4/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : Virtual Host shell script for OS X - Automates virtual hosting for local OS X dev
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4/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : De-duplicate your iTunes library - I didn't know iTunes did this. Kewl! #
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4/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : New Kleptones mix, "From Detroit to J.A." - BitTorrent only, for now
Rod Begbie : The Kleptones - From Detroit to J.A. - A full album of quality mash-ups for your downloading and grooving-along-to pleasure. [via] #
Nelson Minar : New Kleptones! - Just now listening to Hiphopera again (via BoingBoing)
jimray : New Kleptones mashup "From Detroit To J.A."
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4/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Isofarro : CNN: Spam costing companies $22 billion a year - 'according to the National Technology Readiness Survey produced by Rockbridge Associates, Inc., and the Center for Excellence in Service at Maryland's business school.'
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4/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : An Xserve cluster named Turing - UIUC's 640-node Xserve cluster wins on price, speed
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4/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
ricmac : Excellent post on Marqui debate, by Richard Koman from SiliconValleyWatcher.com (except he quotes me but doesn't link to me - bad blogging ethics ;-) - (in comments) "To me, bloggers are writer/publishers (let's just leave journalism out of it for now). They write; they hustle. For now they have to work out the balance."
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4/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : How to get good quality sound out of your iPod - Short answer: throw money at the problem.
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4/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Brain analysis of a blind man expert at draw raises questions about what vision is - "But when he drew, his visual cortex lit up as though he was seeing."
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4/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Electoral Commission campaign urges voters to act now - Note to self: I need to get myself registered to vote in the upcoming UK election. [via] #
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4/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Annoying article about Waterstones must be regretting firing that annoying weblog guy for calling them Bastardstone's etc... - But he was an arse! He deserved to get fired! I can see how grey areas could emerge, but this doesn't appear to be one. I think this is making the webloggers look dumb, not Waterstones...
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4/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image Puzzle! - frustrating fun; I'm stuck on stage 8
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4/02/2005 @ 21:02 GMT
jimray : LED scrolling belt buckle - This has my baby brother's name all over it
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4/02/2005 @ 21:02 GMT
jimray : Wal-Mart selling Mac minis, iPod shuffles - So does this mean that Wal-Mart is less evil or that the minis are suddenly uncool?
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4/02/2005 @ 21:02 GMT
jimray : MSN search results formatted as RSS - That's a damn cool application, still not enough to make me change my default away from Google, though
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4/02/2005 @ 21:02 GMT
jimray : Skype for Mac OS X - We've had this for a while - it's called iChat AV [via /.]
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4/02/2005 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Hide your iPod, here comes Bill - The iPod is wildly popular on MS's campus - I know I see tons of white earbuds on the 545 to work every morning
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4/02/2005 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : NYC bicycle abuse - Bikers being arrested, bikes confiscated? [via boingboing]
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4/02/2005 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Medical bills make up half of bankruptcies - Maybe all this talk about medical malpractice reform is looking in the wrong direction? Maybe the health insurance industry is in need of some reform.
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4/02/2005 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Open Secrets' tally on who the insurance industry is giving money to - Lots of surprises in this one, let me tell you
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4/02/2005 @ 21:00 GMT
jimray : Tzu Chi Foundation - If you're still looking for somewhere to give Tsunami relief funds - a local Buddhist group, buying locally to help support the ravaged economy
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4/02/2005 @ 21:00 GMT
jimray : Drivers on cell phones kill thousands - Here's a good way to get kids off the phone - "You drive like an old person, asshole!"
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4/02/2005 @ 21:00 GMT
jimray : The macosxhints Forums - Pioneer DVR-108...software? - Getting the new 16x Dual-layer Superdrives to work with OS X
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4/02/2005 @ 20:59 GMT
jimray : Windows echo chamber pissed at the Mac echo chamber, film at 11 - Complaining about a pro-Mac story, written by the Mac columnist at Wired, comes off as a little disingenuous from the official fluffer for Microsoft's PR unit
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4/02/2005 @ 20:59 GMT
jimray : Guest PC - x86 emulation without the Borg [via waferbaby]
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4/02/2005 @ 20:59 GMT
jimray : It's official, Tucker's joining team MSNBC - Right before the paragon of craptastic journalism, "Scarborough Country". This ruins my fucking day.
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4/02/2005 @ 20:58 GMT
jimray : Eric's Archived Thoughts: Be A Parent - Well said [via Zeldman]
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4/02/2005 @ 20:58 GMT
jimray : FontForge - Open source font editor [via Jason Cooper]
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4/02/2005 @ 20:58 GMT
jimray : Defense contractors shaking down the model airplane industry - Asshats [via boingboing]
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4/02/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
jimray : Napster steps up to the plate with music rental service - I wonder if iTunes will ever step into the music rental biz, possibly tied to dot-Mac
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4/02/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
jimray : Y!Q beta - Contextual search from Yahoo
Philippe Janvier : Introducing Y!Q BETA - "Y!Q is the first-of-its-kind contextual search technology that analyzes the contents of the Web page you're viewing and then gives you a list of search results directly related to what you're reading". [via] #
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4/02/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
jimray : little. yellow. different. - I've forgotten how much I like Ernie
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4/02/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
jimray : Diebold figures out how to hook up a printer to voting machines - Just three months after the election, too. Amazing.
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4/02/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Blink and The Wisdom of Crowds - Malcolm Gladwell and James Surowiecki on each other's blockbuster books
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4/02/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Freelance Hairdresser: Machadaynu - "Tony Rudd" from Monday's "Look Around You" gets remixed. Ace! [via] #
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4/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Make Mine Shoebox - sarcastic internal corporate video made for Hallmark Cards with a great 1950s feel [via] [via]
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4/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Fighting crime with Photoshop - Toronto police posted altered versions of crime scene photographs found in Usenet, leading to a positive ID
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4/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3.com founder launching MP3tunes, DRM-free music downloads - also: Napster's case against the iPod [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : iPod Photo Stereoscope - $1200, cheap! [via] [via]
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4/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : CinemaNow to offer NBC shows for download - $1-3 each is an excellent price point; let the race for the iVideo Store begin
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4/02/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
kellan : Slogger is an extension for Mozilla Firefox which can create a customizable browser history - With one click posting to del.icio.us #
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4/02/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : E-gov to cost Europe €4bn+
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4/02/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Ireland faces €50m e-voting write-off - lack of public confidence in e-voting (who would have thought!)
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4/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Why social software makes poor recommendations - short answer: your real-world friends have bad taste
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4/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : AX|BX - random art made from arcade game startup test screens [via] [via]
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4/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Measure of All Things - short fiction about bioengineered living dinosaur toys; more info [via] [via]
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4/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Rob Schneider buys full-page L.A. Times ad to defend Deuce Bigalow 2 - attacks a film critic over a snide comment [via] [via]
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4/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Zappos.com growth - $300M is a lot of shoes. (via Eric Case)
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4/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Spheres of Chaos - Funky psychedelic shooter game (via Cedric)
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4/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
cobra libre : mark e. smith and the league of bald-headed men - i'm immobile! #
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4/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: Amazon Prime - For $79, get free 2-day shipping on all purchases at Amazon.com for a year. Strangely tempting. [via] #
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4/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Tips for Flickr beginners - If you're not already hooked into the awesome brilliantness of Flickr, here's some Top Tips to getting going. #
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4/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jimray : Ballistics - A guy shooting stuff, in pictures [via Flickr blog]
Rod Begbie : Ballistics - a photoset on Flickr - These are fcuking gorgeous. [via] #
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4/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : AdBlock - Filterset.G - Regularly updated rules list for AdBlock [via] #
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4/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : mozdev.org - cookieculler - More complete control over your cookies in Firefox [via] #
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4/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : How not to get your bike stolen in NYC - "Locking your bike next to a badly locked up bike is a good idea."
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4/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Het probleem van XHTML - Voor de liefhebbers ;-) #
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4/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
deusx : [IP] more on Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs - "Richard Stallman, self-proclaimed founder of all that is Free, calls it Treacherous Computing."
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4/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
deusx : Ned Batchelder: Get out of the zeros! - "I love open source software. I use a lot of open source software. But there's something that really bugs me about it: zeros."
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4/02/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : SEEKING A HAPPY MEDIUM: Harsens Islanders split over building bridge to mainland - "Convenience, increased development at stake" And no more days out of school because the only way to the mainland has frozen solid.
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4/02/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Are we done with TrackBack now? - I already was. #
Philippe Janvier : Are we done with TrackBack now ? - "...deciding between deleting a ping that adds absolutely nothing, and leaving it for interested readers to follow, only to find that it's nothing more than a link back to where they just were". [via] #
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4/02/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Why Napster will be a fully-integrated flop | The Register - Why DRM-powered music rental services are as dead today as they were 3 years ago. (Remember Pressplay?) "With music and books, the idea is never to have all that is available. You want what's good. You want quality." [via] #
François Nonnenmacher : Why Napster will be a fully-integrated flop - Napster To Go... Away?
Andy Baio : Register UK on why the new Napster will flop badly - paying $179/year to rent music you can never own; also: Gruber does the math [via] [via]
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4/02/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
plasticbag : John Rawl's Veil of ignorance - "Imagine that societal roles were completely re-fashioned and redistributed, and that from behind your veil of ignorance you do not know what role you will be reassigned. Only then can you truly consider the morality of an issue."
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4/02/2005 @ 09:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Microsoft upset about employee's iPods - quotes internal company memos on the second page
Nelson Minar : Microserf's iPods - Foolishness; managers are criticising iPods on the Microsoft campus (via Waxy)
deusx : Wired News: Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill - [nelson] HA-HA! [/nelson]
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4/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : College basketball player shoots 87 foot winning shot - then does it again for the local news; video clips viewable for both
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4/02/2005 @ 07:23 GMT
Steve Cook : John Stossel goes "mythbusting" - Urban sprawl is good for everyone! The government wants to burn national forests! We've been in a recession for four years! And other news from Stosselland.
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4/02/2005 @ 07:20 GMT
Steve Cook : Tim Lambert on pro-DDT op-eds and white papers - I remember getting into an argument about this subject on MetaFilter a long time ago, but I suppose no topic ever dies on the intarweb.
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4/02/2005 @ 07:17 GMT
Steve Cook : Snopes on Adam Clymer (with extra John Kerry action) - It's frustrating to see Snopes try to jam some mediocre political reporting into an urban myth debunking.
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4/02/2005 @ 07:14 GMT
Steve Cook : Jay Ryan: Chicago's Poster Artist - I love Jay's work -- I have a Shellac poster of his framed on my wall. What's with the scare quotes around "artist"?
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4/02/2005 @ 07:11 GMT
Steve Cook : Teragren - Bamboo floor and veneer - I am a sucker for this beautiful stuff. (via Treehugger)
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4/02/2005 @ 07:08 GMT
Steve Cook : Locus Online: 2004 Recommended Reading - I've read about four of these books. Oh, my vanishing street cred! (via Uncertain Principles)
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4/02/2005 @ 07:04 GMT
Steve Cook : CAN SPAM fails to work as intended - Number of knowledgable commentators surprised by this: 0.
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4/02/2005 @ 07:01 GMT
Steve Cook : Wired shills for nuclear power - I even -agree- with the thrust of the article, but the relentles strawmanism in the face of real problems and sneering contempt for people who don't get it turn the piece into Tech Central Station meets "The Long Boom".
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4/02/2005 @ 06:58 GMT
Steve Cook : OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice - "At this point, it's difficult to predict whether OOP will fade rapidly like some intellectual fads or persist like the long, bad dream of Aristotelianism."
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4/02/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The 20' By 20' Room: Comedy is Easy, PTA is Hard - "So it%u2019s a real game about a fake TV series about a fake game, named after a real TV series about a different real game." Dude.
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4/02/2005 @ 03:58 GMT
ricmac : Judith Meskill advises what weblogsinc.com looks for in its bloggers - Write announcement posts, how-to posts, conversational posts
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4/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : The Holy Grail of celebrity photography has been achieved - Everyone, meet Britney's nipple.
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4/02/2005 @ 02:04 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent.org: Guardian Offers RSS Newsreader As a Download - "From Guardian's perspective, it is an attempt to mainstream RSS..."
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4/02/2005 @ 02:01 GMT
ricmac : 5 Questions with Seth Goldstein from Magestic Research - "I know it's trendy Web 2.0/web services speak, but there is a ton of innovation about to happen in the intersection between companies creating meta data off of existing products and companies leveraging such meta data for new products."
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4/02/2005 @ 01:58 GMT
ricmac : Feedmelegal: RSS for lawyers and clients alike: (Re)searching into the future and then some - "When one considers how much legal and other business-relevant information is available on the web these days and how important it can be to keep up-to-date, the ability to research into the future can be something of a revelation."
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4/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : State of the Union Parsing Tool - clever visualization of word frequency over time [via] [via]
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4/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jimray : State of the Union parsing tool - For some reason "newkular" doesn't come up
Eric Meyer : State of the Union Parsing Tool - It's like Googlefight, except with Presidential speeches. Fun for the whole family!
Rod Begbie : style.org > State of the Union Parsing Tool - Your at-a-glance guide to the "content" of GWB's speeches. Compare "Saddam" and "Osama" to get an idea of how it works. [via] #
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Betsie is the filter program used by the BBC to create an automatic text-only version of its website
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Nelson Minar : Torture A.G. OK! - Hey, what's a little human rights abuses between Republicans?
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