Andrew Ferguson
Rejecting Your Reality and Substituting My Own Since 1986
Subscribe to RSS FeedShared Items for the week of March 7, 2010*
- Bram Cohen's Journal: Enterprise Chatroulette (March 6, 2010)
- Aerospace News: Boeing’s Albaugh: Puget Sound ‘is where we want to be’ (March 2, 2010)
- Download Squad: WordPress blogs will update in real time, via PubSubHubbub (March 4, 2010)
- S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: How ‘Star Trek’ Should Have Ended (March 4, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Petition to make "Hella" the prefix for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (March 1, 2010)
- All Articles: Tech Break – SSH Tunneling: Like a VPN, only cooler (February 28, 2010)
- kottke.org: Not your father's PageRank (February 26, 2010)
- Joel Gillin: What if I’m wrong? (February 25, 2010)
- kottke.org: Ten things that influence conformity (February 25, 2010)
- RobBushway.com: Unquenchable Desires (February 25, 2010)
- kottke.org: Twitch clicking game (February 2, 2010)
- kottke.org: Richard Feynman explains magnets, sort of (February 2, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Girl stuck in Pittsburgh airport overnight shoots epic horsing around video (February 22, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Truth: Common Power Point mistakes never change (February 23, 2010)
- Marginal Revolution: The Boom and Bust Rap (January 25, 2010)
- xkcd.com: Freedom (February 23, 2010)
- [Jason Preston]: Ignite Seattle 9 Speakers Announced (February 23, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Yet another scientific study endorsing your desire to go have a nap (February 22, 2010)
- Signal vs. Noise: VIDEO: Haiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage: Khalid – Andrew also says, “Run, don’t walk to see this footage. Amazing!” (February 22, 2010)
- AlabamAdventures: AdvertisemenTirade (February 21, 2010)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
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Shared Items for the week of February 28, 2010*
- kottke.org: Not your father's PageRank (February 26, 2010)
- Joel Gillin: What if I’m wrong? (February 25, 2010)
- kottke.org: Ten things that influence conformity (February 25, 2010)
- RobBushway.com: Unquenchable Desires (February 25, 2010)
- kottke.org: Twitch clicking game (February 2, 2010)
- kottke.org: Richard Feynman explains magnets, sort of (February 2, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Girl stuck in Pittsburgh airport overnight shoots epic horsing around video (February 22, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Truth: Common Power Point mistakes never change (February 23, 2010)
- Marginal Revolution: The Boom and Bust Rap (January 25, 2010)
- xkcd.com: Freedom (February 23, 2010)
- [Jason Preston]: Ignite Seattle 9 Speakers Announced (February 23, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Yet another scientific study endorsing your desire to go have a nap (February 22, 2010)
- Signal vs. Noise: VIDEO: Haiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage: Khalid – Andrew also says, “Run, don’t walk to see this footage. Amazing!” (February 22, 2010)
- AlabamAdventures: AdvertisemenTirade (February 21, 2010)
- The Big Picture: Vancouver 2010, part 1 of 2 (February 19, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Unscientific look into MIT students’ sex-lives (February 20, 2010)
- Lifehacker: Brush Up on Your Fashion Knowledge with This Geek-Friendly Primer [Fashion Hacks] (February 18, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Vintage photos of “The Empire That Was Russia” (February 18, 2010)
- Wired: Threat Level: Student’s Facebook Tirade Against Teacher Is Protected Speech (February 16, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Videos on bus capture disaster when driver falls asleep (February 15, 2010)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
Tags: feed, Google Reader, RSS, shared items
Shared Items for the week of February 21, 2010*
- The Big Picture: Vancouver 2010, part 1 of 2 (February 19, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Unscientific look into MIT students’ sex-lives (February 20, 2010)
- Lifehacker: Brush Up on Your Fashion Knowledge with This Geek-Friendly Primer [Fashion Hacks] (February 18, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Vintage photos of “The Empire That Was Russia” (February 18, 2010)
- Wired: Threat Level: Student’s Facebook Tirade Against Teacher Is Protected Speech (February 16, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Videos on bus capture disaster when driver falls asleep (February 15, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Fixing US copyright law with the US Copyright Reform Act (February 15, 2010)
- kottke.org: Trailer for the A-Team movie (February 16, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Sleuthing uncovers the mystery of Kingston MicroSD cards’ crappy QA (February 16, 2010)
- Signal vs. Noise: OkCupid scores by teaching (February 15, 2010)
- BlatherWatch: The geography of early seattle radio (February 14, 2010)
- Boing Boing: 24th anniversary of the Challenger disaster – Andrew also says, “I wrote a paper my freshman year of college on the Challenger disaster (http://www.andrewferguson.net/wp-content/pdf/72_seconds_later.pdf). As part of my research, I was actually able to get in contact with Mr. Boisjoly, he’s quite an amazing man.” (February 14, 2010)
- Boing Boing: CNN: Ten big ideas from TED – Andrew also says, “Well shoot…” (February 12, 2010)
- S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: Rock Out with your Spock out! (February 6, 2010)
- kottke.org: Community colleges save lives (February 10, 2010)
- Letters of Note: You're an idiot of the 33rd degree (January 26, 2010)
- kottke.org: Obama: Daddy of the United States of America (January 20, 2010)
- Iconic Photos: Matthias Rust’s Daring Flight (January 19, 2010)
- kottke.org: On the moon without being on the moon (January 19, 2010)
- kottke.org: Me and you and ours (January 13, 2010)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
Tags: feed, Google Reader, RSS, shared items
Shared Items for the week of February 14, 2010*
- Boing Boing: CNN: Ten big ideas from TED – Andrew also says, “Well shoot…” (February 12, 2010)
- S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: Rock Out with your Spock out! (February 6, 2010)
- kottke.org: Community colleges save lives (February 10, 2010)
- Letters of Note: You're an idiot of the 33rd degree (January 26, 2010)
- kottke.org: Obama: Daddy of the United States of America (January 20, 2010)
- Iconic Photos: Matthias Rust’s Daring Flight (January 19, 2010)
- kottke.org: On the moon without being on the moon (January 19, 2010)
- kottke.org: Me and you and ours (January 13, 2010)
- kottke.org: Programming lessons (January 13, 2010)
- kottke.org: Conan O'Brien's statement regarding The Tonight Show (January 12, 2010)
- Signal vs. Noise: Weasel words and the absurdity of corporate speak (January 11, 2010)
- kottke.org: Chatroulette – Andrew also says, “Someone else showed me this site the other day, and I tweeted about it http://bit.ly/9dAmD3. It’s a dangerous game indeed, but can also be entertaining…especially if you put just your cat in front of the camera.” (February 10, 2010)
- kottke.org: Be there in a jiffy (February 10, 2010)
- BotJunkie: This Is What Happens When You Build A Hexapod (February 10, 2010)
- Coding Horror: Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas (January 25, 2010)
- Geek News Central: How Much Time Can You Afford to Waste? (February 10, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread: lost comedy magic special resurfaces on YouTube (February 9, 2010)
- kottke.org: Using Facebook to split up the US (February 9, 2010)
- Download Squad: HacKey determines what keys you prefer music to be in (February 8, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Challenger space shuttle disaster amateur video discovered after 24 years (February 8, 2010)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
Tags: feed, Google Reader, RSS, shared items
Shared Items for the week of February 7, 2010*
- Boing Boing: Fun with punctuation (February 4, 2010)
- The Official Google Blog: New imagery of Port-au-Prince (January 20, 2010)
- Daring Fireball: Is the United States Senate Filibuster Rule Unconstitutional? (January 12, 2010)
- Daring Fireball: Man of the Day: Jimmy Kimmel (January 15, 2010)
- Daring Fireball: From the DF Archive: ‘And Oranges’ (February 1, 2010)
- What I Learned Today: Check out Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal in an NYT… (February 3, 2010)
- Daring Fireball: Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress (February 3, 2010)
- Daring Fireball: Facebook Introduces HipHop, PHP to C++ Cross-Compiler – Andrew also says, “Holy smokes.” (February 2, 2010)
- Signal vs. Noise: It’s not a promise, it’s a guess (February 2, 2010)
- Boing Boing: ATM skimmers: man, these things are scary (February 1, 2010)
- kottke.org: Trippy morphing time-stitch video (February 1, 2010)
- S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: “Now, let me get this straight…..We are going to pass a health care plan written by a committee…” (January 12, 2010)
- Download Squad: Should Americans go on a data diet? (January 9, 2010)
- All Articles: Top ten ways to distinguish a freshman from a senior (January 31, 2010)
- All Articles: A mission trip to Haiti in 11, 12, 13, 14 days (January 31, 2010)
- [daily dose of imagery]: shooting people (January 28, 2010)
- Download Squad: Sikuli uses screen shots to run scripts, is amazing (January 30, 2010)
- Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2: That Star Wars Opening Credits Make it to Earth (January 30, 2010)
- Download Squad: Analysis of 32 MILLION breached passwords shows people use stupid passwords (January 21, 2010)
- Aerospace News: Get your Boeing 787 flight-test fix here (January 29, 2010)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
Tags: feed, Google Reader, RSS, shared items
Shared Items for the week of January 31, 2010*
- Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2: That Star Wars Opening Credits Make it to Earth (January 30, 2010)
- Download Squad: Analysis of 32 MILLION breached passwords shows people use stupid passwords (January 21, 2010)
- Aerospace News: Get your Boeing 787 flight-test fix here (January 29, 2010)
- Boing Boing: How to report the news (January 28, 2010)
- Aerospace News: White House confirms no moon shot but more money to NASA – Andrew also says, “It will be interesting to see what the private market does.” (January 29, 2010)
- What I Learned Today: MackeyCare Begins – Andrew also says, “There’s a NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance)?? You have got to be joking.” (January 28, 2010)
- Scobleizer: Corporate Bravery from Google (January 12, 2010)
- Boing Boing: Visual representation of global aid to Haiti (January 26, 2010)
- Download Squad: Rainy Mood helps you relax with the sound of RAIN! (January 26, 2010)
- Signal vs. Noise: VIDEO: The Most Amazing Cinematic Car Crash Ever. Via Cartype. – Andrew also says, “Final Destination is one of the only movies that gives me any resemblance of nightmares.” (January 26, 2010)
- Signal vs. Noise: LINK: “Where one studies has no correlation to entrepreneurial success” (January 26, 2010)
- Daring Fireball: Doonesbury on The Tablet Announcement (January 26, 2010)
- Betanews: Data encryption tool maker: Antivirus has become ineffective – Andrew also says, “Interesting thoughts.” (January 26, 2010)
- All Articles: Top Ten: Super Bowl parties (January 24, 2010)
- Weblog Tools Collection: Matt Mullenweg Launches WordPress Foundation to Support Open Source (January 21, 2010)
- Photojojo: Turn a Disposable Camera in to a Reusable Flash Slave (January 8, 2010)
- [daily dose of imagery]: reflecting eye (January 21, 2010)
- The Big Picture: Faces of Haiti (January 22, 2010)
- What I Learned Today: Isn’t it ironic.. (January 25, 2010)
- kottke.org: Video panoramas (January 22, 2010)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
Tags: feed, Google Reader, RSS, shared items
Shared Items for the week of January 2, 2010*
- Chase Jarvis Blog: Green Screens and Greener Pastures (December 29, 2009)
- Indexed: Oh, THAT guy. (December 31, 2009)
- The Old New Thing: 2009 year-end link clearance (December 31, 2009)
- 1001 rules for my unborn son: 424. It’s pronounced twenty-ten. (December 31, 2009)
- Betanews: AT&T: The end of the wireline telephone is in sight (December 31, 2009)
- Daring Fireball: Bruce Schneier on Aviation Security (December 30, 2009)
- kottke.org: The future of photography, circa 1944 (December 30, 2009)
- Boing Boing: President Obama, It’s Time To Fire the TSA (December 28, 2009)
- Seth’s Blog: It’s not the rats you need to worry about (December 28, 2009)
- Daring Fireball: Nate Silver on the Odds of Airborne Terror (December 27, 2009)
- Boing Boing: Study finds link between house chores and sex (December 26, 2009)
- [daily dose of imagery]: boxing drinks (December 26, 2009)
- Gapingvoid: “evil plans” are not products. “evil plans” are gifts. (December 27, 2009)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
Tags: feed, Google Reader, RSS, shared items
Shared Items for the week of December 26, 2009*
- hlswatch.com: “Do I have the right to refuse this search?” (December 26, 2009)
- YouTube: Funniest fishing show blooper reel ever (December 26, 2009)
- Clusterstock: How To Make The World’s Easiest $1 Billion (December 10, 2009)
- YouTube: Japanese Addresses (December 26, 2009)
- mental_floss Blog: Portion Distortion: 10 Food Servings, Now Vs. Then (December 10, 2009)
- Scientific American: Crack Research: Good news about knuckle cracking (December 15, 2009)
- Sriram Krishnan: Stuff I’ve learned at Microsoft (December 12, 2009)
- Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers: 45 Breathtaking Examples of Slow Shutter Speed Photography (December 13, 2009)
- Design Swan: 8 Interesting Visual Confusion Photography (December 15, 2009)
- Lifehacker: Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus [Antivirus] (December 23, 2009)
- The Movie Blog: If Star Wars had Facebook (December 23, 2009)
- Gapingvoid: as long as your arm (December 24, 2009)
- Boing Boing: Psych professor wants to ban “nerd” and “geek” – Andrew also says, “Hey, we can’t all be as cool as me.” (December 24, 2009)
- The Seattle Times: Boeing news: Boeing cuts tuition subsidy for SPEEA members – Andrew also says, “Not cool” (December 24, 2009)
- Daring Fireball: Lehrer’s Rules (December 23, 2009)
- Gapingvoid: “fight like hell. this is it.” (December 23, 2009)
- Boing Boing: Sex, science and statistics (December 22, 2009)
- Daring Fireball: Blue Moon (December 21, 2009)
- Boing Boing: Why flies were chosen as urinal targets – Andrew also says, “Pull quote, “The ability to use one’s natural gifts and achieve victory over the foe while standing is the key”" (December 21, 2009)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
Tags: feed, Google Reader, RSS, shared items
Shared Items for the week of December 21, 2009*
- S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: WhatConsumesMe.com (December 21, 2009)
- S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: Obtained using a Freedom Of Information Act request (December 20, 2009)
- kottke.org: Why shoot a gun with a side grip? (December 17, 2009)
- kottke.org: The Known Universe (December 17, 2009)
- Boing Boing: Secular Christmas Carol (or, buy a goat, get an MP3!) (December 18, 2009)
- The Old New Thing: The economic inefficiency of gift-giving (December 18, 2009)
- Boing Boing: How would you win this game show? (December 18, 2009)
- Boing Boing: “A higher bandwidth than any internet connection that ever existed” (December 17, 2009)
- The Official Google Blog: Go thataway: Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local (December 18, 2009)
- S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: and this is just Awesome – Andrew also says, “…and Andrew.” (December 16, 2009)
- S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: This is an awesome man cave (December 16, 2009)
- Betanews: Satirical blog post may incite real AT&T protest on Friday – Andrew also says, “…or a poignant lesson for ATT&T that will result in them finally beefing up their network. (But we all know that will never happen)” (December 16, 2009)
- OnTakingPictures: Asset Management Essay 2 – One Year On (December 14, 2009)
- kottke.org: Imagining Earth with Saturn's rings (December 9, 2009)
- kottke.org: Ken Auletta's media maxims – Andrew also says, “Well, I like #6.” (December 16, 2009)
- Seth's Blog: Is it too late to catch up? (December 3, 2009)
- 1001 rules for my unborn son: REQUIRED LISTENING: Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Linus and… (December 16, 2009)
- OnTakingPictures: Even more Drabbles (December 16, 2009)
- xkcd.com: Abstraction (December 16, 2009)
- The Big Picture: 2009 in photos (part 2 of 3) (December 15, 2009)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
Tags: feed, Google Reader, RSS, shared items
Shared Items for the week of December 12, 2009*
- S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: Muppets Ring Xmas Bells (December 11, 2009)
- Boing Boing: Old photos of people grouped by gender (December 7, 2009)
- kottke.org: The year in ideas, 2009 (December 10, 2009)
- Wired: Threat Level: Lawmakers Want to Bar Sites From Posting Sensitive Government Docs – Andrew also says, “Security Theater at its finest.” (December 10, 2009)
- kottke.org: Do I really look like a guy with a plan? (December 9, 2009)
- kottke.org: Flexing of the Manhattan Bridge (December 9, 2009)
- kottke.org: Portraits of power (December 7, 2009)
- Galyn Bell: A Thought for Today… (December 8, 2009)
- xkcd.com: The Sun (December 8, 2009)
- Boing Boing: Airmile hackers use mileage credit-cards to buy $1 coins that they use to pay the CC bills (December 8, 2009)
- Gapingvoid: a man who has time – Andrew also says, “…or the man who has no time has need for God.” (December 8, 2009)
- kottke.org: Parallel universes (December 7, 2009)
- Iconic Photos: When Putin met Reagan (December 7, 2009)
- Boing Boing: First shots emerge of SpaceShipTwo (December 7, 2009)
- Boing Boing: Meet Gigi Gaston, the ye ye singer who never was (December 7, 2009)
- Boing Boing: FBI seeks “Point Break” bandit (December 7, 2009)
- Boing Boing: Major record labels rip off 300,000 songs for compilation CDs, may owe $60 billion in damages – Andrew also says, “Bazing!” (December 7, 2009)
- OnTakingPictures: Image Properties (Or how most people talk out of their ass) (December 6, 2009)
- Boing Boing: James Lipton in hilarious LG ad campaign: “Before You Text, Give it a Ponder” (December 4, 2009)
- A Party to the World: Programming Praxis (December 4, 2009)
* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.
Tags: feed, Google Reader, RSS, shared items