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“This plugin will output a series of “related” entries based on keyword matching.”
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“This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog”
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“Merchants can store their own products to our fulfillment centers and then, using a simple web service interface, fulfill orders for the products. That’s right – make a web service call, ship a product to a customer!”
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“I went and wrote Paperclip on the plane to RailsConf last year. We’ve been using it here in various forms since and IMHO it’s *the* way to handle uploads, and finally decided that it should be released.” Another handy Thoughtbot plugin.
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“Flashgels.co.uk is a UK source for lighting gels pre-cut for use on portable flash guns – used for colour correction or for effect.” Reasonable prices, free delivery, and they sell bungies too. I’ll be picking up the Correction Pack asap.
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“I’ve been building a Ruby MIDI generator called Archaeopteryx. It builds on code from Practical Ruby Projects to create a system for auto-generating, self-modifying music.” Wonderful. Wonderful, wonderful.
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“The picture transfixes us because it looks like the truth, but, looking at it, we can only imagine what that truth is: torture, execution, a scene staged for the camera?” Excellent New Yorker article by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris.
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“Tourettes Machine is a firefox plugin that randomly adds swear words to your
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Very impressive screencast of the forthcoming admin interface to EE 2.0. Still convinced that EE is the best off-the-shelf PHP CMS out there. I’m not the greatest fan of PHP, but EllisLab sure make it do great things – Codeigniter is also excellent.
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“flickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog”. It just repurposes Flickr’s own slideshow feature, but it does it very nicely.
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“I’m a female and a feminist. I dislike the usage of the word ‘ho’. However, as a geography major, I find this song hilarious, and had to map it.” A more accurate-than-normal piece of hip-hop infographics.
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“The thing about games and virtual story worlds … is at least they give you feedback and points for doing things. That way we know instantly what our strengths and weaknesses are, and how we are doing. We don’t really get that in everyday life.”
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“Shredz64 is a modern day game for the Commodore 64… [its] design is modeled against the popular “Guitar Hero” series, geared toward the ability to play along to your favorite C64 music on the guitar.” Plays any .SID file you throw at it. Impressive!
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Lovely infographic from the NYT about being exposed to D&D early in life.
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“Donkey Kong shipped in mid-March of 1983. I vaguely recall a small party at work, but mostly I was glad it was all over.” Great article about home-computer games programming back in the day.
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“That’s why I enjoy @towerbridge so much – less the concept of machines talking, but more a simple reminder of the disrupted moments in everyday city life.” All this is also true. Beautifully put, by Tom.
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“when a technical wife and a design husband love each other very much they have a special meeting and nine months later a website is born.” Great quotation; fantastic writeup of what sounded like a fantastic talk. It captures how I feel almost perfectly.
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“blackr is a bookmarklet you can put in your browser’s bookmarks bar. [It] will hide everything on the page behind a soothing black canvas except for the photo. All that remains is the picture.”
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“It’s time to learn a new 3D game engine name: Microsoft Excel.” The two money-shots in the article are priceless.