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François Nonnenmacher : Why Service Stinks: Corporate Apartheid - It's no accident that the code for spending volume on many computerized customer information systems is called Status or Class or Value
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Andy Baio : Grand Theft Auto for the GBA confirmed - top-down perspective sounds more like the original [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Fraud Frond - gallery of cellphone towers disguised as fake trees [via] [via]
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Will Pate : Ask Metafilter: Avocado Recipes - Delicious ways to eat my favorite fruit.
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deusx : Just a Bump in the Beltway: Widgets in the War Machine - 'The problem arose from an oversight in the Army?s war planning, which failed to anticipate the large number of wounded soldiers returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Col. Douglas Eliason, chief medical officer with the Oregon Guard." I'm s
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Eric Meyer : Mapping Hurricane Frances Online - Another testament to the power of open standards. Now, combine that data with radar traces (using precise coordinates for the radar site and range) and you could see the current extent of Frances in addition to its path.
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Andy Baio : Star Wars, the Not-So-Special edition - sarcastic and informative! [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Jesus was a Jedi - a Christian journal's unusual cover story
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Andy Baio : Adam Kalsey's new license plate -
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Andy Baio : Titanic, the Animated Movie - a musical, with a kid-friendly ending [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : gmail copy, Perl script to copy files to/from Gmail - easy alternative to gmailFS [via] [via]
Simon Willison : gmcp - gmail copy - Less impressive, but probably more useful thant GmailFS. (via) [via]
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Graham Leuschke : What's the difference between noncommutative algebraic geometry and noncommutative differential geometry? - everything, or nothing. nice.
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François Hodierne : Arrr, matey! 'Tis metadata piracy time! #
Philippe Janvier : Arrr, matey! 'Tis metadata piracy time! - When "Technorati saw an item in Hot Links' feed, properly expressed in RSS 1.0 with the external link in the link element, and the Hot Links permalink in the rdf:about attribute on the item, and misunderstood that as authoritative about the linked res
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François Nonnenmacher : Apple says its iMac G5 is fully user-serviceable
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François Nonnenmacher : Nuclear Energy to Go - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are designing a self-contained, tamper-resistant nuclear reactor that can be transported and installed anywhere in the world
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François Nonnenmacher : Movable Type 3.11 Released: Bugs fixed
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François Nonnenmacher : Sum of a Glitch - Evidence shows that voting machines might be the real swing voters this November
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François Nonnenmacher : How to get Markdown working with MT 3.1 PHP Dynamic Pages
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François Nonnenmacher : Did Apple Offer Sony an ITunes Deal? - Partnerships crucial to expand market share
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Anne van Kesteren : On Writing Essays - I liked reading this one; didn't start reading the one he quoted though [via] #
Paul Hammond : The Fishbowl: On Writing Essays - Not to pick on Graham again, but
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Charles Miller : Thar she blows! - Dead whale explodes in downtown Tainan, Taiwan. With pictures. Mmmmm.... whale.
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Andy Baio : Brilliant method of linking to excerpts of a large MP3 - with the Python source [via] [via]
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Steve Cook : Adult Sized Big Wheels! - Complete with adult sized price tags, alas.
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Steve Cook : "The Hammer of God" - The very model of a Father Brown story.
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4/09/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
doug : Sliding Faux Columns - Eric gives his side of the story on the technique, and talks about its drawbacks (and missed opportunities of CSS in general) that make it seem equal with using a table for these rarer grid-needing layout cases.
François Nonnenmacher : Sliding Faux Columns - Check Liquid Bleach from Douglas Bowman too
Anne van Kesteren : Sliding Faux Columns - For liquid stuff. (AKA CSS tip #2456) #
Clément Hardoüin : Sliding faux columns - La solution ultime pour se passser des tableaux pour la mise en page web ?
Paul Hammond : Eric's Archived Thoughts: Sliding Faux Columns - The markup isn't exactly pretty
Richard Rutter : Sliding Faux Columns - For liquid layouts with two column having different backgrounds (filed under CSS techniques). [via wg]
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Steve Cook : The Grandest Game in the World - A somewhat... individualistic... overview of classic British detective fiction, including and especially Father Brown.
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Steve Cook : What use are devils? - A Tasmanian devil FAQ (and check out the video of a devil roar-yawning -- surprisingly cute)
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Will Pate : Startup Success Recipe - Eric Hahn, former CTO of Netscape gives some practical advice.
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Graham Leuschke : You prattle on for 200 pages, cheekily admonishing hardscrabble greengrocers for their na? misuse of typesetters? marks, and you bungled the title! - I have zero-patience for EatsShootsAndOrLeaves
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Simon Willison : Subversion 1.0 packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - Apparently the RPMs on RHN are two years old.
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Simon Willison : Spammers embrace email authentication - "More spam than legitimate email is currently sent using Sender Policy Framework"
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Simon Willison : The Age of the Essay - More hacking and painting. (via) [via]
Paul Hammond : The Age of the Essay - Expressing ideas helps to form them
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Kayode Okeyode : This video shows Steve Ballmer selling Windows 1.0
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Kayode Okeyode : Bruce Shneier talks about Windows XP SP2 at Neowin
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Kayode Okeyode : The emerging two cultures of the internet: There are two cultures growing - those who can filter, and those who can't - The emerging two cultures of the internet: There are two cultures growing - those who can filter, and those who can't
Richard MacManus : Ben Hammersley: The emerging two cultures of the internet - "those who can filter, and those who can't."
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Kayode Okeyode : The Whole Truth About Metadata in Office Documents
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Kayode Okeyode : Advanced Security for Outlook: Get rid of the annoying security alerts in Outlook!
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Kayode Okeyode : In Search of the Ideal Programming Language
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4/09/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : We walk on the left hand side of a footpath. Our trains run on the left. We drive on the left. Why is it that on London escalators the rule is reversed: i.e. Keep right and allow any faster commuters to overtake on the left?
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Kayode Okeyode : Ten CSS tricks you may not know
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Kayode Okeyode : Windows 1.0 to XP: Screenshots
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Steve Cook : British Science Museum opens its storehouse - I wonder if they have the Ark of the Covenant in there?
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Steve Cook : Straight Bourbon.com - Huge list of bourbon varieties, including many that I've never heard of (much less tried).
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Kayode Okeyode : WinXP SP2 = security placebo?
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Kayode Okeyode : U.S. Defense, Senate Computers are Zombie Spammers
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Kayode Okeyode : SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken
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Kayode Okeyode : CERT Advisory: "Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) significantly improves your computer's defenses against attacks and vulnerabilities" - CERT Advisory: "Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) significantly improves your computer's defenses against attacks and vulnerabilities"
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Kayode Okeyode : Ctrl + 0 resets Firefox text size back to default
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Graham Leuschke : "Determinantal Rings", by Bruns and Vetter - kudos to Springer-Verlag for putting the postscript on the web. Saving my bacon, it is.
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Andy Baio : Archie Does Revelations - 1970s comics adaptation of a religious tract
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Andy Baio : Waxy.org 'Via' Links Aggregator - very meta! read his justification for the hack [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : How to view and control your TiVo over the web - with video and audio over Quicktime streaming server [via] [via]
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anildash : IBM's instructions on migrating from OS/2 to linux - don't give up the fight, zealots!
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