Monthly Archives: May 2010

Play Pacman with Selenum? Yes!

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Karl

SeleniumExamples: “Play Pacman with Selenium 2″. This is pretty damn neat if you ask me.

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A poem and a place to donate for Memorial Day

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Karl

Howard Hall: “remember to learn” Craig Newmark: “ReMind.org: another small effort to help Veterans in a big way” Thank you to those who put themselves in harms way for the lives we can lead.

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On creating change

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

Kimberly Blessing shares “What You Can Learn From Jamie Oliver About Creating Change”.

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An interesting webcomic featuring a boy, musing on a missing dad, with.. Pokemon

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

“LETTERS TO AN ABSENT FATHER (PREVIEW)” 4 color rebellion: “”Letters To An Absent Father” Makes Me A Little Happysad”

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Martin Gardner RIP

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

Unfortunately I did not know of Martin Gardner’s work until watching the embedded video. He inspired many and I’ll be looking to read some of his books, articles, and trying to learn some magic myself. We can all use a … Continue reading →

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Gary Coleman RIP

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

Gary Coleman led a tragic life. It confuses me, it saddens me, it makes me angry that this kinda thing only becomes more clear after someone dies. Salon.com: “Gary Coleman: Damned by a catchphrase” Rushfield Babylon: “Gary As I Knew … Continue reading →

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Comcast releases open source software

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

Comcast Voices: “Comcast Labs and ISC donate IPv6 Open Source software to open Source Community”. Conversation at Hacker News. And check out Arpit’s post about his work on Comcast’s Xfinity Remote Prototype, “Have you seen the XFinity Social Remote app?”.

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Joy – Jonathan’s Cochlear Implant Activation at 8 months

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

YouTube: “Jonathan’s Cochlear Implant Activation 8 mo.”:

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Sean Blanda on Remixing the News

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

eMedia: Remix the News: “Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora”: “there is no service that adequately customizes content to my tastes based on previous reading” A good read with some important ideas. The only thing … Continue reading →

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Open Source news and knowledge aggregation projects that have caught my eye recently

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Karl

Managing News Ushahidi ThinkTank The Fifty State Project Media Cloud A little further down the stack: code.reddit.com GeoDjango Django web.py Flask Drupal

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