"A javascript library for multi-touch gestures"

"This is a blog about making social objects out of museum objects. The Social Interpretation project is part of the Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture..."

this is weird and interesting on many many levels but why did they have to make the posters… look like fucking iphones?

"These pitfalls were well-documented in the manual, but navigating them required Talmudic levels of attention to the text and left me feeling paranoid and alone."

"A free, open source PHP- and MySQL-based application to parse and display state laws. This project is currently in beta testing as a Virginia implementation."

I still hate Alex Katz' paintings...

bookmarking for the hands

"A jQuery plugin that detects a 'shake' event using Safari's accelerometer support in iOS 4.2+" .. what it says on the tin

congratulations twitter on... coming back to earth, I guess

"Today, Apple added a beautiful new package to their official developer tools suite: Command Line Tools for Xcode. It's a 171 MB download that includes all of the tools a Homebrew should ever need. Best of all, it contains the proprietary headers that I couldn't ship myself."

"As a final analogue, think of Gossip Girl. The popular TV show has done more to crypto-normalize the New Aesthetic than any explanatory article ever can." ...uhhhhh

"Our research shows that people love two things: failed Microsoft technologies and obscure Javascript libraries. Naturally, we decided to combine the two."

"Another curious feature of Flame is its use of Bluetooth devices. When Bluetooth is available and the corresponding option is turned on in the configuration block, it collects information about discoverable devices near the infected machine. Depending on the configuration, it can also turn the infected machine into a beacon, and make it discoverable via Bluetooth and provide general information about the malware status encoded in the device information."

"very similar"

The social networking medium of Twitter is becoming a bit of a nightmare for covert CIA drone operations in the Yemen. In fact, in near real time, each time a drone is heard or spotted, locals tweet robots’ targets, details and whereabouts to their followers, using the Yemen hastag (#Yemen).

On May 18, MSNBC has run an interesting article in which it describes an attack on an alleged convoy of militants near the town of Shibam.

Although supposed to be covert, the strike was reported as a “missile strike on car in Wadi Hadhramaut” within minutes. Furthermore, a series of tweets published in the day prior to the strike, about drone suspiciously circling in the area during daylight (as opposed to the usual night activity), gave a hint that could have spoiled the subsequent deadly attack.

(Source: http://twitter.com/mkapor/status/207114321455611905)

(Source: http://twitter.com/flowingdata/status/207007826508382208)

(Source: http://twitter.com/paulabray/status/207076794195640320)

(Source: http://twitter.com/flipzagging/status/206802513377234944)

"This repository contains the complete United States Code. Its purpose is to publish the federal code in a way that makes it easy for interested individuals to access both its content and its changes over time."

(Source: http://twitter.com/mpedson/status/205993860701237248)

"The Montgomery County Sherriff's Department was one of the first in the nation to purchase the $300,000 Vanguard Shadowhawk drone with grant money provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to the Houston Chronicle. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is equipped with sophisicated cameras and capable of firing rubber bullets, ejecting tear gas canisters and launching taser projectiles."

"The certificate file is used by Yahoo! to sign the extension package, which is used by Chrome and the webstore to authenticate that the package comes from Yahoo!. With access to the private certificate file a malicious attacker is able to create a forged extension that Chrome will authenticate as being from Yahoo!"

(Source: http://twitter.com/moleitau/status/205605476908539904)

"This is sample application which is running on Heroku. Pure Heroku php doesn't support mbstring."

"This example is built with D3’s Sankey plugin. The plugin takes as input the nodes and weighted links, computing positions via iterative relaxation. After fixing the horizontal position of each node, the algorithm starts from the sources on the left, positioning downstream nodes so as to minimize link distance. A reverse pass is then made from right-to-left, and then the entire process is repeated several times. Overlapping nodes are shifted to avoid collision."

I am having trouble believing this is a good idea. Maybe it is, but it's hard to see...

this might be interesting for parallel-flickr if you were comfortable putting all your flickr credentials (and potentially your AWS keys) on someone else's servers...

Hey look, readability does galleries.

bookmarking for future reference, if only because what webb has described is... a web browser

(Source: http://twitter.com/berrydm/status/205047708917051392)

"I like to say that every seat is a window seat on the Dreamliner,” Dowd gently boasts. Windows on the 787 are 65 percent larger than on a standard airplane, and mounted higher in the fuselage. Whereas normally the top of the window is flush with the seat, Dreamliner windows rise seven inches above it, so that even from the aisle, you can see out. The windows are also shade-free—embedded instead with an electrochromic material that takes the window itself from transparent to opaque."

"RFCs are documents produced by The Internet Engineering Task Force, and many are official standards for various Internet protocols. This site indexes and formats these documents for easier finding & viewing." -- OMG, best thing ever

"“We got more shares than we expected, which spooked us,” said one portfolio manager, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of upsetting Facebook’s underwriters. Concerned that the size of its allocation implied a lack of broad investor support, the manager sold all of the firm’s Facebook’s shares on Friday. “If it was truly a hot, hot deal, we would have gotten less.”"

(Source: http://twitter.com/antimega/status/204844525997400064)

(Source: http://twitter.com/spellboundblog/status/204751039126188032)

"A lightweight (4.3k) javascript date library for parsing, manipulating, and formatting dates."

“I like to say that our ambitions are as broad and far-reaching as those of Robert Moses, but we judge ourselves by Jane Jacobs’s standards,” <-- more like this

"For instance, our first stop this morning was for breakfast served from a little wicker basket lowered from a first floor window into the group of waiting customers below. Euros are stuffed in the basket, and up it goes. You shout up your order. Breakfast comes back."

"The site uses mmg to position markers on the map and custom keyboard bindings to let the character walk towards them. It’s based off of the ThrowableHandler example from Modest Maps, but with a callback that allows the application to understand the walking direction and speed. You can check out the source to the handler, and, while this site doesn’t use a library for other keyboard events, we might adopt keymaster as the number of actions increases."

(Source: http://twitter.com/stevewfolds/status/204180849564987392)

"Pixel-level crypto for JPEG photo sharing."