9/01/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
jkottke : 1994 Usenet post from Jeff Bezos looking for developers for Amazon
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jkottke : Redemption of a pizza stone scrooge - "You guys are trying to make a pizza fool of me. That pizza she's making is a big fat round manipulation."
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ricmac : Niall Cook: Is Bob Lutz actually blogging on GM Fastlane Blog? It looks like it... - "Mr. Lutz is responsible for his own comments. The agency [http://www.hassmsl.com/] handles design, hosting, some moderation and has acted as a partner in the planning and philosophy."
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ricmac : Interesting new blog-wiki experiment called the Yi-Tan Collective - "One part of Yi-Tan Consulting and the Yi-Tan Way is Conversations about Change. A collection of posts. Is it a blog ? Is it a wiki ? Its a bit of both i think."
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Andy Baio : Penny Arcade rips into "Non Sequitur" artist Wiley Miller's attack on web publishing - more background on the ongoing feud between Wiley and PvP's Scott Kurtz [via] [via]
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deusx : Questionable Content: Number 264: Cows of Doom - "A wheel of cheddar to the skull, a slab of gouda to the groin. Truly, it is the deadliest of the food groups."
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ricmac : Russell Beattie lays out how Microsoft is sewing up the DRM ecosystem, in order to dominate the consumer electronics market - "...the WMA [Windows Media] devices of the world do talk to each other, and all of them rely on Microsoft providing the middleware to work together seamlessly."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Howard Stern Is a Fan of Yahoo - Howard Stern Is a Fan of Yahoo: that's a good thing, right?
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Jeremy Zawodny : Happy Day: Desktop Search for Mac - Happy Day: Desktop Search for Mac: this will be fun to try
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Jeremy Zawodny : Fox and YAHOO! MOVIES Partner for Global Debut of First 5 Minutes of "Elektra," Starring Jennifer Garner - Fox and YAHOO! MOVIES Partner for Global Debut of First 5 Minutes of "Elektra," Starring Jennifer Garner: damn, she's not visiting the Yahoo campus
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9/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Andy Beal Raw - Andy Beal Raw: this is his non-work blog
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9/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask) - "What are you doing up so late, staring at the computer screen reading this? For that matter, what am I doing up late writing this at 11pm? Are we all nuts?"
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plasticbag : Dan Heaf and partner declare Airport Express war upon each other... - Bloc Party vs. George Michael... The dynamics of a thousand upcoming familial battles...
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plasticbag : US Army was interested in emerging technologies that might allow you to make straight men beg for sex with other men... - "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior." The US Army are - bluntly - sick fucking fuck fucks...
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plasticbag : Check out the comments after this blog post - How depressing. Comment spammers are - I think - even more reprehensibly bottom-feeding than the human charity spam on the streets that harrass you on the way to work...
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plasticbag : New favourite "Have I Got New For You"-style guest publication of the week - this week it's The Dairy Reporter! - Includes stories like, "A Tetra Pak subsidiary has found a dipping and coating solution for novelty ice creams, which it hopes will eliminate sub-standard ice cream coatings ? welcome news for ice cream manufacturers..."
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plasticbag : G-Cans photos of Tokyo's massive underground flood and water systems - I was sure I'd posted this before, but I can't find it anywhere on delicious or on the main weblog, so I guess I didn't. Stunning pictures - like something from Quake...
cameron : Tokyo G-Cans project photos - Cavernous pipes for draining water during the typhoon season
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plasticbag : Guardian Review of "The Subterranean Railway" by Christian Wolmar - Thanks to the 2lmc-ers for mentioning this. Key quote: "This new book is an entry-level history of the Underground, and it becomes clear from reading it that the faults of the system were built into it from the moment the first sod was turned."
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plasticbag : Daring Fireball on the rumours surrounding upcoming Apple Products - "It?s not hard to imagine that first-day reaction to the Mini would have been better had rumors not set the false expectation that they were going to sell for $100-150..."
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Andy Baio : Matt Haughey on Internet-wide comment tracking - Andre has a similar idea involving Typekey
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deusx : Relax, Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled: metAmazon - "...how can Amazon turn its business inside-out?"
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deusx : Nelson's Weblog: culture / audibleDRM - "Why would I want to buy some crappy format whose main purpose is to restrict my usage?" Been wondering the same thing this week, as I was checking out Audible.
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Jenga wooden block stacking game
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deusx : Trade Secrets Podcast: Oh shit, Madge is a hoax - "We listened to the latest Yeast Radio podcast, and laughed until we realized it was all an act." Uh.. no shit.
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deusx : Web Feed Central » Reality Check - 'Just because somebody is ?entertaining? with their podcast, it doesn?t give them any less integrity than anyone else.'
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deusx : VideoBlogging : Richard Bluestein - "Richard has been working on reviving his internet Radio Station, Yeast Radio which he took down in 1997 when he moved to Amsterdam."
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Dan Cederholm : iHome Media Centre - Almost surely a fake, but an elaborate one. The spelling of Centre is a big clue.
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9/01/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : New Apple thingie to be announced at MacWorld is the "iHome Media Center"?
plasticbag : Clearly faked 'iHome' purports to be the new Apple product (but Media Centre - rather than Center? I think not...) - I've already linked to it in the main weblog, but I want to keep it for later, cos it's a neat fake...
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plasticbag : Dan Hon on the whole Jerry Springer 'controversy' - "I can feel the moral fibre within me shrivelling as I type. In fact, I am sure now, more than ever before, that Jesus is a nappy-wearing gay baby. I had my suspicions before..."
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plasticbag : The controller of BBC2 is in hiding - according to the Daily Mail at least... - "BBC2 controller Roly Keating, his wife and their three young children were driven out of their £1million house after a Christian group posted his private address and telephone number on its website."
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François Nonnenmacher : Expected legislation from the president - Looks like some of them are already in good progress
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9/01/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Alexander's Character - Instructive readings on Alexander the Great
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9/01/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : Kevin Spacey 'to play Lex Luthor' - "Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, 45, has been signed up to play Lex Luthor in the Superman sequel, due out in 2006"
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9/01/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Isofarro : Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities - 'Solution: Use another product.'
Kayode Okeyode : Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
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9/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : playboy playmates 2000-2004 - playboy playmates 2000-2004: alright... who took all the articles away?!
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9/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : nipple board - nipple board: if you're into basketball and nipples, this is for you I guess
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9/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Manuzhai : Russell Beattie Notebook - Microsoft's Consumer Electronics Endgame - How Microsoft is taking over the consumer media content market. My opinion: frightning.
Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft's Consumer Electronics Endgame - Microsoft's Consumer Electronics Endgame: Russ sees what's Microsoft is up to
deusx : Russell Beattie Notebook - Microsoft's Consumer Electronics Endgame - "Ever play a game of chess and your opponent makes a move and you realize the game is over?" I've definitely been outside the Microsoft Media ecology.
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9/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Podcasts SUCK - Why Podcasts SUCK: Nick weighs in
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9/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tap Into the Flickrgeist - Tap Into the Flickrgeist: indeed. and don't forget about del.icio.us
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9/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : jkOnTheRun - jkOnTheRun: mobile device and wifi news/opinions
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9/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 106 Miles - 106 Miles: get your silicon valley networking on
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9/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Sweet Jesus, I can't believe Apple didn't make this the default! - Sweet Jesus, I can't believe Apple didn't make this the default!: I couldn't agree more!
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9/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Keeping Your Life in Subversion - Keeping Your Life in Subversion: or at least your home directory
Matthew M. Boedicker : keeping your life in Subversion
philgyford : ONLamp.com: Keeping Your Life in Subversion - Using Subversion to backup all your files, and sync them among different machines.
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9/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Daily Wireless - Daily Wireless: Wireless News, Research, Insight, and Analysis
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9/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tree-Penetrating Antennas Bring Wi-Fi to Yosemite - Tree-Penetrating Antennas Bring Wi-Fi to Yosemite: get your wifi in our national parks now?
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9/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Wi-Fi Networking News - Wi-Fi Networking News: get your wifi news on
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9/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Leslie Orchard on General Motors' new blog - a major corporate blog, with comments and Trackback
François Nonnenmacher : General Motors is blogging - Leslie Orchard's views on GM blogging
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9/01/2005 @ 09:58 GMT
deusx : MIKE WENDLAND: General Motors rockets into Internet blogosphere - "This week, GM quietly introduced Fastlane (http://fastlane.gmblogs.com), a blog written by top management of the world's largest corporation." Holy crap. My first reaction was to giggle, but then I saw RSS feeds and enabled comments.
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9/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : NETGEAR - 54 Mbps Cable/DSL Wireless Travel Router - NETGEAR - 54 Mbps Cable/DSL Wireless Travel Router: I've been waiting for something like this!
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9/01/2005 @ 08:58 GMT
deusx : Life With Binc IMAP - Main.DoItYourselfCertificateAuthority - Need to make myself a security certificate for IMAPS
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9/01/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Robin Good on Loki Torrent's battle with the MPAA - they're taking a hands-off ISP-like stance; their users have donated $40k to the legal fund so far
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9/01/2005 @ 08:05 GMT
deusx : Converting Mbox mailboxes to Maildir format
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9/01/2005 @ 08:01 GMT
deusx : Welcome to Binc IMAP - "Binc IMAP is a well designed, modular IMAP server for Maildir." Appears to integrate well with qmail
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9/01/2005 @ 07:58 GMT
deusx : Life With Binc IMAP - Main.LifeWithBincIMAP - "The following assumes you have setup qmail and qmail-pop3d by following LifeWithQMail." Go through this after having installed qmail via Life with qmail
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9/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
deusx : Life with qmail - Easy step-by-step build and installation for qmail.
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9/01/2005 @ 07:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Comet Machholtz Picture - Comet Machholtz Picture: my Uncle Joe got a great picture recently
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9/01/2005 @ 06:58 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Spam breeds more spam - Spam breeds more spam: this confirms my suspicion
Andy Baio : Untouched comment spam breeds more spam - comment spammers search for vulnerable sites in Google [via] [via]
plasticbag : Spam breeds more spam - Weblogs where comment spam is left untended appears to attract even more comment spam. Which would suggest that it should be quite easy for Google or whoever to start redressing the page rank (if they're not doing it already)...
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9/01/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Andre Torrez's TKPal - pay for access to webpage content with Typekey and Paypal; understated announcement, but could have huge implications
jkottke : Andre Torrez releases TKPal, a set of PHP scripts for DIY micropayments - Lets you charge small amounts for "unlocking" content like individual blog posts, a shareware download link, or to get rid of advertising.
plasticbag : Torrez rocks - DIY micropayments with Paypal and Typekey - I've already paid my $1 to read the article in question, and interested in whether or not people will actually start doing this stuff. Big names first, clearly...
cameron : TKPal TypeKey + PayPal for PHP - Torrez rocks the micropayment house
jimray : TKPal - Restrict access to certain content using paypal and php
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plasticbag : What happens to the water-cooler moment when TV is consumed on-demand? - Michael Sippey on the creation of episode-based micro-communities for people who consume TV episodes after-the-fact...
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Simon Willison : safari not running preventDefault and stopPropagation - I've been bitten by this too; anyone know of a workaround?
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Simon Willison : Open source documentation - Wiki's for technical docs. Note to Mozilla: PLEASE do this for your DOM support! (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : Decorators and explanations - Adrian explains decorators, and shows how our CMS has evolved since I left.
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Jeremy Zawodny : GNU Emacs FAQ for Windows - GNU Emacs FAQ for Windows: answers all the common questions about emacs on windows
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Jeremy Zawodny : Apache 1.3 URL Rewriting Guide - Apache 1.3 URL Rewriting Guide: the other half o the mod_rewrite docs, really
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Jeremy Zawodny : mod_rewrite - mod_rewrite: fighting the comment spammers with a regex or two
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plasticbag : File-swappers ready new network - "Legal attacks on websites that help people swap pirated films have forced the development of a system that could be harder to shut down."
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plasticbag : My dumb fontified handwriting keeps turning up in the strangest places - I did it in an early version of fontifier before you could do punctuation marks. And now I'm loath to try and add those characters cos they'll look weird, and don't want to do it again in case it's not as good...
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ricmac : Eric from Feedburner says they're going to share their RSS Newsreader stats soon - I can't wait! I wonder if it'll confirm the stats in my report: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002574.php
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