28/06/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
kellan : Edd's first look at iTunes RSS extensions - Verdict: gob-smackingly ignorant, daft, and nuts. (okay, he thinks they did a decent job in a handful of cases) #
deusx : A first look at iTunes RSS extensions - "Apple prove they know how to be cool, but they've got no idea about making friends on the web."
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Andy Baio : House of Cosbys publisher cease-and-desisted by Bill Cosby!? - the short films are brilliant; "I like to sue people! I'm litigation Cosby, you see." [via] [via]
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28/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : A Cynic's Guide to Videogame Politics - what the key players in game legislation have to gain, from the excellent Game Politics blog on (gasp!) Livejournal [via] [via]
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28/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Press Releases for 2006 - more search engine humor from Philipp Lenssen
kayodeok : 10 Google Headlines You Don't Want to Read - 10 Google Headlines You Don't Want to Read
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28/06/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : What does it take to "induce" infringement? - an excellent example from the Betamax era; Sony would've failed the Grokster test [via] [via]
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28/06/2005 @ 23:33 GMT
Linkorama : WikiChinaPedia! - Wiki on Chinese civilization about to be launched
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28/06/2005 @ 23:19 GMT
Linkorama : Vertical LEAP Coverage - Sure wish I could have been to the first vertical search conference
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28/06/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
kellan : Stop the presses, Dave Winer makes sense, sounds reasonable - Takes Apple to task for their *lame* podcasting extension. They make MSFT look clueful. (Yes prefixes are syntactic sugar, but that isn't how they're used in the RSS community) #
deusx : RSS: Apple's itunes namespace - "It would have been really smart to review this stuff with the community before releasing their software."
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28/06/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
deusx : Ajaxian Blog: Prototype and DWR: function $() - "Handy, elegant, and Perlish."
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28/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Quake on your cellphone - Joystiq - www.joystiq.com - "New 3D enabled phones will start shipping with the title in July."
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28/06/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : New TV Show: "(Hulk) Hogan Knows Best" - I know this was listed in the Book of Revelations. I'm sure of it.
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28/06/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : Take it to Karl - American servicemen (and women?) sound off on Karl Rove's America
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28/06/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Our Brains do not work like Computers - New Cornell study suggests that mental processing is continuous, not like a computer
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28/06/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Entrepreneur in a Post-Grokster World - blurring the lines of the Betamax decision [via] [via]
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28/06/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wil Wheaton interviewed by Slashdot - as always, he's witty and humble and essential reading
Milo Vermeulen : Wil Wheaton interview on Slashdot - Wil Wheaton interview on Slashdot [via] [via]
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28/06/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Gibraltar runway - Is the only road into Gibraltar really across a runway?! (via Google Sightseeing)
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kayodeok : RSS/Email: In RSS/Email, senders are responsible for storing messages, and merely notify receiver agrregators that new mail is available - Today (2005) we rely on email to perform many functions. This paper argues that by 2010 many, if not all, of these functions will be subsumed by a combination of instant messaging and RSS/Email
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28/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : 43 Places goes live - the wanderlust is a great snapshot of where people want to visit
Rod Begbie : 43 Places - New travel guide/tool from the Robot Co-op. Review places you've been and investigate where you want to go. #
Richard Rutter : 43 Places - Stories, tagging, photos of places around the world.
Matthew M. Boedicker : 43 places, stories about places
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28/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Bloggers accepting payment for blog mentions without disclosure - commentary from Rebecca and Matt, and a list of other blogger shills; even USWeb's blog got in on it [via] [via]
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28/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Extracting video from cat brains - Strange Days, indeed [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : World of Warcraft player stumbles on unfinished area - I've always suspected places like this exist in the real world, too [via] [via]
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28/06/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Monkeys, Ninjas, Pirates, and Robots in Safari's RSS database schema - very funny, I wonder what the unused fields are for
Simon Willison : Safari RSS databases in Mac OS X Tiger - You can query them using sqlite3 - and there are (unintended?) easter eggs.
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28/06/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Strawberry Shortcake - on LSD (via Metafilter)
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28/06/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Atom and RSS users - Different demographics. odd.
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28/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google relaunches personalized search - reorders search results based on past searching history; a step in Google's plan to fight spam [via] [via]
jimray : Google - Personalized Search Help (Beta) - My God, do these people sleep?
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28/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo to relaunch Yahoo Mail with Oddpost features - expect a very GUI look and feel to try to outshine Gmail [via] [via]
ricmac : Yahoo overhauls free Web e-mail service - More details...
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28/06/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : A basketball fan couldn't wait until next year, so he's documenting 2005-6 Bulls season with NBA Live 2005 - Looks like the Bulls lost their home opener.
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28/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Monkey menace - Barbary apes run wild in Gibraltar, an unusually funny NYT article
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28/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Lexi in Paris - A friend of mine blogs about her first time visiting France. It's really great stuff.
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28/06/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : " User-side tracking of multimedia application usage within a web page" - Un. Fucking. Believable. Plus, I'm pretty sure there's prior art on this.
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28/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : AMD files antitrust lawsuit against Intel - claims Intel coerced hardware industry to avoid AMD [via] [via]
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28/06/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Connect Draw Remix, interactive CD sleeves - plug the CD box into a USB port, remix tracks with a pencil [via] [via]
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28/06/2005 @ 18:25 GMT
Aquarion : All Your Base Rhapsody - For great justice.
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28/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
kayodeok : A screenshot tour of Knoppix 4.0 - A screenshot tour of Knoppix 4.0 (32 slides)
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28/06/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : With higher rents (and other factors), good cheap food is getting hard to find in Manhattan
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28/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
plasticbag : Stewart Butterfield's weird mischievous side emerges on Flickr - Funny chap. Short. Kind of ginger. You'd know him if you'd seen him around...
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28/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : "Dear hipsters, No matter how much you loved Napoleon Dynamite, Vote For Pedro shirts aren't cool anymore." - The Google Ads on this entry feature Vote for Pedro shirts. Hee.
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28/06/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : The anti-white racism of the NBA - "The NBA is not a league for black, white, red, blue, or green people. It is a league for winners."
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28/06/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
kellan : Cars that drive where you draw - Been a long time since I saw a toy car I wanted, but I love the idea of a written/annotated interface #
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28/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Slide show depicting a collection of New York City coffee cups
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28/06/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Andy Baio : iTunes 4.9 ships with built-in podcasting support - their Podcast Directory is very impressive
jkottke : iTunes 4.9 now supports podcasting - Boy, podcasting went from zero to corporate in no time flat. Will that pace stunt the growth of indie podcasting before it even has a chance to get started?
Rod Begbie : Apple - iTunes - Podcasting - Apple launch their Podcast directory, and it's really quite promising. Content from ABC/ESPN/Disney, a handful of stuff from Auntie and NPR, an "iTunes New Music" show and Al Franken. #
deusx : Apple - iTunes - Podcasting - "Welcome to the Golden Age of Podcasting" Pretty nice podcast UI so far...
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28/06/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : 180solutions is informing PC users that its ad-serving software is installed and is offering a link to uninstall information - In an apparent attempt to rid itself of the image of an aggressive adware pusher, 180solutions is alerting PC users whose PCs run its ad-serving software and is offering tips on removing it
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28/06/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : RSS: Safe At Any Feed? - "When Microsoft laid out its plans last week for building RSS -- Real Simple Syndication - into Longhorn, it didn't say anything about how it might secure the automated feeds"
deusx : TechWeb | Microsoft Windows Longhorn security | RSS: Safe At Any Feed? - "If it gets built, someone will try to make a hole in it," said Pescatore. "That's the world of security."
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28/06/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : InJoy Firewall: World class Software Firewall/VPN - This multi-purpose Firewall readies you for the future through Deep Packet Inspection, unique MULTI-PLATFORM support, and market-leading IPSec VPN support. Its unparalleled network monitoring turns you into an SECURITY PROFESSIONAL with unique real-time i
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28/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Yummy! Personal PDF Library - Social PDF Linking
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28/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Google Personalized Search: Get the search results most relevant to you - Personalized Search is an improvement to Google search that orders your search results based on what you've searched for before. Learning from your history of searches and search results you've clicked on, Personalized Search brings certain results closer
Philippe Janvier : Google Personalized Search - "The Search History feature of Personalized Search lets you view and manage your history of searches and search results you've clicked on...". Là, c'est sûr que ça se resserre ! [via] #
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28/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Google Relaunches Personal Search - This Time, It Really Is Personal - Google has released a new version of Google Personalized Search, this time in a format intended to constantly monitor what people select from search results and shape future queries based on their choices
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28/06/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Future winners of the New Yorker cartoon caption contest - "I love being wealthy in the Hamptons."
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28/06/2005 @ 14:15 GMT
joshua : Russian posters, Cuban and other propaganda posters
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28/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
deusx : The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race - "In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered."
jkottke : Jarad Diamond calls agriculture "the worst mistake in the history of the human race" - "With the advent of agriculture [the] elite became better off, but most people became worse off".
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28/06/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
jimray : The Jailbirds - These guys look like total rock stars -- Greg and Stacy and I hung out with these cats tonight, they're a fucking trip
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Andy Baio : Flash: Michael Jackson Famicom - essential Japanese weirdness
Nelson Minar : Michael Jackson NES - MJ owns all NES games (via Waxy)
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28/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Google Earth - A 3D interface to the planet - "Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips"
Andy Baio : Google Earth launches - the massive Keyhole upgrade with businesses, driving directions, and 3D buildings [via] [via]
Philippe Janvier : Google Earth - "Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips". Let's try this ! [via] #
Rod Begbie : Google Earth - This has elicited a few "Holy Crap"s from me and my cow-orkers. Google have released Keynote for free, now with driving directions and sightseeing. Fantastic. #
jimray : Google Earth - Some guys were playing with this at work - looks bitching
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28/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Google Earth Flies Free - Google has released its long-anticipated geographic search tool, a new application that combines local search with satellite images and maps from around the globe
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28/06/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Gmail blocking Greasemonkey users? - can anyone else confirm this?
kayodeok : Is gmail blocking greasemonkey users? - "Your account may be temporarily disabled if, among other things, you are: [...] using certain browser extensions that change the behavior of a website (Greasemonkey, a popular Firefox extension, often interferes with Gmail. We suggest disabling Greasemon
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28/06/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Silicon Valley the place to be - "despite all the issues (people, traffic, VC's) with Silicon Valley -- it is still the place to be if you're in the tech space (people, traffic, VC's). You really do run into opportunities on every corner."
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28/06/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Art of Science Competition / Gallery - Imagery produced in the course of scientific research at Princeton. Some gorgeous stuff here. [via] #
joshua : Art of Science Competition Gallery - gorgeous
Nelson Minar : Art of Science - Nice images (via BoingBoing)
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28/06/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : The Blissbat Review - A weblog about fiction about children, aimed at adults, by the insanely talented copywriting diva Erin Kissane
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28/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jimray : Lazy lovers, listen up! - My Indie Study on The Brazilian Girls
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28/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jimray : Hacking Apple's Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update - Gruber was a little dissatisfied with the default setup, so he he hacked it quite nicely
deusx : Daring Fireball: Hacking Apple's Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update - Sooner or later, I need to get into working with widgets.
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28/06/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Bad Review Revue: Burned At The Stake - "Critics are enchanted with Bewitched!"
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28/06/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
cobra libre : hatful! - a musical comedy featuring the songs of the smiths #
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28/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
ricmac : Udell: How do you design a remixable Web application? - "A website that wants to be remixable will deliver content as XML and behavior as script."
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28/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
ricmac : The Librie as a Games Machine - Dave re-makes Sony's eBook Reader into a games machine.
jkottke : Thoughts on turning the Sony Libre into a "Universal Game Board"
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28/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
plasticbag : London Underground accelerated time disruption map - Get past the post and click on the link to the Quicktime movie at the bottom of the page
Paul Hammond : Whitelabel.org » London Underground accelerated time disruption map - I wrote a script that grabs and saves the disruption map every 10 minutes
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28/06/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
plasticbag : Inside Knowledge interviews the BBC's Euan Semple - "A letter in our internal newspaper said that the people with time to waste writing blogs should be the first to go," he says...
philgyford : The knowledge: Euan Semple - Inside Knowledge - Interesting article about the philosophy of the BBC's head of knowledge management.
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28/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : A freaky Japanese blog map of the world as spotted on Flickr, features an older and more flattering photo of me than normal - And - as Mr Hammersley put it - Dan Gillmore's on top of RuPaul, which is not something that happens every day. Anyone know what all the verbiage means?
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28/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : His Mission: Simplify Podcasting - This is an old article that I've been meaning to post up for ages - but again, I decided in the end to just linklog it. Odeo = Good shit. Watch the skies.
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28/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : Who Will Google Buy Next? - "Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google's growing subsidiary menagerie?"
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28/06/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Supreme Court rules that file-sharing companies can be sued for what their users do with their service - Next up, gun companies being liable for murders committed with their products.
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