April 2010
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powerpoint makes us stupid →
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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...
Whisk(e)y Your Way →
Colours In Cultures →
webkit2png →
Killer. Dead simple, in python, links to a linux equivalent.
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...
Portland Hump Day has Launched →
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…
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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...
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build a better Ford →
Fine Tune Volume Adjustment in OS X by Holding... →
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? →
rentzsch.tumblr.com: Pages-Only GitHub Projects →
Very cool, github gets awesomer every day.
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…
If Agile is going Lean, then get it right →
Doxie - the amazing scanner for documents →
Evernote, dropbox, PAPERLESS OFFICE! Here I come.
This American Infographic →
Brilliant, combines my love of visualization with my love of NPR.
Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare....
– John Fugelsang (via fyeahsocialism) (via jewdar) (via stevencloud)