Great arts videos (8)
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A list of fifty great arts video available on YouTube, including Joy Division playing on Grenada Television in 1978, Jack Kerouac reads On the Road in 1959, and Jackson Pollock making one of his drip paintings in 1951. (link)
Rails Security Auditing (2)
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I’ve recently been doing a bit of Rails auditing, and I thought that I’d just run through the main things I check; all fairly generic attacks that aren’t specific to particular Rails websites. SQL injection Actually, I haven’t seem much of this, probably because it’s one of the more well known attacks and people generally seem to be aware of it. ActiveRecord will automatically escape any tainted data, but only if you use the correct ...
Are We Walking A Fine Line With All This Openness? (13)
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If there is one thing that can be said for the Web 2.0 movement and social media it is that its proponents are strong believers in openness and transparency. They are such strong believers that they have no problems leaving things like their cell phone numbers on their blogs, their addresses on their blog about pages or their complete traveling itinerary viewable by all on sites like Dopplr. Back in September of 2007 I wrote ...
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shanusmagnus said:
A thoughtful analysis on privacy paranoia surrounding all the social network stuff - should we really be sharing so much, so indiscriminately?"
Are We Walking A Fine Line With All This Openness? (8)
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If there is one thing that can be said for the Web 2.0 movement and social media it is that its proponents are strong believers in openness and transparency. They are such strong believers that they have no problems leaving things like their cell phone numbers on their blogs, their addresses on their blog about pages or their complete traveling itinerary viewable by all on sites like Dopplr. Back in September of 2007 I wrote ...
model_stubbing for the common man (or woman) (3)
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UPDATE: Fixed a few errors that Rick pointed out. Oops! So, I wrote a while ago about model_stubbing and why it was my favorite way to replace fixtures. A few people wrote me asking questions about model_stubbing, so I figured I’d write up a tutorial (notwithstanding the fact that I said “I’m writing a tutorial on model_stubbing” in the last post…). Philosophy The model_stubbing plugin lets you do just that: stub models. You can setup ...
Seven Ways to Get Your Mom on Twitter (37)
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You can choose two sides when it comes to getting people on Twitter: You drink the noob hatorade: You claim that you’ve used Twitter since the dawn of 2006 and you don’t necessarily want Twitter to become the next MySpace. or You invite your mom to Twitter: You think Twitter is the best thing since AOL and want to know the exact doings of everyone you care about, at all times (in 140 characters or ...
Macworld | Review: Basic to-do apps for iPhone and iPod touch (10)
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There are a slew of basic to-do/task/checklist apps in the App Store already, and Dan Frakes looked at all of them. If you’re interested in this sort of app, this is the best comparison written yet. ★
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adam said:
"If you’re interested in this sort of app, this is the best comparison written yet."
Kodak Zi6 Pocket Video Camera (25)
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Kodak’s upcoming Zi6 pocket video camera looks like a possible Flip killer. Similar size and shape, but a bit more expensive at $180. But the Zi6 shoots in HD at up to 60 frames per second, it accepts SD cards for storage, and, in a huge win for Mac users, records directly to H.264 format. (The Flip only shoots VGA at 30 fps, and uses a video codec that doesn’t work in iMovie.) The Zi6 ...
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gautamg said:
me want one.
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Eugene said:
Hey, I could spring for one of these.
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JL! said:
Holy crap, I cannot wait to try out this camera.
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Chi Guy said:
I am going to have to look into this when it comes out\
● Inappropriate movie soundtracks (35)
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YouTubers are adding innappropriate new soundtracks to movie scenes, thereby ruining them. I stumbled across the Richie suicide scene from The Royal Tenenbaums set to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird (instead of Needle in the Hay) and then found a bunch more: Terminator 2 The Matrix ruined Star Wars, under pressure 2001 This Monsters Inc. one is actually fantastic. Starship Troopers A Clockwork Orange Reservoir Dogs Contact Several of these originated on Something Awful.
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Jared said:
funny as hell
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Ian said:
Please take a look at these and let me know if they are worth my watching. OKTHXBYE
Writing SproutCore Apps with a Rails Backend (4)
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Lawrence Pit has written a great tutorial on building a SproutCore application and hooking it to a Rails backend. This is by far one of the most common requests for new SproutCore developers and I’m really glad Lawrence has taken the time to share his knowledge. Thanks Lawrence! Read Sproutcore + Rails PS. Lawrence mentions that SproutCore’s built-in REST API is not well developed and he is generally right. The current Server class in SproutCore ...
Merlin Mann reviews It's All Too Much, a book on decluttering (23)
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On Cool Tools, Merlin Mann reviews It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life With Less Stuff. It's All Too Much is a terrific book that inverts the typical approach to dealing with existential kipple. Rather than helping you find new places and novel ways to "organize" all your crap, author Peter Walsh encourages you to explore why you ever kept all that junk in the first place. Does it reflect ...
