11/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Michael Gartenberg on Apple release of Mac Mini and other products - "The big news is Apple is pushing into the mass market with high end products at rock bottom prices. This is an interesting time for them and it's likely that this plan will lead to much greater market share."
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11/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Sheet music for Super Mario Brothers' songs
Matthew M. Boedicker : sheet music for Super Mario Brothers 1
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Nelson Minar : .08 inches a year - That's how fast the sea is rising
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Dan Cederholm : Real pictures of the Mac mini - Love the new red case that Apple is going with this year.
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Jeremy Zawodny : A guide to ripping and encoding music - A guide to ripping and encoding music: good stuff from Ars
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11/01/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Joe Clark calls bullshit on Six Apart - A really informative indictment of major blogging apps' accessibility. Seriously worth a read-through.
Isofarro : Time to call bullshit on Six Apart - Blogging tools called on their lack of accessibility as Authoring Tools
Anne van Kesteren : Time to call bullshit on Six Apart - "It?s not a mainstream issue and I doubt you?ll care about it, but then again, you?re probably not seriously disabled and only a minority of you are all that interested in using a mere blogging tool to produce accessible content." #
Wayne Burkett : Joe Clark: Time to call bullshit on Six Apart - For not making an effort to comply with the W3C's "Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines." #
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Steve Cook : Xcelis: Unlimited cellular calls for $10 a month - It's based on gaming free cellular-to-cellular pricing plans by putting a VOIP gateway on one end. Nifty, and sure to be shut down.
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Andy Baio : The Words of Albert Spamus - spam poetry for the ages
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Jeremy Zawodny : Montage-a-google - Montage-a-google: cool tool that uses google image search
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Andy Baio : Video: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on Archive.org - also: most popular feature films for download on Archive.org [via] [via]
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11/01/2005 @ 21:04 GMT
Andy Baio : New iPod Shuffle, the Flash-based iPod - really tiny, no screen, weighs under an ounce; $99 for 512MB, $149 for 1GB; shipping today; photo
jkottke : MacMerc is blogging MacWorld live - So far, iWork (Keynote + word processor), new iLife apps, Mac mini ($500-600), iPod Shuffle (small, simple mp3 player, 1 oz., 512 Mb for $99).
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11/01/2005 @ 20:58 GMT
Andy Baio : iPod shuffle, official homepage - "do not eat iPod shuffle"
jkottke : The iPod shuffle
Nelson Minar : iPod shuffle - $99 Flash iPod
Simon Willison : iPod shuffle - Smaller than a pack of gum.
bmilleare : Apple - iPod shuffle
plasticbag : Oooh. Shiny. Apple have just announced they're selling lots of multicoloured versions of the iPod Shuffle - I mean, I know I'll link to anything that Apple do, but still. Pretty. I wonder if I need another iPod.
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11/01/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Mac mini, official homepage - do not taunt Mac mini
jkottke : The Mac mini
Rod Begbie : Apple - Mac mini - Gorgeous. You can stick yer iPod Shuffles. *This* was the most important Apple announcement today. #
Nelson Minar : Mac mini - $499, tiny, quiet
Simon Willison : Mac mini - Small, cheap, pretty.
bmilleare : Apple - Mac mini
Kayode Okeyode : Introducing Mac mini
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Matthew M. Boedicker : etymology of squarepusher (is James Joyce)
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Andy Baio : Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition - Ali G strikes again [via] [via]
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Eric Meyer : Clear-and-Pithy (Snyder) - Many of the runners-up are better than the winner, which seems to have claimed the top spot by sheer force of repetition.
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Eric Meyer : Sushi Disk - I'd love to own one, except using it would just make me hungry. [via Meryl] [via]
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Eric Meyer : jew-heyya - What's not to like? Okay, maybe the animation itself... but nevertheless, it makes with the funny.
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Eric Meyer : e-commerce Hall of Shame - Or, how NOT to build brand loyalty and consumer confidence.
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Andy Baio : TowerSeek - a prototype BitTorrent search crawler, with estimated speeds and file listings [via] [via]
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Eric Meyer : Atomic tomatoes are not the only fruit - Bad science that's so very good it makes my teeth ache. Maybe I can find a dubious herbal remedy for that.
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Eric Meyer : Geek History through T-Shirts - Personally, I can't wait for them to start assembling timelines. I should contribute a few myself; I have some (relatively) rare ones in my collection. [via Ferrett] [via]
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Eric Meyer : One man's retirement math: Social Security wins - Don't tell me-- this is just 'fuzzy math', right?
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Eric Meyer : Yes I am a PikaHolic and Proud of It... - This says something about the poster. I'm still trying to decide exactly what. [via Matt] [via]
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Eric Meyer : Web Application Designer / Developer @ Established Dot Com - I've become a job requirement. That's just... cool.
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11/01/2005 @ 18:27 GMT
kellan : Think like Gramsci, talk like Debs - Ken MacLeod on 'framing', and a left/progressive real politick #
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kellan : Victrola baristas tip out to the Red Cross - Good work #
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Nelson Minar : Call girl chatter - Guestbook chat between employees of a call girl service. (via BoingBoing)
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Rod Begbie : The Face Transformer! - Fizzog messer-around-wither. Upload your mugshot and chimpify yourself. Ace! [via] #
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11/01/2005 @ 18:11 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : @media 2005: Web Standards & Accessibility - Cool! Who will pay my ticket? #
Richard Rutter : @media 2005 - Web standards conference in London feat. Zeldman, Budd et al (filed under Web standards).
Isofarro : @media 2005 - London web standards and accessibility conference - 9th and 10th June. Seriously excellent list of speakers and sessions
Paul Hammond : @media 2005: Web Standards & Accessibility - the web design event of the year
plasticbag : @media 2005 on Web Standards and Accessibility to be held in London in June - "It's the web design event of the year. The @media 2005 conference brings together the biggest names from around the world to talk about the hottest topics in web design - web standards and accessibility."
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deusx : Building the web OS - by John Zeratsky - "Have no doubt, 2005 will be a great year for web applications."
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deusx : www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish - "South Park is the only show I know smart enough to defend being a total slut while wanting to keep it from being broadcast to children."
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11/01/2005 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : pike speak: Gay Marriage: One Conservative's Reasoned and Moral Argument "For"
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plasticbag : ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) - "The ISAN identifies works, not publications or broadcasts. The ISAN remains the same for an audiovisual work regardless of the various formats in which the work is distributed (e.g. DVD, video recording) or the uses to which it is put."
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Andy Baio : An analysis of BitTorrent distribution and centralization - the long tail is very long; 87% of trackers have less than 100 torrents
Jeremy Zawodny : Is BitTorrent Dead? - Is BitTorrent Dead?: hardly
jimray : How dead is BitTorrent? - Not very, apparently [via /.]
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11/01/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : local hikes near Boston
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11/01/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Waterstone's throws book at blogger - Another blogger sacked because of his blog
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11/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : US Supreme Court declines to hear case challenging Florida's ban on adoption by homosexuals - Good to know that the whole "civil rights" thing is alive and well. Bah.
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11/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Virtual Stan - He laughs, he sings, he's goddamned hilarious.
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11/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Mouseposé - Cool mouse highlighting tool. Aimed at presentations, but could be a handy where-the-fsck-is-my-fscking-cursor app as well.
joshua : Mouseposé - show off the position of your mouse
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11/01/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the best SSIDs you have seen
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11/01/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : How the Mac was born, and other tales
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11/01/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
deusx : Motorola Previews iTunes Phone - "You'll know we hit 2.0 when the Internet is no longer visible ? and the PC is a peripheral"
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11/01/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : Airclick remote control for your stereo-connected iPod, via Mr Webb - "AirClick USB is a remote for Mac and PC computers. The receiver module attaches to any available USB port (including hubs) and receives signal from up to 60 feet away."
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11/01/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : North Korea's equivalent of Big Brother is entitled "Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle" - The BBC doesn't really have that many equivalents any more, but the rest of the UK media really does - How Clean is Your House? Too Posh to Wash?
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11/01/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : My first ever post to Usenet, back in June 1995 - This is back when I was trying to plough my way through a doctorate in Classics, before I threw it all away and ran off to the big city to make beautiful web things
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11/01/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Isofarro : Most Common Browser Bugs - IE box model, double float margin, 3 pixel jog
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11/01/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Verizon's E-Mail Embargo Enrages - A U.S. firm blocking entire European zones, while most of the spam originates from the U.S. Oh the irony!
Andy Baio : Verizon blocking e-mail from the UK - as an ISP, Verizon has a responsibility not to have any false positives [via] [via]
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11/01/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Apple pages for IT pros - Apple.com gets serious about professional IT users
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11/01/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : First Apple rumour - EVER - Some things never change. [via] #
François Nonnenmacher : First Apple rumour - EVER - Anyone want to expand on the "MacIntosh" rumor, that there will be a stripped down Lisa built for home use (or at the least be cheaper)?
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11/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : An open source Google - without the ads - Is it legal, asks The Register
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11/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : IBM frees 500 software patents - IBM will continue to hold the 500 patents but it has pledged to seek no royalties from the patents (and will continue to amass new patents)
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11/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Flash iPod ? exclusive details - Panic at the Apple stand at Macworld Expo when one of the covered Apple banners was briefly exposed to other exhibitors
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11/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : He looks like... - The morbid game of sychoanalysing strangers in pictures
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11/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : 2005 Color Forecast - From Adam Polselli. Purples, browns, desaturateds and trippies (filed under Design thinking).
Paul Hammond : Adam Polselli's 2005 Color Forecast - a prediction, not a definition, of the year that follows
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11/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kaninka.net : Styrkir úr Æskulýðssjóði
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11/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kaninka.net : Sleggjan maður ársins á suf.is - Viðtal og hljóðskrá.
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kaninka.net : Ensk og venjuleg gára kelling óskast
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11/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kaninka.net : Peningar... pappÃr eða plast?
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11/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kaninka.net : Nomadic Surfer Searches for 'The Spot' in Mexico
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11/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : MobileRead Networks - Bill Gates -- Supports Strong Intellectual Rights Laws - like this comment: "The publishers make more than the artists. I would rather buy my music digitally straight from the artist."
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11/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Jeffrey Veen: If it works for them... - Subtlety: The presentation of this feature so simple and unobtrusive
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11/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : decaffeinated archives :: White and spacious - he CSS white-space property needs a new value to complement normal, pre, and nowrap
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11/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Many-to-Many: folksonomies controlled vocabularies - The advantage of folksonomies isn't that they're better than controlled vocabularies, it's that they're better than nothing
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11/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
philgyford : Starck with Oregon Scientific - If they included a DAB radio, instead of AM/FM, I'd be positively drooling.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Overtaking MapQuest a Challenge for Yahoo - Overtaking MapQuest a Challenge for Yahoo: the struggle to be #1 in on-line maps
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Andy Baio : The Unicorns break up - looks like Mclusky broke up, too
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Steve Cook : The Century Building: 1892 - 2004 - They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta - Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta: the search blog says it's up, and it is
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11/01/2005 @ 07:04 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Open-source database gets backing - Open-source database gets backing: commercial postgresql support
bmilleare : PostgreSQL gets backing
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Jeremy Zawodny : blinkx download for mac os x - blinkx download for mac os x: they beat apple to the punch
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta - Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta: come and get it
Kayode Okeyode : Yahoo! Desktop Search
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Andy Baio : eBay: Sub Pop Singles Club - over 125 records; the complete collection, worth seeing just for historical value [via] [via]
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jkottke : Hypertemporality is an online net art exhibit - Peter Baldes' Hypertemps is my favorite.
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jkottke : Malcolm Gladwell and James Surowiecki are discussing their latest books on Slate this week
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jkottke : The Library of Congress has made tons of maps from the US Civil War available online
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jkottke : 100 things we didn't know this time last year - "Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges".
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deusx : Questionable Content #270: Cheap Humor - "Final Fantasy 2 is not worth a case of robot ebola."
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deusx : God Fails to Break His Own Record for Killing: Tsunami: Oriental for "God's Wrath" - "Not since the time of Noah has God used water so effectively to harass sinners and wreak havoc upon those who don't flatter Him with sufficient regularity."
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deusx : Google Groups : net.micro : Commodore 64 - A New Computer - First mention of C64 on Usetnet, courtesy of Google Groups
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Steve Cook : Kayne West and the Limits of Aporia - I'm not even saying it's wrong. It's just amusing as hell.
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Steve Cook : God's Hooks! - A Howard Waldrop classic about the one that got away.
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Steve Cook : Bill Fleckenstein: Is the Fed a Short Sale? - "I guess a fair alternative title for my talk could be: 'An Indictment of Alan Greenspan and What to Do About It.'"
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Steve Cook : The bad science of Michael Crichton's new book - It's like Socialist Realism for TechCentralStation readers. (via Crooked Timber)
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Steve Cook : "The combination of self-pity and self-regard in 'Sideways' makes it a 'Cathy' comic strip for middle-aged men." - Meow! A lot of weird aggresive nutsiness in Slate's year-end movie club, but that's the best one-sentence critique I've read all year.
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Steve Cook : Comic Book Politics - Like the name says. A companion weblog to a college class. (via Unqualified Offerings)
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Steve Cook : Girl, 10, used geography lesson to save lives - Next: Using high-school trig to save a family from a burning building.
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Steve Cook : Three-quarters of Americans have prayed for tsunami victims; less than half have given money. - Prayer is fine. A sawbuck to Doctors without Borders or the Red Cross is better, but what's a little Luke 6:38 between friends?
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Steve Cook : "Losing the War" by Lee Sandlin - "It was as though the earth itself had shifted, and all the detritus of an empire had washed ashore." Among the very best things I've ever read about the Second World War. (via MetaFilter)
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Steve Cook : Puzzlesolver: Solutions to mechanical puzzles - If you'll go absolutely insane if you can't figure out how to balance six nails on one, go here.
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11/01/2005 @ 04:04 GMT
Steve Cook : The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana, by J. Neil Schulman - Given how cripplingly insane the other things by Schulman I've seen floating around the internet are (most notably a few MST3K-ed by Adam Cadre), I can only assume that this is the best book ever.
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Steve Cook : A New Interpretation of Information Rate - A 1956 Bell Labs paper tying the problem of gambler's ruin to information theory, via received information on a noisy channnel. (PDF)
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11/01/2005 @ 03:58 GMT
Steve Cook : In the Hall of the Mountain Kings - "One little man's journey into sumo wrestling." (via Alex Golub)
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Jeremy Zawodny : Comcast to launch IM with video - Comcast to launch IM with video: and who will care?
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deusx : Recent Changes - Holy crap. This is the best Recent Changes page I've seen a long, long while. (Oh yeah, and it is the Original Wiki, after all.)
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deusx : GateWorld - Stargate SG-1 Episode Transcripts: 'The Torment of Tantalus' - "No prize is worth attaining if you can never share it, there would be no point. Believe me, I know." Brilliant.
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Andy Baio : Face Transformer Java applet - excellent and bizarre algorithmic morphing
plasticbag : Face transformer - I can't believe I didn't bookmark this at the time - upload your photograph, and then you can feminise it, make it look older or younger or of a different race, etc...
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11/01/2005 @ 02:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Ming's page of Googleable webcams - he performed geo-lookups of the IP addresses, and made a nice UI for browsing [via] [
