9/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : anti-mega: prototyping ambient displays on Tiger - "Quartz Composer is pretty easy - it's a visual programming environment designed for graphics and video." This really makes me want to hack around with Quartz Composer.
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9/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : The Biofeedback Blog » Blog Archive » Keychain Biofeedback Game - "Though not available for sale yet, the unit looks slick, small and well designed, and is another step in the right direction to make personal-use biofeedback fun and unobtrusive."
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9/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : Turn HTML off completely in Mail.app - "There's a hidden preference that can be set by dropping the following into a shell..."
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9/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Time Travel and Computing - "Let's suppose that eventually some approach results in a practical, even cheap, way to package time machines to make negative time delay elements --which output signals that predict what their inputs will receive some fixed time later."
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9/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Calif. Violent Video Game Bill Passes Committee - If the Parental Advisory labels on music are any indicator, this will only help sell more games. #
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9/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Dean & DeLuca - Product Details - Chemex Filter Drip Coffeemaker (Germany) - "The design of this 8 cup coffeemaker has been honored in the collection of Museum of Modern Art New York."
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9/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Virtual Coffee: Seven Steps to Brewing Better Coffee - I need more coffee-testing gadgets.
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9/05/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : The Huffington Post - Celebrity blogging aggregated by Arianna Huffington. Great first post from Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. #
plasticbag : I cannot express how uninteresting I find "The Huffington Post" - But I thought I'd better link to it anyway so that you guys don't think I just missed it or something...
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9/05/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : MFSA 2005-42: Code execution via javascript: IconURL - Mozilla's official statement on the arbitrary code execution vulnerability
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9/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Ntro?s Official Opinion » BitTorrent + RSS = The Next Big Thing - ?You mean on the Internets? Where??
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9/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Downtown Software House - Widget Manager - "Widget Manager is a Preference Pane for OSX 10.4 that allows you to inspect, remove, and disable Dashboard Widgets."
jimray : Widget manager - Add, delete and disable your widgets - why isn't this part of the OS?
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9/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Franco Fabbro - "DID EARLY CHRISTIANS USE HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS? ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE."
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9/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : the_bazaar: Tea Party + Def Leppard - Oh, for God's sake, this is a travesty. The Tea Party opening for Def Leppard?!
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9/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
cameron : Goolickr maps v1 - Places your geotagged photos on a Google Map
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9/05/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Firecracker magazine - Firecracker magazine [via] [via]
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9/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : Ledger-Enquirer | 05/06/2005 | Mother's call gets son in hot water - 'Francois said he told the teacher, "This is my mom in Iraq. I'm not about to hang up on my mom."'
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9/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : The Raw Story | Rep. calls for deeper inquiry into secret Iraq attack plan - 'Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy with wall-to-wall coverage of a "runaway bride" to cover a bombshell report out of the British newspapers'
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9/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : How to Brew Beer in a Coffee Pot - "The process of brewing coffee, I discovered, was a good way to relate the brewing process to people who do not understand zymurgy, the technical term for making beer."
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9/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : Takara Cubee: Singing Animal Blocks : Gizmodo - "Here are some toys. These toys are cubes. These toys are animals."
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9/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : Charlie's Diary - Chekhov's Gun - "How do you go about creating a believable human protagonist who is capable of destroying the universe?"
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9/05/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : nelson-blog.user.js - I have my own Greasemonkey script!
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deusx : Boston.com / News / Local / N.H. / Skipped gym class costs student diploma - "A decision to take Advanced Placement biology instead of gym will cost a Bow High School senior her diploma, but it won't keep her from going to college in the fall." I ended up doing something like this in High School, yet still got a diploma. I was a
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9/05/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
jimray : Debugging Dashboard Widgets - For when you're building your own
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9/05/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
jimray : Hilary Rosen to Steve Jobs: open up iTMS's DRM - The irony of Rosen complaining about consumer choice when she presided over the RIAA during the years when every major record label was indicted on fraud and price fixing
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9/05/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
jimray : Attack of the malicious widgets - If you're running Tiger, you should disable "open safe files after downloading" in Safari immediately. Even if you're not running Tiger...
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9/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
kayodeok : Outlook Express vs Thunderbird: an e-mail client comparison - Part 1 - This is the first of a two-part e-mail client comparison. In Part 1 our comparison is based on default installations of Outlook Express 6.0 and Thunderbird 1.0. In our upcoming Part 2 we will compare Outlook, Evolution and Kontact
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9/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
plasticbag : Crazy Orbs on Flickr - Mr Biddulph and I have been playing again. All terribly entertaining. More later...
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9/05/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Apple's Dashboard and Security - It was only a matter of time until somebody found out how to misuse Dashboard Widgets.
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9/05/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Watir: Web Application Testing in Ruby - Watir is a free open source functional testing library for automated tests to be developed and run against a web browser
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9/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : The Economist on the Long Tail, the current buzzphrase du jour - It'll be interesting to see if the Long Tail idea will be "over" by the time the book comes out or if it's got legs. Either way, it's still an interesting way to think about your business.
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9/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Pixar's proftis tripled since last year - And it sounds like a Disney reconciliation might happen as well.
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9/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Fun story about the small world we sometimes live in
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9/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Lego version of Han Solo frozen in carbonite
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9/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : "Queens" sign on a women's bathroom in Chelsea might cause some confusion
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9/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : A Firefox Glossary - This glossary is by no means exhaustive - it is meant to be a teaser to lead you to explore more
Philippe Janvier : A Firefox Glossary - "...a teaser to lead you to explore more". [via] #
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9/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Langa Letter: Google's New Tools: Proceed With Caution - More FUD from Fred Langa
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9/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : An experiment with INS and DEL - Cool! #
kayodeok : An Experiment with INS and DEL
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9/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : VoiceOver and Safari: Screen reading on the Mac - Tiger has a screen reader. #
Richard Rutter : VoiceOver and Safari - Roger Johansson investigates the screen reader built into Tiger.
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9/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : A CSS Image Map - Une démo amusante. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : image map in css - image map in css: neat stuff to play with
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9/05/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Flickr: The The Photographer's Shadow Pool - Flickr: Photographer's Shadow Pool
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9/05/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Centering a block horizontally - Nice hack! Bit dirty, but still. #
Isofarro : Centering a block horizontally - Using conditional comments to insert an extra div for IE5-
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9/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Impeachment Time: "Facts Were Fixed." - "Now, we have the stone, cold evidence of bending intelligence to sell us on death by the thousands, and neither a Republican Congress nor what is laughably called US journalism thought it worth a second look."
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9/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : NevOn: RSS feed hijack! - "Not a virus nor a trojan, but a very poorly behaved wi-fi network in my Paris hotel."
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9/05/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Packing Boxes Arrive, DVDs in about a Week - "This is what $800 worth of packing boxes looks like"
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9/05/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Geotagging Flickr with Greasemonkey and Google Maps - amazing hack! sets the bar for how manual geotagging should be done online [via] [via]
cameron : Geotagging Flickr with Google Maps and Greasemonkey Part 2 - Clever way to get geotags for Flickr photos
philgyford : EXCELLATRONIC COMMUNICATIONS: Geotagging Flickr with Google Maps and Greasemonkey Part 2 - Must get round to trying this some time.
Philippe Janvier : Geotagging Flickr with Google Maps and Greasemonkey Part 2 - "...a method, that makes adding GeoTags to your Flickr images, and then submitting the images to the geobloggers.com site a slightly more automated process". [via] #
Richard Rutter : Geotagging Flickr with Google Maps and Greasemonkey - Automated(ish) GeoTagging Flickr Images Process.
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9/05/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : LightPress 1.0.0 - Even more weblog systems! #
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9/05/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : "Who needs plugins?" (or "What's going on in Gecko-land, anyway?") - Fun stuff. #
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9/05/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
philgyford : Lime Tree Pantry - Yummm. Lovely, lovely pies. (I had the Salmon & Broccoli - huge chunks of salmon, perfect pastry.)
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9/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Greasemonkey blows up business models - some great thoughts on why Greasemonkey is important, and a great idea for a Netflix-BitTorrent script [via] [via]
kayodeok : Greasemonkey will blow up business models (as well as your mind) - Greasemonkey can insert prices from competitive booksellers right into Amazon, add persistent searches to Gmail, integrate links to your local library?s card catalog right into Amazon etc
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Andy Baio : Binary Bonsai's Live Archives - intelligent ways of browsing blog archives, powered by a new Wordpress plugin
cameron : Live weblog archives - Usable weblog archives through AJAX I assume
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9/05/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : A hostile environment for US Programmers? - "The right question isn't 'How do we keep programmers employed?' The right question is: 'How do we change the economics of software?'"
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9/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Beginners Guides: WindowsXP Command Prompt - Unlock the enigma that is DOS, and get a handle on the command prompt in Windows XP. PCstats covers the basics, and some commands you ought to know
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9/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Telling the Truth about Installation Tactics - Feedback from cne'ts antispyware conference: "Many of the companies whose installation practices I've criticized attempted to defend those practices or deflect attention from them. But their explanations and excuses don't stand up to critical examination"
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9/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Representational State Transfer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Wikipedia's entry on REST. To read
Isofarro : Wikipedia: Representational State Transfer - A must-read before implementing web-based services. After that, try Roy Fielding's original dissertation
Simon Willison : Representational State Transfer - As usual, Wikipedia has a superb take on a complex and frequently misunderstood topic.
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9/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : ScrappyGoo - hosted RSS feeds of Google News search results [via] [via]
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9/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
kayodeok : Mozilla Arbitrary Code Executation Security Flaw - Mozillazine: "The Secunia advisory suggests disabling JavaScript as a workaround; however, simply disabling software installation (Web Features panel of the Options/Preferences window in Firefox 1.0.3 or the Content panel in the latest trunk builds) elimi
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9/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
kayodeok : Firefox Remote Compromise Technical Details - "To understand why the example works, one must understand the basics of how Firefox works. Everything you see in firefox is essentially a webpage being rendered by a compiler. This is what the gui is made of, and this is why firefox is so easy to customiz
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9/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
kayodeok : Joi Ito's Web: BSOD upgrades to RSOD in Longhorn - Microsoft Longhorn has upgraded from the "Blue Screen of Death" to the "Red Screen of Death". Nice new look
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9/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
deusx : Voidstar - DRM is bad for you - "Music is for life, not just for christmas." Amen.
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9/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
cameron : zaptastic: blueprint for a widget of mass destruction - vehicle for hijacking apple users
kayodeok : Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets - If you are using Safari on Tiger, thanks to the magic of widget autoinstall, combined with the meta tag, a slightly evil widget has been installed in your dashboard. It could be a lot worse
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9/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Browse - a new experiment in book publishing? - Via Om Malik. Haven't yet grokked it, but it's some kind of open collaborative book publishing service. Om called it "the next evolution of the print-on-demand type services". Hmmm, have to look into it...
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9/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Episode III merchandising goes too far - if you thought the lawn sprinkler was bad; from the SA goons [via] [via]
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9/05/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
deusx : Joy-joy - Just a page full of widgets. - EVIL WIDGETS. AVERT YOUR SAFARI.
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9/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
ricmac : O'Reilly Radar > What is Where 2.0? - "At Where 2.0 we want to gather the "geeks" ... and the geospatial companies and have them talk."
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9/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
ricmac : Harold Davis says WordPress is Web 2.0 - Compares it to MT. I'd say they both are, but I guess in terms of openness Wordpress is moreso.
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9/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Sam Ruby: Sincerest Form Of Flattery - How Sam's funky referral tracking works. I talked to Ping about a similar system at SxSW.
kayodeok : Sincerest Form Of Flattery - How Sam Ruby's referral tracking works
deusx : Sam Ruby: Sincerest Form Of Flattery - "Sam catches that referrer, does some magic, and displays an excerpt of the post in his comments, along with a link and the title of the post that linked him."
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9/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Taking the unsafe GETs out of Rails - A great explanation of the problem, and a decent stab at a solution.
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9/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : How to combine both freeform and structured tags - InfoWorld succombe aux tags : "The downside is that we're probably going to phase out or at least simplify the robust taxonomy that we spent so much time and energy building and refining over the years". [via] #
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9/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Stationary is bad - a marketing site for MS OneNote - Of course, software bugs and blue screens of death are bad too...
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