Pinboard: public bookmarks for mcroydon

A scholarly work that documents the couple of internet grocery delivery services that existed during the dot-com boom that required users to install external refrigerators for perishable goods.

grocery dot-com startup bomb
8 weeks ago

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Why Access To NASA Technical Reports Is Important | aeroneering

The one where I get grumpy about NASA shutting down access to a treasure trove of information while learning more about an airfoil on a friday night.

aerospace engineering nasa security document aeroneering airfoil
9 weeks ago

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The "New" KR2S Airfoil

The birth of an airfoil, including a trip to visit Selig at UIUC.

airfoil aerospace-engineering aeroneering aviation eaa
9 weeks ago

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A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops | l3net - a layer 3 networking blog

Really lightweight window managers.

desktop linux
9 weeks ago

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NSA Communicators - NSA/CSS

Quite possibly the best redacted 'zines on the internet.

crypto government nsa security
9 weeks ago

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Riak CS is Now Open Source | Basho

Nice!

apache basho nosql riak
9 weeks ago

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Innovation debt | Peter Bell

Includes some solid thoughts on how to combat.

advice business management tech
9 weeks ago

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Goodbye, Malcolm | Weblog | Django

Goodbye, Malcolm. Thank you.

django
9 weeks ago

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Deploymate for Xcode

Pretty slick static analysis tool for spotting problematic API usages based on different iOS version targets.

development ios tool xcode
10 weeks ago

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pressureNET

Crowdsourced atmospheric pressure from android phones.

android data measurement weather
10 weeks ago

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Geek And Dad's Blog

How costly stuff is to do in Objective C.

performance benchmark
10 weeks ago

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Cessna 162 slows to nearly a halt, prompting questions

Odd and sad. I love LSAs it's just hard to compete with the used market at new LSA prices.

lsa aviation
10 weeks ago

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NTSB, ‘frustrated’ and ‘disheartened,’ tries a new tactic

Please learn from these.

aviation safety ntsb aopa
10 weeks ago

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Courtesy Aircraft Sales

Some impressively priced warbirds. For someday.

airplane aircraft wishlist
10 weeks ago

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How Long the Pope Vote Might Last, According to 900 Years of Data - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire

Conclave data.

pope church conclave data visualization
10 weeks ago

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Nina Nesbitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An up and coming Scottish singer-songwriter. Several EPs on Universal.

music acoustic folk pop
10 weeks ago

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Gabrielle Aplin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A great voice and lots of original material. She got her start covering songs on YouTube. Several EPs on iTunes and an upcoming album.

music wishlist folk acoustic
10 weeks ago

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www.v0id.at/downloads/XFLR5-tut-v1.pdf

How to drive XFLR5.

xfoil xflr5 airfoil aeroneering
10 weeks ago

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Video: Six-Year-Old's Joyous First Flight | Flying Magazine

She's hooked.

aviation flight flying
11 weeks ago

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The Gristmill River Restaurant & Bar in Gruene Historic District

I'm told the food is excellent here.

food texas
11 weeks ago

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Back Row : NSHipster

Super secret.

apple development ios programming
11 weeks ago

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Panic Blog » The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise

That's a lot of stuff packed in such a small adapter.

apple hack hardware
11 weeks ago

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How Ars slayed the moonshark: On building and running liveblogs | Ars Technica

A look at Ars' liveblogging infrastructure. They're still doing a lot of the front-end delivery with Cloudfront+javascript but are using Wordpress liveblogs and some custom camera uploding to push it around.

arstechnica instapaper reference liveblog tech
11 weeks ago

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What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years - Chris Dixon

"Hobbies are what the smartest people spend their time on when their time isn’t being optimized for near term financial returns."

development inspiration intelligence smart
12 weeks ago

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new releases - Goldie Reed

Jim says she's good.

music
12 weeks ago

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Updated and Confirmed: Craig Fuller Out At AOPA | Aero-News Network
aviation aopa
12 weeks ago

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SVG Shapes · mbostock/d3 Wiki

Making lines smooth.

d3 javascript visualization
12 weeks ago

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Ethernet Shield V1.0 - Wiki

Ethernet shield for Arduino.

arduino ethernet
12 weeks ago

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Google Glass - the next cockpit gadget? - iPad Pilot News

Thoughts on one possible future.

aviation google glass hci
12 weeks ago

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bost.ocks.org/mike/d3/workshop/

Fantastic deck about D3.

javascript js presentation visualization
12 weeks ago

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Peterson's Performance Plus - KATMAI

Canards for your 206. And other stuff.

airplane aviation canard
february 2013

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umdjs/umd · GitHub

SUPPORT ALL THE THINGS!

amd github javascript modules
february 2013

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Why AMD?

Because.

amd api javascript js modules
february 2013

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Writing Modular JavaScript With AMD, CommonJS & ES Harmony

The answer? It's complicated. And verbose.

amd javascript js module
february 2013

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What would Bill do? | MetaTalk

So meta it hurts.

ljworld kansas lawrence
february 2013

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FAA Planning for $600 Million in 2013 Spending Cuts

FAA sequester plans include shutting down tower ops for over 100 airports. Some make sense, some seem a little busy for CTAF.

aviation faa
february 2013

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Supersonic bizjet wing enters new test phase

Testing a Concorde-like wing for supersonic bizjet speeds up to Mach 1.6 over international waters.

aerospace engineering business aviation aeroneering
february 2013

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The DC-3 Network - Website for DC-3 Pilots & Enthusiasts

SIC in a DC-3 for $6k.

airplane wishlist
february 2013

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Pet Friendly Hotels - Official Pet Hotels

Pet friendly hotel search.

hotel pets
february 2013

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Piaggio Aero presents the new drone "HammerHead" | Cose con le ali

Giant pusher UAV with a canard.

uav canard
february 2013

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Manned Spaceflight Instrument Panels « The Rocketry Blog

Spacecraft panel design.

history space
february 2013

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Beechcraft: Flown Proudly

Bring it on.

beechcraft aviation
february 2013

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Introducing Titanium - The ClojureWerkz Blog

"Titanium is a powerful Clojure graph library that is built on top of Aurelius Titan. It combines a Clojure-friendly API and graph processing DSL with the power of Titan."

clojure database graph library
february 2013

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Go Database! Docs

"god is a scalable, performant, persistent, in-memory data structure server. It allows massively distributed applications to update and fetch common data in a structured and sorted format."

architecture database programming go golang
february 2013

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Gerald Bull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece..."

gun guns cannon wikipedia
february 2013

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Category:Superguns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A formidable category.

gun guns cannon wikipedia
february 2013

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List of the largest cannons by caliber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A nice beginning to a nice WikiDive.