17/12/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Blogs 4 Xmas - e-mail delivery of blogs as Christmas gifts for newbies, including mine!
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Nelson Minar : GameSpy PC awards - GameSpy.com - Game of the Year - 2004
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Nelson Minar : Mount Erebus - Nice photo of lenticular clouds in Antarctica
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Nelson Minar : Floating logos - Nice images (via MetaFilter)
jkottke : The floating logos project
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Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited | Atomic tomatoes are not the only fruit - The Grauniad's "Bad Science" awards. [via] #
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Ethan Marcotte : The Plot Against Sex in America - Great little op-ed piece.
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Rod Begbie : Nebulus Remake - Flash re-make of the classic Hewson title. [via] #
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Ethan Marcotte : Creepiest craigslist posting ever - Any takers?
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Andy Baio : Nethack is 20 years old today - maybe the oldest game still being played today, without irony?
Steve Cook : Nethack turns 20 - Happy birthday to the best computer game ever.
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kellan : "They Come in a Steady Stream Now" by Richard Powers - Wow. #
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Andy Baio : Greg Storey knew the Crystal Cathedral gunman - the nine-hour standoff ended in suicide; Greg provides some background
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Andy Baio : Excerpts from Game Developer's post-mortem on Katamari Damacy - also, there's a nice 8-bit Katamari mockup for download
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Andy Baio : AllofMP3 doubles rates to $.02/MB - still a ridiculous steal, at around $1 for an entire album [via] [via]
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Rod Begbie : X-develop - New C#, VB.NET and Java IDE from Omnicore, makers of the bestest Java IDE. #
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deusx : A Whitewashed Earthsea - How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books. By Ursula K. Le Guin - 'Readers who've been wondering why I "let them change the story" may find some answers here.'
Ethan Marcotte : A Whitewashed Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin trashes the TV adaptation of her EarthSea novels.
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Andy Baio : Playboy's iBod - cheesecake photos for the iPod Photo, NSFW [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Indeed.com, job search crawler - supports RSS and sorting by date [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Forbes on the Apple iPhone rumors - it sounds like this may actually happen
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jkottke : Very interesting interview with Admiral Bob Inman about American intelligence and politics
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deusx : It's the F-Time Show With Chevy Chase (washingtonpost.com) - "Even certified Hollywood liberals were reeling after Chevy Chase's potty-mouthed Bush-bashing Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center, where the actor hosted an awards ceremony staged by People for the American Way."
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deusx : RasterWeb! - Fear of an Aggregated Planet - Build your own personal Planet
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philgyford : Pas/Cal's cover of Last Christmas - A jolly picture and a free MP3. Merry Christmas!
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François Nonnenmacher : Camels and Rubber Duckies - Joel Spolsky on how to price software... or not
Nelson Minar : Pricing software - Joel on Software talks about how to set prices for software you sell.
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François Nonnenmacher : For beta or for worse II
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Rod Begbie : Boston Red Sox Mastercard spoof - Don't let your mouth write checks your left nut can't cash. #
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cobra libre : love shack destroyed in suspicious blaze - tin roof... rusted! #
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deusx : Fewture Models > Aphrodite - Features "removable breast and lip missiles". And I can't believe this is from an anime I watched in elementary school, called Manzinger-Z/Tranzor-Z
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Dan Cederholm : Targeting Small Screens - Doug's interesting thoughts on lack of support for the handheld media type, and how we might get around it to serve handhelds better pages.
Philippe Janvier : Targeting Small Screens - "...thoughts on why most mobile browsers don t currently support the handheld media type. Then a potential solution for the short-term until they do." [via] #
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kellan : A Whitewashed Earthsea - Le Guin on the mini-series, and race in SF #
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plasticbag : Mr Webb talks about podcasting 'In Our Time' - I meant to post this ages ago. Who knows - maybe I did post it ages ago. Anyway, you can get - for a limited time - MP3s of In Our Time delivered to your computer and from there - your iPod...
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deusx : Margaret Cho's blog - Beheaded - "The cutaway here never happened, because this was no movie, at least we hope that it was not, for that would introduce far more sinister horrors than we are capable of comprehending."
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deusx : Google Search: "my new * * technique is unstoppable"
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philgyford : blinkx video search - Search TV and radio broadcasts. Works nicely, although clips are a bit short. "Smart Folders" (if you're on Windows) sound good.
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plasticbag : BBC press release about Radio stats - mentions our podcasting trial - The podcasting trial of 'In Our Time' that Mr Webb's been pointing to over at his site gets a good positive push by esteemed leader, Simon Nelson...
Simon Willison : BBC Radio mp3 takes off - It seems the podcasting trial has been going pretty well.
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François Nonnenmacher : Canada Goes To Hell - Legal pot? Legal gay marriage? Universal health care? What's next, free porn and candy?
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17/12/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : I'm a Quaker. Ask me anything. - It's probably the insomnia, but I'm laughing right now.
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17/12/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : MIT: Google vs Microsoft in an "architecture war"! - "Its [Google's] most urgent task must be to turn its website into a major platform, as some other firms have already done. Amazon, as we have noted, does not merely operate a retail website. It has developed proprietary but open APIs that have made it the
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17/12/2004 @ 04:04 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Video from WDW2004 - See several of the presentations from Web Design World Boston for free.
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17/12/2004 @ 04:01 GMT
Dan Cederholm : IE5/Mac mattered - Ethan hides styles from the pioneering browser of yore. IE5/Win next? Hmm.
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17/12/2004 @ 03:58 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : I was being TAPED?! - NOBODY TOLD ME THEY WERE TAPING THIS SHIT. WHAT THE FUCK.
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17/12/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Mr. Bungle officially disband - their debut was brilliant, produced by John Zorn [via] [via]
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17/12/2004 @ 02:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo Video Search - impressive, they found several on my server
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17/12/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Mozilla Firefox two-page ad in today's New York Times - paid for entirely by donations, unprecedented for an open-source project
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17/12/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Kiddie Records Weekly - every week in 2005, a new vintage children's record for download [via] [via]
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17/12/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
plasticbag : Trusty Sidekicks - A new comics-related weblog by the gorgeous and charming Sparky of Ultrasparky.org - replete with nostalgia, full of cool old ads from comic books and dosed up on homo juice. Awesome...
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17/12/2004 @ 00:58 GMT
plasticbag : BBC relaunches 6music's website - So the department in which I work have relaunched the website for 6music and - along with the Radio 3 site that I helped out on - it's one of the most true-to-the-medium sites that the BBC's done to date. Very nice.
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17/12/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : The new home secretary is sticking with ID cards - despite the fact that I don't know anyone in this country who actually wants them - "The new home secretary, Charles Clarke, today rejected calls to reconsider plans for ID cards after Labour backbenchers suggested the departure of David Blunkett yesterday should prompt a rethink."
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