17/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : 5% of US smokes pot - That's a lot.
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17/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : A project to offer free textbooks (as opposed to the $120 ones you get at the college bookstore) is looking for some web design help - "In response to the textbook industry's constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value, I have started this collection of the existing free textbooks and educational tools available online."
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17/06/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : 80s Tees Da Big One Sanford and Son t-shirt - "This Sanford and Son t-shirt features Red Foxx as Fred Sanford giving his heart attack pose. The print is a distressed silk screen."
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17/06/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Weblog detailing a journey across Russia on the trans-Siberian railway
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17/06/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Neal Stephenson on the larger lessons of Star Wars - "Nothing is more seductive than to think that we, like the Jedi, could be masters of the most advanced technologies while living simple lives: to have a geek standard of living and spend our copious leisure time vegging out."
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17/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : Apple releases WebObjects as a free application - Dev tools are free, deployment still requires a license
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17/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : France Podcast - "Toute l'actualité du podcasting francophone." [via] #
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17/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Geeks vs Vegs - Neal Stephenson NYT opinion piece on Star Wars
jimray : Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out - Neal Stephenson on Star Wars
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17/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes now engaged - What the hell? This is shaping up to be a monster of a train wreck.
plasticbag : Tom Cruise engaged to Katie Holmes - Godsmackingly weird - I mean what the hell is she doing? I mean, someone's clearly doing this for publicity of one kind or another. How come it feels like everyone is in on the joke?
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17/06/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
jimray : Safari?s search field - Safari sports a super slick search field (doesn't really jive with standard XHTML, most likely meant for Dashboard apps)
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17/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Finding a rough model for how films fare at the box office - "They assume that revenue relies on three major factors: the size of the possible audience, the initial desire of audience members to see the film (which is often dictated by the amount spent on marketing and publicity), and audience response to the
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17/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : The Illuminated Middle Ages - Illuminated (illustrated) texts from the French national library. [via Online Blog]
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17/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : A l'agenda des microformats - "Faudrait-il créer une license de type CreativeCommons mais pour sur l'utilisation de nos données personnelles ?" [via] #
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17/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : 50% of the world's population will soon live in cities
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17/06/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : 'Teleporting' over the internet - Computer scientists in the US are developing a system which would allow people to "teleport" a solid 3D recreation of themselves over the internet
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17/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a psychological test designed to assist a person in identifying their personality preferences
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17/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : Flickr Album - an elegant bit of Flash using their API - You have to grab the corner with your mouse and literally turn the page over for it to work. Nice implementation though.
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17/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Coffee in Paris sucks? - I don't drink coffee myself (vile, vile stuff), but I've never heard anything bad about the coffee in Paris, aside from the complaint of some Americans that you can rarely get it to go.
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17/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : The overratedness of Robert Horry
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17/06/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Accelerando! - Accelerando available for download - "This free ebook edition is made available by kind consent of my publishers, Ace and Orbit, under a Creative Commons license with certain restrictions attached." Hooray! A book to read on my Visor until I get the paper edition!
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17/06/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Bunny # 287 - "The weathermen forecast a light bunny shower this evening"
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17/06/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Hardening Linux: a 10 step approach to a secure server
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17/06/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : Ease the Pain with IE6 Printing - The IE team share some approaches to ease the pain when printing with IE today
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17/06/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Does Viewing A Website Constitute Possession Of That Site? - "These are laws for an offline world being applied to the online one, and people are realizing that they don't quite match up nicely"
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17/06/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Computers' Insecure Security - Hackers are increasingly finding flaws in the very programs designed to prevent attacks - computer-security software.
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17/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr Authentication API - Flickr Authentication API: check it out
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17/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Downloads - Yahoo! Downloads: get 'em all in one place
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17/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : GreaseMonkeyUserScriptRequest - GreaseMonkeyUserScriptRequest: lots of requests for greasemonkey scripts
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Andy Baio : Video: Surprise - I won't ruin the ending for you
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Andy Baio : Video: Ural 13 Diktators' "Name Of The Game" - excellent 8-bit music video, reminiscent of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet [via] [via]
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17/06/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Jorn Barger debates with a misguided Wikipedian about the definition of "weblog" - this kind of debate is part of what makes Wikipedia so entertaining
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17/06/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 50 smartest things to do with your money
jkottke : Money Magazine on the 50 smartest things you can do with your money - Also includes a list of 15 dumb things to avoid.
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17/06/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
jkottke : Stats on the BBC's Beethoven downloads - "Live performances of Beethoven's first five symphonies, broadcast as part of The Beethoven Experience on BBC Radio 3, have amassed an incredible 657,399 download requests during a week long trial."
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17/06/2005 @ 03:57 GMT
Steve Cook : The Gran Chaco War - On the "war of engineers" between Paraguay and a well-equipped but disastrously misprepared in the 1930s.
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17/06/2005 @ 03:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Fairy Congress - Your Online Fairy Resource - "Humans, fairies, devas, angels and spiritual beings come together to create an outpouring of communication, education, and celebration."
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17/06/2005 @ 03:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Savoring life after death row - "'I'm pretty happy here. ... It's a slower pace of life, and I don't have to hear the clanging and ringing of those bars.'"
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17/06/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Everyone Drunk But Me - The adventures of a nebbishy exchange student in Russia.
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17/06/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Air Force Had Plans to Nuke Moon - Is there an alt.nuke-the-moon the way there's an alt.pave-the-earth?
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17/06/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Sharksploitation! - Jaws and the sad decline of the shark movie - Jeannot Szwarc, the director of "Jaws 2": "Though people kept saying, 'Don't show the shark too much,' I kept saying from the beginning, 'We must show the shark a lot.'" This is going to be my household's new catchphrase for a bad idea
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17/06/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Bokashi Composting System - A cute li'l composter that would be perfect for our garden. (via Gizmodo)
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17/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Superdickery.com - The "Superman is a dick" thread breaks out into its own website.
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17/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Accelerando! - Charlie Stross' novel of the singularity gets released under a Creative Commons license.
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17/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Ron Pinkoski's Banking Solution - "Ron Wyatt and I had not yet met -- but as Ron Wyatt was discovering the Ark of the Covenant in that cave system in Israel January 1982 I was in California attempting to tell people that, 'YES, there is a solution to our economic system . . .'"
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17/06/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The Ben and Jerry's Pint Lock - In which a Half-Bakery-style idea reaches fruition. Seriously. (via Bruce Schneier)
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17/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : wine-searcher.com - Good metasearch engine for wine stores
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17/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
deusx : TV.com: Firefly lands on the Sci Fi Channel - "Firefly, a science fiction series that was canceled midway through its first season on Fox, has found a new home on the Sci Fi Channel." Hot damn, it's about gorrammed time!
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17/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Over 600,000 mp3 downloads of BBC Radio 3's Beethoven programmes - Note the bit at the end about how much internal buzz this is generating.
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17/06/2005 @ 01:15 GMT
gleuschk : #35: The Eightfold Way: The Beauty of Klein's Quartic Curve - MSRI publications, online for free
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17/06/2005 @ 01:11 GMT
gleuschk : The Straight Dope: Is a diamond's price a true measure of its value? - Cecil say: nope
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17/06/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Taraval Okazu Ya - Good sushi in the Sunset (via Merlin, Marc)
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17/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
jimray : AS2Docular: JavaDoc-esque HTML Documentation Tool for ActionScript 2.0 - Free, web-based JavaDoc parser for Actionscript
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17/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
kayodeok : The Importance of RSS - "I think what [Google] are afraid of is the rise of applications that seem to be tracking importance and trends better than search. In the race to find what deserves face-time, services like Del.icio.us, Technorati and Digg.com in combination with the rap
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17/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Microsoft readies BitTorrent alternative - yeah, but BitTorrent is a protocol, not an application
kayodeok : Microsoft readies BitTorrent alternative - Researchers at Microsoft Corp.'s labs in Cambridge, England, are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs and software applications to end users over the Internet
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17/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : XML et RSS : chronique d'une mort annoncée ? - Est-ce que les microformats savent faire le café ? Je ne suis quand même pas sûr que foaf, rss ou vcard soient les meilleurs exemples de ce que peut-être un microformat. [via] #
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17/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : The Father of Web 2.0 makes a compelling case for being hired by Microsoft - i.e. it would add another strong example to Robert's case against Joel Spolsky. Of course, Mr Spolsky is welcome to hire the Father of Web 2.0 too...
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17/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : 24 Hour Laundry - Marc Andresson's new start-up? - "...what we are is a start-up working in Palo Alto on a new consumer Internet service." Gee, that narrows it down. [via Silicon Beat]
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17/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo! Subscription Search - Searching the 'deep Web'. You still need to be a subscriber of each service to access the content, but having 1 search box is very handy. US and UK only for now.
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17/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Threadwatch comments on Amazon's new DHTML one-tab look, which may've been rolled out for good now? - "They've switched from brand and product based navigation to mission-based, meaning the search and paths are traceable to customer goals."
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17/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo is Toast! - Yahoo is Toast!: well, we dodged that bullet
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