11/06/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
kellan : Scary news from Canada, which is on the verge of an electoral fascist takeover. - Canada: Spain in reverse #
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11/06/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Walking is for Communistic one-worlders - If John Galt were in charge of urban planning, he, too, would make sure that there were no neighborhood markets or six-block walks.
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11/06/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Pro wrestlers Nikita Koloff and Krusher Kruschev remember Reagan - "Ivan Koloff, who, like Nikita, retired from wrestling in the early 1990s, says that the end of the Cold War 'took the edge off' his character. 'Democracy is good for the world,' he says. 'But it was bad for business.'"
jkottke : Reagan's hot Cold War rhetoric made for lucrative careers in pro wrestling for faux Russkies - Reagan's hot Cold War rhetoric made for lucrative careers in pro wrestling for faux Russkies
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11/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Steve Cook : Rob Neyer on "Scout-speak" - "LONG LIMBED. RACE HORSE TYPE BODY. THIN ANKLES. LOOSE, LIVE, GRACEFUL ACTIONS. FULLY MATURED. RESEMBLES JON OLERUD."
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11/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
deusx : Kimmel show pulled for comments - "They're going to burn the city of Detroit down if the Pistons win, and it's not worth it." Hah! It'd only be an improvement!
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11/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Standards backlash - Molly offers some level-headed thoughts on the state of the standards community.
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11/06/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
dionidium : Business Logs - Growing your business everyday by managing knowledge. We are experts of business communication, internal business weblogs, knowledge blogs, and Wiki-powered collaborative software. [Business Logs] - The newest site of Matthew Oliphant, Mike Rundle, and Paul Scrivens. And it looks great, too.
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11/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
kellan : Monospaced Bitmap Programming Fonts - Optimized for code. Nice #
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11/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
Steve Cook : What the Bagel Man Saw - A bagel delivery service as a Petri dish for studying white collar crime.
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11/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
Steve Cook : The serial montage and the myth of communicative transcendence - Part of a site dedicated to "the semiotics of advertising".
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11/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : Son of Sam (David Berkowitz)'s blog - given that he's a serial killer, i'm okay that it's not powered by movable type
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11/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : the Macintosh Product Introduction Plan - great find by sippey, but i find it odd how mac culture is often stuck in the psat
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11/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : PRWeek looks into PR blogs - i'm surprised how interesting some of the sites are
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11/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : less than 2% of jobs are lost to outsourcing - why, it's almost as the outsourcing fears are driven by irrational xenophobia
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11/06/2004 @ 22:00 GMT
anildash : new WSDL for Atom - Randy's making a hugely important contribution to the community
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11/06/2004 @ 21:02 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : XForms 1.1 Requirements - Too bad IE 6.0 support isn't on the list #
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11/06/2004 @ 21:02 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Should you use Content Negotiation in your Web Services? - There is so much to learn, but this is a really nice subject, I wonder if WP will ever output PDF, XML, RDF, plain text, Atom using this mechanism :-) #
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11/06/2004 @ 21:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Airbag moves to safer domain name - From now on, its http://www.airbagindustries.com...
Dan Cederholm : airbagindustries.com - New location, same great site.
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11/06/2004 @ 21:01 GMT
anildash : nick should kill topstyle lite - he's asking for opinions, but it sounds like a clear decision to me
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11/06/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : rannie's great series of blogger photos - rannie's everyone's official press photographer
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11/06/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
anildash : Filet Mignon is Cancelled. Eat These Rice Cakes - stevie should be performing in honor of ray charles
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11/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
cobra libre : dinesh d'souza, CNN analyst - could they possibly have found a bigger asshole?
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11/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
cobra libre : dinesh and me - michael bérubé on dinesh d'souza
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11/06/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : search engine optimization - links and list items #
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11/06/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Regarding RSS reader evangelism - "RSS isn't the point." He has a point there (Atom is...) #
Ethan Marcotte : Regarding RSS reader evangelism - A means to an end that most people never need.
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11/06/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
cobra libre : reagan's legacy - today we should be honoring reagan's victims
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11/06/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
cobra libre : texas department of public safety notable flights - i'm glad somebody enjoys their job
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11/06/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Rebuttal to Ken Brown - "I'll bet he dismisses the widely reported claim that Mozart wrote three symphonies and performed for the King of England when he was nine on the grounds that 9-year-olds don't normally do this sort of thing."
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11/06/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Comparison of Linux code with MINIX code> - "So, I guess what I want to say is, pay no attention to this man; to the best of my knowledge he is talking out of his ass. I apologise for any inconvenience I may have caused you by participating (however indirectly) in Ken's pet project."
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11/06/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : ScriptableThinlet 0.5 - "ScriptableThinlet is extension of thinlet to add script langage inside the XUL file."
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11/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
deusx : QDN: Feedback works! - "...CNet’s willingness to set the record straight without any muss or fuss pleases me, and makes me respect the company all the more for its efforts."
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11/06/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Gmail account price crash - "Now current account holders should create artificial scarcity if they want to drive the price back up."
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11/06/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Automating/scripting iTunes on Windows - "Apple has posted an SDK for accessing iTunes using COM on Windows"
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11/06/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : gapingvoid: how to use your blog to get a job
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11/06/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Lik Sang Europe: Shipload of cutting-edge gaming gear - DDR & Music, GBA Movie Player, Smartjoys & more
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11/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Buy Dragon Quest V (PlayStation 2™) - Free Shipping Worldwide
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11/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Buy PlayStation2 DDR and Music at Lik-Sang.com - Wow. Have yet to find out how much shipping costs, but I feel like I got ripped off when I bought our last dance pad.
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11/06/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Steve Cook : The farms of Detroit - "Hayfields, mistaken for 'ghetto grass,; have been mowed down by the Department of Public Works just as they are ready to be cut and baled." Detroit -is- the post-apocalyptic future.
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11/06/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Lobster: The Journal of Parapolitics - Issue 43 contains such articles as: Parafinance: Enron and drilling for red ink; Blair and Israel; How to fix an election; Mind control etc; The corporate ex-spook business; and Into the Whitehall maw: The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), The Norman B
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11/06/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
deusx : Nanotechnology pioneer slays 'grey goo' myth - "The authors explain why self-replication, contrary to previous understanding, is unnecessary for building an efficient and effective molecular manufacturing system."
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11/06/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
deusx : Life Assessment Quiz [dive into mark] - ...wherein the quiz itself is relentlessly critiqued as obsessive-compulsive and offensively materialistic. Your life is not Ikea and all that Fight Club jazz. (I thought the quiz was interesting.)
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11/06/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
deusx : The Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys - "Sea-Monkeys® are a true miracle of nature."
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11/06/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
deusx : thejohncleese.com - "Welcome to my Web-Site. Extraordinarily exciting and dramatic things will start happening here just as soon as I've had a cup of tea."
Aquarion : TheJohnCleese.com - John Cleese has mended his kettle
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11/06/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Tom Coates : The current temperature on the various lines of the London Underground
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11/06/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Business Logs - Or the site is really succesful or they have messed up the launch #
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11/06/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Computer Book Covers are Nuts - Some books have bad content as well #
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11/06/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Not-so-secret WordPress switches - Get your $WEBLOG_APP on.
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11/06/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Gallery of Computation - Fractals, fractals, everywhere.
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11/06/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Simon Willison: Embracing Best Practice - like taking cooking lessons from a chef who only ever talks about food safety
Philippe Janvier : Embracing Best Practice - "Let's face it: web standards are boring! Focusing discussions on them is like taking cooking lessons from a chef who only ever talks about food safety; sure they're important, but there's so much more involved in creating a decent meal."
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11/06/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Digital Web Magazine - News - Burnt Out on Web Standards - Are you burnt out as well? What kind of other topics would you like to see us cover here?
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11/06/2004 @ 14:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : How to un-DRM your un-DRM'd iTunes 4.6 songs - Well, this popped up at just the right time.
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11/06/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Isofarro : Matt May: JavaScript and accessibility - Scripting for WCAG V2.0
Ethan Marcotte : JavaScript and accessibility - Matt May plans to release accessible scripts with WCAG 2.0, and he wants your help to do it.
Simon Willison : JavaScript and accessibility - Matt May is seeking JavaScripters to help build a library of accessible scripts.
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11/06/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : 10 Reasons Why English is so Difficult to Translate - "All of these peculiarities of English grammar often make it difficult for non-native English speakers to get a full command of the language. It is also difficult when it comes to translating English technical writing into other languages."
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11/06/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Tom Coates : People from Norfolk (where I grew up) are called Norvicensians (Note my old school is returned as the second result)
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11/06/2004 @ 09:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Phil switches to UTF-8 - Nice you switched to UTF-8! Now we only need to convince the rest of the world... :-) #
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11/06/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Standards Police - Validation is worth it #
dionidium : Standards Police - Matthew Mullenweg on Keith's retirement with a long response from Keith.
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11/06/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : WP Admin crashes in XML mode - Someone had to report it #
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11/06/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Isofarro : Atom News - IETF Atom Working Group approved
Anne van Kesteren : Atom News - 'Yes, there will be an Atom IETF Working Group. No, there is no "standards war".' #
François Nonnenmacher : Atom Goes to IETF - There will be an Atom IETF Working Group and there is no “standards war”
deusx : ongoing · Atom News - "There is no meaningful technical conflict between RSS and Atom. RSS is widely deployed and is not going away any time soon."
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11/06/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Charles Miller : Groovy - The Groovy Language Website has grown plenty since I last looked at it.
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11/06/2004 @ 07:01 GMT
kellan : Reading Forty Signs of Rain - KSR enters into 'Day After Tomorrow' terriroty. #
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11/06/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
kellan : Reading Altered Carbon - Gritty, and well-written, but most of the big ideas were covered in 'Kiln People' #
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11/06/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
kellan : Reading The Coffee Trader - Coffee and the origins of capitalism? How could I resist. #
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11/06/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Things my girlfriend and I have argued about. - Therapy in the making.
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11/06/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : garfield generator - funnier than the real thing [via] #
Andy Baio : Garfield Generator shut down by lawyers - it took three random Garfield panels for a Zen reading experience [via]
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11/06/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
François Hodierne : IETF action - La fin de l'épisode ? [via] #
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11/06/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
deusx : NPR : Ashcroft Refuses to Provide Torture Memos - Uhh.. since when should he have a right to refuse such a request?
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11/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors - '"The results are enough to scrap the systems completely, and to send the various fingerprint biometric companies packing," said Schneier'
Jeremy Zawodny : Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors - Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors: kick ass!
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11/06/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : Garbage Pail Kids World - Official home site!
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11/06/2004 @ 01:08 GMT
cobra libre : psychohistory - your sociology degree's looking a bit puny right now, huh?
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11/06/2004 @ 01:08 GMT
cobra libre : pataphysics - merdre de taureau or good science? damn my french is poor
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11/06/2004 @ 01:08 GMT
Will Pate : The lure of a Micro-Business - David St Lawrence forsees a day when getting a salaried job is a cop out for those without confidence and skill.
deusx : Ripples: The lure of a Micro-Business - "I can easily see the day coming when a new graduate chooses a career as a salaried employee only because he or she hasn't got the necessary confidence and skill to start their own business."
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11/06/2004 @ 01:07 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Stopdesign - I really need a new design !
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11/06/2004 @ 01:07 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Real Simple Shopping - "Stop giving your email address to marketers!"
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11/06/2004 @ 01:06 GMT
Simon Willison : Protect Data in Panther - Storing notes in your Keychain and saving files in encrypted disk images. (via)
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11/06/2004 @ 01:06 GMT
Simon Willison : A Reason to Visit Lawrence, Kansas - We're hosting a couple two-day conferences.
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11/06/2004 @ 01:06 GMT
Tom Coates : Dan Hon's getting married! - Dan Hon's getting married!
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11/06/2004 @ 01:05 GMT
Tom Coates : Hotels on Easter Island (with thanks to Dan "The Otter" Burzynski) - Hotels on Easter Island (with thanks to Dan "The Otter" Burzynski)
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11/06/2004 @ 01:05 GMT
Tom Coates : Really nice CSS-based taster blocks
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11/06/2004 @ 01:05 GMT
anildash : R.I.P. Ray Charles - one time as a kid, i sat next to him at an airport. i've liked him ever since.
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11/06/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
anildash : reuters realizes phones are the new cameras - i'm wondering if standalone cameras will disappear entirely
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11/06/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
deusx : AlterNet: Cold Turkey - "Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey."
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11/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : GPK Cental - Home Page - Hooray for Garbage Pail Kids
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11/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : Suicide by Psuedoscience - "Politics without objective, honest measurement of results is a deadly short circuit."
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11/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : Bruce Campbell is the King - "Your soul can be removed just as easily through your asshole as any other orifice."
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11/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : RSS et publicité, enfin une bonne idée - Fils de pub : ne dites pas à ma mère je suis dans la pub. Elle croit que je pianote en lisant mes fils RSS.
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11/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Google mulls RSS support - "Were Google to support both RSS and Atom equally, it might help ease growing pains for this growing Web publishing movement. It would also restore Google to the status of a neutral party in the midst of a bitter fight between backers of RSS and Atom."
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