7/03/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
Eric Meyer : Simple Clearing of Floats - I don't even know if this should work, but work it does. Nifty.
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7/03/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : Lockhart Steele, managing editor of Gawker - They pay $2500 p/mth + traffic bonuses: the writers "need to have an entrepreneurial instinct. We're trying to test the idea of asking writers not only to write but also kind of think with a business mindset about their content."
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7/03/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Fiona Apple's new album leaked online in its entirety - you'd think Sony would learn from the recent past
ricmac : Fiona Apple album on the Net in its entirety - Apparently Fiona finished this album in 2003!! Why has it never been released? Who knows... in any case, thanks waxy.org for the update.
jimray : Official track listing for Fiona Apple's leaked album - Apparently, it's been shelved by Sony records
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7/03/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Blog Torrent adds support for server-side seeding - guarantees your torrents will always be available, at a bandwidth cost [via] [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Andy Baio : White House approves daily pass for blogger - reading about the experience is better than the briefing itself
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7/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Hans Bethe, one of the last surviving giants of the nuclear age, dies aged 98 - The NY Times has a nice extended obit.
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7/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Videos of three lecutres given by Hans Bethe in 1999 - "The presentation makes use of limited mathematics while focusing on the personal and historical perspectives of one of the principal architects of quantum theory whose career in physics spans 75 years."
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7/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : This MetaFilter post is chock full of links about various London tube maps
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7/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Best of NYC Food 2005 from New York magazine - The Shake Shack, serving a west coast-style burger, garners the coveted Best Burger title.
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7/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : There is absolutely nothing intentionally funny about this photo
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7/03/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
cobra libre : wing commander privateer remake - i am tingling with excitement [via] #
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7/03/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
kayodeok : The Road to Windows Longhorn 2005 - Longhorn will be released to manufacturing in May 2006, according to senior Microsoft executives, though other interim dates could change
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7/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Blogging the White House - This post, it seems, marks the first blog from a White House press briefing
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7/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : An interview with Cory Doctorow about his writing, science fiction, and a bit about technology
Philippe Janvier : An Interview with Cory Doctorow - "I think we're going to reach a point where the fact that you understand and are deeply involved in a technological revolution as fundamental as the dot-com one will mean that you'll be out of work and irrelevant in about a year. So you'll hav [via] #
ricmac : Richard Koman interviews Cory Doctorow - "I write for 20-30 minutes every day. I do it at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. in the morning. I write 250 words, about one page. At that rate, I do a little over a novel a year and that's not a bad clip to go at."
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7/03/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : Make your Windows desktop apps open source - Even if you have good reasons for sticking with Windows, you can still keep your desktop applications open source. Apart from OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Gaim, and Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, there are quite a few other useful applications that can hel
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7/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
ricmac : Jon Udell: The on-demand blogosphere - "What if we could consult the wisdom of our networks of bloggers on demand, in realtime, relative to topics of current interest?"
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7/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
ricmac : Jason Kottke on blog fundraising for worthy causes - The comments will make this post into an excellent resource for using blogs for charitable purposes.
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7/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wall-sized whiteboards for $13 - this is a steal [via] [via]
jimray : Marker board walls - A wall as whiteboard for between $13 and $100
Rod Begbie : Cool Tools - Marker Board Walls - The walls at SAPE were practically made out of this stuff. [via] #
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7/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : How to snatch an expiring domain - a small glimpse into the expiration process and the services competing for drops [via] [via]
Eric Meyer : How to Snatch an Expiring Domain - A detailed look into a side of the domain business I didn't even know existed, but found utterly logical. And scary.
Nelson Minar : Snatching domains - This is ludicrous, but fascinating (via Waxy)
kayodeok : Mike Davidson: How to Snatch an Expiring Domain - This article will explain the domain expiration process and what you need to do in order to use it to your advantage
François Nonnenmacher : How to snatch an expiring domain
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to snatch an expiring domain - (via slashdot) [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
deusx : Douglas Rushkoff - Evolution is a team sport, not a competition.
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7/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Hilarious Mime Routine - "I have never in my life enjoyed watching a mime."
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ricmac : WebProNews on niche blogging - The challenge is to "evolve with our readers as our common interests evolve."
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7/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Jon Udell screencast on the on-demand blogosphere - the inevitable future of RSS requires tools for managing a social network of feeds
Simon Willison : The on-demand blogosphere - I get a bit-part in a Jon Udell screencast! This actually ties in to my final year project...
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kayodeok : 3 column floated layouts, the IE5 Edition - A brief look on how to solve IE5 problems
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7/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : ZUGGEST - an XMLHttp Experiment using Amazon - It's Like Google Suggest, Only for Amazon
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7/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : Are Confirmation Dialogs Harmful? - The argument goes roughly as follows: soon, clicking "OK" after an operation that requires confirmation becomes a habit to the point where you don't read the dialog at all, and your fingers/mouse click OK without engaging your brain
Simon Willison : Are Confirmation Dialogs Harmful? - Undo beats confirmation dialogs every time. (via) [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3: We Built This Starbucks - terrible Starbucks corporate version of "We Built This City"; other corporate anthems
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7/03/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
Jason Shellen : Non Sequitur - The journalism vs. blogging debate hits the funny pages. #
jkottke : Monday's Non Sequitur comic strip called a newspaper a "dinosaur blog"
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7/03/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
Isofarro : European democracy bogus, says Open Source Consortium - 'THE OPEN SOURCE Consortium said it considered European democracy to be a sham, following a decision by the Europresidency, which we reported earlier today, to steamroller through the software patent directive.'
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7/03/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : Carly's Way - "To me, this rabid fixation on short-term profits is a bigger threat than outsourcing -- it is killing our ability to make astonishing things."
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7/03/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : JavaScriptTemplates - TrimPath - Trac - "For web application developers, the JavaScript Templates engine from TrimPath is a lightweight APL / GPL open-source component that lets you have template-based programming (like PHP/ASP/JSP) while running in a web browser."
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7/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Veerle's lovely CSS calendars - expect to see this on Upcoming.org very soon [via] [via]
doug : Styling a Calender - Veerle provides tips for styling calenders with CSS.
Paul Hammond : Veerle's blog - A CSS styled calendar - how to create such calendar
Philippe Janvier : A CSS styled calendar - "...an article on how to create such calendar". [via] #
Simon Willison : A CSS styled calendar - More CSS goodness.
kayodeok : A CSS styled calendar - Creating a CSS Styled Calendar for your blog
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Andy Baio : Video: Robot dinosaurs - life-size walking robot dinosaurs built for World Expo 2005 [via] [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : SXSW on your iPod - 2.6GB torrent of free songs by showcasing bands at SXSW [via] [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Still Seeing Breen - a Half-Life 2 machinima music video with a lip-syncing G-man [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : Still Seeing Breen - Awesome Half Life 2 machinima music video (via Joystiq)
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7/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Bram Cohen lecture at Stanford - covers benchmarking BitTorrent with an Internet simulation [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : AllofMP3.com escapes criminal lawsuit with legal loophole - Russian criminal law only applies to physical goods [via] [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Boredoms mp3s at Epitonic.com
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7/03/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
kellan : In case you didn't think this blog celebrates democracy... - On Colombian popular democracy #
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7/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
cobra libre : a taxonomy of musical instruments #
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7/03/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Isofarro : Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules - Large US software companies have money, European developers have ethics and common sense - money won out.
mbertier : Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules - "7 March 2005 -- The Council Presidency today declared the software agreement of 18 May 2004 to have been adopted, in violation of the procedural rules and in spite of the evident lack of a qualified majority of member states and the requests of several s #
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7/03/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : Spammers are lazy - So encoding can make a difference after all? I'm so confused.
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7/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Charlie's Diary - Brief Gloat - "And part of his job description includes running the company weblog." The aftermath of Joe Gordon, Waterstones employee fired with blogging as the excuse.
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7/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : When knowledge workers are the most valuable part of the business, business is going to run into problems - "The upshot is that in many knowledge businesses the employees often do better than the shareholders."
kayodeok : The talent class has declared war on shareholder capitalists - Old School Economics no longer apply in some industries - knowledge workers make the difference between success and failure
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7/03/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
jimray : The man behind "Deadwood" - Salon interview David Milch
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7/03/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Andy Baio : MPAA tracks a DVD pirate to a Shanghai penthouse - exactly what they should be doing, instead of suing their fans [via] [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : The Internet Revolution has Little to do with Technology - A kid watching TV is "unlikely to ever be involved in the production of any television" but that's not so with the internet.
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7/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : An interview with a Korean-American manager of a NYC deli
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7/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
ricmac : Peeking Into Google - "The key to the speed and reliability of Google search is cutting up data into chunks, its top engineer said."
jkottke : A look at Google's back-end systems and how they maintain redundancy
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7/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : The abilities required to prosper in the modern world are more right brain these days than left
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7/03/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Netcraft: Phishers Use Wildcard DNS to Build Convincing Bait URLs - Phishing operations have begun using DNS wildcards and URL encoding to create email links that display the URLs of legitimate banking sites, but send victims to spoof sites designed to steal their login details
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7/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Possible Domain Poisoning Underway - Security experts late Friday warned that a DNS cache poisoning attack may be underway and redirecting users from some of the most popular Web sites to a malicious URL where spyware and adware is invisibly installed onto their computers
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7/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Scripting and Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) - You just installed Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware, and now you're having difficulties with your scripts. Here's some insight into what's happening and what to do about it
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7/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Mandolux - "Desktop pictures for personal use". Nice ! [via] #
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7/03/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
mbertier : Write a zombie story, go to jail - "[...] what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police [...]" [via] #
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7/03/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
znarf : Mark Pilgrim's Greasemonkeys scripts - Be sure to check the one called LIP (Link Integrity Preservation) [via] #
jimray : Mark Pilgrim's greasemonkey scripts - I like the ScobleFucker myself...
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7/03/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : FOAF Discovery using Greasemonkey - "...a greasemonkey user-script for auto-discovery of FOAF embedded in HTML". [via] #
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7/03/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Monotype's Flash articulation of Neo Sans - Looks like a really elegant and beautiful modern technologist's typeface
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7/03/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
mbertier : PEAR Reaches 10 Million Downloads! - Pixelated Dreams - I don't know when exactly, but PEAR has now reached (and passed) the 10 Million downloads mark. As of writing it sits at 10,311,782 exactly. #
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7/03/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Float clearance with clears - Using overflow:auto to expand parents of floats.
Paul Hammond : mezzoblue § Clearance - Except there's a caveat: scrollbars
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7/03/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : ZDNet on Google desktop search - "All the search companies are hoping to lock in new visitors with desktop applications because they believe it will help them drive more Web searches--and hence more advertising sales."
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7/03/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : Pegasus News: Enablers - "Instead of being the gatekeepers of news (controlling it), we become the enablers of news." NB: this is on the 'content more important than containers' theme.
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7/03/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : John Battelle: The Interface Migrates to the Web - On MS Longhorn delays: "...how do you build a new operating system when its interface will live on the web, instead of on the desktop?" (apr 04)
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7/03/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Build your own PBX with Asterisk - $13 for a complete PBX, minus the phones [via] [via]
jimray : Kerry Garrison - Building your own PBX - Someday I will do this
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7/03/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : APIs available for Google Desktop Search - The Google Desktop Search SDK empowers software developers to integrate GDS into their own applications
Simon Willison : Google Desktop Search SDK - Note the reference to the "long tail of applications and file types".
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7/03/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google Desktop Search Moves Out of Beta - Google has formally launched its desktop search application, after a comparatively short beta test period of just five months
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7/03/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Comparison of Unwanted Software Installed by P2P Programs - Request a peer-to-peer filesharing program, and you may be surprised what else gets installed too. Ben Edelman tests five major P2P programs and analyzes their bundled software
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7/03/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NYT Magazine profile of Beck - he discusses Scientology about half-way through [via] [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Battelle on new Google Desktop Search - includes a floating search bar and APIs for plugging Google search into any Windows app
ricmac : Google Updates Desktop: MSFT Will Take Note - "The new GDS will also create a floating "search box" independent of any browser, which you can place anywhere you want on top of Windows. Hmmmm. This sounds very, er, post browser, very...Web 2.0."
jkottke : Google Desktop Search goes 1.0 and adds API support - Another block of the GooOS. And no doubt now that Google is Microsoft's biggest competitor.
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Andy Baio : Livejournal of a Mac Genius - insiders say Apple is furiously searching for the identity of this guy
Nelson Minar : Apple genius blog - Bitter, bitter (via Waxy)
jimray : Genius-like - Anonymous Apple "genius" on life at the bar
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ricmac : AP to start Web-based databases - Tom Curley is one of the smartest CEOs around... "The "newsbase" system is designed to make news easier to search, track and use in broadcast, print and online formats, Curley said."
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plasticbag : The National Archives release a spy handbook given to Russians in the UK
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jkottke : Artist LeeAnn Herreid makes neat jewelry: compass cufflinks, bubble level earrings, and magnifying glass necklaces
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plasticbag : Fontsmith on the bespoke typeface they created for the Channel 4 re-brand - Very nice, very stylish. Disappointingly not available for the rest of us
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plasticbag : Controversy over the Indonesian "hobbit" - Some people are claiming that the evidence points to diseased humans
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7/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : Useful JS code for railers - Or anyone else doing XHLHTTPRequest [via /popular]
Paul Hammond : Useful JS tools for Railers - these scripts were written only for demo/community purposes, and that they are not 100% honed (or guaranteed) to be perfect yet
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7/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
ricmac : Many-to-Many: New Technorati tag feature - "...the "related" tags can help you find more sources that are directly on the path you were heading down. So they help with both digression and focus."
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7/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Search Engine Strategies New York - Eric Meyer is a stranger in a strange land.
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7/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : NS 8 Beta review - Danial Glazman gives it to thumbs down.
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Simon Willison : NS8, part 1: I need closure - Blake Ross on Netscape 8's many usability snafus.
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7/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : The strength of edition - Brian Hamman defends "digital editions" - not a position you see very often. (via) [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Dualis, a new Nintendo DS emulator - no commercial games yet, but plays the existing homebrew demos [via] [via]
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7/03/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
kayodeok : Bypass of 22 Antivirus software with GDI+ bug exploit Mutations - part 2 - The issue is: only 1 out of 23 tested antivirus software can detect malicious JPEG image (after 6 month from the public disclosure date)
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7/03/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
kayodeok : Upgrading from firefox 1.0 to firefox 1.0.1 - Steps for upgrading from Firefox 1.0 to Firefox 1.0.1
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7/03/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
kayodeok : Annotating the planet with Google Maps - Open, XML-based design makes it a service factory for the geospatial Web
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7/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : NZ Herald review of Green Day concert and their latest album (on heavy rotate in my CD player currently) - Armstrong: "If you write a song that has something political in it, for me, it has to come from the same place as when you write a love song. It?s something that just comes natural, comes out of instinct, and something that you?re passionate about."
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7/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : iGo portable power for gadgets - iGo portable power for gadgets: must get one of these
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