27/04/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Bitten chef saved his life by snapping lethal spider - Cameraphone to the rescue! #
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27/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Microsoft and EC agree to disagree
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27/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : DDR/Beatmania-style video by DJ Format
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27/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : RSS Mix - Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed! - "Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed!" Yup, wrote a chapter on that a few weeks ago... :)
ricmac : RSS Mix - feed remixer - Can add up to 4 feeds. Blogdigger does similar functionality.
kayodeok : RSS Mix - Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed! - Allows you to specify any number of RSS feeds to be blended together into one uberfeed. What can you do with this? You can put it in your feed reader and read it, or you can put it on your Web site and let other people read it.
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27/04/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Resizeable Textarea Firefox Extension - Resizeable Textarea Firefox Extension: woohoo!
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27/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : WordPress Direction - Weblog as the answer to everything? ;-) #
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27/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Convert Winamp generated HTML playlist to XHTML - What is wrong with Tidy? (Frans pointed out the HTML is too crap too make it semantically correct with Tidy.) #
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27/04/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : PCTurnoff Organization - PC-TOO - Main PC turn off. We lose signal. (Yeah, right, like I'd turn off my computer. Bwahahahahahahah!)
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27/04/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Microsoft discloses some IE 7 plans - "We have certainly heard the clear feedback from the Web design community" -- Too bad it took them so many years
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27/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Can an open source project get acquired? One just did
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27/04/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Firefox Used By 1 Out 10 Business Professionals
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27/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Writing On Your Palm: Vim with Vigor: Serious text editing for the Pocket PC - Writing On Your Palm: Vim with Vigor: Serious text editing for the Pocket PC: vim on the pocket pc... I should try it just for kicks
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27/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Airbus - Introduction A380 Family - Airbus - Introduction A380 Family: it flew today
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27/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Running Linux on an iPAQ - Running Linux on an iPAQ: more of the same...
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Jeremy Zawodny : LinuxDevCenter.com: Linux on Pocket PCs - LinuxDevCenter.com: Linux on Pocket PCs: I wonder if this would work on my hx4705
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27/04/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Art group installs viewing platforms at L.A. gated communities - hilarious; I bet they're removed by tomorrow [via] [via]
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27/04/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Transparent PNGs in IE, File uploads in SVG - Ah, other people discover the argument against SVG. #
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27/04/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : Sam Ruby: Atom Format Last Call - "Later (end of the year?) I plan to remove support for Atom 0.3." This is important.
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27/04/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : PaceRemoveVersionAttr - Atom Wiki - "If there ever is need for a new syndication formation which can't conform to these requirements, it is either done in a new namespace, either as an Atom 2.0 or as a new standard."
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27/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : CoffeeGeek - Latte Art Guide - "You rock, and you show the rest of us that latte art is achievable."
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27/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? (plasticbag.org) - "Trackback, I come to praise and bury you. May you rest in peace..."
znarf : Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? [via] #
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27/04/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Star Wars convention meets wide-angle lens, hilarity ensues. - Quake before the power of geekdom!
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27/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jimray : Microsoft pays Ralph Reed $20k a month - Hired his company as a consultant about trade and competition issues. I'm curious what the so-called "moral majority" and Christian coalition are teaching Microsoft about trade.
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27/04/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Infinity launching listener-produced commercial radio station - submit audio files online, they review and play them on AM radio [via] [via]
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cobra libre : exploding toads - featuring "exploding amphibians in fiction" #
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27/04/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Snooker on TV - ‘Snooker is a game of tidying’.
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27/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Americans are getting more excited about cheese these days
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27/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : NYPD: web sites are not eligible for working press credentials - Wait, doesn't the NY Times have a web site?
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27/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : The NY Times' Randy Cohen is making a literary map of Manhattan - Not a map of where authors hung out, but where their characters did.
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27/04/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Does advertising still work? - "In 1965, advertisers could reach eighty per cent of their most coveted viewers -- those between the ages of eighteen and forty-nine -- just by buying time on CBS, NBC, or ABC." Now it's a lot more difficult and expensive to do so.
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jkottke : On the occasion of its 25th birthday, a history of the Post-It note
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27/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : Achewood - April 27, 2005 - "I'm... a... caaaake!"
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27/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : NabaTech: Nonlinearity of Creative Endeavors - "Buffering your creative output is one way to bridge the world of creative endeavors and the linear expectations of the world that wants to manage creativity."
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27/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : About Ivy - Software bus, messages are strings, callbacks attached to regular expression matches.
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27/04/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : The Bamboo DHT -- Introduction - "A distributed hash table, or DHT, is a building block for peer-to-peer applications."
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27/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Individual-i - "This icon ? the Individual-i ? represents the rights of the individual."
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27/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Matt's Recumbent Bike - silliest Flickr pool ever; the original image [via] [via]
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27/04/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Why geeks and nerds are worth dating - "They actually give a damn about you. Not how you look (though that's a plus), not how skinny you are, not how much make-up you primp yourself up with, but they like you for you. That kind of thing lasts longer than 'DaMN baby you got a fin
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27/04/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
mbertier : pattesboeufs.jpg (Image JPEG, 397x388 pixels) - afghan ashtray holder [via] #
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27/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : del.icio.us - a photoset on Flickr - "A photolog of the company's progress."
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27/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
ricmac : This guy is a generalist - ...but spot the odd sentence out: "I want to know about many subsystems in my project. I want to be able to play many instruments. I want to be with many girls." (LOL)
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27/04/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
ricmac : The Specialist/generalist dilemma - Shrödinger, wasn't he the dude with the cat? (oh it's too late for blogging, time to go watch tv)
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27/04/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
mbertier : Slashdot | Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro' - "Yes, I can see it now - entire industries undoing their time-tested, battle hardend PDF-based workflows with free and open files all for the chance to use patented, pay-for-use Microsoft proprietary workflows, software, and files. Good luck with that, gu [via] #
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27/04/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kaninka.net : Bifreiðaeigendur sektaðir - à KeflavÃk
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27/04/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Michael Kaply Revives CCK Project - This would be very cool! #
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27/04/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : The first trailer for Joss Whedon's Serenity movie is out and it looks kinda awesome, but also kinda like the TV show - My biggest question is will this look cinematic enough? Will it be enough of a transition from the small screen?
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27/04/2005 @ 09:14 GMT
jimray : Mail Act-On Plugin for Apple Mail.App - Sort your email easily
Rod Begbie : MailActOn - Plugin for Apple Mail which allows you to quickly tag/file/act-on your emails with a couple of keystrokes. I'd been looking for something like this for a while. [via] #
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27/04/2005 @ 09:11 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft to add 'black box' to Windows - -In a move that could rankle privacy advocates, Microsoft said Monday that it is adding the PC equivalent of a flight data recorder to the next version of Windows, in an effort to better understand and prevent computer crashes.
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27/04/2005 @ 09:08 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : IE7 Transparent PNG Implementation - A developer clarifies IE7's PNG Implementation
Anne van Kesteren : IE7 Transparent PNG Implementation - Now it is fixed, it is time for feedback; or so. #
Paul Hammond : IEBlog : IE7 Transparent PNG Implementation - Implementing transparency support for PNG images required a significant amount of modification to the image decoding and display pipeline in IE along with a significant amount of new functionality added to the PNG decoder
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27/04/2005 @ 09:04 GMT
kayodeok : Writing Secure PHP - Part 1 - "Rule Number One: Never, Ever, Trust Your Users"
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27/04/2005 @ 09:01 GMT
kayodeok : Writing Secure PHP, Part 2 - More PHP Security tips
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27/04/2005 @ 08:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Slashdot adds ads to their RSS feeds - blecch
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27/04/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : IHT redesigns to 1024 pixels wide - is this the first major news site to break the 800px barrier? [via] [via]
Khoi Vinh : IHT.com Redesigned
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27/04/2005 @ 08:07 GMT
jimray : Political Friendster - Uniting, not dividing
Simon Willison : Political Friendster - Really smart - tracks connections between politicians and institutions.
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27/04/2005 @ 08:03 GMT
kayodeok : Sheet could shelter Wi-Fi from eavesdroppers - The British government has endorsed a transparent film that can block Wi-Fi transmissions and other wireless signals from traveling through windows
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27/04/2005 @ 08:00 GMT
ricmac : Multiply - new social search engine - Claims to be "the first search engine that finds information that's been published in one's social network."
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27/04/2005 @ 07:57 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Sex, animated - Sex, animated: it's a visual howto of sorts
jkottke : This link isn't safe for work, but if you've ever wanted to see the Hamsterdance version of the Kama Sutra, here it is
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Andy Baio : Disney developing Pirates of the Carribean MMO - I'm still waiting for Disneyland in Half-Life 2
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Andy Baio : Kottke on "A Whole New Internet" - expanding on Andre's original thoughts
Simon Willison : A whole new internet? - Cool jobs kill private innovation. Crap jobs encourage it.
Philippe Janvier : A whole new internet ? - "There's still lots of opportunity these days, but it's more expensive with less return". [via] #
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27/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Red Sox 2005 schedule in CSV format
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27/04/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Rosie O'Donnell's Flickr photos - she also moved her Blogspot blog to her own domain
Nelson Minar : Rosie O'Donnell Flickr - Looks legit
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27/04/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : RFC 2397: The "data" URL scheme - How have I missed this for so long? I can think of a lot of times I've wanted to generate images in the same chunk of code that's generating the HTML. [via] #
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27/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo! Search blog: My Web - Hmmm "You can publish your My Web links via RSS and, of course, there?s an API for My Web published on YSDN. We're also experimenting with Attention.XML as a way to ship around My Web data."
kayodeok : Saving, Sharing, and Syndicating Search via My Web - My Web enables you to find the information relevant to you, save it, share it, add your own notes to it, and easily find it again, whether it%u2019s three days or three months later
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27/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Google vs Yahoo Mojo-o-meter - Threadwatch calls Google ahead currently... quote: "It seems that Google have taken the offensive, and quite frankly, Yahoo are left looking somewhat lame at this point."
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27/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : The Dark Side of RSS - RSSInjector: auto-generation of pages, on an industrial scale.
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27/04/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Josh goes ga-ga over Craigslist - GoogleMaps combo - "This could be the most important interface we?ve yet seen in the early Web 2.0."
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Andy Baio : Pixel mural from Masters of Magic for MS-DOS - creative, retro, and obscure; I love this kind of thing
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27/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo deal with Nokia - "Yahoo has made a big move in mobile content with this tie-up with Nokia."
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27/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Blogging Media Empires - PaidContent round-up. Also Silicon Valley Watcher should be added to the list.
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27/04/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Dave Winer developing new kind of linkblog? - "It'll be especially useful for a new kind of linkblog that I think (hope) will become more popular when my OPML editor comes out."
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ricmac : Eric Lunt: Format Wars, Episode 3 - "What's in store for Format Wars, Episode 4 you think? I'm thinking it's going to be in reconciling different namespace extensions for rich media types."
deusx : Dancing About Architecture: Format Wars, Episode 3 - In comments: "An interesting sidebar is that the new Atom format doesn't have a version attribute and I understand it will sit in the same namespace." AUGH! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!
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ricmac : Eric Lunt: AdSense and FeedBurner - I can almost see Eric licking his lips... (that came out wrong, but you know what I mean!) Quote: "The most exciting thing we can do, though, is integrate your ad performance statistics with your existing FeedBurner stats."
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27/04/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : Moonwatcher: How RSS can help managers
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27/04/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Readable switch construction without lambdas or dictionaries - Surprisingly elegant.
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Simon Willison : [Geowanking] Google Maps UK - Optimistic thoughts on the hackability of Google Maps. (via) [via]
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kellan : Sparklines in data: URIs - How come no one told me about data: URIs? Wow. #
Rod Begbie : Sparklines in data: URIs in Python - Sparklines implemented in tiny amounts of Python. And how come I'd never heard of data URIs until now? [via] #
Simon Willison : Sparklines in data URIs in Python - A neat hack with data: URIs and the Python Imaging Library.
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27/04/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Quittin? time - Matt May is leaving the W3C - and seeking an interesting new job.
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Simon Willison : New Values for a New Age of Journalism - The news industry would be so much smarter if they followed this advice.
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Simon Willison : random.org - True random numbers, with entropy provided by a radio tuned to white noise. (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : Who is using random.org? - The user testimonials are pretty, well, random.
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Simon Willison : HoverHelp - Intelligently implemented JavaScript tool tips. (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : Gecko Info for Windows Accessibility Vendors - "This FAQ explains how makers of Windows screen readers, voice dictation packages and magnification software can support Gecko-based software" (via) [via]
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Simon Willison : Greasemonkey for personalized accessibility - Why Greasemonkey is the perfect tool for client-side accessibility enhancements.
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Simon Willison : Xyle - Kind of like Mozilla's DOM inspector for Safari.
Steve Cook : Xyle - A Webkit-based CSS inspector and editor for OS X.
Richard Rutter : Xyle scope - OS X software similar to DOM inspector but with more CSS stuff.
philgyford : Overview : Xyle scope : Cultured Code - Rather smart HTML- and CSS-examining application for the Mac. Looks complicated, but I imagine it could be invaluable over time.
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Simon Willison : The 1 million download challenge - In which Opera's CEO attempts to swim the atlantic.
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Simon Willison : iPod Truffle - Andy's been distracting us from our dissertations.
Anne van Kesteren : iPod Truffle - Nice! [via] #
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Simon Willison : Why every student should own a Mac - Michelle Levesque on student laptop culture. (via) [via]
kayodeok : An example of collaborative notetaking with SubEthaEdit - "One student types in the main content of what is being said. Another follows behind and corrects spelling mistakes while a third adds a few extra points. Perhaps another is ahead of the rest, creating structure for the rest of the document -- preparing H
Matthew M. Boedicker : how students use laptops in class (collaborative note-taking, Google searches)
deusx : Catspaw's Guide to the Inevitably Insane - 'In my classes where a handful of people always have a laptop open, there's a subculture of wired (well, I guess "wireless") students who are busy engaging in their own academic experience.'
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Ethan Marcotte : Awesome fan film that pits Ash against The Highlander - Mais oui, avec claymation!
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27/04/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
jimray : night-owls need not apply | Ask MetaFilter - How do I wake up early? Some good tips on sleep cycles, etc
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27/04/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
jimray : Voluntary Simplicity & Simple Living Resource Guide - What is Voluntary Simplicity? - Living simply
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kayodeok : IT cheat sheets for all - Cheat Sheets for HTML, PHP, Bash, SQL, Java, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Outlook etc
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kayodeok : Firefox Extension: Gmail S/MIME - Encrypted E-mail with Gmail
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kayodeok : A Quick Peek at Longhorn - Longhorn Alpha Build 5048 Review
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kayodeok : Understanding modern cryptographic technology - "Modern cryptographic technology can be reduced to just three fundamental building blocks from which surprisingly flexible, robust, and secure systems can be assembled"
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kayodeok : Unleashing the power of WordPress - Ideas for hacking the WordPress Code
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