4/04/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
cobra libre : content, services, and the yin-yang of intermediation - i love the greasemonkeyfied library lookup... this will be more difficult, though, with the Austin Public Library and UT-Austin sites [via] #
Simon Willison : Content, services, and the yin-yang of intermediation - Jon Udell combines LibraryLookup and Greasemonkey in his latest screencast. (via) [via]
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4/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
cobra libre : the myth of the lightning bolt - i've read that a heavy dose of laudanum may also fuel the creative spirit #
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4/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Stereogum on Pretty in Pink sequel - John Hughes directing; will the very depressing Breakfast Club 2 be next?
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4/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : IRC on the PSP - cute on-screen keyboard; coming soon, PSP AIM [via] [via]
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4/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : GTA:SA car speeds - Some nut took a stopwatch to all the cars in the game
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4/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : The mutant girl from 'Total Recall', all growed up - Wow.
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4/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: DJ Format, "3 Feet Deep" - music video inspired by Konami's rhythm games [via] [via]
Milo Vermeulen : DJ Format - 3 Feet Deep video by Keith Schofield - DJ Format - 3 Feet Deep - videoclip by Keith Schofield [via] [via]
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4/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo API adds term extraction from documents - wow, I could imagine using this on many projects unrelated to Yahoo [via] [via]
deusx : Term Extraction Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services - "The Term Extraction service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content." Very interesting, this is. I wonder if it works better than Amazon's TextStream searches?
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4/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Engineers study whether plasmonics, 'light on a wire,' is circuitry wave of future - "A problem holding back the progress of computing is that with mismatched capacities and sizes, the two technologies (Photonics and Electronics) are hard to combine in a circuit. Researchers can cobble them together, but a single technology that has the c
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4/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : MODIS Rapid Response System - Subsets - MODIS Rapid Response System - Subsets: great imagery for finding lenticular clouds and wave
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4/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : RASP BLIPMAPS for Panoche, CA - RASP BLIPMAPS for Panoche, CA: 4km and 1km models for better lift prediction
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4/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Dr. Jack's Reno Wave Forecast - Dr. Jack's Reno Wave Forecast: now I need to figure out how to get this to my phone
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4/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Dilbert - 03-Apr-2005 - In my department, this works on *so* many levels. #
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4/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : Mozilla and AMD64 - "Mozilla and Firefox will compile for AMD64, but Opera has no plans to ever offer a 64-bit binary of their Qt-based proprietary browser"
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4/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Forget the subject, look at the writing - Gotta love incomprehensible bullet points masquerading as journalism. And WTF is "vivid communication," anyway?!
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4/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : FuckedGoogle - FuckedGoogle: google bashing blog
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4/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
plasticbag : TimeTrax - Timeshifting Software for XM Satellite Radio - Apparently records individual songs as played on the radio as well. Interesting little thing. Love to know how well it works...
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4/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
plasticbag : Replay Music records music off the radio and automatically tags it - Uses audio fingerprinting to figure out the beginning or end of the songs as well
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4/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Independent developers claim wireless DS tunneling by April 11 - hard to believe, but anything's possible [via] [via]
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kellan : jong talks about the joy of going somewhere where you know no one. - I can't imagine, I seem to run into people I know in the strangest, most unlikely places. Its disconcerting to always have to be paying attention. #
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4/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Thumb-sized Heart of TK the Cat - Paul Ford is a great writer, and this made me sad [via] [via]
deusx : The Thumb-sized Heart of TK the Cat (Ftrain.com) - "A pleasant fellow expires." This made me cry.
Ethan Marcotte : The Thumb-sized Heart of TK the Cat - This is just...heartbreaking.
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4/04/2005 @ 17:49 GMT
Rod Begbie : WeatherReports.com - 100% Clutter-free Weather - Get a 5-day forecast without two tons of flickering, flashing ads. [via] #
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4/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
kellan : Bloglines hires Garett Rooney, congrats to both of you. - Mark, any chance of giving him 20% of his time to finish lucene4c and mod_speedyfeed? #
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4/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
kayodeok : An Updated Directory Of Programs Designed For USB Drives - An updated directory of programs designed for USB Drives
Philippe Janvier : An Updated Directory Of Programs Designed For USB Drives - "...a directory of applications designed to run on USB drives..." [via] #
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4/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
kayodeok : MSN: How to disable MSN Messenger and MSN Web Messenger in a corporate environment - Network administrators may want to block access to the .Net Messenger service. This article describes the steps an administrator would need to take to block access to the .Net Messenger service through their firewall
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4/04/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : QTVR panorama of people mourning the Pope in Saint Peter's Square
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4/04/2005 @ 13:06 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Drawing lines in JavaScript | www.p01.org
Ethan Marcotte : Drawing lines in JavaScript - In a word? Hot.
deusx : Drawing lines in JavaScript | www.p01.org - 'You probably already said to yourself : " it'd be great if I could draw and move some lines at will in JavaScript. " If you don't, let's pretend you did.' Similar to, probably better than what I came up with yesterday
kellan : Drawing lines in JavaScript - Very clever #
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4/04/2005 @ 13:01 GMT
kayodeok : PIE (Persistent Identification Element) - Cookies you can't easily delete - Using the Macromedia Flash storage areas, a technique has been developed to automatically reload cookies that were deleted within IE. There are ways to lock MM Flash to prevent the local storage of objects as noted in the links below
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4/04/2005 @ 12:58 GMT
Wayne Burkett : The Story of Mel (A Real Programmer) - Posted to Usenet in 1983. #
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4/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Conservative MPs last in gay rights survey - "The gay and lesbian pressure group is currently trying to pull together a pledge from five major parties at Westminster to conduct non-homophobic campaigns..."
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4/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jason Shellen : Price/gallon - Ouch! The price of gas in the Bay Area is getting a little out of control. #
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4/04/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
jimray : MSNBC - How to get that perfect shave - Some great advice, particularly regarding the use of a beaver hair brush - you'll never shave the same [via /popular]
kayodeok : How to get that perfect shave - Latest trends and products to avoid those nicks and cuts
deusx : How to get that perfect shave - Today, Weekend Edition - MSNBC.com - Never knew there was a such thing as a shaving fetish.
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4/04/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
jimray : Wagyu beef at Washington State University - Pretty much everything you'd want to know about Wagyu cows
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4/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers - The New York company on Thursday unveiled what it calls PIE, or persistent identification element, a technology that's uploaded to a browser and restores deleted cookies. In addition, PIE, which can't be easily removed, can also act as a cookie backup, si
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4/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jimray : Wild About Mushrooms: Truffles - All about truffles!
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4/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jimray : FBI guide to concealable weapons - How to sneak your nail clippers on to an airplane [via mefi]
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4/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : The art of mimicking - Cinema: "Why are today's young actors so good at doing accents?" "Accent virtuosity remains a sadly disregarded skill. There's an Oscar for best foreign film but none for best foreign accent"
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4/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : DNS Cache Poisoning - Detailed Analysis Report Version 2 - DNS cache poisoning is a method for an attacker to change the IP address that a hostname resolves to. For instance the hostname www.cisco.com points to the IP address 198.133.219.25. A DNS cache poisoning attack allows an attacker to change the IP add
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4/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Andy Baio : How to port your blog to Gopher space - the finished product was one of my favorite April 1 gags
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4/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
jkottke : Bill Gates and Paul Allen had a company before Microsoft called Traf-O-Data
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4/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 yr-olds - Kids these days are "media multitaskers", but tv and music still the most popular. Reading seems to be holding well though.
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4/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jkottke : Maybe the reason that Neanderthals went extinct is their lack of trading prowess - "Trading would have allowed the division of labour, freeing up skilled individuals, such as hunters, to focus on the tasks they are best at."
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4/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jkottke : "Hotelling's law is an observation in economics that in many markets it is rational for producers to make their products as similar as possible" - This explains a great deal.
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4/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : Greg Linden on relevancy - "To break into the mainstream, next generation feed readers will have to sort articles by relevance."
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4/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : How do we close the digital divide in the third world? Distribute mobile phones.
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4/04/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Republic of Minerva - Failed attempt at an artificial country
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4/04/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Cat squircles - Everyone love pictures of cats. And squared circles.
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4/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : SxSW 2005 photos - I finally got around to posting my SxSW photos to Flickr.
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4/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Patterns of Intermediation - Design patterns for bookmarklets, greasemonkey and similar.
Paul Hammond : Patterns of Intermediation - This is a working document whose aim is to define and describe a number of design patterns suitable for use when writing web intermediaries
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4/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Yahoo Favelets - Bookmarklets for enhancing Yahoo! member profile search.
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4/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Adding a 'bak' comment to your .bash_profile - Quickly create a timestamped backup of a file.
Wayne Burkett : Effortless timestamped file backups - "[T]his function adds a shell command called 'bak' that will make a quick copy of a file and add a date-stamp to the file name." #
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