22/04/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
deusx : Simon Willison: Flickr without the Flash - "Plans are underway to provide greasemonkey with its own persistence mechanism. Once that happens, the sky's the limit." Huh, it's too bad OmniWeb doesn't have greasemonkey.
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22/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : I am a Japanese School Teacher - I am a Japanese School Teacher: some of the funniest shit I've read in quite a while...
jkottke : I am a Japanese School Teacher - Experiences teaching junior high school in Japan.
Wayne Burkett : I am a Japanese School Teacher - "I am an assistant language teacher in three Jr. High schools. The experience has been...interesting to say the least." #
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22/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Star Wars Episode III: Rise of the Empire (Trailer) - Star Wars Episode III: Rise of the Empire (Trailer): I love good lego animations
François Nonnenmacher : Star Wars Episode III: Rise of the Empire (Trailer) - Star Wars with Lego!
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22/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flash: Guess-the-Google - wonderful game based on Google Images collages [via] [via]
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22/04/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : SMRT-TV: Interview with Yunjin Kim - SMRT-TV: Interview with Yunjin Kim (of Lost fame) [via] [via]
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22/04/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Uncooked finger - What's worse than finding a finger in your chili? A raw finger.
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22/04/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : SysTrayIcon.py - Small Values of Cool: Windows system tray icons with Python (via Daily Python URL)
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22/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Spidering Hacks - Aggregating RSS and Posting Changes - "With the proliferation of individual and group weblogs, it's typical for one person to post in multiple places. Thanks to RSS syndication, you can easily aggregate all your disparate posts into one weblog"
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22/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : wheelchair_matt: Wheelchair Matt and Snowmobile George - "Matt, this miracle game is hard!"
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jkottke : Taste of Chinatown 2005, April 23 from 1-6pm - Fifty restaurants are offering $1.00 tasting plates in Chinatown tomorrow afternoon. Delicious!
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22/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Infoporn suite with RSS - "Think of it as the potential accomplishment of push media prophecy circa 1997 finally at your door. "
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22/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Canon PowerShot S2 IS - Canon PowerShot S2 IS: looks like a great new canon camera
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22/04/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : XHTML Q&A: the difference between HTML and XHTML - It is really a shame his comments are off as this would have caused a flame war, started by me. Or perhaps some thought through comment saying he is wrong. #
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22/04/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Make a CEO swim the Atlantic - I downloaded a copy! #
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22/04/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
jimray : A sell-out's tale - The perils of automotive "journalism"
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22/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : L'objet XMLHttpRequest - "...faire des requêtes HTTP afin de récupérer des données au format XML qui pourront être intégrées à un document". [via] #
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22/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Katamari Damacy 2 co-op play - plus, a much better split-screen mode [via] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : Katamari Damacy 2 cooperative play
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22/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The New Pope condemns rock music - he hates the Eagles, so he can't be all bad; original Times UK article from 1996
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22/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Books that changed the world - Just a few of the things that have changed the world so far: cod, salt, chips, radio in Canada, sewing machines, atomic weaponry, quinine, cables, sheep, gunpower, etc. etc.
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22/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Profile of writers at The Onion
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22/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Greasemonkey: Amazon Free Music helper - convert Amazon's MP3 links to direct downloads [via] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : Greasemonkey script for Amazon free music
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22/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Adaptive Path on the New Internet - things are getting exciting again; also, I'm honored Upcoming.org made the short list of highlighted examples
Paul Hammond : adaptive path » it's a whole new internet - Curious, inventive people are making cool stuff again. There?s been a notable shift, and it?s incredibly exciting.
Anne van Kesteren : It's a Whole New Internet - On the future of the internet and the fast changes we are seeing now. [via] #
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22/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Woman goes into labor on the F train this morning - Aha! That's why my train was so slow this morning.
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22/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Bill Joy, VC - Kleiner Perkins hires Bill Joy.
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22/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : franklinmint.fm: FeedMesh. What is it? - "Type telnet sandbox.pubsub.com 9999 at your favorite terminal" Whoa. I'd forgotten about this
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22/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Keyword Assistant plug-in fixes iPhoto's stupid ass keyword-adding interface - Software developers, say it with me: "auto complete, auto complete, auto complete!"
deusx : Software - "Keyword Assistant is a plugin for iPhoto to make keyword management easier."
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22/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Acid2: Lopping Off the Sideburns - Hyatt claims the test is invalid. #
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22/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Mozilla?s SVG implementation off by default - Most likely. #
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22/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Laurens van den Oevers weblog: Cursor Hide - ?Internet Explorer allows you to set the z-index high enough to position a above the mouse cursor!? #
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22/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Laurens van den Oever's weblog - All kinds of fun experiments to keep you distracted from work for a while. [via] #
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22/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : On shopping cart coin replacement things - The plastic coin replacement thingie is a "perpetually reusable currency for the shopping cart leasing market."
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22/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Andy Baio : RIAA's open extortion, assisted by Comcast - "we obtained your personal data without consent, now give us $4,500 or we'll sue you!"
deusx : The RIAA finally stoops to open extortion, and Comcast helps them do it - "It's basically old-fashioned extortion, done right out in the open and with the cooperation of a broadband service provider." Hmm, I wonder who does good DSL in my area...
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22/04/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Congress confuses file sharing with manslaughter - explosive headline, but these draconian lawmakers are in the industry's pocket and they need to be stopped [via] [via]
deusx : Congress confuses file sharing with manslaughter | The Register - "Since involuntary manslaughter brings, on average, anywhere from 0 to 36 months' incarceration, one might well question the morality of going harder on those who trade files than on those who negligently cut short the lives of fellow citizens."
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22/04/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Isofarro : Learning and using Jakarta Digester - Explains how to handle xml attributes too.
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22/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : JS/CSS/DHTML based Image Gallery - ImageGal - "Imagegal is a simple PHP script that will automagically create a JS/CSS/DHTML powered image gallery for you when dropped into a directory containing images."
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22/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Jonathan's Coffeeblog - '...they had something called an "afogato", which turned out to be a scoop of gelato with a shot of espresso...' Ohhh, now that sounds damn tasty.
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22/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Isofarro : out-law: new guidance from BSI and DRC - 'Beesley reckons the final document will run to about 30 pages. It may or may not recommend a particular level of accessibility on the WCAG scale – which is something the DRC has always resisted to date.'
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22/04/2005 @ 11:57 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Browser Elitism Part 2 - Bookmarking this discussion, mainly because it's interesting. Several topics being debated at once, and either side not really seeing the other.
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22/04/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Gotta keep 'em separated - Jeremy Keith's behavior-centered perspective on the browser elitism debate. I'm not sure yet if I'm in agreement with what he's labeling behavior, vs. what could merely be state.
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22/04/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Forums and Tables - Scrivs brings up the tricky debate: what's appropriate use for a table? Forums seem to blur the line, so it's a good one.
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22/04/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Apartment views, top-down - "... each piece documents the entirety of an apartment, including its occupants, from a normally unavailable perspective - from above" (via 37Signals)
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22/04/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Comic Life - Easily create digital comics from your photos (OS X). [via Pete’s Eats]
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22/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Gotta keep 'em separated - Jeremy Keith's behavior-centered perspective on the browser elitism debate. I'm not sure yet if I'm in agreement with what he's labeling behavior, vs. what could merely be state.
Richard Rutter : Why CSS2 pseudo-classes are bad - Jeremy explains that :hover is behaviour not presentation.
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22/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
jkottke : Ask and ye shall receive: Google Maps with the NYC subway stops on it - A little flaky in Safari, but works well in Firefox.
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22/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : 'Researchware' watches where you click - Is it spyware? Company says no; critics aren't so sure
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22/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : WordPress is not PHP - A basicWordPress template tutorial
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22/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Jason Scott's Last Straw collection - a small collection of "last post" messages written by fed-up project maintainers [via] [via]
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22/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : BBC interview with Steve Meretzky about Infocom's Hitchhikers Guide text adventure - one of the best, but hardest, games they ever made [via] [via]
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22/04/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
jimray : Pacific shaving oil - Better than my beaver hair bush!?
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22/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Steve Gillmor on full-text RSS feeds - I wrote about this in my Weekly Wrap-Up (4-10 Apr).... Quote from Steve: "I will gladly pay with my eyeballs for ads in the feed rather than being forced back to the oh-so-2004 web site."
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22/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
kaninka.net : UtanrÃkisstefna BNA - Skemmtileg uppsetning á utanrÃkisstefnu USA
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22/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : Rick Santorum introduced a bill, on behalf of Accuweather, to disable free weather service from NOAA - This permanently cements Santorum's place as asshat senator of the decade
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22/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The Rise of the Ephemeral City - "Unlike the imperial capital, which administered a vast empire and extracted riches from it, or the commercial city, which thrived by trading goods, the ephemeral city prospers by providing an alternative lifestyle to a small sector of society."
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22/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Due Diligence: Rant: Abusing The Long Tail - Actually most interesting for the comments about Eastern European vacuum tubes as a Long Tail phenomenon
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22/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Matisyahu, Hasidic reggae star - Yes, reggae star. No, I have no idea.
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Andy Baio : Video: Katie Couric interviews Rogers Cadenhead, Popesquatter - brilliant and funny, especially the ending
ricmac : Video: Rogers Cadenhead on prime time tv (via waxy.org) - Hilarious performance by Rogers, who I think should become a Video Blogger. Incidentally, as I'm on Rogers' blogroll I'm hoping he'll add me to the Pope's blogroll too (that will make my grandma very proud)
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22/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Safari 1.3 Canvas - The new canvas element is supported in Safari 1.3!
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22/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : The Simplest Possible Metaclass - A great illustration of one of Python's least understood features.
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22/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : JavaScript Shell 1.2 - Every JavaScript developer should have this on their toolbar.
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22/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Take Control with User JavaScript - Opera's user scripts feature compatibility with Greasemonkey!
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22/04/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : flying dog - flying dog: not what you were expecting?
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22/04/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
Jason Shellen : Interview with the Music Supervisor for The O.C. - I must confess, I own all 4 OC mixes. #
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22/04/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
ricmac : Lilia on Networked Identity - "...sure it [the blog] takes a role in creating an opportunity, but it's me making choices [of] which opportunities to follow."
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22/04/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo patent made for "concept index" - "A Yahoo! patent application was published on April 14th which describes a "concept index," created from associations about the web in a somewhat new manner." [via threadwatch]
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22/04/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo! Panelists: Content is Crucial - "Internet content must be short and sweet, calling the medium, ?ADD?s [Attention Deficit Disorder] best friend."" [via paidcontent]
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22/04/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
ricmac : Bob Wyman update on FeedMesh - "Given the ethics of openness in the blogging and syndication movement, it seems right that we should all compete not based on which or how many updates we know about but rather on the quality of the services we provide."
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22/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Search escaping the box - "As search escapes the box, and flows into powerful new interfaces for different types of interactions, we should anticipate a flourishing of creativity like that which occurred when personal computing moved from the blinking cursor to the metaphorical de
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22/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Barney Pell: Notes from search panel - Comprehensive notes (thanks Barney!). e.g. from Mark Fletcher: "switching cost for search is zero. easy for people to switch, market is immature still and wide open for innovation."
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22/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Bitsplitter: Notes from Search Panel - e.g. Mark Fletcher again - not that I'm obsessed with Bloglines or anything... ;-) "What?s coming from Bloglines? Search friends, filter articles."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Forrester Research: GigaWorld IT Forum 2005 - Forrester Research: GigaWorld IT Forum 2005: they asked me to blog the show, not sure about that one
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22/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Sveasoft - Sveasoft: better frimware for my wireless router
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