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'randomly generated diets'
Swole.me - The automatic diet planner(see Disclaimer)
Note: This is not an endorsement.
the missing option...
A Modest Proposal: Google, Take My MoneyI just wish you'd take alternative forms of payment besides my eyeballs and my personal information.
Related:
disconnect.me: Paying with our data
'what if...'
my data. forever.i would love to be in a position where one day, all of my data was my data, rather than that of evernote, dropbox, twitter, facebook, gmail and icloud. forever.
'community of storytellers'
Cowbird - A witness to life (About)Our short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events and universal themes. Our long-term goal is to build a public library of human experience, so the knowledge and wisdom we accumulate as individuals may live on as part of the commons, available for this and future generations to look to for guidance.
#OWS aggregator
OccupationalistOccupationalist is an impartial and real-time view of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Covering history as it unfolds. No filters. No delays.
'off the grid-for-little-kids'
The Kid Should See This.There's just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them...
'everything is changing'
WTF Mobile WebWe need better reasons. Real examples. Proof that what we are all doing is not working anymore. That's what this website is about. Examples convince. Seeing trends makes us smarter. The problem isn't insurmountable if it's known. So let's get to know the problem.
'forced labor' survey
Slavery FootprintHow many slaves work for you? There are 27 million slaves in the world today. Many of them contribute to the supply chains that end up in the products we use every day. Find out how many slaves work for you, and take action.
new in social media
From its Preamble:
Today, social media has reached a decisive crossroads. The direction we choose to take will affect the course of human events and shape our destiny. Facebook has established a social media cyber-monopoly that tramples on our rights and limits our freedoms. The history of Facebook is a history of arrogance and repeated exploitation of the people. Its dictatorship must end. Social media must turn in a new direction. The time has come for the people to rise up and declare their emancipation.
'interplay'
The evolution of the webThe color bands in this visualization represent the interaction between web technologies and browsers, which brings to life the many powerful web apps that we use daily.
sounds of everyday things
SoundAffectsWhat would we learn if we changed the way we looked at our cities? What if, instead of just looking at them, we could listen to them?
offline file-sharing network
Dead Drops[The Letter]Un-cloud your files in cement! 'Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.
'rethinking the desktop'
10/GUIThe mouse and the windowed desktop are perhaps the two greatest innovations in the history of human-computer interaction. But like all innovations, they are best seen as part of a continuum rather than a terminus.
color in the sky
N SKY C – "The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes." [Trivium]buzzwords in the news
Newswordy: Word of the dayBeware of links to external news sites with heavy and/or intrusive advertising.
running the numbers
Remembrance of Links PastMeasuring link rot with a computer program is tricky because URLs have a number of different decay products...
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)one way to do it
Tap2Tab – "a bookmarklet that instantly sends a site from your computer to your iPad, tablet, or phone"handy mobile interface
Imaginary PhoneImaginary Phone allows users to control their mobile devices without taking it out of their pocket. Instead, users mimic the interaction on the palm of their hand. The interaction is tracked by a wearable depth camera which sends input events to the actual physical device...
social journalism
storyfulStoryful uses the power of social networks to create an authentic, cooperative and socially useful journalism.
innovation vs. annoyance
Advertising is damaging the Internet experienceNow I am not saying that advertising is all bad, most of these blogs and websites depend on it to remain publishing. However as the average user learns to automatically and involuntarily tune out the distractions, advertisers keep coming up with new innovative methods of annoyance.
'diverse streams of urbanism'
Free Association Design (F.A.D.) – "explores space, place and systems through a range of writings, experiences and design research methods"'camouflage from face detection'
CV Dazzle[Futurismic]CV Dazzle™ is camouflage from computer vision (CV). It is a form of expressive interference that combines makeup and hair styling (or other modifications) with face-detection thwarting designs...
a 'minimum safe distance'
My Internet FaceSo is it worth it, should I give the ill-begotten miscreant teenager that is Facebook another try?
on the impermanent cloud
Link RotWhen you link, you do so trusting that the data to which you direct your readers won't just up and disappear into the virtual ether. Except that, inevitably, it will...
something we're exploring...
Inform – "a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language"a little thought provocation
Minimalism is not a viable intellectual strategySomething to think about - can minimalism be a good long-term strategy?Minimalism cannot be a long-term strategy, but it makes an excellent short-term tactic.
Related:
Minimalism Is A Viable Long Term Intellectual Strategy
'There is only passion.'
There is no talentIt's so easy to give up; it might almost seem like the whole world is against you. Well, forget about the rest of the world. There is no such thing as talent, and in the end you will end up as skilled as your "talented" heros.
Simply by following your passion.
a new 'emptypage' weekly
banal.ch[The Letter]Please feel free to contribute some Contents to this site. I'm just too lazy to come up with something original myself.
'a world with fewer options'
In the Grip of the Internet MonopolistsDo away with Google? Break up Facebook? We can't imagine life without them—and that's the problem
interesting concept in the works
ThimblWelcome to thimbl, the free, open source, distributed micro-blogging platform. If you're tired of being locked in to one micro-blogging platform, or a single social network. Or you're weary of corporations hi-jacking your updates in the pursuit of money, then thimbl is for you.
Thimbl is currently not ready for the world! We're still putting the finishing touches on what we hope will be a useful and successful application.
'share your ideas' (bookmarklet)
MarkUpDraw on any webpage with MarkUp to quickly share your thoughts.
'super-easy to use'
KEYS.css – "a simple stylesheet for rendering beautiful keyboard-style elements"'something different'
Ode - a simple personal publishing platform for the web – "Simple means you know how it works."Note: This is not an endorsement.
be 'Proactively Nice'
Operation NICE[minor details]Don't you love it when people go out of their way to be nice? Like when someone waits to hold the door for you. Or when a stranger waves you into a line a traffic. Or even when a coworker shoots you a friendly smile along with a "have a nice day." If everyone was a little bit nicer to the folks they encountered each day, perhaps the world would be a more pleasant place. Operation NICE was initiated to remind you that a little NICE goes a long way.
rediscovered this morning...
Some Photographs of That DayBackground information at Wikipedia:
Jamie Livingston (October 25, 1956 - October 25, 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer. Between March 31, 1979 and October 25, 1997, the day of his death, he took a single picture nearly every day with a Polaroid camera.
'social knowledge'
Panmind – "Knowledge sharing, online collaboration and social networking: three big potentials of the Web in a single platform."'a step closer'
Toward the Semantic WebIf the current Web is like a giant text file - which you can search for instances of particular words – the Semantic Web would be like a database, where every item of information is categorized, and new queries can combine categories in any imaginable way. You could, for instance, search the Web for a restaurant within a mile of a railway station in a town with a theater that offers vegetarian lasagna and at least one lamb dish. And if you wanted the restaurant’s menu, you could pull up just the menu – not page after page of review sites that happened to use the word "menu."
an homage to letters
Interesting Letterhead Designs | Letterheady[Rick Chlopan < Bruce Arthur]Much like its sibling, Letterheady is an online homage to offline correspondence; specifically letters. However, here at Letterheady we don't care about the letter's content. Just its design.
another hyperlocal effort
Raise the HammerRaise the Hammer is a group of Hamilton, Ontario citizens who believe in our city's potential and are willing to get involved in making the city a more vibrant, livable, and attractive place to live and work.
'subverts the profit model'
One Hour Photo – "Photographic works will be projected for one hour each, after which they will never be seen again, by anyone, in any form."'relaxation and liberalization'
Canon to begin acquisition of the ".canon" Top-Level Domain name [Surfstation]bravo for saying it
Advertising is devastating to my well-being[dotcoma]I run my own website(s) at a loss specifically because I'd rather pay out of my own pocket than force people to look at ads. Admittedly my sites are so small that it's not much money. But there you have it. If I had to generate revenue to keep my sites going, I would find a way other than advertising to do it. Or I'd shut them down.
learning aid prototype
Noteput – "An interactive music table with tangible notes, that helps students to learn the notation of music."on 'Google and its partners'
- Google Click Fraud Inflates Conversion Rates and Tricks Advertisers into Overpaying (January 12, 2010)
- Google Still Charging Advertisers for Conversion-Inflation Traffic from WhenU Spyware (January 5, 2010 - Updated, January 7, 2010)
- How Google and Its Partners Inflate Measured Conversion Rates and Inflate Advertisers' Costs (May 13, 2009)
which comes first
Excessive internet use is linked to depressionOur research indicates that excessive internet use is associated with depression, but what we don't know is which comes first - are depressed people drawn to the internet or does the internet cause depression?