Jordan Brough Stuff I found online.

Posts from 2009

Looking at Twitter’s Historical Trend Data

I think trends are one of the most interesting by-products of the Twitter revolution. It is so interesting to capture the collective minds of the world and collapse them down to ten terms. @karmadude and I have begun experimenting with Twitter’s historical trend data using their search API. We have a lot [...]


Flushing Leopard’s DNS Cache

This post applies to Macintosh OS X version 10.5 and later.
From Apple’s manual page:
dscacheutil does various operations against the Directory Service cache including gathering statistics,
initiating lookups, inspection, cache flush, etc. This tool replaces most of the functionality of the
lookupd tool previously available in [...]


Force Safari 4 to Open Links in a New Tab

Apple released Safari 4 Beta for both PC and Mac this week. When web sites uses the target=”_blank” attribute in a link (like this), Safari 4 will open that link in a new window. After a short browsing session you can find yourself buried under a pile of browser windows. Thanks to [...]


Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit

About the film
Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to [...]


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