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Category: technology

  • The secret to making money online – (37signals) Rails…

    The secret to making money online – (37signals) Rails creator/37Signals Partner David Hansson talks about building businesses for 40 people.  Talks a lot of sense.  Is he allowed to say these things out loud?  What if someone hears?

  • Clay Shirky @ Web2.0 – Gin And The Cognitive Surplus

    Clay Shirky @ Web2.0 – Gin And The Cognitive Surplus

  • How-to build your own CNC mill

    C&C for the masses. I’ma build me one of these, in my copious free time. Yes folks it’s true: You can build a computer controlled 3-axis circuit board mill from cutting boards, a pile of printer parts and a Dremel. My coworker [Will] has posted the third and final installment of his CNC machine build…

  • Compare and Contrast: Eco versus Stephenson on Operating Systems

    In 1994, Umberto Eco wrote an essay in which he compared the Macintosh to the Catholic Church and DOS to the Protestants. “Indeed,” he says “the Macintosh is counter-reformist and has been influenced by the ratio studiorum of the Jesuits.” DOS, he says, is Calvinistic, as it “allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal…

  • XM Developing A Crank-Powered Satellite Radio

    I love the hi/lo of a device you crank in order to receive a message from another device floating in space. More Gibson than Gibson. As part of XM Satellite Radio’s expanded EAS initiative, XM is working to develop a crank-powered satellite radio receiver that would allow listeners to receive signal during power outages. So…

  • Get Rich or Die Tryin’

    New business model. Give us all your money Originally from MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon reBlogged by micah on Jun 9, 2006, 4:11PM

  • Danger Doom The Occult Hymn EP available free from Adultswim.com

    Go listen to this, laugh. Danger Doom “The Occult Hymn” EP available free from Adultswim.com [More Inside] but that is pretty much it. Originally from MetaFilter by ND¢ reBlogged by micah to music humor on Jun 9, 2006, 11:16AM

  • Visual Wordnet

    This looks fun. Kyle Scholz has created a Visual Wordnet based on his Force Directed Graph engine written in JavaScript. Force Directed Graphs are self-organizing, visually appealing tools for representing relational data. The look is organic, because algorithms simulate the way charged particles arrange in space. They work great in user interfaces because the user…

  • Technorati testing microformats search and “Pingerati”

    Tools to aggregate content published in a decentralized manner are king. Filed under: Blogging, Web servicesOver at the Technorati Weblog, Tantek Çelik has announced two new products, Microformats Search and Pingerati. In case you’re not familiar, microformats are small bits of XML that can be used to describe things like events, product reviews, or contacts…