- Space Invasion
Space Invasion looks like a game I might just need to put on the iPhone.
- Top 125 Places to Have a Beer
All About Beer magazine has come up with a list of the top places you should have a beer before you die. I’m a little bummed that there isn’t one entry for Los Angeles and that I’ve only been to a few of these places.
Lots of work to do.
- Political Browser
The Washington Post launched a new site, Political Browser. It looks like a very useful place to check every day for the latest political thoughts and ideas. I do find it a bit disheartening though that such a big deal is being made at the linking out to other sources of information.
Are we still that scared of linking to other people? Really?
- Some things I’ve liked recently
Here’s a few things I’ve come across the last few days which are pretty nifty…
- The Las Vegas Sun’s weather page. Extremely clean design with lots of data but easy to read and understand unlike ours.
- EveryBlock is now in LA… Watch out.
- Simple Update Protocol looks like a mix between a cache and sending out Pub-Sub notifications.
- The Onion has invaded Chicago.
- The Blueberry Mint Lemonade from Lemonade is absolutely amazing.
- LED Football for the iPhone.
- Fumblerooski is a perfect compliment to the start of college football.
- Looking forward to trying the Nickel Diner
- A little bit of tab clearing
Continuing to dig Guardian America
A look at the literary journal, Zyzzyva
Dealing with a geographically distributed Memcache
NeverBlock is a Ruby library that allows developers to write non-blocking, concurrent code in a transparent manner. Meaning that you will keep coding in your traditional ways while you get the benefit of non-blocking IO operations.
Interview with Twitter’s Alex Payne
Cyberstar, a look at Adrian Holovaty and EveryBlock
- How-to be your own barista
The amazing barista Tumblr pointed to this great graphic. I remember Starbucks doing something similar when I worked there but this would be a great poster for the coffee fiend.
- Huffington Post Chicago
The Huffington Post Chicago site has launched and so far I’m impressed. Looks like a nice collection of opening day stories talking about the greatness of Chicago.
I found a few I liked, The Newspaper is Dead, Long Live the Newspaper, Blackhawk Down: Chicago’s Forgotten Franchise and Chicago Tribune’s Social Media Evolution.
One interesting thing is the right rail being mainly links to the local bloggers. I think that’s an incredible way of generating goodwill and probably bringing people back again and again. The key is distribution and aggregation. It’s something I try to preach here though it doesn’t always seem like people are listening.
- A Person of Interest
We were talking about the Bruce Ivins tragedy on the way back from lunch and something about it finally clicked in my brain.
Let me take a step back, I’m a big fan of Law & Order Criminal Intent. I remembered an episode that is eerily similar to this case, the one entitled, A Person of Interest.
In a continuation of a previous episode, the season finale finds Detectives Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) probing the murder of a former Air Force nurse — but the discovery of anthrax nearby intensifies the search and pushes Goren into the headlines when he is blamed for a suspicious scientist’s suicide.
I’m really surprised people haven’t seen that connection. I found only one reference to it in the comments of this post at HuffPo.
Interesting times we live in…
- Your Weekend Reading
Bill de hÓra puts together a great list of links looking at XMPP for distributed computing.
