17/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Breaking The Law - Copyright-related civil disobedience. Rawk. "Come and get me, Apple! Come and get me, RIAA!" #
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17/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Excellent overview of RSS by SiliconRepublic.com (via Nooked) - "RSS and blogging are part of a technical revolution that is ?democratising? the internet, making it available to a much wider audience and much easier to use. Web 2.0 is the name that has been given to this new-look internet."
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17/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Daily Show segment on blogger journalism - brilliant coverage, here's a partial transcript
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17/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : You go, Gary! 'Numa' takes Web by storm - You go, Gary! 'Numa' takes Web by storm: this shit cracks me up
jimray : 'Today' show finds the next Star Wars kid - Hey, another fat kid we can make fun of and call it news! Have I mentioned how much I hate Matt Lauer and Katy Couric?
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17/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : No Protection for Bloggers - Interesting perspective from Wired - bloggers won't get journalist's protection because it doesn't actually exist (that's just what the WANT you to think!)
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17/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : More Watchful, Probably Not Safer - Why we need smarter, not necessarily more, tech
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17/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : Redhat's intro to the commandline - Most helpful bash tips [via waferbaby'
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17/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : Blogging howto for small city newspapers - Dave Winer's tips [via joeweiss]
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kaninka.net : Slipknot - Slipknot á tónleikum à Stokkhólmi. Linkurinn er virkur fram yfir helgi.
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17/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Groupware BAD - Design for users, not for managers. Hilarious and insightful stuff from jwz.
Jeremy Zawodny : Groupware Bad - Groupware Bad: people good -- a classic jwz rant/story
jimray : JWZ on why groupware is bad - "Nobody cares about that shit. Nobody you'd want to talk to, anyway."
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17/02/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : The C10K problem - How to build a server that can handle 10,000 clients
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17/02/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : macosxhints - Convert Real Audio files to MP3s - "By using a few freely available UNIX command line tools, and codecs from the OS X version of Real Player, one can easily and quickly convert Real Audio to MP3."
Wayne Burkett : Convert Real Audio files to MP3s - Using command line tools on OS X. #
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17/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
ricmac : John Battelle meets Danny Hillis (June 04) - "Danny and Bram have, in essence, created a lab [Applied Minds] where they get paid to think orthogonal to a problem, and invent/design/prototype just about any kind of solution they can dream up."
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17/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
ricmac : John Battelle: subscription model for content (July 04) - nb: comments are interesting. "The content providers to the paid channel get paid by the search engine based on usage patterns over time."
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17/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Spid.ero.us - social bookmark comparisons, including Japanese Delicious clones! [via] [via]
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17/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Which celebrities make the best wine? - Francis Ford Coppola, Ernie Els, Gerard Depardieu, or Elvis?
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jkottke : Google Maps query for "miserable failure in Washington DC"
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17/02/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
doug : WordPress 1.5 - Congrats to Matt and other WP developers on the release of WordPress 1.5.
Rod Begbie : Announcing WordPress 1.5 - I think I might give WordPress a try some time soon. [via] #
Simon Willison : Announcing WordPress 1.5 - The new features look awesome. I'm considering switching very soon. (via) [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Announcing WordPress 1.5 - Announcing WordPress 1.5: yay!
Andy Baio : Wordpress 1.5 released - looks impressive
bmilleare : WordPress 1.5
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17/02/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
doug : McAfee redesign - Nice, clean redesign of McAfee, using CSS for layout. (via SimpleBits.com)
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17/02/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
doug : Switching to Mac Isn't for Everybody - Walt Mossberg takes a look at some of the reasons why switching may not be right for you. I agree with many of his points, but hey, I'm a Mac user again, and I love it.
jkottke : Switching to a Mac isn't for everybody - "In general, the best candidates for a switch to the Mac are those who use their computers overwhelmingly for common, mainstream consumer tasks."
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17/02/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
doug : ID Theft in CA - Possibly "as many as 35,000 Californians" affected. If major databases like this can be hacked, do we have any guarantees of security and privacy anymore? Fellow CA residents, keep a close watch on your accounts.
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17/02/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Make Python operators - It is an abomination (via Daily Python URL)
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17/02/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : SCO to be delisted? - They're late with their 10-K. Couldn't happen to nicer people.
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17/02/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Portable freeware - Software you can run off a USB thumb drive
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17/02/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : SMS Advertising Hits the Streets - SMS-based advertising reaches the US. This billboard has been on the Mass Pike for the last few weeks too. #
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17/02/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Somerville Gates - Anything New York can do, Somerville can do better. [via] #
jimray : The Somerville Gates - Nice [via mathowie]
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17/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Another Quicktime VR panorama of The Gates
jimray : Really nice panorama of The Gates [via linkbunnies]
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17/02/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
cobra libre : no guru, no method, no "davinci code" #
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17/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Today Show covers the Numa Numa video - Matt Lauer dubs him the new Star Wars Kid
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17/02/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
kellan : Yet Another Technorati Tags MT plugin - Adds the ability to use a regex to define the seperator
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17/02/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
philgyford : RichardHerring.com - Wednesday 16th February 2005 - I had that I-Spy book of Car Numbers. I was a fascinating child, oh yes.
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17/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Katamari Damacy hand puppet - they should make vinyl action figures, too [via] [via]
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17/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Typographica's favorite fonts of 2004 - Galaxie Polaris is lovely
jkottke : Typographica lists their favorite fonts of 2004 - Currently coveting Whitney. Mmmm...
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kellan : FlySketch - OS X app with tracing features - FlySketch can show its main drawing window above all other windows in the system. Change the transparency of the canvas... #
Simon Willison : Flying Meat: FlySketch - Really neat OS X application - lets you draw over part of your screen, then save the drawing.
Richard Rutter : FlySketch - Very cool screen grab and annotation app for OS X.
deusx : Flying Meat: FlySketch - "Draw, highlight, everywhere."
joshua : Flying Meat: FlySketch - simple doodling/drafting app
Charles Miller : FlySketch - FlySketch: The other day we were projecting a webpage onto a whiteboard so we can draw over it. This is much more civilised... and durable!
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Rod Begbie : Boston.com / A&E / One-hit wonder - Joy appears in the Boston Globe, on the topic of Google Whacking. #
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17/02/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
philgyford : Shakespeare & Lauderdale Towers on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - A lovely photo of the Barbican that looks different to all the others for once.
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Andy Baio : Video: Thundercats - fan-made short film, complete with CGI effects and leather pants [via] [via]
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17/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The return of the Kottke webcam - wait, where's the monkey?
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17/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Parent's guide to computer slang by Microsoft - darn those "online videogame bullies"! [via] [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : A parent's primer to computer slang - A parent's primer to computer slang: microsoft explains 1337 speak
deusx : microsoft.com - A parent's primer to computer slang - "Understand how your kids communicate online to help protect them" 31337 d00d! k-r4d! u need 2 raed dis
Nelson Minar : l33tspeak guide - Hysterically earnest primer for parnets (via Waxy, or a search on microsoft.com for 'l33t')
Simon Willison : A parent's primer to computer slang - According to MS, "pwn" is a leet word possibly indicating illegal activity. (via) [via]
Charles Miller : A parent's primer to computer slang - Microsoft teaches parents how to speak l33t. No, really. (via el Reg)
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17/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Trailer for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie - Doesn't look too bad, actually.
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17/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : Phil Windley's Technometria | Building Interactive Web Programs with Continuations - '...what if I could write programs for the Web that were ?structured? in the programming sense of that word?'
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jkottke : I find this woman dressed as Ronald McDonald slightly sexy and I don't know how to feel about that
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jkottke : Blank keyboards - It would be cool to get your own type printed on these.
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jkottke : Beautiful pinhole photography of Paris
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jkottke : The Guardian on Moog, a documentary about Robert Moog and electronic music machines
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17/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : BlogMarks.net - Enlarge your blogmarks :) [via] #
Tristan Rivoallan : Blogmarks.net - neat.
François Hodierne : BlogMarks.net - Enlarge your bookmarks :) #
tehu : BlogMarks.net : by the wondeful team who brought to you Hot Links ! - ça va je l'ai bien dit ? :-p
Wayne Burkett : BlogMarks.net : Public Marks - BlogMarks is a new public, delicious-like bookmark manager from the folks behind Hot Links. #
kellan : BlogMarks.net - social bookmarking with screenshots - The HotLinks team is making their kick ass tools generally available in a del.icio.us like fashion #
Nelson Minar : BlogMarks.net - The guy behind Hot Links makes a fancy social bookmarks site
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deusx : BBC NEWS | In pictures: How the world is changing - "While the effect of human activity on the global climate is hotly debated, physical signs of environmental change are all around us."
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17/02/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : uiGarden - Engligh-Chinese bilingual magazine dedicated to UI matters (filed under Information design).
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17/02/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
deusx : National Hockey League Players' Association: NHL CANCELS SEASON - Wow. Didn't this happen to baseball? Right about when they lost a whole bunch of fans to hockey? Greedy dumbasses, all.
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17/02/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Wimax for train commuters - Launching as free trial in March on Brighton to Victoria line (filed under Brighton).
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17/02/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Daily Show On Bloggers - Ted Hitler reporting with a shoutout to Atrios to boot. #
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17/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
ricmac : ESPN looking for Web 2.0 developers - "Do you grok Web 2.0 and want your great ideas to be adopted by millions?"
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17/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Sleater-Kinney begs people to stop pirating their new unreleased album - the release date is three months away?! your biggest fans are pirating it because there's no legal alternative [via] [via]
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17/02/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MPAA cracking down on fan fiction sites - for using movie-style ratings to grade mature content in fanfic
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17/02/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
doug : Muni Photography Ban - "We get no sense of security from officials enforcing unwritten laws by bullying the public and hoping that they're too scared or confused to argue for their rights." (via, roundaboutly, Veen.com)
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17/02/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : Panic has released Transmit 3, the newest version of my favorite OS X FTP app
jimray : Transmit 3 launched - Lots of groovy new features, still the best FTP app for OS X
plasticbag : A new version of FTP client Transmit has come out - I've been getting cross with Fetch recently. I think maybe it's time to switch...
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jkottke : Entire NHL hockey season cancelled - Can the sport recover from this?
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17/02/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : NASA has found "strong evidence" that life currently exists on Mars - Fluctuating methane levels and the presence of sulfate jarosite may indicate that life is present.
plasticbag : NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars - It's all to do with methane emissions from subterranean caves. Very hopeful about this one. Life on another planet - however trivial and basic - would blow the world open...
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17/02/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
doug : Screenfont.ca - Joe Clark launches a project to explore the possibilities and improvements for captions and subtitles. Brand new, with lots of meticulous attention to details to come.
Anne van Kesteren : screenfont.ca - It is live! #
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17/02/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
jkottke : Stay Free! pans Gladwell's Blink - "His writing follows a simple formula: put forth a counterintuitive argument, then cleverly select points that advance this claim while ignoring and obscuring those that don't."
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17/02/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
doug : Peterme on Google Maps - Peter deconstructs the UI and design behind Google Maps with an interesting critique and some good points.
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17/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Chameleon: Cool little alpha app that uses Bloglines Web Services - e.g. "Keeps track of which feeds you read, how often, and when..." (link via waxy.org)
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17/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : They Might Be Giants releases second kids' album, Here Come the ABC's - buy direct online from the band, or watch the videos
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17/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : American Idol blocking fast-forwards on Comcast DVRs - get ready to hear more of this
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17/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Acme Novelty Toy gallery - the Chris Ware cutouts actually work [via] [via]
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17/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jkottke : Record video conferences held in iChat AV
Richard Rutter : Conference Recorder for iChat AV - Turn your audio and video chats into Quicktime movies (filed under Apple).
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17/02/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MSNFound, MSN Search's new viral web game - no matter how good the game may be, it still forces you to use MSN [via] [via]
jimray : MSN .: FOUND - Search game from MSN - next time someone asks you why Microsoft is so lame, just point 'em here
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17/02/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Interview with Mark Jen, the fired Google blogger - Mark confirms Google has no blogging policy [via] [via]
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17/02/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
deusx : IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER: - July 18, 1969.
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17/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Cocoa and the Emerging Software Market - Cocoa is letting small teams build big things.
jkottke : Cocoa has led to a rise in small independent developers for OS X producing neat software - Transmit, NetNewsWire, OmniGraffle, Delicious Monster, etc.
Wayne Burkett : Cocoa and the Emerging Software Market #
Paul Hammond : x180 / james duncan davidson: Cocoa and the Emerging Software Market - the story of Cocoa is about the small software shop where people are busting out incredible software with small teams
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17/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : GoogleMapsHacking - Jeremy Dunck's wiki page collecting Google Maps Hacks.
Eric Meyer : GoogleMapsHacking - Given my loves of microhacking and maps, there's no way I could resist this site. [via Simon] [via]
kayodeok : GoogleMapsHacking - An Unnamed MoinMoin Wiki - Google Maps Hacking Wiki
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17/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NY Daily News on the "Numa Numa" lip-synching teen - the video is sent to me by e-mail and IM several times a day
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17/02/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
jimray : MSNBC's Big Picture - 2005 Academy Awards - "JLO IS CLEO!"
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17/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
philgyford : DJ History: Archive Interviews - Ian Levine - Remembrances of Northern/Modern Soul in the 1970s.
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17/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
philgyford : SunKilMoon - I'm so out of touch - I didn't know Mark "Red House Painters" Kozelek had a new band. Joy.
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17/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : [Mac] Apps of the Year, 2004 - Affrus sounds awesome. #
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Wayne Burkett : Lawrence Lessig's first podcast - A reading of his March column in Wired. #
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17/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : Colin Cunningham very occasionally plays a minor character in Stargate - In the series, he seems kind of neat. On his acting site, he looks like a tit. Reality is such a disappointment...
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