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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Kevin Dolgin Tells You About Places You Should Go In Europe

I just discovered Kevin Dolgin's travel writing and it's all fantastic.

writing
7 hours ago

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Can't deactivate iMessage after...: Apple Support Communities

Last week, my texts were suddenly all broadcasting to every device in my house (two iphones, two ipads). Following the answer advice to deactivate other devices was the way to fix this.

apple iOS
10 days ago

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The Trouble With Popularity - Blog – Stack Exchange

Great post on community patterns when dealing with moderation.

community communityproblems
22 days ago

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Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in Q1 2012: $13.06 Billion Profit on $46.33 Billion in Revenue - Mac Rumors

God DAMN that's an amazing revenue growth curve.

apple finance
29 days ago

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Madame Fromage: How to Make a Downton Abbey Cheese Plate

How to arrange a cheese plate for a Downton Abbey viewing party LIKE A BOSS

cheese awesome downtonabbey
4 weeks ago

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Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com

Why Apple doesn't make iPhones in the USA. Kind of depressing really, with 10% unemployment and claims there aren't enough people to do the work here. Why not produce laptops or desktops here if iPhones/iPads need to be sourced in China?

apple economics usa
4 weeks ago

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Using TextMate with Google Docs | pseudofish

Holy crap, I just set this up (required setting up python, gdata, and Googlecl from scratch) but it's pretty awesome now that it works.

mac osx writing
4 weeks ago

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The Fixie Bike Index

Portland is not the hipster-est town in America, it's Orange County, where every 13yo boy I met rode one instead of a cheap bmx bike.

cycling economics craigslist
5 weeks ago

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Who in Congress Supports SOPA and PROTECT-IP? | SOPA Opera

Only five senators oppose SOPA

politics SOPA
5 weeks ago

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My Hometown Is Better Than Yours « Rottin' in Denmark

You have to admit, Seattle is pretty amazing

comedy seattle
6 weeks ago

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impress.js | presentation tool based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers | by Bartek Szopka @bartaz

My next talk might very well be using this.

html5 css awesome
7 weeks ago

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A mountain of Red Cars - Framework - Photos and Video - Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times

LA's destroyed public transit system. My mom used to fondly tell stories of all the electric train rides she used to take as a kid all over LA. Such a bummer they were destroyed, the city would be completely different today if they were allowed to flourish.

photos LA losangeles transportation
7 weeks ago

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The Short Second Life of Post Secret; or How Griefers, Sexters, and Haters Ruined an App in Only Four Months « The Learned Fangirl

Post mortem on Post Secret's App (anon assholes killed it)

community communityproblems
7 weeks ago

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California Bicyclist's Accident Report/Bill of Rights

Nice little project from Cruftbox

cycling california
8 weeks ago

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See America (Blue Cavern) - WPA Posters - Vintagraph Fine-Art Wall Prints and Posters

Awesome WPA posters from the 1930s

art travel posters wishlist
8 weeks ago

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I Found Out For Myself | Mike Vallely

Mike Vallely reflects on his time with the Powell-Peralta skateboard company

skateboarding
8 weeks ago

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London deserted at Christmas - a set on Flickr

eerie, looks like they are shooting a movie and closed the whole thing down.

flickr london
8 weeks ago

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Cabin Porn

This is my new favorite thing. God damn these are beautiful.

modernhomes architecture photography
8 weeks ago

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Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes bike path in the Idaho Panhandle

TODO: ride this 72 mile, car-free road between Montana and Washington next summer.

cycling idaho
8 weeks ago

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Blum's Bicycle Map of California Roads (1896) - the BIG Map Blog

Nice!

cycling maps
9 weeks ago

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Peterme responds to Explodo

Peter's great takedown of the boomer mantra that nothing has changed in the last 20 years

culture
10 weeks ago

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Consumer Watchdog Calls Elantra MPG Claims 'Deceptive,' Urges Company to Pull '40 MPG'... -- WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

whoa, public Fuelly data was used by a consumer watchdog group in bringing a complaint against a car manufacturer

fuelly cars mpg
10 weeks ago

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Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater
from instapaper
10 weeks ago

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Buon Natale!

I don't really subscribe to the fetish-ization of 1980s NOS (new old stock) BMX builds, but this one is really nice looking and virtually impossible to have found all those parts to build it nearly 30 years later

bmx photos nostalgia
10 weeks ago

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Best Made Company — Cloth Extension Cord

Nice! Old school cloth covered extension cords done up with modern materials but still looking like a 50 year old product.

retro wishlist shopping
11 weeks ago

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How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down

Leslie Harpold's old advent calendars, pulled from the wayback machine to make a new "greatest hits" version for 2011

leslieharpold advent xmas
11 weeks ago

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Discover the Meaning of Rap Lyrics | Rap Genius

Not just useful for reading the lyrics, also useful for the interpretations of what the lyrics mean.

music hiphop awesome
11 weeks ago

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Fluxblog » Blog Archive » FLUXBLOG 2011 SURVEY MIX

Looks like a nice best music of 2011 early wrap up (mit downloads!)

music
11 weeks ago

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Video - Bike Storage Becomes Focus for Couple's New Contemporary House - WSJ.com

The Butlers are awesome racers, have awesome taste, and damn, that's a nice house. Also: 22 bikes! I guess I don't have a problem after all.

cycling awesome modernhomes
11 weeks ago

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Submission on - Public Discussion Paper - Connecting with Confidence (November 2011)

MetaFilter is used in a case study for the Australian gov't, examining how discourse can be civil online.

metafilter australia
11 weeks ago

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Weightshift — Memo: Look Around

Whoa, very cool demo for when you're in a weird place

google mapping iphone
12 weeks ago

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How to upgrade tracks to iTunes Match, fast | Macworld

Handy little way to do what I thought iCloud match would do automatically (but doesn't). Worked on a thousand tracks I had.

music mp3 apple itunes howto
november 2011

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How to quickly access iOS settings on your iPad, iPhone or iPod

yay Brightness shortcut icon! Finally an android-like way of making instant bookmarks to deep settings screens on your iphone.

iphone productivity via:pb
november 2011

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David Frum on the GOP’s Lost Sense of Reality -- New York Magazine
from instapaper
november 2011

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In Campaign Financing, More Money Can Beat Big Money - NYTimes.com
from instapaper
november 2011

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Google Reader — Mac OS Lion UI - Themes and Skins for Google.* - userstyles.org

This makes the newly updated Google Reader look like the old way (still doesn't quite function the same way)

google design css rss
november 2011

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The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
from instapaper
november 2011

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John Hodgman, part one: the global superpocalypse | TV | Interview | The A.V. Club
from instapaper
november 2011

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security - Google Authenticator available as a public service? - Stack Overflow

How to wire Google's 2-step auth into your webapp

google webdev security
november 2011

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Jennifer Daniel Dot Com Was Taken 8==D (_*_)

This is one awesome hilarious illustrator.

illustration editorial design
october 2011

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A preview of BankSimple's iPhone app & service

Man I CAN'T WAIT until BankSimple goes live. everything they do looks fantastic

money finance apple iphone
october 2011

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To those confused about Walt's Earnings/Expenses: A breakdown (Including timeline) : breakingbad

A timeline of Walter's money in Breaking Bad. I always forget even though there are four seasons that take four years to come out, only about a year of time passes in the series.

breakingbad tv reddit
october 2011

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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | San Francisco Aerial Photographs 1938

Amazing work with old SF photos and Google Earth.

photography sf GIS
october 2011

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How Valve experiments with the economics of video games - GeekWire

fascinating take on the economics of not just games but purchasing services in general

gaming economics business
october 2011

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Which States Ban Atheists from Holding Public Office? - Friendly Atheist

Land of the free?