22/12/2004 @ 23:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : More from Simon Waldman on RSS - "At the same time, however, in a world of a million feeds: there has never been a greater need for distinctive, intelligent reporting, comment and analysis that can stand up even when shorn of its traditional context and design. Indistinct products die in
# copy22/12/2004 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : John Maeda's got himself a weblog called, what else, Simplicity
Nelson Minar : John Maeda blog - He finally succumbed! John's a great designer and excellent teacher.
cameron : Maeda's SIMPLICITY - weblog of John Maeda for the Media Lab's SIMPLICITY consortium
joshua : Maeda's SIMPLICITY - interesting blog
# copy22/12/2004 @ 22:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : eharmony.com $110M - That's a lot of money
# copy22/12/2004 @ 21:58 GMT
Steve Cook : The Battle of the Bulge - The Army presents an excellent website on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.
# copy22/12/2004 @ 21:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : Myers: Online Spending Will Jump 30% in 2005 - "Popularly branded online content will generate the greatest share of online revenue growth in 2005." --> not sure I like the sound of "popularly branded"... sounds a bit mainstreamy. [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 21:04 GMT
Rod Begbie : Monospace/Fixed Width Programer's Fonts - Programmers font listing, with samples. The freely downloadable Vera Sans Mono wins out. #
Nelson Minar : Programmer's fonts - Nice list of fixed width fonts
# copy22/12/2004 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Tip: Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - "Sometimes tools can save the day when people aren't careful about standards"
# copy22/12/2004 @ 20:58 GMT
deusx : Phidgets - USB sensors, USB robot sensors, robot kits, hobby robots, robot parts - Hmm. These look more fun than Lego Mindstorms :)
joshua : Phidgets - USB sensors, USB robot sensors, robot kits, hobby robots, robot parts
# copy22/12/2004 @ 20:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : 150 most popular tags on Flickr - Cool, New Zealand is on the list (and fairly bold too).
# copy22/12/2004 @ 20:02 GMT
kellan : Welcome Harry Jameson Cheever! - Clever kid managed to just barely avoid being born on Xmas #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 19:58 GMT
Andy Baio : D.C. Comics superhero Christmas album from 1977 - "Exciting Christmas Stories" with Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Full albums of "Dragnet: The Christmas Story" from 1953 and "Non-Stop Christmas Disco" from 1979 - more great Christmas rarities: FaLaLaLaLa.com,Oddio Overplay [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 19:01 GMT
kellan : Rooneg::Weblog: Lucene4c Progress - May someday lead to an Apache module that lets you search over a Lucene index #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:58 GMT
Nelson Minar : Cell phone Python - Official release of Python for Series 60. Woohoo!
jimray : Python for Series 60 - Cell phone companies and carriers that continue to hobble their phones are going to go the way of the dodo, slowly and begrudingly, but surely
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:55 GMT
cobra libre : japanese trailer for ong bak - the groundbreaking plot revolves around the recovery of a precious artifact #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:24 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Mark Pesce Outside the Light-Cone
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:21 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : The Mod Gods, dedicated to those modifying the DS for all
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:18 GMT
Rod Begbie : Chronomium - GPL'ed Linux LiveCD containing ClamAV, allowing you to boot up and virusclean a PC without starting Windows. [via] #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:14 GMT
Rod Begbie : Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads - Download GTA and GTA2 for free. I remember playing GTA with my brand spankin' new 3DFX card. Truly a ground-breaking game [via] #
joshua : Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads - gta 1 and 2 inc network play
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:11 GMT
Rod Begbie : Tell us about your balls, Pete - The whole Schweddy Balls skit from SNL. #
deusx : Tell us about your balls, Pete (Jeremy Zawodny's blog) - Schwetty balls. Yum.
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : CutePDF - Create PDF for free - Handy free PDF faux-printer for Windows. #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:04 GMT
Andy Baio : Monkey Donkey Gift Guide - web lunacy with Google image search and speech synthesis [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 18:01 GMT
Andy Baio : pb's Radio Dials photographs - this one has an insane UI [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 17:58 GMT
jkottke : Richard Dawkins on the alleged marriage between religion and science - "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
# copy22/12/2004 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : There are four types of parkers at the mall - I am a hybrid parker: a one pass at the front row "search and destroyer" and then a "see it and take it". (Comment on this)
# copy
22/12/2004 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : war.315.gif (GIF Image, 634x173 pixels) - "Doesn't it get old, wishing for the same thing every Christmas?"
# copy22/12/2004 @ 16:58 GMT
deusx : LaughingMeme: RSS Bandwidth Strategies - "Much concern, hand wringing and advice on RSS bandwidth issues lately."
# copy22/12/2004 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : 500 down, 3061 to go - "Thing is, it's reading the unrelated stuff, the fun stuff, that is important". [via] #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 13:27 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Elements vs. attributes - I prefer elements because you can add all kinds of data inside them #
Isofarro : Elements vs. attributes - pros and cons of each approach
# copy22/12/2004 @ 13:24 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Giving JavaScript Due Credit - I still need to buy that book! #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 13:17 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 - It has a test suite! #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 13:14 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : firefox reaches 12 million downloads - The download rate is rising again #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 13:11 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Don?t Care About Market Share - I don't really buy that emphazed part, if you visit a site and you can't view it, are you going to visit it again? #
Isofarro : Eric Meyer: Don't care about market share - 'Anyone who uses those access statistics to make decisions for their own work is a fool, and a misinformed fool at that.'
# copy22/12/2004 @ 13:08 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : In Silence, Reverent - He has done some nice work! #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 13:05 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : When Can We Hide From IE5/Win? - I need to support it (except for this site, which doesn't support any browser), not sure about usage numbers #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 13:02 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : What's wrong with the term "Open Source" - Not sure if I get it completely, I'll read it again when the links are working #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 12:58 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Cross-Column Pull-Outs - Can somebody enlighten me on the reason they use DEL?! That's completely wrong. Besides, if you want to hide text, you have to 'line-height:0' stuff too. #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 12:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Every exit - Hmm, I remember having read that before #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 10:58 GMT
Richard Rutter : In vogue - Striking monochrome image (filed under Photography).
# copy22/12/2004 @ 10:55 GMT
Richard MacManus : A "cultural critic" blogs about blogging - Kottke, Boing Boing and Instapundit are among the online diaries critiqued. And oh I say, I get a link too! (look under "wuffie")
# copy22/12/2004 @ 08:55 GMT
jkottke : What's the deal with the number 11 in The Life Aquatic?
# copy22/12/2004 @ 07:55 GMT
jkottke : A demo of Interactive Activation and Competition" neural networks, built with Processing
# copy22/12/2004 @ 07:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Rebooting from Within a Batch File - The blackest of MS-DOS magic.
# copy22/12/2004 @ 06:58 GMT
deusx : Campaign of deception used to push patriotic song up charts - Sunday, 12/19/04 - First their PCs are infected to send spam, now their minds are infected.
# copy22/12/2004 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : the safety dance in code - the safety dance in code: heh, i wonder if they erased this yet
Rod Begbie : A Picture Share! on Flickr - Pseudocode safetydance. [via] #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 06:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : 2200 mile kayak trip - California to Hawaii (via Ask MetaFilter)
# copy
22/12/2004 @ 05:58 GMT
deusx : The Graphing Calculator Story - "My electronic badge still opened Apple's doors, so I just kept showing up."
Andy Baio : Background of the Apple Graphing Calculator - sneaking onto Apple's campus for six months of unpaid work in hiding [via] [via]
jkottke : The Graphing Calculator Story - "I was frustrated by all the wasted effort, so I decided to uncancel my small part of the project. I had been paid to do a job, and I wanted to finish it. My electronic badge still opened Apple's doors, so I just kept showing up."
Manuzhai : The Graphing Calculator Story - OSNews described it as Guerilla Software Development. A wonderful story.
Jeremy Zawodny : The Graphing Calculator Story - The Graphing Calculator Story: you must read this
Eric Meyer : The Graphing Calculator Story - I remember when I first saw Graphing Ccalculator as part of an official Apple demo of the PowerPC at CWRU, and it did indeed blow me away. That was the same demo that included a joke about the 'Pentium Weber Grill' attachment, I believe.
Milo Vermeulen : The Graphing Calculator Story
# copy22/12/2004 @ 05:55 GMT
Andy Baio : First Nintendo DS ROM successfully dumped - Darkfader posted the file listing for Metroid Prime: Hunters
# copy22/12/2004 @ 04:55 GMT
deusx : dealmeida.net : en/Programming/Python/a_subversion-based_weblog.html - "Basically what I want is a very simple weblog where posts are stored in a subversion repository, each entry stored in a text file."
# copy22/12/2004 @ 03:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Massive list of substantial non-infringing uses of P2P technology - an attempt to support the defense in MGM v. Grokster [via] [via]
# copy
22/12/2004 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Mark Pesce on the future of BitTorrent - "Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers?" [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 03:04 GMT
Richard MacManus : Pegasus News, a "Journalism 2.0" company getting a lot of buzz, comments on how they'll use RSS - "...our feeds will lead you to our stuff and other outlets, both MSM [Mainstream Media] and blog."
# copy22/12/2004 @ 03:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Suggest Poetry Generator - here's how it works [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 02:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Rex Sorgatz' Blogs of the Year - holy crap! I made the top five
# copy22/12/2004 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : WFMU's On the Download - monthly collection of oddball recordings published in the station's newsletter [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Podcasting audio with Skype - co-workers could record Skype conference calls and subscribe to the MP3s [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 01:01 GMT
plasticbag : Name the @ sign - I think the name should reflect name and function, ideally. 'peralpha' would be a bit of a bastardisation of 'surrounding an a', but I prefer diangle or diasper which should be something related to the greek verb 'to circulate'...
# copy22/12/2004 @ 00:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Rands on tool cruft - are you using obsolete tools just because they're comfortable?
# copy22/12/2004 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Final release of Dolphin, the best Gamecube emulator - the screenshots are stunning; Paper Mario 2, Animal Crossing, Zelda Four Swords, and more
# copy22/12/2004 @ 00:17 GMT
Philippe Janvier : The Role of RSS in Science Publishing - Une vision forcément très scientifique des fils de syndication. [via] #
# copy22/12/2004 @ 00:14 GMT
Richard MacManus : Boing Boing: "Long Tail" from Chris Anderson to become book, blog - Says Chris: "I should be turning in the manuscript next fall for a spring 2006 release." I've subscribed to the blog too. [via] [via]
# copy22/12/2004 @ 00:10 GMT
plasticbag : What the hell does being gay have to do with getting a job? - So here we go - some bloke on a website decides to give me a hard time for mentioning that I'm gay on a mock-up of a business card. As usual the crime is forcing my sexuality down his throat. Get. A. Job.
# copy22/12/2004 @ 00:07 GMT
plasticbag : Kerry (gay) and Mike (not gay) go to Hooters - This naturally begs the question of, "why would a gay man suggest a place like Hooters?" Well you can ask him yourself if you like, but my guess is that he wanted to see if the world would explode when we stepped foot through the door.
# copy22/12/2004 @ 00:04 GMT
plasticbag : Oldie but goodie - images glued together to create an endless trippy experience of travelling through imagery - Totally stunning and involving and connected to some stuff I'm indirectly involved in at work at the moment.
# copy22/12/2004 @ 00:01 GMT
plasticbag : Exquisite Corpse - Another blast-from-the-past with the Exquisite Corpse project where people submitted slice-like sections of imagery to produce composite beautiful art projects...
# copy
