20/08/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : From the Ground - a guy is blogging his walk from Nebraska to the East Coast [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Movie: Red vs Blue's primer on Real Life vs the Internet - funniest thing I've seen all month, from these guys [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flash: The Invisibility Game - don't miss the ending to level 12 [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Helicopters piloted by Hollywood stunt pilots will snare a NASA probe on its return to Earth to "ensure a safe and impact-free landing" - Helicopters piloted by Hollywood stunt pilots will snare a NASA probe on its return to Earth to "ensure a safe and impact-free landing"
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20/08/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : free wi-fi in downtown Syracuse, NY
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20/08/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : T-shirts for the liberal hipster
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20/08/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : T-shirts for the conservative hipster
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20/08/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the uncanny valley, human response to creatures of varying degrees of anthropomorphicity
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20/08/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
deusx : Internet Archive: Search Engine "Amiga" - Wow. Searching for Commodore Amiga coverage in the Computer Chronicles.
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20/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Browse Happy, the anti-IE switch campaign - IMO, Firefox is the best of the bunch [via] [via]
kellan : Browse Happy -- Online. Worry-free. - Internet Explorer can make your computer unsafe. #
Dan Cederholm : Browse Happy - Informational site on switching from IE. From your friends at the Web Standards Project.
Paul Hammond : Browse Happy - Online. Worry-free. - Brought to you by The Web Standards Project
Jon Hicks : Browse Happy - Please add Camino and Omniweb to the list chaps!
Anne van Kesteren : Browse Happy - Nice project! (They will fix the DOCTYPE issue soon enough, I guess) #
Clément Hardoüin : Browse happy - 23-08-2004 - (via http://sidesh0w.com/) - La nouvelle initiative du WASP visant à faire adopter des navigateurs alternatifs (Firefox, Safari, Opera) plutôt que la passoire Internet Explorer.
Matthew M. Boedicker : Browse Happy
François Nonnenmacher : Browse Happy - Online, worry-free. Internet Explorer can make your computer unsafe. Why not switch to a browser that's more secure?
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20/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : FoxyTunes, control your media player from Firefox - Mac support is in development [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Sen. Kennedy Flagged by No-Fly List - I'd like to see someone else get removed from the No-Fly list with only 3 phonecalls. [via] #
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20/08/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
cobra libre : "undersea boat of twelve thumbs" - me, i'd be happy to understand any spoken french
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20/08/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Interviews from FanimeCon 2004 - courtesy of Kwoon, an online Kung Fu series
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20/08/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Surowiecki on the Google IPO - Wall Street retaliated from being removed from the process [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Business lessons from Star Trek: The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition - Business lessons from Star Trek: The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (Rule #49: "Everything is worth something to somebody".)
Kayode Okeyode : Business Lessons from The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
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20/08/2004 @ 18:58 GMT
deusx : Article: Language may shape human thought | New Scientist - "Hunter-gatherers from the Pirahã tribe, whose language only contains words for the numbers one and two, were unable to reliably tell the difference between four objects placed in a row and five in the same configuration, revealed the study."
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20/08/2004 @ 18:57 GMT
deusx : Database snafu puts US Senator on terror watch list - "It is not known exactly how Kennedy became mixed up in a national terrorist database - whether by accident, or as a practical joke, or as a Republican dirty trick to keep him out of Boston during the Democratic National Convention."
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20/08/2004 @ 18:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog - an early version of my Cocoa Del.icio.us Client
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20/08/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Closeup prop photos from Back to the Future trilogy - note the "Queen Diana" detail on the USA Today
deusx : original movie props from the Back To The Future trilogy
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20/08/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Build your own hoverboard - here are some design ideas [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Time Travel Mutual Fund threatens Museum of Hoaxes - I'm upgrading them from "hoax" to "scam"
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20/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Detachable phonecam lenses - makes it possible to shoot good photos with crappy phonecams
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20/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Radio Userland adds Atom support - very surprising; now Blogger should add RSS support [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Cute... and Evil! - Glassdog on Six Apart conspiracy theories
anildash : a look into six apart's dark heart - you know how google's slogan is "don't be evil"? well...
Paul Hammond : glassdog: "Cute... and Evil!" - First Annual Six Apart Crack-Pot Conspiracy Theory Contest!
Anne van Kesteren : Cute... and Evil! - :-) #
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20/08/2004 @ 17:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam and sarongs (GrepLaw interview)
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20/08/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
deusx : Dr. Fun for 2004/08/19 - "Dougie annoyed the other theoretical physicists with his wasteful and unnecessary sport utility brain."
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20/08/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
deusx : Date to Save - Missionary Dating Ministry Web Page - "As you can probably tell, I'm a Christian who loves Jesus and cares for all humans, even the wicked. What you probably don't know is that I'm hot."
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20/08/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : Article: Global warming to devastate Europe first | New Scientist - "European winters will disappear by 2080 and extreme weather will become more common unless global warming across the continent is slowed, warns a major new report."
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20/08/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Vaporized alcohol comes to Manhattan bars - order yours today for only $2995 [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Carmello Anthony and the Team USA doghouse - Carmello Anthony and the Team USA doghouse (What? A selfish, lazy superstar? Say it ain't so.)
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20/08/2004 @ 16:58 GMT
anildash : gmail notifier - i still can't get into using gmail, but maybe i'm just stubborn
Matthew M. Boedicker : Google releases official Gmail notifier
Richard MacManus : Gmail Notifier - A downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages.
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20/08/2004 @ 16:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : ESPN.com: Font Choice Really Needed? (Signal vs. Noise) - seems closer to let's-do-it-because-we-can than let's-do-it-because-we-should
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20/08/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : phil ringnalda dot com: HostMeNot - Wondering why BugMeNot is returning nothing but an empty directory?
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20/08/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Organizr is Nice, But Not a Web App - what is Flash but a desktop runtime that happens to be integrated with most browsers?
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20/08/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
anildash : layering web services for maximum coolness - a debate on the nature of web apps makes me wonder why we're not stacking them higher
Paul Hammond : Anil Dash: A middle layer of web apps - The more interesting part to me is the layering over web services that we're seeing
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20/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : chownat - NAT to NAT communication - there is NO middle man, NO proxy, NO 3rd party, and the application runs as an unprivileged user on both ends
Nelson Minar : ChowNAT: TCP between two NATs - Clever hack that takes advantage of leaky UDP routing with NATs. (via muxway)
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20/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Shizuo Kakutani's fixed point theorem - Shizuo Kakutani's fixed point theorem (I'm confused about the 3-D example...)
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20/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Making maps easy to read - Making maps easy to read (This site summarizes "a research project that set out to discover some of the factors that make maps easy to read and to use".)
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20/08/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : yahoo blog supports atom - yay #
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20/08/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : radio supports atom - yay [via] #
deusx : Beta: Atom support for news aggregator in Manila and Radio UserLand - It's about time. Very nice!
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20/08/2004 @ 13:56 GMT
Isofarro : Spitzer agreement to make web sites accessible to the blind and visually impaired - Priceline and Ramada settle and agree to make website accessible.
Graham Leuschke : web sites must be accessible to blind and visually impaired in New York State - math.syr.edu is so noncompliant it makes my teeth hurt, and we could get fined for it
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20/08/2004 @ 13:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Faithless - No Roots: Album review - Good review! I have the album myself and I really enjoy it. #
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20/08/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: How It's Done: Digitizing and Culling - "I'm going to go over the process of taking my video footage to where I can edit it"
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20/08/2004 @ 09:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : PHP turns evil - I thought it already was #
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20/08/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Erik Benson : Interesting story about a guy who likes to solve riddles - This is the only copy of the story I could find that was available online.
Matthew M. Boedicker : UChicago economics professor Steven Levitt
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20/08/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Mister Donut desktop wallpaper - the commercials are pretty damn cute, too
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20/08/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Risky Business - Andy Budd on the value of risk communication over at Digital Web.
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20/08/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : ie objectifier - elegant hack #
Simon Willison : IE Objectifier - mod_action + XSLT + PHP = neat hack. (via) [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Erik Benson : Alex Edelman leaves Amazon too - I plan on cutting and pasting his farewell email verbatim as my own. I wonder if anyone will notice.
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20/08/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Search: "hypertext links to this site, you must contact" - more stupid linking policies [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 01:59 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Form widgets in Gecko browsers - Some tricks for Mac people #
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20/08/2004 @ 01:58 GMT
Charles Miller : Hypocrite, Thy Name is Real - Hypocrite, Thy Name is Real: "In the RealNetworks v. Streambox case, Real was among the first litigants to invoke the DMCA to squash a competitor trying to interoperate with Real's proprietary streaming software."
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20/08/2004 @ 01:57 GMT
Simon Willison : Woeful Circulation for Just Retailed Digital Edition of Newspapers - Not as bad as I originally thought.
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20/08/2004 @ 01:57 GMT
Simon Willison : Toogle Search: ball of twine - It's me in ASCII.
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20/08/2004 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Using Nicecast to send any audio to AirPort Express - A $20 shareware app and a clever workaround.
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20/08/2004 @ 01:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Inquiry leads to Google Zeitgeist's removal of OS stats -
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20/08/2004 @ 01:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Fox News billboard gets Photoshopped - worthy of the BLF
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20/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: "The Life Aquatic" trailer - new Wes Anderson movie starring Bill Murray [via] [via]
jkottke : Trailer for The Life Aquatic, the new Wes Anderson movie starring Bill Murray - Trailer for The Life Aquatic, the new Wes Anderson movie starring Bill Murray (This is either going to be fantastic or when Wes jumps the shark.)
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20/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
anildash : explaining margin of error - and debunking the myth of a "statistical tie"
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20/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
anildash : from media lab asia: pedal-powered wifi point - Infothela is a mobile unit meant for exchanging info via fax, internet and phone
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20/08/2004 @ 00:56 GMT
Erik Benson : Michael McDaniel leaves Amazon's personalization group too - Don't worry, I'm not going to Microsoft.
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20/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Queso's review of his Dropcash campaign - he raised $450 in 13 hours, thanks to Metafilter
anildash : jason reviews his dropcash campaign - in summary, dropcash: smooth sailing. paypal: still tends to be sucky.
Paul Hammond : QDN: DropCash and PayPal experience - DropCash was totally simple to use
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20/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3: NES-style cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" - using the Konami VRC6 sound chip extensions for the NES [via] [via]
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20/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Khoi Vinh's outstanding redesign contest mockups - his own site is amazing, highly recommended [via] [via]
anildash : elegant boxes and arrows redesign submission - khoi vinh's done some really clean work here
Tom Coates : New Boxes, Same Arrows - classy proposed redesign for Boxes and Arrows
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