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  • Intro to CIUnit (part of fooStack) for CodeIgniter
    Requires a chunk of configuration, but this is not half bad: allows you to use PHPUnit from the command line to actually, properly test CI models. Even lets you use YAML configuration files. Not bad.
    (tags: testing codeigniter phpunit unittesting )
  • TweeterGetter .::. Get 15,625 New Twitter Followers In 30 Days!
    There are not expletives strong enough. In a nutshell: it's a pyramid scheme for following people you don't know on Twitter. It asks for your username and password. Terrifying.
    (tags: marketing twitter awful spam mlm socalledfriends )
  • Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism
    "Warning – this is a collection of half-formed thoughts, perhaps even more than usual." They seem pretty well-formed to me, even if the blogpost is a dense infoburst. Lots of solid gold in here, worth reading twice, slowly, and thinking on. And then working out what the conclusions are.
    (tags: socialsoftware space place mattjones location time thoughts proximity resolution )
  • WikipathS: The Great Web Race | Play This Thing!
    "…you go to any page on Wikipedia; a "start" button appears on the page. You click it, and it sends you to a random Wikipedia page, and then displays your "target" page in a box at the bottom of the browser window (as shown in the illo above). Your goal is to navigate from the start page to the target page, using only links in the main body of each article; the game is timed, so presumably you're attempting to do it in the minimum amount of time." A Greasemonkey/js entrant to the Global Game Jam – unusual, to say the least, and an interesting move.
    (tags: games web javascript greasemonkey wikipedia navigation )
  • KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak" Directed by Nabil on Vimeo
    And Kanye's datamoshing too. This is a bit more subtle and polished than the Chairlift video, but ideally suits the song.
    (tags: music compression videos effects kanyewest artefacting datamoshing )
  • Solid Snake Must Be Somewhere in This Warehouse « Hardcasual
    "Solid Snake, the special operations agent who frequently amuses himself by hiding in cardboard boxes, has been taped up and shipped to a warehouse in Oslo, Norway. Details are scarce at this point, but it appears Mr. Snake, famous for single-handedly dismantling Outer Heaven and destroying countless Metal Gears, made an error while shipping classified documents overseas and was picked up by a Fedex truck. The rescue operation has proved fruitless as of the time of this writing."
    (tags: humour hardcasual packaging infrastructure metalgearsolid )

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