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Entries for week beginning September 7, 2008

September 13, 2008

Frost/Nixon trailer

Oh man, this looks so fucking good.

Beep Beep (Part Two) - The Fishbowl

A great quote tucked away in the footnote: ‘Whenever you feel your opinion on software productivity, DRM, Mac vs PC vs Linux… or pretty much anything regularly discussed on the Internet has any chance of being meaningfully debated in the wider world, it helps to point at your computer and say to yourself: “the rest of the world calls that the hard drive”’

Girl Talk

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manima and yahooza

manima and yahooza

HackSnacks

HackSnacks

Hello, I Am the Control Panel

Hello, I Am the Control Panel

Inside a solar-powered, geo-coding, flickr-photo-uploading, purple bicycle.

Seth & Ben present FireEagle

Seth & Ben present FireEagle

Kent Brewster on Rolling Your Own API

Kent Brewster on Rolling Your Own API

The marvelous, non-functioning projector making his life harder.

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September 12, 2008

Hack Day Display

Hack Day Display

Kent Brewster's Hack Day Display, pulling in the latest photos from Flickr, and tweets from Twitter.

Django: the web framework for ponies with magical powers

Django finally has the mascot it deserves.

Stumper : The Politics of Stupidity

“Years from now presidential historians will look back on Sept. 9 as the day the 2008 campaign got completely and utterly stupid.” I felt massively depressed on Wednesday, as the pig/lipstick and kiddie-sex-ed trains swiftboated on.

Dopplr Blog: Find and invite your existing social networks

Dopplr have open-sourced their Ruby code to find your contacts and friends on social networks. They do a great job with it, so this’ll be worth keeping an eye on until “Portable Contacts” takes off.

Stephen & the Colberts in Rock Band

Available now as a free download. A payback for that Rush playing Rock Band viral?

September 11, 2008

LHC Webcams

If anyone you know is worried about the Large Hadron Collider, send them a link to these webcams. They should feel reassured.

September 10, 2008

BBC NEWS | Girls Aloud win £20 single prize

The BBC does a decent write-up of the behind-the-scenes politicking of THE music prize that matters — Popjustice’s Twenty Quid Music Prize.

September 9, 2008

History of the browser user-agent string

Or how we got from “NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)” to “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13”

Mogwai Fear Satan

Mogwai Fear Satan

September 8, 2008

September 7, 2008

Bacon Shirts

An entire webstore for t-shirts celebrating bacon? Welcome to the internet!

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