March 2008
Firefox 3 Performance Numbers →
Moving on from the “let me use that API” conversation and only some real stuff, urandom (thanks for the comment) let us know about the Cybernet News article on Firefox 3 performance. They are…
February 2008
Cydia: Bringing Debian APT to the iPhone →
Incredible Mobile OS X project from Jay Freeman: a port of Debian’s APT with a complete, working BSD and GNU Unix userspace tool set. And a brand new GUI app to manage it, Cydia. And, unlike …
Heat Ray Causes Unintelligible Yelping from 60... →
Remember the US Military ray gun that makes people feel like they’re on fire? Well, 60 Minutes sent out a reporter to see if he could take the heat. Standing in plain view of the ray gun made…
1896 5 Silver Dollar Bill
This is clearly a much... →
1896 5 Silver Dollar Bill This is clearly a much cooler version of the 5. Why can’t we go back to this? It’s artistic as hell!
Teenage Bad Girl – Cocotte →
http://www.last.fm/music/Teenage+Bad+Girl
Teenage Bad Girl – Intro →
http://www.last.fm/music/Teenage+Bad+Girl
Near Arctic, Seed Vault Is a Fort Knox of Food -... →
Near Arctic, Seed Vault Is a Fort Knox of Food - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02…
A vault buried under the permafrost in Norway has begun to receive…
The Friday Flashback: The Blizzard of '79 →
Chicago Transit Authority We woke up this morning to another fresh coat of snow on the ground. While we’re certainly among the ranks of those who just wished this winter would end already…
Shrine to bragging, deadly Internet "mall ninja" →
The Shrine of the Mall Ninja collects the posts of “Gecko45,” a poster to a gun-enthusiast message-board, who claimed to be a mall security guard trained in ninjitsu who had been given special…
Leah Culver tries to coin a catchphrase... →
From the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami: “Leah Culver is trying to coin the term ‘social messaging’ as a way to describe Pownce.” I suppose that’s better than “social massaging.”
Pownce API v2.0 Released →
The Pownce team has been working hard to get their API up to speed and have gotten the API to a point where some cool applications can be built from it. Yesterday, they announced v2.0 of the…
Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one? →
Update: By “Coder” I mean front-end code. Oblige me, if you will, and allow me to ask you a few questions. It’s related to the Extensible CSS series but also to another topic I’m dealing with. …
Announcing Pownce API v2.0 →
Hey developers! We’re proud to announce that Pownce now has a complete API for you to create awesome projects, mashups, and hacks.
What’s new in v2.0?
The biggest improvement is the ability to…
Daft Punk – Television Rules The Nation -... →
http://www.last.fm/music/Daft+Punk
Kanye Hands →
Kanye Hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Cuz somebody had to do it. A video response to “Daft Hands,” the greatest Internet video of all time: …
Things I Learned At The Apple Store -- Part 2 |... →
Things I Learned At The Apple Store — Part 2 | Burbia.com
http://www.burbia.com/node/1619
The other day I wrote a piece, Things I Learned At The Apple Store. It contained some of…
Kids and Lying →
How kids learn to lie. (Maybe it’s a bit off the security topic, but with all my reading on the psychology of security, I don’t think so.) So when do the 98 percent who think lying is wrong…
Daft Punk – Technologic →
http://www.last.fm/music/Daft+Punk
Daft Punk – Superheroes →
http://www.last.fm/music/Daft+Punk
Was pretty deadset on biking. then I saw all the sludge and slush out there. Blue line here I come.
The Herd – Unpredictable →
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Herd
Dan Phiffer →
Dan Phiffer
http://blog.phiffer.org/post/2…
Electrons composing signals representing bits abstracted into data presented as visual and aural stimuli intended to convey…
Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008... →
http://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Jackson
Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' →
http://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Jackson
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean →
http://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Jackson
Best Fortune Cookie Ever, from Papajin in Wicker Park: http://www.thebestfortunecookieever.com/
The aforementioned “best fortune cookie in the world” was found at Papajin: http://www.papajin.com/
cleaned, degreased, and lubed my chain and other important rotating parts on my bike this even
cleaned, degreased, and lubed my chain and other important rotating parts on my bike this evening
cleaned, degreased, and lubed my chain and other important rotating parts on my bike this evening
with Fluid of course. http://fluidapp.com
Pushin some code
Just created a “Rick Astley - Never Going to Give You Up” Site Specific Browser. Just loads that one youtube page. @iTod
Chromeo – Tenderoni (Sinden remix ft. Kid Sister) →
http://www.last.fm/music/Chromeo
The Kinks – You Really Got Me →
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Kinks
The Bobby Fuller Four – I Fought The Law →
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Bobby+Fuller+Four
The Byrds – I'll Feell A Whole Lot Better →
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Byrds
Michael Jackson – P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) →
http://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Jackson
We Dump Coffee, Coke, OJ and Milk All Over a Shiny... →
On Tuesday we asked you about the one thing you wouldn’t want spilled on your keyboard, and we were surprised how much you had to tell us. We have a brand new Y7 Toughbook laying around the…
Why All Female Superheroes Look the Same... →
This chart compares the body mass index (BMI) of superheroes in Marvel comics with those of typical American women and men. Researchers Karen Healey and Terry Johnson used physical stats…
Los Angeles is Open for Your Time Travel Business... →
If you’re a temporal traveler stuck between decades and you find yourself in need of Mammoth Chunks, Anti-Robot Fluid, or Barbarian Repellent, you can now head to Time Travel Mart in Echo…
Damien Rice – When Doves Cry →
http://www.last.fm/music/Damien+Rice
Big Heavy Stuff – Hyperballad →
http://www.last.fm/music/Big+Heavy+Stuff
Boyz II Men – Motownphilly →
http://www.last.fm/music/Boyz+II+Men
The Cat Empire – Hotel California →
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Cat+Empire
Finding the OS X Turbo Button →
Firefox developer Vladimir Vukićević:
All these WK* methods are undocumented, and they appear in binary blobs shipped along with the WebKit source (see the WebKitLibraries directory). There are…
Mankiw's Ten Principles, Translated →
Hilarious. Well, if you ever had to study econ, anyway. The guy who made it has a website here. (Thanks to Chris Bertram for the pointer.)
Louise at the Louvre, Paris →
Amazing Vintage Danish Modern Sleeper Sofa →
We’ve been blogging sleeper sofas as we wrap up Bedroom month - we covered air-mattress models yesterday and Maxwell just did a round up today, but one area we hadn’t thought much about…