3/05/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
Isofarro : PDFs don't have to be an Internet blight - 5 minimum requirements for PDF authoring
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3/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Isofarro : How to avoid screen reader 'noise pollution' - Basic accessibility guidance for alternative text, along with a good spice of common sense
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3/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Accessibility survey - For Europe. #
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3/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : .eu is now in the root - ?Check out our domain name: .eu is now in the internet root.? #
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3/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
kayodeok : Password generator - a little Javascript program that will concatenate two fields and MD5 them. The idea is that you choose one master password to secure all your others, and then generate passwords for each site/server by putting a completely obvious name for that resource i
deusx : Password generator - Hashes password with site name / URL, allows single password entry yet unique string per site. What, no Greasemonkey script?
Philippe Janvier : Password generator - "...a little Javascript program that will concatenate two fields and MD5 them". [via] #
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3/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
kayodeok : CSS Organization Tip 1: Flags - Tips for Organising large CSS Files
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3/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
kayodeok : Linux Desktop Hacks - The book is packed with tips on customizing and improving the interface, boosting performance, administering your desktop, and generally making the most out of what X, KDE, Gnome, and the console have to offer
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3/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : Angry Young Spaceman 5 Years Young Today - "On May 3, 2000, I had the Toronto launch for my second novel and the first No Media Kings book, Angry Young Spaceman."
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3/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Om Malik: Curry-casting - "...what is being offered is ?broadcasting? not podcasting."
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3/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Anonymous Proxy List - Anonymous Proxy List: in plain text files, woohoo!
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3/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : MT Admin - Valid, well-formed XHTML is a pipe dream, as it stands now. #
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3/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : The Lemon: History Of The Internet #
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3/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jimray : Burger war grows with new 15 pounder - When Rome fell, the Caesars were eating fifteen pound burgers, I bet
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3/05/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : Boing Boing: HOWTO break Win DRM9 - HOWTO break Win DRM9
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3/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot' - E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot': even worse if it comes from hotmail
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3/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Michael Moore made himself and Disney lots of money by stirring up controversy for Fahrenheit 9/11 - I'm confused though...where's the link between Disney and Fellowship Adventure Group? Surely the Weinstein's didn't purchase the film from Disney for the $78 million? How did Disney get that money back? (Comment on this)
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3/05/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : The Community Engine Blog: xFolk Archives - "xFolk is an xhtml microformat that allows people to apply tags to links in web articles and even whole articles themselves."
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3/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : Bill Bumgarner: Using Core Data from Python - "Via PyObjC, you can write Python applications that fully take advantage of Core Data."
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Jeremy Zawodny : PROXY lists - PROXY lists: I would like this as a flat text file or rss feed
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3/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tear-Away Pringles Canister - Halfbakery is a great source for half-insane ideas; here's my personal view of the last month's top ideas
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3/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tumbleweed Dispenser on Halfbakery - some other recent favs: Arrggh!, Puzzle Prison, Airplane Seat Guestbooks, Pincushion Ceiling/Floors, and Pedagotchi
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3/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Adware Installations of 2005 (Index) - Examples of sub-standard adware installation practices
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3/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Dark Economics, Adware Dynasties & Publicly Traded Stock - Whatever the legal exposure, it is possible that the providers of paid search and affiliate ads receive a potentially significant amount of revenue from Adware customers.
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3/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Cell Phone Finder - A Whole New Way to Look at Cell Phones - Cell Phone Finder - A Whole New Way to Look at Cell Phones: great little flash app that helps you select a phone and carrier
gleuschk : Cell Phone Finder - A Whole New Way to Look at Cell Phones - fantastic ui
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3/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Forget chimeras, let's outfit animals with gadgets - Ideas include odor respirators for dogs, mice with night-vision goggles, and metal detectors for fish (to steel clear of fishermen's hooks).
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3/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : A quick take on Apple's control freakishness - "Running a tightly controlled company has worked well for Jobs. But being a little out of control can pay dividends, too - by fostering creative freedom, not to mention goodwill. Jobs need only look at his own slogans. Life Is Random. Enjoy Uncertain
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3/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : If you look at just one photo of a man in a tuxedo holding a small sewing machine in front of some cops looking at a crashed UPS truck this year, make it this one
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3/05/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
philgyford : The Observer | UK News | Rising number of greens ditch cheap air travel - Me too. I get twitchy when I see people taking lots of flights because everyone else will have to pay in the end.
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3/05/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Jon Udell explains simple single sign-ons - using this Javascript MD5 bookmarklet, which could also be a Firefox extension
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3/05/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Advancing scientific research means that chimeric animals are on the way - "In the case of human cells' invading the germ line, the chimeric animals might then carry human eggs and sperm, and in mating could therefore generate a fertilized human egg. Hardly anyone would desire to be conceived by a pair of mice."
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3/05/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : How Sprint PCS loses customers - Sprint wanted Cam to sign a 2-year contract just to switch plans, even though he had been a customer of theirs for 7 years. He switched to T-Mobile and got a new phone in the process.
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3/05/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences - You can smarter than your friends in nine different ways.
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3/05/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : I am Giselle. I am a French bitch. - morning phonology rant - "sometimes, the more you know, the more infuriating the world around you is"
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3/05/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : Code Snippets: Grep jars for package or class [java] [shell] - I love these sorts of shell invocations. Looking forward to more of them using mdfind and mdls
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3/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : MTV.com - Movies - News - Seth Green's Twisted Mind Breeds A Hit 'Toon - 'Actor's "Robot Chicken" shakes up late night as "Family Guy" returns to primetime.'
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3/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : jwz - Dresden Dolls, Nine Inch Nails, Gang of Four - This is great: 'He hits that microwave and looks at you like "this is how you hit a fucking microwave!"'
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3/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Subscribe to your commute - Subscribe to your commute: I love that headline
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3/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Jeremy Keith's Adactio Elsewhere - pulling together personal information from disparate sources is a theme this year
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3/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Backfence, local community sites - nice idea, but a community-edited wiki approach is more sustainable in the long term
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plasticbag : UpMyStreet.com redesigns and bluntly - it's incompetent - A screen width that will shut out 30% of its users, incomprehensible navigation, 'issues' like a print magazine distracting you from the database of useful information... WTF?! Plus more pages != more ad revenue if you've pissed off all your users...
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3/05/2005 @ 14:58 GMT
Steve Cook : Tonga: A Little Kingdom and a Great Queen - An American doctor's recollections of Tonga in the early '20s.
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3/05/2005 @ 14:58 GMT
Steve Cook : "This manifesto outlines a strategy to eradicate suffering in all sentient life." - The Hedonistic Imperative proposes bioengineering pain out of existance.
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3/05/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Steve Cook : The American Museum of Radio and Electricity - "A ONE-OF-A-KIND MUSEUM FOR NORTH AMERICA"
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3/05/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Modern Cleveland - Come along on a tour of Cleveland's secret treasures -- things with character and style, and that engender a sense of culture and community.
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3/05/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Daniell Gross: A Moneyblog - Slate's excellent "Moneybox" writer gets a blog of his own.
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3/05/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Plunk Biggio - When will Craig Biggio become baseball's all-time hit by pitch king? (via Off the Kuff)
jkottke : Plunk Biggio is a blog "dedicated to Craig Biggio and his (probably unintentional) Quest to break the all time major league career record for getting hit by pitches" - He's only 5 HBPs away from Don Baylor, the official MLB record holder.
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3/05/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Laura DiDio and the Yankee Group Linux survey - A Business Week column is, ah, -highly skeptical- of the survey methodology and DiDio's reporting. (via Groklaw.net)
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3/05/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Mesa for Mac OS X - An Excel-compatable spreadsheet program written in Cocoa.
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3/05/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Steve Cook : MSN's Online Banking forum - Huge trove of information about online-only banks (USAA, ING, State Farm) and the online efforts of many national and large regional operators.
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Steve Cook : Calculated Rish: The Mug's Game - Secure your bragging rights by predicting the start of the next US recession!
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3/05/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Mark Cuban continues his flamebaiting - Am I bad for being so amused that a billionaire chooses to spend his time picking fights with the pseudonymous "Bob O'Brien" over illegal shortselling?
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3/05/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Paris schools Hannity and Colmes - PARIS: And that's exactly the problem. Maybe if you and your viewers read a little more, that's the problem right there.
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3/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Yard Work: STOP ME BEFORE I BUNT AGAIN! - "The Red Sox, bereft of cheesecake, only recently won their first championship in 86 years. Coincidence? TMQ thinks not." Sheer genius.
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Steve Cook : Smartwool socks - May in Cleveland seems to be pretending to be early March; I could use some warm socks.
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3/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Tiger Details - Notes, comments, and observations regarding Mac OS X 10.4.
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3/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Introducing Rmail - "...a service for subscribing to any RSS feed via SMTP". [via] #
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3/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Questionable Content #351: The Litany of Faye - "I must not laugh. Laughter is the Marten-killer. Laughter is the little death that brings total obliteration by an enraged Faye."
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3/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : ianhenderson.org - delimport - "Index your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight."
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erikbenson : Webbie Awards announced - 43 Things is nominated in the Social Networking category... and even mentioned in the press release. Cool!
philgyford : Webby Awards - Yay, JamieOliver.com won a Webby (but not the "People's Voice" unfortunately - must have been close)!
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3/05/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Reuben Margolin :: The Wave
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3/05/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Safari 2.0 Porn Mode - Private browsing
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François Nonnenmacher : DarwinPorts 1.0 - BSD ports for Mac OS X
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3/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Loose Wire: Phishing Pushes Banking To Impose Transfer Limits - Germany's biggest retail bank, Postbank, said Monday it was imposing a euro3,000 (US$3,860) limit on online transfers in an effort to protect customers against e-mail "phishing" scams
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3/05/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : Mysql vs postgres - The comparison of the newest, stable and production version of PostgreSQL 8.0 and MySQL 4.1 (MySQL has also development version 5.0)
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3/05/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : Defeating Forensic Analysis on Unix - this article presents anti-forensic strategies to defeat digital forensic analysis on Unix file systems
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kayodeok : Hacking a SQL Server - In this article, we'll outline how attackers footprint, attack, and compromise SQL Server, followed by solutions for mitigating these threats. We'll begin with a case study outlining common attack methodologies, followed by a more in-depth discussion of S
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3/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Ask Jeeves Accused Of Pushing Spyware - Spyware are actually programs gained by Ask Jeeves through its acquisition of Interactive Search Holdings last year
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3/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Ask Jeeves Denies Spyware Charge & Other Accusations - "Ask Jeeves' toolbar products, including My Search and Fun Web Products, are not spyware or adware"
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kayodeok : The Architect (apologies to 'The Matrix Reloaded') - A satirical piece about Longhorn
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3/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google Date Range Search - Google Date Range Search with human readable dates
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3/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : airWRX - application framework for USB flash drive software - From an email: "airWRX is a content-creation workspace that runs from a USB flash drive,"
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3/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Gmail Web Clips - Google's RSS Aggregator? - "So far, it really seems designed as a serendipitous thing. As you read different email messages, the headlines keep changing..."
kayodeok : Gmail Web Clips: More On Google's Feed Aggregator, Plus Feeds From Google News - More On Google's Feed Aggregator
Philippe Janvier : Gmail Web Clips : More On Google's Feed Aggregator, Plus Feeds From Google News - "...a rudimentary feed reader, to say the least". [via] #
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3/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : ABC to offer PSP-formatted news - strange, but okay [via] [via]
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3/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : 1up's hands-on preview of Katamari sequel - the Prince is controlled by Katamari fans; warning: audio on first page [via] [via]
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3/05/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent on Curry podcasting deal with Sirius - "This raises a number of issues including compensation for the podcasters, copyright, licensing."
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3/05/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : David Card - Adding Value Via Editorial Values - "There's nothing wrong with a business model that adds value via editorial values. It's just doubtful that anyone will value Adam Curry's...." (not sure that last bit is true, as Curry is extremely popular)
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3/05/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Dogster :: Bacon - What Joy did with her weekend while I was away -- Created a "Dogster" page for Bacon. #
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3/05/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
deusx : nathanchase.com - "The Ghost That Feeds" - Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters" vs. Nine Inch Nails "The Hand That Feeds"
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3/05/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Andrew Watson helps keep my ego at a healthy level - "If I had to subscribe to just one blog that focused on the way the web is going, and in particular on Web 2.0, RWW would be it."
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3/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
cobra libre : call of the wall - my house is quite similar, except that, instead of a piano, we simply have an enormous mound of gold coins and glittering gems [via] #
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deusx : EarthLink IPv6 in the Home - "The firmware rework enables the WRT54G to a) acquire a publicly routeable /64 IPv6 prefix, b) provide IPv6 addresses from that prefix to hosts on the home network, and c) route IPv6 home network traffic to the greater IPv6 Internet."
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jkottke : 100 people who are qualified to carry the "Bad Mothafucka" wallet besides Pulp Fiction's Jules Winfield - The list includes Cartman, Hemingway, Bruce Lee, Lt. Uhura, Mercutio, and Emma Peel.
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3/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Gridlockd urban game - capture intersections on a city grid using semacode and cameraphones [via] [via]
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3/05/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Disable Safari's ability to handle PDF files - Great tip when you positively *hate* when PDFs open in the browser
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3/05/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : A/UX The Unix for the rest of us? - A review of Apple's first Unix (which was NOT Mac OS X)
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3/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Abandoned Japanese amusement park photos - much more urban decay on the same site, including this odd Gulliver attraction; see also, Defunct Parks [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : Rusty amusement park - Great photos (via BoingBoing)
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