20/04/2004 @ 23:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : TCP security flaw - Still looking for a good analysis
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20/04/2004 @ 23:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : TCP flaw advisory - More on the TCP flaw. Looks like you can guess sequence numbers for long lived connections and forge resets. BGP sessions are particularly vulnerable.
Kayode Okeyode : Vulnerability Issues in TCP
Simon Willison : Vulnerability Issues in TCP - DoS attack against the protocol itself. This is not good.
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20/04/2004 @ 23:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : Vulnerability DB - Open Source Vulnerability Database: I guess this is Bugtraq now that Bugtraq is too commercial
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20/04/2004 @ 23:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : Slashdot on TCP flaw - Unusually useful discussion
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20/04/2004 @ 23:10 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : A Whirlwind Guide to Regular Expressions
Adam Gessaman : A Whirlwind Guide to Regular Expressions
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20/04/2004 @ 23:05 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Practical Perl for Security Practitioners
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20/04/2004 @ 23:05 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Securing a fresh Linux install, part 1
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20/04/2004 @ 23:05 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Excel Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
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20/04/2004 @ 23:05 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Why CSS is good for Google
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20/04/2004 @ 23:04 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : W3C CSS tutorial: starting with HTML + CSS
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20/04/2004 @ 23:04 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Sites for the disabled flunk access tests
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20/04/2004 @ 23:04 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Security Flaw Could Cripple Entire Net
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20/04/2004 @ 23:04 GMT
deusx : Apple - Discussions - File transfer over SMB extremely slow
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20/04/2004 @ 23:03 GMT
deusx : RecipeRPC - Easy Recipe-Exchange Protocol for the Web - "RecipeRPC is an XML-RPC protocol for supplying recipes to clients over a network from one or more central servers."
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20/04/2004 @ 23:03 GMT
deusx : Nintendo e-Reader - "The impossible has been finally made possible! Please find below the first custom created dot code ready to be printed and scanned on the Nintendo e-Reader. Enjoy"
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20/04/2004 @ 23:03 GMT
deusx : Amherst Magazine Winter 2004: Enigma Machine - Looks like a massively redundant self-trepanning machine to me.
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20/04/2004 @ 23:03 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Brilliant forensic work - "Even if we don't know why, at least knowing how it spread may help keep us safe from the next one."
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20/04/2004 @ 23:03 GMT
Richard MacManus : Warfare Incorporated Multiplayer Beta - A beta multiplayer game played via bluetooth or WiFi phones. How far we've come since Risk.
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20/04/2004 @ 23:03 GMT
Richard MacManus : Ross Mayfield on digitalization - "Just because everybody has something doesn't mean it doesn't have strategic value."
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20/04/2004 @ 23:03 GMT
Richard MacManus : Adam Greenfield on distinction between style and design - Classic ALA article. Design is "utility, simplicity, and clarity". (via Dave Shea)
philgyford : A List Apart: Articles: The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes (and other notes on the distinction between style and design) - I'm sure I'll need this again at some point. On why so many "designers" are actually "stylists".
plasticbag : "The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes" - a piece on design and style by Adam Greenfield from 2001 - I read this at the time, but was sent it this morning by a friend and re-read it. I'd be interested to know what he thinks of the current state of the design industries - certainly it's got a bit more function focused, at least on the web...
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20/04/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
Richard MacManus : The Register on weblogging - "Postings are always arranged in date order – irrespective of their other dimensions, including importance, substance, popularity."
François Nonnenmacher : The Future of Weblogging
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20/04/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
Andy Baio : GoogleGuy requests blog stops reposting his comments - pressure from HQ, maybe? [via]
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20/04/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
anildash : Business Blog Consulting - rick's got another great resource online, i'm sure i'll be checking in frequently
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20/04/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
anildash : sippey cries out for the grid - at 2:14am on August 29th, 1997, Skynet became self aware.
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20/04/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
anildash : excellent interview about Adobe strategy - A focus on "people who really cared about the quality of the information they communicated."
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20/04/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
anildash : work in dev evangelism for ebay - perfect if you like talking to geeks
Jeremy Zawodny : become a developer evangelist at ebay - become a developer evangelist at ebay: I wish we had developer evangelists. or something to evangelize to them.
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20/04/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
doug : Netscape back to life? - Apparently AOL is agressively hiring "to take Netscape in a dramatically different direction."
anildash : the resurrection of Netscape? - that lizard's come back from the dead more times than Godzilla
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20/04/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
anildash : variety.com wants an editor with blog skills - TypePad experience is helpful
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20/04/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
anildash : infoworld says email is broken, too - the answer, clearly, is usenet
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20/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : dvorak revels in misanthropy - The World's Best Troll uses his hatred of humans to justify demonizing chat
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20/04/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : OneNote SP1 brings Hydra-style editing to Office - it's like SubEthaEdit integrated with Office and accepting handwritten input. but MS doesn't innovate.
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20/04/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
Adam Gessaman : B.D. loses a leg - You can’t even escape the war in the comics page anymore.
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20/04/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : review of various blog posting clients - hopefully the AtomAPI means they can focus on features instead of app compatibility
dionidium : Testing Blog Clients - Are any of them better than w.bloggar?
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20/04/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Big upgrade for NetNewsWire coming soon - Big upgrade for NetNewsWire coming soon (All the newsreaders seem to be iterating towards genuine usefulness. Smart lists/feeds/albums/folders for President!)
Mark Pilgrim : what's coming in netnewswire 1.1 - competition heats up
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20/04/2004 @ 21:01 GMT
cobra libre : list of fictional books - i've added my contributions to this article -- please help by adding yours
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20/04/2004 @ 21:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" - The wonderful children's book by Diana Wynne Jones gets the Studio Ghibli treatment.
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20/04/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Mozilla Thunderbird's new logo - when I switch from Eudora, it'll likely be to Thunderbird
François Hodierne : Mozilla Thunderbird's new logo - the design process
dionidium : Jon Hicks's notes on designing the new Thunderbird logo - He's quite a talented artist.
Kayode Okeyode : Mozilla Thunderbird's New Logo - Mozilla Thunderbird's New Logo
Rod Begbie : hicksdesign :: Thunderbird - The new Thunderbird icon. Almost lovelier than the gorgeous Firefox one!
Dan Cederholm : Jon Hicks strikes again - Another beautiful icon, this time for Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird.
Simon Willison : // hicksdesign :: Thunderbird - New Thunderbird logo to accompany the Firefox one. I like it. (via)
deusx : // hicksdesign :: Thunderbird - "Following on from the branding of Firefox, comes the new logo for Mozilla’s email client, Thunderbird."
Tom Coates : Beautiful new Thunderbird logo (but the app does not appeal to me at all)
Mark Pilgrim : branding thunderbird - more great work from the branding masters
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20/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Nelson Minar : Friendster and Plaxo - Gossip about VCs stepping in and changing the leadership. Sounds ugly.
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20/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Ryan Overby: Dalai Lama visits Vancouver: wastes dharma-talk on hockey-crazed, spaced out Canadians - Totally. Pass the bong, man. I want to have a direct experience.
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20/04/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Mozilla Thunderbird's new logo - when I switch from Eudora, it'll likely be to Thunderbird
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20/04/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Interleaved chronocolouring - Full colour graphics on the Atari 2600
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20/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Curse of the Ziering - with a handy chart [via]
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20/04/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Look at the Webby Awards getting more and more irrelevant
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20/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Inappropriate ads - This Is Broken shows a mortgage ad superimposed on a photo of a hotel burning in Baghdad. Popover ads are offensive in general, but this takes the cake.
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20/04/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : DOS gaming woes - It's very difficult to play ten year old games. Try configuring your EMS! (via Slashdot)
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20/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Suicide bomb plot at Manchester United Game foiled
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20/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Erik Benson : T-Mobile Carrying the Nokia 6600 (as soon as someone offers this with a rebate, I'm getting one) - Come on, Amazon, I dare you to offer this phone for free after rebate.
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20/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Kempa on Otto Preminger miscellanea - Saul Bass, the Zombies, and Nilsson's "Skidoo" opening credits lyrics
Steve Cook : &Laurence Olivier is immense!" - Kempa's been on fire lately -- this covers Otto Preminger, Harry Nilsson, Saul Bass, and the Zombies. Free novelty MP3s inside!
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20/04/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : A not-so-helpful phrasebook - A not-so-helpful phrasebook ("Si vous allez aux Etats-Unis, vous trouverez que dix cents c'est beaucoup de fric.")
veen : The Zompist Phrasebook - "I know I'm naked, could you just tell me how to get back to the hotel? "
Aquarion : The Zompist Phrasebook - "Could I see some merchandise that the rats haven't found?"
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20/04/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974
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20/04/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
François Hodierne : IFR: An FIR Alternative - Evil but fantastic!
Paul Hammond : ShaunInman.com // Commentary // IFR: An FIR Alternative - the Inman Flash Replacement technique
dionidium : IFR: An FIR Alternative - The Inman Flash Replacement technique.
Simon Willison : IFR: An FIR Alternative - Image replacement with Flash.
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20/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : MIT's bathroom server - Note the color palette hax0ring.
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20/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : An OS X/iLife wishlist - There are some great ideas here.
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20/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Spring Ping Thing - The Kings of Ping, indeed.
Adam Gessaman : Photo Matt: Spring Ping Thing - I’d like to nominate Matt for “Best Title of the Month”
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20/04/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Are Americans becoming second-class consumers?
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20/04/2004 @ 13:47 GMT
Richard Rutter : Customising your iBook case - Remove the white paint and stick in a picture. (filed under Apple).
jkottke : Some ideas for customizing the outside of your iBook - Some ideas for customizing the outside of your iBook (Niche business alert: will rich hipsters pay for custom designed iBook exteriors?)
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20/04/2004 @ 13:47 GMT
Richard Rutter : iBook monitor spanning - Spanning; not mirroring. THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY. (filed under Apple).
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20/04/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
dionidium : Ping-o-Matic gets its own domain - Still can't wait for the API.
Paul Hammond : Ping-o-Matic! - Services to Ping
Kayode Okeyode : Ping-O-Matic
François Nonnenmacher : Ping-o-matic - One form to ping them all.
Will Pate : Ping-O-Matic - Let the world know your website has been updated.
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20/04/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Kristine Beeson : a9 search plugin for firefox - Search Technologies">A9.com > Search Technologies -- I'm a little slow at linking to this. :) I kinda like it, though. Its been up in my browser window for a few days, along with two sites with search plugins for the Firefox search bar. MyCroft: A9 and
Kayode Okeyode : a9 Search Plugin for Firefox
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20/04/2004 @ 09:07 GMT
anildash : Who Owns What - always good to have a reminder
Adam Gessaman : Who Owns What - [via]
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20/04/2004 @ 09:03 GMT
Andy Baio : Snarkout on the orchestra union's battle against the Sinfonia - the accompanying NYT article is a must-read
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20/04/2004 @ 09:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Meetup adds new venue, messaging features - finally, users can pick different venues [via]
anildash : meetup adds a buncha new features - adding one's own venues! seems like the crew is still listening well to their audience
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20/04/2004 @ 09:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Dr. Dobbs on non-gaming GBA apps - thanks to Anil for the PDF
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20/04/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3.com archives not lost - 1.7 million songs rescued
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20/04/2004 @ 08:46 GMT
doug : Saft = better Safari - Jay adds more praise for the Safari plugin, and reviews some of its features I didn't cover.
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20/04/2004 @ 08:04 GMT
Adam Gessaman : ICBMs to emit 'less toxic chemicals' - Another work of heart-breaking anal-retentiveness by the EPA.
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20/04/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Steve Cook : 120 years of electronic musical instruments - From the Musical Telegraph to the Alesis Quadrasynth, with many, many steps in between.
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20/04/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Yahoo! Soul Search joke comes alive (via glinden.blogspot.com) - I take this as a sign that developers at Yahoo are allowed a bit of flexibility at the job, and aren't afraid of getting in trouble. A good sign that their development environment is healthy.
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20/04/2004 @ 07:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Not actually a parody - Although "The suicide planet resembled Earth except for its killing machines" might have won this year's Lyttle Lytton.
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20/04/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Luke Chueh, illustrations - don't miss monkeys with hat
deusx : LUKE CHUEH - "When you first look at his paintings, it's really cute, but when you look again, you gotta think... this Luke Chueh guy's got issues."
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20/04/2004 @ 06:05 GMT
deusx : Memory bottleneck limits intelligence - Single spot in brain determines size of visual scratch pad
Adam Gessaman : Memory bottleneck limits intelligence - I just can’t win.
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20/04/2004 @ 06:04 GMT
deusx : Grounds For Your Garden: Starbucks is doing a lot of things right - "Turns out Starbucks is giving anyone who asks, at any of their zillions of stores around the world, bags of used coffee grounds to use in the garden."
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20/04/2004 @ 06:03 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : social knowledge - i know where all the bodies are buried
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20/04/2004 @ 06:02 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : creating a daemon in python - via daily python url
Nelson Minar : Python daemonization - This is really too hard, but here it is.
Simon Willison : Creating a daemon the Python way - I always wondered how unix daemons were set up. (via)
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20/04/2004 @ 06:01 GMT
anildash : heinous - shipping trumps all
Mark Pilgrim : heinous - i'm there for feedparser 3.0 release
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20/04/2004 @ 05:03 GMT
doug : HTML and XHTML for CSS - Westciv kicks off its next free course, slated to run for the next 12 weeks.
dionidium : Free Course: HTML and XHTML for CSS - Week one of the Westciv Web course went live today.
Dan Cederholm : Free Course: HTML and XHTML for CSS - Westciv offers a free, weekly self-guided course.
Kayode Okeyode : Westciv Current Free Course: HTML and XHTML for CSS
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20/04/2004 @ 05:02 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Finger Lakes Regional Airport Cleare Sky Clock - found with geourl!
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20/04/2004 @ 05:01 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Syracuse Philosophy Grad Students' blog - huh. discussing identity on a blog, *without* mentioning Weinberger? cool.
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20/04/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : tenure-track jobs at top-flight universities aren't really tenure-track - it's true, and even more: apparently tenure is a much younger concept than I knew
Adam Gessaman : Tenure and rejection - Interesting discussion. I should read the rest of it when I am more lucid.
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20/04/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo Soul Search - be sure to click the "What's This" link [via]
anildash : Yahoo soul search - click the "what's this" link for the Onion backstory
Adam Gessaman : Yahoo! Soul-Search - Now, if it can only tell me where my keys are. [via]
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20/04/2004 @ 02:08 GMT
Steve Cook : Old geisha postcards - I'd love to know if these had any meaning besides being, you know, photos of traditional geishas. Would you send one to your folks?
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20/04/2004 @ 02:07 GMT
Graham Leuschke : annotated: We Didn't Start the Fire - someone's got too much time on their ... oh, right -- it's the web (via, which is an interesting academiblog)
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20/04/2004 @ 02:06 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Misys gives Pecker head job - We are certain that [Pecker Head's] experience will help to significantly strengthen and ultimately grow
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20/04/2004 @ 02:05 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Usher vs. Falco video mashup (QT) - These two videos are so perfectly matched that they make me want to dance!
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20/04/2004 @ 02:04 GMT
Erik Benson : Yahoo! Soul Search joke comes alive (via glinden.blogspot.com) - I take this as a sign that developers at Yahoo are allowed a bit of flexibility at the job, and aren't afraid of getting in trouble. A good sign that their development environment is healthy.
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20/04/2004 @ 02:03 GMT
Simon Willison : Python Cookbook: Parsing the command line - Using optparse, but with the command line setup options stored in the program's docstring. (via)
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20/04/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Flash: Adrian's Insect Shop - make your own bugs [via]
Nelson Minar : Insect shop - cute flash app that lets you make cartoon insects (via Waxy)
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20/04/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Vintage 1980s Rap Videos - LL, Eric B, Schoolly D, EPMD, and all the other OG MCs [via]
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20/04/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Gucci iPod Case - for $195, I could almost buy a new iPod [via]
veen : Gucci iPod Case - Almost as much as an iPod
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20/04/2004 @ 01:06 GMT
Rod Begbie : escape button - Gonna get me one of these for my "office" in the new house!
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20/04/2004 @ 01:05 GMT
Jon Hicks : Saft v5.5.1 - New Feature: Auto save and restore opened browser windows at quitting and start. It gets better all the time......
jkottke : More on this later, but for now: Saft rocks! - I wish it hadn't taken me so long to get around to checking this out for Safari. The saving tabs feature alone is a godsend.
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20/04/2004 @ 01:04 GMT
dionidium : apcmag.com: Opinion with David Emberton - "Web standards. They're big, dumb, and they don't work. Yet, they persist. Why?"
Jon Hicks : Read it and weep - David Emberton goes for the non-constructive 'I don't understand CSS so it must be bad...' approach. Get thee to a Eric Meyer......
Simon Willison : Opinion with David Emberton - Compares standards to communism in the first sentence. Watch him get ripped apart in the comments. (via)
Philippe Janvier : The World Wide Web is not enough - Commentaires s.v.p. :|
Tomas Jogin : Web standards are dumb - Ignorant standards refuser gets show down by his crowd. Pretty amusing.
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20/04/2004 @ 01:03 GMT
Jon Hicks : Firefix - An easy-peasy way to update to the latest Firefox nightlies - for OS X only. In the mould of Reinholds other little helper, CaminoKnight....
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20/04/2004 @ 01:02 GMT
Jon Hicks : LiveDictionary - A dictionary plug-in for Safari. Extensive library, but the 'hover to see definition' can get a bit annoying if you're ditherer like me...
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20/04/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : the men commandments - the men commandments: hahahaha. many are true.
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20/04/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : the a-team today - the a-team today: who would you cast?
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20/04/2004 @ 00:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Moire demos - Java applets that show various moire effects (via Slashdot)
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20/04/2004 @ 00:08 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Why MySQL grew so fast
Nelson Minar : MySQL Growth - Andy Oram reflecting on why MySQL is popular (via Slashdot)
Simon Willison : Why MySQL grew so fast - A report from the MySQL users conference. (via)
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20/04/2004 @ 00:07 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure?
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20/04/2004 @ 00:06 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : A, B, C, ... D! The Programming Language
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20/04/2004 @ 00:04 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Stop Acrobat Reader from creating "My eBooks" folders - Stop Acrobat Reader from creating "My eBooks" folders
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20/04/2004 @ 00:03 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Beginners Guides: RAM, Memory and Upgrading
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20/04/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : The nature of meaning in the age of Google
Andy Baio : The nature of meaning in the age of Google - aggregating meaning and the tension between content and spam [via]
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20/04/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Inside Firefox: Firefox development musings by Ben Goodger
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20/04/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : SVG and Typography - "key ideas about typography and SVG"
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