2008 Apr 3, 3:43How to get the public photos of a user via the Flickr API. Flickr's API explorer is just wonderful.
flickr api documentation reference programming xml photo 2008 Apr 3, 2:19"How one supercharged province cranks out lightbulbs, buttons, and bra rings, as well as instant cities for the factory workers. "
via:boingboing china economics environment politics video 2008 Apr 3, 1:43Nothing like humorous graphs. See rickrolling for more Rick Astley.
humor graph pie-chart rick-astley rickroll via:felix42 2008 Apr 3, 10:38Produces a cool interactive graph of your friends on Facebook.
facebook nexus graph foaf me via:ethan_t_hein 2008 Apr 2, 6:29A pillow fight in Pike Place Market. "A group of web-connected friends converge at a specified location in the city and at a designated time produce previously concealed pillows and begin an awesome
fight."
flash-mob seattle washington pike-place-market pillow pillow-fight youtube video humor social via:swannman 2008 Mar 31, 2:33Clay Shirky gives a talk about how the Internet changes everything via organization and collaboration.
video book clay-shirky via:librarythingblog social talk research internet 2008 Mar 31, 2:31Social local's guide to various areas including Seattle.
via:swannman guide seattle food social 2008 Mar 31, 1:08"Why would the bad guys do this? To buy time. ...say you arrived at that site via a search engine and you were clueful and you got owned. You're going to give the URL that tried to exploit you to
your local IT security geek and he's going to paste it i
security web internet spam microsoft blog research 2008 Mar 28, 10:35Scott A Crosby and Dan S Wallach "present a new class of low-bandwidth denial of service attacks that exploit algorithmic deficiencies in many common applications' data structures." DoS via worst
case behavior in hash tables and exponential time RegExp's
scott-crosby dan-wallach dos programming regex research security hash 2008 Mar 25, 11:05A trunk with a button. When you push the button the trunk opens, a robotic arm comes out and pushes the button again to turn itself off.
via:ethan_t_hein art robot trunk machine humor 2008 Mar 23, 3:26Flash versions of retro games with humorous differences.
game humor retro games flash web internet pacman space-invaders tetris via:boingboing 2008 Mar 23, 1:25
I ordered a ThinkGeek Bluetooth Retro Handset to use at home. When I come home I plug my phone in to charge in my room, but then I can't hear it ring
elsewhere in the hosue. The idea was to take this handset which wirelessly connects to cellphones via bluetooth and place it in another part of the house so that I can tell I'm getting an incoming
call. The only issue I have with that setup is that it ringing isn't any louder than conversations held over the phone, that is, the ringing is a little quiet.
The handset pairs with cellphones in the same manner as any other handset over bluetooth. It has an internal rechargeable battery which is charged via a standard USB port built into the base of the
handset and it comes with a USB cable. Next to the USB port is the only button on the phone which is pressed to answer a call, hang up a call, or begin voice dial, held down to turn the handset on
and off, and held down longer to begin pairing with a cellphone. There's a blue LED in one of the holes in the microphone portion of the phone which blinks to indicate if its on or trying to pair.
Transitioning between on, off, and pairing produces a cute sound and a change to the LED.
Overal I'm pleased with its simplicity and use of common parts although I wish there was a way to adjust the volume of the ring.
thinkgeek bluetooth cellphone phone product handset 2008 Mar 19, 2:25A short story expressed as a forum for time travelers: "At 18:06:59, BigChill wrote: Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed
within a few minutes, what's the harm?"
humor fiction wiki timetravel forum via:boingboing 2008 Mar 18, 3:52Method to generate CD album covers similar to the 'what's your porn name' rules but takes advantage of Wikipedia and Flickr.
via:ethan_t_hein cd graphic art meme internet flickr album-art article 2008 Mar 18, 1:33A 1990s VHS video on the Internet and World Wide Web.
internet history video humor via:boingboing 2008 Mar 18, 1:04"The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world." More cool street art and hacks
cultural-disobediance art street-art street graffiti via:boingboing blog 2008 Mar 17, 12:51Google toolbar updates the IE Feed View like I had suggested on my blog.
google ie rss feed ie7 browser via:walter 2008 Mar 15, 9:39Lots of intereseting previously undocumented protocols in here.
via:ericlaw msdn uri scheme microsoft 2008 Mar 9, 1:17"It is, quite frankly, one of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen. Written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to
K-12 education."
via:ethan_t_hein math education paper
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