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Steve Cook : Map Reveals Wind Power Potential - A complete buildout of turbines at the world's windiest spots could generate 72 terawatts of energy.
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Steve Cook : Mongol nomads like home on range - Hernando De Soto-style land reform hits Mongolia. (via Hit and Run)
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Steve Cook : Muji House - Muji is the greatest thing, sort of a cross between American Apparel and Ikea. I wish I could read their design suggestions.
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Steve Cook : Pop-up and Movable Books: A Tour Through Their History - Tarzan is a sentimental favorite, but the 1873 Dean and Sons "Beauty and the Beast" is spectacular. (via Things Magazine)
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Steve Cook : Blood Feud: Two men, one bull, six bullets - Weird and sad story, marred slightly by the Robert Frost pseudo-quote the copyeditor used as a subhead (a pet peeve of mine). (via Balloon Juice)
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Steve Cook : Columbia Journalism: New York Review of Magazines 2005 - From discussion of Wal-Mart's magazine-buying habits to an overview of Asian tourist magazines to training the howitzers on college rankings. Very nice.
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Steve Cook : appelstein.com: from the lou and proud - Mike Applestein's "Caught in Flux" was a really great music zine back in the day. Are all my high school heroes back on the web, and I didn't notice?
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Steve Cook : desktopgaming - Make a "Double Dragon" screenshot your wallpaper.
joshua : desktopgaming - game maps and worlds as desktop images. totally awesome
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Steve Cook : U.S. Senators Mount Assault on Wind Power - Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is the big mover here.
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Steve Cook : Nickel and diming Ohio's Bureau of Workers' Comp - Ohio's pension fund invested in a rare coin portfolio that -lost- hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of coins. Was the fundraiser who ran it skimming?
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Steve Cook : Time's Up, Einstein - Like every other non-physicist in the world, I can't follow (though wouldn't the non-reversibility of time present problems?), but the marketing angle makes this interesting.
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26/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
deusx : Judge: Parents can't teach pagan beliefs - "This was done without either of us requesting it and at the judge's whim" Absolutely disgusting.
plasticbag : "Father appeals order in divorce decree that prevents couple from exposing son to Wicca" - This one's really strange. One judge who believes in the ludicrously supernatural stopping a divorcing couple from raising their son with other ludicrous beliefs. If it wasn't for the rights implications it would be difficult to care...
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Philippe Janvier : Make OSS note page more useable - "Greasemonkey as a tool for fixing interface problems in "enterprise" web applications". [via] #
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djacobs : hello, nintendo: Nintendo's Long Tail - "There's a long tail of consumers and a long tail of producers, and I think that next year Nintendo is going to introduce the two to each other in an entirely new way."
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djacobs : Repeat after me: giving your music away is good for your career - DJs Minus Kelvin and Pat Chilla the Beat Gorilla got a deal producing the music for America's Next Top Model by posting Creative Commons licensed remixes on mixter.org.
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djacobs : Hands-On Review of Voice over IP client for the DS
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djacobs : Nintendo builds free Wi-Fi network in Japan Archives - The pessimist in me thinks that Nintendo won't be able to pull off free wifi and a free Voice over IP client, but DS owners can dream.
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djacobs : The U.S. Puzzle Championship will be held on Saturday June 18, 2005 at 1pm ET.
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djacobs : Manhattan's Chinatown Pressured to Sell Out - "In a strange way our problem is the people of China," said Wong, who was born in Hong Kong and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. "They can make it cheaper. Their factories don't demand payment until the textiles are delivere
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djacobs : Opportunity is working it's way out of Mars' "fine sand" one centimeter at a time
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djacobs : Zak Smith's Illustrations for Each Page of Gravity's Rainbow
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djacobs : Richard Linklater has signed on to direct the film adaptation of Fast Food Nation
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adash : Get your @budweiser.com email address - Now Gmail needs to start a brewery just to keep up.
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adash : Treemapper for Excel - very cool, but only works on Excel for Windows
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djacobs : New York City Abandons Plan To Ban Photography In Subways - The NYPD says that officers will continue to investigate any suspicious activity.
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djacobs : Homebrew Nintendo DS Development - "I'm brand new to developing on this, never having developed on the Game Boy Advance before, so hopefully this will provide information useful to other 'brand new' people." I often find the best documentation is written by new dev
Nelson Minar : NintendoDS homebrew - How to run your own software on the DS. Run your own WiFi ROM server.
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adash : Nike iD asks 20 bloggers to make sneaker designs - And they're asking bloggers to vote for their favorites.
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adash : From 2001, Nike iD disallows "sweatshop" on sneakers - Jonah Peretti, who sent the emails, runs The Contagious Media Project now
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adash : The Institute for Interactive Journalism - The University of Maryland's J-Lab highlights and awards creative communication of news online.
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djacobs : Robin's best of E3 - The most interesting games are for the only next generation console that's actually shipping - the DS.
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adash : Ken Jennings returns in to Jeopardy - During sweeps, they have the Ultimate Tournament of Champions.
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adash : "Can't Stop Won't Stop" as the best book of the year - And Jason Toney can judge; This is part of his 52 books in 52 weeks project.
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adash : Wall Street Journal infographic on history of game consoles
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adash : How the brain comprehends sarcasm - Because we all need a diagram to understand the concept.
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djacobs : Hands-On Review of Mario Kart DS
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djacobs : Lies I Have Told Verizon DSL Support Today
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djacobs : Lies Verizon DSL Support Has Told Me Today
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djacobs : Jennifer Steinhauer on Modern Preschooling - "The notion of standards are coming down almost to the embryo. We are not allowing normal, creative, interactive play. We are wanting kids to sit down and write their names at 3 and do rote tasks that are extremely boring at a young age."
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djacobs : Explosion Causes Massive Power Outage in Moscow - No word yet on what caused the explosion, or when power could come back up. At least 43 trains and 40,000 metro passengers are stuck underground and there was city-wide gridlock as a result.
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26/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
djacobs : Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless - Interpact's group blog documenting their switch to Apple in followup to Winn Schwartau's now infamous "Mad as Hell" article. (I bet they're all running Linux in a three months, most of Winn's beef with Sony is true for Apple
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26/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
djacobs : Heather Champ is now "Community Manager" for Flickr - It's a role she filled on or off the payroll. Congratulations all around.
plasticbag : Heather Champ joins the Flickr crew because she is so awesome and they're incomplete without her - Yay Heather! Yay! Finally Ludicorp gets some classy people working for it...
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26/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
djacobs : The Crazy Frog sound? That's my fault. - The BBC says "The frog is irritating to the point of distraction and back again. And yet at the same time, it's strangely compelling." The dance remix of the Crazy Frog ringtone also happens to be the #1 single in the UK. #1 single, not #1
Andy Baio : Origins of the Crazy Frog ringtone - started on the Internet in 1997
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adash : Phishing Archive records forged email attempts - Update your account info now!
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djacobs : David Pogue: Ground Rules for the Windows-Macintosh War
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adash : 8 years ago: Top 10 secrets of a successful web site - Before there was kottke.org, there was 0sil8.
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kellan : Currently reading: Agile Web Development with Rails - All respect to Prag Programmers for embracing release early, release often. I imagine they'll get great bug reports. #
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26/05/2005 @ 22:58 GMT
kellan : Linux.com: Add RSS feeds to your Web site using MagpieRSS - Good introductory article, covers most beginning Magpie questions #
kayodeok : Add RSS feeds to your Web site using MagpieRSS - You can add syndicated content to your site using the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) protocol and a bit of PHP code in the form of an application called MagpieRSS. Here's how
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26/05/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
jimray : chicksnbreasts - It's like Fark plus Flickr! This just might be the best thing ever. (uh, prolly not work safe, though)
Rod Begbie : chicksnbreasts - They troll Flickr for cleavage shots so you don't have to. (Not particularly Safe for Work) [via] #
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26/05/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : FBI records detail Koran claims - Vindication for Newsweek? Don't expect to hear about it from the right...
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26/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : IE7 Tabbed Browsing Implementation - An overview of some of the work done on IE7 Tabbed browsing: "Regarding script, there is no "target='_tab'" feature or any direct access to tabs from script beyond what is available with multiple windows today"
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26/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Delivers New Tools to Help Reduce Spam - Launch of new MSN Postmaster Web site and enhancements to e-mail authentication aim to help customers and service providers better understand e-mail delivery to MSN Hotmail
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26/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Sender ID - The Sender ID Framework is an e-mail authentication technology protocol that helps address the problem of spoofing and phishing by verifying the domain name from which e-mail is sent. Sender ID validates the origin of e-mail by verifying the IP address of
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26/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Mail Filtering - Or, how to block a few million spams per day without breaking a sweat
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26/05/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Bacon flavoured beer - Rauchbier (via Marc)
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26/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : GreatNews - GreatNews: The Intelligent RSS Reader (maybe)
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26/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Building the ultimate support CD - Building the ultimate support CD: useful thread over on ars technica
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26/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Rough scans of Jamie Hewlett's comic adaptation of the Pulp classic, "Common People" - As found by Darren, the most well-oiled and spring-loaded linkmachine in the memetosphere
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26/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Podcasting Star Wars: Winer vs. Curry - silly little drama, but don't miss Winer's MP3 response; he sounds heavily stoned
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26/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Mobile software startup spams Del.icio.us - the CEO and employees, but also spamming tags with fake accounts
jimray : Idiot startup decides to spam delicious - Hell hath no fury like geeks scorned. Morons.
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26/05/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
philgyford : Subtraction: May 2005 Archives - Interesting weblog design. Monochrome, looks like print. Mostly yum.
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philgyford : ZabaSearch.com Free People Search - Gyford - Apparently I still live in Houston and I was born in 1946. A bit scary this kind of thing...
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26/05/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
philgyford : HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - Global GSM Prepaid Overview - Reviews of international pay-as-you-go mobile servies, desperately in need of an index.
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26/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
philgyford : Prepaid GSM, the mobile world around you - www.prepaidgsm.net - Lots of info about pay-as-you-go mobile services around the world.
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26/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
philgyford : Stay Free! Daily: Radio Free Clear Channel - I'm fascinated by corporations trying to appear anti-establishment, and this is an awesome/scary example.
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26/05/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
cobra libre : life in the kenning-factory, or the blatant vikingism of the average male - guess the kenning! #
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26/05/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : Move the tabbar (Firefox) - MozillaZine Knowledge Base - Oh, if only this would work... so close to having a tab sidebar.
kayodeok : Move the tabbar (Firefox) - MozillaZine Knowledge Base - Edit your userChrome.css file to add the code you need, as follows
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26/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Hobee's California Restaurants - Hobee's California Restaurants: yum... and they're right down the street from work
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26/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Indie Rock Cribs - the very talented Joe Pernice shoots a pilot for MTV2 Cribs [via] [via]
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26/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3: Waiting for my Hash Pipe - Gwen Stefani vs Weezer mashup, very clever mix of verses [via] [via]
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26/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
cobra libre : bruegel: seven vices and a virtue #
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26/05/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
cobra libre : i wanna go to the carnival - a nice, short introduction to the idea of the carnivalesque [via] #
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26/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Out There - "Because treating my customers/audience like moronic criminals is not what intelligent beings do." Hooray - almost makes me want to order the documentary again. Maybe I will, for a birthday gift or something
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26/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
philgyford : Blogsonstage - Hosted service for theatre-oriented weblogs. Needs a nicer front-end, but fairly early days.
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26/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : IconBuffet unleashes new hot icon set upon the world - Kyoto is sexy, indeed.
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26/05/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : All Threadless shirts $10 until June 6 - three of my all-time fav are in stocks: Goatse (safe for work), The Internet, Pirate
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26/05/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds - On making feed links usable. #
djacobs : Jeffrey Veen on The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds
plasticbag : The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds - I'm interested in applying the Odeo model to centralising aggregator sites, and also in the exposed input box approach from BBC Radio sites...
WillPate : The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds - Excellent questions.
Philippe Janvier : The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds - "Is there anything we can do to the sites we build to help people subscribe to feeds ?" [via] #
Richard Rutter : The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds - Jeff Veen wonders how we do it better.
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26/05/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Popup Usability - Heh. Useful to know though. #
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26/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | French fries protester regrets war jibe - '...now the US politician who led the campaign to change the name of french fries to "freedom fries" has turned against the war...' [nelson]HA-HA![/nelson] Jackass.
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26/05/2005 @ 16:08 GMT
erikbenson : How different phone carriers handle text messages - I'm messing around with text messages, at least in my head
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26/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : Power Line: Disappointing, I'm Afraid - "So far, based on a quick survey, they agree with my assessment by eight or ten to one." Hurr... maybe because you and your readers form an echo chamber?
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26/05/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : The Application of Web-like Design to Data: Designing Data for Reuse - Matt Biddulph's paper at XTech talks about the work we did together on the PIPs project, and on identifiers and web services
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26/05/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : UpMyStreet Conversations - the project that I was brought into UpMyStreet to develop has won an honorary mention at the Ars Electronica Online Communities prize - So give it up, if you will, for Stefan Magdalinski who came up with the idea and for Dorian McFarland and Dan Burzynski who made it with me..
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26/05/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : New Stevie Wonder video is captioned - Includes an audio description narrated by Busta Rhymes.
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26/05/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Building the ultimate support CD - Ideas for building the ultimate Windows Support CD
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26/05/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
deusx : Researchers reveal how the brain handles sarcasm | Science Blog - "As an example of what happens when "theory of mind" is limited or missing, autistic children have problems interpreting irony, the more general category of social communication into which sarcasm falls."
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26/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
deusx : Government Technology's Public CIO Magazine - American Cities in The Global Knowledge Economy: the Role of Broadband - 'What happened to the urgent call for" broadband" -- the new information infrastructure that is vital to success and survival in the global knowledge economy -- President Bush promised he would push in his second term?'
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26/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
deusx : Daisy - Your Personal Web Assistant - Heir to the Agent Frank throne, if there ever was one.
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26/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Hamming It Up at Radio Meets - "If you think you know what a nerd is, try visiting a swap meet or convention where amateur radio operators like to hang out."
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26/05/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
deusx : Wired News: A Step Closer to Stem-Cell Heaven - "I don't need a lecture from the majority leader on moral and ethical leadership." Ooh, ouch.
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26/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Staring at the Sun - Photoblog - Staring at the Sun - Photoblog [via] [via]
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26/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Suspicious package was fake foot-long plastic penis - Suspicious package was fake foot-long plastic penis: The “suspicious package” that caused Interstate 75 and Daniels Parkway to be shut for more than an hour Monday was not an explosive pipe bomb — but rather wrapped-up plastic foot-long
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26/05/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to set up multiple homepages in Firefox
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26/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : "gaga over google" - 2100 results, maybe this phrase is overplayed?
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26/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : Museum of Earth History - Oh my GOD! I *so* want to go here. Also, what an amazingly well done website for a bunch of completely insane religious nutjobs.
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26/05/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : ABC News: PODCASTING - ABC News is going podcast. #
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26/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : [pypy-dev] PyPy released! - A full Python implementation written in Python.
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26/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Tweaking WordPress With Greasemonkey - More application interface enhancements. (via) [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Tweaking WordPress With Greasemonkey - Tweaking WordPress With Greasemonkey: excellent
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26/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Thieves Steal Historic Toys From Brothel - Thieves Steal Historic Toys From Brothel: Thieves broke into the historic Dumas Brothel museum here and stole what the owner described as irreplaceable items, including rare, historic sex toys
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26/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Worst web application you've ever seen - unbelievably bad UI scraped from a mainframe terminal app [via] [via]
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26/05/2005 @ 00:58 GMT
jimray : The Stranger on why the SPJ awards are such crap - Mostly cuz it's a racket
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26/05/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
jimray : The unspoken rules of graphic design - "27. Doctors, astronauts, and plumbers need training to do their jobs, but anyone with a computer is a graphic designer."
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26/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Homeland Security busts Elite Torrents - they say it's the first criminal action in the US against a BitTorrent tracker
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