27/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
kellan : Charlie Stross: A brief rant about ebooks. - Examines the tech, business, and contract issues of ebooks #
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27/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
doug : Optimizing SEO - Favorite quote: ?There?s a part of me that?s always felt that, if you?re a professional at a certain trade, and I can come in as an amateur and do better than you, then you probably suck.? Way to be subtle, Anil!
Isofarro : Anil: Optimising Search Engines - Good content beats SEO any day - even SEO spammers
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27/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
cobra libre : blogging the DNC (best of) - it's not a parallel universe, though, it's a temporal anomaly, and you have 105 days, 4 hours, 25 minutes, and 30 seconds left to save the world
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27/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The Order of the Occult Hand - "If true, the letters from Smith and Flanders reveal the origin of the Order of the Occult Hand. In the fall of 1965, several Charlotte News reporters had been drinking...."
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27/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Zarquon comment on Dave Shea's Design Theft post - "I see design as a meme; the more useful the meme is to people, the more likely it is to be copied." [via] [via]
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27/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Frank Gehry and the MIT Media Lab collaborate on a concept car - Frank Gehry and the MIT Media Lab collaborate on a concept car (There's a huge coat hanger on the top of the car.)
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27/07/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : 20 things you have to believe to be a Republican today - Mostly rhetoric and distortion, but underneath it all there are kernels of truth that deserve consideration.
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27/07/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : Things You Have to Believe to Be a Democrat Today - Mostly rhetoric and distortion, but underneath it all there are kernels of truth that deserve consideration.
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27/07/2004 @ 23:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : The worst thing about atrocities is that... - "The problem in this world is for the most part totally unrelated to the concepts of Liberal or Conservative." [via Ferrett] [via]
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27/07/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Olympic flame key in cannabis bust - I pictured someone trying to use the torch to light up a blunt.
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27/07/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Dumb Moments in Sci-Fi Cinema - Fun for any fan, especially since it includes "why we don't care it's dumb" rationalizations.
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27/07/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Men Throwing Fireworks Leave Window Up - Can't... stop... laughing...
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27/07/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Homeland Security Simon - I came across this quite some time ago, and by coincidence just stumbled into it again. How long can you keep safe?
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27/07/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Indispensable Mac OS X products - A good list of OS X stuff that Jonas can't live without. Maybe you'll find some new addictions yourself.
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27/07/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Miner digs up 182-carat gem -- and trouble - I wonder how long it'll be before we start getting 419 spam that references this diamond.
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27/07/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Eric Meyer : Bush: U.S. probes possible Iran links to 9/11 - Oh, that's great. Just great. When Iraq doesn't work out, try the guys next door, eh?
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27/07/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Eric Meyer : Report: Bigger breasts offered as perk to soldiers - I tried for fifteen minutes to devise a pithy summary, and gave up. Reailty once again makes satire superluous.
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27/07/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
cobra libre : go, zarquon! (read the comments) - i agree completely, morally if not legally
Eric Meyer : Design Theft: Crossing the Line - When does theft become art, and at what point does it become original?
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27/07/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Eric Meyer : Blackout clears the air - The neighbors all got together around a telescope that night and checked out Mars and the Moon. Imagine if the air were clear enough to do that all the time.
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27/07/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Eric Meyer : Liberally Applying "Most Liberal" Label - Aw, don't you just hate it when reality spoils a perfectly good self-serving half-truth?
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27/07/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : CSS3 Speech Module - From 'aural' to 'speech', switch today! ;-) #
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27/07/2004 @ 22:59 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Are web sites identical? - Maybe they look identical structurally; especially the new fancy correctly marked up ones. #
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27/07/2004 @ 22:59 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : honestly, which browser? - There is only one browser which has the CSS support I need, a IRC client, a mail thing, a HTTP headers project and some other stuff like MathML, XHTML and namespaces combined. #
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27/07/2004 @ 22:59 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Updated W3C Working Drafts - Great, an overview! #
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27/07/2004 @ 22:58 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : WWW::Odeon: A simple API for screen-scraping the www.odeon.co.uk website
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27/07/2004 @ 22:58 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : A tour of the PHP.INI configuration file, part 2
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27/07/2004 @ 22:58 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : A tour of the PHP.INI configuration file, part 1
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27/07/2004 @ 22:58 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : How to Think Like a Computer Scientist C++ Version
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27/07/2004 @ 22:57 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Tips for Building Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
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27/07/2004 @ 22:57 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : CLI magic: File Transfer Protocol
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27/07/2004 @ 22:57 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : OOo Off the Wall: Setting Up Page Styles in OOo Writer
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27/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Will Firefox repeat Netscape's mistakes? - Will Firefox repeat Netscape's mistakes?
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27/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : 'Not Found' Is Not An Option: Error Handling and User Experience - 'Not Found' Is Not An Option: Error Handling and User Experience
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27/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Getting started with JavaScript
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27/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Preview Google search results with this extension
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27/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Contingency Design: Maximizing Online Profitability By Helping People When Things Go Wrong
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27/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Pirate flags - Calico Jack Rackham may have died like a dog, but he had the closest thing to the iconic skull and crossbones flag.
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27/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : wg:Code Think vs. Design Think - this survey contains objective data about web pages and assumes that conclusions about design can be gleaned from it
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27/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Optimizing Perl, when Perl isn't quite fast enough - Optimizing Perl, when Perl isn't quite fast enough
Kayode Okeyode : When perl is not quite fast enough
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27/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
anildash : MSN Newsbot, powered by Moreover - i still miss newsblogger
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27/07/2004 @ 21:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : I meet the most interesting people in planes
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27/07/2004 @ 21:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : p0f, passive OS fingerprinting tool
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27/07/2004 @ 21:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Shaolin Science, the science behind amazing feats of Shaolin monks
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27/07/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Graham Leuschke : The Diet 7-Up of Happiness - `Bullshit. Everyone knows what love feels like.' (thanks, kord)
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27/07/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : spiked-essays | Essay | The Naked Crowd - It is impossible to achieve genuine distinction without a certain heedlessness of public opinion
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27/07/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : adaptive path - roi is not a silver bullet: five actionable steps for valuing user experience design - We have seen time and again that user experience is a real competitive advantage for our clients
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27/07/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : The very latest in high technology! - "chkdsk /f"-based advertising.
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27/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Dave Shea on Design Theft - Zarquon's comments are worth reading
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27/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
anildash : tell an american to vote - help american expats overseas register to vote. pass it on.
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27/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
anildash : MJ's victim forced to socialize with chris tucker! - the most unseemly allegation yet against michael jackson
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27/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Redesigning a tableless Microsoft.com - I'm with Matt, he should go on the road [via] [via]
anildash : a case study of redesigning microsoft.com - doug makes a perfect business case for throwing tables out the window
Anne van Kesteren : Throwing Tables Out the Window - I'm glad he didn't mention XHTML or HTML at all; great article! #
Simon Willison : Throwing Tables Out the Window - Doug Bowman: "There's no longer any reason to use tables for layout". (via) [via]
Kayode Okeyode : Throwing Tables Out the Window
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27/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Jon Udell: Kimbro Staken's XPath-searchable blog - "I just love this idea of incorporating XPath into RESTian URLs"
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27/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Acme Novelty Archive - new design, new URL, and much more Chris Ware content!
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27/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : gentoo for mac os x - compiling from scratch never looked so pretty #
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27/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
anildash : more blog jobs in manhattan - because, you know, there's an infinite market for gossip blogs
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27/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : the early days of tech support - "Me Lorto. Help. Fire not work."
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27/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : mnot?s Web log: Dictionary as API? - "There are a lot of details to work out here, of course, but I must say I like the feel of using a dictionary here." Looks like quasi-idiomatic Python access to REST resources.
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27/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Lancement d'une nouvelle plateforme de weblogs - Des jouebs qui s'agrandissent et deviennent des weblogs. (ViaBlog)
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27/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : how google has ruined its ipo deal - how google has ruined its ipo deal: james cramer lashes out
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27/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : diskseekd - diskseekd: shaking the dust off
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27/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : rayg's blogroll - rayg's blogroll: check out the ui
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27/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : CollyLogic: Question Time: Using H Tags - In a world of 3 billion web pages, there's no accounting for context
Philippe Janvier : Question Time: Using H Tags - "In general, are you using H tags with emphasis on structure or importance ?"
Richard Rutter : Using H Tags - Headings explored to the extreme. (filed under Mark-up techniques).
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27/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : How to put a whole harmonica in your mouth - A classic. Not recommended for larger, chromatic harmonicas.
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27/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Fatal car accident may have been caused by dashboard DVD player - they were watching "Road Trip" [via] [via]
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27/07/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Movies from books - Fark takes on travesties of book/movie adaptations
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27/07/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Trashlog - Photos of things found in the trash, surprisingly poetic. (via BoingBoing)
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27/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
veen : The Pork Store: No Better Cure for a Sunday Morning Hangover - Best. Breakfast. Ever.
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27/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Sifry's roundup of bloggers' unique coverage of the DNC - cameraphones, Photoshopping, and posting Gore's speech before he delivered it
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27/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : MTA is exploring corporate branding opportunities for NYC subway stations - MTA is exploring corporate branding opportunities for NYC subway stations (In 30 years, everything (individuals, pets, the beach, US currency, the atmosphere, national parks, Spain, etc.) will be branded by a corporation.)
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27/07/2004 @ 17:57 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Apple Product Cycle - "In a matter of days, a third-hand, unsubstantiated rumor blossoms into a hand-held device that can do everything except find a girlfriend for a fat, smelly nerd." [via] #
Ethan Marcotte : The Apple product cycle - Bonus points for the "Kazaam" reference.
Charles Miller : The Apple Product Cycle - The Apple Product Cycle. “An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology...”
François Nonnenmacher : The Apple Product Cycle - An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology...
wearehugh : The Apple Product Cycle
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27/07/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
veen : McFilter: Your Personal New Music Radio Station - More on scraping mp3 blogs
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27/07/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Funes, the Memorious - yay! (via)
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27/07/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Happy birthday to the Sony Walkman, worst invention ever - Looking for authentic luddite audiosnobbery? You found it.
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27/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Turn your iPod into a Universal Remote - Phillip Torrone is the king of cool hacks [via] [via]
Steve Cook : iPod to universal remote - That's a brilliant hack.
François Nonnenmacher : How-To Turn your iPod in to a Universal Infrared Remote Control
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27/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Odd tidbit of the day...both Keira Knightly and Sofia Coppola were in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Odd tidbit of the day...both Keira Knightly and Sofia Coppola were in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (They each played one of Queen Amidala's handmaidens.)
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27/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MSNBC Newsbot beta - Microsoft's answer to Google News [via] [via]
anildash : MS/MSNBC Newsbot - the google news competitor launches in beta
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27/07/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : UK Independence Party now backing "British withdrawal from the UK" - This story is still live on the BBC News homepage two hours later! #
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27/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 300mbit/sec cellphone broadband from motorola - 300mbit/sec cellphone broadband from motorola: sign me up!
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27/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Knight Rider going on eBay - Well, there goes my Friday.
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27/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Simpsons film confirmed - [via] [via]
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27/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Knight Rider going on eBay - Well, there goes my Friday.
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27/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Possible Names for a Third Team of Pickup Basketball Players If Shirts and Skins Are Already Taken - Part skin, part shirt, all man.
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27/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Movie posters for Frank Miller's "Sin City" - a comic book adaptation directed by Robert Rodriguez [via] [via]
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27/07/2004 @ 14:57 GMT
Charles Miller : Shatner + Folds + Jackson + Cocker - William Shatner, Ben Folds and Joe Jackson team up to cover Pulp's Common People. Be very, very afraid.
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27/07/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
Charles Miller : Meat Hooks - MSNBC: “Police in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime — young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.”
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27/07/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Preparing for Emergencies website - From HM Department of Vague Paranoia. Hilarious!
Richard Rutter : Preparing for Emergencies - From HM Dept of Vague Paranoia. It’s satire dahling (filed under Funny stuff). [via Dunstan’s Blog]
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27/07/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Competing Against A Social Movement - Sun's CEO on their love-hate relationship with "the open source world"
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27/07/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Jon Hicks : The Album Leaf - I’m loving this – I implore you to head to the site and listen to this beautiful music!
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27/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : How to stop people hotlinking your images - No wonder my Elvis Costello image was so popular. Not any more...
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27/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Rails: The infrastructure behind Basecamp - Rails is a Model-View-Controler framework for Ruby
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27/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Aquarion : Degree Confluence Project - A photo for every lat/long
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27/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Google, other engines hit by worm variant - "Internet performance management company Keynote Systems said it noticed on Monday morning a dip in the average performance of the top 40 most popular Web sites it measured." Ah bon ?!
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27/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Le Web de l'avenir, être ou ne pas être sémantique - "Depuis que Tim Berners-Lee a jeté les bases du Web que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, celui-ci a fort peu évolué."
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27/07/2004 @ 11:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Hold the Front Page - Great! I haven't seen that in The Netherlands yet, unfortunately. #
François Hodierne : Hold the Front Page - Firefox fait la une d'un quotidien australien. Signe des temps ... [via] #
Kayode Okeyode : Hold the Front Page: a sign that times are a changing. Behold the front page of today's Sydney Morning Herald... - Hold the Front Page: a sign that times are a changing. Behold the front page of today's Sydney Morning Herald...
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27/07/2004 @ 11:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : iTunes mobile music player - Apple and Motorola partner to bring music to mobile phones
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27/07/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
kaninka.net : Topp 100 hitt og þetta 20. aldarinnar - Ãhugaverður listi, þó e.t.v. sé hann ekki alveg kórréttur.
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27/07/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Patents in an open source world - Do not panic (yet!)
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27/07/2004 @ 08:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Hidden Messages and CSS - How to display a message to IE without harming everyone else (using the element#id approach is a good thing by the way) #
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27/07/2004 @ 08:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : re:Design by Fire 2.0 (the one about PHP) - Switch. To. WordPress. #
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27/07/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Firefox 1.0 RC1 renamed to Firefox 1.0 PR - As long as they keep it FireFox for a while... #
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27/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : lobbycon wiki - lobbycon wiki: formation
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27/07/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
anildash : ev's blog cabin - this is very close to where a spaceship from krypton landed with a baby ev inside
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27/07/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : switchproxy - here come the mozilla toolbars (how soon before we get mozilla spyware?) #
Matthew M. Boedicker : SwitchProxy, Mozilla toolbar that can randomly switch between anonymous proxies
Andy Baio : SwitchProxy extension for Mozilla - a really well-designed extension for bypassing censorware
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27/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : netnewswire subscription favelet - netnewswire subscription favelet: this is most excellent
Jon Hicks : NetNewsWire Subscription Favelet - Superb stuff! Bung in your toolbar for a quick subscribe
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27/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : board meetings that are not boring - board meetings that are not boring: sounds like sensible advice
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27/07/2004 @ 04:56 GMT
deusx : Stargate Information Archive - Federal Charges Filed Against SG-1 Archive - "Federal charges were filed against Adam McGaughey, creator of the popular SG1Archive.com website - a fan website devoted to the MGM-owned television show Stargate SG-1." And I just was just watching SG1 as I read this. Absolutely disgusting.
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27/07/2004 @ 04:56 GMT
deusx : SG-1 Archive Forums -> SG-1 Archive Charged with Copyright Infringement - "The REAL reason for this lawsuit was that divx bootlegs of nearly (all?) every episode, up until a couple years ago, were available here for download. THAT'S why he got raided." Hmm, further down the rabbit hole.
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27/07/2004 @ 04:56 GMT
deusx : USAO/CDCA Press Release: CINCINNATI MAN CHARGED WITH STREAMING ILLEGAL COPIES OF SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SHOW OVER THE INTERNET - "As early as 2001, McGaughey provided visitors to his website the opportunity to download copies of Stargate SG-1 episodes." Hmm, still disgusting that the PATRIOT Act was invoked, but this sheds some different light.
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27/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : typogenerator - combines text, google image search, and random effects
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27/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : web services apis are the new face of e-commerce - web services apis are the new face of e-commerce: where'd i put that drum? it's time to beat it again
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27/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Manhattan Upper Management - Lovely new icon set from Firewheel, targeted toward CMSes. Rock.
Richard Rutter : Stock icons for CMSs - Designed for Web apps and royalty free (filed under Information design).
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