20/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr Picture Viewer for the TiVo - if you haven't been upgraded yet, get in the priority queue
jimray : Flickr Picture Viewer - Get your Flickr photos on your TiVo
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20/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : NYT bought About.com for search engine optimization? WTF? - This keeps getting dumber - and $410 MILLION! is way too much money
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20/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : How stuff is made - "...an encyclopedia of labor conditions and manufacturing process involved in the production of contemporary products". [via] #
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20/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : Contextual signage in the Barbican and on Channel 4 - Phil Gyford puts some perspective on the beautiful things in the world...
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20/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : AlienBBC: A BBC Radio Stream Plugin - "AlienBBC is a plugin for slimserver, the software platform used by the Slim Devices line of networked music players. It is designed to allow the user to listen to (mainly) BBC Radio streams."
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20/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick address book, notes, and photos - the numbers and notes were confirmed authentic by Drudge and others
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jimray : Witch - a window switcher for OS X - Bloody brilliant, that [via waferbaby]
Rod Begbie : Witch - Replacement app-switcher for OSX, which allows you to switch to a specific window. File under: About bluddy time! [via] #
deusx : Peter Maurer - Witch - "Have you ever wanted to switch to a certain window ? not just the application it belongs to?"
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Rod Begbie : Bitvise Tunnelier - Really interesting looking SSH client for Windows (with easy to use tunnelling abilities), but holy crap, their license is confusing as all hell. [via] #
joshua : Bitvise Tunnelier - pretty ssh app
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20/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Ajax: a New Approach to Web Applications - The XML/XSLT/XmlHttpRequest web-app approach now has a buzzwordy name to throw around in meetings. [via] #
Andy Baio : Adaptive Path on the Ajax approach to developing web applications - in other words, web apps doing neat stuff without leaving the page [via] [via]
jimray : Ajax, an approach to web apps - Adaptive Path's "Asynchronous JavaScript + XML"
ricmac : Ajax: a new approach to web apps - "The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what?s possible on the Web."
Philippe Janvier : Ajax: a new approach to web applications - "An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by introducing an intermediary - an Ajax engine - between the user and the server. It seems like adding a layer to the application would make it less responsive, bu [via] #
kellan : buzzword alert: ajax - async javascript + xml. i suppose it's better then calling it web 2.0 #
Paul Hammond : adaptive path - ajax: a new approach to web applications - the challenges are for the designers of these applications: to forget what we think we know about the limitations of the Web, and begin to imagine a wider, richer range of possibilities
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deusx : The Biofeedback Blog - This is a new blog running WordPress 1.5 that I helped set up for a friend who works at a company selling biofeedback gadgets and software. Cool stuff!
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20/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : PublicRadioFan.com - "PublicRadioFan.com features program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world. Follow the audio links to hear your favorite programs and discover new ones."
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20/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Memory Alpha is a Star Trek wiki with 8200+ articles - This is pretty much what wikis are for.
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20/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Unintelligent design: if there is a "someone" responsible for designing the universe, they must have not been very smart - "Nature appears to be an avid abortionist, which ought to trouble Christians who believe in both original sin and the doctrine that a human being equipped with a soul comes into existence at conception."
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20/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Economist Steven Levitt strikes again: real estate agents sell their houses for more than their clients' homes - The more homes an agent can sell within a given time period, the more they make, so holding out a few more days for a small commission doesn't make economic sense for them.
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20/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jimray : McMansion Meets SoHo - Suburbanites' penchant for urban lofts - "It's just like the place we always wanted in college!"
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20/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
plasticbag : 300 islands in the shape of the world - a unique investment opportunity, and also the freakiest fucking thing I've ever heard of... - Mark my words - the aspiration of humankind is to make the real world like Second Life
erikbenson : Have you seen this? The UAE is building a series of Islands in the shape of the world. - I think they're trying to find investors at the moment to build an assortment of communities on these islands.
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20/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jimray : Technical Note TN2065: do shell script in AppleScript - Talk to the command line without having to open Terminal [via merlinmann]
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20/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : The worst reviewed movies on Metacritic - Bio-Dome gets a 1 out of 100.
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20/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : You can get an adapter to use your Nikon lenses on Canon cameras
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20/02/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NYT on podcasts - with obligatory Adam Curry reference
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20/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Boogieplay beta - Blogdigger's blog video viewer; not sure how I feel about hotlinking big files without asking
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20/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Maoist International Movement reviews videogames - CAP Alert should start doing game reviews, too [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Hand-cranked Nintendo DS battery charger - I want one for my iPod
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20/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Napster's about-face in the courtroom - ironically, they want the court to shut down Grokster
Rod Begbie : Slyck News - Napster Does 180 - Napster files brief saying that illegal file-sharing networks must be shut down. [via] #
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20/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Om Malik on how to save TiVo - he was one of the first to predict its current challenges
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20/02/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Shining's Overlook Hotel rendered in the Duke Nukem 3D engine - I'd love to see this redone with HL2's Source engine
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20/02/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Burton and Jefferson reminisce about MTV - "they looked like Satan's eyes, man!"
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deusx : Warrenellis.com » I Had To Kill The Pig - FUCKPIG!
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20/02/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What, Me Exercise? - What, Me Exercise?: So, don't exercise to try to burn off calories and lose weight. Unless you're a professional athlete or obsessed with sports, you're not likely to spend enough time exercising strenuously enough to make much of a difference.
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20/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Anti-Grain Geometry - Rendering library; like gd, but not ugly
joshua : Anti-Grain Geometry - pixel-perfect rendering library
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20/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : ImageMagick v6 Examples - ImageMagick v6 Examples: useful for getting an idea of what ImageMagick can do
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20/02/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Weekly US Map: Influenza Summary Update
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20/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : Varifrank: Changing the world - One cable modem at a time. - "The work is now where you are, rather than the other way around."
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20/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : eBay item 5363311018 (Ends Feb-20-05 05:52:23 PST) - Well worn cute sexy sneakers used shoes - Bitching about podcasting's quality is like making fun of eBay for selling used sneakers.
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20/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : uVNC - A VNC Server for 8-bit Microcontrollers - "Future applications include simple devices such as light-switches (dimmers) and thermometers in the hi-tech enabled home."
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20/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : OSDir.com :: uVNC - "I even had a demonstration server running on a colleagues Commodore 64."
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ricmac : Jon Udell's blog search using XPath queries - He's got his own personal Technorati going on here...
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Simon Willison : Wikiphilia - The New Illness - As a certifiable wikiphile, I'm inclined to disagree with most of this. Still makes for a great read though.
Paul Hammond : Hacknot - Wikiphilia - The New Illness - A mental illness characterized by the irrational conviction that any problem faced by a group can be rendered solvable through installation and use of a Wiki
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Simon Willison : Schneier on Security: Cryptanalysis of SHA-1 - If you want to understand the "breaking" of SHA-1, this is the place to go. Surprisingly accessible.
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20/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Jeremy Wright comments on IE7's feature list - better standards support, more secure, and tabs; yep, sounds like Firefox [via] [via]
Simon Willison : IE7's Feature List - Positive commentary on IE7, predicting better standards support and tabbed browsing.
tehu : Jeremy C. Wright : The IE team never died. It was reprioritized, but it never died. - re-pri-o-ri-ti-zed ? huhuhu... Microserfs ! Come here !
Paul Hammond : Ensight - Jeremy C. Wright - IE7's Feature List - Please remember this is just my perception, and could quite likely be completely wrong
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jkottke : Michelin three-star restaurants - "Infuriatingly, there is no index to the Guide Michelin, and nothing that might tell you what all the 3 star places are, or anything useful like that. Hence I have drawn up the table below, to save you trawling through the book."
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jkottke : Cooking Under Fire is a "12-part PBS documentary-style look at a national cooking competition" - Starts April 27th and features Ming Tsai, Tood English, and Michael Ruhlman as judges.
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20/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jimray : Heineken music has a podcast! - When you live in a city known for microbrews, it's hard to drink so-so imports, but this is still cool
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20/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Michael Gartenberg: AutoLink and SmartTags aren't the same - A contrary opinion worth considering, especially the point about annotation (historically something that the Web has wanted to implement).
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20/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Moonwatcher: RSS Tools Market Maturing, Segmenting - "Market segmentation is a natural part of the maturing process, and the fact that it's being done not only at the messaging level but also the product level indicates a new stage of maturity..."
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