December 2009
14 posts
Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social...
via ted.com
So that’s why I saw mister splashy pants as the reddit logo two days…
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Octopus Kills Shark
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Weird indeed.
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Nice new Google logo, never noticed for awhile.
via google.com
probably because I have chrome.
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Rands In Repose: Gaming the System
Gaming the System On my list of creative management solutions to dire situations, I offer the rolling whiteboard. The rolling whiteboard was a curiosity at the start-up. Not a full size whiteboard, but a door-sized whiteboard on wheels, suitable for rolling into conference rooms and cubicles alike. I never knew who owned it; I just grabbed it in a moment of desperation. It was end...
The Google Phone, Unlocked (Confirmed And More...
Last night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all hands” meeting. Now Google is confirming that it is indeed “dogfood” testing a new Android device with employees around the world. But this isn’t just another Android phone. Very trustworthy sources who have seen the phone say that it...
“I don't know the key to success, but the key to...
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EtherPad Blog: Google Acquires AppJet
Google Acquires AppJet Fri Dec 04, by AppJet and the Google PR Team We are happy to announce that AppJet Inc. has been acquired by Google. The EtherPad team will continue its work on realtime collaboration by joining the Google Wave team.
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Another good company goes down after acquisition. Must be good for PG though.
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edgecase's ruby_koans
EdgeCase Ruby Koans The Ruby Koans walk you along the path to enlightenment in order to learn Ruby. The goal is to learn the Ruby language, syntax, structure, and some common functions and libraries. We also teach you culture. Testing is not just something we pay lip service to, but something we live. It is essential in your quest to learn and do great things in the language.
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Man "Beats" World of Warcraft
Precision pointed out that a Taiwanese man has been named the first ever person to successfully beat World of Warcraft, getting all 986 achievements, completing 5906 quests and /hugging 11 players. Insert joke here. There are many. via games.slashdot.org
I guess it is possible… but is there an achievement for that?
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Children Using Technology Have Better Literacy...
“A UK study of three thousand children aged nine to sixteen suggests something that may not come as a shock to geeks: using technology increases a child’s core literary skills. As Researcher Obvious put it, ‘The more forms of communications children use the stronger their core literary skills.’ And for those of us worried about a world of ‘tl;dr’ and ‘Y...
WTF by OK Go
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From the synchronized treadmill dancing crew brings a weird, but visually fascinating video.
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Sports Illustrated - Tablet Demo 1.5
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I’m not a magazine kindof guy, but this device is awesome for its audience.
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[FoRK] Programming languages, operating systems,...
If I have to write one more polyglot bash / awk / python script to gather data from log files on a bunch of different machines, demux that into a time-ordered event stream, pipe it through something to munge it into some slightly different format, ship that off via post to some web address and get some JSON back, parse that into some other shit, do some computation over it like...
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My wife took my 3 year old to church for the first time. Getting impatient while waiting for the mass to start, he turned to the wife and asked, “What time does Jesus get here?” IMMD It Made My Day - Little Moments of WIN (via computersnob)
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