Ugly Overload (1)
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SCIENCE BUZZ – Like Cute Overload, but with photos of ugly, slimy animals instead. I think this site has been around for awhile, but I just discovered it, and I think I personally (perversely?) prefer it to Cute Overload. My favorite category is definitely “pigs and kin.” The Best Links: Ugly Overload - Home Ugly Bug Faces! This Sumatran Rhino Face Is So Funny! Ugly Weird Giant Fish Washed Up On Shore View the Buzz ...
Baghdad at night (1)
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Greetings from Baghdad. Before I am became McClatchy’s Pentagon correspondent and honored member of the Nukes and Spooks trifecta, I was our Baghdad bureau chief. I was here at the height of the violence, when we woke up everyday to bombings, when we didn’t bat an eye at 70 bodies in the street, when a good week meant that none of our friends or sources had been killed. It was an exhausting experience; everyday felt ...
Opposites attract: VP Hagel, Lieberman? (1)
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Hagel and Lieberman, both estranged from their parties for their stances on Iraq, are attractive candidates for veep for precisely that reason.
Message Flooding (6)
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Disqus (21)
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One Disqus-enabled website was the recipient of an automated message flooding attack this morning. While malicious, it’s a bit different from what commercial spam is. This attack put some stress on the Disqus service and a number of people may have had issues with accessing Disqus this morning. The entire incident, until all was completely smooth, lasted under 30 minutes. This was an isolated case and we’re implementing ways to address this moving forward. Thanks, ...
Twitter StreamGraphs (7)
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I just posted a new application in my projects section called Twitter StreamGraphs. It is an interactive tool to let you create StreamGraphs from the latest tweets containing a given word or from a particular user. A few examples are shown below. The application shows a StreamGraph for the latest 200 tweets which contain the search word. The default search word is 'interesting' but a new one can be typed into the text box at ...
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That Kid from Omaha said:
Great visualizations coming out lately for Twitter data and activity, this one included.
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blogan said:
Make your own StreamGraph. This is cool!
One Square Inch House - The Hand Up Project (1)
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I thought my Nine Tiny Feet house project was small until I saw this. Now I guess when you’re client is physically small like Elizabeth Demaray’s hermit crab friends the requirements for affordable housing change a little. Are you asking yourself if this is serious? Good, keep reading… Elizabeth Demaray, project lead of The Hand Up Project is attempting to tackle the increasing housing shortage for land hermit crabs, no lie. You see due to ...
Fixing the World (14)
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I often see problems in the world and wonder why someone doesn't fix them. Then I realize that I am someone, and that makes me feel bad because it is all my fault. Obviously I can't fix every problem, but I decided to try and fix one in particular.The majority of voters say the ailing economy is the most important problem for the next U.S. president to solve. How does a voter who knows little ...
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blogan said:
I'm looking forward to seeing the results of this.
What&8217;s Your Kiwi Score? Device Trains You How to Save Gas : Gas 2.0 (21)
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The PLX Kiwi dashboard computer plugs into your car and provides real-time info on how your driving habits affect gas usage — and how to correct them for maximum fuel efficiency. There are lots of gas saver devices out there that claim to help you increase your car’s fuel economy. Most of them are of questionable effectiveness — to put it mildly — relying on such things as magnets, mini-tornadoes, and fuel tank pills. I’ve ...
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blogan said:
A gadget that would help me save gas? Sounds like fun, but with the amount I drive, probably wouldn't be worth the cost...
Motorcycle engine powered cars (3)
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Filed under: transportation hacksAutoblog recently posted about the LusoMotors LM23, a track car powered by a Honda CBR1000 that weighs less than 900 pounds. We knew there have been quite a few other home built cars that have foregone traditional engines for motorcycle power plants, so we asked Google for a few project suggestions. It turned up this excellent round up of motorcycle powered cars by The Kneeslider. The usual Caterham suspects show up, but ...
Digital Roam: Napkin tools: now downloadable! (9)
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Digital Roam (27)
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Ever since The Back of the Napkin appeared, people have been asking me for download-friendly versions of the key visual thinking tools I introduce. So due to popular request, here they are; high-resolution PDF files for: The Visual Thinking Toolkit. (A visual summary of all the lessons in the book.) The Visual Thinking Codex. (The master checklist for creating any problem-solving picture; a combination of the SQVID and the <6><6> Rule.) The SQVID. (The five ...
Really Bare Bones Board Arduino clone (7)
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Filed under: misc hacksModern Device's Really Bare Bones Board is an Arduino clone designed to have an incredibly small footprint. It's barely wider than the requisite AVR and is laid out so you can reduce the size even further. Don't need the power connector? Just snip it off. Don't need the voltage regulator? That can be removed just as easily. The kit is only $12 and all through-hole components. [youevolve] posted a build guide that ...
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blogan said:
More gadget goodness. :-)
What a Gas (12)
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Sound Bites from "rebooting america" (1)
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Yesterday, the 4th of July, I finished reading "rebooting america." Kind of appropriate I think. rebooting america is a compilation of essays edited by PdF'rs Allison Fine, Micah Sifry, Andrew Rasiej, and Josh Levy. It includes pieces by Esther Dyson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, Steven L. Clift, Jan Frel and Nicco Mele, Newt Gingrich, Jeff Jarvis, Howard Rheingold, Joe Trippi, David Weinberger, and about 35 others. You can buy the book in paperback or get ...
Top 10 TEDTalks (9)
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Filed under: newsThe Technology Entertainment Design Conference has been a great source for interesting presentations and in 2006 they started publishing their talks online. This week they published a list of the top 10 most popular talks. There are quite a few tech related ones and we've covered some of this work before: [Jeff Han]'s multitouch demos, [Johnny Lee]'s Wiimote hacking, [Blaise Aguera y Arcas] demoing a zoomable interface, and finally for a bit of ...
Hackit: Network Attached Storage? (8)
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Filed under: HackIt, dailyWith each passing day the rate we acquire digital media increases (we don't even bother unpacking our CDs when we move anymore). Large publishers have started moving away from DRM, which means we'll be buying even more digital media in the future. Acquiring all of this nonphysical property puts importance on not just making it easily accessible, but also protecting it from destruction. Slashdot asked for reader suggestions of what NAS to ...
DRJ and Levi Debate Obama and Wright (1)
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[UPDATE: You can follow the debate itself at this page.] I’m finally getting around to setting up the debate between DRJ and Levi on the issue of Barack Obama and the significance of Jeremiah Wright’s statements. For those of you who don’t obsessively follow the comments, here’s the deal. We have a relatively new liberal commenter named Levi and a long-time conservative commenter named DRJ. Levi tends to berate Republicans because, like many liberals, he ...
The Counterinsurgency Field Manual in Arabic, mostly (1)
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Go to the military affairs section of any major bookstore and you will find the Counterinsurgency Field Manual, edited by Gen. David Petraeus, the current commander in Iraq, and Lt. Col. John Nagl, somewhere on the shelf. As the military has shifted its approach toward counterinsurgency, the manual has become one of the most popular military publications. At Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, I learned that the Counterinsurgency Center has translated that manual into Arabic so that ...
The Internet Hammer and the everything Nail (33)
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There is an old saying that I try to always remind myself of "When You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail"Its always very easy, and even more tempting to try to take a utility that is readily available at minimal cost and use it as a technology that is the solution to everything. Has there been any of the world's ills that someone hasnt suggested can be cured by using the internet ?From ...
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blogan said:
The money quote: "When was the last time a non gamer even cared about how fast a processor was for desktops and whether or not there were new desktops coming out ? Any excitement we have at all for is reserved for the shrinking of laptops and new hand held phones or devices"
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Phil said:
Nice blog post by Mark Cuban, and yes, the net is just a utility, like electricity, which is why Australia needs to build it out from where it is now.
