28/10/2004 @ 23:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Upcoming.org's most popular events and metros - NYC is, by far, the most active on the site
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kellan : "this is why liberals suck worse than conservatives. In their hamfisted attempts to do good, they take all of the fun out of out liberation." - On the impending death of NYC Critical Mass. Sad. I've seen several CritMasses go this way. #
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kellan : "Holy Fucking Prometheus on a Pogo Stick" - Aidan on 'geography is biology', and predicting the new 'Hobbit' discovery. Plus got to love that title. #
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28/10/2004 @ 23:05 GMT
kellan : Languid - a web service for identifying languages. - TextCat algo + unicode smarts + web service. #
cobra libre : languid: a statistical language identifier - wow! i tried vietnamese, french, even english [via] #
François Hodierne : Languid - a web service for identifying languages. #
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28/10/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
kellan : "We're going on 18 years now, give or take a few"..since the last election - At first, there were terrorists, and then extreme hurricanes, and the computer glitches, then some turtles got into the ballot boxes in Kansas. #
Aquarion : The Eternal Election (Probably fiction) - The Eternal Election
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deusx : Wired News: You Broke It, You Fix It - "The iMac G5 is completely user serviceable." Huh, that's either pretty cool, or pretty slick of apple to trick customers into self-servicing :) Personally, I like that the hood isn't welded completely shut.
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deusx : Product Details: Tempo tag - "the tempo does none of that. it's simply a wearable glimpse of time" Slick.
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28/10/2004 @ 22:11 GMT
Rod Begbie : Was Darwin Wrong? - National Geographic helpfully provide the two-letter rhymes-with-dough answer [via] #
kellan : National Geographic: Was Darwin wrong? - No. #
Andy Baio : National Geographic on Evolution - Q: Was Darwin wrong? A: NO. [via] [via]
deusx : Iron Circus: Official November 2004 National Geographic Appreciation Station. - "Yes, it can be measured in the laboratory. Shut up."
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Rod Begbie : David Ortiz on the Wheaties box - Mere weeks after Pedro received the same honour. #
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cobra libre : ba-lue uh-lack-shun ba-lues-are - limited time only #
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cobra libre : little know ye who's comin' - beats springsteen #
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plasticbag : Buffy-creator Joss Whedon quits television production and shuts down Mutant Enemy - "I have a bitter taste in my mouth with where TV has gone in the past five years," he told Variety, labeling the reality TV craze "loathsome." (thanks to Kerry for the heads up)
deusx : E! Online News - "Buffy" Brain Drained - Joss Whedon fleeing television. Drat.
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Andy Baio : Grand Theftendo - amazing homebrew port of Grand Theft Auto III to the NES! [via] [via]
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cameron : New species of human discovered ("Flores man")
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28/10/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : 2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes - Florida's touchscreen voting, Lynndie England, Nader, and more
Jeremy Zawodny : scary bush inspired costumes - scary bush inspired costumes: this is awesome
deusx : 2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes - Oh so wrong.
Rod Begbie : 2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes - "Transform Daddy's little girl into America's NEW favorite bad girl, Private First Class Lyndie England." [via] #
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Richard Rutter : Bush website block - Access denied to us naughty foreigners (filed under War).
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François Nonnenmacher : Sixth Circuit Blocks DMCA Use for Printer Cartridges
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Jeremy Zawodny : cell socket - cell socket: one step forward, two steps back
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Andy Baio : Cluster Ballooning - also: the tragic story of Larry Walters [via] [via]
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Steve Cook : Joel Schumacher's "Phantom of the Opera" - If that phrase doesn't give you chills, please return to Bizarro Earth.
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Dan Cederholm : Mission Accomplished - 'This will be the final, regular post to the Bambino's Curse weblog.'
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Jeremy Zawodny : feedster hacks - feedster hacks: just what you would expect
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Jeremy Zawodny : more on mysql max table size - more on mysql max table size: from kevin burton
Kayode Okeyode : Max Table size in MySQL
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deusx : Strange Horizons Fiction: The Great Old Pumpkin, by John Aegard - Charles M. Schulz meets H. P. Lovecraft. Really good.
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deusx : Good Bad Attitude - "It would be ironic if, as hackers fear, recent measures intended to protect national security and intellectual property turned out to be a missile aimed right at what makes America successful."
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deusx : Gopher: pygopherd - "Welcome to PyGopherd -- the advanced, multi-protocol Gopher server!"
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28/10/2004 @ 12:08 GMT
Isofarro : On GMail and DHTML architecture again - The idea is to fetch an HTML skeleton, decide what content you need, fetch that (as XML), and cache it wherever you get a chance. Render incrementally.
deusx : Koranteng's Toli: On GMail and DHTML architecture again - "Everyone with a clue should be trying to leverage the browser and that, in essence, is all they are doing."
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Isofarro : Web content management depends on trust - The foundation of a brand is built by being useful and trustworthy.
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Isofarro : WaiZilla - Mozilla extension for WAI testing - by Tim Roberts
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Richard Rutter : Hicksdesign resigns - And it is good (but the sideways tree made me feel giddy) (filed under Design thinking).
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Phil Gyford : Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Robots.txt Query Exclusion. - HotWired launched ten years ago yesterday but you can't see older versions on archive.org because HotWired have blocked it from archiving their site.
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Andy Baio : Flickr users cover tonight's lunar eclipse - instant reporting, just add community [via] [via]
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28/10/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tron, the 12-Minute Rock Opera - featuring Brendon Small of Home Movies fame on guitar [via] [via]
deusx : TRON: The Rock Opera
Nelson Minar : Tron: the Rock Opera - Great find by Waxy
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Jeremy Zawodny : web feeds, blogs, and search engines - web feeds, blogs, and search engines: a report from the ses conference
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Paul Ford : Woman's bitchin' Gimli costume
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Steve Cook : FLIP, the Floating Instrument Platform - I think some GI Joes used to live on one of these.
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28/10/2004 @ 05:29 GMT
Paul Ford : Christian Retail - "It looks like Santa puked."
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Paul Ford : Top 100 American Speeches
jkottke : Top 100 American speeches - "I Have a Dream" tops the list.
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Paul Ford : Russian Vonnegut Club not Succeeding - "In America, it's only white trash who upgrade,"
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Paul Ford : Documentaries about poor people and pentecostals
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Paul Ford : History of a failed music project
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kellan : Are photos the backdoor to build sharing services into the iPod? - Will iPod's evolve into the physical avatar-hub of your personal line of sight ad hoc network? #
plasticbag : Mr Webb explores the possibility of iPod as a kind of wireless personal informational avatar - "Put it in your pocket, run a radio station for the people near your desk, or the people you pass on the street. But the music sharing, because really it's a music device, has to start with photos, that's the big excuse. A long term plan."
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kellan : The Frank Gehry Furniture Collection #
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deusx : MyFi: The World's First XM Portable - http://www.satelliteradioblog.com - "Delphi and XM just announced the MyFi, the world's first portable satellite radio." It's like a satellite iPod, sorta.
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28/10/2004 @ 03:58 GMT
deusx : ASPN : Python Cookbook : Cache decorator in python 2.4 - Slick use of new Python decorators to memoize results of a calculation in a function
Nelson Minar : PyDecorator: memoize - Clever use of decorators
Simon Willison : Cache decorator in Python 2.4 - Nothing like a good example to understand why decorators are a cool language feature. (via) [via]
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28/10/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : New font to be used on US highway signs - Clearview is a bit Meta-like
jkottke : Typographica thread on Clearview, the new typeface for US highways
Rod Begbie : Clearview: A New Typeface for US Highways - New font designed for US Highway Road signs. Massive amounts of research and legibility testing went into it. I'm fascinated that there's a different version of the font for light and dark background. [via] #
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Jeremy Zawodny : hollister pilot and his l-39 lost in washington? - hollister pilot and his l-39 lost in washington?: i bet he did not have an elt
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28/10/2004 @ 02:58 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : the secret service visits an lj user - the secret service visits an lj user: holy crap
Andy Baio : Secret Service visits a Livejournal user - blog rule #36: never say you're going to kill the president [via] [via]
Manuzhai : anniesj: a word to the wise - LiveJournal-user had the Secret Service visit her because of a Bush rant.
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Andy Baio : Milner's Descriptive Atlas from 1850 - fascinating and pioneering information design [via] [via]
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28/10/2004 @ 01:58 GMT
Phil Gyford : Copy, Right? - MP3 blog devoted to cover versions. Don't know why no one did it before!
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Graham Leuschke : del.icio.us/gleuschk - I'm adding links here for now. hopefully one day they'll all be integrated and tagged and stuff
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28/10/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Erik Benson : Scroll down to see the Robot Co-op on Amazon.com - Neat new feature on Amazon.
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Manuzhai : Band atoning for sewage incident - $ 100,000 dollar to environmentalists because they dumped their shit in a river.
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Manuzhai : Silktide SiteScore - Interesting tool that automatically rates several key aspects of your site.
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Steve Cook : Genetically-engineered alergen-free cats - I've seen enough monster movies to know how this will turn out.
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