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links for 2008-05-31
Pilot View FPV 2400 First Person Video from Hobby Lobby! Want. (tags: toys camera) Read at Work Wonderful, if rather windows-themed. (tags: books flash funny) Process bound …for when the process is more important than the communication.
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Best Baby-Gro / Romper Suit, Evar!
Warning: May Offend People Who Are Offended By This Sort Of Thing. Via Adriana’s Flickr.
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The Quantum Pontiff : The Weight of Software
Via Geoff – fantastic: “The software is in the holes” (Update: and as ever, half of the enjoyment is in watching my peers nitpick the correctness of the story in the Comments section; alas for my demographic who will never simply let themselves have “fun”…)
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Twitter and the law of unintended consequences ?
So the Twitter site says: Pagination and IM are currently disabled. They’ll be back. …and lo! hovering over the “Older” button pops up a message: Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled. Wanna make bets over how much of that stress is due to folks hitting “reload” repeatedly?
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links for 2008-05-28
YouTube – Chinese Truck Crash Testing Don’t drive one of these
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Photoshop: Before, and After
Before: After: Isn’t Photoshop wonderful? (Via)
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SuperSmoker – The alternative cigarette.
A rechargable, electric, artificial cigarette which is legal to smoke “anywhere” and is advertised by Bill Wyman? Riiiiiiiiiight. SuperSmoker – The alternative cigarette (Warning: autoplay Quicktime video with annoying cheap-TV-advert voiceover) Of course if you were to buy one of these things and smoke it in a pub, the amount of time you would spend
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Hello, World…
Bray thinks that the first program which should be documented in any programming language book is “Hello, world.” – and I agree with him. I have several times felt a pang of “when I am going to be able to interact between the code I am writing and the person who is using that code?”
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Apple Tattoos
Did you know that Apple gives discounts for tattoos? (As I learned from Laureen yesterday evening)
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MBT – physiological footwear?
While in the USA, being introduced to them by Adriana, I picked up a pair of MBT shoes: For those who have not encountered them there is a certain amount of marketing hokum which goes on at excessive length about how some Swiss scientist worked out that Masai bushmen never had foot problems and had
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Worst Web2.0 Hipster Advert, Evar
This reads like something that Kibo would have produced in the early 1990s, but because it is in The Economist and for a serious company, I am presuming that some trendoid got paid vast sums for creating this drivel: The Future? What Future? I’m the Future! I’m ALWAYS ON! Fifteen-year-old Olga is a Parisian high
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Egret In Emeryville Marina
Egret In Emeryville Marina Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Small Egret or Heron, fishing just off the walkway to Emeryville Marina.