21/02/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
jimray : More on the NYT/About.com deal from John Battelle - I'm sorry, I still don't buy it - they pay nearly half a billion dollars to learn how to optimize their pages for Google?
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21/02/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
Rod Begbie : Some printable paper rulers - Very handy today when I couldn't find a ruler. #
Jeremy Zawodny : Some printable paper rulers - Some printable paper rulers: kick ass! now I can print rules whenever I need one
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21/02/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : Josh Hallett on newspaper RSS Aggregators - "Newspapers are realizing that users are going elsewhere for news and the standard AP feed of 'other news' is not cutting it. So why not get in early, and once again attempt to control the eyeballs."
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21/02/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : Ian Landsman: Starting a Micro ISV - Useful advice for those starting a software business
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21/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : The cost of ethics: Influence peddling in the blogosphere - Excellent article by J D Lasica referencing the Marqui program.
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21/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Po Bronson's notes on his latest book - "I look for stories that can be grounded - either in some totem of the past that works as a metaphor, or in particular scenes located in places and times that flow from one another."
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21/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : feedbeep: rss to sms notification - New beta product
Andy Baio : Feedbeep, RSS to SMS notifications - this could work well with Upcoming.org feeds [via] [via]
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21/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Parents Television Council's "Worst of the Week" - convenient clips of the best TV every week [via] [via]
jimray : Worst TV Clips of the Week - The absolutely brilliant part about this otherwise totally inane site is that they actually put the offending clips online! Also, I just gotta know what pious, censor-happy child of the lord takes the job of "smutwatcher".
deusx : Worst TV Clips of the Week - "Warning: Clips contain Graphic Content" This is a page in need of an RSS feed if I've evern seen one.
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21/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Earthstation 5 calls it quits - this article sums up the history of the supposedly Palestinian P2P software that formally declared war on the RIAA and MPAA
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21/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : IGS Pandanet - The classic Internet Go Server
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21/02/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Isofarro : JavaScript and Accessibility. Pt. 1. - 'Responsible scripting: Will this work if someone doesn’t have JavaScript available? If not, how can I provide an alternative?'
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21/02/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Isofarro : JavaScript and Accessibility. Pt. 2. - Cross-browser form validation
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21/02/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : gallery of seabird skulls
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21/02/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Hack a Bike, hacking a German bike rental system
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21/02/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
ricmac : Liz Lawley on being paid to blog, by Marqui but not by Corante! - "I have yet to receive one penny of compensation from Corante for that work [M2M]. This week, however, I cashed a hefty check from Marqui for the four clearly-marked sponsored posts that I wrote in January."
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21/02/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
ricmac : Rumors Inflate Bloglines Acquisition Price - Jason Dowdell speculates that Ask Jeeves paid much less than even the lower range figure of $25 million going around.
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21/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Springfield is for Gay Lovers of Marriage - The official website for the gay-friendly marriage policies of The Simpson's hometown. Awesome episode. Awesome...
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21/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : The life of an autistic savant, from his own perspective - "Since his epileptic fit, he has been able to see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. The number two, for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder."
Jeremy Zawodny : A genius explains - A genius explains: "I memorised pi to 22,514 decimal places, and I am technically disabled. I just wanted to show people that disability needn't get in the way."
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21/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Opentable redesigned their site - Haven't used it enough to compare to the old site, but it's still pretty slow.
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21/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : A Field Guide to Sprawl documents 51 different kinds of urban sprawl - Snout house: "[a house] where the garage is the dominant projecting feature".
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21/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jimray : PayPal IPN handler - Instant verification and downloads using PayPal [via joeweiss]
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21/02/2005 @ 18:58 GMT
Isofarro : CSS - A tribute to selectors - Malarkey explains attribute based selectors a[href^='http'] { .. } '
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21/02/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : WhatIsMyIP.com up for grabs on eBay - For a cool $55k, you could grab this highly visible domain. Also, once this turns into a pr0n|casino|onlinemeds site, I'm gonna need to find a new whatismyip.com [via linkbunnies]
Andy Baio : WhatIsMyIP.com sells for $386k on eBay - time to start using ipchicken.com [via] [via]
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21/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Web Developer Tidbits - A handy handful of PHP and PNG bits and pieces (filed under PHP/MySQL).
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21/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Office Sweeties Have No Secrets - "Your network administrator has a copy of every e-mail you've sent and received over the company network." Well, duh. I do everything personal on my own laptop over a secured VPN to home.
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21/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : CommunityWiki: OverHear - "I have an idea for a new sort of communications medium."
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21/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Scientists discover evidence of a frozen sea on Mars, right near the equator
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21/02/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : BORIS streaming videos - BORIS streaming videos [related] [via] [via]
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21/02/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Katamaridamashi - Done for real, in play-doh (via BoingBoing)
Andy Baio : Katamari Damacy in Play-doh - also: more cosplay [via] [via]
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21/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : "Purseuing is a blog obsessively covering purses, bags, totes, clutches, and just about anything else you can carry on your shoulder" - "I would pick up [a purse] and think 'cute' and put in on my shoulder then pick up another and do the same. Pretty soon you could hardly see my torso, just legs with a head on top and hands sticking out to the sides."
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21/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Vimeo is a new site for "organizing and sharing your video clips" - A bit like Flickr for video clips.
Andy Baio : Vimeo - Kottke calls it "like Flickr for video clips" [via] [via]
Milo Vermeulen : Vimeo : Share Your Video Clips - Vimeo : Share Your Video Clips [via] [via]
plasticbag : Vimeo - the YouTube for arty types and design nerds - It's really lovely. I know it's been around for a while, but I've never really played with it. I'm sort of vibing off its aesthetic more than anything else..
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21/02/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : tetris1d.org - tetris1d.org [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : Tetris 1d - The Progress Quest of falling block games (via Grumdrig)
jkottke : Play one-dimensional Tetris - Literally seconds of fun!
plasticbag : The most compulsively addictive game of all time: 1D Tetris! - Mm. Classy. Shiny. And most importantly - really really easy!
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21/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Hunter S. Thompson dead at age 65 from a self-inflicted gun shot
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21/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray was Hunter S. Thompson's last article before he died
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21/02/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : Hunter S Thompson commits suicide - "Hunter S Thompson, the American counterculture writer, has been found dead at his home in Colorado."
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plasticbag : Strindberg & helium - The agony is intolerable...
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François Nonnenmacher : Trouble Brewing at the W3C? - Battle over Web Forms
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21/02/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Isofarro : Web Forms 2.0 - Call for Comments - 'Web Forms 2.0, an extension to the forms features found in HTML 4.01's Forms chapter and the corresponding DOM 2 HTML interfaces'
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21/02/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Jane's Animal Crossing world misses Justin - what happens when games start reminiscing about your ex?
jkottke : The characters in Jane's virtual Animal Crossing world remember her ex-boyfriend - "My neighbors rhapsodize about his letter-writing skills or the fact that they used to play and play and play all day"
cobra libre : traces of past crossings - animal crossing is one of the best games ever, you know #
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21/02/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Andy Baio : How to Destroy the Earth - a sensible alternative to paving the Earth
kayodeok : How to destroy the earth - Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe
cobra libre : how to destroy the earth #
jkottke : Forget how life will end, here's a bunch of ways you can destroy the entire Earth - This is a really fun read: "keeping the strangelet stable is incredibly difficult once it has absorbed the stabilising machinery, but creative solutions may be possible."
Simon Willison : Geocide: How to destroy the Earth - Immensely amusing, and informative as well. (via) [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : How to destroy the Earth - How to destroy the Earth: in case you ever needed to know
Eric Meyer : How to destroy the Earth - Reminds me of the good old days of alt.destroy-the-earth. [via Simon] [via]
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21/02/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
Isofarro : Browser battle shakes Net apps - 'Although XForms offers advances over current standards-based HTML forms, some W3C members worry that it faces an uphill battle because it isn't supported by the current generation of Web browsers.'
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21/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Shaun McCormack interviews Jack Thompson - e-mail dialogue with the asshat lawyer prosecuting the $300m lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto's developers and retailers [via] [via]
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21/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Copyright Criminals - outstanding trailer for a CC-licensed documentary on sampling culture [via] [via]
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21/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Magnatune signs digital distribution deal with CDBaby - all artists will now appear in iTunes, among others [via] [via]
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21/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Kembrew McLeod's Freedom of Expression - brand new book on copyright idiocy and sampling culture, CC licensed and available for free download! [via] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity
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21/02/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Eric Meyer : Brain study points to \'sixth sense\' - I've long wondered if something like this were the case.
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21/02/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : freedom toner - freedom toner: Nothing says "honor those killed on 9/11" quite like an unauthorized HP Laserjet 4P cartridge named American Spirit.
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Eric Meyer : HumaneText.service - Very cool, although I wish it worked in BBEdit. [via Jonas] [via]
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jimray : Author Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself
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Andy Baio : MAME name and logo trademarked by Ultracade CEO - I seriously doubt the rumor about his plans to sue MAME authors
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Andy Baio : SF Chronicle on Justin Hall's blog farewell - with a roundup of other prominent blog quitters [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide - very sad end to a literary great
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21/02/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
jimray : SpringfieldIsForGayLoversOfMarriage.com - I don't think God cares if they have the same hoo-hoo or ha-ha. HA HA!
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21/02/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : It's a great time to be coming back to Silicon Valley, you can really feel the buzz in the air. - It's a great time to be coming back to Silicon Valley, you can really feel the buzz in the air.: indeed you can
ricmac : Russell Beattie: the buzz is back - "It's a great time to be coming back to Silicon Valley, you can really feel the buzz in the air."
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21/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo! Search blog: On the Trail of the Long Tail - "Suddenly, the mainstream is not the only stream. There's room now for babbling brooks, crooked creeks, and tributaries where trends pick up momentum before they flow downstream."
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kaninka.net : George Carlin - Boðorðin 10 útskýrð, endurskoðuð og skorin niður à 2.
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21/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : KUsports.com gets a redesign - CSS under the hood, but the real star's the content.
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21/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
deusx : eBay item 7135441836 (Ends Feb-24-05 23:01:23 PST) - 303 BRASS - NOT AMMUNITION - no primer - no powder - Check out all the disclaimers attached. NO GO BANG
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