15/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Charles Miller : Paper Camera - Exactly like a camera, only made from paper. I guess it's not really waterproof.
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15/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
doug : Per-site user stylesheets - Simon expands on a XBL hack for Mozilla browsers that enables per-site user stylesheets for every site, even if it doesn?t already have a signature (like this one does).
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15/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Unicode chart - All code points in a single poster. I want this, but this is too big!
kayodeok : Wall-size Unicode Chart - Ian Albert has a poster containing every Unicode character. Unicode is a method for encoding characters, like Ascii, but it can represent virtually every writing system in the world, not just English. The image size is 22,017 × 42,807 pixels and the f
Wayne Burkett : Unicode Poster - IanAlbert.com - " I estimated I could print the whole thing on about a 36"×36" poster. Well, my estimates were off. It turned out to be about 6 feet by 12 feet." #
Milo Vermeulen : Unicode Chart - IanAlbert.com - Unicode Chart - IanAlbert.com [via] [via]
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15/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Giant Ultima 7 map - 24576 x 24576 pixel map of the U7 world
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15/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : Shirt Folding Video - Okay... so I'm WAY late to seeing this one. But now that I've seen it, I want to take my shirt off and try folding it.
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15/07/2004 @ 22:58 GMT
kellan : grep-changelog: parse and extract entries from a GNU style ChangeLog - Could be used to add changes to scraped CPAN RSS feed. #
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15/07/2004 @ 22:58 GMT
kellan : John Kenneth Galbraith on corporate power, and war. - 'Corporate power is the driving force behind US foreign policy - and the slaughter in Iraq.' #
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15/07/2004 @ 22:57 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Are there non-evil reasons why customers continue to like Microsoft products?
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15/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Why "Under Construction" should be made illegal on the web - Why "Under Construction" should be made illegal on the web
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15/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Getting your DIVs to behave like TABLEs
Anne van Kesteren : Getting your DIVs to behave like TABLEs - Redundant DIV elements and a quite old technique. Still fun though! #
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15/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Extending Mozilla-Based Browsers
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15/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Designing a CSS based template - part III
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Kayode Okeyode : Designing a CSS template - part II Creating the background
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Kayode Okeyode : Designing a CSS based template - part I
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15/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Ground Zero typo caught after two year - never forget [via] [via]
Graham Leuschke : Ground Zero Typo Caught After Two Years - for tj, though I'm sure she already knows
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15/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Stephen Hawking says: "I have solved the black hole information paradox and I want to talk about it" - Stephen Hawking says: "I have solved the black hole information paradox and I want to talk about it" (Might lose a bet he has with another physicist by his own hand.)
Tom Coates : Hawking solves black hole paradox?
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15/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders - [via] [via]
jkottke : Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders - Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders ("How Are We Going to Get These Dogs Back In?")
Jeremy Zawodny : possible follow-up songs for one-hit wonders - possible follow-up songs for one-hit wonders: via kottke
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15/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : You a Web designer looking for work in NYC? Check out this job at Rockstar Games, makers of Grand Theft Auto
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15/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Will Pate : Blogging is the Ultimate Social Software - Thank goodness, I thought I was going to have to write this myself someday.
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15/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
anildash : great NYTimes editorial on DNC blogs - surprisingly evenhanded and thoughtful
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15/07/2004 @ 21:39 GMT
Tomas Jogin : The 2004 U.N. Human Development Report - "For the fourth year running, Norway topped the overall ranking - which takes in life expectancy, income and educational attainment. It was followed by Sweden and Australia."
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15/07/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Will Pate : Practical Networking Tips - Advice from VC Kevin Laws, who's firm counts cafepress.com in their portfolio.
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15/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Mouse! In beer! - I love the Court TV reenactment-style photos.
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15/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Dan Cederholm : The cult of Ken Jennings - Kottke on the famed Jeopardy champ
Tomas Jogin : The cult of Ken Jennings - "A young Mormon living a few blocks from the studio where Jeopardy tapes, reveals he has recently discovered a previously unknown book of the Old Testament. The lost book, coincidentally entitled "Trebek", tells of a living God from "the land of salt, jaz
jkottke : The cult of Ken Jennings - The cult of Ken Jennings (Just in case you missed it the first time.)
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15/07/2004 @ 19:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : free shell accounts
Andy Baio : Free Shell Accounts - learn Unix without a commitment [via] [via]
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15/07/2004 @ 19:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to win a knife fight
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15/07/2004 @ 19:57 GMT
kristine : content rot - Fighting Content Rot - If you manage a Web site for more than a few months, you run into problems of content rot. You'll be cruising through some old pages, and you'll find stuff that's...off, for one reason for another. *nods wildly* Yes, I've noticed #
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15/07/2004 @ 19:57 GMT
deusx : Your data is at risk - from everything
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15/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
veen : History of the American Association of Meat Processors - Important innovations: "the importance of freezing food so rapidly that there would be no damage to its cellular structure (affecting taste, texture, and appearance) and freezing food in a package that could be sold directly to the consumer."
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15/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Hawking changes his mind about black holes - abandons his claim that information can never exit a black hole (but colleague says "I am sceptical about whether he has found a fully satisfactory resolution to the problem," which is tantamount to "The math is horse-puckey.")
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15/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : google uses yahoo groups for press mailings - google uses yahoo groups for press mailings: i never thought about it, but it is kinda funny
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15/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : The Perfect Advice - So very, very zen.
Matthew M. Boedicker : the perfect advice
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15/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3: The Conet Project - legally download the entire collection of shortwave numbers stations
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15/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Ari Paparo on Evite 2.0 and Upcoming.org - some interesting thoughts
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15/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Java: The Shape of Sound - neat visualization for any uploaded MIDI file [via] [via]
gleuschk : The Shape of Song - neato infoviz
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15/07/2004 @ 18:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : small steps to better health, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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15/07/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : DrunkenBlog: Evan Schoenberg of AdiumX - "Another special treat for my 12 loyal readers: Evan Schoenberg, co-lead developer on AdiumX was gracious enough to sit down for another lengthy chat about a whole range of topics."
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15/07/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : Red Wine Compound May Extend Life - "The compound that makes red wine a healthful drink may also hold the secret to a longer life, scientists reported on Wednesday."
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15/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google to add audio and video search - [via] [via]
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15/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Buck Truck, the Rappin' Trucker - oddball album from 1990 for download [via] [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : buck truck, rappin' trucker - buck truck, rappin' trucker: this is so bad, it's good
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15/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
anildash : andrew anker joins 6A - anybody who's spent time in PA and NYC is ok with me
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15/07/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
kellan : Correlation between voting for Bush and low educational attainment. - According to the Census Bureau. No Voter Left Behind! #
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15/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Farenheit 9/11 could be inelgible for an Oscar - And the Oscars could be inelgible for respect
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15/07/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Photoshop plugin that draws the golden sections and other divine proportions as an aid to composition
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15/07/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : all important resources SHOULD be identifiable by URI
kayodeok : When to use GET - Another fall out from Googles Web Accelerator: URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST
Simon Willison : URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST - A comprehensive, if slightly dry, overview of the issue.
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15/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Flickr Photo Tags Page - 150 premiers tags utilisés sur Flickr. Plus c'est gros et mieux c'est.
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15/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Gawker Media gets a C&D for Cameron Diaz sex tape - for simply linking to the video website; will they go after Google next? [via] [via]
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15/07/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Return to the Mountains of the Moon - The effects of global warming on one of the most remote environments in the world.
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15/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : Something in the way she moves - "Author on women's issues takes a look at chess and the position of the queen"
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15/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr and Feedburner to develope photo syndication standard - two great companies working together
jkottke : Flickr and Feedburner collaborate to offer feed splicing - Flickr and Feedburner collaborate to offer feed splicing (I've been doing this for months with my various weblog posts.)
anildash : flick + feedburner hybrid feeds - two of my favorite web apps are doing great work together. definitely worth watching
Philippe Janvier : The Feed Thickens - Blog post + blog post + photo + photo + photo = Splice feed
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15/07/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
Isofarro : Desperately seeking clue - if Odeon has received a significant number of complaints then a significant number of people have chosen an accessible, x-browser site over the mess of nested tables, invalid markup, alt-less images and only-works-in-IE/Win JavaScript that is the official
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15/07/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
Isofarro : Web accessibility and the law in the UK: Is your website legal? - Quoting relevant parts of the UK Disability Discrimination Act
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15/07/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : Making Light: Prophetable colors - Teresa Nielsen Hayden on the Color Marketing Group, who decide what colours you'll be buying each year.
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15/07/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Isofarro : Atomic Heartbeat - I've never seen a discussion move _this_ fast. Fantastic work!
François Hodierne : Atomic Heartbeat - Tim Bray is happy with the AtomPub WG :-) #
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15/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
François Hodierne : Client Side PHP in Internet Explorer #
deusx : Client Side PHP in Internet Explorer - "While messing with PHP 5.0.0 figured it's finally time to take at Wez Furlongs Activescript SAPI for PHP."
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15/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
François Hodierne : Sylvian and The System - "This is a Short Story by Richard MacManus. It takes a speculative look at what the blogosphere might be like in 20-30 years time." #
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15/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Rogue Amoeba - Under The Microscope : Random/Homegrown_Developer_Tools - the current amount of memory the foreground application is using
Tom Coates : Currently playing with: Memory Cell
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15/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : EarthStation1.com - The Radio Propaganda Sounds & Pictures Page - Lord Haw Haw Sounds - Some sample wavs/MP3s of the man who broadcast Nazi propaganda in English from Germany during World War II.
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15/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : MyOwnCSS Homepage - MyOwnCSS is a Firefox extension that lets you use your own choosen stylesheet on whatever website you visit
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15/07/2004 @ 10:56 GMT
Isofarro : The second browser war - The majority of Microsoft's business, therefore, could have been threatened if the IE browser team had continued past 2001.
Paul Hammond : Guardian Unlimited | Online | The second browser war - For the first time Internet Explorer has lost a tiny bit of market share
Kayode Okeyode : The second browser war
Tom Coates : The second browser war is coming...
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15/07/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : Bowblog: Got Bokeh? - I've always loved out-of-focus backgrounds in 'Sight & Sound' film stills; now I can describe them.
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15/07/2004 @ 09:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : FeedCreator.class.php - A PHP class to create RSS and Atom feeds
deusx : FeedCreator.class.php - bitfolge.de - "creates valid feeds according to RSS 0.91, 1.0 or 2.0 as well as PIE 0.1 (deprecated), OPML 1.0, Unix mbox, ATOM 0.3, or customizable HTML or Javascript format."
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15/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Steve Cook : "There's just you, foisting your own ideal image of a black metal band onto us because you really liked our album." - John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats (an out of the closet metal fan) puts together an absolutely flawlessly clichéd fake interview with Kult of Azazel.
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15/07/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
kellan : Why has PHP got 3079 functions while Perl does with only 206? - Though really it's the inconsistency that nails me. #
Jeremy Zawodny : regexes in perl vs. php - regexes in perl vs. php: makes my head hurt when i code php
Paul Hammond : PHP in contrast to Perl - Why has PHP got 3079 functions while Perl does with only 206?
anildash : PHP in contrast to Perl - just for my reference. i hate language wars.
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15/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Sage - RSS/Atom feed aggregator for Firefox - Sage is a lightweight RSS and ATOM feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox
jonhicks : Sage 1.3 released - A must-have update for users, lots of new features
Jeremy Zawodny : Sage: a feed reader for Firefox - Sage: a feed reader for Firefox: Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't.
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15/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : US Senate rejects gay marriage ban - The proposal needed the support of 60 senators, it got only 48-50
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15/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : How to stop Internet Explorer pop-ups - More steps than anyone should have to take.
Kayode Okeyode : How to stop Internet Explorer pop-ups
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15/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
deusx : The Hacker's Diet - "How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition"
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15/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
kellan : HTTP auth as single sign-on web service. - In Python #
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15/07/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Down the spiral - Courtney Love institutionalized
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Andy Baio : How to make a Firefox extension - also helpful: creating a Mozilla extension [via] [via]
anildash : How to write Firefox extensions - just for future reference
Paul Hammond : How to write Firefox extensions - You need to have a vague understanding of XUL and Javascript, but you certainly don't need to be a master of either
Simon Willison : How to write Firefox extensions - Somone emailed me a link to this.
Aquarion : How to write Firefox extensions - Handy
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15/07/2004 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5 - A migration guide from the PHP manual. (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : allmusic.com - Standards-based Rebuild - It took Tim Murtaugh two hours.
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Simon Willison : Cheap debugging trick: inspect + pprint - Easy python stack tracing.
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Simon Willison : Tutorial: Creating a Mozilla Extension - I spent nearly an hour looking for this the other day with no success. (via) [via]
Paul Hammond : Tutorial: Creating a Mozilla Extension - the process of building a Mozilla extension that adds an icon to Mozilla's status bar showing the current status of the Mozilla source code
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15/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Picking apart Allmusic.com - Echos my thoughts exactly.
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Andy Baio : BitTorrent beats Kazaa in traffic numbers -
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Andy Baio : Video: Cutie Honey trailer - I don't what the movie's about, but I like it
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15/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Charles Miller : Gentoo is for Ricers - Gentoo is for Ricers. "Most of these quotes come from the Gentoo forums themselves or from slashdot. We've bolded things that are just so ludicrous that you need to sit down to read them." (Found in a slashdot sig somewhere)
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Steve Cook : The tale of a Shellac rarity - One ultra-rare album by the math rock supergroup produces discussion of the ethics of regifting, a testimonial to an amp supplier, Steve Albini weighing in on property rights, and proof that friends will always betray you.
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