The other day I threw together a little service which I’ve nicknamed Extractomatic. It’s a very simple web-based API to detect and extract the main content from a web page, removing all of the clutter, such as headers, footers, advertising and so on. I guess it’s somewhat similar to Readability or Instapaper, but more suitable [...]
The operation began at 2 am local time. Rogozov first infiltrated the layers of abdominal wall with 20 ml of 0.5% procaine, using several injections. After 15 minutes he made a 10-12 cm incision. The visibility in the depth of the wound was not ideal; sometimes he had to raise his head to obtain a [...]
De pequeño yo jugaba a aventuras conversacionales en mi Spectrum, de las cuales la que más recuerdo es el Don Quijote de Dinamic. Muchos años después, cada vez me encuentro más fascinado por la historiografía del retrogaming, y uno de los primeros géneros que al que he echado un vistazo con más detalle es el [...]
Dando una patada a mi Google Reader aparecen aproximadamente un bazillón de artículos sobre e-books. Las mayoría son noticias más o menos aburridas sobre lanzamiento de modelos o rumores del sector. Un segundo grupo son exploraciones y brainstorming colectivo sobre las mejores características del diseño de interacción óptimo del hardware y el software — ¡tienen [...]
These are my links for December 30th through January 11th: Strange Horizons Articles: Searching Under the Rug: Interfaces, Puzzles, and the Evolution of Adventure Games, by Mark Newheiser – What decades of evolution have done for the genre is refine the user interface. The genre's improvements are largely independent of the technology used and have [...]
These are my links for November 26th through December 15th: Fastest XMPP Sessions with HTTP Pre-Binding – lib/geokit/mappable.rb at master from andre's geokit-gem – GitHub – Contains class and instance methods providing distance calcuation services. Reel history | The Elephant Man: close to the memoirs but not the man | Film | guardian.co.uk – Eureqa [...]
These are my links for November 20th through November 26th: paperplanes. How To Redis – defunkt's hurl at master – GitHub – Ohm – Object-hash mapping library for Redis – Shades of Gray: Using Key-Value Stores From Ruby – apophenia: spectacle at Web2.0 Expo… from my perspective – 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal [...]
These are my links for November 14th through November 20th: cyoa – Whitechapel – Etsy People Stand Up (late 2009) – Underscore.js – Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript [...]
These are my links for October 25th through November 12th: bixo – Bixo is an open source web mining toolkit that runs as a series of Cascading pipes on top of Hadoop. The Rise of the Neuronovel | n+1 – Mind Hacks: Five minutes with Meg Barker – How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: [...]
These are my links for September 21st through October 22nd: 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error Poles, Politeness and Politics in the age of Twitter « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry – XTrace: Debug Flash Applications Without The Flash IDE Open Source Flash – XTrace provides a very nice alternative to [...]