28/02/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Regarding Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) - I need to read this. You too, perhaps. #
jkottke : Because of the syntax, "Ruby may not be the best language for people new to software development and programming"
Paul Hammond : The Hivelogic Narrative - Regarding Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) - new programmers should remember that there will still be a big learning curve down the road to translate there experience with Ruby to something lower like Java, C , or even PHP.
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28/02/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Accessible Style Sheet Bookmarklet - Of course, in recent Mozilla versions you can just use @-moz-document. #
Paul Hammond : Juicy Studio: Accessible Style Sheet Bookmarklet - creating a bookmarklet to empower users who may benefit from an accessible style sheet
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28/02/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Hiding email addresses - Copy and paste does not work. #
kayodeok : Hiding email address - Hiding email addresses with CSS
plasticbag : Using CSS to make e-mail addresses harder to harvest - Of course it wouldn't take an enormous effort for spammers to figure out what's going on here and rebuild their spiders to compensate - if enough people do it to be valuable
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28/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : A Google Maps walking tour of Keene, NH - "...a five-minute walking tour of Keene, NH, courtesy of Google Maps and http://www.gnik.com/maps/google/". [via] #
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28/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Should we be blaming Wal-Mart just because Americans like low prices? - "The problem is, the choices we make in the market don't fully reflect our values as workers or as citizens. I didn't want our community bookstore in Cambridge, Mass., to close (as it did last fall) yet I still bought lots of books from Ama
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28/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Chipotle and the rise of the "fast casual" restaurant - Waiting ever so patiently for Noodles and Company to come to Manhattan.
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28/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Crazy photo of a stadium - Can anyone tell me what kind of lens this was shot with? Any other examples like this online? (Comment on this)
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28/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Name that genre - "As I continue to explore the idea of making movies of software, I've been thinking that this medium needs a name". [via] #
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28/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
ricmac : John Battelle on a new "citizen journalism" venture: New West - "But this is not a print magazine- that is coming later. Instead Jonathan is building a full bore second generation blogging network covering the Rocky Mountains - Idaho, Montana, portions of Colorado, Utah and eastern Washington."
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28/02/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Wooster Collective : A Celebration of Street Art - Wooster Collective : A Celebration of Street Art [via] [via]
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28/02/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Isofarro : Raising my flag in the AutoLink camp - 'We're talking about an action taken on my behalf by my user agent using whatever means I determine I want to use.'
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28/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Want a line? Here's a line. - Yoz Grahame has been doing a great job of explaining why AutoLink isn't a bad idea. Slippery slope arguments are lazy, people. #
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28/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
ricmac : Cory provides examples of Google remixes - Dave Winer is countering him on the 2WW blog.
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28/02/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Bookmarklet Builder - Really handy Javascript scruncher-upper for when you're working on bookmarklets. #
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28/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Chris Ware on French documentary series about comic artists - Kempa went to huge efforts to get the episode online
jkottke : Video interview with Chris Ware - It's a large file, subtitled in French, and available only via Bittorrent, but worth it if you're a Chris Ware fan.
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28/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Worst kung-fu move EVER - Why this didn't make it into "Kill Bill", I'll never understand.
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28/02/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Iraqi street cleaning - Streets are literally running with blood
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28/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : The African cliff - What happens to a society where 40% of the adults die? (via Marc)
jkottke : Graph: here's what AIDS has done to the life expectancy in some African countries
plasticbag : Terrifying graphs of the decline in life expectancy in some major African countries - The article puts this at the door of HIV/AIDS, although I haven't read the supporting material so couldn't state for certain that was the case
François Nonnenmacher : The African Cliff - AIDS impact on life expectancy in Africa
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28/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : AIGA LA interview with Todd Dominey - Some really insightful stuff in here--worth the read.
doug : Designers Online: Todd Dominey - Good interview with Todd. Glad to see the AIGA embracing and promoting digital design, and Todd was a good person to interview.
jkottke : Interview with designer, blogger, and Flash guru Todd Dominey
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28/02/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Waiter rant on Numa - Nicely explains what's great about Numa Numa
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28/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
plasticbag : The Observer's folksonomic zeitgeist tracks the tags that Observer blog authors are using to categorise their posts - Designed to help people see what's currently causing a buzz in the Observer's offices. Interesting.
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plasticbag : "If human population increases at the current rate - and we colonize other planets at light speed, humans will still all die this millennium." - David Galbraith responds to a book on Xenobiology and the consequences of human overpopulation...
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28/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
plasticbag : Fiona Romeo on a possible link between autistic savants and synaesthesia - "When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer."
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28/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
plasticbag : A highly entertaining summary of an article about biologists fixing radios? - More of a treatise / satire on the biological method than anything else - although perhaps drawing analogies that do not hold...
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28/02/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : a maze puzzle written entirely in css - a maze puzzle written entirely in css [via] [via]
Paul Hammond : Stu Nicholls | Cutting Edge CSS | An amazing CSS puzzle - A simple maze puzzle written entirely in css (no javascript etc).
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28/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Optimus Prime dies of prostate cancer - Lawsuits from Hasbro to follow.
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28/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : WebSideStory says that Firefox's browser share is still growing, but the growth has slowed in the last month
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28/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Christo and Jeanne-Claude on the end of The Gates
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28/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Isofarro : A response to Dave Winer about Google AutoLink - 'But, as Cory said, what makes them harmful is not content modification, it's fraud.'
Paul Hammond : Yoz Grahame's Cheerleader: A response to Dave Winer about Google AutoLink - when they do something that actually is fraudulent or dangerous, we'll complain about it then
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28/02/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: First Person Shooter - very clever [via] [via]
deusx : b3ta.com - First Person Shooter - Brilliant!
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28/02/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
philgyford : Flickr: Photos from StefZ - Great photos of London. I must get out more.
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28/02/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : SOS - Signalering Onjuist Spatiegebruik - SOS - Signalering Onjuist Spatiegebruik [via] [via]
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28/02/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Isofarro : IBM Backs PHP for Web Development - PHP running on Websphere - awesome!
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28/02/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
plasticbag : Digital radio sales outstrip analogue - "Sales of digital radios have outstripped the demand for traditional sets for the first time, leading UK high street store Dixons has said" - and highest sales of radios since 1985!
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28/02/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : Banksy, graffiti artist, comes to Brighton with this epic and beautiful image - Passionate policement. Stunning.
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deusx : Bunny - Outlaw Journalist Kit - "The Bowel Disruptor and Filthy Assistants were on order"
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28/02/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : Europe recently overtook the US as the largest market for digital cameras
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28/02/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : HopStop is a transit guide for NYC - Input to and from addresses and it'll tell you which trains or buses will get you there.
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28/02/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : Comment on RE: uTidyLib on Mac OS X - "Thinking back, I remember having some problems with installing uTidyLib. I ended up hand-patching it to work on OS X."
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28/02/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Halle Berry attended Razzies ceremony to accept her award - "I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit" [via] [via]
jimray : Halle Berry shows up at the Razzies to accept her award! - "saying her mother taught her that to be 'a good winner you had to be a good loser first.'" I have a new level of respect for Halle [via mefi]
plasticbag : Halle Berry shows up to collect "Worst Actress" award, recreating her Oscar speech in full - She thanked everyone involved in "Catwoman," a film she said took her from the top of her profession to the bottom.
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28/02/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
jimray : Useful web sites for reporters - Or, anyone researching anything [via /popular]
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28/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jimray : RunFast - free program launcher/command tool - LaunchBar for Windows (kinda)
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28/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Steve Rubel is anti-Google toolbar (in response to Cory Doctorow) - "I wouldn't want this ? unless the site is intentionally part of the read/write web, such as a wiki or a blog that is open to comments. Your content is your content."
Wayne Burkett : Micro Persuasion: Rip, Mix, Burn, Autolink - One way you can tell this argument isn't going anywhere is that opponents of AutoLink are arguing from a position of Slippery Slope as though it's *not* a logical fallacy. #
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28/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : mutt next generation - mutt next generation: must keep an eye on this project
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28/02/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
jimray : GeoURL 2.0 in beta - Rejiggered and reimplemented, but old URL's still work [via Six Apart ProNet]
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Jeremy Zawodny : V710 motorola phone and OS X - V710 motorola phone and OS X: similar instructions work on windows as well
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28/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr Gets Even More Postmodern - Flickr Gets Even More Postmodern: a flickr sense of humor
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28/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Calendar? - Google Calendar?: more thoughts on what we need in a good internet scale calendar
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28/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Feedview - Feedview: a feed reading extension for firefox
deusx : Epigoon » Feedview - "Feedview is a Firefox extension that shows newsfeeds/blogs in a more stylish way."
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28/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : New web-only trailer for "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" - In near-illegible Windows Media Format. Still hilarious though--Stephen Fry is incredible.
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28/02/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Goading BTK - Creepy message board posts from someone trying to get BTK to contact him
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Nelson Minar : BTK reused a floppy? - Rumour that he was caught because someone undeleted some files on a disc he mailed
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28/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Sims 2: Nightlife - Rumour about the next Sims 2 expansion, a scan of the box for University
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28/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Wiki Spam Update - Spam sucks. Always. #
Simon Willison : Wiki Spam Update - Sam Ruby suggests blocking changes that add 10 or more new links.
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