Wednesday the First of September, 2010

New Board Game Cafe Welcomes You, But Not Your Laptop - Torontoist
"The place looks similar to any other newly renovated café on its section of Bloor Street, except for the board games, which occupy a set of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves that run half the length of the room." (filed under: games board drinks shops)

Fresh pet meat daily | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Chesil Beach | Flickr - Photo Sharing!BarclaysBikeBusting | Flickr - Photo Sharing!EMF detector | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Facebook CEO: Keep Private Life out of Lawsuit - ABC NewsBritish street food: Real meals on wheels - Features, Food & Drink - The IndependentYouTube - The Apostrophe SongWoSblog: Weird or Standard? >> Blog Archive >> WoSblog: making things happenWarren Ellis >> REMAKE/REMODEL: The Thirteenth DoctorRoger Ebert: Farewell to my London home | Travel | The GuardianThe Cat's Meat Shop: Pleased at Being the Object of your PreferenceTim Harford Article Why we still love board gamesUser:DASHBot/Vandalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAsk and ye shall retweet | The Art Newspaper: RevolutionSF - Epic Pooh : FeatureMy voice is higher than your voice! - SnotrDev Team or Indie Band?YouTube - Cassetteboy vs. The One ShowScienceMapv0.37.png (PNG Image, 44502737 pixels)image003.jpg (JPEG Image, 450600 pixels)How to Host a DungeonA Rare Peek Inside the Modernist Cuisine Kitchen - Seattle Restaurants and Dining - VoraciousMemory Reloaded: the downfall | Molleindustria
"Preparing to run Day of the Thing at http://bit.ly/c2Paq6 tomorrow. It turns out that thirteen labcoats fill a suitcase and are quite heavy." 1 week ago on Twitter
Recently listened to:
Misc (Eringer Production) David Devant & His Spirit Wife
TERRA NOVA iLiKETRAiNS
Home Brian Eno & David Byrne
Everything That Happens Brian Eno & David Byrne
Don't Tell Me David Devant & His Spirit Wife
My Magic Life David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Swimming Down The Vein Of A Whale Salako
Seasons Salako
Revolution Is Eternal Salako
Mountain/Molehill Salako

Recently played on the Xbox 360:
Alan WakeAlan Wake
95/1250
The SaboteurThe Saboteur
215/1000
TC's RainbowSix Vegas2TC's RainbowSix Vegas2
90/1000
Metro 2033Metro 2033
35/1240
Battlefield: Bad Co. 2Battlefield: Bad Co. 2
595/1180

Wednesday the Twenty-Fifth of August

Many-band WebSDR in JO32KF
"On this page you can listen to and control a short-wave receiver located at the amateur radio club ETGD at the University of Twente. In contrast to other web-controlled receivers, this receiver can be tuned by multiple users simultaneously, thanks to the use of Software-Defined Radio." (filed under: radio technology sound)

impressionist cake | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Berney Arms | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Push | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: UVB-76: Serious shit is now going down. - FacepunchUVB-76Why trust Facebook with the futures past? Scott Rosenberg's WordyardYouTube - James Burke : The Day The Universe Changed: "The Way We Are", 1 of 5 (CC)BBC News - Rare fire tornado filmed in BrazilStitch a Squid at Summer After Hours | Natural History MuseumHawk/Handsaw: Infinite costs wouldn't be NiceBoardGameCamp - Games - Gaming - Video Games- EventbriteCrazy Animal Stories Keyboard on VimeoLetters of Note: Dear 8 year-old TeresaPac-Man on the Sequoia AVC-Edge DRE Voting MachineMikengreg Games Co. | Liferaft: Zeroimage soak - images? yes images. you're soaking in them.Monopoly: Pass 'Go' by the London Eye - Telegraph

Tuesday the Twenty-Fourth

Placebo Buttons << You Are Not So Smart
"In many offices and cubicle farms, the thermostat on the wall isn’t connected to anything. Landlords, engineers and HVAC specialists have installed dummy thermostats for decades to keep people from costing companies money by constantly adjusting the temperature." (filed under: design illusions psychology)

Him up there looking down on us down here | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Graffiti of Stockwell London Underground Station on tube map | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Bee pollinating at Kew Gardens | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: YouTube - Penn and Teller on VaccinationsYouTube - Ray Bradbury Prunes CommercialBBC News - Pont-Saint-Esprit poisoning: Did the CIA spread LSD?The Complete Tales -> Nomic ChessNAICS: Product Class Structure for ManufacturingGovernment funding for stem cell research blocked by US court | Richard Adams | World news | guardian.co.ukDon't go Zombie... Go Virgin TrainsStar Wars Uncut / Watch the MovieSetting Up Twitter Bots with OAuth | maSnun's logsSuper ColossalBissell, Braid, and the Use of Words << Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling

Monday the Twenty-Third

I Can Stalk U - Raising awareness about inadvertent information sharing
"Most people don't realize that the action of automatic geotagging takes place on [any picture taken with] their smart phones, either because it is enabled by default, not exposed the user as an option, or was asked and then forgotten." (filed under: gps photography twitter surveillance secrets)

Highfort Court, Kingsbury | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: HALI - Hide And Locate Intruders (Game)"Hallowed Ground" | History Eraser Buttonprobertson: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The GameSeasteading InstituteCharlie Brooker | 'Ground Zero mosque'? The reality is less provocative | Comment is free | The GuardianLiam Fox calls for Medal Of Honor to be banned - TelegraphNASA's Top 40BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: MADISON AVENUEIs the Trailer for 'The Shining' the Actual Film? - The AwlAmazon Kindle Third Generation With 3G + Wi-Fi | Wired.com Product ReviewsHOW TO: Undo "Send" in GmailAnti-'Ground Zero Mosque' Rally Freaks Out at Black GuySarah Angliss >> Uncanny Valley @The Hen & Chickens, Islington, 26-28 August 2010Bobbie Johnson dot org : On the Shenzhen Metro

Monday the Sixteenth

Iceland Considers Humanoid Pylon Design to Carry Electricity | Wired Science | Wired.com
"Like the statues of Easter Island, it is envisioned that these 150-foot-tall modern caryatids will take on a quiet authority, belonging to their landscape yet serving the people, silently transporting electricity across all terrain, day and night, sunshine or snow." (filed under: electricity design architecture) (via: zarba)

Stealth Fries | Flickr - Photo Sharing!The bull returns | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: London property prices forcing commuters to live under canvas | Money | The GuardianHacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls | Threat Level | Wired.comAndy Burnham has Thick of It moment - my favourite picture of the week so far. Bless him. | TweetPhotoPaul Sims - Whistleblower: working for Scientology | New HumanistArtificial meat? Food for thought by 2050 | Environment | The GuardianMain Page - WikiFactCheckhttp://www.hs.fi/thickbox/video/1135259206031?KeepThistrueSkunkPost.com || Gambling on grades onlineInternational broadcasting: News from everywhere | The EconomistNew App Makes it Easier to Become Foursquare Mayor (if You Care)Dark Patterns: dirty tricks designers use to make people do stuffThe tricks that supermarkets play to stop you from comparing on priceJohann Hari: We are wrong about being wrong - Johann Hari, Commentators - The IndependentHyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friday the Thirteenth

Journalism Warning Labels << Tom Scott
"Warning: Statistics, survey results and/or equations in this article were sponsored by a PR company." (filed under: news signs)

Daylight Fades | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Civilization and Storytelling | MssvBBC News - Champagne should be poured 'like beer'BBC News - 'Runaway train' on London TubeBBC News - 'Runaway train' on London TubeBPS Research Digest: Stubbing out thoughts of smoking leads smokers to end up smoking moreUnsuck ItZombie Nation in Eccles shopping centre!Play Loved, a free online game on KongregateAbilene paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRoswell Hill? - LondonistYouTube - Flower Warfare - Psychedelic Action Scenearent clever people great - bengoldacre

Wednesday the Fourth

Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders - Science and Tech - The Atlantic
"Donovan thinks that the odd algorithms are just a way of introducing noise into the works. Other firms have to deal with that noise, but the originating entity can easily filter it out because they know what they did. Perhaps that gives them an advantage of some milliseconds." (filed under: money hacking cheating) (via: bengoldacre)

Blue Glow | Flickr - Photo Sharing!On our way to Hillerd, DK | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Farm venn | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: NASA - Coronal Mass Ejection Headed for EarthAchievement Unlocked 2 | Armor GamesAchievements Considered Harmful? - Chris Hecker's WebsitePyro Maniacs: Achieving Nothing in TF2 | Rock, Paper, ShotgunCycles << CYRIAK'S AMAZING VIDEO BLOGConfessions of a celebrity biographer | Life and style | The GuardianCompostingRecycle now - Home CompostingWhere Science, Art and Photography Intersect (25 photos) - My Modern MetropolisLondon 2012- Wandsworth Borough landmark pin badge | Pin badgesDigital Urban: Invisible, Hidden, Parallel Cities: Twitter LandscapesBlog : FAMILY Los AngelesUK music worth 3.9bn The RegisterLutetia -- and Saturn!! - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary SocietyHow Vinyl Records Are MadeAnd How to Pirate A Vinyl Record | DO IT: Projects, Plans and How-tos

Tuesday the Third

ANTS in my scanner > a five years time-lapse! on Vimeo
"I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago. I scanned the nest each week." (filed under: ants time videos) (via: zarba)

Tragedy at Sea | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Lost in Trafalgar | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Halo for the 2600 Released at CGE! Download the game here! - AtariAge ForumsYubNub - YubNub.orgMake: Online : Print your own wargaming minisWhy did Zynga kill off Street Racing? | The Develop Blog | DevelopCreative Review - The YouTube dilemma strikes againalisa diaryYouTube - The Peckham TerminatorMDA.pdf (application/pdf Object)Coalition's first crowdsourcing attempt fails to alter Whitehall line | Technology | The GuardianNovel approach: reading courses as an alternative to prison | Society | The GuardianThe Polytechnic >> Campaign to ban Petrol Leaf BlowersComposer Hans Zimmer's More Than 100 Movies : NPRHow to draw Steampunk MachinesMass Swindling Puts Japans High Life Expectancy in Doubt | Sankaku ComplexNew Statesman - Why I'm no fan of SherlockSerpentine Gallery: Christian BoltanskiLes archives du coeur(The Heart Archive)10 July - 6 August 2010These are Their StoriesLevitron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGamasutra - News - Interview: Cow Clicker Yields Ruminations On Social Gaming's Tense Battle LinesPaprika (2006 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaChicken Jambalaya - One-pot meals - Recipes - from Delia Onlinenotes.husk.org. As the Kindle and Nook march on, peoples reading....Pay-per-point (Phil Gyfords website)

Monday the Second

racer
"RACER is an analogue recreation of a computer racing game in the style of the classic WipeOut. It consists of a modified vintage arcade machine, a RC model car with a wireless camera, an a self-constructed racetrack/game level made entirely from cardboard." (filed under: games hacking) (via: nachimir)

Deer teleportation accident | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Probably my favourite work in Stortinget | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Let's Play: Dwarf Fortress 2010 -- A Complete Idiot's Guide to DF - The Something Awful ForumsMusical frequencies that blow your mind | Culture | The GuardianHowell: Relax and enjoy the ride, Inception director says - thestar.comDemake dumpThe Harm Of Gaming: We Present The Facts | Rock, Paper, ShotgunUse Ubuntu Live CD to Backup Files from Your Dead Windows Computer - How-To GeekThe Holy Grail of Ubiquitous Plain-Text CaptureForest FringeHandmade Models Of London Tube Stations - LondonistThe scariest pricing idea ever. That works. | The FreelanceryQuantum MinesweeperFor extra grip - texture your sugru | Blog | sugru | Hack Things BetterYou just committed murder. What should you do now? - Barking up the wrong treeWhat The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy?YouTube - Hitler Looks for a Revive (Urban Dead)notes.husk.org. mappeal: Soviet Photo Art of the 60s & 70s....University students address children photography conundrum - British Journal of PhotographyPlanet of the Apes (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSpace Cadets - Charlie's DiaryHe's making a gouda livin' - NYPOST.comLA Noire "defeated the uncanny valley" News - Page 1 | Eurogamer.netWelcome - SoundCloudYouTube - Washing Machine Self DestructsNetHack prompt words - rec.games.roguelike.nethack | Google GroupsAndroid smart phone shipments grow 886% year-on-year in Q2 2010 (Canalys press release: r2010081)Color Theory game online for free - classic gamesYouTube - Hitler Joins Escape (Urban Dead)

Thursday the Twenty-Ninth of July

Zeppelin Airship Attacks On London: Mapped - Londonist
"The map above takes the rough routes of the attacking craft and plots only a selection of the impact sites." (filed under: london maps war)

Liverpool Street - western entrance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: E.gg Timer - simple online countdown timerSteep.it - the simplest internet tea timer EVERYouTube - Drinking tea with chopsticks in microgravityPhoto editor online pixlr free edit image direct in your browserBBC - BBC Comedy Blog: Special EffectsBBC - BBC Two Programmes - That Mitchell and Webb Look, Series 4, Episode 3, First PlayInception soundtrack created entirely from Edith Piaf song | Music | guardian.co.ukReport: Unemployment High Because People Keep Blowing Their Job Interviews | The Onion - America's Finest News SourceDEL TORO TO FINALLY CLIMB THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESSFunny and Bizarre gigs people are willing to do for $5Google Alarm | F.A.T.File:Sortie de l'opra en l'an 2000-2.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaD Nye Everything: Considered opinions - Alpha Protocol and the strange powers of Brian Mitsoda>TILT AT WINDMILLS: Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7: Coming August 2010Aaron Reed - Experiment 1 1 of 1Go behind the scenes with Red Dead Redemption's accompanists | Joystiq

Tuesday the Twenty-Seventh

Gary Penn on the rules of game design | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"Importantly, the board version of Quarrel allowed the team to experiment with and refine the experience without recourse to an Xbox dev kit. It could have been a good solid game before they'd even written a line of code." (filed under: games design board) (via: infovore)

The Locked Room | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Chessmen | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Nuneham Courtenay | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Serpentine Pavilion 2010 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Clock shows time in every time zone : SciencePunkHans Zimmer and Johnny Marr talk about the sad romance of 'Inception' | Hero Complex | Los Angeles TimesLast Kodachrome roll processed in Parsons | Business News for Wichita Kansas | Local Journal of Wichita Business News and Kansas Business News | Wichita EagleJeffrey Friedl's Blog >> An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality SettingsThe Ultimate Alphabet: hidden objects kick your ass - The GameshelfIanVisits >> London 2012 Game Makers Disabled people need not applyLife Below 600px | I Am PaddyAnd the percentage of people who would pay to use Twitter is... | Technology | guardian.co.ukMahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks Octopus Paul - TelegraphInfovore >> What I Mean When I Talk About Games LiteracyThe End of History: On a Budget << Tom ScottLone Star Statements by Matthew Baldwin - The Morning NewsWord PerhectWordstudio: The GistLady Blackbird: Adventures in the Wild Blue YonderCoquettish builders only on TwitpicJellyfish Eyes Solve Optical Origin Mystery | Wired Science | Wired.comCameron's answer to budget cuts: get public involved in 'DIY' policing | UK news | The GuardianTweetsofOldInception Infographic by ~dehahsSuper creepy Pokmon hack - Tiny Cartridge - Nintendo DS, DSi, & 3DS News, Media, Videos, Imports, Homebrew, & Retro JunkKnow Your Icons Part 1 A Brief History of Computer Icons | Psdtuts+

Monday the Twenty-Sixth

University of Sheffield - British expert warns of a coming robot crime wave
"If manufacturers discard safety and the prevention of crime, crude copies of mechanised police and military devices could be relatively easy to produce." [...] "Robots can't even be detected by the passive IR alarm systems in most of our houses." (filed under: robots crime technology future)
The Top Idea in Your Mind
"I tend to think it's the idea I'd want to be the top one, rather than the one that is. But it's easy to figure this out: just take a shower. What topic do your thoughts keep returning to?" (filed under: brains money) (via: infovore)

Harbour | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Rocks | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Dog of Alcibiades | Flickr - Photo Sharing!The Iguanodon and the Megatherium | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: From Ownership to Membership << Elliot FelixMarco.org - EmailsDaily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: Rockstar Games - Grand Theft Auto - An apologyWhat the World Eats, Part I - Photo Essays - TIMEWhat the World Eats, Part I - Photo Essays - TIMESecret Email Reveals more Homeopathic Killing in Kenya | The QuackometerGive Me Something To ReadCadburyBBC News - UK Film Council to be abolishedSherlock Holmes is back sending texts and using nicotine patches | Television & radio | The ObserverVarious Artists Free listening, videos, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fmThe government response to the homeopathy report - a swift podcast - bengoldacreThe Cuts Won't WorkLondon Bubble Theatre Company - Fan Made TheatreYouTube - The Astounding World of the FutureEFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers | Electronic Frontier FoundationOne-pan wonder recipe | Yotam Ottolenghi | Vegetarian | Food | Life and style | The GuardianBP Admits Altering Multiple Official ImagesLudus Novus >> Blog Archive >> Cardstock DungeonsHSLD exclusive: Cllr. John Dixon responds to the "stupid Scientology" saga (Humanist & Secularist Liberal Democrats)YouTube - Tom Armitage

Thursday the Twenty-Second

Stories from the stores >> Busy bees
"Tomes, a keen amateur apiarist, was seeking a way to track swarms by detecting when the queen bee left the hive. [...] Dabbing them with luminous paint proved somewhat easier, but Tomes’s photocell detector setup was triggered by other light sources as well as the painted bees. Then he remembered that the luminous paint contained radium." (filed under: bees paint light science technology)

Cthuluwall | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: YouTube - Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind)Flipboard: Great app, but is it yet another way for publishers not to get paid? - Martin Belam's currybetdotnet blog - July 21, 2010Cognitive Surplus visualizedYouTube - David Mitchell invents a New Queuing System for PubsDownload the cards - Design with Intent ToolkitYouTube - David Mitchell deals with Climate ChangeMoserware: Computing Your SkillNick Clegg's 'illegal' Iraq war gaffe prompts legal warning | Politics | The GuardianDedication's what you need: top 10 record-breaking comedians | Hazel Davis | Stage | guardian.co.uklong live Alex | Alex Hornes death defying attempt to become the worlds oldest manYouTube - Doctor Who: The Doctor Who Themes (Every Doctor Who Theme 1963 - 2010)Ian Tomlinson death: police officer will not face criminal charges | UK news | guardian.co.ukBudget Cuts Force British Government To Shut Down Mysterious Seaside Village | The Onion - America's Finest News SourcePossibly my fav headline ever. on TwitpicTwitter / Andy Field: Great fact. RT @danielbye ...Let's start a new life with iDish. - YouTube - Toribash Wii TrailerBBC - Adam Curtis Blog: PREDATOR vs ALIENS II

Wednesday the Twenty-First

Make: VCR Cat Feeder
"Any old VCR has a programmable timer that connects to motors for recording TV shows. This is analogous to feeding a cat, and following this principle, you can convert a VCR into a weekend pet feeder." (filed under: cats food technology hacking)

Glanced at: Xbox.com | Xbox Engineering Blog - Physicists Tame Time Travel by Forbidding You to Kill Your Grandfather | Wired Science | Wired.com - Passenger Focus - Press and publications - Press releases - Watchdog calls for ticket machine overhaul - Chess Computers | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Colley Hill Folly | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Area/Code: Power Planets - I find your lack of faith disturbing: SLEDGEHAMMER AND WHORE - I-dosing: How teenagers are getting 'digitally high' from music they download from internet | Mail Online - iDosing: spot the difference between the Sun's and the Mail's stories >> malcolm coles - U.K. to Ax National Census After 2011: Causes, Effects - TIME - Going on holiday? Avoid the blocked card nightmare - MoneySavingExpert News - If you think the ethics of 'death knock' journalists are bad, you should see comment spammers - Martin Belam's currybetdotnet blog - July 21, 2010 - What happens when journalists make their death knock calls | Media | guardian.co.uk - Lorry blind spots | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Area Man Going To Great Lengths To Conceal His Perfectly Normal Behavior | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - Scocca : A Review of the Droid X, Wr item Written on the D rod Droid X - Heroku | Ruby Cloud Platform as a Service -
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