29/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Movable Type Style Generator - Very smart visual template generator for MT!
Ethan Marcotte : Cool interactive style generator for Moveable Type - Not especially handy for my WP-enabled self...but damn, that's a cool idea.
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29/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : Steelcase - Leap® - Sexy chair, not an Aeron
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29/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Review of Weeds - A review of Weeds, Showtime's new show about a mom selling pot in the suburbs. I've been watching it; it's good but I'm not absolutely loving it yet.
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29/08/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Superdome misery - Out of the hurricane, but no air conditioning and a leaky roof
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29/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : What's in Store: WinFS Team blog - The WinFS Team has a blog
Nelson Minar : WinFS setback - Integration is further away? (via Digg)
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29/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : What's in Store : Shipping WinFS Beta 1 - WinFS Beta 1 shipped to MSDN Subscribers
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29/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : NYC hot dogs - Short roundup of NYC hot dogs. My favorite is still Nathan's, although you can't beat Crif Dogs for ambiance (cocktail Ms. Pac-Man) and *wrapping a hot dog in bacon*. (via afb) [via]
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29/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Online games that expire - Interesting idea about having specific end dates for online games, instead of them ending when they fail. As Alice notes, time constraints will likely make for some interesting gameplay, especially in the later stages of the game. (via rw) [via]
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29/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Selecting a princess - How the presiding monarch of the Minnesota State Fair, Princesss Kay of the Milky Way, is selected...ending with her coronation and her likeness carved into a giant block of butter.
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29/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jimray : Agile web development with Rails
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29/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Seven Stages of a Perl Programmer
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29/08/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
jimray : Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked - Scottish police officer says the CIA planted evidence crucial to convicting Libyan
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29/08/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
kayodeok : The Search: How Google and its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed our Culture - Book Excerpt: Expanding Beyond Search
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29/08/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
kayodeok : dp.SyntaxHighlighter - free JavaScript syntax highlighting - The script is meant to help a developer to post code snippets online with ease and without having to worry about applying format. People who use blogs like MovableType, .Text (dotText), dasBlog and any other system can easily add code to their posts
deusx : dp.SyntaxHighlighter - free JavaScript syntax highlighting - "The script is meant to help a developer to post code snippets online with ease and without having to worry about applying format."
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29/08/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
kayodeok : The Man in Blue > footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer - A more robust method of positioning a footer
joshua : footers in css
philgyford : The Man in Blue > footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer - An even newer way of getting a footer to stick to the bottom of the viewport or the content.
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29/08/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Readying WinFS Beta Bits? - According to sources close to the company, Microsoft just last week put the finishing touches on the first beta release of WinFS. And the company is moving ahead with plans to back-port the WinFS technology to Windows XP
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29/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : When to Call Across Time Zones - Trying to figure out when to call people in another time zone? Time and date.com creates a chart for you highlighting appropriate times for the various locations of people participating in the conversation
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29/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : Scientists devising the Internet of the future - The National Science Foundation is planning an effort to fundamentally re-engineer the Internet and overcome its shortcomings, creating a network more suited to the computerized world of the next decade
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29/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : Step-by-Step Instructions for Installing Firefox on Windows - Send this to your friends
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29/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : Military examines 'beaming up' data, people / Critics say its extreme computing, energy needs keep teleportation unlikely for now - "Wouldn't it be neat, they ask, if we could nab bin Laden via teleportation?"
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29/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Google peaking? - Robert Cringely: Google may have peaked ("What if search and PageRank and AdSense are Google's corporate apex?") and Microsoft may have more to worry about from Apple if they start distributing older versions of OSX (the Intel version) for free on iPods.
Jeremy Zawodny : Has Google Peaked? - Has Google Peaked?: everyone's favorite pasttime: google speculation
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29/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Could you pass 8th grade math? - Fun little quiz on eight grade math...can you pass? I got 9/10 (got tripped up on what I thought was a trick question but wasn't...erroneous! erroneous!).
deusx : MSN Encarta - Could You Pass 8th-Grade Math? - Yes, I did pass with 10/10. I had to work to remember a formula or two, but this ain't rocket science.
Matthew M. Boedicker : Could you pass 8th grade math?
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29/08/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : ZH weekend trips? - Help me find places to go!
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29/08/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
jimray : American RadioWorks : Nature's Revenge: Louisiana's Vanishing Wetlands - Hurricane Risk to New Orleans
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29/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : Stellarium Astronomy Software - Really impressive looking open source planetarium software
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29/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : Tons of cartoon theme songs as mp3's - Do kids still watch cartoons on Saturday morning?
gleuschk : 100 themesong mp3s from Saturday-morning cartoons - danger mouse!
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29/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : Desperately Wandering » Become a Photoshop Expert - Awesome
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29/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : goingunder_jpg.jpg (JPEG Image, 3629x3052 pixels) - What might happen to New Orleans
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29/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : When Blame Knocks on the Wrong Door - Moron Fox News commentator (is there any other kind?) gives out a family's address ON THE AIR, claiming a terrorist lives there. Unsurprisingly, the asshat refuses to make an on-air apology or correction.
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29/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Trouts and Seasons of The Mountain Village - Paper Craft - De quoi repeupler son aquarium après de longues vacances et très utile pour les mercredis après midi pluvieux :) [via] #
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29/08/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Linkorama : Semi-structured meta-data has a posse - You could make a lot of money or win a lot of bar bets when thinking about the digital realm if you compare technologies between hard or easy, rigorous or sloppy, sophisticated or naïve, expensive or cheap, professional or amateur, and then bet on the
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29/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Brendan Loy is blogging Hurricane Katrina - New Orleans blogger Brendan Loy is furiously blogging Hurricane Katrina.
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29/08/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
joshua : star rating thingy in css
jimray : Creating a Star Rater using CSS - Nifty
Philippe Janvier : Creating a Star Rater using CSS - "...create a star rating using only CSS." [via] #
Simon Willison : Creating a Star Rater using CSS - It's been a while since I saw a new CSS trick as neat as this one. [via]
deusx : Creating a Star Rater using CSS - Blog Komodo Media - "Can you create a star rating using only CSS. I'm talking the kind that when you hover over the 4th star, there are four stars that show up on the hover state."
bmilleare : Creating a Star Rater using CSS
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29/08/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
Isofarro : X41 Tablet - First Impressions - A positive review after a couple of days of use.
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29/08/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Events in Zurich - Guide to happenings
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29/08/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Cheap flights from ZH - A bit spammy, but useful
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Nelson Minar : ZH restaurants - Interesting list from a site that's looking like it's dying
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29/08/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : Edge 165: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines - "Gödel didn't believe that truth would elude us. He proved it would."
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29/08/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : Barnes&Noble.com - How The Universe Got Its Spots: Diary Of A Finite Time In A Finite Space - "In a series of unsent letters to her mother, a theoretical physicist meditates on her life, examining how her work and her personal life both mesh with and obstruct each other. Taking a highly original approach to science writing, Levin reveals herself a
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29/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Upcoming.org adds Groups - we just launched this; for example, SoCal Indie Rock and Flickr events
jimray : Upcoming.org adds groups - Hurrah!
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29/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Totalitarian Institutions That Would Have Been More Fitting for George Orwell's 1984, Considering How That Year Turned Out - Totalitarian Institutions That Would Have Been More Fitting for George Orwell's 1984, Considering How That Year Turned Out. "The Ministry of the Beef, and Where It Currently Is".
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29/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Largest Mail.app inbox? - Justin's looking for the largest inbox smoothly handled by Mail.app...the current high is 26,700 messages. Mine only has around 100 because I filter most messages into a variety of folders.
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29/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : On Google's blacklisting of Cnet - The NY Times takes Google to task for blacklisting Cnet over them publishing some publicly available information about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. I wonder if there's a useful distinction to be made between implicitly available information and explicitly bro
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29/08/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Guitar Shred Show - Mr.Fastfinger
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29/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : 2005 leap second - Phew, the earth isn't speeding up (via RISKS)
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29/08/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Burning out cancer - Quack suggests eating flesh away to bone, now under investigation
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29/08/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Wikipedia's coverage of Hurricane Katrina
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29/08/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kellan : this not a simulation! - Gorgeous movie of MESSENGER Earth fly by over a 24 hour period #
deusx : jwz - not a simulation! - "It was 270,847 miles (435,885 kilometers) away from Earth - farther than the Moon's orbit - when it snapped the last image on Aug. 3."
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29/08/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
deusx : Regret The Error: Fox pundit's mistake terrorizes family - "Both have issued apologies Fox in a one-line statement to the Los Angeles Times and Loftus in an e-mail to the family after being contacted by the newspaper. The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction."
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29/08/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Flickr Fans to Yahoo : Flick Off ! - "...a harbinger of the greater sensitivity we need to show in the future as we take more seriously the psychological importance of our digital lives". [via] #
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29/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
gleuschk : A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia, p.15: Mathematics and the Bible - eight, eight billion, eight billion eight, ...., zero.
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29/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Hurricane Katrina - Today's big story is Hurricane Katrina htting the Gulf Coast of the US around New Orleans and Biloxi. Boing Boing's got some pointers to accounts from that area. Be safe, everyone.
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29/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Surowiecki on tipping - James Surowiecki, the New Yorker's resident economist, weighs in on the tipping debate. (Previously discussed here.)
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29/08/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
kayodeok : WorldTime - The Ultimate Virtual Timepiece and desktop World Clock - The 'Swiss Army Knife' of world clocks with unlimited configurable clocks, each with it's own time zone, configurable Daylight Saving Time, Lat Long, and description in a 12 or 24 hour analog/digital user configurable display, that minimizes to the system
Nelson Minar : WorldTime WinXP - Too many features, but a reasonable way to display multiple timezones on your desktop
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29/08/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
kayodeok : The Australian: It's a miracle: mice regrow hearts - SCIENTISTS have created "miracle mice" that can regenerate amputated limbs or damaged vital organs, making them able to recover from injuries that would kill or permanently disable normal animals
deusx : The Australian: It's a miracle: mice regrow hearts [August 29, 2005] - "SCIENTISTS have created "miracle mice" that can regenerate amputated limbs or damaged vital organs, making them able to recover from injuries that would kill or permanently disable normal animals."
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29/08/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kayodeok : Metasearch The Blogosphere With Clusty - A "hidden" feature of a powerful meta search engine allows you to mine for gold in the blogosphere
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29/08/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kayodeok : Clusty the Clustering Engine - Clusty Blogs combines Vivisimo's federated search and clustering capabilities to bring you the best blog search on the web. With one search box you can search and cluster these top blog search engines
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29/08/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kellan : odio.us: Custom Web 2.0 Business Plan - I'm looking for engineers to work on my AJAX multi-device emergent social network web-app that leverages developing nations. #
ricmac : odio.us Custom Web 2.0 Business Plan - Mine business plan is: "Tagging-enabled hybridized open source calendaring framework that leverages existing metadata."
joshua : odio.us Custom Web 2.0 Business Plan - i blame gnat
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29/08/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Streetsy.com: daily streetart photography [via]
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29/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Google Is an Advertising Company - Google may or may not become a direct threat to Microsoft in the future, but in the here and now, the entrenched monopolies that ought to feel threatened by Google are newspapers
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29/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Wired News: Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off! - A splinter faction of Flickr photo-sharing community members is threatening a symbolic "mass suicide" to protest closer integration with the website's new owner, Yahoo.
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29/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Flickr: Flick off ...!.?.!.... - Welcome to the Flickr Accounts Mass Resignation Countdown group !
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29/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
erikbenson : iRobot is about to start selling their next robot: Scooba - I think this might just be perfect for my house.
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ricmac : Ypulse: The book - "I will be asking you for research, interviews and interesting stats/factoids/ideas about how you see teens using all of the new technology to do the things that teenagers do."
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joshua : tinypeap - tiny radius server incl variant for wrt54g
jimray : TinyPEAP - Add a radius server to your Linksys router - cool
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Nelson Minar : Cameras at Black Rock? - Advised against bringing fancy photo gear to hostile environment
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Linkorama : Collaborating at conference - I was surprised how many people took advantage of it. You can see the array of stuff that ended up there on the home page. It's just really cool to see notes people took during sessions, the blogs of people attending, and even self-organized lunch BOFs an
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jimray : Nola.com: NewsFlash - New Orleans flees, braces, prays as Katrina bears down
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jimray : The Lost City Of New Orleans : Sploid
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jimray : Nothing's Easy for New Orleans Flood Control
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jimray : FLHurricane.com: Google Map Plot of Katrina (2005) Google Maps Hurricane Track Overlay
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jimray : Where does all the water for a flood come from? | Ask MetaFilter
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kayodeok : 25 SQL Commandments - In this article, I'll summarize 25 of the most useful SQL tuning tips for making SQL statements run faster. Although some of these techniques have been previously described in Oracle manuals and various journals, many others have never been published and
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kayodeok : The story behind DVORAK - "Dvorak" is short for The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Layout. The standard keyboard layout that most people use (QWERTY) was developed to overcome mechanical problems on the original typewriter almost 150 years ago
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kayodeok : Missed Church? No Worries. Download It to Your IPod - Just as Christian organizations embraced radio and television, podcasting has quickly caught on with religious groups
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kayodeok : FeedMail turns email on it's head - Instead of throwing messages at people, messages are sent back and forth across secure RSS feeds
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gleuschk : excerpt from The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco - yay!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Doctor Reprimanded for Calling Patient Fat - Doctor Reprimanded for Calling Patient Fat: The New Hampshire state attorney general is a fucktard. This is proof.
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Rod Begbie : Zap2it - TV news - 'Daily Show' Heads Overseas - Heads up, Britons! The Daily Show -- the best satire on TV anywhere in the world today -- is hitting the (digital) British airwaves in October. #
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deusx : IGN: GBA Micro - "At first glance, you're not sure if this system is just a gimmick by Nintendo to sell more GBAs, or if it really is a well-intentioned game machine delivered in the smallest of packages."
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jimray : Pencil Revolution - In an age of hyperconnectivity, it's nice to see a simple blog about ... pencils
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gleuschk : OKCupid! The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test - 78 % Nerd, 26% Geek, 17% Dork: Pure Nerd.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Human Cannonball Soars Across U.S. Border - Human Cannonball Soars Across U.S. Border: the picture alone is worth the price of admission
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jimray : Allyn Scura - Vintage Eyeglasses, Vintage Eyewear - Vintage frames and original designs, pretty cheap, too
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