8/01/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : iis lockdown and urlscan - fascinating look at the options available to prevent various types of attacks against iis
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8/01/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : no matter what you do, weblog spam will only get worse - spammers have it in their heads that weblogs are an exploitable target
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8/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : "password to modify" word documents cracked by viewing source of exported html - let's hear it for self-describing data
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8/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : telling the dogs apart - i'm pretty sure my dog does not dream of either economics or game theory
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8/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : an explanation and guide of the peters world map - as seen on the west wing
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8/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : defining a web site - please, for the love of god, will somebody who knows what they're doing standardize this
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8/01/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
Aquarion : NOOOOOOOOOO! [Via BoingBoing] - Barbie and Ken as Arwen and Aragorn
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8/01/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Winexpose - Can't wait to see how long this little infringement lasts.
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8/01/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : looks like msn 9 won't respect web standards either - 485 validation errors, no DOCTYPE, no character encoding
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8/01/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Anil Dash : HP to sell branded iPods - "we only really hate dell and microsoft", apple fans clarify
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8/01/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Nanotubes could make better brain probes - Mmm... brain probes.
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8/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : sylloge: Don't Use Buttons - There was no reason for those stupid things ever to have been invented.
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8/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Clay's trip to Atari HQ in 1983 - luckiest kid ever
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8/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : the challenges of syncing - it's a hard problem that looks easy
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8/01/2004 @ 19:20 GMT
Aquarion : Blimey. I'd only just adjusted to 4.*... - MySQL 5 forked
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8/01/2004 @ 19:19 GMT
Aquarion : Met her. Swatted her. Cannot kill her. - The Bug Fairy
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8/01/2004 @ 19:19 GMT
Richard Rutter : Liquid web design tutorial - (Typography) The four inch rule…? [via]
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8/01/2004 @ 19:19 GMT
Richard Rutter : XHTML Friends Network - (Blogging) From Tantek, Eric et al [via]
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8/01/2004 @ 19:18 GMT
Les Orchard : Republican National Committee's deceitful "Bush-Hitler" attack on MoveOn.org a huge success - Republican National Committee's deceitful "Bush-Hitler" attack on MoveOn.org a huge success
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8/01/2004 @ 19:18 GMT
Les Orchard : Humans Should Intentionally Seed Life on Mars. Why We Must Start Now.
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8/01/2004 @ 19:18 GMT
Jeff Veen : Teams announced for 2004 Tour Down Under - Good to see Navigators on the international roster
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8/01/2004 @ 19:17 GMT
Jeff Veen : S.F. man is homeless -- by choice - $700k in the bank. Family members tried to get him inside. "You can't make me."
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8/01/2004 @ 19:17 GMT
phil : David Lynch's entire oeuvre condensed to 77 words
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8/01/2004 @ 19:17 GMT
Dan Cederholm : The Best of 2003 - Todd Dominey's excellent roundup of lists.
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8/01/2004 @ 19:16 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Shortened Words - Nice roundup of resources.
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8/01/2004 @ 19:16 GMT
Alex Dudas : MnM's in black and white - In a marketing gimmick reminiscent of the gold ticket in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," M&M's will run a contest in 2004 which will...
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8/01/2004 @ 19:16 GMT
Alex Dudas : The bare truth - Why are humans nearly hairless? And why do some wish to become more so
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8/01/2004 @ 19:16 GMT
Alex Dudas : Earth orbit slows no more, baffling scientists - Experts agree that the rate at which the Earth travels through space has slowed ever so slightly for millennia. To make the world's official...
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8/01/2004 @ 19:15 GMT
Alex Dudas : Keeping up the pressure on the axis - Saddam surrenders; lots of big-time Baathist dead-enders rounded up by the Americans, and various small-time Baathist dead-enders more brutally dispatched by their countrymen; Gaddafi...
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8/01/2004 @ 19:15 GMT
Alex Dudas : Tony Blair for President 2004 - Between the babbling of George W. Bush on the right, the blathering of the anti-war left, and the cluck-clucking of media hens everywhere, stands...
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8/01/2004 @ 19:15 GMT
Philippe Janvier : What Matrix Persona Are You ? - "You are Agent Smith, from "The Matrix."
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8/01/2004 @ 19:15 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Atom Feed Autodiscovery - "...a standard machine-readable method of linking to an Atom feed from a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) or Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) document, using the <link> element."
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8/01/2004 @ 19:15 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Angela Talk - RDF pour décideur : "an imaginary conversation with an angel investor".
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8/01/2004 @ 19:14 GMT
Philippe Janvier : FOAF is a way to go - "What's more fun - reading RSS feeds or flirting with strangers ?"
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8/01/2004 @ 19:13 GMT
Wayne Burkett : List Style Bullet Images - At webgraphics.com
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8/01/2004 @ 19:12 GMT
gleuschk : Top Ten Histological and Anatomical Entities of 2003 - I (heart) my #8
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8/01/2004 @ 19:12 GMT
gleuschk : El Senor de Pantalones! - mr. pants back in the aught-aught-fo'
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Paul Ford : Seppuku: Practical Guide - A loose kimono should be worn. As soon as the Sambo tray with the knife is placed before you, allow the kimono to fall open, reach forward, pull the tray toward you, pick up the knife and cut from left to right. The "jumonji", the crosswise cut, may be om
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8/01/2004 @ 19:11 GMT
Paul Ford : They Explain, You Decide - I've received some emails from paranoid fellow-citizens wondering how long it would be before the feds show up at my door to question me. For the inquiring federal officer, I think this brief piece by Aaron Schutzengel regarding “â€Â
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8/01/2004 @ 19:11 GMT
Paul Ford : Art for the Cosmos - A riff on . "Its no secret, though little remarked on, that before 2001, most New Yorkers hated the World Trade Center. Although useful as a way to determine which way was south below 23rd St., they were largely seen as ugly, imposing structures that loom
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8/01/2004 @ 19:11 GMT
Paul Ford : Jack Rusher's Triple Store - “A random triple can be retrieved, on a cold cache, in around sixty milliseconds. Organic workloads perform very well because the system attempts to place data together on disk so that, for instance, the string table for OWL Lite can be stored
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8/01/2004 @ 19:10 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Gentoo PS2 - Spend a week compiling linux on your PS2!
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8/01/2004 @ 19:10 GMT
Erik Benson : isbndb.com, a free ISBN database - +
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8/01/2004 @ 19:09 GMT
Richard MacManus : Mark Bernstein on how weblogs improve writing. All good points.
Alex Dudas : Do Weblogs Improve Writing? - Will Richardson asks whether weblogs improve writing. He thinks "the jury is still out on that one." But we already know the verdict.
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8/01/2004 @ 19:08 GMT
Richard MacManus : Mark Bernstein: "...rich linking is the new direction in weblog design". He seems to be saying that hypertext links are more useful than categorisation.
Erik Benson : I'm thinking pretty much the same thing (and will have something to show for it soon): rich (and easy) linking beats categorization - +
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8/01/2004 @ 19:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Mailio - email with training wheels - Webmail for kids, with a parent controlled whitelist (via)
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8/01/2004 @ 19:08 GMT
Simon Willison : iPod mini - Todd thinks Apple blew it. I'm inclined to agree.
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8/01/2004 @ 19:07 GMT
François Hodierne : Broadcatching with BitTorrent - L'idée inverse à ce qui peut se dire en ce moment. Oups, joyeux Noël au fait !
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8/01/2004 @ 19:07 GMT
François Hodierne : Pompage.net - Les Portes Coulissantes de CSS. - Traduction de l'article de Doug Bowman
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8/01/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : SearchGrid
gleuschk : Google SearchGrid - It's ... it's the matrix! (via D)
Philippe Janvier : SearchGrid - "Une grille à deux dimensions d'une recherche Google multi-mots-clés"
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8/01/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
Paul Hammond : monochrom Brandmarker - An attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands
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8/01/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
Andy Baio : TechTV interviews Timecube crackpot Gene Ray - highly entertaining nutcase, much more on his site
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8/01/2004 @ 19:05 GMT
Andy Baio : John Locke weighs in on the piracy debate -
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Andy Baio : Internet Archive open-sources the Wayback crawler code - more on the Heritrix homepage
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8/01/2004 @ 19:05 GMT
Andy Baio : Top Ten Reasons to Work at Google vs Microsoft Search -
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8/01/2004 @ 19:05 GMT
Andy Baio : Flash visualization of e-mail discussion lists -
Paul Hammond : social circles - marcos weskamp - Social Circles intends to partially reveal the social networks that emerge in mailing lists
Erik Benson : Visualizing mailing lists... sounds interesting, I would like to see how mailing lists I'm on look like (via overstated.net) - +
Cameron Marlow : Pretty email network visualization - Look at the circles fly!
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Andy Baio : Photoshop CS and Paint Shop Pro detects and blocks currency editing - that's absolute insanity; how it works
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8/01/2004 @ 19:04 GMT
Andy Baio : Quicktime clip of Howard Dean in Ninja III - Dean says it's not really him, IMDB still says otherwise
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8/01/2004 @ 19:04 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : it's just that spreadsheets are fucking boring - indeed
Simon Willison : Daring Fireball: A Big Garage - John Gruber thinks GarageBand demonstrates the essence of Apple's target audience
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8/01/2004 @ 19:04 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo beta-testing an RSS aggregator for My Yahoo -
Mark Pilgrim : yahoo adding an aggregator to my yahoo? - i hope all you single-app aggregator developers have made enough money by now, because your product just became a commodity
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Mark Pilgrim : all major photocopiers, printers, and (closed-source) image editors block the reproduction of currency - i feel safer already
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8/01/2004 @ 19:03 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : when it comes to counterfeiting, people are the problem that can not be solved - $200 bill? sure, how would you like your change, sir?
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8/01/2004 @ 19:03 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : buy a $200 george bush bill - it's a steal at twice the price
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8/01/2004 @ 19:03 GMT
jkottke : What not to do at a showing of Return of the King
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8/01/2004 @ 19:02 GMT
jkottke : Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
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jkottke : Goalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!! - Goalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!! ("a green plastic inset for a urinal, with a football goal installed on top")
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8/01/2004 @ 19:02 GMT
jkottke : The art and science of top ten lists
Cameron Marlow : How to write top tens - Man is indeed a list making animal
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8/01/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
Anil Dash : why do conservatives hate american culture? - sushi-eating, NY Times-reading, Hollywood-loving? these are bad things? why do they hate us?
Erik Benson : In the ad, a farmer says he thinks that "Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading ..." before the farmer's wife then finishes the sentence: "... Hollywood-loving, lef - -
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8/01/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
Anil Dash : gorgeous animation of pb's tree - i wish i had the patience to do this sort of thing, but i get tired of leaning on the window sill after a month or two
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8/01/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Weblog shrinky-dinks - my blog is longer than your blog
Jeremy Zawodny : weblog snapshots
gleuschk : itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny weblogs - mine's longer than yours
Ethan Marcotte : Blog snapshots - Maybe taken for no particular reason, but entertaining stuff.
Anil Dash : i have a short weblog - sippey's taken some cool-looking pictures of a couple of weblogs, including mine
Wayne Burkett : Weblog snapshots - Linked and created for no particular reason
Jeff Veen : weblog snapshots - It's an honor just to be nominated.
Tom Coates : Sippey's snapshots of weblogs circa Jan 2004 - Sippey's snapshots of weblogs circa Jan 2004
Paul Hammond : weblog snapshots - for no particular reason
Erik Benson : 10 weblog shrinky dinks--they look so nice together like this - +
Philippe Janvier : Weblog snapshots - "For no particular reason". Where's mine :)
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8/01/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Anil Dash : there is a Canadian way to be Sikh - sometimes you can get the best of both worlds
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8/01/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Anil Dash : Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type - best practices are a good thing. i'm slowing getting there and i think MT is too.
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8/01/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Les Orchard : One Nation, Under Secularism
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8/01/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : FOAF is a way to go - "What's more fun - reading RSS feeds or flirting with strangers ?"
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8/01/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Wow, this is a very cool discussion - +
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8/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Musicmobs, aggregate iTunes playlists - another attempt at Audioscrobbler for iTunes, but uploaded manually
Tom Coates : Music Mobs uses iTunes' XML libraries to create aggregated information on users' preferences, generating some form of community in the process - Music Mobs uses iTunes' XML libraries to create aggregated information on users' preferences, generating some form of community in the process
Jeff Veen : musicmobs.com :: iTunes community - Share your iTunes XML
Paul Hammond : musicmobs.com :: music intelligence - a social network for music fans
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8/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Community sites that make money - interesting list
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8/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Music Rebellion selling most songs for $.10 each - DRMed WMA, but cheaper than anywhere else
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8/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : SocialGrid is a dating service using Google, blogs, P2P, etc. - SocialGrid is a dating service using Google, blogs, P2P, etc. (Best part: "The patent application claims coverage of basically all complex objects, including people, in almost every country.")
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8/01/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : mozilla implements support for content-location - let's stick to quoting specs, not blogs
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8/01/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Japan's lost and found culture - Japan's lost and found culture
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8/01/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Tom Coates : BBC News collates what people read and sent to their friends over 2003
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8/01/2004 @ 14:01 GMT
Tom Coates : Weird: The Paris Hilton Video weblog keeps track of all the news stories (and related video clips) about the infamous amateur porno that made it onto the internet
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8/01/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Tom Coates : SMS costs you $3000 per MB
François Hodierne : Les SMS coûtent 4000 euros par Mo
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8/01/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : How to write a great suspense novel. One tip: "Try practicing writing in a mirror. Watch yourself as you write. What are you doing wrong?"
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8/01/2004 @ 10:01 GMT
Richard MacManus : How is hypertext authoring different?
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8/01/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Makiko Itoh: "Much of the things we used to do with JavaScript are now achievable through CSS..."
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8/01/2004 @ 09:01 GMT
François Hodierne : Bluedcreens goes public ! - via
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8/01/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Google Search: whois google.com - Look up google.com in the WHOIS database
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8/01/2004 @ 07:04 GMT
Jeff Veen : S.F. man is homeless -- by choice - $700k in the bank. Family members tried to get him inside. "You can't make me."
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8/01/2004 @ 07:03 GMT
Paul Ford : New York Stories - A commentary with audio created by Paul Ford for .
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8/01/2004 @ 07:02 GMT
jkottke : Adolf Wolfli, artist or designer?
Tom Coates : Fascinating arguments about Adolf Wölfli - designer / artist
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8/01/2004 @ 07:01 GMT
Anil Dash : 4.5 years ago: what is a liberal? - i sure used to bold a lot of words back then. but the speech is worth reading.
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8/01/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Anil Dash : google does whois - another useful feature i found out about from ev's blog. i am wondering how their other billion users are supposed to find these things.
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8/01/2004 @ 05:04 GMT
Les Orchard : "How can we have a four kart race with seven people?" - "How can we have a four kart race with seven people?"
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8/01/2004 @ 05:03 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Humorous Haiku - computer error messages
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8/01/2004 @ 05:02 GMT
gleuschk : Why we need the web - at acts of volition
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8/01/2004 @ 05:01 GMT
jkottke : Xgrid turns a group of Macs into a supercomputer
Les Orchard : I want an Xgrid, even though I have little idea what I'd do with it. - I want an Xgrid, even though I have little idea what I'd do with it.
Tom Coates : Ooh. XGrid is awesome hardcore software pornography...
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8/01/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
jkottke : What's the US doing about home-grown, right-wing terrorists? Not much. - What's the US doing about home-grown, right-wing terrorists? Not much.
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8/01/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
gleuschk : ISTP ?! I'm never ISTP. - Kiersey test via geegaw
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8/01/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Anil Dash : Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type - best practices are a good thing. i'm slowing getting there and i think MT is too.
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8/01/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Foiled
Les Orchard : Friends foil Olympia man's home - Mmm... tin foikl
Aquarion : Foiled again - Friends foil Olympia man's home
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8/01/2004 @ 02:05 GMT
Jeff Veen : MobileWhack - What a fantastic addition to the office this would be.
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8/01/2004 @ 02:04 GMT
Richard MacManus : Dave Pollard's most important ideas of 2003 in the world of blogs.
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8/01/2004 @ 02:03 GMT
Richard MacManus : Good Experience - Five Ideas for 2004
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8/01/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Tom Coates : I still don't get it - $249 for 4Gb, $299 for 15Gb. It's a no-brainer, surely? - I still don't get it - $249 for 4Gb, $299 for 15Gb. It's a no-brainer, surely?
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