June 2009
47 posts
WatchGoogling with Bing - CollegeHumor video
How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw... →
from the article quoted from blog post (ironic)
Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent …
A comment from the hackernews post
True story.
I show up 5 minutes late to a lunch/forum about the future of news here in Chicago...
Beet.TV - the root to the media revolution →
Destructoid - Australia is also banning Second... →
WatchSpider on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchClay Shirky: How Twitter can make history | Video on TED.com
Clay Shirky is so awesome. He is seriously one of the best people in this space and someone I really look up to.
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan... →
Moserware: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS... →
Updated YC Company Hosting Stats - Arglebargle
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I pretty much looked at this like a huge list of what YC funds. Some of them are killer apps (http://280north.com/ http://disqus.com) but others are like wut (http://morehotter.com/ ) while others are competing in a over saturated market (http://buxfer.com/ http://divvyshot.com/ )
But all in all there are some serious winners in there. (exept that more hotter site, really wtf where you...
WatchJoshua Porter at Webstock 09 on Designing Sign Up Screens & Flows (via Vimeo)
Chrome and Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage →
I use chrome and this happens to me all the time, but I normally have 25+ tabs open. I would switch back to FF but I love how chrome allows me to control each tab like a process, either shutting it down or if it crashes it is no big deal.
Twitter Users Heckle Hoekstra En Masse →
he tweeted out
“Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.”
Some of the responses are awesome.
“Someone walked in on me while I was in the bathroom. Reminded me of Pearl Harbor.”
“Had to move all my stuff to a new office w/o a corner view. Now i know what the Trail of Tears was like.”
Abandoned Places In The World →
Awesome pictures
Generating pseudo random text with Markov chains... →
I love playing with Markov Chains. It is probably one of the funnest things in programming, no mater what you do you end up with crazy things at the end.
The Future Internet is rip off, black hat -... →
Inside the Startup Office from Hell →
God, it’s a walking Cliche.
“I’m just gonna start with a tip from myself :) use os.path.dirname() in...”
– Favorite Django Tips & Features - Stack Overflow
Best feature, I don’t understand why it is standard.
Ghetto Geolocation (Featuring Soft Porn!) →
Rob wanted geolocation without actually having to pay for it, so he asked me if there was a way to extract the user’s location from Adult Friend Finder’s ad banner script without allowing the banner to actually be displayed.
Anatomy of a Child Pornographer: What happens when... →
A Brief History Of Social Media →
Why you need your own company →
This a bit off topic from the link but it is why I must work for myself in the future.
I know after working in a big corporate environment where you desperately want to make change or improve things but only to be shot down by the bureaucracy or jumping though 5 levels of management to even get something small done.
There is a need for creative freedom in a workplace, or at least let me try...
Four Facebook features I wish existed but don’t |... →
So True it hurts
The 15 Most Disturbing Movies Ever Made | Movie... →
I’ve seen most of these :-/
Iron Maiden: The Mother and Greatest of all Geek... →
Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and...
Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches - Web 2.0 Expo NYC
View more OpenOffice presentations from iamcal.
Mozilla to let enterprises build custom Firefox... →
This is a huge win for them. Now you have to convince your workplace to make/pay for a custom ff rather then shelling out the ass for IE add ons and broken lockdown systems
How Twitter's Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It... →
“This article borders on ridiculous.
I unfollowed the so-called ‘power users’ a long time ago. People like Chris Brogan, Scoble, Guy Kawasaki, etc. There was too much noise and not enough signal.
For my own uses, I couldn’t possibly follow 1000 people. I would much prefer to follow a smaller number of people and be able to read all their tweets. I currently follow around...
D&D style map of C++ →
D&D style map of C++
“> what is abstract data type??can anyone provide me two examples please??
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abstract data type (ADT) -
comp.lang.c |
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HW Questions on google
Watchgary:
Talking to publishers and Indie book stores
I spoke to a bunch of people in the book world a few hours before Misha was born, here is what I had to say!
The new Detroit isn’t Detroit « BuzzMachine →
It is about GM and how they will not be able to save them self. and about Community built cars
