16/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Coinmon's Cut-Out CoinShop, Hand Carved Coin Jewelry
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16/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
tehu : www.garoo.net - version 1868.1 - Obviously inspired by Lifeblog, the master said. Experimental, javascript intensive, snapshots... Very nice.
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16/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : 271 UK TV commercials from the 1980s - download 'em all in one giant torrent [via] [via]
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16/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : How many links does it take to get to your site from Google.com ? - too many :(
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16/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Albert Einstein's FBI file - Albert Einstein's FBI file ("An investigation was conducted by the FBI regarding the famous physicist because of his affiliation with the Communist Party.")
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16/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Giving new meaning to the term "enforcer" - "Danton has been jailed since his arrest April 16 in San Jose, Calif., a day after the San Jose Sharks eliminated the Blues from the playoffs. The Blues released Danton on July 1." And hey, I bet he's looking for a new agent!
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16/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : pb's photos from WebVisions - keep an eye out for Kord
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16/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : rd.yahoo.com finally fixed - rd.yahoo.com finally fixed: no more spam for you
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16/07/2004 @ 21:12 GMT
Tomas Jogin : Swede freed from Guantanamo wants to sue U.S. govt - "Ghezali has said he was subjected to interrogations almost every day and tortured by exposure to freezing cold, noise and bright lights, deprived of sleep and chained in painful positions. Washington dismissed the complaints of mistreatment."
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16/07/2004 @ 20:59 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : quotes from Twisted irc channels
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16/07/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
deusx : Use a Smart Playlist to make regular backups of your music in iTunes - "You can use a Smart Playlist in iTunes to make regular, incremental backups of your music."
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16/07/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Video mash-up of Missy Elliot and Joy Division - "Get ur Freak on" and "Love will Tear Us Apart". Greater than the sum of its parts.
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16/07/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Alice's Adventures Under Ground - Charles Dodgson's the precursor to Wonderland [via] [via]
Aquarion : Alice's Adventures under Ground
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16/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tutorial to creating isometric pixel art - draw in the style of eBoy [via] [via]
jkottke : The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art
Nelson Minar : Isometric pixel art - How-to guide (via Sutter)
Dan Cederholm : The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art - Amazingly detailed guide to pushing pixels.
Paul Hammond : The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art - Basic Knowledge
François Nonnenmacher : The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art
cameron : The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art - How (and how not to) draw the ever-popular pixel art
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16/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired News on Cameron Diaz's Fleshbot cease-and-desist - lawyers are the bane of the free Internet
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16/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Isofarro : Message to Odeon - fire your marketing director - the bulk of businesses are in the grips of control freaks populating their PR and marketing departments
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16/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Isofarro : Some marketing departments prefer inaccessibility to uncontrolled experience - Odeon's Marketing Director Luke Vetere would prefer a significant percentage of his potential customer base seeing nothing at all rather than an accessible version of his Web site that they do not control.
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16/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Debate on news website registrations - BugMeNot is just routing around damage [via] [via]
Will Pate : Why I Don't Register for News Sites - "as a user, the value proposition of having more targetted ads thrown at me just isn't a good enough incentive for me to jump through their hoops."
Philippe Janvier : News site registration - "The core problem is the whole idea of registration itself."
Tom Coates : Why users route around registrations
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16/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Escher-inspired Audi commercial - read more about the production [via] [via]
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16/07/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : CollyLogic: Prevent dynamic collapsing margins - create reverse margin and padding statements
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16/07/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
jkottke : Blogger introduces WYSIWYG editing of blog posts - Blogger introduces WYSIWYG editing of blog posts (With C. Wetherell's keen JavaScript skills, Google is doing some very interesting things with rich Web clients.)
Tom Coates : WYSIWYG interface in Blogger
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16/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Bobby Fischer detained in Japan and will be deported to US
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16/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : A Pause for Hindsight from the NY Times - A Pause for Hindsight from the NY Times ("If we want Mr. Bush to be candid about his mistakes, we should be equally open about our own.")
Tom Coates : New York Times editorial apologises for assuming that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction. This kind of honourable behaviour is what has been singularly missing from many of our leaders...
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16/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : What the President is Not - as taken from his public statements, but one's missing [via] [via]
jkottke : What George W. Bush is not
kellan : What The President is Not. - 'IÂ’m not a poet.' #
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16/07/2004 @ 17:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : 2400 AD maps - Maps taken from the classic Origin game
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16/07/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Mono on MacOS X - open source .NET (via Steve)
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16/07/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Andy Baio : The Business of Social Avatar Virtual Worlds - problems with creating virtual worlds like Habitat, There, and Second Life [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : Social virtual worlds - Brilliant roundup of all the failures at creating the Metaverse online. There and Second Life are the most recent ones.
Richard MacManus : The Business of Social Avatar Virtual Worlds - History and lessons learnt of avatar social software.
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16/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Clear Channel reaches agreement with anti-war group, gives them two Times Square billboards for the price of one
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16/07/2004 @ 16:58 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Ed's 10 Best Saturday Morning Cartoons List
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16/07/2004 @ 16:57 GMT
deusx : Democracy in the Balance - "How do we nurture the healing side of religion over the killing side? How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?"
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16/07/2004 @ 16:57 GMT
deusx : Museum Considers Excrement Power - "Britain's Science Museum says it is considering a radical way of paying its hefty energy bills -- using visitors' excrement."
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16/07/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Canada 4th best place to live - we're number 4! we're number 4! (where I use `we' advisedly) (behind Norway, Sweden, and Australia -- where's the US?) (update: 8th, behind the Netherlands, Belgium, and Iceland (Iceland?). full table downloadable in PDF here, page 139 of the complete r
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16/07/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Eric's Archived Thoughts: Dashboard Again - All that remains is to advocate for interoperability with standards.
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16/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Miscellaneous signs - Pioneers of adequate wiring, baby.
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16/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Love & Methane - An open discussion. The ensuing discussion is at once hilarious and frightening.
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16/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : xml accessibility guidelines - for atom #
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Mark Pilgrim : futurice photoblog for your smartphone - atom inside #
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16/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Trekkies 2 available on DVD - Trekkies 2 available on DVD (Wasn't released in the theatres so this is your first chance to see it.)
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16/07/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Isofarro : Ten places to find out more about Accessibility - Known, recognisable and trustable resources
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16/07/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Isofarro : Building a web fit for all - Last October the Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002 came into force. It lets people with a visual impairment make their own accessible versions of printed copyright material, and allows schools and not-for-profit bodies to make multiple copies
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16/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Isofarro : Bugzilla report for the Odeon website - 'The ODEON website is due for a face-lift at the beginning of the new year' - that would be beginning of 2003!
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16/07/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Nicotine vaccine may be available soon - The vaccine creates antibodies to nicotine which prevent addiction. It is rumored that Phillip Morris is working on a nicotine antibody vaccine which can be deployed via cigarette.
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16/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : mrclay.org : The PNG and Gamma Problem - The backgrounds of the two stacked images above should be identical
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16/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Sucking less, on a budget: A little perspective, pleeeeze?! - I don't see why anyone cares. Really. Move along.
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16/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Tom Coates : Apple profit surges on iPod sales
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16/07/2004 @ 11:56 GMT
Isofarro : Fixed or fluid, you decide
Paul Hammond : And all that Malarkey // Fixed or fluid, you decide - I thought I'd look at two current design projects, experiment with fixed vs fluid and see what happened
Kayode Okeyode : Fixed or fluid, you decide
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16/07/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
anildash : Lookout's quick flip to Microsoft - interesting that an outlook plugin went to the MSN group instead of Office
Andy Baio : Microsoft buys Lookout - I'm with Sippey, this seems like an unusual buy [via] [via]
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16/07/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
anildash : MS business IM will work with AIM and Yahoo - that explains why both AOL and Yahoo shut down their corporate products days apart
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16/07/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
anildash : ballmer to return to his monkeyboy venue - they should book a larger venue and charge admission to spectators
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16/07/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Edward Jay Epstein's "The Diamond Invention" - Epstein is a little bit of a nut, but he's an excellent writer, and the machinations of the diamond cartel -- and the efforts to spread the idea that diamonds are hugely rare -- are fascinating, so I bet this book is a swell read.
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16/07/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
anildash : ethnography and product development - gen gets the highlights of the use of ethnography in product development
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16/07/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
anildash : Semantic Web specs for XML people - man, this should have existed years ago
Anne van Kesteren : An no-nonsense guide to Semantic Web specs for XML people (Part I) - Hmm, I understand how it works, but what is the use case? #
Tristan Rivoallan : Stefano's Linotype ~ A No-Nonsense Guide to Semantic Web Specs for XML People [Part I]
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16/07/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : msn buys lookout for outlook - msn buys lookout for outlook: the search bubble?
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16/07/2004 @ 05:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Haiku, the open source BeOS clone - Even if I never install it anywhere, it's great to see that the fabulous thinking that went into BeOS attracted so many devoted fans.
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16/07/2004 @ 05:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : blogging as open source intelligence - blogging as open source intelligence: yup
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16/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
anildash : fastbusy: database of bay area apts - mmmm. tasty data.
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16/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
anildash : help out at the DNC in Boston - maggie's a good person. kerry's a good candidate. you're a good helper.
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16/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
anildash : trying to make alt weekly sites less sucky - the problem for most of these papers isn't technical, it's cultural.
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16/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
anildash : strong USA Today story on blogging the convention - Tom McPhail's words will come back to haunt him, and I can't wait for that day.
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16/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
anildash : tomorrow: webvisions 2004 - my first time in portland. can't wait to see everyone there.
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16/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
kellan : Software That Lasts 200 Years - This really resonated with me, in particular with the conversations we've been having about NGO software development. #
Paul Hammond : Software That Lasts 200 Years - We need to start thinking about software in a way more like how we think about building bridges, dams, and sewers
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16/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : libtrash - libtrash: neat... it's a ld_preload hack for unlink() and friends
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16/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : spymac rolls out first 3gb e-mail - spymac rolls out first 3gb e-mail: my internet hard disk gets bigger by the week
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16/07/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Matt's idea about letting friends correct your site - using trusted networks, why not?
anildash : matt wants a public editing of blog posts - i'd like to just have typekey authorized users be able to edit and append to my posts
Paul Hammond : Wishlist: the million monkeys at a million typewriters plugin | A Whole Lotta Nothing - A plugin like this would basically wiki-ize the weblog world
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16/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Wikalong Firefox Extension - I got an email tip off about this one too!
Aquarion : Firefox Extension HowTo - Also Handy
cameron : FirefoxExtensionHowTo - Wikalong Firefox Extension
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16/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : the red pill is good - the red pill is good: but why not just drink the wine?
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16/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Tom Coates : I'm going to guess that Phil's occasional workmates did this for him... - I'm going to guess that Phil's occasional workmates did this for him...
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16/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : How to Sell the Same Startup Twice - sell for $80 million, buy back at $2 million, sell again for $70 million
Nelson Minar : Sell startup twice - Ev remembers that this is the second time someone bought WebShots
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16/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Photos - Pictures from Robert Pirsig's original 1968 trip. Wow. Mrs. Machado would be all aflutter.
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16/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : The Sakai Project - open-source courseware, trying to break the hold of BlackBoard, named after Iron Chef French
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16/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : rumors: new, sleeker iPods in August - I would whine about how I should have waited, but it's brought me so much joy
jkottke : July rumors bring August iPods - July rumors bring August iPods (Smaller, multi-colored, iPod mini-ish.)
Tom Coates : New iPods coming - and at totally the wrong time! I need one now!
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