14/07/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
jimray : Russell Executive Mesh Chair - Could this be the Aeron knock-off I've been waiting for?
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14/07/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
jimray : Engrish photos on Flickr - Oh, Engrish
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14/07/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Chicago Tribune news : Broadband - The Tribby's got a multimedia front!
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14/07/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Zenome: a search engine indexed by humans - Like Open Directory, but they "pay editors to review and approve links". It won't be able to scale like Google of course, but it's interesting that human indexing is still seen as a viable business model.
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14/07/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Is Blog Plagiarism Growing? - Bob Wyman explains how this works in a comment - e.g. he says "I've discovered clusters of hundreds of "fake" blogs that all contain pointers to some other site that is trying to have its PageRank increased."
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14/07/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Is Wikipedia ripe for PR? - Yes, as is every other form of media. But I like this quote: "Unlike other media, no one gets the last word on the Wikipedia."
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14/07/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : TA Spring - Emulator / refresh for Total Annhilation
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14/07/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh - Writing without sounding like a writer
kayodeok : Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh - Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find 'em, root 'em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush
Jeremy Zawodny : Writerisms and other Sins - Writerisms and other Sins: some helpful hints for writers
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14/07/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
ricmac : What is RSS and Why Should I Care? - Excellent introduction to RSS powerpoint by Huntsville Madison County Public Library
kayodeok : What is RSS and Why Should I Care?
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14/07/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : Movable Type 3.2 is coming - Lots of good stuff there - I've got to start blogging again...
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14/07/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Study: Socialized Canadian surgery half the U.S. cost with same results - Wikinews - "Americans pay twice as much for heart-bypass surgery as the socialized Canadian system, with no difference in outcome, according to today's issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine in a study funded by American drug company, Pfizer Inc.. "
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14/07/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flash: le Pate a Son - ethereal interactive music maker [via] [via]
joshua : la Pate a Son - a gorgeous music creation machine
Nelson Minar : la Pate a Son - Awesome music machine (via Waxy, via BoingBoing)
cobra libre : la pâte à son - wonderful music-making gizmo [via] #
plasticbag : la Pate a Son - Flash music generation game or interface - It has its own fiddly rule set and you learn by playing which is interesting. Weirdly fascinating...
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14/07/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Coke is using 500,000 liters of water/day in India despite water shortages - Coke is threatening to sue a photographer who put up a billboard critical of that water usage.
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14/07/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
Eric Meyer : TEDGLOBAL vs. well, everything else - Should a conference's schedule be involate law or more of a rough guideline?
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14/07/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web - Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs. That was reality just a decade ago. The company that changed it - bringing us into the Internet age - was a brilliant flash in the pan called Ne
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14/07/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Linkorama : Rebuilding Media - New Corante blog on the economics of content
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14/07/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Linkorama : More Cuban on Podcasting - Ah, if only the network was static, he would be absolutely right
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14/07/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Linkorama : Social tagging in the enterprise - It's therefore a little strange that no one has written a simple utility to give you similar category construction capabilities on your typical Unix-like file system.
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14/07/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
gleuschk : Emacs & Latex Tips - wow, C-c C-e and C-c C-o are freakin awesome
Matthew M. Boedicker : emacs and latex tips
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14/07/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Forbes' 10th anniversary profile of Netscape - also: MP3 turns 10 years old today [via] [via]
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14/07/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MovableType 3.2 beta released - tons of good stuff in this release
Rod Begbie : Movable Type 3.2 Beta - New beta version of MT. So far, everything seems good, except MT-Approval is broken. #
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14/07/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Long article from Fortune on the 10th anniversary of Netscape's IPO - Features interviews with several of the key players.
Jeremy Zawodny : Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web - Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web: I love reading this stuff
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14/07/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : The CollegeHumor guys get a movie deal with Paramount - Casting ideas? Freddie Prinze Jr. as Zach Klein, Jake Gyllenhaal as Ricky Van Veen?
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14/07/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Summer reading list from Edge - I think I would have rather seen a list of recommendations from Edge members rather than their books. Gee, Dawkins writing on evolution? Didn't see that coming...
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14/07/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : PBS will be offering an online-only show called NerdTV starting this fall - The series will feature "PBS technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely's interviews with personalities from the ever-changing world of technology".
Andy Baio : Robert Cringely's NerdTV - weekly one-hour geek interviews licensed under CC
Rod Begbie : I, Cringely . NerdTV - The first episode of NerdTV -- the online-only PBS-funded geek interview show hosted by a Bob Cringely -- is now online. There are some really interesting guests lined up, so this definitely has potential. [via] #
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14/07/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
deusx : Sinfest: sf20050714.gif (GIF Image, 652x276 pixels) - DO NOT TOUCH MY HORNS OF DOOM!
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14/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Charley Rosen's picks for all-time best NBA shooting guards - Not surprisingly, Jordan tops the list.
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14/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Good review (with photos) of Thomas Keller's Per Se
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14/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Television documentaries are slow, repetetive, and information-poor - The Brian Greene series on string theory had the same problem.
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14/07/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Art. Lebedev - Optimus keyboard
gleuschk : awesome lcd keyboard - holy cow, now, *that's* the future
Andy Baio : Optimus keyboard - jaw-dropping keyboard concept with each key as an LCD display [via] [via]
Rod Begbie : Optimus keyboard - Extremely kewl concept -- A keyboard with leds, so the key displays change depending on context. [via] #
tehu : Optimus keyboard : LCD on your keys - Oh I want one ! Patents pending ? Gosh !
Matthew M. Boedicker : keyboard where each key is a mini LCD
jkottke : Whoa, each key on this keyboard is a little computer screen - I'd love to use the typeface of my choosing for my keyboard.
znarf : Art. Lebedev - Optimus keyboard - I want it ! [via] #
plasticbag : The Optimus keyboard has a tiny screen under each key, so that you can remap it easily to any combination - Mr Webb informs me that each button costs tens of dollars at the moment, and as such it doesn't look likely to go on the market any time soon - but it rocks and I want one...
Eric Meyer : Optimus keyboard - Oh, that's just far too awesome. It would certainly make learning Dvorak (or playing games) a LOT easier. [via Dan] [via]
Simon Willison : Optimus keyboard - Every key is a colour screen.
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14/07/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : Glowing temperature-sensitive sink-fixtures - Loving this - visual feedback on how hot the water is from the tap. How useful would that be!
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14/07/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kayodeok : I-Hacked.com Taking Advantage Of Technology - DIrtY MIRT (Do It Yourself Mobile Infra Red Transmitter) - "It is nothing "secret" or extraordinary. A MIRT is a device that uses Infra Red technology to trigger Pre-Emptive sensor on a traffic light and causes the light to change to green"
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14/07/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Sharp to Mass Produce an LCD with Switchable Viewing Angle - Oh this is so '24' it's awesome. Also I love that they're turning one of the traditional problems with LCD screens (narrow viewing angles) into a feature. That's so neat!
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14/07/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Television took 30 years to reach a mass audience - broadband has taken three - "Ofcom predicted that virtually all British homes - 99.6% - would have access to a broadband connection by the end of this year. By 2010, it suggested that more people could be watching television over the internet than via analogue sets."
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14/07/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : European ministers promise data retention agreement - Grandes oreilles
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14/07/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Claria Unveils Behavioural Search Platform -- RelevancyRank Technology Paves the Way for Evolution of Online Search -- - Claria, a pioneer and leader in the behavioral marketing space, today announced the alpha release of Claria's Vista Marketing Services search platform
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14/07/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : linux not ready for the desktop (comments) - More comments on why linux is not ready for the desktop
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14/07/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
kayodeok : Secure RSS Syndication - "In this article I present a Greasemonkey script to make FireFox decrypt a Blowfish-encrypted feed shown in Bloglines on the fly. And the encrypted data, it's held in a microformat."
Andy Baio : Secure RSS syndication with Greasemonkey and Bloglines - very neat hack for encrypting your feeds [via] [via]
Philippe Janvier : Secure RSS Syndication - "...a method for encrypting RSS feeds with Blowfish, and for decrypting them on the fly using Greasemonkey...". [via] #
nelson : Secure RSS syndication - Encryption + greasemonkey + RSS, wonder if anyone really uses it?
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14/07/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 20 things that only happen in the movies
jkottke : 40 things that only happen in the movies - "All beds have special L-shaped sheets that reach to armpit level on a woman but only up to the waist of the man lying beside her."
kayodeok : 40 Things That Only Happen In Movies - "When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a note. Just grab one out at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare"
Aquarion : 20 Things That Only Happen In Movies - Including the famous L-Shaped sheets
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14/07/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
gleuschk : Syracuse Property Search - sinceall the realtors in town seem to be incompetent and/or crooks, why, let's dive right in! Luckily, the water's cheap.
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14/07/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Keith Richards will play in Pirates of the Carribean sequel
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14/07/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : why you can't tickle yourself
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14/07/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : The Fountain (2005) - Aronofsky's current project
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14/07/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : Web Development Bookmarklets - "These bookmarklets let you see how a web page is coded without digging through the source, debug problems in web pages quickly, and experiment with CSS or JS without editing the actual page."
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14/07/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Linkorama : Wikipedia Defeats Google - (Sometimes)
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14/07/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : WaSP : Education Task Force : Interviews : Vito Evola - "The first lessons deal with the 'need' for XHTML and CSS, moving towards a more advanced knowledge of CSS1 and CSS2, keeping in mind that standards means nothing less than 'speaking correctly' with our target."
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14/07/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jimray : Santorum blames Catholic church scandal on liberal Boston - Because, you know, the Catholic church is such a hotbed of liberalism. I seriously can not wait for Santorum to get creamed in 2006 so he can go back to being just another nutcase evangelical spouting off his non-sensical bullshit
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14/07/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : JD Lasica asks movie studios for permissions to use movie clips for personal, non-commercial home video projects - out of seven requests, only one agreed, kinda [via] [via]
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14/07/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Justin Frankel releases Ninjam - real-time music jamming over the Internet [via] [via]
Rod Begbie : NINJAM - Novel Intervallic Network Jamming Architecture for Music - Justin Frankel's new toy, enabling "Faketime" jamming across the inertnet. [via] #
Nelson Minar : Ninjam - Justin Frankel's latest code: make music online with friends
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14/07/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
gleuschk : "He Will Crush You Like an Academic Ninja!": Exploring Teacher Ratings on Ratemyprofessors.com - "...students were primarily concerned with issues such as instructor competence..."
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