May 2007
21 posts
Google "gears" up for offline web apps with new...
“Google Gears is an 700kb installation that extends HTML and Javascript, and it works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The beta supports Firefox 1.5 and up, Internet Explorer 6 or 7, and Opera [..]. Gears allows application developers to store and retrieve application resources on a local computer, optionally in a fully-searchable “SQL-light” database. Javascript functions can...
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“okay binary pattern matching is pretty hot. sheesh erlang, where were you when i...”
– Brian Donovan
last.fm acquired by CBS for $280m →
“Don’t panic. The openness of our platform and our approach to privacy won’t change.”
highlight.js →
Highlight.js highlights syntax in code examples on blogs, forums and in fact on any web pages. It’s very easy to use because it works automatically: finds blocks of code, detects a language, highlights it.
Nikon | Universcale →
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“Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning...”
– Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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“Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.”
– Joss Whedon
d y s l e s b i s k: Ekots lördagsmisstroende →
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Why we're so good at recognizing music →
“You hear only one note, and you already know who it is,” he said. “So what I want to know is: how we do this? Why are we so good at recognizing music?” - Culture - International Herald Tribune
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs
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"You shouldn't let poets lie to you." →
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“There’s a desk with three monitors on it: two large but otherwise ordinary...”
– The Atrocity Archives, Charles Stross