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October 2009
Archigram / - Design/Designer Information
by Neewok
ARCHIGRAM dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early 1970s with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future after its formation in 1961 by a group of young London architects – Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb.
“A new generation of architecture must arise with forms and spaces which seems to reject the precepts of ‘Modern’ yet in fact retains those precepts. We have chosen to by pass the decaying Bauhaus image which is an insult to functionalism. You can roll out steel – any length. You can blow up a balloon – any size. You can mould plastic – any shape. Blokes that built the Forth Bridge – they didn’t worry.”
So wrote David Greene in a poem published in the first issue of Archigram magazine or, as Greene’s co-editor, Peter Cook, called it “a message, or abstract communication”. It was published in 1961 on a large sheet of the cheapest available paper. Filled with Greene’s poems and sketches of architectural projects designed by Cook, Michael ‘Spider’ Webb and other friends, the magazine voiced their frustration with the intellectual conservatism of the British architectural establishment.
iPhone Camera Roll 相片消失問題
by blackgoldfish
原來是當相片檔案編號跳到 IMG_9999 之後 (即由 IMG_10000 開始)，就無法在 Camera Roll 內顯示出來。
將 DCIM 資料夾整個刪除。沒錯！狠狠的刪掉吧！下一次再用 iPhone 拍照，就會自動重新建立一個 DCIM 資料夾，相片檔案編號亦會重設至由 IMG_0001 起跳，此後所拍的相片又會如常在 Camera Roll 內顯示。
September 2009
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March 2009
Remember Everything. | Evernote Corporation
by parmentierf
& 6 others
(via)
Evernote is a software application that allows users to capture information of various types, including text notes, mobile phone snapshots, printed and handwritten text within images, web clips, and digital ink. All data added to Evernote are run through a series of recognizers that make any text within the various note formats searchable. The application uses a continuous "roll of paper" metaphor for its user interface. Additionally, users may create folders, categories, and notebooks.
February 2009
The Lez Get Real Blog Roll
by sbrothier
We are working on our Blog Roll, but for now here are some good lesbian blogs and vlogs to visit...
January 2009
Run Your Own TinyURL Service With Phurl - NETTUTS
by delavigne
& 1 other
Run Your Own TinyURL Service With Phurl
Jan 13th in Other by Thord Hedengren
URL shortening services are a must if microblogging services like Twitter are to work. In 140 characters, you don't want the URL you're linking to eating up 100 of them. Or worse, it might not even fit. Enter TinyURL, and a bunch of other services that give you a shorter custom URL pointing to the target site. But why not roll your own, using Phurl? Let's do it!
Gojko Adzic » Announcing Trinidad: In-process test runner for FitNesse wiki pages
by jpcaruana
(via)
Trinidad is an in-process test runner for FitNesse tests. Here are some nice things you can do with it:
* run fitnesse fit and slim tests without starting the server as part of your build
* run fitnesse tests from JUnit within your IDE
* debug and troubleshoot fitnesse fixtures as if you were working with unit tests
* easily include fitnesse acceptance tests into your build (through JUnit)
* easily run tests in transactions and roll back after each test (with Spring)
December 2008
SOFT GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES
by blackgoldfish
(via)
3/4 c. butter
1 c. light brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1/4 c. molasses
2 1/4 c. flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. cloves
Granulated sugar
Cream butter and sugar; add egg; mix. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Make into balls the size of walnuts and roll in granulated sugar. Bake at 375 degrees for 9 minutes. These cookies will be very soft to the touch. They harden somewhat when they cool. Do Not Overbake or the cookies will be hard.
November 2008
Oreo Truffles
by blackgoldfish
1 package oreo cookies (divided… use cookie including the cream center)
1 8oz. package cream cheese (softened)
white chocolate bark
1. Finely crush 7 cookies in a food processor or place them in a ziploc bag and crush into a fine consistency. Reserve for later.
2. Crush remaining cookies and stir in softened cream cheese. Use the back of a large spoon to help mash the two together.
3. Roll the mixture into 1" balls and place on wax paper covered cookie sheet.
4. Melt chocolate as directed on the package and then dip balls into chocolate, tap off extra and set aside on wax paper covered cookie sheet to dry. You can sprinkle the tops with the 7 crushed cookies for decoration. (I usually eat mine before they make it to this stage.)
5. Once dry, refrigerate and enjoy!
Makes about 36 truffles.
September 2008
ICONS OF FRIGHT & Tim Sullivan's SHOCK N ROLL presents EXCLUSIVE "PIRATE" COMMENTARIES!
by bouilloire
(via)
Mah c'est génial ça (pour les fans de Fright Night bien-sûr)
Yahoo Grenoble opens: roll out the purple carpet! | Media | guardian.co.uk
by greut
I firmly believe that Mr Linwood's own actions are a significant factor in the difficulties Yahoo!'s London office faces with hiring and retaining engineering talent.
what a comment (from an ex-Yahoo!)
July 2008
Download free fonts @ fontspace.com
by oqdbpo
& 8 others
FontSpace is a community of font designers and font addicts. All 8915 free typefaces that you can download have been hand-categorized into 3000 categories for your graphic design, scrapbooking, or documents.
Because we tag each font it's amazingly simple to find just the font or dingbat you are looking for. Need some Rock & Roll typefaces for your band's new logo? Or how about some cute fonts for your MySpace page?
Registered users can bookmark their favorite fonts, rate fonts, and add comments!
myAWOL: A Music Label For The Digital Age
by sbrothier
myAWOL (My Artists Without Labels) is looking to show the big four how it’s done. The site is taking a multi-pronged approach to tackle the music industry with the web: first, it will roll out a professional database to help establish itself as an authority in the space. Then, this Fall, it will introduce a consumer site that will function as a mix between a music community, online television channel, and independent music label.
June 2008
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Google Architecture | High Scalability
by holyver
& 1 other
(via)
Google is the King of scalability. Everyone knows Google for their large, sophisticated, and fast searching, but they don't just shine in search. Their platform approach to building scalable applications allows them to roll out internet scale applications at an alarmingly high competition crushing rate. Their goal is always to build a higher performing higher scaling infrastructure to support their products. How do they do that?
March 2008
Bonus Tracks Records - HEARTBREAK HOTEL, THE PARISIANS, YAROL, PARIS CALLING, THE MANTIS...
by Gladys De Micheli
(via)
Bonus Tracks Records, radio, musique, rock' n' roll, label, concert, musique, music, french rock
February 2008
January 2008
Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
by camel
While consolidating physical to virtual machines using Xen,we want to be able to deploy and manage virtual machines in the same way we manage and deploy physical machines. For operators and support people there should be no difference between virtual and physical installations.
Integrating Virtual Machines with the rest of the infrastructure, should have a low impact on the existing infrastructure. Typically, Virtual machine vendors have their own tools to deploy and manage virtual machines. Apart from the vendor lock-in to that specific virtual machine platform , it requires the administrators to learn yet another platform that they need to understand and manage, something we want to prevent.
This paper discusses how we integrated SystemImager with Xen, hence creating a totally open source deployment framework for the popular open source Virtual Machine monitor. We will document both development of our tools and go more in depth on other infrastructure related issues when using Xen
System Imaging environments in combination with Virtual machines can also be used to ensure safe production deployments. By saving your current production image before updating to your new production image, you have a highly reliable contingency mechanism. If the new production environment is found to be flawed, simply roll-back to the last production image on the virtual machines with a simple update command!
Xen has become one of the most popular virtualisation platforms over the last year, although not such a young project, it is now rapidly gaining acceptance in the corporate world as a valuable alternative to VMWare.
November 2007
wg:Bubble Tooltips
by srcmax
& 22 others
Bubble Tooltips are an easy way to add (via a bit of CSS and javascript) fancy tooltips with a balloon shape to any web page. Before we begin, here it is the example: just roll over any link to see them in action. They operate this way:
