18/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Getting Started with a TV Tuner Card - Installing and using the Hauppauge WinTV Radio card to watch television, listen to the radio and more
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18/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Five Questions to Verify if an Entity is a Robot - a low-tech Turing test
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18/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Six Apart's Power Tools - like Google Code, I love the trend of companies open-sourcing their internal tools [via] [via]
jimray : SixApart Power Tools - Open Source tools from the makers of Movable Type [via waxy]
Paul Hammond : Six Apart - Professional Network - Power Tools - one central place to get lots of open source code and components that Six Apart's team has released
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18/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Monuments of Switzerland - giant cooling tower light art projections - Monuments of Switzerland - giant cooling tower light art projections (click 'weiter' for more)
Andy Baio : Fun with high powered projectors - "weiter" means next [via] [via]
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18/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Inner World of the Hard Drive - ExtremeTech's piece on the inner workings of your hard drive explains what exactly makes up one of the most crucial pieces of hardware in your machine and how every single bit gets recorded and read
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18/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : DRM Stripped From iTunes Downloads - Jon Johansen, also known as "DVD Jon," has developed a new program that strips the DRM restrictions from iTMS, the software used to protect Apple Computer's iTunes
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18/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3: Shaun Inman's "What's the Word?" - lovely geek folk song, the guy is multi-talented [via] [via]
Ethan Marcotte : Shaun Inman's song, "What's the Word?" - I can officially die happy.
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18/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Notes on George Dyson's Etech talk about Von Neumann - This is the one talk I'm very sad to have missed at Etech.
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18/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : PyMusique, buy DRM-free songs from iTunes Music Store - DVD Jon strikes again [via] [via]
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18/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : PyMusique: A first look at the code - Excellent summary by Dan of what's under PyMusique's (metaphorical) hood. #
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18/03/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : Buy DRM-free songs from the iTunes Music Store - PyMusique is a python client that downloads iTMS tracks without the DRM (linux/windows only for now)
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18/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Anne's website checklist - Great stuff. #
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18/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Online casinos offer bonuses to entice new players but you need to bet a certain amount to get it - But by playing blackjack by the numbers and betting the minimum, you barely lose any money and get to keep the whole bonus. Online casino hacks!
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18/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Lens Culture is a thoughtfully constructed photography site
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18/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing - Ask and ye shall, etc. #
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18/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Tivo Bloglines Reader - Read yer Bloglines account on yer TiVo. #
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18/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Comic: The Warhol Factory Outlet Store - famous for 1500 people [via] [via]
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18/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : When looking at the distribution of wealth, rich people follow a power law curve, but the rest don't - "While economists' models traditionally regard humans as rational beings who always make intelligent decisions, econophysicists argue that in large systems the behaviour of each individual is influenced by so many factors that the net result is
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18/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with Danny O'Brien about life hacks - "I suppose what I learnt here is that going public improves the benefits of your work generally, though not always to yourself. Things that you put on the Web have a better chance of getting done, though necessarily by you."
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18/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : March's evil award goes to the idea "of being too quick to judge others without knowing the burdens they bow to" - "And [to] the poor providers of content, who given the choice between allowing others to improve on their work - even when enacted by companies like Google - and keeping it all to themselves, would rather 'opt out', hoard up their treasures
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18/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Notes about Surowiecki's talk at ETech about the Wisdom of Crowds
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18/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kellan : Mental Health Through Ignorance - Greasemonkey script to hide stories in Bloglines about topics you don't want to read #
François Nonnenmacher : Ignorance is bliss - Mental Health Through Ignorance, a greasemonkey script that will hide any stories matching specified strings
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18/03/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Deconstructing Certification - So, if I learn a little bit more about XML Schema... (I have a book about it, so it should be possible.) #
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18/03/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : CSS 3 Modules dependencies visualized - Ugh. [via] #
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18/03/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Cancelled, Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.2 Coming - Hmm, even more updates. #
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18/03/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Mozilla 1.8 Beta 2 Delayed - Nice, that gives me some extra time. #
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18/03/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Code.Google.com: new open source - And look who is featured on the first day! He should start weblogging again some day, really. #
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18/03/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : CSS2.1 is CSS2 - Something to keep in mind. (I still think asking for CSS 2.1 support makes it more clear, but they really mean the same.) #
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18/03/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : New KDE 3.4 Features - ?KHTML: Complete CSS 2.1 support.? Too bad I can?t test. [via] #
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18/03/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : 13 things that do not make sense - 13 areas in which observation does not line up with current theory
Matthew M. Boedicker : 13 things that do not make sense
Nelson Minar : 13 things that do not make sense - Science mysteries (via Metafilter)
Wayne Burkett : New Scientist: 13 things that do not make sense #
jkottke : 13 things that science doesn't have the answers for - Dark matter, the Pioneer anomaly, cold fusion, the placebo effect, etc. Some great opportunities for discovery.
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18/03/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Windows Application Compatibility - The Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 4.0 was designed to help IT Professionals minimize the risks associated with changes to the operating system and to deploy Windows XP SP2 quickly so they can realize the value of the investments Microsoft has ma
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18/03/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Defective Yeti's least hot followups - this made me laugh, repeatedly
jkottke : The 30 least-hot things you can say to a naked woman
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18/03/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : WSJ article on the history of yelling Free Bird at concerts - with accompanying audience clips from various concerts
Rod Begbie : WSJ.com - Rock's Oldest Joke: Yelling 'Freebird!' In a Crowded Theater - The history of a bizarre joke. I've been guilty of yelling this, but never had any idea why! [via] #
jkottke : The history of yelling "Freebird" at concerts - I wonder if this ever happens at 50 Cent concerts?
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18/03/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Chinese iPod Mini knockoff - first the fake Shuffle and now this; a sign of Apple's design influence overseas
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18/03/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Photo tour of the Pixar offices - animators are encouraged to heavily mod their workspaces
Matthew M. Boedicker : photos of Pixar offices (cool custom cubicles)
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18/03/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : 'The Office' remake set to debut online - news.com(.com) links to little old me. Not quite as exciting as appearing in NTK last week, but it makes me happy none t'less. #
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18/03/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tag-o-Vision combines 50 Flickr photos into one average image per tag - the Python source is available, too [via] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : images in Flickr tags combined into average images
doug : 50 people see... - Automatic averages of 50 Flickr images which share the same tag. I think the most interesting is the four-pane view of winter, sprint, summer, autumn...
kellan : 50 people see... - Beautifully blended photosets remind me of Rothko, but better #
plasticbag : The '50 people see' set on Flickr - Inspired by Jason Salavon's work - merges together images with a similar tag to create ghostly beautiful composites
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18/03/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Make previews Odeo podcasting service - looks outstanding from the screenshots [via] [via]
jimray : ODEO Podcast service - ODEO looks damn cool [via waxy]
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18/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
plasticbag : David Weinberger summarises the "Reinventing Radio" paper - "They end by asking what the social implications of networked TiVo would be."
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18/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
plasticbag : David Weinberger summarises the "Programme Information Pages" paper - A couple of the quotes could be misinterpreted, but otherwise not a bad nutshelling...
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plasticbag : I keep coming back to typographica's top fonts of 2004... - ...so I guess I should actually bookmark the damn thing. Currently loving the look of Neo Sans and Neo Tech...
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plasticbag : The route of the trainline that we took down the West Coast of America - Did you know there are no clear train routes between LA and San Francisco? Bizarre!
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18/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
plasticbag : Chive restaurant in San Diego - Pros: Food good. Cons: No obvious ones. Possible correlates: Felt a bit kak all evening.
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18/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : Who Will Free Fiona Apple? - "Fiona Apple is singing anew, despite the corporate crackdown and the RIAA sneers"
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18/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
plasticbag : A really nice and positive response to our ETech paper on Programme Information Pages - Yeah, I got quite over-excited by the end of the paper and couldn't stop droning on about it...
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18/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
plasticbag : Robert Kaye on the "Reinventing Radio" talk we did at ETech 2005 - "I can only hope that some folks from US radio companies are paying attention to the BBC. If you aren't you'll be out of a job soon!"
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18/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jkottke : Google search for "micropatron" - From 0 to ~73,300 in three weeks. Not bad.
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18/03/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : One whole year of quicklinks!
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18/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : anti-mega: tangible computing - Our Emerging Technology talk is over, the demos worked, all seemed to go well
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18/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Joshua Porter: Controlled Vocabularies Cut Off the Long Tail - "The Long Tail paradigm is about the discovery of information, not just the finding of it."
Paul Hammond : Bokardo » Controlled Vocabularies Cut Off the Long Tail - opportunities to discover new information underneath the same old set of categories is small
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18/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : PresentationSlides - Kwiki - some goodies
Nelson Minar : ETech slides - Links to people's presentations, including mine
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