25/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Mike Clark's Weblog - Dear Manager, They Need a Build Machine - Let me tell you why
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25/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Christie's The Origins of Cyberspace auction - historical documents galore; BUY IT NOW! NO RESERVE!
jkottke : Christie's is auctioning off a library of writings on computing, networking, and telecom - Includes writing from Pascal, Babbage, Claude Shannon, and Ada Lovelace.
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25/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr coincidence - it's not the only uncanny coincidence on Flickr [via] [via]
jkottke : A Flickr coincidence - "A guy from Scotland goes 5490 miles to Tokyo and takes a picture of a girl taking a picture. She turns out to be from England, 413 miles away from him" and then "he posts the picture he took on a Website (in Canada, irrelevantly) and withi
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25/01/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Ashlee Simpson's spamming message boards - maybe not her, but someone involved with her PR effort [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : Astroturfing Ashlee - You think they'd be smart enough to use a different post in each forum
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Dan Cederholm : SimpleBits t-shirts restocked (including M and XXL) - A fresh batch has just arrived from the printers.
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jkottke : An ethnic dining guide; Wash. DC centric but with good general info - "Ordering the plain steak in Latin America may be a great idea, but it is usually a mistake in Northern Virginia. Opt for dishes with sauces and complex mixes of ingredients."
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deusx : Master Gaita in English - Bag Pipe style MIDI controller - "Far from being a simple practice chanter, Master Gaita ® is a simple but powerful tool that lets to use the bagpipe fingering to get into and control the MIDI universe, and also to open new ways faced to the learning of bagpipe technique and musi
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ricmac : John Battelle: Firefox Pro Going to Google - "I am sure this will re-ignite the browser speculation, but I think the thing after the browser, whatever it may be, is far more interesting to speculate upon."
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jkottke : Gothamist makes a pilgrimage to Per Se and isn't disappointed
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jkottke : Perfect, amicable, and sociable numbers
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25/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Oscar nominees are out, Aviator leads with 11 nominations - It was the most accessible, big, good Hollywood movie out in theatres...makes sense that it got so many nominations.
plasticbag : 2005 Oscar nominees - Lots of films I've not been able to see yet, and more nominations for the entertaining and engaging "Aviator" than for anything else...
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jkottke : How to get a reservation at The French Laundry using Opentable - "Watch your time.gov webpage. When 11:59:55 strikes, click 'reload' in your browser until you see either available tables show up or you see a 'No tables are available' message. If you see 'No tables are available,' sorr
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Ethan Marcotte : The evidence of duration - Very cool photo study. I heart street art.
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Nelson Minar : Firefox clone window - Fixes an obnoxious misfeature in Firefox
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deusx : Rotating Universes and Time Traveling - "A title like 'Rotating Universes and Time Traveling' is certainly enough for some people to consider me a mad scientist or an incurable geek."
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philgyford : Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein - Ooh, fantastic. Not that I'll even get round to reading the squashed versions. Bah.
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25/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : phil ringnalda dot com: A wee tweak to my feed links - Copy it or drag it, it's a link. Click it the way the average user will, with JavaScript enabled, and it gives you at least some idea what you ought to do with it, without being too baffling
deusx : phil ringnalda dot com: A wee tweak to my feed links - href for the feed URL, onclick for the human click.
Rod Begbie : phil ringnalda dot com: A wee tweak to my feed links - Really nice way of making the XML button usable. I think I'll implement this too. [via] #
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Ethan Marcotte : Ringo Starr, superhero - Somebody, anybody please stop him.
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jkottke : Student photographer's expulsion from his dorm for taking photos raises questions about the rights and responsibilities of photojournalists - "Vega's pictures of partying, binge drinking, oral sex and, in particular, an alleged car burglary, thrust him into the center of a debate among photojournalists over their rights and responsibilities."
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25/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Comparative Morphologies - "What looks like vintage natural history studies turns out to be, on closer inspection, images of computer and technological cords and peripherals, each slightly manipulated to take on organic characteristics--a fused or sprouting growth from a stem,
cobra libre : comparative morphologies - a cabinet of technological curiosities [via] #
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jkottke : A long New Yorker profile of Johnny Carson from 1978
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Paul Hammond : Ken MacLeod - One-click subscription: sometimes the solution is staring us in the face - Why do you have a link to a machine-only readable file on your web page? Hello, your users aren't machines.
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deusx : ZopeZen - Isn't it cool when standards work? :) - "Uploading existing HTML content to Plone via FTP/Webdav is easy and all the metadata sticks."
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cameron : So what are you reading these days? - Rojo combines rss with social networking
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cameron : Daft Punk return! - To release a new album "Human After All" in late March
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cameron : FOXBlocker - I seem to remember talking about this meme at some point... glad someone built it.
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25/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Upgrade to iLife 05 - If you bought a Mac last year you probably qualify (filed under Apple).
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25/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Micro Persuasion: As Sites Add Tags, Tagtextual Advertising Will Follow - "...will give the marketer new ways to reach engaged consumers by sponsoring tags across one or more sites that carry folksonomies."
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plasticbag : An edited-down video of the Apple keynote when they introduced the Macintosh - Wow. I was stunned by how emotionally affected I was by watching this. Please don't laugh at me. It's pretty moving...
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25/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
doug : Important MT fix - The new release of MT 3.15 fixes a bug that allows mass emailing through the application. Also available as a plugin for users that haven?t upgraded to 3.x yet.
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25/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
doug : TypeWorks - Interesting-looking web-based publishing tool, coming soon from some clever Aussies. (via whatdoiknow.org)
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25/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
doug : Photon is now free - The plugin I mentioned last week in my write-up on the photo galleries is now available for free, and has been updated to work with iPhoto 5. Also, now exports keywords ? woot!
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25/01/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Real-life tribute to Calvin & Hobbes' snowmen - a wonderful, gory homage
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25/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Dan Cederholm : The Center for Cartoon Studies - A two-year college devoted to the art of cartooning. Located in my old hometown, even.
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25/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Audio: Staccato Music 7 - featuring an interview with Magnatune Records creator John Buckman [via] [via]
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25/01/2005 @ 07:04 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google and Yahoo Are Extending Search Ability to TV Programs - Google and Yahoo Are Extending Search Ability to TV Programs: the new battleground?
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25/01/2005 @ 07:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Today, Some McSweeney's Lists - Olivia Newton-Tron [via] [via]
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25/01/2005 @ 06:58 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Video Search - Google Video Search: it's like video search, without the video
Andy Baio : Google Video launched - search major networks, but no video clips are available! [via] [via]
Jason Shellen : Google Video Search - Currently showing fair use video snapshots and accompanied text. #
Rod Begbie : Google Video Search - Searches recent TV broadcasts, using closed captioning info for context. Nifty. [via] #
Ethan Marcotte : Google video beta launches - Porn surfers everywhere rejoice.
Philippe Janvier : Google Video Search - Google TV Guide. [via] #
Matthew M. Boedicker : Google Video now puts random videos on the front page
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25/01/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : Discarded Titles for George Orwell's 1984 - "O, Brother, Where Art Thou? Oh Right, Everywhere"
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25/01/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Susan Mernit: Disintermediation $$, baby--ad/revenue paradigm for 2005 - "It is entirely possible to imagine a day when an RSS feed for "Iraq + casualties" or "Prada + latest fashions" has a ton of subscribers getting the data all over the place--browsers, newsreaders, phones, PDAs, SMS, and so on."
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25/01/2005 @ 04:11 GMT
Steve Cook : Tales of the Composite Superman - "omic-reading kids of today, "sophisticated" party-poopers that they are, would take one look at the Composite Superman and declare him the dumbest villain ever created."
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25/01/2005 @ 04:08 GMT
Steve Cook : Neighborhoods in Cleveland - For potential future investigation.
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25/01/2005 @ 04:04 GMT
Steve Cook : The Galloper Magazine: Europe's online magazine for old showland. - Frost fairs, freak shows, organ grinders, and much much more. (via Ramage)
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25/01/2005 @ 04:01 GMT
Steve Cook : PostSecret - See a secret, share a secret, via the US mail.
Jason Shellen : PostSecret - Secrets posted on a group blog. Cool and sorta scary. #
bmilleare : PostSecret
Ethan Marcotte : PostSecret - Just...well, incredible.
jkottke : Postsecret: send your secret in on a postcard and it'll get put up on this site - Like grouphug.us, but way more effective because of the handmade cards.
kaninka.net : http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ - Sendu leyndarmálin á póstkorti
jimray : PostSecret - Share your secret. Absolutely beautiful
Jeremy Zawodny : PostSecret - PostSecret: so much fun to read
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25/01/2005 @ 03:58 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Defining importance by nesting elements <Anne's Weblog about Markup & Style> - "There might be another alternative. If one of those tags really is more important than the other you could use nested EM elements which would save some bytes over using the BIG element." #
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25/01/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Video of Jobs introducing the Macintosh in 1984 - Yay! #
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kellan : Boston Globe readers' photos from the blizzard of 2005 - I'm still split on how I feel to have missed this. #
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25/01/2005 @ 02:15 GMT
kellan : Portraits from the (Off) center of the Universe - Very nice illustrated interpretation of Fremont #
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25/01/2005 @ 02:11 GMT
cameron : Yahoo! News - Teen Is Co-Creator of Firefox Browser - Blake Ross, half of the original Firefox team
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25/01/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
Erik Benson : Today is the most depressing day of the year. "It seems that people are most likely to buy a ticket to paradise when they feel like hell." - I bought mine to Brazil.
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Andy Baio : Kottke on the maximum Starbucks density - current winner is downtown NYC with 169 stores in a 5-mile radius
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Andy Baio : Unusual articles on Wikipedia - heavy metal umlaut is on there [via] [via]
jimray : Unusual articles on Wikipedia - So much amazingly good stuff here
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jkottke : The A/C trains are massively hosed up due to a fire over the weekend - The C may be out of commission for *five years* (wtf?). What a nightmare.
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Nelson Minar : WoW operations - Comments from the folks fighting the fires
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philgyford : Drury Lane, The Producers | London Theatre Guide - I didn't laugh much, but worth it for the climax of 'Springtime for Hitler' alone.
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Philippe Janvier : Delicious Mind Map Maker - "This program will make a Clustered Mind Map out of your delicious entries and add the map to the list". [via] #
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plasticbag : Anatomy for beginners - Channel 4 TV series in which a human corpse is dissected in front of a camera. Gross more because of the way it is handled - bluntly, like a butcher - than because of the subject matter itself...
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Andy Baio : Google Video Search coming soon? - the directory and subdomain now temporarily redirect to the homepage
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Andy Baio : Long-lost video of Steve Jobs introducing the Mac in 1984 - taped off public TV, finally available online
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Andy Baio : Bugs Bunny in drag - for those who were worried about Spongebob's pro-gay agenda [via] [via]
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jkottke : Stephen is using Flickr to identify airports that have available power outlets and wifi
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