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Jeremy Zawodny : Jeremy Asks: How Do You Learn to Search? - Jeremy Asks: How Do You Learn to Search?: some interesting discussion around this
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14/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google launches blog search, pure plays are hosed - Google launches blog search, pure plays are hosed: You might remember this commentary from such films as Netscape, Novell, and WordPerfect.
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14/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Audioscrobbler web services - tons of fun potential uses for this data [via]
Rod Begbie : Audioscrobbler - The Music Technology Playground from Last.fm - The Last.fm chaps share their music tag data for non-commercial purposes. Can you say woo? [via] #
philgyford : Web Services - Audioscrobbler - It's been a while since I looked - I didn't realise there was so much juicy data easily accessible.
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14/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: George Bush asks Condi Rice for permission to pee - best Reuters photo ever; zoomed out view of the same moment
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14/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : You stole my solar object! - Odd story of one astronomer possibly "stealing" another astronomer's discovery of a large trans-Neptunian object. The original discoverer alleges that the usurper looked at a couple of Web sites that detailed the discovery and where the discover's telesco
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14/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : CMJ preview - Heading out to CMJ this week in NYC? Coolfer has some thoughts on which groups might make a big splash among the glut of live music that CMJ brings to the already-oversupplied city.
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14/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : X-Wing papercraft from a Paris Metro ticket - step-by-step photo tutorial
jkottke : Make x-wing fighter out of a Paris Metro ticket - How to make X-wing fighters (from Star Wars) out of Paris Metro tickets. I gotta try this...I've got about a zillion of these laying around because they make great bookmarks.
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14/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Questions for nominees - Five things I'd ask every Supreme Court nominee if I sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee: "If you knew to an absolute moral certainty that you could capture and consume a live infant without being caught, how many do you suppose you could eat in a weeke
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14/09/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : The News and Observer maps traffic cams on top of Google maps - Joe, this is fucking cool, man
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14/09/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : EULAlyzer: Analyze license agreements for interesting words and phrasesconds, and provide a detailed listing of potentially interesting words and phrases. - EULAlyzer can analyze license agreements in seconds, and provide a detailed listing of potentially interesting words and phrases. Discover if the software you're about to install displays pop-up ads, transmits personally identifiable information, uses uni
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14/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Office versus Open Office shootout - "As nice as Open Office Excel is for a free application, it doesn't even come close to the performance and usability of Microsoft Office Excel"
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14/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Camera phones will be high-precision scanners - The software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page
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14/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : IE7 and OpenSearch: Behind the scenes - The IE team collaborated with A9/Amazon on OpenSearch 1.1. This blog post is a story about how the collaboration took place
Jeremy Zawodny : IE7 and OpenSearch: Behind the scenes - IE7 and OpenSearch: Behind the scenes: interesting developments in IE7 and search
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14/09/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
Jason Shellen : Blake... da Musical - A musical about Robert Blake. #
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14/09/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Dave Sifry on Google's blog index - Much better than the "holy crap!"
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14/09/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Wi-Fi in Central Park - Just in time for winter!
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Rod Begbie : The Jolly Wacky Executionist (video) - Found whilst rummaging through folders on my webserver: A (crappily-encoded) video of a sketch I wrote and performed in at the Improv Asylum in 2001. #
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14/09/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : BT offers London-wide Ethernet LANs - BT is gearing up for its 21st Century Network with a service that lets firms extend their office network within the M25
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14/09/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : Why do we have to fight? - Rant about clueless project managers
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14/09/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : Adding Search providers to IE 7 using OpenSearch 1.1 - The user should be able to target their search directly to site of their choice: MSDN, Intranet portal, Team Sharepoint, PubMed, NYTimes, Costco, USPS, Amazon, WikiPedia, Ebay, Craigslist, etc.
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14/09/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : OpenSearch Description Document 1.1 [DRAFT] - OpenSearch Description files are used by search engines to describe what kinds of content they index, how they can be queried, and how they can return search results
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14/09/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
gleuschk : numbers | Ask MetaFilter - delightfully geeky flirting
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14/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
bmilleare : Comfortable PHP editing with VIM
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14/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Weblogs Inc reviews Google Blog Search - partial text for many blogs, and blogs without feeds aren't represented at all
Jeremy Zawodny : REVIEW: Google Blog Search - REVIEW: Google Blog Search: in summary: good start but more needed before it shines
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14/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Animal reviews - Animal Reviews is (duh) a site that reviews animals, including giving them a rating. The dolphin gets 0.8/10 while the duck-billed platypus gets a 6.3.
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14/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Expression: Your Creative Power Unleashed - Professional design tools give you greater flexibility to create sophisticated applications and content. Innovative technologies enable faster and richer interface development for Windows applications or the Web
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14/09/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
deusx : CNN.com - U.S. won't ban mediafrom New Orleans searches - Sep 10, 2005 - "Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans."
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14/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : New FEMA boss is 'Duct Tape Man' - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com - "the man President Bush immediately named to succeed "Brownie," proves to have been the same FEMA official who, two-and-a-half years ago, suggested that Americans stock up on duct tape to protect against a biological or chemical terrorist attack"
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14/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : New Zealand Herald - New Orleans 'unsafe for a decade' - Sunday 11, September 2005 23:47.00 PM - World News - "And, he added, the Bush Administration is covering up the danger. "
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14/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Paragraph, a place for writers - Paragraph looks like a neat idea. It's a writer's workspace located near Union Square here in NYC. It's like a gym, except for writers. You pay a membership fee and then you can show up and use the facilities (desks, kitchen, your own locker for your stu
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14/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
kayodeok : Roundup Of Google Blog Search Commentary
ricmac : Roundup Of Google Blog Search Commentary - My comment: it sucks! (but I'm biased, as it's not indexing my blog)
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14/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : How to vanish in America without a trace - In case you ever need it, a long, long piece about how to vanish in America without a trace.
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gleuschk : numbers | Ask MetaFilter - delightfully geeky flirting
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14/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Journey of the monarch butterfly - Papalotzin is a project to follow the migration of the monarch butterfly from Canada to Mexico in an ultralight airplane (they call it their big butterfly). They've made it as far as NYC so far and are blogging and taking pictures as they go. (via gurgly) [via]
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14/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Database Simplicity - XML - I would like to introduce ConvertRStoXML(). This function takes a recordset and converts it into a simple XML document
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14/09/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
Linkorama : A Victory for Ideas - It doesn’t matter what the percentages are, we created a real debate about what the Public Advocate’s office could be and we raised a lot of important ideas…In case you didn’t hear, today the New York Parks Department announced
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14/09/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: TiVo won't save certain shows or allow moving them - "I sold my TiVo when I left California. You can be goddamned sure I won't be buying another one. Ever"
Nelson Minar : Stupid TiVo choice - Not letting me save shows is going to make me hate your product
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14/09/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Card Throwing Technique - "The following text and images have been quoted from Ricky Jay's book entitled "Cards as Weapons" (Copyright 1988, Warner Bros.) Regrettably, this excellent book has been out-of-print for quite some time."
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14/09/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : Errol Morris interview - Dear The Onion, please stop paginating your stories. I know you're trying to increase your ad real estate, but it's annoying to have to click to read more, especially on shorter stories. From now on, when I link to stuff like this excellent Errol Morris i
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14/09/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Linkorama : Skype Groupware Solution - Simple enough at present scale and location
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14/09/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Linkorama : RIAA-biased Skype Story - Crappy article in the Mercury news tainting Skype as a music industry criminal
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14/09/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Linkorama : Google launches blog search - By Date is full of spam
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14/09/2005 @ 12:56 GMT
Linkorama : Our Social World Recap - Good notes, particularly on Tom Coates' presentation
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14/09/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Linkorama : findability.org - ambient findability the design of findable objects
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14/09/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
deusx : Powazek: Just a Thought: Embrace your bottom! - ""
Richard Rutter : Embrace your bottom! - Powazek says to reward readers by moving distractions downwards.
Milo Vermeulen : Powazek: Just a Thought: Embrace your bottom! - Powazek: Just a Thought: Embrace your bottom! [related]
Paul Hammond : Powazek: Just a Thought: Embrace your bottom! - Then, when they get to the end, when they're ready for something else to do, when they're ready for that end of the date smooch ...
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14/09/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Linkorama : PayPal and Skype - The Key is not eBay, but PayPal
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14/09/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
kayodeok : Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser - Decrem and a small cadre of programmers in Palo Alto, California, have spent this summer quietly readying Flock, an open-source browser, for an early October beta launch. Several members of the team, including Decrem, hail from the Mozilla Foundation, whi
ricmac : Wired: Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser - "Web 2.0 is a stream of events, people and connections." A better browser is one that will understand this new user environment."
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14/09/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Pop Time Capsule Returns to Earth - Somewhere out past Mars, Adolf Hitler floats through space - along with Elvis, Darth Vader and an advertisement for a porn website
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14/09/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : SVN on MacOS X - Getting Subversion running on your Mac.
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14/09/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Linotype FontExplorer X - Anyone trying to manage fonts on OS X will be needing this.
Douglas Bowman : FontExplorer X - The best font management tool for Max OS X is out of beta.
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14/09/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
znarf : Recherche de blogs Google - Bye bye Technorati ? #
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14/09/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
kayodeok : Google Blog Search - Find blogs on your favorite topics
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14/09/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
Jason Shellen : Blog Search by Google - Search blogs from all over the web. #
kayodeok : search.blogger.com - Search blogs from all over the web
erikbenson : Eric Case pointed me to Blogger's new blog search - It may indeed replace my need for Technorati...
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14/09/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : How To Nail A Sexy Layout - Part One, Skeletize, Visualize, and Nakedize
deusx : How To Nail A Sexy Layout // Archives // Addicted To New - ""
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14/09/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Shaving tips - 43FoldersWiki - Shaving tips
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14/09/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : How to Rip DVDs - WikiHow - Ripping DVDs (geek-speak for copying onto your PC's hard-drive) is good for making a backup of their content, or watching them on your PC
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14/09/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Can you legally copy DVDs? - DVD copying is a controversial and highly sought-after process. Not sure if what you're doing is legal? CNET sets your mind at ease
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14/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Hacking RSS and Atom is out! - Leslie Orchard's Hacking RSS and Atom is out
znarf : Hacking RSS and Atom is out! #
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14/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Blog Search - here's the FAQ, and Technorati CEO Dave Sifry's thoughts
kayodeok : Google Blog Search - Find blogs on your favorite topics
jkottke : Google launches blog search - Google finally launches a blog search service. The default search is by relevance, which I'm not sure is correct, and it's pretty bare bones so far, but I'm sure that many other people will be saying so long, Technorati. (via waxy) [via]
Philippe Janvier : Google Blog Search - "...a validation moment for the entire blogosphere". [via] #
Simon Willison : Google Blog Search - It's very simple, and appears to do exactly what you'd expect. [via]
Richard Rutter : Google Blog Search - Not just a filtered search, but less interesting than Technorati.
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14/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Q&A: Microsoft Showcases New User Interface for Office "12" Core Applications: - The new UI - the most dramatic change to the way Office applications work since introduction of the toolbar in 1997 - will help users become more proficient with Office and produce better-looking documents faster
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14/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search - Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search: Is Technorati now fucked?
kayodeok : Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search - Google has introduced its long awaited blog search service, becoming the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities
ricmac : SEW on Google Blog Search - "Now that Google has launched blog search, expect the other major search engines to follow suit fairly quickly."
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14/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : llor.nu - oddball social Monopoly-ish game with Ajax goodness
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14/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Jason Shellen : Six-Year List of Names for Atlantic Storms - 'Names are recycled every 6 years. Influential hurricanes have their names retired.' #
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14/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Blog Search - not launched yet, but goodbye Technorati?
kayodeok : Frequently Asked Questions Google Blog Search - Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps ins
jimray : Google Blog Search Help - Oh man, Technorati is about to bite it. Hard.
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14/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tommy Westphall and the Multiverse of TV - or: why Jack Tripper and Maxwell Smart live in the same universe [via]
joshua : Tommy Westphall - A Multiverse Explored - most of daytime tv exists only in a fictional child's mind
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14/09/2005 @ 07:57 GMT
jimray : The guy who runs Suicide Girls is a right wing nut who treats the models like crap - Porn site owner treats women badly? Huh. I've never understood the appeal of suicide girls, really, but I guess something like this will piss off a lot of the folks who do.
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14/09/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
veen : The Onion: Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth
jimray : Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth - "The gold we recover from the human rubble of Katrina can be used to make fighter-jet electronics, supercomputer chips, inflation-proof A-grade investments, and luxury yachting watches."
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14/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent.org: New Slashdot DayPass - "I'm not sure most people who use "slashdot" as a verb realize the site actually is a commercial effort, part of the Open Source Technology Network."
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14/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : SiliconBeat: The vanishing RSS company, SimpleFeed - "So is the real purpose to stay under the radar, or generate buzz? Or both!"
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14/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Torres talks up Microsoft - Mike makes a bold statement: "The biggest year in Microsoft's 30 year history starts right now."
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ricmac : Jon Udell: interview with Bill Gates - Jon was impressed by Office 12 demos.
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14/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Office 12 has new UI and cool RSS Support - "Outlook finally adds integrated RSS support (which is my preferred way to read RSS). In general, it looks like RSS aggregators are indeed a commodity."
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14/09/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : Ink 19 :: Carrie Nuttall - "The percussionist's wife, L.A. photographer Carrie Nuttall, has captured the essence of Peart the musician and perhaps the essence of Peart the man in Rhythm & Light, a new book of photos of the early Vapor Trails sessions."
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14/09/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
gleuschk : Throwing Cards - with images from Ricky Jay's book, "Cards as Weapons"
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14/09/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : alarm:clock: FM Publishing Profile - "We know that SearchBlog and BoingBoing will be good anchor sites, We have hear that other publishers in the network will include: Gigaom, Waxy.org, Metafilter, SearchEngineWatch, WiFiNetNews and PVR Blog." (via Ben Barren)
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14/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : Jesse Andrews on AjaxOffice - "What we need is an Atom Store. You get an Atom Store when you combine OpenSearch, Atom (with its protocols), and a good database (good seems to require simple, fast, scalable). "
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14/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth - Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth: classic onion all the way
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14/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
plasticbag : Critics savage Ritchie's new film - The ads have looked good(ish) but the reviewers aren't liking the it much. Interested to see what it's like...
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Matthew M. Boedicker : weave a wifi sniffer into your clothes or bag
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14/09/2005 @ 01:57 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : monitor-spanning Katamari wallpaper
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14/09/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Edubuntu - Ubuntu variant for use in the classroom.
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14/09/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : scribbly - Greasemonkey + canvas
deusx : scribbly - "I spent the afternoon playing with the canvas tag in Firefox. I ended up writing a hacky greasemonkey script for drawing on web pages."
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14/09/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Python for XUL scripting - As promised at ETech.
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14/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
plasticbag : Xenu - "In Scientology doctrine, Xenu is a galactic ruler who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs." - It's no wonder I'm an atheist - the faith of my forefathers is so dull. I want aliens and lasers. Now there's something to believe in...
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14/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
plasticbag : 'Proof' our brains are evolving - a really interesting BBC News piece on genes associated with acculturation.. - "The microcephalin variant appeared along with the emergence of traits such as art and music, religious practices and sophisticated tool-making techniques, which date back to about 50,000 years ago."
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14/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
plasticbag : Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain takes top prize at Venice - I'm kind of obsessed by this film, because it's been a long time since I saw a compelling mainstream drama with gay people in it. Plus they're cowboys. Hot cowboys.
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plasticbag : Shelley Powers takes Our Social World apart for being too dominated by males and not having enough minorities. - (1) I am gay, (2) I spent three post-grad years working around identity politics, feminism and queer theory, (3) There are iniquities that need to be rectfied, (4) I think this argument is illogical, insular, self-defeating and insulting.
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14/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : I hate the New Yorker blog - The writer of this blog hates the New Yorker, especially the David Denby part of it. From reading the site a bit, it seems to me that they actually like the NYer, but wish it were better, a feeling which I've had for several things in my life.
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14/09/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
jimray : Enterprise Ruby On Rails | - All this in just three computers?
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14/09/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
jimray : Code Snippets: Lighttpd Rails Script [rails] [lighttpd] - Start lighttpd just like you would WEBrick
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