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Linkdump for November 9th

by Rob Friesel

Officials: Fake weapons parts ‘ticking time bomb’ At the Associated Press. Fascinating story. (tagged: military politics counterfeit research ) Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours Thanks, Wired. (tagged: creative commons wired ) To Find Alien Cities, Look for City Lights on Distant Planets at Popular Science (tagged: Science Astronomy ) […]

Linkdump for May 16th

by Rob Friesel

Lexadecimal (tagged: webdev design css art geek ) The People vs. Goldman Sachs Matt Taibbi should get an award or a medal or carte blanche to start kicking these guys in the balls or something: The legal definition of financial fraud may be murky and complex, but everybody knows you can't lie to Congress. It's […]

Linkdump for December 25th

by Rob Friesel

The Blast Shack Bruce Sterling writing at Webstock.org: Diplomats are people who speak from nation to nation. They personify nations, and nations are brutal, savage, feral entities. (tagged: politics culture hacking privacy technology essay ) Angry Robot to open the floodgates for one month SFScope (tagged: scifi writing publishing todo ) Axe Cop. That is […]

Linkdump for August 24th

by Rob Friesel

Climb On! by Lisa Katayama, at Boing Boing — Absolutely awesome article. I agree with every word. (Except about the Rubik's cube; I kind of hate the Rubik's cube.) Climbing feels like playing Tetris with my body. (tagged: climbing exercise mental geek ) HTML5 Elements and Attributes (tagged: html5 webdev documentation ) Efficient JavaScript at […]

Linkdump for October 19th

by Rob Friesel

Rashomon at rogerebert.com (via DF) (tagged: film cinema culture Rashomon Kurosawa essay ) Observations: Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment via /. — E. coli evolution FTW! (tagged: evolution news ) Wall Street Smarts Another one via DF (at NYTimes.com): “Did you ever hear the word ‘derivatives’?” he said. “Do you think our […]

Linkdump for June 30th

by Rob Friesel

Hands on with the Opera 10 Web browser beta at Macworld (via DF) — posting waaay after the fact but: I love what they've done with the tab bar. (tagged: opera browsers ui todo ) The Big Idea: Seth Shostak at Whatever (tagged: science space astronomy culture society exobiology research todo ) China Mieville on […]

Linkdump for June 13th

by Rob Friesel

My Dad and Old Bay Seasoning at Al Dente — Old Bay is the 3rd best culinary invention after butter and bacon. (tagged: OldBay food ) 20 Developers to Follow on Twitter For me, the jury is still out on Twitter's staying power and whether/not the benefits outweigh the costs of following folks. The serendipity […]

Linkdump for April 2nd

by Rob Friesel

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag ThinkGeek wins the price this year for best April Fool's prank. Hands down. (tagged: geek fun kids wishlist starwars blog ) Wrong Tomorrow – pundits vs. time via fogus, DF — rejected alternate title "pundit fail"? (tagged: prediction future blog ) SXSW Typography: Quit Bitchin and get Your Glyph on If there's […]

Linkdump for February 17th

by Rob Friesel

Specify your canonical at Official Google Webmaster Central Blog (via DF) (tagged: webdev url todo ) The Third Bucket by James Duncan Davidson (tagged: photography essay todo ) Top 10 iPhone Games, as Voted by Wired.com Readers at Game | Life from Wired.com: Yay! Time-wasters! (tagged: iPhone games fun todo ) MDK : Quicklook for […]

Linkdump for January 18th

by Rob Friesel

superuseless superpowers via kottke (tagged: humor comic parody ) Beautiful Code Documentation at Ajaxian: It's true. Typography does matter. (tagged: javascript typography documentation ) Productivity: How Cory Doctorow Gets Writing Done via LifeHacker (tagged: writing lifehacks productivity GTD editing ) Zimbabwe to print first $100 trillion note – CNN.com via B²: better unload those Gippers […]