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joshua : webkit2png - osx thumbnail maker
jimray : webkit2png - Handy!
Jeremy Zawodny : webkit2png - webkit2png: webkit2png is a command line tool that creates png screenshots of webpages.
factoryjoe : webkit2png - webkit2png is a command line tool that creates png screenshots of webpages. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: paul hammond, webkit, png, screenshot, screencapture
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11/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
joshua : The Bacon Show - bacon recipe blog
cobra libre : the bacon show - no man with a good bacon blog needs to be justified [via] #
jimray : The Bacon Show - Mmmmmm...bacon
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11/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
kayodeok : Windows Vista Beta 1: A Guided Tour - Scot Finnie takes a long, detailed, and expert look at the features, foibles, and functionality of Microsoft's upcoming OS
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11/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Danny Way and his MegaRamp - Slate ruminates on Danny Way's giant skateboard ramp. Videos of people actually using this beautiful monstrosity are available on Way's site. Oh, and he jumped The Great Wall of China on a skateboard earlier this year.
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11/08/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
kayodeok : The Devil's Infosec Dictionary - 24/7: adj. The window of time in which systems are most vulnerable to attack
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11/08/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
deusx : Jon Udell: I want my MP3 - "If I can run a bunch of WMV and RealVideo files through an automated process to produce MP3s, so can the folks who created those files in the first place. And I sure wish they would."
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11/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Ripples: post-corporate adventures: Life-changing moments... - "When the door to a new business opportunity opens, some fortunate people seem to step through it easily and pick up a new life on the other side."
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11/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : New Scientist Breaking News - Mosquitoes are drawn to people with malaria - "Mosquitoes are more attracted to people already infected with malaria. And this appears to be because the malarial parasite orchestrates its own onward transmission from within the human body, a new study suggests."
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11/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Life Among The Mammals: Doing Business in The Jungle - "Be the middle gazelle."
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11/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : SpiritedAway - SpiritedAway Official Homepage - "Spirited Away checks each running application's activity, and if an application isn't active for a certain fixed time, Spirited Away hides the application automatically."
joshua : SpiritedAway - hides applications that haven't been used in a while
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11/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : morons.org - Intelligent design -- theories, laws, and so forth - "Either way, you need a hypothesis, and you need to test it -- but you know right then whether the end result, if it's proven, would be a theory or a law."
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11/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Attack of the MegaRamp - The nine-story behemoth that scares the bejeezus out of the world's best skateboarders. By Bret Anthony Johnston - "In 20 years of skateboarding, I've never had to ride an elevator to the top of a ramp."
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11/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Lux :: Free Download of the online Risk board game clone Lux - "Lux is an awesome 'Risk' style game of world domination."
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11/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : The grim meathook future - Joshua Ellis on the "Grim Meathook Future" of much of the world: "nobody really wants to talk about that future, because it's depressing and not fun and doesn't have Fischerspooner doing the soundtrack". (via bbj) [via]
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11/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : How does my Company use blogs to sell a product that neither we or our customers particularly care about?
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11/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Toaster PC runs BSD and makes toast - The board on the left is the computer that is INSIDE this toaster. It's running BSD, and the guys at the show are happy to be playing with both the OS and tinkering with some toaster hardware
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11/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Adam Stiles: Backing Up Delicious With Cron and Subversion - ""
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11/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Ligers! - Thanks to Napoleon Dynamite, ligers have a new-found popularity.
Matthew M. Boedicker : Napoleon Dynamite generates interest in ligers
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11/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : Show Me The Colors - If you lack the color scheme gene and can't open Photoshop and pick a handful of beautiful colors off the fly, here are some schemes and coordinators from around the web to get things rolling
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11/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : US Copyright Office contemplates going IE only for new site - The US Copyright Office is currently looking for feedback on plans to restrict a new website to users of Internet Explorer
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11/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : Federal Register: Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims - Today's notice seeks information as to whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregis
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11/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : PenguinTV : podcasts and video blogs for Linux - "Until now, the only solutions for listening to podcasts on Linux have been clunky apps and unreliable bash scripts."
wearehugh : PenguinTV : podcasts and video blogs for Linux
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11/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
erikbenson : Bum-vertising! - The homeless are an untapped labor force that can be used to advertise your blog.
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11/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : The blandness of vanilla - How vanilla came to be associated with blandness in America. My favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla and I always get shit for it. But have you ever tasted ice cream with real vanilla in it? Yum.
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11/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Debunking ShopAtHomeSelect - ShopAtHomeSelect is widely known to become installed without meaningful consent -- or, in many cases, without any consent at all. Most egregious are installations through security exploits, without any notice or consent
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11/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Command Line Manipulation of Windows XP SP2 Firewall - We needed to ensure that they would be operable while working in the field and yet also be protected from hackers while they were posing at WiFi hotspots. A simple script was written that basically asks "Choose your connection scenario."
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11/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
deusx : eBay: "CAFFEINE!"_500 cups coffee_pure powder_energy drink (item 5602560475 end time Aug-12-05 20:00:00 PDT) - "Caffeine - 100% Pure White Crystalline Powder Caffeine. This Caffeine is a cut above the rest being of absolute pure quality."
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11/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : the-inbetween.com [ Mild Coffee ] - "I worry about your country when all Democrats can find to get holy about is a bit of inaccesible dry humping in a video game."
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11/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : FireANT | Not TV - "FireANT is an RSS video aggregator and media player that can automatically download media content for you to watch and listen to."
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deusx : DOOM, the RogueLike - "DoomRL is even more similar to Doom now, for it SOUNDS the same :-D"
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deusx : Broadcast Machine: Publish RSS / Torrent Video Channels - "Broadcast Machine is software you install on your website to easily publish video files."
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11/08/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
deusx : Boxes and Arrows: Card sorting: a definitive guide - "Card sorting is a great, reliable, inexpensive method for finding patterns in how users would expect to find content or functionality."
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11/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : ThinkGeek :: FrogPad - "It is a one-handed keyboard which enables its user to hold documents, tools or other items while entering information on a PDA, Pocket PC, smart phone, laptop or other mobile device."
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deusx : michael-mccracken.net - "So now I'm using OS X the way Jeebus intended: with a single full-screen emacs frame running ECB with a shell buffer along the bottom."
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11/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Will read blogs for money - NYC Craigslist computer services offered: "Will read and comment (semi-intelligently) on your blog for $2". There's a five comment minimum with future comments for free (!!) if your site is entertaining enough. (via lia (rhymes!)) [via]
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11/08/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
deusx : Sam Ruby: Agile Web 2.0 Development - "...this composite application is a distributed state machine. Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and all that."
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11/08/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
deusx : evhead: But it's not NEW! - Thanks for the link! "Without fail, whenever there's a new buzzword/concept/idea getting a lot of attention, there's a chorus of offended geeks who have seen it all before."
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11/08/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : PluggedOut - Professional Linux Programming by the Jugears Brothers - "...this range of books from Wrox press has the funniest looking people on the cover sometimes. I thought it would be fun to make one up."
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11/08/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : AboutTb - "Tb2PML is a set of templates to export a Tinderbox note and its descendants into a Palm Markup Language document, which can then be dropped onto DropBook (or some other PML converter) to create a Palm Doc (.pdb). "
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deusx : IAwiki: CardSorting - "In brief: gather a bunch of terms for things, write onto a card each, ask some users to sort these into "like" piles, ask them to name the piles. Discover what categories exist for your information, and what goes into each category."
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11/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : 100 people who are screwing up America - An annotated synopsis of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, a book by Bernard Goldberg. Latrell Sprewell is #30?
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11/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Star Trek business cards - Odd set of Star Trek business cards. (via torrez) [via]
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11/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Male contraceptive pill - How will the impending male contraceptive pill change our understanding of gender roles? Related: Gladwell on John Rock, one of the inventors of the female birth-control pill.
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plasticbag : An interesting - if slightly predictable - article about how Microsoft will die from an Apple website - Bit old, sorry about that. Been a bit busy. You wanna make something of it?
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11/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : New theory: unintelligent design - David Galbraith has "a new theory - Unintelligent Design, which is the same as Intelligent Design, except that the creator is either a moron or Satan". Hee.
deusx : David Galbraith - "I have a new theory - Unintelligent Design, which is the same as Intelligent Design, except that the creator is either a moron or Satan."
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11/08/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: Espresso crema shots - "Crema is the wonderful tan colored foam that appears on the top of a well-shot espresso."
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11/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Flickr teaser - Contact sheets and group pool books…? Nice.
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11/08/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Wired News: Moon Could Be Next Tourist Trap - The company that pioneered commercial space travel by sending "tourists" up to the International Space Station is planning a new mission: rocketing people around the far side of the moon
deusx : Wired News: Moon Could Be Next Tourist Trap - "The first mission by Space Adventures could happen in 2008 or 2009 and is planned as a stepping stone to an eventual lunar landing by private citizens."
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11/08/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : paintings by Brandon Bird
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Matthew M. Boedicker : combinations of jellybeans that taste like different wines
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Matthew M. Boedicker : "Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for." and other Earl Warren quotes
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11/08/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry) - "After poking at enough sites, I started noticing that people were putting some weird and interesting stuff in their HTTP headers."
Matthew M. Boedicker : fun with http headers
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11/08/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
joshua : open source flash projects
deusx : open_source_flash_projects [OSFlash] - "This aims to be a comprehensive list of links to Open Source Flash projects, both those hosted on OSFlash and elsewhere."
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11/08/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : praying mantis kills and eats hummingbird
deusx : Praying Mantis Eats Hummingbird (Bird Watcher's Digest) - "I have read that hummingbirds had no natural enemies–so much for that theory!"
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11/08/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Sinclair Lewis writing anecdote
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11/08/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
deusx : Looking for Contributors [@lesscode.org] - "As a follow up to my previous post on what I hope lesscode.org might become, I’d like to solicit the names of individuals you feel might be conned into posting here."
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11/08/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Linkorama : Odeo Gets Funding - Podcasting bubble, for a day at least
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Linkorama : Youth and Wealth - comScore Media Metrix just released the first major marketing study of the blogging audience — a study in the format and from a source advertisers will pay attention to.
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erikbenson : Hype-a-licious article about web 2.0, but definitely has some good points - And they mention us, so it's gotta be good.
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11/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
kayodeok : XML.com: Hacking Maps with the Google Maps API - Hari K. Gottipati introduces the Google Maps API and describes how to use it to build interactive mapping applications for the Web
Philippe Janvier : Hacking Maps with the Google Maps API - Développer une application de localisation géographique avec l'API de Google maps. [via] #
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11/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
kayodeok : Pocket-sized computer 'soul' developed - Personal computers could soon fit entirely on a key ring. Researchers at IBM in New York, US, have developed a way to carry a powerful, personalised virtual computer from one PC to the next, without losing the user’s work
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11/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
kayodeok : Hacking the Immune System - At Microsoft Research, we have been working on machine-learning and data-mining algorithms that aim to automatically parse such data for uses relevant to Microsoft, such as video/image browsing, spam filtering, and speech recognition. These same technique
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11/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
kayodeok : Wearable Computing | SoulPad - Essentially, SoulPad enables a user to hibernate a PC session to a pocket form-factor device and carry the device to some another PC and resume his session on that PC
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11/08/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
deusx : Using the XMLHttpRequest Object and AJAX to Spy On You - THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING
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11/08/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : Technorati A-list statistics - I love that Davenetics still shows up in these graphs of the top blogs on Technorati. I read Davenetics daily but the only reason it is on the list is because it's linked in a default Blogger template. If T'rati actually looked at their "statistics" inste
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11/08/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : Search in Beta 1 - One way to figure out how to build the search string is to type in a search term in your favorite search provider's search box. After navigating to the results go to the address bar and see where your term is injected into the address
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11/08/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
kayodeok : Windows Vista IE7 Search Provider Kit now available - New in Internet Explorer 7 is a simple searchbox with the ability to search many different providers (e.g. MSN, AOL, Ebay, WSJ, Fandango) all from one place- just select the search provider (aka Scope) of your search by clicking the Magnifier glass icon a
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