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O'Reilly Radar The iPhone, in addition to revolutionizing how people thought about mobile phone user interfaces, also was one of the first devices to offer a suite of sensors measuring everything from the visual environment to position to acceleration, all in a package that could fit in your shirt pocket.On December 3rd, O'Reilly will be (Read More)

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O'Reilly Radar Memento: Time Travel for the Web -- clever versioning hack that uses HTTP's content negotiation to negotiate about the date!Ordnance Survey Maps to Go Online -- The prime minister said that by April he hoped a consultation would be completed on the free provision of Ordnance Survey maps down to a scale of 1:10,000, (not the (Read More)

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ImJustCreative is Graham Smith Creative Agency. Projects, Illustrators and Moving Image Designers | YCNGrackle68k - Twitter Application for Classic MacintoshesBLOGVON / Blog of London based artist VonCreate a font from your own handwriting - fontcapture.comCreative Review - Freehand AnonymousThe best in visual communication.Helvetic CentreSt Transmission (Read More)

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Gautam Ghosh - Management Consultant Estensioni google wave. Gadgets google wave - Antonico P2 WordPress Theme, like Twitter in a box Weblog Tools Collection . (Read More)

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Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: From a stimulating essay by Catherine Marie Simpson on the decline on car culture:Catherine Marie Simpson:“Car sharing shifts the dominant conception of a car from being a ‘commodity’, which people purchase and subsequently identify with, to a ‘service’ or network of vehicles that are collectively used. It does this through (Read More)

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Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: Excerpts from a thoughtpiece by Clay Shirky:“Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Trust this because you trust me.” This model of authority differs from personal or i (Read More)

7 days ago

Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: Deconstructing the “Fry Event Horizon”“It turns out that, following this simple analysis, the date that everyone in the world becomes a @stephenfry follower is not that far away: March 8 2010 to be precise. Yes, March 8 2010 is is when the “Fry Event Horizon” will occur, and nothing will be the same again.”"infochimps — Fi (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: The chumby One is finally released. You can buy it now for a $99 “chumby insider” pre-order price; once we start shipping, the price will go up to $119.While I’ve been working on several new hardware platforms for chumby, this is the first of the crop to hit the market. This one made it out before the Christmas season becau (Read More)

4 days ago

O'Reilly Radar Chumby One (Bunnie Huang) -- new Chumby product released. In addition to being about half the price of the original chumby, the new device added some features: it has an FM radio, and it has support for a rechargeable lithium ion battery (although it’s not included with the device, you have to buy one and install it yourse (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: Sophia Roosth, a doctoral student at MIT, presented a talk at The Kennedy School of Government STS seminar series on 9 Nov 2009 called “Crafting the Biological: Open-Sourcing Life Science, from Synthetic Biology to Garage Biotech.”It’s a fantastic talk.  Sophia has been engaged in non-institutional biology at least since 20 (Read More)

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Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: Scientific American Oct 1953 - Evolution in BacteriaDIYbio aims to be “the institution for the amateur,” developing and providing access to all of the resources a professional might have and an amateur might want, such as equipment, protocols, access to literature, etc. And we are collectively doing so in a distributed fas (Read More)

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Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: A bunch of interesting projects ideas were discussed at the DIYbio meetup during the iGEM Jamboree 2 weeks ago – here are my notes:Yashas Shetty wants to organize an international DIY microscope building session and subsequent videoconference for early December based on his DIY Microscope guide.  See http://hackteria.org/wi (Read More)

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Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: We are putting together a workshop called FutureLabCamp in Boston in early 2010.  The focus is building the future of science laboratories with open source hardware and software, low-cost and DIY instruments, cloud computing, and the internet of things. We’re bringing together hardware hackers, HCI wizards, standards builde (Read More)

8 hours ago

Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: Here's a detailed story of finding and fixing a memory leak in a PythonC extension, complete with testing mysteries.A user of coverage.pyreportedthat running it consumed all his memory. No one else had mentioned anything likethis, but it's a beta version, and those don't get nearly the attention asregular releases.He helpfu (Read More)

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Submitted by Jgmize from Google Reader: Time to unravel some tufts of the yak hair lying around from this weekend.I wanted to work on making my GTD application (using CouchDB) a little more friendly. I started out by learning GreaseMonkey so I could modify Trac pages to include a link converting the ticket into a thing in my application.The basics of that were e (Read More)

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