21/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : iTunes Music Store locks out DRM-free purchases - Apple closes the "security hole" that let PyMusique in
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21/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : "kottke is having a massage" - Warning, inside joke.
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21/03/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Cable Yo Yo - I like the idea, but I need about 20 of them. #
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21/03/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : iPod Camera Connector available for order - I wonder if these things work with USB-based memory card readers...
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21/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : Whaleflip is a happy Greenpeace game of whales saving submarines - The blue whales extrude bubbles, the pink ones pulse elevating noises. It's easier than it sounds...
Ethan Marcotte : WhaleFlip - Propaganda can be fun!
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21/03/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Eric Meyer : FCC: Filing A Complaint - Here's where you go to complain to the FCC about unsolicited junk faxes, obscenity, phone slamming, and so on. Filed for later reference.
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21/03/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
kellan : tonx has just about the best job in the world. - for the love of coffee #
deusx : t o n x . o r g » I love my job - "So when coffee geeks get in a room together the topic rarely drifts away from coffee." Sounds like a nice night to me.
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21/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Silencing the Critics: DirectRevenue - Eric L. Howes, who operates spywarewarrior.com and provides a link to a mypctuneup.com removal tool, is being leaned on by some new york lawyers for DirectRevenue (owners of mypctuneup.com). Eric is being accused of causing substantial harm to an entire i
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21/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : QDN: Congress?s own words on Schiavo - "This is so much worse than I originally thought. Is there any doubt that this is a horrible violation of both separation of powers and states? rights?"
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21/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Buys Flickr: Why Do People Care? - Yahoo Buys Flickr: Why Do People Care?: hmm
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21/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Nintendo DS charging dock built from Legos - including game and stylus storage [via] [via]
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21/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Jon Udell's inspiring comments on Upcoming.org - read my response; I've committed to making some big changes by next Monday
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Firefox Toolbar Tutorial - This tutorial explains how to create a toolbar extension for the Firefox web browser.
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Automated web-crawler harvests resume info - A new search engine focused on people can automatically identify online information on individuals and weave it into detailed summaries
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : CSS tips and tricks, Part 2 - CSS tips on grouping selectors, clearing floats, horizontal centring, importing CSS, and a couple of troubleshooting tips
Simon Willison : CSS tips and tricks, Part 2 - Floats, centering, CSS hacks.
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : A cogent explanation of the Terri Schiavo case - It's a long, but important read. #
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Second Rule Of AdSense - The Second Rule Of AdSense: Is That You Can Now Talk About Earnings
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Erik Benson: a concise guide to what I learned at sxsw and etech 2005 - It all makes sense, in a way, doesn't it?
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Jason Santa Maria | Typographic Glass Ceiling - It?s a shame that we have taken such a giant step backwards
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Anil Dash: The Blog Cycle - The other interesting generality about these issues is that they almost all end up not being a big deal
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Menu collection from 1856-1930 comprised of over 5000 menus - Part of the extensive, near-exhaustive New York Public Library's Digital Gallery.
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Time to market for DVDs keeps getting shorter and shorter - Studios make more money on DVD releases, so they're eager to piggyback the DVD release on the big screen marketing campaign.
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21/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : A young Harvard economist named Roland Fryer Jr. wants to use economic tools to "figure out where blacks went wrong" - One of his papers addresses the six-year gap in life expectancy for blacks versus whites; he aruges that saltier black slaves were selected for the ocean voyage from Africa and that salt sensitivity has lead to "higher rates of cardiovascular disease
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21/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Using the LG-VX3200 phone with Linux
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21/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jimray : Ruby API for Flickr - Flickruby? Or Fl!ckruby?
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21/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jimray : What Counts: Need, Money, Urgency - "Don't be afraid to spurn any prospective customers who lack even one of these characteristics. They just aren't worth your time"
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21/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Rejected e-mails from the Snopes inbox - extremely gullible people ask Snopes to verify the truthfulness of jokes
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Andy Baio : The Rhys-Davies Episode III Hoax - how a prank e-mail became fact, reported in the online and offline media [via] [via]
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21/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Using the Powerbook motion sensor to control Neverball and Google Maps - an extension of this article, don't miss the three videos [via] [via]
jkottke : AMS2HID is an application that utilizes the motion sensor in the new Powerbook as a input device - Of course, one of the coolest uses is to control gameplay...one could imagine using AMS to play games like Katamari Damacy.
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21/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jimray : Micropayments come to gaming? - The nextgen XBox will supposedly have a storefront to let gamers with disposable income (redundant?) buy game mods
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21/03/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
kellan : proc {||} / a.call are major eyesores. - Ruby definitely has its own cruft #
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21/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
philgyford : In Safari, why are windows opened via Javascript 2 pixels wider and 1 pixel higher than requested? - Can anyone help Tim? Anyone?
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21/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bung Droppers - Bung Droppers: from the list of devices you wish you didn't know existed!
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Andy Baio : Flash: Kristan Horton remade Dr. Strangelove with household objects - here's an interview with the artist; warning, audio
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21/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Slashdot redesigning with XHTML and CSS - don't worry, it'll still be just as ugly to look at [via] [via]
Ethan Marcotte : Slashdot redesigning with XHTML/CSS - Hot.
Wayne Burkett : Slashdot is being converted to XHTML/CSS - This will be an improvement (of course), but I wonder if they've got an articulable reason for choosing XHTML over HTML. #
jimray : Slashdot moving to XHTML/CSS - News for nerds finally moves into the 21st Century [via waxy]
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21/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : PSP Video 9 - download, convert and copy video to your PSP using BitTorrent and RSS [via] [via]
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21/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with actor Gene Wilder about his new memoir
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21/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : PATH: Ways of Working in Photography
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21/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : A "fireball" (!!) created in a particle accelerator "may be [a] black hole" (!!!)
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21/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Peter Jackson says his film adaptation of The Hobbit is at least 3-4 years away.
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21/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Celebrities that look good or not so good on HDTV - "[Britney] is still in her early 20s, but she looks about 10 years older in high-def. Her face is puffy and she's starting to show wrinkle marks around her lips, reportedly from a two pack-a-day cigarette habit."
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21/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
philgyford : Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The invisible man - David Nicholls on realising, after eight years as an actor, that he just wasn't very good.
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21/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Ourmedia alpha launches - partnered with Archive.org, free tool to host and discuss grassroots media
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21/03/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Three days worth - So many topics, so little time. #
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21/03/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Abbreviations are a Breeze - Drop ACRONYM and be happy. #
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21/03/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: The Secret of Bananas - a better-kept secret than the Yahoo/Flickr deal
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21/03/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: No One Is Thirsty - courtesy of the new PBF homepage
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21/03/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Muppet Show DVD season sets - If this proves to be true, I'll be a happy camper. #
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21/03/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
kayodeok : The Siemens Com-Badge - Siemens has developed a Bluetooth-enabled home communicator that Trekkers have been dreaming about for years
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21/03/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
kayodeok : Researchers developing MicroJet for ouchless injections - The MicroJet uses an electronic actuator that could one day propel vaccinations, insulin or other drugs through the skin of the patient - without the device even touching the skin - with far less pain than a hypodermic needle
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21/03/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : mysqlicious - MySQLicious is a tool for mirroring del.icio.us bookmarks into a MySQL database
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21/03/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Future of Malware Defense? - Microsoft has a research paper called "Can We Contain Internet Worms?" which discuss how worms might become more readily containable as computers collaborate in a more automated manner by broadcasting self-certifying alerts (SCAs) when they detect a worm
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21/03/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Barry Diller's Interactive Corp. buying Ask Jeeves for $2 billion - ridiculously overpriced
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21/03/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jimray : Learning a Language in the Digital Age
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21/03/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : Xbox with New Replacement Cords Still Dangerous - Microsoft is attempting to offset liability, rather than repair the actual issue.
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21/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! 360 - Beta Waiting List - Yahoo! 360 - Beta Waiting List: now stop asking for this URL!
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21/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jkottke : Barry Diller to buy Ask Jeezes soon? - Diller is responsible for the horrible Ticketmaster.
kayodeok : Ask Jeeves Inc. to Be Bought for $2 Billion - IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet company headed by Barry Diller, is close to an agreement to acquire Ask Jeeves Inc., the nation's fourth-largest search engine company, for about $1.9 billion, according to an executive involved in the negotiations
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21/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jkottke : The complete Feynman Lectures on Physics, both in PDF and MP3 formats
Wayne Burkett : The complete Feynman physics lectues - In PDF and MP3! #
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21/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : Looks like PBS has enabled Trackback on most of the pages on their site
Andy Baio : PBS.org quietly enables trackback - but appears to only be using the ping info internally
jimray : PBS.org has enabled trackback - It's nice to see non-blog sites enabling trackback
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21/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
deusx : The Furrygoat Experience: Rant: Install Programs - "So I'm going to finally say it: I HATE INSTALL PROGRAMS."
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21/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : On Darren Aronofsky's next movie, The Fountain - It's "a love story that spans 1,000 years as a man searches for a cure for his terminally ill wife".
Matthew M. Boedicker : Darren Aronofsky's next movie The Fountain
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21/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : Genes in a woman's "dormant" X chromosome may not be as inactive as once thought - "Because the genes expressed from the inactive X are also expressed from a woman's active X, women get a higher dose of these genes than men. So these genes may underlie traits that differ between the sexes."
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21/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : changing jobs from programmer to bike messenger
jkottke : A great account of a computer programmer's job switch to being a bicycle courier
jimray : A Coder in Courierland - A coder turned bike messenger
philgyford : A Coder in Courierland || kuro5hin.org - Report from a programmer who quit to become a bicycle courier.
Andy Baio : A Coder in Courierland - story of a computer programmer who dropped out of tech to be a bike courier [via]
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