May 2010
37 posts
A handy guide for the BP protestacular.
youngmanhattanite:
ninety9:
A hierarchy of desired outcomes if you get knackered:
1. ACD (Adjournment in contemplation of dismissal)
2. Conditional discharge
3. Tattoo of LOVE/HATE on your fingers with a hot needle at Rikers
IMPORTANT UPDATE RECEIVED FROM THE OCCUPATION OF BP STATION FACEBOOK GROUP:
Dress up as your favorite sea creature or mermaid (or carry signs, stuffed animals,...
nyc the tumblr: How Much Money Is In Your Street... →
The New York Post reports brazen ATM thieves have struck numerous street ATMs below 14th Street: “…escaping with thousands of dollars in cash during their three-month crime spree, in which they used crowbars and even a Cadillac to haul away the machines.”
The Tranax MB1700 (common on the…
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Thoughts on WebM and the future of online video
ericmortensen:
jaredklett:
It’s a bit of an understatement to say that the unveiling of the WebM project has caused a lot of chatter in the video world. Today I spent some idle cycles thinking about it and its impact after playing with the code and reading the documentation.
Looking five years down the road, I believe the majority of Internet video will not be watched within a web browser. It...
WatchGreat TED talk from Graham Hill founder of Treehugger on how he can’t fully commit to vegetarianism, and how he can still make a difference by being a weekday veg.
It’s a process. Start small and work your way up. If your curious, try giving up meat one day and move from there.
I'm not quitting Facebook.
jayparkinsonmd:
I just don’t use it because I don’t see how Farmville spam and cause invitations make my life better. Facebook adds work to my already busy life. So I ignore it. And that seems to work just fine…
Ditto.
Best week ever
We’re sort of having a best week ever over here at blip.tv this week. The 7-11 campaign launched and the first episode is hysterical. Yuri is an absolute genius. Seriously, go watch it.
Now we’ve just announced that Steve Woolf is on board and we’re bringing our LA offices online. Steve is the hardest working man in web video. If you’ve ever seen them at SXSW you...
David Lynch's daily report →
wreckandsalvage:
You know David Lynch does a daily weather report from his home studio, right?
Just making sure.
Why was I not informed of this earlier?
Vegans are whiny babies who don't deserve to eat... →
vegansaurus:
And it’s all our fault that chefs are now forced to accommodate people with food allergies as well! The temerity, thinking we could go to non-veg restaurants and eat anything!
Fuck it, you guys; I’m growing my own wheat and never buying anything from anyone ever again. If no one wants our business, then they don’t have to have it. I mean it’s not like the majority of us don’t have...
SitDown. StartUp.: Jason Calacanis=WIN ... →
Email thread from LA entrepreneur stud, CEO of Mahalo.com, and founder of the Open Angel Forum, Jason Calacanis, ripping on YoungStartups for trying to charge entrepreneurs $1,500 to pitch at their conference. This totally made my day!
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On Apr 29, 2010, at…
ok I’ve got to give Calacanis cool points for this one.
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Continuations: HTML5, View Source and Innovation →
stevewoolf:
Truth about HTML 5, as quoted from this article:
But there is one additional reason to be excited that I believe is sometimes overlooked: the ability to “View Source.” I believe that much of the speed of innovation on the web has been enabled by developers rapidly learning from each other. You see something neat, like a really nice looking form validation, and the code is...
Verizon FiOS not coming to the East Village and... →
(via neighborhoodr-eastvillage)
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Forgotten HTML5: WebSockets
Nearly all the attention on HTML5, it seems, has been on the video and canvas tags. There’s so much more good stuff though, some of which nobody is talking about.
At NYC Nightowls, I started work on a project to integrate Jetty into Processing, specifically with a focus on WebSockets.
WebSockets are an implementation of a long awaited holy grail for the web: The stateful connection. ...
Once more with feeling: Oil, not wind turbines,... →
vegansaurus:
“Oil spills are bad, but wind turbines kill more birds than anything ever, so suck on that, hippy.” If you haven’t heard it before, then get ready, because it’s coming soon to one of those chain emails from the right-wing nutters in your family. The American Bird Conservancy doesn’t think much of it either, so here are some stats on annual bird deaths that you can cut-and-paste...
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Incredibly geeky, Taking advantage of prototype...
Javascript supports prototypal inheritance; whenever you instantiate a new instance of an object it copies all the members of the parent function’s prototype object. Generally the prototype object just contains a bunch of references to function objects that are then used as methods, but you can put anything in there. A reference to an object placed in prototype is the same reference across...
Americans Are Giving Up Their Cable TV →
mikehudack:
rafimama:
videojumper:
“Already, between 10 and 15 million homes — out of 100 million homes in the US — do not subscribe to any kind of cable or satellite TV, usually because none is available in the area. But those…
Just another step in the migration away from wires in general. We’ll be talking about how people are dropping Cable/DSL Internet next.
“BREAKING: Large Air Spill at Wind Farm. No threats reported. Some claim to enjoy...”
– reddit (via nickdouglas) (via evangotlib) (via mikehudack)
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Incredibly geeky, CHANGE MASTER without downtime
Let’s say you want to promote one of your secondary (slave) servers into a primary (master). Everything is running live so you don’t want to lock tables or have any downtime. You can do that, but your slaves will each have a small amount of replication lag. Here’s how…
First STOP SLAVE on the secondary that will target the new primary. You should probably take it out of...
“While the public has gotten used to microbes like E. coli and salmonella...”
– American Meat Is Even Grosser Than You Thought | Food | AlterNet (via Ray Sawhill) (via ericmortensen)
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