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December 2009
Square
by sbrothier
& 2 others
In February 2009, Jim McKelvey wasn’t able to sell a piece of his glass art because he couldn’t accept a credit card as payment. Even though a majority of payments has moved to plastic cards, accepting payments from cards is still difficult, requiring long applications, expensive hardware, and an overly complex experience. Square was born a few days later right next to the old San Francisco US Mint.
Today the Square team is focused on bringing immediacy, transparency, and approachability to the world of payments: an inherently social interaction each of us participates in daily. We’re starting with a limited beta and rolling out to everyone in early 2010.
October 2009
September 2009
The joy of webscale identifiers « Jon Udell
by karlcow
Beautifully said. Enormous synergies have gone unrealized because web publishers have chosen to mint new namespaces rather than add value to existing ones.
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July 2009
Linux Mint Theme for Ubuntu by ~Fritzko on deviantART
by tadeufilippini
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Linux Mint Theme for Ubuntu by ~Fritzko
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Salvia divinorum and how it effects you | Ethnobotanical - H
by johnmccollim
Salvia divinorum (also known by shamans as Diviners Sage) is an extraordinary herb used in shamanism, divination, healing, meditation, spiritual insight and the exploration of consciousness. Its an herb from the mint family can induce spiritual phenomena like astral projections, positive and permanent mind altering changes in perception and out of
December 2008
Tester d’autres OS à partir d’une clès USB
by camel
& 1 other
(via)
Si vous aimez tester d’autres systèmes d’exploitation, UNetBootIn va sûrement vous intéresser. Ce logiciel open-source disponible sous Linux ou Windows (XP ou Vista) automatise la création d’une live-usbkey. Il prend en entré une liste d’”operating system” (de Linux Mint à FreeBSD) ou bien un fichier ISO et va construire pour vous une clès USB live. Il ne restera plus qu’à booter sur ce support pour tester le système en question sur votre PC.
October 2008
September 2008
Great American Writers and Their Cocktails : NPR
by sbrothier
Famous writers and drinks are inseparable, despite the price some paid for the vice. Ernest Hemingway loved the Mojito, William Faulkner had his mint juleps, and F. Scott Fitzgerald was convinced gin was the way to go (he thought its smell would be undetectable on his breath).
Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide delves into the drinking habits of America's top writers to reveal their favorite cocktails. Steve Inskeep talks with author Mark Bailey and illustrator Edward Hemingway -- grandson of the writer -- about their new book.
Below are excerpts from the guide, including cocktail recipes, drinking stories and writers' famous passages about imbibing.
Tales of the Cocktail
by sbrothier
Tales of the Cocktail, a culinary and cocktail festival features award-winning mixologists, authors, bartenders, chefs and designers in the New Orleans French Quarter at five days of cocktail events such as dinner-pairings, cocktail demos and tastings, seminars, mixing competitions, design expos, book-signings and much more. Measuring their success in garnishes, Tales of the Cocktail 2008, used 8085 mint leaves, 6 cups of Goji berries, 280 liters of lime juice, 350 liters of lemon juice, 2340 jalapeño slices and 6 thousand pounds of ice and for more than thousands of sippers!
August 2008
Linux Mint
by cascamorto
Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution.
XFCE Community Edition RC1 (BETA 025) XFCE
Main Edition (revision 1) Gnome
Light Edition (revision 1) Gnome
KDE Community Edition RC1 (BETA 045) KDE
June 2008
