11/06/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavio
Simon Willison : 2005 Underhanded C Contest - Write code that looks innocent but does something evil.
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11/06/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jimray : Fanatical Apathy - Our Changing Climate - Brilliant
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11/06/2005 @ 18:34 GMT
WillPate : Selling Innovation - Normal people want easier lives, not whiz-bang technology
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11/06/2005 @ 17:49 GMT
gleuschk : The Gods of Reed - the epic story of one frosh
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11/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
plasticbag : Brian Walden talks about "the West" as a term that emerged in response to Communism, and suggests that without that spectre the term will soon become meaningless - Nice link found via Mr Webb which articulates nicely the emerging differences and conflicts between the major nations of the Western World
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11/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
plasticbag : On Bees, six-dimensional manifolds and a peculiar sensitivity to Quarks - Another one found via Mr Webb of interconnected.org - this time on the waggle dance that bees do to communicate
jkottke : Researching quantum honeybees - Can bees detect quantum fields and use them to find food?
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11/06/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kellan : House Elf Domestication and Sociobiology - More excellent con-bio from Aidan #
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11/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : I'm spending much of my time watching the Flickr photostream of Reboot with barely-controlled jealous rage - When are Flickr going to do some kind of interactive TV client. I'd love to be able to watch these as they came in like a rolling webcam...
Douglas Bowman : reboot photos - (No description)
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11/06/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
kayodeok : Feedlounge web-based aggregator - An indepth review of Feedlounge. I need to keep my eye on this one
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11/06/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : Webloggers are proposing a media fast for Mojtaba Saminejad, who has been arrested for reporting the incarceration of other Iranian webloggers - "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression... to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers" - Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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plasticbag : Kevin Marks is hosting a video of the Steve Jobs WWDC keynote. The podcast section is particularly interesting. - Two reasons: Firstly because the BBC's In Our Time is beautifully promoted at the top in the middle, and because Steve calls podcasting the hottest thing in radio...
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11/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : How to enjoy audiobooks : Lifehacker #
jkottke : Matt Haughey on how to enjoy audiobooks
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11/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : NPR : Online Classified Service Spreads Like Wildfire - Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster on The Motley Fool. #
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ricmac : Chapter about Web 2.0 in new Rails book - "Agile Web Development With Rails" is an upcoming book and ch 18 is available as a "beta" pre-release (PDF)
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11/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Feedlounge is attracting peoples attention... - "Picture this as your Gmail in terms of experience for feeds. [...] Mr MacManus, Feedlounge may well be the answer to your quest."
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11/06/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Boston MBTA Google Maps overlay Greasemonkey script
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11/06/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
deusx : HobbyPrincess: Draft Craft Manifesto - Funny, this sounds like it could be my manifesto as a tinkerer, too.
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11/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
deusx : AudioPad : Gizmodo - "The AudioPad throws audio tracks, samples, and effects on a table, where the user controls all via little plastic pucks." Reminds me of the controls on Thor's ship on Stargate
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11/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Ruby on Rails, and the Rails Beta Book - The comments include a good discussion of the pros and cons of Rails' code-in-templates approach.
ricmac : O'Reilly Radar > Ruby on Rails, and the Rails Beta Book - "Rails (for the most part) feels like the future of Web application development, and the Beta Book feels like the future of book publishing."
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11/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
deusx : Big Fat Stinking Software - Utilities - "Speed Freak, at a user-specified interval, reprioritizes applications so that the frontmost (or active) application gets more processor time than background applications."
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11/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
deusx : Something Awful - An iPod Man visits an Apple Store! - "a couple of non-goon friends and I took it to the next level by rocking out in an Apple Store (this one in Novi, Michigan.)"
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11/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
deusx : Blogcritics.org: Rush Guitarist Lifeson Sues and Speaks - "The legal action we are embarking on now will hopefully bring attention to the fact that people cannot and should not be treated this way."
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11/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
deusx : jwz - that was, in fact, the final straw. - "I bought an iMac, and now I play my music with iTunes. ... Dear Slashdot: please don't post about this. Screw you guys."
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11/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
deusx : Bear-Shaped MP3 Player : Gizmodo - "I also had to giggle like a sixth grader when I noticed the USB port is right where the pooper should be."
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11/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Collection of Chip Kidd's book cover design work due out in October
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11/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : "Graffiti Taxonomy presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close proximity" - "The intent of these studies is to show the diversity of styles as expressed in a single character."
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