1/03/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Unicode Regular Expressions
Simon Willison : Unicode Regular Expressions - [a \U00010450] Match "a" or U+10450 SHAVIAN LETTER PEEP
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1/03/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : PHP: High Performance Practices
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1/03/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Microsoft is preparing updates to its programming tools that will be released in tandem with Windows XP Service Pack 2
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1/03/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Beta Screenshots
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1/03/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Les Orchard : The Gift of Magnetic Vision - "...he’d had a small silicone-coated neodymium magnet implanted, and it turned out to be far, far more than just a party trick!"
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1/03/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Les Orchard : TreoCentral.com - hosed by Sprint for Pocket Tunes Streaming - "Despite having the Sprint (unlimited web) $15/mo. add-on vision pack, Sprint claims I owe them $2,400+ dollars for three days of heavy (pockettunes ?) usage."
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1/03/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Photos of the grand opening of the San Francisco Apple Store
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1/03/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Hexadecimal Color Codes in HTML That Look or Sound Dirty, But Are in Fact Merely Colorful - Hexadecimal Color Codes in HTML That Look or Sound Dirty, But Are in Fact Merely Colorful (CC00CC, F0CCED, EFF0FF, etc.)
Ethan Marcotte : Hex colors that look or sound dirty, but are in fact merely colorful - #B0FFED, indeed.
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1/03/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : dinner at a former speakeasy - after the photoblogger's event, we ate at a place that's been around for more than 150 years
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1/03/2004 @ 22:05 GMT
cobra libre : elaine pagels on gibson's passion - reading about this movie feels like rubbernecking to me
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1/03/2004 @ 22:04 GMT
Steve Cook : "No spaceships, no aliens" - Hell, I'd read it. (And wouldn't 'no spaceships, no A-lines' be a wonderful slogan for something? Vogue Mars, maybe.)
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1/03/2004 @ 22:04 GMT
Steve Cook : Hideous sea creatures - Thanks a lot, Skot. You've ruined trips to the beach for the rest of my life.
cobra libre : fantastic fish - amazing! beautiful! icky! (via snarkout)
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1/03/2004 @ 22:03 GMT
Les Orchard : SadGeezer's Guide to Aeon Flux - SadGeezer's Guide to Aeon Flux
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1/03/2004 @ 22:03 GMT
Les Orchard : Many-to-Many: YASNS in a Box
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1/03/2004 @ 22:03 GMT
Les Orchard : TMK | Reference | Super Mario Bros. Complete Guide
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1/03/2004 @ 22:03 GMT
Les Orchard : SQL Cartesian Join & Cartesian Product - "A Cartesian join is very cpu intensive, and is usually done by mistake."
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1/03/2004 @ 22:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : Sparklines: "Intense word-sized graphics" - Cram immense quantities of data into a tiny space
Les Orchard : Sparklines or Wordgraphs--some draft pages from Beautiful Evidence
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1/03/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : NYT: Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy - "bits are not the same as atoms"
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1/03/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : MS demonstrates eBay web services - some interesting tools you can download to integrate the two platforms
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1/03/2004 @ 21:01 GMT
Tom Coates : So my friend is gonna interview a band and he asks around for questions and I suggest a really dumb one as a joke and he only goes and asks it anyway...
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1/03/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Tom Coates : 15" Powerbook Battery Life Tests (Google Cache) - 15" Powerbook Battery Life Tests (Google Cache)
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1/03/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : EV1Servers agrees to license Linux from SCO - my ISP is making a really bad decision
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1/03/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : iPod Battery Pack hack - two AA and two 9-volt batteries give about 10 hours of extra battery life
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1/03/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Social software in a box - start your own Friendster for $280, cheap
anildash : e-friends, installable social software - inching our way towards a one-to-one mapping of social software users to social software services
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1/03/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Audio: Decemberists cover Bjork's "Human Behavior" -
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1/03/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic - "Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive."
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1/03/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names
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1/03/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Les Orchard : President George Bush and the Gilded Age - "Something really strange has happened to the U.S. under the Bush Administration."
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1/03/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : GBA Time Machine preview - plug your old NES carts into your GBA
Les Orchard : Hands-On: Time Machine brings Famicom / NES titles to your Gameboy Advance (Emulation Special) - Really, really cool idea. But apparently, it's crap: "Looking at all this, it's probably the best to wait until Nintendo releases a NES player for the GameCube, or in best case for the Gameboy Advance. Chances are also given that Datel or another accesso
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1/03/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
phil : A history of 'The Economist's design
jkottke : The evolving design of the Economist - The evolving design of the Economist (With pictures of designs new and old.)
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1/03/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
phil : University of Reading's MA in Typeface Design - Only one in the UK apparently.
Tom Coates : Ooh. One year MA in type design. Dribble. If our lives were only of infinite length...
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1/03/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Tom Coates : A weird article on weblogs that both mentions that they've been on Grange Hill (awesome) and also seems to think my site still lives at barbelith.com (after, er... three and a half years?) - A weird article on weblogs that both mentions that they've been on Grange Hill (awesome) and also seems to think my site still lives at barbelith.com (after, er... three and a half years?)
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1/03/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: What if real life was like the Internet? - from Chappelle's Show
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1/03/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Les Orchard : The Big Picture: What Will Determine the Outcome of the 2004 Election - "Something very unusual is happening economically, and the White House has been tone deaf to it."
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1/03/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Erik Benson : The problems of visualising social networks - It has to do with multidimensional scaling--these models exist in many more than two dimensions, yet most communication is constrained to two or three dimensions at most.
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1/03/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Andy Baio : The Kicker stops publishing - ex-Gawker Liz Spiers weblog for New York magazine is no more
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1/03/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Delightfully absurd take on gay marriage by George Saunders in the New Yorker
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1/03/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Loads of great headlines on The Morning News today
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1/03/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
François Hodierne : Web Idiocy - "PUT, POST, J2ME, Atom, and reliable messaging"
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1/03/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
jkottke : Why Real Player sucks - Why Real Player sucks (Real has raised antisocial software to an art form.)
Simon Willison : Real Obnoxious - A litanty of Real Player atrocities. (via)
Jeremy Zawodny : Real Obnoxious
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1/03/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Sparklines are "intense word-sized graphics" - Sparklines are "intense word-sized graphics" (From Tufte's upcoming book, Beautiful Evidence)
Andy Baio : Tufte's Sparklines, intense word-size graphics - it took a second reading to understand the concept, but very practical and good
Graham Leuschke : Sparklines (Edward Tufte) - cruddy name, fascinating idea
Erik Benson : Sparklines, an interesting way to fit more meaning into the space provided - A challenge to any communicator. This is nice.
anildash : tufte's data-rich sparklines - they're clever, but the real advantage of is that print supports much higher resolution than screen
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1/03/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : The Leica Digilux 2 is the most beautiful digital camera I've ever seen - The Leica Digilux 2 is the most beautiful digital camera I've ever seen
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1/03/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Tom Coates : A conversation about gay marriage on politx...
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1/03/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : sex advice from Liz Phair - choose carefully whom you listen to (and it's not phair)
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1/03/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Dribble, drool - lovely gorgeous earbuds...
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1/03/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Do NOT buy these - bloody terrible. Won't stay in your head no matter what you do... - Do NOT buy these - bloody terrible. Won't stay in your head no matter what you do...
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1/03/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Apple to unveil mini retail stores
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1/03/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Tom Coates : It's not a big pig, it's a tiny Japanese lady! - It's not a big pig, it's a tiny Japanese lady!
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1/03/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Dream Factory: Doki Doki Panic - This is the game that became Super Mario 2 in the US
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1/03/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Man dressed as the devil disrupts ‘Passion’ movie - 'Kerasotes’ management is in the process of creating new guidelines for preventing people dressed as “evil beings†from gaining entrance to the theatre.'
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1/03/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Nintendo Entertainment System "superplay" movies - Perfect games, played one frame at a time
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1/03/2004 @ 10:01 GMT
Erik Benson : Peter's reading an interesting book about the blending of functionality and interface - Interface is everything.
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1/03/2004 @ 10:01 GMT
Erik Benson : Interesting tips from one entreprenuer to another - Nothing new here, but good reminders to help stay on track
anildash : great tips for budding entrepreneurs - ross has some really strong points, and I hope to write up a list of some of my own soon
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1/03/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
anildash : zerodegrees flips to interactivecorp - the first social networking site to sell out to one of the giants... will this start the dominos falling?
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1/03/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
anildash : still don't know that name - i can always tell a song matters if it triggers a memory
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1/03/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
anildash : where did google's whois searches go? - they used to offer this feature, and i'm wondering if it was a casualty of privacy concerns
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1/03/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
anildash : USA Today's polling whether their readers blog - as of this writing, 25% of respondents have at least tried blogging
Alex Dudas : Between 2 and 7 percent of American adults blogging - The impression out there is that a lot of the blog activity is very feverish," said Lee Rainie, the Pew project's director. "That's not the case. For most bloggers, it's not an all-consuming, all-the-time kind of experience."
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1/03/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : NES BitTorrent video downloads - more neat speed runs
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1/03/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
anildash : photoshop is 14 years old - launched in february 1990
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1/03/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : the face of the bubble - in a thread about webmonkey closing
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1/03/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
anildash : New York Public Library's Amazon wishlist - feel free to buy them anything but those damn harry potter books
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1/03/2004 @ 05:18 GMT
Adam Gessaman : iMovieFest turns WWU students into auteurs
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1/03/2004 @ 05:17 GMT
Adam Gessaman : "What a magnificent moustache. He looks just like an Iraqi."
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1/03/2004 @ 05:17 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Great CC intro video - Very well done.
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1/03/2004 @ 05:16 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Dean didn't want to be President - And it sounds like his campaign office was not necessarily a happy place.
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1/03/2004 @ 05:16 GMT
Adam Gessaman : RazzieAwards 2004 - Gigli cleaned up. Who'da thunk it?
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1/03/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Did you know Nielsen Ratings have 100,000 people writing diaries about what they're watching every 15 minutes? - In some ways, this is a good example of how difficult quality data aggregation is. In another sense, you think that they could be using technology a lot smarter. Someone should eat their lunch.
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1/03/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
anildash : sympathies to dan - those of us who love dogs can only imagine how sad it is to lose one... my condolences on the loss of prince
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1/03/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
anildash : but the AP's spin on the same story is negative - they read the same Pew report and say it's "infrequent"
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1/03/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
anildash : new report shows half of web users have posted content... - Reuter's story says that more than 10 percent of respondents read blogs right now
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1/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Dave Winer needs a better aggregator - Radio can't read an Atom feed. I'd file a bug report. Seems like lots of other aggregators are reading Atom these days...
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1/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Les Orchard : The Contiki Operating System and Desktop Environment - "The Contiki desktop environment is a highly portable, open source, Internet-enabled, multitasking, graphical operating system that runs on a variety of constrained systems, ranging from modern embedded 8-bit microcontrollers to old 8-bit homecomputers li
Mark Pilgrim : contiki - a modern OS for 8-bit computers
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1/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Link Popularity Check - I'm at top-end of "Average Presence" (4,340 refs). Scripting News is a "900 lb Gorilla"!
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1/03/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Another depressingly consistent, good-quality, engaging and intelligent read from Dan Hill - this time about magazine cover design. Wanker.
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1/03/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Manuzhai : Where do you want to go, Aiden? - Interesting discussion about the economic aspect of Open Source Software. Followup here.
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1/03/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Reading A1 - Nicely done, left-leading Times criticism focusing not on nitpicking but on how media narratives are formed.
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1/03/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Ben Milleare : Commodore 64 is Alive!
Les Orchard : Gallery: Commodore 64 is Alive! - "Believe it or not, Commodore 64 is still being used for commercial purposes. Analogik has discovered this truly rare occurrence at MYER Centre main bus station terminal - Brisbane, Australia"
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1/03/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Blogalization: "English will decline from 9 percent to 5 percent of the world population by 2050."
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1/03/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Mehack - Raffi Krikorian's new hardware hacking blog
Adam Gessaman : mehack -- metahacking weblog - Bonus points for a full-text RSS feed.
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1/03/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : FindStr.exe - an egrep-like tool
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1/03/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : The Art of Unix Programming
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1/03/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Mozilla Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Reported and Fixed
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1/03/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Gary Panter's FeedDemon Illustration - Gary Panter's FeedDemon Illustration
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1/03/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Erik Benson : 'Passion' kicks '50 First Dates' butt, is anyone surprised? - Worth seeing. The plot was sort of predictable though.
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1/03/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Erik Benson : MTRevisionPlugin: will keep track of revisions in your posts. I think I'll try to set it up here. - Another reason why using other people's software is good.
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