September 2008
33 posts
Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com →
sfgate.com
Heather Champ on the ongoing job of managing the Flickr community. She rocks.
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MapTube →
maptube.org
“free resource for viewing, sharing, mixing and mashing maps online, created by UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis”. I’m in heaven.
Magazine Publishers of America - The Definitive Resource for the Magazine Industry →
magazine.org
Magazine Cover of the year finalists.
Countdown with Keith Olbermann - The Official Web siteCountdown with Keith Olbermann →
msnbc.msn.com
Keith Olbermann makes good on his promise to pay $100 to charity every time Sarah Palin lies or repeats a lie in the course of campaigning. This week Keith donates $3,700 to the Alaskan Special…
Drew Westen: The Day the Momentum Changed: And What Obama Needs to Do in the Debates to Keep It →
huffingtonpost.com
Interesting article (especially second half) including some basic principles which Obama would do well to follow going into the debates
Apartment Therapy New York | House Tour: Bill and Maria's Cat PlaygroundNew York →
apartmenttherapy.com
Cat obstacle course around an apartment. Awesome.
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CherryGorgeous: eco-friendly wedding stationary →
cherrygorgeous.co.uk
Lovely niche business, filling a much-needed gap in the market.
Lovelygreenwedding event →
lovelygreenwedding.wordpress.com
Event for local, sustainable, eco-friendly wedding info. Not your typical wedding fair.
listening to "Station Approach - Elbow" →
blip.fm
For train listening.
MoreCowbell.dj →
morecowbell.dj
Because which song couldn’t be improved by introducing a little more cowbell?
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Three Virtues of a Programmer:
- Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don’t have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
- Impatience - The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don’t just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
- Hubris - Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won’t want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience.
Source: the camel book
Prelinger Library →
home.earthlink.net
“An appropriation-friendly, image-rich, experimental research library. Independent and open to the public.” Currently planning a visit here in October, to research source material for collaborative curation projects.
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Telemegaphone Dale | Unsworn Industries →
unsworn.org
The telemegaphone stands seven metres tall on top of the a mountain overlooking a fjord. When you dial the phone number the sound of your voice is projected out across the fjord, the valley and the…
In a World of Don LaFontaine, A Reel-Life Figure of Speech - washingtonpost.com →
washingtonpost.com
In a world where marketing is far more important than content … came one man … with a Voice.
hiddenradio →
hiddenradio.johnvdn.com
Where form and function combine - there are no controls except the design itself. Beautiful, simple.
