April 2010
27 posts
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Apr 29th
powerpoint makes us stupid →
Apr 28th
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The Joy of Instapaper
Longform story: condensed.  One of the joys of e-readers (ala Kindle and iPad) is the format allows for different lengths of publications. In other words it’s hard to sell a 15 - 30 page book, it’s hard to print a magazine with a 30 page story, but the new medium provides a landing place for this kind of expression.  Longform.org pulls this type of story from instapaper and makes a...
Apr 27th
Whisk(e)y Your Way →
Apr 27th
Colours In Cultures →
Apr 25th
webkit2png →
Killer. Dead simple, in python, links to a linux equivalent.
Apr 24th
Camera + RC Car + Lions = Awesome
This is totally badass. We booked a trip to Tanzania and set about designing, building and testing BeetleCam. The first step was to get up to speed on the necessary robotics and electronics that would be required to build such a vehicle from scratch. Having conducted some research, we sourced components from around the world. Construction then began in earnest with sawing, soldering, sewing...
Apr 23rd
Portland Hump Day has Launched →
Apr 23rd
Managed Services with Puppet | Fandotech Blog →
One of the few gentle introductions to a puppet architecture (of sorts). I’ve found elegant solution although there are a few edge cases that make it feel hacky at times. Best tag line: Puppet: now…
Apr 22nd
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Clearing out some browser tabs
mindlocker.net - This looks very cool, a bliki built on django. The interesting thing is it is backed by github and evernote rather than a traditional db. The idea reminds me a bit of yaki … then again the implementation is really just a stub. *le sigh* Github Explorer - As I’ve said before I’m a sucker for visualization of complex data. Between github’s api and a cool...
Apr 21st
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
build a better Ford →
Apr 17th
Fine Tune Volume Adjustment in OS X by Holding... →
Apr 16th
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? →
Apr 13th
Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
Apr 12th
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rentzsch.tumblr.com: Pages-Only GitHub Projects →
Very cool, github gets awesomer every day.
Apr 11th
rentzsch.tumblr.com: Pages-Only GitHub Projects →
GitHub has a great feature called GitHub Pages where they’ll vend your static files via http. It’s the best deal in town. All you need to do is have a branch named gh-pages and perhaps push a button to engage the feature the first time you use it for a given repo. Sometimes a project is…
Apr 11th
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If Agile is going Lean, then get it right →
Apr 9th
Apr 6th
Doxie - the amazing scanner for documents →
Evernote, dropbox, PAPERLESS OFFICE! Here I come.
Apr 6th
Apr 4th
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This American Infographic →
Brilliant, combines my love of visualization with my love of NPR.
Apr 4th
“Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare....”
– John Fugelsang (via fyeahsocialism) (via jewdar) (via stevencloud)
Apr 3rd
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