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Last login: 3 days agoRobsteranium is a 27 year old guy from Manchester, England, UK.
I'm a self employed infonomist
Washing machine that uses one cup of water - Telegraph
Jun 22, 9:34am    (29 reviews)  environment  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greener...
I can't help feeling that owners will forever be shaking plastic beads out of their underwear!
Twitter--How to Twitter in Ruby on Rails
Jun 19, 1:55pm    (1 review)  web-design, api, twitter, data, ruby  http://ruby.about.com/od/networking/qt/t...
Access the twitter api by using curl on your ruby on rails app.
http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/talks/datavisualization/
Jun 17, 1:09pm    (1 review)  graphic-design, edward-tufte, visualisation  http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/talks/datavisualiz...
Excerpts from the work of Edward Tufte's provided by the author of the Circos genome visualisation program.
Why Things Become Unpopular
Jun 15, 3:14pm    (13 reviews)  http://www.physorg.com/news163333282.htm...
Spurious! If you want to hear a plausible account of trends in naming children read The Undercover Economist (google gives: slate.com/id/2116505/ [slate.com/id/2116505/] ).
Advanced Vinyl Handling, DJ Basics
Jun 14, 3:22pm    (23 reviews)  dj, tutorial, mixing  http://music.hyperreal.org/dj/AVH/Mixing...
Fine advice but I wouldn't call it advanced.
Underwhelmed
Slashdot | Is China Creating the Worlds Largest Botnet Army?
Jun 12, 6:46am    (1 review)  internet, politics, security, china  http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/11/19...
China requires new computers to have internet blocking censorware. This could lead to a state controlled botnet!
BBC - Adam and Joe
Jun 9, 9:04am    (2 reviews)  humor  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamandjoe/
STEPHEN!
Location Based Services: Why smartphone apps will pay off for advertisers...
Jun 9, 5:58am    (1 review)  mobile-computing, place, location-based-services  http://blog.compete.com/2009/06/02/locat...
Interesting piece of research into the uses of Location Based Services. Unsurprisingly "navigation" is popular... Roll-on geo-coded stumble upon!
The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?
Jun 9, 3:54am    (2 reviews)  internet, millenium-bug, twitter  http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/06/...
Apparently twitter has a millenium-bug-like flaw... The tweet that follows number 2,147,483,648 will take us into negative numbers wreaking havoc on services using the API. In reality it'll probably just mean your twitter friend feeds are sorted in reverse order!

See also: twitpocalypse.com [twitpocalypse.com]

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