19/01/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : The Ward-O-Matic: The Polar Express: A Virtual Train Wreck (conclusion) - The Ward-O-Matic: The Polar Express: A Virtual Train Wreck [related] [via]
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Philippe Janvier : Grapefruits - "...a beautiful use of Javascript, RDF and XSLT to create a system that annotates images". [via] #
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19/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Metafilter Tags, 24 hours later - unbelievable explosion as Mefi users tag all their old posts
plasticbag : Now even Metafilter is using tags - by the time we're talking about our work in this area I wonder if it'll still be fashionable? - The implementation here though is a bit odd - you can only tag stuff that you've written, and there doesn't appear to be any immediate personal benefit for doing so, except maybe self-promotion...
ricmac : Metafilter DoesTags - It's a tagalicious blog world right now... glad to see "ART" is the biggest tag on Metafilter. (via waxy.org)
cameron : Metafilter | Tags - Metafilter gets categorizionized
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Dan Cederholm : What a difference one letter makes - Perhaps this section should be renamed 'QuicklyBits'.
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Philippe Janvier : NOFOLLOW : major search engines and blog software editors introduce an anti-spam measure - "This tends to suggest that Google would not follow a link with rel="nofollow", which would be the correct behavior, frankly". [via] #
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Andy Baio : Justice Dept. gets first two convictions in P2P piracy case - "felony copyright infringement" is an upsetting phrase
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deusx : Synus ignites a Gen-Y debate - "Is the world so scary that you need a car that doubles as a safe room?"
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Jason Shellen : NFL Game Broadcasts Coming to IPods - Prices will be $10 a GAME. Way to compete with AM radio Audible! #
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Nelson Minar : WinXP error reports - How to disable them.. This is a really smart feature, but I choose not to participate
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Jeremy Zawodny : CSS Structure and Rules - CSS Structure and Rules: a helpful reminder of stuff I always forget
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deusx : [advocacy] MSFT refuses to give XP licenses for notebooks for relief related work - Linux anyone? - Wow, what a boneheaded move.
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19/01/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : 37signals launches Ta-Da Lists: "simple shareable to-do lists" - It's a mini web app that they spun out of Basecamp.
Andy Baio : Ta-Da Lists - 37signal's free shared to-do lists; I've already set one up for Upcoming.org
François Nonnenmacher : Ta-da Lists - Make lists and get stuff done. Tada!
Paul Hammond : Ta-da List: Simple sharable to-do lists. - Make lists and get stuff done. Tada!
cameron : Ta-da List: Simple sharable to-do lists. - 37signals gift to the world
Philippe Janvier : Ta-da List : Simple sharable to-do lists. - "Free todo list manager". [via] #
plasticbag : The terribly named, but incredibly elegant tadalist from 37 signals - "Simple, sharable to-do lists. It's just what you need and nothing you don't..." - The thing about 37 signals is that they not only do good consulting, but they also make beautiful things for their own sake. That's a company ethos that I can understand...
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19/01/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Photographs of signs enforcing racial discrimination from the Library of Congress
cobra libre : photographs of signs enforcing racial discrimination - from the library of congress [via] #
Andy Baio : Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination - boy, I'm glad nobody cares about race anymore [via] [via]
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jkottke : Oldish Gladwell interview on steroids, choking, and why he hates baseball - My review of Blink is coming soon. I hope.
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19/01/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Gay gaming - Thoughtful essay on the presence of gay and lesbian characters in games
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19/01/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : WoW community mess - Employee of Blizzard gets too deeply into game, anti-gay statements
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19/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : SF Sundial - I didn't know this was in San Francisco! (via Metafilter comment)
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19/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Cory refuses to give up personal info to American Airlines - his letter to AA is a great read
Nelson Minar : Cory doesn't go along - I wish more people were able to challenge the inanity of air travel today
deusx : Boing Boing: Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers' friends? - Another data point for my hesitation to ever take a plane to anywhere this decade, even domestically.
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19/01/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : PostgreSQL 8.0 Released
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19/01/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Son of the Cube - Proud papa, lol!
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19/01/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
philgyford : The Ward-O-Matic: The Polar Express: A Virtual Train Wreck (conclusion) - Interesting, fun post about computer modelling of humans for animation.
jkottke : Fixing the poor animation in The Polar Express - Also a bit about Gollum, The Incredibles, and the uncanny valley.
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19/01/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
philgyford : Memorial Tiling on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - If you've seen the film 'Closer'... it's really there! (But don't look if you haven't - spoiler!)
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19/01/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
philgyford : Flickr: Archive of gac's photos posted to Flickr on 19th January 2005 - Gregory Carafelli's beautifully simple photos of the Delaware River at dawn.
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19/01/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : London Perl Workshop - Talks are available here
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19/01/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : A hack for implementing zoom layouts - Hmm, not sure what to think of this. [via] #
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19/01/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : CLC-4-TTS - "CLC-4-TTS is a collection of JavaScript functions that can be used for creating a screen reader within Firefox." #
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19/01/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Technorati Tags! - Some might like it, I call it tag abuse. (Or attribute value, for that matter.) #
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19/01/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Does Accessibility Belong on the Server-Side? - I didn't find the point in this article. It also has some interesting links. Accessibility is mostly client side though. #
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19/01/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : The perils of using XHTML properly - my comment - I like the first paragraph. You might want to read the article as well for some background information if you have forgotten the stuff on this very site ;-) #
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19/01/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : XMLHTTPRequest demo - Cool [via] #
Philippe Janvier : XMLHttpRequest() demo - "I dabbled a little with a xmlhttprequest demo". [via] #
Paul Hammond : XMLHttpRequest() demo - Retrieves an xml atom feed and xsl stylesheet with XMLHttpRequest()
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19/01/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : ECMAScript Language Specification in HTML! - Although developer.mozilla.org is not really officially open, this document is just great! #
Isofarro : ECMAScript Language Specification - HTML version of the ECMAScript specification (via virtuelvis)
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19/01/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Atom/RDF/RSS content-negotiation survey - Interesting, especially the comments. Feed readers should fix their Accept headers by the way. #
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19/01/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Defining privacy - Paris Hilton?s style
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19/01/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Boxer, Rice Exchange Pointed Words - "SEN. BOXER: ... I'm just quoting what you said. You contradicted the president and you contradicted yourself."
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19/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Isofarro : nofollow, no love: Google admits they are losing to spammers - 'I boldly predict that in one year Google will give up and ignore nofollow meta-data'
Kayode Okeyode : nofollow, no love: Google admits they are losing to spammers
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19/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Subtraction: Grid Computing... and Design - establishing a rational and sustainable layout grid that would see me through at least a few more years of doing this
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19/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Mike Davidson: Does Accessibility Belong on the Server-Side? - unless you are physically bringing in a person with a disability to test your site out, you really have no idea what sort of experience you're offering
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19/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : A crap fix for a crap bug (Soft hyphens in Mozilla) - O my god, Mozilla is not standard compliant! [via] #
Paul Hammond : Yoz Grahame's Cheerleader: A crap fix for a crap bug (Soft hyphens in Mozilla) - It's all to do with the rendering of one particular character: Latin-1 codepoint 173, a.k.a. Unicode 00AD, a.k.a. , a.k.a. the soft hyphen
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19/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Bnoopy: Startups and the Stockdale Paradox - So, on the one hand it was about unswerving faith that one will ultimately prevail while on the other hand it's about banishing all false hopes?
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19/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Anil Dash: Accountability and Culture in a Loosely Coupled World - tools influence culture
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Paul Hammond : 50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work - If you've been sitting on an idea until you think you're good enough to do it justice, do it now!
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19/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Thoughts on Weblog Comment Spam Prevention | Acts of Volition - I fear this may hurt the web in the long run
Anne van Kesteren : More on rel="nofollow" - More posts #
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19/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: One does not simply walk into Mortor -
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19/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Movie: The Cyberpunk Educator - analysis of cyberpunk movies of the 1980s, full download with BitTorrent [via] [via]
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19/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Jib Jab's Second Term on Yahoo! - Jib Jab's Second Term on Yahoo!: heh, another amusing jib jab video
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19/01/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Movable Type Publishing Platform: Movable Type 'nofollow' plugin - MT plugin to automagically enable nofollow links on all comments + trackbacks. Hurrah! [via] #
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19/01/2005 @ 05:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Working Together Against Blog Spam - Working Together Against Blog Spam: yay for msn search too!
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19/01/2005 @ 05:07 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo, Google, MSN announce "nofollow" support to combat comment and Trackback spam - more details about the spec that removes the Pagerank incentive for spammers [via] [via]
Jason Shellen : Preventing comment spam - In which we (Google) propose a tag to help address the problem of comment spam. #
Rod Begbie : Google Blog: Preventing Comment Spam - New URL tag to help make weblog comments (and wiki pages) less appealing to spammers. #
Clément Hardoüin : Google prend des mesures contre le spam - Une façon détournée de dire que l'algorythme de Page Rank a atteint ses limites ?
Paul Hammond : Google Blog - Preventing comment spam - We hope the web software community will quickly adopt this attribute
Simon Willison : Google Blog: Preventing comment spam - I was right, then.
Kayode Okeyode : Preventing comment spam with rel="nofollow" - Preventing comment spam with rel="nofollow"
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19/01/2005 @ 05:04 GMT
Andy Baio : Chris Anderson on the Long Tail applied to TV shows - the conclusion to his very good recent series
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19/01/2005 @ 05:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Star Trek Enterprise not cancelled? - this sounds like a non-denial denial to me [via] [via]
deusx : TrekToday - 'Enterprise' Not Cancelled Yet - "Enterprise showrunner Manny Coto today denied a rumour that crew members had already been told of the show's cancellation."
plasticbag : Paramount people deny that Enterprise is going to be cancelled before the end of Season Four - "As to whether or not we'll be back for Season 5," Coto continued, "that's always been up in the air. We'll see what the future brings."
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19/01/2005 @ 04:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Socialtext loses Disney deal to Jotspot - Mike downplays it, and he should know [via] [via]
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19/01/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Unintended consequences of "nofollow" support by search engines - legitimate linking in comments helped make Google relevant, but spammers ruined it for everyone
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19/01/2005 @ 04:17 GMT
deusx : 90% Crud: Interrobang - "If you find yourself needing an interrobang you can use Unicode character 8253 or the HTML entity ‽."
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19/01/2005 @ 04:14 GMT
deusx : Colocate your Mac mini - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - apple.weblogsinc.com - This seems like such a great idea, although their site seems to be inaccessible.
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19/01/2005 @ 04:11 GMT
deusx : Slashdot | 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled? - Son of a bitch! And the show was just finally getting as good as it should have.
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19/01/2005 @ 04:08 GMT
deusx : pixeltees : shop : minid : shirt detail : Syndicate This Shirt - Syndicate This Shirt. I think I need one of these.
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19/01/2005 @ 04:04 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A Defense Against Comment Spam - A Defense Against Comment Spam: guess what I spent the last day on
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19/01/2005 @ 04:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo, Google, MSN, Six Apart announce "nofollow" support to combat comment and Trackback spam - more details about the spec that removes the Pagerank incentive for spammers [via] [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Support for nofollow - Support for nofollow: yay for six apart!
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19/01/2005 @ 03:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Comic: Perry Bible Fellowship's "Shotgun" - how do Rock, Scissors, and Paper settle disputes?
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19/01/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Calculating the best albums of 2004 from 60 top ten lists - Franz Ferdinand firmly at the top [via] [via]
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Nelson Minar : Hasselhoff recursion - The goggles! They do nothing! (via MetaFilter)
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deusx : The Big Red Button (of Doom) - Engadget - www.engadget.com - Oh. My. God. I *so* need one of these. I would *find* dangerous tasks to tie to this button. I'd make it fire off horrific sound files, at the least.
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kellan : MagpieRSS 0.7+ - now with support for "bourgeois fripperies" - It's true, the people's parser has been co-opted. #
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Andy Baio : David Galbraith on search ordering by date - I've been wanting this for years; it will be increasingly essential as the web stagnates
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Andy Baio : Matt adds tagging to Metafilter - hopping on the tag bandwagon
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19/01/2005 @ 01:58 GMT
Andy Baio : New Yorker on Collegehumor.com - four guys in their early 20s, 8 million unique visitors and $400k/month [via] [via]
jkottke : The College Humor guys get the Rebecca Mead treatment in the New Yorker - "The friends finally arrived in New York last summer, and took up residence in a newly renovated, forty-two-hundred-square-foot, five-bedroom loft in Tribeca, which rents for ten thousand dollars a month -- a move that bears about as much relation to
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jkottke : Scott wonders if Jamba Juice really works in NYC
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kellan : More mmcache/eAccelerator license incompatible with PHP? - More mmcache concerns #
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Philippe Janvier : RSS 1.1 : RDF Site Summary (DRAFT) - "RSS 1.1 is hence to be considered a bugfix and streamline release of RSS 1.0 for users of RSS 1.0 who do not want to migrate to Atom". [via] #
jkottke : Folks are working on RSS 1.1, an update to RSS 1.0 - BTW, the heck ever happened to Atom? (Comment on this)
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Andy Baio : Blinx Video Search signs major networks - you can search the archives of BBC, Fox, Sky, and more [via] [via]
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