Apparatus that interconnects the twenty-one pieces used to play the ancient backyard target-throwing game “kubb”, pronounced “coob”, into a portable self-contained carrying case that looks like a briefcase. An improvement over transporting kubb in heavy crates, boxes, or bags.

I mean seriously, HOLY FUCK. My mind exploded when I looked at this. You may as well have asked me to climb Everest using a fork. It took me five minutes just to try to understand the QUESTION.

While traveling around Chicago, the conversations I have with people are generally routine. I ask them about Chicago, what startups I should see and if they see anything wrong with the technology ecosystem. They answer my questions, then parlay with the question of what I’ve observed so far while being the reporter-in-residence for the total time of two weeks. We go back and forth over the issues I bring up, and then finally, they admit that all of the failures and successes of Chicago tie back to one concept: The Midwest Mentality.

Matasano is an independent security research and development firm. We work with vendors and enterprises to pinpoint and eradicate security flaws, using penetration testing, reverse engineering, and source code review.

Smoothie Charts is a really small charting library designed for live streaming data. I built it to reduce the headaches I was getting from watching charts jerkily updating every second. What you're looking at now is pretty much all it does.

What are magic methods? They're everything in object-oriented Python. They're special methods that you can define to add "magic" to your classes. They're always surrounded by double underscores (e.g. __init__ or __lt__). They're also not as well documented as they need to be. All of the magic methods for Python appear in the same section in the Python docs, but they're scattered about and only loosely organized. There's hardly an example to be found in that section (and that may very well be by design, since they're all detailed in the language reference, along with boring syntax descriptions, etc.).

The World's Most Ethical (WME) Companies designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business "ethically" and translate those words into action. WME honorees not only promote ethical business standards and practices internally, they exceed legal compliance minimums and shape future industry standards by introducing best practices today.

These women went vegetarian for different reasons--and say doing so changed their lives, for the better. Could it change yours?

Kartograph is a new framework for building interactive map applications without Google Maps or any other mapping service. It was created with the needs of designers and data journalists in mind.

I was blown away by his 'live coding' idea, but couldn't find any actual live examples, so I put together a quick demo using d3 and Ace. I 100% totally based it on Bret's idea - down to the clever book styling. Imitation is the sincerest... etc etc.

The U.S. National Kubb Championship is the largest kubb tournament outside of Europe and one of the largest in the world. It is one of two two-day tournaments, along with the World Championship in Rone, Gotland in Sweden.

My sister is a news producer and the meteorologist she works with this got this letter today...

"Find yourself sitting in a seat where your job is to trade any illiquid, opaque product with a three-letter acronym."

MongoPress is an instantly scalable, incredibly flexible CMS that uses MongoDB and PHP to deliver a powerful object-oriented environment that is flexible and free. It is not only freely licensed and distributed under a generous GPL license, but it is also free from the constraints that many of the leading MySQL-based CMS platforms suffer from. MongoPress was in many ways inspired by WordPress, and was originally planned as a plugin, but after realizing that WordPress had been built from the ground-up as a table-based MySQL-driven architecture, providing MongoDB support was not going to be an easy task, and in some ways, even seemed to defeat the point of a NoSQL environment.

Commuters who ride the bus, light rail or Northstar, or carpool, vanpool, bicycle or walk to work or school at least three times per week are eligible. To participate, you must have an e-mail address and internet access.

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This intriguing new Web app for writers is called Typerighter, and it’s the handiwork of Twin Cities developer Garrick van Buren.

This morning, an intruder accessed a web-based Linode customer service portal. Suspicious events prompted an immediate investigation and the compromised credentials used by this intruder were then restricted.  All activity via the web portal is logged, and an exhaustive audit has provided the following:

Eric, Eric and Aaron stopped by today to talk Kubb U.S. National Kubb Championship on the Water-kubber (3/1).

Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.

In computer science, BNF (Backus Normal Form or Backus–Naur Form) is one of the two [1] main notation techniques for context-free grammars, often used to describe the syntax of languages used in computing, such as computer programming languages, document formats, instruction sets and communication protocol; the other main technique for writing context-free grammars is the van Wijngaarden form.

The pyparsing module is an alternative approach to creating and executing simple grammars, vs. the traditional lex/yacc approach, or the use of regular expressions. The pyparsing module provides a library of classes that client code uses to construct the grammar directly in Python code.

Making good-looking graphs shouldn't be hard. Morris.js is a lightweight library that uses jQuery and Raphaël to make drawing time-series graphs easy.

The process is extremely simple. When a consumer “likes” a product on Speck’s website, a Facebook stream campaign pops up on their Facebook wall and enables their Facebook friends to buy the product directly from the consumer’s Facebook wall. The action also appears in friend’s newsfeeds.

KUBB is one of the fastest growing games in the U.S. KUBB is a cross between bocce ball and horseshoes but with variations to make the game more interesting and challenging. Unlike those games, KUBB can be played in the snow. The game KUBB (pronounced koob) is addictive, employs skill and strategy and has sometimes been called The Viking Chess Game.

But just because F-commerce has had a few stumbles, it's too soon to be writing its obituary. Wade Gerten, CEO of social shopping software vendor 8thBridge, which created a Facebook store for 1-800-Flowers in 2009, was quoted in a Bloomberg News article about the topic, but then said his quotes were taken out of context. To clarify, he wrote in a February 17 Forbes blog post: "The Bloomberg article and others like it were correct to say Facebook stores have not sold millions of orders. However, they failed to articulate what the REAL opportunity is for social commerce."

An easy to use shortcode for inserting a Creative Commons license image or license block to your posts or pages.

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Scrape 'N' Feed is a simple Python wrapper around the PyRSS2Gen module. It implements almost all of the code you need to create RSS feeds out of web pages. All you have to write is the code that actually does the screen-scraping (and Beautiful Soup makes that easy). It stores feed state in a pickle file between invocations, freeing you from having to worry about most of the minor problems that get in the way of scraping RSS feeds.

Mike and his wife Lisa own Marcello's Pizza and Pasta and have been serving customers in the west metro since 1984. But the popular pizza place will officially close its doors at the Four Seasons mall in Plymouth by then end of the month.

The second reason you start a toy company is to make the world a better place. OgoSport was founded on the premise that if we created great and unique active play toys, it would help reverse declines in play and would bring families together. So we were thrilled to see the pictures of OgoBild POD on CTO and creative dad Jamie Thingelstad’s blog (yes that’s his real, awesome last name).

Have you always wanted to learn how to code but never thought you could? Are you looking to build a foundation for more complex coding? Do you want to challenge your brain in a new way? Then Learn Python the Hard Way is the book for you.

A while back, one of my favorite craft blogs, Wood & Faulk introduced the Kubb set. While the name alone was enough to pique interest, it’s Scandinavian roots also appealed to me. Matt Pierce, mastermind of W&F, put together simple guidelines for building a set and with the encouragement of my Swedish pal, Anna, I got to work.

I just finished making my third set for a gift and it cost me nothing except an hour worth of work. Here is how I made it, all with hand tools of course.

Digital design and development firm Fluid Inc., which helps retailers improve their e-commerce, mobile and social offerings, this week said it has raised $24 million from Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Fluid will use the capital to expand it software-as-as-service merchandising technology and also grow in other areas—the company expects to hired 200 employees over the next two years for such areas as marketing, customer support and research and development.

Social commerce shouldn’t replicate what already exists in other retail channels, says Wade Gerten, founder and chief executive officer of 8thBridge.

“I have big plans for Eau Claire,” said Eric Anderson, coordinator of the U.S. National Kubb Championship in Boyd Park on July 17. What’s that? You’ve never heard of kubb and don’t even have any idea how to pronounce it? You must not have made Anderson’s acquaintance yet. He is more or less (but mostly more) responsible for kubb’s infiltration of the Chippewa Valley. He’s passionate about kubb and wants to make it a part of our daily lives.

Over the past year, GameStop, Gap, JCPenney, Nordstrom, and other retailers have opened a store on Facebook to generate sales from their Facebook Pages with millions of Likes. While they opened storefronts with plans to monetize their Facebook fans, they couldn’t figure out how to do so and ended up shutting down their f-commerce attempts.

The best way to monetize social media is to empower people to promote products to their friends not for brands to spam you on Facebook. Online shopping experiences are better when they’re social.

Bloomberg published an article today about the poor performance of Facebook Storefronts and how retailers are closing them amid “apathy.” It was one more article in a series of articles downplaying the value of Facebook to retailers. The Bloomberg article and others like it were correct to say Facebook stores have not sold millions of orders. However, they failed to articulate what the REAL opportunity is for social commerce.

So two e-commerce experts, Get Elastic‘s Linda Bustos and 8thBridge‘s Wade Gerten, have weighed in on the news and ensuing debate that a number of brands including JC Penney, Gamestop, Nordstrom and GAP are shutting up shop on Facebook.

Planet Venus is an awesome ‘river of news’ feed reader. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.

We have attempted to collect a variety of data about the relative popularity of programming languages, mostly out of curiousity. To some degree popularity does matter - however it is clearly not the only thing to take into account when choosing a programming language. Most experienced programmers should be able to learn the basics of a new language in a week, and be productive with it in a few more weeks, although it will likely take much longer to truly master it.

As well as illustrating what we think the Open Web is, we also wanted to provide some practical steps that you can take towards this vision. The following are 10 steps starting with the most simple through to the more technical or involved.

He calls it “Typerighter River.” It currently includes the public feeds of Garrick van Buren, Patrick Rhone, and Jamie’s own Typerighter account.

Yammer is great. So is Mac OS X. Wouldn't it be even greater if there was a native Yammer client for Mac OS X? Well now there is!

Planet feed of all things Kubb on the Internet.

So, what's this handy tip? Well, it's a way of creating a browser bookmark that will not only open a commonly used website, but also "automatically fire up 1Password and fill in the login for you." That makes it possible to make one little click on your bookmark bar and get logged into a website in seconds.

This tutorial details the creation of a custom skin for MediaWiki. The skin is packaged up into a directory you can drop into a MediaWiki installation and require_once() to install just as any other extension.

pandas is an open source, BSD-licensed library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language.

Bootstrap is an HTML5 & CSS3 framework designed to help you kickstart the development of webapps and sites. WrapBootstrap is a marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes and templates. Impress your clients and visitors while using a single, rock-solid foundation.

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