13/12/2004 @ 23:58 GMT
Richard MacManus : Simon Waldman ponders Google's "media search" patent application - "The idea that they may be putting in mechanisms for this to be on a revenue share basis, and that we might see some direct financial benefit for creating the content that Google makes money from searching, is very welcome."
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13/12/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Get yer Chris Ware-signed McSweeney's #13 dus jackets while they last
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13/12/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Dave Eggers on the musical adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rod Begbie : The New Yorker: Sixteen Tons of Fun - Dave Eggers article about the new Monty Python musical. Pretty interesting stuff. [via] #
Ethan Marcotte : Dave Eggers on "Spamalot", the new Monty Python Broadway musical - Sounds absolutely awesome. Great write-up, too.
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13/12/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
cameron : Custom Patriotic Ribbon Magnets - so ripe for irony
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13/12/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
cameron : MSNBC - Dude, you can't be serious! - "The word taps into nonconformity and a new American image of leisurely success."
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13/12/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Doug's gorgeous WDW04 presentations - Yay for edifying eye candy.
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13/12/2004 @ 18:57 GMT
kellan : del.icio.us/tag/rdf tutorial - del.icio.us/tag/rdf tutorial #
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13/12/2004 @ 18:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Ethical fair trade - you knew it made sense until MS embraced it - Bill Gates paints himself as a poor third-world farmer
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13/12/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : AlterNet: Battlefield Earth - "...millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed ? even hastened ? as a sign of the coming apocalypse." Wow. Can we ship these people off to their own Earth, so
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13/12/2004 @ 18:56 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Mates of State - A super cool organ and drums duo I just discovered.
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13/12/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Mr. Sun has some trouble with an intimate moment in ESPN's Dale Earnhardt biopic - "If I were to write down a list of people I'd like to visualize naked and getting busy, I could use all the paper in an Office Depot and not get to Dale Earnhardt."
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13/12/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : One of the Scissor Sisters recounts their year of success in the UK
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13/12/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Some Amazon reviewers don't like Barbie hooking up with Blaine after her break with Ken - "This is harmful to children. This teaches lack of responsibility towards those we claim to love. And moreso, this is depressing. Children should not have to fear broken hearts so early and accept that even a relationship of nearly 50 yrs...should an
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13/12/2004 @ 17:56 GMT
kellan : Compare typefaces with Exposé and Font Book - Nice. #
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13/12/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Now offering cheap air travel, rental cars, and Internet access, easyGroup will soon offer cheap hotel stays - Tiny easyHotel rooms in London will go for ~5 pounds per night.
cameron : easyHotel - budget hotel with 90 sq. foot bedrooms in central london, less than $10/night
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13/12/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Sideways named top film by NY and LA film critics and is in AFI's top ten
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13/12/2004 @ 16:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Icône statique pour Thunderbird - L'accès rapide à certaines des fonctionalités de Thunderbird. [via] #
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plasticbag : But though the big programmes are losing out, the audience isn't watching any less TV (pdf) - "Television viewing has proved remarkably resilient to increased demands on consumers ... and in fact has increased slightly over the last decade (from 25.6 hours per household per week in 1993 to 26.1 hours in 2003)"
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13/12/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NYT's Year in Ideas - great snapshot of the entire year [via] [via]
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13/12/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Newsweek on "A-list" bloggers - funny, none of those people are on my A-list [via] [via]
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13/12/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Sabermetrics for football - "Romer found that football coaches punt far more than they ought to -- perhaps acting out of fear of the worst outcome (going for it on fourth down and failing), rather than rationally balancing risk and reward."
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13/12/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Everything is being sampled nowadays, even handbags
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13/12/2004 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Cells produce faint sounds which could be used to detect cancer (among other things)
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13/12/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Fuck shrinking sweaters - Go and sit at the loser's table at the edge of the cafeteria, because no one wants you.
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13/12/2004 @ 15:56 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : And a big thanks to - Several mental images I didn't need, but hey.
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13/12/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Welcome back, Ian! - Good to have you back, sir.
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13/12/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Reverse engineering Google Suggest - That took, what? Six, seven minutes?
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13/12/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : "Yeah, but it makes stupid people think it's true." - Nice.
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13/12/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Stolen Shirts - Yes, I still have tons of holiday shopping left to do. Yes, you may go to hell.
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13/12/2004 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Cable companies may cripple their DVRs so that, for exmaple, you can't keep an episode of Six Feet Under for more than a couple of weeks
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13/12/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : IBM, AMD, Sony boost chip speeds by 24%
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François Nonnenmacher : Kerry net chief: cool software doesn't win elections
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13/12/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : EC calls for rethink of data retention proposals - Keep all of it! Forever!
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13/12/2004 @ 14:56 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : MS Eolas appeal begins - This ends at some point, right? Right?
François Nonnenmacher : MS Eolas appeal begins - The case continues
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13/12/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Home-Brew IPod Ad Opens Eyes - 'School teacher George Masters has the marketing world abuzz with a homemade ad for Apple Computer's iPod that is rapidly "going viral."' Very cool
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13/12/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
cameron : Searching for the Twenty Top Software People in the World - nominees include: 1 woman.
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13/12/2004 @ 13:55 GMT
cameron : Computer Art Using MS Paint - Permission granted to view this website for class sizes under 100
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13/12/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : UK: 2004 TV shows fail to generate mass audiences - Only six programmes in 2004 attract an audience in excess of 15 million viewers. In 2003, 50 programmes got between 17 and 20 million viewers. In 1999, 177 programmes had more than 15 million viewers.
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13/12/2004 @ 08:07 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : my pubsub linkrank - my pubsub linkrank: 228 at this moment
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13/12/2004 @ 08:04 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Assholes - Assholes: people deserve to be compensated, not rewarded, for their trouble
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13/12/2004 @ 08:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Paying Attention (or Not) to the Flickr Daily Zeitgeist - Paying Attention (or Not) to the Flickr Daily Zeitgeist: the authors of "mind hacks" look at the flickr daily zeitgeist
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13/12/2004 @ 07:58 GMT
Andy Baio : PubSub's LinkRanks - blog popularity tracking; waxy.org is #215 today [via] [via]
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13/12/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Shopping for games in Osaka - it makes EB Games look pretty pathetic [via] [via]
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13/12/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : scoble pretends he doesn't know what's coming - scoble pretends he doesn't know what's coming: oh, just tell us already... it's only hours away! :-)
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13/12/2004 @ 06:20 GMT
deusx : DingDing - OneBigSoup - Just wondering: Why *hasn't* anyone built an event messaging framework atop IRC already?
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13/12/2004 @ 06:17 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : quickreplying - quickreplying: thunderbird extension for replying faster
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13/12/2004 @ 06:14 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : quotecolors - quotecolors: thunderbird extension for adjusting quote level colors
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13/12/2004 @ 06:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : addresscontext - addresscontext: thunderbird extension for easily adding contacts in context
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13/12/2004 @ 06:07 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mozilla Thunderbird Extensions - Mozilla Thunderbird Extensions: just what it says
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Jeremy Zawodny : GALANT table - GALANT table: this could be half of my new computer desk
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Jeremy Zawodny : GALANT desk combination right - GALANT desk combination right: this could be the other half of my new computer desk
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13/12/2004 @ 05:58 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mac Annoyances - Mac Annoyances: another book to get
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13/12/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Revolution in The Valley - Revolution in The Valley: another book to get
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13/12/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Borrow, Speculate and Hope - "If Mr. Bush were to say in plain English that his plan to solve our fiscal problems is to borrow trillions, put the money into stocks and hope for the best, everyone would denounce that plan as the height of irresponsibility."
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13/12/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : Nelson's Weblog: tech / bad / endOfSMTP - "This filter is an example of the end of SMTP."
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13/12/2004 @ 02:58 GMT
deusx : HOMICIDE IN DETROIT: Law of the street - "Overworked police can't be everywhere, so his family hunts for a missing man" Yeah, I love this town.
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13/12/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : New "Syndication Marketing" company - Syndicate IQ - "Syndicate IQ's goal is to work closely with publishers who not only want to monetize RSS feeds with ads, but to also potentially differentiate the ads to individual users based on their demographics and behavior."
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13/12/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : scoble uses winfs to pre-hype microsoft desktop search - scoble uses winfs to pre-hype microsoft desktop search: it comes out monday, ya know?
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13/12/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : iTunes Music Store Now Accepts PayPal - iTunes Music Store Now Accepts PayPal: awesome
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13/12/2004 @ 00:58 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How Pubcookie Works - How Pubcookie Works: interesting single sign-on system from uw
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13/12/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : auto-discovery hall of shame - auto-discovery hall of shame: doh! yahoo is in there...
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Comicopia comic book store in Boston
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