9/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Tom Coates : The HP version of the iPod is extraordinarily weird. Why would you choose to make something that looked so grey?!
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9/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Anil Dash : pictures from when the subway was scary - i like to give people the impression that mass transit in the city hasn't changed since the 80s
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9/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Anil Dash : oddly salacious look at japanese gadgetry - the list of import shops on the second page is useful, though
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9/01/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
gleuschk : "True Names" by Vernor Vinge (PDF) - the whole novella, free. Yay!
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9/01/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Business 2.0 article on Foo Camp - it was even better than the article makes it sound
plasticbag : On last year's FooCamp: When geeks go camping, ideas hatch - Not sure what I think about the media-take on these things. Certainly the event has a reputation...
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9/01/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Anil Dash : nascar's "drive for diversity" - to everyone who argues that auto racing isn't a backwards sport: it's been 50 years since jackie robinson
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9/01/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Anil Dash : "A large percentage are of a Hispanic nature" - the RIAA's rented cops aren't just fraudulent, they're assholes to boot
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9/01/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Anil Dash : blogs.msdn.com - microsoft's developer network speaks to developers in the most appropriate format
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9/01/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Anil Dash : simmons flips phat farm - was this what his recent promotional campaign has been about? or is this just prelude?
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9/01/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Aquarion : The new iPod's HDD is tiny - Tiny hard drive packs a big punch
Alex Dudas : Tiny hard drive packs a big punch - You could soon be able to store much more on an MP3 player, digital camera or mobile phone. Toshiba has developed a tiny hard...
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9/01/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
gleuschk : FolderShare - watch what we say, not what we do
Tom Coates : Foldershare looks fascinating but is Windows-only
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9/01/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Best of B3TA 2003 - Morrisey laments the pigeon cam and other ridiculous garbage from our meme buddies
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9/01/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : TongueJoy Oral Vibrator
Simon Willison : Tongue mounted vibrators - I kid you not (via)
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Faux Columns: A List Apart - The embarassingly simple secret is to use a vertically tiled background image
Ben Milleare : Faux Columns: A List Apart
phil : A List Apart on 'faux columns' in CSS. I was hoping for a magical solution. Instead: well, duh!
Simon Willison : Faux Columns - A useful CSS trick for faking equal length columns
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Elastic Design: A List Apart - elastic design can be a viable option that enhances usability and accessibility without mandating design sacrifices
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Tom Coates : My, what an enormous disk you have!
Les Orchard : LaCie - Bigger Disk - largest hard drive capacity available - One terabyte of love
Simon Willison : 1 TeraByte FireWire drive from LaCie - In a 5.25" form factor. I want. (via)
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Tom Coates : The Last Samurai was - as many other films would be - greatly improved by the early death of Billy Connelly
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : opera 7.5 includes a built-in aggregator - also an irc client, spell checker, and the kitchen sink
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : turtle - terse rdf triple language - one of these alternate syntaxes better catch on, because rdf/xml is a non-starter
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : feedfinder 1.2 is out - supports atom autodiscovery
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : answers to who said that about what - i am disturbed by how many of those i just knew off the top of my head
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : feedparser 2.7.1 is out - bug fixes
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : The Decline of Fashion Photography, an argument in pictures
Tom Coates : The Decline of Fashion Photography
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Anil Dash : villanova law school's dean on blogging for credit - a remarkably progressive view on the academic value of blogging
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9/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Anil Dash : the inevitable: free choire t-shirts - the martha stewart trial's least deserving victim!
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9/01/2004 @ 18:02 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Blogging Rule #37 - "What should you write in your blog ? What shouldn't you write in your blog ?...The truth is, that you can write whatever you want in your blog. It's your blog."
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9/01/2004 @ 18:02 GMT
Tom Coates : Loony vile daytime TV presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk has his programme axed by the BBC after making anti-Arab comments
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9/01/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Language performance benchmarks - I, for one, welcome our new millisecond overlords.
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9/01/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Gorgeous (and free) online comics - Another item for the "I'd Gnaw Off My Arm To Have Talent Like This" list.
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9/01/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Gingerbread village server - I, for one, welcome our new edible server overlords.
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9/01/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : dear santa - everything is possible for those who believe
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9/01/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
Les Orchard : Burke: On Renaming - I seem to have doomed myself by going straight to using initials (l.m.orchard)
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9/01/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
gleuschk : they say that when the wind blows, you can still hear the sound of the Pistachio Baby Tree fill the air - A story by S., at stuttercut
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9/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Erik Benson : After you figure out how you'll be remembered, it's easier to know how to act - +
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9/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Kula: ecto - ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX
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9/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Devil's Dictionary (2.0): web standards - used by the slightly more anal-retentive to beat the slightly less anal-retentive.
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9/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Tom Coates : (Anal Sex and) the Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything
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9/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : flipping the bozo bit - if someone is reliably wrong, they're valuable
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9/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : unflipping the bozo bit - a problem arises when avowed kooks, dorks, and halfwits suddenly shape up
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9/01/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Programming language checklist
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9/01/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Tom Coates : That funny Doctorow chap says I look a bit like an Aragorn Ken Doll
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9/01/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Delanda comes to the Tate Modern
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9/01/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
phil : It's the last day for 'Early Bird' prices for Emerging Tech
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9/01/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Wayne Burkett : ESPN Classic - Say it ain't so ... for Joe and the Hall - ESPN Classic - Say it ain't so ... for Joe and the Hall
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9/01/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Virtual Travelog | Source Code as History - History will be derived from the documentation not the source code
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9/01/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Movable Type, Static Pages, Flexibility and Scalability - Anything you put into it will be able to be pulled out in a variety of ways that is limited only by your creativity and template coding skills
Richard MacManus : Asterisk: Movable Type, Static Pages, Flexibility and Scalability
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9/01/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Yes! What he said! Only extend it to tiny short people with neck level umbrella weapons...
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9/01/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Alex Dudas : Civilian aircraft missile defence divides opinion - A US initiative to develop systems that protect civilian aircraft from terrorist rocket attacks has provoked sharply contrasting reactions. Some observers argue the programme...
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9/01/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Alex Dudas : Bush to announce manned missions to Mars - Hoping to reinvigorate America's space program following the Columbia tragedy, President Bush will reportedly announce plans next week to build a permanent space station on...
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9/01/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Alex Dudas : Feds seek wiretap access via VoIP - The FBI and the Justice Department have renewed their efforts to wiretap voice conversations carried across the Internet. The agencies have asked the Federal...
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9/01/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeff Veen : smart Infomaterial - smart to release mini SUV in US -- 2006
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9/01/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : slug sex
Aquarion : I got a slug - Leopard Slug Aerial mating
gleuschk : slug porn on a high wire - eeeew. cool. (via yami)
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9/01/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Central limit theorem applet - Give me enough probability distributions, and I'll give you a Gaussian!
Erik Benson : This is sorta fun - +
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9/01/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Steve Gillmor: "Well-written, credibly researched, and balanced journalism can, and now does, come from anyone with access to today's printing press, the Net."
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9/01/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Tim Bray: "whenever I read a technology article that's written largely in the future tense - this and that and the other will happen - I raise my eyebrows."
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9/01/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : all major photocopiers, printers, and (closed-source) image editors block the reproduction of currency - i feel safer already
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9/01/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : the challenges of syncing - it's a hard problem that looks easy
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9/01/2004 @ 04:01 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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9/01/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : verisign still incompetent - i am shocked, shocked
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9/01/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Anil Dash : why does the right-wing media resort to theft? - bereft of ideas, they steal writing from the left
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9/01/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Anil Dash : strong Voice piece on Simmons' hip hop politicking - this year's elections might be the first real test for the Hip Hop Summit Action Network
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9/01/2004 @ 03:02 GMT
Jeff Veen : Textism: Telling the Dogs Apart - The difference between Oliver and Hugo
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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9/01/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Alex Dudas : Bush Grabs New Power for FBI - While the nation was distracted last month by images of Saddam Hussein's spider hole and dental exam, President George W. Bush quietly signed into...
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9/01/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Alex Dudas : Blair voted the most untrustworthy politician - Blair voted the most untrustworthy politician, with the Chancellor the most trustworthy - closely followed in 3rd by the leader of the opposition, Michael...
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9/01/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Alex Dudas : Democrats run out of arguments and call Bush voters stupid - It's the "Stupid factor," the S factor: Some people - sometimes through no fault of their own - are just not very bright.
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9/01/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
gleuschk : AskMeFi thread of the week - just warms the cockles, don't it?
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9/01/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mozilla Firebird Session Saver
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9/01/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : TiVo announces TiVo to Go - download saved programs to your PC, officially
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9/01/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Usenet thread by spammers on blog comment spamming - evil, evil, evil
gleuschk : Want to get tons of free pr5, pr6, and pr7 back links for your website? Then all you have to do is post like mad to blogs, the newest google rage on the internet. - oh no! the secret's out!
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
Wayne Burkett : Post Like Mad To Blog Comments - Usenet thread by spammers on posting blog comment spam
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9/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : How to make a documentary - Peter's advice on filming a documentary with a consumer mini-DV camera
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9/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Tribune Co. Fires Baltimore Sun Editor - "The Tribune is a profit-oriented company, and higher profits are not always compatible with good journalism."
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9/01/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Anil Dash : gawker shocker! - the feds are trying to find out who tipped off choire. I'll visit you in prison, my friend!
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9/01/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Anil Dash : a first peek at basecamp - it's already the best project management UI i've ever seen, not so egregiously overbuilt as other apps
Erik Benson : Basecamp looks interesting, but I'll never be able to use it unless I can install it on my own server behind a firewall - +
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9/01/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Anil Dash : ten tips for killer web services - the one that's not getting enough play here is "Start with the WS-I Basic Profile"
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