15/06/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Conversation on XForms - A short, hopefully fictive, conversation on XForms. #
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15/06/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Lars Holst is back - Plug. Just subscribe. #
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15/06/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Graphical launchd editor - A GUI to edit and create launchd files
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Rod Begbie : Widget Machine - Gorgeously designed store selling Tiger Dashboard widgets. [via] #
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15/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Services and Service Accounts Security Planning Guide - The Services and Service Accounts Security Planning Guide is designed to be an important resource when organizations plan their strategy to run services more securely under the Microsoft Windows Server 2003™ and Windows XP operating systems
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Anne van Kesteren : Internet Explorer 5 - About IE5 for Windows. #
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15/06/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Web Professional Hot or Not - HTML 5.0 #
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Anne van Kesteren : Javascript - On the future of javascript. #
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15/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Intermix (the company sued by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer) Settles 'Spyware' Lawsuit for $7.5M - Intermix Media Inc. has agreed to pay the state of New York $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit charging it with bundling hidden "spyware" along with millions of programs it gave away for free, the company said on Tuesday
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15/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : 11 Clients You Need To Fire Right Now - The 11 Abusive Client Types: The disillusioned, the suspicious, the chiseler, the bully, the something-for-nothing, the slow pay, the flake, the liar, the blackmailer, the money pit, the clinger
Paul Hammond : ChristopherHawkins.com - 11 Clients You Need To Fire Right Now - Since I'm constantly writing about what developers do wrong, it seems only fair to address problem clients as well
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15/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Keyboard shortcuts for lots of Microsoft Products - Find keyboard shortcuts for leading Microsoft products that help save time and effort and provide an essential tool for some people with dexterity difficulties and impairments
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15/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Casino carpet gallery - obsessive collection of bad carpeting from casinos [via] [via]
jkottke : A gallery of casino carpeting photos - "Many of the carpets use flowers and wheels, both suggestive of a cyclical life: flowers bud, bloom, and then die, and their beauty is only ephemeral."
Steve Cook : The Die is Cast casino carpet gallery - "Casino carpet is known as an exercise in deliberate bad taste that somehow encourages people to gamble."
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15/06/2005 @ 22:32 GMT
WillPate : Flickr: Photos from James Pate - My brother James has a Flickr account (now Pro) and a digital camera. Go James!
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15/06/2005 @ 22:16 GMT
WillPate : New Foo Fighters Album Art - Sweet
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15/06/2005 @ 22:15 GMT
WillPate : bryght guys basic training - Some colleagues went to Germany to "work on a project"...this is what they are up to
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15/06/2005 @ 21:03 GMT
gleuschk : Internet Archive: Details: Irving "Kaps" Kaplansky's 80th Birthday Celebration - the whole schmear, including Lehrer's songs
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15/06/2005 @ 21:02 GMT
gleuschk : Tom Lehrer performing songs at MSRI's retirement party for Irving Kaplansky - not his best songs, but fantastic to see him "live"
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15/06/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Steak and frites in Paris - Steak and frites in Paris: sounds yummy
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15/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Musician in Jaipur's Palace - This photo's just plain gorgeous.
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15/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Comprehensive (as ever) Ars Technica review of Photoshop CS2 - Well-written stuff. I'm still trying to figure out if I want to support their assheaded activation scheme.
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15/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Anarchist Cookbook author disowns book on Amazon - but can't pull it out of print because of copyright quirks [via] [via]
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15/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : mp3act, streaming MP3 jukebox - free and Ajax-enabled, but not as feature rich as Zina; requires PHP and MySQL [via] [via]
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15/06/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : Five, the Zope 3 in Zope 2 project - "Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to integrate Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2, today."
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15/06/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : Telegraph | News | 'Missing link' between madness and genius - "Genius cannot exist without mental disorder, according to a study that names George Orwell, LS Lowry and Lewis Carroll among 21 artists who suffered a form of autism."
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15/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wal-Mart, Target phase out VHS - a nail in the coffin of analog video [via] [via]
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15/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Sony PSP 1.50 firmware swap trick - works fine, but requires two memory sticks; a good step, but not ideal [via] [via]
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15/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : An interview with David Sedaris
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15/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Some additional questions and answers from the previously linked David Sedaris interview
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15/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : More confirmation that the Tiger on Intel torrent floatin around is a hoax - You gotta hand it to whomever did this -- they goatse'd a bunch of nerds
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15/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : "No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame - Lazy fucking programmers named and shamed. This is a pet peeve of mine too. [via] #
deusx : "No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame - "I've observed one technique that has been nearly universal: the practice of refusing to allow spaces or dashes in credit card number entry fields ... If there were some security or integrity reason for disallowing these characters, I guess I'd buy it, bu
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15/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Content with Style - Standards-based Web techniques. This one will grow and grow…. [via DoNotRemove]
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15/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Fixing AJAX apps - Fixing the back button & enabling bookmarking by using # anchors.
Paul Hammond : Content with Style: Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps - If it's important enough to put in the effort to duplicate it then should we really be breaking it in the first place?
Isofarro : Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps - Again based on the URL fragment as a means of saving the state of an application. This time using the Prototype library.
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15/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Andre Torrez joins John Battelle's FM Publishing - welcome to the Boing Boing empire!
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15/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
philgyford : Google SiteMaps for Movable Type - now with correct Last Modified dates (Anders Jacobsen's blog) - Another one for the ever-growing "some day" file.
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15/06/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
jimray : Anarchist Cookbook author offers a retraction - Became an Anglican, no longer believes in violence as a means to political ends, but since he handed copyright over to the publisher, he has no say in the matter any more
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15/06/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : BlogWrite for CEOs: How GM's Fastlane blog was born - "From an interview I did today with GM's Gary Grates, VP Communications for North America..."
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15/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Indietits on Skynyrd wooo! - I've got a fever, and the only cure is SHUT UP.
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15/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : The friendship and rivalry of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
kayodeok : Lucas vs. Spielberg - The worst best friends in Hollywood - Interesting article on the relationship between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
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15/06/2005 @ 16:11 GMT
gleuschk : Some printable paper rulers - so handy
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15/06/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : The Onion A.V. Club interviews Billy West
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15/06/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
jimray : Mike Chambers: Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit (with Open License) - Flapjax! Flapjax! Flapjax! (Flapjax is Joe Weiss's tongue-in-cheek term for Ajax with Flash)
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15/06/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
jimray : Next Generation of Conservatives (By the Dormful) - Wow, hang out with a bunch of white people, discuss the beauty of free markets and not dance. Most. Boring. Internship. Ever.
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15/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : Roger Ebert's review of "Batman Begins" - "This is at last the Batman movie I've been waiting for."
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Milo Vermeulen : repdo are photos of photos - repdo are photos of photos [related]
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15/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Batman Begins on the Right Foot - Wired News' review of "Batman Begins"
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15/06/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : BBC Wordhunt - Your language needs you!.
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15/06/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
ricmac : TechCrunch: tracking Web 2.0 - "TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service."
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15/06/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : The Futurama Taglines Flash Slideshow includes every tagline from every episode in seasons one to four... - You can't really go far wrong with Futurama. Except the taglines. Which were rarely funny. Better here than on TV.
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15/06/2005 @ 13:16 GMT
gleuschk : Favorite Wikipedia Entries | Ask MetaFilter - some doozies I didn't know about
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15/06/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
deusx : News - Gameboy music & camera/ 8-bit futurist/ atari /micro-chiptunes/electro-funk/space-punk -ReceptorsMusic.com - "WE'RE THE OPERATORS" 8-Bit KRAFTWERK Covers Compilation CD & collectors' 12 inch Vinyl single!
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15/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
jkottke : Entries in the first annual Art of Science Competition
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jkottke : Cassette tape DJ mixes music with his custom-built cassette decks
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15/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
jkottke : The Helvetica Meditations
plasticbag : The Helvetica Meditations from Typographi.com - Some beautiful and oddly poignant pictures containing Helvetica. #24 is kind of darkly entertaining I suppose as well...
Richard Rutter : The Helvetica Meditations - A gellery of Helvetica, as used in all walks of life in the UK.
Nelson Minar : Helvetica meditations - White paint takes on significance (via everyone)
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15/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
jkottke : Text of Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address
Jason Shellen : Steve Jobs commencement address to the Stanford Class of 2005 - Three great stories about connecting the dots in life. #
Wayne Burkett : You've got to find what you love - Steve Jobs's Stanford commencement speech. #
Matthew M. Boedicker : Steve Jobs' speech at Stanford commencement
kayodeok : 'You've got to find what you love': Steve Jobs' June 2005 Stanford commencement speech - "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice."
erikbenson : Steve Jobs knows the secret to living - Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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15/06/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
philgyford : Jeffrey Veen: Designing for the subtlety of Ajax - Also to read when I get round to doing Ajax stuff.
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15/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Fifty Tools which can help you in Writing - "Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing." To Read
deusx : Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org - "Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do any writing."
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15/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
philgyford : iTerm (Terminal replacement for Mac OS X) - "Anti-idle function that avoids disconnection because of no activity" could be handy.
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15/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Getting Real: The alone time zone - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - when you have a long stretch when you aren?t being bothered you can get in the zone. The zone is when you are most productive
Philippe Janvier : The alone time zone - "Don't overdose on communication. Shut up sometimes. Try it. I bet a lot more work gets done". [via] #
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15/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
ricmac : RailFrog - CMS on Rails - "RailFrog is a user-friendly, open-source web site deployment and content management system built with Rails; producing well structured and standards-compliant pages with Web 2.0 goodness."
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15/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
ricmac : WeBreakStuff: Web-development on the Web 2.0 - Outlines a development cycle for Web2.0.
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15/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
ricmac : A livejournaler rants against the blogosphere and Web 2.0 - "I've never used actual "RSS reader/aggregator" applications, but from reading other people talk about them, they seem like crap."
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15/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : $100,000 Poker Bot Tournament - finding the Deep Blue of Texas hold-em [via] [via]
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15/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
deusx : Portable Innovation Technology Ltd.- Hardware - Memplug - "MemPlug SD/MMC is an adapter for the stamp sized Secure Digital and MultiMedia memory card. Moreover, it comes with a built-in vibrating alarm, a feature that many Handspring Visor Handheld owners are looking for."
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15/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
deusx : eBay - a500 usb, Accessories Parts, Software, Parts Accessories items at low prices - usb cables for my Samsung A500
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15/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Another superb post by Jon Udell on the value of web apps over desktop apps - "But if the Web has degraded our experience in some ways, it has utterly transformed it in others. Nowadays we're not just using the Web, we're colonizing it."
kayodeok : Jon Udell: Lever and fulcrum - "But if the Web has degraded our experience in some ways, it has utterly transformed it in others. Nowadays we're not just using the Web, we're colonizing it. Data isn't stuff we only consume, we also produce it. And the user experience doesn't live only
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Andy Baio : PDF: Continental Airlines complaint - Snopes has more info about it
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15/06/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Ed-Tech Insider: the Future of Blogging - makes this point about delicious and furl: "Essentially, blogging has spun off one of its core functions, that is, serving as a terse public record of one's discoveries on the web."
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15/06/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Outsourcing Is Here To Stay, Even In Media - "The traditional business models of the media industry are under severe pressure: revenues are being squeezed by a rising cost base, increased competition and changing advertising models." (via PaidContent)
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15/06/2005 @ 03:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : opting out of the postal service (I would)
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15/06/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : The Old Computer Dot Com
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15/06/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Charles Miller : Fire And Other Emergency Services Tunes - Jack's Fire And Other Emergency Services Tunes. A 175 song MIDI extravaganza, including "Blazing Saddles", "Light My Fire" and "Safety Dance, The"
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15/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : Another piece of the Internet content-creation forest gets bought by Yahoo - Great headline by Robert Scoble! Quote: "Yahoo is making moves to be a real powerhouse in "Generation C" software services. Jim Winstead just announced that Yahoo bought blo.gs."
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15/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr photos lead to Secret Service investigation - collage apparently isn't art, especially if you're a sysadmin [via] [via]
jimray : How to become part of a secret service investigation - Photoshop, picture of Bush, picture of a gun, five minutes and Flickr should about do it. This is one of those monumental wastes of government time that Congresscritters should be fixing - does the Secret Service *really* need to investigate everything?
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15/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Top Three Things Q*bert Is Pissed About Today - what a mouth on that guy [via] [via]
Jason Shellen : Top Three Things Q*bert Is Pissed About Today - C'mon you would curse too if you fell 10 stories to your doom. #
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15/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : jwz switches from Linux to Mac - the Slashdot comments are entertaining, as usual
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Andy Baio : First thoughts on Odeo private beta - I have a good feeling about it [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : MyScreencast - growing collection of screencast software demos [via] [via]
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15/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
deusx : yergler.net » CC Metadata for Spotlight - "The CC Metadata Importer for Spotlight adds support for searching on Creative Commons license information embedded in files." Wait a minnit! Does this actually prove me wrong-- or does it kick out all other importers for MP3 files?
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15/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
ricmac : How I handle RSS theft (part one) - The Jason Calacanis Weblog - This will be a useful series to follow.
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15/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : TextDrive (hopefully) fixes its MySQL woes once and for all - Hopefully, this means the end of those embarrassing database errors here at sidesh0w.
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15/06/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
deusx : 43 Folders: Quicksilver: The Comma Trick - '...when you?re using the first (and often the third) pane in Quicksilver, you can hit ?,? (comma, with no modifier key) at any time to add the currently selected item to a working stack...'
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15/06/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
ricmac : O'Reilly Radar > Google Maps Yahoo! Traffic Back Online - "The Web 2.0 vision is really starting to come alive! And the Where 2.0 subsystem :-) is where we're seeing some of the first traction."
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15/06/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : @Media 2005 report - Mike Davies (Isofarro) has some great @media session notes. (via) [via]
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15/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Joe Clark: @media2005 - Comprehensive notes on all(?) the sessions.
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15/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : The trouble with PHP - This is a good rebuttal to a recent "PHP's simplicity beats Rails" piece.
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15/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo acquires Blo.gs - a good deal for everyone involved
znarf : blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo! - "the sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i'm proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs." [via] #
Simon Willison : blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo! - That's a relief. (via) [via]
Paul Hammond : blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo! / June 14, 2005 2:26pm @ trainedmonkey - the service will continue to be completely open, and both yahoo! and i hope you continue to use it and help it grow
deusx : blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo! / June 14, 2005 2:26pm @ trainedmonkey - "this is the sort of good home that i was looking for ? yahoo! obviously has the resources to run and improve blo.gs in pace with the incredible growth of blogs (and syndication in general), and in talking with them it was also clear that we had some of
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15/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Robots run amok at hospital - Robots run amok at hospital: The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Waldo, a robot that delivers medicines at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, went bezerk.
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15/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with Errol Morris - He says he's going to be doing some more commercials for Apple.
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15/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
tehu : Yahoo new owner of blo.gs ? - I knew it by the favicon.
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15/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Mac-on-Mac - Create Virtual Macs on your Mac. Doesn't work on, or run, Tiger yet, sadly, but could be useful for developers. [via] #
jimray : Mac-on-Mac, port of Mac-on-Linux to OS X - Virtual machine for OS X - handy for running dev builds, PPC Linux on OS X or even Classic
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