25/08/2004 @ 23:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Fire Diving - the latest extreme sport (via MetaFilter)
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25/08/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : A reintroduction to XML with an emphasis on character encoding - "XML documents consist, at a granular level, of abstract characters that have had several encoding mechanisms applied to them. In order to consistently author, store, transmit and process XML documents, there must be an awareness of the encodings that are
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25/08/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
anildash : heather celebrates 10 years - that's a whole lot of personal publishing. congrats!
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25/08/2004 @ 22:58 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Quentin Tarantino weblog is a hoax
Simon Willison : Tarantino's 'Casino' Blog a Hoax - If it's a hoax, it's a damn good one. (via) [via]
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25/08/2004 @ 22:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : The Gallery of Annoying Email Signatures
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25/08/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
deusx : The Search Engine Belt Buckle - Engadget - www.engadget.com - I think this is the signal for me to start bombing the internet.
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25/08/2004 @ 22:56 GMT
Richard MacManus : Andrew on using blogs as a release for your "shadow side" - I try to avoid using my blog as a personal journal, but it's a grey area.
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25/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : jill/txt on imagining bloggers lives - "...that's where the boundary to fiction lies."
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25/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Lilia comments on jill/txt post - Compares blogs to abstract art, where readers have to "reconstruct what is behind it."
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25/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Game Over looks like an interesting documentary of the chess battle between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue - Be sure and check out the trailer. (Comment on this)
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25/08/2004 @ 21:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : My Favourite FireFox Keystrokes - I see the day coming (sooner not later) that I need to replace my 'T' key because of this nonsese, err, usefulness #
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25/08/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Jon Hicks : Behind the scenes at Acts of Volition Radio - What equipment do you need to start your own internet radio station?
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25/08/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Jon Hicks : NewsFire 0.1 Beta - Showing great promise – a different kind of RSS aggregator. Simple, intuitive and positively dripping in OS X lushness! From the creator of Acquisition.
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25/08/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
François Hodierne : Features, deadline, quality: choose two - Excellent rant by Tristan. "Let's all support this effort rather than fight or discuss endlessly." #
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25/08/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : A Flickr rainbow, built with their API and Processing
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25/08/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
kellan : throw new com.thoughtworks.ashcroft.runtime.CantDoThat - Ashcroft - the extremely conservative continous integration framework #
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25/08/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Everyone remain calm - Maybe it is time for some policy? #
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25/08/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Week 5: College campaign preparation - Spread the news! (I still need to find a place for a button or something.) #
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25/08/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Charley Tart on Consensus Trance (normal waking consciousness is the product of a true hypnotic procedure that is practiced by parents, teachers, and peers, reinforced by every social interaction, and maintained by powerful taboos)
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25/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
anildash : blogversations, paying bloggers to talk about products - raging cow sez: hey, that's being a shill!
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25/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
anildash : prince interview in this month's wired - appropriate, since prince is just a big huge geek
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25/08/2004 @ 19:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the making of Nirvana's "In Utero"
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25/08/2004 @ 19:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Delgados: "Everybody Come Down" video - Splendidly lo-fi video for the ace new P!O!P! single from The Delgados #
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25/08/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : JibJab wins "This Land" lawsuit - and the purported copyright owners lost the song to the public domain!
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25/08/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : SA photoshops UK anti-piracy campaign poster -
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25/08/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
anildash : roundup of local blogging communities - ORBlogs is another great community site for weblogs
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25/08/2004 @ 18:57 GMT
kellan : No one I've ever met has ever been able to tell me what the hell online social networks are for. - A long term confidence scam to filch cash from unsuspecting VCs. Worked really well 6 years ago after all. #
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25/08/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Olympic TV on the net - Andy rounds up the ways you can watch the Olympics via the Internet
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25/08/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Olympic medal metal - They use real gold, silver, bronze
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25/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
veen : US Women Score Beach Volleyball Title - For the life of me, I don't understand why this particular sport is sooooo popular.
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25/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Dozens charged in spam crackdown - only 200 spammers send 90% of spam, so this a good start [via] [via]
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25/08/2004 @ 17:58 GMT
Rod Begbie : EFF: This Song Belongs to You and Me - Another victory for the EFF, which now includes the added sweetness of hoisting Ludlow by their own petard. [via] #
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25/08/2004 @ 17:58 GMT
Rod Begbie : Volunteer for TechWatch! - Techies -- Volunteer as an election scrutineer and keep an eye on the electronic voting machines. [via] #
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25/08/2004 @ 17:57 GMT
Tom Coates : I wonder why we don't have a UK equivalent of RateMyProfessors.com - I wonder why we don't have a UK equivalent of RateMyProfessors.com
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25/08/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Bjork on filesharing - "God bless the internet."
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25/08/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Cancelling an AOL account is not easy - an entertaining account of one attempt [via] [via]
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25/08/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : List of great "material moments" in film - from an academic journal on materials science and engineering [via] [via]
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25/08/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : There.com changes name to Forterra - and someone gave them lots of money [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : There now Forterra - Stupidest company name ever now changed. And they got more money!
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25/08/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Photos of the liberation of Paris in 1944 - Photos of the liberation of Paris in 1944 (Today is the 60th anniversary of the liberation.)
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25/08/2004 @ 16:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Atom over XMPP - If people are so excited, maybe I should read the RFC #
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25/08/2004 @ 16:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Burlap Magic - Moose is playing with Unicode; nice! #
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25/08/2004 @ 16:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Style Switcher's removal #2 - Both sides have good arguments, I guess I would vote for removing as well, since it isn't important at all #
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25/08/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Quentin Tarantino's alleged weblog - still waiting for verification from Miramax [via] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : Quentin Tarantino's blog
Simon Willison : QT's Diary - Yes, it really is Quentin Tarantino, and he really has a blog. (via) [via]
Will Pate : Quentin Tarantino's Blog - Very cool on all counts. He's already better than Michael Moore at it. Please note that GB is available for blog consulting to cool people like this. ;)
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25/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Tom Coates : Ethical Philosophy Selector - matched me with Aquinas, Satre, Spinoza, the Stoics and Cynics (worryingly)
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25/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Tom Coates : A cartoon representation of me as drawn by a co-worker during a 'team building' day - A cartoon representation of me as drawn by a co-worker during a 'team building' day
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25/08/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Browse Happy has been Festa'd! - Sunny title! Dark warning! Sensationalism!
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25/08/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The 10 Commandments of Simon - The main character of Derek Kim's "Small Stories" dispenses relationship advice so your love life can be as successful as his.
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25/08/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Mike Davidson: Another Reason to Drop IE - E.G. is the new I.E.
Anne van Kesteren : Another Reason to Drop IE - Read it twice #
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25/08/2004 @ 13:56 GMT
Tom Coates : Guardian article on the BBC iMP
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25/08/2004 @ 13:56 GMT
Tom Coates : Son of Margaret Thatcher arrested on charges of trying to finance a coup attempt for oil money
Steve Cook : Maggie Thatcher's son arrested in coup plot - Did Mark Thatcher want to play Kermit Roosevelt in Equitorial Guinea?
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25/08/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Tom Coates : What will happen when Bush gets to New York?
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25/08/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Tom Coates : Gay groups call for rejection of stars 'who back murder' - Gay groups call for rejection of stars 'who back murder'
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25/08/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Tom Coates : British scientists push for new Mars mission by 2009 (I was gutted on Christmas day when they didn't get a signal back - it really caught my imagination) - British scientists push for new Mars mission by 2009 (I was gutted on Christmas day when they didn't get a signal back - it really caught my imagination)
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25/08/2004 @ 12:56 GMT
Clément Hardoüin : Style Gala, sélection de jolis sites CSS - Un nouveau clone de CSSVault, après CSSBeauty, à quand un site recensant les plus beaux sites recensant les plus beaux sites CSS ? -
doug : Stylegala - ?The finest CSS and Web Standards resource? ? another nice gallery-presented collection of standards-based designs, with comments from the site proprietor and visitors.
Dan Cederholm : Stylegala - A new CSS and web standards site gallery.
Jon Hicks : Stylegala October Star ★ - Thanks to everyone who voted and gave the new Hicksdesign an October Star! I’m well chuffed!
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25/08/2004 @ 10:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Time for an untrusted content element? - Fighting link spamming through HTML?
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25/08/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : XFN 1.1 - Nouveautés du profil XFN 1.1 : contact, kin et moi et moi et moi
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25/08/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
doug : How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions - Past accounts of social and cultural blunders that offended customers and caused Microsoft?s software to be banned in at least two countries.
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25/08/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Info Architecture and Business Strategy - Says that the two are "closely inter-related".
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25/08/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
anildash : kottke on the google browser - it's been a year, and jason makes a good case that they're progressing
François Nonnenmacher : The Google Browser
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25/08/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Dan Grigsby: Bloglines subscription tool - Once installed, allows you to right-click in IE to auto subscribe to blogs.
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25/08/2004 @ 03:56 GMT
Andy Baio : John Kerry chose the Daily Show over the news networks - he's interviewed on the show tonight [via] [via]
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25/08/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Olympic gold medals, adjusted per capita - adjusting for the population bias
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25/08/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Star Wars Galaxies users crash server with protest demonstrations -
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25/08/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Trevor visits the Berkeley "I Love Bees" GPS site - the viral game pointed to pay phones today, which could activate "axons" on the website
Nelson Minar : I love bees GPS visit - A phone rang, that is all. (via Waxy)
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25/08/2004 @ 02:57 GMT
kellan : a still pond troubles one familiar with its stir - ah! the koi are gone! (damn racoons) #
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25/08/2004 @ 02:56 GMT
deusx : Singularity Update: Stable Plasma in a Levitated Torus :: Quantum Philosophy.net :: Linearly Accelerated Media - "mmmmm, fusion doughnut"
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25/08/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Good advice for record labels - [via] [via]
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25/08/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
anildash : ernie's got a new webgame - you know, people quit blogging all the time without making a game of it
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25/08/2004 @ 01:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Remembering Batman - A resource for fans of the ultra-campy Sixties show for when you really, really need to know which episode Otto Preminger appeared in.
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25/08/2004 @ 01:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : thinking is unamerican - thinking is unamerican: josh, stop thinking!
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25/08/2004 @ 01:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Pirate Bay's response to Dreamworks cease-and-desist - one benefit of living in Sweden
Tom Coates : "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons." - "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons."
Tomas Jogin : Pirates Vs. Lawyers - "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons"
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25/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : php 5.1 will parse ill-formed xml - apparently libxml2 has always been able to do this [via] #
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25/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
anildash : Inc. mag readers fuss over ani difranco's t-shirt - as soon as i read the article, i thought they'd be getting indignant letters
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25/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
anildash : Visual Studio PM asks what MS should open source - slashdotters show up with some uncharacteristically useful suggestions
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25/08/2004 @ 00:56 GMT
kellan : "Tabs are supposed to be used for rapid switching between alternative views of the same information object." - When Bad Design Becomes the Standard. Of course that was back '99, the battle is pretty much lost by now. #
joshua : When Bad Design Becomes the Standard - jakob hates tabs too
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25/08/2004 @ 00:56 GMT
kellan : B is for Bribes, Boycott, and Boxing - Social Design Notes critique of the Olympics #
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25/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
doug : Happy 5, Blogger - ?We just launched a cool new tool at Pyra. It?s called Blogger. It?s an automated weblog publishing tool.?
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