2009 Aug 17, 6:33Lookup the Better Business Bureau's stats on businesses in the Northwest.
business washington economics 2009 Aug 14, 10:17Micropayment service for bloggers -- "per article micropatronage". Supports levels of benefits for readers - pay X or more and get the ad-less version of my blog. Link to your fav. article through
payyattention and payyattention will count how much money your reference generated. Some neat features in there. Too bad its not a distributed protocol.
via:sambrook video money micropayment patronage journalism economics newspaper business 2009 Aug 14, 9:58Photos of "...the smelting of Sonic's rings, the chiseling of the 1-Up mushroom, and the rubber-pressed rebounding blocks of Arkanoid."
videogame mario tetris factory photo 2009 Aug 14, 6:20"This paper presents efficient off-line anonymous e-cash schemes where a user can withdraw a wallet containing coins each of which she can spend unlinkably."
money future reference research economics cryptography technical system:filetype:pdf system:media:document 2009 Aug 14, 3:55The government program PACER is an online archive of court records and even though the documents are public domain, PACER charges access to them ostensibly to pay for PACER. This plugin uses the
Internet Archive as a kind of free intermediate cache, rewriting the PACER HTML to reference the free Internet Archive versions of the documents when available and uploading PACER documents to the IA
cache when you download one it doesn't yet have.
via:waxy firefox government politics research reference legal law plugin technical 2009 Aug 12, 8:08"In a formal academic paper, every claim is referenced to another academic paper... This convention gives us an opportunity to study how ideas spread, and myths grow, because in theory you could
trace who references what, and how, to see an entire belief system evolve from the original data."
science meme research health medicine ben-goldacre network graph 2009 Aug 12, 5:02W3C File API makes it to first published working draft. Like the use of data URLs, don't like the new filedata URLs.
html5 w3c file upload script url data-scheme technical 2009 Aug 12, 4:55"As a browser supplier, we want people to switch to the latest version of IE...", "Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the
lifespan of the product.", followed by a large number of comments from irate webdevs who missed the point.
blog microsoft ie ie6 dean-hachamovitch technical 2009 Aug 11, 9:11Invite your friends for a fancy dress party with wine, dinner and board games of course, at IKEA. "...Jason downplayed our real intent, but let the very nice man know that we were here to play board
games, and that we had chosen IKEA for the location because it was so much nicer that any of our own actual homes..."
humor video prank ikea party parody 2009 Aug 11, 9:03Train tracks run through this open air market. "Eight times daily, a train runs through without care for stopping, sending vendors and visitors to action stations before business as usual
resumes."
photo video thailand train 2009 Aug 11, 6:22Good luck with that. "Forget WAV, MP3 and M4A – major labels have something new in mind, and it's called CMX. Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI are reportedly preparing a new digital album format that
will include songs, lyrics, videos, liner notes and artwork."
music cmx mp3 audio apple itunes 2009 Aug 6, 3:01Tutorial on using the google maps api on android
android tutorial google java map maps programming mobile technical 2009 Aug 5, 2:18"Mythbuster Adam Savage attended this year's Con ... he roamed the convention floor in his own costume and egged his Twitter followers to sniff him out." He dressed as The Joker from the opening
scene of The Dark Knight.
comic-con humor adam-savage myth-busters tv 2009 Aug 5, 7:57"Ten times smaller than barcodes, Bokodes’ low-cost optical design can be read from as far as 4 meters away, much farther than barcodes, by taking an out-of-focus photo with any off-the-shelf
camera." Love for stuff like this to catch on, however compared to QR codes, these are much more difficult to produce than barcodes in that you can't just print them out and they require changes to
the photography technique (must be out of focus) rather than just analyzing any photograph of a barcode. They seem to be solving slightly different problems.
qrcode qr barcode camera information design bokode augmented-reality technical 2009 Aug 5, 7:22Weird Al relates the awesome exploits of Charles Nelson Reilly in the style of the White Stripes. Notice the head of Chuck Norris mounted on CNR's trophy wall at 0:55s.
humor video weird-al charles-nelson-reilly music music-video 2009 Aug 4, 7:19"Witnesses said that Sgt. Crowley, failing to recognize Gates on their flight to Logan Airport, arrested the tenured professor in midair, once again at the baggage claim, and twice during their
shared cab ride back to Cambridge"
humor onion politics 2009 Aug 3, 9:37"If you have T-Mobile USA, you can program the time your phone rings before it rolls to voice mail, but it isn't at all intuitive."
tmobile cellphone phone voicemail howto 2009 Aug 3, 8:30"The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day." I enjoy the graph animation when switching between different groups.
via:swannman graph visualization information graphic nytimes infographics demographics statistics 2009 Jul 31, 5:57"Is it worth the sensationalism and scaremongering? The endlessly inaccurate and dangerous science reporting? The pointless and news-free lifestyle articles? Do newspapers that prioritise stories
based on celebrities and spectacle rather than importance to the world deserve to exist?"
via:sambrook internet news journalism media 2009 Jul 29, 11:00"Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it."
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