11/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : XPlanner - Extreme Programming-focused project-planning tool. Initial signs point to: "Me likey a lot" #
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deusx : beck black tambourine - Looks like a Beck video run through some funky ascii-art/aalib filters. Very cool.
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Andy Baio : Kasparov retires from chess - tired of getting beat by computers, maybe
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Nelson Minar : Bizou closing? - One of my favourite SF restaurants rumoured to be in trouble (via Marc)
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jimray : LEGO Death Star - "That's no moon" [via gizmodo]
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kayodeok : Firefox Spyware infects IE? - What if there was an infection out there that could bypass Firefox and still get its grubby little paws on IE, and from there, the heart of your OS? What if that same infection could get past not only FF, but a whole raft of other (supposedly more secure)
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jkottke : The making of the Lost Buildings DVD, a collaboration between Ira Glass, Chris Ware, and Twinkle Animation Studio
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jkottke : Whoa, the Rosie O'Donnell blog that everyone was linking to earlier in the week? Turns out it's really her.
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jkottke : Matt Jones on the goodness of the new Doctor Who series
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jkottke : Collection of photos and drawings of the New York that might have been - See what Bryant Park would have looked like if they'd never removed the Croton Reservoir.
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Nelson Minar : Lick Jar-Jar's tongue - Lovely Star Wars products (via Marc)
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deusx : techno.blog("Dion"): Iron Coder: TV for programmers - "Have you seen the goofy T.V. show Iron Chef, where they have an episode to compete on their culinary skills? I would love to create: Iron Coder."
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Rod Begbie : BBC - Red Nose Day - Auntie are streaming the whole Red Nose Day show tonight. #
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kayodeok : Bad Data Fouls Background Checks - Recent security breaches at ChoicePoint and Seisint have raised awareness about data brokering and the role that these companies play in identity theft. But the breaches have brought little attention to another problem with data brokering that can cause j
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11/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Greasemonkey and Textile - "A little script for Greasemonkey that makes all textareas in a website textilable." [via] #
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11/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : New Star Wars trailer - Yay eye candy.
Anne van Kesteren : New Star Wars trailer - :-) #
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11/03/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : The IE wishlist - HTTP! How could I forget. #
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11/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
tehu : IE7 developper to community : Tell us what you need. We can't guarantee that we will do that. - This thread could be entitled : Web Developers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
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11/03/2005 @ 15:58 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : position:fixed and same-document references - Some problems. Ugh. #
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11/03/2005 @ 15:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Nvu 0.90 released - Almost there? #
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11/03/2005 @ 15:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Community Transition Plan for Seamonkey - Not official, still there. #
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11/03/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
plasticbag : Microsoft announced early Thursday that it will acquire Groove Networks and integrate Groove's Virtual Office collaboration software into the Office System lineup. - Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, will become chief technology officer of Microsoft and report directly to company chairman Bill Gates.
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11/03/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
plasticbag : Dooce receives an aggravating e-mail from someone from a large consultancy company - That people still think there's a difference between online life and real life astounds me
deusx : dooce: Email: Best wishes in growing up - "WE FIND that we know where you work, Matt Jackson, and that this company isn?t going to take kindly toward one of their principals sending bizarre, misogynistic diatribes to a public figure."
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11/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Get the trailer for Star Wars Episode III here
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11/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr to add photo printing through EZ Prints - Ofoto and Shutterfly, watch your backs [via] [via]
jkottke : Flickr is finally going to offer prints through the site
jimray : Flickr Selects EZ Prints - Time to start uploading higher res photos
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11/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Scientists may have discovered why I can't stop listening to that Since U Been Gone song - "When familiar tunes played, the cortex activity continued during the blanks - and the volunteers indeed said they still mentally 'heard' the tunes."
kayodeok : How tunes get stuck in your head - Scientists may have found what makes a tune catchy, after locating the brain area where a song's "hook" gets caught
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11/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : How do you decide who is a journalist? - "Those who advocate a special legal privilege for journalists must accept that anyone who thinks he's a journalist is a journalist, and figure out how to protect the activity rather than a defined group of people."
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11/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Removing ?nofollow? from WordPress 1.5 - I guess I should upgrade one day. #
kayodeok : Removing "nofollow"from WordPress 1.5 - How to remove the "no follow" directive or both links in comments and to the author?s home page
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11/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with me on Glassdog
Anne van Kesteren : Interview: Jason Kottke - Funny. #
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11/03/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : rachelleb.com street writing photographs - rachelleb.com street writing photographs [via] [via]
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11/03/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Isofarro : Enhancing Structural Markup with JavaScript - Scott Andrew's functions to add and remove javascript functions from event handlers
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11/03/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : IEBlog - IE and Standards - We will continue to improve our compliance under strict mode even when it breaks compatibility, and under quirks mode when it?s not damaging to our backwards compatibility
tehu : IE7 developper to community : Tell us what you need. We can't guarantee that we will do that. - This thread could be entitled : Web Developers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
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11/03/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Building Truly Portable Database Applications in PHP -- Table of Contents - Daniel Convissor's presentation on Building Truly Portable Database Applications for PHP goes into a lot of detail, covering stuff like data type issues, concatenation operators, literal identifiers, handling of booleans, etc for an extensive list of data
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11/03/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Tips on Writing Portable SQL for Multiple Databases for PHP - If you are writing an application that is used in multiple environments and operating systems, you need to plan to support multiple databases
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11/03/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
philgyford : My business influences (kottke.org) - Jason on companies with appealing business ethics.
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11/03/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Access Database using Linux and PHP - How to import Microsoft Access Database Files into MySql on Linux using PHP
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11/03/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Future of the Mozilla Application Suite: No Official Mozilla 1.8, Community Transition Plan Unveiled - MozillaZine Talkback - This announcement confirms that there will be no official Mozilla 1.8 release and offers an apology to all those who believed that there would be. The 1.7.x line will be the last set of Mozilla Application Suite products released and maintained by the Moz
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11/03/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Business schools redefine hacking to "stuff that a 7-year-old could do" - "As progressively dumber programmers build progressively more complex systems we will see more of this kind of attempt to paper over coding mistakes with lawyers, sanctions, policies, and laws. Hollywood and the RIAA are usually the most successful at ge
Matthew M. Boedicker : Business schools redefine hacking to "stuff that a 7-year-old could do"
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11/03/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Rise of Howard Stringer at Sony is More Properly the Fall of Ken Kutaragi - An insight into Corporate Strategy; I need to read more of this stuff for my final exams in Strategic Business Planning
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11/03/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flash: A New Bunny - very offensive language, but very funny commentary on the new Bugs Bunny [via] [via]
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11/03/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The long tail of software - not just search engines, books, and music; also, user-written software [via] [via]
jkottke : The Long Tail of software
ricmac : Bnoopy: The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens. - "...there is a long tail of very custom process problems that software is supposed to help businesses solve."
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11/03/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Mozilla Application Suite - Transition Plan - "The 1.7.x line will be the last set of Seamonkey products released and maintained by the Mozilla Foundation"
Anne van Kesteren : Mozilla Application Suite - Transition Plan - There might be another version. #
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11/03/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Another Jeremy Blog - Another Jeremy Blog: oh no!
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tehu : Crooked Timber has migrated from MT to WordPress - 3000 articles, 63000 comments, 1 lead developper, 2 pizzas, 1 pepsi pack...
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11/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
kellan : Amazon.com: Books: Hacking RSS and Atom - deusx's book hits Amazon. Now do we believe the Aug 22nd date? #
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11/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
ricmac : Susan Mernit re Google News - "if you're Google, the next step is to integrate in all the other apps you have--email, search, shopping, alerts, etc. and let users add those customized elements to their start page, uh, I mean news page, as well."
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ricmac : Russ Beattie: My Yahoo! Mobile RSS - "So what I'm doing right now is going through my news feeds of my primary aggregator and picking out some of the important ones that I'd like to be able to quickly access when I'm moving, and adding them to My Yahoo!"
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Jeremy Zawodny : NSA Calendar 2005 - NSA Calendar 2005: Nevada Soaring Association Stuff
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Jeremy Zawodny : ETech: Introduction to Yahoo! Search Web Services - ETech: Introduction to Yahoo! Search Web Services: come hear me talk about stuff
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Jeremy Zawodny : SpellWeb adds Yahoo! votes thanks to new Yahoo! APIs - SpellWeb adds Yahoo! votes thanks to new Yahoo! APIs: funky
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Jeremy Zawodny : Why Google isn't what it used to be - Why Google isn't what it used to be: hmm...
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Jeremy Zawodny : SeeYou Mobile - Compatible hardware - SeeYou Mobile - Compatible hardware: need to play with this for my new PDA and flight computer
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11/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Pod People Find Love on Yahoo! Search Engine - Pod People Find Love on Yahoo! Search Engine: hahahahaha...
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11/03/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : The unofficial geek guide to getting over yourself at SxSW Interactive 2005 - I gotta get me one of those smilie stickers.
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11/03/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : apophenia: fuck the SXSW etiquette guide - Point.... counter-point. (via) [via]
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11/03/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Google News, now with customisation - Very nice use of drag and drop for the interface. (via) [via]
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11/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Taming the back button - That most elusive of browser features.
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11/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Clearing floats on Quirksmode - PPK's writeup of the new overflow:auto technique. (via) [via]
Paul Hammond : CSS - Clearing floats - this technique will do nicely
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11/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : The Digital Edition Dirigibles - Worth reading just for the stuff about Zeppelins.
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11/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Combining XMLHttpRequest and Rails to Produce More Efficient UIs - Ruby on Rails is setting itself up to be THE framework for Ajax work.
Paul Hammond : Combining XMLHttpRequest and Rails to Produce More Efficient UIs | - create a far more fluid, efficient user interface
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11/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : voice of humanity: The Annotated Web - I need to read this for my final year project.
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