8/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : A guide to Beck and Scientology for journalists and fans, - He's still a great musician, even if he is wacky
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8/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : reddit - Looks like social bookmarking with ranking - the first project from Paul Graham's VC project
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8/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Amazon's new block level map tool is cool - Helpful for seeing what the store looks like before you get there. The UI on this app is pretty damn slick.
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8/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Drips graffiti - Cool "drips" graffiti seen in NYC.
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8/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Step-by-Step to Windows RAID using CoLinux - Windows XP Pro does not support RAID-5 through software without some system level hacks, and even then will not allow you to build an array on external USB-2 drives
deusx : A1E1 - Step-by-Step to Windows RAID using CoLinux - "And the best way I've found to do that is to use coLinux to host a Linux Software array and serve it up with Samba."
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8/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Where did all the crack go? - Freakonomists Levitt and Dubner: where did all the crack cocaine go? Well, it didn't. Go. But the crime did.
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Andy Baio : Waxy goes on Vacation - I'm taking the week off; in the meantime, try Populicious or my favorite sources for links
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8/08/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
Linkorama : How To Use Wikis For Business - A simple open-source app called the wiki may soon rule the knowledge management roost.
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8/08/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
kayodeok : Dell delving into SLI for high-end gaming box - Built atop the nForce4 chipset, the XPS 600 will sport two PCI-Express x16 slots which will play host to two NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX cards, each with 256MB of RAM
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8/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : NASA - Steve Robinson: First Podcaster From Space - One day before landing, STS-114 Mission Specialist Steve Robinson transmitted the first podcast from space
deusx : NASA - Steve Robinson: First Podcaster From Space - "One day before landing, STS-114 Mission Specialist Steve Robinson transmitted the first podcast from space. "
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8/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : MSN Filter: Find and Share the Web as it happens - MSN Filter is your one-stop shop for the inside scoop on what's happening across the Web, according to the people who know the most ... YOU!
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8/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : Windows Vista to end the need for reinstalling due to "WinRot?" - Microsoft is also implementing a control panel applet that will identify any performance problems with the system. The applet monitors your boot time and if it notices a slowdown it will log what applications have been added to startup. In other words, it
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8/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : Langa Letter: A Must-Have Repair And Recovery Tool - If you ever have to recover files from an unbootable drive or try to bring a dead PC back to life, here's a free, zero-footprint tool you shouldn't be without
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cameron : ComScore Blog report - ComScore clickstream blog statistics. #2 most popular blog type: "hipster" lifestyle blog. Someone please pick me up, I've fallen down laughing.
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8/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
plasticbag : An uncut interview with Joss Whedon from In Focus... - "An interview with Joss Whedon, the renowned script doctor and ‘Toy Story’ scribe who created ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ – and makes his feature directorial debut with the sci-fi actioner ‘Serenity’"
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8/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Dan Barber on David Bouley - Dan Barber on the embraced chaos of working in David Bouley's kitchen. Barber, who runs the excellent Blue Hill, contributed this essay to the new book, Don't Try This at Home (eGullet chatter).
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8/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : CNET buys Metacritic - Metacritic, my first stop when looking for movie reviews, has been purchased by CNET. Press release here. (Odd stat in press release: 170K uniques a month...seems low.)
Nelson Minar : c|net buys Metacritic - Good for Metacritic! (via kottke)
plasticbag : One of my absolute favourite websites - Metacritic - has been absorbed into the belly of a larger beast. Hopefully it will find safe haven with CNET. I love you Metacritic... - "After relying on a small group of volunteers as well as our own hard (and unpaid) labor over the past six years, we are extremely happy to announce that Metacritic.com will now be part of CNET's Games & Entertainment family of websites"
Andy Baio : CNET buys Metacritic - still catching up from last week's vacation
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8/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : What Business Can Learn from Open Source
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8/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : EyeOS : Taking your life everywhere - EyeOS is a free, cross-platform Personal Content Manager System based upon the style of a Desktop Operating System. The base package includes the whole Operating System structure and ten apps, as a Calendar, a File Manager, a Text Editor, an Internal Mess
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8/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
cameron : The Darwinian iPod - A nice piece on the evolutionary nature of design (e.g. Ipods do not pop out of designers' heads)
deusx : Design Observer: writings about design & culture: The Darwinian iPod - "It is not important to know how they work or where they come from; rather, it is enough to know they were created by a Designer, and that somehow they fit into some grand scheme."
jkottke : The evolution of intelligent design - In the real world, the process of design depends on evolution: "To consider the iPod, it did not spring fully formed from the mind of a powerful Designer, but rather it represents one distinct point on a long evolutionary timeline." Intelligent design is
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8/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
cameron : Darkon - OMG BEST MOVIE EVER. I hope the Star Trek reenactment group already reserved the football field.
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8/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
cameron : Joshua's Page - Joshua Quinn's videos. Absolutely awesome.
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8/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
cameron : Live action role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Sci-fi genre LARPs are a little less common but take place in futuristic settings with high technology and possibly aliens but usually without magic."
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8/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : Yahoo! Groups : blosxom Messages : Message 10869 of 10882 - "I'm currently considering ... handing over Blosxom ... to a group for it's future tender loving care."
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8/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
cameron : Wired News: Koreans Find Secret Cybersauce - I have been drinking the Cyworld kool-aid for a while now (and the Habbo Hotel kool-aid too)
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8/08/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Linkorama : An Anniversary to Forget - Joi Ito's NYTimes op-ed
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8/08/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
kellan : A Penguin in the Selva Lacandona #
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8/08/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
kellan : Blue Anarchy Sea Collective - How to be a pirate #
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8/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : Brag - Download Binaries From Newsgroups - Pretty flexible Usenet binary downloader in Tcl
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8/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Dateline tracks down a porn spammer - Dateline tracks down a porn spammer: kick ass
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jkottke : Zoolander 2? - Are Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson making a Zoolander 2? I loved the original, but I'm not so sure about this one.
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8/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jimray : Macromedia announces Studio 8 - I'm glad they got back on track with sensible versioning - instead of MX blah whatever blah
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8/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : The Red (not so) Delicious - The Red Delicious apple has fallen out of favor. It's been dumbed down too much for the market. For more on apples, see Michael Pollan's excellent The Botany of Desire.
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8/08/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
kayodeok : Wired News: Hearing Aids for the Unimpaired - HearWear - The Future of Hearing, a new exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, shows off trendy deaf-tech prototypes like gadgets that can filter out annoying noises and memory glasses that replay the last few seconds of conversation -- handy
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8/08/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
kayodeok : ShareWear Badges - SHAREWEAR is a badge for people who want to be heard clearly by people using hearing aids. When the technology is ready, the badges will enable short distance transmission of the wearer's voice directly to the aid, overriding surrounding noises and impr
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8/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Leica faces extinction - ...as digitals snap up business from the great camera maker. [via 2lmc spool]
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8/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : COMP.BASILISK FAQ - "We're all nostalgic about the old, colourful web, and about television, but today's risks are simply too great."
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8/08/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : What I'd say to the Martians (being a really funny New Yorker rant) - "People of Mars, you say we are brutes and savages. But let me tell you one thing: if I could get loose from this cage you have me in, would tear you guys a new Martian asshole"
deusx : The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs - WHAT I’D SAY TO THE MARTIANS - "by Jack Handey"
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8/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
plasticbag : Bacteria froze the Earth, researchers say - "Humans apparently aren't the first species to change the climate of the planet. Bacteria living 2.3 billion years ago could have plunged the planet into deep freeze, researchers at the California Institute of Technology claim in a new report."
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8/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
plasticbag : Ruby and Python Compared - I'm just getting myself started in programming, after years of concentrating on navigation design, client-side design and code - Ruby is looking like it might be the language for me...
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8/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
cameron : 5 Men in a Limo - All voiceovers were not created equal, LaFontaine reigns supreme
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8/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : Top 10 dot-com flops - "Few of these companies actually made enough money to recoup that cash, and when their investors fled to the hills, these start-ups died dramatic deaths. These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust."
jkottke : Top 10 dot-com flops - CNET rounds up their top 10 dot-com flops and in the process blames everyone but the technology media (*cough*) for the excess of the times. Webvan, Pets.com, and Kozmo top the list.
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8/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : Google Maps EZ - Some easy code and a walkthrough for using the Google Maps API on your own sites
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8/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : Remote-Controlled Humans - by delivering electric currents behind the ear, you can steer human beings... - "A demonstration video shows a young man walking down the street nearly run over by a passing motorcycle, steered to safety at the last minute by a guardian angel wielding a remote control. "
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8/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : "American researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus." - I used to teach myth at University and for the most part the academic approach to this is to say that the myth or idea of Atlantis is way more important than any real place - and to remind people that Plato used a lot of metaphors and fables and literary
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8/08/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Peter Jennings, urbane news anchor, dies at 67 - Rest in peace. #
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8/08/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
jimray : hugin - Cross platform panorama stitcher
joshua : hugin - Panorama Tools GUI
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8/08/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Many-to-Many: the biases of links - Analyses of Linking Patterns
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8/08/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
cameron : Split Screen - James has started a weblog devoted to split-screen cinema
Milo Vermeulen : splitscreen.us - dedicated to the art of the split screen and other types of multi-layered visuals [via]
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8/08/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Seven Screen Reader Usability Tips [Usability and Information Architecture] - Simply ensuring that your Website is accessible to screen reader users is, unfortunately, not enough to guarantee that these users can find what they're looking for in a reasonably quick and efficient manner
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jimray : Man Kills Another in Dispute Over War, Press and Police Call It a First - Clearly, the "hearts and minds" approach is breaking down...
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8/08/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
WillPate : What Business Can Learn from Open Source
Wayne Burkett : What Business Can Learn from Open Source - The startup cheering is tedious, but Graham's thoughts on modern office environments are dead on. #
Linkorama : What Business Can Learn from Open Source - The movement behind the server market and more
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8/08/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : FCC Reclassifies DSL, Drops Common Carrier Rules - The FCC is a bunch of industry whores. This fucking sucks.
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8/08/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : CollyLogic: Image fades for overflow: auto - a no-brainer for getting a bit more out of overflows
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