Leonard Lin
About: Building interesting things. Enjoying being easily distracted.
* I built Fireball, debuting at Web 2.0 Expo. Try it out.
* You may know me from: Yahoo! Hack Day, Upcoming.org, randomfoo.net (and related projects)
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Kucinich is Fired Up
--The irony of working on this stuff, is that well, you're working, so I haven't really been keeping up on the festivities. I started streaming stuf...
Django snippets: Sign a string using SHA1, then shrink it using url-safe base65 [del.icio.us]
--Sweet. Go from 40 to 27 characters for SHA1s (shorter than a regular MD5 hexdigest!)
Flickr's Burning Man Map Uses Open Street Map - O'Reilly Radar [del.icio.us]
--great roundup of some of the awesome geo stuff Flickr is doing. Aaron's blog has more (http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/)
Technology Review: Obama's Geek Economist [del.icio.us]
--Generations of the best and the brightest have come and gone in Washington, DC, usually without effecting significant changes. In this, Goolsbee ma...
Master List of McCain Flip-Flops and Gaffes [del.icio.us]
--very lowtech, makes you think about what a good cross-referenced citation system might look like...
Papers Written by Googlers [del.icio.us]
--that's a lot of reading
Close Call
--The primary hard drive on my dedicated server was about to give up the ghost and took down the site for most of the day. My machine now has a new ...
Running out of TCP/IP ports in your Linux box? « The eternal fight between admins and computers [del.icio.us]
--If you're getting network funkiness w/ buildup/teardown of lots of client connections, this might help...
The Daily Show and their TiVos | PVRblog [del.icio.us]
--Comments on the Daily Show Tivo setup from a former researcher. Yay for primary sources.
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham [del.icio.us]
--Short YouTube videos for all the elements on the periodic table. Neat.
Wal-Mart: you can't scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever - Boing Boing [del.icio.us]
--"In disbelief, I point out that the photo is almost 100 years old and the people are all dead. Undeterred, the Wal-Mart employee informs me th...
Shadow Government Statistics - Home Page [del.icio.us]
--Alternate estimations for CPI (without substitution, geometric weighting, hedonics), M3s (that the govt stopped publishing), employment (w/ "d...
The Poll Truth: Clean Energy Solutions Topple Drilling | SolveClimate.com [del.icio.us]
--"Renewable energy was listed as an energy solution, and guess what? Americans chose it over drilling by an overwhelming 76 percent to 19 perce...
Making Time to Make | 43 Folders [del.icio.us]
--“Making Time to Make” is a 3-part series about attention management for people who do creative work. It’s designed to help you firewall the time an...
An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability [del.icio.us]
--detailed (and illustrated of course) step by step
Woman riding a donkey fights off lion with machete [del.icio.us]
--best. article title. ever.
CVSps - Patchsets for CVS [del.icio.us]
--If you are an unfortunate soul forced to use CVS *ahem*, this looks invaluable.
Tarantino's Mind [del.icio.us]
--A great short film
Average Athlete vs Olympic Athlete (for 5in5) [del.icio.us]
--this is great.
The Oil Drum | Energy Transitions Past and Future [del.icio.us]
--Boston University professor Cutler Cleveland's excellent overview of issues revolving around transition from fossil fuel energy.
Translated version of http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=110666 [del.icio.us]
--And the winner for first netbook running Hackintosh appears to be... the MSI Wind. Looks like they'll be getting my money come July 7th.
White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail - NYTimes.com [del.icio.us]
--These people aren't living in reality.. "The Transportation Department made its own fuel-economy proposals public almost two months ago; ...
Facebook | Phonebook [del.icio.us]
--Didn't realize that Facebook had a phonebook app. Neat. Also, in text.
Yes, That's $2 Trillion of Debt-Related Losses - MarketWatch [del.icio.us]
--"We are in the second inning of a severe, protracted recession, which started in the first quarter of this year and is going to last at least ...
Will It Work Again? Not if You Do Your Part.
--For those keeping track of the media (or my FriendFeed stream), this week seems to be a turning point where the McCain campaign has gone all in wit...
BBC NEWS | Technology | Britain seen from above [del.icio.us]
--totally sweet cabspotting/flight patterns style viz of London traffic (sea, cab, plane, telephony)
What is the worth of your money? [del.icio.us]
--Observations on financialization by Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and former chief economist at t...
Income Inequality Growth Quantified
--This is excluding capital gains income. Via Brad Setser's Blog: Inequality in America
Is Mudslinging the Only Way John McCain Can Win? -- New York Magazine [del.icio.us]
--"What Schmidt and his associates have apparently concluded is that McCain’s weaknesses—on the election’s most salient issues and as a candidat...
Behind the falsification of US economic data [del.icio.us]
--Need to start looking more into this. Started reading "Bad Money" as well. The unaltered data must still be available, would be nice to...
The Atlantic Online | June 2008 | HisSpace | Marc Ambinder [del.icio.us]
--"The lesson here seems obvious enough: technology has concentrated a fair amount of political power in hubs outside Washington. But Washington...
Topspin » Unveiling Topspin [del.icio.us]
--go go ian! (about time someone started building music stuff that takes into account 'media 2.0' physics)
Comcast Center's video wall packs 10 million pixels into 27 x 87-foot display - Engadget [del.icio.us]
--Wow, this is a great installation. If I ever end up in Philadelphia, would be worth swinging by...
Clay Shirky on Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
--Clay Shirky gave the best keynote talk that I caught at Web 2.0 Expo last week. He's posted a transcript, entitled Gin, Television, and Social Sur...
Donations Done!
--After Super Tuesday, I started a little fundraising campaign where I promised to match contributions dollar for dollar up to $4K (since $2K was a...
The Big Picture | 12,000: We Hardly Knew Ya [del.icio.us]
--It's getting nasty out there...
Sadly, No! » Even Worseness: The Even-Worsening [del.icio.us]
--The Internet Trolls have totally been beat. Amy Chozick, WSJ hack actually gets paid for her trolling. Sadly, No! does some looking into things...
Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition
--I know it's never good to pay attention to the nattering classes, but there was a pretty high profile fusillade that Mike Arrington launched on Bla...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script | The Editing Room [del.icio.us]
--awesome.
Twitter / fakemerlinmann [del.icio.us]
--awesome
The Atlantic Online | July/August 2008 | Electro-Shock Therapy | Jonathan Rauch [del.icio.us]
--On GM and the Volt
Jeffrey McManus » What’s In It For Doogie Howser? [del.icio.us]
--Interesting analysis and conversation on the economics of "independent" (but established) artists getting together and making, distributi...
The Big Picture | Jim Rogers: Fannie Plan a 'Disaster' [del.icio.us]
--wow, snooze for a couple days and miss out on the sky falling. shit is whack out there
Congress Dems to censor Congress' use of Social Web?? // Current [del.icio.us]
--this is... interesting
Congress Dems to censor Congress' use of Social Web?? // Current [del.icio.us]
--this is... interesting
Launching Child Processes with Automator
--One of the unresolved issues from my write-up on Firefox 3, Developing and Browsing was that in order to get it work, you'd need to set the Profile...
Launching Child Processes with Automator
--One of the unresolved issues from my write-up on Firefox 3, Developing and Browsing was that in order to get it work, you'd need to set the Profile...
The Oil Drum | Energy Transitions Past and Future [del.icio.us]
--Boston University professor Cutler Cleveland's excellent overview of issues revolving around transition from fossil fuel energy.
Translated version of http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=110666 [del.icio.us]
--And the winner for first netbook running Hackintosh appears to be... the MSI Wind. Looks like they'll be getting my money come July 7th.
Kindle: +1 Week RFEs
--Busy with pre-moving tasks, but thought I'd post a quick followup on the Kindle. I've bought 3 book so far (I'm keeping a spreadsheet, so far I've...
Kindle: +1 Week RFEs
--Busy with pre-moving tasks, but thought I'd post a quick followup on the Kindle. I've bought 3 book so far (I'm keeping a spreadsheet, so far I've...
White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail - NYTimes.com [del.icio.us]
--These people aren't living in reality.. "The Transportation Department made its own fuel-economy proposals public almost two months ago; they were ...
Facebook | Phonebook [del.icio.us]
--Didn't realize that Facebook had a phonebook app. Neat. Also, in text.
The Big Picture | 12,000: We Hardly Knew Ya [del.icio.us]
--It's getting nasty out there...
Behind the falsification of US economic data [del.icio.us]
--Need to start looking more into this. Started reading "Bad Money" as well. The unaltered data must still be available, would be nice to publish (...
The Atlantic Online | June 2008 | HisSpace | Marc Ambinder [del.icio.us]
--"The lesson here seems obvious enough: technology has concentrated a fair amount of political power in hubs outside Washington. But Washington has ...
Topspin » Unveiling Topspin [del.icio.us]
--go go ian! (about time someone started building music stuff that takes into account 'media 2.0' physics)
Comcast Center's video wall packs 10 million pixels into 27 x 87-foot display - Engadget [del.icio.us]
--Wow, this is a great installation. If I ever end up in Philadelphia, would be worth swinging by...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script | The Editing Room [del.icio.us]
--awesome.
Learning from Flickr's Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb [del.icio.us]
--To this day Flickr remains my #1 best designed website. You'd have a tough time going wrong if you aimed for their level of excellence (most people...
Kodos - The Python Regex Debugger [del.icio.us]
--Ooh, like a xplatform version of Regex Coach. Great.
Get Laziness on Your Side [del.icio.us]
--Defaults matter. "Thaler and Sunstein ask a provocative question: If you design a choice the right way, could a small nudge help people make better...
NSFW: A Beginners Guide To Sporn | Rock, Paper, Shotgun [del.icio.us]
--brilliant. totally expected. but brilliant all the same. i wonder how you'll be able to filter which aliens populate your universe. and whether...
Some Notes on Tim Bray's Wide Finder Benchmark [del.icio.us]
--Fredrik Lundh's Python implementation writeup. Very useful.
Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol - Times Online [del.icio.us]
--"The company claims that this “Oil 2.0” will not only be renewable but also carbon negative – meaning that the carbon it emits will be less than th...
OK, I Got a Kindle
--Over the weekend, I broke down and ordered a Kindle (which arrived today). There are lots of good reasons not to get one. Heck, I wrote a screed ...
OK, I Got a Kindle
--Over the weekend, I broke down and ordered a Kindle (which arrived today). There are lots of good reasons not to get one. Heck, I wrote a screed ...
Techdirt: Associated Press: Fair Use Limits You To Four Words; Five Words Costs $12.50 [del.icio.us]
--They keep using the term, but I don't think the AP understands what "fair use" means. Or "copyright" for that matter.
Allen & Heath Xone:4D Pics [del.icio.us]
--Wow, glow in the dark sexy.
Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale [del.icio.us]
--holy crap, real time simulation of the visual cortex? "The "PetaVision" simulaton models more than a billion visual neurons, reaching a new computi...
Denon USA | AK-DL1 [del.icio.us]
--If you're willing to pay $500 for an ethernet cable, maybe you deserve to. Also... really? So sad.
Deletionist Morons [del.icio.us]
--Tim Bray vents against the "deletionists" -- I wonder if they're afraid of running out of bits?
Leonard for Obama '08
--Friends and followers of my blog know that I've been pretty vocal and proactive in my support for Barack Obama. A couple weeks ago, a call went ou...
Leonard for Obama '08
--Friends and followers of my blog know that I've been pretty vocal and proactive in my support for Barack Obama. A couple weeks ago, a call went ou...
Google Spreadsheet, My Asset Allocation, Investing 101
--I recently started porting my spreadsheets over to Google Spreadsheets. I'd long resisted Google Docs, but I got to say that it's been pretty pain...
Google Spreadsheet, My Asset Allocation, Investing 101
--I recently started porting my spreadsheets over to Google Spreadsheets. I'd long resisted Google Docs, but I got to say that it's been pretty pain...
New Yahoo Logo Spotted in the Wild [del.icio.us]
--ew. really?
Media Matters - Fox News' E.D. Hill teased discussion of Obama dap: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?" [del.icio.us]
--omg. "terrorist fist jab." brain exploding.
The Nation - The Wiki-Way to the Nomination - NYTimes.com [del.icio.us]
--"The qualities he cited to Time to describe his campaign — “openness and transparency and participation” — were ones he said “merged perfectly” wit...
MSFTextrememakeover: Eight Years of Wrongness [del.icio.us]
--Good analysis of MSFTs missteps over the past decade - most of which appear to have been good for the industry at a whole.
Real-Time Gradient-Domain Painting [del.icio.us]
--Zowie. "We present an image editing program which allows artists to paint in the gradient domain with real-time feedback on megapixel-sized images."
Firefox 3, Developing and Browsing
--I tend to leave a lot of tabs open when I'm browsing (mostly because of a lack of good research/organizing tools - but that's another day's post)....
Firefox 3, Developing and Browsing
--I tend to leave a lot of tabs open when I'm browsing (mostly because of a lack of good research/organizing tools - but that's another day's post)....
Cartesian Blogging, Part Two - Errol Morris - Zoom - New York Times Blog [del.icio.us]
--"The Whataburger/Burger King confusion may seem to be trivial, but it is at the heart of the problem of representing reality. What is more importan...
Montana Meth Project [del.icio.us]
--omg awesome. "Indicators you may have a problem with Meth: Using more Meth than intended."
Virtual Retinal Display Technology [del.icio.us]
--"The VRD was invented at the University of Washington in the Human Interface Technology Lab (HIT) in 1991. The development began in November 1993. ...
Reputation Parent - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library [del.icio.us]
--"A person participating in a social structure expects to develop a reputation and hopes for insight into the reputations of others, but each design...
Users: applestoresf - Upcoming [del.icio.us]
--sweet, the SF Apple store is posting events on Upcoming.
How hard is test for equality in Java -- the answer will surprise you (Pankaj Kumar's Weblog) [del.icio.us]
--Reading posts like these serve to remind me to count my blessings that I don't do daily development in Java.
goosh.org - the unofficial google shell. [del.icio.us]
--"This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell. You type commands and the results are shown on this page."
Extract Icons using Preview.app - MacTips [del.icio.us]
--I needed to do this to copy the Evernote icon into my Address Book. Pretty useful for exporting icons in general...
Plurk Blog: Slow sunday, NOT [del.icio.us]
--Plurk is actually trying out a bunch of interesting things...
GM862 Cellular Quad Band Module with GPS [del.icio.us]
--SIRF III GPS; GPRS Class 10; Data, Voice, SMS, and Fax; embedded TCP/IP, SMTP, FTP, Python; SMD version available (GM863)
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine [del.icio.us]
--"I suspect his motivation was not so much to understand the world as it was to find new ideas to explain. The act of discovery was not complete for...
Isolator [del.icio.us]
--"Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on I...
GooTube - Forbes.com [del.icio.us]
--"The three-year-old YouTube site probably crossed a billion views per day worldwide a few months ago, exceeding even the lofty expectations by Goog...
Op-Ed Columnist - Truth or Consequences - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com [del.icio.us]
--I rarely agree with Friedman, but this makes good sense. "Every decade we look back and say: 'If only we had done the right thing then, we would be...
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice [del.icio.us]
--but you know, thanks to the internet we can watch it as it happens
Electric Cars, Tilting At Windmills
--Philip Greenspun (yeah, that one) recently wrote a post on the cost of converting the entire U.S. to electric cars that has kicked off a pretty int...
Electric Cars, Tilting At Windmills
--Philip Greenspun (yeah, that one) recently wrote a post on the cost of converting the entire U.S. to electric cars that has kicked off a pretty int...
Inhabitat » SOLAR ENERGY AS CHEAP AS COAL! [del.icio.us]
--“Solar power at 5 cents per kWh would be a world-changing breakthrough. It would make solar generation of electricity as affordable as generation f...
PESWiki [del.icio.us]
--"The community-built resource that focuses on alternative, clean, practical, renewable energy solutions."
Hillary Clinton's colossal blunder simply the last straw [del.icio.us]
--"We have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder ...
Amazon's Dynamo - All Things Distributed [del.icio.us]
--"DHTs, consistent hashing, versioning, vector clocks, quorum, anti-entropy based recovery, etc. As far as I know Dynamo is the first production sys...
Rearchitecting Twitter: Brought to You By the 17th Letter of the Alphabet
--Since it seemed to be the thing to do, I sat down for about an hour Friday afternoon and thought about how I'd architect a Twitter-like system. An...
Rearchitecting Twitter: Brought to You By the 17th Letter of the Alphabet
--Since it seemed to be the thing to do, I sat down for about an hour Friday afternoon and thought about how I'd architect a Twitter-like system. An...
Ubigraph: Free dynamic graph visualization software [del.icio.us]
--[this is good] "UbiGraph is a tool for visualizing dynamic graphs. The basic version is free, and talks to Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C, C++, C#, Has...
our world digitized [del.icio.us]
--Much discussion of our impending digital future is insular and without nuance. Skeptics talk mainly among themselves, while utopians and optimists...
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Why Dell will not bounce back [del.icio.us]
--"To sustain an edge in any market you must make better products than your competitors, consistently, over and over and over again."
Jack OS X - a Jack implementation for Mac OS X [del.icio.us]
--"Jack (the Jack Audio Connection Kit) is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system, and now with Mac OS X s...
Blueball-o-rama
--After the craziness last week (Where 2.0, WhereCamp, and a GAE Hackathon in between), I was looking forward to taking a breather, but have instead ...
Blueball-o-rama
--After the craziness last week (Where 2.0, WhereCamp, and a GAE Hackathon in between), I was looking forward to taking a breather, but have instead ...
An Invitation to 3-D Vision. Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, Jana Kosecka, Shankar Sastry. Springer Verlag, 2003 [del.icio.us]
--This book addresses a central problem in computer vision - how to recover 3-D structure and motion from a collection of 2-D images - using techniqu...
CS 223-B Introduction to Computer Vision: Schedule [del.icio.us]
--Includes presentations and readings. vcool
vade » Blog Archive » Stupid QC tricks - transparent QC Window [del.icio.us]
--that is fxckin sexy.
Stevey's Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back [del.icio.us]
--Great talk/transcript about dynamically typed languages and improvements for IDEs and compilers. If this sounds at all interesting, you should tak...
Trevor Paglen [del.icio.us]
--Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkele...
Inside the Black Budget - New York Times [del.icio.us]
--"It is, according to a new book, part of the hidden reality behind the Pentagon’s classified, or “black,” budgets... The book offers a glimpse of t...
Keyboard Cleaner - plok [del.icio.us]
--"I created Keyboard Cleaner. It comes in handy when you want to clean your keyboard, but you are afraid you might trigger a command or change or de...
Sad Trombone [del.icio.us]
--best. website. ever.
Where is the path (or street) - demo of OS OpenSpace API [del.icio.us]
--The Ordnance Survey (official British mapping people) have opened up a lot of good maps in the UK. Here's a comparison of their maps vs GMaps. Im...
Focation@Saigon [del.icio.us]
--User-contributed maps for Vietnam w/ some interesting features (heatmappy POI grouping for example, very, very liberal contribution model - cultura...
Concharto - Home [del.icio.us]
--a geowiki (w/ diffs!). pretty nice. "Concharto is an encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit. It is a geographic wiki."
Remix - remix.nin.com [del.icio.us]
--This and the new release of Slip (CC BY-NC-SA) in V0, FLAC, and 24/96 WAV (!) are ... well, awesome.
Catching Up On Reading
--In between the projects and mini-projects, I've also begun to do some catching up on reading. Carrying around a book everywhere and taking lots of...
Catching Up On Reading
--In between the projects and mini-projects, I've also begun to do some catching up on reading. Carrying around a book everywhere and taking lots of...
prspammers wiki [del.icio.us]
--Yay Gina! "In the spirit of sharing, here's a current list of PR companies who have sent me unsolicited (and almost always irrelevant) product pitc...
May 2008 Mix
--It's been a good couple months for music. Sometimes mixes don't really have a name or a theme. Here's some stuff I've been digging lately. 43 mi...
May 2008 Mix
--It's been a good couple months for music. Sometimes mixes don't really have a name or a theme. Here's some stuff I've been digging lately. 43 mi...
The Guardian wants you to play GTA IV. Destructoid offers reviews, previews, trailers, cheats, and more. [del.icio.us]
--The Guardian is a British newspaper which has now run its third pro-gaming piece of recent weeks.
A Universal Messaging Hub « The Abstract Truth [del.icio.us]
--In conjunction with complex-event processing systems, message switching will have a revolutionary impact on the efficiency of distribution and deli...
one small voice » Microblogging Over XMPP [del.icio.us]
--There’s been plenty of talk recently about using XMPP to build a decentralized microblogging platform (think Twitter busted apart to run as a distr...
XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe [del.icio.us]
--This specification defines an XMPP protocol extension for generic publish-subscribe functionality. The protocol enables XMPP entities to create nod...
Transporting Atom Notifications over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) [del.icio.us]
--Transporting Atom Notifications over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
Twitter Can Be Liberated - Here’s How [del.icio.us]
--decentralizing statuscasting...
Jabberwocky [del.icio.us]
--Jabberwocky is a freely available mobile phone application designed to promote urban community connections and a sense of familiarity, anxiety, and...
Hackety Hack: the Coder's Starter Kit [del.icio.us]
--One of Hackety Hack's sincere pledges is to make the most common code very easy and short. Downloading an MP3 should be one line of code. A blog sh...
hackety org » The Tiny And Accomplished Lew [del.icio.us]
--LEW is an art tool which embeds the Lua language and it’s inspired by (you guessed it) NodeBox and Processing. And BASIC. The gallery is incredibly...
Publisher Tested the Waters Online, Then Dove In - New York Times [del.icio.us]
--Today, I.D.G. says, the InfoWorld Web site is generating ad revenue of $1.6 million a month with operating profit margins of 37 percent. A year ear...
google-caja - Google Code [del.icio.us]
--Were scripts in an object-capability language, web apps could provide active content safely, simply, and flexibly. ... Caja represents our discover...
Leaving Google: From Big to Small [del.icio.us]
--quotes from public/semi-public farewell notices
One third of Techmeme’s headlines come from the Long Tail: The Statbot - The StatBot - Fun stats. Visualizations. Leaderboards. [del.icio.us]
--Analysis of techmeme headline distribution
Benchmarks/SpaceEfficiency - Bazaar Version Control [del.icio.us]
--Similar to the approach used for obtaining performance benchmarks, here are the results of running scripts across 33 open source projects measuring...
BzrVsGit - Bazaar Version Control [del.icio.us]
--This is not intended to be an unbiased comparison, but a list of some of the reasons for selecting Bazaar over Git, as seen through the eyes of Baz...
LightBlue: a cross-platform Python Bluetooth API [del.icio.us]
--LightBlue is a cross-platform Bluetooth API for Python which provides simple access to Bluetooth operations. It is available for Mac OS X, GNU/Linu...
An Introduction to Bluetooth Programming [del.icio.us]
--This tutorial on Bluetooth programming in GNU/Linux will continue to be freely distributed from this website, but if you find it useful, or would l...
bluecove - Google Code [del.icio.us]
--BlueCove is a JSR-82 J2SE implementation that currently interfaces with the Mac OS X, WIDCOMM, BlueSoleil and Microsoft Bluetooth stack found in Wi...
OE-CAKE! - Experiential Software Based on OctaveEngine Casual - Prometech Software [del.icio.us]
--"OE-CAKE! is demonstration software for 2D-based multi-physics simulation."
twistori [del.icio.us]
--Great "we feel fine" style Twitter art project by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs
Doc Searls Weblog · May the best giants adapt [del.icio.us]
--"Advertising is a big churning system by which sellers hunt down buyers, rather than the reverse. It pollutes the media environment and theatens to...
Firefox / Vimperator ( Vi/Vim ) Keybindings / Shortcuts / Extensions [del.icio.us]
--vim-like key bindings and link selection system for Firefox. Sweet.
Yahoo stock plunges? (kottke.org) [del.icio.us]
--[T]he Microsoft offer increased the value of Yahoo! Inc. by more than $7 billion and decreased the value of Microsoft Corporation by almost $33 bil...
Warning: iPhone “Restore” does not delete personal data [del.icio.us]
--"All of the personal information that was sitting on the device prior to the restore is still accessible in the unallocated blocks of the iPhone’s ...
backchan.nl — a multi-site public backchannel system [del.icio.us]
--"backchan.nl is a simple web-based tool that allows audience members to identify themselves, post questions, and vote on other people's questions."
Adium Productivity Tip
--Recently, in my quest to minimize distractions, I've been going through and ...fixing things. First was updating my procmail and my spam filtering...
Adium Productivity Tip
--Recently, in my quest to minimize distractions, I've been going through and ...fixing things. First was updating my procmail and my spam filtering...
Carectomy.com: Removing Cars from People - High-Speed Rail Coming to America [del.icio.us]
--"High-speed rail is finally coming to America. However it's Argentina and not the United States that will be the first Amercian country to build a ...
Redux Computing :: Proximity [del.icio.us]
--"Proximity monitors the proximity of your mobile phone or other bluetooth device and executes custom AppleScripts when the device goes out of range...
Consola - The Open Source Bluetooth Proximity Media Server [del.icio.us]
--open source ftw.
hackety org » Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places) [del.icio.us]
--Why Why Is Awesome: Do we still have to be better than each other in 2008? No way, Rufus said, “Be excellent to each other.”
SXSW: Geeksta Rap Godfather's 5 Steps to Nerdcore Stardom [del.icio.us]
--"Step 5: Become a World-Famous Nerdcore Rap Star; I don’t have a well-developed tip for this one. I assume it just automatically happens."
garfield minus garfield [del.icio.us]
--daily tumblelog! "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about sch...
VR Mag: When Cinema Meets VR [del.icio.us]
--a number of fascinating interviews/articles about use of vr bubbles, 'sample' based effects in Speed Racer. the vfx process is sure to be more int...
voo2do : simple, beautiful web-based to-do lists [del.icio.us]
--"advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals"
Transferring data to a new profile - Firefox [del.icio.us]
--Firefox was getting really cranky. Starting clean was actually easier than I thought. Just saving the old profile and copying some sqlite and txt...
Web 2.0 Expo Presentation Rundown
--There were actually a surprising amount (to me, at least - most of the people I talked to had low expectations) of very good presentations at Web 2...
Web 2.0 Expo Presentation Rundown
--There were actually a surprising amount (to me, at least - most of the people I talked to had low expectations) of very good presentations at Web 2...
Pete Hines on Fallout 3 [del.icio.us]
--We could have made anything and people would have been interested in it, probably, but Fallout meant a ton to us, and we love the tone and flavour ...
Digging out Old Crap
--I was doing a search and came across some old notes/presentations that I wrote back in 2003 (references) CTIN 511: Social Software, Theory and Pra...
Digging out Old Crap
--I was doing a search and came across some old notes/presentations that I wrote back in 2003 (references) CTIN 511: Social Software, Theory and Pra...
Clay Shirky on Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
--Clay Shirky gave the best keynote talk that I caught at Web 2.0 Expo last week. He's posted a transcript, entitled Gin, Television, and Social Sur...
Donations Done!
--After Super Tuesday, I started a little fundraising campaign where I promised to match contributions dollar for dollar up to $4K (since $2K was a...
Mass Effect Developer Diary: 15 Seconds of Fun [del.icio.us]
--Excellent blog post on game design process for "decryption" play mechanic. Apparently the orange blocks don't move (and the red blocks rotate depe...
Flight404: Visualizing Radiohead [del.icio.us]
--Awesome video/description of how it was made (in Processing)
Target Size Study for One-Handed Thumb Use on Small Touchscreen Devices [del.icio.us]
--"The results showed that while speed generally improved as targets grew, there were no significant differences in error rate between target sizes ?...
Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition
--I know it's never good to pay attention to the nattering classes, but there was a pretty high profile fusillade that Mike Arrington launched on Bla...
Backlash starts against 'sexy' databases [del.icio.us]
--Anyone who talks about designing a "normalized database schema" in conjunction w scaling doesn't know jackshit about the realities of how giant-sca...
Python HTML Parser Performance [del.icio.us]
--Adrian mentioned that lxml was a lot faster than BeautifulSoup, but these are pretty impressive. Will have to test against data in the wild and se...
Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables [del.icio.us]
--First mininote w/ Hackintosh wins my bucks. The ECS G10IL and MSI Wind look most promising.
A Free Lunch: Just Do The Numbers
--Yesterday Gordon commented on Silicon Alley Insider's back of the envelope calculations for Google's food costs. IMO they're not doing the right n...
April 2008 Mix (The Way I Rock)
--The other day, ph wanted to some new music suggestions. When I asked him to name some bands that he liked, he named ABBA and Michael Jackson. Now...
Sorting Lists of Lists in Python
--No language is perfect, and Python is no exception. In Python 2.4, for example, sorting a list of lists sorted by a value in the nested list (more...
Bits or pieces?: More from less ... [del.icio.us]
--"I've become increasingly convinced that what CEOs should be crying out for is not more innovation but fewer self-imposed obstacles."
Borg Devel Site [del.icio.us]
--lots of little tools, including mktorrent, a C-based cmdline torrent creator w/ multi tracker support
RubyTorrent [del.icio.us]
--can create private torrents (disables peer exchange)
Some Cygwin Setup Tips
--I don't touch Windows much anymore (games and demos in Boot Camp, and EAC and a few other programs in VMWare), but when I'm in there, cmd.exe serve...
Daily Kos: The questions America wanted answered [del.icio.us]
--Six questions about process; five questions about Pastor Wright; four questions about patriotism; three questions about whether Gen. Petraeus shoul...
Flickr Code [del.icio.us]
--This neatly sums up the techie side of why Flickr continues to be awesome: "In the last week there were 43 deploys of 489 changes by 14 people."
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org [del.icio.us]
--OMG. AWESOME.
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace [del.icio.us]
--holy crap, couldn't stop reading this
Retread Sessions [del.icio.us]
--KUT's Retread Sessions are unique live performances in which musicians are given a chance to reexamine and reconstruct songs outside of the traditi...
What is reCAPTCHA? [del.icio.us]
--About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. ... in ...
Audiotool Demo [del.icio.us]
--awesome, flash music making
fxguide - vfx blog - Art of Optical Flow [del.icio.us]
--In the world of visual effects, Optical flow started as a tool for retiming shots without producing strobing, and today it is used for tracking, 3D...
All Songs Considered : Sneak Preview: Death Cab for Cutie, Portishead, Shearwater, My Morning Jacket, More [del.icio.us]
--Impressed by tracks lined up, streaming only. New Wolf Parade!
Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind - New York Times [del.icio.us]
--"Whatever the explanation, consistently doing any activity that requires self-control seems to increase willpower — and the ability to resist impul...
AtomFilms: Ha Ha Ha America [del.icio.us]
--oof, very sharp political satire from 2006
Crooks and Liars » The Daily Show: Don’t Talk About Flight Club [del.icio.us]
--"See, with this administration, if a passenger blows up a plane, it’s a failure on the War on Terror. But if a plane just blows up on its own, eh, ...
Portals - WSJ.com [del.icio.us]
--It is something we seem hard-wired to do, says Dr. Biederman. When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. Y...
I'm F*cking Obama - CollegeHumor video [del.icio.us]
--I was skeptical watching this, but it turns out that yes, this is awesome.
Getting Started w/ Python
--As you might have heard, Google AppEngine launched tonight, with Python as its initial (and only) programming language to interface with its servic...
R.E.M.
--I've never been a huge R.E.M. fan, most probably because I was introduced to them by their Out of Time radio hits (Losing My Religion and Shiny Hap...
Philippe the Original Turns 100 - Los Angeles Times [del.icio.us]
--must remember to go there to celebrate next time i'm down...
recreating movement- introduction [del.icio.us]
--"With the help of various filters and settings Recreating Movement makes it possible to extract single frames of any given film sequence and arrang...
Blog-based research notebook: personal informatics workbench for high-throughput experimentation [del.icio.us]
--"We propose to utilize a blog (Weblog) as an electronic research notebook and discuss technical requirements for maintaining it, on the basis of ...
Space Time/No Time - Matt Jones [del.icio.us]
--Designing for SpaceTime, Building in No Time - IxDA 2008 presentation
RescueTime: Web-based Time Management Software [del.icio.us]
--RescueTime is a web-based time management and analytics tool for information workers who want to be more productive. (tracks application and web si...
a (very long) conversation with dopplr’s matt jones « Second Verse [del.icio.us]
--discussion on mobile, personal informatics, etc.
HubLog: Last.fm Fingerprinting Client [del.icio.us]
--Last.fm have posted some more about their work on a fingerprinting client that looks up track metadata based on audio and tag analysis. The client ...
Ask H&FJ: Change We Can Believe In [del.icio.us]
--comparison of awesome new british currency vs unbelievably shitty new us currency. *sigh*
cleanspam python script [del.icio.us]
--A python script using IMAP4_stream and some interesting flags for deleting messages older than x
Flickr: Discussing Interesting.... in GNEverybody [del.icio.us]
--"let's monetize the shit out of it."
Flickr Favs: Tue Apr 01, 2008
--(it helps to actually have the crontab installed...)
Bug in NavigableString __unicode__ - beautifulsoup | Google Groups [del.icio.us]
--yep, confirmed this bug and the bugfix works (you may have to dig into the EGG to changes this...)
Aperture updated to 2.1, finally satisfies hopes for plug-ins [del.icio.us]
--Noise Ninja for Aperture? That'd be friggin awesome
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right : NPR [del.icio.us]
--"I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It's as simple as it gets in this complicated world."
Boing Boing's Moderation Policy - Boing Boing [del.icio.us]
--"We did it. Someone (a moderator, one of the Boingers) was expressing displeasure at your remarks. The technique is called disemvowelling. It depre...
Sentient Developments: Seven ways to control the Galaxy with self-replicating probes [del.icio.us]
--"Well, forget about generation ships, suspended animation or ringworlds – the best way for you to explore, colonize and ultimately rule the Milky W...
Aquarium Drunkard - Music, Audio & MP3 Blog » Jim James/M. Ward :: SXSW 2008 (Acoustic) [del.icio.us]
--Audience recording of the SXSW set (Church Audio ST-11 cardiods > Church Audio ST-9000 preamp > iRiver H-120)
Administratrivia
--Inbox Zeroed! Honestly, I had myself pretty convinced that the 4-figure number on my Mail.app icon didn't matter, but it is honestly pretty freei...
Dashboard Widget for Posting Blog Entries to Confluence via XML-RPC
--First of all, here's a zip of the working widget (10.4.3+): Confluence Daily Log.zip. I also checked in the Dashcode project. I had an old WordPr...
+1 Week Update
--This marks my first week off from work. Since I'm not reporting to anybody, I figured I'd try to insert some accountability into this whole proces...
Adventures in MacPorts: FuseFS Edition
--On Saturday, Richard Crowley published an awesome looking hack called PownceFS that creates a FUSE filesystem mounting your friends' files from Pow...
SXSWi 2008 Recap
--This was my 9th SXSW (I've been to every SXSWi since 2000!), but my first time doing SXSW Music (hence the lowercase "i" in the title). SXSWi was ...
Flickr Favorite snapshots
--Flickr Favorites are IMO one of the most underrated (and awesome) features of Flickr (really old school users might remember that it started out as...
unsubscribe
--Continuing the detaching, removing the following feeds: Yahoo! Upcoming Customer Feedback: Suggestions BlogPulse Search Results for: "upcoming...
SXSW Music 2008 - Last Post
--OK, here's my last SXSW Music post (I'll be working back to SXSWi and ETech after that). After hitting some speed bumps I was able to finish uploa...
Freedom and Accountability
--Yesterday I dropped off all my stuff (although I'll be back @ BH for the Fire Eagle meetup, so I don't think its all that sudden of a shift), but t...
SXSW Music: Day 1
--Well, it looks like I'm about at my 500MB/week limit on Vimeo. So far I've gotten up to Wednesday. I spent most of the day getting set up crashin...
The Speech: A More Perfect Union
--Obama addresses the race, religion, and politics: This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people...
SXSW Music Clips
--I brought my Leica carry-around camera with me, and ended up taking little video clips of a lot of the acts that I caught. They're pretty big file...
Quick Notes
--I probably won't have time to unwind for a couple more days (see my sched) but a quick update (which should all get their own longer entries eventu...
SwitchProxy for Firefox 3
--A couple years ago, I wrote a guide for using SSH for secure connections on OS X. Creating SSH tunnels for SOCKS proxying is still my preferred wa...
Change You Can Put In The Bank
--Late last night I was feeling sort of down about Ohio, and especially in how going negative seem to have really worked for HRC this past week. ...
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