10/06/2005 @ 22:58 GMT
jimray : Hell freezes over; it must've been the liquid cooling - ArsTechnica's chip guy, Hannibal, dishes on the MacIntel deal (brilliant headline, btw)
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10/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : ..geek..: recycling hardware - "I might just have enough old monitors around to do this at home.." An archway built from old monitors. So wrong.
Matthew M. Boedicker : katamariish monitor arch
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10/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Malcolm Gladwell talks about his work space - He does most of his writing on his laptop while sitting on sofas and in coffeeshops and restaurants.
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10/06/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Xbox HID Driver for Mac OS X - "This software enables the Xbox USB gamepad, DVD remote, and other Xbox devices on Mac OS X."
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10/06/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google Desktop Search Plug-in: Integrate Google Desktop into the Firefox search bar - "Integrate Google Desktop Search into the Firefox search bar. Allows you to search your computer with Google Desktop in exactly the same way as you are used to searching the web with Google from Firefox"
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10/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Safari Tech Books Online - Safari Tech Books Online: safari access is a Good Thing
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10/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What the Long Tail isn't - What the Long Tail isn't: well said
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10/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Action Item to the rescue! - Get your scope management on.
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10/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Pigeon attack - Best photo ever, hands down.
Eric Meyer : pigeon attack - If the kid isn't acting, then whoever took the picture needs to be beaten senseless. [via Ethan] [via]
jkottke : Pigeon attack!
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10/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jimray : Evolution resources from the National Academies of Sciences - Good to see them hitting back against the ID idiots
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10/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Stuff On My Cat - Stuff On My Cat: how amusing...
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10/06/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
jimray : Big Picture: Civil Rights - Because I can never seem to find this when I use MSNBC's craptacular search engine
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10/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : MD5 Collisions: Attacking Hash Functions by Poisoned Messages - "The Story of Alice and her Boss" - Via Bruce Schneier: "Two researchers from the Institute for Cryptology and IT-Security have generated PostScript files with identical MD5-sums but entirely different (but meaningful!) content"
Steve Cook : CITS - MD5 Collisions - The breaking of MD5 continues, as two meaningful documents have been generated with identical hashes. (via Bruce Schneier)
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10/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Buying Skype - Yahoo Buying Skype: rumor time!
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10/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : On the art of the movie trailer - "There are few more cynical forms of art, or of advertising. Trailers are full of deception. Because what they want you to do is to see the movie they want you to see, not the movie that it is."
plasticbag : To cut a long story short - a Guardian feature about the cynicism of trailers and how comfortable they are lying about the films they represent - Not sure I agree with all of it - a trailer that effectively sells a film but portrays it incorrectly, can bring the wrong audiences or spoil the film for the right audiencs. This affects word-of-mouth. Film flops.
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10/06/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : Arbor Update: Google to build Ann Arbor tech center? - "Ann Arbor may become home to a new technology center for up to 1,000 employees from Google Inc., the Internet search engine giant that was recently hired to digitize the University of Michigan?s 19 libraries." Whoa. Neat, if true.
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10/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Calling All Bales - Okay, I've had way too many laughing fits while reading this blog.
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10/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : In the running for the best headline ever award: "When Nanopants Attack"
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10/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Google Sightseeing highlights interesting satellite photos taken from Google Maps
philgyford : Google Sightseeing - Gobsmacked. Imagine when the rest of the world is photo-mapped at Google.
Andy Baio : Google Sightseeing points out new highlights to Google Maps - finding the neat stuff in their newly expanded global satellite photos
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10/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Urbanist Joel Kotkin (no relation) on what makes for a thriving city - "He argues that to be successful, today's cities must still be places that are 'sacred, safe, and busy.'"
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10/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Presentation: how to make a million dollars - "In America, starting a successful business is the surest, most controllable path available to you for making a million dollars".
Jeremy Zawodny : How to Make a Million Dollars, by Marshall Brain - How to Make a Million Dollars, by Marshall Brain: 10 easy steps!
plasticbag : How to Make a Million Dollars, by Marshall Brain - It seems so sensible when it's written down. I don't know why everyone hasn't done it, frankly...
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10/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : Customize the Web: Get Turnabout - "Turnabout is an Internet Explorer plugin that runs user scripts of your choice on any website [...] Turnabout does for IE what Greasemonkey does for Firefox"
jimray : Turnabout - Greasemonkey for IE
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10/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : Cocoabuilder - (Lee Morgan) Spotlight w/ HFS Extended Attributes - "Is it possible to write a Spotlight importer that handles every file without it interfering with other plug-ins? So that I can extract the extended attributes and add it to the Spotlight store." I wish it were. It's like things are -] [- this close to
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10/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : The demographic transition model
cameron : The demographic transition - Population trends in urbanzing, urbanized and post-industrial countries
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10/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : "We are holding the Dalek captive and in isolation. For the safety of the human race we have disarmed and remove its destructive mechanism. We demand further instructions from the Doctor." - Absolutely the best thing that has ever happened in the history of the world. They're going to get Colin Baker to talk to them. I think that's awesome.
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10/06/2005 @ 14:23 GMT
Aquarion : jwz - that was, in fact, the final straw. - The maintainer of XScreensaver makes the Switch
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10/06/2005 @ 10:57 GMT
ricmac : Log4rss - A Log4j RSS Appender - "it can generate an RSS newsfeed from logging events inside your application, ready for you to view in a standard RSS newsreader" (via Tom Coates)
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10/06/2005 @ 10:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : Base64 Encoded Images for Internet Explorer (sexy version) - It is fast, dynamic and does not require any JavaScript browser sniffing
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10/06/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released - The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 3.1 codenamed ``sarge'' after nearly three years of constant development
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10/06/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : 43 Folders: Personal Mantras: Got one? - There?s been very few times that ?Smaller, smaller? has done me wrong. No matter how ambitious a project, idea, or problem is, there?s usually a way to break into very small pieces
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10/06/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Seth's Blog: more on small - Now it's about choosing the right model and being remarkable.
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10/06/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Eric's Archived Thoughts: Universal Child Replacement - there is a way to simulate child selection without actually using the child combinator
kayodeok : Universal Child Replacement - How to simulate the child selector in a way Internet Explorer could understand
Anne van Kesteren : Universal Child Replacement - Letting a child selector work in Internet Explorer without actually using it. #
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10/06/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : XHTML 2.0: Working Draft 7 - Anne?s Weblog about Markup & Style - As last time, a list of the new stuff in the now seventh reincarnation of the XHTML 2.0 working draft and things I want to point out in general that may not be new
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10/06/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : 43 Folders: Want to keep surfing? Pay the Webolodeon - you will be pestered every 5 minutes to make a case for your further web browsing
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10/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Strange Zen Of JavaScript: Why Google Maps wins - the winning feature is the user types the address into a single input box. No more entering street address, city, state and zip into separate boxes
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10/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : An exercise in clarity: API - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - Explain what API (Application Programming Interface) is in 10 words or less.
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10/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > ETech 2005: Where Did They All Come From? - I spent Tuesday geocoding the addresses of the attendees of this year's O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference (ETech) into latitude-longitude pairs
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10/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Joshuaink: Web fashion - what I wanted to do was present you with five fashionable web items (well my feeble attempts at re-creating them anyway) and following that ask a few questions
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10/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Thoughts on Tabs and Windows | Acts of Volition - This is a good reminder that you cannot rely solely on your own intuition when designing software that people interact with.
kayodeok : Thoughts on Tabs and Windows - Some ideas on why tabs work well for web browsing
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10/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : In Defense of PowerPoint - "The slides are written for the benefit of the speaker. They provide an outline and reminders of what is to be said. [...] The question is, if the slides are for the speaker, why does the audience have to be subjected to them?"
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10/06/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : Creating Passionate Users: Stop your presentation before it kills again! - "The second you dim the lights and go into "presentation mode" is the moment you move from a two-way conversation to a one-way lecture/broadcast"
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10/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely. - "PowerPoint's pushy style seeks to set up a speaker's dominance over the audience. The speaker, after all, is making power points with bullets to followers. [...] Respect your audience"
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10/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Wikipedia, Authority, and Astroturf (or how to spam the www with wikipedia and slashdotting) - " [...] create a Wikipedia page, point to it as if to demonstrate independent interest for the project in their potential slashdot post, then point to the slashdot effect on the Wikipedia page as proof of said independent interest"
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10/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : ONLamp.com: Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks - Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks
Matthew M. Boedicker : top ten data crunching tips and tricks
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10/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Zend Technologies - PHP Tutorials for Absolute Beginners - Time for another refresher course in PHP. I don't get to play with this scripting language a lot but I would like to move my blog over to WordPress and this is a good opportunity to refresh my PHP skills.
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10/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Clarifying Low-Rights IE - "It is a defense-in-depth feature, meant to back up and support the many other security features. [...] Low-rights IE will only be available in Longhorn because it's based on the new Longhorn security features that make running without Administrator pri
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10/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jkottke : Serendipitous banner ad on this story about Munch
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10/06/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
deusx : "How important are deadlines for a book writing project?" from the Ask Dave Taylor! Help Desk - "If you say you're going to have the book done by 10/1, have it done by 10/1, period."
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10/06/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
deusx : Future predictions - short term - "The following are some informal projections of possible technology-oriented developments that I made back in late 1999 to early 2000, while I was working on part two of "Accelerando" ("Troubadour"). "
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10/06/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Asterisk: Web 2.0 - Keith Robinson introduces his many readers to Web 2.0 and a conversation ensues. Web 2.0 is getting bigger and bigger every day, it's great to see.
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10/06/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : What's Web 2.0? - A new community site about Web 2.0. Nice to see they give me kudos too - thanks! :-)
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10/06/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : picture of a truck with its roof stripped by an overpass
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10/06/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
ricmac : mashup - a blog dedicated to mashups of blogs - great stuff! (via Susan Mernit)
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10/06/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Google Maps Make Demographics Come Alive - Great photo of Adrian lurking behind his laptop. (via) [via]
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10/06/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : BBC 1 listings in CSV - Listings for the next two weeks
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10/06/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : CSV channel listings - Each number is the name of a .dat file containing listings for that channel.
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10/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : The BBC News website - under the bonnet - SSIs, Apache, Linux (and Solaris) and two server farms. (via) [via]
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10/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Workplace absuridities as phone support for a DSL ISP - Greasemonkey used to fix web application leads to misguided Firefox ban.
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10/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Baby Weasel - Unfeasibly adorable. There is no reason for this post.
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10/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Building a Linux virtual server - Building a Linux virtual server: I keep meaning to try this someday
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10/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Dave Winer's last words before his ego exploded - Dave Winer's last words before his ego exploded: put this one down in the history books
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10/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Eric Meyer : Run some third-party Dashboard widgets in 10.3.9 - A way for the non-Tigered to check out how some of these widgets work.
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10/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Eric Meyer : Contextile - Add Textile handling to any textarea in Firefox, using a normal extension. (But it could so easily be Greasemonkeyed, no?) [via Jon] [via]
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10/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Poynter Online - The Writing Process - 5 steps: "Idea. Collect. Focus. Draft. Clarify."
jkottke : A blueprint for the writing process: "Sniff. Explore. Collect. Focus. Select. Order. Draft. Revise."
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10/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3s of ice cream truck music - keep an eye out for special treats this summer [via] [via]
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10/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Oscar Robertson, who averaged a triple-double for an entire NBA season and is one of the least likely people (in my mind) to write a blog, has a blog
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