20/07/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : Format Footnotes with Javascript & CSS - Based on John Gruber's exploration of footnotes
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20/07/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Slideshow of historic photography from the archives of ICP and the George Eastman Collection - Lots of photos from both collections are set to be available online in 2006 at photomuse.org.
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20/07/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Handy Backup - Handy Backup: Backup to CD-RW, FTP or LAN
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20/07/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : scary image - scary image: don't look at this image
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20/07/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Typing arbitrary Unicode characters on Windows - Typing arbitrary Unicode characters on Windows using Alt+Numpad
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20/07/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Source, not a target - Ho ho ho, that Rove sure is funny
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20/07/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : The Future of RSS is Not in Blogs - Blogs vaulted RSS into the limelight but are unlikely to be the force that sustains RSS as a communication medium. The biggest opportunities for RSS are not in the blogosphere but as a corporate communication channel
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20/07/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Will Swallow RSS - More FUD from pcmag
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kayodeok : How can I track a Window application's install process? - I prefer installwatch for this task
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20/07/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Lifehack: Managing your magazine subscriptions - Lifehack: Managing your magazine subscriptions: good advice
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20/07/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : If you don't have time to read the whole book, here's an outlined summary of Gladwell's The Tipping Point
Matthew M. Boedicker : an outline of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point
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20/07/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jimray : Seagate 300 GB hard drive for $99 after rebates - I'm in pretty dire need of more space, this should do for a while
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20/07/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jimray : Windows Longhorn 5203 Screenshots - 5203 is the build number, not the year they expect to release. Also, that's probably the most useless form of transparency I've ever seen.
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20/07/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
gleuschk : Dear Author... (GIF image) - ouch
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20/07/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
gleuschk : RTACA: Red Temática de Ãlgebra Conmutativa y Aplicaciones - roughly translated, "Thematic Web for Commutative Algebra and Applications". Interesting.
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20/07/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
Linkorama : Surviving Slashdot - If one views a wiki as a state machine, then being able to do a redirect is effectively changing the programming of the application.
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20/07/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : So You Want to Write a Book? - O'Reilly's tips on how to get published
deusx : So You Want to Write a Book? - "A Guide for New Authors"
jkottke : "So You Want to Write a Book?" - O'Reilly Media's guide for new authors.
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20/07/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Andy Baio : 300GB Seagate hard drives for $99 - from Circuit City after a $90 mail-in rebate [via] [via]
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20/07/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Anecdotal Leads for News Stories Reporting the End of the World - closed for good [via] [via]
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20/07/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : How to make a 13-pound gummi bear - disgusting, but strangely compelling [via] [via]
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20/07/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : New Yorker profile of Roald Dahl - excellent read
jkottke : Why children love Roald Dahl's stories -- and many adults don't - Danny, The Champion of the World is my favorite Dahl book and I've read most of the others as well.
Rod Begbie : The New Yorker: THE CANDY MAN - Excellent profile of Roald Dahl, one of my favourite authors of all time. JK Rowling owes him a lot. [via] #
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20/07/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : New Bloglines statistics - 1,121,655 feeds have at least one subscriber [via] [via]
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20/07/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, passed away today aged 85
kayodeok : James Doohan, 'Star Trek's' Scotty, dead - ames Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the apocryphal command "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday. He was 85
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20/07/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : Sam Ruby: Atom 0.3 Denouement - "Possibly as early as October, and certainly no later than the end of the year, these warnings will be converted over to errors." There goes my book :)
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20/07/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Entertainment - 'Firefly' glows in the deep, deep black - "And remember, every time you support a canceled Fox show, somewhere a network executive loses his wings."
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20/07/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Simon Willison: Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability - illustrates a number of interesting concepts in both web application security and JavaScript
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20/07/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : 300GB Seagate hard drives for $99 - from Circuit City after a $90 mail-in rebate [via] [via]
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20/07/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : The sexing up of the female on-camera meteorologists at the Weather Channel - From a SVP at TWC: "When you compare The Weather Channel women on camera to the weather women on camera around the country, we got the best. I mean, thatÂ’s what we set out to do. And damn it, we've done a good job."
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20/07/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Top games in Korea - Survey of PC-bangs. So different from popular US games!
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20/07/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Help The CSS Working Group With Backgrounds and Borders - Kevin Lawver, member of the the W3C CSS working group, is asking for public input and feedback on the working draft for the Backgrounds and Borders module in CSS3. The W3C usually restricts feedback to official mailing lists, so I welcome any cases where
Eric Meyer : Help The CSS Working Group With Backgrounds and Borders - Want to make borders more complex, add multiple backgrounds to an element? Here's your chance to weigh in.
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20/07/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Tour de France Cuisine - What a great way to tour the culinary country! (via Marc)
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20/07/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
cobra libre : ulysses speaks! - the nation of ulysses must prevail [via] #
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20/07/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : Exocortex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "An exocortex (speculative) is an external information processing system that augments, in a subtle and seamless fashion via a brain-computer interface, the brain's biological high-level cognitive processes."
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20/07/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
gleuschk : Defunker: Tshirts that make you happy. - if I wore T shirts with things on them, I would wear these
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20/07/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Memory Lane: looking at code I wrote almost 20 years ago - Memory Lane: looking at code I wrote almost 20 years ago: old code is amusing
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20/07/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : CDMA Phone as Mac OS X Modem - CDMA Phone as Mac OS X Modem: maybe I should try this again?
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20/07/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Jerry Rice and Sean Landeta are the only NFL players featured in Tecmo Bowl that are still active - And there are only 14 active players left in Tecmo Super Bowl.
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20/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0 - UFO allows you to specify a placeholder DIV for a Flash object with a message meant for noflash browsers. The script then silently checks if the user has the proper Flash version, and if so replaces the placeholder by the Flash movie
deusx : bobbyvandersluis.com | Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0 - "UFO is a DOM script that detects and embeds Flash objects."
François Nonnenmacher : Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0 - The latest method for integrating Flash in a web standards way
wearehugh : bobbyvandersluis.com | Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v3.0
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20/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
kayodeok : gOFFICE.com - Browser-based Word Processor and Office Suite - This website is a browser-based online word processor and desktop publishing program. You may already use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Publisher. This is an online alternative
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20/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Can a spam filter play chess? - insane hack with the dbacl Bayesian text classifier
kayodeok : Can a Bayesian spam filter play chess?
jkottke : Directions for setting up a Bayesian spam filter to play chess
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20/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : As We May Think by Vannevar Bush - This influential essay that introduces Bush's Memex concept was published 60 years ago this month.
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20/07/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Fizzy red wines and sakes are all the rage this year
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20/07/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Bank to require more than passwords - With SiteKey, bank customers pick three challenge questions - things only the customer would know, such as the year and model of the customer's first car -- and provide them with the traditional password to log on
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20/07/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Access Matters: Index Published - Enjoy the new Master Cross Reference of Articles, Quizzes, Test Cases and Recordings
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20/07/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Gruber?s footnotes - From the horse’s mouth. Was he prompted by my post?.
Paul Hammond : Daring Fireball: About the Footnotes - this design has the added benefit of requiring no CSS or JavaScript whatsoever, just relative anchors
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20/07/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : The folks at Danny Meyer's Shake Shack go above and beyond the call of duty - When a birthday party shows up after an erroneously posted closing time, the manager has food sent over for them from the kitchen at Eleven Madison Park. Amazing service.
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20/07/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Another take on why movie theater revenues are declining - The ads suck, the movies suck, ringing cell phones suck, and you can watch your Netflix at home on your widescreen TV. Again, no mention of piracy.
kayodeok : The Big Picture: Why are Movie Theatre Revenues Declining? - So what else might be the source of declining theatrical fortunes? Well, how about the movie theater-going experience itself? The adventure of heading to a cineplex is becoming a less and less pleasant form of entertainment
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20/07/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : The BBC is running a series this week on "digital citizens": "people whose creativity has been transformed in the digital age" - The blogging feature is on Dooce; there's also one about podcasting and digital filmmaking.
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20/07/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : A slideshow of photos from some photoblogs as part of the BBC's Digital Citizens series
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20/07/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Chmox - a Mac OS X CHM viewer - "Read your CHM documents on your Mac." Windows help files.
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20/07/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : SinQ.org mp3/ogg downloads - SinQ.org Releases - with mp3/ogg downloads [via] [via]
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20/07/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Dynamic thumbnails and preview images with DOM, CSS and PHP - "This article explains how you can enhance a link with a class named ?preview? pointing to an image via DOM JavaScript. The enhanced link has a small clickable icon that will show a preview of the linked image. If you have PHP with the GD library enab
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20/07/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Ajax resources - A few scripts and apps. Nice weblog – especially the header..
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20/07/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : The JavaScript Manifesto - From the DOM scripting task force. This is important..
kayodeok : The JavaScript Manifesto - The WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force proposes to make unobtrusive DOM scripting the cornerstone of all JavaScript programming. We realise that there is a lot of work to be done, that some problems, notably the accessibility of large applications, will not be
Paul Hammond : DOM Scripting Task Force » Manifesto - WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force proposes to make unobtrusive DOM scripting the cornerstone of all JavaScript programming
deusx : DOM Scripting Task Force » Manifesto - "Only the adoption of unobtrusive DOM scripting will allow JavaScript, and thus web development in general, to attain its full potential."
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20/07/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Firefox Quicksearches + Delicious = Godlike Powers (Repost) - How to search delicious and delicous/tags by giving it a quicksearch keyword
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20/07/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Mozilla: IE 7 to boost Firefox growth - Asa Dotzler, the community coordinator at the Mozilla Foundation, said Tuesday that he hopes to attract many corporate Windows 2000 users to the Firefox browser, since they will be unable to take advantage of the improvements in IE 7
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20/07/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : WindowsDevCenter.com: Watching Ports with Port Reporter - You can use Port Reporter to monitor port usage for security reasons and for troubleshooting network connectivity problems
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20/07/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Availability and description of the Port Reporter tool - This article contains information about how to obtain, install, and configure the Port Reporter tool. The Port Reporter tool is a tool that you can use to log TCP/IP port data on computers that are running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows
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20/07/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : How a Seattle Times reporter handled a bestiality death story - Washington man died while having sex with a horse [via] [via]
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20/07/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Groups Alerts - keeping tabs on Usenet, now much easier
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20/07/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Design the winning UI for Internet TV, get $1000 - help the next-gen video player powered by BitTorrent
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20/07/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Isofarro : Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability - Simon Willison explains the parts that combine to create this security hole. GreaseMonkey are taking action.
Richard Rutter : Simon Willison: Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability - It’s not all OMG-Firefox-flaw. Just upgrade dammit..
Philippe Janvier : Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability - "...until then, 0.3.5 is the only safe version of Greasemonkey". [via] #
Paul Hammond : Simon Willison: Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability - illustrates a number of interesting concepts in both web application security and JavaScript
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20/07/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Moon - try zooming all the way in
jkottke : Google Moon: explore the Apollo landing sites in the Google Maps interface
joshua : Google Moon - mmm, cheese
kayodeok : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - "In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we?ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor"
gleuschk : Google Moon - zoom all the way in
Rod Begbie : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - Lovely little Googletreat to celebrate the anniversary of the moon landings. Make sure and try zooming in to the maximum resolution to see what the moon is made of. #
jimray : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - Just a small slice of the moon, commemorating the original moon landing 36 years ago. Still cool, though.
erikbenson : Google Moon - Zoom in all the way to see the moon at a level of detail never experienced before.
Simon Willison : Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites - Be sure to zoom all the way in for a Wallace and Gromit like revelation. (via) [via]
Philippe Janvier : Google Moon - Un petit pas pour l'homme... [via] #
Linkorama : Google Moon - Honestly, if you are going to visit a fairly large moon, why would you keep going to the same place? What is this, Lunar Vegas?
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20/07/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
joshua : monotone: distributed version control
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20/07/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Linkorama : LinkedIn Premium - Reinventing LinkedIn with InMail, a premium service
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20/07/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : minibufexpl.vim - Elegant buffer explorer - takes very little screen space : vim online - "Several modern GUI editors list your open buffers as tabs along the top or bottom of your screen (VisualStudio, DreamWeaver, EditPlus and UltraEdit come to mind), now we have this feature in VIM!"
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20/07/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
gleuschk : Single In Syracuse - better than bad tv (kidding)
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20/07/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : CDDL Put Simply - The idea of the CDDL is to seed a patent portfolio for the code-base involved, and then ensure that as contributions are made over time each contributor also supplies the community with the patent rights necessary to defend their work.
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20/07/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : Knowledge as the Next Big Thing in Software? - With this in mind, he concludes that the "next big thing" will, in fact, be software companies that combine software, content and services and take responsibility for outcomes.
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jkottke : The importance of narrative in science - "Science and stories are not only compatible, they're inseparable, as shown by Einstein's classic 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect".
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20/07/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
cobra libre : on criticism - i'm not much interested in the theory discussion surrounding this, but this does give a good crash course on the origins of english as a discipline [via] #
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20/07/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Digg Spy - by the powers of Ajax!
Nelson Minar : Digg Spy - realtime view of what people are linking to on Digg
ricmac : digg spy - about 1 post whizzes past per second - wow! (via waxy)
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20/07/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : 75 creative workers were asked to choose a color for each day of the week and this 7-pack of tshirts is the result
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20/07/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Lussumo Vanilla - The new forum on the block
jimray : Lussumo Vanilla - The sweetest forum on the web - Nice looking forum that seems to break the mold a bit
Rod Begbie : Lussumo Vanilla - The sweetest forum on the web - Interesting looking new web-forum software. [via] #
joshua : Lussumo Vanilla - The sweetest forum on the web
jkottke : Vanilla is a smooth-looking piece of forum software
Andy Baio : Lussumo Vanilla - gorgeously designed forum software, open-source PHP/MySQL [via]
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20/07/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Google has lost the GMail trademark - Or so it seems
kayodeok : Has Google lost the TM battle for GMAIL? - Has anyone noticed yet that it seems Google has lost on their trademark application for the mark "GMAIL"....
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20/07/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
bmilleare : Upload progress demo (for rails)
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20/07/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : John Dvorak rants on Creative Commons - here's one debunking of Dvorak's moronic column
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