➠ August 18, 2007
Overflowing
The problem with the sizes of rooms varying so much. It's hard to judge how big a room you should book for your topic. This discussion on "Data Grids" (Hadoop, Bigtable, etc) spilled out of its conference room.
Tags
The bandpasses have spaces to list your tags -- those things that interest or represent you. Some people take it less seriously than others.
The Original BarCampers
The sign-in rolls from the first BarCamp, two years ago.
The Hosts
Tara, Tantek, Liz, Chris and Ross.
The Grid (before)
Before the hordes descended with their post-its. Around twenty rooms, capacities ranging from 6 to 70.
➠ August 17, 2007
Fucking Yankees, Reports Nation | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
“Fucking Yankees,” said Marshfield, MA resident and longtime Red Sox fan Lawrence Broberg, echoing the sentiments of thousands of men and woman across the nation. “Every year. Every goddamn year.”
➠ August 16, 2007
Pibb: Lets Get Ready To BarCamp!
BarCampBlock’s IRC backchannel is going to be web-accessible. If it works, it’ll be a pretty impressive feat!
➠ August 15, 2007
b3ta.com I'm beginning to regret accepting Pink Floyd as friends...
Top quality Facebook/Pink Floyd punnery ahoy!
Iconistan invades BBC News
Social bookmark links have appeared at the bottom of BBC News reports.
YouTube: Of Muppets and Men
The whole of a *fantastic* behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of The Muppet Show.
➠ August 14, 2007
Two Social System Design Trends That Should Really, Really Stop. Like now.
“Yes, I know you’d love to have access to my address books and IM lists. But stop asking me for my login & password. Like to poke around my bank account while you’re at it? Take my wife out for naked tequila shots? How about just kicking me in the nuts a few times to show me who’s boss?”
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
Tool to find astroturfing on Wikipedia. Sadly, the site that powered this article is overloaded and down currently.
TECH cocktail Boston
Another local geek networking event — this one with the promise of free booze. The evening collides with O’Reilly’s second Ignite Boston night, which will lead to an interesting splitting of the audience.
➠ August 13, 2007
Real Life Comics - comic strip for August 10, 2007
I need to get myself a t-shirt with a traffic cone on it, clearly.
Dinosaurs with Jetpacks. at Shots Ring Out
This was my read too. Universal’s DRM-free experiment is mostly an attack on Apple’s success with the iTunes Music Store.
➠ August 12, 2007
Two-way Video Conferencing for iPhone
Software (and tiny bit of hardware) hack to enable video conferencing between iPhones. Amazing that hobbyists have reverse-engineered a fairly-complete iPhone SDK.
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