2009 Nov 6, 2:34Tetris player AI implemented in JavaScript.
browser web javascript tetris ai via:ethan_t_hein 2009 Nov 5, 2:07Two guys sponsored by MicroBilt to travel around the country and make totally awesome commercials for local companies. Includes such gems as Salt Lake Community Barbering & Cosmetology School:
"Your hairdo is only limited by your immagination. And how far along we are in the semester.", as well as Cullman Liquidation: "They're used. Some of them have stains. We cover that up."
via:boingboing video advertising commercial tv monthly 2009 Nov 3, 5:02The sample ballot for Minneapolis elections is awesome (see second to last entry)
humor politics image 2009 Oct 30, 10:41All the stuff Nintendo forces developers to take out of the Nintendo Maniac Mansion port. I had read this before and didn't connect after watching Douglas Crockford's JavaScript talk that this was
the same guy.
douglas-crockford game videogame nintendo censorship pc history geek 2009 Oct 29, 10:43"Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair (ARMAR) explores the use of augmented reality to aid in the execution of procedural tasks in the maintenance and repair domain." Giant goggles hooked up
to a G1 give 3D overlays over the mechanics view to point them to and help with the current task.
video augmented-reality 3d research 2009 Oct 28, 11:02"This session will expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being
more reliable, readable and maintainable." Zeke recommended listening to his talks.
google video technical douglas-crockford javascript programming presentation jslint web browser 2009 Oct 25, 5:50Every level has its own twist. In one, P switches stop time as in enemies freeze as well as the level clock, which starts at 60 seconds. The enemies are taken from previous Mario games, Donkey Kong
Country, Chrono Trigger, and others. Entertaining!
game mario download hack rom emulate nes nintendo japanese 2009 Oct 22, 12:33"When asked for the most valuable topic in Demand’s arsenal, he replies instantly: “‘Where can I donate a car in Dallas?’"
via:kris.kowal wired internet video howto automation business media marketing economics advertising 2009 Oct 20, 8:41David Weinberger on Larry Lessig's Transparency essay with links to others' responses as well.
lawrence-lessig government politics transparent david-weinberger 2009 Oct 20, 8:24Against Transparency - The perils of openness in government. - Lawrence Lessig - October 9, 2009
lawrence-lessig transparent government essay privacy politics 2009 Oct 18, 2:23TED video of Stewart Brand: "The book tackles three of today’s most profound transformations — climate change, urbanization and biotechnology — in a way that’s part practical guide to damage control,
part prescriptive inspiration for a more efficient society, part bold anthem of design-thinking. And if Brand’s track record is any sign at all, Whole Earth Discipline may well become one of the
(counter)cultural classics of our generation."
stewart-brand climate-change biology biotech urban ted video ecology 2009 Oct 18, 5:22"Q: The caulk around my bathtub is peeling away in places, and it looks pretty ugly. How do I remove it and recaulk?"
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QFC, the grocery store closest to me, has those irritating shoppers cards. They try to motivate me to use it with
discounts, but that just makes me want to use a card, I don't care whose card and
I don't care if the data is accurate. They should let me have my data or make it useful to me so that I actually care.
I can imagine several useful tools based on this: automatic grocery lists, recipes using the food you purchased, cheaper alternatives to your purchases, other things you might like based on what
you purchased, or integration with dieting websites or software. At any rate, right now all I care about is getting the discount from using a card, but if they made the data available to me then
the grocery store could align our interests and I'd want to ensure the data's accuracy.
idea boring data grocery store 2009 Oct 8, 11:29The title sounds like its a line out of a text adventure. Actually its Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine getting beaten by a parrot.
video humor parrot stephen-fry via:dad ecology bbc 2009 Oct 6, 3:24The map/reduce tutorial for Hadoop the Apache open source project. "Hadoop Map/Reduce is a software framework for easily writing applications which process vast amounts of data (multi-terabyte
data-sets) in-parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner."
hadoop mapreduce java software programming opensource database distributed google yahoo apache technical todo 2009 Oct 5, 9:51"What if the logos we’re used to seeing in Helvetica were redone in Arial? Would you even notice if the next time you saw the American Airlines logo it was redone in Arial?" Quiz of 20 logos
presented in their original Helvetica along side Arial and you must determine which is which. I got them correct but only due to the Arial and Helvetica overlay poster from last week.
typography helvetica arial blog quiz logo font 2009 Oct 5, 8:44Brief history of the Luddites. "Are we all Luddites now? ... If you are reading this essay on your laptop or iPhone, chances are that you aren't an unemployed weaver staring starvation in the face."
Also: "The Luddites didn't oppose technology; they opposed the sudden collapse of their industry, which they blamed in part on new weaving machines." So the TV and newspaper associations and Rupert
Murdoch are Luddites.
history technology luddite 2009 Sep 30, 4:07The hashing part makes sense, but not the 'why no URL query' bit: "But because victim=12345 has already been visited they satisfy condition 2 and they get the 404 page fooling them into thinking the
site has already been taken down. So query strings don't really work." You could implement the same thing in the path and even were that not the case there's no telling that removing the query would
get you the same page. What's described here is a general method to circumvent the AP filter not an explaination as to why it avoids the query portion of the URL.
phishing technical web browser http url hash 2009 Sep 28, 7:57"This is a timelapse from 7am until 9pm of Typhoon Nangka hitting Hong Kong."
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