Dollar Daze (1)
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Photo: Hannah WhitakerJennifer 8. Lee tries to sniff out the last of the city's $1 foods and doesn't find a heck of a lot beyond the skewers, slices, and dumplings that Rob and Robin pointed at in Cheap Eats, though she does acknowledge our pre–Fung Wah ritual, Jumbo Hot Dog. Come on people, we know there's more — the $1 vegetarian samosas at Lahore Deli, for instance, or the "tamale lady" at 116th and Third ...
Artisanal Hot Chocolate at Van Leeuwen Truck (1)
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Ben Van LeeuwenIn preparation for winter's frozen-treat lull, baby-face entrepreneur Ben Van Leeuwen has transformed Michel Cluizel chocolate — also used in the sweet-sweet hot fudge seen on his artisanal ice-cream truck into not-too-sweet hot chocolate made with organic milk. Visit the truck and try a cup with a scoop of espresso or Tahitian vanilla ice cream.
Le Clochard Home Cardboard Box Print Duvet (1)
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Check it out- this duvet is printed to look like cardboard boxes, which might provoke mixed feelings but the intention seems entirely good. The Home Duvet lets you sleep under a cardboard box so a homeless person doesn't have to! This high quality duvet cover features a photographic print of a cardboard box. This produces an extremely sharp image that stays flexible because the ink is printed directly in the cotton. The image will stay ...
Memo Coolers (2)
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Designed: Senz aerodynamic umbrellas (22)
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The Senz aerodynamic umbrella turns itself to the best position in the wind and won a red dot award for its novel design. Even the shaft was rethought and redesigned (it’s oval, not cylindrical or square). I love reinventions of every day objects that are long taken for granted. And not that an umbrella matters in a hurricane, but…
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Moah said:
another improvement in design of an everyday object. :) watch the video it is pretty impressive.this guy is crazy sitting in front of that hurricane machine.
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Chris said:
Awesome, like having a stealth bomber flying right above your head! These would sell like hotcakes in Japanese during typhoon season, where you get strong winds and rain together. Litter is not nearly as common in Tokyo as it is in other big cities, but the line of broken umbrellas lining the road during typhoon season demonstrates the potential for this product.
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Jon said:
Amazing. Will be the first umbrella I have ever purchased. Also, looks like a great gift for that person that has everything and appreciates great design.
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cnu said:
Who would want to use an umbrella at 133kmph?
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pedstrom said:
wind-tunnel testing an umbrella. cool.
Allstate May Reward Older Gamers with Discounts (3)
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Allstate is considering offering clients who are age 50 and older a discount on car insurance if they play videogames. The company is running a trial program called InSight, which offers specialized computer games to 100,000 customers in Pennsylvania aged 50 to 75. According to a report from CNN, the program features a variety of games designed to reverse age-related cognitive decline and improve visual alertness. In addition to driving games, there are also shell ...
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A paste bin is a very handy tool when you’re working as part of a team, especially if there’s any remote work involved. Basically, they’re web-based clipboards where you can paste in snippets of text—JavaScript, CSS, markup or whatever—and then share the URL in an email or a chat message (a lot cleaner than pasting code straight into an email or chat window). Often you can specify a life span for the snippet so, for ...
Report and Case Study on CSRF (4)
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Bill Zeller and Ed Felten have published a report on Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks on popular Web sites: We found four major vulnerabilities on four different sites. These vulnerabilities include what we believe is the first CSRF vulnerability that allows the transfer of funds from a financial institution. We contacted all the sites involved and gave them ample time to correct these issues. Three of these sites have fixed the vulnerabilities listed below, one has ...
HTML 5: Ian Hickson showing you features in browsers today! (28)
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Ian Hickson gave a great presentation at Google where he just sat down, opened up Emacs, and started to build demos on the fly that use HTML 5 features. His goal was to use browsers available today (albeit nightlies and such for some of them) to show progress.... so no future tense! You can watch the presentation below, but to see the code better I recommend going to the high quality version. Ian put the ...
Trader Joe’s Second Coming in Cobble Hill (1)
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Trader Joe's opens its third* New York City location in Brooklyn on Friday. The store, on Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, is getting plenty of ink from the New York press, but their boosterism brings to mind the coverage of a different chain's arrival elsewhere in America. To wit: "They have a great selection, good prices, and they have great store-brand merchandise like cereal and coffee." B'klyn Licking Its Chops Over Trader Joe's, New York ...
Google Chrome Will Support Add-Ons, User Scripts [Google Chrome] (29)
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InformationWeek confirms that Google Chrome will have add-ons, a move that could have an enormous impact on Chrome's viability among the power users and early adopters in the Firefox camp. In addition to regular extensions, Chrome will also support scripts à la Greasemonkey: "There's two different kinds of add-ons," [Google engineer Ojan] Vafai said. "The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of ...
Simon Willison, @Media Ajax (5)
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Simon Willison is talking about Ajax vulnerabilities at @media Ajax. The main thing to worry about is users injecting Javascript - cross-site scripting (XSS). Other vulerabilities people used to talk about - trusting user input and checking for SQL injection attacks - are boring/easy. If I have an XSS hole, I can steal your users' cookies and log in as them, show a fake phishing page, embed malware, etc. And any service your site provides, ...
Rumor: Google to Buy Valve (15)
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According to a number of rumors this morning, Google is about to acquire the well-known game development company Valve. Valve is best known for its Half-Life games and Steam, a content distribution platform which it uses to sell and distribute PC games from various developers with the help of a desktop client. Currently, Steam distributes close to 440 games and has over 15 million active users. We assume that Google is mostly interested in the ...
Obama negotiations with Iraq. (1)
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Amir Taheri had an article in the NY Post on Monday:WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence....Today, Taheri writes:[Obama's attempted rebuttal] confirms precisely what I suggested in my article: Obama preferred to have no agreement on US troop withdrawals until a new administration took office in ...
Steve Jobs Does Not Have a License Plate From the Future [Apple] (9)
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It's well known that Steve's Merc does not have a license plate, but a barcode. Many thought that this sticker was some sort of replacement, an agreement with the state of California to display his information. But some car saavy folks tell us that Jobs' bar code is just be the VIN number to his car and, according to the state of California, no one is exempt from having a license plate. The fine for ...
Learning Processing (5)
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It’s no secret, I love me some Shiffman. He is partially responsible for getting me interested in forces and particles which I have continued to explore to this day. He has a fine collection of source code examples on his site and his was the first vector library I ever used. So it is with grand enthusiasm that I announce the arrival of Shiffman’s Learning Processing, a fine addition to the growing number of books ...
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