18/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : check out phishing site armedforcesbankonline.com (registered yesterday)
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18/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Mildred, church gossip - Funny joke from rec.humor.funny
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jimray : Developing a model for life, starting with E. coli
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jimray : Flying Meat: Gesture - System wide mouse gestures for OS X
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18/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
deusx : How To Type With One Hand - About One Hand Typing, Keyboarding and Keyboards - "There is more MUCH more on this page about HOW TO type with one hand."
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18/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Highway 101 Shut Down in South Bay - Highway 101 Shut Down in South Bay: A big-rig tanker on southbound 101 near Hellyer Ave. somehow spilled about 500 to 800 gallons of sulfuric acid on the shoulder of the freeway Thursday morning.
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18/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Giants opening up - Giants opening up: that's us
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18/08/2005 @ 22:58 GMT
Linkorama : Cloudmakers R Us - I've been following this discussion, mostly holding my tongue because it may look self-serving to respond with "here are the pictures you want of blog relationships" by pointing at the MyDensity site we've put together to show off the social analysis tool
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18/08/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
Linkorama : Calendar Girl Search - A sell side advertising experiment
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18/08/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
jimray : The Magic of Meditation - Newsweek Health Beat - MSNBC.com - David Lynch is a believer in Transcendental Meditation, which actually explains a lot
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18/08/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
jimray : Cyberpunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. We can do just about anything you can imagine to rats. And closing your eyes and refusing to think about this won't make it go away."
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18/08/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : Biopunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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18/08/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
deusx : OSFlash [Open Source Flash] - "Welcome to the OSFlash – the Open Source Flash site."
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18/08/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
deusx : SystemPuntoOut: Greasemonkey Vs Laziness - "In my del.icio.us account i usually use a tag to remember what i have to read; during this month i have optimized the process to satisfy my laziness."
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18/08/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
deusx : Wicked Quake 3 Tricks - "One of the most effective things you can do to improve the playability of Quake 3 is to turn off all unnecessary effects."
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18/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Neil Gaiman - Practically Arkham - "I think he needs a copy of the Library of America H. P. Lovecraft as a housewarming present"
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18/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo Local beta - very impressive alternative to CitySearch; some of the highlights
jimray : Yahoo! Local beta - Looks great - all kinds of RSS, maps, user reviews and ratings - hopefully this'll kick CitySearch outta business
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18/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Thom Yorke's blog - Radiohead has a weblog, although it just got going and Thom's the only person who's posted to it so far.
jimray : DEAD AIR SPACE - Official Radiohead weblog
Matthew M. Boedicker : Radiohead's blog about the making of their next album - (via Music thing) [via]
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18/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Color Code - Color Code is a "color portrait of the English language". It's a treemap visualization created by assigning over 33,000 words its own color (colors are determined by averaging the colors of images found for each word on the web). If it's running a little
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18/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
WillPate : Cool/convenient lists to have
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18/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : The GUIdebook Interview - Interview with John Gruber discussing the Mac OS X interface
deusx : GUIdebook > Articles > Interview with John Gruber - "Welcome to the interview with John Gruber, author of Daring Fireball Link points to external site and long-time critic and observer of Mac OS X interface."
plasticbag : Interview with John Gruber in which he discusses the Mac OSX interface - Interesting stuff, although I'd be more interested in asking him which UI elements from non-Apple systems they should incorporate. I'm currently loving the palettes in the new betas of OmniGraffle for example...
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18/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Flock has landed. - "We're introducing the world's most innovative social browsing experience."
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18/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Julien Danjou - Run your entire network on a single server: Xen - "I decided to stop that, and to run my all network into a single machine, using virtual machine."
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18/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Games will change the future - Ten ways in which MMORPGs will change the future. "For now let's just say it's the most instantly gripping, involving and demanding entertainment technology ever invented. The addiction rate appears to be about twice that of crack Cocaine."
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18/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
WillPate : From Web page to Web platform - Excellent piece on the move to a Web 2.0 world
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18/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
WillPate : Media Owners Watch as Web Users Assume Control - It's inevitable, how they deal with it will define their success
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18/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Apple demands Mac sites remove OS X on x86 videos - Apple's legal department this week sent "aggressive" emails to several web sites that support and advocate its products solely because they linked to videos showing a hacked version of the company's Mac OS X operating system running on off-the-shelf PC ha
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18/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : [Greasemonkey] Monkey Do - Think of it as Clippy the Useless Office Assistant, only for the web, and actually useful. It sits in the background and watches as you browse, and if it recognizes a type of page that you consider interesting it will offer to post it to del.icio.us
Simon Willison : [Greasemonkey] Monkey Do - User script that automatically posts interesting things to del.icio.us.
joshua : Monkey Do
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18/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Cell phone for kids - The Firefly is a cell phone for kids. It doesn't have a keypad, but it's got dedicated buttons for calling mom and dad and accessing the parentally controlled address book.
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18/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Support Our Ribbons - What no Git-R-Done ribbon? #
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18/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kellan : Stupidfool.org: The Folly of the Ping - Good to have Ben back blogging. Streaming Atom is fascinating #
Paul Hammond : Stupidfool.org: The Folly of the Ping - I have to admit: I really don't understand the pinging hysteria
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18/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : Linux.com | Best practices for the Linux home office, part 2 - Once you've settled on your base system, it's time to connect it to the Internet, and that brings up concerns about your systems' security
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18/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : iVillage Dumps Google for Yahoo - iVillage Dumps Google for Yahoo: uh oh... a trend?
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18/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : BotNet war? - That's just what we need (via BoingBoing)
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18/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : EQ2 20% inflation - Automated monitors catch dupe bug (via Slashdot)
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18/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Crack pipe solution - "Please, take this pipe"
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18/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Simulating life - Biologists are beginning to simulate living things by computer, molecule by molecule. They're starting with E. coli, but they've still got a long way to go.
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18/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : My week in the pysch ward - Laurie sends along an account of the week she spent in a psych ward. She says she's "trying to publicize it in order to remove some of the stigma of mental illness". Reminds me of Heather's accounts of her psych ward stay last year.
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18/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Gas prices, worldwide - A table of gas prices from around the world. A gallon of gas in Amsterdam is $6.48 while it's only $0.12 in Venezuela. It's always so weird to see these types of lists where the US has more in common with Third World and non-democratic countries than with [via]
jimray : Americans should stop bitching about the price of gas - We pay less than anyone other first world country in the world
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18/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : Frogboy3 - Sesame Street characters as the Seven Deadly Sins
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18/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
gleuschk : Colib - Your books, music & videos tagged, shared and sorted. - huh, tempting. gotta get me an ISBN scanner
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18/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Download Natural Earth - Shaded, 18 foot long projection maps of the Earth? Who doesn't want this?
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18/08/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
cobra libre : bangladesh bomb blasts: more questions than answers #
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18/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Amiga Forever and the Mighty Mouse on Windows - What sort of surreal collision of technologies is this?! "Can I use Apple's Mighty Mouse in Amiga Forever on Windows?"
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18/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Protopage - gorgeously designed Ajaxy sticky notes website
jimray : My Protopage - Really sexy DHTML sticky/link aggregator thingie
Jeremy Zawodny : My Protopage - My Protopage: free personal start pages--check 'em out
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18/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Influence map of French art - Great influence map of European art and sculpture (looks largely French), detailing relationships between masters and students as well as collaborations. Reminds me of a Feynman diagram.
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18/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Blogger for Word - You can now post from Microsoft Word to your Blogger blog. More interesting to me is how former Pyra folks remember this old idea. Matt says it was "something we talked about building back when the blogger api was brand new" and that Anil Dash, then a Blo
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18/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Computer characters mugged in virtual crime spree - A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software "bots" to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II. The stolen virtual possessions were then exchanged for real cash
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18/08/2005 @ 13:57 GMT
deusx : Bluetooth Star Trek Barbie :: Blueserker :: Berserk about Bluetooth - "If you liked the Star Trek Communicators that have been selling on eBay, check this out. She is a Star Trek Barbie doll with imbedded bluetooth headset! "
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18/08/2005 @ 13:57 GMT
deusx : alexking.org: WordPress Theme Browser - Pretty slick preview interface for a pile of alternate WordPress themes.
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18/08/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : Doctor Fun - df20050816.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels) - "Transmission from the first manned mission to Pluto abruptly ended."
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deusx : The Onion | U.S. Intelligence: Nukehavistan May Have Nuclear Weapons - '...commemorative "Great Nuclear Weapons Of Nukehavistan" stamp series...'
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18/08/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : The Onion | Rumsfeld Makes Surprise Visit To Wife's Vagina - "I am confident that she can still stand up to heavy fire and serve ably, even in a rearguard action."
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deusx : Synaptics Products :: Utilities - "Who knew you could have so much fun with your Synaptics TouchPad? Check out these entertaining drawing and music utilities."
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18/08/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : Let's Talk About Nukes - Why we must continue to negotiate with Pyongyang and Tehran. By Fred Kaplan - "The tragedy of this saga is that President Bush could as easily have started these talks in 2002, when North Korea's fuel rods were still under the lock and surveillance of international inspectors."
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18/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Feds Urge Delay for '.xxx' Domain - "We are, to say the very least, disappointed that concerns that should have been raised and addressed weeks and months ago are being raised in the final days."
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18/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Ludus Technologies - "SharkCache is a caching application for palmOne LifeDrives that speeds up the device by as much as 600%!"
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18/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kaninka.net : Sterkasti bjórinn - 25% bjór - er það málið fyrir Menningarnótt?
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kayodeok : Joel on Software - The Project Aardvark Spec - A Functional Specification from Joel Spolsky
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kayodeok : Firefox Extension: DevBoi is sidebar extension for Mozilla and Firefox browsers - Sidebar offers easy access to web-development documentations and reference manuals on the Internet – everything just one double-click away.
Philippe Janvier : Devboi - Une extension Firefox pour visualiser des ressources utiles au développement web dans la sidebar. [via] #
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philgyford : Wonderland: New PSP advert - Cool TV ad by Alice's sister, a smidgen of which was shot one Sunday downstairs on Beech Street.
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18/08/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Turn your NES gamepad into a TV remote - funny hack [via]
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18/08/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
joshua : OpenURL COinS: A Convention to Embed Bibliographic Metadata in HTML
deusx : OpenURL ContextObject in SPAN (COinS) - ""
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18/08/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Isofarro : IETF Signs Off on Atom - Its here! At last, syndication takes another step forward, routing around previous unsurmountable problems. Congrats guys and gals!
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18/08/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Eric Meyer : Erotic images can turn you blind - Turns out your Mom was right after all. Still no word on the growth rates of palm hair.
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18/08/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : SimonWaldman: Yahoo a messy media megacorp? - Interesting way to look at it... i.e. it's a landgrab of social media turf by Yahoo and it'll sort itself out in the end.
Paul Hammond : SimonWaldman.net » Yahoo!: personality crisis? Or the world’s first messy media megacorp? - maybe the only way to survive in a messy media age is to have a messy strategy - to be, literally, all over the place.
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18/08/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator of Ireland
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18/08/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Life inside one big text file
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Matthew M. Boedicker : dead pixel camouflage (software solution to a hardware problem)
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18/08/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : call to restock North America's large mammals
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18/08/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : ext2fsx MacOS - Driver to read Linux filesystem on a Mac
kayodeok : An implementation of the Ext2 (Linux) filesystem for Mac OS X
jonhicks : SourceForge.net: Mac OS X Ext2 Filesystem - Needed if I decide to go with the Popcorn Hour
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18/08/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google gives ads a little more juice - Google gives ads a little more juice: pimpin the site out a bit more each day...
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18/08/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
jimray : GH Kim Photography - Interesting photo gallery
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Jeremy Zawodny : I’ll call Yahoo’s bluff - I’ll call Yahoo’s bluff: fightin' words!
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Andy Baio : Seven Band Names That Would Be Impossible to Book - [via]
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18/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
kellan : de hÓra: Automated mapping between RDF and forms, part I - The problem with RDF? Even something as fundamental to webdev as round tripping to a form is hard. Looking forward to part II #
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18/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
jimray : Mindfulness In Plain English
deusx : Mindfulness In Plain English - "This is a meditation manual, a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step guide to Insight meditation. It is meant to be practical. It is meant for use."
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18/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
kayodeok : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Unkillable Processes - Have you ever terminated an application only to see in your favorite task manager (Process Explorer, of course) that the process still exists?
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18/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
kayodeok : The Restful Web: Dispatching in a REST Protocol Application - Joe Gregorio, in his latest Restful Web column, shows us how to write dispatch code to handle REST requests
Isofarro : Dispatching in a REST Protocol Application - Using mod_rewrite to assign a different handler based on the request method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
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18/08/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
ricmac : Six Apart - About Feeds - "Many websites have links labeled "XML" or "RSS" or "Atom". All of these are ways of saying that you can find out about updates to that site without having to browse to it yourself to check."
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18/08/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
ricmac : Alex Barnett: If you love RSS - Like Alex, I started out favouring RSS as the brand - but was converted to Feeds. Quote: "RSS isn't going away, it is becoming invisible to the user, that's all."
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18/08/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bad Coffee Maker Forces Plane to Land - Bad Coffee Maker Forces Plane to Land: A coffee maker on a Frontier Airlines flight is being blamed for producing an odor bad enough to prompt an unscheduled landing in Washington state.
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18/08/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: New Cryptanalytic Results Against SHA-1 - Xiaoyun Wang, one of the team of Chinese cryptographers that successfully broke SHA-0 and SHA-1, along with Andrew Yao and Frances Yao, announced new results against SHA-1 yesterday at Crypto's rump session
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kellan : Fung Wah Chinatown bus bursts into flames. - I used to be a regular rider of that bus #
cameron : Riders flee bus fire on NYC run - Fung Wah chinatown bus nearly torches 45 people
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Jeremy Zawodny : GEvil T-shirt - GEvil T-shirt: I wore this to work today... many people now want them!
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18/08/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > Don't Buy Tech Books that Don't Have Betas - why would I want to buy a technical book that hasn't gone through this sort of public review?
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18/08/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Speedingrhino » DHTML Image Cropping Interface - If you feel like implementing the server-side part, you're welcome to give it a try
deusx : del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry) - "This project consists of a Dynamic-HTML interface for cropping images."
Simon Willison : DHTML Image Cropping Interface - Nice bit of JavaScript.
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18/08/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : ongoing · Pop the Champagne! - The Atom 1.0 data format is an IETF standard.
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Andy Baio : Maya's Micronomicon - my friend Maya's insanely detailed notebook drawings
Milo Vermeulen : Maya's Micronomicon.com
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