5/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events - TV Ad - Even Jim Carrey can't ruin this for me.
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5/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : decaffeinated archives :: Pruning - your consumption of goodies on the world wide web is inversely proportional to your production of said goodies
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5/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : jetblue has the highest quality airline - lower prices, better at being on time, fewer people bumped. i wonder why they're making money?
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5/04/2004 @ 21:17 GMT
Kristine Beeson : An Introduction to PHP - PHP for Designers is a helpful overview if your PHP learning is just beginning... I've often wondered why sometimes I can use variables in an echo statement and sometimes I can't -the article explains that using double quotes allow variables to be process
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5/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : The Brick Testament - Give it to Lego and the Bible is transformed into an entertaining story
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5/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Boing Boing's explosive growth - -- and what to do about it
jkottke : Cory Doctorow's riff on branding and trademarks - Trademarks went from protecting consumers to protecting brands.
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5/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : great story with hard data on blogging - everybody talks in vague, hand-wavy generalities, but rick's collected some of the most specific info yet
François Nonnenmacher : Blogging is Booming - Beware the marketers
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5/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : The way forward with Web Standards - maccaws releases its first white paper. a good start, but put the benefits up front!
Dan Cederholm : The Way Forward with Web Standards - Comprehensive whitepaper published by MACCAWS.
Mark Pilgrim : the way forward with web standards - ok
Philippe Janvier : The way forward with Web Standards - "This article assembles arguments and information about Web standards into one document and explains Web standards in terms of how they affect business". Must read !
Kayode Okeyode : The Way Forward with Web Standards
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5/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : bringing our support staff onboard - i've always been in awe of the skills these women possess, so it's fantastic they've joined six apart
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5/04/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Dallas Benefactor Casting, fun, drama and more! - The Boston casting session was positively languid by comparison.
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5/04/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Les Orchard : I/O Brush - "Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface."
Andy Baio : I/O Brush, video-enabled drawing toy - watch the demo to see how cool this is [via] [via]
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5/04/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Philippe Janvier : XooMLe - Recherche Google sans SOAP et sans Google API
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5/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Amazon generated 6% of their 2002 revenue from web services - if so, why don't more retailers offer them? [via]
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5/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Sean Palmer's Gmail preview with new screenshots - user-defined labels, "starred" messages, and filters
Kayode Okeyode : Testing Gmail
Mark Pilgrim : testing gmail - the google ui, in email
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5/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : microsoft releases first open source project - lemme check my calendar... nope, april fools was last week; this is real
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5/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : backstreet's back! - let the party commence.
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5/04/2004 @ 19:45 GMT
Kristine Beeson : CitrusMoon - I found a link to citrusmoon in its new TypePad home. I've been following the tiles and cool things that she makes since :gg: pointed on the main site out a while back. Anyhow, this will make it easier to keep an eye on updates with its feed! One of my
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5/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Jim Ray : Nice NY times piece on how downloading isn't killing CD sales - Maybe now lazy journos will stop automatically swallowing the RIAA B.S. (via Saleem)
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5/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : I fought the scammer... and I won. - What to do when you have a 419 scammer on the premises
Cameron Marlow : Sysadmins on patrol: Busting a 419 scammer - Bad boys, bad boys..
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5/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : DotClear - Nouvelle homepage pour Dotclear. Hype ! et très professionnelle.
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5/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Musical quadratic equations - plus, other nerdy math singalongs
Graham Leuschke : Math and Music (not what you think) - heh
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5/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Catty, the chatbot with a Google brain - using Google Groups might be even more effective [via]
Alex Dudas : Catty: The chatbot with a Google brain - This chatbot listens to what you say, then scours Google to find seemingly appropriate text responses.
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5/04/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Mail order - Thoughts on Gmail, with a few responses for advertisers.
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5/04/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Listening Post - Very cool art installation that parses and reads online text in real-time.
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5/04/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : ClamWin Antivirus - Free (as in *) virus scanner for Windows
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5/04/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Historical nuclear weapon test films - Home movies of big, big booms.
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5/04/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Steve Cook : The casualty-aversion myth - Nobody, but nobody, thinks as hard about these issues as the country's war colleges; I wish their work were more widely disseminated to laymen like me.
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5/04/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Steve Cook : The curious case of Sidd Fitch - George Plimpton's wonderful April Fool's prank from a 1985 Sports Illustrated
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5/04/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Too many Cooks - Stupid Anglo-Saxon last names!
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5/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : GUI obituary posters - Happy Mac, we hardly knew ye.
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5/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Pigeon Grove, TN - Druggie skulls! Buford Pusser's death car! Bear pits! Bunnyland golf! The musical world of Anita Bryant! This is truly a terrible, wonderful place.
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5/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Pitchman's progress - I never understood the idea of pitchmen making a living at state fairs until I saw the curator demonstrate the Whip-O-Matic two weeks ago.
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5/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Adorable North Korean xylophone prodigy - Her beautiful expression makes this an excellent performance.
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5/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Samorost - A sweet little Flash game about a gnome and his driftwood planetoid. Charming and trippy.
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5/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
phil : Why Free Software usability tends to suck by Matthew Thomas - Especially: "Every contributor to the project tries to take part in the interface design, regardless of how little they know about the subject. ... The quality of an interface design is inversely proportional to the number of designers."
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5/04/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Research-based design & usability guidelines - What it says on the tin by way of 100 pages of PDFs (filed under Information design).
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5/04/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Breedster - about - Breedster has natural rules to prevent inbreeding
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5/04/2004 @ 12:02 GMT
kaninka.net : Cigarettes and Coffee - Ný mynd frá Jim Jarmush... Lofar góðu. ATH! Háhraði
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5/04/2004 @ 12:02 GMT
Richard MacManus : Andrew Chen: I am one with my website - Part of Andrew's WeAreBlog theory. I don't want to be assimilated though.
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5/04/2004 @ 12:02 GMT
Richard MacManus : The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 - The Chocolate War is no. 4! A fave book in my teens. Two S.E. Hinton books also made the list.
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5/04/2004 @ 12:02 GMT
François Hodierne : La Fête Nationale du Slip
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5/04/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Paul Hammond : Scobleizer: Why Microsoft won't beat Six Apart. - How many of you use Photoshop, even though you don't use 1% of its features?
Cameron Marlow : Robert Scoble: Why Microsoft won't beat Six Apart - Microsoft, eat my blog.
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5/04/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Paul Hammond : Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google's Power - the platform that Google is building which makes it cheaper and easier for them to develop and run web-scale applications than anyone else.
Tom Coates : Thoughts on Gmail
Jim Ray : Google as platform - A speculation on what Google might look like on the inside (via MeFi)
Philippe Janvier : The Secret Source of Google's Power - Sci-fi : "Google has 100,000 servers". Fascinant !
Kayode Okeyode : The Secret Source of Google's Power - The Secret Source of Google's Power
Graham Leuschke : The Secret Source of Google's Power - more on the Google File System, and an interesting (in places) discussion
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5/04/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Paul Hammond : phil ringnalda dot com: Slightly more secure RSS-to-local-HTML - all an aggregator needs to do is throw a fake "saved from url=" comment into its generated HTML, and IE will display it in a zone where things are no more risky than they are for any web page
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5/04/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Tom Coates : Put your hands together for Cory Doctorow who has moved to London to help us get our acts together. Finally!
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5/04/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Tom Coates : Neat feature of Kinja: Here's my shared weblog digest (slightly out of date) - Neat feature of Kinja: Here's my shared weblog digest (slightly out of date)
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5/04/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Tom Coates : I'm obsessed with this news map and keep trying to work out how I'd replicate its functionality for Barbelith - I'm obsessed with this news map and keep trying to work out how I'd replicate its functionality for Barbelith
Aquarion : newsmap v2 - Newsmap's been upgraded
ricmac : newsmap - interesting new way to layout news, using Google News and mashing it up. " It's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media."
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5/04/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Tom Coates : Oops! Kinja Terms and Conditions gaffe...
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5/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : There's an article in the Guardian today about weblogs that I can't be bothered to read but is probably quite interesting... - There's an article in the Guardian today about weblogs that I can't be bothered to read but is probably quite interesting...
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5/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : I don't think they understand just how dirty my flat is... - I don't think they understand just how dirty my flat is...
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5/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Are these normal activities for someone doing a computer science degree?
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5/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : In all work we undertake as designers there is a distinction between looking at yourself as being a representative early adopter and as a complete freak that's unlike the rest of humanity. This article about iTunes is written by the latter... - In all work we undertake as designers there is a distinction between looking at yourself as being a representative early adopter and as a complete freak that's unlike the rest of humanity. This article about iTunes is written by the latter...
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5/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Spotted while wandering with Cory yesterday
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5/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Quarter Life Crisis on "Launchers" - Quarter Life Crisis on "Launchers"
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5/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Renew is Software Update for non-Apple software that I'm not going to install because .pkg's are creepy - Renew is Software Update for non-Apple software that I'm not going to install because .pkg's are creepy
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5/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Many of today's links come to you from 2lmc.org, who wouldn't be as infuriating if they didn't also find good links - Many of today's links come to you from 2lmc.org, who wouldn't be as infuriating if they didn't also find good links
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5/04/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Peter Lindberg: Genres as Self-Organizing Systems - Summary of Peter Bøgh Andersen's article (PDF).
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5/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
anildash : microsoft's infopath promo centers on a blog - seems like a milestone for an MS Office program to have a weblog linked at the top of its web page
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5/04/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
anildash : newsweek interview with prince - guess it's official, this is the biggest press presence he's had in about 15 years. interesting to watch.
Alex Dudas : Party Like It's 2004 - Prince is back?with new music and a newfound faith. Sure, he's changed, but he's still the man.
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5/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Reverend Uses Simpsons to Teach Gospel - Reverend Uses Simpsons to Teach Gospel: Mmmm. Sinners.
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5/04/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Ross Mayfield sees rise of Situated Software in startups - Someone creates software for their own personal situation, then deploys it onto the Web.
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5/04/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Size does matter - But only in colder climates (whew!)
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5/04/2004 @ 03:02 GMT
Tomas Jogin : Quizilla: How grammatically sound are you? - "You are a MASTER of the English language! While your English is not exactly perfect, you are still more grammatically correct than just about every American. Still, there is always room for improvement..."Woot!
Tom Coates : Not to brag, but I was a GRAMMAR GOD!
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5/04/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Ross Mayfield: Flattening the Technology Adoption Lifecycle
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5/04/2004 @ 02:08 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Bill Gates Poorer, Thanks To Bush? - How dare a swede be the richest man in the world? Don’t they know that we Americans have the market cornered on decadence?
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5/04/2004 @ 02:07 GMT
Paul Ford : The New Guineau Singing Dogs - But no sound files.
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5/04/2004 @ 02:06 GMT
Paul Ford : Dogs in Elk - Dogs living inside an elk, with followup.
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5/04/2004 @ 02:05 GMT
Paul Ford : List of Historical Dogs - A dog named Robot discovered the cave paintings at Lascaux.
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5/04/2004 @ 02:04 GMT
Paul Ford : Index of Famous Dogs - All good boys and girls.
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5/04/2004 @ 02:03 GMT
Paul Ford : Dog Island at Snopes - But if it was real...
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5/04/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Paul Ford : Dog Island - Send your dog to Dog Island! With different islands for big, medium, and tiny dogs.
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5/04/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Paul Ford : Balto the Sled Dog - Memorialized in Central Park
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5/04/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Paul Ford : Chinese Dog Farms - "A series of bloody puddles beneath a crossbeam affixed to a line of weeping willow trees."
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5/04/2004 @ 01:12 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Everything you wanted to know about Stored Procedures
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5/04/2004 @ 01:09 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : PHP, MySQL, and Smarty Programming
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5/04/2004 @ 01:08 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Daring Fireball's response to Eric S. Raymond's usability rant - Daring Fireball's response to Eric S. Raymond's usability rant
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5/04/2004 @ 01:07 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Google covets your email address: Always delete your Google cookie before and after!
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5/04/2004 @ 01:06 GMT
Steve Cook : Scaremongering about Google Mail - I'm carrying no water for Gmail -- I think it's a dumb idea, in fact -- but I didn't have to get past the headline to know that this was by The Register's resident lunatic Googlehater, Andrew Orlowski.
Kayode Okeyode : Google mail is evil - privacy advocates
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5/04/2004 @ 01:05 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : GMail: Free E-Mail With a Steep Price?
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5/04/2004 @ 01:04 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Analysis: Sun, Microsoft interop deal a smokescreen?
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5/04/2004 @ 01:03 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Bloghorn: A Blog Reader Built in XAML
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5/04/2004 @ 01:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Better History Viewing in Firefox
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5/04/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Word flaw a window into Microsoft
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5/04/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Paul Scrivens: Managing change on a web project - Useful project mgmt tips.
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5/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Tomas Jogin : Bush's administration is worse than Nixon's, says Watergate aide - John Dean, Richard Nixon's legal counsel who was jailed for his part in the Watergate scandal, says the Bush administration has created potentially the most corrupt, unethical and undemocratic White House in history.
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5/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Orkut demographics - Hmmm... young, single americans? What a surprise.
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