Pinboard: public bookmarks for dominik

> Renowned author Dan Brown got out of his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house and paced the bedroom, using the feet located at the ends of his two legs to propel him forwards. He knew he shouldn’t care what a few jealous critics thought.

review danbrown l
6 days ago

copy to mine

Pitchfork's Daft Punk online "cover" story. Wow.

Extremely well made.

DaftPunk Pitchfork l
6 days ago

copy to mine

BBM is coming to iPhone and Android

Yay?

BBM Blackberry iPhone Android l
6 days ago

copy to mine

Why Many in China Hate Iron Man 3's Chinese Version

> What does Iron Man rely on to revitalize his energy?

Oh, come on. Really?

IronMan China Movie l
7 days ago

copy to mine

Behind The Scenes of Absolut Vodka

It's rather fascinating what's going into both the drink itself and the brand.

> Absolut distillery produces a staggering 600,000 liters of vodka per day

Vodka Absolut l
8 days ago

copy to mine

ClippingMagic

> Easily Remove Image Backgrounds

Okay, this is amazing. I was always too lazy to do it in a photo editor but this thing works so well.

graphics image images tools editor l
8 days ago

copy to mine

Flying car crashes near Vernon, B.C., school

I am *pretty* sure that's the first time we have a traffic accident involving a flying car.

future flyingcar traffic l
8 days ago

copy to mine

Reclaim Social Media

Livestream 2.0?

blog socialnetworking wordpress
11 days ago

copy to mine

musicForProgramming();

> A series of mixes intended for listening while programming to aid concentration and increase productivity (also compatible with other activities).

code interesting programming music l
11 days ago

copy to mine

Candy — a JavaScript-based multi-user chat client

Intriguing.

jabber webchat
11 days ago

copy to mine

Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It

> Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone. It just wants to sit here quietly and think for a minute.

culture economics generation-x
11 days ago

copy to mine

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!

Try to guess a place by it's Google Street View picture.

game games googlemaps maps l
11 days ago

copy to mine

Aaron Ellis's answer to Why was the "SexyBack" song by Justin Timberlake so revolutionary?

tl;dr: it wasn't all that revolutionary, but it was *different* enough at the time.

Timberlake
12 days ago

copy to mine

Instacast for Mac - Vemedio

My favorite podcatcher for the iPhone is now on the Mac, too. Looks pretty and seems to work well.

instacast mac software podcasting
20 days ago

copy to mine

SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting by DigitalOcean

Looks interesting. Very interesting indeed.

vpn hosting
23 days ago

copy to mine

Kowloon Walled City: Life in the City of Darkness | South China Morning Post

So very interesting.

architecture culture history hongkong urban kowloon
23 days ago

copy to mine

Kowloon "Anarchy" City

The Walled City is super fascinating.

kowloon hongkong
23 days ago

copy to mine

Status | Cultured Code

(Maybe not a surprise, but:) I like the airport look.

design inspiration status
23 days ago

copy to mine

Guide to Traveling to El Nido, Philippines

Oh, nice!

elnido Philippines
23 days ago

copy to mine

'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'

> Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.

animals australia drugs l
23 days ago

copy to mine

What if the Tsarnaevs Had Been the "Boston Shooters"?

> Here’s a little mental experiment. Imagine, for a moment, that the Tsarnaev brothers, instead of packing a couple of pressure cookers loaded with nails and explosives into their backpacks a week ago Monday, had stuffed inside their coats two assault rifles—Bushmaster AR-15s, say, of the type that Adam Lanza used in Newtown. What would have been different?

boston
23 days ago

copy to mine

Devpressed

> A forum for the tech community to share stories about depression and anxiety.

Developer Depression Anxiety Community
25 days ago

copy to mine

Markable.in

Basically [Mou](http://mouapp.com/) in the browser.

online dropbox editor markdown l
26 days ago

copy to mine

Setting up Sublime Text 2

I'm slowly starting to really like Sublime Text. This might help a bit more.

programming text editor
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

rel="logo"

> rel="logo" is a proposed standard for serving and maintaining up-to-date logos for use in various media

api html logo webdesign svg
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

Twenty Awesome Covers From The US Space Program

> The upcoming 2013 April 18 Space Exploration Signature Auction by Heritage Auctions brought us these fine document covers. Manuals, guidebooks, press kits, reports, brochures - all with cool artworks and typography. Enjoy!

design nasa space typography l
6 weeks ago

copy to mine

ControlPlane | Context Sensitive Computing

> ControlPlane allows you to build configuration profiles, contexts in ControlPlane lingo, for your Mac based on where you are or what you are doing. ControlPlane determines where you are or what you are doing based on a number of available evidence sources and then automatically reconfigures your Mac based on your preferences.

app mac osx software automation
6 weeks ago

copy to mine

X-Icon Editor

> X-Icon Editor is an HTML5 application (based on <Canvas>) that allows you to create high resolution icons that lets your sites shine with IE9 and above. With X-Icon Editor you can quickly get your site ready with a large icon which will be available for pinned sites and the new tab page. Create your own site icon today!

icon icons editor favicon
6 weeks ago

copy to mine

The 727 that Vanished

> In 2003, a 727 that once flew for American Airlines disappeared from Angola.

Super fascinating.

727 Airplane Mystery l
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

Inside the Ghost Ships of the Mothball Fleet | Beyond the Photos

> For decades, dozens of forgotten Navy and merchant ships have been corroding in Suisun Bay, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. These historic vessels—the Mothball Fleet—served their country in four wars: WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Desert Storm. After a decade of impasse, the ghost fleet is slowly dwindling as the ships are towed out one-by-one for scrapping. About 15 retired ships are already gone; by 2017, the entire fleet will be just a memory.

history military photography photos l
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

2000, the Year Formerly Known as the Future

> Let’s time-travel back to the year 2000 and have a look.

future history psychology technology l
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley - A Cunt and His iPhone

> It’s hard to imagine how you can turn a personal puff piece about your mobile phone into such a stunning cocktasm. Dave Morin manages it.

The mountains are my soul.

davemorin path siliconvalley l
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

Latest Japanese Schoolgirl Trend: Fake Dragon Ball Attacks

> **Very important update:** The trend is spreading from schoolgirls to bikers!

Japan Photography Manga Anime l
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

[no title]

Sometimes I wonder if I should just use the note feature here as blog.

from notes
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

Is Moleskine Inc Replicable?

> In short, Moleskine is not selling a notebook, it’s selling customers on the identity of being the type of person who uses a moleskine - someone whose cultured globetrotting is reminiscent of Hemingway.

Moleskine Economics
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

StatusPage.io - Hosted Status Pages for Your Company

> StatusPage is the easiest way to create hosted status pages. Status pages live outside of your infrastructure so when you're down, your status page isn't.

This looks so useful.

server web monitoring hosting status
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

Deutschland - Abschied vom Technologiestandort

> Die Frage, wie wir als Gesellschaft und als Wirtschaftsstandort mit der Digitalisierung unserer Welt umgehen ist die größte Herausforderung unserer Zeit. Deutschland, vor allem die deutschen Politik, glaubt sie mit einer Verweigerungshaltung beantworten zu können.

Knüwer Deutschland Digitalisierung Internet Zukunft
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

Cracked heart of the old world

> To historians, none of this is new. The Germans have always been either too weak or too strong. Most people know that the German question goes back at least as far as the two world wars, and they are vaguely aware that its roots can be traced to 19th-century debates about German unification. There is a large and sophisticated scholarly literature on the subject. Very few, however, understand that the “German question”, in various guises, has dominated European history since the mid-15th century.

Germany History Europe
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

Stop Using Small Font Sizes

Yeah, we can take bigger font sizes.

css design fonts typography usability
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

Abfall für Alle (Reader Edition)

> ich glaub nicht, dass blogs die echten freunde – btw: danke! – des blogs verlieren, die machen bei sich zur not im browser ein bookmark oder schreiben sich die url ins moleskine.

readercalypse
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

How Foursquare Is Forcing Social Networks to Check In or Check Out

> Now, even the most basic apps can do all of these things at once. Location has seeped into every corner of the mobile social experience. In fact, it’s expected to be there. Every time you share a digital tidbit — a photo, a video, a tweet — you’re invited to peg it to a place in the physical world, and any social app that doesn’t provide that option comes across as incomplete, even broken.

Foursquare Location
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader

> We need to start simple. We don’t have much time. And if we don’t do it this way, the likely alternative is that a few major clients will make their own custom sync solutions that won’t work with any other company’s clients, which won’t bring them nearly as much value as it will remove from their users.

api google rss readercalypse reader
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

Simulated Landscape Painting From Simulated Landscapes.

> Computers painting synthetic landscapes.

This is pretty amazing.

map art
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

The Night of the Living Feeds Revisited

> der ganze bullshit von twitter seit dick costolo und der ganz blödsinn von google, seit sie auf social machen, auf der spitze der schwachsinnigkeit eben jetzt die vernichtung vom google reader, das alles ist ein symptom dieses nihilismus, der den verbliebenen frei flottierenden eigensinn am liebsten weglöschen will.

feed google twitter readercalypse
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

Killing Google Reader is like killing the bees: we'll all be worse off

> Around the world, the bees are dying due, it's thought, to modern insecticides, The irony is that bees are essential to agriculture and the wider ecosystem; the outcome of their decline will be far more onerous than the insect damage the treatment was supposed to prevent. Google is now in the unhappy position of emulating the pesticide-wielding farmers.

google reader readercalypse
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

So Long Google Reader, and Thanks for the Memories

> All I can say is I’ll miss you, dear Google Reader. I don’t know how I could have been a journalist these last few years without you. I may have been forced to find my own scoops by leaving my desk or a picking up a phone.

Google Reader Readercalypse
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects

> Google Reader was doomed to fail from the very beginning: the company never really believed in it and it took big effort on part of a small team to make it work. Chris Wetherell, original creator & part of the Reader team reflects on past & the future.

google reader readercalypse
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

Nach dem Reader-Drama: Google und die geheimnisvolle Spezies Mensch

> Google versteht Maschinen und logisches Handeln, aber es fällt der Firma schwer, das nicht rational erklärbare Verhalten von Menschen und die Dynamiken ihrer Kommunikation und Interaktion nachzuvollziehen sowie ihre tiefsten Bedürfnisse nachzuempfinden und diese Sachverhalte in den eigenen strategischen Beschlüssen zu berücksichtigen.

Google Social
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

What the Steamship and the Landline Can Tell Us About the Decline of the Private Car

> This prediction sounds bold primarily for the fact that most of us don't think about technology – or the history of technology – in century-long increments: “We’re probably closer to the end of the automobility era than we are to its beginning,” says Maurie Cohen, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. “If we’re 100 years into the automobile era, it seems pretty inconceivable that the car as we know it is going to be around for another 100 years.”

future car
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

What Else Google Is Shutting Down

> Google certainly has the right to shut things down — and I think they’re right to do so, also. The company’s been all over the place and should continue to work on focus.

> But I don’t like when they turn off existing support for an open standard like CalDAV in favor of a Google-only API. Sure, they can — it’s within their rights, obviously. But I don’t like it.

google calendar caldav
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

If you're doing a new RSS reader...

> The main thing we learned is that subscription needs to be centralized to make the process as simple as possible for the user. That's one of the main reasons Twitter was such an effective competitor.

feed rss
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

The RSS Apocalypse

> I remember back when RSS was amazing and something you paid for. I also remember when Google Reader showed up and very quickly started taking over. It was free. It was Google (back before we were all scared of Google) and it wrecked the market for all of the paid RSS services.

Readercalypse Google
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

Thoughts surrounding Google Reader's demise

> I use the service almost as much as I use Twitter and it wasn't easy news to take, since I thought it'd always be around like water or electricity, run by the largest technology company on earth. Now I'm left second guessing using any Google product that doesn't clearly carry advertising on it, knowing the plug can be pulled at any time.

Google RSS Feed Readercalypse
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?

> Your account is, say, johns@member.fsf.org, but you could still seamlessly talk to someone who is sergey@gmail.com. Until now. Recently, some of our members started reporting that they were no longer able to add contacts at GoogleTalk, which is the Jabber service Google provides to Gmail users.

google jabber xmpp
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

After Reader, which Google services will be next to fall?

> So whether you were a Google Reader fan or not, the key questions are: Which other Google services are on the chopping block?

readercalypse google
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

Google is about to learn a tough lesson

> First, Google says that it “gets” social, but you can’t “get” social if you don’t get the concept of an influencer. By killing a product that was beloved and heavily used by most influencers, you start to alienate those folks. Killing a product like Picnik with tens of millions of users, might have less impact on the business than killing a product with less than a million users, where most of those users are influencers.

readercalypse google
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

Home · wordnik/swagger-core Wiki

> Swagger is a specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. The overarching goal of Swagger is to enable client and documentation systems to update at the same pace as the server.
The documentation of methods, parameters and models can be tightly integrated into the server code, allowing APIs to always stay in sync.

api documentation management rest
9 weeks ago

copy to mine

U2Ft/RSS-filter · GitHub

> Marks-as-read Google Reader feed items that match a specified filter.

It's too late for SXSW but something tells me that this is super useful.

googlereader filter mute
10 weeks ago

copy to mine

ruflin/Elastica · GitHub

> Elastica is a PHP client for elasticsearch

Seems useful.

php search
10 weeks ago

copy to mine