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joshua : Tasks Pro - rails-based task manager
kayodeok : Tasks Pro - Tasks Pro is the multi-user version of Tasks: a powerful web-based task manager (to-do list manager) that allows you to organize your tasks in a hierarchical structure
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30/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Test drive a mini - Apple will take your Mac mini back after 30 days if you don't love it
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30/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Boing Boing: Anti-RIAA lawyer: no limit on how many people we can defend - As soon as people realize that this is just scare tacticing by the RIAA and they can't possibly sue EVERYONE. Awesome.
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30/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
kayodeok : How the vi editor would seem if it has been made by Microsoft
jimray : If Bill Joy worked for Microsoft - Pretty ballsy for an entry on the official Sun weblogs
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30/08/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
veen : Evacuate or else? | Ask MetaFilter - "Are there any penalties for those ignoring a mandatory evacuation?"
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30/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Russian Man Becomes First Full Amputee to Fly Hang Glider - Russian Man Becomes First Full Amputee to Fly Hang Glider: from the department of surprising headlines
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30/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
plasticbag : How Much Does iTunes Like My Five-Star Songs? - Exploring the algorithm that choose songs in the Party Shuffle mode...
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30/08/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Shakespeare, secret Catholic - Shakespeare put coded messages about Catholicism into his plays that, due to the "Protestant, Whig ascendancy", have not been decoded until now.
Matthew M. Boedicker : hidden subversive political message in Shakespeare
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30/08/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : King Kong vs. the Pirates of the Multiplex - New York Times
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30/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : Bye bye blackboard museum - A blackboard written on by Einstein is supplemented by a whole range of contemporary blackboards by prominent politicians, artists and scientists...
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30/08/2005 @ 21:59 GMT
joshua : tiny tiny rss - cute little server-side rss reader
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30/08/2005 @ 21:59 GMT
kellan : might suggest this sudden outbreak of rationality has something to do with the fact that Ms. Rice's old employer, Chevron, is having its financial balls squeezed hard by Chavez - How did I not see any of this in the Grey Lady this morning? #
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30/08/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
jimray : Katrina ends Bush's vacation early - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com - What do you know? It actually DID take an act of God for Bush to get back to work.
deusx : Katrina ends Bush's vacation early - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com - I thought he wasn't actually supposed to be on vacation...?
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30/08/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Rod Begbie : Pandora - The Music Genome Project launch their little music player app. Not sure yet if I like it, but its recommendations certainly are interesting -- based upon musical elements, rather than your usual "People who listened to Super Furry Animals also listened t [via] #
Andy Baio : Pandora Music Engine comes out of private beta - streaming music recommendation service
plasticbag : I can't quite believe I didn't recommend this at the time: Pandora Music Recommendations engine - I'm talking to a lot of people at the moment who think that one way or navigating data is going to win over another. But it's ludicrous, we need all the dimensions we can get and user-generated sits perfectly well alongside and/or on top of top-down or ex
Jeremy Zawodny : Pandora - Pandora: To help you discover new music you'll love.
Philippe Janvier : Pandora - "...a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love." My radio tonight : Miles Davis of course ! [via] #
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30/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : Senator Will Ask Rumsfeld to Testify to Panel on Iraq - New York Times - "The idea that we would be sending American servicemen over to Iraq on the basis of the Iraqis developing a new constitution is just so remote, so distant and so fallacious"
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30/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Letting New Sounds Out of the Bag - "The meme of "generative music" - music that can change or create itself through software - has gained currency in the wake of ambient guru Brian Eno's endorsement of generative software Koan Pro."
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30/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : 8Bit Joystick.com: 8bit Joystick.com Lifehacks for 2005 - "ere is a new guest editor over at Lifehacker.com and that she was looking for submissions so I put pen to paper and came up with the following life hacks."
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30/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
gleuschk : Earth flyby video | MetaFilter - Isn't the Earth just cute as a button? So shiny!
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30/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Ben on DRM: "Same Price == Less Product" - A worthy soundbite, indeed.
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30/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Testing the accuracy of a SLR camera focusing system - For my photography nerd friends: testing the accuracy of a SLR camera focusing system.
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30/08/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
jimray : Startup School - Paul Graham tells you how to convert your smarts to actual money
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30/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X "Tiger" (Part 1) - Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X "Tiger" (Part 1)
Jeremy Zawodny : Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X "Tiger" (Part 1) - Windows Vista Beta 1 vs. Mac OS X "Tiger" (Part 1): if that's your sort of thing...
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30/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : Exclusive: Latest Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, WinFS, SQL Server 2005 Timelines Revealed - According to internal documentation I recently reviewed, Vista Beta 2 is scheduled to be "feature complete" by September 29, 2005. Then, Vista Beta 2 will enter lockdown mode between October and November 9, 2005
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30/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : OED | How to Make Your Speaking Easier and More Effective - How to Make Your Speaking Easier and More Effective
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Wayne Burkett : One U.S. District Court Judge's response to a RIAA lawsuit #
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Wayne Burkett : CNN Weatherman loses his cool - Think he'll be working there much longer? #
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30/08/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
joshua : paperback and pulp fiction archive
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30/08/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Trusted computing info - Schneier has an interesting update on the odious "trusted computing" initiative
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30/08/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Sir Jobbes to Launch iPod Telegraph, iPodde Kinetoscope (??) : Gizmodo - Hot Tea Modification. Heh.
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30/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Feisty Helms Defends Stances in Book - Compares abortion to 9/11and the holocaust. I can't decide if I'm more embarrassed by the fact that Helms is from North Carolina or the fact that he'd continue to get elected today.
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30/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Computerizing the Campus Laundry - Kentucky has laundry machines that email you when they're done. When I was in schoo, I always thought that'd be brilliant.
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30/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Urban Legends Reference Page: Lost Legends - The snopes.com Nihilartikels -- Fabricated explanations to catch out folks ripping off the site. #
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30/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Nihilartikel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Is Wikipedia's definition of Nihilartikel a Nihilartikel itself? #
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30/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Anti-RIAA law firm thinks it can defend an unlimited number of clients. - Hot. Via Boing Boing.
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30/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Reserved ID values in IE - Good notes from Eric on ID values to remember if running into unsolvable *IE Factor* weirdness.
Ethan Marcotte : Reserved id values in IE - Oh, wake me when it's all over...
Isofarro : Reserved ID Values? - Eric Meyer reports on more id values that trigger an error in IE. Looks like a naming collision caused by document.all references
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30/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Getting to know Joey - "I brace myself for more questions. They never come."
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30/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Review of 1491 - Short positive review of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (@ Amazon). Thumbed through it at the bookstore yesterday and it did look good...but I've got too many books in my queue already.
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30/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Flickr: puke clusters - via Metafilter
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Nelson Minar : Floating oil rig - Floats to a road bridge
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30/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
cobra libre : lessons from the swiss cheese map [via] #
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30/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google Sitemaps (BETA) Help - Google Mobile Sitemaps is an extension of Google Sitemaps that enables you to submit URLs that serve mobile content into our mobile index
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30/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google Mobile - Want to get Google Web Search and Image Search results on your phone or mobile device? Here's how
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30/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : 365tomorrows.com - Smooth and Steady - "All I had to do was stop taking the big one, the one with the odd lump in the middle and the diamond shape."
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30/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : Questionable Content #435: Jumping on the bandwagon - "Dammit Marten, now the Katamari Damacy song will be stuck in my head all day!"
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30/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : Advance Wars By Web v2.0 - "This website enables people to play Advance Wars online over the web. There is nothing you have to download. Everything happens within the browser and is mostly point and click."
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jkottke : Google's unnecessary arrogance - Dan Gillmor on Google's unnecessary arrogance. I believe some of what people call Google's arrogance isn't that at all, but they are still a deeply weird company.
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30/08/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : More on Win IME - Mostly works for me, but something odd is happening with my setting timing out
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Nelson Minar : Win character map - Here's a way to pick characters out of a font
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30/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : PopChar Win - Another character chooser. $30, but may be easier to use?
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jkottke : Perfect albums - Plastic recently considered the question of perfect albums, those where every song is great and you never want to skip over them. Philip compiled a list of the responses; Radiohead's OK Computer and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue came out on top.
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30/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Windows non-ascii input methods - Why is it so freakin hard to type Zürich?
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30/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Good morning! - Always wash your nostrils in the morning
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30/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Intelligent design != science - Daniel Dennett on why intelligent design isn't science. "Evolutionary biology certainly hasn't explained everything that perplexes biologists. But intelligent design hasn't yet tried to explain anything."
deusx : Show Me the Science - New York Times - "If intelligent design were a scientific idea whose time had come, young scientists would be dashing around their labs, vying to win the Nobel Prizes that surely are in store for anybody who can overturn any significant proposition of contemporary evoluti
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30/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : Mark Thompson's speech to the Edinburgh International Television Festival 2005 - "But the idea that, in the age of the i-pod, the public would not welcome the opportunity to actually buy a download of a piece of music they have heard on a BBC site ... seems to me ridiculous. "
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30/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Finding the beach in Manhattan - Photo slideshow of where Manhattanites find the beach amongst the skyscrapers and bustling streets of the city.
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30/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Sudoku popularity - This NY Times article on the popularity of sudoku puzzles in US newspapers had me confused because it really didn't explain what the heck these puzzles were and I'd never seen one before. Luckily, Wikipedia to the rescue.
gleuschk : A Few Words About Sudoku, Which Has None - New York Times - the grey lady finally succumbs to the madness
deusx : A Few Words About Sudoku, Which Has None - New York Times - "For its part, sudoku - a short form of the Japanese words meaning "only single numbers allowed" - could not have become popular before the rise of personal computers."
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jkottke : Borrowing people at the library - In addition to books, you can check people out of the Malmo, Sweden library. The library "will let curious visitors check out living people for a 45-minute chat in a project meant to tear down prejudices about different religions, nationalities, or profes
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30/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Storm damage from Katrina - The NY Times has photos and video from Hurricane Katrina.
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30/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Leaks New Ergonomic 4000 Keyboard - Here's to the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, a new take on their split keyboard of old. A 14° gable separates the two groups of keys, which is complemented by the curved key bed and 7-degree wrist rest for what looks to be a truly comfortab
Rod Begbie : Microsoft Leaks New Ergonomic 4000 Keyboard - I love Microsoft's ergonomic keyboards, and am delighted to see that the next model will have the proper Home/End/Delete block layout. [via] #
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Philippe Janvier : Grouped Email Addresses in GMail - Un truc pour créer des groupes d'adresses dans Gmail. [via] #
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Philippe Janvier : How to Fold a Shirt Revisited - Où le pliage de T-Shirt devient scientifique. [via] #
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30/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Brainstorms and Raves: Back to the Opening New Windows Issue? - What about accessibility issues and going against government or other accessibility requirements by opening new windows and removing browser features? See Day 16: Not opening new windows from Mark Pilgrim's Dive into Accessibility
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30/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Libraries offering audiobook downloads (or Libraries Use DRM to Expire Audiobooks) - A patron with a valid library card visits a library Web site to borrow a title for, say, three weeks. When the audiobook is due, the patron must renew it or find it automatically "returned" in a virtual sense: The file still sits on the patron's computer,
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30/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Teddy Summer 2005 - Bears all over Zurich
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30/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Get Fuzzy RSS - Is there a site that links to all comics RSS somewhere?
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30/08/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Yahoo! Search blog: New and Improved Mail Search - Yahoo! Mail is launching all new search features that will make mail management more efficient, and hopefully, a little more fun
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kayodeok : Limiting Internet Explorer to Windows Update - Ideas on Limiting Internet Explorer to Windows Update
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kayodeok : Hide physical drives in Windows Explorer - Hiding the individual physical/removable/optical drives in My computer is possible in Windows XP using the "NoDrives" registry entry. This is equivalent to the Hide these specified drives in My Computer Group Policy
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30/08/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
kayodeok : Linux Distribution Chooser - Seems my needs cannot be met: "Sorry, we were not able to find any matches. Please come back later"
Wayne Burkett : Linux Distribution Chooser - It recommended Ubuntu, which is what I'm using at home. #
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kayodeok : Which distro for you? A test to determine which distro to try out for your x86 based desktop - According to this quiz, Knoppix is my ideal distro (except that I have used it for six months and I don't really care for it)
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kayodeok : Open New Windows for PDF and other Non-Web Documents (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - When using PC-native file formats such as PDF or spreadsheets, users feel like they're interacting with a PC application. Because users are no longer browsing a website, they shouldn't be given a browser UI
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kayodeok : An IPod Cellphone Said to Be Imminent - Apple Computer and Motorola plan to unveil a long-awaited mobile phone and music player next week that will incorporate Apple's iTunes software, a telecommunications industry analyst who has been briefed on the announcement said on Monday
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kayodeok : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: The Case of the Intermittent (and Annoying) Explorer Hangs - Debugging an Internet Explorer hang by using Process Explorer, Filemon and Regmon
Wayne Burkett : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: The Case of the Intermittent (and Annoying) Explorer Hangs - Some nifty debugging with Process Explorer, Filemon and Regmon. #
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Andy Baio : Credible rumors on the IM war - Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL may be conspiring against Google Talk in the IM space [via]
plasticbag : "1,2,3,4, I Declare IM War" - an interesting theory about MSN, AIM and Yahoo conspiring to keep Google out of the multi-platform IM game... - If it's true, it seems to me it'll have the opposite effect - as a real boom happens with Jabber clients that are interoperable instead led by Google. This could be about the platformising of the IM space for other people to build upon...
gleuschk : 1,2,3,4 -- I Declare IM War - what AOL, MSN, and Y! think about Google Talk
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30/08/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : A judicial answer to the RIAA - RIAA sues mom for file sharing; judge kicks their asses
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Andy Baio : NYT on Flying Spaghetti Monster - classic net-style satire makes a comeback
jimray : But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There? - The New York Times does the spaghetti monster
plasticbag : I said I wouldn't link to them again, but goddam is the New York Times article on Pastafarianism entertaining... Be prepared to get irritable about logins though... - "Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?"
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Andy Baio : Lego Factory - create and share digital Lego models, then buy custom-made kits of your designs [via]
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30/08/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
kayodeok : Call and Response: Handling RFP Tension - in the interest of helping designers understand how they can make the most out of every RFP opportunity, this article highlights four areas of client/designer “engagement tensionâ€
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kayodeok : Researchers: Distorting biometrics enhances security - A trick reminiscent of a fun-house mirror might improve the security and privacy of the access-control technology that examines fingerprints, facial features or other personal characteristics
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30/08/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : What is RSS, and Why Should You Care? - This week, SearchDay takes a close look at RSS, a web publishing format that's transforming information delivery for both publishers and users
Philippe Janvier : What is RSS, and Why Should You Care ? - Rien de neuf sous le soleil, mais toujours utile pour se rappeler quelques notions de base. A suivre : comment identifier un site web qui publie un fil RSS ? [via] #
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30/08/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Final Blow in the Doppler Wars - I'm waiting for Doppler Infinity+1 [via]
deusx : Steve Minutillo :: messy-78 - Blog Archive Is this the final blow in the Doppler wars? - "WCBS in New York may have just hit on the final solution to the Doppler Wars, inventing an utterly unbeatable, unstoppable, and unmatchable Doppler Radar technology:"
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30/08/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Top 5 Reasons to Launch Google Talk - "1. Wanted yet another communication channel via which to refuse to talk to CNET."
Jeremy Zawodny : Top 5 Reasons to Launch Google Talk - Top 5 Reasons to Launch Google Talk: heh... excellent.
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30/08/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
veen : Confounding Machines: How the Future Looked - New York Times - Quoting a century of futuists
jimray : Confounding Machines: How the Future Looked - New York Times - "Television ... is the greatest means of communication ever developed by the mind of man. It should do more to develop friendly neighbors, and to bring understanding and peace on earth."
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30/08/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
veen : Del.icio.us and MyWeb Combo Bookmarklet - Thomas does a bookmarlet mash-up
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30/08/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
kayodeok : On the Frontier of Search - Get ready for a wave of new features - from 3-D satellite pics of your house to news tailored to your "clickstream." A guide to innovative engines
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ricmac : Do you read newsfeeds on your mobile phone? - Barb asks: "how many of you read some or all of your RSS feeds on your cellphone?"
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ricmac : Social LEGOs - "LEGO is starting a new program called LEGO Factory, in which LEGO fans are designing their own kits and sharing them with the LEGO community at large."
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plasticbag : An interesting block of feedback on getting a computer-naive parent to switch to a Mac - I'm particularly fascinated by this one as I'm trying to get my family to convert to an iBook at the moment. I wonder if they'll be able to do it...
Nelson Minar : Tim's Mom's Mac - Great writeup of the computer for the rest of us
Douglas Bowman : Mac Mini for Mom - Interesting report from Tim Bray about buying a Mac Mini for his Mom, and observing her use. Detail like this should not only be paid attention to by Apple, it should be rewarded. Even though some of it is what you'd expect, there's info in here that Appl
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