27/08/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
cobra libre : "the books are so fucking ugly" - jonathan lethem's "the squandered promise of science fiction"
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27/08/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : so happy, then so sad. this is the kind of day it's been - my books, my poor beloved books
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27/08/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
anildash : gothamist roundup of RNC NYC - i'm just bummed out i can't be there to witness everyone being annoyed by tourists
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27/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Old Men Crying - Dan Rather tends to get weepy [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : Old Men Crying - Just like it sounds (via Metafilter)
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27/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : is 'performant' a word? - is 'performant' a word?: depends who you ask
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27/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : yank blog - yank blog: powered by wordpress
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27/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : yankovic - yankovic: what's that they say about imitation? :-)
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27/08/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : net::movabletype - net::movabletype: hm, i should be using this for some of my stuff
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27/08/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
kellan : This X kills fascists - If only it were that easy #
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27/08/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Eric Meyer : HostBaby Needs CSS designers - Paging Mr. LePera! [via ORN] [via]
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27/08/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Chill Out - Song by Youth Of Britain - Video by Rob Manuel & Joel Veitch - KITTEN RIDING A MOTORCYCLE
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27/08/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : tim bray on java regex performance - tim bray on java regex performance: beats perl in his test case
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27/08/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : technorati at the rnc - technorati at the rnc: teaming with cnn again
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27/08/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
doug : iTunes + iPod Video - Awesome use of imagery and type. Fun posters halfway through. (via AJ)
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27/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Erik Benson : Email addresses it would be really annoying to give out over the phone - via sixfoot6.com's fruity bits.
Andy Baio : McSweeney's E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone -
jkottke : E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone - "MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com"
WillPate : E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone. - Hilarious
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27/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Townsend's "Pour Some Sugar On Me," boy band take on Def Leppard - the worst thing I've ever seen, made worse by the presence of Smashmouth
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27/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
anildash : wapo and feedster best blogs contest - they're limiting topics to politics and elections
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27/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
anildash : scoble talks about how he uses OutlookMT - this is a pretty cool way to connect to your blog
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27/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
anildash : moblogging a subway argument - man, i'm glad i'm not *that* guy
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27/08/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
anildash : fifth annual "blogging goes mainstream" article - the innovation in this story is conflating blogs with blog *tools*
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27/08/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
cobra libre : on "critiques & proposals" by chandler davis - reason #3 interests me in particular (and ray davis is back!)
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27/08/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : "Want to learn how to create and sustain psychosis on a national scale? Look carefully at the public statements made by the Department of Homeland Security." - Bruce Schneier on the Department of Homeland Terrorism.
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27/08/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Isofarro : Chapter 22. NNTP and thenntpd Daemon - NNTP commands
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27/08/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Firefox Wired, Explorer Expired - Nice! [via] #
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27/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
cobra libre : i doubled my james brown collection this week - check out the 'vinyl breaks' section, too
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27/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Memespread Analyzer, track keyword popularity in Usenet over time - he was inspired by my old entry
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27/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Acclaim files for bankruptcy - another classic game studio dies
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27/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Verisign loses Sitefinder case against ICANN - lots of wonderfully thoughtful court rulings lately
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27/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : A morality tale of Spectrum ZX piracy and clones - like it or not, piracy and emulation serve to preserve culture
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27/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NYT on the movement towards computerized sewing machines - "computers with needles and thread attached"
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27/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Stiki Wiki - WYSIWYG wiki with neat outgoing link previews [via] [via]
Will Pate : StikiWiki - A WYSIWYG wiki - Ohh la la!
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27/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : British bookmaker is taking bets on discoveries in physics - The Higgs boson, gravitational waves, and life on Titan are among the wagers to be made. (Comment on this)
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27/08/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
anildash : decomposition: what happens after death - or, you could just donate your organs
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27/08/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Where is the shame? - Bob Herbert on the bizarro-world nature of the Bushies criticizing people on their Vietnam record
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27/08/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : How to score at the Republican National Convention - "Tell her that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge isn't the only gorgeous, white thing you'd like to see drilled immediately."
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27/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Matthew's World of Pain | CafePress - "ESR STOLE MY CULTURAL HERITAGE"
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27/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Paul Ford : Photographs from the first gulf war - Excellent photos, 90% utterly insane comments written by morans (sic).
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27/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Paul Ford : Orgone Box RNC protests in Brooklyn - Phew.
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27/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Paul Ford : Ancient Suck Slashdot Parody - I'm kind of glad that the Suck era of the Internet is dead.
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27/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Paul Ford : Daily News talks to insane man - About his love for the man McGreevey loves.
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27/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Paul Ford : Nightmares, illustrated - A creepy Worth1000 contest
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27/08/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Cincinnati Mall has a dress code and other rules - No baseball caps on sideways or groups larger than three. Mom and Dad want to take their 2 kids shopping? One of the little buggers needs to stay in the car. (Comment on this)
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27/08/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Isofarro : FOP Output Options - Note that FOP does not currently support 'tagged pdf'
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27/08/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Isofarro : Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Techniques - If you're serious about making PDF files accessible, you'll need to do two things:
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27/08/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Add ACCESSKEY to SELECT - It's the simple improvements over HTML 4.01 that make it look good #
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27/08/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Aquarion : So You\'ve Decided to be Evil
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27/08/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Aquarion : A note to all you who want to send me hate mail
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27/08/2004 @ 12:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Feed Search vs. Web Search - "What's that gonna be like? Will the "web search" folks be ready? What about the browser folks?"
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27/08/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Yahoo must face French legal action - "obeying other nations' laws is the price of doing international business."
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27/08/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : RSS usability guidelines - More donts than dos
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27/08/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Al-Qaeda sanctions 'ineffective' - A UN committee has found that sanctions imposed against al-Qaeda and the former Taleban have had little impact on the groups' operations
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27/08/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : addybday - "addybday is a python script that extracts birthdays from the mac address book" and outputs RSS. #
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27/08/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : GetContentSize - "If you measure things, you can make qualified statements on page weight improvements and you can engage yourself in iteratively fine-tuning your layout/markup code. Maximizing content/code ratio minimizes the amount of traffic wasted on non-content." 30
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27/08/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Aquarion : Be Funny Or You're Fired - Humour from on high
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27/08/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : science vs. witchcraft - science vs. witchcraft: dylan on linux on open source
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27/08/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : heinous pornspam - heinous pornspam: that's what search engines are for, you know
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27/08/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : pictures of food from an restaurant in india - pictures of food from an restaurant in india: i want to go back
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27/08/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : an illustrated guide to cryptographic hashes - an illustrated guide to cryptographic hashes: steve lays some computer science on your ass with this one
Rod Begbie : An Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes - The uses of hashes explained using pretty colors. [via] #
Kayode Okeyode : An illustrated guide to cryptographic hashes
Philippe Janvier : An Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes - "Five hundred twelve bits of hash holds 1.34 x 10 power 154 possible values, which is far, far more than the number of hydrogen atoms in the universe. This is likely to be safe from brute-force attacks for quite a while."
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27/08/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : bring me my social networking - bring me my social networking: well said, trouthead
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27/08/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
kellan : George Bush? Has he even read a book? - 'My Pet Goat. It's well-documented.' Sometimes MeFi, has all the answers. #
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27/08/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Half Life 2 preloading begins - the game is done! [via] [via]
Simon Willison : Half-Life 2 Pre-Loading Begins - Gameplay.com were working on this kind of thing when I worked there, but never really got anywhere with it. (via) [via]
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27/08/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Paul Pfeiffer from the "Wonder Years" is a lawyer - I bet he makes twice the yearly income of Fred Savage
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27/08/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : TiVo-like application for XM Radio under fire - his software was C&D'ed by XM and the RIAA [via] [via]
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27/08/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : BLACKSPOT SNEAKER - "The Blackspot sneaker is a shoe and a message and a vision of the future -- the world's first global anti-brand. Join us in this quest to create an authentic non-corporate cool and reassert consumer sovereignty over capitalism." #
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27/08/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Stand up and be counted: Edinburgh's 50 best jokes - "I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation - but I'm not very good at it." and 49 other corkers. [via] #
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27/08/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext: "we hire by blog" - Oh how I wish other companies (esp ones in NZ) did this. Maybe that day is coming...
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27/08/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Graham Leuschke : whatever you strike your own testicles with is entirely up to you! - the freedom! the freedom!
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27/08/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : bunnie of the month club - bunnie of the month club: that's a bit weird, but okay...
Simon Willison : Morbid Tendencies: Bunny Of The Month Club - Pretty freakin' cool.
Aquarion : Bunny Of The Month Club
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27/08/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : food geeks - food geeks: with recipies that scale, cool for single folks!
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27/08/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Common Craft: Using a Weblog to Achieve #1 Rankings in Google - Excellent practical tips!
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27/08/2004 @ 03:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : CoH charts - Dense data spoilers for City of Heroes
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27/08/2004 @ 03:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : CoH hero logger - Wacky add on for City of Heroes cuts-and-pastes data out of your client so you can track statistics
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27/08/2004 @ 03:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Eric Sink: Source Control HOWTO - "Our universities don't teach people how to do source control. Our employers don't teach people how to do source control. SCM tool vendors don't teach people how to do source control. We need some materials that explain how source control is done. My [via] #
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27/08/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
cobra libre : life without throwing - a nice response to the recent brouhaha about the Pirahã and their poor counting ability
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27/08/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
anildash : siberia airlines' blog with flight 1047 info - a good use of the medium for important updates
Nelson Minar : Flight 1047 blog - Information from Siberia airlines about one of the Russian flights that crashed (via Anil Dash)
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27/08/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : How To Get The Most Out of Flickr - Guess who got a new mobile phone for their birthday :-)
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27/08/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Townsend's "Pour Some Sugar On Me," boy band take on Def Leppard - the worst thing I've ever seen, made worse by the presence of Smashmouth
Jeremy Zawodny : scary sugar - scary sugar: this is so very, very, very, very wrong
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27/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Virtual worlds syllabus - Castronova gets to teach his course, sure looks like fun
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27/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : rankwhere.com - Tool to find out what your search ranking is for keywords and phrases.
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27/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Roger Avary: It's bogus - More on the fake Tarantino blog. (via) [via]
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27/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : volleyball celebration picture - volleyball celebration picture: now that's my kind of celebration!
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27/08/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Interview with Downhill Battle's Nicholas Reville - they renamed Battle Torrent to Blog Torrent
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27/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
kellan : Thoughts about spam filtering and cultural norms of communication - I've also had false positives on the email from Uruguayans, which would make sense, they are mostly decedents of italian immigrants. #
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27/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : phil's big whiteboard of scenarios on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Me in action at Euro Foo Camp last weekend.
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27/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Scrivs using his network homepage as a personal journal - "If you could care less well I am right there with you buddy."
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27/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
anildash : WSJ on RNC bloggers - most of them are on MT or TypePad, so at least we've got *something* in common
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27/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
anildash : great guardian story on political candidate's blog - personality in a politician... still an amazing thing to see
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27/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
anildash : how not to pitch a blogger - i got these emails, and a couple more from the same list, and felt the same way
Jeremy Zawodny : how not to pitch a blogger - how not to pitch a blogger: i know the feeling
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27/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
anildash : making a website better than a human - david's done some smart research into how the ad world sees usability
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27/08/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
anildash : dare tries to focus MS on developer's needs - a humble and smart reconsideration of how to advance APIs
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