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Licensing BlackBerry 10
RIM's Thorsten Heins said the BlackBerry 10 operating system will be ready and available for third-parties to license.Google Expands Patent Search
Google's online resource for researching patents has just improved, adding the full collection of European patents and a prior art finder.WTFNASA?
What has ever NASA done to make your life any more awesome? Find out.Ron Palillo from Welcome Back Kotter is Dead at 63
Wow. I now officially feel old. I remember my brother and I racing home from school in the winter to catch Welcome Back Kotter before our parents got home and told us to do our homework.Daily Links
The Expressive Web
Big Spaceship and Adobe's showcase of HTML5 + CSS3 goodness.The Evolution of the Web
Google presents an interactive evolution of the web. Did you know in 2011 global internet traffic was 27,483 petabytes per month?jQuery on 50% of the Internet
According to W3Techs, the jQuery library is used on every second website, only seven years after John Resig proposed the concept of javascript selectors.Postcards from the Future
Interesting look at some of the big cities of the work. Short form and starting from #51 Toronto, cause you know, Canada!Daily Links
Google is now considering copyright taken notices in their search rankings
The idea is that sites that host a lot of infringing content should be shown lower in the results. However, I can't imagine the black-hat SEO people will be able to resist falsely claiming copyright over their competitors' content.Daily Links
Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Largest Ever 3D Map of the Universe
Best viewed fullscreen at 1080p. Mind blown for the day."Never use black."
Ian Storm Taylor tells us one of those tricky, subtle things the professional designers do but the rest of us don't necessarily understand.Textmate 2 Is Now Open Source
Allan Odgaard releases the Textmate 2 source code under GPL 3 license and makes it available at Github.Daily Links
The Wikipedia Redefined
Proposed redesign for Wikipedia and family of various wikis. Looks much cleaner when it is now!Interactive visualization of Small Arms and Ammunition trade
A beautiful interactive infographic of not so beautiful government authorized small arms and ammunition trades between 1992 to 2010 across the globe.Daily Links
How Mat Honan Got Hacked
A flaw in security allowed just about anyone to gain keys to Apple accounts with just a home address and the last four digits of a credit card, letting them steal data and/or remotely wipe machines.Rebirth Of The American Arcade
Arcades are coming back, thanks to the nostalgia factor and the disposable income of people like me. Actually, I wouldn't mind dropping some quarters into a Ms. Pacman machine :)Nasa JPL's Coding Standards
The coding standards that got Curiosity to mars: Nasa JPL's C programming standards. An interesting read, influenced by standards used in the automotive industryDaily Links
NASA Control Room During Curiosity Landing
Best thing to happen on the August long weekend? NASA~!Daily Links
8.7%
According to an SEC filing release this week, Facebook says 8.7% active users are actually duplicates, spammers or bots. That's over 82 million accounts.Folklorama
For all culture lovers, this year's Folklorama kicks off this weekend with a little event at the Forks. Includes a fireworks display Saturday at dusk.This is Now project
the link above is a fallow up to yesterday's blog post about Instagram integration by Lauren. The idea behind the project is to pull images from Instagram in real time based on geo-tag locations associated with each image, thus building the city live visual story.The Instagramification of GrajewskiFotograph.com
Recently, we were asked by Jerry Grajewski to add an Instagram feature to his website. For those not familiar with Instagram, it is a mobile app which applies filters and effects to your photos and then shares them on your Instagram account, Twitter feed, and other social outlets.
Instagram makes integrating their data fairly easy via an API (Application Programming Interface). You sign up as a developer, then get a client ID and access token. This allows you to authenticate yourself to the API. To help out even further, Instagram offers an API console that lets you test out API calls ahead of time.
We used the API to pull down the 30 most recent photos from Jerry's Instagram account. With multiple resolutions for each photo, we then applied the lightbox effect used throughout Jerry's other galleries.
Check it out here: grajewskifotograph.com/instagram
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August Long Weekend Closures
Access Winnipeg provides a list of what will be open and what will be closed this 2012 August long weekend. Plan accordingly, folks.Banking System Run By Kids
The branches are run almost entirely by and for the children, with account holders electing two volunteer managers from the group every six months.Daily Links
The New Digg.com
Tossing everything that came before in the bin, the team treated the site like a startup and built a new platform in six weeks. Clean design and editorial driven. I'm liking the direction so far and I'm curious to see how it'll evolve.Ascii Street View
It's a real-time Ascii art conversion of Google Street View panorama's done in WebGL. You'll need Firefox 8 or higher, or Google's Chrome to see it properly.CodePen
Its like Dribble for CSS, HTML, JS coding. Nice stuff.Parents for Climate Change
A new initiative to bring a voice to ordinary people that can't lobby like big oil can. Global warming is real. It is happening. We are going to leave behind a scorched earth for our children unless do something meaningful about it. Sign up, even if you are not a parent."Shocking" Greenland Ice Melt: Global Warming or Just Heat Wave?
Wow. That is fast. That can't be good.