December 2009
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
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“Fixing the problem doesn’t mean voting out the feckless Democrats or the...”
– Lawrence Lessig (via squashed) (via ericmortensen) (via tanya77) (via kenyatta)
Dec 29th
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“Eternity is in love with the creations of time”
– William Blake via The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Dec 27th
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“If you live in a city of reasonable size, there are probably developers who have...”
–  Just launched this week, Appify.com, a marketplace, discovery platform and innovation engine for local mobile apps.  I’m excited to be working on something I believe people will find useful, and that will help make cities a bit smarter, and our lives a bit easier. For now, it’s fun to get...
Dec 26th
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how the hell
victoriaambernicole: do people get those cute little reindeer things on their picture on here?? from: http://www.tumblr.com/xmas Post any of these and tag them #xmas to unlock your Santa hat: Post a photo of yourself dressed as Santa Claus. Take a photo of yourself ready for a blizzard. Show off your worst present-wrapping/decoration skills. Record your own version of your favorite...
Dec 25th
WatchWatch
roomthily: ecotone: What Is a Switch? - Designing Interactions Studio, RISD so next time someone starts commenting on how it doesn’t matter where you get your education (and we’ll just limit it to the arts for today’s little rant), you should think of this little video. not just because it’s entertaining, but because it highlights the differences between a good program and all of the other...
Dec 25th
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Would the creation of A.I. be an existence proof of God?
Dec 24th
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“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent...”
– Damian Conway (via roomthily)
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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“Programming is math in motion.”
– Dave Winer in a comment to my post below Getting Computer Science Into Middle School (via fred-wilson)
Dec 23rd
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sxyblkmn: But jesus, christ, an Alan Grayson 2012 primary challenge against Obama? Obama, who is not just “Bush-lite” but Bush-same! (Remember when Bush attempted to negotiate an international climate deal, pass a jobs-focused economic stimulus, reform the nation’s health care industry, and come up with a hopefully coherent plan to end the Afghanistan war in one year? And remember how his...
Dec 23rd
Robert Harris', Twenty Pieces of Music That... →
minorjive: (via austinkleon) Just from reading the titles, I have to agree with the song selection. I look forward to sitting down and listening to them all.
Dec 19th
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Visualizar'09 - Public Data, Data in Public:... →
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are...”
– Brad Fitzpatrick (via marco) I should keep this mind for my dissertation work, in which I’m proposing to pile certain abstractions and higher and deeper to achieve a certain end. Hopefully I will end up with neat little piles.
Dec 16th
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Top author shifts e-book rights to Amazon.com -... →
This is great for some authors but bad for consumer-choice when the authors chose e-book retailers who don’t use widely available book formats.
Dec 16th
Gmail's contact manager now de-dupes en masse |... →
The de-dupe(merge contacts) feature is pretty slick Checkout the suggested contacts feature too.
Dec 16th
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“The best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after...”
– - Charlie Hoehn (via jingc:Lifehacker) (via bwalden) (via infoneernet) (via roomthily)
Dec 15th
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“Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus privacy.” The real...”
– Schneier on Security: My Reaction to Eric Schmidt (via toldorknown)
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 11th
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The Free iPhone Apps You Need To Download Right... →
via @gizmodo
Dec 11th
Dec 10th
I just figured out that the tumblr dashboard has a keystroke-based UI on desktop browsers. Cool!
Dec 10th
1000 Comic Books You Must Read Digs Into Pulp’s... →
via underWIRED
Dec 10th
What exactly is the point of...
kiamatthews: I’m trying to be a good consumer here and actually buy this album, so what the fuck with the barriers? My current options to purchase Jamie Cullum’s The Pursuit are: buy a physical copy from Amazon.co.uk, paying insane shipping charges, wait FOREV to get it get my old roommate who lives in the UK to buy it for me, then FTP it to me, then I’ll pay her 10 bucks via PayPal just...
Dec 9th
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New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed... →
This is cool, I can throw this on the old Dell laptop for my toddler.
Dec 9th
“The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing...”
– Henry Petroski (via roomthily)
Dec 8th
Pixel Qi Starting Production →
I have something to look forward to at CES. I wonder what type of tablet will use this screen? via engadget
Dec 7th
DC Earth One
DC will be kicking off DC Earth One, a  new line of comics with its own continuity not as floppies(or monthly issues) but as a series of ongoing graphic novels. This is an attempt to be more accessible to new readers and free creator from decades of continuity. The line will start off with two series, Superman: Earth One and Batman: Earth One. I like the idea, although some are saying that...
Dec 7th
I got a flavors.me page →
But I never use my other start page: http://start.io/corntoole
Dec 4th