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Twitter / Simon Willison: Consensus on Quora is that ...
Consensus on Quora is that you should serve any "site under maintenance" page with a 503 status to avoid being reindexed by search crawlers
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november 2010 by amy
Twitter / Simon Willison: Via @openplatform:
Via @openplatform: "try going to any page on guardian.co.uk and replace the domain with content.guardianapis.com" -works for gu.com URLs too
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may 2010 by amy
Twitter / Simon Willison:
"Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?" - voted Best Joke of this year's Edinburgh fringe :)
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february 2010 by amy
(4:41) Too Young (The Tough Alliance Remix) - Taken By Trees
Just got shown http://www.thesixtyone.com/ by @revdancatt
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january 2010 by amy
YouTube - Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News
...and for non-UK peeps, here's some Newswipe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/b1n0Cp - how to put together a standard report
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january 2010 by amy
eBay
"A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter" a sculpture which requires ethernet, and continually attempts to sell itself on eBay - http://j.mp/7mBKcj
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january 2010 by amy
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
@Glinner have you seen the brilliant short film "Mind Control Made Easy" about starting a cult? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnNSe5XYp6E
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january 2010 by amy
Science Museum - Visit the museum - Cosmic Champions
Nat (@natbat) and I won the Science Museum's API competition! http://j.mp/ru79v - here's our entry: http://cosmos.natimon.com/
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january 2010 by amy
simonw's sciencemuseum at master - GitHub
If anyone's interested, the source code for our science museum API entry is on GitHub: http://github.com/simonw/sciencemuseum
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january 2010 by amy
BlpopCommand - redis - Project Hosting on Google Code
Redis just got even /more/ awesome - http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/BlpopCommand means you can implement a queue server without polling
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january 2010 by amy
gist: 267147 - GitHub
My OS X / Python / say countdown to new year script from last night, now on GitHub: http://gist.github.com/267147
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january 2010 by amy
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - The Now Show, Series 29, Episode 4
Marcus Brigstocke's Dr Seuss summary of the Copenhagen summit on the Now show is incredible http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p99n5 13m13s
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december 2009 by amy
Everyone's bookmarks for "Marcus Brigstocke
Here's the genius Marcus Brigstocke Dr Seuss/Copenhagen poem as an MP3 for people who can't hear it on iPlayer: http://j.mp/copenseuss
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december 2009 by amy
Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses
Wrote up the lessons learnt building the latest version of the Guardian's MP expenses crowdsourcing system: http://swtiny.eu/EZj
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december 2009 by amy
gist: 244718 - GitHub
Here are some of the bots that seem to be following the Twitter firehose: http://gist.github.com/244718 (@sh1mmer)
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november 2009 by amy
OpenGeoData
Custom OpenStreetMap clocks = awesome: http://www.opengeodata.org/2009/11/25/openstreetmap-clocks/
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november 2009 by amy
Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Big Picture's latest set of LHC pictures are, again, astonishing http://j.mp/4oYFnk can't help feeling it would make a great Half-life level
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november 2009 by amy
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
zomg HD owl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA6XSrM0V_0
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november 2009 by amy
InsideVenture Banks on New, Hybrid IPO Model
Ouch - http://j.mp/hippos-v-croc - what happens when a crocodile uses hippos as stepping stones (collective noun for angry hippos?)
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november 2009 by amy
BBC - Earth News - First film of a 'giant' stingray
Hot damn, that's a big stingray http://bit.ly/4iDDWi
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november 2009 by amy
bytesized
Lovely: "An illustrated guide to seven ways to kill an idea" http://j.mp/4qmzRr
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november 2009 by amy
node.js
http://nodejs.org/ is mighty classy - V8 powered, event-IO-for-everything, superb API design and 3,000 HTTP req/s for hello world on my Mac
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november 2009 by amy
Fabric
Fabric 0.9.0 is finally out and stable! That means http://fabfile.org/ is no longer highly confusing.
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november 2009 by amy
Simon Wahlers / Visual Design
#devdays here are the notes from my Python presentation earlier http://j.mp/simonw-devdays-python
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november 2009 by amy
The Mine! Project
Learning about http://themineproject.org/ - looks like a very decent stab at the host-your-own-personal-data problem #bcl7
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october 2009 by amy
Sorry (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
In case anyone missed it, here's the Yahoo! apology http://bit.ly/4AZZ2T
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october 2009 by amy
This shouldn’t be the image of Hack Day
Posted a blog entry: "This shouldn't be the image of Hack Day" - http://swtiny.eu/EZg - that was really tough to write
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october 2009 by amy
2009 Taiwan Hack Day (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Actually a bit shocked at the lack of acknowledgement from Yahoo! over the backlash r.e. the "Hack Girls" in Taiwan http://j.mp/3w4RaP
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october 2009 by amy
Twitter / Simon Willison: Nodes = lat/lon points, Wa ...
Nodes = lat/lon points, Ways = sequences of nodes, Closed ways form polygons, Relations contain ways and nodes, all can have key/value tags
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september 2009 by amy
Twitter / Simon Willison: Today will be a miserable ...
Today will be a miserable day of accounting and driving license applications. The usability of the real world sucks.
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september 2009 by amy
Vermont Street BBQ closing in four days / LJWorld.com
Vermont St BBQ in Lawrence is closing! http://j.mp/3qo8l4 - dammit, that was my favourite restaurant ever (it also made me fat)
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september 2009 by amy
Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web - paulcarvill.com
Nodding along to @paulcarvill "Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web" http://bit.ly/foR0
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september 2009 by amy
documentcloud's cloud-crowd at master - GitHub
http://bit.ly/phOFZ architecture is strikingly elegant, basically my dream worker/job queue server
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september 2009 by amy
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Recreating http://flic.kr/p/67X7NY snuffling around our flat with a toy armadillo and a video camera
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september 2009 by amy

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