1/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
plasticbag : A proposal for a really divisive website... (a post from plasticbag.org in December 2001) - An old post I found on my site today which is kind of entertaining considering the whole kerfuffle over Blogebrity...
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1/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
plasticbag : Open Tech 2005 - 23rd July in Hammersmith, London - from the makers of NotCon - BBC Backstage is sponsoring the Open Tech low-cost micro-conference in London. NotCon was ace, I expect this to be as good...
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plasticbag : Oh wow! I've just missed my ten year anniversary of my first (nervous) post to Usenet... - And it would have to be a bloody Babylon 5 group, wouldn't it. This is not the life-history of a Nobel prize winner...
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1/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Ed Bott: One more time: do not clean out your Prefetch folder! - "You will not improve Windows performance by cleaning out the Prefetch folder. You will, in fact, degrade Windows performance by cleaning out the Prefetch folder"
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Philippe Janvier : Flux RSS d'informations AFP - Les dernières informations de l'AFP sont désormais disponibles gratuitement et dans la mesure d'une utilisation individuelle et non commerciale, via le flux RSS d'informations AFP. [via] #
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Andy Baio : Conversations with Anna, IKEA's helper bot - don't miss Pulp Anna
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1/06/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Regular Expressions Reference Sheet - Super handy
Isofarro : Regular Expressions Reference Sheet - Excellent basic level reference
kayodeok : Regular Expressions Reference Sheet - Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
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1/06/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Google Maps - Tillicoultry - I didn't know that Google had launched Google Maps in the UK. #
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1/06/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
cobra libre : stanley fish's content-free composition - i'm not a linguist or a superstar english theorist, but i'm very uncomfortable with the idea that a sentence is necessarily a logical assertion... for starters #
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1/06/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
cobra libre : language log on the fish article - seemingly approving, albeit with a nod toward's fish's dilettantism #
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1/06/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
cobra libre : the valve on the stanley fish article - funny entry, though the discussion wanders off #
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1/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : My penis hurts after a big session - My penis hurts after a big session: best spamusement ever!
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1/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Cisco Press RSS Feeds - Cisco Press RSS Feeds: smart use of RSS for marketing and product info
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jkottke : If you're going to see Revenge of the Sith again, look for these easter eggs - Both the Millennium Falcon and George Lucas have cameo appearances.
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1/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Choirboy - "As head boy at a legendary choir school, Lawrence Lessig was repeatedly molested by the charismatic choir director, part of a horrific pattern of child abuse there. Now, as one of America's most famous lawyers, he's put his own past on tri
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1/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : Introduction to Design Patterns - Lecture notes for Moock's Design Patterns (AS Bootcamp part 3)
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1/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : U.S. firms said to be named in withheld Bolton documents - Firms that possibly traded illegally with China and Libya. Wonder how many of those companies are Bush donors?
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1/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : SBC to drop DSL prices to $14.95 - perfect for low end, while the high end moves to fiber
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1/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : My Doctor has Wifi! - My Doctor has Wifi!: kick ass!
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1/06/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
kellan : Playing with Forms in Feeds - The next logical step is of course post via Ajax from within Bloglines. #
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1/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NeoGeo CD and Sega Genesis emulators released for PSP - sadly, still only works on the Japanese 1.0 firmware
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1/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Who Owns Culture? - video and audio of the Jeff Tweedy/Larry Lessig talk [via] [via]
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1/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Seattle coffee shop shuts down free wifi on weekends to liven up the place
plasticbag : A café in New York turns off wifi on the weekends because the atmosphere is too quiet and the web-users are squatting for six or seven hours on the basis of one cup of coffee - Foyles' café in London encourages people who are by themselves with their laptops to sit by the walls and free up the tables for groups of people to chat. I think this might be a good compromise...
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1/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : How the Vanity Fair article about Deep Throat came about - Sounds like Woodward and Bernstein kinda got the shaft.
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1/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Sasha Frere-Jones, the pop critic for the New Yorker, will not review any music "unless I have unlimited access to a portable version of it, renderered in either the CD, MP3 or vinyl format"
plasticbag : A music critic writes that they will no longer write about any music unless they have unlimited access to a portable version of it, rendered in CD, MP3 or vinyl formats... - There's a particularly good, solid, irritated piece about the practice of getting music journalists in a room to sit through an album once or twice as the basis for a review...
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1/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Two Morse coders beat two text messengers on Leno - That's it...I want a phone with one big button with which to tap out messages.
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1/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Schwarzenegger has road crew dig up pothole so he can fill it in later
Rod Begbie : Governor digs fixing potholes - Governor Arnie has a road crew dig up a pothole so he can fill it in during a press-call. Fucking unbelievable. Round here they'd have trouble finding a pothole-free road to dig-up! [via] #
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1/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Rendering Everything as Text - "One of the reasons we advocate using plain text is so information doesn't get lost when the program goes away" - http://www.artima.com/intv/plain.html
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deusx : Car's alternative fuel said to attract bear - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Conn. - News - "A Winsted man believes the sweet smell of the vegetable oil he uses to fuel his car attracted the bear that damaged the vehicle white trying to get at the biodiesel."
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1/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : John Gruber on some details of Tiger that you might have missed - Really nice stuff here on interface improvements, tweaks, tips, shortcuts and apps. Highly recommended read...
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1/06/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Isofarro : AJAX Patterns: Design Patterns for AJAX Usability - Answering the question: 'Why Ajax patterns' for XmlHttpRequest apps
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1/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : Enormously SPOILER-full thread about upcoming Doctor Who episode "Bad Wolf" seems to rather stomp all over my little theories - Definitely don't read this unless you're okay with the idea that big chunks of the mystery might be dispelled for you
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1/06/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : XTech - On the future of the web and how XHTML 2.0 might not be part of it. #
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1/06/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : New roadmap coming - Very interesting! #
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1/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Josh Kaufman "Personal MBA" Program - "You can get most of the value of an MBA education without forking over the big bucks by reading 30-40 books"
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1/06/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
deusx : Pope backs boycott of Italy's referendum on assisted fertility - "The Roman Catholic Church opposes such procedures because embryos often are destroyed in the process." At least they're consistent, I guess.
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1/06/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
deusx : Call centres stop faking 'firang' accent - Sify.com - "In the beginning, clients, especially Americans, were unaware their calls were being outsourced, so we were forced to speak in an accent. Now everybody knows, so there is no point to it anymore."
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deusx : CVS Red PV2 mods - "The bad part of this camera is the way CVS wants you to use it"
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1/06/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
cobra libre : ambient widgets - he's already written a widget that piles your dashboard with crap as your trash fills up #
plasticbag : Andrew Otwell's thoughts on Dashboard mirror a lot of the things that I've been thinking about (and talking about to Adam Greenfield) - It's a perfect environment for prototyping ambient informational devices around the home - like the orb that we were playing with a while back...
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1/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Christmas Day With My New Girlfriend's Family As a Circa-1982 Text-Based Computer Adventure GameChristmas Day With My New Girlfriend's Family As a Circa-1982 Text-Based Computer Adventure Game - I wouldn't mind reading an entire book in this format
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1/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Irina witnesses a stabbing - psychotic woman stabs a Nordstrom shopper right in front of her
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1/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : O'Reilly roundup of BBC Backstage mashups with Google Maps - see also: gMapTrack, a tool to easily create custom Google Maps like this one
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1/06/2005 @ 01:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : New «design» - Is it that time again? I should get something new as well. #
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1/06/2005 @ 01:57 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : That little "XHTML or HTML?" debate - More people get it. That?s never a bad thing. #
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1/06/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Een laatste stukje propaganda - I noticed the same thing. #
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1/06/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : IP Justice League of America
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1/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Bokardo » Give up Control or You?ll Lose it Forever: Experience Designers Beware - Web 2.0 Interfaces Change Everything - Though a cause for slight trepidation, I believe this shift is a positive thing
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1/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : The Washington Post confirms that Mark Felt is Deep Throat - Woodward, Bernstein, and Ben Bradlee confirmed the story as well. Woodward is writing an article about the experience to be run on Thursday.
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1/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
jimray : Markup Guide - Really handy
kayodeok : Markup Guide - Markup Primer
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1/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : Loic talks about the new Nokia N90 and drops a little interesting hint about Tiger's support for Nokia phones - If it means that I have a little more choice in what phones I can use properly with my computer, then I'll be delighted...
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1/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : 1992 Atlantic Monthly article that made a case for Mark Felt as Deep Throat
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1/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock has a book out about fast food
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