9/07/2004 @ 23:57 GMT
doug : Free Bay Area WiFi - Partially Blogger-powered site (from Ryan MacCarthy) using the Rounders template. Has all kinds of spots in the Bay Area that provide free wifi. Cool.
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9/07/2004 @ 23:57 GMT
doug : Ryan on BayAreaFreeFi.com - Ryan, the guy behind BayAreaFreeFi.com discusses the site. Shows how easy it would be for someone else in a different location to start a blog-based site for free wireless spots in their region.
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9/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Anatomy of a 419 scam - "This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon. I await your response."
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9/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Battlefield Baseball, a Japanese kung-fu zombie movie - "Unfortunately, their rivals at Gedo High have already died doing so, and the ranks of the team are now swelled with zombies armed to the teeth with an assortment of hard-edged implements." I hated "Versus", though.
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9/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Vintage sleazy paperback covers - Nothing screams class like a book called "Backwoods Tramp".
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9/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Warning, sexually explicit orcas - Thank god for obsessions
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9/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : no cookie for me - no cookie for me: taunting the subway guy is fun
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9/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Internet Explorer: hot seats and cold shoulders - "Ninetyish percent market share kinda turns you into a target, especially when you're coasting."
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9/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Playstation 3 production starts in 2005 - shipping in late 2005 or early 2006
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9/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : A pictoral history of the Apple Desktop Interface
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9/07/2004 @ 22:57 GMT
kellan : I've revived the CPAN Recent uploads RSS feed. - Sorry for the outages and changed url. #
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9/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : keira knightley inflated - keira knightley inflated: sad
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9/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Eric's Archived Thoughts: DashboardML - "Yeah, see, that uses DashboardML and only Safari supports it..."
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9/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Surfin' Safari - More On Extending HTML - Assuming that the W3C has really decreed HTML4 to be obsolete, what happens when a proposal is made by multiple browser vendors to extend it?
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9/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : The PANTS Daily Chump - How to adjust web sites for windows XP service pack 2 - nice work MS, you've just educated your developer community that any browser with "SV1" anywhere in the User-Agent string is IE6SP2
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9/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-00 - not for implementation, just an interim draft #
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9/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : The challenges of translating Harry Potter into Greek
Steve Cook : Harry Potter in Attic Greek - It's like a breathtakingly dorky casemod tutorial, only for classical scholars.
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9/07/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
kellan : PHP5 Exception Use Guidelines - to read #
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9/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : draft-ietf-atompub-format-00 - not for implementation, just an interim draft #
Philippe Janvier : Atom Syndication Format draft - "This specification describes Atom, an XML-based Web content and metadata syndication format."
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9/07/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
doug : A Year in Cornwall - ? is back up and running. Now that Frank is also a PHP guy, he recently switched from MT to WP, and has all kinds of info about customization.
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9/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : NBC10.com - News - Cameras Catch Car Thieves On Tape - 'The special cars called "bait cars." They have keys left inside, and the cars are loaded with cameras, and GPS satellite trackers.'
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9/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Which movie villain are you? - "Besides Colt 45 and tequila, what motivates you to do bad things?"
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9/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Dozens of War of the Worlds book covers from 1898 to the present
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9/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Automatic blood donation booth - does it take your photo, too? [via] [via]
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9/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
anildash : help us say goodbye to NYC - join us at the westside tavern tonight
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9/07/2004 @ 18:57 GMT
Isofarro : TAR File Management With PHP Archive_Tar
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9/07/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Andy Baio : 99 Luftballoons, side-by-side comparison -
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9/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Weblog about Polaroid's branding from the guy who developed it - Weblog about Polaroid's branding from the guy who developed it
Jon Hicks : The Branding of Polaroid, 1957 - 1977 - From the same chap that bought us “100 Years of Illustration”.
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9/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
anildash : mena on tightly knit bonds in blogging - the real weblog revolution and a defense of personal weblogs
Paul Hammond : Mena's Corner: Blogs, Bandwidth and Banjos: Tightly knit bonds in weblogging. - you had the pundits, the diarists and the egoists
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9/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
anildash : bitter pill, dysfunctional advertising - skot's brain is a frightening but amusing place
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9/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
anildash : News.com Extra - where CNET reciprocates for all the links that Gizmodo sends its way
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9/07/2004 @ 17:57 GMT
deusx : Buy one kia, get one free - "finally found printed proof that they actually do sell cars this way in PA (and MD too I guess)" Wow.
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9/07/2004 @ 17:57 GMT
Phil Gyford : Jacob Shwirtz on what happens to your "online soul" when you die - I've often thought about what would need doing if the worst happened.
Graham Leuschke : what happens to your online self when you die? - an area where it's not enough to be agnostic
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9/07/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : xml to ms word - i use xslt to convert to html, then python to save as native doc format via com #
Kayode Okeyode : XML to MS Word: A Standards-Based Open-Source Approach for Publishing to Microsoft Word
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9/07/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : pure python rijndael implementation - slow but useful #
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9/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : basic use of the 4suite python xpath api - for those for whom libxml2 is too... undocumented #
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9/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : Roland FR-7 V-Accordion :: Overview - "Announcing the World's First Complete Digital Accordion" HAH!
Mark Pilgrim : roland FR-7 digital accordion - also available in red, buy one to match your ipod #
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9/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : What webloggers are reading this summer - What webloggers are reading this summer (You reading anything good?)
Tom Coates : What webloggers are reading this summer...
Richard MacManus : What webloggers are reading this summer - I'll write a post tonight on what I'm reading (except it's mid-winter over here, Brrr!).
Graham Leuschke : What webloggers are reading this summer - I stole Saramago's `The Stone Raft' from Claudia while in Syr, and I'm hoping it'll last till I move. Unlikely.
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9/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Antarctica has its own currency. Who knew? - Antarctica has its own currency. Who knew? (Check out all the currencies from other countries as well.)
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9/07/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 50 worst songs of great rockers
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9/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Plastic: Canadian Rock Invasion Possible? Or Will It Be Stopped At The Border? - "Some of the top Canadian rock bands of the last several years have found the world's longest unarmed border to be a greater barrier to popularity than expected." I am, of course, a gigantic Rush fan.
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9/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Photoshop Phriday: Anagrammed Movies 2 - Brilliant, twisted Photoshop work.
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9/07/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Andy Baio : PVRBlog on EFF's Stop the Broadcast Flag campaign - I guarantee it'll increase the free trade of TV shows online
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9/07/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Another crash on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain - Disney fans posted photos from the scene [via] [via]
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9/07/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Profile of Marlon Brando by Truman Capote from 1957
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9/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Isofarro : How To Grow HTML - Tim Bray on semi-pseudo namespaces and W3C HTML WG
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9/07/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
kellan : Even Firefox has security problems.... if you run it on Windows. - Similarly we only know how to circumvent FairPlay on Windows. #
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9/07/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : WordPress Plugin : Semantic Visits - Visited countries and states in F O A F and in WordPress
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9/07/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Tom Coates : Quiz: Get Your Words Mixed Up?
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9/07/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Tom Coates : You are an SRCL--Sober Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you an Ayn Rand ideal. Taggart? Roark? Galt? You are all of these. You were born to lead. You may not be particularly exciting, but you have a strange charisma...
Graham Leuschke : You are an SEDF--Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an <strong>evil genius</strong>. - Wackiness: 10/100, Rationality: 0/100, Constructiveness: 10/100, Leadership: 16/100 ( You are not to be messed with. You may explode.)
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9/07/2004 @ 09:55 GMT
Tom Coates : Frequently asked questions about Caffeine
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9/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Will Pate : Great Networking Questions - So you need not hide behind your drink at the next business mixer.
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9/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Alien in 30 seconds, with bunnies - more 30-Second Bunnies Theatre [via] [via]
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9/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
anildash : cost per influence and meme arbitrage - sippey's post is way over my head, but i'm pretty sure this is brilliant
Will Pate : Cost Per Influence - "What's different with new media is simply that its not the number of impressions you make, but who you impress."
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9/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
anildash : in praise of gmail's technology - as always, the whining overshadowed some truly impressive coding
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9/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
anildash : iTunes supports Windows Media blogging extensions - and a defacto 'now playing' format is created
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9/07/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : MIT has a great collection of free videos - First on my list to watch is the Me++ video. [via] [via]
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9/07/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : PVRBlog has the highest Pagerank of any blog? - there must be another blog with a PR9 [via] [via]
anildash : PVRblog, the perfect blog - the highest pagerank of any blog in existence, and it does typepad proud
Tom Coates : What is the most valuable weblog?
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9/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Eric Meyer : Python's 'Spamalot' Broadway-bound - No doubt it shall be a silly play. I wonder who gets to push the pram a lot?
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9/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : foofbags: handmade laptop bags for iBooks and Powerbooks (soon iPods), handmade in Ireland on a 1963 Singer sewing machine
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9/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : the hardest part - the hardest part: i am also not used to accounting for myself
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9/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : LA City Council votes to regulate cybercafes - or as Joystiq says, "regulating fun"
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9/07/2004 @ 03:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Kenny Boy non grata - Suddenly Bush doesn't want anyone to know Enron was his primary campaign contributer in 2000
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9/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : Synthetic Serendipity, by Vernor Vinge - "In this futuristic tale, Mike Villas is good at playing games. He's about to find out if he's any good at playing people"
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9/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: 26 Alphabetized Terrors - more in the gallery
Rod Begbie : Twenty-Six Alphabetized Terrors - Always fear the floating skull [via] #
veen : Our Hero Battles Twenty-Six Alphabetized Terrors - ...including both Robots and Sexy Robots
Tom Coates : Cartoon hero fights alphabeticised horrors
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9/07/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
anildash : ABCNEWS.com : Has Your Blog Led to a Job? - why, yes. yes it has.
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9/07/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
anildash : jazzing up MT's comment templates with PHP - smart thinking, clear writing
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9/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
cobra libre : classical chinese music in the subway - i don't know how to react to this
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9/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : New All Music Guide redesign launching Monday - I have high hopes for this relaunch
tehu : allmusic.com : worst remake site of the year - You are accessing allmusic.com with a browser that is not currently supported. * Hey les gars, on est en 2004...
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