22/09/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : HBlogger - Blogging client for PalmOS. Just the job for moblogging when I'm in Paris in a fortnight, methinks. [via] #
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22/09/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ranchero Software: MarsEdit 1.0 Beta - makes weblog writing like writing email
veen : Ranchero Software: MarsEdit 1.0 Beta - Simple, clean, usabile blog editing and writing tool.
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Paul Hammond : iBlog: That home made paper look, September 22, 2004 - it adds weight to your page
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Andy Baio : Sony to support MP3 on their portables - apparently, ATRAC never really took off [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Record companies double royalties while online music sites lose money - Apple makes only $.04 per song, while the labels take $.62 or more
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anildash : google's opening up on its ad policy - they still haven't committed to a date for it, but it's an important step
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Eric Meyer : Swimming in syrup is as easy as water - Scientists dump 300kg of guar gum into a pool, creating a fluid that 'looked like snot', and then get people to swim in it. Why don't I have a job like that?
jkottke : For ordinary swimmers, swimming through goo is just as fast as swimming through water
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cobra libre : i am not a magic realist! - me, i'm, er, a mystic materialist
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cobra libre : gloria trevi is free - for tamara, who had to explain 'mas turbada' to me
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deusx : Pimlico Software - DateBk5 - Now with Treo d-pad navigation!
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deusx : Socket SDIO In-Hand Scan Card - eXpansys USA - One of these, a Treo 600, and some comparison shopping on-site...
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Richard MacManus : Multilingual Blog Glossary - Loving this! e.g. A List = blogeoisie in French (pronounced bloj-wah-zee). But is 'geek' a Portuguese word?!
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22/09/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Tomas Jogin : George Lucas according to Penny Arcade - "There can be no doubt that with this latest perversion of my once loved accidental masterpiece, I have gone totally bashit fucking loco."
Ethan Marcotte : Meow Skywalker - "Another big change for fans will be the new gay Boba Fett."
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22/09/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : on-line bay area traffic map - on-line bay area traffic map: interesting speed data
Nelson Minar : Bay area traffic - More data than TANN (via Zawodny)
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Jeremy Zawodny : surecheck trafficscope micro - surecheck trafficscope micro: tiny anti-collision avionics
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22/09/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : zoe - zoe: email search for geeks (mainly)
Aquarion : zoe - Google for your email. I really should get around to specing nomical
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Jeremy Zawodny : embedded mysql server licensing - embedded mysql server licensing: the gpl is a harsh mistress
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kellan : "BBC's charter says they aren't allowed to shower their viewers with craptastic ads for random American companies" - so Real had to produce an ad-free player #
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Rod Begbie : SpamAssassin 3.0.0 Released! - The thoroughly splendid spam-nuking tool increases its splendidness massively. And the new logo is a beauty too. #
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deusx : Daily Kos - Bush was AWOL - "The CBS memos don't matter. The objective truth is that Bush shirked his duty."
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Ethan Marcotte : Fuzzy clock in PHP - I got your human readability right here.
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22/09/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : I've been Amazon'd. - My site, and its craptastic traffic ranking, are displayed for all to see. Huzzah.
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Andy Baio : Brian's roundup of new social-network local listing services -
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Andy Baio : Video: Watermelon Love - seducing the online consumer
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anildash : Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail - a fascinating historical record for an underappreciated culture
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22/09/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Keith's link guidelines - Someone show these to Dave Winer. Please.
Philippe Janvier : Guidelines for Linking - "Links Need To Look Like Links" [via] #
Kayode Okeyode : Guidelines for Linking
Tom Coates : Useful guidelines for link-styles... The one I think is often underestimated in terms of importance is: "A user should be able to fairly accurately predict where any given link is going to take them." The amount of people who get this wrong astonishes me. - Useful guidelines for link-styles... The one I think is often underestimated in terms of importance is: "A user should be able to fairly accurately predict where any given link is going to take them." The amount of people who get this wrong asto
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22/09/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : SpamAssassin 3.0 released! - also: a new logo, better performance, and a better plugin model
Graham Leuschke : SpamAssassin 3.0 Released - no use to me, since I'm trapped in Enterprise-Wide Electronic Communication hell
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Andy Baio : Star Wars DVD released on Usenet two weeks ago - here's the Star Wars NFO file from Sept. 11
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Andy Baio : Archive.org's Sabucat vintage movie trailers collection - not public yet, but here's the growing index [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Navy sailor crushes son to death while playing Gameboy - reminiscent of the Everquest neglect death [via] [via]
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jkottke : Molly guard: "A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day."
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Rod Begbie : BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Adventure Game - You have no tea. [via] #
Andy Baio : Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom game, redesigned with graphics - here's some technical information about the redesign [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Botball organizer buys 350 Gameboy Advances - $40 for a pre-owned (non-SP) GBA is dirt cheap [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Guitar 101's cover songs forum - like karaoke for guitars, but with an extremely supportive audience [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Us Weekly says Britney faked her wedding -
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Andy Baio : Dowser, interesting client-side search tool - privately tracks your local search history across multiple search engines [via] [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Dowser - Dowser: personal search/research agent for the web
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22/09/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
Aquarion : The lamp that stands to attention
Tom Coates : The Gravity Lamp slacks off when you're not in the room. Lazy bugger. - The Gravity Lamp slacks off when you're not in the room. Lazy bugger.
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Aquarion : Student cash 'should be on merit' - I actually like this idea
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22/09/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : After Abu Ghraib - Appalling
Ethan Marcotte : After Abu Ghraib - "The Americans told us: 'Nobody is going to sleep tonight.'"
Simon Willison : After Abu Ghraib - If even one tenth of this is true, it should be an international scandal.
Nelson Minar : Abu Ghraib torture - First hand account from a female victim
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22/09/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : SpamAssassin 3.0 - The Apache Foundation releases open source anti-spam SpamAssassin version 3.0
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François Nonnenmacher : Open source wireless tools emerge
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François Nonnenmacher : Breaking Windows spur Mac sales
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François Nonnenmacher : Iran's protest blogger numbers grow - Dictators don't like the internet
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François Nonnenmacher : Mac OS X Unix Tutorial - Don't be afraid of your Unix inner self
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François Nonnenmacher : Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws
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cobra libre : borges and his precursor - i'm reminded that borges is the consummate reader's author. also: NO PEAS
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deusx : Manageability - Speech Acts, REST and Method Classification - I wonder if I should pay more attention to WebDAV for feedReactor
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deusx : Carlo's Firefox Extension(s) - McSearchPreview - "An extension for Firefox which enhances Google (all international flavours, too), MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, AllTheWeb and del.icio.us bookmarks by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images as well as "Open in New Window" and "Site Info"
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François Hodierne : we should start a tag consulting agency #
Tom Coates : Stewart and Joshua mock controlled vocabulary obsessives who want to organise tags in Flickr and del.icio.us
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22/09/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr gets positive review in Sun-Times - they deserve all praise [via] [via]
Phil Gyford : Flickr photo tool has it all and more - Why Flickr is better than any other online photo library site.
Tom Coates : Chicago Sun-Times goes mad for Flickr-ing
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Mark Pilgrim : netnewswire 2.0 beta - outstanding #
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jkottke : A pair of helicopters land in Iraq
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jkottke : Mars rovers have their missions extended again - Original mission was 90 days...they're still going strong at more than 260 days.
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Manuzhai : Hurricanes & Elections - Watch out, Republicans!
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jkottke : Another confirmation of Ken Jennings' loss - "And yes, Ken got beat the day before we saw the tapings."
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Phil Gyford : Office Photos ~ 1830s-1880s - Photos of old offices.
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François Nonnenmacher : Windows is the 'biggest beta test in history' - Gartner - There'll be improvement with Longhorn, but it will not solve all your security problems - no matter what the richest man in the world says
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Tom Coates : This is good because we're lifting so many bloody ideas off Flickr at the moment - This is good because we're lifting so many bloody ideas off Flickr at the moment
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22/09/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Click here to become infected - Illustrate the security problems of the opt-out approach that were always apparent to security experts - and ignored by legislators
Isofarro : Register: Click here to become infected - Yet another reason never to click on opt-out links on spam
Kayode Okeyode : Click here to become infected
Philippe Janvier : Click here to become infected - Sup, sup, sup :( [via] #
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Jon Hicks : Safari 1.1 Serious Memory Leak - The real reason for Safari grinding to a halt?
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François Nonnenmacher : Brent Simmons announces NetNewsWire 2 and MarsEdit 1, launches betas
Simon Willison : NetNewsWire 2.0b3 and MarsEdit public betas - Plenty of new features, free upgrades for registered users.
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22/09/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
Manuzhai : Joel on Software - The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Very interesting article on best practices in commercial software development.
Isofarro : The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - punishment for breaking a build - babysitting to build.
Aquarion : The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - We score nine, and the three drive me crazy.
Tom Coates : 12 steps to better code: Joel on Software talks about how to manage and support programmers
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Anne van Kesteren : A few (technical) thoughts - David: "CSS error reporting is now enabled in trunk Mozilla builds. Check out the 'Javascript Console'." #
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Anne van Kesteren : Aggregator inside aggregator - Heh #
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Anne van Kesteren : NetNewsWire and MarsEdit public betas - They look cool, imo #
jkottke : NetNewsWire 2.0 is in public beta - As is MarsEdit, a new weblog editor.
Tom Coates : New versions of MarsEdit and NetNewsWire are in public beta. I've been playing with the new NetNewsWire for a while and it's pretty damn cool... - New versions of MarsEdit and NetNewsWire are in public beta. I've been playing with the new NetNewsWire for a while and it's pretty damn cool...
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Anne van Kesteren : CSS tricks in both dimensions - #23421? #
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veen : IBM and Lexmark Parts - Now *that* is an ecommerce interface: Find your part number below, then call our 800 number.
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Jeremy Zawodny : recent quakes near the sierra - recent quakes near the sierra: the earth is a movin
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kristine : Digital Web interview with Mena - Digital Web Magazine - Mena Trott -- really great interview with Mena, including an interesting quote about TypePad: There is this impression from a lot of people who are bloggers and who are early adopters that using TypePad isn't really blogging. But it
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veen : Moreover to inject "contextual advertising" in RSS feeds - ?It?s clear that the aggregated news model is rapidly becoming the preferred method of online consumer news consumption"
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deusx : Personal Co-location Registry - 'In recognition of this need, the dedicated hosting industry now has a niche for "personal co-location"'
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veen : Mark Fiore's Animated Political Cartoons - Fantastic Flash-based satire
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Jeremy Zawodny : social networks seek financial friends - social networks seek financial friends: complete with yahoo speculation
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Jeremy Zawodny : tech support - tech support: amusing video, via aaron
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deusx : Daily Kos - Keeping the pressure on DeLay - So keep the pressure up. We've already had an impact.
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deusx : 43 Folders: Intermission, or "I, for one, welcome our new productivity overlords" - ...or, "Merlin is not a magician." :)
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Andy Baio : Cat Stevens diverts DC-bound plane to Maine - he was on the federal watch list
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Part of Brain That Extinguishes Fears Found
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Andy Baio : Nellie McKay is lying about her age - and the White Stripes weren't really siblings; does anyone care? [via] [via]
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22/09/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Eric Meyer : Change desktop images based on CPU load - Fun with OS X and Perl. A great way of turning your Mac into an ambient device.
Andy Baio : Change Mac desktop images based on CPU load - reminds me of the Ambient Devices line of aware devices [via] [via]
Paul Hammond : macosxhints - Change desktop images based on CPU load via a script - an ambient visual alert
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22/09/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Adam Gessaman : GOD vs BUSH - This is strong evidence that god loves us and wants us to be happy.
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veen : del.icio.us blog - A place for Joshua to make del.icio.us announcements.
Wayne Burkett : del.icio.us blog - Announcements, hacks. #
Tom Coates : A blog for announcements and news ands tuff about del.icio.us
Andy Baio : Del.icio.us starts a blog - I wish every corporate blog posted cat photos [via] [via]
erikbenson : I'm posting to my blog via del.icio.us that del.icio.us now has a blog malkovich malkovich pants pants - Perhaps the most redundant post ever
Matthew M. Boedicker : del.icio.us blog
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Jeremy Zawodny : google news censorship in china - google news censorship in china: when will the chinese government just give up this crap?
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Ethan Marcotte : Milestones in the annals of junk mail - Your Majesty, wouldst thou also like to buyest some c!al1s?
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Andy Baio : Life Lessons from Super Mario Bros. games - also: life lessons from the SMB1 instruction bookley
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Simon Willison : Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Chapter 5 - Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream
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Simon Willison : HOW-TO: Take digital photos from a kite - With detailed instructions on modding the camera to take a shot every second until the card fills up.
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Simon Willison : Python Cookbook: Use generators for fetching large db record sets - Nice generator example.
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Simon Willison : PONGMECHANIK - Crazy German hardware Pong clone. (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : Mac Geekery - Tips for hardcore Mac geeks. (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : if (gBrowser) { var google = new Platform(); } - Matt May speculates on hard drive search and Google's 32 billion dollar market cap.
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Simon Willison : Interview with BBC R&D Dirac Developer Thomas Davies - With discussion of the new open-licensed Dirac codec under development at the BBC. (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : More evidence of a Google browser - Kottke's Google Browser roundup.
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Simon Willison : Will Google Launch A Browser? - They've registered gbrowser.com.
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Simon Willison : George Monbiot: Their beliefs are bonkers - I really, really hope that this isn't accurate. (via) [via]
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Jeremy Zawodny : canon eos-1d mark ii sample images - canon eos-1d mark ii sample images: holy crap, there are a lot of pixels in there
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Jeremy Zawodny : gates and ballmer get undeserved raise - gates and ballmer get undeserved raise: not that it really matters, but still...
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Jeremy Zawodny : google toolbar security bug - google toolbar security bug: upgrade available?
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22/09/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : The Joel Test for Web Development - How much can web developers learn from software developers? A heck of a lot.
Isofarro : The Joel Test for web development - version control and automated builds
Kayode Okeyode : The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 1
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Simon Willison : Boris Johnson - Conservative MP - The first Tory MP blog. Unfortunately most of the entries at the moment are by his press secretary. (via) [via]
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anildash : aol's gift to google - i'm hoping google distributes gbrowser via a direct-mail CD-ROM campaign
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deusx : Redwood Virtual: Welcome : User Mode Linux Hosting - Wow. $10/mo on the low-end for Linux hosting.
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anildash : pb's crash course in media literacy - a fantastic collection of resources, courtesy of the father of the permalink
Adam Gessaman : Reading guide toward media literacy
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