21/07/2004 @ 23:58 GMT
kellan : Now available "The Spam Letters" by Jonathan Land - Who would have though that The Omen was launching pad for fame and fortun? #
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21/07/2004 @ 23:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Log Inauguration - You need to have guts to call WordPress crap while your Atom feed is invalid; Moose will probably fix it though, no doubt about that #
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21/07/2004 @ 23:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : 10% websurfers zal overstappen op Firefox - Euh... joepie! [via] #
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21/07/2004 @ 23:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Macromedia Jumps on the SVG Bandwagon (sort of) - Hmm #
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21/07/2004 @ 23:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : The Great Custom 404 Page Adventure - Everyone needs those, don't forget to add a 403, 410 and some 5** as well; thanks #
Wayne Burkett : The Great Custom 404 Page Adventure - Some great examples. #
Kayode Okeyode : The Great Custom 404 Page Adventure
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21/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Survivor bias - When averaging historical facts, don't forget to include the things that are now dead
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21/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Krisky Kreme announces glazed donut-flavored drink - [via] [via]
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21/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : UK High Court rules modchips illegal -
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21/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Conversational cheap shots, how not to talk
François Nonnenmacher : Conversational Terrorism
joshua : Conversational Terrorism: How NOT to Talk!
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21/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Tom Coates : The congenital Anosmia pages. I've never believed in this 'magic nose' sense to be honest. I think people are making it up. It makes no sense. Might as well have a chocolate instinct. - The congenital Anosmia pages. I've never believed in this 'magic nose' sense to be honest. I think people are making it up. It makes no sense. Might as well have a chocolate instinct.
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21/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Tom Coates : London Buses messes up a change in ticketing
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21/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Waxy.org blocked by crappy SiteFilter proxy - Matt has a roundup of other blocked sites, including Blogger.com
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21/07/2004 @ 21:58 GMT
kaninka.net : Okurverð á erlendum tÃmaritum - Hefur einhver útskýringu á þessu?
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21/07/2004 @ 21:57 GMT
kaninka.net : Hvað gerist þegar gallblaðra er fjarlægð? - Farting has been severely reduced. Unless I eat something specific like beans, the joys of farting are no more.
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21/07/2004 @ 21:57 GMT
Richard Rutter : Printing high quality logos with CSS - Uses a print style sheet (filed under CSS techniques). [via CSS Vault]
Paul Hammond : Juiced Thoughts - Thoughts on daily issues and anything else. - Creating Great looking logos for your print stylesheet - get it large
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21/07/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Essential CSS hacks - A handy summary, including the new IE5/Mac filter (filed under CSS techniques).
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21/07/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Levi-Strauss and Whedon: history, myth, metaphor and bricolage - Boy needs an editor in the worst way, but fun!
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21/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : In NYC, even the opening of a new Target store is a big deal - In NYC, even the opening of a new Target store is a big deal (The likes of Chloe Sevigny, Sandra Bernhard, and Maggie Gyllenhaal turned up to shop for Britta water filters and bathmats.)
anildash : target opens in brooklyn - what a beautiful fucking mess
Tom Coates : Celebrities really will go to the opening of pretty much anything...
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21/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
anildash : the branding of Cold Stone Creamery - because "heart-stopping yummy fatness" wasn't as good a brand name
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21/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
anildash : in praise of the chillow - the chillow is a favorite around our household as well
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21/07/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
kellan : Protesters protest protest restrictions</a. - [via zoe] excellence in headline writing #
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21/07/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Inside Look at Birth of the IPod
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21/07/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Katamaridamashi US - Confirmation that it'll be released in the US
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21/07/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Will Pate : TextBased is Back - Don't miss Jarrod's Demithifying the Web series.
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21/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Help Graduate Student Girl with an experiment - If you liked the umbrella dress (as seen on Boing Boing), give a little back. Also, it involves a wombat-crating scheme.
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21/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Boxes and Arrows: The Information Architecture of Email - As Gmail comes out of Beta, Google may find itself with a product that users are slow to adopt
Philippe Janvier : The Information Architecture of Email - "At the most basic level, managing email - an activity whose necessity rates somewhere between scheduled car maintenance and eating - requires too much thinking under current models. Users may be pleased to have to think less."
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21/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
anildash : great comments on a canada.com blog story - scroll down and click to read the rest
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21/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site - Dedicated to those halcyon days of "Trots and Bonnie", Henry Beard, Michael Gross, the "1964 High School Yearbook Parody", and an attempt to make MAD Magazine for semi-grownups.
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21/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
François Hodierne : U-Blog, Six Apart, and Their Angry Bloggers - Very interesting read for non-french people who don't know U-blog's (Six Apart EMEA) true story. #
Tom Coates : Apparently French webloggers aren't thrilled with the acquisition by Six Apart. This summary in English is apparently designed to expose their feelings to a wider audience. As such I'm linking to it, and will link in turn to any response made by SixApart - Apparently French webloggers aren't thrilled with the acquisition by Six Apart. This summary in English is apparently designed to expose their feelings to a wider audience. As such I'm linking to it, and will link in turn to any response made by
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21/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Four inmates escape, go on two beer runs - and they came back to the prison, twice [via] [via]
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21/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Why did Microsoft buy Lookout? - [via] [via]
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21/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
anildash : Tour De Jeopardy - hello, excellence. and kottke.
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21/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
anildash : nice Voice interview with Wonkette - now that your blog can get you on TV, the next step is a blog getting you a book deal!
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21/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Blogging: A world stuck on itself - Blah!
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21/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : This electoral vote predictor is currently showing a sizable win for Kerry - This electoral vote predictor is currently showing a sizable win for Kerry (Data is taken from state polls.)
Rod Begbie : Electoral Vote Predictor - This poll collator currently shows a healthy lead for Kerry. This'll be fun to watch over time. [via] #
Graham Leuschke : Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 - we care so much more about this now than we did four years ago
Nelson Minar : Electoral vote predictor - Round-up of state polls
adamrg : Election 2008: Presidential, Senate and House Races Updated Daily - Not one of the prettiest, but one of the most useful election sites out there.
Khoi Vinh : Electoral-vote.com - As the presidential campaign heads into the fall, I’m returning again to this site on a regular basis (I used to check it regularly in 2004), which tracks polls and electoral votes on a daily basis, with excellent accompanying commentary.
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21/07/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Spamusement! - "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!" [via] #
Andy Baio : Spamusement - cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines [via] [via]
anildash : spamusement! cartoons from spam - i like the one where prince kabila from nigeria thinks he's the red baron
Jeremy Zawodny : spamusement - spamusement: excellent cartoons based on spam subject lines
Ethan Marcotte : Spamusement! - Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines
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21/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Volunteer make-over consultants - More coverage of Odeon’s struggle against common sense (filed under New media industry). [via WG]
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21/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : same-sex marriage ==> same-sex divorce - fodder for opponents, though they'd be insane to use it
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21/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : CollyLogic: Ticked-off visited links Reloaded - It's lean, it's clean
Isofarro : Ticked off links reloaded - Improvements
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21/07/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : hreflang(s) - More people find out about the problem, great! #
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21/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Duke develops iPod-equipped download army - Somewhere, the pigopolists are burping
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21/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : Ideas Bazaar: Weblog: The last fantasy the 20th Century left us - JG Ballard on tourism: "Travel is the last fantasy the 20th Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself."
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21/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : search.cpan.org: PPerl - Make perl scripts persistent in memory - This program turns ordinary perl scripts into long running daemons, making subsequent executions extremely fast
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21/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Tom Coates : I hope all those people who voted UK Independence Party are feeling suitably fucking ashamed of themselves right now...
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21/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Macromedia RSS Feeds - Track TechNotes, security bulletins and product updates (filed under Tools & software).
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21/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Cesser de mentir - "Fluidifie ta vie plutôt que d'en détruire un pan dans l'espoir d'en sortir un autre de l'ombre."
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21/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Headings defining document structure | clagnut/blog - "Nowadays we are trying to apply the same methodology to more mature, hypertextually complex view Web." #
Anne van Kesteren : Headings defining document structure - Enhance HTML, don't try to do things with it it can't handle and isn't designed for #
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21/07/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
Tom Coates : Blast from the past: The Tom Coates Colonic Irrigation Fund
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21/07/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : Search.cpan.org: WWW::Odeon - A simple API for screen-scraping the www.odeon.co.uk website - Wouldn't it be awful if large numbers of Accessible Odeon websites suddenly sprang up everywhere...
Paul Hammond : search.cpan.org: WWW::Odeon - A simple API for screen-scraping the www.odeon.co.uk website - if an open source solution is available to the community then Odeon will not be able to keep on shutting down each and every "Accessible" front-end to their site, or ideally, will create a working version of their own site
Simon Willison : WWW::Odeon - A simple API for screen-scraping the www.odeon.co.uk website. (via) [via]
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21/07/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : Soul Sides - So you want to start an audioblog... - Tips for new MP3 bloggers. Nothing extraordinary, but good common sense.
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21/07/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Using Text-Overflow: Blakems.com - text-overflow:ellipsis;
Anne van Kesteren : Using Text-Overflow - Neat! #
deusx : Using Text-Overflow: Blakems.com - "Overall it is a great property that allows you to skip the step of asking a programming to limit number of characters on a line."
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21/07/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : FastMailWiki - Text Overflow Ellipsis - This will most probably see implementation in other browsers in the not-too-distant future, as the CSS3 recommendation nears closer to full recommendation status.
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21/07/2004 @ 09:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Microsoft to pay $32bn dividend - A total of $75bn over the next four years
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21/07/2004 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Censorzilla, dirty words in the Netscape source tree - [via] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : swearing in the comments of the Netscape source code
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21/07/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
anildash : i started my blog five years ago - and i'm still writing about the exact same damn thing. right on.
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21/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : macromedia lie - macromedia lie: marc tells it like it is
François Nonnenmacher : Macromedia lie - no! Really!
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21/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
anildash : Tour de France blog by Lance's bike - the Austin American-Statesman is doing something interesting with this MT blog
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21/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Gmail Notifier extension for Mozilla - such a simple idea
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21/07/2004 @ 03:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Bottle cap tripod - Now that's wacky. (via BoingBoing)
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21/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Douglas Wolk's Lacunae - Douglas Wolk (Fiery Furnaces fan, Slate music critic, and Dark Beloved Cloud proprietor) has jammed a MP3 blog into his personal blog and actually gone to the trouble of securing the bands' permission.
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21/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : BookMachine - kiosk to download and print books on demand
Richard MacManus : engadget: Bookmachine self-contained printer - Turns book publishing into "an ATM transaction". Hmm, still uses trees though.
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21/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Platform Jumping, tiled animated GIFs - from the b3ta crew [via] [via]
Graham Leuschke : animated gif: platforms - stunning. I could watch this all evening
Rod Begbie : Platform Jumping - This is just mindblowing. I want it as my wallpaper. [via] #
kellan : Stick figures. I love the emergent complexity. - (just an Omen themed day) #
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21/07/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Dale Peck's "Hatchet Jobs" - Dale Peck's novels are so damn incredibly fabulous that he is entitled to heap derision and calumny upon the heads of Joyce, Nabokov, DeLillo, Pynchon, and Powers, and he really, really wants you to know this.
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21/07/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
jkottke : Results of the 2004 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - Results of the 2004 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (This year's "dark and stormy night" includes the phrase "like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp's tail".)
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21/07/2004 @ 01:56 GMT
kaninka.net : Cowboy Junkies live - 18 júlà 2004
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21/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Faking it: WordPress as CMS - Hacking WP to power a simple CMS is surprisingly easy. (via) [via]
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21/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Password Recycling - Another reason registation everywhere is a train wreck.
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21/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Katamari Damacy coming to US! - September release and original soundtrack!
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21/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
anildash : Spicy cooking around the world - spicy cooking in my belly!
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21/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Bow before the giant concrete presidential heads! - Now they live in beautiful Williamsburg, Virginia!
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