Do you want some Ogg in your or ? (5)
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Codecs. Codecs. Codecs. Having <video> and <audio> tags in HTML 5 is great and all, but what formats can be played? If you want something that everyone could play (everyone == not just people who pay the MPEG licenses) what do you have left? Ogg? Some argue about the quality of Ogg, and others play the fear card (holy law suit batman). Robert O'Callahan of Mozilla puts it out there in his post on why ...
Cool Tool: Free topo maps (28)
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Originally posted in Cool Tools Topo maps have long been friends of all explorers and wanderers. Contours of the land make or break your journey, but this critical relief is not captured by the satellite images or street maps usually found on Google Earth. Togographical maps however do show relief. Topo maps typically display the gradient of the land as concentric contour lines which can be easily followed. Topo maps also label structures, buildings, railways, ...
Wooden geared contraption and its proud maker -- best gadget video you will watch this month, in all likelihood (10)
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This elderly gentleman fabricated the absolutely most amazing wooden automaton uselessly wonderful machine, and this eight minute video introduces us to its many, many amazing features. It is made entirely from wood, without any nails or screws. Link (Thanks, Amazing Wooden Machine Video with No Metals!)
Hypothetical Labs: Erlang & Single Assignment: Youre Doing It Wrong (4)
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Patrick Logan’s latest missive highlighting the complaints some people have about Erlang’s single-assignment semantics reminds me of something I’ve been wanting to say for a while: If you are chronically bumping into the limitations of single-assignment then you’re doing it wrong. Off the top of my head, here are the two reasons I can think of why people don’t like single-assignment semantics (SAS for short): Looping over a collection of values - If you’re running ...
Socklabs Blog: More on deploying CouchDB for I Play WoW (2)
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So its been well over 48 hours with CouchDB as a major data source for the I Play WoW Facebook application. It has been a lot of fun moving over to it and rethinking the way that some things are being done. This is sort of a quick overview of why I wanted to move over and what I got and lost doing so. CouchDB represents where data storage systems are going and I want ...
Grilled Polenta With Exotic Mushroom Rub (1)
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Polenta is one of my favorite comfort foods. Nothing beats a heaping bowl of this peasant food made rich with cream, parmesan or gorgonzola (to name a few!). But when in its cooled and solid form, it’s perfect for grilling. Making polenta can be a long, arduous, and painful process. If you’re not careful it will bubble and burst in molten eruptions, so if you want to keep it quick and simple - and your ...
Dave Cridland: XMPP for web services (3)
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Rob Kaye has written up what looks like a really interesting talk, but the comments sometimes highlight how badly understood XMPP is, and what the advantages are. So a few, erm, meta-comments, and I apologise for really just spelling out what’s already been said. First off, federation is key, here. It’s entirely possible to use XMPP as a purely internal message switch, but it’s probably not all that useful - at least, not unless you’re ...
Eric Merritt: Forth: The Other White Meat (1)
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Lisp has been constantly touted as a language that any self respecting coder must learn. The proponent's of Lisp have every right to make the claims that they do. From the prospect of stretching your mind Lisp actually is as good as they say it is. Lisp is a principle member of a small, elite group of languages, the use of which really causes a fundamental change in the way people think about programming and ...
Aza’s Thoughts » Sharing Streamable Functionality (6)
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Question: How do people share on the net?Answer: They use services like Del.icio.us, Facebook, and Twitter. They IM, Email, and RSS. They advertise, search engine optimize, and chain letter. But it all comes down to communicating URLs.Now, that might seem to be a trivial conclusion. And it is—the URL is the unit of location for the Web. But as we began to think about how to share new functionality for the browser (read Ubiquity commands, ...
Galcon Multi-player on the iPhone? (1)
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So .. here’s a game design question for you to ponder. Everyone, of course, says it would be awesome. But why? Here are the pros I see: You could play against your friends who are in the same room as you! Yay for LAN parties! You could get ranked against many other Galcon players! Here are the cons I see: You can’t chat, so you might as well be playing against bots. (Playing against complete ...
Chinese Tian-Ling worker shoes remade as fashion plimsolls (13)
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Ospop has taken the classic Chinese Tian-Lang worker-sneaker, a handsome, highly evolved little plimsoll, and reworked it, adding insoles, designer colors, eyelets, improved laces -- and sweat-free labor practices -- to produce a high-fashion export version. I bought a pair last week in dark green and I've been wearing them around, and I've found them surprisingly comfy and exceptionally handsome. The tennies arrive wrapped in paper designed by noted calligrapher Zhao Zhi Gang. The company ...
Multitool keys (13)
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If you carry a lot of keys and don't like that jingle-jangle in your pocket or on your 'biner, this may be the solution. Instructables user pyro22 figured out how to embed keys in a mini multitool. Leave the tools you want, replace the others with keys! And, of course, you still have your pliers. I particularly like that one multitool is used to disassemble another in the pictures. Read more | Permalink | Comments ...
Galcon + iPhone = AWESOME (1)
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Hey, I’ve just finished porting Galcon to the iPhone and it’s now in the App Store! You can read about it here! I don’t *really* have anything super pythonic to say about the porting experience, other than .. I probably wouldn’t have bothered to do it if I hadn’t been hanging out at pycon and having people show me their iPhones and telling me how I should totally port Galcon to it. So thanks to ...
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aconbere said:
And make sure you check out the link to the video, really impressive :)
Mobile Firefox and Designing Without Modal Overlays (16)
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In the concept video I recently did for laying out the interface paradigms for Firefox Mobile, I listed five guiding principals. Touch it with your finger Large targets are good Visual Momentum and Physics are compelling Typing is difficult Content is king It’s these principals that inform the design of new features long after the original design as been coded, released, and iterated on. In discussions with the perspicacious Mike Beltzner, another design principal emerged. ...
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Aleksas said:
1. Touch it with your finger
2. Large targets are good
3. Visual Momentum and Physics are compelling
4. Typing is difficult
5. Content is king
Beautiful and non-wasteful packaging from Japan (20)
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No country creates more beautiful product packages than Japan, in my opinion. Here, PingMag takes a look at some innovate packages from Japan. Tofu packed into balloons, by Kamakura-komachi?! Surprisingly a great example for reduced packaging: Its elastic material is extensively stretched, and when pierced with a toothpick, the balloon bursts and only a tiny bit remains. How amazing! REDUCE with more flexibility! The same packaging concept is also applied to a pudding. Japanese Design ...
Drunk Raisin Muffins (1)
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When I put raisins in my favorite oatmeal muffins last time, I found them rather dry. Dry like a town with no cheer. The solution? Get your raisins drunk and send them stumbling into the batter. Rather like making mulled wine -- with the spotlight on the raisins, not the half-drunk cabernet that spent several days on the counter -- I put 1.5 cups of red wine in a little saucepan with 1 cup raisins, ...
