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links for 2008-09-12

Posted on September 12, 2008 | 3 comments

Flickr Photo Download: CMS ON/OFF master switch at CERN LHC

Actual "in case of black hole, break glass" button at the Large Hadron Collider.

(tags: funny science)
visualvm: Home

Best free Java memory/cpu profiler I've ever used

(tags: java debugging profiling programming)
Nine Inch Fails

Head like a hole, black as your HIT CTRL-ALT-DEL TO CONTINUE

(tags: music funny)
Credit Card Shaving: Scammers Go Low-Tech With Trick

Given a valid credit card number, all the thief has to do is shave plastic numbers from gift cards or expired credit cards and then glue them to a bogus card. They gouge the magnetic strip, forcing the store clerks to manually enter the account number.

(tags: security credit money fraud)
Play With Spider – Flash 3D – OneMotion.com

Aww, so cute. You'll want to adopt him.

(tags: spider physics 3D graphics toys)
Terms Of Disservice: The 5 most laughable terms of service on the Net

Excellent summary of heinous nuggets buried in the End User License Agreements for some popular web-based services.

(tags: web privacy legal)

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Inclement weather

Posted on September 11, 2008 | 1 comment

What CNN should have looked like today:

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links for 2008-09-10

Posted on September 10, 2008 | 6 comments

YouTube – ABC's Terry Moran Flub About Obama's Parents on Nightline

Um… Somebody call the fact checker.

(tags: video funny)
kuler color themes

Nice collection of color themes. The highest-rated themes have good combinations of colors well-suited for web / UI design.

(tags: web design color)
xkcd » Blog Archive » The Goddamn Airplane on the Goddamn Treadmill

Entertaining and informative explanation of the "airplane on the treadmill" problem

(tags: science puzzles)
TC50: Swype, Truly Gesture-based Data Entry

A unique new data entry technique for touch-sensitive mobile devices.

(tags: mobile tech)
Fitbit – Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep

"Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps & miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions." Syncs all this information with your account on their web site.

(tags: fitness tech)
TC50: Sekai Camera for Social Tagging on the iPhone

Cool app that augments whatever the iPhone camera is looking at with tags describing your surroundings.

(tags: iphone apps)
Play Chronotron, a free online game on Kongregate

A puzzle game where you have to use time travel to advance through puzzles of increasing difficulty. I can see this become a heinous mind-bender.

(tags: flash games)
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

Advanced technology that can detect if the LHC has wiped us out.

(tags: science physics)
The 2008 political conventions of the United States – The Big Picture – Boston.com

Incredible photos from both parties' extravaganzas. The freak show is in full swing now!!

(tags: politics photography)
Pharyngula: What time is it?

Best. Watch. Ever.

(tags: funny science)

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How’s this for “elitist”?

Posted on September 10, 2008 | Leave a comment

From today’s Quotation of the Day list mailing:

“Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska I was mayor of my hometown…. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”

– Sarah Palin, U.S. Republican Vice-presidential nominee, mocking Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s experience as a community organizer.

In response to Palin’s comment, some person unknown quipped “Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.” The slogan quickly appeared on t-shirts offered for sale on-line.

*Sigh*. Is it too late to nominate someone else? I’m sure he wouldn’t charge rape victims for their own rape kits.

links for 2008-09-09

Posted on September 9, 2008 | Leave a comment

Orthogonal MRI Viewer

Javascript widget that lets you manually animate individual MRI frames

(tags: medical animation javascript web graphics)
Guilloches | The Ministry of Type

The math behind those fancy-schmancy line patterns often found on banknotes.

(tags: math typography graphics)
StockMood – Home

"StockMood.com uses advanced artificial intelligence to analyze news stories, classify their sentiment, and then measure their potential impact on a stock's price direction." Site is in private beta.

(tags: web investment ai)
Google News Archive Search

"Google announced today that it is expanding the historical newspaper articles that are searchable online. In partnership with newspaper publishers, it is scanning their print archives and making it available on Google's News Archive Search."

(tags: web news search)

links for 2008-09-06

Posted on September 6, 2008 | 3 comments

English spelling is DUM

Very cool video of a 102-year-old demonstrating the futility of English spelling.

(tags: language video)

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links for 2008-09-04

Posted on September 4, 2008 | 2 comments

The Tshirt and Tee Search Engine – PleaseDressMe

A recently launched search engine that indexes t-shirts from multiple sources.

(tags: web tshirts)
jwz – about:internets

Awesome easter egg in Google's new Chrome browser

(tags: google easteregg software web)
Inside India’s CAPTCHA solving economy | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

Spammers can pay $2 and receive a thousand solved CAPTCHAs from one of these Indian companies. Will we ever be able to defeat spammers???

(tags: spam web tech)
MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s

In 1985, when he was 14 and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it.

(tags: tech people web hacking)
thesixtyone – massively multiplayer music discovery

Interesting way to discover new music

(tags: music web)

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links for 2008-09-03

Posted on September 3, 2008 | 6 comments

Praying for rain?

Stuard Shepard of Focus on the Family encouraged people to pray for rain to ruin Obama's speech at the DNC. Guess he sort of got his wish with Gustav. Oops.

(tags: politics religion moron)
IE 8 consumes more RAM than Windows XP

Internet Explorer has gotten fatter than an entire operating system. *Sigh*.

(tags: windows browser software)