockbuster titles are organized around some kind of quest narrative and many have elaborate stories with significant character development. Games, interactive fiction, and other computational media allow the dynamic generation of stories through the use of planning techniques, simulation (emergent narrative), or repair techniques. These provide new opportunities, both to make the artist’s hand less evident through the use of aleatory and/or automated methods and for the audience/player to more actively participate in the creation of the narrative. Stories have also been deeply involved in the history of artificial intelligence, with story understanding and generation being important early tasks for natural language and knowledge representation systems. And many researchers, particularly Roger Schank, have argued that stories play a central organizing role in human intelligence. This viewpoint has also seen a significant resurgence in recent years. The T-CIAIG Special Issue on Computational Narrative and Games solicits papers on all topics related to narrative in computational media and of relevance to games, including but not limited to: Storytelling systems Story generation Drama management Interactive fiction Story presentation, including performance, lighting, staging, music and camera control Dialog generation Authoring tools Human-subject evaluations of systems Papers should be written to address the broader T-CIAIG readership, with clear and substantial technical discussion and relevance to those working on AI techniques for games. Papers must make sufficient contact with the AI for narrative literature to provide useful insights or directions for future work in AI, but they need not be limited to the documentation and analysis of algorithmic techniques. Other genres of papers that could be submitted include: Documentation of complete implemented systems Aesthetic critique of existing technologies Interdisciplinary studies linking computational models or approaches to relevant fields such as narratology, cognitive science, literary theory, art theory, creative writing, theater, etc. Reports from artists and game designers on successes and challenges of authoring using existing technologies Authors should follow normal T-CIAIG guidelines for their submissions, but clearly identify their papers for this special issue during the submission process. T-CIAIG accepts letters, short papers and full papers. See http://www.ieee-cis.org/pubs/tciaig/ for author information. Extended versions of previously published conference/workshop papers are welcome, but must be accompanied by a covering letter that explains the novel and significant contribution of the extended work. Deadline for submissions: September 21, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: December 21, 2012 Final copy due: April 19, 2013 Expected publication date: June or September 2013
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archive.org #33116

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Cascade Hops-N-Mint Lip Balm

http://laughingsquid.com/sierra-nevada-brewing-co-cascade-hops-n-mint-lip-balm/
California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. makes its own (alcohol free) Cascade Hops-N-Mint lip balm and they sell it at their online store. Made using Cascade hop oils and all natural ingredients, this mousturizing balm is a lip saver for all seasons. via Emily Winston photo 1 by boogi & photo 2 by James Peterson
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archive.org #33117

Ralph Wiggum Comics

http://laughingsquid.com/ralph-wiggum-comics/
Bongo Comics has just released Ralph Wiggum Comics #1, a comic book that features The Simpsons nose-picking character Ralph Wiggums. It is part of Simpsons One-Shot Wonders from Bongo that will also include Milhouse #1 due out in April 2012. In the first of Bongo Comics’ soon to be legendary Simpsons One-Shot Wonders, Ralph Wiggum takes center stage. In his first solo outing, Ralph has a day off of school, is left home alone, and becomes a role model to a new kid in town. Add in some short features by Sergio Aragonés and watch the chaos ensue. via MTV Geek!
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archive.org #33118

The Art of Video Games, An Upcoming Smithsonian Exhibit

http://laughingsquid.com/the-art-of-video-games-an-upcoming-smithsonian-exhibit/
The Art of Video Games is an upcoming Smithsonian exhibit on the evolution of video game art over the past 40 years (video). The exhibit will be on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, March 16 to September 30. For more info on the exhibition see this preview article by Smithsonian Magazine. The Art of Video Games is one of the first exhibitions to explore the forty-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies. It features some of the most influential artists and designers during five eras of game technology, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. image via Smithsonian American Art Museum, video via Smithsonian Magazine
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archive.org #33121

SOPA's author wants everything you do online logged and made available without a warrant - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/29/sopas-author-wants-everythin.html
Lamar Smith (R-TX), author of the ill-starred SOPA Internet regulation, has an even dumber idea for the Internet. In the name of fighting child pornography, he wants to force ISPs to log everything you do online, then make it available to police and government agents without a warrant. Leslie Meredith has a writeup on the mounting opposition to Smith's latest act of unconstitutional lunacy: However, under Smith’s bill, records of both suspects and ordinary citizens would all be available to any government agency at any time, no warrant required. "This type of legislation goes against the fundamental values of our country where individuals are treated as innocent until proven guilty," Reitman said. "H.R. 1981 would uproot this core American principle, forcing ISPs to treat everyone like a potential criminal." The bill has been forwarded from committee to the full House of Representatives for consideration, which is expected later this year. There is no sign of a Senate version at this time. If the past is any indicator, Smith may be in for a hard fight with activists. He was also sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill that would have shut off access to foreign websites accused of hosting pirated content. But he was forced to withdraw the legislation after massive protests by many of the same opponents who likewise thought the remedy was too harsh for the problem. Child porn law could affect everyone's privacy
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archive.org #21090

Untitled

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1613216.html
'Brogrammers' challenge coders' nerdy image Danilo Stern-Sapad writes code for a living, but don't call him a geek. He wears sunglasses and blasts 2Pac while programming. He enjoys playing Battle Shots - like the board game Battleship with liquor - at the office. He and his fellow coders at Los Angeles startup BetterWorks are lavished with attention by technology-industry recruiters desperate for engineering talent. "We got invited to a party in Malibu where there were naked women in the hot tub," said Stern-Sapad, 25. "We're the cool programmers." A poster recently displayed at a Stanford University career fair by San Francisco social-media analytics company Klout tried to woo computer-science graduates by asking: "Want to bro down and crush code? Klout is hiring." Mirrored from jwz.org.
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archive.org #21088

Alamo Drafthouse's Summer of 82 Screens Vintage Sci-Fi, Action | Underwire | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/summer-of-82-movies/
Sci-fi and action movie fans fixated on the ’80s might want to relocate for the summer to Austin, Texas, where the Alamo Drafthouse will revive Blade Runner, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and other blockbusters from 1982 on the same day as their original releases 30 years ago. The nostalgia-inducing montage video above — made by Tommy Swenson and set to the tune of “Eye of the Tiger” (what else?) — powers through a formidable stream of big-budget gore, sci-fi and action spatter from that epic year. “A generation of imaginations were set aflame, and there has never been another stretch of cinematic dynamite to match it,” said Alamo Drafthouse programmer Zack Carlson in a statement. “These movies endured beyond their opening weekend and decades later they’re forever tattooed on the hearts of movie fans across the globe.” The Summer of 1982 slate, which begins May 18, will also include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Conan the Barbarian, The Road Warrior, Poltergeist, The Thing, Rocky III and Tron.
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archive.org #33122

Ergotron 24-274-026 WorkFit-A, LCD Monitor Sit-Stand Computer Desk Mount Workstation

http://www.ergotron.com/Products/tabid/65/PRDID/571/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Stay energized, healthy and productive while you compute—change from a sitting to a standing position whenever you want. This height-adjustable workstation moves your keyboard and display in one simple motion, making computing comfortable for prolonged periods.
#desk #ergonomics #imported:pinboard #want #wishlist
archive.org #21079

#reviewth.is @github

http://reviewth.is/
GitHub gives us almost everything we need to do code reviews. Commit, file and line level comments, comment notifications, plus everything else that makes the GitHub experience great. The only thing missing is an easy way to initiate a review. If I want my code to be reviewed, I’ve got to go to GitHub, get the URL (and any other info), then compose an email to everyone I want to review it.
#code #dev #git #github #imported:pinboard #review
archive.org #33123

FrontPage - Juju

https://juju.ubuntu.com/FrontPage
Juju is DevOps DistilledTM. Through the use of charms, juju provides you with shareable, re-usable, and repeatable expressions of DevOps best practices. You can use them unmodified, or easily change and connect them to fit your needs. Deploying a charm is similar to installing a package on Ubuntu: ask for it and it’s there, remove it and it’s completely gone.
#charms #devops #imported:pinboard #juju #ubuntu
archive.org #21076

django-webdav - Django webdav implementation. - Google Project Hosting

http://code.google.com/p/django-webdav/
WebDAV implemented as a Django application. The motivation for this project is to allow authentication of users against Django's contrib.auth system, while also exporting different directories per user. Many Django tools and app can be combined with this such as django-digest etc. to provide a powerful WebDAV server.
#django #http #imported:pinboard #webdav #webdev
archive.org #33126

Looping catsplosion - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pad-a98MV78
Favorite: Looping catsplosion, by 271kochu The perfect ambiance for late-night study. Should loop. Original version with howto http://youtu.be/iNw2YcAK9Wc Looping animated gif http://imgur.com/uWQEI Reddit thread http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/q8h0h/
#imported:pinboard #videos #youtube
archive.org #21062

PayPal Strong-Arms Indie Ebook Publishers Over Erotic Content | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/paypal-strong-arms-indie-ebook-publishers-over-erotic-content/1097
Under the new PayPal policy, Mark Corker of Smashwords told all the Smashwords authors they would also have to remove paranormal romance that included shape-shifters - if the shape-shifters were to have sex in their non-human forms.
#erotica #fiction #imported:pinboard #paypal #twilight #weird #writing
archive.org #21061

Untitled

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1612164.html
SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback Abstract: In this paper we report on a system, "SpeechJammer", which can be used to disturb people's speech. In general, human speech is jammed by giving back to the speakers their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. This effect can disturb people without any physical discomfort, and disappears immediately by stop speaking. Furthermore, this effect does not involve anyone but the speaker. We utilize this phenomenon and implemented two prototype versions by combining a direction-sensitive microphone and a direction-sensitive speaker, enabling the speech of a specific person to be disturbed. We discuss practical application scenarios of the system, such as facilitating and controlling discussions. Finally, we argue what system parameters should be examined in detail in future formal studies based on the lessons learned from our preliminary study. Mirrored from jwz.org.
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archive.org #21053

The Best First Pet for a Kid? A Commodore PET! | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2012/03/01/the-best-first-pet-for-a-kid-a-commodore-pet/
Today’s Photo of the Day was posted by Alice Tiara and shows who I think is a young child (maybe Alice?) playing on the greatest gift a young kid could get in the 1970s and 1980s, a Commodore PET. Since this is how many kids from that generation were introduced to computers, this should be have been the photo they used in the ad for the PET.
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archive.org #33135

This R2-D2 Cake – Is the Cake You’ve Been Looking For… | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2012/03/01/this-r2-d2-cake-is-the-cake-youve-been-looking-for/
I have never received what I liked to call a “fancy cake” for my birthday or any other special event. Every week I spot one online and think, “that’s the one I want!” This week, it is this delicious and well made cake that was posted by Mazola1980 of everyone’s favorite robotic hero, R2-D2.
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archive.org #33136

A Hypermedia API Reading List - Literate Programming

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2012-02-27-hypermedia-api-reading-list
Originally, this post was titled "A RESTful Reading List," but please note that REST is over. Hypermedia API is the new nomenclature. I've been doing an intense amount of research on Hypermedia APIs over the last few months, and while I didn't save every resource I found, I've made a list here of the most important.
#apis #hypermedia #imported:pinboard #rest #webdev
archive.org #21037

Catsplosion - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNw2YcAK9Wc
Favorite: Catsplosion, by 271kochu A superstructure, kept upright by a constant flow of cats. I'm kidding, it's just a fountain of cats. Jump to 1:48 if you just want to watch the cats pourr Looped animated gif http://imgur.com/uWQEI Looped video of just a stream of cats http://youtu.be/Pad-a98MV78 Reddit thread http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/q8h0h/
#imported:pinboard #videos #youtube
archive.org #21036

Binding of Isaac Denied 3DS Release Over Religious Concerns - Giant Bomb

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/binding-of-isaac-denied-3ds-release-over-religious-concerns/4011/
The Binding of Isaac is only $4.99 on Steam, and it's available for both the PC and Mac. We won’t be seeing Edmund McMillen’s The Binding of Isaac on 3DS, unfortunately. McMillen revealed over Twitter that Nintendo has denied the game’s possible port over religious concerns. “Attention: After a long internal debate Nintendo has decided NOT to allow the Binding of Isaac on the 3ds. :(“ said the designer. “As many assumed the reasons were due to the games "questionable religious content". Thank GOD Steam exists!” The Binding of Isaac is not the next game from Team Meat, McMillen’s other outfit that produced 2010’s Super Meat Boy. Team Meat is working on another project, and McMillen made The Binding of Isaac as a post-release breather. The game’s best described as, well, a Zelda-inspired roguelike. You should really play it.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #33139

The Llamma's Game Console Forums • View topic - Trace Corrosion Repair Tutorial Part 2

http://forums.llamma.com/viewtopic.php?t=12694
It has been pointed out by chunkhead from the afterdawn.com and llama.com Forums that some X-Box motherboards have a corrosion problem on some traces. This corrosion is due to some sort of contamination from the factory. Due to this corrosion, it was found that some X-Boxes affected can produce the following symptoms: (1) The X-Box fails to power down using the power on/off button on the front panel. The power cord has to be pulled out to shut it down. (2) As soon as the power cord is plugged in, the X-Box powers up without pressing either the on/off or eject buttons. (3) While the X-Box is on for a certain amount of time, it shuts down by itself for no reason. The time factor before shut down can vary wildly.
#diy #electronics #gaming #imported:pinboard #repairs #xbox
archive.org #21019

Patent wars, Silicon Valley, and DIY software innovators. - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/02/patent_wars_silicon_valley_and_diy_software_innovators_.html
Patents are supposed to reward innovation, but in the software industry, they are having the opposite effect. The patent system has become a minefield that punishes innovators who accidentally infringe the patents of others. There are now so many software patents in force that it is practically impossible to avoid infringing them all.
#copyfight #imported:pinboard #innovation #patents
archive.org #21014

Home-Brew and the DIY innovation movement. - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/02/home_brew_and_the_diy_innovation_movement_.single.html
We can learn several crucial lessons from this diverse, creative group, and that understanding will allow us to encourage innovation. For some, the main impetus for DIY is that it provides an outlet from their daily grind: Many employees suffer the life of the cubicle-bound "knowledge worker." In his best-selling Shop Class As Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford argues that the elimination of industrial arts and home economics classes from public school curricula has left us dependent on machines that we don’t understand and frustrated by the outsourcing and off-shoring of production. We also derive little satisfaction from what we “produce” at work. We’ve become a nation of shoppers and consumers. DIY is a way to engage the physical things around us and create durable (and drinkable) objects. Based on informal conversations with other DIYers, some of these motivations include self-reliance, community-building, autonomy, independence from monopolies, an alternative to rampant consumerism, innate curiosity, and the desire to make something cool.
#beer #diy #homebrewing #imported:pinboard #makers #to:fb
archive.org #21009

Sinéad O'Connor: A Mea Culpa < PopMatters

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/154983-sinead-oconnor
It’s time to apologize to Sinéad O’Connor. Remember her? Ripped up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live before adding, “Fight the real enemy” to protest child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the complicity of the church hierarchy? Already a platinum record and a number one single to her name, Sinéad’s career was never the same again.
#abuse #imported:pinboard #music #religion #sineadoconnor #to:fb
archive.org #20991

The fake chemical compound Isaac Asimov invented to punk science writers

http://io9.com/5887014/the-fake-chemical-compound-isaac-asimov-invented-to-punk-science-writers
the only way for the compound to be more soluble than it already was would be if it dissolved before it came in contact with the water. He decided this would be a good basis for another short story, and then realized this represented the perfect way to deal with his concerns about scientific writing
#azimov #chemistry #imported:pinboard #science #scifi #thiotimoline #writing
archive.org #20981

Thorium reactors a silver bullet for our looming energy crisis? | Geek.com

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/thorium-reactors-a-silver-bullet-for-our-looming-energy-crisis-20120226/
Is thorium the silver-bullet that we have been looking for to solve the energy crisis? We don’t know yet, but the research has certainly been promising. Scientists have shown how a small amount of thorium could power an automobile for its entire lifespan, hopefully it can be scaled for the world’s power grids.
#energy #imported:pinboard #nuclear #thorium
archive.org #33160

memeorandum: TPM2012  —  Flashback: In 2006, Rick Santorum Wanted To Send All Pennsylvanians To College (Evan McMorris-Santoro/2012.talkingp …)

http://www.memeorandum.com/120226/p3#a120226p3
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:TPM2012  —  Flashback: In 2006, Rick Santorum Wanted To Send All Pennsylvanians To College  —  TROY, MICHIGAN — At an Americans For Prosperity-sponsored tea party rally here Saturday, Rick Santorum trumpeted his connections to the working class by attacking President Obama's plan to make college more accessible to Americans.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20971

Haters gonna HATEOAS — Timeless

http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas
Now, when I said ‘nobody’ does this, what I meant was ‘for APIs.’ This is exactly how the Web works. Think about it. You start off on the homepage. That’s the only URL you have to know. From there, a bunch of links point you towards each state that you can reach from there. People would consider it ludicrous if they had to remember a dozen URLs to navigate a website, so why do we expect the consumers of our APIs to do so as well?
#hateos #http #imported:pinboard #rest #webdev
archive.org #20970

Flashback: In 2006, Rick Santorum Wanted To Send All Pennsylvanians To College | TPM2012

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/flashback-in-2006-rick-santorum-wanted-to-send-all-paians-to-college.php
But the last time Santorum ran for public office — his ill-fated 2006 Senate reelection campaign — he was right there with Obama, running on his promise to make college more accessible to all Pennsylvanians.
#college #education #imported:pinboard #santorum #to:fb
archive.org #20969

LOLDWELL.com - I Scream, You Drink

http://loldwell.com/?p=2011
One time I went to a burger place that served something called a “beer float.” You got two scoops of ice cream in a big frosty mug of beer. It is the best thing I have ever put in my mouth. In hairier news, I put together a list of the different types of stubble. Which one are you? I’m gonna pour beer in an ice cream cone, Caldy
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20968

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Creepy little girl goes fishing for monsters

http://io9.com/5888243/concept-art-writing-prompt-creepy-little-girl-goes-fishing-for-monsters
Mysterious creatures lurk beneath the waters of this week's concept art writing prompt. As always, we ask that you come up with a flash fiction story inspired by this painting and post it in the comments. So is this girl about to get eaten? Or is she doing the eating?
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20960

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Cat saved new owner's life hours after being adopted

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/02/cat-saved-new-owners-life-hours-after.html
A Sturgeon Bay woman has a lot to be thankful for after her newly adopted cat woke her from an insulin reaction just hours after bringing him home. Amy Jung and her son, Ethan Jung, originally went to the Door County Humane Society on Feb. 8 to play with the cats, not to bring one home. Then Jung, 36, saw Pudding lying on a counter. She made a quick decision to adopt Pudding and his pal Wimsy. When the Jungs arrived home, the 21-pound, orange-and-white Pudding made himself right at home, acting as if he had always been there. "He just really took right over. Really second nature," she said. At around 9:30 p.m., she went to bed and about 1½ hours later, the prodigious kitty came to her rescue. Jung, who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 4, started to have a seizure. According to Jung, Pudding planted his weight on her chest and, when he could not wake her, began swatting her face and biting her nose. "Anything he could to pull me out of it (the seizure)," she said. It worked. She woke up and the convulsions stopped long enough for her to call to her son for help. When Ethan did not respond to the calls, the cat ran to his room and jumped on his bed. Ethan later told her that he didn't know anything was wrong until the giant cat landing on the bed woke him up. Jung is convinced that she would not have survived the night if Pudding had not intervened. "If something or someone hadn't pulled me out of that, I wouldn't be here," she said. The next day she spoke with her doctor about her seizure and her cat's unusual actions. The doctor told her he had heard of animals alerting their owners to a health crisis but had never known anyone who had experienced it. "Realistically you can't be without him," he told her. Jung is registering Pudding as a therapy animal. Pudding will also sit at her feet and meow when her blood sugar is low, she said.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20953

Forking the code: how GitHub is changing software development | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2820869/forking-the-code-how-github-is-changing-software-development
The web-based software hosting service GitHub is everywhere lately, hosting over 2 million source code repositories being visited by 1.3 million users. Wired has a great look at the origins of the company — and the service itself — starting with the very beginnings of the Linus Torvalds-created Git version control software in 2005. What GitHub has excelled in doing is providing access and opportunity to programmers from around the world, giving them the chance to tinker with code that they may not have otherwise had the chance to touch, and then share their changes with a broad community of participants. It's a marked shift from the way software development had often been approached, with only a select few given permission to commit... Continue reading…
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20948

The Miura-ori and how to fold it

http://wheatpond.com/2012/02/22/miuraori.html
The Miura-ori is a method for folding up a sheet such that it can be opened or closed in one smooth motion. A Miura sheet has only one degree of freedom, and can be thought of as having only two states: fully open, or fully closed. Since reversing one fold in the sheet (that is, making a “mountain” into a “valley”) requires reversing all of the adjacent folds as well, the Miura sheet feels as though it has a memory, and is very resistant to deformation.
#folding #imported:pinboard #maps #nifty #origami #paper
archive.org #20946

Someone Made a Lame Dick Joke on Paul Rudd's Wikipedia Page

http://gawker.com/5888165/someone-made-a-lame-dick-joke-on-paul-rudds-wikipedia-page
The photo agency Pacific Coast News just breathlessly emailed us to say they had exclusive screenshots of Paul Rudd's "hacked" Wikipedia page, above. First of all, vandalizing someone's Wikipedia page is not hacking. Just because it happened on the internet doesn't make it hacking. Second of all: "Enjoys sucking penis?" It's "sucking dick," you miserable non-hacking, uncreative 14-year-old. More »
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20945

Free Geek Vancouver Volunteer Blog: Dymaxion Auto-Matic Buckminster Fuller

http://freegeekvancouver.blogspot.com/2012/02/dymaxion-auto-matic-buckminster-fuller.html
Presenting the Dymaxion Auto-Matic Buckminster Fuller. It's a retro-futuristic black and white screen mounted into a 1950s (or so) radio chassis, which generates and displays text that American luminary R. Buckminster Fuller might have said if he were a piece of software.
#arduino #diy #dymaxion #hacks #imported:pinboard #nifty
archive.org #20937

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Why publishers should give away ebooks

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2012/01/why_publishers.php
So why give away the bits? Well, traditional book publishers have three big imperatives today: (1) protect print sales for as long as possible (in order to fund a longer-term transition to a workable new business model); (2) help keep physical bookstores in business (for the reasons set out in this article by Julie Bosman); and (3) do anything possible to curb the power of Amazon.com, the publishers' arch-frenemy.
#copyfight #ebooks #imported:pinboard #publishers
archive.org #20928

Lisp REPL in Vendetta Online

http://www.a1k0n.net/2005/11/04/lisp-repl-vendetta-online.html
Vendetta Online has a Lisp environment (using SBCL) which controls much of its NPC behavior and will soon be in charge of generating player and NPC missions. Partly in order to get around some thread-safety issues, and partly for convenience we built an REPL into a secret chat channel. (it only responds to developer accounts)
#imported:pinboard #lisp #programming #repl #vendettaonline
archive.org #20927

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Teenager admits punching chicken

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/02/teenager-admits-punching-chicken.html
A Portishead teenager punched a chicken after stealing it from a family home, a court was told. He appeared before magistrates at North Somerset Courthouse after leaving a family devastated by the ‘sorry tale’ of abuse. The youth admitted one charge of theft and two animal cruelty charges relating to not ensuring Crombie the chicken was properly looked after and for hurting the animal when he appeared. Two other teenagers also admitted failing to look after the animal’s welfare and playing their part in the theft.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20913

Mozilla is Placing Itself in Position to be the King of the Mobile Web

http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2012/02/mozilla-is-placing-itself-in-p.php
HTML5 Web apps are going to become a definitive section of the mobile ecosystem in 2012. The difference between the mobile Web and its native counterparts is that there is no one company seen as the de facto leader of the movement. Apple leads iOS, Google touts Android, Microsoft and Nokia push Windows Phone. The mobile Web? Lots of players, no clear leader.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20903

You can put a gun rack in a Volt | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/113062/You-can-put-a-gun-rack-in-a-Volt
Newt Gingrich said in a political campaign speech that one could not put a gun rack in a Chevy Volt, speaking against President Obama's to raise subsidies for electric cars. One Georgia engineer took that challenge to heart and showed that you can put a gunrack in a Volt, showing that even in the Deep South, there are innovative, forward thinking people (who like to hunt).
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20902

EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database | Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-wins-protection-time-zone-database
In a statement, Astrolabe said, "Astrolabe's lawsuit against Mr. Olson and Mr. Eggert was based on a flawed understanding of the law. We now recognize that historical facts are no one's property and, accordingly, are withdrawing our Complaint. We deeply regret the disruption that our lawsuit caused for the volunteers who maintain the TZ database, and for Internet users."
#astrolabe #copyfight #eff #imported:pinboard #tzinfo
archive.org #20893

Rush is a Band Blog: Author Kevin J. Anderson to write novelization of Rush's upcoming Clockwork Angels album

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rushisaband/blog/~3/lDoq62UeR8w/Author-Kevin-J.-Anderson-to-write-novelization-of-Rushs-upcoming-Clockwork-Angels-album
Sci-fi author Kevin J. Anderson is a huge Rush fan and has drawn inspiration from Rush for a number of his writings. His 1988 Rush-inspired novel Ressurection, Inc. drew the attention of Neil Peart and the 2 have been friends ever since, even collaborating on the 1994 short story Drumbeats. Neil also wrote the introduction to Anderson's 2006 short story compilation Landscapes. Anderson just announced via his Facebook page the incredibly awesome news that he will be writing a novelization of Rush's upcoming Clockwork Angels album! ...
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20890

Cosmic Log - How monkeys handle moral outrage

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/20/10459741-how-monkeys-handle-moral-outrage
When Occupy Wall Street and similar protests played out over the past year, the phenomenon looked familiar to Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal: He's seen similar moral outrage over economic inequity expressed by monkeys and chimps. And he thinks we could learn a lesson or two from our fellow primates.
#evolution #imported:pinboard #morality #philosophy #primates #religion #science
archive.org #20889

The “Official” Ready Player One Soundtrack Mix Tape | Ernie's Blog

http://www.ernestcline.com/blog/2011/09/21/the-official-ready-player-one-soundtrack/
Many people have been clamoring for me to post an “official” Ready Player One soundtrack. I hate to be the cause of any sort of clamoring, so I compiled this list of nearly every song mentioned or referenced in the book, in roughly the order they appear. If you haven’t finished reading the book yet, here there be spoilers.
#imported:pinboard #music #nifty #playlist #readyplayerone #scifi
archive.org #33179

I'm on a boat: This isn't a book; it's a time machine - WWdN: In Exile

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2012/02/im-on-a-boat-this-isnt-a-book-its-a-time-machine.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wwdn+%28WIL+WHEATON+dot+NET%3A+in+Exile%29
I’m on JoCoCruiseCrazy 2, and I’m taking an Internet vacation until I get home. So every day while I’m gone, something from my archives will post here automatically, for your entertainment. I had a lot of fun picking these different things out, and I hope you enjoy them again, or for the first time. This isn't a book; it's a time machine. Originally published March 2009. This is where it all began for me: the D&D Basic Rules Set. When I opened this book in 1983, I had no idea that it would change my life. Back then, if you told 11 year-old me that I'd be 36 and wiping tears from my face because reading it brought back so many joyful memories, he would have called you one of the names the cool kids called him for playing it. (Don't judge him too harshly; he's only 11.) My original D&D Basic set was a garage sale casualty, but the book in this picture is a first printing that I bought at a game store about ten years ago. It's perfect in every way, except for a missing character sheet in the middle, which I printed from the PDF copy I bought from Paizo last year. The Keep on the Borderlands module beneath it belonged to someone named Randy Richards, who wrote his name and phone number (as we so often did in those days) on the cover. I don't know who Randy Richards is, if he cares, or if he'll even read this, but if he does, I want him to know: your book is in very good hands, Randy, and its current owner loves it as much as anyone could. I've been on a real D&D kick lately (blame the Penny Arcade podcast, and how much I love 4e) but I hadn't actually gone back to the beginning and read the Basic Rules for a very, very long time. So late last night, after my family went to sleep, instead of watching TV or reading blogs, I went to my bookshelf and grabbed the Player's Manual you see in this picture. I read it cover-to-cover for the first time in over 20 years, and played the solo adventure, which was the very first dungeon I ever visited. I named my fighter Thorin, just like I did when I was a kid. I made a map on graph paper, rolled dice on the floor, and felt pure joy wash over me. I scared off a Giant Rat and killed the remaining two before I failed – like I did when I was 11 – to solve the riddle of O-T-T-F-F-S-S, losing all my treasure. I tried to talk to the Goblins ... before I killed them and took their treasure: 100 sp and 50 gp. I battled the Rust Monster, who was just as tough and unreasonable an opponent for a first level fighter as I remember. Thorin eventually managed to defeat it with some ... creative ... trips back to town to replace his armor and weapons, just like he did a quarter century ago. Luckily for him, the Rust Monster didn't heal between battles ... just like the last time he faced it. I decided to leave the skeletons for another time, and walked back to town with my 650 gp and 100 sp. When I calculated my XP, I had earned 1084 ... not too shabby. I closed up my book, and went to sleep happy. When I was a kid, the D&D Basic Rules Set was never just a game to me; it was my portal into a magical, wonderful world that I still love. Now that I'm an adult, it isn't just a couple of books to me; it's a time machine. The world I live in is filled with uncertainty and occasionally-overwhelming responsibility, but for an hour or so last night, I was 11 years-old again, and I went back to a world where the biggest problem I faced was trying to save up for a Millennium Falcon. When I read "You decide to attack the goblins before they can get help..." I could hear my Aunt Val tell me “That’s a game that I hear lots of kids like to play, Willow. It’s dragons and wizards and those things you liked from The Hobbit. The back says you use your imagination, and I know what a great imagination you have.” I could feel the weight of my Red Box, which I carried with me pretty much everywhere I went, and how huge the thing felt in my tiny arms. I could feel it get heavier as I added modules and characters, and my own dungeons, drawn on graph paper. I could hear the snap of the thick green rubber band I eventually had to wrap around it, and I could see the yellowing scotch tape I added to the corners. I enjoyed it so much, I'm going to reread the Dungeon Master's Rulebook next, and run the Group Game adventure it contains, "for use by a beginning Dungeon Master." Then, it's time to go back to the Keep on the Borderlands, using just the Basic Rules, where Magic-users can't wear armor, Fighters have 8 HP, Dwarf and Elf are classes, and everyone dies at least once before finally taking a character to second level, because that's where it all started for me, and sometimes you just have to go back to your roots.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #33187

What have you tried? - Matt Gemmell

http://mattgemmell.com/2008/12/08/what-have-you-tried/
The problem is that this person’s problem-solving technique is to ask for the solution. Not to seek advice on how to approach the task, or ask for the names of likely classes to look into, or a link to an example - but to just ask for the code, fully formed and ready to go. This is not problem solving, and software engineering is entirely about problem solving.
#development #imported:pinboard #problems #programming #software
archive.org #33188

Google rolling out the AR glasses from Vernor Vinge's novel Rainbows End

http://io9.com/5887132/google-rolling-out-the-ar-glasses-from-vernor-vinges-novel-rainbows-end
In Vernor Vinge's novel Rainbows End, the author imagines a near future where everybody wears computers knitted into their clothing, which are connected to augmented reality contact lenses or glasses. Everybody looks at the world through a layer of data, whether that's just social information about the people they're talking to, or a full-blown MMO overlay that turns their college campus into a medieval village. People use these AR goggles to do everything from research to gaming; Vinge imagines AR as a technology that can pull the web into the real world. Now, Google is going to do exactly what Vinge predicted. Over at the New York Times, Nick Bilton reports on a Google X project that could put AR glasses on your face in less than a year, for roughly the cost of a smart phone. Bilton writes: The glasses will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby, according to the Google employees. The glasses are not designed to be worn constantly - although Google expects some of the nerdiest users will wear them a lot - but will be more like smartphones, used when needed. Internally, the Google X team has been actively discussing the privacy implications of the glasses and the company wants to ensure that people know if they are being recorded by someone wearing a pair of glasses with a built-in camera. The project is currently being built in the Google X offices, a secretive laboratory near Google's main campus that is charged with working on robots, space elevators and dozens of other futuristic projects. Wait — Google is building a space elevator too? I hope it's going to be something I can see even when I take my AR goggles off. Read more at the New York Times. Image via Bruce Branit's fascinating short film about a guy using AR contacts to build a holographic world.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20865

Escapes.js

http://256.io/escapes.js/
escapes.js is a small JavaScript library for rendering ANSI art, a form of computer art that flourished in the mid 90s. ANSI art was composed by colorizing sequences of characters and blocks drawn in the built-in system font, which made it easy to transmit across telephone wires. As a result, ANSI art was especially popular on Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes).
#ansi #art #imported:pinboard #javascript #oldschool #to:fb #webdev
archive.org #33191

It’s About Time: “Community” Returns To NBC March 15th « Nerdist

http://www.nerdist.com/2012/02/its-about-time-community-returns-to-nbc-march-15th/
Troy’s tears are for joy this time. Yes, Community will be coming back on March 15th at 8/7c on NBC. That’s good news. Parks and Recreation will take five weeks off to allow the network to shuffle the lineup and make room. That’s… less good. But at least we’ll get the rest of Season 3 of Community. #threemoreseasonsandamovie?
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #33195

Cuttlefish have a visual superpower - they see the world in polarized light

http://io9.com/5886954/cuttlefish-are-the-first-known-species-to-see-the-world-in-polarized-light
Cuttlefish are among the most remarkable of cephalopods, but nobody expected the creatures to have this particular trick up their sleeve. Cuttlefish can actually see information in the angle of intense polarized light that we can barely comprehend. We're generally most familiar with this particular concept from polarized sunglasses. The idea is that light that was otherwise scattered in all directions is reflected off a surface so that the light is oriented in one direction, creating a massive, intense glare. Polarized sunglasses are used to counter this effect and block out most of the reflected light. And, as far as we humans are concerned, that's pretty much the end of it. Polarized light creates glare when we're dealing with large, flat surfaces - anything from a body of water to a long stretch of highway - and we can use special sunglasses to block out the worst of this intense light. But cuttlefish, those marvelous mollusks, can do something far more remarkable. They can actually see the angle at which the light is reflected and polarized, and even the subtlest change will activate their color-changing defense mechanism, as researchers at the University of Bristol and University of Queensland recently discovered. Bristol lead researcher Dr. Shelby Temple explains how they made the discovery: "We modified LCD computer monitors to show changes in polarization instead of changes in colour, and then played videos of approaching objects and watched for changes in skin colour patterns to determine if the cuttlefish could see small changes in polarization contrast. Cuttlefish change colour all the time and respond to the slightest movement so they are an excellent model. Cuttlefish were much more sensitive than we expected. It was previously thought that polarization sensitivity was limited to about 10-20 degree differences, but we found that cuttlefish could respond to differences as small as one degree." We knew that cuttlefish, along with their cephalopod cousins the octopus and squid, could see polarized light in this way, but we had no idea they could see this well. Of course, when you've got an eye as weird as the one up top, maybe it isn't so hard to believe that they see the world like no other species. Because the idea of seeing the angle of polarization is so alien to us, the researchers are still grappling with all the hidden visual information cuttlefish are able to see. To that end, they are replacing the polarization angles in underwater scenes with different colors to get a better sense of just what is really in the cuttlefish field of vision. Brisbane researcher Justin Marshall adds: "These extraordinary findings suggest that we need to reexamine how we have been measuring the visual world underwater. Cuttlefish may be using the polarization of light much like we use colour, which means we may need to look at camouflage and communication underwater in a whole new way." Via Current Biology. Image by FireFly5 on Wikimedia.
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
archive.org #20858

Spent Grain Beer Bread

http://www.beeratjoes.com/index.php/beer-dinners/spent-grain-beer-bread/
Whenever Joe makes homebrew, I whip up some spent grain bread. All the recipes I found on the internet treated the spent grain as a sort of add-on ingredient, the way you would treat cheese or raisins. I wanted it to be the main part–it is grain, after all. That’s what bread is. So after some tweaking (there will be endless tweaking, of course), I have come up with my own version:
#baking #beer #bread #homebrew #imported:pinboard #recipes #to:fb
archive.org #33197

BSAG » Some thoughts about coffee

http://www.rousette.org.uk/blog/archives/some-thoughts-about-coffee/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+butshesagirl+%28but+she%27s+a+girl...%29
Coffee is an amazing drink, isn’t it? I can think of few other drinks that can take on such a spectacular range of flavours and change so dramatically in character with tiny changes in preparation method. And that’s before you think about changing the way in which the beans are roasted. I have been steadily learning how to get good espresso from my Rancilio Silvia, but while the coffee has become much more consistent and pretty good, I knew it could be better. The fruity, acidic, winey flavours of the beans were too dominating, so that the coffee tasted a bit unbalanced. It wasn’t unpleasant at all, but I personally like the more earthy, chocolate, caramel and spicy kinds of flavours to be a bit more prominent. I had got to the point where I could produce the same quality of coffee pretty consistently, which when you consider all the variables involved (grind, dose, distribution of grounds in the basket, tamping pressure, water temperature, extraction time and so on), is something I view as quite an achievement in itself. How could I get more of the rich and sweet flavours in the coffee? After reading what felt like every article ever written on the internet about coffee1, I stumbled on a suggestion that higher brewing temperatures can bring out the ‘darker’ flavours, while lower temperatures emphasise the more delicate, fruity ones. I had to try it out. Keeping all the other variables as constant as I possibly could, I changed the set point of my PID to 3°C higher than its previous setting. I did this in the evening before going to bed, so that I wouldn’t forget to make the change in the morning. It’s an indication of how sadly nerdy, I mean, deeply fascinated I have become with the whole process that I fell asleep thinking about what the coffee was going to be like, and bounded downstairs the next day like a child on Christmas morning. Well. It was like night and day. I could tell it was going to be good from the way it was rolling languidly from the spouts of the portafilter and by the heavenly smell, but the first sip confirmed it. It was rich and spicy with lovely bitter chocolate notes, but that was balanced by the fruity tang I had before. It was even a different texture, with much more body and viscosity. All that transformation from a change of 3°C. This morning I even managed to produce the kind of crema on the top that you see in all the coffee pr0n photos and videos: a deep, caramel or hazelnut coloured gloopy liquid, spotted with paler colours. I was so excited that I yelled at Mr. Bsag, “COME AND LOOK AT MY CREMA! LOOK AT IT!”. He humoured me with a ‘yes it’s a lovely crema darling’ look, but I could tell that he just wanted to drink some coffee. He does agree that it’s dramatically better than before though, so I know that it’s not just my wishful thinking. Next, I will conquer microfoam! Oh dear. I think I may be hooked. On the positive side, it does make getting up at a stupidly early hour much more interesting. Edited to correct the temperature difference, because apparently I can’t do arithmetic when highly-caffeinated. A number that seems to tend towards infinity.↩
#imported:pinboard #needs-tags #shared #ttrss
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There's going to be an Inspector Spacetime web series!

http://io9.com/5886382/theres-going-to-be-an-inspector-spacetime-web-series
Word out of the Gallifrey One Doctor Who convention is that there is going to be a web series of Community's Who-parody show Inspector Spacetime. It sounds like it won't be Donald Glover and Danny Pudi in the starring roles, however. Travis Richey, who plays the Inspector on the show within a show will be producing six episodes. [bessyboo via Charlie Jane]
#community #drwho #imported:pinboard #odd #to:fb #tv
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Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal – Telegraph Blogs

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/100007156/infinite-copyright-a-modest-proposal/
Certainly we wouldn't want to listen to their other suggestions, which would see us broaden the definition of "fair use" and, horrifically, reduce copyright terms back to merely a lifetime or even less. Not only would such an act deprive our great-great-grandchildren of their birthright, but it would surely choke off creativity to the dark ages of the 18th and 19th centuries, a desperately lean time for art in which we had to make do with mere scribblers such as Wordsworth, Swift, Richardson, Defoe, Austen, Bronte, Hardy, Dickens, and Keats.
#copyfight #copyright #imported:pinboard #ip #writing
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Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US | Techdirt

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17154217785/congrats-us-government-youre-scaring-web-businesses-into-moving-out-us.shtml
The federal government has been paying lip service to the idea that it wants to encourage new businesses and startups in the US. And this is truly important to the economy, as studies have shown that almost all of the net job growth in this country is coming from internet startups. Thankfully some politicians recognize this, but the federal government seems to be going in the other direction. With the JotForm situation unfolding, where the US government shut down an entire website with no notice or explanation, people are beginning to recognize that the US is not safe for internet startups.
#business #censorship #copyfight #imported:pinboard #internet #politics
archive.org #20806

US Returns JotForm.com Domain; Still Refuses To Say What Happened | Techdirt

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17043717784/us-returns-jotformcom-domain-still-refuses-to-say-what-happened.shtml
There's been a lot of interest in the story of the Secret Service completely shutting down JotForm.com through a request to GoDaddy. It appears that the suspension is now ending, though it hasn't fully propagated. What's amazing is that no one in the US government (or at GoDaddy) seems to be willing to explain what happened. When GoDaddy completely shut down JotForm.com with no notice, the folks at JotForm had to inquire as to what the hell happened to their entire website. They were merely told to contact a Secret Service agent. That agent then told JotForm she was too busy to respond to them and would get back to them within a week. Think about that for a second. The US government completely takes down a small business' website and then is too busy to explain why.
#censorship #copyfight #imported:pinboard #internet #us
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US Government 'Suspends' JotForm.com Over User Generated Forms; Censorship Regime Expands | Techdirt

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120215/18044017773/us-government-suspends-jotformcom-over-user-generated-forms-censorship-regime-expands.shtml
Activities like this will chill innovation and entrepreneurship in the US. Why locate here or even setup under a .com if the US government might kill your business with no explanation at any moment?
#censorship #copyfight #imported:pinboard #internet #us
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an American nightmare — Tremble the Devil

http://tremblethedevil.com/?p=1693
If the War on Drugs didn’t directly precipitate the Welfare State and the destruction of the American black family, why did welfare aid to families spike in lockstep with our prison population right as that War started? Well, if you’re familiar American drug laws, it shouldn’t surprise you that some 90% of those arrested under the Rockefeller Drug Laws in the years after its passage were minorities.
#drugs #imported:pinboard #prison #race #racism #warondrugs #welfare
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Obama May Ditch Most US Nukes | Mother Jones

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/nuclear-weapons-reduction-obama
Will Republicans accede to a sweeping drawdown of US nuclear might? Beyond the knee-jerk emotions on top national security issues, there's an awful lot of defense pork—not just missiles, but also bombers, submarines, and scientific research—bound up in our nuclear program. That makes the most dramatic reduction scenarios highly unlikely to pass muster in Congress. But if the White House and Pentagon push one of their more modest proposals—cutting the number of bombs to, say, 700 or 1,000—that could represent a reasonable compromise that still offers compelling financial savings and progress toward greater global stability. Faced with a plan like that, resistant congressmen might end up looking like just a bunch of Dr. Strangeloves.
#imported:pinboard #military #nukes #politics #us
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Abortion saved my life - Abortion - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2011/05/26/abortion_saved_my_life/
My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway. My husband had told them exactly what my regular doctor said, and the ER doctor had already warned us what would have to happen. Yet none of this mattered when confronted by the idea that no one needs an abortion. You shouldn’t need to know the details of why a woman aborts to trust her to make the best decision for herself. I don’t regret my abortion, but I would also never use my situation to suggest that the only time another woman should have the procedure is when her life is at stake. After my family found out I’d had an abortion, I got a phone call from a cousin who felt the need to tell me I was wrong to have interfered with God’s plan. And in that moment I understood exactly what kind of people judge a woman’s reproductive choices.
#abortion #health #imported:pinboard #medicine #religion
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The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde Questions Why We Let Dying Industries Dictate Terms Of Democracy | Techdirt

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120214/01404517751/pirate-bays-peter-sunde-questions-why-we-let-dying-industries-dictate-terms-democracy.shtml
It's stories like this that raise significant questions about the prosecution. Even if you believe that Sunde was guilty of what he was charged with, I would think you should be able to admit that the list of things above should not have happened under any circumstance. When you read that... and then realize that the guy leading the prosecution against Megaupload for the US DOJ used to work for the industry as an "anti-piracy" exec -- you see the same pattern happening again and again. People who have too close connections to industry are making decisions on these issues designed to protect their industries, rather than looking at the actual impact on society and the economy. That's a pretty big problem, and shows how "regulatory capture" can sometimes become "judicial capture" as well.
#copyfight #corruption #imported:pinboard #piratebay
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A tweet filtering proxy with Node.JS: Part 1 | Guillermo Rauch's Devthought

http://www.devthought.com/2012/01/24/filtering-tweets-for-your-favorite-client-with-node-js/
The technique I’m going to describe consists in setting up a proxy to the Twitter API that lives in our computer, powered by Node.JS, that filters back responses based on arbitrary rules we setup. Not only does this give us the flexibility of using JavaScript, but it also means it will work with any Twitter client that leverages the API transparently. Yes, this includes the Twitter website!
#apis #imported:pinboard #nodejs #twitter
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Arzea Walkthrough Guide, Review, Discussion, Hints and Tips at Jay is Games

http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/02/arzea.php
When I'm not writing reviews for JayIsGames, I work full-time as a wizard. It's not easy work, believe me, nor is it nearly as glamorous as the movies make it out to be. One wrong incantation and you've blown yourself up or summoned an uncontrollable horde of demons. Arzea, a Metroidvania-style adventure game created by Arkeus originally for a Ludum Dare 24-hour game development competition and then expanded upon, demonstrates the kind of danger that magic can lead to. You're a wizard stranded in a strange world with only your wits and a variety of spells and upgrades to help you get home.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #metroidvania #nifty
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GeekMom » Blog Archive » How to Share Your Homebrew with Your Kids: Spent Grain Recipes

http://www.geekmom.com/2012/02/how-to-share-your-homebrew-with-your-kids-spent-grain-recipes/
It’s a shame to toss all those delicious-smelling grains that you carefully chose to make a delicious brew. Some people compost them, although some people have had bad experiences with how that turns out in the compost pile. Clearly the only sensible thing to do is eat them and all the protein and fiber goodness they have to offer. If you’re not ready to use them all (and how could you?!) as soon as the brew leaves the stove, you can refrigerate them for a day or two or freeze them for longer. And if you haven’t tried homebrewing yet, this is just a bonus reason. It also means you can share your brew with your kids, since this is before the alcohol enters the picture. If you’re feeling really industrious, you can work in a science lesson about yeast and fermentation!
#beer #bread #imported:pinboard #recipe
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Atari 2600 Wireless Joysticks | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2012/02/09/atari-2600-wireless-joysticks/
These early generation wireless joysticks were a far cry from the wireless pads we’ve come to enjoy (and expect) today. For starters, each joystick contained a 9-volt battery, an on/off switch, and a non-retractable 6″ antenna poking out the front of each one. I guess after the batteries died, you could still sword fight with them.
#atari #gaming #imported:pinboard #wireless
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Kevin J. Anderson will novelize Rush's new album

http://io9.com/5884531/kevin-j-anderson-will-novelize-rushs-new-album
Prolific novelist Kevin J. Anderson has made no secret of his love for prog rock — and now he's taking his prog-rock fixation to the next level. He announced on his Facebook page that he's writing the novel version of Rush's new album, Clockwork Angels. Writes Anderson: After dropping hints for a while, finally the big announcement, a new project unlike any other I've ever done...and something that I consider very cool. Most of you are aware of my long-standing friendship with Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist from the legendary rock band Rush, as well as how much Rush has influenced my work. My first novel Resurrection, Inc. was closely inspired by the Rush album Grace Under Pressure, and I can point to dozens of other novels and stories that bear a clear Rush influence. For more than twenty years, Neil and I have wanted to collaborate on something MAJOR, a way we could tie together our imaginations, and at last that's happening. I'm writing the novelization of Rush's forthcoming album Clockwork Angels, their first new CD in five years. Imagine if someone had written the novel of The Wall, Tommy, or Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band when those classic albums were released. For Rush fans, CLOCKWORK ANGELS is that project. I worked together with Neil to flesh out the epic story told over the course of the music, as well as the artist Hugh Syme whose paintings fill the CD booklet. In a young man's quest to follow his dreams, he is caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos. He travels across a lavish and colorful world of steampunk and alchemy, with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life. To whet your appetite, Rush released the first two tracks, Caravan and BU2B - listen to those songs to get an idea of the story's beginning. I'm writing the chapters now, incorporating the lyrics into the narrative, and having a fantastic time. More details to come, but for now-to quote a line from Caravan: "I can't stop thinking big." [via Vintage Vinyl News]
#fiction #imported:pinboard #music #rush #scifi
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