18/06/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Sound time reversal - With a mesh of simple acoustic sensors and a simulation, you can "reverse time" to locate sharp sounds like gunshots in cities (via Physics News Update)
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cobra libre : apple dumplin' shop - a brief overview of american english cussin'
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Steve Cook : Indie rock goes mainstream - Which I'm totally fine with, except didn't Vagrant already do this by selling eight trillion Dashboard Confessional albums?
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18/06/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Anti-skateboard deterrants for - turns rails and curbs into faceplants [via]
Steve Cook : Skate deterrents - Skateboarding is not a crime; it's an excuse to put annoying plastic geegaws over the entire landscape.
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18/06/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flash: Robots Are Our Friends - but sometimes they slash human flesh [via]
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Andy Baio : Video: Soldiers Under Command - 57MB Quicktime documentary of 2nd Annual Stryper Expo [via]
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18/06/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
anildash : the ascendance of labels over folders - call them labels or categories, assigning arbitrary metadata is catching on
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18/06/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
anildash : good thinking on syndication and identity - ross and sippey are on top of it as always, and i hope this is addressed by Atom soon
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18/06/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
anildash : CBS only runs anti-left advocacy ads - which makes sense, given that the median age of their viewers is well into 3 digits
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18/06/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
anildash : how to choose between MT and TypePad - elise does a great job of explaining the differences in the two tools
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18/06/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
kellan : Parsing Dates with MagpieRSS - For RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom. (I keep meaning to standardize this) #
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18/06/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : US torture policy - Gillmor's reflection on some of the ugly news
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18/06/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Steve Dalkowski, the greatest arm ever to miss the bigs - Capable of throwing a 110-mph fastball and throwing -through- an outfield fence, Dalkowski didn't learn control until just before a career-ending injury.
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18/06/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Stephen King had John Lennon killed - The proof is in Playboy magazine!
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18/06/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
phil : Nickelback vs Nickelback - Are they by any chance related?
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18/06/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Issac Mizrahi mixes $30 sweaters with coture clothes on the same runway
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18/06/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
kellan : Tom hired to be the new SchoolTools project lead. - Congratulations! #
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18/06/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Google Search: perfect markup - Heh, I already knew 'application/xhtml+xml' is important #
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18/06/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Pyongyang pizza - Weird story of an Italian chef brought to North Korea
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18/06/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Plain of Jars - Odd archaeological site in Laos: giant stone jars
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18/06/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com - for...?
Jeremy Zawodny : google-is-too-creepy.com - google-is-too-creepy.com: nice domain name
Richard MacManus : gmail-is-too-creepy.com - And you thought all the good web addresses were gone!
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18/06/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
kellan : Fun book, but the cover, oy, the cover. It looks like a bodice ripper with the heroine in an empire-waisted dress clutched by a winged, bare-chested hunk. - I've had similar problems reading Bujold and Kristine Smith in public. Makes you want to give the editor a serious talking to. #
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18/06/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Half Life 2 thief arrests - gaming community helps track down the folks who stole code from Valve
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18/06/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Jon Hicks : iPod Donut - Customise your pods’ scrollwheel with silicone-based stickers. I’d like the vines please!
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18/06/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
cobra libre : 'one big cock tale about one and only one thing' - i'm sorry, but i never tire of this sort of thing
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18/06/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Aquarion : Madonna changes her name to Esther - Um. 'kay. *WHY*?
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18/06/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : how to upgrade to firefix 0.9 - how to upgrade to firefix 0.9: how to upgrade to firefix 0.9 in case you'd rather not get screwed
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18/06/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : new google websearch program pays publishers for searches - new google websearch program pays publishers for searches: hmm. interesting
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18/06/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Ebert on whether Fahrenheit 9/11 is a "documentary" -
Erik Benson : Are documentaries supposed to be objective? - I like Roger.
kellan : Roger Ebert has a nice little bit on the myth of objectivity. (as it relates to 'Farenheit 9/11') - Seeing this idea get pushed out to the mainstream culture raises my hopes. #
jkottke : Roger Ebert addresses accuracy and bias in discussing Fahrenheit 9/11
Adam Gessaman : Gee, documentaries are partisan? Who'da thunk it.
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18/06/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Boing Boing Lite - ditch the ads, guest sidebar, and filter out posts by author or keyword [via]
kellan : BoingBoing Lite allows you to filter by keyword or author! - See BoingBoing restored to its former glory. (oh, and its made with Magpie!) #
François Hodierne : bOINGbOING Reconstituted ... (beta) - tellement mieux ! [via] #
Philippe Janvier : BoingBoing LITE - "I don't know what it was, but BoingBoing “2.0” has finally pushed me over the edge. So, I made my own boingboing."
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18/06/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Amazon is now listing purchase statistics on some of their product pages - Amazon is now listing purchase statistics on some of their product pages ("Customers who viewed this page ultimately bought...")
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18/06/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
anildash : find us a home - still looking for an apartment in san francisco, got any suggestions?
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18/06/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Nokia Funding Minimo - I actually thought MozillaZine had written something about "Fiding Nemo", but it appears Nokia is founding a browser project! #
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18/06/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
cobra libre : the universal feed parser - a thing of beauty
Anne van Kesteren : Universal Feed Parser - It has moved #
deusx : Universal Feed Parser - "Version 4.0 is under active development and already fully supports Atom 1.0 feeds and Apple's iTunes extensions."
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18/06/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Haikus for a newly neutered dog - Spring is here. Be glad / for the flowers in the field. / You're just a friend now.
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18/06/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : John Carmack's test liftoff a success - that explains the Doom 3 delays
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18/06/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Inventory of crappy CDs sent to libraries for price-fixing settlement - bastards are sending garbage CDs sold in remainder bins [via]
Rod Begbie : CD settlement to libraries - RIAA in "Acting Like a Bunch of Dicks" shocker. [via] #
Steve Cook : Libraries get screwed in the CD settlement - Have the big record companies ever dealt fairly with anyone?
Adam Gessaman : CD settlement sends crappy CDs to libraries
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18/06/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Will Pate : The Seven-Year-Old Bloggers - One British school got kids blogging and now their teacher says they're doing better than their non-blogging peers.
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18/06/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Isofarro : Bill Gates and Petals around the Rose - I think I have it figured after the answer to the second roll
deusx : Bill Gates plays Petals Around the Rose - Insidious brainworm of a puzzle
Graham Leuschke : Petals Around the Rose - got it on the fourth roll
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18/06/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Production for Use - Zeldman on the well-balanced diet of web design
Richard MacManus : Zeldman: "design fails when abstracted from use" - This connects with the Richard Feynman quote I dug up last week.
anildash : criticize in context - zeldman explains how design critiques that don't consider use context are less useful
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18/06/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : #1 Matt on the Internet - and he's following through with his promise [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : the #1 Matt on the internet (is not me)
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18/06/2004 @ 16:57 GMT
Aquarion : 21 more facts proven to be true by Fox's pioneering research method - The moon is made of green cheese
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18/06/2004 @ 16:57 GMT
Aquarion : My little Justice League Of America - Comics Geekery
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18/06/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Tom Coates : Conservative Groups try and ban Moore film - look set to make it an enormous box-office draw country-wide
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18/06/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Andy Baio : New Xbox Video Chat allows remote joypad vibration - Jane's going to have to pick one up
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18/06/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Snopes update on the guy living in a Paris airport - The Terminal movie is loosely based on his story
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18/06/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Financial Times: "The Bush administration has misled the American people" - Financial Times: "The Bush administration has misled the American people"
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18/06/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Dan Cederholm : #1 Matt - Photo Matt fulfills his promise after becoming the #1 result for 'Matt' on Google.
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18/06/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Site Flavored Google Search - explicit categorization is not very useful, it should analyze my site content instead
anildash : Site-Flavored Google Search - interesting that Google Labs is focusing on business. what's the lab doing for adsense?
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18/06/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
Isofarro : Why you should dump Internet Explorer - an MCSE viewpoint - security, standards and options
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18/06/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
phil : Shooting and Data Gathering | Model Making | Mori Urban Institute for the Future - I want to make these.
Andy Baio : How to make a scale model of a city - next: how to make it into a Quake map? [via] [via]
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18/06/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Mozilla Control - Embed the Mozilla browser engine (Gecko) into any ActiveX application
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18/06/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Yoz Grahame's Cheerleader: What I Want For WHAT - these are the things that spring most readily to mind
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18/06/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Web Developer Extension on chrispederick.com - adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools
cameron : Web Developer Extension for Mozilla/Firefox
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18/06/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : NY Times: "President Bush should apologize to the American people" - NY Times: "President Bush should apologize to the American people"
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18/06/2004 @ 11:56 GMT
Charles Miller : Nuke It From Orbit - Todays's cliche-search: "nuke it from orbit."
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18/06/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
kristine : mt press in eweek - eWeek: Movable Type Answers Critics with Pricing Remodel -- good press. :) Six Apart this week sought to calm critics of its Movable Type pricing plans by unveiling licensing changes to its popular Weblogging software. PubSub: Six Apart #
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18/06/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
Aquarion : American Apology Shirt - "I'm sorry my president's an idiot, I didn't vote for him"
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18/06/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Jon Hicks : Enkoder 3.0 - Dan Benjamin releases a new version of his essential email address encoder app for OS X.
Dan Cederholm : Enkoder 3.0 - Brand new version of the email encoding app from Automatic Labs.
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18/06/2004 @ 07:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Enkoder 3.0 for Mac OS X - Why does Mac have all the cool software? Not fair! #
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Anne van Kesteren : My first WordPress plugin: HeadMeta - Hmm, why not use RDF? :-P #
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18/06/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Web Browsers Used to Access Google - 3/01 - 5/04
Anne van Kesteren : Google browser stats - I hope my statistics say different [via] #
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18/06/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : More Safari odds 'n' ends - Mozilla should update the bookmark export code too! #
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18/06/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : .PNG alpha transparency hack limitations - /me uses '.png' #
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18/06/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Joel on WHATWG - Write it down! #
jkottke : Web browser features that would enhance Web application development
Paul Hammond : Joel on Software - Web Hypertext Applications Technology Working Group - Here are some examples of the kinds of features I'd like to see in web browsers:
Isofarro : Joel on WHAT WG - wishlist: inline editing, REST, rich controls, performance, GUI standardisation, tree views, graceful degradation
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18/06/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Validation, Moderation, Constipation - It's time for software to be improved! #
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18/06/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : On Custom Schemas - Tim Bray: "But I do think that the cost of rolling your own is a lot higher than you think, and you should really try to avoid doing that if you possibly can." #
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18/06/2004 @ 06:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : collection of geek fonts
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18/06/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Paradise Glossed - Nick Confessore lays into David Brooks' latest. The funny thing is that despite its image as Berkeley on the Beltway, the part of Takoma Park I live near is a working-class Salvadoran neighborhood.
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18/06/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : History of Programming Languages chart
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18/06/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : Eyebeam launches Street Memes, "a project designed to track the spread of street art" - Eyebeam launches Street Memes, "a project designed to track the spread of street art"
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18/06/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
anildash : Yahoo! brand new interface - oh, to be seven years younger again. 0sil8
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18/06/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
kellan : French power works cut power to to Chirac's house, and Eiffel Tower - Wow, now thats hard core! We need politicized power workers. #
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18/06/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
anildash : the new diamond age - more on the implications of cheap man-made diamonds
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18/06/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
kellan : PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss - Amazing work by Steve. Alas these are the days when the PHP's reputation as a toy language seems richly deserved. #
Philippe Janvier : PHP, XML, and Character Encodings in FoF - Character encoding pour FoF.
Isofarro : PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss - PHP and XML encodings quagmire. Ewwwww!
Kayode Okeyode : PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss
Mark Pilgrim : php, xml, and character encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and data loss - php sucks, xml sucks, character encoding sucks, and we're all doomed #
phil : Steve Minutillo :: messy-78 » PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss - Forcing PHP to properly handle XML in different encodings. I'm bound to need this at some point.
Aquarion : PHP, XML, and Character Encodings - a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)los
Simon Willison : PHP, XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of sadness, rage, and (data-)loss - Fixing some very funky behaviour in PHP's XML parser. (via)
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18/06/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
kellan : Populate Gmail from mbox or maildir - If you want the advantaged of fully indexed email (and those luvly targetted ads) #
Matthew M. Boedicker : mbox and maildir to Gmail loader
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18/06/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Yetisports 5 - yet another Yeti game
Philippe Janvier : Yetisports 5 - Part 5 : Out of Africa :)
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18/06/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : glambient, app that creates seamless tiles - exports to Flash [via]
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18/06/2004 @ 03:56 GMT
kellan : "...but when the going gets tough, the tough use 'print'." - 20 years of programming wisdom. #
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kellan : Espresso machine for your car! - Best argument I ever heard for getting a car. #
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18/06/2004 @ 03:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : THE ALBUM CLUB - luxury music service - The indier-than-thou Rough Trade folks offer a personal-shopper-esque CD club. I NEED THIS! #
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18/06/2004 @ 03:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Why Microsoft should get out of DRM - Excellent speech by Cory Doctorow on why DRM is DUM [via] #
jkottke : A talk about DRM and copyright given by Cory Doctorow to Microsoft's Research Group - A talk about DRM and copyright given by Cory Doctorow to Microsoft's Research Group
Graham Leuschke : Cory Doctorow's talk on DRM at Microsoft Research - fire in his belly
Matthew M. Boedicker : Why Microsoft should get out of DRM
Andy Baio : Cory Doctorow's Microsoft speech on DRM - everyone linked this already, but I don't care... it's the best thing I've read all month
François Hodierne : Cory Doctorow on DRM at Microsoft Research #
Simon Willison : Microsoft Research DRM talk - Cory tells MS why they should sit out on DRM.
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18/06/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : paypal developer network blog - paypal developer network blog: hmm, nice
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18/06/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : debian worldwide mirror sites - debian worldwide mirror sites: time to update /etc/apt/sources.list
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18/06/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Chicago Trib's Top 50 Magazines - Wired, Real Simple, and Economist top the list [via]
jkottke : The Chicago Tribune lists it's 50 favorite magazines - The Chicago Tribune lists it's 50 favorite magazines (Wired tops the list.)
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18/06/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Ben's research into a white supremacist ISP - scary stuff
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18/06/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
anildash : cityrag, a new NYC blog - powered by typepad!
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18/06/2004 @ 01:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Schmo Blog - Blog written by the producer of the incredibly funny Joe Schmo Show #
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18/06/2004 @ 01:56 GMT
Steve Cook : My audioscrobbler stats - A reasonably good snapshot of my musical tastes, only add in more Pixies.
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18/06/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Ton Zijlstra: notes on Dave Snowden's keynote at KM in Europe - Nice summary of KM guru Dave Snowden's theories.
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18/06/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Matthew Mullenweg interview - I like Matt's reasoning for including his "asides" (short posts) in his main content.
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18/06/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Linus vs. Tanenbaum - Linux vs. MINIX back in 1992. (via)
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18/06/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : bash select vs. mysql select - bash select vs. mysql select: heh. computers are funny
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18/06/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : how to shut down a free web service without hurting the user base - how to shut down a free web service without hurting the user base: good advice
Andy Baio : How to shut down a free website without hurting your users -
deusx : How to shut down a free website without hurting the user base - "As soon as you have at least one regular user that depends on your service, you are no longer the only person affected by the site. Yes, you still own it, yes, it's still yours and yours alone to do with what you please, but now you have an ethical oblig
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18/06/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : accenture in bremuda - accenture in bremuda: all about the dollar
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18/06/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Why Garfield sucks - No, seriously; making something inoffensive with broad but incredibly shallow appeal seems to have been Jim Davis' conscious business decision, and it worked.
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18/06/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
anildash : The Atom Link Model - real world docs for using Atom today
Philippe Janvier : The Atom Link Model - "Every article need a permanent home". Again.
Isofarro : The Atom Link Model - my uncertainty about the linkblog links clarified. Thanks Mark.
Anne van Kesteren : The Atom Link Model - It's great! I want Atom archives too! #
dionidium : The Atom Link Model - Linking and archiving with everyone's favorite syndication format.
deusx : XML.com: The Atom Link Model [Jun. 16, 2004]
Kayode Okeyode : The Atom Link Model
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18/06/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : google ipo unlikely to be smooth - google ipo unlikely to be smooth: ah, the winner's curse
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jkottke : Complete leather-bound set of Far Side cartoons only $800
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