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Oliver Byrne's amazing information graphics
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jargon is useful
I was just reading Larry Borsato’s blog (from seeing the Communitech Chapter 3 blog …) and I saw his post about jargon . Jargon actually does have a useful function as culture. For example, recently I’ve been writing a business plan for my company and I’ve had to learn some new words, like valuation. Valuation is a bit of a jargon word since it really means the appraised price. The person on the street knows what “appraised price” means but not “valuation” … but that’s actually valuable because it’s a cultural clue. If I go up to someone and start talking about valuations it tells them that I know about business culture, VC culture, and whatever.
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Bottlenose
What do you get when you mix HTML, CSS, Javascript, Asynchronous Javascript, a web server, a web browser, interprocess communication, and native application views?
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I christen thee CLEVER
The blog finally has a name. It’s CLEVER. Now when you refer to my blog, you can say, “as written on CLEVER”, or “on CLEVER (by Simon Woodside)” or if you like, “on Simon Woodside’s CLEVER blog” ;-)
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Hilarious MacHomer podcast
Ewan Spence has an awesome podcast: The Edinburgh Fringe 2005 Show with MacHomer . MacHomer is this crazy guy who does impersonation of all the Simpsons characters talking about a production of MacBeth. It’s hilarious. Ewan does a really good interview.
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African grey parrot
Look at this magnificient parrot - wonderful plumage!
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For once I agree with Cory Doctorow - Apple's DRM is no good
Cory dumps on Apple’s decision to use Hardware DRM in OS X . Cory is smart but sometimes I think he’s dead wrong about stuff. OK, mobile phones and mobile computing specifically. But I have to say that I share his dislike of Apple’s move to hardware DRM in the official developer version of OS X on Intel. It’s nasty. It’s not right. It shouldn’t be done.
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Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion map of the world
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More flickr embedding, this time using the flickr badge
So actually the flickr badge code is pretty flexible. More than I realized before. I think It’s better than the flash thing I tried before . Here I will embed 10 random pictures from my trip to barcelona.
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Amazing video footage!
Well, ok, maybe it’s not amazing. But it exists. I wish I could do all this through flickr but I can’t because they suck and don’t handle 3gp video. Not that I really blame them since it’s still really blurry and stuff, but hey, it moves and you can hear stuff. Anyway I just implemented a way to throw these videos into my blog and pages much more easily (using the power of XSLT) so here are two that I took this last Sunday.
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