Archive for May, 2007

links for 2007-05-26

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Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace Facebook opens up to third party developers. (tags: facebook api social development) GigaOM – The Facebook after effect: Pleasure and Pain. “There have been reports of start-ups following the launch of their applications on the Facebook are experiencing tremendous strain on their infrastructure and are scrambling to [...]

Caturday!

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I dug up the old Oregon Scientific Thincam DS6628 and tried it on Pandora today, and the results are fairly hit-or-miss — mostly miss. This was the only good photo out of 13, and that only after a run through Auto Levels in Photoshop. There’s also this photo of Amy in the kitchen, but everything [...]

links for 2007-05-25

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Knight Foundation grant | Holovaty.com Holovaty leaves WaPo to start up EveryBlock. (tags: dc news media) Wellington Grey — Miscellanea — The Truth About Wireless Devices (tags: webcomics comics radiation science wireless news hoaxes) LiveLeak.com – Sushi Bar Video camera placed on a sushi bar conveyor belt. (tags: video japan people food fun sushi cinematography) [...]

iminur()

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iminur() – My First Python Script So I’ve been learning Python this week, and coming from a PHP background, it’s been a bit difficult wrapping my head around a language where arrays are called “lists” (or “tuples” when they’re “immutable”), associative arrays are called “dictionaries,” everything is an object, and hierarchies are defined by layers [...]

links for 2007-05-24

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Io and Europa together in color – The Planetary Society Blog (tags: space jupiter io europa newhorizons nasa) David and Lord of the Sabbath | By Farther Steps (tags: faith theology jesus) How to keep cookies fresh — megnut.com Put a slice of fresh bread in with them after baking, so it transfers its moisture [...]

Gtown.jpg

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Looking east down M St from Wisconsin Ave in Georgetown. (Gtown.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

links for 2007-05-22

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NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Global Monitoring Division – FAQ on Climate Change (tags: globalwarming government weather science) Interview: Scot McKnight on Evangelicals and Marian Dogmas Author of “The Real Mary” (tags: faith theology catholic mary) YouTube – Line Rider Super Mario Bros. 1-1 Super Mario Bros. level rendered entirely in Line Rider. (tags: flash [...]

links for 2007-05-21

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rowster: An Optimistic Filipino. 2007 election results in the Philippines are turning up a pleasant surprise: a thinking electorate with less impulse to vote for unqualified film and television celebrities. (tags: philippines politics news) The Great War in a Different Light Accounts and Galleries from Great War Period Books, Magazines and Publications, with more than [...]

WaPo Business Appointments

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I get a brief mention in Washington Post’s Business section today, under Appointments, drawn off the same press release used by MediaBistro earlier on. I had expected my name would start appearing in news searches as the press release filtered through various clearing houses, but it seems to be mostly off the standard news-aggregation radar, [...]

I HAS A BUDGET

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Tom has alerted me to my latest brush with fame in the news media: my I HAS A BUDGET image macro has been cited in Slate’s LOLCATS slideshow. (See image #6 of 9). It was all a very spur-of-the-moment thing after I saw the photo of the president holding the budget booklet, and took about [...]