7/04/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Jim Ray : Music recommendations for iTunes - If you like Eminem, you'll love Britney Spears...hold up (via MacSlash)
Jeff Veen : Music Recommendation System for iTunes - Automatically uploads your song ratings, returns recommendations
Tom Coates : More on this later, but so far it's recommended Whitesnake, Metallica, George Michael, Mozart, songs from Mamma Mia and an entire album of songs by the Muppets... So maybe it's not so hot yet... - More on this later, but so far it's recommended Whitesnake, Metallica, George Michael, Mozart, songs from Mamma Mia and an entire album of songs by the Muppets... So maybe it's not so hot yet...
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : BloggerCon session: Blogging in Business - I made a suggestion in the comments that the panel address the issue of how to get normal businesspeople to write/blog.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Atari 2600 Comic Books - I never pictured Centipede quite like that
Les Orchard : AtariAge - Atari Comic Books - I had all of these. If only I knew where they all went...
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : ballmer's still optimistic about MS - Microsoft seems to be communicating a lot more sensibly these days
Tomas Jogin : Steve Ballmer making a lot of sense - "Ten years ago, there was much more premium on just generating new function, not on responding to issues in existing functions. I mean, nobody was talking about security problems in Netscape and IE in the middle of the browser wars. People would just say,
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
Jim Ray : 1200 miles, 90 days, one polar icecap = bad ass - Not to mention a truly kickass website, to boot!
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Unilateral Casualties - "This war didn't need to happen."
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : deep dish cylindrical parabolic template - deep dish cylindrical parabolic template:
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
phil : Mobile Bristol - Queen Square - 1831 Riot! - Walk around the square and a GPS-equipped iPAQ plays location-relevant historical sounds...
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : IBM's WebFountain - Coming soon to a search engine competition near you
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Daring Fireball: Sundry 'Spray-On' Clarifications and Corrections - these components are used to implement Apple's designs, not the other way around
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : phil ringnalda dot com: Unacceptable Microsoft bugs - in a lot of ways, CDF rocks
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : How I stopped buying CDs and started loving music - About halfway through I was pumping my fist in the air.
jkottke : How I stopped buying CDs and started loving music
Adam Gessaman : Jeffrey Veen: How I stopped buying CDs and started loving music
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Les Orchard : :: USENET MONSTER :: - Cheap download quota, with month-to-month rollover of unused quota
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Christopher Alexander: A city is not a tree - The overlap in social flows precludes such a form from existing naturally
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : John Woo working on Metroid movie? - [via]
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : Martin Nisenholtz on blogging - i actually think there *will* be a professional class of bloggers
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : Blogging's Power to Change Journalism - man, mitch has really drunk the kool aid
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
Jim Ray : ACLU fights for your rights to fly - I think that just by linking to this, they put you on the do not fly list, a true post-9/11 punk branding
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Tom Coates : "Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot?" Bah - now that's just dumb... - "Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot?" Bah - now that's just dumb...
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Apple's FairPlay DRM cracked - So I'm a little late to this one. So I haven't checked my newsreader lately. So bah.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : The Metrics, Reloaded - "A book on experience design? If it’s in stock, it’s likely to have been mis-filed."
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Rock Academy, the French "School of Rock" - I love seeing Jack Black speaking French
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : march 9, 1997: cdf submitted to w3c
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : june 6, 1997: mcf submitted to w3c
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : universal feed parser 3.0b20 supports cdf - cdf is the original syndication format, and still in use
Les Orchard : Universal Feed Parser 3.0 (beta 20 of 2004-04-07) - "It handles Atom feeds, CDF, and the nine different versions of RSS." You can sneer and FUD all you like at Mark Pilgrim's rants on RSS, but he has working code to show for it. (Backed by almost 2000 unit test cases!)
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Steve Cook : A topical Point/Counterpoint - It's like they read blogs.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Kepler's Conjecture is not the first time the Annals have accepted a computer-aided proof - and their method for presenting it is very interesting
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : dynamic screenshot blogroll - surprisingly hard to use
François Hodierne : La blogroll dynamique de being be-rewt - Génial ! Une blogroll "à la Hot Links" mais plus que ça ...
Philippe Janvier : La blogroll dynamique de being be-rewt - Moi aussi, je veux la même !
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Prediction: Google will get into IM soon - Prediction: Google will get into IM soon (It's a good guess...they should tie it into Gmail and Orkut. Also on the horizon: Web hosting/backup/services a la Apple's .Mac service.)
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Jim Ray : Cali town slows Wal-Mart devils - Wait, did I just say 'devils'? I meant development. My bad. Just a typo.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : OmniLang, a translation portal - IBM's is niiice
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : The Annals accepts Hales' proof of Kepler -- sort of - and probably sullies their rep by so doing
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Boston Globe on Infocombot and AIM gaming - no mention of my website, though
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Legal Weapon - Johnny 13 tells me their first two albums kick ass and take names.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : City of Heroes MMRPG - My legion of informers reports that it resembles "Top 10".
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : SimpleBits | SimpleQuiz > Part XIV: Hex Challenge - Match each color swatch to it's web-safe hex code
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : I laugh at your spacer gifs - Remember the folder.
Paul Hammond : // hicksdesign :: I laugh at your spacer gifs - old-school at its best!
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
kaninka.net : Internetið að deyja? - Kominn tími til segi ég.
Tom Coates : It's amazing how interesting Orlowski can be when he's not foaming at the mouth - It's amazing how interesting Orlowski can be when he's not foaming at the mouth
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Adam Bosworth is afraid Longhorn will usurp the browser - "Many many customers love the browser precisely because sites tend to be easy to use."
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Regarding the Passivator - Classy, classy stuff.
Richard MacManus : Paul Ford: "the Semantic Web, at least for now, should just be about smarter links" - Interesting horizontal layout on his homepage.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : NZ E-Govt RSS standard - Their standard is RSS 1.0, no doubt because they are big metadata users.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : What if our future cops could be rebuilt?
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Matt Webb on the Thiaoouba Prophecy
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 11:01 GMT
Adam Gessaman : War President - On this sad note, I’m heading to bed. Originally posted here
Ethan Marcotte : Moving Image - A mosaic of soldiers who have died in Iraq.
Rod Begbie : War President - Photomosaic of Dubya, made up of photos of soldiers who have died in Iraq. It's quite breathtaking.
Jeff Veen : Moving Image - A mosaic of soldiers who have died in Iraq.
Kayode Okeyode : A mosaic of soldiers who have died in Iraq
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
phil : Sight & Sound review of The Passion of the Christ - I believe Mark Kermode could find similarities between The Exorcist and every film ever made.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
phil : The Early Films of Peter Greenaway - Nice site by the BFI aobut his early shorts, The Draughtsman's Contract and A Zed & Two Noughts.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Jones on the Royksoppish Areva video
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Business card trading games
Simon Willison : Business card trading games - I'm jealous: someone managed to collect the whole set.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Un groupe de défense de la vie privée porte plainte contre le service Gmail de Google - "Une violation à grande échelle de la législation européenne" ?
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Paul Ford : Wolf Nurses in India - "He still prefers raw flesh, and when a bullock dies and the skin is removed, he attacks and eats the body, in company with the village dogs."
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Paul Ford : Problems in Nauru - A serious axe to grind.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Paul Ford : The Full Brice Taylor Story - Bob Hope's mind controlled sex puppet; Henry Kissinger's human filing system.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Paul Ford : Movie Budgets - Scroll down for the worst failures. Donny Darko is one of the worst bombs ever.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Paul Ford : PETA Timeline - Timeline of PETA projects: pro-beer campaign, Timothy McVeigh, etc.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Paul Ford : Roy Horn Catnip Doll - With picture of adorable kitten.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Rappers are not musicians - And sampled music is not music by definition. I enjoy reading this kind of nonsense because it is so obviously biased and close-minded.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Josh Schachter makes a blog post - And feels tingly, just like the rest of us
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : how to opt out of plaxo - how to opt out of plaxo: horray!
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : dan gilmor's gadget bag - dan gilmor's gadget bag: hey has cooler toys than me
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : I got my second cease and desist order - not surprising, since I'm the #1 result for opus comic
Adam Gessaman : Andy gets C&D'd over Opus Comic - I love the irony (and defiance) of posting a “Confidential Legal Notice, Not for Publication or Other Use” in public. I also wonder if it is fair use if X webloggers each host a stripe of the Opus comic each week… maybe we can find an &
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Decapitated cat commercial backfires on Ford - just an excuse to link to the video [via]
Les Orchard : Decapitated cat video backfires on Ford - Guh. This does not make me happy.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Analyst: Intel Reverse-Engineered AMD64 - ' "There's no shame in it," Halfhill said of the reverse-engineering. "AMD has reverse-engineered everything Intel has done for years."'
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Generate an OPML Feed of your LiveJournal Friends list
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : using w3m to edit textareas in emacs - it's hard not to appreciate the beauty of it
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : functional annotation of aggregator client http tests - "hi! i'm a spec. please implement me!"
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : the register switches to web standards - and i never knew they ran on debian
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : new zealand mandates web standards - not the usual party line, somebody really thought about nz's requirements
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : web standards suck, let's all second-guess the web server - damn ultraliberal parsing
Kayode Okeyode : Getting around IE's MIME type mangling - Getting around IE's MIME type mangling
Paul Hammond : phil ringnalda dot com: Getting around IE's MIME type mangling - The very nice thing is that comments don't count against text
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Iconsurf, favicon.ico icon browser - random 500 icons out of over 15,000 [via]
Rod Begbie : IconSurf.com Visual Surf Engine - Favicon browser -- How much art can *you* fit into 16x16 pixels?
Paul Hammond : IconSurf.com Visual Surf Engine - inspiration to those who are planning to design their own website icons
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
jkottke : Paris Metro map from 1937
Nelson Minar : Paris Metro 1937 - Beautiful map of the world's most functional urban transport. 14 lines in 1937! (via Kottke)
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Expo Marker vs. the Microwave. - Don't try this at home.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Les Orchard : sshLogin - "sshLogin is an application and a preferencePane designed to help users manage ssh-agent and ssh-add features in Mac OS X."
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Phil Wolff on Google's email strategy - "A year from now, watch the microcontent of email and weblogs continue to converge, especially behind the firewall."
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
anildash : Great Moments in Advertising - yesterday i was inspired to talk about the distance between bob dylan and sexiness
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : flash: 35 years of Sesame Street - I did horribly at the game, but loved every second of it
Rod Begbie : "T" is for Trivia, "G" is for Grouch - You don't know Oscar
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Dodgeball Social, like Friendster for your mobile phone - notifies you when your friends are within 10 blocks [via]
jkottke : Friendster for your mobile phone - Friendster for your mobile phone ("Tell us who your friends are, tell us where you are, and we'll let you know when your friends are within 10 blocks of you.")
Cameron Marlow : Dodgeball.social: friendster for your phone - The service only works in Brooklyn/Manhattan as far as I can tell
Jeremy Zawodny : dodgeball.social - dodgeball.social: like friendster for your mobile phone (nyc only right now)
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Alf Eaton's developed a musiclogging app - A sort of 'On-the-Fly Project Wiki' going on in the Comments section too!
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
anildash : two kansans used to make 95% of all U.S. LSD - slate doing what it does best, startling us with information that's all around us
Tom Coates : Who's got the acid? Almost nobody! - Who's got the acid? Almost nobody!
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 01:02 GMT
Andy Baio : PS2, Gamecube, Xbox wedding cakes - what, no Atari 2600?
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Amazon's Red Light District -
Cameron Marlow : Amazon's Red Light District - Carefully hidden within the safe confines of "health and personal care"
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:03 GMT
cobra libre : 'And I think if a nuclear war did happen I'd be thinking: Is Boy George safe?' - on morrissey and hero worship
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : The reason PHP is more popular than Java
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Python is Cool (and Perl is not), Especially for C/C++ Programmers
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : How To Monitor the Windows XP Firewall
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Must Have Firefox Search Plugins
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Google's Gmail sparks privacy row - Google's Gmail sparks privacy row
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Google mail "may violate privacy laws" - Google mail "may violate privacy laws"
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Dan Cederholm : The Register, now with standards - Nicely done.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired on Realplayer Suckfulness - Tomas was interviewed for the article [via]
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
jkottke : A "Heretical" View of File Sharing - A "Heretical" View of File Sharing (NY Times wonders if we (meaning the RIAA) have it all wrong on this whole file-sharing thing, coming to the same conclusion the rest of us arrived at 3 years ago.)
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
jkottke : Gravity Probe B to measure if spacetime "twisting" possible - Gravity Probe B to measure if spacetime "twisting" possible (Einstein's rep on the line again.)
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
jkottke : Random quotes from Lessig's Free Culture - Random quotes from Lessig's Free Culture (Reload for another)
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
jkottke : A friend recommends Before and After magazine - A friend recommends Before and After magazine (Looks interesting.)
Kristine Beeson : Before and After magazine - Before and After magazine - "a print magazine that helps you design pages and graphics beautifully. It's packed with ideas, lessons and design inspiration." Wow, just the cover of it fills me with inspiration. This just might have to be one to subscrib
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
jkottke : If you downloaded Wilco's new album (due in June), they're asking you to make a donation to Doctors Without Borders - If you downloaded Wilco's new album (due in June), they're asking you to make a donation to Doctors Without Borders (Nice idea.)
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Did the excellent cockeyed.com get domain hijacked or is Rob playing an extra-long April Fools joke on us all?
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : "When the 40,000 subscribers to Reason, the monthly libertarian magazine, receive a copy of the June issue, they will see on the cover a satellite photo of a neighborhood - their own neighborhood. And their house will be graphically circled." - "When the 40,000 subscribers to Reason, the monthly libertarian magazine, receive a copy of the June issue, they will see on the cover a satellite photo of a neighborhood - their own neighborhood. And their house will be graphically circled." (This should
Les Orchard : Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Neat "physical" map of a MUD - Neat "physical" map of a MUD
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : A debate map of "Can Computers Think?" - A debate map of "Can Computers Think?"
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on how to apply the lessons of Moneyball to the NBA
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : We're playing around with this USB fingerprint scanner at work - We're playing around with this USB fingerprint scanner at work (Feels very James Bond to login to your computer with a fingerprint scan.)
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : There are 600 quintillion ways to spell Viagra - [via]
jkottke : There are 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell Viagra
Adam Gessaman : There are 1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways to spell Viagra - So, if someone can come up with a way for Gmail to block all of them, it’d make me real happy.
# copy
7/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Play this page service lets you make MP3 playlists from Kinja public digests - Play this page service lets you make MP3 playlists from Kinja public digests (Look at those small pieces joining loosely. So small, so loose.)
# copy
