wingin' it

a shield can shelter and protect. moved with great force, it can also crush, or - edgewise - cleave....

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:56:17 -0700

a shield can shelter and protect. moved with great force, it can also crush, or - edgewise - cleave. make fewer assumptions.

opal: Sample Graph Traversal Patterns in Opal

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:00:32 -0700

opal: Sample Graph Traversal Patterns in Opal:

losangelesindustries:

Over the course of our work on Opal, there have been a few graph traversal patterns that have shown themselves to be repeatably useful. While these will not likely be generalizable to all domains, they map well to our current data set and its modeling within the graph.

The key patterns that will…

Identity at Mozilla: Persona is distributed. Today.

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:18:16 -0700

Identity at Mozilla: Persona is distributed. Today.:

mozidentity:

With Persona, you can log into web sites using the email address of your choice. The first time you use an email, our servers send you a confirmation link. By following that link, you confirm your identity to Persona, which then vouches for your ownership of that email address.

Of course, in the…

onwander: No. 25 / Eric Mortensen

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:01:26 -0800

onwander:

No. 25 / Eric Mortensen

onwander: No. 43 / Michael Schmid

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:01:06 -0800

onwander:

No. 43 / Michael Schmid

onwander: No. 53 / Ross Moody / 55 Hi’s — Wander is coming...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:00:45 -0800

onwander:

No. 53 / Ross Moody / 55 Hi’s

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Wander is coming soon. Request an invite →

revel in life. expect death. fear nothing. keep fighting.

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:08:48 -0800

revel in life. expect death. fear nothing. keep fighting.

tear the bandage of night off of the unhealed wound of sleep. the rose gold sun breathes softly...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:58:52 -0800

tear the bandage of night off of the unhealed wound of sleep. the rose gold sun breathes softly brilliant color into the wind blown forms of the canyon, turns topaz clouds into amber smoke, and lights the path ahead.

opal: Loading DBPedia into Neo4j with Clojure

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:31:48 -0800

opal: Loading DBPedia into Neo4j with Clojure:

losangelesindustries:

DBPedia is a community project to extract structured data from Wikipedia articles. The data is freely available for download.

Currently, the DBPedia datasets describe describes 3.77 million things. The information is encoded as relationships between resources. This is a natural fit for graph…

as much as i love graph systems, i have a persistant bias toward spatial systems where the distance...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:01:28 -0800

as much as i love graph systems, i have a persistant bias toward spatial systems where the distance function of each dimension can be modulated on the fly. that requires having consistent components in your vectors, though, as opposed to the more extensible nature of the property graph approach. can’t have it all, can you?

opal: What is an Opportunity?

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:39:42 -0800

opal: What is an Opportunity?:

losangelesindustries:

At the heart of Opal is the concept of the opportunity. The entire product is crafted around the concept of delivering to you the most compelling and engaging opportunities possible, opening up the range of options in your world.

What is an opportunity, in this context? Many people use the…

losangelesindustries: Opportunity View

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:57:57 -0800

losangelesindustries:

Opportunity View

losangelesindustries: Menu Queue

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:57:46 -0800

losangelesindustries:

Menu Queue

Why Opal?

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:33:26 -0800

losangelesindustries:

We create a ton of data every day. We tweet, we post, we pin, we share. We create or join events, we check in, check out, we listen, and like… and it’s a trend that’s showing no sign of slowing.

We started to wonder, though, if the rising tide of data could lift yet another boat - if we could get all that data to work for us. Or, more specifically, if we could get your data to work for you.

Opal is our attempt to answer that question.

Hopefully you’ll join us on that journey.

bustr: actegratuit: “Technological mandala 02″ by Leonardo...

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:40:02 -0700

bustr:

actegratuit:

“Technological mandala 02″ by Leonardo Ulian,

aesthetics of electric components

Wow.

"Instead of thinking about virality, I think the focus should be on what makes something worth..."

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:31:15 -0700

“Instead of thinking about virality, I think the focus should be on what makes something worth sharing to begin with. I think emotion plays a big role. What do people really love, what gets people to feel something, what sorts of experiences can you give people that they would want to give to someone else. Thinking about it on a more personal level keeps the process of making content grounded in something real and approachable, and I think that results in better media overall.”

- Ze Frank (via brycedotvc)

giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Name It

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:14:27 -0700

giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Name It:

thoughtbot:

There will be Ruby in the middle of this blog post. But first, a tangent in which we explore the lambda calculus. Don’t worry too much about being lost in this next section; we’ll fix that immediately afterward.

A Simple Language

There is a programming language named the lambda calculus. It’s…

: Favortree: Week One

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:52:49 -0700

: Favortree: Week One:

favortree:

Wow what a week! We couldn’t be happier with the reception of Favortree since we announced the company seven days ago.

Press roundup:
We rustled up quite a bit of press from some of our favorite sources including The Next Web, Venturebeat, PSFK and Pando Daily. This …

raymondcrandall: Maurizio Bongiovanni

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:42:46 -0700

raymondcrandall:

Maurizio Bongiovanni

Taken with Instagram

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:21:48 -0700

Taken with Instagram