NotesA 44 year old woman in New Zealand presented with partial paralysis at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital emergency department; after examination, the doctors concluded that she'd suffered a mild stroke caused…Unfurl
NotesFor years RSS feeds have been published on nearly every torrent site, large and small. But despite the good fit between the two technologies, there's never been a standardized format for BitTorrent feeds. This prompted RSS inventor Dave Winer to encourage torrent site admins to come up with a BitTorrent RSS standard, and the first spec has now been published by EZTV.Unfurl
NotesGoogle has quietly moved the link to access Google Reader, its online RSS reader service, below the top level navigation fold for Gmail users. Some Google Reader users are complaining about the move as an inconvenience, but the biggest loss will be to those users who have yet to start using Reader. The Picasa photo service has replaced Reader…Unfurl
NotesFinding strong programming team members is really hard. Unless you've already worked with someone, it's tough to assess how strong a contributor they'll be. Technical tests only show technical ability, and good people can often pick up those skills on the job, whereas jerks can have encyclopedic knowledge but destroy productivity. At Apple they…Unfurl
NotesHere's exciting news for anyone who learned BASIC programming in the late 1970s and early 1980s -- Philip Conrod has republished David H. Ahl's classic Basic Computer Games book. I learned a lot from the dog-eared copy in my local library, especially since one has lots of time to think while laboriously keying in a program line-by-line. The modern e-book...Unfurl
Notes"There was a time when "online game" usually meant a text-based game played over the modem on an amateur-run bulletin board system (BBS). Most of these BBSes supported only one phone line, so players took turns dialing in and playing, but they still competed against each other."Unfurl
NotesI've always wanted license places to translate to a communication channel - but never to "network", only to chew someone out for being an ass.Unfurl
NotesEmmy the cat has taken in a baby squirrel and is providing a plate for the little squirrel at her table along with the rest of the kittens....FeedUnfurl
NotesI wonder if I could rig this up with a webcam pointed out my front door?
/:16 Want a Wi-Fi radio that can play just about any audio source and you can control from your smartphone? Video blogger Tinkernut details how to makFeedUnfurl
Notes"Were the singers human, researchers might also explain the duets in terms of affection. Since they’re birds, the researchers describe the songs in terms of maintaining pair bonds, predator avoidance and conferred reproductive advantages. Vignal plans further studies of the duets, but thinks there’s more than reproductive imperatives in the tiny birds’ hearts and brains."Unfurl
NotesDouchebags get kind of a bad rap. They provide a useful service.
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.Unfurl
NotesSan Diego artist Christopher Schaie created this irising peephole mechanism. It's to go in on a door with a dome on the other side. He milled the pieces with a…Unfurl