October 2009
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My Twitter lists
So it turns out that making Twitter lists is really boring. Still, if it means an end to the noise that was #followfriday, then it’s worth a bit of effort up front. My lists are (and will forever be) a work in progress. I have made five groups so far, and in each I have included mostly those who I personally get a lot of value out of. I’ve tended to leave out the big celebs who already...
Oct 30th
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Emotion Markup Language
The W3C just completed the first draft of the Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML 1.0). Um, why? Use cases for EmotionML can be grouped into three broad types: Manual annotation of material involving emotionality, such as annotation of videos, of speech recordings, of faces, of texts, etc; Automatic recognition of emotions from sensors, including physiological sensors, speech recordings,...
Oct 30th
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Oct 30th
del.icio.us: YUI: CSS Grid Builder →
Handy CSS grid building tool.
Oct 30th
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Oct 29th
( ・_・)⌒°=θ☆( >_
There’s a japanese emoticon fighting system. Gotta love the internet. (via @sizemore)
Oct 29th
“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who...”
– Gene Roddenberry
Oct 28th
Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
del.icio.us: The Open Knowledge Foundation →
Founded in 2004 we’re a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: that’s any kind of information – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and…
Oct 28th
del.icio.us: JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit →
Tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web.
Oct 28th
del.icio.us: TubeChop →
TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.
Oct 27th
“Facebook games are simple Skinner boxes”
– Tobold’s MMORPG Blog: Facebook games: Scam or useful tool?
Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
del.icio.us: GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface... →
A website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.
Oct 26th
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...meanwhile on Twitter
Simon Pegg: I took the Simon Pegg quiz on the Dave website and scored 11/12.
Edgar Wright: @simonpegg What was the question you failed to get right?
Simon Pegg: @edgarwright The Q was 'Name the director of Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz.'
Edgar Wright: @simonpegg I wouldn't have got that one either.
Edgar Wright: @simonpegg I too got 11 out of 12. The question I got wrong was "What accent is Simon Pegg doing in Star Trek?"
Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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del.icio.us: Tofu →
Tofu is a novel application to address the common problem that people don’t like reading text on the screen.
Oct 26th
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Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
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“26. The method of claim 25, wherein at least one claim of the offer to marry...”
– United States Patent Application 0070078663: ‘Method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual’
Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
Oct 23rd
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Oct 23rd
del.icio.us: EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text... →
When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone’s screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful…
Oct 23rd
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WatchWatch
I Love xkcd (via Vimeo)
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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Host Your Own Windows 7 Torrenting Party (via @danamorphic & Gizmodo)
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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Mapumental
I watched a fascinating presentation on mapping technologies and their use in the BBC yesterday. The highlight for me was an amazing video showing all the Open Street Map edits made in 2008. The Channel 4 / MySociety / Stamen project, Mapumental was also demonstrated (well, just the Mapumental YouTube video actually). It’s a really useful tool. Here I’m showing a few Cardiff examples....
Oct 22nd
Oct 22nd
WatchWatch
OpenStreetMap 2008: A Year of Edits
Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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Local crime mapping
This new local crime mapping service is public service on the web done right. You can easily locate your area, compare it to others, download the data as a CSV file and subscribe to updates via RSS.  It is under heavy load right now though. http://maps.police.uk/view/south-wales/ Posted via email from foomandoonian’s halfblog | Comment »
Oct 20th
del.icio.us: BRL-CAD | Open Source Solid Modeling →
BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source solid modeling system that includes interactive geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing for rendering and geometric analysis, image and…
Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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WikiReader
The WikiReader is a funky Hitch-Hikers Guide style gadget that gives you Wikipedia in your pocket. I love the form, the touchscreen, the low power consumption, the low price and that it uses a MicroSD card. You can subscribe to bi-annual updates and they will post you the cards, or you can download the (4GBs of) data yourself. I’m waiting for an e-reader gadget like this, but the size of a...
Oct 15th
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Oct 14th
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