8/09/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : As I May Think: Joe Reger shows us the future of blogging - re structured blogging "All of these ideas and proposals have the same basic "Web 2.0" theme: Make it easier for computers to process the data on the web by publishing that data in formats which are easily parsed and manipulated."
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ricmac : joereger.com - XML Schema to Log Type Beta Demo - um, more user-friendly title please Joe ;-) "This is just a start, but an important start. The goal is to remove all of the geeky stuff and allow anybody to share a log type quickly and easily."
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8/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : National Geographic article predicts Louisiana disaster in October 2004 - yet another example of extremely accurate predictions in the mainstream media
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Andy Baio : ROKR iTunes phone limiting song uploads with bad DRM - limited to 100 songs, whether they fill up the storage or not [via]
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Andy Baio : Astrodome radio station blocked by local officials - meanwhile, FEMA is blocking pancakes, milk, and jailbreaks
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8/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Hacking game shows - Fun little read on how a guy named Michael Larsen hacked the Press Your Luck game show: "In November of 1983, he recorded every episode of Press Your Luck over the course of several weeks. He studied these videotapes, slowed them down, and froze the image [via]
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8/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : MoMA acquires "lost" Matisse - The MoMA has acquired The Plum Blossoms by Henri Matisse (picture), the wereabouts of which have been unknown for 30 years.
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8/09/2005 @ 22:58 GMT
jimray : The Gulf Coast in Katrina's Wake (washingtonpost.com) - Probably the best multimedia map I've seen of the Hurricane coverage - even though the icons aren't very intuitive at first
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8/09/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
ricmac : Ebay in talks to buy Skype - Initial analyst views are that the deal makes little strategic sense for eBay - Skype apparently hasn't sorted out their strategic direction either.
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8/09/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
ricmac : Genuine VC: eBay and Skype - "eBay’s possible move re-raises the question – is connectivity worth more than content?"
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8/09/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
ricmac : TechDirt: News Corp buys IGN - "he's [Murdoch] trying to string together a whole series of new MTVs for the interactive generation"
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8/09/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
ricmac : I Eat Tapes: You laugh now - " you laugh now but in a fully glocalized world you wont be laughing"
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8/09/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
ricmac : Defining a Web Ministry - "Web Ministry is using internet resources (namely the web) to utilize the gifts, talents, resources, and desires of a believer (church, organization, individual) to make an eternal impact in the lives of individuals."
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8/09/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Ago - Ago: Nelson made a javascript library for displaying relative date/time stamps
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8/09/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Good Flying - Good Flying: Zdravko Podolski's web site
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8/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mountain Checkout - Mountain Checkout: a good write-up of a mountain checkout done in a Cessna 172
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8/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : You can out-spend or out-teach - You can out-spend or out-teach: teaching wins
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8/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : On Vint Cerf, Google, dark fiber and video - On Vint Cerf, Google, dark fiber and video: Google intends to become the most important video carrier on the planet, and is developing the servers and fiber network to make that possible. As television shifts to the net, only Yahoo and perhaps British Tel
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8/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Map of San Francisco Neighborhoods - Map of San Francisco Neighborhoods: I've always wondered where some of those areas are
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8/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Food Critic Tears Radish Canapd With Salmon Mousse A New Asshole - Food Critic Tears Radish Canapd With Salmon Mousse A New Asshole: best food review ever!
jkottke : Brutal food review - The lofty world of food reviewing gets some much needed profanity and street-sensibility in this article, Food Critic Tears Radish Canapes With Salmon Mousse A New Asshole (The Onion, of course).
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8/09/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Zen Garden Archives - Dave Shea adds some major upgrades to the CSS Zen Garden archive pages, and explains all the thinking and trials and work behind creating them. Nice work, Dave.
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8/09/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Cederholm interviewed - Ethan interviews Dan for Digital Web, much of it covering Bulletproof Web Design.
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8/09/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : The Fortress - A band. A band that covers NINTENDO SONGS!! Rad.
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8/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : So now this is interesting - Christian Lindholm runs off from Nokia and straight into the arms of Yahoo! - Been noticing a fair amount of this recently, what with Flickr and all and a couple of friends in the States. All very interesting.
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8/09/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Wired News: Terrorists Don't Do Movie Plots - Bruce Schneier on why the only thing we have to fear is fear itself
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8/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Cerf's up at Google - Vint Cerf, a Founding Father of the Internet, Joins Google as Chief Internet Evangelist
ricmac : Google Press Center: Cerf's up - Vint Cerf, a Founding Father of the Internet, Joins Google as Chief Internet Evangelist
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8/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Spotlight Importer Programming Guide: Troubleshooting Spotlight Importers - "Troubleshooting a Spotlight importer can be difficult given that it is run by the system automatically as required and is run outside the development environment."
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8/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Letter pairs infoviz - The letter-pairs analysis application reads in some text and displays a graphical representation of distribution of letter pairs used in the text. Love the aesthetics of the information display.
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8/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : MacOS intl input - Various ways to type non-ASCII
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8/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Linkorama : KATRINA TIMELINE - documents the Bush administration's total ineptitude and denial
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8/09/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : NTP mgmt scripts - Uses tcpdump to track time server stats
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8/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
gleuschk : SourceForge.net: Project Info - Macaulay2 - huh, development!
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8/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
gleuschk : Bob Geroch's Suggestions For Giving Talks - some good advice
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8/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flying the Champ - Flying the Champ: sounds like a fun day
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8/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Unplanned freefall? - Advice on surviving an unplanned free fall. "By tilting forward and putting your hands at your side, you can modify your pitch and make progress not just vertically but horizontally as well. As you go down 15,000 feet, you can also go sideways two-thirds
deusx : The Free Fall Research Page: Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips by David Carkeet - "Much will depend on your attitude. Don't let negative thinking ruin your descent."
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8/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Urine battery - Scientists in Singapore have developed a battery powered by urine. Urine is rich in ions and ions are what make electricity go whoosh. (thx jeff)
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8/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Neat interface for displaying paintings - And as long as we're on the subject (you didn't think we were even on a subject, did you?), I'm a fan of how Maciej is displaying his oil paintings. For each of his newer paintings (like this one of a West Village scene), he's documenting the progress of
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8/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : AoE III demo - and me a long way from my gaming PC
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8/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : More eBay / Skype - summary of the WSJ article
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8/09/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Swiss import duties - What it costs to import something you buy online
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8/09/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Searching for Standards - It’s interesting to note that only one engine is using valid markup and CSS layouts, and that would be MSN
Douglas Bowman : Searching for Standards - Molly Holzschlag does a quick survey of various popular search engines and reports back basic use of web standards. MSN leads the pack.
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8/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Earth Departure Movie - "...a movie documenting the view from MESSENGER as it departed Earth". [via] #
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8/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Video games good for surgeons - Among laparoscopic surgeons, those who have played video games in the past are significantly faster and less error-prone in a surgical training exercise than those who have never gamed. Even better were those who are current gamers...they realized 30% gai
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8/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : OS X redesign noodling - A couple of recent OS X interface ruminations: rethinking the Finder and Spotlight revisited. Some good ideas in both of these, particularly the Spotlight one (I find Spotlight disorienting at times).
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8/09/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
kayodeok : Linux Professional Institute (LPI): Tutorials for intermediate-level certification, LPI exam 201 - The tutorials below help you prepare for the eight topics in LPI exam 201. Exam 201 is the first of two LPI intermediate-level system administrator exams. Both exam 201 and exam 202 are required for intermediate-level certification
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8/09/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
kayodeok : Linux Professional Institute (LPI): Tutorials for junior-level certification, LPI exam 101 - The tutorials below help you prepare for the five topics in LPI exam 101. Exam 101 is the first of two LPI junior-level system administrator exams. Both exam 101 and exam 102 are required for junior-level certification.
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8/09/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Terrorists Don't Do Movie Plots - Commuter terrorism is the new movie plot. The London bombers carried bombs into the subway, so now we search people entering the subways. They used cell phones, so we're talking about ways to shut down the cell-phone network
Wayne Burkett : Wired News: Terrorists Don't Do Movie Plots - It's utterly depressing that Schneier, as always, is completely right and anyone who has spent five minutes on the problem knows he's right, but nothing will change. #
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8/09/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : La clé du libre - "Un véritable couteau suisse du travailleur nomade, à un prix défiant toute concurrence, par rapport aux logiciels commerciaux. Il est même possible de télécharger gratuitement les logiciels pour les installer sur sa propre c [via] #
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8/09/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : eBay / Skype / $5B? - Another Skype rumour
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8/09/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Zuni's prep chefs - Neat article about the back of the kitchen (via Marc)
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8/09/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Aquamacs MacOS - Another Emacs port for MacOS, tries to be a nice Mac application (via Brian)
gleuschk : Aquamacs: Emacs for Mac OS X - the right emacs port for osx
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8/09/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : iPod phone looks dumb - 100 songs, no iTunes ring tones, ... stupid compromises
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8/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Top Ten Digital Photography Tips - It's not the camera that makes beautiful images; it's the photographer. With a little knowledge and a willingness to make an adjustment here and there, you can squeeze big time photos out of the smallest digicam
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8/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Beat Any Website into Shape with Greasemonkey - Ever used a site that doesn't work in Firefox, even though it could with just a few minor tweaks? Ever frustrated by a site you really like apart from one annoying thing it does, or felt the desire to customise sites you visit often?
Philippe Janvier : Beat Any Website into Shape with Greasemonkey - "This article looks at user scripting in general, and Greasemonkey in particular, to explore some possible applications, and discuss any issues that arise". [via] #
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8/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Ten more CSS tricks you may not know
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8/09/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Isofarro : Developing Firefox Extensions with GNU/Linux - Step by step guide to building a new Firefox extension, including a build script in Python
kayodeok : Developing Firefox Extensions with GNU/Linux - This article is directed to anybody who wants to extend Firefox. Experience writing HTML, Javascript, and CSS should be all you need to understand XUL. Some knowledge about the Linux command line and the Python programming language are desirable, but not
joshua : introduction to firefox extensions
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8/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
ricmac : Scott Rafer: Increasing Media Entropy and Profits - Scott is leaving as CEO of Feedster, and moving into wireless: "There are a ton of great applications left to do on broadband, but I’m betting the next significant step is going to be mobile and wireless."
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8/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
ricmac : Most popular functions for mobile devices - Voice is only rated 5th! Whoa. [via Nat from O'Reilly Radar]
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8/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
ricmac : wsfinder - wiki for listing web services and APIs - "This is a community effort to create a list of all APIs and web services that are publically available for people to play with."
Philippe Janvier : Wsfinder wiki - "...a community effort to create a list of all APIs and web services that are publicly available for people to play with". [via] #
Eric Meyer : wsfinder - Want to find an API that'll let you get your hack on and bring the world the next great mashup? Here's a good place to start. [via Matt] [via]
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8/09/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
kellan : Kendall Clark: Semantic Rails, Semantic Django: Pushing RDF into MVC - Early thoughts. #
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8/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jimray : Gaslight itunes visualizer - Pretty
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8/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jimray : Mike Pinkerton, Camino dev, going to Google - Will be working on the Firefox team at Google, which means good things for Mac users
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8/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jimray : Technorati: Accelerated by idlewords.com - Brilliant
Jeremy Zawodny : Technorati Accelerator - Technorati Accelerator: Get Technorati search results without the annoying wait!
jkottke : Technorati accelerator - Use the Technorati Accelerator to "search on any URL and get the same response you would have to wait thirty seconds for on their site". Zing!
François Nonnenmacher : Get Technorati search results without the annoying wait! - Thanks Maciej ;-)
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8/09/2005 @ 05:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the 29 healthiest foods on the planet
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8/09/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : almost all racehorses descended from single 1700 stallion
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Matthew M. Boedicker : the police department that solves less than a third of homicides has resources to track every keg sold
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8/09/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : The New Yorker: THE MORAL-HAZARD MYTH - Excellent article by Malcolm Gladwell explaining just how horrendously fucked-up the US health industry is. "Because the uninsured are sicker than the rest of us, they can’t get better jobs, and because they can’t get better jobs they canâ [via] #
Nelson Minar : US health economics - Malcolm Gladwell boils down the crazy US health insurance system to our obsession with "moral hazard" (via Danah)
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8/09/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Threadless T-Shirts - Regrowth: Katrina - Lovely idea -- Threadless are selling this shirt for $10, but will donate *$20* to hurricane relief for every one sold. Mine is already ordered. #
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8/09/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : MasterMaq: Web 2.0 for rich clients - "If Web 2.0 is about relinquishing control, why are all the current examples and mashups trapped inside the web browser?"
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8/09/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Trying a Little Harder: “Make me your homepage” Javascript - Google Trying a Little Harder: “Make me your homepage” Javascript: anyone else seen this happen?
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8/09/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Pentagon jamming radio in New Orleans?
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Katamari designer on video games for grandma
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Hack-A-Day sticker and button photos
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8/09/2005 @ 02:58 GMT
joshua : Apache::PerlVINC - Allows versioning of modules among directories or v-hosts.
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Matthew M. Boedicker : portable public transit strap
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Pulp/Radiohead supergroup forms to be in next Harry Potter movie
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Matthew M. Boedicker : odd money found on the street
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Venetian Snares and Amazon love Winnipeg (good tune)
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Matthew M. Boedicker : contents of the bag Buddy Holly had with him when he died
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Matthew M. Boedicker : tracert embroidery (unix traceroute would have been cooler)
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Matthew M. Boedicker : top 25 ways to save money at the gas pump
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Matthew M. Boedicker : why good programmers are lazy and dumb
Rod Begbie : Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb - Compare with Larry Wall's "Laziness, Impatience, Hubris" virtues of a programmer theory. #
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8/09/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : direct to PSP memory stick video recorder
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Matthew M. Boedicker : damn blue collar tweakers like hunting for arrowheads
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8/09/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : The 8500 calorie manwich - Beautiful.
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8/09/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
kayodeok : How Expedia Funds Spyware - Comments from Expedia staff indicate that Expedia is aware of its relationships with "adware" vendors. Nonetheless, advertising intermediaries help facilitate, track, and fund these relationships. Users may therefore place some blame on advertising interm
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8/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
kayodeok : XML.com: Automating Stylesheet Creation - Since the early days of XSLT, many have asked whether it was possible to automate the creation of XSLT stylesheets
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8/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Grass hailed as potential source of clean energy on Yahoo! News - Grass hailed as potential source of clean energy on Yahoo! News: smoke it, man!
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8/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Hilarious Domain Name Mispronouncings - Hilarious Domain Name Mispronouncings: damn, these are funny
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8/09/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : 800x600 dead? Nope. on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - You can't design for 1024x768, or 800x600. You have to design for the web.
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8/09/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Nikon D70 focus test chart - For my photography nerd friends who own Nikon D70 cameras, here's the Nikon D70 focus test chart. Looking closely at some photos I shot yesterday, I may have to try this out.
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