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kellan : "While commies have enhanced suspension-of-disbelief capability..." - Turn of phrase that made me smile. As opposed to us anarchist who always see with blinding clarity. #
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kellan : Small ActiveRecord STI Gotcha - Yeah, got burned by that one as well. Still not an STI fan. #
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kellan : Menacing Earthworks, Inc - Yet another good domain name that fails to work as a name for a consulting shop. Alas. Taking suggestions for a good name btw #
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9/09/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
kellan : Is FEMA New Orlean's punishment for the sin of voting overwhelmingly (78%) for Kerry? - Whiskey Bar: Where There's a Will #
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9/09/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
kayodeok : Paragon NTFS for Linux driver - Read-Write access to NTFS volumes - You not only can install NTFS access driver into Linux operating system, but you can also use bootable CD included in the product to access NTFS volumes
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kayodeok : xml:id Version 1.0: W3C Recommendation 9 September 2005 - This document defines the meaning of the attribute xml:id as an ID attribute in XML documents and defines processing of this attribute to identify IDs in the absence of validation, without fetching external resources, and without relying on an internal su
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kayodeok : Microsoft tries to recruit Eric S Raymond - "I called Mike Walters, who told me my name had been passed to him by his research team. I indicated to him that I thought somebody was probably having a little joke at his expense, and promised him an email reply. Here is my reply in its entirety"
Andy Baio : Microsoft tries to recruit Eric S. Raymond - hilarity ensues [via]
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9/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : 1,000,000 pixels for sale - This guy is selling 1,000,000 pixels on his site for $1 apiece. Minimum purchase is a 100 pixel block on which you can put a tiny banner and a link to your Web site or whatever. (via cyn-c) [via]
erikbenson : The Million Dollar Homepage: buy a pixel for a $1, and make this guy rich. - He's already made almost half a million off of this wacky idea. It'll be interesting to see if people can rent and sell their pixels as property values go up.
plasticbag : The Million Dollar Homepage has sold every single bloody pixel - Some of them are being resold by rather unscrupulous people, but what the hey. Obviously you have to hate the person concerned because he thought of it and you didn't. I can't imagine what good Googlejuice people get from this...
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9/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Release Notes - It's my great hope that Firefox 1.5 will be as good on my Mac as it is on Windows
Matthew M. Boedicker : Firefox 1.5 beta 1 released
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9/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bush allows Katrina contractors to pay below prevailing wage - Bush allows Katrina contractors to pay below prevailing wage: President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
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9/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Everybody loves Eric Raymond - Everybody loves Eric Raymond: Show them the code
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9/09/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Power to Detain U.S. Terror Suspect Is Upheld - New York Times - Preseident "unquestionably" has the right to detain U.S. citizens as enemy combatants
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9/09/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Wired News: RNAi Interferes With Disease
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9/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jimray : Inisde the iPod nano - The inevitable "take it apart" entry
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9/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Grauniad's new look - So farewell then, Garamond Italic and Helvetica Black. #
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9/09/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Wolf Urine 8 Oz at Merrifield Garden Center - Yup. 100% pure wolf urine. You gotta wonder how one goes about collecting that...
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9/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : HuffPo comment constipation - Stephen Baker at Business Week is reporting that Huffington Post has a backlog of 15,000 comments that need to be approved for display on the site. Crazy. (I just found BW's Blogspotting blog today...they've got some interesting coverage, including whethe
Andy Baio : Huffington Post has a 15,000 comment backlog - the downside of comment moderation [via]
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9/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Jane Jacobs interview - Long interview of Jane Jacobs by James Kunstler. I think it may be time to read The Death and Life of Great American Cities again.
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9/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Rubik's cube solver - If you've got a Rubik's, yo, this will solve it. Check out the link while cubist revolves it... (thx keith)
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9/09/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Linkorama : RSS "security" - My advice for now? Don't worry about it. RSS today is transported via HTTP.
Philippe Janvier : RSS "security" - "When most folks are talking about security with RSS, they tend to mean three things (or any combination of these) : authentication, authorization, encryption. Let's take these topics one at a time". [via] #
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9/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Debian and UTF-8 - Some notes trying to make things work
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9/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Three more dimensions - The existence and behavior of dark matter is puzzling indeed, but some UK astrophysicists speculate that adding three more spacial dimensions to the universe explains the gravitational behavior of dark matter. If they exist, these extra dimensions would b
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9/09/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
Linkorama : Semapedia - Combine the physical annotation technology of http://semacode.org with the availability of high quality information using the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org. The promise of this system is to provide free relevant ad-hoc high quality information to
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9/09/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Linkorama : The social imperative - Blogs, wikis, and social tagging have shown us that group intelligence, amplified by nothing more than linking and search, can manage flows of information more effectively than most of us would have dared to dream.
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philgyford : Fullinsert_high.pdf - Preview of the new Guardian Berliner format. I'm probably more excited than I should be.
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9/09/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
gleuschk : Math Games:Sudoku Variations - from the MAA -- some crazy versions here, including one that contains five others!
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9/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
gleuschk : Killer Sudoku (Samunamupure): some tips for solvers - some techniques I hadn't thought of here. nice.
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9/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Where is Snowball? Where is the bus? - "Huge pieces of America have been obliterated in the last four years, the bus has left, and it's too bad we don't give dogs the vote."
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9/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Hide CSS from Safari - Andy Clarke stumbles on a way to hide CSS from Safari--looks handy.
Eric Meyer : Hide CSS from Safari - Assuming you needed to and were willing to see the hack fail in a future release of Safari, given Hyatt's near-fanatical devotion to stomping out every bug ever noticed by every blogger ever.
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Ethan Marcotte : Easy alpha transparent pngs - Richard Rutter: ever a rockstar.
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9/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Common Bits video roundup of Daily Show's Katrina coverage - tons of essential commentary
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9/09/2005 @ 15:57 GMT
Linkorama : Open Rights Group - The Open Rights Group is committed to protecting your digital rights, to fighting bad legislation both in the UK and Europe, and to fostering a grassroots community of volunteers dedicated to campaigning on digital rights issues.
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9/09/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Linkorama : Skype to eBay for $5b - Skype plays down talk of imminent takeover
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9/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Olberman swings - This made my century.
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9/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : World of Warcraft + sex == BAD - Funny, though.
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9/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Spun - Gina has a new weblog. So frickin' subscribed.
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9/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : The first photo - "One summer day in France in 1826, Joseph Niepce took the world's first photograph. It's a photo of some farm buildings and the sky. It took an exposure time of 8 hours. Voila! It had to feel pretty incredible, like magic."
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9/09/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
joshua : Zimbra - ajax-based collaboration suite
Jeremy Zawodny : Zimbra - Zimbra: Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology.
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9/09/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Hide the MacOS Dock - Wish I knew about orientation top a long time ago
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Nelson Minar : OS X key shortcuts - PDF, but a good listing
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9/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Pushing out security settings configured in the Registry
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9/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with David Greiner of Campaign Monitor - An interview with David Greiner of Campaign Monitor. Some good stuff in here about starting a small business on the Web.
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kayodeok : Television shows scramble forensic evidence - "Jurors who watch CSI believe that those scenarios, where forensic scientists are always right, are what really happens,"
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kayodeok : Writing a Program to Control OpenOffice.org, Part 1 - Learn how to leverage an existing application to create your own office automation program
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9/09/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Ohio voting mess - Lots of detail on misbehaviour in Ohio's 2004 presidential election (via MeFi)
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Nelson Minar : Red Cross denied - More on how the Red Cross was kept out of New Orleans (via MeFi)
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9/09/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Smoking prevalance - In developed countries
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9/09/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : How Google Got Its Groove On - Journalist John Battelle's The Search is a surprisingly gripping story of hackers turning insights about information into a billion-dollar business and giant corporations shaping the web to their profit models
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9/09/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Isofarro : addEvent() recoding contest - PPK is looking for an improvement to Scott Andrew's addEvent functions
Paul Hammond : QuirksMode - addEvent() recoding contest
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9/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Swiss language requirements? - Switzerland considers requiring language study for residency permits
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9/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Upcoming.org adds badges - post your events on your own site; here's an example
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9/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Rolling Stone publishes Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note - along with a strange eulogy
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9/09/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Katrina's Silver Lining - New York Times - The Gautreaux program sounds about right. #
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9/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Invisible Speaker Wire - "Hidden by paint, wallpaper or spackle, this paper-thin wire will go unnoticed. You can even lay it under carpets—no bulges!" #
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9/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Evil Interiors - Unreal 2003 recontructions of classic movie sets; don't miss the screenshots [via]
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9/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Katrina conspiracy theories - plenty of great stuff on Snopes news page recently, too
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Andy Baio : NYT on News Corp's buyout of IGN and MySpace - $1.5 billion on three Internet companies in the last two months
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9/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired on the Paypal vs. Something Awful fundraiser controversy - Paypal locked SA's account, but I can't really blame them for vetting suspicious fundraisers
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9/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Kanye West remix, "George Bush Don't Like Black People" - very professionally done
jimray : Boing Boing: Katrina: Kanye remixed, "George Bush Don't Like Black People"
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9/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Vinton Cerf joins Google - though I'm sure people will balk at him remaining ICANN chairman [via]
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9/09/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the people in charge of homeland security spend too much time watching action movies
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9/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jimray : The kottke inspired hacks page - I EAT TAPES Wiki - I find that the word "hack" tends to best describe the people who use it grossly out of context (shifts gaze towards kottke.org and boingboing.net)
jkottke : More useless household hacks - The popcorn hacks post seems to have struck the wrong note with the humorless but elsewhere people have gotten into the spirit, contributing their own useless household hacks (I added the "personal locomotion" hack)...although the name hack ("Google Image
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9/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jimray : Viceland - HEY, DOG OWNERS - Fuck You - Why you shouldn't get a dog
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9/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
gleuschk : what to do about Elsevier supporting arms fairs? - 6 suggestions in the post, I added mine. what are yours?
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9/09/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : Joe Allbaugh, Disaster Pimp - Former FEMA chief is getting rich rebuilding Iraq, New Orleans. God bless America.
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9/09/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : Daring Fireball: The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme - "Man, he doesn’t even have a name. How’s that for bad-ass?"
Nelson Minar : Brushed metal's demise - Funny writing
Ethan Marcotte : The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme - "Are you at the Special Event?" Awesome.
jkottke : Brushed metal, bye bye - The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme. If you're a Mac nerd, you'll love this because it's pretty damn funny and if you're not, you probably won't get it.
Simon Willison : The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme - Brilliant.
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9/09/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
kaninka.net : ReykjavÃk street art 2005 - Flickr set
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9/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
cobra libre : del.icio.us comma-separated tags user script - greasemonkey script that allows you to list tags with commas instead of spaces, the way god intended #
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9/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Green With Envy - B. Adam (Howell) - I’ve been too busy making stuff and trying my best to not let jealousy get in the way.
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Paul Hammond : QuirksMode - for all your browser quirks
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