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Building a web app the Microsoft way
via Vitamin Master Feed by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by Dominik Oha.As an agency that helps clients in the web start-up market to design and build web apps, Howard Baines is familiar with the popular approach of using open source technologies and tools to get the job done economically. We’ve worked with PHP, Rails, MySQL and others, and have experienced the highs and lows of doing so. Late last year we decided to fly in the face of...
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Eight Ways To Fix Torchwood
via Solar Flare: Science Fiction News by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by James AgreedI had planned on writing a review of the Torchwood season 2 finale earlier this week. Unfortunately I came away from the episode with really mixed feelings. In many ways this final episode epitomized my feelings on the season as a whole.On the one hand, it was far and away superior to the first season which was a huge disappointment to me. But for every bit that hit the...
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Beating gridlock
via BBC News | Technology | UK Edition by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by James I want my flying car!!Will a plane-car hybrid be the future of transport?
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Stove Ownership
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 02, 2008
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Sleep deprevation is not a badge of honor
via Signal vs. Noise by David on May 01, 2008
Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs.Now we all borrow occasionally and that’s okay if you fully understand the consequences and don’t make it a...
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Why I love working with family people
via Signal vs. Noise by David on April 24, 2008
The stereotypical startup dream hire is a 20-something with as little life as possible outside of computers. The one that’ll be happy working 14-hour crunch days for weeks on end sprinting for an ever-shifting target that keeps being 90% done for 90% of the time. The one you can make sleep under the table or please with a foosball table in the center of the room. The one where the company...
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Real Life Pessimism
via In the Plane of the Ecliptic by Jetse de Vries on April 29, 2008
... village to the big city, not only because the city offered more opportunities, but also because there was much less social control. ‘The big-scale industrialisation has done miracles for our privacy’ (paraphrase).Cut to 1989, where he has become a technological advisor, and he is in a think tank meeting about the future of information technology. ‘Would the robot replace industrial l...
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Hire family people
via Signal vs. Noise by David on April 24, 2008
The stereotypical startup dream hire is a 20-something with as little life as possible outside of computers. The one that’ll be happy working 14-hour crunch days for weeks on end sprinting for an ever-shifting target that keeps being 90% done for 90% of the time. The one you can make sleep under the table or please with a foosball table in the center of the room. The one where the company...
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Ouija board guitar plucks gothic heart strings
via Boing Boing Gadgets by Rob Beschizza on April 23, 2008
A demented facsimile of a folk tune presented itself in mind the moment I set eyes on the ouija board guitar, a contemporary mashup to honor it's crazy blend of art, music and madness.From the URL, it looks like the artist's name is Nick Holcomb. I'd love to see and hear video of this in action.Gallery page [via GearFuse]
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The Dark Knight Trailer
via SF Signal by John on April 21, 2008
The official trailer for the upcoming Batman film looks groovy.
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