16/06/2004 @ 23:12 GMT
kaninka.net : Þú ert ekki Dave Chappelle
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16/06/2004 @ 23:11 GMT
cobra libre : lesotho suddenly fascinates me - pro: no sailors. con: no seafood.
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16/06/2004 @ 22:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Build a 1.2 terabyte RAID file server for $1600 - $33,400 cheaper than January 2002 [via]
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16/06/2004 @ 22:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Metafilter goes social with Mefi Contacts - here's my growing contacts page
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16/06/2004 @ 22:02 GMT
jkottke : How to read difficult books, especially fiction
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16/06/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
anildash : tough call: no XP service pack for pirates? - i understand the security concern, but i also understand microsoft's position
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16/06/2004 @ 21:05 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : The orange XML icon sucks - So why use (and promote) it? #
Philippe Janvier : The orange XML icon sucks - Now XML is also known as RSS :)
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16/06/2004 @ 21:05 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : The Great Book Giveaway Contest - 43 has always been my lucky number... #
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16/06/2004 @ 21:03 GMT
Andy Baio : Retailers say Doom 3 for PC in late July - Xbox version following in October [via]
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16/06/2004 @ 21:03 GMT
Andy Baio : New Scientist update on ChatNannies - still a hoax, Wightman showed off a modified copy of the Alice bot
Erik Benson : New Scientist still not sure if Jim Wightman is for real (how many strange coincidences will it take?) - I knew my Google News Alert for Jim would turn up some interesting stuff
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16/06/2004 @ 20:02 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Character Encoding and HTML Forms - Important, read it please #
Kayode Okeyode : Character Encoding and HTML Forms
Isofarro : Character encoding and HTML forms - a browser will submit the data from a form using the same character encoding that the page is served in
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16/06/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Forcing Comment Previews - For people who use MT #
dionidium : Forcing Comment Previews - Jacques Distler has more help for Movable Type users interested in comment validation.
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16/06/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
deusx : LawMeme - How Not to Shutter a Service: Weblogs.com Goes Dark - "Dave Winer says you can trust him. Can you?" Ouchie ow.
dionidium : How Not to Shutter a Service: Weblogs.com Goes Dark - Charity is not impunity.
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16/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Info Freako, or who's already past arguing about syndication formats? - Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog - while I freakishly want to catch as much info as possible, I can only handle so much in a day
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16/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Joystiq, new gaming blog by the Engadget folks - bringing the Weblogs, Inc. roster to 49 blogs
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16/06/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : This person has read 112 books so far this year - This person has read 112 books so far this year (Including 4 Harry Potter books in 2 days.)
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16/06/2004 @ 19:04 GMT
Erik Benson : A well-written essay on a topic that ends up being pretty obvious - I do like all the Microsoft history folklore that's included
kellan : "Windows developers added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if so ran the memory allocator in a special mode." - I would *never* buy an operating system from someone who thought that was a good idea. #
anildash : How Microsoft Lost the API War - hey, joel's really good at this stuff
Andy Baio : Joel on How Microsoft Lost the API War - still catching up on my links since Baby Day [via]
Paul Hammond : Joel on Software - How Microsoft Lost the API War - The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing
Anne van Kesteren : How Microsoft Lost the API War - One for tomorrow, intro looks nice though #
Simon Willison : Joel on Software - How Microsoft Lost the API War - Read it through for a fascinating conclusion.
Kayode Okeyode : How Microsoft Lost the API War
Richard MacManus : Joel Spolsky on Microsoft's desktop API strategy - "The new API is HTML". Great essay on why browser apps are winning the war against rich clients.
Tomas Jogin : Joel on Software - How Microsoft Lost the API War - Fantastic, astonishingly insightful article by Joel Spolsky. If you only read one article about software this year...
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16/06/2004 @ 19:04 GMT
kellan : it's been a long day - it's been a long day #
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16/06/2004 @ 19:03 GMT
Tomas Jogin : Series Finale: That Wicked Worn Look - Whatever you do, don't miss this!
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16/06/2004 @ 19:03 GMT
cobra libre : the fine tang of faintly scented urine - eat with relish!
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16/06/2004 @ 19:02 GMT
deusx : MSNBC - Grim Numbers - "A U.S.-sponsored poll shows Iraqis have lost confidence in the occupying authorities--and that the majority of Iraqis want Coalition troops out of the country ‘immediately’"
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16/06/2004 @ 19:02 GMT
Andy Baio : RSS feed of Suprnova box sets - reminder: the RIAA monitors Suprnova
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16/06/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
Andy Baio : 3D FPS-style car navigation system in Japan - this is badass, but not a very practical visualization [via]
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16/06/2004 @ 18:13 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Linux Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO
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16/06/2004 @ 18:13 GMT
tehu : Weblogs.com shutdown : and now the movie script! - Waiting for the NéoCon version. Forthcoming title : Weblog Holocaust!
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16/06/2004 @ 18:13 GMT
cobra libre : the ulysses project - so far he's up to 'aeolus,' which happens to be my favorite chapter (so far)
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16/06/2004 @ 18:12 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Northwest Airlines' new brand - Now with attitude!
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16/06/2004 @ 18:12 GMT
Andy Baio : Pitchformula, crunching thousands of Pitchfork album review to write better songs - he includes all the Perl scripts he wrote for his BA project [via]
Adam Gessaman : pitchformula.com: music criticism as a creative tool - The results are quite entertaining. The latter sounds like what would happen if Ben Gibbard took his Postal Service tricks back to DCFC. The former is rather like Modest Mouse on crack.
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16/06/2004 @ 18:12 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: How not to check a diaper - if only someone had told me this four days ago [via]
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16/06/2004 @ 18:11 GMT
jkottke : Jet engine that plays CDs - Jet engine that plays CDs (Which button activates the afterburner? And wasn't this a prop in The Fifth Element?)
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16/06/2004 @ 18:11 GMT
jkottke : Inclusion of Anna Karenina on Oprah's book list pushes Leo Tolstoy, dead almost 100 years, to the top of several US bestseller lists, including that of the NY Times - Inclusion of Anna Karenina on Oprah's book list pushes Leo Tolstoy, dead almost 100 years, to the top of several US bestseller lists, including that of the NY Times
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16/06/2004 @ 18:11 GMT
jkottke : Short interview with David Sedaris in Time magazine - Short interview with David Sedaris in Time magazine ("It's the kind of job where you just couldn't take enough baths.")
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16/06/2004 @ 17:02 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Printer majors rally around ISO toner lifespan standard
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16/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : TuneTeller, MIDI search engine with a piano UI - focus the Java applet and play with your keyboard
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16/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Boing Boing tweaks their layout a bit, adds advertising
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16/06/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
anildash : nice story on creating a food blog - and be sure to check out her typepad site
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16/06/2004 @ 15:58 GMT
Isofarro : Negative Margins - about floating sidebars to the right of flexible content when the sidebar is after the content in the markup.
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16/06/2004 @ 15:57 GMT
Jon Hicks : Word Browser Plug-in - Saves me having to open Word to read client briefs – look at them in Safari instead!
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16/06/2004 @ 15:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Bloomsday 100 - Thousands of tourists will converge on Dublin today to drink Guiness, feed kidneys to the cat, get rocks chucked at them, and masturbate. Ah, literature!
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16/06/2004 @ 15:57 GMT
Richard Rutter : 90% of all usability testing is useless - User research for the Web should delve into qualitative aspects (filed under Information design).
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16/06/2004 @ 15:57 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Happy Bloomsday 100 years later - see esp. the all-day reading in Lawrence. Oh, and more later.
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16/06/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Many-to-Many: MT Licensing vs Weblogs.com Shutdown - why the differing responses?
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16/06/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
anildash : 90% of All Usability Testing is Useless - lane's stint in jakob's headline writing classes has really paid off
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16/06/2004 @ 15:01 GMT
Steve Cook : A page of Ulysses every day - Tune in tomorrow to find out what stately, plump Buck Mulligan does next!
jkottke : Ulysses, one page each day via the Web and RSS - Ulysses, one page each day via the Web and RSS (Like Gyford's Pepys and Webb's Da Vinci efforts.)
Graham Leuschke : James Joyce's Ulysses: One Page Every Day ... by RSS - subscribed ... again
Richard MacManus : Ulysses: One Page Every Day RSS feed - I've fallen behind already on Matt Webb's Da Vinci feed, but still...great use of RSS [via]
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16/06/2004 @ 14:20 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : If newspaper Web sites aren't like blogs, at least they're not like Fox News - "The Fox News Web site looks like a porn site without the tits"
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16/06/2004 @ 14:19 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : BBC to Open Content Floodgates - Turning the idea of copyright upside down
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16/06/2004 @ 14:19 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : State Sets Standard for E-Voting
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16/06/2004 @ 14:18 GMT
Paul Hammond : How to survive creative burnout - UIWEB.COM - Everything seems gray and pointless
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16/06/2004 @ 13:06 GMT
Richard MacManus : The Bloomsday Centenary - James Joyce's Ulysses takes place on a single day in Dublin 100 years ago.
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16/06/2004 @ 13:06 GMT
Richard MacManus : Joyce's Schema for Ulysses - Makes more sense than an XML Schema.
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16/06/2004 @ 13:05 GMT
Paul Hammond : Dynamically underlining accesskeys | clagnut/blog - instead of hand coding the span for each link, why not use some DOM scripting to do so?
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16/06/2004 @ 13:05 GMT
Andy Baio : Six Apart changes MT 3.0 licensing again - unlimited blogs is much, much better [via]
doug : New MT Pricing - 6A responds to feedback and simplifies licensing for Movable Type ? unlimited weblogs with any paid license
anildash : Movable Type: unlimited blogs, new pricing, new site - and yup, you get a free update to the general release when it's available
Paul Hammond : Six Log: Announcing Pricing & Licensing Changes to Movable Type - We made these revisions based on what people have told us they wanted to see
Dan Cederholm : New Movable Type pricing - Looks much better.
Adam Gessaman : MovableType prices changed yet again - finally, they seem to be getting something right. Sell software, don't sell authors and weblogs.
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16/06/2004 @ 12:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - He was detail-oriented and "distrusted abstractions that could not be directly related to the facts."
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16/06/2004 @ 11:14 GMT
Andy Baio : Straight Dope on electricity failure after a zombie takeover - answer: scattered blackouts within 4-6 hours, complete failure in 24 hours [via]
Aquarion : When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails? - Straight Dope Rocks
deusx : When the zombies take over, how long till the electricityfails? - Scary. Time to go move near a dam in Canada.
Eric Meyer : When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails? - Well, at least now I know.
cobra libre : when the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails? - a valuable contribution to the existing body of zombie-related knowledge
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16/06/2004 @ 11:13 GMT
phil : Cityofsound: The Black Rider - Went to see this last night: excellent. A bit like 'Shock-headed Peter' but harder to understand.
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16/06/2004 @ 11:13 GMT
Erik Benson : "Work is for saps!" - I have a strange feeling that the folks at Ludicorp have read this essay.
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16/06/2004 @ 10:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Perfect.co.uk - Practical Utopianism. Seems to be to be a real shortage of intelligent weblogs about UK politics and the like. Certainly there are way less than in the States.
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16/06/2004 @ 08:53 GMT
kellan : Frodo, the bicorn, and the Golden Donut, and other lesser known works of Tolkien - That is Smaug, but the infamous flying moose. #
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16/06/2004 @ 08:53 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Archive/Restore - When permalinks fail; switch all to WordPress! #
deusx : Sam Ruby: Archive/Restore - "Apparently in early July, there will be several dozen opportunities to observe first hand the issues related to weblog migration."
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16/06/2004 @ 08:52 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Comment System Dilemma - I will help him if he switches to WordPress #
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16/06/2004 @ 08:52 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Your Comment Has Been Posted - When your comment needs to be accepted first by the site owner people are confused when it doesn't show up and no message appears; not sure about WordPress, I should probably look it up #
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16/06/2004 @ 08:52 GMT
Erik Benson : Michael seems to have stolen an entry from my own brain - It's amazing how close we are to having something like this
anildash : it's messages all the way down - sippey still hasn't given up on the idea of connecting it all together
Graham Leuschke : high/low privacy, high/low context - sippey thinking about the essentials again
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16/06/2004 @ 08:52 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : WordPress Hackers Mailing List - On the ToDo list #
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16/06/2004 @ 08:51 GMT
Steve Cook : Gavin Bryars - During the set break at tonight's awesome Neko Case show, I got Tom Waits singing "Jesus' blood never failed me yet" stuck in my head, and I never knew what weirdo wrote that piece. Now I do.
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16/06/2004 @ 08:51 GMT
Steve Cook : Amy Sullivan on Left Behind - Ignore the suspect theology and wafer-thin characters -- I read the first one of these, and the prose is, unbelievably, much worse than Sullivan makes it out to be. Her take on why they sell is interesting but not entirely convincing.
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16/06/2004 @ 08:51 GMT
deusx : Is It the APIs, Stupid? - XPath is the only way to walk through XML
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16/06/2004 @ 08:50 GMT
deusx : Ash Taking On Freddy And Jason? - 'Bruce Campbell, who played Ash in the Evil Dead horror films, told SCI FI Wire that there is "some validity" to the rampant rumors about the possibility of a movie that would pit his character against Freddy of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason from th
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16/06/2004 @ 08:50 GMT
deusx : BOFH: Downsizing the human deadwood - "good news, there was a virus on our HR server and your CV accidentally got sent to a placement agency..."
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16/06/2004 @ 08:50 GMT
deusx : ThinkGeek :: Umph Energy Tablets - "Each tablet contains 99 milligrams of caffeine and 30 milligrams of Panax Ginseng along with Vitamin B6." I wonder what these would do to me, if dropped into a mug of coffee?
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16/06/2004 @ 08:50 GMT
dionidium : Harvard man loses 3,000 weblogs - Andrew Orlowski's scathing take on the weblogs.com shutdown. Look, there is absolutely, positively, no fucking reason Dave couldn't have announced this on Scripting News. End of story.
Aquarion : Harvard man loses 3,000 weblogs | The Register - As much as I dislike Orlowski's opinion on blogs, I like this. Possibly mostly because it's aimed at someone whose views I generally mistrust.
François Nonnenmacher : Harvard man loses 3,000 weblogs - Mmh, let's expect more Winer bashing very soon...
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16/06/2004 @ 08:49 GMT
Andy Baio : Gmail scavenger hunt - find 15 items online, win a Gmail account
Anne van Kesteren : Got Gmail? - 4 invites left, be quick! #
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16/06/2004 @ 08:49 GMT
Andy Baio : Boing Boing 2.0 - now with ads and a new layout
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16/06/2004 @ 03:02 GMT
kellan : Get at least a partial version of weblogs.com weblog from Bloglines. - wingedpig.com: Help with Weblogs.com Blog Migration #
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16/06/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : INXS to star in reality TV show - "Rock group INXS are to search for a new lead singer on a reality TV show." *sniff* But it won't bring back Michael!
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16/06/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
veen : Brad Choate: OS X software inventory - What's in *your* Aplications folder?
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16/06/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Transcript of Winer's Weblogs.com audio announcement - Wired News on the shutdown, and more [via]
Adam Gessaman : Typed Transcript of Dave Winer's Audio Post - Actually, for once, this is something that I wish that people wouldn't hold against Winer.
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16/06/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Proof of concept Bluetooth virus - replicates on Nokia 60 phones [via]
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16/06/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Disembodied hand in Victoria's Secret catalog - when Photoshop goes bad [via]
Eric Meyer : SCANDAL: Victoria's Secret ...REVEALED? SCANDAL: Victoria's Secret ...REVEALED? - I can personally verify the truth of this article; I've seen a paper copy of the catalog myself. Creeeepy...
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16/06/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Notlong, short URLs with subdomains - more readable alternative to TinyURL and their ilk [via]
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16/06/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Snopes on dollar store toothpaste - now with dangerously high levels of fluoride!
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16/06/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Firefox open to malicious spyware installers - but don't let that stop you from using today's Firefox 0.9 release
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16/06/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Construction of a sand mandala - nice photos of each step
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16/06/2004 @ 02:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Plain Layne, another Kaycee Nicole? - Kottke rounds up other recent fakes in his comments
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16/06/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Second Life upgrade adds XML-RPC, in-world marriage - you can blog from within the world [via]
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16/06/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
anildash : manhattan media map - gawker's omission must be a simple oversight
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16/06/2004 @ 01:19 GMT
Simon Willison : If newspaper Web sites aren't like blogs, at least they're not like Fox News - The FoxNews.com redesign looks "like a porn site without the tits".
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16/06/2004 @ 01:19 GMT
Simon Willison : Bruce vs. Bruce - Schneier and Sterling discuss security and technology. (via)
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16/06/2004 @ 01:18 GMT
Simon Willison : A Response to the League of Women Voters - Voting machine FAQ debunked. (via)
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16/06/2004 @ 01:18 GMT
Andy Baio : Fox News raves about Fahrenheit 9/11 -
Adam Gessaman : FOXNews actually <em>liked</em> 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
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16/06/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : How Houdini did his Metamorphosis trick
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16/06/2004 @ 00:02 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Terraserver - an online database of aerial photographs of the United States
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16/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Backing Up and Restoring Your MySQL Database
Matthew M. Boedicker : backing up and restoring your MySQL database
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16/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : CSS 2 Selector Fundamentals
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16/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Aquarion : The Webcomics Examiner - An ezine about webcomics
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16/06/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
Aquarion : A Houseful of Lords, pt. 2 - What would LotR be like if $foo wrote it?
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16/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : Hack Your Keyboard - "You are more likely to connect your arcade controls to your computer through the keyboard port than any other way."
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16/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : Mirror.co.uk - THE WORLD'S CRAZIEST ADVICE - "IN order to get out of car, open door, get out, lock doors, and then close doors - car handbook"
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16/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie - "This site is dedicated to spreading the word about the Aluminum* Foil Deflector Beanie and how it can help the average human."
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16/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
dionidium : Jogin.com :: Statistics - Hacking Awstats to better support feeds.
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16/06/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
François Hodierne : Jabber on port 80 - "useful for those users that are 'jailed' on offices with firewalls or proxies" [via] #
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