25/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories - Really fascinating L.A. Times account of how war gets covered - or doesn't
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25/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
cobra libre : the book of imaginary beings - of course, i was only able to find this *after* i had finally tracked down a copy of the book #
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25/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Social Bookmarking Tools (I) : A General Review - "This paper reviews some current initiatives, as of early 2005, in providing public link management applications on the Web - utilities that are often referred to under the general moniker of "social bookmarking tools"". [via] #
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25/05/2005 @ 22:58 GMT
Isofarro : Slashdot: Ajax buzzwords reinvigorates Javascript - Using closures for onreadystatechange to get around global variable problems
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25/05/2005 @ 22:58 GMT
Isofarro : Ajax Mistakes - Top 10 mistakes using XmlHttpRequest to dynamically update content
Paul Hammond : Alex Bosworth's Weblog: Ajax Mistakes - Javascript itself is a dangerous UI technology, but I've tried to keep the list to problems particular to Ajax development
plasticbag : Alex Bosworth's engaging and well thought-through articulation of mistakes that people can make when using Ajax - "Ajax is also a dangerous technology for web developers, its power introduces a huge amount of UI problems as well as server side state problems and server load problems"
philgyford : Alex Bosworth's Weblog: Ajax Mistakes - For the future, when I get round to playing with Ajax.
Philippe Janvier : Ajax Mistakes - "...a list of the many mistakes developers using Ajax often make". [via] #
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25/05/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : After installing Netscape 8 the XML rendering capabilities of Internet Explorer no longer work - Details and "workaround" available on the IE Blog
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25/05/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Wertham's Ghost (a brief history of Batgirl) - "If a comic book could actually turn people gay as Dr. Wertham had suggested seven years earlier, this one might have had the power to do it."
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25/05/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
Steve Cook : The Magi Society - Helping People Understand Benevolent Design - This page devoted to "Magi Astrology" may be the most insane thing I've seen in 2005.
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25/05/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Elves and Hobbits in Russian Woods - Russian's Tolkien LARPer scene. Who knew?
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25/05/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Steve Cook : George Will embarasses himself - Find me three serious historians who say that the defining characteristics of postmodernism are "skepticism and cynicism".
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25/05/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Snailgate: How a cartoon character won an election - It's nice to be reminded what a farce collegiate elections are.
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25/05/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Steve Cook : The Legacy of Albert Maysles - A brief interview with America's finest living documentary filmmaker.
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25/05/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Avoiding 'stereotype threat' for better performance - "Similar findings have been found for female students taking maths tests and even with white golfers taking tests of 'natural athletic ability'."
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25/05/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Crooked Timber: Isolated social networkers - CP Snow's Two Cultures displayed via a nifty graph.
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25/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
djacobs : vi reference mug
Steve Cook : vi reference mug - Perfect graduation gift for that computer science major you know. (via delicious/phytar)
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25/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The greatest IMDB entry ever - "Sometimes Credited As: Cat."
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25/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : I succumb to a meme. - I feel unclean. And worse, now everyone will know my fatal Lightning Bolt weakness!
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Steve Cook : Insider trading in the Harry Potter deathpool? - Bookies are refusing bets from the town where the new Harry Potter book was printed. (Warning: spoilerific!!)
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25/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Rube Waddell: The Man, The Nutjob - "America's greatest southpaw pitcher, alligator wrestler, firetruck chaser, actor, bigamist, obsessive fisherman, rugby player, baton-twirling parade leader, Herculean drinker and philanthropic live-saving hero."
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25/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Nokia Launches Linux Based 770 Net Appliance - Nothing but net, no phone inside. [via Coolhunting.com] #
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25/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : Lance Arthur's Conspicuous Consumption - Because I haven't syndicated this yet...
plasticbag : Lance Arthur's Conspicuous Consumption - Nice idea - a weblog where you detail everything you buy and what you think of it. If only we could distribute this around the web a bit more. Nicely designed too, old chap!
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25/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : MySQL Cheat Sheet - "The MySQL cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing useful information about MySQL. It includes a list of the available functions in MySQL, as well as data types"
Matthew M. Boedicker : MySQL cheat sheet
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25/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Netscape 8.0 Requires Internet Explorer - It looks like you must have Internet Explorer before you can install Netscape 8.0
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25/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : How to start using BitTorrent to download files
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25/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Ed Bott: Tip of the day: My three favorite Excel shortcuts - For Quick Formatting, type "Ctrl + 1"; for Fractions such as 3/8, type "0 3/8", for Fractions such as 12 3/8, typing 12 3/8 works. To Zoom Out, hold the Ctrl Key and spin the mouse wheel down, to Zoom in, hold the Ctrl Key and spin the mouse wheel up
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25/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Trojan holds PC files for ransom - A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on a PC then demands money in return for unlocking them has been identified
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25/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Symantec Security Response - Trojan.Pgpcoder - Trojan.Pgpcoder is a Trojan horse which searches for files with various extensions and encodes them. The original files are then deleted and the newly encoded ones become unreadable
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25/05/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Microsoft tries its own "switch" campaign - Talk about all the kewl, innovative crap you do with your Dell for a chance to meet Billg. Faan-tastic.
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25/05/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Learning to write - Charming story about a friend's kid learning to write
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25/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
plasticbag : Nokia have announced their 770 - "Internet Tablet" - for the home - It has a page on Nokia's site, but there's nothing on it yet. It sounds really interesting though...
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25/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
plasticbag : Nokia 770 coverage from MobileBurn - "It is the kind of device that you leave on the coffee table or on the night stand next to your bed. When you need to check your email or do a quick Internet search, you just power it on instantly (like a PDA) and have at it."
Isofarro : Nokia Launches Linux Based 770 Net Appliance - As Russell Beattie mentions, the storage is a little limited. Although USB connectivity is mentioned in the list of features.
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25/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Abusing Amazon images - every image on the page is generated dynamically from Amazon's server [via] [via]
philgyford : Abusing Amazon images - Reverse engineering the URLs of Amazon's product images
adash : How to abuse Amazon's image processing system - Many wacky things can be done by customizing the URLs of images loaded from Amazon.
Milo Vermeulen : Abusing the Amazon image generator - Abusing the Amazon image generator [via] [via]
kayodeok : Abusing Amazon images - How to hack an Amazon Image by using the variables in the Amazon image URLs
Rod Begbie : Abusing Amazon images - Good to know -- How Amazon image URLs are constructed. [via] #
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25/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Visible Human Browser - Java applet, but amazing visualization of human anatomy [via] [via]
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25/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : ml_iPod, iPod plugin for Winamp - looks nice, but strange that it warranted a Wired News story
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plasticbag : Magazine Publishers of America look to the future with a dumb flash site that tries to establish why they'll still be around in a hundred years - Which I think is far from obvious. Also - like other people who've stumbled upon this site - I'm kind of stunned by how retro the future tech looks. I don't think the general public has the slightest idea...
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25/05/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
plasticbag : Bubblegeneration talks about how Media 2.0 needs to get past the idea of building 'strong barriers around their goods' - It references my recent comment on the New York Times, but actually I think it's more interesting than it seems - does this apply to all media? TV? Radio? DVDs? Movies? Software? Games?
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25/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Analysis of posting activity by popular blog - around 30 entries per day, with less than 150 words per entry
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25/05/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
kayodeok : Evening Standard Headline Crisis - a photoset on Flickr - A project that explores the doom-and-gloom agenda of London's Evening Standard headline writers
plasticbag : Darren Shrubsole - relentless Link Machine - reveals the doom-and-gloom agenda of London's Evening Standard headline writers - He's produced a Flickr photoset of some of the best (read most alarmist) Evening Standard Headline's of 2005
Rod Begbie : Evening Standard Headline Crisis 2005 - a photoset on Flickr - Fear and Loathing on the streets of London. [via] #
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kayodeok : Unix command cheat sheet - Here's a command reference card for some regularly used unix commands, tested on linux but should hopefully work on most unix command shells
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25/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : Sentry Firewall CD - A different firewall approach - Sentry Firewall CD-ROM is a Linux-based bootable CDROM suitable for use as an inexpensive and easy to maintain firewall, server, or IDS(Intrusion Detection System) Node
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25/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : Web Apps Compendium v1.0 - "This article is a short but comprehensive compilation of web apps I've come across that make my browsing and web design experience better"
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25/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : BBS: A Documentary: News - "The vast majority of the DVDs have shipped!" Hooray!
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25/05/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
plasticbag : Google's plan to put university libraries online has come under fire from a range of organisations - The commercial considerations aside (which are incredibly important) many of the complaints seem small-minded, especially those from France...
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25/05/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : iPod Plug-In Sets Music Free - "ml_iPod, allows iPod users to bypass iTunes and manage music collections in Winamp instead. The iPod is supposed to work with iTunes only. A new version of the software was released Monday."
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25/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : WaSP Asks the W3C - Again. (I have e-mailed some thoughts.) [via] #
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25/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Web enhancements - Seriously; Hotmail? Fun! #
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25/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Bittergarnituur erbij? - Het zal geen koude oorlog meer heten als er daadwerkelijk een bom gaat vallen? #
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25/05/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Baviaan.net: Daar beneden, daar sta ik [via]
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25/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
cobra libre : all consuming attacked by 43 robots - or something like that... anyway, it's faster now #
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25/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : What We Can Learn From Michelle Delio: Lessons from a journalism scandal on color quotes, note-taking, and credibility problems - Apparently, opinion of reporters, especially online technology reporters, is so low that they can get away with sloppy journalism
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25/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Excel Tips and Techniques - Debra Dalgleish's Excel Tips and Techniques
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25/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : FlickrDown - FlickrDown: suck down some flickr photos to your desktop
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25/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jimray : "The Koran needs to be flushed!" - The fuck is wrong with North Carolina?
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25/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
deusx : NabaTech: Lamenting the Size of Computer Books - "Even with all these reasons for selling the huge tomes, I still wish we could move to 300-page computer books that focus on narrow topics and offer good value to the book buyer."
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25/05/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Virtual Earth: MSN's answer to Google Maps - Virtual Earth: MSN's answer to Google Maps: watch the video... cool stuff
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25/05/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : MarkD's knowledge base for Oracle
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25/05/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : The Onion, innovative products
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25/05/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Grafolicious, chart Del.icio.us link popularity over time - like, say, Waxy Links [via] [via]
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25/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : FelonCheck.com - I Hate Scammers - Extremely funny. #
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Andy Baio : Video: Stunt City - best commercial I've seen in months [via] [via]
deusx : play_clip.php (video/quicktime Object) - Great deodorant commercial. Everyone's Bruce Willis.
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25/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : reFeed 1.3 released - web-based feedreader designed for high-volume feeds and linkblog integration; try the demo
Nelson Minar : ReFeed - Server side RSS aggregator (via waxy)
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25/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : FOX issuing takedown notices to Star Wars downloaders - is anyone surprised? [via] [via]
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25/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Phil Spector's hair - He had this done specifically for the trial.
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25/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Matt Haughey on the problem with ads in RSS feeds - exactly why I don't show ads to logged-in users on Upcoming.org
jimray : Why adsense for feeds is a bad idea (at least for now) - Mathowie *nails* it: serve up ads to your most loyal readers, or to random googlers?
plasticbag : Why adsense for feeds is a bad idea (at least for now) - Matt Haughey penned this a while ago and I really wanted to write a more detailed agreement, but that was a month ago, so hey...
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25/05/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Complex Dynamic Lists: Your Order Please - An excellent tutorial on how to build complex yet usable dynamic lists
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Andy Baio : Video: SMS vs. Morse Code speed contest on Leno - one of the Morse guys comments several times in this thread [via] [via]
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