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That suggested but not necessarily entailed by that utterance. "Where can I get ice cream?" "That shop sells ice cream" implies that ice cream can be bought from the shop right now (i.e. it's open, ice cream is in stock etc).

nonbeard 2010-07-21 21:06:11

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/

Via Bryn

nonbeard 2010-07-19 23:30:41

4 Humours on the Behance Network

http://www.behance.net/gallery/4-Humours-/539062

beautiful take on Hippocrates

nonbeard 2010-07-19 01:38:03

Cool Components - Olimex, Arduino, Sparkfun, GPS, Bluetooth, PIC MCUs, ARM MCUs, programmers, debuggers and much more.

http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/

Relatively cheap PIC and AVR microcontrollers, boards, and other bits. UK based.

nonbeard 2010-07-18 00:45:55

Australian Times - News for Aussies Living in the UK

http://www.australiantimes.co.uk/news/How-to-vote-in-Election-2010-from-the-UK

How to vote in the .au election from .uk. Via liedra

nonbeard 2010-07-17 20:40:12

Super Mario Bros. Re-Stik movable wall decals by Blik, Officially Licensed from Nintendo

http://www.whatisblik.com/shop/super-mario-bros

Chuck reckons I need these, and he is correct.

nonbeard 2010-07-17 19:53:45

YouTube - 405nm laser to face − test0 (zombie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-HRSZEeRVU&playnext_from=TL&videos=nDxS8n4KnCs&feature=sub

I am only pinboarding this for the awesome factor of pinboarding something titled "405nm laser to face".

nonbeard 2010-07-16 23:34:49

Feynman Algorithm

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?FeynmanAlgorithm

1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write down the solution. (via hacker news)

nonbeard 2010-07-16 13:10:22

Quornstruction: The house made of meat

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-07/12/meat-house

It's a house (concept) made out of vat-grown meat! Awesome. Really really want.

nonbeard 2010-07-13 15:17:41

article (As above, so below)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20303279
nonbeard 2010-07-13 02:10:58

NES DS - PHWiki

http://www.pocketheaven.com/ph/wiki/NES_DS

This is so cool -- right shoulder button is fast forward, and left shoulder button is rewind! You can rewind your gameplay, Dagger of Time-style. :D

nonbeard 2010-07-10 16:30:31

'Pataphysics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Pataphysics
nonbeard 2010-07-10 01:55:43

Robins can literally see magnetic fields, but only if their vision is sharp | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/07/08/robins-can-literally-see-magnetic-fields-but-only-if-their-vision-is-sharp/

Awesome! HN

2010-07-09 10:14:19

Potato and Pea Curry — The No Bull Vegan

http://www.nobullvegan.com/recipes/potato-and-pea-curry/

Looks good esp. since there is no way to cheat in the UK (with pre-made Tasty Bite curries)

nonbeard 2010-07-07 16:49:14

briancarper.net (λ) - Advertising is devastating to my well-being

http://briancarper.net/blog/523/advertising-is-devastating-to-my-well-being

Interesting point: books are one of the few information-distribution media which don't have ads.

nonbeard 2010-07-07 10:13:26

Arterotismo/Felicien Rops

http://www.arterotismo.it/FelicienRops/

Saw a museum for this artist in Belgium with Catie.

nonbeard 2010-07-06 23:09:15

Welcome // Werkzeug

http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/

Contender for best of breed Python Web framework.

nonbeard 2010-07-06 13:20:31

Vigilant Citizens: Then vs. Now

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/07/vigilant_citize.html

"If you think your neighbor has "radical" views -- that is none of your or the F.B.I.'s business." wow.

nonbeard 2010-07-02 00:25:43

University of Reddit

http://universityofreddit.com/v2/

Here's fun!

nonbeard 2010-07-01 22:28:24

TweetStation: Elevating the Discourse - Miguel de Icaza

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Jul-10.html

"[Elevating the discourse] is achieved with two features. The first feature plays back chicken noises whenever you request more Tweets..." I'm starting to really like Miguel de Icaza.

nonbeard 2010-07-01 16:05:41

Girl Hand on Back Guide

http://gondaba.com/post/754083427

pretty much.

nonbeard 2010-06-30 19:46:18

BitC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitC

BitC, abandoned in 2009, lives again.

2010-06-30 15:51:54

Cross Bones Graveyard

http://www.into.org.uk/SouthwarkMysteries/CrossBonesGraveyard.htm

I found this graveyard while wandering near Borough.

nonbeard 2010-06-29 17:49:04

Clojure on blip.tv

http://clojure.blip.tv/

"Screencasts, talks and tutorials on the Clojure programming language"

nonbeard 2010-06-29 16:17:57

Mailinator(tm) Blog: On Java Visibility

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-java-visibility.html

On "visibility" as it applies to JIT compilation. This seems like an obvious example of where using a JIT provides more opportunities for optimisation -- but at the expense of rather severe and unintuitive programming restrictions (at the Java level, makes perfect sense at the hardware level) and in the presence of multiple threads... so, hmm, maybe not a clear JIT win...

nonbeard 2010-06-29 13:37:11

CSS IS AWESOME COFFEE MUG from Zazzle.com

http://www.zazzle.com/css_is_awesome_mug-168716435071981928

I want this mug.

nonbeard 2010-06-29 11:20:37

Ned Batchelder: Mandelbox

http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201006/mandelbox.html

Flythrough of a 3d fractal. Awesome!

Nonbeard 2010-06-28 10:44:52

Bill Gates - Playboy Interview - Microsoft Founder

http://www.playboy.com/articles/bill-gates-playboy-interview/index.html

An inspiring and personal interview. (hacker news)

nonbeard 2010-06-27 13:33:01

Competition is overrated cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog

http://cdixon.org/2010/06/26/competition-is-overrated/

"Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button" -- article on startups

nonbeard 2010-06-26 17:12:22

Google Code: jQuery Outages and a Fix | Sean Walther’s Blog

http://www.seangw.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/06/google-code-jquery-outages-and-a-fix/

The argument for using Google to host jquery is that it's more reliable and faster than hosting it yourself. The argument against is that you inadvertently share some of your site's user data with Google. Now it seems as if the first half of the "for" argument isn't so convincing. (As an aside, I don't think browsers have been limited to two simultaneous requests for at least five years.)

nonbeard 2010-06-23 15:19:10

TI makes a big bid for the hobby market - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2010/06/22/ti-makes-a-big-bid-for-the-hobby-market/

Holy shit, $4.30 for a development board.

nonbeard 2010-06-22 16:02:49

Quickies for gdb

http://borkware.com/quickies/one?topic=gdb

Specifically, quickies for GDB with Cocoa apps.

nonbeard 2010-06-22 14:55:21

This Mac devotee is moving to Linux - Dan Gillmor - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/06/20/from_mac_to_linux/index.html

Hilariously terrible article. The guy states in para one that "my strategy is to use what works best, period", and then in para 3 explains that he is switching to Linux for political (not practical) reasons: "I value some principles, perhaps almost religiously". Worse: the principle is walled gardens -- which Apple is doing with iOS, but not OS X, so his decision isn't supported by any evidence. Then he buys a new laptop to run Linux, but is unable to run Linux on it because the hardware is unsupported. He then reports, entirely without irony, that is is making do in the meantime by running Linux in a VM ... on his MacBook Pro.

nonbeard 2010-06-21 17:46:55

Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night - Accommodations on Airbnb

http://www.airbnb.com/

Kind of like classy couch surfing. Except you pay. Seems really cool -- I would have saved several hundred euro on my Finland holiday (and probably stayed in nicer places) if I'd known about it earlier! (via liedra)

nonbeard 2010-06-21 11:20:06

An Open Postcode Geocoding API – Jamie Thompson

http://jamiethompson.co.uk/projects/2010/04/30/an-open-free-uk-postcode-geocoding-web-service/

Converts UK postcodes to latitude and longitude.

nonbeard 2010-06-20 14:03:27

"Somewhere a dog barked"

http://www.slate.com/id/2256007/pagenum/all

This phrase is a novelistic cliché: "For all we know, these dogs are off-camera sound machines set to woof." (Language Hat)

nonbeard 2010-06-18 11:16:45

Dropping an Einstein thought experiment down an elevator shaft

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/06/dropping-einstein-thought-experiment-down-an-elevator-shaft.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

A German research centre actually built a giant tower to test out a thought experiment by Einstein. These days experiments involving giant towers seem strangely old-fashioned. The tower actually looks quaint.

nonbeard 2010-06-18 10:54:17

HTC Evo doing ninja-like creep on Nexus One's market share

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/06/htc-evo-doing-ninja-like-creep-on-nexus-ones-market-share.ars?comments=1#comments-bar

Android distribution by handset from Chitika. Wow, the Nexus One sank like a stone.

nonbeard 2010-06-16 10:27:34

ASIHTTPRequest Documentation - All-Seeing Interactive

http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/

Async/sync GET/POST HTTP library for OS X/iOS. BSD licensed. Looks good.

nonbeard 2010-06-15 14:26:34

Cloud Computing, Cloud Hosting & Online Storage by Rackspace Hosting. Mosso is now the Rackspace Cloud.

http://www.rackspacecloud.com/

Time to migrate from Linode? This is half the price baseline + 22c / gigabyte out.

nonbeard 2010-06-15 13:43:03

OS OpenData Supply - Download or order Ordnance Survey OpenData

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

Ordnance Survey again

nonbeard 2010-06-12 20:41:01

go on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/4914529

This is an amazing video about about climate change.

nonbeard 2010-06-12 11:27:00

The Anatomy of Addictive Gameplay | Innesoft Blog

http://www.innesoft.com/blog/2010/06/the-anatomy-of-addictive-gameplay/

via hn via liedra

nonbeard 2010-06-10 18:03:36

Figurine holds down Cup Noodle lid, tells you when your food is ready - TOKYOMANGO

http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2010/06/figurine-holds-down-cup-noodle-lid-tells-you-when-your-food-is-ready.html

Waiting for your instant noodles. Relax.

nonbeard 2010-06-10 11:46:18

Moist Banana Bread Recipe - Vegan Banana Bread

http://www.vegfamily.com/vegan-recipes/breads/ff-banana-bread.htm

This worked out nicely, especially considering 1) I measured everything by eye; 2) I can't work the oven; 3) I couldn't find a cake tin so had to improvise with a saucepan.

nonbeard 2010-06-09 22:00:38