January 2013
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Jan 20th
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December 2012
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kottke.org: Weaponized smartphones and the... →
jkottke: We’ve spent the two dozen years putting computers in everything from our bodies to our cars. Now those devices increasingly have wireless connections to the outside world. Throw in a little lax security and the whole world becomes hackable. Hospital equipment like external defibrillators and…
Dec 30th
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November 2012
1 post
Nov 27th
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September 2012
1 post
An epic tour of American sandwiches
jkottke: Serious Eats put together an extensive guide to the regional sandwich cuisine of the US that covers everything from the universally available sloppy joe and grilled cheese to the spiedie, the hot brown, and the dutch crunch. An international edition is also available (gyro! banh mi! bocadillo! chip butty!). what kind of culture lists sandwiches as traditional?
Sep 5th
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August 2012
1 post
Let it crash: Distributed (in-memory) graph... →
hakkers: Graphs have always been an interesting structure to study in both mathematics and computer science (among other fields), and have become even more interesting in the context of online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, whose underlying network structures are nicely represented by…
Aug 26th
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June 2012
1 post
L'acca, questa sconosciuta pt. 2
spaghettibolognese: … per fortuna ci siamo noi italiani a correggere le magagne dei tedeschi! :D
Jun 28th
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May 2012
1 post
chartsnthings: Amanda Cox and countrymen chart the... →
chartsnthings: On Thursday Facebook had the third-largest I.P.O. ever. In the week leading up it, my colleague Amanda Cox spent some time thinking how to best explain and contextualize this offering to readers. What follows is a series of sketches from Amanda, who shared her project folder with me for this…
May 19th
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March 2012
5 posts
Knight News Challenge: Hypothes.is - An annotation... →
newschallenge: 1. What do you propose to do? We are building a global, community-moderated platform for journalists, scientists and citizens to annotate the web. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? Nearly 50 efforts over the last 15 years have…
Mar 26th
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WatchWatch
stunning art/dance performance
Mar 22nd
myNoSQL: Thoughts About Datomic →
nosql: Sergio Bossa has left a great comment on Fogus’s blog post about Datomic that encapsulates in much more detail all my notes (and some more) about Datomic: I waited for the Datomic announcement with great excitement, and I’d like now to share some thoughts, hoping they will be food for…
Mar 14th
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Mar 10th
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THRICE: Thank you for the thank you →
officialthrice: Sometimes you receive a gift so beautiful and thoughtful that you hardly know what to do or say. This is one of those times. Our close friends at Invisible Children just sent us a couple videos of members from two of their initiatives—kids from the Legacy Scholarship Program and women from…
Mar 1st
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December 2011
1 post
FUCKYEAHLOST.com: How to Make a Peanut Butter... →
Jack 1. Gather ingredients 2. Point gun at ingredients and shout “HOW DO I MAKE A SANDWICH OUT OF YOU?!?!?” 3. Breathe heavily through your nose as though you were about to hit ingredients 4. Give up and make the sandwich yourself, and eat it bitterly Kate 1. Make separate sandwiches, one…
Dec 14th
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November 2011
2 posts
Nov 29th
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) →
Nov 13th
October 2011
6 posts
http://blog.justusbruns.com/post/11448391988/steve-... →
Oct 15th
Oct 9th
Cool Infographics - Blog - The Value of Data... →
Oct 8th
bea.st | lightbulb →
Oct 8th
Oct 4th
Twitter Engineering: A Storm is coming: more... →
Oct 2nd
July 2011
1 post
Sentiment Analysis in Government by Dr. Ramon... →
Jul 20th
June 2011
3 posts
tourmappr | find out where your favorite artist is... →
Jun 30th
Afghanistan war: every death mapped | News |... →
Jun 23rd
Nissan LEAF CARWINGS tells any RSS feed provider... →
Jun 15th
May 2011
19 posts
May 27th
altJS compile-to-JavaScript language list →
May 11th
May 11th
Martin Hepp's answer to Which semantic protocol is... →
May 11th
Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart |... →
May 9th
EagerFeet :: Export GPS Data from Nike →
May 7th
The Top Incomes Database - G-MonD, PSE-Paris... →
May 7th
Data Analysis: What books/papers should a computer... →
May 7th
DataMaps.eu » map your data | provided by open3.at →
May 7th
Why Semantic Analysis trumps Sentiment Analysis |... →
May 7th
Mockingbirdz →
May 7th
The most beautiful video ever? « Richard Wiseman's... →
May 6th
TLD | Zdenek Kalal →
May 5th
How Twitter reacted to Bin Laden’s death / we are... →
May 4th
Inside the White House, May 1, 2011 « Flickr Blog →
May 4th
Bin Laden’s Death Causes Record Tweets - Chart... →
May 4th
Official Google Blog: Browsing through time and... →
May 2nd
Flint SPARQL Editor Demo →
May 2nd
Soul Liberty | Mapping God's Bloodline →
May 2nd
April 2011
56 posts
dzone.com - Stuck on a Big Hard Programming Task?... →
Apr 27th
NÃO Do Brasil.com Home →
Apr 27th
Plot your iPhone Tracking Data on Google maps →
Apr 27th
Workflow Perspectives on the Open Semantic... →
Apr 27th
Scrapy | An open source web scraping framework for... →
Apr 27th
Random Musings from Jay Myers » Archive »... →
Apr 27th