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Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time - NYTimes.com
from instapaper
15 days ago
Mixture.fm
a nice interface for finding and listening to those long Soundcloud-type mixes
auido  music 
16 days ago
templater
guess patterns from data: give enough examples of structured data and automatically generate a pattern to parse it
parsing  python  opensource  code 
4 weeks ago
Melopy
small, clean API for synthesizing music in Python
music  programming  python  code  opensource  synth 
6 weeks ago
pdb++
sweet enhancements to Python's debugger, including visual stepping and syntax highlighting
python  library  opensource  debugging  pdb 
9 weeks ago
Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle - NYTimes.com
from instapaper
10 weeks ago
Poll Everywhere
rad-looking service for integrating audience feedback into talks
poll  slides  keynote  talks  mobile 
11 weeks ago
Vimbits
votable vimrc snippets
reference  vim  code 
12 weeks ago
The Julia Language
a rad new language for mathematical and scientific computing, with built-in parallelism constructs
language  science  opensource  code  math 
february 2012
DAVID SIMON - Vice Magazine
from instapaper
february 2012
Jason
free JSON viewer/editor for Mac OS X that looks like Property List Editor
JSON  Mac  software 
february 2012
Peter Pronovost : The New Yorker
from instapaper
february 2012
mitmproxy
a nice man-in-the-middle HTTP proxy for debugging and such ("think tcpdump for HTTP")
http  proxy  debug  web  opensource 
february 2012
inunico.de
find Unicode characters quickly by typing their name
reference  unicode 
february 2012
Crate
a modern, open source, fast alternative interface to PyPI
python  packaging  pypi  opensource 
february 2012
Beautiful Soup v4.0 documentation
version 4.0 of the venerable Python HTML scraping library is vastly improved -- it uses lxml as the backed for speed and has a significantly cleaned-up Pythonic API
HTML  parsing  screenscrape  python  library  opensource 
february 2012
ShareLaTeX
elaborate cloudy LaTeX editor, with server-side PDF compilation and real-time collaboration
latex  tex  editor  webapp  cloud 
february 2012
Web Equation
shockingly accurate handwritten math recognition with LaTeX output
tex  latex  math  handwriting 
february 2012
In Defense of Naïve Reading
why fiction is important; why we read it; how we think about it
essay  reading  literature  writing  academia  fiction  from instapaper
january 2012
hastebin
what a slick-looking pastebin!
pastebin  code  programming 
january 2012
James Frey’s Fiction Factory
a horrible allegory for capitalism and the origin of "I Am Number Four"
essay  fiction  from instapaper
january 2012
How to Get Laid for Zero Dollars and Zero Cents
a short story about a rat king
rats  ratking  shortstory  fiction  911  sex  nyc  from instapaper
january 2012
How the Internet Gets Inside Us
“This makes you think that what made television so evil back when it was evil was not its essence but its omnipresence. Once it is not everything, it can be merely something. The real demon in the machine is the tirelessness of the user.”
modernity  technology  distraction  essay  culture  from instapaper
january 2012
The decline effect and the scientific method
in data-based sciences, exciting new findings regularly vanish with time...
science  statistics  essay  from instapaper
january 2012
csvkit
real nice unixy programs for manipulating CSV files
cli  CSV  data  python  opensource  software 
january 2012
hackpad
a worthy reincarnation of EtherPad: adds some cool UI enhancements; a Mac app; reasonable accounts and stuff; to-do list checkboxes; ...
collaboration  wiki  etherpad 
january 2012
Time and the Bottle
youth is drunkenness
memoir  essay  alcohol  youth  from instapaper
january 2012
WordOff
open-source tool for cleaning up crufty copy & paste from word processors
html  word  opensource  text 
january 2012
Patterns for writing good rebuttals
Andreas Zeller is a good guy and he also knows something about responding to conference reviews
academia  computerscience  peerreview 
january 2012
Buzz
a nice wrapper for HTML5 Audio; abstracts away some of the DOM-y rigamarole of playing sound from directly from JavaScript
audio  html  html5  javascript  sound  html5audio  opensource  beets 
january 2012
The Wirecutter
want a printer? get this printer. want headphones? get these headphones. ...
technology  shopping  reviews  hardware  electronics 
january 2012
bitpocket
real simple Dropbox-like file synchronization using rsync over ssh
rsync  sync  files  software  bash  opensource 
january 2012
California and Bust
Michael Lewis for Vanity fair on why we're in this mess
politics  economics  California  essay  from instapaper
january 2012
showme
a few little decorator tools for debugging/profiling Python
python  programming  debug  profiling  opensource 
january 2012
When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
lament of a disillusioned Republican
politics  essay  from instapaper
january 2012
What makes music boring?
"boring" is a lazy criticism
music  critique  essay  from instapaper
january 2012
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
legally required business practices make executives play the bullshit expectations game (the stock market) at the expense of actually doing good work
economics  business  essay  stockmarket  capitalism  from instapaper
january 2012
Mind over matter: Five things about willpower
willpower is a muscle, can be exhausted and exercised
psychology  essay  willpower  from instapaper
december 2011
Organic Can Feed the World
it is an utter fallacy that conventional farming is necessary to feed humanity
agriculture  politics  food  farming  essay  organic  from instapaper
december 2011
Divvy
a really slick interface for running clustering and dimensionally reduction algorithms
data  visualization  clustering  dimensionality  opensource  Mac  software  science 
december 2011
Pen.io
yet another "make a one-off, text-based page really quickly" thingie
writing  web  publishing  text 
november 2011
Sticky Thing
great on iOS
toy  html5 
november 2011
The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills
you can die from believing you will die
psychology  placebo  essay  from instapaper
october 2011
Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
:(
stevejobs  obituary  death  essay  from instapaper
october 2011
Private Eye
like "lsof" for network connections: a free Mac app
mac  network  software  utility  freebie 
october 2011
If a MacBook Air Were as Inefficient as a 1991 Computer, the Battery Would Last 2.5 Seconds
the criticality of scaling energy efficiency in computer systems (a trend that is on its last legs)
computerscience  energy  battery 
september 2011
ievms
quickly set up VirtualBox VMs with old versions of IE (on Mac/Linux)
IE  web  virtualbox  vm  virtualization  microsoft 
september 2011
Reverse Scrolling for X11
"Natural Scrolling" in Linux so I don't get confused
linux  x11  lion  scrolling 
august 2011
Footnotify
browser extension makes footnotes usable
safari  chrome  browserextension  software  web 
august 2011
Technology Is Not the Answer
(to international development)
essay  ictd  development  aid  from instapaper
june 2011
The Future of NetNewsWire: An Interview With Brent Simmons and Black Pixel’s Daniel Pasco
John Gruber interviews the new developers of the elder statesman of Mac software
netnewswire  Mac  software  development  interview  from instapaper
june 2011
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
essay  politics  economics  ows  inequality  america  from instapaper
may 2011
Troll Food
I can not stare at this enough
food  humor  words  terp  weird 
may 2011
Anatomy of a Mashup
a clever HTML5 visualization of a mashup's components
html5  music  visualization  mashup  daftpunk 
may 2011
Lexadecimal
rememberable colors! with definitions!
color  design  web  words  clever 
may 2011
Obama and the End of Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda might be collapsing
politics  Obama  terrorism  from instapaper
may 2011
Cranking
Merlin Mann makes a decision
essay  merlinmann  productivity  life  from instapaper
april 2011
The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
a heavily-cited explication
essay  science  politics  from instapaper
april 2011
Summiting the Dagwood: Chris Onstad and Sarah Kanabay Build a Sandwich
what does it mean to eat a Dagwood
sandwich  Dagwood  food  from instapaper
april 2011
9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes
a surprisingly not-terrible "n things" list
essay  politics  taxes  from instapaper
april 2011
Notes From Chris
BRING A COUPLE OF BUCKS FOR SOME GATORADES OR SNAPPLES OR SOME FRITOS
humor  publicart  caricature 
april 2011
Leaving in a Huff
AOL is fucking it up for real
aol  huffpo  freelance  fuckyou  from instapaper
april 2011
Notepag.es
*very* nice one-off document creation with Markdown + LaTeX syntax
notes  markdown  latex  math  document  editor 
march 2011
Hercules & Love Affair - Shelter (The xx)
H&LF has a knack for house-ing up more demure music
music  cover 
march 2011
The Myth of Charter Schools
here: charter schools do not outperform public schools, they are not more cost-effective, the popular obsession with "good teachers" is unfounded (home and other factors greatly outweigh), charter schools are a dangerous capitalistic travesty
education  charterschools  essay  from instapaper
february 2011
I, Reader
Alexander Chee tells it how it is about fiction, news, despair, distraction, shelving, ebooks, and the iPad
essay  reading  ebooks  from instapaper
february 2011
How Steve Jobs 'out-Japanned' Japan
actually an interesting history of Sony as a culture
apple  sony  essay  from instapaper
february 2011
The parable of the the PDA: predicting the smartphone’s future
essay  apple  iphone  from instapaper
february 2011
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
the need for calm these days
paulgraham  essay  society  from instapaper
february 2011
THEN That's What They Called Music!
a look back at fuckers like Limp Bizkit
essay  humor  music  from instapaper
february 2011
Paul Haggis Vs. the Church of Scientology
a worn-out subject, maybe, but this is extremely well-written
essay  scientology  from instapaper
february 2011
Archive, a button for Apple Mail
an "Archive" menu item, toolbar button, and keyboard shortcut for Mail.app / way better than my terrible AppleScript hack
macosx  mac  plugin  mail.app  gmail 
february 2011
COLOURlovers
a reasonable place to get color schemes
color  design 
january 2011
SelectorGadget
point and click CSS selectors / generate appropriate CSS selectors for scraping particular content
css  screenscrape  bookmarklet  web 
january 2011
mflow
plays music! / less terrible, although probably less legal, than Grooveshark / no flash required
music  audio  html5  grooveshark 
january 2011
beets: the music geek's media organizer
media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks / it's so hot right now
mp3  music  python  opensource  sqlite  cli 
january 2011
Pinboard.in: adrian
I moved from del.icio.us to pinboard.in a while ago. So should you.
pinboard.in  goodbye  from delicious
january 2011
Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Breaking the Male Gaze
astute thinking about "Alejandro," with French philosophers
essay  popculture  ladygaga  music  video  madonna 
july 2010
Mad About Mad Men
perfectly articulates the show's feeling of east-coast incompleteness
popculture  television  madmen  essay 
july 2010
wrttn.in
really quick publishing of Markdown documents
publishing  web  text 
july 2010
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