Monthly Archives: June 2009

links for 2009-06-25

June 25, 2009 | c: _delicious

• ScreenToaster – Online screen recorder. Capture screencasts instantly.
  downloads too.
  (tags: tools software screencast video)
• Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab
  Free software on outsourced servers, developed in days, tested while deployed. New journalism is here.
  (tags: design programming journalism code tools)

links for 2009-06-24

June 24, 2009 | c: _delicious

• English Russia » Soviet Russian Album Covers
  hubba hubba
  (tags: images archive history music russia)
• Adobe sez: "Use a Flash Blocker!"
  "Got too many tabs from pushy sites on a weaker browser? Try a Flash blocker, control your load. Will still crash, but slower cycle."

  Holy.

  Fucking.

  Shit.

  (tags: adobe webdev dumbass flash stupid evil)
• LA Times combining racism with fear of public transit
  To expose shallow idiocy of this article, try replacing the word "train station" with the word "cell phone."

  Good riddance, LA Times.

  (tags: latimes deathwatch transit stupid)

links for 2009-06-23

June 23, 2009 | c: _delicious

• aalib alchemy port
  ASCII up in your grillé
  (tags: asciii art tools)
• Pods : WordPress CMS Plugin
  we'll see…
  (tags: webdev wordpress cms plugin)

links for 2009-06-20

June 20, 2009 | c: _delicious

• Confessions of a Non–Serial Killer – Michael O’Hare
  Story of being hounded for decades by a conspiracy theorist. "Everyone should have a hobby…"
  (tags: history paranoia conspiracy stupid)

links for 2009-06-17

June 17, 2009 | c: _delicious

• Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity
  Opera Unite is exactly what it claims it isn't — dumb terminals connected to other computers (meaning servers) owned by other people
  (tags: bullshit technology)
• Thermal engine for toy boat
  candle powered. could it be converted to solar?
  (tags: engine boat toys science physics)

links for 2009-06-16

June 16, 2009 | c: _delicious

• An Evening with Brian Eno
  CSU Long Beach Carpenter Performing Arts Center. $75
  (tags: lecture music art events code.poetry)

links for 2009-06-13

June 13, 2009 | c: _delicious

• Videogames And The Impossibility Of Escape From Planet Earth | > jim rossignol
  (tags: alien communication fermi.paradox)

links for 2009-06-12

June 12, 2009 | c: _delicious

• Data Center Overload – NYTimes Magazine – Architecture Issue
  “Once the containers get on site, we plug in power, water, network connectivity, and the boxes inside wake up, figure out which property group they belong to and start imaging themselves. There’s very little need for people.”
  (tags: architecture technology network)

links for 2009-06-11

June 11, 2009 | c: _delicious

• Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
  (tags: wordpress indexing webdev)
• 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
  (tags: marketing propaganda brainwashing psychology)

links for 2009-06-09

June 9, 2009 | c: _delicious

• Rockstar Demands Retraction from Gaywired
  GayWired presumes that a similar clarification is on its way to the Nevada Secretary of State. For according to that office, Savage’s company, Savage Productions, uses the same mailbox and is registered at the same street address as Rockstar.
  (tags: rightwing, homophobic, corporate, asshole, drugs, marketing)

links for 2009-06-08

June 8, 2009 | c: _delicious

• Martin "Ed" Whelan's petulant, fact-free right-wing victimhood
  Proven wrong, he exacts revenge by revealing an anonymous blogger's identity.
  (tags: bush rightwing frightening batshit)