21/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : mtupgrade - mtupgrade: Upgrading Movable Type
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21/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : SpamLookup - SpamLookup: must try this out now that I've upgraded MT
Steve Cook : Brad Choate's SpamLookup - Thank goodness. Now there will be another three month lag while the comment spammers regroup.
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21/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : Bill Gates, Michael Dell big DeLay contributers - Gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to DeLay's children fund
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21/04/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : Science News Online - Navigating Celestial Currents - "Math leads spacecraft on joy rides through the solar system"
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21/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Evan Williams to blame for Google's recent problems - if you don't know why this is hilarious, read the comments [via] [via]
Rod Begbie : Why Google Is Faltering on RSS - Dana Blankenhorn rants that Evan Williams is to blame for all Google's current blogging problems and should be fired, blissfully unaware that Evan Williams left Google six months ago. Heh. [via] #
Steve Cook : Corante: Why Google Is Faltering on RSS - Fine research from the folks at Corante. Next up: why hasn't President Kerry delivered on his campaign promises?
tehu : Evan Williams doen't work any longer at Google - A 25 years business journalist has forgotten what fact-checking means. How to ruin a career in one good laugh.
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21/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Meanwhile, Back at UCB - pixel comic about the Berkeley laptop thief [via] [via]
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21/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Podscope, full-text search engine for podcast audio - works surprisingly well, though only for words in its dictionary; plastic returns results, but not blog [via] [via]
kayodeok : Podscope - search inside podcasts - Apparently uses speech recognition technology to search inside podcasts. baby steps... but I am more interested in technology that will transcribe podcasts for the deaf.
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21/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Emulate a Texas Instruments calculator on your Nintendo DS - brilliant early hack, with an innovative use of the touchscreen [via] [via]
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21/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Street art legend Revs is back, but this time he's (almost) legal and working with iron sculpture - I've seen a bunch of his work in Dumbo.
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21/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Spring-cleaning tips to spruce up your kitchen - Good ole baking soda
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21/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : MissPoppy.com | - Unborn Baby Ornament - US Troop Model - "What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a soldier bringing democracy to a godless dictatorship?" Run screaming.
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21/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Charlie's Diary - On swings, roundabouts, and long-term trends in science fiction - "When the future looks grim, how on earth can you write optimistically about it?"
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21/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Maps on TiVo - nice HME hack by the founder/CTO of Strangeberry
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21/04/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
Jason Shellen : GoogleMap for Tivo - Enter a zip code and zoom away on your TV. #
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Maps for Tivo - Google Maps for Tivo: that's cool
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21/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : LiveJournal usage statistics by state - 4.5% of Massachusetts has a LiveJournal account [via] [via]
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21/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired's Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart - for some perspective, try Fast Company's article on Wal-Mart's business practices [via] [via]
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21/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo Images search for "O'Reilly Radar" - are the O'Reilly folks big M*A*S*H fans? [via] [via]
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21/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Processing 1.0 beta released - very neat programming language for designers and artists [via] [via]
jkottke : Processing, a programming environment for designers and artists, is in beta - It's the first public release.
Milo Vermeulen : Processing 1.0 (BETA) - Processing 1.0 (BETA) [via] [via]
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21/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : Weekly World News - NEW FAT-FRIENDLY POTTIES ENDANGERING THE SKINNY! - "Skinny people are falling into enormous toilets - and fat folks are to blame."
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21/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : The Fat Duck, a UK restaurant known for its "molecular gastronomy" approach, has nabbed the top spot in Restaurant magazines best of list - El Bulli is #2, French Laundry is 3rd, Per Se is 6th, and several other London spots made the top 20.
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21/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Form submission and i18n - Ad-hoc tutorial-ish note on submitting non-ASCII data in forms. [via del.icio.us/richardkeen]
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21/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Doctor Fun: Quentin Tarantino's "Learn Java in a Minute" - "public void wetPants()"
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21/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : Ridiculously comprehensive movie genre primers from GreenCine - If you've ever wanted to know what French New Wave films to watch or what "Hammer Horror" movies are, this is the resource for you.
kayodeok : GreenCine Movie Primers: Movie Genres Explained - "A fun introductory overview of major film genres and movements, they also serve as handy guides in DVD rental selection processes"
Wayne Burkett : GreenCine | Movie Primers - "If you're like most people, you've probably heard of the French New Wave or Dogme95, but when asked at a party to explain what they are or to name more than a couple of films, you may struggle a little bit. Well, fear not!" #
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21/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : Nine Inch Nails is offering a GarageBand file with the complete mix of a forthcoming song - Can't use the remixes commerically, but still pretty cool.
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21/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
deusx : Jim Minatel's Wrox Book Editor Blog: Every author and author wanna-be should blog. Period. - "If you're writing about something you are really passionate about (and if you aren't passionate about what you write about, why are you writing), 1 1/2 - 2 hours of blogging a week should be fun."
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21/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
jkottke : The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, a cache of previously unreadable ancient documents discovered a century ago, are now being read using IR imaging techniques - "Oxford's classicists have used it to make a series of astonishing discoveries, including writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod and other literary giants of the ancient world, lost for millennia."
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21/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
jkottke : Old (but great) Jeffrey Steingarten on learning how to eat everything
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21/04/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : An Overview of Linux USB - Learn some of the basics of the USB subsystem, including how URBs work and what kind of host controllers are available
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21/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Exclusive: MSN To Build Tabbed Browsing Into IE (6) - The updated version will include an implementation of tabbed browsing allowing users of IE6 without Windows XP SP2 (& IE7) to benefit from tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer
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21/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : TLS and SSL in the real world - What the Internet Explorer Team is doing to combat phishing
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21/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Why Google Scares Bill Gates - Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software - and that's Microsoft's turf
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21/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to Plain English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia - Nice. #
jkottke : John Gruber's plain English version of the Adobe/Macromedia Acquisition FAQ - "Please also note that PDF is an excellent format for sending out resumes."
Anne van Kesteren : Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe?s ?FAQ? Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia - Heh. #
Rod Begbie : Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia - "Please also note that PDF is an excellent format for sending out resumes." [via] #
Nelson Minar : PR translation - Hysterical read on the Adobe/Macromedia press release
deusx : Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia - "We didn?t buy Macromedia, we bought the market."
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21/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jimray : Sony WiFi stereo first to suppot iTMS DRM files - The source for this is the Inquirer, so grab your grain of salt. I think partnerships with Sony are going to increasingly work well for both Apple and Sony, though
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21/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jimray : Basecode - Firefox extension for Basecamp project management - AND the first shareware Firefox extension I've seen
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21/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Greg Linden on Google search history - "A9, My Yahoo Search, My Ask Jeeves, and Findory have had this feature for a while."
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21/04/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : kismac, passive stumbler for MacOS X
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21/04/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Brookline considering city-wide wifi
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21/04/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Trent Reznor release track in Garageband format
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21/04/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
jimray : Pioneer unveils Bluetooth headunit - Has an iPod interface, too!
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21/04/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: High-speed Dance Dance Revolution kid juggling three pins - My god. I'd love to see an MRI or something of his brain while all this is going on, just to see what all he's got lit up in there to coordinate things.
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21/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Slashdot: Gmail Getting RSS Aggregation? - Slashdotters ponder...
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21/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Fortune on Gates and Google - "Google is interesting not just because of web search, but because they're going to try to take that and use it to get into other parts of software," says Gates as he leans forward in his chair, his body coiled as if he could spring to his feet at any sec
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Andy Baio : Video: Psychos - overlay of Hitchcock's shower scene with Gus van Sant's remake [via] [via]
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21/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Pointment - online meeting scheduler, but some screenshots would be nice [via] [via]
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21/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Aaron Swartz accepted into Paul Graham's Summer Founders Program - Y Combinator is funding startups over a summer period
ricmac : Aaron Swartz gets start-up funding from Paul Graham - ...and has the beginnings of a book too, by the looks of it. Be interesting to follow the progress via blog. [via waxy]
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21/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Prison terms on tap for 'prerelease' pirates - Congress approved bill allowing three years of prison for sharing one prerelease movie, program, or song
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21/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Firms paid Today show tech editor to promote products on-air - $15,000 each from Apple, Sony, HP, Epson, and Creative [via] [via]
jimray : Payola on the Today show - Apple, HP, Creative, among others, paid a tech journalist to shill for their gadgets
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21/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : Macromedia may be a bit concerned about Ajax competing with Flash's XML socketing - "Kevin [Lynch] specifically wanted to explore the possibility of hooking into the Ajax system with Flash, via Flex."
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21/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
kellan : MBTA Maps overlaid on Google Maps - Seth talked about this at dinner tonight #
Matthew M. Boedicker : MBTA on Google Maps
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21/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : O'Reilly Radar, new O'Reilly blog on tech trends - here's a great transcript from last year discussing some of the trends they observe [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : O'Reilly Radar - New blog from the guys at O'Reilly. Looks really great so far. (via mathowie)
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21/04/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
jimray : Spamusement! Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! - Brilliant
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21/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Mozilla Gains Canvas Element Support - After discussion and documentation by the WHATWG. (via) [via]
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21/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Web Applications 1.0 section on canvas - "Do not implement this in a production product. It is not ready yet! At all!" ;)
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21/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Surplus project names - silly, but a surprisingly good way to think of API remix ideas [via] [via]
Simon Willison : Surplus Project Names Need Real Bones - I'm intrigued by the possibilities of Greasecasting.
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21/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tom DeLay criticizes Supreme Court Justice for doing Internet research - a very strange comment, considering most lawyers and judges do the same
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21/04/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Google fails the Acid2 test. - Google is non-compliant! Yay! #
Paul Hammond : Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - Sjoerd Visscher's weblog - w3future.com - the second ERROR is a bug in parsing of comments
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21/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Google - My Search History - Keep track of your Google searchs *and* which links you clicked through on. Smart. [via] #
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