überthings, inc.

• live feeds | susan buck
  great minimalist site from another ITP student! yay!
  (tags: design cool geotagging photos)
• Dr Nic » Magic Multi-Connections: A “facility in Rails to talk to more than one database at a time”
  Connect to multiple databases with ease. Not sure if this is better than running a MySQL cluster, must investigate.
  (tags: code database mysql scalability rails rubyonrails)
• Tunisian Prison Map
  Heard about at Ethan Zuckerman’s talk. This is where geo mashups start to get interesting. One wag in the audience asked whether they had prison ratings yet. Ha.
  (tags: activism citizenjournalism gmaps mashups tunisia prison)

• Catan
  settlers hits the Xbox…
  (tags: games xbox360 strategy ranking)
• Twitter / alaa
  From Ethan Zuckerman’s talk – Egyptian activist twits
  (tags: activism twitter communication mobile sms)
• Found+READ
  New blog on how to build a startup. Could be interesting, will have to drop by and see.
  (tags: blogs business entrepreneurship technology startups)

Techdirt has a piece on Viacom employee Jon Stewart’s send up of the Viacom/Youtube lawsuit. Apart from being  funny, meta and self-referential as all hell, the message that front line employees usually have a better idea of what is happening than the people steering the ship is a powerful one that has been repeated throughout history. Let’s see if this turns the good ship Viacom towards the iceberg, or out into the open water…

Techdirt: The Daily Show On Parent Company Viacom’s Lawsuit Against YouTube… On YouTube

• Happy Passover on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  Passover 2005. Albuquerque, New Mexico with slavin
  (tags: shooting passover pesach albuquerque)
• Folding Paper in Half Twelve Times
  What was previously thought impossible, is now possible. Next up, how to use this technique to create lethal paper airplanes.
  (tags: awesome culture maths myths puzzles science)
• Fake Caller ID, Change Your Voice, Record Calls Spoof Caller ID – SpoofCard.com
  Exactly what they say.
  (tags: apps callerid spoof telephone spoofing privacy hacking phone fun hacks)

• Schwarzschild radius – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Memories of doing absolutely no work in Astronomy come flooding back all of a sudden. This was the only thing that stuck. Great for party conversations. If you want everybody to realize that you are actually a super dork.
  (tags: astronomy party_conversations fun reference physics maths)
• The Ever So Teeny Nokia Icon Wrist Band | geeksugar
  OMG. The hottest thing ever. I am so buying one of these when it comes out.
  (tags: tasty_gadgets sms mobile mobileui infoviz cool)