17/05/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Steve Cook : The Army War College Journal of Science Fiction - Using future history to make a point.
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17/05/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : i pour the tiny (15 May 2004, Interconnected) - "Horny surfers drive massive windfarms. They are the power for our engines, a Pacific current."
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17/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Ted Leung on Open Source (via Dave Winer) - "...a very important thing about open source is the ability of a large community of people to work on a software system in a collaborative fashion."
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17/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Dave Winer announces upcoming open source release of Frontier kernel - I love these posts from Dave, when he explains his history. There's so much for us readers to learn...
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17/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : SubEthaEdit - I still need a Mac [via] #
Paul Hammond : SubEthaEdit - What's new in 2.0?
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17/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Tom Coates : SubEthaEdit 2.0 has been released! I'm heady with over-linked excitement (this more relaxed style to weblogging is great fun) - SubEthaEdit 2.0 has been released! I'm heady with over-linked excitement (this more relaxed style to weblogging is great fun)
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17/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS -
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17/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Morgan Spurlock, writer/director of Super Size Me documentary, is writing a weblog on Indiewire
anildash : "Super Size Me" director's weblog - Morgan Spurlock's got an MT-powered blog
Simon Willison : indieWIRE BLOGS: Morgan Spurlock - The director of Super Size Me has a blog, updated daily.
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
deusx : How bad is it? - "Yes, the band that played on the deck of the Titanic was quite talented and a good distraction from the matter at hand, but there may yet be a few ways to prevent this boat from sinking and if we don't tend to it, no one will."
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : powerbook temperature monitor - powerbook temperature monitor: now i can compare heat reducing toys
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Monday Roomba Comedy Part One: Star Wars
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Monday Roomba Comedy Part Two: A Few Good Men
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Monday Roomba Comedy Part Three: Wratch of Khan!
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Monday Roomba Comedy was sponsored by Tom Armitage
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : here's something else to argue about besides syndication formats, semantics, or software licensing - for the record, i'm letting my copy editor win all of these arguments this time
Kayode Okeyode : More timewasting garbage, another copy-editing moron
François Hodierne : Language Log: More timewasting garbage, another copy-editing moron - pour la route ...
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : how to keep your phone from ringing - "i'm totally blogging this!"
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : mt keywords to wp slugs - if you don't understand the title, this tutorial is not for you
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17/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : the other furry child who knows how to sleep through the night - woof
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17/05/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
tehu : LAlex devblog v3.1 - using a comment Flash form to generate HTML - how funky
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17/05/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : DIY ringtone software panics record labels - make your own ringtones from MP3s with Xingtone, user/pass
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17/05/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Vacuum Tube Agonizer - effects pedal that turns all audio into terrible noise [via]
Nelson Minar : Vacuum tube agonizer - Cause pain to music (via Waxy)
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17/05/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Origami folding robot videos - it makes a decent paper airplane [via]
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17/05/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
tehu : Several versions of PHP on the same box - Yapluka. Au boulot !
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17/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : wonko.com: A Succinct Guide to Trench Wars Badassery - "Trench Wars is the most popular gametype of Subspace, one of the first massively multiplayer online games (and the only one worth your time, if you ask me)" Was just playing this over the weekend.
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17/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
dionidium : Tables? Oh, the horror! - Dave Shea clarifies his position on tables-based design. What a scandal!
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17/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Photos and commentary on Cambridge's gay marriages - Really want to head down there later today to it all in action.
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17/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Online gamblers and phone phreakers tampering with American Idol voting - text messaging is much more influential because it scales [via]
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17/05/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
cobra libre : disable new browser windows in firefox - i wish i had known this before i taught myself freakin' XBL to fix the same problem
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17/05/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Deconstructing Ira - Ira Glass, Steven Berlin Johnson, Todd Haynes, and the Brown semiotics mafia
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17/05/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Whitepaper: Pingback vs Trackback - TB sucks
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17/05/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : Plug In to Movable Type - the hard part is choosing between dual G5s or dual LCD monitors
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17/05/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
cobra libre : live comment previews - impressive! (you'll have to find another entry to try it out, though)
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17/05/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Spheres of influence - networks of GW Bush (PDF) - Sarah Cohen of the Washington Post is an absolute genius at representing social networks graphically
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17/05/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : best reason to switch to textpattern - man, that dog might make *me* switch someday
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17/05/2004 @ 17:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : Iraq assassination - It's ok, this puppet government probably wasn't going to be the puppet government after June 30 anyway.
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17/05/2004 @ 17:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Kerry with puppy - Maybe we'll be seeing some war photos of Bush soon. Oh, wait.
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17/05/2004 @ 17:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Katamaridamacy - One of the oddball E3 games, looks really fun and innovative
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17/05/2004 @ 17:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Katamari Damashii FAQ and Walkthrough - gives translated information about the game [via]
Nelson Minar : Katamaridamacy FAQ - Walkthrough, details of game
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17/05/2004 @ 17:02 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Ten Questions for Andy Budd - More great questions from Russ at the Web Standards Group
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17/05/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
tehu : Charamel - A Mozilla Theme - softy tons
François Hodierne : Charamel - A Mozilla Theme - Un thème Firefox et Thunderbird étonnant
Paul Hammond : Charamel - A Mozilla Theme - Charamel is a theme for Mozilla Firefox & Mozilla Thunderbird
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17/05/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
Paul Hammond : mezzoblue - Tables? Oh, the horror! - this is based on the sum of my experiences in real-world situations
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17/05/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
Tom Coates : Real Audio file of the current "Feedback" from Radio 4 that includes a discussion about BBC Audio on Demand stuff (about ten minutes in) - Real Audio file of the current "Feedback" from Radio 4 that includes a discussion about BBC Audio on Demand stuff (about ten minutes in)
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17/05/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
Tom Coates : Web-obsessed creativity coach also models underwear. Posted for no reason. At all. Sigh.
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17/05/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Cabana boy classifieds - Just...yikes.
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17/05/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Sunflower, the character Disney cut from Fantasia - [via]
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17/05/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Spotting weblogging systems through design - What's your look ?
Mark Pilgrim : tracking weblogging systems' influence on design - i learned just enough php to reproduce my current design in wordpress
Adam Gessaman : Weblogspotting - Gotta recognize the linky love. :)
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17/05/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Super Size Me! - A film of epic portions!
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17/05/2004 @ 14:59 GMT
Charles Miller : Kuro5hin: Nick Berg Conspiracy - A survey of Nick Berg conspiracy theories from Kuro5hin. Will be interesting to see what the media makes of these things.
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17/05/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Ingenious solution to the gum problem via Mr Hammersley's weblog - reminds me of that game that gets you to assign metadata to pictures to make them more searchable. Neat. - Ingenious solution to the gum problem via Mr Hammersley's weblog - reminds me of that game that gets you to assign metadata to pictures to make them more searchable. Neat.
Andy Baio : Celebrity faces used to collect discarded gum - like the urinal fly, it's UI with a purpose [via]
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17/05/2004 @ 13:04 GMT
Charles Miller : What we can learn from MovableType's new pricing schedule ... - Mean Dean on Movable Type's new pricing schedule. "Any sense of entitlement you have is your fault."
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17/05/2004 @ 13:03 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : US state recognises gay marriages - Massachusetts has become the first US state to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples.
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17/05/2004 @ 13:03 GMT
Steve Cook : Hardened PHP - I suspect that good coding practices are still much more useful, but this might grow into something great.
François Nonnenmacher : Hardened PHP - Security hardening features to PHP
Kayode Okeyode : Hardened PHP
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17/05/2004 @ 13:03 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Nanomedicine - Nanomedicine is going to totally take over healthcare in the 21st century
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17/05/2004 @ 13:02 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The Incredibles - Last of the Disney movies done by Pixar
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17/05/2004 @ 13:02 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Cisco investigates source code leak - 800MB of source code stolen from CISCO's corporate computers. New exploits in the works?
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17/05/2004 @ 13:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired on PearPC, the first PowerPC emulator that runs OS X - albeit very slowly, but it'll get better [via]
François Nonnenmacher : OS X Makes Slow Debut on PC - Incomplete, unstable and painfully slow -- but that doesn't stop geeks!
Tom Coates : PC OSX emulator would require 150Ghz PC to run at vaguely realistic speeds (but then it is only an early demo)
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17/05/2004 @ 13:01 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Apple files GUI patent - Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows
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17/05/2004 @ 13:01 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : In-car iPod gadget unveiled - The device offers drivers iPod device control using their car audio systems
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17/05/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : China wrestles with growing spam problem - 71 percent of the Web sites referenced in spam e-mail are hosted in China
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17/05/2004 @ 11:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : ASA meets Opera - “Opera makes SeaMonkey look lean”...
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17/05/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Interesting article on sourcing music for the iTunes Music Store and the importance of breadth of content. I wish they'd get The Slits' version of "Heard It Through The Grapevine" - Interesting article on sourcing music for the iTunes Music Store and the importance of breadth of content. I wish they'd get The Slits' version of "Heard It Through The Grapevine"
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17/05/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Beautiful pixel-tiles of the Great Wall of China, as made by Denise
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17/05/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Tim Bray on Mark Pilgrim's 'Freedom 0' post - Tim says Mark is thinking like a CIO - it's "all about predictability and risk reduction".
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17/05/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
veen : O'Reilly Open Books Project - A chunk of ORA's library gets posted to the Web
Andy Baio : O'Reilly's Open Books Project - [via]
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17/05/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Waxy Effect? - geez, you're making me blush
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17/05/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
anildash : scribe, mozilla plugin for text areas - i always find myself hitting "ctrl-s" when writing entries, so this is a godsend
Steve Cook : Scribe Firefox extension - Save form fields as you go. A simple and brilliant idea.
François Hodierne : Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension - où Mozilla remplace le Notepad.
kayodeok : Firefox Extension: Scribe - Never lose another post with Scribe. Adds Word Processor like functionality to web forms, including opening and saving form entries as files
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17/05/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
anildash : the weirdest things at E3 - andy's got a great roundup of the fringes of gaming
Nelson Minar : E3 oddball roundup - Waxy comes through with a fresh take on E3
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17/05/2004 @ 06:52 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Do not buy an InexQ Wireless Router - [via]
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17/05/2004 @ 06:52 GMT
Adam Gessaman : 中国幻想文学基地 - This was posted as a swing at handling other character encodings with my new linkblogging tool.
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17/05/2004 @ 06:51 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Converting the results of javascript's escape() to something that PHP can digest - Nice work! [I love it when I inspire other people to write code.]
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17/05/2004 @ 06:51 GMT
Adam Gessaman : "I'm not gay, not brilliant, not artistic, and I really have nothing worthwhile to say, several times a week..." - Ha! [via]
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17/05/2004 @ 06:51 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Phil Ringnalda: My friends get to make mistakes
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17/05/2004 @ 06:51 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Stupid Evil Bastard is switching... but to what? - It's been fun MovableType, but perhaps it wasn't meant to be.
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17/05/2004 @ 06:51 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Whitehouse press aide attempts to shut down Meet the Press interview - Reminds me of all those movies where the captive somehow manages to thwart his captors, using the mores associated with public spaces, in order to send out a cry for help. Don't worry Colin, we heard you! ;) [P.S. If anyone has the video of this, I'd lov
Nelson Minar : Malreported rectify - Boing Boing: Powell forces press aide to let him answer Meet the Press question
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17/05/2004 @ 06:01 GMT
Kristine Beeson : Clearing floats without structural markup - Position is Everything -- "Clearing", 21st Century Style: In the new method, no clearing element is used. Nice new concept for clearing floats using the :after command. I'd probably want to do it without the IE hack in there, but either way, its a good i
Adam Gessaman : Clearing a float container without source markup
doug : New way to Clear Floats - Holly and John document a clever means of clearing floats without using an extra element in the markup. Beware of some ugly JavaScript to make it work in IE5/Mac though.
deusx : Clearing a float container without source markup - Nice. Using the :after psuedoclass to generate a clearing node, with additional hacks for braindead IE.
Dan Cederholm : How to clear floats without structural markup - This is a *great* writeup on a technique that seems to work well across browsers.
Eric Meyer : Clearing a float container without source markup - Nice.
tjogin : Clearing a float container without source markup
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17/05/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
anildash : atrios asks for donations - he should have a fundraising contest against andrew sullivan
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17/05/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
anildash : Gender Similarities and Differences among Teenage Bloggers - david huffaker's excellent thesis
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17/05/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
anildash : NYC rewriting all its city codes - i wonder if code and law are similar enough that this is the mozilla of zoning laws
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17/05/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : the elements of style - would it kill ya to skim this, just once?
Richard Rutter : Strunk and White online - The Elements of Style (filed under Typography). [via dive into mark]
Kayode Okeyode : The Elements of Style
Isofarro : The Elements of Style - classic reference book
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17/05/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : w3c invitation for atom working group proposal - out of left field, and still undecided
François Hodierne : W3C invitation for Atom Working Group Proposal - une bonne synthèse
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17/05/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : transparent proxy with linux and squid mini-howto - i wish i understood this too
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17/05/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
jkottke : The New Yorker: did Rumsfeld's orders lead to the abuse at Abu Ghraib? - The New Yorker: did Rumsfeld's orders lead to the abuse at Abu Ghraib?
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17/05/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
anildash : a photolog in five easy steps - now we just have to make that even easier
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17/05/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Marc Canter: technology gravity - "the developer of any open source software expects to make money off of the software - somewhere down the line..."
Adam Gessaman : Marc Canter writes - "If you are considering moving your blog to WordPress or some other open source blogging package as a result of what happened this week, don't drop in, switch your blog over, and drop out. Take your time, look around, and see if there's a way that you can
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17/05/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Teaching abstinence increases teenage pregnancy, according to Monbiot in the Guardian
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17/05/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Bitkeeper after the storm - How the commercial BitKeeper has helped increase Linux Kernel productivity. (via)
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17/05/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Testing Page Load Speed - Dave Hyatt on browser benchmarks and how browser's handle page layouts.
Paul Hammond : Surfin' Safari - Testing Page Load Speed - This algorithm completely transforms the feel of Safari over DSL and modem connections
François Hodierne : Testing Page Load Speed - Dave Hyatt très technique (et passionnant) sur la vitesse d'affichage des pages web.
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17/05/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Kisstory in action - Indiana has a law on the books that makes it illegal for a man with a moustache to "habitually kiss human beings." (via)
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17/05/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
anildash : popular press and weblogs - cam's analysis is fascinating: journalists don't bother to explain weblogs anymore
Andy Baio : Cameron charts the usage of "weblog" in the media - he's doing really great research
Nelson Minar : Weblog history - Cameron does some research into press coverage of the beginnings of weblogs
Adam Gessaman : overstated: Popular press and weblogs - Some interesting conclusions on the trends of weblogs in the media.
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17/05/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Forthcoming Low B-sides box set - I have the compilation with their cover of "Blue-Eyed Devil" on it, and it is spectacularly great. I want this badly.
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17/05/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Richard MacManus : Jay Allen catches an MT troll - This guy "Alex" also commented on my blog, but he did make some good points.
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17/05/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Weird article on Superman that I think kind of misses the point (much like DC Comics seems intent to do as well)
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17/05/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Tom Coates : The thread on Barbelith about Superman's continuing relevance - The thread on Barbelith about Superman's continuing relevance
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17/05/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Tom Coates : I've got a whole post on PulpFiction gestating in my head called "Things that Look like Other Things" - I've got a whole post on PulpFiction gestating in my head called "Things that Look like Other Things"
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17/05/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Tom Coates : I really really wanted to go to this, but I got occupied with work and forgot to follow it up
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17/05/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Virgin teens have same STD rate - so that worked out well for everyone, eh?
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