Links from 2010 (682 links)

Via headlessness.

What makes my heart go pitty-pat is the swarm of data that the sensor in the wheel captures and transmits. Not only does it track info about the biker (riding time, effort, calories) but it also grabs info from the environment, like temperature, carbon monoxide, noise and humidity. You can share this info with friends, and also with your city by making an anonymous donation of your data. The end result? A community of data-contributors helping cities build more accurate models of routes, noise, carbon emissions and temperature. All this data can be used inform urban planning, transit systems and environmental policies in service to sustainable cities.

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.

New Spotify with a number of interesting new features.

Your PasswordCard has a unique grid of random letters and digits on it. The rows have different colors, and the columns different symbols. All you do is remember a combination of a symbol and a color, and then read the letters and digits from there.

Via tomtaylor.

This.

An interesting (though obvious, after-the-fact) consequence of increasing our hourly rate, is that the customers that were left tended to be exactly the type of customers we’ve always wanted to work for — they appreciate, value and demand high quality, and are doing interesting things.

"The distinction between good code and crap code is essentially literary. Good code emerges from an intuitive ability to separate structure from intention – to compose minimalist flows of well formed cues that balance direct statements of logic with modular flexibility. Holistic, pattern based thinking is important, treating the locality of a single statement in the context of its position in a larger system, and also understanding that this position is fluid, and may change as the system changes and grows." This is great.

"I remain convinced that _in principle_, video games cannot be art. Perhaps it is foolish of me to say "never," because never, as Rick Wakeman informs us, is a long, long time. Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form."

"If you want email your code sends to actually arrive in someone's AOL mailbox, to the dulcet tones of "You've Got Mail!", there are a few things you must do first. And most of them are only peripherally related to writing code."

Via markrocky.

SolarBeat

Early days but good to see.

Mini-applications that run within Google Maps. You can create Mapplets that add new features or overlay your data on Google Maps.

"Based on your biomechanical evaluation, your qualified technician will hand craft your insoles (orthotics) while you wait and integrate them into the correct running shoe, ski boot or other footwear." Hot foot tech.

The current Facebook privacy policy already allows your “publicly available information,” which includes your name, gender, geographic region, friends list, fan pages, and your content marked “everyone,” to be automatically shared with external web sites when you visit them. The only thing apparently preventing this from happening right now is technology – Facebook has not yet rolled out an official means for Facebook Connect sites to automatically access such data. Apparently they soon plan on adding that technology for certain “pre-approved” sites, an update which the newer governing documents make more explicit.

(via jessandnick)

Cup. Of. Tea.

Because web type renders differently with only subtle CSS adjustments, seeing it exercised in a variety of ways can help web designers typeset—and also help them decide which typefaces to purchase for their projects.

Via smitchio.

An active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a number of active (but hopefully non-disruptive) security checks. The final report generated by the tool is meant to serve as a foundation for professional web application security assessments.

Via paul.irish.

Last week, I met a disabled pensioner, who told me that fundamentalist atheists were just getting far too uppity.

Grand Union, the full-service digital advertising agency, has completed its sale to the digital network FullSIX in a deal estimated to be worth £15 million.

Via eldret_99.

Never warp your brain with time zone math again.

Via gilest.

A .NET port of the ruby LESS libary

Speed of Light celebrates the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK with a series of installations by United Visual Artists commissioned by Virgin Media. The installations explore the themes of communication and modernity.

Allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Here is how it works: choose a file, drag it to the menubar and let us take care of the rest. We provide you with a short link automatically copied to your clipboard that you can use to share your upload with co-workers and friends.

Miniature railway operates on Sunday afternoons in the summer

How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

"Jane was studying product design at RCA London when she had an idea: "I don't want to buy new stuff all the time. I want to hack the stuff I already have so it works better for me." So she phoned some clever materials scientists called Ian and Steve and together they invented an interesting new material for hacking things better."

Small, USB-powered, reasonably-priced scanner.

Via tomtaylor.

Boutique bed & breakfast hotel in Lyme Regis.