26/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : SVW: Moreover.com to be acquired - "Moreover Technologies, the San Francisco based news aggregator, will announce within the next few days that it has been acquired by a much larger multi-national company."
jkottke : Moveover to be purchased - Moreover to be purchased by "much larger multi-national company". I worked at Moreover as a web designer for 10 months back in 2000-1.
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26/09/2005 @ 23:01 GMT
joshua : U.S. Patent Reform Bill: An Interview with Mark Webbink
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26/09/2005 @ 22:59 GMT
jimray : Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates The Pilot - Google Video - Google video is now using Flash
Andy Baio : Video: Everybody Hates Chris season premiere - Google Video legally hosts the first episode of Chris Rock's new sitcom
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26/09/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
deusx : Python Cheese Shop : EventNet 11 - "EventNet is a simple module which assists the creation of event driven software. Events can be tranparently posted and received over a tcp connection, using a two-way client server model."
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26/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Meta conceptual art - "Floating Island" is a mini version of Central Park being towed around Manhattan by a tugboat (photos here)...it's a conceptual art piece by Robert Smithson. This weekend, a group of folks in a motorboat tried to board the floating park and install a mini
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26/09/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Linkorama : Groupbytes - we hope to begin capturing the rules, lessons and best practices that the PR industry is learning as it continues helping organizations to build online communities.
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26/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Taxi lots at JFK - Cool Google Maps photo of the taxi lot at JFK. (via new york hack) [via]
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26/09/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Bush wants the military to take over future disaster zones - This is a horrible idea
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26/09/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Rally to support Iraq war draws hundreds - Not quite the hundred *thousand* the anti-war protest drew, but whatever. Also, these upstanding Americans want their fellow citizens arrested for peaceful protest
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26/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jimray : Tax breaks compound hurricane recovery woes - Leave no billionaire behind
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26/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : War of the Worlds screenwriter blogs - The co-screenwriter of War of the Worlds on getting credit for said screenwriting (he wrote early drafts which were later rewritten by someone else) and then going to the NYC premiere of the film. (thx stephanie)
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26/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Super slow motion movies - Many of these super slow motion movies are quite entertaining, moreso than the standard milk-drop and bullet-through-apple ones. My favorite is the bursting water balloon...the water retains its shape for several moments before giving into gravity. So coo
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Steve Cook : Minimiam -- French miniature photography - Little figurines exploring the world of food. These are -incredible-.
jkottke : Awesome set of food photos - Awesome set of food photos with little people on them. They're buried in a Flash interface (grr, Flash), but it's worth the trouble to find them. Skip the intro, click on "minimiam", and then select one of the "galeries" (primeurs, gourmandise, etc.). (vi [via]
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26/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : defective yeti: Vokarlbulary - I love it. #
deusx : defective yeti: Vokarlbulary - "White crayon ('hwIt 'krA-"n), n: A useless person or thing you are nonetheless required to have for the sake of completeness or tradition."
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26/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : May We Tell You About Our Specials This Evening? - If you spend any time in restaurants, you might find May We Tell You About Our Specials This Evening? as hilarious as I did.
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26/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Roman-to-Hangul Conversion Service - Roman-to-Hangul Conversion Service - handy for generating Korean characters (with info in Japanese, funnily enough)
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26/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Turn Your Head - Send in a photo showing your profile, and Turn Your Head will produce a wooden pedestal with the outline of your sillouette (the photo on the site makes more sense...).
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26/09/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
ricmac : John Hagel: What is Web 2.0? - Good definition of Web 2.0: “an emerging network-centric platform to support distributed, collaborative and cumulative creation by its users.â€
Linkorama : Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: What is Web 2.0? - Web 2.0 is People!
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26/09/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Linkorama : The right to read, and write - Onward, Wiki Soldiers: Let's Liberate Composition
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26/09/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : BabelMap - freeware Unicode character map utility for Windows [via]
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26/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Just a Bump in the Beltway: Bizarro World - "The only reason that "intelligent design" has become an issue in the national news is because reporters like Laurie Goodstein have refused to do their jobs and become actors in the "he said/she said" which passes for reporting in this country, which is e
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26/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Worthless baseball card collection - I had more than a few of the cards in this worthless baseball card collection. Ah, commons.
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26/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : MTAmazon rides again - Praise be, someone's picked up the development of the MTAmazon plug-in for Movable Type. (thx jason)
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26/09/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
joshua : SynchroEdit - like subethaedit but all ajaxy
jimray : SynchroEdit - Web-based real time collaboration tool - like SubEthaEdit, but with ajax
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26/09/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL: Part 1 - This content is excerpted from Chapter 13 of the new book, "Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL", by permission of Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 0131867164, copyright 2005
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26/09/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Pixel Fingers - Fabulously monstrous illustrations.
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26/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
ricmac : apophenia: Why Web2.0 Matters, Round Two - "We've got to move beyond the global village and focus on how people will repurpose it for their needs."
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26/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
ricmac : ben barren is a Steve Gillmor fan - "Steve Gillmor is the type of Californian stream of consciousness I want to read. Like when Hunter S Thompson wrote for Playboy : "It's all about the Articles""
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26/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Moodgrapher - Not sure if this is new or not, but Moodgrapher tracks the moods (worried, happy, depressed, sick, etc.) of LiveJournal users in order to determine what the overall mood of the world/internet/blogosphere is. (thx ben)
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26/09/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : The Nine Billion Names Of God - "When the internet will part of Google". [via] #
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26/09/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
ricmac : Archimedes Ventures LLC: Microsoft's Reorganization and Web 2.0 - "There appear to be many opportunities for new companies to develop edge based applications, and center of network services that bind together to enable new gains for users and developers alike."
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26/09/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent.org: Yahoo comes out - "Yahoo sheds its confused messaging on original content and comes out with plans on developing more and more original content. "
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26/09/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
ricmac : ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix - "An experimental matrix of Web 2.0 mashups. "
François Nonnenmacher : Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
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26/09/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
ricmac : Charlene Li: Google Talk’s potential - searchable conversations - excellent point.
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26/09/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Alex Barnett: Bubble 2.0 or the Long Boom? - Nice list of "top 10 lessons I learnt during the last bubble and burst."
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26/09/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Kevin Burton: Yahoo should buy FeedBurner - Well it would be a great combo of two of my favorite 2.0 companies...
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26/09/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : EarlyStageVC: AJAX Office is Everywhere! - "PARC's vision was the paperless office. But what really has happened is the Desktopless Office."
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26/09/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Sramana Mitra: Algorithms driven Entertainment - "My hypothesis for the Web 2.0 Internet Investments (whether that is Entrepreneurial or Intrapreneurial): Algorithms driven (Entertainment+Community+Media+Commerce)."
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26/09/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google Goes Las Vegas - An AdWords Experiment Shows Why at Google, the House Always Wins
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26/09/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Nature Photography Instruction - Welcome to NPN’s Nature Photography 101, a section dedicated to all of those who are just embarking on this wonderful pastime, as well as those who are looking to improve their nature photography
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26/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Botany Photo of the Day - In science, beauty. In beauty, science. Daily.
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26/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Autumnal - Paul Haine extols the virtues of the season, as defined by soup.
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26/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
plasticbag : Words 'can change what we smell' - A rose by any other name might not smell as sweet, UK research suggests. - Yet more evidence, if you ask me, that the entire sense is made up (but more interestingly, it may explain some of the complexities of my lack of sense of smell)
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26/09/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
jimray : MovieClip.onDoubleClick()
deusx : MovieClip.onDoubleClick() - ""
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26/09/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
jimray : Daniel Wood | Flash double clicking
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26/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch - Delay in New Windows Version Drove Giant to Develop Simpler, Flexible Product. Engineers Get Trip to 'Bug Jail'
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26/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Armed dolphins released into Gulk of Mexico? - oddball Katrina story reported by the Guardian UK [via]
Linkorama : Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina
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26/09/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : hitchhiker's whale sticker
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26/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Opera USB - "You want to use all opera features mobile - no problem! In a few minutes and with the exe-archive you can have Opera on a USB-stick or a flashdrive"
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26/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : DragonCon costume photo gallery - dear Lord, that's a lot of crazy cosplay
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26/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
deusx : HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML - "There seem to be developers who think that well-formedness is awfully hardif not impossibleto get right when producing XML programmatically and developers who can get it right and wonder why the others are so incompetent."
kayodeok : HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML - "There’s just no nice way to say this: Anyone who can’t make a syndication feed that's well-formed XML is an incompetent fool. - Maybe this is unkind and elitist of me, but I think that anyone who either can't or won't implement these measur
Simon Willison : HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML - Excellent advice, particularly around character encoding.
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26/09/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: TiVo breaks devices, then charges you $150 if you don't like the new deal - "it's a funny kind of contract that is renegotiated at the whim of one side, who can unilaterally change the deal whenever he feels like it, and which you can't get out of if you decide that the new deal isn't one that you like"
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26/09/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : funny things Boston train drivers have said
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26/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
WillPate : Cooking 101: 20 Lessions to kick start your cooking skill - Helping bachelors everywhere
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26/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
WillPate : del.icio.us popular new - Find out what's popular and fresh
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26/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : A weblog in negative space... (plasticbag.org) - "It's the white space you should be reading, not the weblog itself. The real value around here lies in the stuff that's notable by its absence."
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26/09/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : WordPress Inc Story - WordPress Inc Story: weirdness
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26/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
deusx : Turn your world LDAP-tastic - "LDAP's not the kind of thing you can sneak up on. You have to stare it right in the eyes and face it down."
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26/09/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : Turning the Pagesâ„¢, the British Library - "Leaf through 14 great books and magnify the details" - lovely, beautiful, and a great use of rich media to do something that couldn't be done easily with web pages alone. Not totally sure about the interface though...
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