2/12/2003 @ 23:00 GMT
Orlando : A rather irritating, overblown and - I think - radically innaccurate portrayal of John Le Carre
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2/12/2003 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Billie Jean bootleg remix project - with bonus Simpsons sound clip
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2/12/2003 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Wil Wheaton signs three book deal with O'Reilly -
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2/12/2003 @ 22:27 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Bringing RIAA Radar into the stores - Great guerilla tactics, Batman!
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2/12/2003 @ 22:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Netstrings - Easy, secure method for transmitting strings over a network
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2/12/2003 @ 22:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites - Global function namespace + oversimplification = trouble
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2/12/2003 @ 22:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Dating Design Patterns - Reusable solutions for a complex system (via)
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2/12/2003 @ 22:02 GMT
Simon Willison : A Tale of Two (Linux) Cities - Local government and Open Source (via)
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2/12/2003 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Jorn Barger is missing - hopefully he's just off somewhere reading Finnegan's Wake
Orlando : Metafilter thread on Jorn Barger who is - apparently - just not interested in being found
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2/12/2003 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Jorn Barger, one of the earliest webloggers, is missing
Orlando : Jorn Barger is missing...
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2/12/2003 @ 21:04 GMT
François Hodierne : Long thread de commentaires sur Atom - Google / MS - Atom / RSS
Richard MacManus : Yet another RSS/Atom bunfight going on in Scoble's comments.
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2/12/2003 @ 21:03 GMT
Richard MacManus : Pito Salas (via Dave Winer): "what are the relative roles of the web rendering and the rss rendering(s) of a blog?"
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2/12/2003 @ 21:03 GMT
Richard MacManus : Incomplete but still useful RSS Quick Summary (via Mark Pilgrim in Scoble's comments - see earlier today)
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2/12/2003 @ 21:02 GMT
Paul Hammond : Bad HTML Tags - HTML Dog - A guide to what not to use.
François Hodierne : Bad HTML Tags
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2/12/2003 @ 21:02 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Need to test your site in Konqueror? - Wow, things look like crap in Konqueror. Namely
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2/12/2003 @ 21:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Analyzing Cathy's sweat beads -
Anil Dash : why cathy sweats like whitney houston in the summertime - America's Sweat-heart has hyperhidrosis
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Andy Baio : Flavorpill Los Angeles, weekly event highlights - I didn't even know they published an L.A. version
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2/12/2003 @ 21:00 GMT
Anil Dash : Jorn Barger is missing - what happened to blogging's most mercurial early adopter?
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2/12/2003 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog: Apple and Microsoft: an insider's perspective - At Apple, nobody sits down and says, 'This is what we're going to ship.'
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2/12/2003 @ 19:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : We are open for business - the Guild of Accessible Web Designers is now inviting new members
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2/12/2003 @ 19:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Best typo ever - Very impressive. Consider me loosed.
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2/12/2003 @ 18:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Dicts from lists - Neat Python one-liner using 2.3's extended slices (via)
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2/12/2003 @ 18:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : anti-mega: what you feel is what you get [grid::brand] - I've been doing the obvious navel gazing recently of trying to figure out exactly what I do
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2/12/2003 @ 18:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : SimpleBits | SimpleQuiz > Part X > Multi-Paragraph List Items - When marking up multiple paragraphs within one list item, which method makes the most sense?
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2/12/2003 @ 18:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Alternative stencils for "iPod's Dirty Secret" - Hilarious stuff. Remind me never to piss off John Gruber.
Orlando : Alternative Stencil Slogans for the Anti-iPod Battery Crew
jkottke : Alternate slogans for the ipodsdirtysecret.com folks
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2/12/2003 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : The Simple Life debuts tonight on Fox - The Simple Life debuts tonight on Fox (Meg, crank up the TiVo!)
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2/12/2003 @ 17:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Back of the new $20 bill - connect the dots to find the secret message
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2/12/2003 @ 17:01 GMT
Andy Baio : SimpleQuiz discussions about semantic markup -
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2/12/2003 @ 17:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Screenshots of Cocolog, the new Typepad-powered service in Japan - created for Nifty, one of Japan's biggest ISPs
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2/12/2003 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Rael Dornfest's Mobilewhack - weblog about nothing but mobile
Anil Dash : MobileWhack launches - i'm glad i have a nokia 3650 because then all the serious phone geeks do the hacking for me
Jeremy Zawodny : MobileWhack
Dan Cederholm : MobileWhack - Loving Bryan Bell's templates. Check it out in Safari and dig the inverted use of the text-shadow property on posts.
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2/12/2003 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Netscape to release new "toolcircle" software - Netscape to release new "toolcircle" software (I dunno...do you think it's big enough?)
Andy Baio : Godawful new Netscape Navigator screenshot - like a scene from "Winamp Skins Gone Bad"
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2/12/2003 @ 16:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : It's Just this Little Chromium Switch Here: Popular Spam Protection Technique Doesn't Work - It's popular and easy to do. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
Orlando : Popular Spam Detection Technique Doesn't Work - Popular Spam Detection Technique Doesn't Work
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2/12/2003 @ 16:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Man makes off with 177 cigarette packs. In pants. - "Hey, buddy: I got yer cigarettes right here."
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2/12/2003 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Democrats Go Off the Cliff - Democrats Go Off the Cliff (This is the 4th or 5th "the Dems are acting irrationally" article I've read in the past couple of months...and I can't say I disagree)
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2/12/2003 @ 13:00 GMT
Anil Dash : grimes on leaving the times - apparently, even the best job in the world gets played out
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2/12/2003 @ 13:00 GMT
Anil Dash : megastyles makes the Times for watching "Rich Girls" - from now on I'm only linking to New York bloggers who *don't* get written up in the Times
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2/12/2003 @ 12:00 GMT
Orlando : A really funny, interesting, slightly off-whack article about time-shifting and PVRs that is more evidence of how difficult it can be to communicate the use of PVRs to the general public in the UK
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2/12/2003 @ 12:00 GMT
Orlando : In lieu of a decent response (festering in my head) I shall merely link to awesome Jonesisms...
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2/12/2003 @ 12:00 GMT
Anil Dash : the tantalizing promise of number portability - david's experiences with the difficulties of switching providers mirror every other experience i've heard about
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2/12/2003 @ 12:00 GMT
Anil Dash : FDNY liaisons leaving wives for 9/11 widows - as depressing as the story is, this sort of thing is predictable in these situations and should have been prevented
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2/12/2003 @ 11:20 GMT
Anil Dash : deconstructing celeb culture after MJ's meltdown - simon's covering a lot of the same concepts we see raised by frank rich and others... we're complicit in the pathology of celebrities
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2/12/2003 @ 11:19 GMT
Ben Milleare : Selectutorial: CSS selectors
Dan Cederholm : Selectutorial - Comprehensive guide to CSS selectors and rule structure.
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Anil Dash : nifty launches cocolog - congratulations to nifty and to everyone on the team for the launch of the new typepad-powered service
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2/12/2003 @ 10:00 GMT
Anil Dash : go nominate me for a weblog award - i'd just hate to see the warbloggers forget the rest of us exist
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2/12/2003 @ 09:00 GMT
Anil Dash : i use the same phone as paris hilton - (scroll down) unfortunately my ring tone does not feature nicky
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2/12/2003 @ 09:00 GMT
Anil Dash : The Rhyme and Reason of Dual Licensing - MySQL's CEO makes a fantastic argument for how "open" and "profitable" aren't mutually exclusive terms
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2/12/2003 @ 09:00 GMT
Anil Dash : schemas for Office 2003 XML formats - even though it's just bowing to customer pressure, microsoft is being surprisingly open by publishing these formats
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2/12/2003 @ 09:00 GMT
Anil Dash : Exposure: From Friction to Freedom - an outstanding collection of essays on the future of media, copyright, and privacy. direct from scandinavia.
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2/12/2003 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Ridiculous DSL bill from New Zealand - for only 25GB, a scary glimpse into a metered future
Ben Milleare : Expensive DSL bandwidth in NZ
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2/12/2003 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Bill Watterson still retired - tantalizing rumor of a Calvin & Hobbes movie
Orlando : Missing! Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. Last seen in northeast Ohio. Do not approach
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2/12/2003 @ 08:00 GMT
Anil Dash : MS "flatland": frequently updated documents arranged by date - it seems users with access to rich indexing of their documents are abandoning hierarchy for permalinks aided by mnemonic milestones
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2/12/2003 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Slashdot trolling phenomena - Amazingly detailed Wikipedia entry, with many references
Paul Ford : The Slashdot Trolling Phenomenon - “A link to the original image of the penis bird is given below.â€Â
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2/12/2003 @ 06:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Sortable Tables, with colour - An extension to Stuart's sorttable.js
Paul Hammond : Surf*Mind*Musings :: Sortable Tables, with color - a merging of my js alternating row colors with sorttable.js
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2/12/2003 @ 06:00 GMT
Simon Willison : CSS Centering - fun for all! - A good overview of a common gotcha
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2/12/2003 @ 06:00 GMT
Simon Willison : userland can access Linux kernel memory - Major local root exploit (and nothing to do with Dave Winer) - patch those boxen
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2/12/2003 @ 06:00 GMT
Simon Willison : radiac.net Christmas decorations - Thankfully Firebird doesn't play the midi files
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2/12/2003 @ 06:00 GMT
Anil Dash : New York AIDS Coalition - an alliance of working for increased funding and fair policies for people living with HIV/AIDS in New York
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2/12/2003 @ 06:00 GMT
Anil Dash : 2003 AIDS year in review PDF - a sobering snapshot of the ways in which public policy is failing those living with AIDS and HIV
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2/12/2003 @ 05:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Sidewinder: Resolution - My cousin's new album. Buy it and support fresh talent ;)
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2/12/2003 @ 05:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Dynamic or batch publishing? - A management-friendly guide to static vs dynamic (via)
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2/12/2003 @ 05:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : The best of Craigslist - See, this is just downright hilarious.
Dan Cederholm : Best of craigslist - Some of the funniest writing I've read in a long time.
Matthew M. Boedicker : best of craigslist
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2/12/2003 @ 05:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : sidesh0w.com, screenplay-ified. - Via Kottke.
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2/12/2003 @ 04:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : New England apple varieties - Cortlands made the best apple pie EVER
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2/12/2003 @ 04:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Interesting comments on Kottke's site re his re-design. Anil Dash reckons links, reviews etc are "ancillary information". Jason replied: "But everything is my primary content."
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2/12/2003 @ 04:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Mena Trott on Kottke design: "I see Jason's new homepage list of entries as a "view" over all of the content he's posting, where you can drill down to each type of content individually."
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2/12/2003 @ 04:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The 2003 Perl Advent Calendar - I wish Python had one of these (via)
jkottke : 2003 Perl Advent Calendar
Paul Hammond : The 2003 Perl Advent Calendar
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2/12/2003 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Acclaim's new billboards ooze fake blood - bloodvertising in the UK
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2/12/2003 @ 04:00 GMT
jkottke : Just in time for the holidays, a collection of Lance Arthur's writing in book form - Just in time for the holidays, a collection of Lance Arthur's writing in book form
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2/12/2003 @ 03:00 GMT
Anil Dash : why "lost in translation" unsettles me - i think a sense of this kind of cultural insensitivity is what's kept me from seeing the movie so far
Cameron Marlow : Dyske: lost with or without translation - I've been waiting for someone to at least mention the arrogance of this movie, but I still think most of it is tongue and cheek
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2/12/2003 @ 03:00 GMT
Anil Dash : Don't Tell the Pope - how reality influences the catholic church's efforts in fighting AIDS
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2/12/2003 @ 01:44 GMT
Andy Baio : Mojo Mail vs Mojo Mail - free software forced to change name in dumb trademark dispute
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2/12/2003 @ 01:01 GMT
Cameron Marlow : All about the pentiums - Somehow I missed this, and somehow Weird Al still makes me laugh. HARD.
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2/12/2003 @ 01:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Dave needs work - It is your constitutional duty to hire this man. Now.
Simon Willison : Hire Dave Shea - You know you want to
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2/12/2003 @ 01:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Damn. - Matt plays with his new digital camera. Ethan drools profusely.
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2/12/2003 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Boxes and Arrows: Executive Dashboards - designing an executive dashboard presents an almost pure data-design challenge-one of the few an IA can find in the web world.
Richard Rutter : Executive dashboards - (New media industry) Bring critical information online for decision makers [via]
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2/12/2003 @ 00:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Calling all standards sugar daddies... - Molly wants to be a standards madam. Help her realize her dream.
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2/12/2003 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : NYT predicts live and obscure downloads will be big online - it's a huge market, mostly unexploited
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2/12/2003 @ 00:00 GMT
Anil Dash : AEGIS: AIDS Education Global Information System - one of the net's oldest and most complete AIDS information resources
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