29/07/2004 @ 23:59 GMT
cobra libre : a paleoclimatologist discusses "the day after tomorrow" - begrudgingly, after being paid $100 to do so (via metafilter)
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29/07/2004 @ 23:59 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : "The Web is the sum of all human knowledge, plus porn." - "The Web is the sum of all human knowledge, plus porn."
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29/07/2004 @ 23:58 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : ANNOUNCE - Perl Power Tools v0.13 - The Resurrection
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29/07/2004 @ 23:58 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Dunstan's Redesign explained (Part 2) - Dunstan's Redesign explained (Part 2)
Anne van Kesteren : Redesign explained: tag transformations - This stuff is great #
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29/07/2004 @ 23:58 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Fight Virus With Virus: That's the only way to stop MyDoom - Fight Virus With Virus: That's the only way to stop MyDoom
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29/07/2004 @ 23:57 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : How to Remove Internet Explorer
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29/07/2004 @ 23:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Satan's Laundromat and the Abandoned Subway - Sounds like a children's book, looks like a million bucks.
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29/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Aquarion : Dave Langford's top 20 SF books
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29/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
veen : Terra set to sell Lycos for $95-$115M at more than $12B loss - Well, that was an interesting experiment
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29/07/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
veen : Good Experience - Budgeting for Advertising and Customer Experience - $30M on advertising, $20K on the site. Why are users frustrated? Duh...
jkottke : What if companies spent their money on improving customer experience rather than on marketing?
Will Pate : Budgeting for Advertising and Customer Experience - Mark Hurst hits the nail on the head. Why pay advertising dollars to have customers come to a bad experience?
François Nonnenmacher : Budgeting for Advertising and Customer Experience - (personal note: unearth this in exactly one month)
Jeremy Zawodny : budgeting for advertising and customer experience - budgeting for advertising and customer experience: can you imagine a company investing in the customer experience as if it was as important as advertising?
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29/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Cameron on a new comment spam tactic - promoting the Pagerank of an abandoned blog to promote other sites
anildash : new trends in comment spam - kalsey has some good info as well. the hard part is getting people to upgrade.
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29/07/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : O'Reilly's Make Magazine - Readymade for the geek crowd, edited by Frauenfelder [via] [via]
jkottke : O'Reilly has a page up about their new magazine called Make - O'Reilly has a page up about their new magazine called Make ("This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.")
anildash : o'reilly's make: martha torvalds magazine - i'm so glad to see an american "mook"
Nelson Minar : Make magazine - Now available for subscription. Congratulations!
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29/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Kaballah Red String at Target
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29/07/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : RIP Francis Crick - SignOnSanDiego.com News Nation -- Francis Crick, 1916 %u2013 2004
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29/07/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : 10 Open Source programs you should have - 4/10 peut mieux faire :(
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29/07/2004 @ 21:57 GMT
kellan : Tethered coffee is pure evil! - Vendor locked in coffee grounds!?! I get withdrawl headaches just thinking about it. #
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29/07/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Aquarion : Real Life Spidermen (WMF) - StreetClimbers, like Spiderman, or Prince of Persia
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29/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Pirate Screenings magazine on film piracy from 1975 - [via] [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Woman handcuffed and jailed for chewing candy bar in D.C. Metro station - [via] [via]
deusx : Mouthful Gets Metro Passenger Handcuffs and Jail (washingtonpost.com) - 'Farbstein said Willett violated the rules. "Chewing is eating," she said.' Reg required, thank bugmenot.com
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29/07/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Doom 3 Hardware Guide - looks nice even at 640x480? [via] [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 20:58 GMT
Aquarion : UK Stores Pull Manhunt - Back to the "Games Are Evil" crap :-|
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29/07/2004 @ 20:58 GMT
deusx : MICHAEL MOORE/O'REILLY SHOWDOWN AT CONVENTION - "M: Say ?I Bill O?Reilly would sacrifice my child to secure Fallujah? O: I?m not going to say what you say, you?re a, that?s ridiculous" Heh, heh. Looks like Michael Moore handles himself pretty well here.
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29/07/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
deusx : Incessant popping noise - "a few days ago the speakers on my 12" Powerbook started making an incessant popping noise that sounds very much like a spike being sent to them, seemingly at random." Same thing happens occasionally on my 12" PowerBook.
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29/07/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
deusx : notes on: perl lightning talks, impressionistically rendered - "Randal Schwartz (looks like Randal. Certainly wearing Randal-like clothes. He's the Hooter's guy, right? I always get him and Tom Phoenix confused. Okay, definitely Randal.)"
Steve Cook : Danny O'Brien at O'Reilly's open source conference - There's some more neat presentations he sums up, but this one features my acquaintance Andy Lester describing Perl's "prove" tool.
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29/07/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
deusx : watch: Efficiently run a script on file changes on OS X with kqueue - "It uses kqueue to watch the files on the argument list. If a file is modified, watch prints out the name of the modified file and runs your script."
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29/07/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
deusx : MirrorMask (2004) - "MirrorMask centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life..." Directed by Dave McKean, Written by Neil Gaiman. Whoo!
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29/07/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
deusx : Achewood - July 28, 2004 - "OH HEY ARE YOU THE THING THAT CRAPPED BY THE GAS STATION" "YEAH DID YOU LIKE THAT" "IT MADE A LOT OF SENSE TO ME:
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29/07/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
deusx : Believing in Hell Has Its Benefits - "In countries where large percentages of the population believe in hell, there seems to be less corruption and a higher standard of living" Well... I guess if you have to believe in something...
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29/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Gettingit's "Body Bazaar" from 1999 - people are trading kidneys in the comments
nelson : Online kidney market - Screw the article; check the comments
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29/07/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : British RIAA going after MP3 blogs - [via] [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 19:59 GMT
kellan : "One could stroll down Alabama's southern streets selling semiautomatic rifles and dildos, and be arrested for the dildos." - Sometimes I wonder at this concept of a nation state. #
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29/07/2004 @ 19:59 GMT
kellan : Ebook column that gets it all wrong - You'll know capitalism is working when the current crop of media companies shut down. #
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29/07/2004 @ 19:59 GMT
kellan : How to handle international dates and times in PHP and MySQL. - Not so sure about storing the local and GMT, but the rest is excellent advice. #
Kayode Okeyode : How to handle international dates and times in PHP and MySQL
Simon Willison : How to handle international dates and times in PHP and MySQL - Keith tackles a common point of irritation.
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29/07/2004 @ 19:58 GMT
Will Pate : Ladybird From Where Have You Flown - Tracking nature's direction. From Matt Woodson.
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29/07/2004 @ 19:57 GMT
deusx : ZopeZen - Why the hell hasn't Page Templates taken over the world? - 'So how do we make Page Templates take over the world? Like Mutt: "All templating languages suck. This one just sucks less."'
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29/07/2004 @ 19:57 GMT
deusx : EFF: High-Definition Personal Video Recorder Cookbook - "So you want to build your own HDTV personal video recorder before the broadcast flag mandate takes effect on July 30, 2005, leaving you with nothing but devices laden with Hollywood-imposed restrictions?"
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29/07/2004 @ 19:57 GMT
Andy Baio : Dynamism, imported next-gen Japanese gadgets - the Sony video/MP3 player, insanely thin notebooks, tiny subnotebooks, and a credit card-sized cameraphone [via] [via]
43folders : Dynamism.com - Next Generation Japanese Notebooks and Electronics - New to me geek gadget site, focused on stuff not et available in the US. Very fun.
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29/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Andy Baio : vBlog Central - drag-and-drop Java client for easy videoblogging [via] [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Andy Baio : NYT on DIY drive-ins - with optional iPods for radio receivers
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29/07/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Top 10 Game Videogame Cover Art - some of my favs: Katamari Damacy, Ico, Maniac Mansion, and Bureaucracy [via] [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : GmailXP - Windows client that replicates every Gmail function [via] [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
anildash : map of all of newsgator's tools - i use it and didn't know there were all these options. this should be the homepage!
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29/07/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
anildash : vBlog Central, video blogging app - posts right to your weblog, though it seems to be in an early beta release right now
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29/07/2004 @ 18:57 GMT
kellan : The Uqbar theory posits that some parts of the Internet actually are hosted in alternate universes - Including one possibly named 'Tlön', and this explains so much of the 'wrong' information one encounters. #
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29/07/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
cobra libre : top 10 dicks - my vote's for nick and nora from The Thin Man
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29/07/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
cobra libre : up for nothing - "I don't see these vast numbers of chatty hikers clogging the footpaths, filling the wilderness with spirited conversation and slicing gestures."
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29/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
cobra libre : my civic duty, part 1 - i find this deeply resonant
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29/07/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Test your reading speed - I'm between 350-400 words per minute for both tests [via] [via]
Steve Cook : How fast do you read? - More importantly, how much do you retain?
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29/07/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : The Underground History of American Education
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29/07/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
anildash : in the bay area? come see MT 3.1 - plus free goodies!
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29/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : apple //e - my first was a ][+ too, unless you count the Vic-20
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29/07/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : improving online credibility by -- gasp! -- insisting on real names - at amazon
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Andy Baio : Paul Graham's amazing essay on "Great Hackers" - brilliant, funny, and insightful; read this now [via] [via]
anildash : paul graham on great hackers - an excellent recap, and explains why i love working at six apart
Graham Leuschke : great hackers - also applicable to academics, mathematicians, etc.
Matthew M. Boedicker : Great Hackers by Paul Graham
Tomas Jogin : Great Hackers - Paul Graham says he don't quite know how to spot a good hacker, but at the same time he does a wonderful job of describing one. Very good read.
Kayode Okeyode : Great Hackers
Simon Willison : Great Hackers - "Of all the great programmers I can think of, I know of only one who would voluntarily program in Java. And of all the great programmers I can think of who don't work for Sun, on Java, I know of zero."
Richard MacManus : Paul Graham: Great Hackers - I'm not a programmer, but to me being a hacker is about doing what you love and doing it creatively.
Jeremy Zawodny : phil on great hackers - phil on great hackers: controversy
Paul Hammond : Great Hackers - There's no way around it: you can't manage a process intended to produce beautiful things without knowing what beautiful is
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29/07/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Steve Cook : A trip down Gin Lane - I've been looking for a really good gin and tonic gin.
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29/07/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
deusx : Baby Bunnies - These pictures have broken the cute-o-meter.
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29/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Nooo! Not this weekend! - a 250 mile drive is going to take me 10 hours
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29/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Sam Brown, of explodingdog fame, has a new book out in September called Amazing Rain
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29/07/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Reviews of the Lord of the Rings book from 50 years ago
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29/07/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : [XHTML2] Some comments - Not much at all #
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29/07/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Video of Barack Obama's DNC speech - I'd been looking for these. Via Cookiecrook.
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29/07/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Amazon Real Name - "In general, we believe that a community in which people use their Real Names will ultimately have higher quality content, since an author willing to sign his or her real-world name on a piece of content is essentially saying "With my real-world identity,
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29/07/2004 @ 09:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Labor group: Microsoft offshoring work on Longhorn - Will they outsource the Service Packs too?
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29/07/2004 @ 09:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : RFID tags become hacker target - Yes, that bottle of Dom is really 1€. Nice promo isn't it?
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29/07/2004 @ 09:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Survey: Tech support time costly - Don't outsource tech support, just switch to the Mac ;-)
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29/07/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Taming the Beast: The Solution to Mozilla's Hidden Marketing Problem - Great write-up #
anildash : critique of mozilla marketing - how's this? firefox: safer, faster internet browsing and search for free
Jon Hicks : The Solution to Mozilla's Hidden Marketing Problem? - “Andkon Design Has No Drawbacks” – other than one huge drawback. It looks absolutely horrible…
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29/07/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Atari CX-2000 prototype - a failed successor to the Atari 2600 [via] [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : And... it's Kerry! - I mean, the suspense had been killing me.
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29/07/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
veen : Say Hello to iHome - Jim Heid details a headless Mac media server
François Nonnenmacher : Forget AirPort Express: Say Hello to iHome - Great reuse of an old PowerBook as a home digital media center
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29/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
kellan : Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The (2003) - Fascinating, informative, ambiguous, and highly relevant. #
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29/07/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : The Invisible Chair - taking anonymous academic blogs to their logical conclusion -- plus heroin!
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29/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Charles Miller : Fake e-mails fool users 28 percent of the time, study finds - Fake e-mails fool users 28 percent of the time, study finds. In that case, how many phish do you have to send out to get rich? Must be less than a thousand.
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29/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
veen : Movable Type 3.1: What's New - Dynamic PHP templates, scheduled publishing, subcategories... If they add workflow, they could compete with the six figure CMS crowd.
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29/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : See What You Share - weblog of confidential photos found on P2P networks [via] [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Veen on the user experience of the new Sony Network Walkman - Mossberg's review says it's no iPod
François Nonnenmacher : User Experience is More Than Design - Jeffrey Veen on Sony's Network Walkman vs. Apple's iPod
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29/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
kellan : s Paul Graham on offices - the mere prospect of being interrupted is enough to prevent hackers from working on hard problems. #
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29/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : Cat droppings yield chic coffee - "A food scientist has cracked the secrets of the world's most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, whose beans pass through the intestinal tract of an Indonesian civet before being roasted and savoured."
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29/07/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : OSX to Bluetooth to 3650 to T-Mobile GPRS to the Net - Just got a new phone; I'll have to try this next week.
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29/07/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Will Pate : Best Companies Stay on Top by Being Open to New Ideas - Leaders that know how to foster and manage innovation lead companies that win. Look at Google.
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29/07/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Design sites do Web standards - Or rather, they don't do Web standards.
Anne van Kesteren : Design sites do Web standards - He's joking, obviously ;-) #
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29/07/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
anildash : amazon real names, accountability for reviews - it's like the patriot act of e-commerce
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Batman Begins teaser trailer
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Jon Hicks : Stare at this image - The harder you stare, it stops moving. Its a mind-freaking optical illusion, thats what it is.
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
cobra libre : poem of the day - 'action shot of plum drank about to throw up'
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Will Pate : Kids Born Since 1982 are All Right - "Violence, drug use and teen sex have declined. Kids are becoming more conservative politically and socially."
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Will Pate : Don't Overpromise and Underdeliver - I'm getting better at this, I really am.
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Why you shouldn't be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks... - Recommends pass phrases instead. Seems like smart advice. (via) [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools - The WikiPedia take on legalised child abduction and imprisonment.
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Tom Coates : Ripples, or "The Social Life of a Broadcast" - Dan Hill's take on the Radio 3 relaunch and why we built it the way we did - Ripples, or "The Social Life of a Broadcast" - Dan Hill's take on the Radio 3 relaunch and why we built it the way we did
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Transcript of Michael Moore's showdown with Bill O'Reilly - they're both acting like children [via] [via]
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29/07/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Snopes on the Paypal Class Action - get a piece of the Paypal pie
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29/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The requiem for blobdom - "'I'm crushed,' he said. 'It's a blow for people who continue to want there to be great and scary monsters out there.'"
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29/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The Masons and Oak Island - Was the purported pirate treasure buried on Oak Island actually some sort of Masonic allegory?
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29/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : Barack Obama's keynote (realaudio) - this man is fucking electrifying. the `skinny kid' line hit me like a brick.
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29/07/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Tom Coates: Music portability and access - Heading towards a "service-driven and centralised streaming-based world."
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