Links
This is where I collect links to various sites/items of interests. You can also subscribe to the Links feed here.
- Program dramatically raised inner-city schools' academic achievement, Toronto board says – March 5, 2010
Wonderful.
- Australia to fingerprint, face-scan visitors – February 23, 2010
I'm having a hard time reconciling kangaroos and koalas with the bizzaro 1984-esque police state this place has become.
- I’m going to pay Kate Bohner’s legal fees so she can keep blogging about her recovery – February 23, 2010
”What does he do? Make them stand naked in front of him and tell him their Social Security numbers?” Oh man, Fake Steve is on a roll with the Schmidt bashing.
- Mimeo and the Kleptopus King – February 23, 2010
Shaun Inman's iPhone game homage to Mario Brother's. Check out the video. I like what he's done with the controls. The game uses the entire screen for left|right|up|down etc. I think this will be a UI pattern that will really catch on for iPhone games if the implementation is as good as it looks.
- Measuring Tweets – February 22, 2010
Twitter is seeing an average of 50 million tweets per day. Excluding spam. Wow.
- Doughnut Plant – February 22, 2010
Best. Doughnuts. Ever. I went to the location in Lower Manhattan in NYC. If you go, go early. I wish they had a location in TO, but my waist line is probably the better for it.
- Aviary Now Free As A Bird – February 22, 2010
A nice alternative to Photoshop if you need something light. Also, check out “Image Markup” and the Firefox plugin. With the plugin you can take screen caps of any web page and use “Image Markup” to annotate etc.
- Great Lakes fixup plan developed by U.S. – February 21, 2010
Nice. Probably long over due.
- Google files patent on Streetview billboard ad replacer – January 29, 2010
Context sensitive billboards? I'm not sure how I feel about this.
- iPad – January 27, 2010
Apple's new hand held device. Like a faster, bigger iPod Touch. iBooks will be huge. Brick and mortar book stores need a new plan.
- The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion for the Nintendo Entertainment System – January 26, 2010
Found this while doing some research on JavaScript (Crockford is an expert and noted speaker). The review process sounds like the worst examples of the iTunes app submission process.
- QUnit – January 25, 2010
A JavaScript test suite. If you do any significant work with JavaScript you really should be using this.
- How To Donate to Haiti on Your iPhone – January 15, 2010
You can donate money on any phone that has sms, not just iPhones.
- First Person Tetris – January 13, 2010
Fun. Kind of messes with your mind though.
- Default https access for Gmail – January 13, 2010
This is a good move. Seems related to their recent stance towards China.
- A new approach to China – January 12, 2010
Google's decided to get tough with China. Good.
- Nexus One – January 5, 2010
The new Android Phone from Google.
- Email Aliases in iPhone – January 5, 2010
How to use email aliases in the iPhone (vi DF)
- Mail’s Email Aliases, and Complexity Hidden – January 5, 2010
How to set up a single account in Apple Mail with multiple “alias” email addresses. (via DF)
- Install a hidden Archive settings preference pane – January 1, 2010
Nice tip and works in Snow Leopard. It allows you to change the default behaviour for when you unzip files. For instance, archived files can be automatically sent to the trash after being uncompressed.
- RCA student radically improves the UK plug – December 22, 2009
Oh man this is smart.
- Mutations link autism, schizophrenia: study – December 3, 2009
”The conceptual framework of one disorder will illuminate the study of the other” Interesting.
- "Before you text, give it a ponder" – December 2, 2009
Sound advice that one could apply generally, really.
- Steven Seagal Lawman – December 2, 2009
Holy crap, he's a cop!
- A Christmas Rewrite, as Dickens Edits Dickens – December 1, 2009
Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan has allowed The New York Times to photograph and display the entire handwritten manuscript of “A Christmas Carol” online.
- Bart's Blackboard – December 1, 2009
Archive of Bart Simpson's Blackboard Writings (via Daring Fireball)
- The Data Liberation Front – November 27, 2009
”The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products.” Great resource if you ever want to bail on something like Gmail but don't want to lose all your data.
- Google Chrome Extensions Developer Documentation – November 27, 2009
Good reference for who to write extension for when they release this functionality officially in Chrome.
- The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia – November 27, 2009
This will take a while to go through.
- Unreal Development Kit – November 27, 2009
Free (or noncomercial purposes) Development kit for making 3D games and simulations with the Unreal Engine 3. Wow.
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