5/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events - Full Trailer - "Christmas Cheer Take a Holiday" [via] #
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5/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Virtual real estate boom in Second Life - this virtual island sold for US$900 [via]
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5/06/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Ray Bradbury rips Michael Moore - "He stole my title and changed the numbers without ever asking me for permission." Heh.
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5/06/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Talk of implementing TextilePHP in Textpattern - Oh, the irony.
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5/06/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Rock band Creed breaks up - Only one paper carries the news. Scott Stapp promises to feed his messianic megalomania by starring in small town productions of Jesus Christ, Superstar.
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5/06/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Eggers vs. Supply and Demand - Too many teachers? Or too much difficultly separating the good ones from the bad ones?
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5/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Fahrenheit 9/11 trailer - Oh, I can't wait for the 'debate' on this movie. This is going to be *classic*.
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5/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : My party's leader came to talk about tax cuts, but all I got was this embarrassing photo
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5/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : SQLiteServer - Umm... WHAT?! US$269 for a server wrapped around SQLite?! I must either be missing something very good about it, or this is a crazy rip-off.
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5/06/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
deusx : Welcome to the internet - "We don't like you. We don't want you here. We never will. Save us all the trouble and go away."
Kayode Okeyode : Welcome to the Internet. No one here likes you.
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5/06/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
deusx : The Fishbowl: Why No Mac Malware? - "You can explain almost all of the relative safety in running Mac OS X with its low market-share."
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5/06/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name - "Witnesses told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush knew about, and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative's name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband, a critic of administration policy in Iraq."
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5/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
deusx : Atari Bionics Prototype Sketches - "Below are many of the prototype concept sketches that Regan Cheng created when designing the whole idea of a modular medical system while at Atari."
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5/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
deusx : Waxy.org: Daily Log: New Harry Potter Film Pirated Online - "As predicted, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkahan was camcorded and leaked online today, moments after the Friday matinees ended on the East coast."
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5/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Bubble Fun is yet another one of those addictive games - Bubble Fun is yet another one of those addictive games (I could only manage about 25,000.)
Anne van Kesteren : Bubble fun - Great game! [via] #
Tom Coates : Highly entertaining - if time-consuming - bubble-based game
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5/06/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
Tomas Jogin : Fish Swimming the Wrong Way - "We talk about training the people in Iraq and giving them tools, as if they are children and have no skills or craft themselves. Have we totally forgotten that civilization started in that country? Are we so blind to the fact that they are college educat
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5/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Tartakovsky Helms Astroboy - "Sony Pictures Entertainment has struck a deal with animator Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack) to write and direct its long-in-development film version of the classic Japanese animated series Astroboy, Variety reported."
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5/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Bank's clients in limbo - "In one of the worst messes since banks put their faith in computers, today is the fifth day in which the Royal Bank of Canada cannot tell its 10 million Canadian customers with any certainty how much money is in their accounts."
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5/06/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Wikis: The Next Frontier for Spammers?
Andy Baio : Wikis are the next frontier for link spammers - Slashdot has more on the story
jkottke : The Wiki is dead. Long live the Wiki. - The Wiki is dead. Long live the Wiki. (First, there will be IP-based banning. Then blacklists. Then shared blacklists. Bayes. Whitelists. Then an authentication system will be proposed. Stop me if this sounds familiar.)
Cameron Marlow : Wikis: the next frontier for link spammers - The average wiki probably doesn't have high PageRank compared to the average weblog, so I'm sure they're not as high of a priority for spammers
Tom Coates : Wikis - the next frontier for spammers. All new paradigms of social software now have to think about dealing with spam as one of their first major pieces of functionality...
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5/06/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
phil : Broadway Market: Quality Speciality Variety - The Saturday farmers' market is getting bigger and better every week.
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5/06/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Apparently the pixies were even better the day after I went to see them...
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5/06/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The nanotube light bulb: bright idea
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5/06/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Who owns a weblog's content?
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5/06/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
anildash : FeedDemon 1.1 (now AtomEnabled) - the best desktop syndication client for Windows just keeps getting better
Anne van Kesteren : What's New in FeedDemon 1.10 - Maybe he should map RSS to Atom instead of the other way around [via] #
Mark Pilgrim : feeddemon 1.1 is out - now atom-enabled #
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5/06/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
kaninka.net : The Register - Þurfum við að framvÃsa fingraförum à framtÃðinni til að spila tónlist? RIAA hleypir nýju lÃfi à lÃkamshluta markaðinn.
Andy Baio : RIAA wants your fingerprints - biometric DRM for music is a truly awful idea [via]
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5/06/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Proposed clarification for RSS 2.0 spec - For every new project that involves syndication, I'm going to try to avoid RSS as much as possible, since (1) it sucks and (2) better alternative options are available #
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5/06/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Nucleus v3.0 Released - It seems they stopped serving stuff as 'application/xhtml+xml', pitty #
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5/06/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Yoshinoya restaurant game for the PS2 - the modern equivalent of Chase the Chuckwagon for the 2600
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5/06/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Internet Explorer To Mozilla Migration Guide - What?! You are actually going to read this? Haven't you switched yet? [via] #
Kayode Okeyode : Internet Explorer To Mozilla Migration Guide
Simon Willison : IE to Mozilla Guide for Web Application Developers - Extremely useful overview of CSS and DOM differences between the two browsers.
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5/06/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : 10 reasons for web standards - I hope he can keep this link working when he is going to upgrade his URIs #
Kayode Okeyode : 10 reasons for web standards
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5/06/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : CSS Vault v.3 - I wonder if it is supposed to look messed up in Mozilla? Ah, a refresh works. #
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5/06/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Broken Windows - "Zero tolerance, on the part of the user community, is the only policy that can work." #
François Nonnenmacher : Broken Windows - Mac users donÂ’t tolerate shit
deusx : Daring Fireball: Broken Windows - "Mac users don’t tolerate shit."
Tomas Jogin : John Gruber: Why are Windows users besieged by security exploits, but Mac users are not? - Because 97% of the market has 97% of the script kiddies, 97% of the malicious hackers, and 97% of the evil businesses?
Kayode Okeyode : Broken Windows (Windows is broken because we tolerate it)
Tom Coates : "Mac Users don't tolerate shit" - it's a nice theory and there's a lot of truth in it, but it's also a little too convenient for me... - "Mac Users don't tolerate shit" - it's a nice theory and there's a lot of truth in it, but it's also a little too convenient for me...
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5/06/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
jkottke : The undersea explorer who found the wreck of the Titanic 19 years ago has returned to the North Atlantic site to find out why the luxury liner is decaying more quickly than expected. - The undersea explorer who found the wreck of the Titanic 19 years ago has returned to the North Atlantic site to find out why the luxury liner is decaying more quickly than expected. (Perhaps because it's lying at the bottom of the ocean?)
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5/06/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
anildash : SEO contest FAQ - good backgrounder on what's up with my latest post
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5/06/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Lab notebooks - At work, I occasionally run into a guy who uses these where I might use a legal pad, and it seems like a nice idea.
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5/06/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Anil gets in the Nigritude Ultramarine game - the contest has revealed the deepest secrets of the SEO scumbags
anildash : Nigritude Ultramarine - in which Anil whores himself out for an iPod
jkottke : Nigritude Ultramarine
Steve Cook : Nigritude Ultramarine - Anil Dash wants an iPod real bad, and somewhere the ghost of Bernard Shaw is prepared to offer him tuppence and haggle over the price.
Isofarro : Nigritude Ultramarine - I'd rather Anil Dash win an IPod than a blog spammer
deusx : Nigritude Ultramarine - "Do me a favor: Link to this post with the phrase Nigritude Ultramarine."
Adam Gessaman : Nigritude Ultramarine - /me is a horrible follower.
dionidium : Nigritude Ultramarine - Helping Anil Dash win the DarkBlue, Search Guild SEO contest.
Ethan Marcotte : Nigritude Ultramarine - I really don't have enough ultramarine in my life.
kristine : Nigritude Ultramarine - Nigritude Ultramarine. Why? for the ever-cool Anil and his quest to get an ipod. :) #
Tom Coates : For Anil and because SEO by spamming is just plain wrong: Nigritude Ultramarine
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5/06/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
veen : The 10-Cent Beer Night fiasco - 30 years ago tonight, things went crazy in Cleveland
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5/06/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Experiments in riding motorcycles while drunk - with a heroic .247 blood-alcohol level [via]
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5/06/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Spelling bee competitor faints, recovers - he went on to spell the word correctly and take second place
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5/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : Are developers stealing code? - "Developers who keep a copy of code that they wrote in one job and then reuse it for a subsequent employer seem blithely unaware of the legal implications"
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5/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting - A case study in improving application performance.
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5/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Like a weblog, but completely different - "If it wasn't for BugMeNot bypassing your registration, I would let someone else show ads around your content, and wouldn't ever link to you."
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5/06/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Tomas Jogin : The W3C likes Atom - "We at W3C like Atom. In fact, we like it so much that we want to work on it. We like it so much that we're offering a staff member to play the role of process sherpa."
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5/06/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
cobra libre : a field guide to prescriptivists - and now i want to read about bacteria
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5/06/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Philippe Janvier : RAP - RDF API for PHP V0.8 - R.A.S.
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5/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Tom Coates : I swear - I wish cashiers would stop talking to me and I don't appreciate Sainsbury's bullying their staff into half-heartedly harrassing me with insincere embarrassed drivel - I swear - I wish cashiers would stop talking to me and I don't appreciate Sainsbury's bullying their staff into half-heartedly harrassing me with insincere embarrassed drivel
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5/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Story of getting mugged yesterday in SF - reminds me of Mat's similar story [via]
Adam Gessaman : Mugged, with gun
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5/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Slashdot discussion on programmer parenting -
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5/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Wiki hype, part 2 - Business journalists have discovered wikis. Next step: three zillion crappy startups!
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5/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Crao wiki - Fo Af - Le monde est petit ici aussi :)
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5/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Seanbaby's Top 10 Internet Fads - memes, not trends
deusx : The 10 Best Internet Fads - "A look back at what made the internet worth surfing."
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