26/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : IT Conversations: George Dyson - Von Neuman's Universe - Great podcast: "In this presentation from O'Reilly's Emerging Technology 2005, George Dyson, technology historian, presents a talk on Von Neumann's life as he was developing the foundations of computing at Princeton University during the 1930's, 40's and
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26/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : The Tao of Mac - blog/2005-04-26 - "Do not, ever, ever again open up a dusty PC indoors to check why the fan is making scratching noises in the middle of the night."
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26/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : Apple - Trailers - Serenity - Large - Must see. Must see. Must see. Must see. Must see. Must see. Must see. Must see.
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26/04/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : Macworld: Feature: The inbox makeover - Some good stuff in there
Ethan Marcotte : The inbox makeover - Yeah, I really need to do this.
Jeremy Zawodny : The inbox makeover - The inbox makeover: I'm working to implement this... so far, reasonably good
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26/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : "More big chefs are getting paid to pitch everything from shrimp to raisins -- and not telling their customers" - "The Seafood institute pays [chef Ty Fredrickson's restaurant group] $10,000 a year to have the word Alaska in front of its king-crab and halibut dishes."
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26/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Some guy named Lee Walton versus Shaq in a free throw shooting competition - After each Heat game, Lee would attempt the same number of free throws as Shaq and tally the results. He lost to Shaq by 8 points.
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26/04/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Steven Johnson: "Imagine an alternate world identical to ours save one techno-historical change: videogames were invented and popularized before books" - "Reading books chronically under-stimulates the senses. Unlike the longstanding tradition of gameplaying -- which engages the child in a vivid, three-dimensional world filled with moving images and musical soundscapes, navigated and controlled with c
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26/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
philgyford : The Great British Kitchen - Seasonal Dishes Calendar - Which food's in season each month. Because us non-gardening, supermarket-using city folk have *no* idea about this kind of stuff.
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26/04/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : RadTech - BT510 Mid-Size Bluetooth Mouse - If I traveled more, this is definitely the mouse I'd get. The USB backup is brilliantly elegant.
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26/04/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Oberkampf PHP toolset for Flickr
Andy Baio : Oberkampf, Flickr-powered PHP photo gallery - very customizable, with nice utility functions [via] [via]
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26/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
cobra libre : g.k. chesterton's works on the web - "The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists." #
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26/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : George Lucas Guests On 'The O.C.,' Announces Two 'Star Wars' Series - This seems like an April Fools headlilne I would have written - but it's not! #
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26/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : Questionable Content #346: It Would Be Pretty Cute - "I'm sorry, it's just that gay couples are cute enough as it is, and the concept of a little gay robot couple is unbearably adorable."
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26/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Make a ring out of a US quarter - neat hack, and technically illegal! [via] [via]
jkottke : How to make a coin into a ring
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to make a ring from a coin
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26/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Customer management software - A call for software to manage software licensing & customer data.
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26/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : BLIPSPOT Forecasts - BLIPSPOT Forecasts: localized soarin forceasts for specific locations
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26/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
plasticbag : The BlogHer conference is an overdue gathering on women and weblogging. The UK could do with a weblogging event of some kind, as could the gay community... - I'm a little tense that some of the comments are characterising the event as an opposition to an apparent male hegemony, which I think is over-simplistic. Still, can't have everything...
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26/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
plasticbag : Danah on the Prix Ars Electronica - Interesting to hear about some of the discussion that's been going on behind the scenes
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26/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Cassini spacecraft finds complex hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of Titan
plasticbag : NASA Cassini Identifies Organic Materials High Above Titan's Surface - Scientists believe that Titan's atmosphere may be a laboratory for studying the organic chemistry that preceded life and provided the building blocks for life on Earth.
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26/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : A salt taste test: "From fleur de sel to kosher, which salt is best?"
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26/04/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Googkle: Be careful when searching the web - If a user types googkle instead of google, his/her computer gets hijacked - a lot of different malware gets automatically downloaded and installed: trojan droppers, trojan downloaders, backdoors, a proxy trojan and a spying trojan. Also a few adware-relat
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26/04/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Ten questions for Tommy Olsson - Most things were not new to me, but it was a good read. [via] #
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26/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : iPod Shuffle Memorial - iPod Shuffle Memorial [via] [via]
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26/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Photos from "I Am 8-bit" gallery exhibition - looks like photos of every artwork [via] [via]
deusx : FORT90.com - i am 8-bit: Opening Night - "WARNING: MASSIVE amount of pics, sorry 56k."
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26/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Chris Ware to self-publish future work - including new issues of Acme Novelty Library! [via] [via]
jkottke : Chris Ware to self-publish own books and graphic novels from now on
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26/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : TVTorrents closed down - they make reference to a costly settlement [via] [via]
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26/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : UC Berkeley professor exaggerated laptop scary story - shocking! [via] [via]
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26/04/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Retro-style RPG based on Columbine massacre - extremely offensive; don't shoot the messenger [via] [via]
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26/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Ubuntu 5.04 Review - Another Ubuntu Review - I am tempted
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26/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Surfarama: Running your company on web apps - Charles has some great tips in here for web apps to use in your business. Plus a commenter adds his too.
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26/04/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It... - Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It...: heh, so we are worth dating after all
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26/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Kottke: Why did traffic on nytimes.com rise? - Jason lists other factors - e.g. design, promotions. quote: "I would be interested to know how much other factors contributed to the rise in traffic."
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26/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Scrivs on Google AdWords changes - "Google will make more money without disclosing the revenue split and we will continue to use AdSense. Really all you can do is worry about how well your own site is performing."
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26/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Google AdSense in RSS? - Chris Pirillo says there is now...
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26/04/2005 @ 05:57 GMT
Steve Cook : United's pension woes: sign of bigger issue - The airline industry gears up to bone its workers and the American taxpayer. Again.
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26/04/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Steve Cook : 77 Dream Songs - Confessionalist poet John Berryman's Pulitzer Prize-winner.
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26/04/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Strangely Enough - Paul Maliszewski, Michael Chabon, satire, hoaxes, The Baffler, and the Holocaust.
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26/04/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Steve Cook : The Web Application Security Consortium attempts to put together some statistics - I've never heard of this group (I assume they're the corporate version of OWASP), but they're collecting and collating stats on vulnerabilities.
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26/04/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Steve Cook : The Great Curve - A nice news-roundup comics blog, focused on Marvel and DC.
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26/04/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Gold lures Mongolians from the land - "Across Mongolia, an estimated 100,000 people like Oyungerel are turning away from traditional occupations ... to illegally scavenge the country's old gold mines for leftover nuggets and gold dust." (via Hit and Run)
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ricmac : PDF: Search Engines Past and Future - Presentation by Yahoo Search Chief Scientist Jan Pedersen, dated 11/4/05 (via Susan Mernit)
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26/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : Mary Meeker: The Age of Engagement - PDF preso: "More than ever, on-going interaction between brands and consumers is required if advertisers are to stay relevant and provide value."
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26/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo! Now One of Media's Big Boys - So who is best positioned, Yahoo or Google? It depends on who you read/listen to...
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26/04/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : God is Great, by which I mean, Very Very Large - God is Great, by which I mean, Very Very Large: hahahahahahaha
Andy Baio : How big is Jesus? - JWZ runs the numbers [via] [via]
jkottke : How big is Jesus? - Based upon the amount of communion wafers and wine consumed by Christians, Jesus "weighs twenty million times more than you, and contains ninety-two billion times as much blood".
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26/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Dave Winer: The Media Stream - "The stream, as it were, begins in places like Scripting News, where we scout for the big guys. And we take back our heroes, like Rogers, when the Mainstream gals and guys are finished with them."
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26/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Rogers fact-checks a newscast that misreported him - "I can see exactly what the station read on my web server, because the office computer Ronningen used to e-mail me requested several web pages Thursday."
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26/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : timdoug.freeshell.org/unpkg - So this utility simply unpacks all the files in a package into a folder in the same directory as the package
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26/04/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : notes: It's A Whole New (No It's Not) Internet - the suggestion that people who make these sites are only now springing to life when money is available is kind of disappointing
ricmac : It's A Whole New (No It's Not) Internet - "It's never been the technology that makes things cool for me, it's how the idea is executed. Tags, Ajax, RoR, RSS, XML, blogs, Java, VRML..."
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