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Jason Shellen : Google Search: how much wood could a woodchuck chuck? - Well that clears that up. #
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kayodeok : Google Q&A: Just the facts, fast - Google announces Google Q&A: "just type a query into the search box, and you'll get back the answer at the top of your search results". Example: "who wrote hamlet"
jimray : The inside dirt on Google Q&A - It really does kick ass - there are a surprising number of times in my life when I've need to know, say, the population of the state of Alabama
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7/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
kayodeok : [p2p] Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users - The well known PDF reader Adobe Reader reports back to a central server whenever you open specially marked PDF documents to a central server whenever you open specially marked PDF documents.
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7/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
kayodeok : DNS Cache Poisoning - The Next Generation - Old article dated 2003 discussing DNS Poisoning - with links to articles and advisories going back to 1993 discussing DNS Poisoning
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7/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : James Kunstler lays out a gloomy and depressing energy crisis future in The Long Emergency - "Our lives will become profoundly and intensely local. Daily life will be far less about mobility and much more about staying where you are."
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7/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Code Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness - Tag-based code-snippet archive. "Like del.icio.us, but with code", says Yoz, and he's not wrong. [via] #
Wayne Burkett : Code Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness - Wow, this might prove extremely useful. #
kayodeok : Code Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness - Post snippets of code. Sort by tags, people, people and tags, etc..
Paul Hammond : Code Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness - Post snippets of code. Sort by tags, people, people and tags, etc..
Milo Vermeulen : Code Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness [via]
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7/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Sightseeing - blog tracking neat things spotted in Google Maps' satellite view [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : Google sightseeing - Collecting interesting images from the satellite maps (via Waxy)
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7/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : The vOICe - Seeing with Sound - "The ultimate goal is to provide synthetic vision with truly visual sensations by exploiting the neural plasticity of the human brain." Whoa.
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7/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : CBC Radio | Quirks & Quarks | Past Shows | Seeing with Sound - "Imagine being blind for 25 years, and suddenly being able to see again - using your ears."
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7/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : CNN.com - Congress may extend daylight-saving time - Apr 7, 2005 - "If Congress passes an energy bill, Americans may see more daylight-saving time." Aww, hell. It'll be like a mini-Y2K. Although, maybe it'd help with my S.A.D.
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7/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : RE: [xsl] Using document() without a file - Tapping into 4Suite XSLT processing to provide substitute content for document() calls.
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7/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : The Binary Bonsai Approach to Copyright - Right on, brother. Preach it.
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7/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Terry Gross interviews The Incredibles director Brad Bird on NPR - "So, what does the director of an animated film actually do?"
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7/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Giraffe confusion - How many are there? I guess giraffe colouring really is camoflauge
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7/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : LotR summary - No need to read Tolkein's epic, this is all you need (via Metafilter)
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7/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Sesame Street: 25 Of My Favorite Memories - "YOU EIGHT THE SANDBOX?!" [via] #
jkottke : Great list of favorite memories from Sesame Street - I'd completely forgotten about the noo-ne-noo-ne-noo typewriter. I'm gonna be humming that all day now.
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7/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Opening Day Genesis. - "God made the Infield a 90-foot square and the Outfield not less than 400 feet to center and 320 feet down the lines. He declared this Fair Territory. All other territory, God then declared, was Foul." [via] #
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7/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Police hard drive sold on eBay - A computer hard drive, containing confidential data from the Brandenburg police in Germany, has been auctioned over eBay for 20 euros, according to a report by Spiegel, a leading weekly German newspaper. It was bought by a student.
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7/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Wikimedia Foundation Announces Corporate Support of Wikipedia from Yahoo! Search - Yahoo! Search will dedicate hardware and resources to support Wikipedia, a community based encyclopedia. In addition, Wikipedia content will become available to hundreds of millions of users worldwide through Yahoo! Search via shortcuts
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7/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Google Maps, real-world remix - very funny
jkottke : What you'd see if you were on the ground level of a Google Map
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7/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Poetry takes more brain power to read than prose - "Subjects were found to read poems slowly, concentrating and re-reading individual lines more than they did with prose."
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7/04/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
kellan : snippet: "next gen" bookmarklet - Bookmarklet with remotely loaded source. Anyone starting to get scared? #
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7/04/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Cornering WoW market - Stuff like this is fascinating (via Slashdot)
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7/04/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Bluetooth your iPod - Version 1.1 needs headphone sharing so my sweetie and I can both listen without tangling wires
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7/04/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Labour Party: Save the trees - I may be disgruntled with their policies over the last few years, but damn! The Labour Party know how to write a begging email! "This may not be the first email you have ever received asking for money, but at least this one isn't promising that you've a #
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7/04/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : Ripples: post-corporate adventures: The comfort zone - how it can trap you - "Use the relative quiet of the comfort zone to get organized for the next big push toward your ultimate goal."
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7/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : allied: A Rose By Any Other Name--Or The Apprentice - "You want to be lazy? Do it on your own time, because you're fired."
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7/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : chaotic intransient prose bursts: Oops - "The graph of the server's access stats not only shows the downtime period, but also that my lunch may have taken a bit too long."
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7/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Best Buy customer arrested for paying with $2 bills - "it's a sign we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world" [via] [via]
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7/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired on Blogger's recent problems - some outages and buggy behavior, but they're working on it [via] [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Bloggers Pitch Fits Over Glitches - Bloggers Pitch Fits Over Glitches: I hadn't realized there were such problems at Blogger
Philippe Janvier : Bloggers Pitch Fits Over Glitches - "Suddenly the search engine company that could do no wrong last year can do no right with bloggers". [via] #
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7/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Check out those display options! - option overkill as Excel, Word, PDF, Palm, e-mail, fax, and more [via] [via]
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7/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google launches Q&A feature - a direct response to Ask Jeeves?
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jimray : Flickr Mobile - Flickr for your phone [via mathowie]
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7/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
jimray : Reasons why I love The Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch - Wow, I thought I was the only sick bastard who secretly loved that commercial. Also, poor Hootie. [via Wonkette, amazingly enough]
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7/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
jimray : NY Press's annual 50 most loathsome New Yorkers - This is so well written, it's pretty much impossible not to link to
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7/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
jimray : Counsel to GOP Senator Wrote Memo On Schiavo (washingtonpost.com) - I'm sure the asshats at Powerline blog, et al, are tripping over themselves to apologize for "memogate 2". I'll start holding my breath .... now!
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7/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
kayodeok : Higher-Order Perl - Higher-Order Perl is about functional programming techniques in Perl. It's about how to write functions that can modify and manufacture other functions
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7/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
kayodeok : Higher order functions - Using functions for such higher order purposes as arguments, function-generating functions, and anonymous functions
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7/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : XML.com: Constructing or Traversing URIs? - "Having designed the URI space for our resources, we now need to consider how to make those URIs discoverable."
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7/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
philgyford : Choosing a Digital Stage Piano - December 2003 - Including Reviews of the Korg SP-200 and Logitech Z-3 - I love it when people share pre-purchase research with the world.
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7/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : VideoLAN open-source video player threatened by European patents - Mplayer, Freevo, and MythTV are all built on top of VLC [via] [via]
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Rod Begbie : Boston.com / Boston Sweeper - Handy reminder service from the Globe, now that street-cleaning (and the associated parking tickets) are in effect once more. #
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7/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : AWC - Aviation Weather Center - AWC - Aviation Weather Center: useful stuff from the FAA [via]
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7/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Google Maps, real-world remix - very funny
kellan : Google Map from the ground - What people on the ground see when someone Google Maps a nearby place. #
Nelson Minar : Google maps, in the real world - What you see from the ground when someone makes a map
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Andy Baio : Yahoo supports Wikipedia with hardware and resources - plus, Wikipedia results will show inline on Yahoo searches [via] [via]
jimray : Now Yahoo is giving Wikipedia some love - When Microsoft jumps on board, be afraid [via waxy]
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7/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Isofarro : Accessible Forms - tabular form data - Jim Thatcher on the use of title attributes to make tabular forms more accessible
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7/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Life's top ten greatest inventions - Includes the eye, sexual reproduction, photosynthesis, and language.
kayodeok : Life's top 10 greatest inventions - Multicellularity, The eye, The brain, Language, Photosynthesis, Sex, Death, Parasitism, Superorganisms, Symbiosis
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7/04/2005 @ 14:02 GMT
Isofarro : FAQ: How JAWS treats markup and CSS - JAWS reads out hidden text explicitly associated with an input field.
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7/04/2005 @ 13:58 GMT
deusx : TRHOnline.com - Digital Obscuria - JVC X'Eye - "The Wondermega was a third party system that played both Sega Genesis and Sega CD titles in a combined unit."
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7/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : GIBBY'S GAME ROOM - Okay, now this is damn cool.
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7/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
znarf : D*I*Y Planner 2.0 - The D*I*Y Planner is a set of free do-it-yourself templates, covers, documentation and other gear for creating your own highly customised and tweakable paper planner system. [via] #
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7/04/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Typo - Typo is an absolutely minimal weblogging engine which comes without an admin interface
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François Nonnenmacher : Following Up on the Podcasting Dope
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François Nonnenmacher : What if Intelliseek Bought Technorati?
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7/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Pure data noise - don't miss the wonderful audio samples buried in the Flash site
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7/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Matt explains the amazing colored pools in Google Maps - he has a master's in soil chemistry!?
kellan : Those red pools... - The red is actually probably from the red brine shrimp which are both naturally occuring, and added to commercial salt pools. (and are responsible for flamingos lovely pink color) #
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7/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Migrant Mother sheds her wrinkles - angry readers write in over "Popular Photography" April 1 prank
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7/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : RSS is Not Only for Blogs - Useful list of alternative uses for RSS.
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7/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Tom Curley on AP's new delivery app - "The new Web-based interface will allow A-P members to search, select and customize the news reports they want to receive from the wire service."
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7/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Shore comments on AP strategy - "There's a place for organizations like AP in this mix, but it will require even more aggressive thinking about how to make the most of being a "middle man" in the content industry."
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7/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : The Difference Between Services And Content - "The stickiness isn't from better or more desirable content, but in figuring out ways to offer content as a service that people will find value in moving forward." (via Shore)
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7/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
deusx : Robo Urinal: Behold Your Porcelain Master : Gizmodo - Whga....?
Jeremy Zawodny : Robo Urinal - Robo Urinal: too lazy to jerk off?!?!
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7/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : Venture capital is flowing back into Internet companies - "It is too early to say whether the flush environment heralds another tech investment bubble, but there are echoes of the dotcom boom."
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7/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Why smart people defend bad ideas - scottberkun.com - Good stuff. "Majoring in logic is not the kind of thing that makes people want to talk to you at parties, or read your essays." #
Paul Hammond : Why smart people defend bad ideas - scottberkun.com - when it comes to defusing smart people who are defending bad ideas, you have to find ways to slow things down
djacobs : Why smart people defend bad ideas
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7/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : Pegasus News unstealths itself - I've been following this "journalism 2.0" venture from Peg's blog for a while now. They're onto it...
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7/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
doug : Interview: Merlin Mann - Insightful interview with the always-entertaining productivity king, Mr. Mann
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7/04/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : More Nifty Corners - Now with wider browser support and mild anti-aliasing.
Richard Rutter : More Nifty Corners - Rounded corners using Javascript without images or markup.. [via 456 Berea Street]
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7/04/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Multi-threaded JavaScript (with Rhino) - Good tutorial on using Rhino to do cool things with JavaScript.
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Simon Willison : Customizing Opera - Tips from one of Opera's developers.
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Simon Willison : Slashdot interview with Mark Shuttleworth - Some great answers on Ubuntu.
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7/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Now, Really, As Bigoted As You Think - Kansas passed the gay marriage amendment.
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7/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Henry Blodget buys bootleg DVDs in Shanghai - a brief story about a DVD shop pretending to be a restaurant [via] [via]
jkottke : Henry Blodget goes DVD shopping in Shanghai at a fake restaurant - That reminds me, I should write up my Beijing CD-ROM shopping experience sometime.
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7/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : EasyTree BitTorrent site shut down - unlike Suprnova and its ilk, this one hosted mostly commercially unavailable bootleg concerts
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7/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired News on the therapeutic and educational uses of Second Life - some very interesting social experiments in the game world [via] [via]
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7/04/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
jimray : Sploid - Just might be the bestest news site out there
Andy Baio : Sploid redesigns - like The Onion's redesign, very busy but somehow fitting
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7/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Churbuck: When will Web 2.0 Hit Communities? - "If one accepts the definition of Web 2.0 as one of personal syndication and aggregation ? using feeds to construct connections and building one?s own network of content and contacts ? then where is the model for communities?"
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7/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Tim Bray discusses 80's Oxford dictionary project - "It was my Road to Damascus experience, really. I looked at it and I saw that the markup said what the information is, not what it looks like. Why isn?t everything this way? I still basically am asking that question."
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7/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Web Services, Hollywood Style - "[Microsoft's] Connected Services Framework wraps siloed applications in Web services with single-point connections,"
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7/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Steve Rubel: Why Google is Syndication Shy - Hmmm, interesting point. Quote from Steve: "...when it comes to syndicated feeds they use it as a tool to drive users to their services and that?s why they are syndication shy."
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