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Entries from April 2007

links for 2007-04-17

April 17th, 2007 · No Comments

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 [...]

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links for 2007-04-16

April 16th, 2007 · No Comments

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)

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When your employees know something you don’t.

April 16th, 2007 · No Comments

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 [...]

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links for 2007-04-15

April 15th, 2007 · No Comments

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 [...]

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links for 2007-04-13

April 13th, 2007 · No Comments

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 [...]

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