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View ArticleEditorial for iPad
Editorial for iPad looks very interesting: At its core, it's a Markdown editor for iPad, but you can also think of it as a Pythonista spinoff, or a workflow automation tool, not unlike Automator. I'd...
View ArticleOAuth of Fealty
Faced with an email from Facebook inviting him to complete a survey about the Facebook Platform Ian Bogost decided to be frank: The first survey question asked "Why would you or would you not recommend...
View ArticleWildHelp App
The WildHelp App is a really nice idea: Every day, people encounter wild animals in need of help. Animals are found sick, injured, displaced, trapped, entangled, and in serious trouble, but, the task...
View Articleexplainshell.com
explainshell.com lets you view all the documentation for Unix/Linux command line arguments in one go, without needing to go near a manpage. Nifty. Try ssh(1) -i keyfile -f -N -L 1234:www.google.com:80...
View ArticleDie, Monster, Die!
I'm guessing that Charlie Stross has just lost a day's work to Microsoft Word: I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft...
View ArticleComing to you via Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9)...
This history of the browser user-agent string evokes times past, when life on the World Wide Web was simpler, yet user-agent strings got more and more complicated. The pity of it is that my favourite...
View Article15 Sorting Algorithms
15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes. Be sure to turn the sound up – it's half the fun of watching how each algorithm works. [Via kottke.org]
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Gallery Analytics
Jonas Lund's Gallery Analytics brings WiFi-based tracking to the cultural sector: Lund's Gallery Analytics project is a site-specific installation for exhibitions that's able to generate data about...
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Data does not include domestic crying…
Quantified Breakup applies a little data analysis to the aftermath of the end of a relationship. Like these infographics about the Public Display of Emotions: Every day we function within parameters....
View ArticleScratching someone else's itch
I'm always interested to read about the reasoning behind the decisions software developers make: It took more than a year and three distinct attempts to get Google Docs in Basecamp … and still, the...
View ArticleQFT
From the bash.org Quote Database: <Aoi-chan> everyone's first vi session. ^C^C^X^X^X^XquitqQ!qdammit[esc]qwertyuiopasdfghjkl;:xwhat [Via Ivan Fyodorovich, commenting at MetaFilter]
View ArticleKitestring
It's sad to think that something like Kitestring is necessary, but if such a thing is needed then it might as well be as straightforward as this: Taking a walk? Walking solo at night can be unsafe. But...
View Article'… the most lunatic thing I've seen on a piece of silicon since I found out...
I bookmarked Mike Hoye's Citation Needed weeks ago but never got round to posting a link here. Unfortunately I've forgotten where I came across the link to this piece in the first place, but I can't...
View ArticleTickle
Tickle is another spoof app from the man who brought the world Jotly: Tickle is a new app that will help you get out of awkward situations. Using your phone's accelerometer, Tickle will generate a...
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After Dark in CSS
After Dark in CSS is an exercise in nostalgia for those of us of a certain age: [Via The Tao of Mac]
View ArticleNot Excel
Spreadsheets, the app: F.A.Q. Spreadsheets \'spred-,-shets\ , verb,:= Using technology to track sexual performance? The act of sexual intercourse? "Spreadsheets and golf are the two things you can...
View ArticleIntroducing Duplo
This description of how Duplo, Flipboard's new page layout engine, works is fascinating. It's ludicrous to think of just how much work your computer1 can get done in a few fractions of a second just in...
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Mirror, Mirror…
Michael Teeuw has made himself a Magic Mirror: […] I started to figure out what was needed: a mirror, a thin monitor, a Raspberry Pi, some wood and paint, and lots of spare time. The Mirror. Now, a...
View ArticleJennifer in paradise
Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image… "It was a good image to do demos with," Knoll recalls. "It was pleasing to look at and there were a whole bunch of things you could do...
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