2009 Dec 31, 4:40"Nokia has been struggling a bit this year, but this "hack it" to get your phone unboxing is pretty interesting. Once you "root" the box it opens up and a little puff of smoke appears, along with
your phone (if you're a phone / gadget reviewer)." Makes me wonder how many devs and engineers they had working on the box to contain this phone.
phone video cellphone hack 2009 Dec 31, 1:50Har har: "I had a fantasy in which the Fed and the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) switched roles. If a bank failed at 9 a.m. one morning and shut its doors, the TSA would announce that
all banks henceforth begin their business day at 10 a.m. And, if a terrorist managed to get on board a plane between Stockholm and Washington, the Fed would increase the number of flights between the
cities."
economics humor airplane emanuel-derman tsa fed government 2009 Dec 28, 9:27"This class represents a sensor event and holds informations such as the sensor type (eg: accelerometer, orientation, etc...), the time-stamp, accuracy and of course the sensor's data."
sensor android technical programming development reference accelerometer java 2009 Dec 28, 8:04"Just as I was finishing my first look at the accelerometer and magnetic field sensors a couple of threads cropped up on the Android Developer's group..."
android cellphone programming development java sensor technical 3d orientation 2009 Dec 28, 2:19"This document specifies Metalink, an XML-based download description format. Metalink describes download locations (mirrors), checksums, and other information. Clients can transparently use this
information to reliably transfer files."
xml download browser web url todo 2009 Dec 27, 7:43"Have a look what happens when a huge hamster hits the Amsterdam Canals in a giant inflatable ball!" Almost a good idea. Maybe next time add some paddles to the outside of the ball.
humor video youtube hamster amsterdam water 2009 Dec 26, 7:11Wow, that was easy to setup. After installing the driver Eclipse just asks me if I want to debug on my phone or my virtual device.
technical reference android programming development cellphone g1 documentation google 2009 Dec 25, 6:15"The GL10 interface contains the Java(TM) programming language bindings for OpenGL(R) ES 1.0 core functionality."
programming java opengl android cellphone technical reference 3d 2009 Dec 23, 10:15Cute bunny tshirt gift idea...
gift purchase bunny cute rabbit tshirt 2009 Dec 23, 10:03"Christopher “moot” Poole, the young founder of the irascible online forum 4chan, will speak in February at the TED conference, the elite gathering of thought leaders whose video-taped talks have
become immensely popular online." Its like TED is just asking for it.
ted 4chan christopher-poole moot 2009 Dec 23, 10:02"These designs are reproductions of Eiffel's original designs included in his book "The 300 Meter Tower", Lemercier publications, Paris 1900."
design architecture blueprints france eiffel eiffel-tower retro visualization illustration 2009 Dec 23, 9:58Results of a set of black box tests on various characters in various parts of URLs in various popular browsers.
via:mnot url uri iri idn dns browser web technical 2009 Dec 22, 9:39"The Wii Remote API also allows the Web page to detect all Wii Remotes that are connected to the Wii; up to four at a time. This makes it possible to make Web pages interact with up to four users at
the same time..."
wii wiimote remote web javascript opera programming development reference technical 2009 Dec 22, 7:17Listen to "Why do These Parties Always End" and "You Stood Me Up"
music benji-hughes electronica folk rock 2009 Dec 21, 3:40"“I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios,” he told the BBC’s Latin American service BBC Mundo. “It was amazing, we were all
shocked.”" And I can see why -- its a good video.
video scifi robot youtube hollywood 2009 Dec 20, 1:38The really traditional socratic method: "You ask people hard questions. Then they kill you."
humor joke quote socratic socrates 2009 Dec 20, 12:19Lazy cat is also disgruntled and rides a Roomba
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