13/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : SeattlePI.com Podcast: On Food with Hsiao-Ching Chou - The P-I is podcasting! [via this really cute librarian at the P-I]
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13/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Robot Co-Op adds Upcoming.org support on 43 Things - also, Whedonesque just switched to Upcoming because of Meetup's new fees
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13/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Downhill Battle's new DTV and Broadcast Machine projects - they're trying to develop an open-source platform for painlessly distributing and watching high-quality video online, built on Blog Torrent [via] [via]
djacobs : The Participatory Culture Foundation: TiVo on your desktop - The latest from Downhill Battle. Broadcast Machine is the best interface to BitTorrent I've ever seen. They're looking for open source coders to help finish the DTV viewer.
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13/04/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : MovableTWiki - Movable Type + TWiki
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13/04/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Using Ajax with TypeKey
jimray : Joe's Apt. : Using Ajax With TypeKey - Authenticate without all those icky reloads
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13/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : How To: Building a BlueSniper Rifle - Part 1 - "he gun, which is called the BlueSniper rifle, can scan and attack Bluetooth devices from more than a mile away."
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13/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : IBM on the hunt for Firefox programmers | CNET News.com - In the newest indication that Firefox has become mainstream, IBM is trying to hire programmers to adapt the open-source Web browser to work well with Big Blue's server software
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13/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Introduction to Spyware Keyloggers - "On the web application side, one method to avoid keystroke capture is to use a virtual keyboard for entering the username and password. A virtual keyboard is analogous to a graphical keypad where a user clicks on the characters rather than types them on
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13/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : GUUUI - Designing intersection flows - Avoiding problems with forms where users have to choose between alternative ways to proceed
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13/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ted's Mozilla page - FxIF - allows you to view the EXIF data contained in JPEG images from the convenience of your Firefox browser
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13/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : How to Deliver Quality Applications on Time and Within Budget - less tangible and less measurable things
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13/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Why Greasemonkey is good for publishers | Holovaty.com - It's the technological equivalent of Dan Gillmor's well-known line, "My readers know more than I do."
Simon Willison : Why Greasemonkey is good for publishers - Free usability tips and bug fixing - your users know more than you do. (via) [via]
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13/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Acid2: Putting Browser Makers on Notice - "Today, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) is putting the makers of Web browsers and Web design tools on notice by announcing Acid2, a test designed to expose flaws in the implementation of mature Web standards such as HTML, CSS, and PNG"
Paul Hammond : WaSP : Press : Releases : Archive - Acid2, a test designed to expose flaws in the implementation of mature Web standards such as HTML, CSS, and PNG
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13/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Companies like Staples and BMW are increasingly looking to their customers for innovative product ideas
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13/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Is some of the music on Bush's iPod stolen? - This is "exactly the kind of behavior the music industry characterizes as theft".
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13/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jimray : How we eat our young, by Mike Patton - "It is just too easy for an artist to 'socialize' his desires when life tells him cardboard is OK."
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13/04/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
kellan : "President Bush's iPod, dubbed iPod One, contains no black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles." - mirror to the soul #
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13/04/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : Code Snippets: Bomb your shell (nice looking pure shell DOS) [dos] [shell] - "The following will fork bomb your shell" Ouch.
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13/04/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : Techno fest fee, future in city's hands - "With creditors clamoring, event seeks $5 charge." Ouch. Though, is $5 really all that bad?
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13/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : Sci Fi Wire -- Paramount Refused Fan Money - "We cannot and will not be able to accept funds from viewers to produce Star Trek: Enterprise or any other series."
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13/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : Weekly World News - HOW TO HAVE UNINHIBITED OUT-OF-BODY SEX WITH ANYONE YOU LIKE - "With astral, I can let it all hang out."
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13/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : The Importance of Degrading Gracefully - "If we're going to get excited about new uses of existing technology, such as those that make up the concept of Ajax, then we should keep in mind the rule of degrading gracefully...". [via] #
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13/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Googleplex sur Google Maps - Où se situe le fameux Googleplex de Google ? [via] #
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13/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Xbox Jade Empire - Looks like another winner from Bioware
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13/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : iPod shuffle hack - Get rid of the need to use iTunes
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13/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : Weekly World News - CITY COUNCILMAN ARGUES BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIANS NEED NEW BIRTH CERTIFICATES - "Look, new lives are being created, so we need to properly account for them."
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deusx : Web Services as a Strategy for Startups: Opening Up and Letting Go
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13/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
kellan : "President Bush's iPod, dubbed iPod One, contains no black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles." - mirror to the soul #
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13/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Creative Archive Licence Group - The Beeb's "Creative Archive" scheme launchs, with Channel 4 and the BFI also contributing. It's early days, but this is a really exciting turn of events. #
plasticbag : Creative Archive Licence - I'm really interested in this - I wonder if it only applies to audio and video or whether this is basically a license that describes 'public service' uses of BBC content...
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13/04/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Isofarro : Radical Simplification - Sam Ruby asks 'Do we really need middleware' - provocative and inspiring
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13/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo! News Adds Custom RSS Feeds - Goes one up on Google News... (they have email notifications, but it's not the same)
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13/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
jkottke : Salon interviews Ruth Reichl about her new book
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13/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
jkottke : An outline of Edward Tufte's three books on information display
Paul Hammond : Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte's Principles - It mainly consists of text and ideas taken from his three books on the subject along with some additional material of my own
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13/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
jkottke : Fingerprint Maze: takes a scan of your own fingerprint and turns it into a 3-D maze which you can navigate
Andy Baio : Fingerprint Maze - art installation that scans your fingerprint and turns it into a 3D maze [via] [via]
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13/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
jkottke : What's on President Bush's iPod?
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13/04/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : Acid2 Browser Test: The Guided Tour - "Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by The Web Standards Project (WaSP). It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use."
Paul Hammond : WaSP : About : Acid2: The Guided Tour - how all of this is created
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13/04/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : How to Remove Linux and Install Windows XP - Funny title for a Microsoft Knowledge Base article
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13/04/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : DNA project to trace human steps - A project spanning five continents is aiming to map the history of human migration via DNA
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13/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : How do you master Perl? - "I recommend to my beginner Perl students that they read all of perlvar and perlfunc, although I stress they don't have to try to remember any of it"
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13/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Infinite Library - To read. A brief skim: Digitizing library books, ethernet ports in libraries, users don't need to take books off shelves, users simply plug in their laptops, "connect to the Internet, and view the pertinent pages online", digital books need not be loaned
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13/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Browsers Get Ready for Graphics Boost - Opera and Firefox Browsers to support Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
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13/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MFX's Aether, PC graphic demo - if you have a fast PC and a good video card, try this; it just blew my mind
Nelson Minar : aether demo - More like a music video than a tech demo, but beautiful (via Waxy)
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ricmac : Is the Internet Under-Hyped? - Interesting he quotes John Doerr and the "six webs" thing, which actually came from Bill Joy (I didn't realise that)
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13/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : weblogsinc's RSS blog on ads in feeds - Circa Nov 04 and the quotes taken from the Wired article are a little out of context, however I do agree that ads in RSS is no different (conceptually) than on a webpage
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13/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : The Aggregation Kool-Aid - "just simply aggregating solves a minor component of the problem. The true winner will solve relevance/matching problems in their space in a very effective/protected manner."
deusx : The Aggregation Kool-Aid - "Aggregation is old news"
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13/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Meetup to begin charging monthly fee - event organizers will pay $19/month to arrange meetups [via] [via]
jkottke : Meetup is now requiring all groups to pay $19/month - Seems like this will kill off a bunch of the more casual groups.
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13/04/2005 @ 02:11 GMT
jimray : Patchburn - Make third party DVD/CD burners (like the DVR-109) work with OS X
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13/04/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
jimray : 6040 House by Northern Steel International and LamiDesign - 3000 sq. foot pre-fab house for 200k [via mathowie]
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13/04/2005 @ 02:05 GMT
jimray : But is it Journalism? by Peter Howe- The Digital Journalist - Multimedia is good at photography, not so good at basic reporting [via joeweiss]
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13/04/2005 @ 02:01 GMT
jimray : National housing values by local markets - Consumer reports finds the average home price in your city
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13/04/2005 @ 01:58 GMT
Simon Willison : Ruby on Rails and FastCGI: Scaling using processes instead of threads - Relates to the shared-nothing architecture.
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13/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Britney Spears pregnant - Stereogum offers up some composite predictions
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13/04/2005 @ 01:02 GMT
Jason Shellen : iPod-A-Month Creativity Competition - This means something. #
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jimray : Google Local - ...on your mobile phone! [via gizmodo]
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13/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Sproutliner - sharable online outlines, like OmniOutliner for the web [via] [via]
Steve Cook : sproutliner - "Think of it as a supercharged structured to-do list." Very nice. (via Waxy)
Paul Hammond : sproutliner - think of it as a supercharged structured to-do list
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