29/10/2004 @ 23:58 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Microsoft Research has developed a simple interface which lets you zoom in on a portion of the screen with a single pen stroke
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plasticbag : Osama bin Laden has a tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera that seems designed to do nothing but mess with the US election - I can't tell what the effect of this is going to be - whether it will help Kerry or Bush, but it's clearly designed to influence the election.
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Kayode Okeyode : Chris' essential VIM help - Chris' essential VIM help
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Andy Baio : Flash: Nucleus game - extremely addictive clicking game [via] [via]
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Kayode Okeyode : Using Design by Contract in C
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Kayode Okeyode : Google Desktop Search Tips and Tricks
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Kayode Okeyode : How to create an unattended Windows XP CD (which automatically puts in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings, silently installs all your favourite applications, Windows Updates, Registry Tweaks etc)
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Kayode Okeyode : How to debug Windows services
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Kayode Okeyode : The Timing behind Steve Ballmer's Linux-bashing Memo - The Timing behind Steve Ballmer's Linux-bashing Memo
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Kayode Okeyode : The wonders of "format c:" - The wonders of "format c:"
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Kayode Okeyode : Schneier on the US Constitution: The Security of Checks and Balances
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Kayode Okeyode : Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux - Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux
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Kayode Okeyode : Why Accessibility Guidelines can be harmful
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Kayode Okeyode : View Page Structure: Fetch a page from a web server and output the tags within the page in a nested list
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29/10/2004 @ 23:20 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : Full CSS Property Compatibility Chart
Ethan Marcotte : Full CSS Property Compatibility Chart - Good stuff. Via Mezzoblue.
Wayne Burkett : Full CSS Property Compatibility Chart - Awesome. #
Clément Hardoüin : Table de compatibilité des CSS - Une ressource à garder précieusement sous le coude.
Philippe Janvier : Full CSS Property Compatibility Chart - "The following chart shows all CSS1, CSS2 and Internet Explorer CSS extensions and grades the level of support each recieves in a given browser". [via] #
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Kayode Okeyode : Accessible Forms
Isofarro : Accessible forms - labels and tables layout for more accessible forms
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Kayode Okeyode : Biometric passports win EU approval
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Kayode Okeyode : Another Caller ID Spoofing Operation Opens Its Doors
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29/10/2004 @ 23:07 GMT
Kayode Okeyode : New URL Spoofing Flaw Found in Internet Explorer
François Nonnenmacher : New URL Spoofing Flaw Found in Internet Explorer - Affects Apple's Safari as well
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Kayode Okeyode : ATMs Susceptible to Windows Viruses (slashdot comments)
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Kayode Okeyode : Cash machine networks could soon be more susceptible to computer viruses because many banks are starting to use the Windows operating system in machines
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Kayode Okeyode : How A Criminal Might Infiltrate Your Network
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Jeremy Zawodny : a cat in zero-g conditions - a cat in zero-g conditions: i am a cat lover, but this is still damned funny
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Tristan Rivoallan : Slashdot | Lost Ed Wood Film Unearthed
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Steve Cook : Roger Ebert gets in Conrad Black's grill - "Since you have made my salary public, let me say that when I learned that [Lord Black's wife] Barbara received $300,000 a year from the paper for duties described as reading the paper and discussing it with you, I did not feel overpaid."
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Steve Cook : World Power Systems Products - These are -incredible-. If Tom Swift, Boy Inventor, had been an artist, he would have made these.
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Andy Baio : Conqwest, large-scale touring treasure hunt - employing phonecams, semacode, and giant animal balloons [via] [via]
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Nelson Minar : Bush campaign ad lie - Nice image of the photoshop work
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deusx : The Onion | Detroit Tourism Board's 'Hidden Detroit' Campaign Results In 24 Deaths - "Essleman said that, in addition to the 24 tourists, the program resulted in the loss of more than 60 vehicles." The funny part is that it took me a second to realize this was a story in The Onion.
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29/10/2004 @ 19:31 GMT
Isofarro : PDF and Accessibility - Is PDF accessibility still an issue? The short answer is YES
Kayode Okeyode : PDF and Accessibility
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Nelson Minar : Hello Kitty has a blog! - Kawaii (via Joi Ito)
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Nelson Minar : Radio Lazlow - One of the funniest things in GTA, he has his own web site
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Nelson Minar : GTA body image - Thoughtful essay on the implications of CJ watching his weight
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deusx : ABC News: Harvard Plans Major Engineering Expansion - "Harvard University is planning a major expansion of its engineering program, including a 67 percent increase in the size of the faculty and the possible establishment of a separate school." Hmm.. wonder if I could get in at Harvard, and if I really would
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deusx : ABC News: FDA Warns Against Decorative Contacts - "Federal health officials are warning people not to use decorative contact lenses as part of Halloween costumes." So I guess my plans to dress up like Charlie X are kaput, without the silver eyes.
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deusx : Woman accused of stealing dead boyfriend's remains, beer - Wow. Now you just *know* that's got to be a relationship with a doozy of a story behind it.
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Phil Gyford : Archinect : School Blog Project - A collection of weblogs by students at architecture schools around the world, documenting their experiences. Every academic discipline should have this.
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Andy Baio : Spazz Wheelchairs - inappropriate product naming [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Video: Internet Archive's DIY book scanning robot - direct link to the streaming Quicktime [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Flash: Nintendogs for the Nintendo DS - Marc says it's a $200 Tamagotchi; here's another DS trailer
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jkottke : Steven Johnson announces his new book, Everything Bad Is Good For You - Pop culture is making us smarter, not dumber...it'll be an interesting read because I'm not entirely sure I agree with that (and not just in a knee jerk sort of way).
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deusx : BOFH: When sorry seems to be the hardest word | The Register - "Ah, no, he'd like an apology from you. In person and in writing." Heh, heh.
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29/10/2004 @ 17:05 GMT
Andy Baio : Raffi is spidering radio station playlists - one crappy Boston station played only 71 unique songs in one day [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : Spidering radio - Raffi does a bit of bitscraping
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deusx : Mayor's family cashes in on charity - "More than $395,000 of the $717,000 the foundation raised in 2002 and 2003 ... was paid to Ayanna Kilpatrick, the mayor's sister, first lady Carlita Kilpatrick and Lisa Cylar Miller." I wish I worked in a city run by grownups.
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deusx : Nintendo and Sony execs trade barbs over PSP/DS battle - PSP News at GameSpot - Guys, guys, chill out - I'm going to be getting at least one of each! Heh, heh.
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deusx : Turkish Coffee Tutorial (INeedCoffee.com) - I need an ibrik.
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Clément Hardoüin : Float nearly everything - Pas encore eu le temps de regarder en détail, mais ça pourrait être intéressant pour ceux qui s'arrachent les cheveux avec les flottants.
Paul Hammond : Clearing Floats: The FnE Method | Ordered List by Steve Smith - watch what happens when I add a simple float declaration to the parent div
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Ethan Marcotte : All watched over by machines of loving grace - User experience guidelines, set against the backdrop of ubiquitous computing. Adam Greenfield simply rocks.
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deusx : Yahoo! News - Wal-Mart Declines to Sell Comedian Carlin's Book - That does it: I need this book.
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29/10/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Doctor Fun - 2004/10/29 - Insult to Injury - "They took out my guts and made a pie of them"
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plasticbag : Flickr's fruit at the bottom - on bottom-of-the-page site navigation - Ah - after posting a couple of links yesterday about bottom-of-the-page sitemaps and referencing Mr Jones, I've just noticed that he's posted about it too. I've expressed some of my concerns in the comments, if you're interested.
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plasticbag : Some notes from GameDevBlog on The Sims 2 - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being, what's-her-name was mortified by her upset bowels when she first met Tomas. Not too far from having a Fear in The Sims 2 about losing control of your bladder at a party..."
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plasticbag : nutr.itio.us provides a more sophisticated interface with which to post to del.icio.us - Appears to include a way of deducing common tags for a link as well as aiding you navigate through your own tags. The interface doesn't quite scale to the sheer breadth of tags you might wish to use, however. I wonder how it could...
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plasticbag : bbc.co.uk/film gets reorganised - The homepage is now some form of portal to films across the BBC (which isn't immediately clear when you get there) - with the old site's frontpage now renamed BBC Movies and moved to a new URL but everything else still living under /films. Very strange.
# copy29/10/2004 @ 13:42 GMT
plasticbag : Alice Taylor thinks about Grand-Theft Auto, its use of radio and streaming real-world media into games - Webb and I have been thinking about this - trying to work out if a game of the future would be interested in having a real-world radio network streamed into it. Or perhaps we're talking about bespoke media? CNN reports on wars inside Star Wars Galaxies?
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plasticbag : Dan Hill on the death of John Peel - Gambaccini then listed a few of the artists that Peel's Radio 1 show 'broke' in the UK and beyond: The Clash, Sex Pistols, Roxy Music, Althea and Donna, Led Zeppelin, Pulp, Leonard Cohen, Joy Division, Laurie Anderson, The Undertones, Elton John...
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plasticbag : Kevan's extisp.icio.us visualisation of my del.icio.us links - I'm only really linking to this because I seem to be trying to show it to someone every couple of days and this way I'll get to it more easily. Plus I've now been using del.icio.us for a while and the tag patterns are starting to emerge...
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plasticbag : An interesting article on a dream cocoa client for del.icio.us - So this is a bit of a follow-up to a post I did a while back on tag-based bookmarks in safari which has had some interesting feedback. This article has some of the most interesting ideas that I've seen, and I'm definitely going to be thinking around this
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plasticbag : Wikipedia entry on Edward Lear, nonsense poet - My favourite Lear limerick: "There was an old person of Fife, Who was greatly disgusted with life; They sang him a ballad, And fed him on salad, Which cured that old person of Fife." Dude - I'm right there with you...
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29/10/2004 @ 13:26 GMT
plasticbag : playlistmag.com has the best introduction to using Musicmobs and Mobster - "Once you?ve uploaded the file, all your songs are added to a database. In this database reside the track names and play counts of all the songs of all of Musicmobs? users. Musicmobs then creates a home page for you that lists all the artists from you
deusx : Playlist: Joining the Mob - Another music recommendation service, except this one requires an XML upload, which seems much less convenient than Audioscrobbler
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plasticbag : Microsoft and Swatch offer thinner wireless watches - So they're broadcasting interesting data in the air, which means that absolutely anything could use it and respond to the news or the weather or a stock price, and they put it in watches?! Where's the teddy bear that shivers when it's cold outside?!
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plasticbag : Coolfer on UK artists that don't sell in the States - Robbie Williams and the Manic Street Preachers - both artists I might add that I cannot stand the sight of any more - are releasing albums that will go #1 in the UK and will be completely invisible to Americans...
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plasticbag : John Peel tribute on Radio 4's Front Row - A particularly interesting tribute to John Peel including Andy Kershaw's comments that just three weeks ago John Peel had said that he felt marginalised by Radio 1 and that the late nights were killing him...
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plasticbag : George W Bush's re-election website has been made inaccessible to anyone outside the US - "Since Monday morning (25 October) GeorgeWBush.com began rejecting web requests from outside the United States." Of course we should not in any way think this representative of this administration's foreign policy in microcosm. Oh no. Heaven forbid.
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plasticbag : Something Awful's literal interpretations of movie posters - "This week the Something Awful Forum Goons got overly analytical and took the idea of taking things at face value to the extreme. The very same extreme that often gets stupid people killed."
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plasticbag : iPod-related t-shirt reads, "I had an iPod before you even knew what one was" - I may have to get one of them if only to make it clear that I'm really really hip and cool and trendsetting and stuff (and that you guys kind of ... well ... it's difficult to say it out loud, but you just kind of aren't...)
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plasticbag : Free Ruler - an elegant little application for helping you measure the width and height of things you are designing - I really like this - I often find myself trying to work out what's gone wrong with a layout I'm building in HTML and CSS - having something to show exactly how many pixels of margin and padding are around an object could be a lifesaver...
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29/10/2004 @ 13:01 GMT
plasticbag : Frank Black Francis - Here's a strange one - an album of Pixies tracks in their formative stages with Frank Black singing alone, and then an album reinterpreting them all recorded last year. What a strange notion. Might have to have that...
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plasticbag : Dance label !K7 are happy to advertise on their CDs that they have "No Copy Protection - respect the music" - It bodes well that a record company would have the nerve to do something like this. If it has any positive impact (relative or absolute) on sales of their albums, then it should encourage the rest of the industry to follow suit (if they legally can)...
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plasticbag : British Military Fitness gets you fit the old-fashioned way - So if the whole thing didn't seem a bit too much of a macho thing and if it wasn't in any way a bit of a turn-on I might consider joining British Military Fitness to get all athletic and stuff. Some of the instructors look quite nice too...
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Phil Gyford : Flickr and PHP by Cal Henderson (PDF) - Interesting presentation... only wish I could see Cal present it.
Matthew M. Boedicker : PDF slideshow on flickr architecture - (via programming.reddit) [via]
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29/10/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Never Forget: Internets Vets for Truth - Gorgeous design, too.
Adam Gessaman : Internets Vetrans for Truth
jkottke : Never Forget is an online political film festival - Includes clips from a lot of the different shows and films currently going around.
Jeremy Zawodny : internets vets for truth - internets vets for truth: archive of 2004 political videos
plasticbag : Never Forget brings together some of the key interviews, features and documentaries that you should watch before the US elections on Tuesday. - This is a campaigning site that makes no pretense to be unpartisan, but many of the clips speak for themselves. All bandwidth was donated by webloggers and members of the public.
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Paul Hammond : The ones that didn't quite make it : journal : // hicksdesign - some of the site comps (created in Fireworks) that didn't make it
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Paul Hammond : Interface Laundry (Signal vs. Noise) - Instead of going into the house and picking things to eliminate, they take everything in the house outside
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Paul Hammond : plasticbag.org | weblog | Five years of weblog data to rip apart as you please... - Every full post made to plasticbag.org over the last five years including - in an intriguing self-reflexive twist - this one
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Paul Hammond : normalized data is (27 October 2004, Interconnected) - Another way the architecture is bound up with the social structure of the developers and the business model
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Jeremy Zawodny : google does windows - google does windows: too bad for us mac users
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deusx : Yahoo! News - Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War - Yeah, Kerry was making wild accusations. Can only dream that this will wake some "stay the course" voters up.
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Richard MacManus : Dotcom business plans - Alex Moskalyuk points to some useful dot com-era business info.
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Ethan Marcotte : The Economist endorses John Kerry - Though only as an alternative to the less-favored Bush. Still, hell of an article.
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Ethan Marcotte : Resetting default padding and margin - Great tip -- really should play with this a bit more.
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Ethan Marcotte : The Bush victory salute - Laugh it up, fuzzball.
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29/10/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Nintendo DS Trailer - Red-hot stylus-on-tablet action with the new Gameboy. [via] #
Ethan Marcotte : Nintendo DS trailer - Not sure what's up with that stylus, but hey.
Matthew M. Boedicker : preview of the new Nintendo handheld DS
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Simon Willison : Access Denied - They've blocked access to the site for IPs outside the US. Similarities to their whole foreign policy? (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : Bush website blocked outside US - BBC coverage. (via) [via]
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29/10/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : Thinking Machine 4 - Watch a chess playing computer work through what moves to make. I like the waves of influence.
Rod Begbie : Thinking Machine 4 - Artful Artifical Intelligence. Watch the pretty heuristics. [via] #
plasticbag : Watch the thought processes of a chess program's AI as you play... - I don't have the patience for chess. I can't be bothered to think more than two moves in advance. I keep hoping that I'll somehow cruise a wave of successive genius to victory. But I never do.
Eric Meyer : Thinking Machine 4 - Play chess against a computer program that draws its 'thought' processes on the board. Fascinating. [via Nick] [via]
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Dan Cederholm : Making news with web standards - 'The spacer gif alone accounted for over 90 MB of bandwidth' - Jim Ramsey on the SF Examiner redesign.
Eric Meyer : Making News with Web standards - From the article: "As a result, even though our traffic was about 40% higher in July 2004 than in September 2003, our bandwidth was almost exactly the same for those two months."
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Andy Baio : Brown Paper Tickets - impressive DIY ticketing site could break the Ticketmaster monopoly [via] [via]
jkottke : Brown Paper Tickets, "the first and only fair-trade ticketing company - Event producers, use this please instead of evil Ticketmaster. People shouldn't have to pay 20% extra to TM just to buy tickets.
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