17/09/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Interactive Narratives: Podcast #3 - Brian Storm - Good insights from Brian. Drew, this is really slick man and exactly the sort of podcasts I'd love to see more of -- well don, sir!
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17/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Microsoft is Doomed ! = Buy MSFT - "...the current consensus is awfully negative about Microsoft, despite the company heading, in 2006, into its busiest product cycle in recent memory."
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17/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Beige: the color of the universe - A couple of guys calculated the average color of the universe to be turquiose. Then it turned out they had made an error and the actual color of the universe is beige. (Comment on this)
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17/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Safe: Design Takes on Risk - Coming soon to the MoMa: Safe: Design Takes on Risk "presents more than 300 contemporary products and prototypes designed to protect body and mind from dangerous or stressful circumstances, respond to emergencies, ensure clarity of information, and provid
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17/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : He Man does 4-non-blondes - So it's basically a gay joke and I'm a bit conflicted about it, but what the hell... S'kind of funny...
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17/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : Troubling Exits At Microsoft - "There's a plea for action to Gates and Ballmer to do more -- slash the bureaucracy, tend to morale, and make it easier to innovate. But is anyone listening?"
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17/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : meebo.com - bloody astonishing multi-platform IM client in your browser - Doesn't seem to work so well on Safari - or at least not with the amount of tabs I have open normally, but still.
deusx : meebo.com - Really nifty browser-based IM client.
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jkottke : Breathe Me video - Music video for Breathe Me by Sia, that song at the end of the last episode of Six Feet Under. (Comment on this)
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17/09/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : Simon Willison: More fun with the monkey - Ideas on using Greasemonkey to improve site navigation
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17/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : W3 Compliant Sites: Sites designed to comply with W3C Web Site Standards - W3 Compliant Sites is a collection of web sites that were created by designers that conform with the W3C standards
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17/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : css thesis: sites, that's all. - Another nice looking CSS showcase site
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17/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Computer Modeling Reveals Hidden Conversations Within Cells - UCSD biochemists have developed a computer program that helps explain a long-standing mystery: how the same proteins can play different roles in a wide range of cellular processes, including those leading to immune responses and cancer
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17/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : $100 laptop - Nicholas Negroponte spoke this morning about the MIT Media Lab's $100 laptop initiative. "One does not think of community pencils--kids have their own. They are tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and play, drawing, writing,
jimray : MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop - This looks amazing - the design is really well thought out
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17/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : Read/Write Web: The danger of running a remix service - "Populicio.us still lost their service because their reliance on del.icio.us fell away, but the lesson here is that screen scraping HTML comes with those risks by nature."
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17/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
gleuschk : Math Journal Price Survey, based on AMS 2004 data - e.g., J. Algebra has increased its prices 10%/year for 10 years, a 159% total increas
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17/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
gleuschk : Journal Price Survey - source of the data
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17/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : SiK, Inc. :: imp - Car charger and line out for iPod. Neat thing is that the line out and the car charger can be separated.
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17/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : NetVibes - well-designed all-Ajax personalized launch page, with a nice built-in feed reader
deusx : Netvibes - Doesn't this seem a lot like start.com?
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Andy Baio : Video: Fabulous Secret Powers - nice retro homepage, too
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17/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
joshua : Onlife - observes your every interaction and logs/graphs it
Andy Baio : Onlife for OS X - fascinating tool to visualize and search all your computer activity
plasticbag : Onlife - keeps track of pretty much everything you're doing, keeping an impromptu record of your life... - I wanted to write about this when it came out, but as usual decided it needed a greater degree of depth than a linklog post and - as a result - wrote nothing. The idea is great. The execution is pretty good. It slowed down my mac a fair deal though. Very
jimray : Onlife - Kinda scary, but potentially cool
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17/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : America the Book - I must be living in a cave because I hadn't really heard of the Daily Show's America the Book (more here) before today's presentation by Paula Scher and Ben Karlin.
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17/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
kayodeok : New trigonometry is a sign of the times - Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit
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17/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with Milton Glaser - Designboom interview with designer/citizen Milton Glaser. Glaser is responsible for one of my favorite sayings: just enough is more. (Comment on this)
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17/09/2005 @ 16:04 GMT
Philippe Janvier : RMail blog - "...another fine KBCafe blog service". [via] #
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17/09/2005 @ 16:02 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Flickr memories - "A blog showing some extraordinary images discovered on flickr". [via] #
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17/09/2005 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Independent talks about Kate Bush's reappearance after twelve years... - "She was wacky, she was mysterious, she was a child prodigy who topped the charts... and then she disappeared without trace. This month Kate Bush is back with her first single in more than a decade"
deusx : Independent Online Edition > Kate Bush: The sequel - "This month Kate Bush is back with her first single in more than a decade."
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17/09/2005 @ 15:58 GMT
plasticbag : Nintendo Revolution Controller Unveiled, And It's Revolutionary - Mr Webb will be please - haptic interfaces, accelerometers and the like make it unlike any other controller on the market. Game interfaces are up for experimentation for the first time in years and it's all nintendo's fault...
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17/09/2005 @ 15:57 GMT
plasticbag : There's a party over at the Flickr ranch on Monday (I think) and everyone's invited - Of course, I'm several thousand miles away so I don't think I'm going to be able to make it...
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17/09/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
jkottke : I/O Brush - "I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by 'picking up' and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors em
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17/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Going all city - Going all city is graffiti slang for putting your graffiti on trains in all five boroughs of NYC. (Comment on this)
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17/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Clip of Dj Spooky's "Rebirth of a Nation" - Clip of Dj Spooky's "Rebirth of a Nation", a remix of D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" adapted from a Ku Klux Klan propaganda piece. (Comment on this)
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17/09/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Macros an obstacle to office suite compatibility - While many open source office suites are embracing OpenDocument as a common file format, the lack of common macro language support will prevent meaningful file interchange
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17/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : The Question: Is it OK for a public figure to say arse ? - "What happens with a lot of these words, like arse and piss and shit, is that they're acceptable until about 1450," says Jonathon Green...
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17/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : You hate yourself & you must die (on Flickr) - Notes in offices got less and less subtle as the years passed...
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17/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : US teens 'reject' key freedoms - "Over a third of the 100,000 students questioned felt the First Amendment went "too far" in guaranteeing freedom of speech, press, worship and assembly."
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17/09/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Yahoo! Movies hosts the trailers for Brokeback Mountain - What can I say - it looks moving, interesting, depressing and er... kinda hot. Um.
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17/09/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta - The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release
jimray : Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta - Christ in a cup, I hate IE - if you have the unfortuante task of having to develop against IE, download this and save yourself some sanity
wearehugh : Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta 3
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17/09/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : Channel9 Wiki: InternetExplorerDevToolbar - Summary: Product Feedback about the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
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17/09/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : users don't know what they really want?
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17/09/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : What's driving up housing prices in big cities?
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17/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Can a store search my bag?
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17/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Web API Sites merge - I hear the IPO is worth $100 billion. But seriously, great news...
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17/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : TechCrunch gets busy with Mash-ups - Can't wait to see their reviews of all the great mash-ups out there...
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17/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Codase - Source Code Search Engine - An alpha version of a website for developers to find code snippets easily.
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17/09/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : O'Reilly Network: Using Qpsmtpd - Finally got qpsmtpd up and running on my mail server. Watching the ngrep logs as it makes short work of spam is most rewarding. [via] #
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17/09/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Jason Shellen : Writely - How do I post to Blogger? - This nice web-based word processing site can also post to Blogger. #
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17/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jimray : Karl Rove is heading up the Katrina relief effort - If I were a truly unemotional investor, I'd dump as much money as I could into Bechtel and Halliburton right now
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17/09/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Foster Flight Paravise - Foster Flight Paravise: computer based visual air traffic detection
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17/09/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : WordPress Hooks - WordPress Hooks: a list of hooks for plugin developers
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