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What your favourite map projection says about you

A Mac OS X clock-with-calendar app that replaces the built-in clock. Customizable

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

Everything is funnier void of context... especially the citizens of Riverdale.

My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules:

User-submitted day trip for nerds

Footnotify is a Browser Extension to display footnotes as a pop-over. All that without upsetting your point of reference.

Elements is a beautiful, versatile text editor for iOS. Elements allows you to view, edit and share plain text documents on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. All of your data is stored in a folder on your personal Dropbox account so that it's accessible from any device you have.

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A photo set showing joggers after a jog, and then their professional self.

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Use bcrypt! Not MD5, etc.

We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. Hens this charter

This site tries to gather open-source reimplementations of great old games in one place. Now it is very simple and if you think that some information is missing or have any suggestions - feel free to contact me by e-mail.

Hence all these projects are open-source you can help them and make this world a better place. Or at least you can play something to appreciate the effort people put in them.

Real vs. Imagined Wealth Distribution in the US

This post takes a look at the speed - latency and throughput - of various subsystems in a modern commodity PC, an Intel Core 2 Duo at 3.0GHz. I hope to give a feel for the relative speed of each component and a cheatsheet for back-of-the-envelope performance calculations. I’ve tried to show real-world throughputs (the sources are posted as a comment) rather than theoretical maximums.

Steven Strogatz, an award-winning professor, takes readers from the basics to the baffling in a 15-part series on mathematics. Beginning with a column on why numbers are helpful, he goes on to investigate topics including negative numbers, calculus and group theory, finishing with the mysteries of infinity.

On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962...

A tool for making websites/webapps run in fullscreen mode on iPhone

Cheat sheets for developers

helps you create and share galleries online. Drag your pictures onto this page, and we’ll do the rest.

Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary film centered around the Linotype typecasting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886. Called the "Eighth Wonder of the World" by Thomas Edison, the Linotype revolutionized printing and society, but very few people know about the inventor or his fascinating machine.
The Linotype completely transformed the communication of information similarly to how the internet is now changing communication again. Although these machines were revolutionary, technology began to supersede the Linotype and they were scrapped and melted-down by the thousands. Today, very few machines are still in existence.

Mont Blanc is Western Europe’s tallest mountain, and the world’s deadliest. For four young English climbers—friends since boarding school, two of whom, Rob Gauntlett and James Hooper, had already become the youngest Britons to scale Everest—it held the promise of adventure, camaraderie, and escape from mundane worries. But on January 9, as the author reports, two of them plummeted nearly half a mile to a brutal death, leaving questions to be answered.

Online version of the book. Eric S. Raymond - 2003

There are many other editors, some being quite excellent. There is no reason why you cannot use one of them, however, there are some advantages in using VIM. Likewise none of these reasons are unique to VIM.

...it's like chat roulette but with more apple products and stuff.

Bit hacks are ingenious little programming tricks that manipulate integers in a smart and efficient manner.

How many things are there which I do not want.

To mark the film’s 30th anniversary, VF.com presents an excerpt from the book: rarely seen photographs from the Empire Strikes Back set, annotated with behind-the-scenes details

A graphic layout of the true and not apparent size of Africa.

In the following pages, you’ll find our updated core curriculum, which fills in the gaps of your 20th-century education with the tools you need now. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans

A pseudo-map of the world's online communities.

This site was inaugurated on 1 January 2000 as a repository for definitive answers to the exercises in "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie (2nd edition) - ISBN 0-13-110362-8. Since it's a relatively new site, not all of the exercises have been done. That will change over time, of course.

Web app that allows you to fly a space ship around a web page blasting parts of it away.

Easy photo sharing web app. Drag and drop.

This site does nothing more than find out who your first five followers were. It will not send an auto-tweet. It will not do any other harm. Promised. I hate that as much as you do. It is up to you to tweet.

Snoopy is a bookmarklet for snooping on web pages. It's intended for use on mobile browsers (such as Mobile Safari on the iPad) where you can't view-source to poke around under the hood of sites to see how they're built. You might find it useful for your desktop browser, too.

This collection of 25 classic fonts is a round up of the best and most popular fonts every designer should own

A browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets. Requires a person web server

A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X

A Safari Extension for Pinboard.in

All of Chewbacca's dialogue from "Star Wars"

As a designer it is important to understand where design came from, how it developed, and who shaped its evolution. The more exposure you have to past, current and future design trends, styles and designers, the larger your problem-solving toolkit. The larger your toolkit, the more effective of a designer you can be.

1970s Vintage desktop and pocket calculators listed by company (129 identified brands, 589 calculators)

Virb gives you everything you need to build a great-looking website that's easy to update and a pleasure to use. $10/month

Everything you could possibly want to know about Pac-Man

DTerm's Philosophy: Command line work isn't a separate task that should live on its own—it's an integrated part of your natural workflow

Mathematics has a reading protocol all its own, and just as we learn to read literature, we should learn to read mathematics. Students need to learn how to read mathematics, in the same way they learn how to read a novel or a poem, listen to music, or view a painting.

Capo is a revolutionary tool that helps you learn the music in your iTunes library. By slowing your music, and presenting a detailed spectrogram, Capo lets you hear and see your music like never before.

Learning vi or vim is not easy. But it doesn't have to be that difficult, either. It is, in any case, faster, more powerful, and more productive than editing with any other editor, so you would do very well in investing the time and effort to learn it.

The story of the Conficker Worm