16/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Rupert Murdoch seeks dysfunctional search engine - "There's little market for software that doesn't scale". Ouch, nice for Technorati!
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François Nonnenmacher : FedEx Blows: They Sue Their Biggest Fan - Very stupid move from FedEx :-(
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jkottke : Photoshop splash screens - A timeline of splash screen graphics for Adobe Photoshop. I didn't know that Photoshop was developed outside of Adobe and then licensed later. (thx mark)
Rod Begbie : The Evolution of the Photoshop Splash Screen - The Photoshop splash screen through the ages. [via] #
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16/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : News and Observer using Google maps - This has Joe Weiss written all over it.
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16/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : VitalSource Bookshelf - Like iTunes for books
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16/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : WP-Cache 2.0: An efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive - It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database
deusx : del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry) - "WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive."
merlinmann : Ricardo Galli, de software libre � WP-Cache 2.0 - So, uh, you see my ass back there? Yeah. That. Well this is what completely saved it. Hosting companies and WP users owe Ricardo big time.
jimray : WP-Cache 2.0 - Make your dynamic WP pages static; improves performance on really high traffic sites
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16/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Dave Winer lives in a van down by the river... - Dave Winer lives in a van down by the river...: this is the most amusing thing I've read all day
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16/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Goddess Bunny - your guess is as good as mine
Nelson Minar : The Goddess Bunny - Intensely disturbing
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16/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Flock demo - Positive review of Flock, a new Mozilla-based browser with drag and drop blogging and Flickring built in.
Paul Hammond : Roland Tanglao's Weblog: Flock rocks (or Chris Messina is a demo god)! - I was lucky enough to get a demo of Flock, the new "social web browser" based on Firefox
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16/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : This was posted from Microsoft Word - Word, I have finally tamed you! #
Andy Baio : Blogger toolbar for Microsoft Word - feels strange, but casual users will love this
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16/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Debian ssh passwd - Sarge has a bug where you can't log in with normal passwords
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16/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com - Va. laptop sale turns into a stampede - "A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line."
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16/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Quake III to be open-sourced this week - six years later, still a great game we play at work regularly
deusx : IGN: Quake III Source Code to Be Released - "he mentioned, almost as an aside, that Quake III source was going to be freely available in a week or less."
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16/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Keillor photo - " Humorist Garrison Keillor tries a bite of pork-chop-on-a-stick"
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jimray : Wiring - Adding hardware to Processing
joshua : Wiring - like proce55ing but for hardware
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16/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MyProgs - collaborative list of applications people use; like Del.icio.us for software
kayodeok : MyProgs - This site allows you to keep a social list of the programs you use. After you sign up you can add programs to your unique list. You can view anyone else’s programs and they can view yours
ricmac : MyProgs: social lists of software programs - neat idea. Includes RSS feeds, so e.g. I can keep tabs on a specific program type that interests me. [via waxy.org]
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16/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Aphex Twin is naming some of his Analord tracks after spyware programs - Aphex Twin is naming some of his Analord tracks after actual spyware programs/viruses [via]
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16/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kellan : magpiebrain - A comparison of Django with Rails - Good write up, slightly Django biased, but very good info. Django is definitely going to evolve into a good choice #
jimray : magpiebrain - A comparison of Django with Rails
Simon Willison : A comparison of Django with Rails - Nails the differences pretty well.
Paul Hammond : magpiebrain - A comparison of Django with Rails - based on several days worth of Rails development and about a weekend’s worth of playing with Django
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16/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : Capital Hacks: Bootstrapping a Viral Startup
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jimray : Epigenetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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16/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Dave Matthews Band encouraging fans to bypass DRM restrictions on new album - and, funny enough, petitioning Apple to ignore DRM restrictions in iTunes
jimray : Dave Matthews begs Apple to use shitty Windows Media DRM - Yet another reason I stopped listening to Dave Matthews (even though the CD supposedly works fine on a Mac). You know, instead of bitching about Apple, the band could do the right thing and simply not use DRM.
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16/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Terry Gilliam in NYC - When Terry Gilliam checked out of a NYC hotel a few minutes late, they charged him for a whole extra day. To get back at the hotel and do a good deed, he tried to find a homeless person to stay in his stead but couldn't locate one. (via gf) [via]
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16/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : The Art of War deleted scenes - Ten precepts from The Art of War that never made it past Sun Tzu's editor. Ex: "When you sally forth to meet the enemy, show your contempt for him by the haughtiness of your prance".
WillPate : Ten Precepts From <i>The Art of War</i> That Never Made It Past Sun Tzu's Editor - "When you sally forth to meet the enemy, show your contempt for him by the haughtiness of your prance."
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16/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Magazine cover parodies - Andrew Hearst dreams up some magazines covers done in the style of George Lois, who created several memorable covers for Esquire magazine in the 60s and 70s.
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16/08/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
jimray : Wired News: Whew! Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny
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16/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jimray : Wired News: Forecast Cloudy for Windows Vista - "The main difference is that icons and folders appear as translucent images that are prettier to look at when you use Windows Explorer to search documents." Heh.
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16/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Old New Thing : When people ask for security holes as features: Silent install of uncertified drivers - "When I try to install any driver, I get a User Consent Dialog box which tells the user that this is an unsigned driver. Is it possible to author a driver installation package that by-passes this user consent dialog box?"
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16/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : One Less Password - One Less Password: As of now, anyone can log in to Flickr using their Yahoo! ID.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Announcing the Feedster Top 500 - Announcing the Feedster Top 500: scott pulls back the curtains
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16/08/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
deusx : Disable Caps Lock :: Useful Stuff :: JohnHaller.com - "Now you can disable your Caps Lock key in Windows... without any special software, and without having to pry the key off with a screwdriver."
Nelson Minar : Disable caps lock - Registry hacks for Windows
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16/08/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
deusx : Del.icio.us Address-barlets - "The del.icio.us social bookmark system completely replaces my in-browser bookmarks with the addition of the following Keymarks (or Searchlets or Address-barlets or whatever you call them)."
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16/08/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
gleuschk : Homotopy for kids 2 (Quarter Life Crisis) - yay for topology!
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Andy Baio : Feedster's Top 500 - wow, Waxy Links is #60; read about who was excluded [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Feedster Top 500 Blogs - Feedster Top 500 Blogs: here come the marketers
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16/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Etsy - nicely designed shopping site for buying and selling handmade stuff [via]
jimray : Etsy - Your place to buy and sell all things handmade - Handmade stuff nobody else has. Rad.
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16/08/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
deusx : SappyCards - Main Page - "the cards to end all cards" Great, sarcastic greeting cards
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16/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
gleuschk : Ten Lessons I wish I Had Been Taught - Gian-Carlo Rota
Matthew M. Boedicker : ten lessons for academia
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16/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
gleuschk : Opinions of Doron Zeilberger - if only he had an rss feed
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16/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Connected global network vs. the avian flu - Can we out-collaborate a pandemic? Alex Steffen challenges the blogosphere to sound the alarm about the avian flu. The WHO says: "never before [has] any avian influenza virus caused such extremely high fatality in humans". [via]
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16/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Nano Fibonacci series - Spirals on nanoparticles show order, specifically our friend the Fibonacci sequence, which can be seen in places like seashells and plants. In the case of the nanoparticles, the Fibonacci pattern results from minimizing the stress energy in the system.
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16/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Oakland A's are rolling - Jeff Ma, who was a key member of the infamous MIT blackjack team, notes the turn around of the Oakland A's and the reversal of criticism directed toward GM Billy Beane. Even Steven Levitt, who thinks not too highly of Moneyball, has conceded that maybe Be
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16/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : More on tipping - More on the question of tipping in restaurants: Danny Meyer cautions Thomas Keller against abolishing tipping while stats show that neither customers nor waiters want the practice to end.
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16/08/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : Duluth News Tribune | 08/15/2005 | EXPRESSION OF ESPRESSO - "The studio itself is sponge-painted with espresso."
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Andy Baio : Video: Grumpy Starbucks spec ad - it's no Nutrigrain, but it made me laugh [via]
deusx : pri_starbucks_grumpy.mov (video/quicktime Object) - Great stuff... although, I think I'd've thrown the bell even after I'd had my morning fix.
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16/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Boulder Gets Solar-Powered Wi-Fi - "While he was roasting in the desert, he thought, ‘If I only had a solar panel.’"
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16/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Blogcritics.org: Glenn Danzig vs. Henry Rollins - "So I now emplore you, good reader, can we please decide who would win the fight between Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins?"
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16/08/2005 @ 12:57 GMT
kayodeok : Electronic skin to give robots human-like touch - A flexible electronic skin that can sense when something is too hot to handle or is being squeezed too hard could give robots an almost-human sense of touch
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16/08/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Information scent - Technique for helping people find the content they want. [via GUUUI]
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plasticbag : "Newsreader Michael Buerk has said "almost all the big jobs in broadcasting are held by women" who "decide what we see and hear"." - "All [men] are is sperm donors, and most women aren't going to want an unemployable sperm donor loafing around and making the house look untidy."
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16/08/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Bit of a weird one - BBC News does a Blur v Oasis timeline in Flash - Don't quite get the point, but it is interesting to see the two bands move in relation to one another. More interesting would be to put people like Franz Ferdinand in there as well...
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16/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Wired News: Whew! Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny - The more we learn about the human genome, the less DNA looks like destiny. As scientists discover more about the "epigenome," a layer of biochemical reactions that turns genes on and off, they're finding that it plays a big part in health and heredity
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16/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Wired News: Forecast Cloudy for Windows Vista - What we found were a lot of attractive graphical interfaces and new search-engine functions, but, so far, not too much in the way of productivity or security enhancements. Microsoft promises more features in the upcoming beta 2 version, and the release ve
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16/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Linux and Windows running on the PSP - a healthy homebrew community keeps the platform alive, despite the lack of good games [via]
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16/08/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Turning Wordpress into a tag-based blogging application - Summary: How to forego categories and date-based archives and turn your Wordpress-powered blog into a tag-based blogging system. Like del.icio.us, but a blog
deusx : Turning Wordpress into a tag-based blogging application - Jarrod Trainque - ""
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kayodeok : The structure of collaborative tagging systems - In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, through the study of the collaborative tagging system Delicious, we are able to discover regularities in user activity, tag frequenci
joshua : Patterns in del.icio.us
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16/08/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Blog Samurai Champloo - written by Fuu herself - official Samurai Champloo Blog - written by Fuu herself [via]
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16/08/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC - Radio 1 Superstar VJS - Creative Archive Licence trial - Auntie releases the first of her video under a Creative Commons-like license. Sadly, they're GeoIPing visitors, so only UK residents (or folks familiar with proxys) can get the content. #
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16/08/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : The Elements of Design - The Design in Theory and Practice column is dedicated to helping the reader gain a better understanding of Web design
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16/08/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : IBM Donates Code to Firefox - IBM is donating DHTML accessibility technology currently wending its way through the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) standards process
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16/08/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : IBM Press room IBM Contributes Open Source Code to Make FireFox Browser More Accessible - In addition to contributing code that will make it possible for Web pages to be automatically narrated or magnified, and to be better navigated with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, IBM is contributing Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHTML) accessi
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16/08/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : URLs in Internet Explorer 7 - Internet Explorer 7 includes a new URL handling architecture known internally as CURI. The new optimized URI functions provide more secure and consistent parsing of URIs to reduce attack surface and mitigate the threat of malicious URIs
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16/08/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
joshua : DBSight: Full-text database search platform/engine
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Jeremy Zawodny : rednecks.mov - rednecks.mov: heh. just watch it.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Report: Yahoo Will Launch VoIP Service - Report: Yahoo Will Launch VoIP Service: we're doing a VOIP service... hmm.
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16/08/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
joshua : qmail smtp plugin patch page - external programs for vetting smtp connections and conversations
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ricmac : Michael Parekh: Selling premium content, Web 2.0 style - This has been on my mind lately...
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16/08/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Steve Gillmor: The RSS Crisis - My second link from Steve. Go the Youngbloods!
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16/08/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : audio of ivory-billed woodpecker
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Matthew M. Boedicker : live strong, but support the pwned
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ricmac : Bookmark Managers - Good list of social bookmarking services.
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ricmac : Aqute: Expedia strategy - "If Expedia could roll out an API platform of its own, it could at least fight it out with Google (and Yahoo and anyone else who will join the fray)."
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16/08/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : A VC: The Death of a Web Service - Bloglet email service is a roach motel for email addresses, it seems...
deusx : A VC: The Death of a Web Service - It's funny to see all the commercial ventures represented in the comments, flexing and boasting about who can replace a free service better.
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16/08/2005 @ 04:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 10 Tips That Every PHP Developer Should Know
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Netcraft phishiest hosters list
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Netcraft phishiest countries
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Matthew M. Boedicker : PHP email injection attacks
kayodeok : Email Injection - SecurePHP - There are a lot of ways to send anonymous emails, some use it to mass mail, some use it to spoof identity, and some (a few) use it to send email anonymously
Simon Willison : Email Injection - SecurePHP - Here's a PHP hole I hadn't heard about.
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jimray : Oneoff Clothing - Custom prints on American Apparrel threads
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jimray : NPR defining new Podcast strategy - Kick. Ass!
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ricmac : Moonwatcher on FeedBurner mashups - "Will FeedBurner mashups replace Google Maps mashups as the time killer du jour for bored IT folks? Let's hope so!"
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16/08/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo! Health launches, with celebrities - Yahoo's Health blog is officially live now, launching with a celebrity bang (there are actual health experts on this blog too)
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ricmac : Roughly 1 In 10 Blog Readers Now Using RSS - PaidContent.org has some good analysis on this Nielsen/Netratings report.
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16/08/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
joshua : CSS layout techniques - maybe i'll get good at css by just bookmarking things
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16/08/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : NPR : Search Engines Trade Competing Claims - NPR : Search Engines Trade Competing Claims: John Battelle on NPR
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16/08/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : strange things you likely didn't know
deusx : Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know - "Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them."
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16/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
joshua : neat del.icio.us-based video player thingy
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16/08/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
deusx : Zen of Design»Blog Archive » How To Make In-Game Ads Work - "Encourage your partners to make the ads destructable." Although, I'd really rather have the option to pay a little more to get rid of the ads. That, or play for free.
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16/08/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flash: Spaceworms - simple and addictive; use the arrow keys to evade the dots
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16/08/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
Linkorama : IrvFoundations of Collaborative Innovation - What is different today is that for the first time, in large part because of the Internet, we have the capacity to self-organize into groups fluidly and globally. The firm is no longer the only -- or, in some circumstances, the optimal -- institution for
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16/08/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
Linkorama : American Journalism Review on Wikitorials - the mainstream is still gestating
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16/08/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Bloggers: Google 'sandboxing' sites - 6 months to a year! Gosh, that's a lot of time :-(
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jimray : Del.icio.us adds sitewide search
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jimray : Netflix: Pirates of Silicon Valley - You know you want to add it to your que!
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Jeremy Zawodny : BAR Camp - BAR Camp: they could have called it NotFOO Camp, I guess
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Jeremy Zawodny : Oh the tangled web we weave - Oh the tangled web we weave: this is just funny
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Jeremy Zawodny : Google's Growing Pains & Home Ferris Wheels - Google's Growing Pains & Home Ferris Wheels: the punch line is great on this one...
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plasticbag : A fascinating article from the Ecologist Online about the UK's food culture and why it is the way it is... - "No European country is as reliant on supermarkets for its food shopping as Britain. It is no coincidence that the UK also has the worst eating habits in Europe"
