February 2009
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tlrl (too long; read later) →
Instapaper’s Read Later for terminal junkies.
“Sometimes it seems to me that 50% of the purpose of Facebook is to highlight a...”
– travors
“All API methods are accessible via very simple HTTP calls. This is optimized for...”
– Instapaper’s Read Later API, pioneering truthiness-oriented collaborative framework solutions for obfuscation eschewal.
The Anti-web Manifesto →
Extreme, but there are some good points in there.
Wikipedia claims: “The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.”
Indeed, this is how the Web started out. But now, people run Photoshop on it. It is staggering to think that such a feat is possible, through so many layers of abstraction…
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QRCodes that do moar →
m1k3y:
As regular readers know, we’re pretty into QRCodes on Grinding. From dating sites, to carpets to graffiti pirate radio stations to… just about everything. I thought by now we’d have documented most of the usages of this simple, but powerful technology.
And then those crazy Japanese come up with this…
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#tumblrs
toxick: dragonforce > dimmu borgir
Arood: dimmu borgir > dragonforce
toxick: they both suck
toxick: FLAWLESS VICTORY
brilliantology: hoho
brilliantology: you are a master of the interwebs
toxick: i always win arguments in youtube comments
“Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more open and transparent.”
– Mark Zuckerberg, “from inside his walled garden” (toldorknown)
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Aphex Twin – Matchsticks
Dear Twitter people, please stop it with the new... →
Posts are “tweets”: a noun, which is fine, because corporations are going to make up new things all the time. But then people talk about “tweeting”, and now we’re in verb land, where the act of “posting” on Twitter is so radically different from the act of posting on any other website in the whole world that it’s got its very own action word. And...
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I love dogs
“Everything is amazing right now, and nobody’s happy.”
– Louis CK. This entire video is quotable. (I tried posting this last night, and my router died. Had to keep my cool to evade irony.)
"The perfect song has…"
acewepeel:
Handclaps
Keyboards
Male and female vocals
breefield:
I’d like to append
A catchy title
Whistling (optional)
amwelles:
Don’t forget a tambourine.
You’re all wrong.
Blastbeats.
“So do us a favour — if you see people spreading the rumour, refer them to this...”
– Last.fm staff
“jesus christ is that a mouth? what the hell is going on here”
– Comment on a John Campbell doodle
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Nile – To Dream of Ur
Auto-Meme source code →
Filthy secrets revealed! The innards of Auto-Meme are now available for your perusal on GitHub.
Last.fm staff: "Rumours of our collaboration with... →
“As far as I’m concerned Techcrunch have made this whole story up.”
(via Last.fm on Twitter)
凹目
‘kubome’, a Japanese word meaning sunken/deep-set eyes.
Previously: 凸凹
