4/06/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Daily Speculations - The webloggish thing of Victor Niederhoffer, the former squash champion, hedge fund manager, and author of "The Education of a Speculator". One part insight, one part technical analysis, one part libertarian rant, and he thinks "High Noon&q
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4/06/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Philippe Janvier : FOAF, la première brique du Web sémantique ? - "Web sémantique pour les personnes" : une introduction FOAF en français.
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4/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Audio-moblog basé sur Blogger - Une démonstration d'Audblogging en français
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4/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : 2004 Spelling Bee scandal? - Coudal's research shows it's likely a coincidence
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4/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : i am the man of dooce's dreams - unfortunately, i am sharing the title with david hasselhoff
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4/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : nice Voice piece on illegal subway photos - photobloggers rule the world!
jkottke : Some photographers talk about the proposed ban on NYC subway photos
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4/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : Late night thoughts on barbarism - "Bush drove the nation to war and threw an army into the field without taking the enterprise seriously enough."
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4/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : BBC - Cult Television - Buffy Ecomics
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4/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : Questionable Content: New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday - "Do you think he used Java to make the smell?"
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4/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : An eye on the tongue - "The Tongue Display Unit (TDU) can activate areas that are normally reserved for visual information and are unused when someone suffers from congenital blindness. "
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4/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : Espresso Cuban style - "Much more than a jolt of caffeine, this coffee is a way of life"
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4/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
deusx : Yahoo! News - Maligned Detroit Attracts Newcomers Again - Cool. Anyone want to trade me for a place in San Francisco, New York, Boston, or Toronto? Got a great "gritty" view, here in Detroit.
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4/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : i am the man of dooce's dreams - unfortunately, i am sharing the title with david hasselhoff
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4/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : interview with head of yahoo research labs - olivier always finds the best obscure interviews
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4/06/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : First all-artificial feature film released - voices were synthesized, video was machinima
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4/06/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : dave is deleting comments offering test cases for his latest incompatible change to rss - just for the record #
dionidium : The latest RSS 2.0 clarification is a backwardly incompatible change - Glassdog was right about Mark being the right kind of asshole, but he looks even more like the good guy when Dave silently deletes on-topic comments.
Adam Gessaman : The latest RSS 2.0 clarification is a backwardly incompatible change - Winer v. Pilgrim. Grudge match of the century. It'd rank right up there with the rumble in the jungle.
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4/06/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : Wireless Unleashed - Kevin Werbach, Andrew Odlyzko, David Isenberg, and Clay Shirky on wireless
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4/06/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : Manage Your Projects with Movable Type - a great multi-part series, and be sure to check out the demo
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4/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
veen : The Meaning of Life - Could it really be that simple?
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4/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Homebrew network-enabled washing machine - more details about his badass new controller hack [via]
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4/06/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
phil : Ethnologue, Web Version - Browsable database of information about which languages are spoken in which countries, and lots of details about each language.
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4/06/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : How it feels to get shot - [via]
veen : How it feels to get shot - Experts agree. It "hurts like hell."
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4/06/2004 @ 18:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : Do not underestimate the power of the game Deer Hunter - "Deer Hunter has the power to stop a beta." #
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4/06/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
cobra libre : get your lips round a cool black pepsi coke - new front page post! a cause for celebration!
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4/06/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : eBay item 8107675670 (Ends May-31-04 09:10:22 PDT) - Selling Son's Beloved Play Station 2 For Punishment! - "That’s right my 13 year old son drank a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne- 1995."
Aquarion : Practical Parenting
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4/06/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Snoop's gotta have a new 300C - 05/30/04 - “What I gotta’ do to get that brand new 300 up outta’ you?†Uh... WTF?
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4/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
deusx : QDN: Now Playing: The Abolition of Basic Civil Liberties! - "I only wish I could have been the one to break it down that simply."
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4/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Présence des élus français au parlement européen - instructif [via] #
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4/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Good Experience Blog - Exercise in Customer Experience - You have the simulated experience of dining in a jungle, although the food isn't very good
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4/06/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Page 3, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci - "Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work."
Graham Leuschke : Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. - epigraph o' the day
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4/06/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Penny Arcade! - "This here is the mute button for your headset. Please use it."
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4/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Bugmenot extension for Firefox - bypass obnoxious web registrations with one click [via]
Graham Leuschke : BugMeNot extension for Mozilla browsers - get around annoying registrations
kellan : BugMeNot Firefox extensions - Remember to do your civic duty, and enter at least one new account a week. #
Rod Begbie : BugMeNot Firefox extension - Now auto-fills usernames and passwords for you. Yes. Yes! YES! [via] #
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4/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Friendster appoints former NBC president as new CEO - Jon Abrams is just a mascot now [via]
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4/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Update on Spellbound kid Ashley from DC - Update on Spellbound kid Ashley from DC (Became an unwed mother at 18 and was homeless, but is turning it around by making the dean's list at Howard.)
Graham Leuschke : update on Ashley White, one of the contestants from "Spellbound" - oh, right, she's a person (Go through googlenews to avoid WaPo's irritating registration. Oh, and another contestant, Angela, has a blog)
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4/06/2004 @ 16:03 GMT
Steve Cook : Pike's Mozilla Firefox extensions - These little guys -- particularly Show Failed URL and Session Saver -- make a huge difference in how Firefox feels. Show Failed URL is up there with Tab Warning in the "best tiny fix ever" category.
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4/06/2004 @ 16:02 GMT
François Hodierne : Atom/W3C redux - Matt May about Atom and W3C #
Anne van Kesteren : Atom/W3C redux - I like W3C over IETF, since more people know it and it seems more solid to me #
Philippe Janvier : Atom/W3C redux - "If Atom goes to IETF, and that's how it's looking, Atom remains a great idea, and we wish it well. But I still believe that the W3C is the best place for Atom to take root."
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4/06/2004 @ 16:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Gallery of movie copyright warnings - we'll be seeing these in the U.S. soon, I'm sure [via]
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4/06/2004 @ 16:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Simpsons torrents - nearly every episode, of varying quality [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : Simpsons Torrents
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4/06/2004 @ 16:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Microsoft's "The Apprentice" E3 parody for the Xbox - starring Donald Trump and a cameo by Bill
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4/06/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Cliche watch: My name is * and I approve this * - [via]
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4/06/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Insects in album cover art - more obsessive and obscure list making [via]
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4/06/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Defective Yeti on Amazon's "plogs" - he's on their strange blog list
Paul Hammond : defective yeti - Born To Plog - But aside from that, it's pretty much nothing like a blog
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4/06/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Andy Baio : VisitorVille, bizarre SimCity-ish visualization for website traffic patterns - [via]
Graham Leuschke : VisitorVille: a different view of website statistics - yay iso!
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4/06/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : New Harry Potter movie getting pretty good reviews
Tom Coates : I went to see Harry Potter on Monday and it was pretty bloody good, although still flawed. Four stars. Best of the series so far by far.
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4/06/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Viva Morrissey! - Great piece on the gloomy Smiths' frontman's appeal to Latino audiences.
deusx : Their Charming Man - "Morrissey sings to the disaffected, and God knows alienation is part of the assimilation tradition—the equal and opposite reaction of the immigrants drive to blend in."
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4/06/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : atom conformance tests - more coming soon #
Adam Gessaman : Atom Conformance Tests
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4/06/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : infrequently asked questions concerning the proper spelling of 'dtd' in its plural form - we need more lists of infrequently asked questions [via] #
dionidium : Infrequently Asked Questions Concerning the Proper Spelling of DTD in its Plural Form - Applicable to dozens of other singular initialisms, too.
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4/06/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Atom/W3C redux - Matt May about Atom and W3C #
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4/06/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Will Pate : Petition to Allow the Green Party in Election Debate - A case study in why media giants shouldn't control election debates. Number 4780. baby!
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4/06/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Aller de l'avant avec les standards Web #
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4/06/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Formatting Synthetic Feeds and passing entries in XMPP/Jabber PubSub Feeds #
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4/06/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Atom Meeting Photo - Part of me wants to click the "may offend" button to save Dave Winer the trouble. :)
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4/06/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Is this true? ISBNs are going to 13 digits in 2005? - Luckily it should only take a couple minutes to fix All Consuming. Amazon, on the other hand, may have a bit more of a technical challenge...
cobra libre : ISBNs gaining 3 digits - booksellers, see if you can perform the 10-digit ISBN to Bookland EAN-13 conversion in your head!
Nelson Minar : 13 digit ISBNs - They're rejiggering one of the world's most pervasive namespaces. Why only a 1000x increase? (via Paul Bausch)
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4/06/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
kristine : Pricing your skillset - Pricing your skillset -- Determing how much to charge also involves determining your skillset. For designers, this is an interesting look at the levels of abilities and determining prices based on that. I know that I'd be above level I and II but III an #
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4/06/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
kristine : Fade Images in Photoshop Using Layer Masks - Fade Images in Photoshop Using Layer Masks -- Learn to use a Photoshop layer mask to gradually fade images, and you have an impressive tool that can be applied to countless projects. Great overview on masking in Photoshop. Learning how to use Masks was #
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4/06/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Will Pate : Meta Efficient - A Guide To the Most Efficient Things in the World. Very, very cool.
Philippe Janvier : A Guide To the Most Efficient Things in the World - "Incorporating the tools and techniques outlined here can dramatically decrease your dependence on petroleum, electricity, gas for heating and cooling, municipal water and sewage utilities. Once implemented these sources will be available to you perpetual
kellan : Meta-Efficient: A Guide To Energy Efficient, Affordable, Reliable, Non-polluting Stuff (via) - Yay for informed consumerism! #
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4/06/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
jkottke : An extensive listing of songs that sample Blade Runner - An extensive listing of songs that sample Blade Runner (The site has listings for many other movies as well.)
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4/06/2004 @ 06:01 GMT
deusx : Eleven SSH Tricks - "Run remote GUI applications and tunnel any Net connection securely using a free utility that's probably already installed on your system."
Matthew M. Boedicker : Eleven SSH Tricks
Simon Willison : Eleven SSH Tricks - SSH is the geek's swiss army knife. (via) [via]
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4/06/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : American Journalism Review - "By randomly choosing a story a week to fact-check after it's published, the paper wants to simultaneously dissuade potential corner-cutters while proving to readers its commitment to honesty."
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4/06/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
jkottke : Some gorgeous photos of Iceland
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4/06/2004 @ 05:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Cornell University's Home Economics Archive - Before there was mock apple pie, before there was health class, there were a lot of frustratrated proto-feminists who wanted to make a science of the arts of domesticity.
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4/06/2004 @ 05:01 GMT
deusx : Psiloc Mobile Solutions - "Its main goal is to perform defined actions based on your location taken from your network."
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4/06/2004 @ 05:01 GMT
deusx : slacktivist: Eavesdropping on the president - "The point of that joke is that some people talk differently around one set of neighbors than they do around another set of neighbors -- and the differences can be revealing."
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4/06/2004 @ 05:01 GMT
deusx : Proof, Negative - "The Justice Department's triumphant victory over the Constitution."
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4/06/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Mole in Our Midst - "Finally, a grand, unified theory that explains Bush's domestic and international policies. Little did we know."
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4/06/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : PostgreSQL 7.4 - "The latest version of PostgreSQL has new features that you'll want to play with"
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4/06/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Skeptical Inquirer: Inorganic oil: much ado about nothing? - "Geoscientists are cringing as news reports dredge up what they have long considered a preposterous assertion about the origin of oil: That none of the fossil fuels found on this planet come from fossils."
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4/06/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Arch for CVS Users - "CVS users, don't let the next-generation version control system scare you"
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4/06/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Brainball, game controlled by alpha waves - the calmest person wins [via]
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4/06/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Creed breaking up? - in other news: world rejoices
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4/06/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : Forbes.com: Wearable Wireless Displays Are In Sight - "Imagine having a 17-inch screen constantly at your disposal that lets you look up information online, check your e-mail or watch a movie--and that isn't attached to a laptop." Yes. Gimme.
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4/06/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : ForwardTrack and Tom's Petition (kottke.org) - I remember working on something like this for web promotion email-a-friend. Happy to see it used in a dot-org kinda way.
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4/06/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : Gossip's Bootleg RSS Feeds Palooza - "On average, we serve 46,102 RSS requests (150.937 megabytes) per day."
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4/06/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : A Debugger for HFS Plus Volumes - "hfsdebug is meant to be a useful tool in exploring HFS internals, as it allows you to browse, inspect, and analyze various aspects of HFS volumes."
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4/06/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Erik Benson : Interesting report about Google: "Google Wins Users' Hearts, But Not Their Ad Clicks" - I personally think it could be a good business decision to sacrifice ad revenue for user experience: total ad revenue will still be higher if you have a majority of the people using your service.
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4/06/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
kaninka.net : Godwin´s Law - As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparision involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
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4/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
phil : Big Brother Popularity Poll - Graph showing changing popularity of housemates over time.
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4/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : EditThisPagePHP - A decent looking small site management system. (via)
jimray : EditThisPagePHP - Kind of a blog, kind of a wiki [via mathowie]
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4/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Exploring wxPython: The stdout/stderr Window and MessageDialogs - Joey deVilla's series on wxPython continues.
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4/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Chatted with the creator of Bikes Against Bush at the Parsons MFA Show last night - Chatted with the creator of Bikes Against Bush at the Parsons MFA Show last night (The thesis (PDF file) is interesting reading.)
anildash : art that i can fully support - bikes against bush's great "I Love New York" geekery
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4/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
cobra libre : tarkovsky polaroids - in my workers' utopia, everyone can afford polaroid film
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4/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : The Unix Power Classic: A book about the Unix Way and its power - 'This is my evolving hacker-oriented version of the Tao Te Ching (literally "way power classic").'
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