RFC1149 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers

Tee hee, tee hee.

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Using /usr/local - Hivelogic

Simple and clear explanation of why it’s a good idea to put apps you compile/configure yourself into /usr/local/[bin | sbin | etc]

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Dust Houses, by artist Maria Lopez.

Wow, so weird.

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Ten Rules for Web Startups

Evhead.

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New Scientist - GM pea causes allergic damage in mice

Yikes.

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Pen Jilette: There Is No God

Part of NPR’s series “This I Believe”

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Photo Router

“We believe there’s an opportunity to improve the process of transferring photos captured on cameraphones to other devices. The current applications and processes for sending, archiving, and printing digital photos are simply too complex.” Thesis project

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Mobile Monday

Mostly monthly meeting of mobile tech minded folks in the Bay Area. (Mobile Monday, Tag Tuesday… how long before there’s a meeting happening every day of the week!)

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Sony Ericsson AT commands reference (incl T610)

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Notes from etech 2005 tutorial “Building an SMS service”

Covers basic methods of mobile/server communication including SMTP (send only), GSM phone/modem as gateway (two way, relatively cheap if you can get it setup correctly) and hosted (expensive in US as carriers require use of shortcodes.)

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Snippet from Kannel config file to use T637 phone as GSM modem

Kannel running on 10.4.1, phone connected via bluetooth. Details: group = smsc, smsc = at, modemtype = T630-T628, device = /dev/tty.T637-SerialPort1-1, speed = 9600, sim-buffering = true

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Screenprinting - Gigposters.com

A couple good “process” threads that show how people prepare their art/screens and have their shop setup. Use vegetable oil to “make transparent” the white areas of a positive bw print (on 20lb paper). Makes it cheaper to work in large formats.

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McRorie One Man Live

Um, wow. Who knew kilts and one-man-rock ‘n roll go together so well?

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A musical score lent acoustic form

By touching the glass above any given note of music, the visitor is able to hear them electro-acoustically played. The speed with which the visitor traces the notes is echoed in the playback tempo.

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Instant Domain Search - AJAX driven domain search site

Pound through countless domain ideas faster than ever! I wonder if this site saves searches? That would be an eeeevil, though it would be fascinating to see what people are searching for.

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hReview microformat

HQ reviews. For the as-of-yet-nascent reviews aggregation spider that someone will write someday.

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Looking past the tools.

Every once in awhile I ask this question too…

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“Butterfly wings work like LEDs”

BBC article on the similarity between flourescent patches on butterfly wings and the way LED’s are designed.

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Ubiquitous computing for mobile devices

ITP course outline, sample assignments, resources.

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Weekly notes for Ubicompmobile class at ITP

Processing/sending sms and mms messages, creating/decoding semacodes and more.

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Rene Wanner’s Poster Page - Previous exhibitions

Tons of posters organized into “web exhibitions” by another lover of the poster.

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International biennial of the poster in Mexico

Some good posters from previous years buried in a crappy nested frameset.

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Getting OS X to generate/show image thumbnail icons

I ended up just using OS X’s “Window -> Show view options” pref to generate image thumbs, rather than this little utility. But maybe for future use…

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Seed Magazine: What Buddhism Offers Science

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Classic Polish Film Posters

Giant collection fo Polish film posters. 1940’s - 1990’s.

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