Plusses 501-600
(this should be a standard template for quantified self visualisation libraries; via @chl) Artistic planetary maps: colourful images of our solar system(09.05.12)
john peel's record collection http://thespace.org/ (or so I've heard; I don't get the site and the tracks I've discovered seem to be coupled to spotify, but I might be missing sth. or eth.)(03.05.12)
wishlist.add (http://kottke.org/12/04/the-descriptive-camera) (should output a tweet, actually) Descriptive Camera(25.04.12)
oh noes, the +1 button no longer works for me. (for personal reasons I'm using a kinda oldish browser, but wth? triggering a binary flag shouldn't rely on any assumption; posting, reading, commenting, etc. is working fine)(19.04.12)
10 Amazing Practical Jokes via http://boingboing.net/2012/04/18/10-delightful-practical-jokes.html(19.04.12)
Small Furry Hyrax Sings in Regional Dialects The foundations of complex language have been found in colonies of unusual furry animals called hyraxes.(19.04.12)
I also don't get why Google made the new default profile page actually really nice looking. No motivation to change the pic and make it your own.(13.04.12)
I don't get those arrows indicating the hotness of the trendyness on G+. If a term is amongst the 5 most popular terms right now it obviously is trending and I don't need the psychological barrier of clicking on sth which's momentum - according to the grey downwards arrow - might have peaked.(13.04.12)
http://youtu.be/4ZKeb_sDRi0 Yes, it really did happen. On June 8, 1986 at Coney Island's historic Sideshows by the Seashore. And man, what a freak-out that must have been.(13.04.12)
love all those spring cleaning tips. spring cleaning is awesome. Shared from the Google+ spring cleaning tips stream(03.04.12)
(this could be vastly improved if the dolls had their own dolls) American girls pose with their American Girl dolls(03.04.12)
pro tip for today: start drinking alcoholic beverages - preferably liquors or spirits - early in the morning; most jokes will be funny.(01.04.12)
virgin has its mojo back. Richard Branson launches journeys to the centre of the Earth through Virgin Volcanic(31.03.12)
(shitter; via +Franz Patzig ; cries for a shit+) Shitter, App That Creates Toilet Paper Rolls Printed With a Twitter Feed(29.03.12)
(wow, it's been a while since the last real beta from Google) MoMB: Google Account Activity(28.03.12)
(a little late to the party but google comments kinda make sense) Google to launch third-party commenting platform to rival Facebook(27.03.12)
is there a specific symbol for indicating some indirect effect for finding sth.? (i.e. less specific than via and h/t but still pointing to the baseline for the journey which led to the thing?(27.03.12)
(das gewohnheitstier in mir ist wirklich happy, weil delicious wieder halbwegs performant funktioniert; öffnet gleichzeitig andere möglichkeiten für pinboard)(27.03.12)
I don't know what's going on. 42 of the last 50 pitches for the MoMB have been for apps with nothing but some LaunchRock style landing page. For the time being I go back to the roots and only post public betas (and public alphas).(26.03.12)
"If you are around people who are able to understand these things before you are, it's worthwhile to call yourself on it, and see if you can get into some discussions about what they see that you don't. I get particularly restless if it's obvious that there's something going on but I can't see it. I can't move on until I see it too ." I don't see it(26.03.12)
just subscribed to daring fireball again (I think he lost me in 2007 with his paid only model and I never bothered to check whether he had reconsidered afterwards)(16.03.12)
(Google have outdone themselves with this new +1 button; clicking it is deeply satisfying)(14.03.12)
TwooglePlus » TwooglePlus watches your Twitter account 24 hours a day and cross-posts your Tweets to your Google Plus Circles(12.03.12)
seems like delicious finally fixed their bookmarklet probs. (I'm torn between delicious and pinboard; whatever I'm doing feels wrong; #doublebind )(12.03.12)
Stop Stealing Dreams The economy has changed, probably forever. School hasn't. School was invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s.(12.03.12)
(don't be fooled by the walkürenritt-ish intro) ((via +Markus Trapp )): Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme(01.03.12)
email as stream, brilliant idea (via +Werner Trotter ) Fluent – Making the future of email(22.02.12)
(there are still 3 pts. up for grabs) live.hackr : Quiz Pt. 55 (The Probabilistic Writable Models Edition) was haben Sokrates, Jeremy Bentham, Alfred Kerr, James Joyce, Vannevar Bush, Karl Popper und Graham Chapman gemeinsam?(16.02.12)
google obviously has been messing with the CSE lately (more ads, rather annoying preview pics, wrongly displaying results of the 'did you mean' search term even if there is no single resulte, etc.).(24.01.12)