23/03/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Andy and Cameron have exposed a hilarious hoax in this ChatNannie story... (someone get Metafilter on the case!) - We should let New Scientist know that they missed out on the real scoop--this guy has solved all of the major AI problems in his spare time (he still has a day job).
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23/03/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Pricewatch's $10,000 t-shirt contest entries - hardware geeks and Photoshop don't mix; here's the contest rules
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23/03/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Wonderful old school web advice from David Siegel before he (and the rest of us) knew better...
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23/03/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Tom Coates : I think I must link to this CSS weather site every few months just because it's awesome - I think I must link to this CSS weather site every few months just because it's awesome
Matthew M. Boedicker : 6Weather of Lawrence, Kansas displays the weather forecast in cartoons
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23/03/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Aah! Aah! My eyes! They bleed!
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23/03/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Andy and Cameron have exposed a hilarious hoax in this ChatNannie story... (someone get Metafilter on the case!) - We should let New Scientist know that they missed out on the real scoop--this guy has solved all of the major AI problems in his spare time (he still has a day job).
anildash : andy shows bloggers doing better reporting than the pros - original reporting, exclusive interviews, and a whole lot of common sense
Tom Coates : Is the nanniebot the world of an elaborate fantasist?
Cameron Marlow : Andy Baio: exposé - Let it be known that big media bought it, and webloggers exposed it
Paul Ford : Nanniebot breakdown - Nanniebot - a chatbot designed to catch pedophiles, and it apparently passes the Turing test. Nanniebot's creator - a holocaust denier, but please note also a pet lover. The Register says: "Wightman doesn't want to sell his software or turn his technology
Steve Cook : Waxy vs. the NannyChat programmer - It's hard to choose between this debunking and the Infocom bot as Waxy's best project of the month.
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23/03/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
cobra libre : so you'd like to see the films sampled by skinny puppy - and who wouldn't, really?
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23/03/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : "I'm a bonafide publisher now, and you can be one too." - "I'm a bonafide publisher now, and you can be one too." (Use out-of-copyright books and on-demand printing to roll your own publishing house.)
anildash : mike's a publisher - a fantastic story about the new empowerment that creative people have today
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23/03/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : dave grohl reviews CDs for the Times - as it turns out, his comments are basically the same ones you'd get from working with the Trotts
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23/03/2004 @ 20:25 GMT
Tomas Jogin : Ruby on Rails - David Heinemeier Hansson, of 37 Signals, introduces his/their brand new web development framework, called Rails. Rails, like all good things, is for Ruby.
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23/03/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Toothing? - My poor defective BlueTooth-less phone.
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23/03/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Great photos of the SF Rally - And such a great way to categorize lefty American politics
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23/03/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Reinventing the wheel - "Every time I hit that wall I curse Browser X and myself and the client and the W3C and Ben and J-Lo, just because."
Paul Hammond : Jeffrey Zeldman: Reinventing the wheel - if the old-school no-brainer approach works reliably and requires no experimentation, why do I and so many others insist on doing things the new way?
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23/03/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : SBJ on the science of Eternal Sunshine - if you liked the movie, then you'll love the textbook!
cobra libre : the science of eternal sunshine - and it's a good flick, to boot
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23/03/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : ride snowboards' apology for homophobic promos - they seem appropriately contrite that two of their employees acted like idiots
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23/03/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : cowboyz 'n poodles, blog that called out Ride - pretty great that a single blogger got a company to acknolwedge and apologize for its homophobia
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23/03/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : google says they're a media company - an interesting evolution from the "we just do search" days
Cameron Marlow : Google is a media company?! - Maybe they'll get out of search entirely and merge with AOL-TimeWarner to make AOL-TimeWarner-PageBrin
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23/03/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Sam & Max tribute - With the now-cancelled game's trailer, as well as screenshots. Joy.
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23/03/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Steven Johnson examines the science of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Andy Baio : The Science of Eternal Sunshine - SBJ digs into the subtleties of memory erasing [via]
Les Orchard : The Science of Eternal Sunshine - "You can't erase your boyfriend from your brain, but the movie gets the rest of it right."
Erik Benson : The Science of Eternal Sunshine, by Steven Johnson - I like the last point he makes
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23/03/2004 @ 18:02 GMT
jonhicks : Strong Bad's 100th Email! - A real corker, look aout for the guest appearance by top metal act LIMOZEEN!...
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23/03/2004 @ 18:02 GMT
cobra libre : discography of texas punk, 1977-1983 - still going strong
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23/03/2004 @ 18:02 GMT
Jeff Veen : "Creative Class War" by Richard Florida - Over the last few years, as the conservative movement in the U.S. has become more entrenched, many people I know are looking for better lives in Canada, Europe, and Australia."
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23/03/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Brits Going at It Tooth and Nail - Maintenant, on drague via bluetooth...
Simon Willison : Brits Going at It Tooth and Nail - WTF!? It's not even April 1st yet.
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23/03/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Black on Black, Jay-Z vs Metallica mash-up - download the whole album with BitTorrent [via]
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23/03/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
jonhicks : Didier Hilhorst Interview - SkinnyJ gets the skinny.......
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23/03/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : ftrain is bigger in every direction - I'm not convinced it's a good idea, but it's interesting
Andy Baio : Paul Ford redesigns Ftrain.com - finally, a site that takes advantage of my 2048x1536 resolution
anildash : ftrain gets pretty - dammit! i was just about to do horizontal-scrolling archives
jkottke : A new category of meat: flushing meat
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23/03/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : snow angel - my winter in Canada is officially over
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23/03/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Many-to-Many: RELATIONSHIP: Two Worldviews - most human relations cannot be made explicit without changing the nature of the relationship
Cameron Marlow : Clay: two world views on explicit social networks - Why not just make the caveat that explit, online social networks are just different from offline networks?
Mark Pilgrim : anti-foaf screed - relationships: can't be done
Philippe Janvier : RELATIONSHIP : Two Worldviews - AI vs. real life : "- there is a group that regards the world as both clearly knowable and describable, and assumes that a lack of clarity is a synonym for a lack of explicitness, and there is a group that assumes that humans possess a core set of social
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23/03/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Pirates, Ninjas, Dwarves and Elves turn up on Fast Company's website - Pirates, Ninjas, Dwarves and Elves turn up on Fast Company's website
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23/03/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
anildash : goddamn Alice and Bob - i'm going to lead an effort to reduce ethnocentrism in crypto literature by featuring Aki and Bilal
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23/03/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Stares - Stares: Under the heading "Reason For Move," I plan to write "Women."
Mark Pilgrim : stares - my office doesn't have windows, so i don't have these problems
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23/03/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : TypeKey FAQ - TypeKey FAQ: hopefully this answers the basic questions
anildash : a big long FAQ about TypeKey - sometimes we ship code, and sometimes we ship text
Andy Baio : Typekey FAQ answers all questions - naturally, Winer isn't satisfied
Erik Benson : TypeKey FAQ - I may be the only blogger in the blogosphere that's excited about this!
Ben Milleare : TypeKey FAQ
Paul Hammond : TypeKey - The FAQ, along with Movable Type 3.0 and TypeKey are evolving and we'll be providing more information when we have it
Kayode Okeyode : TypeKey and Movable Type Comment Registration FAQ
Mark Pilgrim : typekey faq - i plan to implement it on day 1
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23/03/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : So I'm going to be a Pyro - So I'm going to be a Pyro: this is so tempting. someday i have to try it
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23/03/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : A Brief Conversation with the Blogosphere - or: if Blogdex could talk
Graham Leuschke : blogging is conversation - and some conversations just suck
jkottke : A conversation with the blogosphere - A conversation with the blogosphere ("ThereÂ’s probably a quiz about that; you should check my archives.")
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23/03/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Gleick on namespaces - haven't finished, but it's great already
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23/03/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : penis owners instruction manual - penis owners instruction manual: wow, they hold value well
Graham Leuschke : Penis owners instruction manual - this is actually informative
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23/03/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Erik Benson : How to solve problems with social networks (rather than find problems with social networks) - The distinction is subtle, but I agree with danah here
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23/03/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Airline Halts Plan for Lip-Shaped Urinals - Airline Halts Plan for Lip-Shaped Urinals: so much for the friendly skies
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23/03/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Cameron chats with Nanniebot... and if I'm not mistaken, seriously doubts its authenticity - I do too.
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23/03/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : The Department of Homeland Photo Opportunities - Pimping 9/11 like nobody's business: the Bush Administration, ladies and gents.
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23/03/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Richard MacManus : Jeff Veen: The Frontier of User Experience (pdf) - Explains the Mental Model of IA.
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23/03/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : rzip - Better compression ratios than bzip2. (via)
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23/03/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Lockergnome Happy Ending - The moment this goes live I'm going to say lots of nice things about it.
Mark Pilgrim : lockergnome happy ending - not as good as happy ending from "mind of the married man", but still good
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23/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Google Search: winningest - Until today, I didn't think "winningest" was a real word.
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23/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Too much sleep can lead to restless nights - Too much sleep can lead to restless nights: Ugh. I like my sleep.
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23/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : BT engineer denies deflowering lesbian - BT engineer denies deflowering lesbian: must not have been good for him
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23/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : AuroraWebcam.com - AuroraWebcam.com: some pretty amazing pictures
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23/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Button Maker - Button Maker: because everybody needs one of their own
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23/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Cameron chats with Nanniebot... and if I'm not mistaken, seriously doubts its authenticity - I do too.
Andy Baio : Cameron interviews the "Nanniebot" - seems like an obvious fraud to me, confirming suspicions
anildash : cam's chat with a Nanniebot - it's clearly a human pretending to be a bot, but Wightman won't admit it
Tom Coates : Is Cameron chatting with a nanniebot?
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23/03/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Richard MacManus : Jon Udell: Blog/print synergy - Why personal publishing is a good thing - for pro's as well as amateurs.
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23/03/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think - visual language, maps, computerized notebooks, theory of notebooks, yadda yadda yadda
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23/03/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : luvly: Lion Kimbro on wiki, notebooks, and the public web - Write for yourself, not your biographer. Use acronyms, assume your own knowledge
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23/03/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : 3D rendering of Back to the Future's Hill Valley in 1955 - the entire town square and Marty's hoverboard, all made with Sketchup
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23/03/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
anildash : download Dogpile's AtomEnabled toolbar - the searchspy feature is mesmerizing
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23/03/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine
Nelson Minar : SQLite embedded DB - SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine
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23/03/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
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23/03/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Forensic Analysis of a Live Linux System, Part One
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23/03/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Using the Windows Firewall INF File in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
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