11/11/2004 @ 23:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0 - "THE MOZZARELLA Association has decided to release the first 'official' version of Firefox." #
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Richard MacManus : The End of Usability Culture - When Web Designers Attack! A plea for more "soul" (i.e. visual design).
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Andy Baio : Shaw Cable censoring Internet access - they're limiting the speeds of filesharing protocols and lying about it
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Andy Baio : Bright Eyes grabs the top two positions in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles!? - this is insane, especially for an indie artist
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Andy Baio : NYT on San Jose PD's problems with user interface design - the Windows-based mobile dispatch was designed without officer feedback [via] [via]
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jkottke : Performance tuning techniques for your web sites and applications
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11/11/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Countries with very high and very low levels of political freedom have low levels of terrorism - Geography is a factor as well. Seems to me that a common factor is how well you can hide...difficult to plan terrorist acts in an open society, a tightly controlled society, or in open terrain.
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Jason Shellen : Jesusonic - Fully programmable effects processor for guitar, vocal and general use by the founder of Winamp Justin Frankel. #
Jeremy Zawodny : jesusonic - jesusonic: the crusfx 1000 is what ever serious rocker needs (via joshw)
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11/11/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Pixelfest - Collaborative pixel-pushing project from The Man In Blue. Awesome.
Rod Begbie : Pixelfest: group artwork - Collaborative art, one pixel at a time. Can't wait to see how it turns out. [via] #
Dan Cederholm : Pixelfest - A brilliant, collaborative idea from Cameron Adams.
Jon Hicks : The Man in Blue > Writing > Perspective Archives - Great collaborative pixel art project over at Man in Blue
Philippe Janvier : Pixelfest group artwork Pixelfest: group artwork - "Can a group of random people, each contributing a teensy weensy bit, make a coherent piece of art/design/garbage purely through the influence of the work itself?" [via] #
Paul Hammond : The Man in Blue > Writing > Pixelfest: group artwork - can a group of random people, each contributing a teensy weensy bit, make a coherent piece of art/design/garbage purely through the influence of the work itself?
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11/11/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Social Capital - Optimal: "a densely connected core along with loosely coupled radial branches reaching out from the core." [via] [via]
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11/11/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : Shelf life - applications of RFID in Libraries - At the moment almost the most important things that technologists shouls be developing are systems of identifiers for objects and concepts and things, ways of inter-relating them and new ways of describing them.
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11/11/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : Microsoft's new beta for search isn't in any way biased towards their products - I mean God knows there probably is only one web page on the entire internet that has "Word" on it - and it's not Merriam-Webster's dictionary at word.com! This is just dumb - people are not going to use and trust a search engine that so blatantly deforms
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11/11/2004 @ 21:56 GMT
Richard MacManus : Liam talks about article pitches to magazines etc - I wondered aloud in the comments whether blogs could help 'manage' pitches and ideas.
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11/11/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Dragon optical illusion - make sure to watch the video [via] [via]
Dan Cederholm : That incredible dragon thing - I printed the template out and constructed my own (not difficult). This illusion is just amazing. via hivelogic.com
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11/11/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Alphabet of blog favicons - [via] [via]
Wayne Burkett : anti-mega: a weblog alphabet - "Here's the favicons from the 560 rss feeds I read, in feedname alphabetical order." #
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11/11/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : The many Venn diagrams of user experience - Nothing sells your ideas better than three intersecting circles.
veen : Functioning Form - User Experience Comes in Threes - UX experience (including me) can't seem to explain an idea without three overlapping cirlces. Here's a collection of Venn Diagrams from UX folks.
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11/11/2004 @ 20:58 GMT
Eric Meyer : Divide seen in voter knowledge - When two camps perceive reality in such radically different ways, what chance do they have of ever reaching an understanding?
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Eric Meyer : JazzMutant - I'm very strongly reminded of the datapads from 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I want one. I don't know what I'd do with it, but I want one.
jimray : JazzMutant Lemur - Sweet Jesus, that's rad
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11/11/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
Eric Meyer : Mobissimo - To quote Nathan: 'Think of it as shopper.com for airfares instead of digital cameras.' [via Nathan] [via]
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11/11/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
Eric Meyer : Web Pioneers on the Ballot? - ...and if elected, I promise that our children will never again be forced to write invalid markup.
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11/11/2004 @ 20:57 GMT
Eric Meyer : Study: 100,000 civilians may have died in Iraq conflict - And that's the low-end estimate, we find upon reading the article.
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Eric Meyer : Security Configuration Guide for Apple Mac OS X (3.1MB PDF) - From the friendly folks at the National Security Agency.
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11/11/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : All watched over by machines of loving grace: Some ethical guidelines for user experience in ubiquitous-computing settings - Worth a read regardless of whether you want to create such systems or intend only to be a user of such systems.
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11/11/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : Halloween 2004 - iPod Costume - Doesn't sound like much, except he made it a FUNCTIONAL iPod costume, playing music and everything. No lie.
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Eric Meyer : Natalie Jeremijenko: The WorldChanging Interview - I've been in geek love with Natalie ever since I heard about her in a keynote by Kelly Goto.
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11/11/2004 @ 20:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : Campaigns Rally Against Wrong T-Shirts - I notice a slight disparity in how the two campaigns handle, er, "unexpected" apparel.
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Eric Meyer : Dark Side Switch Campaign - Funny. Also reminds me of a signature file I saw years ago, but that's another story. [via Ferrett] [via]
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11/11/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Eric Meyer : Color Scheme Generator 2 - It's color-riffic, and a great interface to boot. I do wish there were brightness/saturation controls. From Pixy.
Tristan Rivoallan : [ws] Color Scheme Generator 2 - great for tasteless coders (like me)
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11/11/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : How ‘Balanced’ Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality - heavy-handed attempts at neutrality are distorting the truth [via] [via]
jkottke : The problem of false balance in US science journalism
Eric Meyer : Blinded by Science - Or, How ÔBalancedÕ Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality.
Simon Willison : Blinded by Science - "How 'Balanced' Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality" (via) [via]
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jkottke : Popular Photography Magazine names the Nikon D70 its camera of the year for 2004 - (Comment on this)
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jkottke : A variety of reasons for the French paradox
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11/11/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Firefox legt Postbankrekeningen bloot - Firefox might be interesting for criminals? ;-) #
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11/11/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Usability blunders - That's a nice one :-) #
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11/11/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : I hereby recommend Broadband Optimizer for OS X - My d/l speed for large files increased dramatically using this.
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deusx : The Dirty Punk Fuckin' Anarchy Machine !! :::::::::::::: - \m/,
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11/11/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : The Bookshelf - City Comforts - David Sucher - Ted on a book and author I hadn't heard of, but it sounds good. "How to Build an Urban Village"
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11/11/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : 2blowhards.com: Nairn - I hadn't heard of Ian Nairn (although he sounds familiar for some reason), but his book on London sounds essential.
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11/11/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
Phil Gyford : Application Development: Install PEAR on a shared Web host - This'll be remarkably useful, assuming it works.
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11/11/2004 @ 11:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : User experience comes in threes - Every consultant needs a Venn diagram (filed under New media industry).
Paul Hammond : Functioning Form - User Experience Comes in Threes - three seems to be the magic number
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Phil Gyford : Flickr: Photos from anniem - Want to buy a house in central Houston? Buy Annie's! Looks lovely.
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11/11/2004 @ 11:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : agressive nipple spotted at yahoo - agressive nipple spotted at yahoo: look what i missed by working at 4pm!
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plasticbag : Stunning, if annoyingly pseudo-political, video if you're into graphic design stuff - Even if you can't cope with the mixed "actually true and scary" / "cheap propagandising arse" message, then the infographics / constructivist stylings are worth checking out.
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11/11/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : XML 2.0 - XML 2.0 will simplify XML like XML did to SGML; the explanation can be found in his post, very interesting imho! #
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11/11/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Google's index nearly doubles. - See? Google doesn't index XHTML. #
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Anne van Kesteren : Rediscovering The Web - Thoughtful post about Firefox. #
Kayode Okeyode : Rediscovering the Web with Firefox
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11/11/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Leaked Fantastic Four trailer - this movie will suck, badly
Ethan Marcotte : Fantastic Four trailer leaked - Oh, c'mon now. (via waxy)
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11/11/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : l33tspeak on Jeopardy College Tournament - just when you thought it couldn't get geekier than a Blogs category
Matthew M. Boedicker : 1337 Jeopardy contestant
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11/11/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Microsoft launches Search beta - the site should be live tomorrow
Kayode Okeyode : Microsoft Launches Search Beta
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11/11/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Charles Miller : ShityRail - ShityRail: a crash is imminent. "Please leave half an hour early so that you can be at least 2 hours late for any important items in your life."
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11/11/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Two new Pee-Wee Herman films in the works - I'm hoping they're more Big Adventure than Big Top [via] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : new Pee-wee Herman movies
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Steve Cook : The Edelweiss Pirates - A semi-criminal long-haired folk-singing proto-hippie anti-Nazi youth movement.
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11/11/2004 @ 02:04 GMT
Steve Cook : Bruce Schneier on electronic voting - When Bruce Schneier speaks, I wish politicians would listen.
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11/11/2004 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Ned Batchelder: Interfaces - Ned on interfaces.
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11/11/2004 @ 01:58 GMT
Simon Willison : Ned Batchelder: A quest for pythonic interfaces - More Ned on interfaces.
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11/11/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Where XML goes astray - XML's weaknesses discussed. (via) [via]
Paul Hammond : only this, and nothing more: Where XML goes astray... - If I could go back in time, these are the areas I would have attempted to influence in a difference direction the most.
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11/11/2004 @ 01:36 GMT
Jason Shellen : Can We Please Bury the Netscape Metaphor? - Battelle sez Google isn't Netscape... and of course I agree. #
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11/11/2004 @ 01:33 GMT
kellan : Fowler's notes on notes on notes on postmodern programming. - OOPSLA2004 and the grand meta-narrative #
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kellan : Aidan continues his definitive Halloween updates of Norse gods. - First Odin, and now Loki #
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kellan : WikipedizeText - Grrr, I was *so* going to do that! Nice job. #
jimray : WikipedizeText [Scribbling.net] - Give it a block of text, it returns Wikipedia links. Brilliant...
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11/11/2004 @ 01:20 GMT
kellan : How can 59,017,382 people be so DUMB? - Front page of UK papers #
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kellan : This Season's Sleeper Issue that Could Devastate Unaffiliated VoIP ASPs - Having spent the weekend learning how powerful VoIP is, I'm not surprised it is under attack. #
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kellan : kuvert - automatic encryption for lazy paranoids. - I wonder if this could be setup for whole servers of insufficiently paranoid activists? #
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kellan : LiveLines - one click Bloglines subscription in Firefox - Alternately supports copying URL to clipboard. #
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kellan : Koders Search: rss_fetch.inc - Looks like their index could be bigger, but a neat idea. #
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kellan : misnomer: Credibility: rough notes - we had a whole mini-conference in SubEthaEdit. #
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kellan : MagpieRSS vs LastRSS : comparison of PHP RSS parsers #
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11/11/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Frontline's The Persuaders "is a giant steaming crock of shit" - "Culture is good, so I'm going to redefine it to this whole different thing because I think it's bad now."
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deusx : bluecypressMediaWiki : PythonMiniServer - Has a few tweaks to add support for last-modified to Python's CGIHTTPServer
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