9/06/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
Richard MacManus : NZ Herald item about Shrek the sheep being butchered on tv - NZ's celebrity sheep carved up on Eating Media Lunch, a hilarious local tv program.
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9/06/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Richard MacManus : Lucas Gonze on RVW, "another post-RSS syndication format" - "...it applies the general concept of syndication to a specific vertical application, reviews."
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9/06/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
anildash : jane's blog, from new Oxygen series - surprisingly funny in-character TypePad blog from "Good Girls Don't"
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9/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : weird new york life indian promotion - they've been advertising this like crazy to non-resident indians. free CDs!
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9/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : careful assessment of the harry potter cast - whoa, wesley!
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9/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : kottke discovers black and white cookies - i understand that some people in new york city like the bagels, as well.
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9/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : AmericanPresident.org - lots of nice documentation, and a useful way to contrast reality and image
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9/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
anildash : neil's firefox 0.9 tour - neil's getting tons of deserved attention for his great screenshot walkthroughs
Kayode Okeyode : Firefox 0.9 Tour
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9/06/2004 @ 22:02 GMT
Isofarro : WHAT's going on? - Simon Willison rounds up the events around the W3C web applications workshop
Simon Willison : WHAT's going on? - In which I attempt to make some sense of the recent formation of the WHAT WG.
Paul Hammond : WHAT's going on? - SitePoint DHTML & CSS Blog - It seems that the W3C just isn't interested in extending the abilities of existing web technologies
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9/06/2004 @ 22:02 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : bert1.gif (the W3C Bert) - Hah! #
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9/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
jkottke : All about the Brazilian bikini wax - All about the Brazilian bikini wax (So named for the seven Brazilian sisters that introduced it to the US.)
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9/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
jkottke : The 2004 Republican ticket is set for success: Bush and Zombie Reagan - The 2004 Republican ticket is set for success: Bush and Zombie Reagan ("Zombie Reagan: More Than One Life to Give for his Country.")
anildash : Bush-Zombie Reagan '04 - it's funny because it's *true*
Adam Gessaman : Bush/Zombie Reagan 2004
Tom Coates : Bush / Zombie-Reagan in '04! - Bush / Zombie-Reagan in '04!
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9/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
anildash : Hands-On Mozzarella - what could be better than making cheese? Nothing!
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9/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : tivo adds video on demand - finally! good move, tivo.
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9/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : create a favicon from any image - make your own 16-color smudge!
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9/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : persian weblog festival! - man, a festival sounds a lot more fun than a conference
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9/06/2004 @ 21:02 GMT
kellan : apparently *all* internet explorer [dhtml] apps leak memory - due to poor javascript model #
Simon Willison : Implementation issues with DHTML behaviors - Interesting post by Dean Edwards to the WHAT WG mailing list. (via)
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9/06/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
veen : RadioRocketBRUNX - Geeks attach camera to model rocket, use footage to make Radiohead video.
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9/06/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : WHAT's going on? - SitePoint DHTML & CSS Blog - It seems that the W3C just isn't interested in extending the abilities of existing web technologies
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9/06/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Window Into Hell: The Images of Children's Toys Today - Finally, it is revealed: Optimus Prime is the Devil, and glamorous, bosomy Barbie is his bride.
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9/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : use Perl | mod_perl Presence Dying at OSCON - Seems like the shine is wearing off Perl these days...
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9/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : Microsoft Security Bulletins in RSS - Point and laugh.
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9/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : wg:"JavaScript is the worst invention ever" - I'd love to hear more from Bert himself on the issue, but that's what I can make out of it
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9/06/2004 @ 19:02 GMT
Isofarro : analysis of the 180 Solutions Trojan - Fascinating dissection of a trojan - demonstrating more unfixed IE security holes
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9/06/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
doug : The Safari Conundrum - Todd brings up some good points about the future of web-based applications and Mac users.
Paul Hammond : What Do I Know - The Safari Conundrum - everything is dependent upon the Safari development team
Anne van Kesteren : The Safari Conundrum - Argh, people need Microsoft now? #
Tom Coates : What happens when IE for the Mac is completely discontinued?
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9/06/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
Adam Gessaman : October Surprise! - What will happen before the election?
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9/06/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Steve Cook : It's All in the Cards - A history of playing card design.
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9/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Aquarion : clean sweep assessment - Tickyboxen to a better life
Matthew M. Boedicker : The Clean Sweep Program is a checklist of 100 items which, when completed, give one complete personal freedom.
Paul Hammond : clean sweep assessment - The Clean Sweep Program is a checklist of 100 items which, when completed, give one complete personal freedom
deusx : clean sweep assessment - Oh yeah, and has anyone ever observed the similarity of time-management / self-help writing to that of the Amazing Live Seamonkeys writing?
Tom Coates : I got 16 out of 100 on this "Make a Better Me" thing. Stupid bloody quiz. - I got 16 out of 100 on this "Make a Better Me" thing. Stupid bloody quiz.
merlinmann : clean sweep assessment - "I use well-made sunglasses...My hair is the way I want it." Jesus, this is awful. I mean, seriously. Read some of this aloud. [via pronoia.wordpress.com]
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9/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
phil : JavaScript Rollovers: Introduction - Doc JavaScript - But frankly, we need to go back to last century to do rollovers that will work everywhere. Sigh.
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9/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : David Sedaris, literary rock star - David Sedaris, literary rock star (He was at Barnes and Noble in NYC last week reading and signing books for almost 5 hours.)
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9/06/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : compact mac gallery - Lots of neat old classic Macs
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9/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Birthday cards to celebrities - Read. Them. All.
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9/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : peepo - web directory for the cognitively disabled [via] #
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9/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : gzip: well, sometimes it's simple - feeds don't have this problem because there is no in-document charset directive #
Simon Willison : gzip: well, sometimes it's simple - Finally a clear explanation of BlogSpot's weird junk character problem in FireFox.
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9/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : fallen arches - debunking the myth that no two countries have ever been to war after opening a mcdonald's #
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9/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : contradictions in accessibility: links and default link styles - by default, visited and unvisited links are distinguished by color alone... oops #
Anne van Kesteren : Contradictions in Accessibility - Links and Default Link Styles - Heh, guess nobody ever though about that before [via] #
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9/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : use hreflang to suggest the language of the linked document - elsewhere in the html spec it says 'lang', but it's really 'hreflang' #
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9/06/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : analyzing the author of the Witty worm
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9/06/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner on the economics of bagels - Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner on the economics of bagels (Man distributes bagels to companies, watches payment trends. Small companies are more honest in payment than large ones, bagel crime dropped 15% after 9/11, and people steal more around Xmas.)
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9/06/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : OB/GYNs are getting upset when people decide to deliver at home with midwives because it cuts into hospital profits - OB/GYNs are getting upset when people decide to deliver at home with midwives because it cuts into hospital profits (Maybe we should seek a better way to run a healthcare system.)
deusx : snowdeal.org > ex machina > pregnancy update: The Great MidWife Controversy - "my guess is that you're seeing what happens when you start messing around with a hospital's pregnancy profit center."
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9/06/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Purportal - Your one-stop urban myth debunking shop.
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9/06/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : RSS, Atom, And The Syndication Standards Dance - RSS/Atom en résumé.
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9/06/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Feds want e-voting source code disclosed
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9/06/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Postcolonial critic has problem with Magic Realism - Under Western eyes it may be "magic", but to another culture it is "real".
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9/06/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : WaSP survey - Web Standards: Who Cares Anyway? (filed under Web standards).
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9/06/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Blog fiction, or literary blogs - Apparently this is quite popular. Reminded me of Andrew's comment. [via]
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9/06/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Tom Coates : My personal opinions on search engine optimisers from June last year
Aquarion : Against Search Engine Optimisers... - Now search google for "Best Joke Ever"
Simon Willison : Against Search Engine Optimisers... - Tom Coates on SEO, a year ago.
Isofarro : Against Search Engine Optimisers - Don't waste your money with search engine optimisers
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9/06/2004 @ 12:01 GMT
Isofarro : HTTP conditional get for RSS hackers - using If-Modified-Since and etag (via Mark)
jimray : The Fishbowl: HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers - How to implement HTTP 304 codes
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9/06/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Isofarro : CSUN conference on technology and persons with disabilities - Peter Korn on accessibility (via Tim Bray)
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9/06/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
phil : Open Terminal Here - Handy AppleScript that opens a Terminal session in the current Finder directory (or in any folders you drop on it).
Matthew M. Boedicker : AppleScript to open a terminal at your current location in Finder
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9/06/2004 @ 11:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Candidate Available - Time to upgrade (or wait till next monday when the "real stable" version arrives) #
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9/06/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Jon Hicks : Web Essentials 04 - Where I'd ideally like to be this September! Dave Shea, Doug Bowman, Joe Clark and many more......
Ethan Marcotte : Web Essentials '04 - Damn multi-thousand airfares to Australia. Wish I could go.
Dan Cederholm : Web Essentials 04 - If only I could make the trip to Australia...
Eric Meyer : Web Essentials 04 - It's happening soon, and the speaker list is outstanding, so get yourself registered if you can make it to Sydney. I wish I could be there.
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9/06/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Jon Hicks : Bending the matrix - Unordered lists on a curve? Too much old tovey surely? It seems not......
Paul Hammond : OrderedList.com Examples : Bending the Matrix - how I bent the navigation bar at the top of my site
Simon Willison : OrderedList.com Examples : Bending the Matrix - That's some pretty crazy image replacement! (via)
Tom Coates : Satisfyingly pointless CSS-based navigation that goes around corners
deusx : OrderedList.com Examples : Bending the Matrix - Nifty curved site nav
Kayode Okeyode : Orderedlist.com: Bending the Matrix
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9/06/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : even more fun with subdomains - What's next? The CSS3 Color profile? :-) #
Paul Hammond : milov.nl: even more fun with subdomains - an attempt to pollute subdomainspace even further
Simon Willison : milov.nl: even more fun with subdomains - "As of today, in an attempt to pollute subdomainspace even further..." (via)
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9/06/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
anildash : missed by two days - eventually i topped the google search for the contest
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9/06/2004 @ 09:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Website Pirouet gelanceerd - Op naar een "standaard compliant" NL! #
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9/06/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Stop. Design. Reload. - 2004: drop shadows and 750px width centered layouts #
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9/06/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Site elimination service - Kill any site on the internet for $150/day.
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9/06/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Pressed and Ready - Looks great, will probably take another 6 months before *I* get it here as happened with the orange book :-) #
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9/06/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : si-blog requirements - Keeping URIs alive should be priority 1 #
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9/06/2004 @ 08:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Andrew has an automatic blogroll - It logs what he is reading. Sort of a Truman Show for weblogs.
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9/06/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Fanfare for the common man - A little history.
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9/06/2004 @ 06:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 10 foods you should never eat
anildash : 10 foods you shold never eat - okay filmmakers, subsist on just *this* menu for a month!
deusx : 10 Super Foods You Should NEVER Eat! - Wow, who knew? "How can one doughnut have as much artery-clogging saturated and trans fat (10 grams) as nine strips of bacon? That’s what happens when you completely cover a doughnut in chocolate."
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9/06/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Charles Miller : Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow - Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow "A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products, and missed opportunities could doom SeattleÂ’s most successful company."
François Nonnenmacher : Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow
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9/06/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Will Pate : Prince Edward Island - A map of where I live for a colleague in Australia.
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9/06/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : why not to use permalinks as opaque identifiers - urls can be redirected, ids can't #
Isofarro : JRoller does it again - A case against using permalinks as unique identifiers (via Mark)
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9/06/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : five modes of transportation that will ensure you never get laid - i've ridden all of these #
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9/06/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
doug : Google Doodles - Dennis Hwang on all the alterations of the Google logo he has created.
Anne van Kesteren : Oodles of Doodles - Maybe they could do something with my birthday [via] #
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9/06/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Adam Gessaman : Staticize Plugin for Wordpress - Get your static content pages for WP. Save milliseconds.
Mark Pilgrim : staticize: caching plugin for wordpress - must try [via] #
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9/06/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
kellan : Reagan almost killed me.. and you. - Its only too bad he had Alzheimer's and never really understood the scope of his actions. #
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9/06/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
kaninka.net : The public whip
factoryjoe : The Public Whip — Counting votes on your behalf - Every week, a dozen or so times, your MP votes on changes to British law. This is their definitive exercise of power on your behalf. The Public Whip lets you see all their votes so you can hold them to account. Saved By: Chris Messina |
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9/06/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
kellan : How much it would cost to bulk mail DVDs of Farenheit 9/11 to targeted voters in swing states about a week before election day? - Ideas for making the most of Farenheit 9/11 #
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9/06/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Photos from protest of MTA photo ban - Great stuff.
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9/06/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
doug : Rumsfeld Fighting Techniques Rumsfeld Fighting Technique - Too funny not to link. Really like West Side and Crouching Tiger.
veen : POE News: Rumsfeld Fighting Technique - Twin Cobra Fist! Viper Fang!
Eric Meyer : Rumsfeld Fighting Technique - He could so totally take down Saddam in a game of RPS. [via Jeff] [via]
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9/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : del.icio.us/chomp_joiito - The #joiito shared bookmark bot.
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9/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : hostile movie theaters - hostile movie theaters: amen to that
Adam Gessaman : Hostile Movie Theaters - If you beat your customers long enough, they just stop saying "Please, sir, may I have another!"
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9/06/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Thrilling Days of Yesteryear - A weblog devoted to the golden days of radio.
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9/06/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
deusx : Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. - 'Isn't reason number 3,334 for this war "freedom"? So give it to the Iraqis already.'
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9/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/examples/reuse.atom.html - I really like Atom, but... tell me again why it doesn't look like this? I suspect there are very good reasons, but...?
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9/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Amazon.com: Toys & Games: The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys Executive Set - Tempted time and time again to get this.
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9/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Erik Benson : The Clean Sweep Program is a checklist of 100 items which, when completed, give one complete personal freedom - A quick glance at it makes me think that this isn't exactly my idea of a complete personal freedom, but it might be worth a try.
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9/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Incredibly detailed page of information on the Venus transit
Graham Leuschke : informaziones del transitio de Venere - I saw it! I saw it!
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9/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Michael Lewis on social responsible business practices - Michael Lewis on social responsible business practices (I have so much to write about this issue, but a quick link will have to do for now.)
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9/06/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
kellan : A Tribute to Reagan - I guess I really was out of touch for a week, first I heard he died. #
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9/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : A tutorial on vim (1 of 3 parts)
deusx : A tutorial on vim (1 of 3 parts) | Linux Gazette
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9/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : We're Not in Hungary Anymore: Microsoft's .NET Naming Guidelines - We're Not in Hungary Anymore: Microsoft's .NET Naming Guidelines
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9/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Building a Site Engine with PHP, Part 1
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9/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Ten evangelism and IT lessons from one of America's biggest churches - Ten evangelism and IT lessons from one of America's biggest churches
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9/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Redesign of the Internet Movie Database: Whitespace announces 3 finalists
Adam Gessaman : IMDb redesign... - I prefer Minz Meyer's version.
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9/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red Hat Linux coming
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