4/05/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : No vote oversight - The federal commission whose job it is to verify that voting machines work right is underfunded. Result? No oversight on voting machines.
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4/05/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
kaninka.net : http://myindomitablelions.com/ - er fótboltabúningur tvÃskiptur eða heill à eðli sÃnu?
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4/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : 50 big moments in the 50 years of pop history - 50 big moments in the 50 years of pop history (A bit Brit-heavy, but then so is the history of rock and roll.)
Tom Coates : Fifty years of Pop
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4/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Faux prototype of wristwatch iPod + phone - Faux prototype of wristwatch iPod + phone (Complete with wireless earbuds.)
Tom Coates : iPod vs. Mobile Phone vs. Watch mock-ups with interesting UI features...
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4/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : xgau praises musicology - all the critics *still* love you in new york
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4/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : the resume of steve jobs - the resume of steve jobs: apparently old, but amusing to me
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4/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Funny Oprah complaint e-mail - from the Smoking Gun's FCC e-mails
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4/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : The younger generation of New Yorker cartoonists - The younger generation of New Yorker cartoonists (I want to see some of Sam Brown's explodingdog goodness in the NYer.)
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4/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : excellent critique of NY Bloggers event - i'm hoping we can get a less homogenous audience the next time around, too
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4/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : MIT power outage - real reporting, complete with charts!
Adam Gessaman : MIT power outage: a sort of fire drill for social interaction
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4/05/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies - see also: The Exorcist with bunnies [via]
Tom Coates : The Shining! In 30 seconds! With Bunnies!
Simon Willison : The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies. - But of course. (via)
Charles Miller : The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies - The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies. Because the cows are restless today.
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4/05/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : making up the words - a brief and compelling history of constructed languages
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4/05/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : About.com's CEO on the relaunch - "every article page [is] a front door for the site"
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4/05/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : Police Seize Jackson's Underpants - later, jackson seizes own underpants, exclaims "hee hee!"
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4/05/2004 @ 20:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Java VM tool interface - Java 1.5 has a new interface for doing profiling, debugging, etc. Looks powerful.
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4/05/2004 @ 20:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : iPython shell - An enhanced Interactive Python
Rod Begbie : IPython - An enhanced Interactive Python - Improved console for Python. Includes, be still my beating heart, tab-completion for Python commands. #
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4/05/2004 @ 20:03 GMT
Tomas Jogin : Everybody, meet Rod Kratochwill, he's a lowlife spammer! - Here's a link to your weblog, Rod. Now will you please stop fucking spamming the comments on my posts?
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4/05/2004 @ 20:03 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Navigation Matrix - Didier Hilhorst combines a few techniques to create a beautful overlapping tab navigation.
Richard Rutter : Navigation matrix - All your navigation rollover images in one graphic. (filed under CSS techniques).
doug : Navigation Matrix - Didier documents a cool technique for overlapping, layered tabs that contain all states within one image.
Kayode Okeyode : How to Create a Navigational Matrix
François Nonnenmacher : Navigation Matrix - Another great example of pure CSS tabs
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4/05/2004 @ 20:02 GMT
Graham Leuschke : He's f -- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's f -- ing dead. - Pat Tillman (via)
Andy Baio : SF Chronicle eulogizes Pat Tillman - he sounds like a genuinely interesting person [via]
Adam Gessaman : "Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f -- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's f -- ing dead.'' - Well done.
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4/05/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
anildash : Defamer launches - gossip for L.A., gawker style
Tom Coates : Defamer launches and it looks beautiful - although I'm not convinced that the old Hollywood look is particularly appropriate for the tone of the site - it makes it look a bit Baby Jane creepy bitchy, rather than funny/clever bitchy... - Defamer launches and it looks beautiful - although I'm not convinced that the old Hollywood look is particularly appropriate for the tone of the site - it makes it look a bit Baby Jane creepy bitchy, rather than funny/clever bitchy...
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4/05/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
anildash : finally, a blog badge i can get behind - wonkette's "real reporting" sticker. andy baio needs a stack of these.
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4/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : analysis of the star wars galaxies economy - it's all FAAAAAKE, you dorks!
Tom Coates : Economic statistics from Star Wars Galaxies
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4/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : ars electronica prix winners - congrats to wikipedia, nycwireless, creative commons and everyone else
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4/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : lazslo blogboxes - pretty little flash-based sidebar elements for your blog
Jeremy Zawodny : blogbox.com - blogbox.com: random little content boxes for your web site
Andy Baio : Blogbox - like Konfabulator widgets for your blog
deusx : Blogbox.com - Interesting, but MAN are these CPU intensive on my machine.
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4/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : life or death design - the WSJ looks at how documents that decide our safety are affected by their shoddy design
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4/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
anildash : free web services testing app - i've never used it, but if it's even halfway decent, amberpoint express should be pretty valuable
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4/05/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Tim Bray on Jython - Filed away for when I have more time to spend on Java, Python, or both.
Nelson Minar : Tim's paean to Jython - Great essay on the power of dynamic languages mixed with Java. It's very welcome to think this sort of idea may influence Sun.
Simon Willison : Jython - Tim Bray gets excited about Jython, and says nice things about Python in the process.
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4/05/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
Paul Hammond : The anatomy of a new feature (Signal vs. Noise) - A question of accountability
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4/05/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
cobra libre : when semantic markup goes bad - i agree completely
Paul Hammond : Matthew Thomas - When semantic markup goes bad - This is why b and i exist
Philippe Janvier : When semantic markup goes bad - "In advanced speech browsers, for example, pages that use i when they mean cite will merely sound flat; but pages that use em when they mean cite will sound stupid."
Kayode Okeyode : When semantic markup goes bad
Simon Willison : When semantic markup goes bad - Matthew Thomas argues for and
Adam Gessaman : When semantic markup goes bad
Richard Rutter : When semantic markup goes bad - Always using strong instead of b is not necessarily a good thing (filed under Mark-up techniques). [via WaSP]
Eric Meyer : When semantic markup goes bad - Matthew Thomas beats me to the punch, and does a better job of it anyway.
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4/05/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Why is morons.org a Google News source? - Why is morons.org a Google News source? (Surely if they let them in, they should be relaxing their policy about not letting any weblogs in.)
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4/05/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : jake's pictures from last night's event - the shot of meg on her stool is fantastic
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4/05/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : gothamist roundup of NY Bloggers event - a billion trackbacks and a few useful comments
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4/05/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Nelson Minar : Bush ignorance - Bush doesn't read the New Yorker, either, even when it has a report detailing abuses by his military
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4/05/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Nelson Minar : Comb in skull - Great x-ray photo of a shiv in the skull of an unfortunate prison guard
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4/05/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Steve Cook : What Max said - I haven't agreed so completely with six words in some time, and I'll extend it to the people defending Rall on Max's site.
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4/05/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : update on Kansas and creationism/evolution - I moved there in 2000, and they reinstated evolution; I move away, and they backslide. I must have raised the collective IQ just enough
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4/05/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Richter magnitude scale - Richter magnitude scale (Another page I read said a 12.0 would "fault [the] Earth in half through center". Soon to be a major mini-series event, I'm sure.)
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4/05/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Gamespot's Doom 3 for Xbox preview - it will be playable at E3
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4/05/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Pew Musician Survey - 83% of musician provide free music online
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4/05/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Teonaht, language of the feleonim - I wish I remembered my imaginary worlds from when I was nine. Bonus -- links to many more constructed languages.
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4/05/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Gawker Media's Defamer launches later today - it's supposed to be an L.A.-centric version of Gawker [via]
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4/05/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Photos of women in scuba, space, and deep-sea diving suits - just when you thought you'd seen every fetish [via]
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4/05/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG: Inventing Languages on the Internet - On beyond Klingon.
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4/05/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : The rsync thesis - Andrew Tridgell is a good writer, and rsync is an amazing thing. (Warning: PDF!)
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4/05/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
phil : Archigram - Their Design Museum exhibition is quite good but mostly like looking at a big coffee table book of 2000AD artwork. Needed more explanation, context and background.
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4/05/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : plasticbag.org | weblog | What can I say - I'm behind, okay? - The weblog is the first to suffer of course
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4/05/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
jkottke : Kevin Garnett win NBA MVP award. Finally.
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4/05/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
François Hodierne : WordPress CSS Style Competition Winners
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4/05/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Reliving the '90s - Er.. Does this mean we're done reliving the 80s? Hey, wait, I'm not done there yet.
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4/05/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Levenshtein - Python module for measuring 'distance' between two strings' contents
jcgregorio : Levenshtein - """Levenshtein is a C extension module for Python and a C library (or strives to be).""" Start your Java re-write engines now.
Simon Willison : Levenshtein - Levenshtein. Python C extension for Levenshtein distance and other advanced diff functions.
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4/05/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web: A List Apart
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4/05/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Deconstructing the Iraqi Flag - Flags move beyond colors and patterns, and into territory where symbolism and nationalism twist reality in upon itself.
Tom Coates : Fascinating analysis of the new Iraqi flag
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4/05/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : macosxhints - Record and playback high definition TV signals
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4/05/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : positioniseverything.net: Understanding The Cascade - You must feel The Cascade to understand CSS.
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4/05/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : if airlines sold paint - ho ho ho (this was excerpted in Reader's Digest, credited to the internet -- I expect RD to write a column about "Google: the next big thing on the InterWebNet" any day now)
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4/05/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Ahhh... Britney never learns... - Another entry in the long line of folks who think they are getting kanji that say “Strength” or “Honor” and really they mean pig or dog or worse. Or those Japenese who get incomprehensible Engrish on their t-shirts (“I hate
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4/05/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : How much are you willing to pay for your gas? - $4 a gallon? More?
deusx : Nation's thirst for gas reaching the limit - Beginning of Peak Oil? Glad I have a gas-thrifty car instead of a wide-ass SUV
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4/05/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Richard MacManus : Rogers Cadenhead's alternative Movable Type RSS 2.0 feed - I may have a use for this soon. Also see Brad Choate's version (via movableblog.com).
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4/05/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Richard MacManus : Some of Seb's favorite visionaries - Great list! I have some reading to do...
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4/05/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Making Sun Policy - Sun are opening up. Tim Bray explains their new public discourse policy.
Paul Hammond : ongoing - Making Sun Policy - the company needed to stand up and say officially that it was not only OK but encouraged for Sun employees to speak out in public
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4/05/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The mysteries of flexible software - Sean McGrath on Parameterization. (via)
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4/05/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Roundup Issue Tracker - Handy looking Python app. (via)
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4/05/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : BBC introduces flexible TV with online trial - This is really, really cool.
Tom Coates : BBC iMP trial starts internally
Adam Gessaman : BBCTorrent? - Damn cool.
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4/05/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Tom Coates : How the common cold "works" - How the common cold "works"
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4/05/2004 @ 00:04 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Memory Management for Large-File Editors: Part 2 - Algorithms and Techniques
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4/05/2004 @ 00:04 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Memory Management for Large-File Editors: Part 1 - Memory Management
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4/05/2004 @ 00:03 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python
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4/05/2004 @ 00:03 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C#
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4/05/2004 @ 00:03 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java
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4/05/2004 @ 00:03 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C++
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4/05/2004 @ 00:03 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : A Practical Theory of Programming
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4/05/2004 @ 00:03 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : What Is Web Accessibility?
Richard MacManus : Trenton Moss: What Is Web Accessibility? - Great checklist of how to make your website accessible.
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4/05/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Text Tool Analyzes Several Different Word Factors
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4/05/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Why 'Sasser' does not affect Win2003 - Why 'Sasser' does not affect Win2003
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4/05/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Philippe Janvier : California bans digital voting machine - J'en connais qui vont certainement apprécier le geste :)
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