2/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Unexplained effects during solar eclipses and with the Pioneer spacecraft may indicate non-constant gravity - Pendulums speed up during solar eclipses.
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2/04/2005 @ 23:37 GMT
erikbenson : Harry Frankfurt On Bullshit - Harry is my new hero. 5 stars.
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2/04/2005 @ 22:12 GMT
erikbenson : Against School, by John Taylor Gatto - Josh pointed this article out to me based on a discussion we had about the value of education. Read later.
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2/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : 7 steps to better handheld browsing - Simon Collison offers 7 steps for giving people browsing with handheld devices a better experience. Via: Roger Johannson
Isofarro : 7 steps to better handheld browsing - Tips and tricks for styling websites for mobile phones
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2/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Rands In Repose: Two Time Sinks - "Details regarding the Mahna Mahna video"
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2/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Locus Online: Charles Stross, Posthuman - "The precipitating event, as far as experts can determine, was Stross's acquisition of a new Sony PSP game machine."
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2/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Life on Mars: MT-Redland - "I?m posting a first draft of a Movable Type ObjectDriver (storage backend) that uses Redland and mysql."
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2/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : The Abode::Aggrevator - "Aggrevator is a cross-platform RSS/Atom aggregator that uses a MySQL 4.1 database for storage."
Philippe Janvier : The Abode :: Aggrevator - "...a cross-platform RSS/Atom aggregator designed to make life easier for people who want to subscribe to large numbers of blogs by using scoring, sophisticated search, filtering and sorting". [via] #
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2/04/2005 @ 21:44 GMT
erikbenson : Watched Sin City (2005) - Opening night. I liked the style of the movie... not necessarily the plot. 3 stars.
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2/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the Vatican's secret archives
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2/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Don't flip the shot - Right arm, left arm, what's the difference? (via Marc)
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2/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jimray : DeLay wants panel to review role of courts - If DeLay wants to become the face of the Republican party with this kind of extremism, that's absolutely fine with me. He should prepare for his new role as minority leader, though
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2/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Boo - Python-inspired syntax for .net & mono. The duck-typing looks particularly handy. [via] #
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2/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : Getting practical about wireless security, Part 2: Enhancing the wireless sniffer - This article, the second of a two-part series, adds more features to the wireless sniffer developed in the first part of the series. It also discusses wireless security issues more deeply, and looks at upcoming protocols and technologies, to see how they
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2/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : A Response to the Noise - That clarifies a bit. Good that the ads are gone. #
kayodeok : Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam:� Matt Responds to the Noise - Matt does his best to clarify his thinking behind accepting the advertising
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2/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Tufte Sparklines Photoshop Script - For less boring PPT?
jkottke : Script for producing sparklines (a la Edward Tufte) in Photoshop - Script for producing sparklines (a la Edward Tufte) in Photoshop.
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2/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
kayodeok : Brain chip reads man's thoughts - A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind
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2/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Man buys huge fish in Chinatown market and sets it free in the East River
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2/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
plasticbag : TeeVeePad - taking the piss out of celebrities and SixApart - Highly entertaining piece of the incredulous 'you spent how much time on this?'-type....
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2/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Short slideshow of chef tattoos - My favorites are Jill Barron's "Duckfat" ("I love duck fat," she explains) and "Pork!"
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2/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Music video featuring some great poppin' and lockin'
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2/04/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Kevin, though a little biased, is pretty much on target in his analysis of Hammersley's Guardian piece about Yahoo being the new Google - If Yahoo! has any great advantage, it's media-related.
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2/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent a "minimedia" company - Rafat Ali: "At the end of the day, what I've got is a content media company. I'm part of the media ecosystem."
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2/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
ricmac : Staci on PaidContent expansion plans - "I can report that various options for expansion, including outside investment, are being explored."
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2/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Illustrated Handbook for Web Management Teams - Guidelines for government websites
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2/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Software agents give out PR advice - Welcome to the automation of PR.
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2/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Jack Valenti Signs A Betamax Tape - And (apparently) fails to catch the irony. #
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2/04/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
ricmac : CNET News on March 05 SemWeb conference - Eric Miller quote: "We're moving from a Web of documents to a Web of data."
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2/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
ricmac : Transparent Bundles: Media Futures, Part 3/5: API - Must read post about the value of APIs to social media.
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2/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent.org re vertical search - "...anybody who wants to launch a 'search' site needs to do it in a vertical/niche, where there is still potential opportunity. There are a handful of verticals that matter, among them travel, shopping and local (if you consider it a vertical)."
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2/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
ricmac : Fred Wilson previews Feedburner Pro - Interesting comments about RSS views being 3 times as much as HTML views.
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2/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
ricmac : PubSub LinkCounts - "We just count the links we find in our logs and let you you see how many InLinks and OutLinks we discovered each day."
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2/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
ricmac : OJR previews Yahoo News - "...one tab was titled "My Sources," and that was the magic tab, bringing up your selection of RSS feeds, automatically populated by your RSS feeds chosen from My Yahoo, if you kept a My Yahoo page."
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2/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Kinder Surprise eBay auctions
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2/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Greasemonkey is written by a Google employee
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2/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : kid lives at 24-hour Starbucks and Kinkos
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2/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jimray : Wordpress Followup - Followup on the Wordpress spamming debacle [via Daring Fireball]
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jimray : BitTorrent 4.0.1 for OS X - Hooray for BitTorrent! Horray for BitTorrent [if it seems like I steal all my good links from waferbaby, I blame the timezone differences]
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2/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jimray : ibiblio - Say Hello to Bloggy! - I heart ibiblio
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2/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jimray : Bloggy's Blog - Every bloggy's gotta have a blog
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2/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Charles Miller : Support Request of the Day - But.... but I'm not whining! I believe on alt.sysadmin.recovery, this would have been referred to as a self-LART.
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2/04/2005 @ 02:20 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Tom's Diner on Wikipedia - I've always loved the song, but had no idea about its rich history and diverse connections. #
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2/04/2005 @ 02:17 GMT
Simon Willison : Stricter Whitespace Enforcement - Finally! Guido tightens the rules on whitespace.
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2/04/2005 @ 02:14 GMT
Simon Willison : Custom checkbox - The right way to do custom checkbox graphics. (via) [via]
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2/04/2005 @ 02:10 GMT
Simon Willison : Dubai: "Sure, we can build that." - More crazy architecture in Dubai. This time they're trying for the world's tallest building.
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2/04/2005 @ 02:07 GMT
Simon Willison : 2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia - Hostile takeover!
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2/04/2005 @ 02:04 GMT
Simon Willison : Google April's Fool Search: simon.incutio.com - That's pretty cool :)
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2/04/2005 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Announcing Head First Scheme - If only...
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2/04/2005 @ 01:58 GMT
Andy Baio : YagooHoo!gle - looks like the merger rumors were true
Milo Vermeulen : YaGoohoo!gle - YaGoohoo!gle [via] [via]
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2/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : John Woo to direct Katamari Damacy movie - The Rock signed on to play the Prince of All Cosmos
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2/04/2005 @ 01:42 GMT
kellan : FeedBurner Users: Playing With Fire - Not specific to FeedBurner, but when choosing an ASP you need to look for those that embrace openess, ideally open source, and make graceful exits a priority. #
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2/04/2005 @ 01:39 GMT
kellan : Jorn's collection of Philip Pullman resources - Joyce, Nabokov, and Pullman #
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kellan : Merged Ruby Packages Of Debian Are Now Available - No chance of this making it into Sarge of course, but it should simplify Ruby on Debian considerably #
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kellan : Why Web Programming Matters Most (in Language adoption) - I've been saying this for years, but Ian says it well. #
Nelson Minar : Py web programming - Argument that the Python community needs to step up and improve things (via Daily Python URL)
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kellan : Cuddle Parties, Reform and Revolution - As only Arthur could tell it. #
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kellan : FeedWordPress - an aggregator for Wordpress 1.5 - Looks like wp-agg done right, or at least finished. Nice. #
deusx : Rad Geek’s Projects » FeedWordPress - "FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress."
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kellan : "Going to the good video store" - Hey! There Josh goes slandering my luvly Riot::Core #
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kellan : CivicSpace: Event System workflow diagrams - Similar concepts to the EventReg system we killed at Groundspring, but the diagrams are great. #
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kellan : The Senseo Crema Mystery - Foam not crema #
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kellan : ActiveRecord as explained by a Hibernate hacker. - A more balanced article would have mentioned how painful it is to do queries in a 'SQL-like' language. Impossible to debug, stuff of nightmares #
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kellan : Helpful presentation tips for coffee purveyors - Remember, it doesn't matter how good your coffee is, it's all about how good you help them to imagine it is. #
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kellan : Rails, how does it scale for larger projects - I've never really done Ruby, Rails, or TDD, but several hours after getting Odeo SVN access I'm checking in my first battery of tests, not to mention code. #
erikbenson : Rabble talks about how they're using Ruby on Rails with Odeo - His experience mirrors very closely to our own.
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2/04/2005 @ 01:01 GMT
kayodeok : April 1, 2005 - Hoaxes in 2005
Simon Willison : April 1, 2005 - Wikipedia - The definitive list.
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kayodeok : Robert O'Callahan on April Fool's Day - "I loathe April Fool's Day. For an information junkie like me, it's the day when the world conspires to put sugar in your gas tank."
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deusx : The Tao of Mac - Projects/ReGrowl.py - "ReGrowl - A Growl Notification Relay"
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