Jason Cartwright
Thursday 2nd September 2010
- Our house's previous owner was a Labour party member. Getting spammed with letters from the Millibands, Balls, Livingstone and the local MP
- Hit myself in eye with a squash racquet (whilst playing squash). It hurt a lot.
- YouTube - Пиз"ец мне!
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Microsoft InstaLoad Battery Installation Technology
Wednesday 1st September 2010
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Inside 'Mad Men': On Set and Behind the Scenes
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Gmail’s Permanent Failure: Only Humans Can Build Software For Humans
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100 Prisoners, 100 lines of code
Tuesday 31st August 2010
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PassiveAggressiveNotes.com
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Dev Team or Indie Band?
- Wait, what does your startup do?
- Rather than messing about with SEO, isn't it just quicker & easier to make something good?
Monday 30th August 2010
- Tech nonsense: some REALLY poorly configured web servers out there. In other news, got some IP ranges banned from some popular sites
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The Wilderness Downtown
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London in the blitz: How crime flourished under cover of the blackout
Sunday 29th August 2010
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Lanyrd
"The social conference directory"
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Reddit Tells Conde Nast to Go to Hell
- Mcclaren F-Duct Explained by Martin Brundle
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Most favorited tweets, ever
Not sure what to think about this list. Predictably Bieber is in there a couple of times, but mixed in with some clever, funny and historic content - like Obama's first tweet as president-elect. What are historians going to make of this?
Saturday 28th August 2010
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Risk compensation - Wikipedia
"In ethology, risk compensation is an effect whereby individual people may tend to adjust their behaviour in response to perceived changes in risk."
Friday 27th August 2010
Thursday 26th August 2010
- I spend half my life logging into stuff
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Feelin Good - Fiat and Faithless Present
Wow this is weird. It's a music video with bits of car ad built in? People in the comments don't seem to mind they are selling their artistic soul for a corporation's marketing campaign. This mixing of content and ads won't end well.
- Decided it would be best to tell the accountancy software company about their security vulnerability rather than post it on twitter
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Our Digital Crisis
This guy is right, but I don't think this is too much of a problem right now. The homogenised nature of these tools is only a sign of how immature they are. We'll build more 'humanity' in after we've figured out the basics.
Wednesday 25th August 2010
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Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's
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Say a prayer for Chile's trapped miners
"Even those who have done the dangerous work of mining can only imagine what the 33 men are going through in Chile"
- Paul Graham on Linux: it's for people that like to install stuff, it's like a feature for them
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Why Android won't worry RIM and Apple
"Apple will continue to rule the roost, dictating terms and charging eye-watering prices to punters. The punters will continue to be delighted with Apple, and will clamour for more; while BlackBerry has an ace up its sleeve - probably the biggest mobile sensation of the year."
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Hipmunk: Better Flight Search
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Voting Machine Hacked to Play Pac-Man
"J. Alex Halderman and Ariel J. Feldman managed to hack a touchscreen voting machine to play Pac-Man, all without breaking the machine’s tamper-evident seals."
- Mr. Startup: Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, and his "no asshole" rule
Tuesday 24th August 2010
- Emailing job offers. Always fun :-)
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Secret X-37B space plane lost by sat-spotters for 2 weeks
- Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff
Monday 23rd August 2010
- dygraphs
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Alien hunters 'should look for artificial intelligence'
Yeah, I watched Terminator 3 last night too
- Why doesn't someone invent signals that don't fail? TFL are in the market for some.
Sunday 22nd August 2010
- The Last Exorcism - BEST OF Chatroulette reactions
- Pre-roll video ads will fail - they break the model by being content that is pushed, rather than pulled like the rest of the web
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Distributed hash table - Wikipedia
- The Chemical Brothers – Another World
Saturday 21st August 2010
- Already disgraceful MW2 multiplayer skill not aided by cider
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New Big Brother: Market-Moving Satellite Images
Friday 20th August 2010
- Celebrity Masterchef. Terrible.
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Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia - Wikipedia
This is beautiful. The crowd wins.
- Strange looking chap has been attempting to break into the parking meter at the top of our road mornings and evenings for a week now
- Google Maps without the Map
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Obama To Create 17 New Jobs By Resigning And Finally Opening That Restaurant
"In an effort to counter the highest unemployment rate the nation has faced in a quarter century, Barack Obama announced Monday that he will create 17 new jobs by resigning from the presidency to pursue his lifelong dream of opening a cozy little down-home restaurant just off the Galesburg, IL exit on Interstate 74"
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About
Jason is a founder of Potato, a web application development agency in London.
I also co-own Ferrago Ltd, who publish videogames content to around 7m consumers monthly.
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Colophon
- Built in Python & Django using a Mac and TextMate.
- Hosted on Google App Engine.
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