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Jul 09

The BMW Museum's kinetic sculpture takes your brain to another dimension - Engadget - Ready to have your gray matter softly stroked? Perhaps you should take a trip to BMW's recently opened museum in Munich, where a kinetic sculpture comprising 714 metallic balls suspended in air will soothe your weary mind. It's one of those things that's
YouTube - extremely funny prank ! - check out the look on the people faces…
Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers - Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quickly remember code syntax and see related concepts visually. Additionally, they?re nice decorative pieces for your office.
In this article, you?ll find 23 excellent, print-ready che

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Jul 08

Links for July 8th
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Review Board - Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review

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Jun 22

Links for June 22nd
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The Brown Corporation - Welcome -
Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore - A "real" bookstore with
Amazon's prices
Amazon's secure payment
Amazon's shipping

zoom with the mouse wheel
drag with the mouse
click to see a book
add to your cart or wish list
checkout on Amazon.com

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Jun 12

Links for June 12th
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Jun 09

Bookmarks for June 8th through June 9th
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My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage - IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
Baby Smash! by Scott Hanselman - As babies smash on the keyboard, colored shapes, letters and numbers appear on the screen. Baby Smash will lock out the Windows Key, as well as Ctrl-Esc and Alt-Tab so your baby can't get out of the application. Pressing ALT-F4 will exit the application a
Instant Messenger: IM Can Reduce Workplace Interruptions, Study Shows - "It is not the case that people are engaging in extensive conversations or trying to resolve complex problems over this very limited medium. Instead, people are using the technology to solicit answers to quick questions from colleagues and coordinate thei

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May 18

Links for May 18th
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skwpspace ? Useful git commands and quirks - Things I?ve learned from my first git experiences. First of all, git is inconsistent as hell. Every command has its own quirks and syntax, so I?m attempting to catalog some of them here. We?ve been using git svn at Planypus as a way to maintain loca
Signalfire - Stay in contact with your teams from
anywhere with Signalfire group chat.
Signup for Signalfire
Many Chatrooms, One Place

Signalfire is a group chat web application. It allows you to
participate in many groups, either public or private.
BitNami :: HowTo: Windows + RubyStack + Aptana RadRails + Ruby Debug - After following these steps you should have an Aptana RadRails intstalltion, which RubyStack?s Ruby, Rails, ImageMagick and other libraries, and provides visual debugging.
Do we really need Controller and View tests? - Don?t overload controllers with responsibilities. Put logic in your models instead. This approach is usually called ?skinny controller / fad model? (Jamis Buck wrote about it here and here, Courtenay of caboo.se also wrote an article).
eigenclass - rcov: code coverage for Ruby - rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby. It is commonly used for viewing overall test coverage of target code. It features:
* fast execution: 20-300 times faster than previous tools
* multiple analysis modes: standard, bogo-profile, "intentional te
Flying Machine Studios » Blog Archive » Announcing Palmist - # Make it easy to work on one request at a time
# Highlight duplicate queries
# Show the time each query takes and total db time
# Link to EXPLAIN
# List general MySQL optimization tips
Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor - a Ruby regular expression editor
Balls: Rotopault Kinetic Sculpture Is Mezmerizing - About 30 seconds after I clicked play on this video of Brad Litwin's latest kinetic sculpture, Rotopault, I said "cool" and flicked my mouse to close the window. And then I just kept watching. It does the same thing over and over again: Launches a ball as
Cubescape - Your own digital landscape - Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn't know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!
News: AirFox Live Helicopter Streams Traffic, Utter Chaos - The Chicago Fox affiliate WFLD has embraced a touch of Justin.tv with their new AirFox Live helicopter feed. Viewers can now visit the AirFox website and view Google Maps GPS tracking of the chopper, along with a real-time video feed sharing whatever it s

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May 14

Links for May 14th
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the { buckblogs :here }: Skinny Controller, Fat Model - When first getting started with Rails, it is tempting to shove lots of logic in the view. I?ll admit that I was guilty of writing more than one template like the following during my Rails novitiate:
Your Tech Weblog: Want a rotary iPhone dialer? You'll get one. - It's called RetroPhone, and company founders Bill Heyman and Damon Allison showed it to me today ahead of the app's public unveiling at MinneBar tomorrow (I have a story about CodeMorphic and MinneBar in the Pioneer Press).
Community Engine | A Social Networking Plugin for Ruby on Rails - CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you?ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
NNDB Mapper: Tracking the entire world - The NNDB Mapper allows you to explore NNDB visually by graphing the connections between people. Over 32,000 individuals are listed in our network.
lunchn.com - If you and your friends enjoy going out to lunch regularly, lunchn is a valuable tool to help answer that common question you face each time you get together. What's for lunch? lunchn provides an easy to use site for you and your lunch friends to quickly
Bruce Lee?s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape - Adding more and more just creates more stress and anxiety. Removing clutter and activities, tasks and thoughts that are not so important frees up time and energy for you to do more of what you really want to do. And as the clutter in your outer world decr
Hackszine.com: Cross browser session data with Javascript - By storing data in the window.name property, you can store data between page loads and across domains without ever sending a cookie to a server. Thomas Frank created the sessvars.js library which makes use of this browser quirk, allowing you to store up t

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May 13

Bookmarks for May 12th through May 13th
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favicon.ico Generator - Choose a color, Click on the squares and paint your logo, Download when you are finished, Put the favicon.ico file into your webserver directory, Optionally publish it under the CC (Creative Commons) license
Trac Git Plugin - Trac - This is a plugin for Trac that adds support for the Git version control system. We use it here at nanosleep.org. It's our branch of the work done by Herbert Valerio Riedel over at trac-hacks.org (see their project page), with some speedup hacks and bug fi
Convert Youtube and Myspace Video to MP3! Only at VidtoMP3.com - VidToMP3 is a brand new site that allows you to download the audio from none-copyrighted video clips on video sites! We support all of your favorites, Myspace, Youtube, Google video and more. Remember to bookmark our Video to Sound converter for all your

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May 10

Links for May 11th
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John Resig - Processing.js - # Types and type casting - Type information is generally discarded, but becomes important in variable declaration and in casting (which is generally handled well).
# Classes - The full class system is supported (can be instantiated, etc. just fine).
# Met
Jake Scruggs: Dead Simple Rails Metrics with metric_fu - It's a bunch of rake tasks that produce reports on code coverage (using Rcov), cyclomatic complexity (using Saikuro), flog scores (using Flog), and rails stats (using 'rake stats'). It knows if it's being run inside a CruiseControl.rb build and puts the o
Insoshi: open-source social networking platform in Ruby on Rails - Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product!
Since Insoshi is open source, you can download the code from our GitHub repository and make your own social ne

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May 08

Links for May 7th
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meetuplex - At Google, you're Organizing the World's Information.
It's important work because information is power.

You might work on ads or apps (not search), and that's kinda related to Organizing the World's Information.

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May 05

Bookmarks for May 4th through May 5th
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arya's simple_nav at master ? GitHub - Simple site navigation helper
universal's rss-irc-bot at master ? GitHub - Autumn is a full-featured framework on top of which IRC bots (called "leaves") can be quickly and easily built. It features a very Ruby-like approach to bot-writing, a complete framework for loading and daemonizing your bots, multiple environment contexts
Microformats | About microformats - Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
rolerequirement - Google Code - Clean role-based security for restful_authentication (or acts_as_authenticated)
8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter - Months after the initial Twitter boom, it?s still strong and kicking. A day rarely goes by that we don?t notice some new Twitter tool in the wild. The ideal place for Twitter-related tools is the web browser, which is apparent from the quick-rising nu
All of Inflation?s Little Parts - The New York Times - Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories ? like gasoline, bananas, dresses and garbage collection ? to form the Consumer Price Index, one measure of inflation.
Kidmondo: an online baby Journal -

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May 03

Links for May 3rd
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Airworks Inflatables - Giant 22 player table football game for Amstel beer - Advertising stunt for Amstel beer, for a promo during the european champions league finals. This table could accomadate 2 full football teams (22 players). The table can be fully dismantled and put into 6 flight cases for transport.
Hackszine.com: Server-side Google Analytics - When you look at the analytics javascript code you see that it combines several sets of data into an image request. This image request sends the right data to Google (not the javascript). When you know what url you should use for the image, you can call t
Digg - Homer Simspon, drawn in CSS - Homer Simpson, rendered using nothing but CSS. Very very cool.
Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides | CSS | Smashing Magazine - 5 coding techniques which can dramatically improve management and simplify maintainability of your code.
Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange - Drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called "drops." The service has no email signup and no "accounts." Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of med
Zed Shaw Puts The Smack Down On The Rails Community - In a post today called ?Rails Is A Ghetto? he tears into a number of leading Rails developers, the community in general, and a number of startups (and Google).

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Apr 27

Bookmarks for April 27th from 01:38 to 08:57
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Urgency is poisonous - (37signals) - So far our four-day work week experiment is working. We haven?t found ourselves collectively wishing we had an extra work day a week. We haven?t found ourselves gasping for extra hours. Instead I feel like we?ve been more focused and working better
reaction_version5.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - How fast are you?
YouTube - ??????????? - Theremin played by a cat
TradeVibes - Home - the best way to discover, find and share opinions and information about cool startups
Movavi Online Video Converter - Free Online Video Converter No software to install. No ads to interrupt.

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Apr 21

Bookmarks for April 21st from 05:27 to 05:27
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Mibbit -

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Apr 18

Bookmarks for April 17th through April 18th
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Step3Profit.com - Step 1. Register domain name
Step 2. ???

Step 3. Profit
Color Wars 2008 » Youngme / Nowme - Users duplicate a picture of themselves from when they were younger - same pose, the current "me" by the child "me." The results are fascinating." Link
FreeBookSpot | Download e-books for free - Free Book Spot is a free e-books links library where you can find and download free books in almost any category.
Custom PuTTY Color Themes - igvita.com - nothing is worse than trying to decipher the default dark-blue/green/red colors against a black background in PuTTY
PuTTY Tray - PuTTY Tray is an improved version of PuTTY (Win32). It features some cosmetic changes, and a number of addons to make it more useful and much more fun to use.
* Ruby Script Beautifier - This Ruby beautifier is itself written in Ruby, and it is surprisingly short. It will undoubtedly get longer as time passses and its ability to handle borderline cases improves.
sweeper :: snax - Automatically tag your music collection with metadata from Last.fm.
A Ruby Learning Hub - Free Online Ruby Programming Course by Satish Talim
LiveValidation - Validation as you type - LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library for making client-side validation quick, easy, and powerful. It comprises of two main parts. Firstly, it provides developers with a rich set of core validation methods, which can also be used outsid
Codefluency: Introduction to Ruby - if you?re looking for a brief, code-centric overview of Ruby?s language features and syntax this might be the ticket
Talent Community | Talent Network | Aspiring Talent | Find Gigs | Casting Calls | Get Famous - We're an entertainment community for up and coming talent and their fans. The goal of this talent network is to help aspiring artists get famous, build industry contacts, and find paying gigs. Click here to see how it works.
Plugins - SuperExceptionNotifier - Agile Web Development - The SuperExceptionNotifier plugin provides a mailer object and a default set of templates for sending email notifications when errors occur in a Rails application, as well as a default set of error page templates to render based on the status code assigne
Google Website Optimizer Announcements - Google Website Optimizer (which was originally launched as a closed beta test in October 2006) has finally dropped its ?Beta? label and been made available as a standalone product, Google announced yesterday.
Clips: How to Fix the Internet (According to South Park) - In the fantastic South Park episode last night ("Did you guys see the ghost?") most of the nation was without internet. What does such an internet-connected society do when faced with such a technological dilemma?
Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » Problems of Social Bookmarking Today - Part One - Can you imagine the on-line world without del.icio.us, reddit, digg, dzone and other Web2.0 social bookmarking sites? Sure, you can - they were not always around and nobody missed them before they appeared.

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Apr 15

Bookmarks for April 14th through April 15th
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phatfusion : googleDrive - drive around google maps.
ivan krsti? · code culture » Quote, unquote - Photo: corkboard closeup, sixth floor of Soda Hall, University of California at Berkeley.
Gems On Rails - Link or freeze RubyGems into your rails apps, instead of just plugins. This allows you to ?vendor everything? ? pushing all dependent gems into your rails app thus ensuring your application will be guaranteed to work when deployed. Your application
Rail Spikes: Working with others: Best practices for Rails teams - Working with others: Best practices for Rails teams
Dell Coupons, HP Coupons, Overstock Coupon, Dell Coupon - BradsDeals - BradsDeals, published by Brad Wilson, finds and writes about online shopping deals, online coupons and codes and in-store printable coupons.

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