23/05/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Steve Cook : The Transcendant Tigeres - A little lagniappe from that lover of children, R.A. Lafferty. The cap is important. If it weren't important, it wouldn't be mentioned.
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23/05/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : enclosure element is unusably "half-assed" - half about design, half about dominant implementations
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23/05/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Nelson Minar : Slow Earthquake - Every 14 months there's a month-long earth movement
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23/05/2004 @ 21:03 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Jyte: free RSS/Atom news reader - For Windows XP and Mac OS X
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23/05/2004 @ 21:02 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Trademarked, Patented shrubbery - Let's see them enforce it.
Simon Willison : trademarked, patented shrubbery - "Propagation of this plant is prohibited due to patent protection."
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23/05/2004 @ 21:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Rumsfeld bans cameraphones in Iraq - fighting weapons of mass photography [via]
deusx : Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq - The truth parodies itself. Is there any light in which this could be seen as a positive thing?
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23/05/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : GeekMan action figures - where's GeekGirl? [via]
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23/05/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Maniac Mansion Deluxe - Windows 256-color remake of the classic Lucasarts game
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23/05/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 wins Palme D'Or at Cannes - Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 wins Palme D'Or at Cannes
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23/05/2004 @ 19:10 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Meeting the Press and Surviving It
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23/05/2004 @ 19:09 GMT
Aquarion : Antibush, A political platormer - Suprisingly effective
Andy Baio : Flash: Bush Game, very entertaining political propaganda - Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and He-Man vs. Bush, Rumsfeld and Voltron [via]
Graham Leuschke : The Anti-Bush online adventure game - this is freaking brilliant. set aside at least a half-hour, and worth every minute (NSFW)
deusx : BUSHGAME.COM - THE ANTI-BUSH ONLINE ADVENTURE - Absolutely brilliant cross of old-school gaming, political satire & advocacy, and Voltron.
Rod Begbie : BUSHGAME.COM - The Anti-Bush Online Adventure - Massive (and very funny) anti-Bush game. [via] #
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23/05/2004 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : Man ill after gorging on sauteed cicadas - "A man who cooked and ate nearly 30 cicadas sought medical treatment after suffering a strong allergic reaction to the sauteed insects."
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23/05/2004 @ 19:07 GMT
deusx : Low-Fat, High-Protein Cicadas: New Health Snack? - "High-protein, low-carbohydrate diet fanatics take note: The billions of cicadas emerging from the ground en masse this month are a healthy alternative to that bacon double-cheeseburger without the bun."
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23/05/2004 @ 19:06 GMT
deusx : Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism - Very cool piano punk
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23/05/2004 @ 19:05 GMT
deusx : Programming in Lua - "Lua is becoming the language of choice for anyone who needs a scripting language that is simple, efficient, extensible, portable, and free."
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23/05/2004 @ 19:04 GMT
deusx : Political liberty and atheism - "For an atheist, all rights (except, perhaps, the right of self preservation) can only be positive -- that is, a right is a right if, and only if, it is recognized by the ruling power..." Makes no sense to me.
Tom Coates : A brief post on political liberalism and atheism that doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever (and I've said so) - A brief post on political liberalism and atheism that doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever (and I've said so)
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23/05/2004 @ 19:03 GMT
deusx : SciScoop || Lost Library of Alexandria Is Found - "If ever there were a story at SciScoop that's worth a moment of silence to lament the loss of what could have been, this is it."
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23/05/2004 @ 19:02 GMT
deusx : Uncovering The Secret World Of Copper Green - "Bottom line, any officials who said after March 9 that there were no torture rooms and rape cells in Iraq are either incompetent fools or pathological liars.  Either way, they have absolutely no business leading America."
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23/05/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
anildash : Ambassador From Mars Receives 181,634 Spam Emails - dotworlds blows some money on having fun with press releases
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23/05/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Aquarion : Uphill, both ways. Oh really?
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23/05/2004 @ 17:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : More on Powell minder - Remember when Powell's press aide knocked the camera away on TV? Some of the backstory.
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23/05/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
Andy Baio : O'Reilly's Inside the Atari 2600 Homebrew Scene - the second page has interviews with five 2600 gods [via]
Nelson Minar : Atari homebrew scene - O'Reilly Network: Inside the Homebrew Atari 2600 Scene (via Slashdot)
deusx : O'Reilly Network: Inside the Homebrew Atari 2600 Scene - This makes me want to bust out the C64 and an emulator - might be something *slightly* less demanding than a 2600 :)
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23/05/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : sam mulls atom, w3c, and ietf - is the w3c open enough?
Isofarro : Sam Ruby: First Choice - IETF or W3C - both good options, nothing between them.
Anne van Kesteren : First Choice - "I have seen nothing put forward which would lead one to the conclusion that the IETF would be a BAD home."
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23/05/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : interface design in wordpress 1.2 - i swear to god, i've had managers suggest "maybe we can autogenerate our gui"
Anne van Kesteren : Interface design in Wordpress 1.2 - I second his conclusion
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23/05/2004 @ 15:02 GMT
Tom Coates : The Little Venice to Camden waterbus is a very nice way to spend an hour in the sunshine
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23/05/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Tom Coates : The making of... the making of!
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23/05/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Michael Moore vs. Michael Wilson - the latter starts off with the nicely unbiased statement that he wants to 'tell the truth about a great nation'. So it's going to be an investigative piece then? - Michael Moore vs. Michael Wilson - the latter starts off with the nicely unbiased statement that he wants to 'tell the truth about a great nation'. So it's going to be an investigative piece then?
jkottke : Michael Moore Hates America is an upcoming documentary that's basically Michael and Me - Michael Moore Hates America is an upcoming documentary that's basically Michael and Me
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23/05/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Tom Coates : You are living in a computer simulation?
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23/05/2004 @ 13:01 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Strip, Pix, Burn: iRaq - "10,000 Volts volts in your pocket, guilty or innocent."
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23/05/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
kaninka.net : www.mbl.is - Þetta er allt à lagi, Rumsfield er búinn að leysa vandamálið með pyntingar á föngum à Ãrak
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23/05/2004 @ 12:03 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : PHP Coding Standard
Adam Gessaman : PHP Coding Standard
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23/05/2004 @ 12:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Publishing MySQL Data in RSS 2.0
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23/05/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Windows Update Refreshed as XP SP2 Nears
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23/05/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
Wayne Burkett : UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ - "All [bytes after the first byte] in a multibyte sequence are in the range 0x80 to 0xBF." So to count the characters in a UTF-8 string you disregard bytes in this range, since they are only part of a larger character sequence. #
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23/05/2004 @ 11:04 GMT
Aquarion : The Anatomy of a Search Engine - How Google Thinks
Richard MacManus : Anatomy of Google (circa 1998) - PageRank "corresponds to the principal eigenvector of the normalized link matrix of the web." Now you know.
kayodeok : The Anatomy of a Search Engine - Could this be the first Google paper? "In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext"
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23/05/2004 @ 11:03 GMT
Aquarion : Shrek 2 - The First 5 Minutes - Forget trailers, this is better
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23/05/2004 @ 11:02 GMT
Aquarion : Sid Meier's Pirates! Screenshots - The updated version
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23/05/2004 @ 11:01 GMT
Aquarion : Evil Genius - From one of the makers of Theme Hospital & Dungeon Keeper
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23/05/2004 @ 10:01 GMT
Adam Gessaman : WordPress File Manager Hack
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23/05/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : New index page for wp-admin - Neat hack. Let's get this rolled into the next WP rev.
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23/05/2004 @ 09:02 GMT
Adam Gessaman : President suffers cuts, bruises in bike ride - I can just picture it now... "Ummm... Tumbler just ate some gravel. *snort*"
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23/05/2004 @ 09:01 GMT
veen : Bicyclepaintings.com - The work of Taliah Lempert. Beautiful.
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23/05/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Abandoned japanese island of Gunkanjima - many interesting photos [via]
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23/05/2004 @ 07:09 GMT
Charles Miller : Triple J's Greatest Masturbation Songs of All Time - Triple J's Greatest Masturbation Songs of All Time (well, as of 1999, anyway. I'm sure there've been a few more since).
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23/05/2004 @ 07:07 GMT
deusx : .: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Entertainment - "A couple of years ago, the "Swan" concept would have made a horrifying episode of "Angel." Cordelia would have had one of her visions: A vanity demon would have risen from the depths of hell; Angel and gang would investigate and find a roomful of bandage
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23/05/2004 @ 07:06 GMT
deusx : FOX11AZ.com | News for Tucson, Arizona | News | State News - "An MP3 player wrapped around a soda can sparked a bomb scare at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport" I'm confused... how does one wrap an MP3 player around a soda can?
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23/05/2004 @ 07:05 GMT
deusx : Making Light: Further excruciating embarrassment - "Stop—right now, and forevermore to come—pretending that George W. Bush and his advisers have a shred of competence." Biggest military in the world used as a tool by a foreign power. Disturbing as all hell, if true.
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23/05/2004 @ 07:03 GMT
deusx : Salon.com News | How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons - "It was Chalabi who provided crucial intelligence on Iraqi weaponry to justify the invasion, almost all of which turned out to be false, and laid out a rosy scenario about the country's readiness for an American strike against Saddam that led the nation's
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23/05/2004 @ 07:02 GMT
deusx : Chris Nolan - Politics from Left to Right: Make You Wanna Holler - "Osama Bin Laden is having a pretty good month. He’s a good ways toward showing his supporters that the best-armed, wealthiest, the most politically and economically powerful nation in the world can be reduced to his level."
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23/05/2004 @ 07:01 GMT
deusx : infojunkies: $132K of Grant to Combat Goth Returned - "Almost half of a $273,000 grant awarded in 2002 to fight the Goth culture in Blue Springs has been returned because of a lack of interest — and the absence of a real problem."
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23/05/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Hawks Eating Crow - "And how pathetic is it that the only cable network really grappling with the media's failure is Comedy Central?"
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23/05/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
anildash : wonkette's indexed by google news - blog strategy: make fake news, show up in the news search
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23/05/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
Graham Leuschke : This Might Be A Wiki - Wow. I'm lost, and I don't care
deusx : This Might Be A Wiki: TMBW.Net - "This wiki is for They Might Be Giants fans."
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23/05/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Windows 95/98 emulated on Pocket PC - [via]
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23/05/2004 @ 02:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : 120,000 terrorists - Flagging 120,000 people as potential terrorists is not helpful.
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23/05/2004 @ 02:09 GMT
Simon Willison : Mac OS X helpviewer security flaw fixed - Hit Software Update. Not sure if this fixes the telnet: variety though.
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23/05/2004 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : The Infinite Cat Project - Just keep hitting "Next Cat" (via)
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23/05/2004 @ 02:07 GMT
Simon Willison : SICP Lectures - Available in DivX and MPEG. (via)
Wayne Burkett : Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures - For example: "Lecture 1a: Overview and Introduction to Lisp" #
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23/05/2004 @ 02:06 GMT
Simon Willison : Implantable RFIDs for nightclub VIPs - Whoa, clubbers will do anything!
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23/05/2004 @ 02:05 GMT
Simon Willison : What are these "Threading Models" and why do I care? - I've promised myself that some day I will read this. (via)
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23/05/2004 @ 02:04 GMT
Simon Willison : Random Destructive Acts via Focused Solar Radiation - I want a Giant Fresnel Lens (via)
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23/05/2004 @ 02:03 GMT
Simon Willison : Design Issues for the World Wide Web - A collection of TBL's thoughts on web architecture.
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23/05/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Agency: Chalabi group was front for Iran - Claims the Iranians were feeding misinformation to the US government via Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress. (via)
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23/05/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation - Bruce Sterling on scaling up his annual SxSW party. I can't believe I missed it htis year. (via)
Adam Gessaman : Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation - Funny... "Keg Firewall"
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23/05/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : WordPress 1.2 - It's here.
Richard MacManus : Latest version of Wordpress released - Wow, this does sound impressive: hierarchical categories, plug-ins, comment moderation, Radio importing. Six Apart - it's your move now.
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23/05/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Still Poisoned - Nate looks at the line between science and politics, and finds it's rather ugly territory.
Tom Coates : I couldn't agree more with this - the blood transfusion service is desperate for donors and yet the rules say (in the UK) that any gay man who has had sex since 1979 should not donate. I've been tested regularly for pretty much everything, have a relative - I couldn't agree more with this - the blood transfusion service is desperate for donors and yet the rules say (in the UK) that any gay man who has had sex since 1979 should not donate. I've been tested regularly for pretty much everything, have
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23/05/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Tom Coates : People using MP3s as ringtones apparently 'threatens the business model' - which seems odd to me, since if you already own the song in question presumably this too is fair use! - People using MP3s as ringtones apparently 'threatens the business model' - which seems odd to me, since if you already own the song in question presumably this too is fair use!
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