22/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
plasticbag : A stunning and beautifully exotic story of an alien moon - "Liquid methane rain feeds river channels, lakes, streams, and springs on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, images from the Huygens probe show..."
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plasticbag : Danah on academia and wikipedia - "Wikipedia is exceptionally valuable to read about multiple sides to a story, particularly in historical contexts, but i don't trust alternative histories any more than i trust privileged ones."
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22/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Dammit, it looks like the Hubble is going to die after all
deusx : CNN.com - Sources: Hubble servicing mission cut from budget - Jan 21, 2005 - "The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry s
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22/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Man, I would have killed to have access to the Doctor Who Wikipedia page when I was a kid
deusx : Doctor Who - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - While working this weekend, I've watched 4 Doctor Who story arcs in row.
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22/01/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jason Shellen : US bans Internet for Iranians, almost - Well this won't help the situation one bit. #
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22/01/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Yahoo! Challenge - The Yahoo! Challenge: complete with money-back guarantee!
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22/01/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Self promotion for the technical consultant - Self promotion for the technical consultant: Steve is right
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22/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Oh why cahn't the marketers ... learn ... to ... speak - Oh why cahn't the marketers ... learn ... to ... speak: this is sad but true
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22/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mac Mini makes its retail debut - Mac Mini makes its retail debut: wherein Russ makes the switch
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22/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : bacon and freedom, as defined by (what else) cupcakes - bacon and freedom, as defined by (what else) cupcakes: to move or not to move, that is the question
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22/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NYC radio station skit mocking tsunami victims - desperately unfunny and racist [via] [via]
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deusx : BYODKM.NET - Target Now Selling Mac mini's - "...people will have an easy way of viewing them and sales of the Mac mini will rise skyhigh."
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22/01/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Exploring the Law of Unintended Consequences
jkottke : Exploring the law of unintended consequences - "The law of unintended consequences shows us how many innocent innovations like email, anti-virus and DRM can become something far worse than the inventors had ever imagined."
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22/01/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Solving the Enigma of Kryptos
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22/01/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : DOMForm - "DOMForm is a Python module for web scraping and web testing. It knows how to evaluate embedded JavaScript code in response to appropriate events."
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22/01/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
plasticbag : Bill Gates plots a Windows future - BBC News interview with Bill Gates in which he talks about home entertainment appliances and the digital hub
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22/01/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
plasticbag : Nokia brings 'Visual Radio' to mobile phones - Weird one this. Visual supplements to radio are generally considered to be used for enhanced information provision. But often the rights owners don't want you broadcasting song information...
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22/01/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : FreeMind - FreeMind: free mind mapping software
kayodeok : FreeMind - free mind mapping software - "FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool"
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22/01/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Guide to Cascading Style Sheets - Guide to Cascading Style Sheets: a handy litte reference
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22/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Protesters burn an American flag during the inauguration
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22/01/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Verizon faces lawsuit over email blocking - Customer churn too!
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22/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
ricmac : Ftrain.com is alive - "Ftrain is on hiatus for many reasons, all of them good. First, it is on hiatus because I am writing a book."
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22/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
ricmac : John Battelle's Searchblog: Google AdWords API - "Google is opening up API support for AdWords. This is a big deal (I hope) in that it lets new ecologies of AdWord-based plays begin to thrive."
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22/01/2005 @ 11:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Why simply enjoy an organism when you can experience a sensational organism? - ni!
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22/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Inside the iPod, Past and Present
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22/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Mini Me - The New Mac Mini is All About Movies
Manuzhai : The New Mac Mini is All About Movies - Robert Cringely on how Apple will rule the media formats. Suggested by PanMan.
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22/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : ClickZ: Measuring the Brand Blog - "He [Steve Rubel] says brands ought to apply qualitative benchmarking to measure a blog's impact. One such approach is conducting brand attitude surveys similar to those performed by Dynamic Logic. Or brands could try a scoring system capable of rating ev
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22/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : ClickZ: Measuring Blog Marketing - Dick Costolo quoted: "I think there will be more third party tools [...] There will be more third parties, and we'll be one of them, that let publishers create programs and we'll do the rest."
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22/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : Waxy puts 5 years of Boing Boing Statistics through the mill - Check out the keyword analysis.
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22/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : The Silicon Valley 100 - like the Marqui program in a lot of ways, but for A-List connectors in the Valley. - Some big names on the list - including Marc Andreesen, Tim O'Reilly, Esther Dyson, Joi Ito.
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22/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Interconnected: representation - "We now live in a world where representations are all important. They are our limbs and our eyes; they are our possibilities."
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22/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Contentious: New Pro Bloggers Association - "This group is comprised of professional communicators who are dedicated to helping clients use weblogs creatively and well."
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22/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Burningbird: This is a Disclaimer - "In fact, you might as well assume that everything I will write is a lie, but it will be an authenticate lie, because I will never write anything that I don?t want to genuinely say."
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22/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Slashdot | Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext - "Writing is Nelson's principal vocation, so it's easy to see why the issue of royalties and compensation was so important to him. It's my opinion that, had he been a bit more altruistic in Open Transmedia's design, it would exist today, and the Web would
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22/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Joshua Porter: Folksonomy Notes: Considering the Downsides, Behavioral Trends, and Adaptation - Josh is bullish on folksonomy, referencing the "growing use of content aggregators (including search engines), which essentially allow people to create their own IA outside of the domain where the content lies."
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Manuzhai : Choose Python - Nice little poster about the life of a Pythonista.
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22/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jkottke : "Larry Summers, the president of Harvard, suggested the other day that innate differences between the sexes might help explain why relatively few women become professional scientists or engineers." - "But the best signal to send to talented girls and boys is that science isn't about respecting sensitivities. It's about respecting facts. The only people who don't belong in science, male or female, are those who would rather close th
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22/01/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Gorgeous blonde babe Crista Nicole (NSFW) - Gorgeous blonde babe Crista Nicole (NSFW): this one's for you, Adam
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22/01/2005 @ 04:58 GMT
Isofarro : ECMAScript Menu System - Fantastic article about implementing an accessible dropdown menu system using DOM Scripting
Anne van Kesteren : ECMAScript Menu System!! - Cool! Finally someone who doesn't say that 2005 will be the year of proper scripting and such, but actually does something #
François Nonnenmacher : ECMAScript Menu System - Nice to have in the webmaster's arsenal
deusx : Juicy Studio: ECMAScript Menu System - "To illustrate using a completely separate behavioural layer, I'll demonstrate a collapsible menu system"
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22/01/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : compare your height to famous people
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22/01/2005 @ 04:02 GMT
Jason Shellen : Anti-Nofollow FUD - Anil deconstructs a black hat spammers attempt at humor. #
François Nonnenmacher : Anti-Nofollow FUD - SEO are against nofollow, who'd have thought?
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22/01/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Exeem open beta released - yeah, but it has spyware with no opt-out; better wait for an updated ExeemLite [via] [via]
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22/01/2005 @ 02:33 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Microsoft Bloggers Angered By Legal Threats
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22/01/2005 @ 02:30 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Macintosh Justification - the underlying reason in almost every case where the Mac lost out to Wintel doesn't have anything to do with rational arguments
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22/01/2005 @ 02:27 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Streaming a Database in Real Time
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22/01/2005 @ 02:23 GMT
philgyford : My London life - Weblog of Paul Miller, theatre director, currently recounting the rehearsals of a play in Tokyo.
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22/01/2005 @ 02:20 GMT
philgyford : Encore Theatre Magazine - Theatre-oriented weblog by a bunch of anonymous "writers, directors, actors, designers, administrators, theatregoers".
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22/01/2005 @ 02:17 GMT
philgyford : TheatreVOICE :: opinion, debate, argument, reviews; word of mouth about theatre in London and beyond - Dumb Flash-heavy theatre site whose content I can't even be bothered to find.
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22/01/2005 @ 02:14 GMT
philgyford : Theatre notes - Weblog by an Australian theatre critic.
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22/01/2005 @ 02:11 GMT
philgyford : Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | G2: Leo Benedictus profiles the immigrant communities of London - At bottom of page: related articles and particularly fabulous maps of the city by ethnicity and religion...
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22/01/2005 @ 02:07 GMT
Simon Willison : Rolling with Ruby on Rails - Extensive Rails tutorial on ONLamp.com.
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22/01/2005 @ 02:04 GMT
Simon Willison : The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software - The latest essay from Bruce Perens.
kayodeok : The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software - Open Source developers have, perhaps without conscious intent, created a new and surprisingly successful economic paradigm for the production of software. Examining that paradigm can answer a number of important ques
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Andy Baio : Video: Innernet, parody of Justin Hall's breakdown - some context; anyone know the source?
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22/01/2005 @ 01:58 GMT
Andy Baio : A post about Sally Forth, the main character in Sally Forth - [via] [via]
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22/01/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Paul Ford's Three Favorite Computer Games of 2004 - the Will Oldham MMORPG should be call "Palace"
cobra libre : paul ford's three favorite computer games of 2004 [via] #
jkottke : Paul Ford's three favorite computer games of 2004 - Cat Ball Shaver is a quirky tour-de-force.
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cobra libre : the perpetual war portfolio #
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Jeremy Zawodny : Octal Considered Harmful - Octal Considered Harmful: amen to that
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Jason Shellen : Bomb-A-Tron - Attention Reporters: Use this tool to file your story about the latest car bombing in Iraq. #
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Nelson Minar : Sprite sets - Classic pixel art extracted and greenscreened for your convenience
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