10/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
philgyford : Wonderland: storTroopers are back.. - Yayy! About time!
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10/04/2005 @ 21:59 GMT
Rod Begbie : Don't Go To Bed Angry | Ourmedia - The fabulous free storage space at the Internet Archive means that we not have a new, permanent URL for this fantastic clip from our wedding. TC Cheever & Cheryl Singleton, with Steve Gilbane on keyboards, improvise a song. Thems folks is talented. #
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10/04/2005 @ 21:58 GMT
plasticbag : Nicolas Ducheneaut's home page - "My research focuses on software and technologies that support and enhance social interactions. I observe interactions in online environments; I build tools to analyze these interactions further; and I design, deploy and evaluate new social technologies"
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10/04/2005 @ 21:58 GMT
plasticbag : IT Conversations - Awesome, if slightly geeky, podcast site that should explode in popularity when Odeo gets out..
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10/04/2005 @ 21:58 GMT
plasticbag : Pete Barr Watson on an Apple themed UI for mobile phones - It's very very pretty, although it still looks a little too much like a phone OS, which is never good...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
plasticbag : Japanize your ass! - A beautiful and intriguing historical and cultural tribute to Japan's considerable lead in the International Poo-handling Race
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10/04/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
plasticbag : Lee Bryant talks about the Six Apart weblog conference thing I talked at and makes an interesting point about pent-up demand for this kind of event - I couldn't agree more - I would like to attend, and would be prepared to speak at and help organise if that was any incentive (unlikely), other social software events in London...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
plasticbag : Lightspace Corporation - Cutting Edge Interactive Lighting Surfaces - They make shiny walls and interactive floors and stuff. It's very prety and cool and I suspect might eventually seem natural and obvious...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
plasticbag : I've made the populicio.us 48 hour view my homepage - It's probably the best way to keep up roughly with what's going on in my community and it's slow enough not to drive me nuts if I don't read anything else...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
plasticbag : Omniglot is a fascinating guide to written language that I can't get enough of... - It has stuff on various alphabets and syllabaries, abjads (like alphabets but with a different handling of vowel sounds) and scripts that defy translation...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
plasticbag : The Pentagon's Flying Saucer - Fascinating and awesome-looking hovering beastie developed by the US defence department...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
plasticbag : The dictionary definition of Vambraces - Vambraces are armored protection for your forearms, like Wonder Woman wears!
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10/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
plasticbag : What would Googlemaps look like from the ground? - This has been everywhere, but it's good and it's funny and it's well assembled. So I don't care.
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10/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
plasticbag : Prospect brings together a panel of thinkers to discuss what it means to be British - Which is far from an obvious question if you're English, Welsh, Scottish or from Northern Ireland. Good, well-terrier-ed stuff. No real conclusions, though...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
plasticbag : The EFF has offered guidelines on how to not get into trouble as a work blogger... - The advice is pretty simple, be vague and keep it anonymous. The interesting part of all of this for me is how squarely the issue of publishing in public but only meaning it for a few friends is at the heart of it all...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : The US TV series "Lost" will be broadcast on Channel 4 later this year (and by the way Desperate Housewives season two will be on C4 too) - Finally all my friends who have heard me raving about Lost will be able to see for themselves...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Independent music labels are protesting the launch of a downloads chart when they're as yet unable to get their music on iTunes - iTunes apparently has 80% of the downloads market in the UK and that means that songs that aren't on it pretty much can't make it into the charts...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Bronze Shields is a photoset on Flickr for images averaged from all the squared circle images that were around earlier in the year - When smooshed together they look startlingly beautiful in a burnished copper kind of way. Interesting.
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10/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : TypeNavigator - visual font identification system - It's not as powerful as Identifont or What the Font, but it is quicker and easier to get to grips with...
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10/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : FF Alega font family - Currently much loving this intriguing little font. Doesn't look too good in the previews, but I think it has some interesting applications...
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10/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : WinXP thumbnail size - You can tweak the size of the thumbnails in the folder view
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10/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
plasticbag : Blog Business Summit is down on RSS feeds, claiming that although people do subscribe to RSS feeds they never read them - There's something in there about 'design' mattering as well. I'm a bit conflicted by this one - do people who don't have time to read their feeds have time to roam across the web either? Have we just not yet learned how to build apps to help us read feeds
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10/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
plasticbag : Virtual Magic Kingdom: It?s a Virtual World After All - Terra Nova comments on the Disney idea to make a MMORG or social avatar-based space online that resembles the Magic Kingdom...
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10/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kaninka.net : Yddarar - Mögnuð upplýsingasÃða um sögu yddarans og ólÃkar útfærslur af yddurum à gegnum tÃðina.
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10/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : StorTroopers returns - I made one a couple years ago [via] [via]
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10/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : L.A. Times's long profile of Xeni Jardin - when I dined with the Boing Boing crew at ETech, Xeni's embedded reporter came with us
Steve Cook : Will someone please shoot Xeni? - I've moved past blaming her for the decline of Boing Boing, but anyone who says, "Make blog to the camera" needs to be put down for their own good.
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10/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : LateByte - Nederlandse Community voor liefhebbers van Amerikaanse Late Night televisie
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10/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
kellan : What is Newstead Montegrade? - And why does it show up on a map of Boston? #
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10/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : Introduction to Web Accessibility (and links to other Accessibility Resources) - "Web accessibility means that the Web is designed so that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with it effectively, as well as create and contribute content to the Web"
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10/04/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Dialogue system juggles topics: Making speech interfaces better by finding ways for computers to recognize the context of a conversation - Researchers have built a dialogue management system that promises to improve verbal communication with computers by giving the machine a sense of the type of phrase a person is likely to say next
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10/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Attention information is personal information
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10/04/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Get Perpendicular! (Flash)
jkottke : I could tell you that this Flash animation features singing hard drive parts, but that really doesn't do it justice
Eric Meyer : Storage Technology: Get Perpendicular - Hitachi gets Flashy with its bits, and explains advances in magnetic media 'Schoolhouse Rock'-style. No, seriously. [via Peter] [via]
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10/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Transcript of MGM vs. Grokster oral arguments - The HTML version. #
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10/04/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Sony patents technology that transmits sensory data directly into the human brain - "Imagine movies and computer games in which you get to smell, taste and perhaps even feel things"
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Andy Baio : "Luecke" in Google Maps - the scale is insane, try zooming in to see the Texas landmark [via] [via]
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10/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Windows XP Service Pack 2: Resources for IT Pros - Collection of techrepublic articles on Windows XP SP2. A nice idea but too basic at the moment
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10/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Goodbye to Privacy - ''We have created a unique identifier on everybody in the United States. Data that belongs together is already linked together.''
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10/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Douglas Adams fan site reviews hates on new Hitchhiker's film - in a very detailed review, they tear it to shreds [via] [via]
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10/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Lickr, Flickr without the Flash - Greasemonkey add-on gives a DHTML and Javascript equivalent for viewing and annotating photos [via] [via]
François Nonnenmacher : Lickr - Flickr, without the Flash -- a Greasemonkey Firefox script that replicates the Flash interface in Flickr by Ajax
znarf : Lickr - Flickr, without the Flash #
Paul Hammond : brevity.org -- Lickr: Flickr, without the Flash - Lately I've been considering Lickr as an experiment in web politics
Philippe Janvier : Lickr : Flickr, without the Flash - "Strip the Flash before the user can even see it, and replacing it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript". [via] #
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10/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Massachusetts Bird Sightings
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10/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
kayodeok : Thunderbird Webmail Extension - A bit too late - I've already dumped hotmail for gmail
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10/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument
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10/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Nintendo World Store opening in NYC
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10/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : The Since U Been Gone-nomenon reaches Howard Stern - Stern: Ted Leo "sounds like Tiny Tim."
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