8/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Upload images to Flickr with Picasa and Gmail - Upload images to Flickr with Picasa and Gmail: excellent!
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8/04/2005 @ 23:11 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Folksologies: de-idealizing ontologies - Ouch, why do people write such long entries. Need to read this some time. #
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8/04/2005 @ 23:05 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Scott Guthrie on Web Standards - Sounds cool! #
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8/04/2005 @ 23:02 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : There we go again: XHTML hot or not? - Wow, even more about HTML! #
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8/04/2005 @ 22:59 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Zin van het leven - Geen idee. Door mij, overigens. #
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8/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : The Weekly Standards - Back! With a contest! #
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8/04/2005 @ 21:58 GMT
jimray : M-Audio's iControl, hardware to control GarageBand - Looks interesting, not sure if it's $200 interesting, though [via gizmodo]
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jimray : Once you go Mac... - Also, could be the next Viagra commercial
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philgyford : Let them sing it for you - Too. Much. Fun.
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8/04/2005 @ 21:01 GMT
philgyford : Dictionaraoke.org - The Singing Dictionary - First saw this four years ago, but don't remember it, and it's awesome.
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8/04/2005 @ 20:58 GMT
jkottke : Remembering Phil Hartman - The Sinatra Group is probably one of my top five favorite SNL skits ever.
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jkottke : Brian Greene on Albert Einstein's miracle year, his discovery of the photoelectric effect, and his uneasiness with quantum mechanics
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Isofarro : ZDNet: Patent directive slammed at UKPO workshop - 'The FFII definition was praised as the best of the four definitions, although a few potential problems were pointed out.'
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Isofarro : Stanford Law Professor raps patents as barrier to innovation - Lawrence Lessig: 'there's no clear showing of benefits over harm'
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8/04/2005 @ 19:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : KotOR2 missing parts - Great game, shame they had to cut some bits at the end
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8/04/2005 @ 18:58 GMT
Nelson Minar : KotOR2 restoration - Fan project to restore the missing content.
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8/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : FHM Desktops - FHM Desktops: heh, they konw their audience, I guess
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8/04/2005 @ 18:11 GMT
Isofarro : out-law: Scottish car dealer gets spam warning from ASA - opt-out link that didn't work or a one pound fifty a minute phone call. Busted.
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8/04/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
jimray : How did Terri Schiavo's story become such a media circus? - Pack mentality media at its absolute worst
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8/04/2005 @ 18:05 GMT
Rod Begbie : Liberal Democrats - Mobile Iraq War Cost Calculator - Interesting mobile-phone "game" from the LibDems, which polls the "electorate" in a compelling fashion. Works on any Java-compatible cellphone, inside or outside the UK. [via] #
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8/04/2005 @ 18:01 GMT
kayodeok : Using Gmail as a Spam Filter - How to use gmail as a spam filter for your regular domain account as well as a backup for all your email
Jeremy Zawodny : Using Gmail as a Spam Filter - Using Gmail as a Spam Filter: why would you do this? the gmail spam filter seems quite lacking
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8/04/2005 @ 17:58 GMT
jkottke : Lauren Greenfield photo series documenting the beauty regimes of 6 New York women - "Some women spend $1700 monthly on beauty, more than many women pay for rent. Does spending more mean looking better?"
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8/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Movie: once you go Mac, you never go back
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8/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Code snippets for implementing tags with SQL - this will come in handy for Upcoming's tag support
jkottke : Code snippets for working with tags and SQL
philgyford : LaughingMeme: In Lieu of the Promised Article on Tags and SQL - Enormously handy SQL snippets for doing del.icio.us/Flickr style tagging.
Paul Hammond : LaughingMeme: In Lieu of the Promised Article on Tags and SQL - you no longer have any excuse for building a sub-par tagging system.
jimray : LaughingMeme: In Lieu of the Promised Article on Tags and SQL - Implement tags in SQL - handy
deusx : LaughingMeme: In Lieu of the Promised Article on Tags and SQL - "There you go, you no longer have any excuse for building a sub-par tagging system."
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8/04/2005 @ 16:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Google begins to give actual answers to queries instead of links to answers
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8/04/2005 @ 15:58 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Drag and Drop Sortable Lists with JavaScript and CSS - Comment ré-arranger des listes avec CSS et Javascript. Génial ! [via] #
François Nonnenmacher : Drag & Drop Sortable Lists with JavaScript and CSS - Hot, Jay, hot indeed!
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8/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Flash developers can now add an option to their Flash movies to view the source
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8/04/2005 @ 14:58 GMT
kayodeok : How to prevent DNS cache pollution - DNS cache pollution can occur if Domain Name System (DNS) "spoofing" has been encountered. The term "spoofing" describes the sending of non-secure data in response to a DNS query. It can be used to redirect queries to a rogue DNS server and can be malicio
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8/04/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
ricmac : stilicho rants about Wikipedia Web 2.0 defn - While I agree the original version had too much marketing lingo, I think the author (Kingsley) deserves more respect and kudos than Dan dishes out here. Even if some of Dan's points are valid, I hate reading personal attacks.
kayodeok : Blank corporate verse - Dan's rant about the Web 2.0 article on Wikipedia
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8/04/2005 @ 13:58 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Google to start 'video blogging' - "Video blogging - vlogging - is still a new phenomenon but is expected to take off as web space becomes cheaper - or even free - and digital cameras become ever more sophisticated". [via] #
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8/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : No More Lost Posts ! - "Blogger now auto-saves as you type". [via] #
Wayne Burkett : Blogger Buzz: No More Lost Posts! - Blogger now auto-saves the posts your working on in a cookie. I wish my CMS did this. #
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8/04/2005 @ 12:58 GMT
plasticbag : Mark Millar on voting for Labour but campaigning against Blair - Apparently there's the father of an Iraq war vet campaigning against Blair in his constituency. Millar's idea - re-elect the Labour party, but make sure Blair can't lead it. Strange / intriguing.
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8/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Not Apathetic - not voting in the 2005 general election? - "NotApathetic was built so that people who are planning not to vote in the UK General Election on May 5th can tell the world why." I don't really approve of this, to be honest...
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8/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : vi reference mug > geekcheat.com - I'm reminded of my dream of a world in which vi commands work anywhere you can enter text. #
Simon Willison : Geekcheat vi reference mug - I want one! (via) [via]
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8/04/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Isofarro : JUnit AntiPatterns - Typical mistakes of unit testing, e.g. catching exceptions resulting in a passed test even on failure
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8/04/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
jimray : Powazek: Just a Thought: Bloggers Don't Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Journalists - Pretty much right on
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8/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Fly Brains Manipulated by Remote Control - Like a hypnotist who gets a man to act like a chicken when he hears a code word, scientists have genetically modified fruit flies to jump or beat their wings when flashed with lasers
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8/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! 360 -2,000 invites - Yahoo! 360 -2,000 invites: heh
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jkottke : Nominees for the 2005 James Beard Awards announced (PDF file) - Nominees include Steingarten, many Minneapolis journalists, Blue Hill at Stone Barnes, Per Se, Keller, Boulud, Danny Meyer, Dan Barber. All five best new restaurtant nominees are in NY.
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8/04/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
kayodeok : Are Bloggers Journalists? Let's ask Thomas Jefferson - "In historical terms, today's bloggers are much closer in spirit to the Revolutionary-era pamphleteers than today's giant, conglomerate mainstream media. On those grounds, blogs deserve the full constitutional blessings that the First Amendment guarantees
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8/04/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
ricmac : Scrivs to do couple posts per day on Whitespace - OK, this is the trendy way to make money by blogging - lots of short, highly targeted posts. And web design is a hot topic with Adsense etc. But will his readers, ahem, 'buy it'? Will he lose the quality by opting for quantity? Worth watching...
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8/04/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
ricmac : Surfarama: why New Zealand doesn't have decent broadband - "PEOPLE, 256kbs is not broadband, and the real thing is not asymetric." Charles tells it like it is. When will we get a decent broadband service in NZ?
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8/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Brad Choate's SpamLookup plugin for MovableType - I'll be installing this and MT-Moderate soon
jimray : Brad Choate: Introducing SpamLookup - Kickass looking spam killer for Movable Type [via Daring Fireball]
Rod Begbie : Introducing SpamLookup - New anti-spam plugin for MovableType. This will be installed here later. [via] #
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8/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Paul Boutin profiles Brewster Kahle in Slate - one of my heroes [via] [via]
jkottke : Good overview of what the Internet Archive is up to these days
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8/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jkottke : Stewart Brand interviews Jane Jacobs about cities - "Cities are about the most durable things we have. People think of them as superficial things, but they aren't. They're very, very basic. Rural places, which are considered more fundamental and more basic, actually are hangers-on of cities
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8/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jkottke : Study: tall, slender, beautiful people get paid more - "They showed that women who were obese...earned 17 percent lower wages on average than women [of recommended weight]". 17%! That's quite a disparity.
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8/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jkottke : How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else) - I can hear Dooce now...JUST WHERE WAS THIS TWO YEARS AGO?
François Nonnenmacher : How to Blog Safely
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8/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Chris Pirillo interviews a former blog spammer - Notice that Chris just happens to have highly-paid Google Adsense keywords attached to this post (Texas Hold 'em, poker, etc)!!! No wonder he's earning so much from Adsense ;-)
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8/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Ask Flickr: how do I change this light bulb? - Ask Flickr: how do I change this light bulb?: brilliant!
Andy Baio : How many Flickr users does it take to change a lightbulb? - a novel use of the site, but it worked [via] [via]
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8/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Leave a voice message? - Leave a voice message?: screw that
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8/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : Explosive Decompression and Vacuum Exposure - "How long could a human survive if exposed to vacuum?" Just watched a Farscape marathon and, damn, those people end up exposed to hard vacuum a lot. Wondered how feasible it would be to make an airlock-to-airlock jump, suitless.
cobra libre : explosive decompression and vacuum exposure - 10 seconds to make your peace #
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8/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Ross Mayfield notices spam in topic feeds - Ross "noticed an uptick in stupid fake blogs in my pretty smart feeds." This is a worry... also topic feeds need to get rid of all the duplicates.
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8/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Columbus weekly cover story on cult web artist Drew - if you haven't seen Drew's art, you're missing out
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8/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : HP's Contemptuous Board - HP's Contemptuous Board: $58,000/day would rock!
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8/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jimray : Get a free 30-day trial at a T-Mobile hotspot with your .Mac account - Thankfully, Seattle has plenty of coffee shops with free WiFi
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8/04/2005 @ 02:58 GMT
Andy Baio : 43things adds web services API - I feel like 43things is the spiritual cousin to Upcoming, for reasons I can't define [via] [via]
ricmac : 43 Things Web Service API - Excellent!
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8/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
ricmac : Calacanis gloats about his Adsense income again - Damn impressive tho. Quote: "...we're now breaking $1,000 a day with a .8% clickthrough at $1.25-$1.50 CPM. across all 75 blogs."
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8/04/2005 @ 02:01 GMT
ricmac : Josh Porter: The Interface is Where Innovations Find Value - "...with RSS as an improved delivery format, (or an improved discovery format), what we?ve really done is innovate the interface, or rather, changed it completely."
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8/04/2005 @ 01:58 GMT
ricmac : Google Launches Q&A Service - "Answer engines are just on the radar screens of large web search providers."
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8/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo to support Wikipedia - "Yahoo plans to add functionality to Yahoo Search that will give people shortcuts to content from Wikipedia."
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8/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Licks to get to center of a tootsie pop? - Google Search: how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
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