8/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : AO / Technorati Open Media 100 Nominations - Not sure what to think of this. It'll be the same old A-Listers on these lists (yawn!). I suggested in the comments a category such as 'The Up-and-Comers' or 'The New Voices' - ok, so that would be the only way *I'd* ever make the cut ;-)
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8/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : Google shuts down for 15 mins - Threadwatch has all the skinny you may want to know on this.
kayodeok : Google shuts down for 15 mins... - When a site is down, the whois, finds the first best match that had 'google.com' in the string, which happened to be the URL of a squatter/joker.
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8/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : Charlie Woods: MS a Platform for RSS Apps - "Microsoft makes not only Windows, but also productivity applications like Outlook and enterprise servers like Exchange, both of which are platforms in their own right."
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8/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : HoustonChronicle.com: Microsoft MIA on RSS - "There will be an Internet Explorer 7 beta as early as this summer, but Microsoft's not saying how it will deal with RSS."
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8/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Scoble's response to Houston Chronicle's MS MIA on RSS article - "Microsoft's platforms get credit for these innovative -- and quite different from each other -- approaches to RSS."
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8/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mail.app 0.2 - Mail.app 0.2: I guess it's a good thing I ditched the Mac, huh? :-)
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8/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The SQ3R Reading Method - The SQ3R Reading Method: Survey! Question! Read! Recite! Review!
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8/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
plasticbag : Judging a Book by Its Contents - exposing statistics to users to convey meaning and colour - In Amazon's case using Statistically Improbably Phrases to sell more books. It's all about rapidly contextualising what you're look at and in a world of rapidly exploding choice, is probably more important than it looks...
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plasticbag : TED Global in Oxford - God I'd love to have gone to TED in Oxford in July, but it looks like they're all sold out. Which sucks...
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8/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : book review of "What the Dormouse Said", book about connection between hippies, drugs and technology in SF bay area in the 60s
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8/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Responding to Mena Trott
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8/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Plastic expression - Montage of a bunch of photos of a girl looking unchanging (via Metafilter)
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plasticbag : Powerpoint presentation that articulates some of the key differences and divides the UK electorate - It's a really interesting way to articulate some of the major distinctions that people understand and to see overlaps between the parties
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8/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : An interesting excursion on the typographic concept of leading / line-height... - "By definition, it is the vertical distance between two corresponding positions in two adjacent lines of text..."
Richard Rutter : Line Height - There’s more to line-height than first meets the eye.
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8/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses - IDN and IRI, or escaping (a bit) from the US-ASCII monoculture
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8/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Inside tech journalism: the NDA game
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8/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : About those NDAs and Embargos
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8/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : HTML Cheat Sheet - HTML Cheat Sheet: The tags/elements are so 1990s but I like the idea and I hope to put something together myself
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8/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : 15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away) - Rien de neuf ici. Mais c'est déjà une bonne synthèse de ce qu'il est possible de faire avec RSS. [via] #
ricmac : 15 things you can do with RSS - Exellent and detailed list by Tim Yang!
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8/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : "Am I a Freak?" Flash cartoons for teenage boys going through puberty - Some of the weirdest things I've ever seen in my entire life...
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8/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Ask Me How I Became A Pirate, by Tom Brazelton - Awesome looking t-shirt that I fear just wouldn't suit me. Yellow is such an unforgiving colour...
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Chronicles of Narnia trailer
Andy Baio : Video: Chronicles of Narnia trailer - also: Zathura, aka "Jumanji in Space," could be good too
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8/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Poor Mojo's Rant - "The general idea is that some jackass made a scene, and Ann Coulter was also there. I am Ajai Raj, and I am a jackass."
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8/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Poor Mojo's Rant - The Half-Life of Shame - "I felt sort of guilty for selling her short, but two-and-a-half minutes later, I felt better."
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8/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Postfix Add-on Software - Postfix Add-on Software: here you'll find greylisting packages and other goodies
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8/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm » Blog Archive » Talent Scrapping - systems that capture a little value from a very large number of people and then aggregate that into something of high value
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8/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Idempotency: It's not just for APIs (or, the web is an API) - Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog - Maybe it?s time to start actually, really paying attention to this?
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8/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm » Blog Archive » Rubbing Together - To get a flat surface you need to rub three surfaces against each other in assorted combinations
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8/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Mike Davidson: sIFR 2.0 Released - rich, accessible typography for the masses with no pitfalls under any reasonable browsing conditions
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8/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : What Do I Know - Internet Explorer no longer bundled with OS X - it would appear Apple licensed the fonts from Microsoft
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8/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Hire different...diversity is important in your workforce - She mentions Google as an example...I've always thought that their Ph.D hiring fetish is a little worrying.
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8/05/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
kayodeok : Bash Programming Cheat Sheet - A quick cheat sheet for programmers who want to do shell scripting
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8/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Firefox 1.0.3 0day Vulnerability Leaks with Proof of Concept - The reason for the disclosure was that it appears the researcher's machine was compromised and the details stolen
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8/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Mozilla Firefox Two Vulnerabilities - Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a user's system
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8/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Proof of Concept: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Exploit - This is a 0day exploit/vulnerability (unpatched). If a user clicks anywhere on a specially crafted page, this code will automatically create and execute a malicious batch/exe file.
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8/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Running Everyday on 64-bit Windows - Mark Russinovich from sysinternals.com recently reformatted his disk and installed Windows XP 64-bit Edition. Here is his review after a week of testing.
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8/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : New Microsoft Security Service to Offer Timely Guidance - The new offering, dubbed Microsoft Security Advisories, gives engineers at the MSRC (Microsoft Security Research Center) an outlet for providing instant feedback, guidance and mitigations when researchers jump the gun and release vulnerability details bef
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8/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Internet slang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Wikipedia's entry on Internet Slangs: "Internet slang consists of slang that users of the Internet have developed and utilized. Many of its terms originated with the purpose of saving keystrokes"
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8/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : Backend Changes to Anne Van Kesteren's blog - Anne switches from WordPress to his own blogging system
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8/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : More changes ahead (on Anne Van Kesteren's new weblogging system) - More backend changes to Anne Van Kesteren's new weblog system
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8/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : "Nobody crawls under my deck for less than seventy-five bucks, I don't care how much they like it."
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8/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Great rant about George Lucas and Star Wars
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8/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Finding Discord in Harmony - Not that I have currently any plans with it, but my weblog is working. ;-) #
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8/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : Bad Wolf Hunting - Scott Matthewman on the recurrent references to "Bad Wolf" in the latest series of Doctor Who - Apparently it's appeared in almost every episode of the new series so far, leading people to wonder what it's all building towards... Could it be The Master?
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8/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : We've Got Time to Kill (So Let's Smash the Clock) - Lance Arthur ruminates on goals and age and unhappiness - The bit that stuck in my head was about not giving your job too much importance - I kind of don't agree - people get this wrong. Work isn't something you do to get paid, everything you do in your life that has a purpose should be considered work.
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8/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : FlickIt Dashboard Widget handles sending photos to a weblog or via e-mail and IM to a friend - It looks pretty polished, I guess. Probably would be better as a little dedicated application, but widgets are easier to write I guess...
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8/05/2005 @ 12:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : For the love of cheese! - Heh! #
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8/05/2005 @ 12:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Help us with Tiger integration! - Help with implementing Firefox in Tiger! #
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Anne van Kesteren : Phil Ringnalda in Clover - I wonder if Phil knows :-) #
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8/05/2005 @ 12:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Cross browser SVG - Very cool! (You need a Firefox nightly for this to work by the way.) #
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8/05/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Google speed bump draws scorn
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8/05/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Worth1000.com - Current Products in a Vintage Light... - Make new things look old again. Some are awesome. Some are clumsy as all hell...
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8/05/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Apple Widget of Mass Destruction - blueprint for auto-installing spyware widget you can't remove; very dangerous
plasticbag : Blueprint for a widget of mass destruction - on how Tiger Widgets could represent a security hole - Kind of expected this, and completely agree about the lunacy of there not being any (external) interface for managing the removal of widgets - that's just insane...
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8/05/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Paul Morley on Oasis in The Independent, as found by Matt Jones I think - "Really, they were just a warm mug of artificially flavoured milky memories, passing quaint old-fashioned music through a post-punk, post-rave, post-Thatcher filter."
philgyford : The Independent Online Edition > Enjoyment - Oasis: Mad for it? Not me - Paul Morley on Oasis
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8/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : HySpace, Hyrule's online friend community - brilliant Zelda-themed MySpace parody, with profiles for each character [via] [via]
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8/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : WordPress Hacks - The X-Valid plugin appeals to me: "This plugin attempts to take arbitrary posts and comments and transform them into valid XHTML, a standard that describes how web-pages should be written"
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8/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : IBM - Web design guidelines
François Nonnenmacher : IBM Web design guidelines
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8/05/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : Mac Geekery - All About launchd Items (and How To Make One Yourself) - "If you want to make a program start at a certain time, for a certain event, or just stay running, the new launchd service in Tiger is for you."
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8/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : Om Malik?s Broadband Blog » Google Hacked? - Latest update (#4) has quote from Google spokesperson who says it wasn't a hack job: "...it was a DNS issue."
kayodeok : Google (NOT) Hacked? Just A DNS Glitch says Google - Google was not hacked, but instead had a DNS problem. For some readers the site was redirecting to the SoGoSearch page (see screenshot)
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8/05/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Vonage: $200M raised - That's a lot of private capital
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8/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Hitchhiker's Guide to PHP - Learn everything about PHP, from getting your first application started to what the future of the language holds
Jason Shellen : The Hitchhiker's Guide to PHP - Oddly, it's from Oracle. I must panic. #
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8/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
plasticbag : U.S. Dollar to British Pound Exchange Rate over two years... - Webb found this. Fuck that's a scary drop in the value of the dollar. Still - makes things nice and cheap in the States!
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8/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google outage - DNS for several Google domains goes down; Google News still inaccessible
ricmac : Google down? Google hacked! - Engadget gets all excited about a possible scoop. Jury still seems to be out, but looks like some problems with Google domains.
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8/05/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : I wonder why buttons look like that - Heh. Spot on. #
Wayne Burkett : Phil Ringnalda: I wonder why buttons look like that - "Making the fire alarm look just like a light switch isn't an example of daring and innovative design, it's just dangerous." #
Paul Hammond : phil ringnalda dot com: I wonder why buttons look like that - Making the fire alarm look just like a light switch isn't an example of daring and innovative design, it's just dangerous
Isofarro : I wonder why buttons look like that - 'Launch the nuclear warheads' GET or POST?
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8/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : Clayton Cubitt and Tom Carden collaborate to create beautiful portraits merged in with generative art - It's quite stunning - like you'd dropped beautiful women into a spirograph and they'd been hit by lightning and dropped into amber...
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8/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : The obsessiveness of Steve Jobs, The most successful paranoid in business history? - What a strange, compelling and pointless little article. Still, it's made me want to buy the iCon book...
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8/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : MouseField: A Simple and Versatile Input Device for Ubiquitous Computing - The application in question seems dumb and less easy to use than gui interfaces, but maybe the idea of smart sensing spaces where you can put and manipulate real-world objects has some scope
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8/05/2005 @ 00:20 GMT
erikbenson : You?re It! - I tag this blog tagblogging (too bad 43 Things isn't in the list of tagmania sites)
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