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by tdonia 17y ago
I cannot recommend 'The Long Way' by Bernard Moitessier & 'The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst' highly enough. Both books cover how 2 contestants in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race could have won but did not, for rather inte
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by tdonia 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_rand
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by tdonia 17y ago
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxiDNdM2-bM part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bA1LdQknbk
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Paul Rand on creating a memorable brand(youtube.com)
3 points by tdonia 17y ago|3 comments
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by tdonia 17y ago
flying kites, riding bikes
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by tdonia 17y ago
anyone know how this compares to wuala's scheme?
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'Ardipithecus ramidus' find extends human story(news.bbc.co.uk)
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A sketch for a location-based timeline representation of a field recording(nitrada.com)
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ACLU Pizza (Privacy) Campaign(aclu.org)
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by tdonia 17y ago
i've only been in nyc for 7 years now, so i can't compare it to anything before then, but things don't seem quite as dire as the article suggests. sure, i've got friends looking for work but many of them were looking for work before the re
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by tdonia 17y ago
Desire for experience. while there are those developers brazen enough to think their first project will change the world, personally i knew my jr. high coding skills weren't exactly enterprise level. i was more interested in playing with
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by tdonia 17y ago
1.2 billion (100m / month)
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On the OLPC(miller-mccune.com)
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by tdonia 17y ago
before someone gets up from their desk and walks down the hall, Mars is able to sell that person the idea of a 50cent Snickers. While this is not completely realistic - many times that snickers slot will be empty - it's enough to convince
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by tdonia 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_your_base_are_...
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Moonbell: Lunar music generator(pinktentacle.com)
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by tdonia 17y ago
on thinking in code: after doing a rather intense data integration/normalization/clean up project for many hours ending around 5 am or so, i had to take a shower before catching a nap. upon turning on the shower, my tired mind took a minut
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by tdonia 17y ago
this is interesting, from the parent: "As levels of pedestrian and bicyclist activity rise their per capita risk falls. Drivers adapt their behavior in the presence of increased cycling and walking (17)." (17) Jacobsen P. Safety in numbers:
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American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse(wired.com)
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The Biochemistry of Searching the Internet(slate.com)
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Is art criticism so easy that a pigeon can do it?(thesmartset.com)
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Soft Measures of the health of a School(miller-mccune.com)
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by tdonia 17y ago
savvy
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by tdonia 17y ago
Persistence Hunting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI-9RJi0Qo
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Weighing Kilograms(npr.org)
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by tdonia 17y ago
We forked our app to give it a try. It's definitely an interesting contender, but in our case, we didn't see any significant performance gains and so it wasn't worth moving away from MySQL. It did help us simplify our MySQL schema a lot t
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IGoogle Social Gadgets(google.com)
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by tdonia 17y ago
seems very similar to the current chrome 3 developer's preview which changed the start page last week to one without a sidebar as in these shots. seems like they're preparing to use this space for something more sophisticated.
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by tdonia 17y ago
Casio (and i'm assuming others) have this as a feature already. Haven't seen it marketed in a cell phone yet though. Under the features tab it's the "PRERECORD CS" - storing a buffer of 30 photos. http://exilim.casio.com/products_exfc100
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by tdonia 17y ago
is there anything big/interesting enough going on today that someone would have a motivation to take out twitter's platform to obfuscate?

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