December 2011
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cool.io - cool event driven programming for Ruby →
thechangelog:
It seems like there is a common pattern with many libraries: You have your full stack solution, and then you have your lean and mean one. Ruby on Rails has its counterpart in Sinatra, for example. So what about event-driven programming frameworks, like EventMachine or Node.js?
Enter cool.io:
require 'rubygems'
require 'cool.io'
ADDR = '127.0.0.1'
PORT = 4321
cool.io.server ADDR,...
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August 2010
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The Pepsi Challenge: 140 Proof beats Facebook Ad... →
It’s the Pepsi Challenge for advertising.
We created two ads for our intern position and ran them on both the Facebook ad platform and the 140 Proof network. The ads had the same copy and graphic, the same targeting, and the same landing page. Except for the different format requirements of…
May 2010
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April 2010
3 posts
““I believe in MOTION. I believe in CHAOS. I believe in taking what happens as...”
– William Shatner Captain Kirk: Celebrities: GQ (via sleuth)
The Goal
90dayapp:
Create an app relying on customer discovery and lean startup methods.
Let users demonstrate what app they need and how the app should behave — without writing any code.
Launch a minimum feature set, re-test it with users, and iterate constantly.
March 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
6 posts
“I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a...”
– Brian Eno (via Eric Case) (via buzzandersen)
Apple gets in the ad game with Quattro purchase
bubblefusionlabs:
In what’s being heralded as the next step for the iPhone App Store, Apple made the move yesterday to build advertising into their offering. This evens the playing field between them and Google, who made their fortune in advertising and are just now unveiling their first hardware device, the Nexus One phone.
An ad platform allows Apple to continue reaping value from the 40...
December 2009
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November 2009
8 posts
Detroit man accused of killing naked 15 year-old...
A relative says a 37-year-old Detroit man, irate after hearing his 15 year-old son had sexual contact with a 3 year-old, made the teenager strip naked at gunpoint, marched him outside and fatally shot him.
The boy’s mother, Lazette Cherry, told the Detroit Free Press that he told her he had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl and that she phoned his father. A judge has ordered Pinkney Sr....
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The Problem with Publishing
In a story depressingly reminiscent of Steve Albini’s famous “some of your friends are already this fucked”:
The Revenue reality of a bestseller: Lynn Viehl’s Twilight Fall was a top 20 paperback bestseller. Here, she analyzes and posts her royalties and discovers: “If I published one book a year and it did as well as this one, my net would be $2,500 over the US poverty...
On Birdfeed and Progressive Disclosure…
birdfeed:
onethinline:
But much of the joy of using Birdfeed is its use of a design principle called progressive disclosure, an elusive but powerful property whereby an application presents only what is needed as it’s needed, gracefully exposing more features and complexity only when the user seeks them out. In other words, the power is there, but it sticks to doing its job, not getting in...
“But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing,...”
– Joshua Blankenship, a designer living in Anderson, SC
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →
José González (42)
Sleater-Kinney (15)
Cro-Mags (10)
Sun Kil Moon (8)
The Horrors (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
October 2009
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
The Horrors (28)
The Organ (14)
Lady GaGa (11)
Sleater-Kinney (11)
Jay-Z (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →
The Horrors (62)
Lady GaGa (23)
MGMT (22)
Sleater-Kinney (20)
Santogold (18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11) →
The Breeders (47)
Sleater-Kinney (9)
Mr. Oizo (9)
Clark (8)
Tegan and Sara (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
August 2009
2 posts
“I believe that you’ve had most of your important memories by the time you’re...”
– Life After God - By: Douglas Coupland (pg. 48) (via somethingmeaningful)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-2) →
The Dead Weather (41)
Aphex Twin (4)
Echospace (4)
The Organ (3)
Cocteau Twins (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
July 2009
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June 2009
1 post
new from-scratch server's up
now just need more projects to put on it.
January 2009
6 posts
“a bottle of paint thinner in a baby carriage… that is great.”
– OVERHEARD: Bush Street, where the Tenderloin & Nob Hill touch in naughty ways.
(via cursivebuildings)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-4) →
Rihanna (17)
M.I.A. (10)
Echospace (9)
Andreas Tilliander (8)
Guns N’ Roses (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Tumbrette!
Test post from the mobile!
December 2008
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“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– Twitter / why the lucky stiff: when you don’t create thing… (via toolmantim)
November 2008
4 posts
weird isht i found in my home directory while...
.toolparade.yml
ignore:
plugins: my_secret_project
gems: my_private_gem,CVS
a .pinerc file
a .serials file, containing such gems as:
(unknown program)
X9CW-KDYM-EMUN-VVR3-N3RP-U6G
X9CWKDYMEMUNVVR3N3RPU6G
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Things I Miss About Detroit, #7
BEVERLY FRE$H LIVE WITH DJ WOOUNZ
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THIS FRIDAY NOV 28TH, DOORS @ 9
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@ THE NORTHERN LIGHTS LOUNGE, DETROIT
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AS PART OF THE DIAL81 "BOXCAR PORTAL"
RECORD RELEASE PARTY.
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IT WILL BLOW THE $HIT OUT OF YOUR A$$
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++===...
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October 2008
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