4/01/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : XMLHttpRequest dictionary - With code samples, demos, and bears, oh my!
kayodeok : ObjectGraph Dictionary: Ajax Powered Online Dictionary! - As you type a word in the textbox, a javascript event fires and a HTTP GET request to the ASPX page. The response from the ASPX page is simply displayed in a div tag under the textbox. The page is not refreshed/reloaded for every keystroke as everything i
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jkottke : Photos of an indoor tropical island south of Berlin, Germany
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Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP - Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP: including the virtual desktop manager, which is lame but usable
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Ethan Marcotte : Interview with Hiroshi Yamauchi, one-time CEO of Nintendo - In which Yamauchi tells Steve Ballmer to "suck his tiny yellow balls." Good stuff, great interview.
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Milo Vermeulen : new Trillian Basic 3.0 is out
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Anne van Kesteren : Comments in Feeds - I totally love my feed too! And yes, it should be made more accessible and usable. #
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Anne van Kesteren : Jong Nederland site uses Mambo - Hmm, Mambo might be worth looking into #
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Anne van Kesteren : 15 million firefox 1.0 downloads - Crazy! #
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Anne van Kesteren : Heading Focus and Selection - CSS for future use #
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Anne van Kesteren : The Barbarian - Heh, I guess it is better than "validatienazi" #
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Anne van Kesteren : Supporting Mozilla is nice - most of the time - Argh #
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Anne van Kesteren : Error Handling in CSS - Internet Explorer does not have strict error handling which causes a lot of bug reports for other browsers; however, I like the strict error handling in CSS as well #
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Anne van Kesteren : WYSIWYG XML Editor - I have seen it in use today, very cool! #
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deusx : PCMS IDE TO USB 2.0 DRIVE ADAPTER PC/MAC / PCMicroStore - "The USB 2.0 IDE Adapter turns any IDE drive into a convenient external drive."
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deusx : Large Image of a Lady Wearing a Zebra Head - Umm. Yeah. It is what it says. Weird.
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Ethan Marcotte : Apple reduces prices of its cinema displays - Dear god, I'm not strong enough to resist this.
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Isofarro : Guerilla Accessibility Reviews - Passionate and knowledgeable Canadian accessibility expert available for hire
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jkottke : Christo and Jeanne Claude's The Gates are starting to be installed in Central Park - The Gates project will be viewable in the park Feb 12-27 and will be the most photoblogged event ever.
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jkottke : The top 100 artists in the world - Picasso is #1 followed by Warhol.
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plasticbag : Playing with iChat Status in more depth, I notice that it can do a whole variety of things other than just display what you're listening to - I'm currently playing with it displaying my current application, because I was kind of freaked by it telling everyone that I had 22003 unread e-mails
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jkottke : You can fly the US government's secret triangle craft with Microsoft Flight Simulator
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jkottke : Photos of airline meals
Matthew M. Boedicker : photos of airline food
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jkottke : Tonight on Nova: Welcome to Mars - "Two rovers roaming the surface of Mars find proof that it was once awash in water."
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deusx : How to make a todo list program with Rails - "This tutorial is intended for first-time users of Rails who want to build a small database-driven application."
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Jeremy Zawodny : torrentreactor - torrentreactor: The most active torrents on the web
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Andy Baio : Will Eisner, dead at 87 - a huge loss; one of the most important and influential artists in comic history
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kellan : Namespaces in Javascript - Having done a lot of Javascript lately, believe me when I tell you to forget everything you think you know about it from 1998 #
deusx : Namespaces in Javascript (Software will save us) - "Stuart Langridge has come up with an elegant solution that uses hashmaps to emulate something like namespace functionality in Javascript"
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4/01/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
plasticbag : Novel calendar system creates regular dates - "A US physicist is lobbying for people to adopt his novel calendar in which every date falls on the same day of the week each year."
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4/01/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
plasticbag : A previous attempt to rationalise the calendar meant my birthday was on the 1st of Thermidor - "The French Revolutionary Calendar or French Republican Calendar is a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and in use by the French government for 13 years from 1793. It was abolished by Napoléon partly to appease the Catholic Church"
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4/01/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Calgary Herald runs two-year-old tsunami photo on front page - even Snopes is still unsure about this one [via] [via]
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4/01/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
bmilleare : Comment Spam Blocking Techniques
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4/01/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
plasticbag : Halo 2 rankings reset over the New Year - The rumour was that this was because of people using cheats involving ADSL modems or routers, but it looks like mit was just a bug...
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4/01/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : I'm a goth pirate - Nevermore, baby.
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4/01/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : Do you know this child? - 2 years old, appears to have lost his parents in Phuket. Does anyone out there recognise him?
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4/01/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
François Hodierne : Atom Linkblogs in NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 2.0 beta 10 features support for some common Atom link relations, as well as numerous other Atom improvements. #
Philippe Janvier : Atom Linkblogs in NetNewsWire - En espérant que les autres vont enfin se décider à suivre... [via] #
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4/01/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : Wikipedia on the Marshall Plan - " It is acknowledged that the United States was acting in its own self-interest by aiding western Europe, but most believe the plan had an immensely beneficial effect on both Western Europe and the United States."
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4/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Charles Miller : Year Of The Blues - Year of the blues.org celebrates the 100th anniversary of the blues. Great music and information. I commend the 13 radio programmes to you.
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4/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : PathSync - PathSync: an interactive directory (path) synchronizer for windows
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4/01/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Khoi Vinh redesigns Subtraction.com - possibly the best designed blog I've ever seen; many nice touches throughout [via] [via]
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4/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How can i mount a ISO Image CD ? - How can i mount a ISO Image CD ?: I always forget the syntax for this
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4/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : BBC News article talks about "dooced" bloggers - but makes no reference to Dooce herself!? [via] [via]
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4/01/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
deusx : RetroGaming with racketboy: New 2D Castlevania in the Works for Nintendo DS - Ooh, now they're saying what I want to hear about the DS.
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4/01/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Guy calls every 867-5309 in America, reports on results - the 678 guy is cranky [via] [via]
Nelson Minar : 867-5309 - via Metafilter
Rod Begbie : Jenny, are you there? (867-5309) - Hooray for no long distance charges. Someone dials every 867-5309 in the country, and logs the results. [via] #
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4/01/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : TiVoToGo is here - It's a little kludgey and doesn't work for Macs yet. I still have to applaud a step in the right direction though. #
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4/01/2005 @ 04:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Workflow plugin for MovableType - and he started a Dropcash campaign to fund it [via] [via]
philgyford : David Raynes: Workflow 0.5 - Movable Type plugin that lets you transfer ownership of an entry. Early days, sounds good so far.
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4/01/2005 @ 03:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Videora, the BitTorrent RSS reader - with "Season Passes" and "Wishlists" [via] [via]
Rod Begbie : Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader - A pretty looking app, which does the same thing as the Azureus RSS plugin. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader - Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader: watch what you want, when you want, from anywhere in the world
plasticbag : Videora combines RSS with BitTorrent to create a download-based PVR equivalent - Mooted a lot last year, very interesting stuff, windows-only which kind of sucks, apparently no better than the RSS plug-in for Azureus...
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4/01/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : 250 covers of "House of the Rising Sun" - this site has descriptions of each MP3, in Russian [via] [via]
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4/01/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
cobra libre : a $499 mac? how terribly crass #
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