23/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Mad Hot Ballroom documentary markers encounter with the music copyright cartel - egregious examples of copyright hell; one publisher asked for $10k to clear a ringtone
jkottke : Depressing article on how much hassle it was for the makers of Mad Hot Ballroom to clear all copyrighted music in the film - "If I had known all that I had to go through, I'm not sure I would have done it."
jimray : The idiocy of copyright - The indie documentary Mad Hot Ballroom spent 45% of their budget clearing crappy music -- including thousands of dollars for a fucking ringtone! These people are crooks -- I feel like I should hit Limewire right now and download as much music as possible
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23/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Live webcam from within Second Life - yeah, it's about that strange [via] [via]
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23/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Annalee Newitz on stringent new porn recordkeeping laws - won't somebody think of the children? [via] [via]
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23/06/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Live 8 blogging - Technorati's site set up to aggregate the blogging around Live 8.
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23/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : First look at Apple's Intel Macs - Windows XP installs fine on them, but OS X for Intel won't install on generic PCs [via] [via]
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23/06/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jimray : Russound Distributed Audio Video - Multi-room audio/video for that elusive house of the future
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23/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Neopets sold to Viacom for $160 million - the kids' gaming site is one of social software's biggest successes, but nobody's paying attention [via] [via]
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23/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : Matrioshka Brain Home Page - "A Matrioshka Brain is a megascale structure constructed at atomic scale limits."
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23/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : Achewood - June 23, 2005 - It's true. Vanilla extract doesn't taste very good by itself.
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23/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : diesel sweeties #1254 - "I swore an oath to my dead parents that I'd never enjoy another Batman movie after the one with the Bat-Nipples." Amen!
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23/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Rejected "grandmother cell" suggestion -- that individual neurons respond to single concepts -- may be true after all - "For things that you see over and over again, your family, your boyfriend, or celebrities, your brain wires up and fires very specifically to them. These neurons are very, very specific, much more than people think."
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23/06/2005 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Palm Radio - Mini-Paddle - "Palm Radio (Hannes DL9SCO and Dieter DJ6TE) decided to develop a special portable twin paddle for outdoor, traveling and QRP activities: the Mini-Paddle."
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23/06/2005 @ 18:00 GMT
WillPate : Current Work/Life Balance - Currently working away from this, but it's still fresh
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23/06/2005 @ 17:58 GMT
jkottke : Sony Aibo dances to a Daft Punk song
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23/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : An open letter to the Kansas School Board - "Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster."
Aquarion : Open Letter to the Kansas Educations Boards. - Intellegent design has evolved a new argument
jimray : Open letter to Kansas City school board - The graph explaining global warming is worth the trip alone
gleuschk : Open Letter - laying out the tenets of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
Linkorama : Flying Spaghetti Monster - If there is intelligent design, then we should teach multiple theories of intelligent design
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23/06/2005 @ 17:44 GMT
WillPate : Disinfomercial - Take 1 - Posting to delicious so it will show up in all the meta-aggregate feeds because Technorati can't read The Standard (duh)
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23/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jimray : Custom Address Numbers - One day I'll have a house to nail these to...
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23/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kellan : script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript - Madrobby's platform for mind blowing javascript/ajax hacking #
ricmac : script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript - "script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style"
François Nonnenmacher : script.aculo.us - A directory of interesting javascript examples
joshua : script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript
Simon Willison : script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript - A pretty impressive collection of modern JavaScript tricks.
Eric Meyer : script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript - Coolness. Just all around coolness.
Jeremy Zawodny : script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript - script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript: "script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications"
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23/06/2005 @ 14:59 GMT
mbertier : Windfalls of War - The Center for Public Integrity - afghanistan & iraq war contractors. #
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23/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : 1000 UK Bank Account Details 'sold' to an undercover report - Police are investigating reports an Indian call centre worker sold the bank account details of 1,000 UK customers to an undercover reporter
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23/06/2005 @ 11:22 GMT
Aquarion : Legend of the BloodNinja - Do not read this anywhere where other people will wonder why you are giggling. I mean this.
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23/06/2005 @ 10:43 GMT
WillPate : Theory beind the iPod design - ?From early on, we wanted a product that would seem so natural and so inevitable and so simple, you almost wouldn?t think of it as having been designed.?
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23/06/2005 @ 09:58 GMT
Jason Shellen : Female Copywriter Hates WE's Bridezilla Campaign - I have no idea what Bridezilla is, I just like that Steve Hall is calling our focus as a nation where it lies... on Lindsay Lohan's bra size. #
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23/06/2005 @ 09:58 GMT
Isofarro : Validity and Accessibility - Gez summarises the ongoing WCAG 2 Working Group argument over valid markup.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:58 GMT
Isofarro : A principled argument - Matt May on his understanding of why valid markup should not be a Priority 1.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
Charles Miller : Pursuing Sudoku with Pseudo-code - OddThinking » Pursuing Sudoku with Pseudo-code.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Microformats.org - New home for all formats micro.
Matthew M. Boedicker : microformats
kellan : microformats.org always down? - spring for something more reliable folks. #
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23/06/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Wikipedia disputes - Some of the formal way they deal with controversy
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23/06/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
jimray : Slashdot on CNN's free video - This is really, really hilarious. I particularly love how this is a "response to FOX News" -- which completely ignores the fact that FOX News is an also-ran on the web. News for nerds who don't know shit about the news biz.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
jimray : Google AJAXSLT - Holy crap - XSL transformations... IN JAVASCRIPT! Bow down before the Google masters!
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23/06/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
jimray : So Much For Dignity: CNN Drops World News For Lost Kid Crap - "Nice work, CNN! You?re really putting the 'news' back in 'this is not news.'"
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23/06/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Filterset.G @ pierceive.com - The AdBlock ruleset "Filterset.G" has a new home, after some unauthorized plugins knocked out the old Geocities site. #
Nelson Minar : AdBlock filters - Filterset.G helps block ads in Firefox
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23/06/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : P2P Downloads Fuel Spyware - MMG's financial model is enviably efficient. By using P2P networks to spread its files, MMG only needs to use a few computers as "seeds" to get the downloading started. Once the file has been picked up by dozens or hundreds of other PCs, they will help do
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23/06/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : A Quantum Computer within the next three years? - Vancouver startup D-Wave Systems aims to build a quantum computer within three years. It won't be a fully functional quantum computer of the sort long envisioned; but D-Wave is on track to produce a special-purpose, "noisy" piece of quantum hardware that
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23/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Microsoft Word - A comparison of OOo Writer 2.0 with Microsoft Word 2003 focussing on power user features
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23/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Free Book - Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers - Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and .NET Framework 2.0.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Free Book - Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET - Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET is is the complete technical guide to upgrading Visual Basic 6 applications to Visual Basic .NET, covering all upgrade topics from APIs to ZOrders.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Working Smart: Five Rules for Better PowerPoint Presentations - Five Rules for Better PowerPoint Presentations
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23/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Must have programs for a USB Memory Stick
jimray : Must have programs for a USB card | Ask MetaFilter - Lots of good stuff in there
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23/06/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
ricmac : List of apps using the Yahoo Search API
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23/06/2005 @ 09:54 GMT
ricmac : Moonwatcher Personal: A Year of Moonwatching - If you want to know what's happening with RSS in the Enterprise, this is a great post to start from.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:54 GMT
ricmac : Charlie Wood leaves his job as VP of Enterprise Solutions at Newsgator to start a new company, Spanning Partners - Charlie is one of the smartest RSS people I know of, so if he's leaving Newsgator (which itself has a lot of promise) then he must be onto something big. Good luck Charlie!
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23/06/2005 @ 09:54 GMT
ricmac : LaughingMeme: Where are the cool East Coast start ups? - Feedburner springs to mind. Anyway, the comments are interesting - especially the one about the "wild west" and frontiers.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:54 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Evan on incorporating feedback into products - Evan on incorporating feedback into products: it's a fine line to walk
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23/06/2005 @ 09:54 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo to the Max - Yahoo to the Max: Chirs Sherman writes about a new Yahoo related book
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23/06/2005 @ 09:53 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Threatening eBay's Dominance, More Online Sellers Go It Alone - Threatening eBay's Dominance, More Online Sellers Go It Alone: eBay is on shakier and shakier ground
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23/06/2005 @ 09:53 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Feedback, Motivation and Collectivity in a Social Bookmarking System - Feedback, Motivation and Collectivity in a Social Bookmarking System: looks to be a good read
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23/06/2005 @ 09:53 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Southern California Soaring - Region 12 - Southern California Soaring - Region 12: the have a good newsletter
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23/06/2005 @ 09:53 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Weather Underground: Aviation Maps - Weather Underground: Aviation Maps: good stuff from weather underground [via]
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23/06/2005 @ 09:52 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Let's blow this (world record-setting) popsicle stand. - Best quote from a Guinness Book of World Records rep, hands-down.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:52 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Korea bans baseball cabbage pitch - "Players may now only wear cabbage by presenting a doctor's note in advance."
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Andy Baio : Flickr Montager - automated photo mosaics using Flickr; it must be hammering their servers, though [via] [via]
jimray : Flickr Montager - Bloody cool
Milo Vermeulen : Flickr Montager - Flickr Montager [via] [via]
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23/06/2005 @ 09:51 GMT
Andy Baio : PSP no-swap homebrew loader released - no more swapping memory sticks! huge news for the PSP homebrew scene; more mirrors [via] [via]
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23/06/2005 @ 09:51 GMT
Andy Baio : Jason Kottke on G4's "Attack of the Show" in about 30 minutes - update: Haughey has the video
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23/06/2005 @ 09:51 GMT
Andy Baio : Nerds Make Better Lovers - Slashdot commenter on the reality of this story [via] [via]
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23/06/2005 @ 09:51 GMT
jkottke : Babble obscures conversations in office environments - It takes your phone conversation and makes it sound like the hum of office conversation by layering your voice over itself several times.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:51 GMT
jkottke : Hillary in 2008? - A poll of more than a hundred political insiders -- Republicans and Democrats both -- on Hillary Clinton's chances if she were to run for President in 2008.
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23/06/2005 @ 09:50 GMT
Andy Baio : Google not competing with Paypal - Eric Schmidt said it won't involve direct user-to-user payments [via] [via]
jkottke : Google is doing an online payment system, but will not be competing with PayPal
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23/06/2005 @ 09:50 GMT
jkottke : The top 500 supercomputers in the world
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23/06/2005 @ 09:50 GMT
jkottke : Great ongoing collection of old mall photography - Includes shots of Southdale in Edina, MN, the very first mall ever built.
Steve Cook : Malls of America - "Vintage photos of lost Shopping Malls of the '60s & '70s."
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23/06/2005 @ 09:50 GMT
jkottke : AFI's top 100 movie quotes - Anything missing from the list or something that should be dropped? (Comment on this)
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