21/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : David Weinberger cites 'Dean the Angry Man' meme as evidence of "power of The Narrative" bias in journalism.
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21/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Torrentz, cleanly-designed BitTorrent site - nicely organized and popular enough to seed most torrents
Anil Dash : torrentz, finally a decent bittorent site - taking the "de" out of "decentralized"!
Wayne Burkett : Home - Torrentz.com
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21/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Interview with CTO of Kazaa/Sharman Networks - he seems much less shady than his evasive employer
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21/01/2004 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Magical Gadget - forgotten electronics of the '70s and '80s
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21/01/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : can anyone help me understand what this page says? - a commutative-algebra page in Japanese
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21/01/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Surfin' Safari - More on XML Error Handling - I thought I'd respond to a few of the comments I received
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21/01/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Disneyland's Tower of Terror opening event - hey Cory and Mena, tickets are only $1,595 each!
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21/01/2004 @ 21:00 GMT
Anil Dash : pyra was incorporated 5 years ago - hmm. that's been one busy half-decade.
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21/01/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Induction cities: constraint derived urban planning - Automatic high-level city planning including the first realized "computer program generated" architecture
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21/01/2004 @ 20:01 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Proof: sleep boosts problem solving - And since oversleepers die early, we're slated to spend our long lives confused
Alex Dudas : Sleep boosts lateral thinking - "Sleep on it" is standard advice to anyone agonizing over a tricky puzzle. A study of mathematical problem-solving has now shown that a good...
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21/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Search for the oldest computer - Answer: Voyager, same age as me
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21/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : LibDB: HomePage - smartly and easily catalog your movies, books, magazines, comics, etc
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21/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Billy Joel is Shiite - separated at birth?
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21/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Magnetlinks, link directly to P2P files - open standard developed by Kazaa folks
Anil Dash : magnetlink p2p file distribution platform - interesting that kazaa's been reaching out to bloggers so much, and maybe this can solve the popularity penalty for syndication feeds
Les Orchard : MagnetLink.org - "Magnet links allow users to directly download large media files saving website creators and bloggers money on bandwidth costs and effectively propagating files on p2p networks that attract millions of users per day."
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21/01/2004 @ 20:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : baby safe ii - also works for cats, although they won't admit that they enjoy it
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21/01/2004 @ 19:02 GMT
Richard Rutter : CSS hacks and filters - (Web standards) Heaps and heaps and heap of browsers tested. [via]
Paul Hammond : CSS Hacks (dithered.com) - hide CSS stylesheets, rules, and declarations from browsers that won't understand or will mis-interpret them
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21/01/2004 @ 19:02 GMT
Jeff Veen : A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload - Dealing with information overload from a scientific -- not self-help -- perspective
Erik Benson : When I have time, I will read this (via sippey) - +
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21/01/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
phil : For three quid my life's that tiny bit better
Jeff Veen : Synergy - Remote control for iTunes
deusx : Synergy - "Synergy won't take up precious space in your Dock as it appears only in the menubar." Neat iTunes accessory. Unfortunately, on this 12" PowerBook, menubar space is *so* much more precious than dock space.
Jeremy Zawodny : synergy - synergy: most of what's sorely missing from itunes, all for about $10
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21/01/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Mysterious deaths onboard Miami-Heathrow flights - Viral meningitis, heart attack.. methinks it's a coincidence, but I'm still cancelling my Boston-Miami-London trip
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21/01/2004 @ 19:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Strategies for Indoocement - Featuring Al Roker's nipples, Ben Stiller, and Hilda "Her Whoreness" Santo-Thomas.
Mark Pilgrim : three hours of nipple twiddling - there's very little about pregnancy that could be described as dignified
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21/01/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Graham Leuschke : del.icio.us is NOT METAFILTER - but it could be, so easily
Paul Hammond : del.icio.us - all technology eventually (d)evolves into a messaging platform?
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21/01/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Rolling Stone's interview with Justin Frankel -
jkottke : Rolling Stone story about Justin Frankel, inventor of WinAmp and Gnutella and a continual thorn in AOL's side - Rolling Stone story about Justin Frankel, inventor of WinAmp and Gnutella and a continual thorn in AOL's side
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21/01/2004 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Periodic table museum display, with element samples - gorgeous, and so very cool
Ethan Marcotte : The most beautiful periodic table displays in the world - As long as manganese and darmstadtium are looking sexy, that's all I care about.
Graham Leuschke : The Most Beautiful Periodic Table Displays in the World - and don't say it's a competition of one
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21/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : El Toasto! It's the toaster museum. - Created by the former author of After Dark screen savers
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21/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : When people are Bayesian - How do basketball players know the exact muscle movements to put it in the hole? Millions of examples.
Erik Benson : Subconsciously, Athletes May Play Like Statisticians. I'd like to read more about this topic somewhere... (via overstated) - +
Cameron Marlow : When people are Bayesian - How do basketball players know the exact muscle movements to put it in the hole? Millions of examples.
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21/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Eurekster: friendster plus search - We'll see how important search is to people to motivate them to add friends. I wonder what their technology is.
Cameron Marlow : Eurekster: friendster plus search - We'll see how important search is to people to motivate them to add friends. I wonder what their technology is.
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21/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
François Hodierne : quickSub - "making feed subscribing easier for your readers!"
Richard MacManus : quickSub: one-click rss subscribe - Noticed at Jon Udell's blog. Javascript function that enables 1-click sub to most Aggregators.
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21/01/2004 @ 17:00 GMT
Anil Dash : validate on subscription - nick revises how he handles invalid feeds, and i'm struck by how much i like the elegance of the solution the atom community ended up with
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21/01/2004 @ 16:02 GMT
Steve Cook : The end of public space - The zoning-inspired giveback plazas of New York City
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21/01/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Les Orchard : Sleep Deep to Store New Memories
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21/01/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Les Orchard : US Version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles shipping on GC in two weeks
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21/01/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Les Orchard : For a bigger brain, juggle - "Juggling and probably other visual skills that take time to master increase the size of your brain."
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21/01/2004 @ 16:01 GMT
Les Orchard : "Exponential" Thinking for the Future - "Exponential" Thinking for the Future
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21/01/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Musicplasma - visual music browser - Like all other map broswers, the connections sort of make sense and are mostly confusing (how is David Gray similar to Radiohead?)
Cameron Marlow : Musicplasma - visual music browser - Like all other map broswers, the connections sort of make sense and are mostly confusing (how is David Gray similar to Radiohead?)
Adam Gessaman : MusicPlasma -- Visual Mapping of Music Tastes - I’m not sure I understand all of their categorization choices, but it is interesting to see the possibly ‘natural’ clustering of musical styles.
Aquarion : musicplasma : the music visual search engine - Like the Visual Thesaurus, but for music
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21/01/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," dystopian affirmative action short story - via Matt Jones
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21/01/2004 @ 16:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Radiohead, Pixies, Cure Flaming Lips slated for Coachella festival -
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21/01/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Mike Rowe no soft touch - (New media industry) My name is Mike Rowe, so I added ‘soft’ at the end.
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21/01/2004 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : The NY Times explores the wonders of Aerogel
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21/01/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Les Orchard : ar216.guide - Interview with SideWinder - An old interview by me with Sidewinder of classic Amiga MOD fame. Breathless and awkward.
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21/01/2004 @ 13:00 GMT
Ben Milleare : Pure css tooltips
Paul Hammond : Pure css tooltips by santaklauss - The basic idea comes from Eric Meyer's pure css popupsa very clever way to get dynamic effects on an html page without using javascript.
Philippe Janvier : Pure css tooltips - De beaux "tooltips" en CSS et sans Javascript. Et en plus ils s'impriment :)
Wayne Burkett : Pure CSS tooltips - By, uh, by SantaKlauss
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21/01/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Defensive design for the Web - (Information design) Amazon: Upcoming book from 37signals
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21/01/2004 @ 11:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Screw George Bush, this is the State of the Weblog Nation
Graham Leuschke : the 2004 State of the Weblog Nation - the wonderchicken goes incandescent - R4WK.
Mark Pilgrim : when everyone is in a band, there's no one left to watch the shows - best. metablogging. ever.
Alex Dudas : State of the Weblog Nation 2004 - These weblog people I found myself (virtually) amongst had banded together, it seemed to me, in part because people do that when they're exploring...
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21/01/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeff Veen : InfoWorld: Sometimes, IT can't win - The CTO of Infoworld thinks the problem is stupid users. Sigh.
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21/01/2004 @ 07:00 GMT
Mark Pilgrim : kendall clark takes over xfmllib - more to come
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21/01/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : snarkout joins the dark side - it's nice here; we've got krispy kreme
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21/01/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : PubSub: Ambiguous aggregation - Their election coverage rivals Googlerace, nice graphs
François Hodierne : PubSub.com - "PubSub Concepts provides real-time, content based publish and subscribe systems at internet scale."
Philippe Janvier : PubSub.com - Un moteur pour chercher par mots clés dans les blogs (PubSub un peu "à la Feedster") et souscrire (QuickSub) au fil RSS des résultats "à la blogdigger". Pratique !
Nelson Minar : PubSub aggregator - Another blog aggregator; this one works by doing keyword searches on zillions of blogs and providing new feeds.
jimray : Welcome to PubSub
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21/01/2004 @ 06:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Chris Locke: "Internet audiences aggregate by areas of interest, not top down but bottom up."
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21/01/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : The fractal blogosphere - Wouldn't it make a pretty picture?
Paul Hammond : Read/Write Web - The Fractal Blogosphere - the power law should not be used by bloggers as a way to define themselves
Cameron Marlow : The fractal blogosphere - Wouldn't it make a pretty picture?
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21/01/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Cameron Marlow : Cave blogging - And Ben took credit for Trackback! He's almost as bad as Barabasi!
Cameron Marlow : Cave blogging - And Ben took credit for Trackback! He's almost as bad as Barabasi!
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21/01/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Ed Cone: "You need TV and other mass media. One of the central fallacies of many Internet cultists is the either/or dichotomy."
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21/01/2004 @ 05:00 GMT
Richard MacManus : Jeff Jarvis asks "Did blogging hurt Dean?". Nicely sums up that bloggers must explore outside their "club", listen, and converse.
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21/01/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
Les Orchard : Microsoft: We took MikeRoweSoft too seriously - Oops. Heh, heh.
Aquarion : Microsoft: We took MikeRoweSoft too seriously - You think?
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21/01/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
Les Orchard : Very neat 3-column flowing text layout using CSS and Javascript - (Oh, and the article is interesting, too.)
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21/01/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
Wayne Burkett : PubSub.com - Subscribe to custom feeds according to specific search terms
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21/01/2004 @ 04:00 GMT
Wayne Burkett : How to Write Good
Paul Hammond : How to Write Good - There are many more writing hints I could share with you, but suddenly I am run over by a truck.
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21/01/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Tom Coates : Beautiful beaches of Toronto
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21/01/2004 @ 03:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Mozilla 1.6 ActiveX control installer, scriptable ActiveX plugin for Mozilla 1.6 released - In related news, Mike Doyle announced that he invented Mosaic.
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21/01/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Me - The first photo of myself I've ever posted. Not sure why. The backdrop is our shower curtain.
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21/01/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Erik Benson : My book is the number one (uniquely selling) book at Amazon (okay, just among the employees)! - +
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21/01/2004 @ 02:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Posting logs - I, for one, welcome our new "cool kid" overlords.
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21/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Graham Leuschke : le golie dot net - there are all kinds of inflatable friends
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21/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Graphics from the command line - Tutorial for ImageMagick's command line tools (via)
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21/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : 64 bit immediates in Python - Low level language geekery
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21/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : New Technorati Infrastructure beta test! - It certainly feels faster (via)
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21/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : non-consensual http user tracking using caches - Interesting security issue involving HTTP caching headers
Wayne Burkett : meantime: non-consensual http user tracking using caches
Paul Hammond : meantime: non-consensual http user tracking using caches - HTTP cache-control headers such as If-Modified-Since allow servers to track individual users in a manner similar to cookies, but with less constraints
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21/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : SimpleBits | SimpleQuiz > Part XI > Image Floating > Conclusion - Oftentimes, I keep an unstyled "view" of the document in mind when marking things up
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21/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Weblogs as an Emerging Communication Medium by Mike Rundle - how it is impacting traditional media, and what weblogs mean for the future of communication
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21/01/2004 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : luvly: Finding the non-blog personal web - the non-blog personal web is being sidelined and ignored
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21/01/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Les Orchard : Godel, Escher, Bach - Wikipedia
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21/01/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Snapple Pie - According to a friend: 'Apple pie. In your mouth.' I'm frightened.
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21/01/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Lord Of The Rings: On the Go! - Hilarious Photoshop Phriday nonsense over at Something Awful. Can't believe I missed this.
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21/01/2004 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Anna Maltz's One Size Fits All - hand-knit mohair naked bodysuits for the whole family
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