August 2008
58 posts
Salvador Dogi on Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
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For Des
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.” —Salvador Dali
How To See In Four Dimensions →
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Very cool. Direct link: http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_E.htm#
An anonymous reader writes “Think it’s impossible to see four-dimensional objects? These videos will show you…
Gears API Blog: Gears 0.4 is here! →
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Multiple file uploading via javascript?
Allows users to select multiple files of a particular content type, and then returns them as blobs for easy uploading or worker processing.
Bush Told To Sign Birthday Treaty For Someone... →
WASHINGTON—Enlisted by members of the House and Senate, presidential aide Rebecca Tandy brought a copy of the international climate-change…
Grabup Image →
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blarg!
Ajax Head Pattern; Unobtrusive Rails Apps →
Ken Collins has rewritten his Homemarks application, a Rails app that “allows you to dynamically create and sort Columns, Boxes, and Bookmarks into your own custom start page.”
What is…
Thursday, Aug 21, 2008 - 1930 Nightmare Theatre →
“Kimbo’s Still Awake” - by Ricky Garduno
Harmonix Announces “Rock Band: Sax Out” →
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‘actual gameplay will contain more Kenny G’
PRESS RELEASE:
“Hey Billy, come on over! We’re playing Rock Band?”
“Aw, man! I have orchestra today…”
Do you feel left…
Getting A Handle On Your iPhone Data (A Mini-Tales... →
The past two weeks have been fairly hectic, with little time to deal with anything but security updates to software (hence, no software update news). This week, however, my iPhone needed some…
Getting A Handle On Your iPhone Data (A Mini-Tales... →
The past two weeks have been fairly hectic, with little time to deal with anything but security updates to software (hence, no software update news). This week, however, my iPhone needed some…
Roger Ebert Finds 3-D Films Annoying →
Hurtling 3-D objects at viewers is not a substitute for quality filmmaking as last week’s weak opening of the 3-D animated pic Fly Me to the Moon proved. Roger Ebert takes the issue one step…
Area Woman Will See Any Movie That Takes Place... →
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*cough* Desiree *cough*
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, NJ—-Veterinary assistant Lauren Millardi, 27, will watch any period film set within a strict historical time frame of…
Web 0.1 - The Daily WTF →
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this tops my experience.
New Music: Squarepusher: "Delta -v"... →
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Very guitar based. Almost reminds me of The Advantage.
Tom Jenkinson’s output as Squarepusher has spanned from IDM and rapidfire “drill’n’bass” to loping breakbeats, electro…
ECMA What? Harmony Who? TC39? Tamarin? JavaScript! →
Alex Russell has seen the confusion of the many names that were bandied around with the Harmony news last week. There are so many names, that involve specs, projects, and general technical jargon…
7 "Eccentric" Geniuses Who Were Clearly Just... →
Is it possible to be too smart? Maybe. History is full of insane geniuses, humans who mentally put the pedal to the metal—and sometimes through the floor.
CDC Powerless To Stop Spread Of Virulent... →
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FUCK Mayonnaise.
ATLANTA—”If I get it, I get it,” said one woman. “I’m not going to change my whole life around every time they come on TV and say something is bad for you.”
Making Sense of Cars →
Try as he might, illustrator Jake Parker couldn’t make sense of the world that Pixar created for Cars. He writes:
And that leads me to the one thing that didn’t sit well with me: the strange…
Guy Films Space Shuttle Launch from Passing... →
Watching a space shuttle launch from the ground is undoubtedly very awe inspiring, but this video of a launch takes the biscuit: It’s filmed from thousands of feet in the air.
Guy Films Space Shuttle Launch from Passing... →
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Definitely worth the minute of time to watch this.
Watching a space shuttle launch from the ground is undoubtedly very awe inspiring, but this video of a launch takes the biscuit:…
border-image: No more cutting up hell →
Remember when you wanted a growable area with rounded-goodness and you had to cut up the image into a million pieces to have the top corners and the sides? Since then we have gotten nice effects to…
img2json: get your image metadata via App Engine →
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attention ryan and wes
The tradition of placing small, useful services on App Engine continues. This time, Adam Burmister has created img2json, a Google AppEngine service that…
Ninger Note →
Counterfeiting was a lot harder in the old days.
In the 1880s, Emanuel Ninger, known as “Jim the Penman,” drew $50 and $100 bills by hand, spending weeks on each one. Fifty bucks was a lot…
Digitizing Rare Vinyl →
eldavojohn writes “While the RIAA is busy changing its image to a snake eating its own tail, one man is busy digitizing out-of-print 78s. ‘There’s a whole world of music that you don’t hear anymore,…
Introducing Freebase Parallax →
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This is truly revolutionary. Be sure to watch the video.
“Don’t just search for one thing! Explore a whole set of related things together.” This is the tagline of David Huynh’s…
Monster-Munch →
via http://www.monster-munch.com/
Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During... →
Well this is just perfect. At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird’s Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD…
We feel your pain, and we're sorry →
Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product Manager Many of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we’re really sorry. The issue was caused by a temporary outage in our…
YouTube - Twin Peaks - "Cooper's... →
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Scariest scene ever.
The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us →
narcberry writes “The BBC reports on a scientific community still holding to flat earth theories. From their article: ‘Are there any genuine flat-earthers left? Surely in our era of space exploration…
Free Custom iPhone Ringtones using only iTunes →
Create free ringtones for your iPhone using only iTunes and songs you already have on your computer (This method only works with songs that are DRM free. To create ringtones using DRM protected…
Free Custom iPhone Ringtones using only iTunes →
Create free ringtones for your iPhone using only iTunes and songs you already have on your computer (This method only works with songs that are DRM free. To create ringtones using DRM protected…
What Does It Mean To Be A Conservative (Pic) →
Finance →
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What it means to be a conservative
FedEx | Track →
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my iphone 3g arrives today!
Track your FedEx packages online! Get package shipment details using FedEx Track or FedEx Insight
Testing the Waters →
Report shows our bayous often are health hazards.
New google tool - "Google Insights" →
A new tool, developed by the google team in Tel-Aviv allows you to compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.
The Xbox 360 ‘Red Ring of Death’ Apology Manual →
Ah, the ill-fated Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death, how we fear thy ways. After all, with a 16% failure rate, it could happen to anyone. For some of us, it already has. Multiple times. And as much…