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6 Entertaining Games Made Entirely in Microsoft Excel
“Excel — your friendly (and perhaps most dreaded) office tool. But it’s not just for spreadsheets anymore. Believe it or not, you can turn the data-analyzing, number-cruncher into one unbelievably cool game. The Microsoft software has a few secrets up its sleeve; many people have managed to design new games or recreate classics like Monopoly […]
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Soviet synthesizer bridged occultism and electronic music – Boing Boing
“The political tides turned against the Russian avant garde by the time Murzin began working on the ANS in 1938. As Isobel Clouter explains in an episode of the BBC radio show The Soundhunter, most early sound art projects were destroyed. Engineers were forced to work on art projects in secret and had little access […]
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The NewsBlur Redesign – The NewsBlur Blog
” As for what’s happening these days, post-Reader: Took some extra time to scale out my backend, now completed. Running on 48 servers, serving 20x traffic Because I had the foresight to charge users for premium service, I’m now confident that NewsBlur will be standing tall a few years from now. Working on the next […]
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Founder’s Blog – Jitbit: Google Search is only 18% Search
via blog.jitbit.com “Google has cut down the results area by three times – from 53% to 18%. The company is obviously interested in people clicking more ADs (in fact, I believe that’s also the true reason behind “Penguin” and “Panda”) since it’s th…
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![via robinsloan.com "When you think Facebook, think: photos. And don???t be surprised if you see Facebook do even more to cement this incredible position. [..] Maybe in twenty years we???ll think of Google primarily as a vision company???augmenting our v...](http://gle.ovo.kom.uni.st/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/c694e-media_httpwwwrobinslo_ivhjc-scaled1000.jpg "Pictures and vision")
Pictures and vision
via robinsloan.com “When you think Facebook, think: photos. And don???t be surprised if you see Facebook do even more to cement this incredible position. [..] Maybe in twenty years we???ll think of Google primarily as a vision company???augmenting our v…
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ZShaolin :: dyne.org
via dyne.org “ZShaolin unleashes the power of GNU/Linux on your Android phone or tablet by installing a small and powerful shell environment. It comes with applications to edit images, audio and video using batch scripts one can write and upload. …