Meme Washer

• Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year | All about Microsoft
  (tags: via:rhockens browsers ie8 microsoft software)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:39 AM | Permalink

• FARK.com: (3775380) Douche: Trying to look important with an open laptop in your car. Totaldouche: A full desk, desktop computer and 17" monitor -- in your convertible
  Fark thread about the Gizmodo post about Dr. Safwan Sweidan, aka Office In His Car Guy. jbezorg: "That's an improper use of a chick magnet car like a Chrysler Sebring. I wonder if he blasts Christopher Cross, Ride Like The Wind."
  (tags: fark me my flickr gizmodo meme internets stupid office car convertible harware mobile 2008 2006 lol comments community mob)
• Carputer: Some Nut Puts Working Desktop, 17-inch CRT and Printer in Convertible
  Gizmodo linked to my photostream. Office in his car guys is a meme!
  (tags: computer weird wtf office gadgets car random photo meme internets america digital nomads technomads mobile me damn gizmodo my flickr 2008 2006)
• Amazon.co.uk: Diary of An Afro Warrior: Benga: Music
  (tags: music wishlist bbc uk jungle electronic)
• Firefox Summit 2008 Firebug and Chromebug (9)
  John Barton's slides from Firefox Summit 2008. Overview of where Firebug development is at, a list of extensions (YSlow and others) for Firebug and other interesting links.
  (tags: firebug mozilla firefox extensions slides about learning yslow theilab javascript debugging)
• Firefox Summit 2008 Firebug and Chromebug (9)
  John Barton's slides from Firefox Summit 2008. Overview of where Firebug development is at, a list of extensions (YSlow and others) for Firebug and other interesting links.
  (tags: firebug mozilla firefox extensions slides about learning yslow theilab javascript debugging)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:02 AM | Permalink

• Council of Five Nations - General Information Overview | Schenectady Wargamers Association
  (tags: cofn albany ny gaming GURPS)
• Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
  (tags: via:rhockens google programming search cuil startup 2008 hype seo)
• Bug Labs
  (tags: bug mobile hardware hacking linux *nix embedded devices edtech nyc)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• Sync : Calendar problems - Mobile Help Center
  I switched default email addresses on my Curve without realizing that each email address had its own calendar, or that Google Sync only sees the _default_ calendar. Since I'd had 2 different default calendars, I think would up with duplicate items.
  (tags: easy tips essential blackberry google calendar sync debugging delete duplicate events reset restart)
• How to Remove "Sent from my BlackBerry" - Page 2 - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com
  Verizon does not make it intuitive to remove the "sent from my verizon wireless blackberry" sig that is the default when sending mail from any account on my curve.
  (tags: Blackberry verizon text.only configuration change email signature tips undocumented useful basic easy remove delete)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• 170 Free Games for your BlackBerry
  (tags: freeware games list mobile software Blackberry)
• The Power User's BlackBerry Guide: 121 CrackBerry Tips, Hacks and Resources - Inside CRM
  (tags: Blackberry guide hacking hacks howto lifehacks tweaks productivity tips)
• What You Should Know Before you Switch from BlackBerry to iPhone
  (tags: Blackberry iphone reviews tips usability)
• Pushing your Gmail vs. the Gmail BlackBerry app | BB Geeks
  Great post and comment thread on getting GMail as push mail on a BlackBerry, without the "special" GMail annoyance of sent messages showing up in the inbox. As commenters point out, an alternative would be to enable new mail notification for the GMail ap
  (tags: gmail blackberry imap email tips hacking configuration push useful google)
• How to Remove "Sent from my BlackBerry" - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com
  lolz
  (tags: Blackberry howto tips hacking brand branding stupid text.only writing dignity email)
• Erase Calendar - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com
  Open Desktop Manager, Connect your BB, Double-click "backup & restore", Select "advanced", scroll down to "calendar", and then highlight it, click the "clear" button under the list
  (tags: blackberry clear calendar time reset doh delete tips)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• i need to unlock my blackberry curve - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com
  "It's not my fault someone slipped and lost a expensive phone. It's not my fault" stumbled across this while googling to figure out where the IMEI number is printed on my Curve
  (tags: blackberry curve IMEI name crime lol geek funny internets)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• 43 Folders
  (tags: web2:primer productivity merlinmann procrastination organization tips geek fun)
• Flickr: january20th2009's Photostream
  (tags: obama streetart flickr 2008 election america)
• Infovore » CSS Redundancy Checker: jQuery edition
  (tags: jquery css unittest validation JavaScript web ui maintenance)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• The Brick Testament
  (tags: lego bible religion awesome)
• jQuery UI - Home
  (tags: jquery ui library code javascript dhtml xhr web ux theilab)
• Technomads
  (tags: digital nomads mobile mondo2000 bike travel culture behemoth)
• sacha chua :: enterprise 2.0 consultant, storyteller, geek
  (tags: consultant Emacs enterprise2.0 geek gtd IBM sachachua wiki web2:primer)
• Finalist In McDonalds/MySpace Jingle Contest Is Former McDonalds Armed Robber
  (tags: awesome crime mcdonalds internets myspace)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• THE QUIXOTIC QUEST FOR INVULNERABILITY: ASSESSING THE COSTS, BENEFITS, AND PROBABILITIES OF PROTECTING THE HOMELAND (PDF)
  (tags: analysis politics security TSA terrorism bruceschneier paper)
• Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done
  (tags: web2:primer lifehacker lifehacks blog productivity)
• The Winnebiko Two Adventure
  "Motivated by the desire to capture [ideas], I built the new system and catapulted the adventure into a whole new phase: not only could I do word processing while riding, but I could also exchange electronic mail via packet radio."
  (tags: 1980s 1986 bicycle hacks nomad digital writing wearable ubiquitous ux ui)
• The BEHEMOTH Adventure
  There are 6 levels of security sensors, and a variety of automatic responses to intrusion...When parked in front of a restaurant, for example, human proximity is not an alarm condition -- but it would be if the bike were locked in someone's supposedly sec
  (tags: BEHEMOTH bike hacking hardware mobile web work play mondo2000 1990s)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
  (tags: web2:primer aggregator animation basic anthropology art blogosphere communication demographics emotion visualization)
• YouTube - The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)
  (tags: web2:primer anthropology basic culture video summary web social software media collaboration folksonomy trends)
• digg labs
  (tags: digg visualizations basic social web software collaboration news voting crowdsourcing web2:primer internets)
• FriendFeed
  (tags: web2:primer social web aggregator filter network software media news blogging)
• Pipes: Rewire the web
  (tags: web2:primer aggregator filter productivity yahoo rss)
• MetaFilter | Community Weblog
  (tags: web2:primer social media software community internets fun basic)
• Google Groups
  (tags: web2:primer social media software community usenet essential discussion web basic)
• How to generate podcasts from HypeMachine searches or del.icio.us tags
  (tags: del.icio.us hypemachine howto rss music podcast automation filter search blogosphere community crowdsourcing web2:primer)
• 4chan
  (tags: web2:primer community internets visual visual.thinkers meme NSFW basic)
• Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
  (tags: web2:primer community news internets social software blogosphere aggregator basic)
• Microformats
  (tags: standards Web microformats patterns writing web2:primer html)
• TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook
  (tags: productivity JavaScript singlepageapplication single page application future crossplatform xbrowser interoperability web2:primer lifehacks)
• Ruby on Rails
  According to Tim Bray, "designers don't need programmers any more. Designers can build web apps all by themselves, using Rails." (AEA Seattle 2007)
  (tags: web2:primer ruby rails web application service programming)
• Amazon.com: Most Popular Tags
  (tags: basic web2:primer amazon tag cloud visualization shopping enterprise)
• meebo.com
  (tags: javascript im aim micropresence basic web2:primer service social chat)
• Twitter Search
  (tags: basic web2:primer aggregator search twitter community social software media 2008)
• Google Reader
  (tags: basic web2:primer via:robzand RSS Google aggregator filter reader)
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web | O'Reilly Media
  (tags: web2:primer books ia writing web content information architecture)
• Second Life: Official site of the 3D online virtual world
  (tags: art community social software network mmo mmorpg game gaming web2:primer virtual web3.0 sl)
• Amazon.com: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More: Chris Anderson: Books
  (tags: books Web marketing longtail theory economics future niche community web2:primer basic)
• ThinkGeek :: RTFM
  (tags: theilab)
• Tests for conformance evaluation UWEM 1.0
  See section 3.5 for an explanation of how H1-6 tags are expected to be used in well-formed HTML.
  (tags: standards validation h1 headings html document structure semantic raakt uwem accessibility wcag theilab 2008 specification unified web evaluation methodology xhtml markup)
• Scratch for Second Life
  (tags: secondlife education games scratch mit 2008 edtech mmo mmorpg virtual.worlds)
• Tagging, folksonomy & co -- renaissance of manual indexing? (PDF)
  Referenced in a thread on YDN-Delicious. LOTS of pointers to other papers on tagging and folksonomy.
  (tags: ydn-delicious del.icio.us tagging folksonomy paper social media software pdf is:voss2007)
• Information Management: A Proposal
  (tags: paper in:voss2007 web history 1980s internet)
• A phenomenological framework for the relationship between the semantic web and user-centered tagging systems (PDF)
  (tags: in:voss2007 paper folksonomy philosophy semantic web user-centered ux)
• Edge; DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier
  (tags: paper in:voss2007 crowdsourcing web culture community social media software criticism)
• The indexing revival
  (tags: in:voss2007 paper tagging folksonomy)
• Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
  (tags: in:voss2007 paper tagging folksonomy theory)
• Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
  (tags: in:voss2007 tagging folksonomy criticism culture paper)
• Measuring Wikipedia (PDF)
  (tags: in:voss2007 statistics wikipedia paper folksonomy crowdsourcing tagging)
• The Future of Indexing?
  (tags: in:voss2007 paper social tagging folksonomy)
• Trends and issues in establishing interoperability among knowledge organization systems (PDF)
  (tags: paper in:voss2007 tagging folksonomy)
• What to Know Before Debating Type Systems
  (tags: paper java lisp hacking holy flame war opinion ComputerScience type-systems type languages)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:33 AM | Permalink

• Basic Work Cycle
  Resolving conflicts with subversion
  (tags: basic faq guide howto svn subversion conflict resolution resolve)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• sacha chua :: tech evangelist, connector, geek :: Planner Mode
  (tags: Emacs calendar gtd mode organization productivity planner)
• org-mode cheatsheet
  (tags: Emacs org-mode orgmode cheatsheet tips productivity)
• Repeated tasks - The Org Manual
  How to schedule repeating todos
  (tags: todo time cycle repeat orgmode org-mode emacs planning)
• Org mode cheat sheet (plain text)
  (tags: cheatsheet orgmode Emacs org-mode text.only tips productivity)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• Oreilly FOO camp 2008
  Maybe next year
  (tags: conference O'Reilly FooCamp foo camp hacking community theilab)
• Instapaper
  (tags: iphone instapaper via:steverubel)
• Streetsblog » Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are “Not a Law of Nature”
  The architect behind the Broadway Esplanade http://tinyurl.com/666c3h
  (tags: nyc architecture green bike urban planning bloomberg traffic patterns flow)
• MetaPost example illustrations with source files
  (tags: latex metapost graphs drawing examples flow chart)
• Sarovar.org: PSTricks Tutorial: Project Info
  A multi-chapter tutorial on drawing in LaTeX with PSTricks
  (tags: art drawing geek graphics LaTeX tips tutorial tools pstricks postscript TeX)
• Ruby: Turn bash.org quotes into a fortune file | sacha chua :: enterprise 2.0 consultant, storyteller, geek
  (tags: fortune irc data munge filter)
• Clocking work time - The Org Manual
  "Org mode allows you to clock the time you spent on specific tasks in a project."
  (tags: emacs time tracking theilab work org-mode)
• Using org-mode as a Day Planner | Emacs | New Artisans LLC
  Nice tutorial but you need to break out the calls that reference org-mode-agenda-map into a separate eval-after-load block. See http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg07167.html
  (tags: elisp Emacs gtd howto life management mode theilab org-mode organization planning productivity scheduling tools tutorials work orgmode)
• Tracking TODO state changes - The Org Manual
  Explains how to make org mode prompt for a note whenever the status of a task changes.
  (tags: org orgmode emacs productivity todo)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• Streetsblog » Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance
  (tags: nyc bike green environment urban future video)
• HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  (tags: accessibility accesskeys HTML tabindex text.only project:nsat standards)
• Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  (tags: accessibility cheatsheet wcag)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• is.gd URL Shortener - The Shortest URLs Around
  tinier urls
  (tags: 2008 urls tiny uri url useful tools tricks utilities small smart tinyurl geek hack interesting filter cool shortener)
• Crass: There Is No Authority But Yourself (English w/ Dutch Subtitels)
  (tags: via:rhockens crass pennyrimbaud steveignorant video documentary)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• Ironic Sans: Thsrs - The Shorter Thesaurus
  This is awesome. Please add support for swears.
  (tags: thesaurus language english texting sms service via:steverubel cool fun silly optimization accessibility cognitive small words writing)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• How to use a cookie from Firefox with WGet
  (tags: cookies web auth authorization tools download wget howto https cookie firefox)

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• Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All : NPR
  Biz Stone explains how he trained an army of bio-engineered super-penguins to build the "science ray" used to hypnotize us all into believing that a service CONSTANTLY DOWN is the next big thing :) Srsly, this is the rare NPR interview that made me lol
  (tags: 2008 failwhale twitter socialnetworks socialsoftware performance fail via:steverubel lol internets culture interview listen)
• The Twitter Versus FriendFeed Debate? No One Cares! » Adrants
  "Twitter is just a fancy newsgroup or forum with big buttons and a few more bells are whistles for the mobile generation"
  (tags: socialmedia twitter friendfeed 2008 web2.0 hype rant good)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• Cenqua: Introducing the PairOn
  Finally the blockage to adopting Agile has been identified -- we don't have the right chairs! Thanks CodingHorror.com, it's all so obvious now.
  (tags: agile chair extreme funny geek furniture programming xp tools essential tobuy softwareengineering hardware pair pairprogramming xxp omg lol)
• Yiying Lu
  Creator of the Fail Whale.
  (tags: fail whale character cartoon artist twitter illustration artists cool design art birds graphics drawing inspiration people)
• Twitter / noah sussman: JavaScript is a sloppy lang...
  "JavaScript is a sloppy language, but inside it there is an elegant, better language. " --Douglas Crockford (JavaScript, the good parts)
  (tags: javascript architecture quotations inspiration 2008 functional programming hacking web)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• Cloudalicious - Watching Tag Clouds Over Time
  Graph the delicious URL history of a page, showing which tags are associated with the page, and how those associations have changed over time.
  (tags: del.icio.us tagging visualization folksonomy metrics statistical.data time colorful)
• The Internet is for Losers
  Old, yet still funny. "It's like giving the village idiot a junk mail permit... Let people wear masks and they become bigger assholes than even the Ku Klux Klan." Touche.
  (tags: culture history humor Internet 1990s community web social netiquette)
• OOPSLA 2008
  "up to 14 hours a day of continuous interaction" with researchers and developers. AND a celebration of Lisp's 50th birthday :)
  (tags: conference 2008 OO programming research software design development lisp SoftwareEngineering oopsla)
• file: classify unknown files on the console
  Run this command on a file to find out what kind of file it is -- way better than blindly double-clicking and hoping OS X will recognize the extension. And it can show MIME-types as well. And its already installed if you're running MacPorts.
  (tags: via:rhockens filesystem howto unix commandline osx bsd file macports MIME web debugging tools analysis hacking)
• Henk Barendregt, Lambda Calculi with Types, Handbook of Logic in Computer Science, Volume II, Oxford University Press.
  (tags: paper math lambda calculus programming)
• The Next Slum?
  Giant malls and far suburbs are on the decline, thankfully. "if New York City were its own state, it would be the most energy-efficient state in the union"
  (tags: 2008 america architecture business community economy crime culture demographics energy future realestate sprawl suburban trends urban housing urbanism suburbia)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 12:30 AM | Permalink

• Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio
  Goofy metrics about what an awesome twitter-er you may or may not be.
  (tags: twitter analysis statistics friends social network software socialsoftware ego geek datamining)
• Preoccupations - I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip - NYTimes.com
  A guy who learned to work in the same style as a NYC Web developer, apparently :p This article is mildly interesting but doesn't justify all the buzz it got last week imo
  (tags: email IBM productivity socialsoftware transparency e-mail trends collaboration)
• Can Social Tools Really Replace Email? | Lifehacker Australia
  Fascinated by the concept of "email chain reactions," answering "the same question" from many people, many times over. More than ever I appreciate the "programmer's privilege" of sending a one-line reply and then turning off Outlook for the day.
  (tags: culture email socialsoftware collaboration productivity wtf)
• Fuel Prices Shift Math for Life in Far Suburbs - NYTimes.com
  Building a McMansion and driving the spawnz to soccer in the SUV, is starting to suck. We all feel bad about that.
  (tags: culture suburban economy 2008 realestate via:robzand sprawl environment mcmansion)
• What Women Want (Maybe) - NYTimes.com
  Laughably, the documentary mentioned was sparked because the director saw girls kissing on TV and thought that constituted a "cultural shift." The research data is interesting I guess.
  (tags: sex culture celebrity women aesthetic desire media)
• Water-Starved California Slows Development - NYTimes.com
  (tags: water conservation ecology environment california future economy)
• Noah Sussmanさんの素材｜頑張れ!!ﾃﾞｺﾘｴｲﾀ～
  Can't read the page, but it's some sort of aggregator that pulls my Flickr photostream. Babelfish says タグ means "tags," so now I can read 1 word in Japanese -- yay!
  (tags: me ego noahsussman flickr aggregator japan photos creativecommons)