12/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : David Rothman comments on 2004 eBook sales figures on Open eBook Forum - "Total unit sales were 419,962 or less than what the biggest best-sellers would have individually achieved in the p-book area."
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ricmac : Top Selling eBooks of 2004 Announced (the top 4 are all Dan Brown books! He's the author of Da Vinci Code, which I haven't read and probably never will...yes I am a book snob) - "A significant percentage of the eBook bestsellers for 2004 can also be found on year-end print bestseller lists indicating eBook purchasing is following the diversity of mainstream reading habits."
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12/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Steve Cook : RIP, HFS - WHFS was the alt-rock station I listened to in high school; well before that, it was the DC area's version of WFMU. Now it's a Latino station.
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12/01/2005 @ 20:58 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : The Slashdot Effect - So it has some effect ;-) #
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12/01/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Having spent all day talking about MIME types... - How about text/html ;-) #
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12/01/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Cisco Systems Chooses Mac OS X, Xserve, Xserve RAID and Xsan - After Oracle, another good reference for Apple entreprise products
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12/01/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Beatles Anomalies - obsessive list of Beatles oddness; see also, background noises in Led Zeppelin songs [via] [via]
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12/01/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
cobra libre : workplace dish set - ultimately, i'd like a "modern times"-style employee feeding contraption [via] #
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12/01/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Del.icio.us Inbox is back - one of my primary sources of linkage is back [via] [via]
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12/01/2005 @ 18:58 GMT
Tristan Rivoallan : Reciprocity Failure
cobra libre : reciprocity failure [via] #
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12/01/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
Rod Begbie : TextWrangler - The lite version of BBEdit is now $0. [via] #
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12/01/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Announcing the Apple iProduct - "Steve Jobs could take a dump, put it in an off-white plastic case, add two grey buttons and a small LCD display, and you'd pay $600 for it. Just fucking admit it." [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : iPoduct - iPoduct: this is so accurate
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12/01/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mozilla Is Gaining on Godzilla - Mozilla Is Gaining on Godzilla: businessweek notices that IE is slipping
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12/01/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
plasticbag : Vote for me as Best British Poof in the whole fucking world - Because I am, you know. I'm a god. I'm a golden god.
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12/01/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
plasticbag : Blogger sacked for sounding off - For God's sake of course you get fired if you publically refer to your employer as "Bastardstones" and write rude things about your boss all the bloody time... You have to learn to sublimate your rage! Duh!
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12/01/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems, fails to notify customers - he monitored Secret Service e-mails, and took cam photos from Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, and Paris Hilton [via] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems
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12/01/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Delicious Inbox is back! - Oh, thank goodness. Del.icio.us is once again the second most bestest site evar.
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12/01/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
cameron : F4 Records - Tony Wilson's new label out of Manchester
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12/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Dan Cederholm : Backstage Pass - Veer, Inc. - An interview with Jon Parker of Veer over at Authentic Boredom.
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12/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Guardian Angel bags - handbags built with the outline of a gun or knife; laptop bags with the outline of groceries [via] [via]
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12/01/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
kellan : Project Plutio: Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Retro Atomica - Wow, I thought Stross made this up for 'A Colder War' #
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12/01/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
plasticbag : So yeah the Mac Mini is nice and all, but have you seen the size of the power supply!? - I want a Mac Mini. It would make emigrating much much easier in the future...
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Ethan Marcotte : The Buddha Board - Paint on the board with water, and your strokes will first darken, then vanish. Carpe diem, baby.
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12/01/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kaninka.net : Ghaddafi styrkir bandarÃska rokkhljómsveit - sem á að gera það sama fyrir LÃbýu og Stuðmenn gerðu fyrir KÃna.
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12/01/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
deusx : Self-control comes in limited quantities, must be replenished - "Self-control, whether used to pass up the office cookie plate or to struggle against temptations like alcohol and tobacco, operates like a renewable energy source rather than a learned skill or an analytical thought process, according to new research."
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Milo Vermeulen : FonzTeeVee - Murals for ROC AMSTERDAM - FonzTeeVee - Murals for ROC AMSTERDAM [via]
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12/01/2005 @ 11:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Is there Spyware in Trillian 3? - Hmm #
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12/01/2005 @ 11:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Turning a list into a navigation bar - Nice article for starters #
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12/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Work plans for 2005 - Interesting... #
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12/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Unicode characters that are actually more than one character - Also interesting, or should I say, a nice list #
Milo Vermeulen : Joe Clark - Unicode characters that are actually more than one character
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12/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Sandbox: Pullouts - example - Nice! #
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12/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Cross-Column Pull-Out Part Two: Custom Silhouettes - Without semantic nonsense #
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12/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Big, Stark & Chunky - Zoom! #
Isofarro : Big, Stark & Chunky - Alternative css styles that cater for low vision people. Backed up by usability tests
Richard Rutter : Big, Stark & Chunky - Using CSS to give low-vision folks what they need (filed under Accessibility).
Paul Hammond : Big, Stark & Chunky: A List Apart - But the ball is now in your court
doug : Big, Stark & Chunky - Joe Clark wrote a good article a couple weeks ago on alternative layouts for low-vision folks.
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12/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : CSS Challenge: Styling Definition Lists - I'd say someone introduce a DI element. XHTML 2.0 did it, but that specification is far from finished. #
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12/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Tabular Weirdness - Yeah, CSS tables suck! #
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12/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Centralized subscription? Not that way, thanks. - Exactly, it is a stupid idea #
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12/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Those IBM Patents - On the released IBM patents #
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12/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
philgyford : United States Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-21 - Lovely public domain photos. Why do the old black and white ones look better than the new colour ones?
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12/01/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
philgyford : LondonFreeList - free and nearly free in London - Ongoing and daily events of many different kinds (lectures, readings, films, festivals, etc).
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12/01/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
ricmac : Elon/Pew Internet Project release study of Internet's future - "54 percent look for a new age of creativity in which people use the Internet to collaborate with others and share music, art and literature."
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12/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : apophenia: The Cultural Divide Between LiveJournal and Six Apart - One commenter noted that LJers aren't interested in "internet presence" - "...they're on LJ to keep up with their friends' day-to-day lives, because it's easier than email."
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12/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : computeruser.com: Making Web 2.0 business opportunities a reality - "Yesterday?s challenge of producing elegant and database-driven Web sites is being replaced by the need to create Web 2.0 'points of presence'"
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12/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Seeking Alpha: Four emerging Internet trends for investors - "Personal blogs are the fad of today, but over the next few years companies, small businesses and non-profits will be able to build informational and transactional Web sites with less and less cost and effort."
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12/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Reviving Advanced Hypertext: Interesting ideas from Jakob Nielsen (he should focus more on innovative ideas like these, rather than the 'thou shalt nots'!) - "...the very concept of a page may vanish and be replaced by higher-level aggregate units that combine multiple data feeds."
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12/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Live from Macworld: Steve Jobs keynote - Live from Macworld: Steve Jobs keynote: this is literally the only coverage I've read on the keynote
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12/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Early '90s Predictions Database - 4,200 predictions made between 1990-1995; also, some new predictions [via] [via]
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12/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Justin Frankel's Assniffer for Windows and Linux - network sniffer that automatically saves files of transferred data
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12/01/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : RSS Subscription Central? - RSS Subscription Central?: in which my blog is quoted about the damned orange button
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12/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jkottke : Man swept out to sea by the tsunami survives for two weeks - He ate coconuts and built a makeshift raft.
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12/01/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : OJR on tsunami video hosting on blogs - organized mirroring is great, but isn't BitTorrent a better long-term solution?
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12/01/2005 @ 06:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : Marathon: The Trilogy Release - Oh, God, I don't have time for this... must... resist... ahhhh, they're everywhere! Frog blast the vent core!
Steve Cook : Marathon Trilogy now free as in beer - The best FPS for the Mac, circa 1994, is available for all your retrogaming needs.
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12/01/2005 @ 05:58 GMT
Eric Meyer : Announcing the Apple iProduct - How much will it cost? Like you care. [via Ferrett] [via]
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12/01/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Dan Cederholm : iPod Shuffle review - I too, love that the marketing embraces the fact that it doesn't have a display. Brilliant.
Simon Willison : Russell Beattie reviews the iPod shuffle - Reconfirming his position as the world's number one early adopter.
Nelson Minar : iPod shuffle review - Apparently it really is just like a normal USB drive
Jeremy Zawodny : My iPod Shuffle Review - My iPod Shuffle Review: damn, russ got one fast!
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12/01/2005 @ 04:04 GMT
jkottke : It appears that Justin Hall has stopped publishing on the Web (his front page is blank except for a search box) - Missing notebooks. Hmmm.
Andy Baio : Justin Hall stops publishing Links.net? - this was his last entry, also found in the source code of his homepage [via] [via]
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12/01/2005 @ 04:01 GMT
jkottke : Six Apart has published a comprehensive guide to comment spam
Jeremy Zawodny : Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam - Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam: good stuff
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12/01/2005 @ 03:58 GMT
jkottke : Turn any iPod into an iPod Shuffle in 3 easy steps
Simon Willison : Turn any iPod into an iPod Shuffle in 3 easy steps! - "Now you can enjoy the iPod Shuffle's cool new feature without having to go buy a new player."
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12/01/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : A List of Actual Quotes Taken From the Directions and Mission Statements of Organic Products Belonging to My Vegan Roommate
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12/01/2005 @ 03:11 GMT
deusx : Gizmodo : Mac mini Porn: Every Last Picture - Mmm.. Mac mini porn
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12/01/2005 @ 03:07 GMT
jkottke : The Indonesian earthquake decreased the length of each day by 2.68 microseconds - More amazing is that man made features like the Three-Gorge reservoir can change the length of days and shift polar position.
Kayode Okeyode : The Indonesian earthquake decreased the length of each day by 2.68 microseconds
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12/01/2005 @ 03:04 GMT
jkottke : Great photo of a notebook torn to look like a topographical map
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12/01/2005 @ 02:58 GMT
jkottke : Shots of NYC with a pinhole camera
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12/01/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jkottke : Answering wrong numbers for Ol' Dirty Bastard
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12/01/2005 @ 02:21 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : EU Parliament Demands Fresh Start for Patent Directive
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12/01/2005 @ 02:17 GMT
Wayne Burkett : The war on copyright communists - In response to Gates's implication that copyright reformists are communists. #
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12/01/2005 @ 02:14 GMT
Simon Willison : Andy's Sandbox - The PLink Abductor has been joined by a funky pullout technique. (via) [via]
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12/01/2005 @ 02:10 GMT
Simon Willison : Rhino now supports E4X - Rhino is a JavaScript implementation in Java; E4X provides native XML support as a language feature.
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12/01/2005 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Picture of the iMac mini - I don't think this is a fake.
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Simon Willison : iWork - Pages - Might make the Word Processing market interesting again. (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : @media 2005 - Web Standards / accessibility conference in London, with a great list of speakers but a painful registration fee.
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ricmac : TeleRead update on the open eBook format OpenReader (there's been a lot of talk about it, but everybody's waiting on something more concrete to support and play with) - "What is the dev schedule of OpenReader? Depends on when development money comes."
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ricmac : SiliconBeat: How big is Bloglines? - lot of interest growing in rss numbers now. via http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2005_01_11.shtml#011844
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ricmac : Robert Scoble points to some new browser-based RSS Readers - Lektora and Onfolio. I must also check out Pluck.
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ricmac : Abbott & Costello Buy A Computer - Based on their famous sketch "Who's on first?"
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Andy Baio : iPod shuffle differences between US and UK - apparently, we eat gum in the US, while the Brits chew it
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Andy Baio : Decentralized BitTorrent with Kenosis - more information in the Slashdot thread [via] [via]
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