18/12/2004 @ 23:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Scared of Santa - Happy childhood photos (via Metafilter)
jkottke : These kids don't like Santa very much
Jeremy Zawodny : Scared of Santa photo gallery - Scared of Santa photo gallery: ah, the holidays
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Nelson Minar : WinXP autologin - Dumb that this isn't the default
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Jeremy Zawodny : False Lottery Claim Leads to Boxing Career - False Lottery Claim Leads to Boxing Career: I hate it when that happens
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Jeremy Zawodny : \/1aggra White T-Shirt - \/1aggra White T-Shirt: heh, I must get one
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Jeremy Zawodny : In Google we trust? - In Google we trust?: that's what the back of AdSense checks say, right?
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Cubes - The Cubes: heh
François Nonnenmacher : The Cubes
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Jeremy Zawodny : sex offenders near me - sex offenders near me: a listing
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Jeremy Zawodny : Donate to EFF, send a lump of coal to MPAA and RIAA - Donate to EFF, send a lump of coal to MPAA and RIAA: kick ass
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Philippe Janvier : Cross-browser semi-transparent backgrounds - Semi-transparent backgrounds with IE too. [via] #
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Jeremy Zawodny : An Open Letter to Sound System Developers - An Open Letter to Sound System Developers: linux is still not ready for the desktop
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18/12/2004 @ 19:58 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Business model for Bloglines - Business model for Bloglines: no surprise there
François Nonnenmacher : Business model for Bloglines
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Jeremy Zawodny : Solaris x86 HCL - Solaris x86 HCL: in case you want to run Solaris 10 on your notebook, or something
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18/12/2004 @ 19:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : I can't be the only person this annoys... - I can't be the only person this annoys...: DiBona on air travel
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Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft Applies for Patent on Electronic Shopping Basket - Microsoft Applies for Patent on Electronic Shopping Basket: uhh... prior art?
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Jeremy Zawodny : SeatGuru.com - SeatGuru.com: Your Enlightened Guide to Airplane Seating
Rod Begbie : SeatGuru.com - Your Enlightened Guide to Airplane Seating - Useful guide to the layouts of airplane seating. [via] #
jimray : Welcome to SeatGuru! Your Guide to Airplane Seats and In-flight Amenities - See what your flight is like before even leaving home
Linkorama : SeatGuru - Airline Seating Charts, Best Airplane Seats -
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Applestore of the future - The Applestore of the future: heh
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Jeremy Zawodny : CA desert panorama - CA desert panorama: I've been near that area before
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Jeremy Zawodny : Panorama of sunset in LA - Panorama of sunset in LA: As seen from on high
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François Nonnenmacher : Practical mod_perl goes Creative Commons - Full book available online with a By and Share Alike CC license
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Andy Baio : Spam Karms plugin for Wordpress - MT badly needs something like this; the battery of tests is impressive
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18/12/2004 @ 16:59 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Google Suggest Dissected - Impressive job of reverse-engineering
jkottke : Here's how the JavaScript for Google Suggest works
Clément Hardoüin : Google Suggest disséqué - Apprenez-en plus sur les dessous de la technologie développée par Google pour faire de la recherche en temps réel.
kellan : Google Suggest as human readable code. - De-obfuscated the code shows very impressive attention to detail. #
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Andy Baio : White paper on measuring BitTorrent activity - tons of interesting charts
Nelson Minar : Bittorrent analysis - Some good metrics (via Slashdot)
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plasticbag : Steven Berlin Johnson moots two types of writers - those who own a space and those that traverse multiple spaces - which seems to have resonance to those of us whose work traverses subject areas - For a while in 2000/2001 it felt like I could have become a pundit or consultant around weblogs of all things, but I went in another direction and then another after that. I wonder if that was the right thing to do...
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plasticbag : And lo they asked Metafilter "What's the most head-scratch inducing present you've ever gotten?" - I've already posted mine - a couple of years ago my uncle gave my brother a packet of crisps and me a can of Thai Chicken Soup. All beautifully wrapped up and everything...
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plasticbag : Matt Jones proses "Smart Muzak" - Lovely ideas here - use 'on hold' music to convey through mood and pace and rhythm your place in the queue and how long it'll be before your call is answered...
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plasticbag : OmniOutliner 3 Professional Beta - OmniGroup are - as far as I'm concerned - the third part of the holy Apple trinity along with Apple themselves and Adboe. And OmniOutliner is a lovely little app...
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Ethan Marcotte : Reasons for not blogging much lately - Nicely put.
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François Nonnenmacher : Forget Cue Cards, Make a Teleprompter!
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plasticbag : I have a new episode of Futurama: "Less Than Hero" - Includes the classic, awesome, beautiful line: "a badger with a troubled past and nothing left to lose"...
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plasticbag : Flickr Sucks! - Highly entertaining riposte to Canadian photo-sharing site
Rod Begbie : Flickr Sucks! - Because every .com needs its own *sucks.com [via] #
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plasticbag : Wikipedia's guide to Podcasting - "The term podcasting plays upon the terms broadcasting and webcasting and is derived from the name of the iPod portable music player, the playback device of choice of many early podcast listeners."
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plasticbag : What was in the Apple Store's "Lucky Bags"? - The Lucky Bags may contain a selection of the following items in any combination: Airport Express, Wireless Mouse, Wireless Keyboard, D-Link, Keynote, .Mac, iLife, iSight Camera, 20GB iPod, Silver iPod Mini, JBL on Tour...
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deusx : EZ-Flash 2 PowerStar II EZ2 PS Power Star
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deusx : Yahoo! News - Eat 'Supermeals' to Protect Heart: Experts - "focus more on eating a healthy diet as a good means to reduce their heart disease."
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Jason Shellen : Apple iTune Phone Coming - Motorola and Apple sitting in a tree. #
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Jason Shellen : LineIn and SoundSource - Two must-have free pieces of software for Mac OSX. It turns out it's really hard to do a simple line-in monitor thru your speakers or headphones without LineIn. #
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Nelson Minar : MMO economics - Nice analysis by a small time trader (via lots of places)
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deusx : Sci Fi Wire -- Le Guin Blasts SCI FI's Earthsea - SciFi's response goes something like this: "Whatever, Le Guin. 13 million suckers watched our ads, so who cares?"
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deusx : Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting: Dunk Mug - "Who doesn't love a little biscuit to dunk in his coffee?"
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Andy Baio : Video: Honda's Asimo robot can now run! - bringing the uncanny valley into the real world; more videos and info [via] [via]
jkottke : Those crazy cats at Honda have their Asimo robot running - I've watched this video about 12 times and the walking to running transitions still make me chuckle.
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Jason Shellen : The Jimi - I hate wallets - I'm trying a Jimi. #
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deusx : Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers - "Do you Love Irish Drinking Songs? Are you a kitty cat lover fanatic?"
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deusx : WorldNetDaily: Why I believe in Creation - "The primary reason I believe, of course, is because the Bible tells me so. That's good enough for me, because I haven't found the Bible to be wrong about anything else." Look harder.
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Andy Baio : The Best Webcomics of 2004 - Keaner and Copper are my favorites of the list [via] [via]
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philgyford : MVGroup - Good collection of Bit Torrented documentaries, including 'Connections' (you have to register for forums to see the listings).
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cameron : pi10k - Converting the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence - pi has an infectous groove and it's coming for you
Andy Baio : Musical Pi - assign numbers to notes, and play the first 10,000 digits of pi as music [via] [via]
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cameron : the tin foil hat song - a new song by doghorse (authors of the notorious "we like bukkake")
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plasticbag : Slightly weird and clunky BBC Zeitgeist page still includes interesting factoids - Fascinating project this one - with clear parallels to the Google zeitgeist pages - except with an enormously smaller user base. Interested to see what direction it moves in. Could be too literal...?
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