8/02/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
jimray : Gizmodo : Even Easier VoIP on Home Phone Lines - No rewiring required
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8/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Amazon tells Alan to remove Netflix/iTunes links from Amazon Light - if you use the Amazon web services, you can't link to any other commercial website!?
jkottke : What the? If you use Amazon's Web Services, you can't link to or direct traffic to any other commercial web site
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Charles Miller : Lord of the Rings Animations - Online humour fad: making animated gif parodies from stills ripped from Lord of the Rings movies. (via Den)
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8/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Turn your Mac mini into a low-cost recording studio - Mac mini + Garageband = Super-low-cost home recording studio #
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to turn your Mac Mini into a low-cost recording studio
Andy Baio : Turn your Mac mini into a low-cost home studio - it ends up costing around $1000, not counting the display [via] [via]
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Wayne Burkett : Creating accessible bar charts - These are accessible, look great, and degrade gracefully. #
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kaninka.net : Parker Lewis Edonkey2000 links
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bmilleare : How to not get your ass kicked
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ricmac : The Long Tail embraces remixing on his blog - This is what I may end up doing too, if my writing plans come to fruition. Hmmm. Quote: "I'm going to try my hand at shorter posts that riff off of other people's thoughts--like, well, all the other bloggers."
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ricmac : BBC news story: Ask Jeeves more interested in helping people find information they are looking for rather than helping them write it. - Jim Lanzone: "The universe of readers is vastly larger than the universe of writers"
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ricmac : LA Times: Yahoo Media will follow MTV model, but it'll be tv --> web. (via paidcontent.org) - "[Yahoo] experimenting with putting original entertainment on its sites and is trying to sell talent agents and producers on the idea of creating short, Internet-ready programs specifically for Yahoo."
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jimray : 24 hours on craigslist - Craigslist, the movie
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deusx : The Darwinian Interlude - "Now, after some three billion years, the Darwinian era is over."
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deusx : The Little JavaScripter - "JavaScript has much in common with Scheme."
joshua : The Little JavaScripter
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deusx : Boing Boing: Toronto's Bakka Books moving back to Queen St, March 1 - I want to live in Toronto.
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8/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Dance, puppet--dance! - It's new to me, so you all must suffer.
Jeremy Zawodny : crazy yahoo fan video - crazy yahoo fan video: I never realized we had such fans!
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Andy Baio : Firefox spoofing vulnerability fixed 12 hours later - more details on the exploit
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Andy Baio : Baby NameVoyager - Java applet, interactive charting of baby name popularity [via] [via]
Milo Vermeulen : Babyname Voyager - Babyname Voyager [via] [via]
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deusx : Simon Willison: Google Maps and XSL - "I'll probably write more on this later, but it seems that Google Maps is using XSL."
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deusx : All Things Distributed: Feynman & REST - "We must learn from Physics that models are imperfect and only an approximation of something that is much larger, and more complex that we can imagine." Excellent.
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jkottke : OrganicHTML Flash app grows flowers based on URLs and Tre pits sites against each other in flower beauty contests
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jkottke : A mastochistic dining experience at ultra-expensive Masa - "The headwaiter then greeted us by slapping me in the face and telling Babette that she looked heavy, also in Japanese."
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cobra libre : real life pokémon monsters! - "pikachu's vacation" remains one of my favorite movies [via] #
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8/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr Pipe Dream - emergent behavior emulates classic video game subgenre
Rod Begbie : Flickr Pipe Dream - Wicked awesome cool Flickr project. Create joining tiles, then link 'em together like Pipe Mania! [via] #
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8/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google employee Mark Jen fired for blogging? - 99zeroes revealed some internal info, but nothing critical
ricmac : Google Blogoscoped: Blogger Mark Jen fired - This is quite sad I think, but I'm sure Jen got a good payout to stay quiet about it. (link via waxy)
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Anne van Kesteren : Having to recode for syndication? - In some situations that might work. In the end your probably want that your aggregator is going to support it natively. #
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Anne van Kesteren : Who Do You Trust? - Interesting idea. I might create such a PGP key. #
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Anne van Kesteren : JavaScript slideshow - Looks cool. Too bad IE sucks. #
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Anne van Kesteren : Sunbird 0.2 Released - It is still not a product though, although this one is slightly official. #
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Anne van Kesteren : Results of W3C XML Plenary Ballot on relative URI References in namespace declarations - They are deprecated. See also Namespaces in XML 1.1 #
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Anne van Kesteren : Basiscursus Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - Misschien handig als je net begint met het leren van CSS e.d. #
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Anne van Kesteren : How do you include unique styles in a particular blog post? - There are plans. #
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Nelson Minar : Marc on Bloglines - Thoughtful piece on the Ask Jeeves acquisition
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jimray : ConsumerReports.org - Condoms and contraception - An impressively thorough review, even if it reads like spam [via boingboing]
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deusx : NPR : Tommy Chong: Free, and Back on the Road - What a great interview.
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cameron : Troy & Gay: XML Recipes - Review of XML Recipe implementation and ideas
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Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr+Yahoo? - Flickr+Yahoo?: rumors continue
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8/02/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Bloglines | Ask Jeeves / Bloglines FAQ - It's official. #
Richard Rutter : Ask Jeeves acquires Bloglines - (filed under Blogging).
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8/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : Sound Space: Science Fiction Audio Reviews - Battlestar Galactica - "Oingo Boingo's lesser-known alumnus crafts a score for the SCI FI miniseries that repays careful listening"
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8/02/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Declining numbers give Detroit image problem - "...the populations of such hot spots as Atlanta, San Francisco, Seattle and New Orleans still lag far behind that of Detroit." Huh, you know I never realized Detroit still has more people.
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8/02/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : memoria technica | Life Servers Part II : A Solution - "A postmodern reality dripping with fantastically recursive, circular irony given that 25 years ago, most of our old hard copy family photos would have been sitting inside the self same shoebox."
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8/02/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Erik Benson : I haven't seen any of the movies nominated for Best Picture this year - Though, I do feel like I did see my share of movies this year, most of them were DVDs from NetFlix.
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8/02/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : The state of homograph attacks - http://www.pаypal.com/
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8/02/2005 @ 09:08 GMT
jimray : Information Design: Comments - Designing useful comment forms
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8/02/2005 @ 09:08 GMT
jimray : How To Write Unmaintainable Code - "In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the si
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8/02/2005 @ 09:08 GMT
jimray : BTbot - BitTorrent Search Engine - Better than googling "filetype:torrent"
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jimray : Vip-torrents - Your Torrents Site. - Oh, why not
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8/02/2005 @ 09:05 GMT
jimray : Secure wireless email on Mac OS X - The joy of port forwarding, without ever touching the Terminal (clearly, not l33t)
François Nonnenmacher : Secure wireless email on Mac OS X
Simon Willison : Secure wireless email on Mac OS X - Doug Bowman's tutorial on SSH Tunnel Manager and wireless security.
Ethan Marcotte : Excellent SSH tunneling tutorial at Stopdesign - In other news, Slashdot posts a series of tutorials covering the fundamentals of color theory.
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8/02/2005 @ 08:58 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Ask not what Bloglines can do to you - Phil Ringnalda isn't going to wait and see what happens with Bloglines; he's switching to Feed on Feeds. I've been thinking about trying FoF for a while. Maybe now is a good time. #
Anne van Kesteren : Ask not what Bloglines can do to you - I might export me lists of feeds as well. The least I should do is making a backup. #
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8/02/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Erik Benson : Wow, a featured article on Salon that mentions 43 Things quite a bit - Very flattering article (except for the corpse reference near the end, haha). I'm a little embarrassed to see my name in that context though... I'd be nothing without the other 6 robots.
ricmac : Salon.com article on tagging, featuring 43Things - "On sites that employ tagging, the networks emerge, implicitly, out of the shared interests of users. Order isn't proclaimed, it just happens."
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8/02/2005 @ 08:02 GMT
Jason Shellen : Nobody Expects The Bloglines Askquisition! - Congratulations to Mark Fletcher and team. Nicely done. #
Andy Baio : Mark Fletcher's comments on the Jeeves/Bloglines buyout - like any good geek, Bloglines' CEO is a Monty Python fan
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8/02/2005 @ 07:58 GMT
doug : Authenticity: A User's Guide - Michael Bierut on faking it, in a design sense.
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8/02/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Metafilter redesign contest results - the top three winners are all fantastic
jimray : Metafilter redesign! - Looks great [via waxy]
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8/02/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Maps - Google Maps: just what you think it is
Jason Shellen : Google Maps - Cool maps, from Google. Click and drag is my favorite feature. #
Andy Baio : Google Maps - insanely great UI; it's only missing personalization and better URIs [via] [via]
doug : Google Maps - Check out Google?s way-cool mapping service in any non-Safari browser. Drag the map around, quick zooming, directions from A to B, beautiful detail, and more? Look out MapQuest.
jkottke : Google Maps is in beta - Safari not supported yet.
Rod Begbie : Google Maps - Another boring "it's been done" problem re-solved in a funky DHTML way by the brains at Google. [via] #
Dan Cederholm : Google Maps - Linked from everywhere, but worth it. Hope to see support for Safari, eventually.
Anne van Kesteren : Google Maps - Yay, they use XHTML as text/html! (Too bad they violate section C and such, but whatever.) #
Simon Willison : Google Maps - Very slick, but sadly non functional for Safari uses. (via) [via]
gleuschk : new button on Google Maps: Hybrid - superextramegacool
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8/02/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Ask Jeeves Finally Gets Around to a Blog - Ask Jeeves Finally Gets Around to a Blog: she's not impressed
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8/02/2005 @ 04:58 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Edward Tufte: Posters and Graph Paper - Beautiful. "Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign of 1812." #
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8/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Gartner pitches browser coexistence (via Alex M) - "Microsoft must deliver an improved version of its browser in Longhorn if it is to "determine the outcome" of the browser war."
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jimray : Logfinder - The EFF helps you find logs you don't need before The Man does [via boingboing]
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8/02/2005 @ 04:01 GMT
jimray : B&W Conversion - A fancypants sophisticated B&W conversion that goes above and beyond "discard color data" [via LifeHacker]
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8/02/2005 @ 03:58 GMT
jimray : Creating (and remembering) crazy hard passwords - "So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard! That's the kind of combination an idiot would put on his luggage!"
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8/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Steve Cook : When Jack Welch Was Director of Intelligence - A CIA exercise in future history, starring the former CEO of General Electric.
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8/02/2005 @ 02:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Burger King giving away classic Activision games in kids' meals - including my favorite Atari 2600 game, Kaboom! [via] [via]
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jkottke : Interview with Roger Black - He's working on a redesign of Nintendo Power: "You can't put big, babe-alicious, head-smashing stuff in there. You have to figure out something that doesn't look either too juvenile or too grown up."
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8/02/2005 @ 02:17 GMT
Jason Shellen : So You Wanna Be A Blogstar? - Advice and pointers from Grant about using a blog to your advantage as a musician. #
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Simon Willison : End to End Unicode Web Applications in Python - How to traverse the unicode maze.
wearehugh : End to End Unicode Web Applications in Python
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8/02/2005 @ 02:10 GMT
Simon Willison : Stephen Greene's Writing Tips - Aimed at journalists, but I really enjoyed the examples of what NOT to do.
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8/02/2005 @ 02:07 GMT
Simon Willison : Introducing JSON - A data-interchange format based on JavaScript objects and arrays. (via) [via]
Isofarro : Introducing JSON - JavaScript Object Notation - machine readable data interchange, great for XmlHttpRequest applications
Jeremy Zawodny : Introducing JSON - Introducing JSON: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate.
Nelson Minar : JSON data format - Thinner XML alternative for program data; basically Javascript syntax
jimray : Introducing JSON - Really interesting, fast alternative to ajax-style XMLHTTP requests
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Simon Willison : Parasite Database - Andrew Clover's comprehensive database of malware.
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Simon Willison : PythonForSeries60 - Matt Croyden's wiki has a ton of links concerning Nokia's Python tools.
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jkottke : The Vatican has official exorcists? - And how is Catholicism not a wacky cult? (Cue angry reader email...)
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jkottke : New York City's eating and drinking establishments and their customers are getting used to the smoking ban
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8/02/2005 @ 01:11 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : freedom is on the march (almost as good as that stormtroopers in the cafeteria photo)
Nelson Minar : Ashcroft's troops - jwz - freedom is on the march
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Matthew M. Boedicker : speeding up Firefox the right way
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8/02/2005 @ 01:04 GMT
Steve Cook : A review of "American Jesus" - A very nicely done review "American Jesus" that says what the reviewer wishes the book had been, provides a little NYRB-style platform for musing, and most importantly conveys whether I'd like the book. A model for me.
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ricmac : Shore Communications comments on Reuters branding (via paidcontent.org) - In content industry, "branding has become much more ad-hoc and personal, defying the packaging of a factory-driven production model." He also cites Google's transparency in branding.
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ricmac : Jason Kottke notices that Google switched their "definition" link from dictionary.com to answers.com. - Jason reports that answers.com is better anyway - great to know, I'll try it out now too.
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8/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Acquisitions - Google Acquisitions: Adam put a list together
Andy Baio : List of Google acquisitions - from Deja to Keyhole [via] [via]
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