19/07/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Jython 2.2a1 release - New Jython is finally out! Well, an alpha.
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19/07/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : keep that screwdriver out of your penis! - keep that screwdriver out of your penis!: WTF?!?!
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19/07/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Chess960, a more random form of chess invented by Bobby Fischer, is growing in popularity - Sounds really interesting.
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19/07/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Cleaning a dSLR - ways to clean the sensor
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19/07/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : freenode irc channels - Where the cool geeks hang out
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19/07/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
kayodeok : Textism: Word HTML Cleaner - A tool that strips proprietary Microsoft tags and other cruft from Word HTML documents, leaving basic formatting intact
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19/07/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
kayodeok : Book Review: A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming by Mark G. Sobell - On my Wishlist
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19/07/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari - Pour les nostalgiques de la période ciné club. [via] #
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19/07/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : I generally don't feed the trolls, but this John Dvorak column on Creative Commons is laughably bad - It is summer...maybe the interns whipped this one up for him.
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19/07/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Isofarro : Automated Accessibility Testing - 'Software is stupid. It is as thick as two short planks. If you encourage it to be too sensitive, it will flag up so many false positives that your testing workload might actually be increased'
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19/07/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly - Mike Davidson provides a few lines of code that will transform your pages into lean, scriptless, imageless pages guaranteed to render faster and better on any mobile device.
kayodeok : Mike Davidson: Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes - Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes
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19/07/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Infinite Flickr - morphing recursive photos of people looking at Flickr screenshots
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19/07/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : Greaseblog: Please do not put private keys in user scripts (yet) - As a side-effect of the way that we are currently injecting user scripts, it's possible for malicious sites to sniff their contents
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19/07/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : Handling MIME Types in Internet Explorer - Some MIME handling steps have changed in Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) to enhance security.
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19/07/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Faster DHTML in 12 Steps - "This article describes how using some DHTML features can affect performance more than others, and it presents tips that will help your pages perform faster"
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19/07/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : About Window Restrictions - "The Window Restrictions security feature in Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) now restricts the opening and placement of windows by script to prevent malicious coders from misleading users"
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19/07/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Philip Stewart has constructed an alternate version of the periodic table of elements in the form of a "chemical galaxy" - "The intention is not to replace the familiar table, but to complement it and at the same time to stimulate the imagination and to evoke wonder at the order underlying the universe."
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19/07/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Don Watson and Clive Thompson on the assembly-lining of thought and discourse via modern jargon - "That's the true malaise of modern jargon: It forces people to treat any subject as if it were always a managerial problem of inputs and outputs."
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19/07/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : Wired News: Mind May Affect Machines - Researchers at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research program, or Pear, have been attempting to measure the effect of human consciousness on machines since 1979
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19/07/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : Hooking OOo to MySQL - Did you know that you can connect the OpenOffice.org office suite to a MySQL database? By combining the power of these two open source applications you can do things like generating personalized sales letters from the customer data stored on your servers.
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19/07/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : Visa cuts ties with CardSystems over breach - CardSystems Solutions Inc. "has not corrected, and cannot at this point correct, the failure to provide proper data security for Visa accounts,"
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19/07/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : How Google Maps helped someone evade a traffic ticket - with wifi kung-fu in court [via] [via]
jkottke : Another use for Google Maps: getting out of traffic tickets in the courtroom - Many traffic cases are decided in favor of the state because of a lack of information on the part of the defendant...you'd be surprised at how good a chance you have of fighting a ticket if you show up armed with good information.
gleuschk : How Google Maps Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket - googlemaps + free, open wifi = justice served
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19/07/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
joshua : Posters of the Spanish Civil War
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19/07/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
jimray : TurboTap - Pour Faster, Better Beer - Pours a pint of beer in 2 seconds!
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19/07/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Restart is a system utility for advanced users with more than one operating system installed on their machine - The program installs an icon in the notification area, and with a single click the computer will shutdown and restart with the selected operating system
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19/07/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Architecting CSS - A good organizational scheme for CSS is as important as a planned directory structure for a site
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19/07/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Greasemonkey vulnerability detection script - I've written a Greasemonkey vulnerability detection script and installed it on diveintogreasemonkey.org and diveintomark.org
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19/07/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Greasemonkey vulnerability detection script (Source Script) - "Just drop it into any page, no initialization required"
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19/07/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mandatory Greasemonkey Update - Mandatory Greasemonkey Update: upgrade now
kayodeok : Greaseblog: Mandatory Greasemonkey Update - Greasemonkey 0.3.5 is a "neutered" version of Greasemonkey, lacking any of the GM* APIs which make Greasemonkey scripts more powerful than regular HTML
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19/07/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : Stuff and Nonsense: Strategies for CSS Switching - An excerpt from chapter 8 of Professional CSS
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19/07/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : Waggr WebAggregator - A free, web-based news aggregator / rss reader - Waggr (WebAggregator) is the web's fastest and most easy-to-use web based news aggregator / rss reader
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19/07/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
gleuschk : Reed Reunion 2005 all-class picture - with a weird flashy interface, where you can also download the (7MB) full jpg
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19/07/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Antarctic base will be built on skis - The movable station "will prevent the possibility of the base drifting out into the ocean on the back of an iceberg that has 'calved' off the shelf".
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19/07/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Ever wonder what the world's best palindrome is? - "My girlfriend has a freaking weird name: Eman Driewgnikaerfasahdneirflrigym."
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19/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Stephen Colbert's bit with Al Sharpton is hilarious
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19/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Long hours playing Tetris prepares man for constructing brick walkway
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19/07/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
kayodeok : Rootkit Detection Coming to Windows AntiSpyware - Microsoft plans to integrate rootkit detection technology from its Strider Ghostbuster research project into future versions of the Windows AntiSpyware application
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19/07/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals' - "The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation." Any voters' remorse yet? Anyone else convinced they're crooks?
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19/07/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : It's Not Another Damn Framework - "WSGI is working from where CGI left off. It's the simplest thing that can work. It's not a framework."
Paul Hammond : It's Not Another Damn Framework - And that's exactly the kind of architectural principle that made me write Paste
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19/07/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : [Web-SIG] Standardized configuration - "If you mean what I think -- e.g., rendering XSL -- I think WSGI is ripe for this sort of thing." You think so? :)
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19/07/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : FOXNews.com - Politics - Tancredo: If They Nuke Us, Bomb Mecca - And so, we make an enemy of the entire Islamic culture for a few thousand years.
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19/07/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : DOMSlides - Yet another DOM/CSS based presentation slides system
kayodeok : DOMSlides - Yet another standards based presentation slide system - DOMSlides turns an HTML document into presentation slides via Unobtrusive JavaScript
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19/07/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : ServerSideWiki - RubyonRails + TiddlyWiki, Wiki are getting nicer and nicer, may be one day people will use them ;-)
gleuschk : ServerSideWiki - Powered by RubyonRails and TiddlyWiki - two great tastes... but what's with the tags on every tiddler?
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19/07/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
philgyford : Speed Reading, Reading Improvement and Assessment - AceReader Software by StepWare, Inc. - I read annoyingly slowly.
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19/07/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
philgyford : B3TA : Features : How to Poach an Egg - I tried the cling-film method last night - worked, although it's a little tricky to extract the egg intact.
Rod Begbie : B3ta: How to Poach an Egg - Vortex in boiling water with a little vinegar always worked for me as a student, but this clingfilm method may be worth a try. [via] #
deusx : B3TA : FEATURES : HOW TO POACH AN EGG - 'So I thought to myself, "surely there's a website that'll give me advice on the perfect poached egg?"'
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19/07/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
philgyford : One month of speed reading [Tesugen] - Weblog post. To read later. Quickly.
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19/07/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Free Excel Spreadsheets - Free Financial Management Spreadsheets
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19/07/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : The Most Beautiful Machine
cobra libre : the most beautiful machine [via] #
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19/07/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Isofarro : CNet: Standards activists target scripts - 'The WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force proposes to solve this problem by the adoption of unobtrusive DOM scripting, a way of thinking based on modern, standards-compliant, accessible Web development best practices.'
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19/07/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
joshua : Calendars and the Web: Looking Hopeful - roundup of calendaring stuff
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19/07/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : causes of suicide terrorism
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19/07/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : Why Frameworks Suck | devdev2040 - "...frameworks suck because they take the fun out of programming, long live the library." This is why I like WSGI. It's not a framework.
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19/07/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : mnot?s Web log: Don?t use the ?feed? URI Scheme - "So, why the new URI scheme? Complete cluelessness? A Pyrrhic plan to devalue the Web? What is it, Steve?"
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19/07/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 161 ways to enjoy toast
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19/07/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Reliance Fold-A-Carrier - 5 Gallon - Reliance Fold-A-Carrier - 5 Gallon: I may get me some of these to transport water ballast for the glider
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19/07/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
gleuschk : Don Herbert, Mr. Wizard, 2004 - still got a twinkle in his eye
deusx : max s. gerber: mr. wizard - "my time with mr. wizard was brief, but still. . ."
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19/07/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Searching for parking space at Yahoo - Searching for parking space at Yahoo: slow news day at CNet?
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19/07/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : The Semi-Permanent design conference takes place in NYC 9/9-9/10
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19/07/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : There's a HUGE security hole in Greasemonkey; Mark Pilgrim recommends uninstalling immediately
kayodeok : Greasemonkey for secure data over insecure networks / sites - "Uninstall Greasemonkey altogether. At this point, I don't trust having it on my computer at all. I would think that whoever is in charge of addons.mozilla.org should immediately remove the Greasemonkey XPI and post a large warning in its place advising p
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19/07/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : wolves and bears on the rise in Eastern Europe
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19/07/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Django Gotchas - Some notes from actual hands on usage. Momentum is building fast!
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19/07/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Linkorama : Wikipedia, Prices and Hayek - Hayek's big claim about the price system was that it aggregates widely dispersed information and tastes.
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19/07/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Linkorama : Trust for New Intermediaries - Implementation is truth, but policies extend trust
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19/07/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Linkorama : Wiki-reform: collaborative budget - Good idea, but not wiki, simply a blog filtering feedback
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19/07/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Shop the States - Maildrop service to get stuff shipped outside the US (via Ask Metafilter)
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19/07/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
kayodeok : Practical UML: A Hands-On Introduction for Developers - This tutorial provides a quick introduction to the Unified Modeling Language
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19/07/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
znarf : The Hegelian dialectic of syndication formats - "All over the blogospherihelion, notable beardies are proclaiming RSS 2.0 as the Thesis, RSS 1.0 the Antithesis, and Atom 1.0 as the Synthesis. And it does, you have to admit if you actually read the spec appear pretty much that way. Hussah." #
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19/07/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Terrible security hole found in Greasemonkey 0.4 - a malicious website could retrieve any local file and send it to any other server; uninstall or downgrade ASAP!
Rod Begbie : Massive security hole in Greasemonkey - If you have GM installed, disable it quick -- It allows any site to grab any file off your hard drive. #
jimray : Big Greasemonkey security hole - Abort! Abort! Downgrade recommended
Nelson Minar : GreaseMonkey hole - Whee! Greasemonkey lets anyone download files from your hard drive (via HotLinks)
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19/07/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Associated Press misrepresents BitTorrent in Opera article - Corante is blaming bias, but I think it's just deeper problems with public perception
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19/07/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
kayodeok : Windows flaw reaches beyond XP - A security flaw that could let an attacker remotely crash computers running Windows exists in several versions of the operating system, not just Windows XP
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19/07/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
kayodeok : Workarounds Released for XP SP2 Flaw - On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the Windows Firewall can help protect individual machines. By default, the Windows Firewall does not allow connections to this port
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19/07/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Hegelian dialectic of syndication formats - "Winerian RSS is best for some things; RDFish RSS is best for some things; Atom is best for some things."
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