SHODAN LIVES

Visualizing app development and code commits on Twitter using code_swarm.

Code and document changes are represented as points swirling around the users making the changes and repository commits. Makes boring version control look really cool.

The Eclipse IDE project has a really active community.

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Calendria, a place where units of time become sovereignties.


  “The Kingdom of March, with the Equinoctial Estuary on its western coast, is situated on a separate land mass to the east of Calendria’s main continent.  The Republic of Junistan is in the southeast, an archipelago among which are the Circadian Islands. “


Also see the documented process the designer used to make this gorgeous map.

/via strangemaps

Calendria, a place where units of time become sovereignties.

“The Kingdom of March, with the Equinoctial Estuary on its western coast, is situated on a separate land mass to the east of Calendria’s main continent. The Republic of Junistan is in the southeast, an archipelago among which are the Circadian Islands. “

Also see the documented process the designer used to make this gorgeous map.

/via strangemaps

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jamesnord:


Was there any reason to build a city in SimCity other than to ruthlessly destroy it?
If there was I never got it.

jamesnord:

Was there any reason to build a city in SimCity other than to ruthlessly destroy it?

If there was I never got it.

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Satellites orbiting Earth, by nation.

/via neatorama

Satellites orbiting Earth, by nation.

/via neatorama

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Jimmy Fallon, Brian Williams, and The Roots slow jam the news.

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Lost

Continuing to blow minds, and make no sense whatsoever.

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What if we could make devices more “human”?

A short TED talk about “living” mobile devices.

(radar)

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Mike’s guide to Lost filming locations.

It’s funny to think that there are so many houses and buildings just barely through the trees while they’re galavanting around the island.

Mike’s guide to Lost filming locations.

It’s funny to think that there are so many houses and buildings just barely through the trees while they’re galavanting around the island.

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12 things we want to see in iPhone OS 4.0
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A Peek Into Netflix Queues.

A NYT visualization of most-queued films by US zip code.  A cool example of what can be done with 100% free data.  The queue data is accessible through Netflix’s API and zip code boundaries from the US Census.

A Peek Into Netflix Queues.

A NYT visualization of most-queued films by US zip code. A cool example of what can be done with 100% free data. The queue data is accessible through Netflix’s API and zip code boundaries from the US Census.

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Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable

marco:

Perfect. (via energyface)

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Hood Internet - The XX Gonna Give it to Ya (DMX vs. The xx)

DMX makes me laugh — this track is great.

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"The reason there are few attempts to blow up airplanes is not because we have successfully restricted people from blowing up airplanes. It’s because not many people want to blow up airplanes."
Squashed (via marco)
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The Kleptones - Hella Touch

Good mix… EK is still the best of the mashup DJs.

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The Burj Dubai finally opens, and somehow they managed to avoid blowing it up in this ridiculous display of excess.

As Gotcha Media puts it:

Just in case you didn’t know why Dubai is in a debt crisis.

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