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AORTAL - the anti-portal,
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buzzwords in the news
Newswordy: Word of the dayBeware of links to external news sites with heavy and/or intrusive advertising.
'one trick pony'
unformat microid |ˈmīˌkroid|unformat microid ("Microid" in short) is a mac OSX native app that makes it easier to work with texts from different sources. The app functions as a step between the copy and paste actions of the user, stripping the stuff in the pasteboard from everything except plain text.
running the numbers
Remembrance of Links PastMeasuring link rot with a computer program is tricky because URLs have a number of different decay products...
If you use pinboard.in...
...the following may be useful to you: Pinboard Status. I've decided to post this after attempting to review an article on the pinboard blog I had bookmarked and finding it was (still) unavailable this morning.What if?
Project KleinrockProject Kleinrock is an attempt to create an autonomous and decentralized "second layer" of the Internet, which can operate without the use of Internet Service Providers. This network can be set up using nothing more than common household wifi routers. It works by creating a web of routers, connected to each other by switching them into repeater mode...
'turntable + mixer experiment'
The Wheels Of Steel: Turntables in your browser (a web-based DJ prototype)checks your CSS code
CSS LintCSS Lint is a tool to help point out problems with your CSS code. It does basic syntax checking as well as applying a set of rules to the code that look for problematic patterns or signs of inefficiency...
'dithering filter' (OS X)
HyperDither – "an OS X image processing utility that converts color or grayscale images to 1 bit black & white using a sophisticated dithering routine"
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audio visual arts
soundtoys – "established to provide a space for the exhibition of exciting new works by a growing community of audio visual artists, while also providing a forum for discourse around new technologies and the nature of soundtoys..."'travel time maps'
Mapnificent – "Shows you areas you can reach with public transport in a given time."List: Recently Noticed (28)
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