2/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
cobra libre : 'rather observe that it is early morning than that the sky is smooth as a turquoise' - des imagists! hopefully a work in progress
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2/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Logo et balise h1 - Morceaux simples de cybercodeur : "Mettre un logo dans un h1, c'est bon ou mauvais ?" Réponse : c'est nul :) Euh ! Au fait, comment j'ai fais moi ?
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2/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : nice margaret cho review of prince's show - and then she added ernie to her blogroll. bitch is tryin' to bite my style
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2/04/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : 25 years ago, i was 15 miles from three mile island - and today, you can hardly notice the fact that i glow at night
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2/04/2004 @ 21:01 GMT
cobra libre : there is nothing outside the blog - j'accuse!
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2/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : SphereXP, 3D desktop replacement for Windows XP - the screenshots and video are bizarre [via]
deusx : The SphereXP - "The SphereXP is a 3D desktop replacement for Microsoft Windows XP. "
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2/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : album covers in MS Paint, from memory - the best part is that many of these are superior to the originals
Cameron Marlow : Album covers from memory with MS Paint - It just shows that not only to a lot of people like the same music as I do, they can regurgitate the album covers from memory with the worst art tool ever created. Nice!
Rod Begbie : Album covers redrawn from memory in MS Paint - I'm quite proud of how many of these I recognised instantly
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2/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeff Veen : People critical for managing content - "Expect technology to serve as a useful adjunct to a successful project, not as the heart of the project itself."
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2/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeff Veen : Enterprise Content Management is a Process, Not A Technology - Focus your content management efforts on developing strong metadata, developing templates, and treating the CMS simply as a database -- a content repository.
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2/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeff Veen : Web publishing needs real discipline - Many web managers still seem to believe that if they get the technology right the publishing will look after itself.
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2/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Marginal Revolution: The end of TV as we know it?
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2/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Marginal Revolution: Crude extrapolation: debt to gdp ratios
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2/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : Neta, a beautiful concept - it's telling that we don't have a word for this in english. plus it evokes both "net" and "meta"
Adam Gessaman : sylloge: Neta
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2/04/2004 @ 18:02 GMT
Richard Rutter : ASCIInated - Clagnut converted to Markdown text (filed under Blogging).
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2/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Tom Coates : They should have called it b3tv
Cameron Marlow : B3TA TV Pilot - A best-of compilation guaranteed to go straight to video
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2/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: First real Gmail screenshot - it supports threaded messages [via]
François Hodierne : First Gmail screenshot - Il semble qu'aux dernières nouvelles ce ne soit pas un poisson d'avril...
Simon Willison : Genuine Gmail screenshot - This one isn't a hoax. (via)
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2/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : piracy hits a new low - i denounce this wiki in the strongest possible terms ;-)
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2/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : dive into checklists - via joe clark
François Hodierne : Accessibility Checklist
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2/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : scanner software still sucks - not sure why, but that's been my experience as well for like 11 years
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2/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : docbook 4.3 is out - xml/sgml vocabulary for serious technical writing
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2/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : getting started with textpattern - "grease on the waterslide of happiness and fulfillment"
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2/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : netcraft april survey is out - not much change
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2/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Background of the Mezzoblue/StopDesign April Fool's swap - [via]
anildash : behind the mezzoblue stopdesign switch - the prank was so-so, but the execution and explanation are fantastic and worth learning from
Mark Pilgrim : the return - the inside story of the stopdesign/mezzoblue swap
Adam Gessaman : Stopdesign: Switch Story - A very detailed April Fools Day joke… they got me, and I was watching for jokes.
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2/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : abbe's birthday - real-life april foolery
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2/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : goto for python - not an april fool's joke, it's deliciously evil and actually works
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2/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : cc65 - a modern C compiler for the 6502
deusx : cc65 - a freeware C compiler for 6502 based systems - This makes me want to fire up my C64 again. That or take this and my laptop and travel back to 1984
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2/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : strip exif data to allow iphoto import - tell me again how strict client validation benefits consumers?
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2/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
kaninka.net : Ókeypis tölvupóstþjónusta Google - Ekki eru allir jafn kátir.
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2/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Aquarion : D D Typos of Doom Illustrated - Encounters can be built into a lager adventure
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2/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Enough innuendo: women want proper gay sex on screen
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2/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Michael Grade is new BBC Chairman
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2/04/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Paul Ford : Project MassiveOffshoringClusterfuck - "I'd like to introduce you to Layne. She's here to take Project MassiveOffshoringClusterfuck to the next level of massive offshore clusterfucking."
Rod Begbie : Project MassiveOffshoringClusterfuck - "Zwumpazzzzz...shlipshlipshlipshlip...fweeeeek."
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2/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Google moves to block RSS scraping - if you don't release an API, the net routes around it [via]
Jim Ray : Google scrapes the web for news, gets pissed when you scrape their site - There's irony there, I can smell it
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2/04/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Man proposes to wife with Atari 2600 game - geekiest marriage proposal ever, download the ROM [via]
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2/04/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Enabling Cuneiform Support in InfoPath 2003 SP1 - Yes!
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2/04/2004 @ 07:02 GMT
Graham Leuschke : the 'dog lives! - on dreamhost now, just in time for the big outage of '04
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2/04/2004 @ 07:01 GMT
anildash : right-click subscribe for NewsGator in FireFox - oh clever developers, I am your target audience! extra special love for being a typepad user.
jimray : stuandgravy: NewsGator right-click-subscribe for Firefox
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2/04/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
anildash : barry bonds and moblog paralysis - we used to curse that we didn't have cameras. now we just curse that we didn't use them.
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2/04/2004 @ 06:02 GMT
Les Orchard : Century City Abandoned - Well, crap, and after just 4 episodes. I was starting to like that show
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2/04/2004 @ 06:01 GMT
Les Orchard : Floor Statement of Sen. Daschle on the Abuse of Government Power
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2/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Biologists isolate "blogging gene" - If I had a choice I'd make sure my children are blogfree
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2/04/2004 @ 04:13 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Derek Powazek: Thank You, Movable Type
Paul Hammond : Powazek: Just a Thought: Thank You, Movable Type - I, for one, welcome our new Trott overlords
anildash : derek says kind things about MT - glad it's not an april fool's joke! and thanks to derek for good stories and writing that make MT look good
Tom Coates : Derek Powazek loves MT. I agree totally - and frankly there are an awful lot of sites that I've worked on that would be improved enormously by running on MT... - Derek Powazek loves MT. I agree totally - and frankly there are an awful lot of sites that I've worked on that would be improved enormously by running on MT...
Jeremy Zawodny : thank you, moveable type - thank you, moveable type: no shit!
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2/04/2004 @ 04:12 GMT
Les Orchard : Adder allows you to inject a python interpreter into any win32 process. - Okay, this seems like a scary April Fools' joke.
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2/04/2004 @ 04:11 GMT
Graham Leuschke : The Music OF Erich Zann - I got comment spam today with text from this story -- pretty decent! Thanks, spammer!
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2/04/2004 @ 04:10 GMT
Paul Ford : Hoax site for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Marketing, but it's fun.
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2/04/2004 @ 04:09 GMT
Paul Ford : Putin with his shirt off - Finally.
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2/04/2004 @ 04:08 GMT
Paul Ford : ID cards for conservatives - Blah.
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2/04/2004 @ 04:07 GMT
Paul Ford : Goth fashion library - Take the corset quiz.
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2/04/2004 @ 04:06 GMT
Paul Ford : Amazon World - Amazing reviews.
jkottke : Amazon World "Highlighting some of the more interesting user reviews found on amazon.com" - Amazon World "Highlighting some of the more interesting user reviews found on amazon.com"
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2/04/2004 @ 04:05 GMT
Paul Ford : The Dreadnought Hoax of 1910 - "Virginia Woolf is the bearded figure on the far left."
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2/04/2004 @ 04:04 GMT
Paul Ford : William Horace de Vere Cole - History's greatest hoaxster.
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2/04/2004 @ 04:02 GMT
Paul Ford : RSS in Government
Richard MacManus : RSS in Government - via Paul Ford
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2/04/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Mogi, location-based multiplayer gaming in Tokyo - sounds like this is the first fun example of the genre [via]
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2/04/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : PDTP, P2P directory mirroring - complicated concept, but very practical applications [via]
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2/04/2004 @ 03:02 GMT
Tomas Jogin : Ronco Spray-On Usability - "Eric S. Raymond -- the renowned Linux/Open Source evangelist/essayist -- couldn't figure out how to connect to a shared printer."Why Linux still sucks in the usability department.
Jim Ray : Gruber on why Linux usability sucks - Fast, cheap, good - pick two
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2/04/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Quake 2 mod displays as "Magic Eye" stereograms - this is insane [via]
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2/04/2004 @ 02:11 GMT
Tomas Jogin : Weblog Weirdness - Obvious April Fools joke, except it isn't one (it's from March 29th). He's serious. I don't know where to begin.(You may have to scroll down, way down, to "Weblog Weirdness")
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2/04/2004 @ 02:07 GMT
Simon Willison : mezzoblue: Sickening - A disgraceful act of design theft.
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2/04/2004 @ 02:06 GMT
Simon Willison : Tips from the master - David Siegel is driving forward the boundaries of web design.
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2/04/2004 @ 02:05 GMT
Simon Willison : Domain squatters stole homestarrunner.com! - Be sure to wait on the page for a short while...
Andy Baio : Homestar Runner's Pay Plus - only $12.95/month
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2/04/2004 @ 02:04 GMT
Simon Willison : Avi Rubin joins Diebold - Looks forward to hand picking the next president.
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2/04/2004 @ 02:03 GMT
Simon Willison : My New Job at Microsoft Mobile Division - Russell joins Microsoft.
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2/04/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Simon Willison : ThinkGeek :: PC HabiCase - Hamsters and computers, together at last.
Jeremy Zawodny : hamster cage pc case - hamster cage pc case: april fools
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2/04/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Google: 'Gmail' No Joke, Lunar Jobs Are - Announcing a new service on April 1st with a joke press release was bound to backfire.
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : DHTML roll out tooltip - Quiet nifty, if you're into that kinda thing
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : Flight 404 updated to version 7 - Now using processing as a framework, instead of Flash
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : Boobies on your mousepad - Will I never tire of the hilariously repressed Japanese?
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : Files sharing isn't a threat to CD sales - Two researchers confirm what we've known for years (via /.)
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : 50 most loathsome New Yorkers - Don't miss #42 -- it's right on the money! (via the inimitable Cate Doty)
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : Flash player compatibility - Which player supports what
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : Duke buys public domain! - Man, I miss those metalab guys
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : Editing truth - Choosing phtography in these uncertain times
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : Kinja lives! - Nick Denton and Megnut spawn a blog biznass
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2/04/2004 @ 01:50 GMT
Jim Ray : Wonkette profiled by CSM - Here's hoping she becomes the shining star of the Gawker empire
anildash : nice CSM piece on wonkette - i'm just picturing a whole bunch of frustrated objectivists resenting the fact that ana marie's a big fat commie
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2/04/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Atiyah and Singer to share the Abel Prize - for work done 40 years ago? (see also the Atiyah-Singer index theorem)
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2/04/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : real life spam - real life spam: hilarious
Graham Leuschke : spam-fitti - my spam intake has tripled in the last week. what's going on?
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2/04/2004 @ 00:14 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time - Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
Simon Willison : Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time - Our attempts are pretty poor compared to some of these. (via)
kaninka.net : à tilefni af 1. aprÃl - Listi yfir 100 bestu aprÃlgöbb allra tÃma. Hilarious stuff.
Tom Coates : 100 best ever April fools
Alex Dudas : Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time - from the The Museum of hoasxes - an almost daily weblog about hoaxes, pranks, and fakery of all kinds.
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2/04/2004 @ 00:13 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : C# Frequently Asked Questions
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2/04/2004 @ 00:12 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Which Programming Language?
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2/04/2004 @ 00:10 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Installers for GIMP for Windows
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2/04/2004 @ 00:09 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Memo: Bill Gates To Sabotage Linux Using "Time-Travel" Machine - Memo: Bill Gates To Sabotage Linux Using "Time-Travel" Machine
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2/04/2004 @ 00:08 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Google PageRank Explained and Uncovered
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2/04/2004 @ 00:06 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : We're Mad As Hell And We're Not Going To Take It Anymore - We're Mad As Hell And We're Not Going To Take It Anymore
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2/04/2004 @ 00:05 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Gmail screenshot - unconfirmed, but plausible (via)
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2/04/2004 @ 00:04 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Day lost to stronger trade winds - So stop your jokery kids. It's April 2nd already!
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2/04/2004 @ 00:03 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Sociological effect of Gentoo - What geeks will open up about in an online forum of other geeks
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2/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Kinja's terms of service boo-boo - cribbed from Yahoo's TOS
Adam Gessaman : Kinja snakes Yahoo's TOS - Another episode in “Nick Denton’s tenuous relationship with honesty”
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2/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Xanga is more popular and viral than Friendster - it's about to break Alexa's top 100 most trafficked websites
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2/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : David Bowie to perform inside Star Wars Galaxies? - it doesn't seem like an April Fool's joke
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