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REST based authentication. Some of these hacks are gross, but it's nice to know that they exist.

Originally from Hack the Planet, on March 28, 2006 11:10 PM

Another deep tutorial about mdfind. So cool...

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Originally from JayAllen - The Daily Journey, on March 28, 2006 11:10 PM

The Borough of Lewisham in London has launched a new program to help clean up the neighborhood with the help of the public and MMS. Everyone is allowed to download an Java application to their cell phones and then proceed to take pictures of graffiti, abandoned cars, garbage, etc. The application then uploads the photo a council who will go to the pictured spot and clean up the mess. The standard MMS fees apply for the public, but just think of how pretty the environment could be without all that nasty tagging.

MMS to Combat London Graffiti [MobHappy]

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Originally from unmediated, on March 28, 2006 11:10 PM

The Eyebeam OpenLab is now accepting interns for a number of project areas. Positions are unpaid but receive full named credit for all work completed. All interns will work closely with one or more of the OpenLab's staff or fellows on new or ongoing projects. Interns must be skilled in their project area but more importantly they are eager to learn and take direction from their coworkers in the lab.

We are seeking interns in the following areas:

• Web Development
• 3D Graphics
• 3D Printing/Digital Fabrication
• Graffiti Research Lab
  • Web Development
  • Engineering Technician
• Senior Fellow Cory Arcangel Intern

For more information about the positions and how to apply, please go to http://research.eyebeam.org/internships

Originally from unmediated, on March 28, 2006 11:10 PM

Free one-click conversion of video files to the specific MPEG format required to copy video onto your TiVo. No messing around with demuxers or codecs required. They also have one that converts to iPod Video format.

Originally from unmediated, on March 28, 2006 11:10 PM

Techdirt: Why Aren't The Telcos Paying Google For Making Their Network Valuable?
It is true, cable franchises pay the networks for the privilege of carrying them. This is on a per-subscriber basis and allows the television networks to double dip in a sense, get per-subscriber fees as well as ad revenue.

The argument that Google makes the broadband networks valuable is true although there are a plethora of such services, no lack of content which is why the cable co.'s started to pay the networks in the first place.

There is NO WAY the telcos would fall for this (Verizon/CBS stupidity aside) on broadband lines unless they truly still envision the internet as 1,000,000 channels of TV.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think that Google should pay either. We (the consumers here) are already paying. Unless Google wants to be on the providers home page or portal there is no reason for them to pay.

I hope they do light up all of that fiber they have been buying and route around the telecos and allow me a WiFi Mesh or WiMax connection.

Originally from unmediated, on March 28, 2006 11:10 PM

If bugs give you the willies, stay clear. If not, check out some incredible macro shots of insects. These are stunning. Nature is amazing. [via Coudal]

Originally from Signal vs. Noise, on March 28, 2006 11:09 PM

Originally from the real janelle, on March 28, 2006 11:09 PM

The UK/France-based Insight has just released a field guide to participatory video (PV). The guide lays out instructions through text, illustration and photography to assist amateur videographers in setting up PV projects regardless of their location.

Insight's work focuses on empowering individuals and communities to give voice to their experience by learning about the tools and processes required to direct, film, and produce videos. Much of their work involves applying video techniques to Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) practices, which encompass a broad range of local, collaborative methods for assessment and planning in communities both rural and urban.

This of course runs quite parallel to the work of Witness and other efforts to expose injustice through local, participatory video. While Insight's work goes more in-depth on the entire video-making process, their globally-applicable handbook may prove informative even for capturing more on-the-fly footage through developments such as Witness's mobile phone project, which enables citizens to document human rights violations through cameraphone recordings, as well as environmental data documentation, as Jamais mentioned with the idea of Earth Witness.

The use of mobile technology, cameras and wireless networks for citizen-driven progress is a recurring theme at Worldchanging. But having the tools without understanding the techniques doesn't get us all the way there. With "Insights into Participatory Video," citizens have a chance to extract the full potential of technological tools that are increasingly accessible in remote areas of the world.

(Posted by Sarah Rich in The Means of Expression - Media, Creativity and Experience at 12:02 PM)

Originally from unmediated, on March 28, 2006 11:09 PM

The San Francisco Perl Mongers meeting on Tuesday March 28th, 2006, will feature three speakers as a follow up to the previous month's meeting on Perl integrated development environments. While I recently started following the development of the PPI refactoring editor, for this meeting I'll be presenting 30 minutes worth of Vim goodness featuring integration with PerlTidy and the Perl debugger. And also some other fun features that can make your life as a Perl developer more productive when you use Vim. Please check the SFPUG Blog for details. Hope to see you there!

Originally posted by Phred (posted by brian_d_foy) from use Perl, on March 28, 2006 11:09 PM

Every day since Leta’s birth I have read to her from the Anils of Dash. When we got this t-shirt in the mail yesterday from the wonderful people at Mule Design she couldn’t have been more excited if Elmo had hand-delivered it.

Originally from dooce, on March 28, 2006 11:09 PM

Shaking up tech publishing: "It seems that the industry standard [for authors] is something akin to 10% of the profits (which easily take 4-5-6 months to arrive), being forced to write in Word, and finally a production cycle that's at least a good 3 months from final book to delivery. That's horrible!" Building a shop "to take $19 from your credit card" and laying out books in InDesign aren't as easy as he makes it out to be for everyone, but it's a great overall point.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on March 28, 2006 11:08 PM

Wow! Three weeks ago I posted a modest proposal for a guerilla wayfinding campaign, painting compass stencils at the exits of subway stations for disoriented commuters.

Today at the 8th Avenue L exit I found this:

Here’s a hi-res photo someone posted to Flickr of the same compass at the Bleeker 6 exit. I found more at Astor Place and Union Square. Is someone reading this blog? And will they go all city?

Originally from Social Design Notes, on March 28, 2006 11:08 PM

Originally from megnut, on March 28, 2006 11:08 PM

Prince brings it out in me every time!! Jonah is incredulous at my finger work.

* At Meg & Jason's wedding over the weekend.

Originally posted by Andrea from Andrea Harner, on March 28, 2006 11:08 PM

BW Online reporter Steve Rosenbush writes that Facebook, the popular social networking service for college kids, has put itself on the block and hopes to get as much as $2 billion.

As Steve writes, it may seem like a lot of dough, but Facebook is the 7th most heavily trafficked site on the Web in terms of page views, according to comScore Media Metrix.

Update: I just read Russell Beattie's thread about this and how valuing companies through page views is a bad sign. It's back to the bad old days of the Internet bubble. But it's definitely happening. When MySpace blasted into the public consciousness last year, what it touted then too was page views. Not a good thing...

Originally from BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting, on March 28, 2006 11:07 PM

Remix Reading is running an exhibition of Creative Commons-licensed art at the Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock in the UK from April 28th through 30th. There's an open call for submissions until April 6, so get to it! Remix Reading's Tom Chance tells us:

Anyone can submit, and we'd especially like to receive "real media" submissions (i.e. not digital art or photographs). We can help arrange international shipping of works if anyone submits them.

"A comet hits Reading" by Tom Chance, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

Originally posted by Eric Steuer from Creative Commons Blog, on March 28, 2006 11:07 PM

Beloved children's author Beverley Cleary is about to turn 90. To honor the occasion, her publisher, HarpersCollins, has designated April 12 Drop Everything and Read! Day, complete with a list of suggested books compiled by experts from Reach Out and Read, NEA, and Reading Rockets. (via rw)

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on March 28, 2006 11:07 PM

Rails 1.1 is alive. It's a huge update, the biggest yet, with more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from over 100 contributors. It's also a triumph of extractions. Most of the blockbuster features started life in 37signals applications. A rundown:

• RJS - JavaScript written in Ruby: We initially extracted the Ajax support in Rails from Backpack. It was the first application that I used the send-HTML-instead-of-data approach to Ajax, which became the foundation for the update mechanism in Prototype. But as we increased our appetite for Ajax with Campfire, we needed more. RJS was extracted from the work to make all the JavaScript code in Campfire beautiful.
• Polymorphic associations/join models: Sunrise gave birth to both of these features as I needed to implement rich tagging against multiple classes (you can tag people, companies, entries, etc with the same tags). This an example of us sharing new features even before the founding application has launched.
• Accept-driven responses: The new Basecamp API is based upon the work I did when discovering usefulness of the accept header in HTTP and working with Jamis to built a great way to encapsulate that. Now we can have the same code easily serve Ajax-calls, API-calls, mobile clients, and more.
• ActiveRecord::Base.to_xml: When creating APIs, you usually have to expose tons of model objects as XML (like give me all the todo items for this list in XML). Marking all this XML up by hand every time is tedious. We needed something better to stay productive for the Basecamp API, so to_xml was born.
• Integration testing: Testing Campfire properly required more than Rails initially provided. How do you verify that things are working right when two or three people are chatting simultaneously? With integration testing that's easy as you can run concurrent sessions and make assertions about the interactions. Jamis extracted this from Campfire and did a great job writing about how to use it.
• Enumerable#group_by and Array#in_groups_of: How to easily partition data into chunks for presentation? These two methods were born from Campfire's transcript browser by Marcel and Sam.
• form_for, form_remote_for, and fields_for: Most of the form helpers in Rails was based around the notion that you would only have 1 form per object type per page. Sunrise quickly brought that to same with many forms for similar object types all over the place. So we extracted a new, cleaner way to specify forms and their relationship to models.

are extractions. The best ideas arise when you're squeezed between the constraints of time, reality, and a desire to be happy writing beautiful code. There was no way we could have come up with all of these new features by simply contemplating what some people might need some day.

Designing software by guessing about the future is a terrible way to arrive at something pleasant.

Originally from Signal vs. Noise, on March 28, 2006 11:04 PM

A lot of familiar faces have been popping up on 24 for the last week or two--at least they're familiar if your life revolves around TV and movies. Last week's German agent Theo Stoller was played by the same...

Originally posted by Amy from Amy's Robot, on March 28, 2006 11:04 PM

Avie Tevanian to leave Apple. Long regarded as the brains behind OS X (and NeXT before it), Tevanian's unexpected departure is "too pursue other interests," and his last day is Friday, 1 day before Apple's 30th anniversary. Noted tech curmudgeon John C. Dvorak recently claimed, to much ridicule, that Apple was going to ditch OS X and move to Windows. Coincidence? Or has Steve's famous temper gotten the better of him again?

Originally posted by mkultra from MetaFilter posts tagged with apple, on March 28, 2006 11:04 PM

Video tutorial from Apple Developer Connection: “When you take advantage of Core Data, it slashes the amount of custom code you need to write in order to manage application data. Opening, saving and undo management can all be handled by Core Data, freeing you to concentrate on creating unique features for your application.”

Also see Wolf’s notes on the article.

Originally from ranchero.com, on March 28, 2006 11:03 PM

yeah, I've had days like that [via] 

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on March 28, 2006 11:03 PM

Photojojo is an email newsletter about the intersection of awesome + photography. We research great photo DIY projects, tips, and gear and bring them to you. It’s a project I’ve been working for a couple months now and I’m reallly excited to see it debut this week.

37 signals gave us a tip of the hat today, and The real janelle let the cat out of the bag yesterday, so we’re off to a good start!

Help us spread the word about Photojojo!

Link: Photography + Awesome = Photojojo

Technorati Tags: photojojo, diy, photography, photo, photo projects, 37signals, newsletter

Originally posted by Amit Gupta from Amit Gupta's Blog, on March 28, 2006 11:03 PM

Dave Liebreich detects part of NetNewsWire’s software ancestry.

Originally from inessential.com, on March 28, 2006 11:02 PM

From a Bear Stearns report on comScore data, Google continues to gain ground in search share in the US. Given all that's going on in search and related media, that's impressive. From the report, which was emailed to me:

Google now has a 42.3% share of the domestic search market (the highest since comScore starting tracking market share data), up from 41.4% in Jan 06 and 39.8% in 4Q 05.
...Yahoo's share dropped 110 bps to 27.6%, MSN share dropped 20 bps to 13.5% while AOL's share increased slightly to 8.0% from 7.9% in Jan 06. Ask market share rose to 6.0% from 5.6% in Jan 06. The marketing push behind the Ask brand likely contributed to its share gains.
Year-over-year, Google and Ask showed strong search query gain of 29.4% and 27.9%, respectively, while the other search providers in the top five declined. On a sequential basis, Google and Ask also showed the highest growth at 8.3% and 14.6% respectively.
While Google's unique searcher market share remains flat at 59.1% level from Jan. 06 (Yahoo and MSN both declined in this metric), searches per search increased to 29 from 27 in Jan. 06 and from 26 in 4Q 05.

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog, on March 28, 2006 11:02 PM

Videos from presentations at Google, including John Battelle, Seth Godin, Antarctic meteorites, Hal Varian, and Sergey Brin. (thx, jf)

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on March 28, 2006 11:02 PM

1. Bachelor in a Casserole 2. The Swirling Clergyman's Lament 3. St. Sebastian's Disused Quiver 4. Dolorous Dolores 5. Gracious Knows These Trousers Bind

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on March 28, 2006 11:01 PM

"rsync.net provides secure, fault-tolerant, multi-homed data storage for offsite backup, disaster preparedness, remote access and personal use."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on March 28, 2006 11:01 PM

Originally posted by axt from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 11:01 PM

By markal.

Originally from FlickrBlog, on March 28, 2006 11:01 PM

Vegan Lunch Box has been serving up its readers a voyeristic look into the everyday Mom-made lunch of a vegan kid. It answers the burning question of what do vegans eat, while giving good tips on spicing up everyday lunches for kids (and grown ups!). One of my favorite entires is the subversion of a Make-Your-Own Twinkies kit with vegan recipes for the cake and filling.

Originally posted by Jocelyn from ReadyMade Blog, on March 28, 2006 10:59 PM

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 10:59 PM

Carnegie Mellon MFA grad show

Originally posted by lauren_cornell from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 10:58 PM

blablablablabalbla

Originally posted by cory_arcangel from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 10:58 PM

Interesting interview with Jonah Peretti about contagious media, business, and web media. (thx, carrie)

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on March 28, 2006 10:57 PM

Some of you may know that I work at 1UP.com now producing a program called The 1UP Show. Basically, it's the beginning of an exploration of ideas I've had over the last few years, exploring them right here on GGA, and made possible now by the involvement of my friend and colleague Ryan O'Donnell. Before we got hired at Ziff Davis--and we were hired within ten minutes of eachother, funny enough--we had often sat on Ryan's balcony sketching out our ideas, dreaming of wacky things, including a puppet show about games. Yeah, that one didn't work out. Yet.

At 1UP, we got the chance to essentially do what we wanted. We knew we wanted to cover videogames on video, but we weren't sure how to proceed, since Ryan didn't like my puppets. Just kidding. We knew what we liked, and what we didn't. We tried to do a roundtable show early on, but we found it dull as dishwater--so dull that the format actually obscured the interesting conversation and the personalities.

The first time we tried to do something completely different was the one-off "Gaming to the Max" which was the video segment to complement Jeremy Parish's week-long SNES Retro/Active feature, a time warp in which we treated SNES games like current products. Yeah, it was really silly and, looking back on it, really flawed, but given our time constraints and the fact that we aren't actors the project schematic was too ambitious. We definitely learned from that.

Originally posted by jane from game girl advance, on March 28, 2006 10:56 PM

Can Hollywood make quality movies for both love and money? Not according to a lawsuit filed by the actor Randy Quaid.

Originally from NYT > Arts, on March 28, 2006 10:55 PM

qt_tools (thx hello typepad)

Originally posted by cory_arcangel from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 04:03 PM

Secret Doors [via Schneier]

Originally posted by ezrakilty from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 04:03 PM

I am not worthy.

Originally posted by ezrakilty from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 04:02 PM

just got 10.4 and havn trouble getting cron tab to generate my site,.....apple is doing weird things with crontab which is annoying. might be my crappy code though.....

Originally posted by cory_arcangel from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 04:02 PM

history of the world via movies. someone oughtta visualize this puppy

Originally posted by stamen from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 04:02 PM

"In an extreme instance, in which there is a Propervirt of less than 0.9%, the TEXT OF THE PRESENT PROSPECTUS may likewise undergo an ABRUPT change. If, while you are reading these sentences, the words begin to jump about, and the letters quiver and blur, please interrupt your reading for ten or twenty seconds to wipe your glasses, adjust your clothing, or the like, and then start reading AGAIN from the beginning, and NOT JUST from the place where your reading was interrupted, since such a TRANSFORMATION indicates that a correction of DEFICIENCIES is now taking place."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on March 28, 2006 08:48 AM

A British mobile software developer launched a flat-fee text messaging service that allows users to send unlimited messages for $1.75 a week. RCRNews reports. Hotxt, which describes its service as a kind of Skype for text messagers, uses the Internet to send messages between wireless users. The company is targeting its new service at 16- to 25-year-olds, claiming that a user who sends seven texts a day will save $367 over the course of a year. ... Hotxt said its service works on all Java-enabled phones on U.K. networks except from pre-paid handsets from O2 and 3."

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, on March 28, 2006 08:48 AM

Originally from hustler of culture, on March 28, 2006 08:48 AM

Apparently the new Yahoo! Mail beta is out for everyone now. Mmmm rich chocolaty ajax goodness, and a way nicer interface than gmail (although gmail does handle list subscriptions better).

Still no Safari love though. Camino works fine however.

Originally from [GusMueller blog], on March 28, 2006 08:47 AM

"in that I had to buy a 2 pack of Hanes Hey Way Bikini Panties at WalMart for $6.87 yesterday. I also bought my mom a pair of slipper socks."

Originally posted by yatta from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 08:44 AM

more qtkit stuff

Originally posted by cory_arcangel from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 08:44 AM

beat takeshi made a videogame because he hates video games!

Originally posted by BigFire from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 08:44 AM

Chris on living in semi-spimeworld

Originally posted by blackbeltjones from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 08:43 AM

Originally posted by smartincome from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 28, 2006 08:43 AM