Archive for May, 2009
links for 2009-05-24
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An iPhone app that shows which foods are in season
links for 2009-05-23
links for 2009-05-22
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Some code that extends UIImageView to provide zooming and swiping and single and double tapping capabilities.
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Mario Klinneman/Quasimondo's experiments with encoding an image into 140 chars so that it can be sent over Twitter
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Duck houses, as featured in the recent UK MP's expenses scandal
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Lots of groovy pixelbender experimentation going on (with source too!)
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Very nice map, following Tintin's journey around the globe.
links for 2009-05-20
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Bring on the dadstep.
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The future that never was – digital file transfer by fax, sadly (fortunately) email came along and made 3D Fax obsolete.
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UK's expenses mapped onto a heatmap of the UK
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Share is an experiment in designing a networked programming tool for distributed communities of practice.
It is an IDE that automatically shares all the code you write with everyone else that is using Share, as well as keeping track of how that code is used. Allowing you to see the network that grows around code you contribute, borrow, or just happen to be interested in.
links for 2009-05-19
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Systems Fail. Errors Happen, Computers don't know whats going on. We see interesting and unusual visuals artefacts and glitches, We capture them!
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Matrix of technologies and platforms that clearspring supports
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Collection of London Underground seat patterns, including the famous "District – Misha Black", as used on the District Line and across London Buses
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ZeFrank explores outsourcing.
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Yahoo shows off widgets running on a TV
links for 2009-05-18
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Windows only tool for testing on multiple web browsers.
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An online tool to help "ease the pain of ie6 css"
links for 2009-05-16
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This could be the future of the album – 10 levels of dubstep powered retro gaming action, and a really nicely designed site too!
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List of archives from electro-music.com, including "The Chuck Show", which features generative music made with the Chuck programming language.
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A soundlibrary featuring:
* PSG, FM, WaveTable? and PCM sound module emulations
* MML (Music Macro Language) compiler and sequencer
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A huge collection of actionscript classes covering all kinds of things, from seam carving, to decoding ico files to collision detection etc etc etc
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A new project by the geniuses at XPT
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Lovely collection of black and white photographs of people all holding a message of somekind. Simple, yet very powerful and very nicely realised
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Screencast of an amazing looking data visualisation interface from wolfram
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Our neighbours in Clerkenwell hit techcrunch
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The Honeycomb is a suite of devices that enable physically separated spouses to connect with one another by transmitting fragments of sensory experiences of prototypical parenting activities from various stages of babyhood.
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A proof of concept belt for pregnant women that sends a message to twitter when their baby kicks
links for 2009-05-15
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Well featured e-commerce platform.
links for 2009-05-14
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Ask workers to complete HITs – Human Intelligence Tasks – and get results using Mechanical Turk.
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Some interesting music solutions, including analyse, which will return an XML musical score containing loads of useful info such as tempo, beats etc etc.
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Site full of album and track reviews
links for 2009-05-13
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Tinker is a simple way to discover events people are chattering about on Twitter.
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Nice project that takes a screenshot of Brendan Dawe's desktop, pixelates it and uploads it to the interwebs
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Useful tips for getting content "out there"
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Opensource version of last.fm