24/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Anonymity no protection for online libellers - On the internet, only dogs think nobody knows they're dogs
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24/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Fedora's new wobbly windows - watch the videos to see the crazy effects [via] [via]
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24/03/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Wow, scientists found T. Rex remains with soft tissue, including "blood vessels, bone cells and possibly intact blood cells with nuclei"
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24/03/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : SOA, AJAX and REST - "One minute people are complaining about standards compliance in various websites and browsers but the next minute Google ships websites built on proprietary Microsoft APIs and it births a new buzzword". [via] #
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24/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Amazon A9 driver caught in photo - very funny [via] [via]
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24/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Japanese girls watching "The Ring" - by the end, some of them are crying from sheer fright
Milo Vermeulen : Watching The Ring is scary (mpeg video) - Watching The Ring is scary (mpeg video) [via] [via]
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24/03/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Scientists find soft tissue in T-Rex fossil - Jurassic Park, anyone? [via] [via]
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24/03/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : A9 closeup - Picture of the a9.com yellow pages driver?
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24/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : AJAX Is For Tubs - "As far as I'm concerned, AJAX is little more than a band aid" :) [via] #
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24/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Dr. Who leak culprit identified and fired - I guess it wasn't a deliberate promotional leak, after all
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24/03/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Zug's Credit Card Prank II - the first part was an instant classic [via] [via]
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24/03/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kellan : "What sites are you looking forward to?" - 2 Rails sites, 2 calendar sites #
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24/03/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Siam Waxy - I'm thinking of using this as my new logo and mascot
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24/03/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Glassdog's amazing rant on Boing Boing ads - I adore Boing Boing, but Ponyboy's call for transparency rings true
jkottke : On the NASCARing of Boing Boing and what the hell are they up to anyway?
jimray : glassdog: "Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching" - The ads, as well as the constant self promotion and the continual inclusion of anything from Xeni are pretty much the reason I stopped reading BoingBoing
plasticbag : Glassdog on BoingBoing making money - At the little weblog conference I was at the other day, someone said that BoingBoing was making $40,000 a month. I have no idea if this is true...
Simon Willison : Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching - In light of the whole WordPress kerfluffle, I'm surprised this story didn't get much attention.
nelson : Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching - 2005 complaint about advertising on BoingBoing
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24/03/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
jimray : It's the Content, Not the Source - "The Apple lawsuit really boils down to the definition of a trade secret, not the definition of a journalist." Precisely!
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24/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jimray : Sleeptracker watch - Wake up at the absolute optimal time for your sleep cycle [via gizmodo]
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24/03/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Doogie Howser, the first blogger -
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24/03/2005 @ 16:59 GMT
deusx : Ikke's Blog - Vim and SCP/SFTP - ":e scp://username@host/a/file/in/your/homedir" I had absolutely no idea you could do this with Vim.
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24/03/2005 @ 16:59 GMT
jkottke : Photoessay of imagined Apple products by Pentagram Design, including a watch, phone, and wireless iPod
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24/03/2005 @ 16:58 GMT
jkottke : The Mona Lisa gets her first day off in more than 30 years - "In short, Mona Lisa has become like so many pop icons: a prima donna who puts outrageous demands on her handlers."
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24/03/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Today's New York Airfare Report - This looks like essential reading for finding travel deals to/from the NYC area.
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24/03/2005 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : More Banksy mischief: last year he erected an unauthorized statue in Clerkenwell Green - "It shows the figure of justice - whose statue overlooks the Old Bailey in London - with US dollar bills stuffed into her garter and a plaque on the plinth saying: 'Trust no-one.'"
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24/03/2005 @ 15:58 GMT
jkottke : More fun unauthorized art: a plaque placed next to a museum fire alarm that read, "Untitled, 1993. Red plastic." - The "artist" took photos of the work, made up postcards, and they were sold at the gift shop.
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24/03/2005 @ 15:57 GMT
jkottke : Google is displaying ad keywords on AdSense publishers' sites - Another attempt by Google to turn ads into content (as opposed to everyone else who just wants to make ads *appear* to be content).
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24/03/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Iceland grants citizenship to former chess prodigy and current fugitive Bobby Fischer - Fischer is wanted in the US for "breaking international sanctions by playing a match in Yugoslavia in 1992" and has been stranded in Japan since July without a country.
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24/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution - "Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Knoppix-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security"
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24/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Read/Write Web: Bloglines' Search-based Makeover - In The Big League Now - Is Search and RSS Aggregration the new Web Strategy?
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24/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Mark Lyon's GMail Loader (GML) - "Import your existing email into GMail and many applications that make GMail easier to use". [via] #
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24/03/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : Banksy improves some of New York's finest museums - "Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with authorative name plaque and explanation."
Rod Begbie : Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums (All of them) - The New York art galleries get a taste of the Banksy experience. Brilliant. [via] #
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24/03/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
mbertier : Atom Publishing Protocol - new draft spec - Doesn't look like the protocol's going to be finished this month... #
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24/03/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : What are Microformats? - Introduction to Microformats. #
Philippe Janvier : What Are Microformats ? - "The XML ecosystem is expansive, in that lots of new ideas (or recycled old ideas) are continually being explored. If it can be done, someone, somewhere, is probably doing it. In this light, microformats are a refreshing new way of looking at tools we reg [via] #
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24/03/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Official zip builds for Firefox/Thunderbird discontinued - Ugh, they were useful! #
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24/03/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
mbertier : HttpBasicAuthToWsseAuthWrapper - Blogmarks - Trac - With this script you can access your private marks in news aggregators wich support Basic HTTP authentication (tested with Feeddemon). #
Philippe Janvier : My marks in my news aggregator - "Access your private blogmarks.net in news aggregators which support Basic HTTP authentication". [via] #
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24/03/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Del.icio.us linkbacks bookmarklet - someone needs to make a combined one that grabs referers from Technorati, Bloglines, and so on
Wayne Burkett : Newsmashing with del.icio.us - A bookmarklet for viewing del.icio.us user comments on any web page. #
kayodeok : Newsmashing with del.icio.us - A new bookmarklet that lets you see what del.icio.us users are saying (or tagging) about nearly any web page with one click
tehu : Newsmashing with del.icio.us - Using del.icio.us like you use Technorati : clever trick
Philippe Janvier : Newsmashing with del.icio.us - Qu'est ce que les utilisateurs de del.icio.us peuvent bien dire la page que vous êtes en train de lire ? [via] #
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24/03/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Transparent Screens - very clever fun with desktop wallpaper
Rod Begbie : Transparent Screens - Desktop backgrounds to confound and delight! [via] #
Milo Vermeulen : Transparent Screens - neat wallpaper trick - Transparent Screens - neat wallpaper trick [via] [via]
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24/03/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr photoset of RFID hand self-implant - insane, if true [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Video: Sims-style anti-pregnancy commercial for teen girls - accurate look and feel from the Belgian public health dept. [via] [via]
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24/03/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons - Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons: find docs you can remix via Yahoo
ricmac : Yahoo! Creative Commons Search (beta) - One of the options: "Find content I can modify, adapt, or build upon." Excellent!
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24/03/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Adam Mathes on playing Harvest Moon - I love this kind of writing about games; also, part 2 and 3
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Jeremy Zawodny : SessionSaver .2 - SessionSaver .2: everyone should use this
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24/03/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Tim Bray on RSS Aggregator Market Share - His site has 55% Bloglines and pretty much mirrors the Feedburner-based stats of others (he points to my posts on the subject - hat-tip Joe Lindsay)
Anne van Kesteren : Aggregator Market Share - Bloglines is big. #
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24/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
doug : You Are Here - Cool video for Sam Bisbee by Tobias Perse that exposes the stop-motion animation process. There's even a link on the page to the contact sheet of all the still photographs.
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24/03/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
deusx : Warrenellis.com » Joss Whedon Can No Longer Talk Shit About My Facial Hair - "Now you?re a proper comics writer, son"
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24/03/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Yahoo Feed Seeker - learn how many my yahoo users read your blog
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24/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : sidesh0w is having a massage, will return soon. - Edit the subdomain to give anybody/thing a massage. Via mathowie.
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24/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : MIA's Galang + Super Mario Bros. theme = Super Galang Galang - Best. Mashup. Ever.
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24/03/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : Steven Johnson about why he doesn't blog during the book writing process - "[Blogging while writing a book is] like trying to compose a new melody in your head while standing in the middle of a full-throated choral group."
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24/03/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Designed incompatibile - Things that are made nonstandard on purpose
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24/03/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Unicode hammer - Convert Latin-1 to nearest neighbour ascii. Ugly, but may be useful.
Rod Begbie : Latin1 to ASCII -- The UNICODE Hammer - aka "The Stupid American". Quick Python recipe to get rid of all those pesky foreign accented characters in a string and replace them with their ASCII "equivalent". [via] #
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24/03/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : IronPython 0.7 - New release of Python for .NET
Rod Begbie : IronPython - The Python compiler for .net gets a (still pre-alpha) update. It's worth noting that this project was so good, MS hired the author for their CLR team. [via] #
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24/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : How to really confuse your party guests - A normal room?
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24/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : The Path of Least Resistance - This was one of the most interesting issues raised at SxSW.
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24/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : PyCon 2005 photos - I've started uploading to Flickr.
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24/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Greaseblog - The weblog about greasemonkey (via) [via]
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24/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Transparent Powerbook - very clever wallpaper
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24/03/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with the PBS Online developers about their Trackback implementation
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24/03/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
doug : The non-typographer's guide to practical typeface selection - Cameron expands on his brief type segment from SXSW. A good set of steps, and links to good resources, especially if you didn't geek out in typography courses at school.
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24/03/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Awful. Awful, awful - Right to life; any kind of life, even zombie life
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24/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent's Buyout Countdown List - Fun! Some suggestions so far: Technorati, Feedster, FeedBurner, Findory, Pheedo, PubSub, Tribe, LinkedIn. I also suggested delicious, 43Things, blogdigger.
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24/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Susan Mernit: "Valuation for Topix.net is rumored to be way higher than Bloglines." - Wow. I still can't believe Ask Jeeves is worth nearly $2billion though...
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24/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : "Popstrology is a system for achieving self-awareness through the study of the pop-music charts -- specifically, by determining which pop song was No. 1 on the day of your birth"
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24/03/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : A previous Banksy unauthorized art placement took place in the Natural History Museum in London - "The graffiti artist Banksy has managed to smuggle in his latest work, a dead rat in a glass-fronted box, into the Natural History Museum where it was exhibited on a wall for several hours."
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