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(Pics) “Knit Graffiti Crew” Bombs the Standard NYC - PSFK

2009 Sep 18, 5:52"We recently came across a series of colorfully decorated safety posts at the Standard Hotel in New York." The Knit Graffiti Crew strikes again.
PermalinkCommentshumor knit graffiti new-york nyc cultural-disobediance photo

YouTube - (RELEASE) Half-Life2: All sounds replaced with my voice

2009 Sep 18, 1:54A HL2 mod in which guy replaces all game sound effects with his voice...PermalinkCommentsvideo humor halflife hl2 videogame game via:waxy

Printing police handcuff keys … « blackbag

2009 Sep 16, 4:48"German SSDeV member Ray is known all around the world for his impressive collection of handcuffs and his fun ways of opening most of them. ... At HAR he pulled another stunt: He used a 3D printer to print handcuff keys. And not just any ordinary handcuff key … no, it’s the official handcuff key from the Dutch police!" Plus at the bottom a story on the legality of possessing handcuff keys.PermalinkCommentslegal security printer 3d key handcuff police

Reduce Your Chances of Dying in a Plane Crash | Information Is Beautiful

2009 Sep 14, 4:52PermalinkCommentsvia:kris.kowal information visualization plane airplane flight statistics death travel humor

HTML vs. XHTML - WHATWG Wiki

2009 Sep 10, 6:42"Although HTML and XHTML appear to have similarities in their syntax, they are significantly different in many ways."PermalinkCommentshtml html5 xml xhtml whatwg wiki technical

Embeddable Google Document Viewer

2009 Sep 10, 6:11Google Documents can render any PDF on the web simply via an URL API. Step 2, implement HTML5. Step 3, call registerContentHandler('application/pdf', 'http://docs.google.com/gview?url=%s')PermalinkCommentspdf google web internet html5 technical via:waxy

Reponere - Wall of Fluff

2009 Sep 9, 10:52The wall of fluff is a mega unicorn chaser.PermalinkCommentscute humor cat youtube video via:boingboing

The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions | Information Is Beautiful

2009 Sep 8, 7:29The food pyramid of digital distractions.PermalinkCommentshumor visualization information pyramid hierarchy distraction procrastination twitter facebook phone via:waxy

Gimme Indie Game: the one button action film of AdamAtomic's Canabalt | Offworld

2009 Sep 2, 4:36"Consider it, maybe, the souped-up Tiger/Game & Watch LCD version of Mirror's Edge, then: you have one goal, and one button, and the goal is to run, and the button is jump, and the game comes from simply maintaining breakneck momentum as you leap from rooftop to randomly generated rooftop."PermalinkCommentsgame flash mirrors-edge

PicoCool - The Flipside Wallet

2009 Sep 1, 4:57"Protect the wonderful convenience of RFID enabled cards with the Flipside Wallet." Looks like the Jimi but does RFID shielding and looks fat enough to hold US paper money folded once vertically.
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Timefire: On Reducing the Size of Compressed Javascript (by up to 20%)

2009 Sep 1, 4:39"...what effect does the large-scale structure of the JS output code have on the DEFLATE algorithm of GZIP which is used to serve up compressed script?" Another instance of using knowledge of the specific file type to get gains in compression. Is there a web proxy running all this at which I can point my phone?PermalinkCommentsvia:kris.kowal performance javascript gzip deflate compression web technical

CSS minifier and alphabetiser – Barryvan

2009 Sep 1, 4:36"I’ve written a small Java application that will read in a CSS file and output its contents to stdout or another file in a format that’s optimised for gzipping." Cool!PermalinkCommentsvia:kris.kowal technical compression css web performance gzip java

Composing the Semantic Web: Units ontology with SPIN support published

2009 Sep 1, 4:25"Each unit has a stable URI, making it possible to link to it from your own domain models in a reliable way. For each unit, the ontology defines some useful metadata including abbreviation, a link to DBpedia and a categorization of units into groups, such as length units."PermalinkCommentssemanticweb via:connolly web unit conversion uri technical

'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter : NPR

2009 Sep 1, 4:20"Grant says that PBS, CPB and the Department of Education put significant funding toward programming that would teach kids how to read — but that's not what Reading Rainbow was trying to do."PermalinkCommentsvia:waxy history tv read reading-rainbow levar-burton pbs npr

How to Google Maps on Vimeo

2009 Aug 31, 4:53From Ira as part of The Balloon Project "... took the lo-fi diy map making essentials (portable helium tank, party balloons, and a disposable video camera) to Paris, France, where they launched a video camera into the sky not knowing where it would go, and created some very unique aerial cartography of the Place de la Concorde.' I'd love to see this run through photo stitching software like Photosynth and then layered on Google Maps.PermalinkCommentsmap balloon art ira-mowen france paris

ASCII Animation (ASCIImation) "Morph" by Skylined (using JavaScript)

2009 Aug 31, 4:41"The Morph and the Mandelbrot animation are all real-time ASCII and done via JavaScript code. The "Shark-like" Skylined logo looks like 3D and really cool. I was amazed when I saw it for the first time." Is this the Skylined that I know? That's some hardcore ASCII animation.PermalinkCommentsskylined javascript ascii via:waxy animation

Google ASCII Art Easter Egg

2009 Aug 31, 4:12"If you search Google for ascii art, the Google logo itself will turn into... ASCII art."PermalinkCommentsgoogle ascii art humor logo via:waxy

Parents, Carl, Jeannie on Roof

2009 Aug 28, 9:12

sequelguy posted a photo:

Parents, Carl, Jeannie on Roof

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Old Veterinary Related Tool

2009 Aug 28, 9:12

sequelguy posted a photo:

Old Veterinary Related Tool

Saw this at the Fremont Market. The tag read along the lines of Veterinary related tool -- three guesses.

PermalinkCommentsseattle wa tool veterinary

James Bond's Jetpack

2009 Aug 28, 9:12

sequelguy posted a photo:

James Bond's Jetpack

James Bond's jetpack found at the Three Lions pub in Redmond, WA

PermalinkCommentspub redmond wa jamesbond jetpack
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