1/04/2004 @ 23:04 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Tiny Gmail Screencap - Nice Meta-AFDJ.
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1/04/2004 @ 23:03 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Microsoft strikes out - Apparently they strike out a lot of stuff.
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1/04/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Megnut launches Kinja, walks - Veerry interesting.
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1/04/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Richard MacManus : Asterisk asks: What Does "Content Management" Mean to You? - Great question and I'll check back later for the comments.
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1/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : python ported to commodore 64 - ooh look, they have python on computers now
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1/04/2004 @ 22:03 GMT
Jeff Veen : George Hincapie wins Three Days of La Panne - First ever American winner of the Belgium classic.
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1/04/2004 @ 22:02 GMT
Graham Leuschke : more about googlemail - definitely not a joke
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1/04/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Gmail No Joke, Lunar Jobs Are - Gmail No Joke, Lunar Jobs Are: this cracks me up
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1/04/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : brad is actually a big jackass! - aw, man. i can't believe i got took.
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1/04/2004 @ 21:05 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Bureau 42: "Hellboy" Delayed - AFDJ
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1/04/2004 @ 21:04 GMT
Adam Gessaman : March For Web Standards - Haha! Excellent. Will they be validating markup at the door?
Simon Willison : March For Web Standards - Grass roots campaigning.
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1/04/2004 @ 21:03 GMT
Adam Gessaman : History of April Fool's Day
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1/04/2004 @ 21:02 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Gawker Media, Weblogs, Inc. Network, and AlwaysOn merge - Hehe. Very webgeeky.
Simon Willison : Gawker Media, Weblogs, Inc. Network, and AlwaysOn merge, raise $12m from Fred Wilson; tap John Battelle as CEO. - "the four of us came to the conclusion that together we could build the Time-Warner of blogging"
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1/04/2004 @ 21:01 GMT
Andy Baio : 5.25" Disk Sleeve Archive - too bad the images are so small [via]
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1/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : The Food Section on the might soup dumpling, which is pretty much the tastiest food ever
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1/04/2004 @ 20:02 GMT
cobra libre : soft hyphens - very handy! mozilla and safari get it wrong, though
Paul Ford : Web justification woes - The problem is in the hyphens.
Mark Pilgrim : hyphens a soft problem - the web has destroyed typography
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1/04/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : x-cp aims to replace tcp/ip - ooh look, they have xml on computers now
Adam Gessaman : x-cp.org - Light the Fiber! - XCP/IP. Now this is a funny A1 joke.
Simon Willison : XCP - the XML Control Protocol - TCP/IP replacement - with added angle brackets!
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1/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : w32validxhtml.a standards-enforcing virus on the loose - ooh look, they have standards on computers now
Adam Gessaman : W32ValidXHTML.A - All it appears to do is scan both local and remote filesystems for HTML files and validate them, using the excellent CSE HTML Validator.
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1/04/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
Les Orchard : A simple blog reader in Flex - News aggregators are the new tech benchmark. Also, lovely infestation of comment spam there.
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1/04/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
phil : Ooh, ex-Wired UK editor and the man who knows more about Mars than you, Oliver Morton, has a weblog
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1/04/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
phil : Paul Murphy's exhibition of 150 drawings of Apu from 'The Simpsons'
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1/04/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
Cameron Marlow : The Food Section: all the news that's fit to eat - Vertical cooking blog
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1/04/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
Cameron Marlow : How to adjust your circadian rhythm - The 24.5 hour internal clock is responsible for my never being able to wake up on time. I am part of the majority group.
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1/04/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
Paul Hammond : adaptive path - why content management fails - People don't like to change the way they work, particularly knowledge workers.
Richard MacManus : Jeffrey Veen on why content mgmt fails - Put Editors in charge. "Your public-facing Web site is a publication. Treat it like one."
anildash : why content management fails - important lessons for everyone involved in content management, especially those of us who make tools
Mark Pilgrim : why content management fails - usability would be so much easier without all those users
deusx : adaptive path - why content management fails - "If you're having trouble managing the content on your Web site, its because you have an editorial process problem."
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1/04/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : buy sitepoint for $10M - ooh look, they have content management systems on computers now
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1/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : super-wide flat screen tv - ooh look, they have digi-bloat on computers now
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1/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : apple launches video ipod - ooh look, they have gollum on computers now
Adam Gessaman : iPodlounge: iPod V - Just because it’s a joke in no way keeps me from wanting one.
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1/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : bmw announces shef - ooh look, they have recipes on computers now
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1/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : mike leaves adaptive path - sounds like he's working on cool new projects and still keeping in touch, so it's good news for everyone
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1/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : history flow: patterns of wiki change over time - as always, IBM research is doing fascinating work on obsure topics
Andy Baio : Visualizing Wikipedia changes over time - [via]
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1/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : USA Today: nothing compares to prince - i forget that most people haven't seen what the little man can do
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1/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Nick Denton on Kinja launch - here's my public Kinja digest
anildash : nick's explanation of kinja's purpose - "It's not for a lack of content that weblogs don't yet have a mass audience."
Tom Coates : Nick Denton's advocation of Kinja - Nick Denton's advocation of Kinja
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1/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : kinja launches in beta - it's been a long wait, but i think a tool aimed at the other 90% is important enough to be worth the wait
cobra libre : kinja, a new server-side rss aggregator - very similar to ARSE, the RSS aggregator that i never wrote
Tom Coates : Kinja weblog aggregator launches...
Philippe Janvier : Kinja, the weblog guide - Kinja pour lire la sélection des weblogs du DJ comme dans un weblog.
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1/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : brad sells his book to HBO Films! - congratulations, friend: nobody deserves this kind of success more than you
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1/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Les Orchard : ThinkGeek :: PC HabiCase® - "Now your small rodent(s) can always be by your side when using the computer!"
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1/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Andy's got the April Fool's rundown - google's is tolerable, the rest are just silly so far
Adam Gessaman : Andy Baio: Internet Jackass Day 2004
Mark Pilgrim : i give up, andy's list is better than mine - some of us have day jobs, ya know
Cameron Marlow : Andy documents Internet Retard Day 2004 - Andy makes good lists. He's a good doctor, very thorough.
Kayode Okeyode : Internet Jackass Day 2004
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1/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : apple adds auto-bleeper to garageband - ooh look, they have curse words on computers now
Simon Willison : <Bleep>ing GarageBand! - For the sake of the children.
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1/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : thinkgeek pioneers pc ez-bake oven - ooh look, they have meatloaf in computers now
Matthew M. Boedicker : PC EZ-Bake Oven
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1/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : the new codeproject web farm - ooh look, they have hosting on computers now
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1/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : irs announces wyskster - ooh look, they have all my personal records on computers now... hey wait...
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1/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : gawker announces senior edition - ooh look, they have old people on computers now
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1/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : riaa sues google; internet doomed - ooh look, they have google on computers now
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1/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Netscape Returns, Steals Back RSS, Merges With Rival CDF - But then we threw him a banana and he retreated into a corner and grunted quietly.
Tomas Jogin : Netscape Returns, Steals Back RSS, Merges With Rival CDF - More beautiful sarcasm from Mark Pilgrim.
Adam Gessaman : Netscape Returns, Steals Back RSS, Merges With Rival CDF - Mark makes an attempt at humor and, unfortunately, sounds comes off as very bitter. The last few paragraphs are funny though.
Simon Willison : Netscape Returns, Steals Back RSS, Merges With Rival CDF - An end to the syndication wars!
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1/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
François Hodierne : 1976design.com - Juste pour photographier le header dans HotLinks
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1/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : google copernicus is hiring - ooh, they have the moon on computers now
Adam Gessaman : Google Job Opportunities: Google Copernicus Center is hiring - This is the April Fools Day joke.
Simon Willison : Google Copernicus Center is hiring - A job on the moon! (Does this mean gmail is real?)
Philippe Janvier : Google Copernicus Center is hiring - "Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007". C'est sûr, ces mecs fument :) [via] #
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1/04/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
phil : 'The Design of Sites' is 700 pages of well-presented web design common sense. Good stuff.
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1/04/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : java now running on apple //c - ooh, they have the internet on computers now
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1/04/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : bowman: css pirate - ooh, they have piracy on computers now
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1/04/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Les Orchard : William Gibson aleph - essential information collection
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1/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Les Orchard : MacDevCenter.com: Creating Online Help with Tinderbox [Mar. 30, 2004]
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1/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : MetaFilter is a Wiki; man, I thought it was infuriating before - reload reload reload
Simon Willison : MetaFilter goes Wiki - The logical convergence point for all social software.
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1/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Sickening - Dave does Doug.
Mark Pilgrim : shea: css pirate - ooh, they have css on computers now
Adam Gessaman : Mezzoblue goes Stop Design - while stop design goes mezzoblue
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1/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Time for Change - Doug does Dave.
Simon Willison : Time for Change - And another one!
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1/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Web Standards Perk Up More Than Your Site - The study was prompted by the revelation that the claims of developers "having a hard time with Web standards" had been dramatically misunderstood.
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1/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : Google announces Web mail service - Google announces Web mail service (May or may not be an April Fools joke)
Jim Ray : Gmail - Google does email - You can bet that the search function will kick ass (via just about every blogger out there)
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1/04/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
kaninka.net : Revenge of the Killer Drones - Þetta er nú akkúrat eitthvað sem heimsbyggðina vantar. Fleiri vopn.
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1/04/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Toute la vérité sur MerdeInFrance - Interview étonnante!!!
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1/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : xml-dev - Harmonising RSS-* and Atom - solving interoperability problems with mode - a schema that allows *all* versions of RSS and the newer Atom notation to all conform to a single, simple schema
François Hodierne : xml-dev - Harmonising RSS-* and Atom - "solving interoperability problems with modern schema languages" Lumineux!!!
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1/04/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : WinSwitch - Fast User Switching without wasting valuable space in your Menu Bar.
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1/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Erik makes the ultimate list - And has inspired me to start my own. I'm not as ambitious though, as I've only got 3 so far
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1/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
anildash : sushi in NYC - spot-on assessments for all the places that i've visited; Sushi Yasuda is even better than the hype
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1/04/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
anildash : NYTimes on Kinja's launch - the key point is that blogs still haven't broken out to the other 90% of the web
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1/04/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Les Orchard : WinRoll 1.9 - Window shading for Win32, free and open source
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1/04/2004 @ 07:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Memos in Starbucks detail Bushies' Richard Clarke strategy - Stay inside the line, baby.
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1/04/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : 4th Annual Chatterbox Challenge - you can play with all the chatbot entries!
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1/04/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Kinja scheduled to launch tomorrow - digests of subject-specific weblogs for new readers [via]
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1/04/2004 @ 06:03 GMT
Steve Cook : The Orioles Warehouse - An informative blog dedicated to the doings of my poor, pathetic Birds.
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1/04/2004 @ 06:02 GMT
anildash : building the case against heterosexual marriage - there are no recorded cases of gay parents having done this kind of sick shit, yet they still can't marry
Cameron Marlow : Faked-lukemia woman did it to keep her husband - Sometimes it's best not to follow up on stories like this
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1/04/2004 @ 06:01 GMT
Richard MacManus : Eric Meyer dislikes reverse-chronological order on weblogs - "Reading a weblog is like watching Memento".
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1/04/2004 @ 06:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : gmail press release - gmail press release: april 1st, huh?
François Hodierne : Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail - 1go ... Formidable!!!
Tomas Jogin : Google Mail - "Google Inc. today announced it is testing a preview release of Gmail – a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email. Per user." Today is April 1st; ba
Mark Pilgrim : google launches gmail - ooh, they have email on computers now
Kayode Okeyode : Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail
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1/04/2004 @ 06:01 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Hip hop battle - They got some mad dazine skeelz. Fo' sheezy.
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1/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Altavista switched to Yahoo's database - the former king of all search engines is dead
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1/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
jkottke : Political Friendster - Political Friendster (Follow the connections between corporations and politicians in one big, happy social network.)
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1/04/2004 @ 05:02 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Reason: Building the Perfect Candidate - Awww… they built themselves a Kennedy.
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1/04/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : NES returns to the GBA SP - GameBoy done up to look like an old-school NES controller. Shwerve.
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1/04/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Recipe error could cause kitchen explosions - sounds like Swedish Lemon Angels [via]
Cameron Marlow : Explosive rolls recipe - Combine 1 cup ethyl alcohol, one cup shortning and heat to a boil. Ignite and kiss your ass goodbye!
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1/04/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Les Orchard : If You Can't Beat Viruses, Mimic Them - If You Can't Beat Viruses, Mimic Them
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1/04/2004 @ 03:06 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Badmash: And for doing that Columbus gets his own holiday? - Classic!
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1/04/2004 @ 03:04 GMT
Les Orchard : Marines' weapon loaded with 'scream' - Sounds like Kate Bush's "Experiment IV"...
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1/04/2004 @ 03:03 GMT
Les Orchard : Direct deposit [dive into mark] - "You’re surrounded by losers running from the law, and I’m surrounded by smart people and have direct deposit."
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1/04/2004 @ 03:03 GMT
Les Orchard : Tissue-tailored Gel Can Help Regrow Body Parts
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1/04/2004 @ 03:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Book deal for dragon hoax author - created by a professional creature effects studio [via]
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1/04/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Boston Globe on modchips - not just for piracy, chips are used for homebrew games and apps [via]
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1/04/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : google mail starts tomorrow - google mail starts tomorrow: 1GB of mail
Andy Baio : Google launching Gmail, free webmail - hopefully there will be an API for accessing and exporting mail [via]
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1/04/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Fi! Fie! Fo! Fum! - I smell the blood of a Redmondman.
anildash : google's launching gmail, an email service - the Times story mentions the service, but no word on google's site.... this reeks of an embargo gone wrong
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1/04/2004 @ 02:04 GMT
kaninka.net : Kynþáttaaðskilnaður? - One in five black men in their twenties in the Windy City is in prison, on probation or on parole, and single women head 69 percent of all black households. The average life span for black men in Chicago is 59 years, and during any given week there, only
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1/04/2004 @ 02:03 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Kevin Sites: Omar's Arm - Warning: Some of the photos in this story are extremely graphic in their depiction of Omar’s gunshot wounds. Do not proceed if this is something you’d rather not see. These images are not intended for viewing by children.
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1/04/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Drag and drop with Javascript - Two alternative libraries discussed in my latest SitePoint blog entry.
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1/04/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Ashcroft creates task force for copyright violations - I'm hoping this is an early April Fool's joke
Jim Ray : Ashcroft rallies agains evil...copyrighters? - Well, if that's not a big fuck you to Osama, I don't know what is. Attack our freedoms, just don't attack our beloved (outdated) Hollywood!
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1/04/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Letterman clip and the White House reaction - very entertaining clips and response
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1/04/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Sound of Magic, tribute to Disney theme park music - amazing site with tons of interesting MP3 downloads
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1/04/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Platypus Wiki : a Semantic Wiki Wiki Web - "Platypus Wiki is an enhanced Wiki Wiki Web with ideas taken from Semantic Web. It offers a simple user interface to create a Wiki Page plus metadata according with W3C standards."
Mark Pilgrim : platypus wiki: a semantic wiki wiki web - rdf inside
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1/04/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Nokia Lifeblog - This seems like a blatant misuse of the word blog to mean "digital diary" when they could have used, oh, "digital diary"
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1/04/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Now playing with Launchbar 4 beta - not taking to it as quickly as with Quicksilver, but fascinating nonetheless
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1/04/2004 @ 00:08 GMT
kaninka.net : PGP - Jóhanna Sig. vill geta lesið tölvupóstinn þinn. Þá er nú gott að hafa PGP við hendina.
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1/04/2004 @ 00:06 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Writing serious Perl: The absolute minimum you need to know
Paul Hammond : Writing serious Perl: The absolute minimum you need to know - This document describes some very basic practices I consider necessary to write serious Perl
Simon Willison : Writing serious Perl: The absolute minimum you need to know - How to write Perl like Python ;) (via)
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1/04/2004 @ 00:05 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : OpenOffice.org Off-the-Wall: Style Is Everything, Right?
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1/04/2004 @ 00:04 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Windows Server Hacks: Resetting User Passwords
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1/04/2004 @ 00:04 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Executive Email: Microsoft Progress Report on Security
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1/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Passport Safety, Privacy Face Off
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1/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Les Orchard : search.cpan.org: Acme::EyeDrops - Very nifty. ASCII art as perl program
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1/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Erik Benson : Steven Johnson came to Amazon today and I asked him about recreational biofeedback tools... this is his suggestion. Looks like I may have to buy it - Steven's talk was excellent... great speaker.
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1/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Amy Gahran: Corporate Blogging Resources - Good list of references, incl my own humble contributions.
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1/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : ic_temp - I'm a longtime LaunchBar user - we're mucking around with really nuanced human behaviour here
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