3/03/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : Eye Massager with USB Port - If it lit up while in use, they'd have had a sale. Make sure to savor the Engrish description.
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3/03/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : Backdrop - A nifty little utility that makes taking clean screen shots in OS X a lot simpler.
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Andy Baio : PDF: Waxy.org mentioned in Free Software Foundation's amicus brief on Grokster case! - footnote on page 17; the whole brief is an inspiring read [via] [via]
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3/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NYT may kill Circuits section - replace it with a fashion and shopping section
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3/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : JavaScript interface to the del.icio.us API
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3/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies - The bodies responsible for the Internet's protocols and parameters can be said to steer the Internet in a significant sense. This document, by Alex Simonelis of Dawson College in Montreal, is a summary of those bodies and their most important characterist
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jkottke : A "making of" trailer for the new Wallace and Gromit movie
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3/03/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Jason Shellen : evhead: Apple Addiction - Sadly, this feels familiar. Ev's in it to win it though. #
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3/03/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : Netscape Browser 8.0 Beta Released - Based on Mozilla Firefox 1.0, this beta of Netscape's newest browser offers support for both the Gecko and Internet Explorer rendering engines
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3/03/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google's secret of success? Dealing with failure - "Google splits the Web into millions of pieces, or "shards" in Google tech speak, which are replicated in case of failure."
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3/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Intel: Wireless USB set to kill off Bluetooth - Wireless USB products will be in the shops by Christmas and the widespread adoption of the technology will rapidly kill off Bluetooth, Intel has claimed at its Developer Forum in San Francisco.
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3/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Integrating Bloglines and del.icio.us - Using the GreaseMonkey Firefox Extension to Integrate Bloglines and del.icio.us
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3/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Friendster rebrands Typepad as Friendster Blogs - but with no social network value; where are friends-only posts and group blogs? [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Phosphor Alpha 4 - impressive Shockwave first-person shooter [via] [via]
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3/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : CCC: Revolved - Album of mash-ups, based upon every track on Revolver. [via] #
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3/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : XM Raises Price - Or Did They Lower It? - XM raises subscription charge from $9.99 to $12.99, but adds in online listening, which used to cost an extra $3.99 a month. Can't decide if I appreciate this move or not. #
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3/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Powerbook Sudden Motion Sensor - now, someone needs to write a Super Monkeyball or Marble Madness clone for these laptops
Paul Hammond : The PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor - AMS can be accessed from user-space for various purposes
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3/03/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : RNID teaser site: 10 things you should know about website accessibility - 10 things you should know about website accessibility
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3/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Loses Key Windows Architect to Google - Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft distinguished engineer, has quietly abandoned the Redmond ship for one of Microsoft's archrivals
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3/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Malaysian bootleg DVD runs negative blurb on package - "SuperBabies has no redeeming qualities" [via] [via]
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3/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : SAJAX, Simple Ajax Toolkit - convenient way to do remote scripting in PHP [via] [via]
jkottke : Sajax is a PHP toolkit for Ajax - No more excuses...playing around with this is to commence in a few days.
kayodeok : SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit by ModernMethod - XMLHTTPRequest Toolkit for PHP - Sajax is a tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework - also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting - as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refr
François Nonnenmacher : Sajax - Simple Ajax frameworks in PHP
ricmac : SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit - "The toolkit does 99% of the work for you so you have no excuse to not use it." WOW! (via waxy.org)
Rod Begbie : SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit - Yikes! This makes Ajax app creation frighteningly simple. [via] #
jimray : SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit by ModernMethod - PHP toolkit for implementing Ajax [via joeweiss]
bmilleare : SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit
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3/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kaninka.net : Dreifing meðalskulda eftir aldri
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3/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : ybirthdayalbum's Photos - ybirthdayalbum's Photos: Yahoo 10 Year Birthday Party
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3/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
plasticbag : Interesting-looking DAB radio walkman from Sony - I wonder how much it costs. It looks pretty sweet. I wonder if there will ever be radios in iPods...
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3/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Share your iTunes Library via iTunes Music Sharing or over the web - I was just listening to songs from someone's library over the web and it worked great.
plasticbag : accessTunes shares your iTunes library as soon as you turn on your computer - You don't even have to have iTunes open. I think this is interesting mostly because I don't think it'll take off. This needs to be a component of something that gives you a direct reward or it won't spread...
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3/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Friendster has blogs now, still a stupid company - The new new new economy business model: just add blogs!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo's Contextual Ads in the Wild - Yahoo's Contextual Ads in the Wild: hmm...
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Andy Baio : MSN Found "game" created by I Love Bees masterminds - no matter how good the game is, it's still a promotion for a crappy product [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Anonymous investors pledge $3 million to save Star Trek Enterprise - oddly, they cite the reviled theme song as a primary inspiration [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Copyright clearance on American Idol - I noticed this too; she was voted off, partially because they couldn't clear her song choices
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jkottke : Telephoto Is for Cowards: on shooting candid photos - "Real photographers don't shoot candids with telephoto lenses."
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3/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : IBM backs open-source Web software | CNET News.com - "IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers."
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3/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : Advanced Internet Technologies - The Elements of Computing Systems - Building a Modern Computer from First Principles - "The best way to understand how computers work is to build one from scratch..." I wants me this book.
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deusx : The Elements of Computing Systems - The MIT Press
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3/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
plasticbag : seti@home style distributed software is being planned to look for extra-solar planets - And if you're one of the people whose computer finds one, you get to name the little bugger. Sweet...
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3/03/2005 @ 14:58 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : A nation of dunces in the making?
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3/03/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The coming crackdown on (US political) blogging - How much for that hyperlink?
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3/03/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : US backing down in abortion row - The US has strongly hinted that it will drop its controversial demand to add anti-abortion language to a UN declaration on women's rights
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3/03/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Blogs Keep Internet Customers Coming Back
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3/03/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Scientists slam US plasma weapon - New torture toy in the arsenal
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3/03/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : How to Interview a Programmer - Recognizing good programmers among job applicants is not easy. This article contains interview techniques, garnered from a recent summit on writing better code, that can help you can find the most qualified programmers for your project.
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3/03/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : SHA-1: Your questions answered - CNet.com talks to one of the researchers behind the 'cracking' of SHA-1 (Yiqun Lisa Yin) to find out what his research means for both businesses and cryptanalysts
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3/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
znarf : Google Toolbar AutoLink - "As content providers, let's not try and reach into our readers' computers and dictate what they can or can't do with the copies of our content that they've downloaded for their personal use" Amen #
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3/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : In NYC, delivery is king - You can get any kind of food you want delivered to your door in 30 minutes.
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3/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Grant Barrett has updated his excellent MTA face analysis document to account for the recent price hikes - If you're a pure communter (10 uses a week), the 30-day unlimited card is no longer your best value. (Comment on this)
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3/03/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Google AutoLink: enemy of the people?
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3/03/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Ping-o-Matic! » Ping-O-Matic Global Network - "By setting up a network of global mirrors we?re enabling extremely high availability of the Ping-O-Matic service for everyone and distributing the load of the ever-increasing traffic."
znarf : Ping-O-Matic Global Network [via] #
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3/03/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : Less Impact from the "Slashdot Effect" - Maybe so, but the only two times I've been /.ed my stats went through the roof. (link via paidcontent.org)
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3/03/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Isofarro : Judge dismisses spam conviction - Jessica DeGroot escapes, but the conviction of Jeremy Jaynes was upheld.
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3/03/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
kayodeok : Show Me the Code: A worked example on creating a RESTful Web Service - Joe Gregorio provides a worked example on building a bookmark service like delicious
deusx : XML.com: Show Me the Code - Plotting out a REST-centric del.icio.us mini-clone
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3/03/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Which Distro Do You Recommend? - "very distribution of Linux sucks in its own special way. Some just suck less"
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3/03/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Joho the Blog: NYTimes to publish Wikipedia-like topic archives - "So, starting in April, NYTimes.com is going to publish thousands of topic pages, each aggregating the content from the 10 million articles in its archive, going back to 1851, including graphics and multimedia resources."
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3/03/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Run Linux on Windows - There are a couple of ways you can try Linux before installing it on your hard drive. One way is to use a live cd, another way is to run it on Windows. Damn Small Linux has a version designed to run directly from Windows
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3/03/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : For the old schoolers: Entropy8Zuper celebrates 10 years online - Entropy8 completely dazzled this young designer when I was soaked behind the ears.
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3/03/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : "Flocabulary: the first vocabulary building exercise to combine hip hop music with the most popular and challenging vocabulary words" - Study for the SATs by rapping vocabulary words. According to the site, "IT WORKS."
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3/03/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : Applying Moneyball tactics to the NBA - "What really matters, Oliver and other analysts say, is not how many points a player scores but how efficiently he uses his possessions."
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3/03/2005 @ 04:57 GMT
Charles Miller : -client and -server - From Sun's FAQ: What's the difference between the -client and -server?
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3/03/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
jimray : Eyetracking Google - So THAT's why everybody wants to be number one (also: duh)
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3/03/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
jimray : XMLHttpRequest Usability Guidelines - Once you figure out how to use it, learn how to use it properly
Nelson Minar : XMLHttpRequest guide - Usability Guidelines (via Kottke)
Paul Hammond : XMLHttpRequest Usability Guidelines | Baekdal.com - a few essential issues to keep in mind
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3/03/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
jimray : The winners of the "name Ann Coulter's next book" contest - Personally, I'm a bigger fan of "Ann: doesn't eat, shoots and never leaves" [via jossip]
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3/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Happy Birthday, FeedBurner - "A year ago, we launched the "pre-alpha" version of FeedBurner. Well, we've made it to "beta", and we're threatening to drop that designation any day now. We just have a couple more milestones to hit."
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3/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Ninja Wednesday - This is quickly becoming a fave. And no, I don't think it's the bias talking.
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3/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Frighteningly exhaustive list of Mozilla preference settings - color.me.overwhelmed = "true";
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3/03/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
jimray : Deconstructing the Sun-Times slideshow - Great slideshow of the ugliest building in Chicago meeting its end (ugliest until Trump Tower is erect, that is) [via mefi]
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3/03/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
ricmac : INJAN (It's Not Just About News) - Alternative uses for RSS (circa 2003)
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3/03/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web - Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web: very cool
tehu : Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web - si loin, si proche...
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3/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Search Sidebar for Firefox - Yahoo! Search Sidebar for Firefox: Marc rocks
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3/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Evolution of Batman logos - the late '80s were an ugly serif typeface [via] [via]
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3/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wists, visual bookmarks - like Flickr meets Delicious; David Galbraith explains [via] [via]
kellan : wists - visual bookmarks - Been thinking of doing something like this, but more like HotLinks #
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3/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
deusx : It's all good: Revenge of the Codex People - "Bibliotheca Ephemeris was honoured to obtain an interview with Abbot Michael upon his return from Mainz, where he visited Johannes Gutenberg."
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3/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Lawrence Lessig on C-SPAN - I've watched several of the very good Digital Future series [via] [via]
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3/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jkottke : Sasha Frere-Jones on ringtones - "I spent three days of productive work time listening to polyphonic ringtone versions of speed metal, trying to find exactly the ringtone that expressed my personality with enough irony and enough coolness that I could live with it going off ten time
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3/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
ricmac : Technology.Updates.com - beta tech news aggregator from CNet, including a number of blog sources. Very interesting (via Alex Moskalyuk)
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3/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Again, a newspaper PDF experiment is fatally flawed - Adrian nails the reason PDF editions will always play second fiddle to the real web.
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Simon Willison : Relaxation Ranking Passage Retrieval - Steve Green explains Sun's passage search technology.
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3/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jimray : WikiMac - Community Mac site that follows the WikiPedia model (part of the WikiCities project, an offshoot of Wikipedia)
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3/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
kayodeok : Merriam-Webster Online - Firefox downloads - "Five separate tools are available, all of which allow you to search Merriam-Webster's online dictionary and thesaurus in a slightly different way"
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3/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : An interesting job is going over at Headshift - Social Software consultant, you say... Hmm.... Interesting...
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