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YouTube is ending its video annotations feature and Andy has rounded up a collection of some of the most innovative uses. It's a great reminder that people are endlessly inventive with any tools they have available to them. Even though most annotations are an annoying distraction, people did interesting things with them and we lose some of our history when companies remove content. Check them out within the next couple weeks—then they'll be gone.
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"If I had to give you a single piece of managerial advice, I would say: 'Your job with your nerd is to bring calm to their chaos'." The author of Being Geek on managing software geeks.
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Kellogg's: not the best source for parenting advice.
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A nice alternative to a standard AJAX poller that takes network latency and server errors into account.
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The jokes were strong at MaxFunCon. Churchill strong.
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"Most of these tweaks, besides providing for a longer lifespan for SSD disks, should improve overall system performance even on an non SSD disk."
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Hacking architecture with John McClane.
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Nice Inconsolata mod that straightens out the quotes. I use Inconsolata as my programming font, haven't noticed a quote problem, but I'll give this a shot.
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"I think that it’s a real possibility that in 10 years, general purpose computers will be seen as being strictly for developers and hobbyists." Rafe has an important analysis of the iPad announcement. We're headed toward closed platforms.
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He used the Processing environment to calculate the number of track layouts possible with a simple train set from Ikea. I'll have to try these! [via Daddy Types]
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A hidden mode in OSX that you can use to group open apps. Click in the dock, then Command-Tab to open others. Works well!
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A nice collection of pictures of the new season from across the globe.
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"Being a long-haired beardo has its ups and downs. One of the ups is that if you’ve got a dozen friends and a lot of beer and a questionable idea, you can make something like this happen."
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President Obama reacts to his selection as the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Andrew Sullivan on Obama's Peace Prize: "...there are two obvious points: this is premature and this is thoroughly deserved. Both are right."
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Nice royalty-free icons, including the new free Payments set.
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Handy bit of JavaScript to get the longitude and latitude of the center point on a Google Map. This works great as a bookmarklet.
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Interesting Twitter demographics. "...45-54 year olds are 36 percent more likely than average to visit Twitter, making them the highest indexing age group, followed by 25-34 year olds, who are 30 percent more likely."
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How lulz were had with a Time poll. [via waxy]
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The new iPhone OS will have an interface for physical peripherals. "A rapid prototyping platform for physical/digital interactions? A mobile sensor platform for personal and urban informatics that's going mainstream?" I missed this new feature in all the cut+paste celebration.
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One computer scans incoming calls for the Caller ID number and then broadcasts the number over the network to various devices. Looks like something fun to hack around with.
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That's not Chernobyl, it's Detroit. [via kottke]
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"This system of 50 symbol signs was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events. Produced through a collaboration between the AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, they are an example of how public-minded designers can address a universal communication need." [via migurski]
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People share and vote for their favorite command-line snippets at this site, and these are the most popular. Didn't know about "sudo !!"—that's worth the price of admission right there.
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Matt's new cycling blog.
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Nice way to let people browse extremely large photos with the Google Maps API.
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This is a nightmare. But it's a good reminder to change your passwords if they're simple dictionary words.
- Dam Kaminksy posted a follow-up to the Wired article on MeFi.
- "'There is no saving the Internet,' he said. 'There is postponing the inevitable for a little longer.'" Amazing story of the DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky a few months ago.