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Four short links: 27 August 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Bomb in the Garden (Matthew Butterick) — design excellence is inhibited by two structural flaws in the web. First flaw: the web is good at making information free, but terrible at makin...
Four short links: 26 August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Peruvian Archaeologists Use Drones (Guardian) — Small drones have been helping a growing number of researchers produce three-dimensional models of Peruvian sites instead of the usual flat maps – and i...
Four short links: 23 August 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Bradley Manning and the Two Americas (Quinn Norton) — The first America built the Internet, but the second America moved onto it. And they both think they own the place now. The best explanation you’l...
Shakespeare and the myth of publishing 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Note: this post started as a Foo Camp 2013 session. A few weeks ago, Tim O’Reilly sent around a link to Who Edited Shakespeare?, which discussed the editor for the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’...
Four short links: 22 August 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
bletchley (Google Code) — Bletchley is currently in the early stages of development and consists of tools which provide: Automated token encoding detection (36 encoding variants); Passive ciphertext b...
Four short links: 21 August 2013 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
blinkdb — The current version of BlinkDB supports a slightly constrained set of SQL-style declarative queries and provides approximate results for standard SQL aggregate queries, specifically queries ...
If This/Then That (IFTTT) and the Belkin WeMo 20 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Like most good technologists, I am lazy. In practice, this sometimes means that I will work quite hard with a computer to automate a task that, for all intents and purposes, just isn’t that hard. In...
Four short links: 20 August 2013 20 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
pineapple.io — attempt to crowdsource rankings for tutorials for important products, so you’re not picking your way through Google search results littered with tutorials written by incompetent illiter...
Data Science for Business 19 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
A couple of years ago, Claudia Perlich introduced me to Foster Provost, her PhD adviser. Foster showed me the book he was writing with Tom Fawcett, and using in his teaching at NYU. Foster and Tom ha...
Four short links: 19 August 2013 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
choir.io explained (Alex Dong) — Sound is the perfect medium for wearable computers to talk back to us. Sound has a dozen of properties that we can tune to convey different level of emotions and intru...
