Archive for the 'Aside' Category
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July 10, 2008
⇒ Photos from an undiscovered country.Checkout the cluster of photos appearing in the Yellow Sea mapping its emergence.
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July 7, 2008
⇒ Pahlka Dot: A couple of things about my Prius.Apropos of nothing other then I laughing out loud several times while reading it.
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June 25, 2008
⇒ Yahoo: Do What You’re Great At.“… snort news off the tits of more news.”
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(Aside quotable, yahoo) -
June 24, 2008
⇒ Leonard for Obama ‘08.Congratulations to the Obama campaign, this is going to be awesome.
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(Aside friends, lhl, nptech, obama, politics, tech) -
June 11, 2008
⇒ Big Picture: Water Water Everywhere.Wow.
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⇒ Yuiblog: Patterns for Designing a Reputation System.
Excellent, pragmatic, Christopher Alexander style patterns for building online community. With really cute graphic.
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⇒ Khoi Vinh: Investing Strategies for iPhone Customers.
“It’s certainly not as steep a trend as my iPhone’s devaluation, but it’s significant. In the year since I bought my first iPhone, AAPL has gained roughly 50% in value. If I’d spent that original US$599 on Apple stock instead, I’d be able to buy a new iPhone 3G and have about US$599 in assets to my name. Oh well.”
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(Aside appl, apple, graphs, investing, iphone, quotable) -
June 4, 2008
⇒ John Waters: “Moving [to New York] proves that you believe in irony”.On New York’s facsimile driven aesthetics. via Buzz
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(Aside irony, john waters, nyc, quotable) -
May 24, 2008
⇒ E.B. White: “There are roughly three New Yorks.”.“There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. […] Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.”
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(Aside e.b. white, geography, new york, nyc, place, pyschogeography, quotable) -
May 23, 2008
⇒ Ignite Boston 3 - Next week.Ohhh, nice looking line up, packed with old friends, old colleagues, and good folks all around. Enough to make you miss Boston.
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May 21, 2008
⇒ MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU.Amazing time lapse photography.
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(Aside art, graffiti, painting, photography, time lapse, video) -
⇒ Better Javadoc results using “SearchMonkey”.
The docs on I found on Yahoo’s SearchMonkey were all arcane XSLT, and strange feed formats ne’er before seen on the Web. But this example from Sam shows how easy it can be - a couple of regexes, and a couple of lines of PHP.
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(Aside javadocs, php, regex, search monkey, semweb, yahoo) -
May 7, 2008
⇒ Flickr tag: “soshirkyithurts”.Best tag ever?
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(Aside clay shirky, folksonomy, so shirky it hurts) -
May 3, 2008
⇒ Ninetynine-Ninetynine: “The more details are provided, the less likely people are to doubt the larger context.”.Useful (if evil) general communication tool, now science backed.
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(Aside communication, evil, mind hacks, propaganda) -
May 2, 2008
⇒ All salmon fishing banned on West Coast.“So few salmon returned last fall that the fishery council was required under its management plan to halt fishing throughout the salmon habitat, which is all along the California and Oregon coasts.”
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(Aside environment, environmental collapse, fishing, food, news, salmon, vegetarian) -
May 1, 2008
⇒ Code.Flickr: Videos in the API.Finally got around to posting on working with video in the API. (been sitting in the “really should be edited a bit” queue for weeks now)
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(Aside api, code.flickr, flickr, video) -
⇒ Twitter: Jobs.
Operations Engineer experience with JVM-based application stacks, Systems Engineer code using primarily Java, Ruby, C/C++ and Scala. I blame theraflu
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April 30, 2008
⇒ Internet News: Flickr Taking Privacy Just Casually Enough.Susan Kuchinskas has a nice write up of my talk on Friday that manages to hit most of my quotable moments (and leaves out the few that really shouldn’t make it to print). Slides coming soon.
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April 25, 2008
⇒ random($foo): Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition.I miss Leonard, Gordon, and Andy. But now that they’ve dispersed from Big Purple it’s nice to see all three of them schooling the internet in what real tech reporting might look like. You almost forget how bad it’s gotten until you see someone with a clue do it. Talk about amateur hour being over.
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(Aside fluffy clouds, lhl, reporting, scaling, social networks, techcrunch, twitter, upcoming) -
April 20, 2008
⇒ Hypertable looks really interesting from everything I’ve read but ….… I can’t get over this nagging question, “Why does Zvents need a distributed, sparse matrix, versioned datastore?” I don’t track the calendaring space as much as I used to, and sometimes innovation is self justifying, but I’d feel a lot better about the project if I knew that answer.
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(Aside bigtable, calendaring, dist, fluffy clouds, hypertable, zvents)
