August 2009
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BYO Image Search Lab - Idée Inc. →
“The BYO (‘Bring Your Own’) Image Search Lab is a part of Idée Labs—Idée’s technology playground for visual search. With the BYO Image Search Lab, you can upload an image or point to one on the Internet, and find similar looking images in Alamy’s collection of nearly 3 million stock photographs.”
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Visual Search Lab - Idée Inc. →
“The Visual Search Lab is a part of Idée Labs—Idée’s technology playground for visual search. With the Visual Search Lab, you can browse through nearly 3 million stock photographs from Alamy, and find images that look visually similar just by clicking on them. Combine keywords with your visual search to return never-before-seen combinations of images.”
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Get Spotify in the U.S.
If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend following these instructions:
Step One: Visit http://htmlblock.co.uk/anonymous_web_browser/
Step Two: Visit “spotify.com” using the above proxy
Step Three: Sign up for a free account. Enter in all real information except for birthdate. I’m just paranoid is all (yet publicly blogging about it). For postal code, use “EC1M 3HN” (thanks,...
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Why I'm not a Writer || Phillip Greenspun →
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Study Hacks » How to Schedule Your Writing Like a... →
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Periodically posting shit you should hear. Old,...
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» 70+ High-Quality Free Fonts for Designers ||... →
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iStat and iStat
Have a Mac? Have an iPhone? You need iStat. And iStat.
iStat Menus for Mac provides real-time diagnotic info and shortcuts in your menu bar. Temperature, RAM consumption, throughput in and out, etc. Once you install and configure it, you can’t live without it.
iStat for the iPhone attempts to do the same but, in my eyes at least, it is just about useless in that regard. The app also...
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On Writing: Hacking Your Brain
I’m not sure why, but I just flashed on this great little writing exercise I gave myself while in high school. Despite occasional praise from teachers, I found that my writing was very poor at that point in time. In considering ways I might challenge myself or improve my skills, I came up with this:
Write one page of sensible text without using the words “the”,...
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Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster... →
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Unsolicited Advice of the Day:
Fix the problem, not the people who report it.
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Flickroom - BETA →
Use Flickr? Like cool stuff? Check it out.
Postal Experiments -- Improbable Research →
Great experiment to see just how much the US Postal Service is willing to take…
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Periodically posting shit you should hear. Old,...
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Feedity | RSS Feed Generator →
Because there are still tons of sites whose creators just can’t seem to figure out the enigma that is RSS, there is Feedity.
Hint: For best results, view the page source of the page you want to track and go into Advanced Refine when you’re building the feed in Feedity. This will let you block sections of the page according to any HTML tags you specify.