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jkottke : Ma new pimp name be "Brown Sugar Kottke Super Suede" - Sho nuff.
Jeremy Zawodny : Pimp the Backhanding - get your pimp name - Pimp the Backhanding - get your pimp name: I am "Trick Daddy Zawodny Loco"
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jkottke : John Battelle's looking for a subtitle for his book, "The Search" - How about "Solving the world's biggest problems and getting rich doing it"?
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deusx : Wired 13.01: They're Not Worthy - "the pirates of the public domain are back"
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Steve Cook : Ed Kilgore: "The Real Secularists" - "To quote from the Gospel According to Somebody, or perhaps it was the Epistle of Joan of Arc to the Alabamans: 'None of those who cry "Lord, Lord," will enter the Kingdom of Heaven...'" Hal Lindsay and Pat Roberston, what have you wro
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Steve Cook : Green Homes in Chicago - Some nice showcase work being done by green architects in the Windy City. (PDF) (via Treehugger)
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Jason Shellen : Photolightning -- Create Photo Blogs with Blogger and Club Photo - Nice integration for Club Photo and Blogger users. #
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jkottke : In Europe and Canada, some American brands are more American than others
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jkottke : Tufte has posted a new chapter from his upcoming book, Beautiful Evidence - Chapter is called "Corrupt Techniques in Evidence Presentations", some of the ugly evidence in the book.
Simon Willison : Corrupt Techniques in Evidence Presentations - A new chapter from Edward Tufte's Beautiful Evidence. (via) [via]
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jkottke : The earth is getting less sunlight than it was 50 years ago - Global dimming may be caused by air pollution and could affect the earth's climate.
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14/01/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : www.clean-your-screen-for-free-now.com - Kitty screen cleaning machine!
Ethan Marcotte : Clean your monitor from the inside - With a cat.
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plasticbag : Clearing up confusion about the Mac mini... - "Yes, it will boot headless, meaning with no display or video device connected, enabling you to have what I like to call an iServe."
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jkottke : MIT's European Media Lab is closing down
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Nelson Minar : Prague taxi fraud - Same problem in Budapest
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deusx : Ripples: Time to fish or cut bait - "I have been a little slow in the blogging department recently, as I am finally compiling the best of Ripples' business posts into a book."
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deusx : Apple said to ship PowerBook G5 in Q2 2005 | The Register - "Expect Apple to ship PowerBook and iBook notebook Macs based on a G5-class PowerPC chip in Q2." Ooh. Maybe I'll be upgrading by then, but it seem wise to wait a rev or two.
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deusx : SiliconBeat: How big is Bloglines? - "They found, looking at the top 800 feeds they manage, that Bloglines users accounted for 32.86 percent of traffic"
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deusx : Where will you store your data? (by Jeremy Zawodny) - "...I realize how my desktop and laptop computers are becoming less and less important in the grand scheme of things."
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deusx : Boston.com / News / Local / Sale of spanking tool points up larger issue - ''The Rod," a $5 flexible whipping stick, was described as the ''ideal tool for child training."
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deusx : Recall The Rod! - 'Thank you to all of you who wrote to the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ask them to recall "The Rod" (nylon whip to beat children).'
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Jeremy Zawodny : 10 ways to pay back the open source community - 10 ways to pay back the open source community: a bit on the light side, but has some good ideas
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Nelson Minar : Albatross circumnavigation - I saw some of these in New Zealand, they're huge
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deusx : First PSP defect reports - Engadget - www.engadget.com - So far, I'm a bit disappointed in the Nintendo DS (with which I've played) and the PSP (which I haven't seen)
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deusx : Giant Japanese Robot - New LaCie Divx compatible hard drive. - "A little expensive, but slick nonetheless."
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14/01/2005 @ 17:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Patrick Hayden criticizes Boing Boing's "Copyright Communist" parody propaganda - outstanding comments by Cory Doctorow, Charlie Stross, and more [via] [via]
deusx : Electrolite: Memo to Planet BoingBoing. - "The bad guys? basic strategy is to portray themselves as defending the status quo while in fact effecting a revolutionary change."
kellan : Yet more "Think like Gramsci, talk like Debs" advice. - Make sure to read great comments from Doctrow and Stross #
plasticbag : A discussion of the political effects of the Photoshopped "Creative Commons" responses to Bill Gates comparing Creative Commons to Communism... - "The bad guys? basic strategy is to portray themselves as defending the status quo while in fact effecting a revolutionary change. When you, their opponents, allow yourself to be defined as the alien, you?re doing exactly what they want you to do, and
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deusx : On Intellectual Property, US Forgets Its Own Past - Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy - "In the 19th century, the United States was both a rapidly industrializing nation and - as Charles Dickens and others knew all too well - a bold pirate of intellectual property."
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deusx : MetroidMetal.com - "metroidmetal.com is a place to celebrate the mysterious and hypnotic melodies from nintendo's classic NES game, metroid."
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Philippe Janvier : Indiquer la fréquence de mise à jour d'un fil de syndication au format RSS - "Comment faire pour ne pas effectuer de multiples requêtes inutiles sur des informations actualisées tout au plus quotidiennement ?" [via] #
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Ethan Marcotte : I weep for humanity - Pardon me whilst I claw out my eyeballs. Thank you.
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deusx : Contrary Brin: The Radical Notion Of Modernism
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deusx : QuirksBlog: 2005: The year of data retrieval
Paul Hammond : QuirksBlog: 2005: The year of data retrieval - We've got plenty to think about in 2005.
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14/01/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
deusx : Digital Web Magazine - An Introduction to Client-Side XSLT: It's Not Just for Server Geeks Anymore
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cameron : Strange McDonalds McShoarma Israeli ad campaign - They don't say please in Isreal?
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cameron : Super Mario Movie, reviewed by Alex Galloway - Cory's other opening this weekend, hopefully I'll be there
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14/01/2005 @ 14:57 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Logitech F-Lock Key Eliminator - Logitech F-Lock Key Eliminator [via]
Rod Begbie : F Lock Key Eliminator - Eliminates the annoyance of the "F Lock" key on otherwise excellent Microsoft Natural keyboards. [via] #
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kaninka.net : Team Diabetes wants you for marathon
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kaninka.net : Radio documentaries, advice, writing, and tips
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cameron : Notes on the new Cory Arcangel Show - New hacked cartridges including "Slow Tetris" and "Geto Boys/Beach Boys"
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Paul Hammond : Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm - A Folksonomy Rant - The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions
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14/01/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The Free License Wars - A good quick overview of the main difference between BSD and GPL licenses
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14/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Satellite imagery of tsunami damage - Astounding images taken before and after the devastation (filed under Photography). [via Multimap]
deusx : Earth News: Tsunami Damage in Lhoknga, Indonesia - Holy crap. These images really sink it home.
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14/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Tsunami aerial imagery gallery - Taken by the QuickBird satellite (filed under Photography).
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14/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Thursday, January 13, 2005 - Sjoerd Visscher's weblog - w3future.com - So how did this happen?
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14/01/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Essence of XML - Hooray! No more concrete syntax!
deusx : The Essence of XML - "Some people may argue that MetaMetaXML is verbose and repetitive, but these people are luddites."
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14/01/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo and MSN Gaining on Google - Yahoo and MSN Gaining on Google: as Mr. Burns would say, excellent
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Jeremy Zawodny : eBay Sellers Irate at 60 Percent Fee Hike - eBay Sellers Irate at 60 Percent Fee Hike: "It seems as though the larger eBay becomes, the more greedy they become"
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Paul Hammond : BlueCloth: a Markdown implementation for Ruby - BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of Markdown
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Andy Baio : Marcus Arnold aka "LawGuy1975," dead at 19 - AskMe.com's #1 legal expert at age 15, he was featured in Michael Lewis' Next [via] [via]
cameron : Marcus Arnold dead at 19 - AskMe.com's 15 year old legal expert
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14/01/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Spam Assassin and Movable Type - Spam Assassin and Movable Type: awesome
Andy Baio : Spam Assassin plugin for MovableType - very neat [via] [via]
Rod Begbie : KahunaBurger: Spam Assassin and Movable Type - Nice simple SpamAssassin plugin to catch commentspam. [via] #
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14/01/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Technorati introduces tag searching - searches Flickr, Delicious, and category-tagged blog posts [via] [via]
Paul Hammond : Technorati: Tags - This page shows current tags in alphabetical order
Philippe Janvier : Technorati : Tags - Délicieuses catégories façon Technorati : rel ="tag". [via] #
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Andy Baio : Will you still need me, will you still feed me? - my mom overhears a conversation
Nelson Minar : Waxy's mom! - A very sweet story (via Waxy, naturally)
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14/01/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : Indian Ocean Tsunami Before/After Aerial Photos - The aerial images of the withdrawn sea shortly before the tsunami struck are just chilling. [via Will] [via]
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Nelson Minar : Rapid Share - Upload a file of up to 20 gigs, let anyone download it. Lots of ads.
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deusx : (Matthew Gray's Weblog) NOAA Weather data - "I'm fine with calling it REST if the goal is to have a name for it but the real name for it is 'the world wide web'."
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ricmac : My rough notes on Jeff Bezos' Web 2.0 Conference speech, 2004 (txt file) - From IT Conversations recording: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail297.html
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deusx : Newspipe - "newspipe is an RSS/Atom aggregator with a difference: It allows you to keep track of your feeds through e-mail"
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deusx : The Tao of Mac - blog/2005-01-13 - "I've selected ten [Open Source Projects] that you can use on your desktop or as part of your toolkit on a daily basis"
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ricmac : Notes from a presentation by Google's Marissa Mayer - "Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features."
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ricmac : Fascinating Amazon presentation from Emetrics Summit 2004 - Front Line Internet Analytics (PDF) - Some highlights: pg 13 "Data Trumps Intuition" (they constantly test ideas); pg 14 "The Secret Life of Tabs"; pg 18 Simple NOT better(!); pg 21 "Data is King"
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ricmac : The Internet Stock Blog: Five Internet danger signs to watch for in 2005 - David predicts CNET and Yahoo!'s business are at risk from "niche, category-killing, advertising-supported Web sites that get high placement in algorithmic search engine results and, once discovered, attract repeat-readers."
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ricmac : The Internet Stock Blog: TheStreet.com says it's for sale, but will there be any takers? - "...this site [Internet Stock Blog] provides better coverage and analysis of Internet stocks than CBS MarketWatch or TheStreet.com precisely because it is more focused."
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14/01/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Intel makes a silicon-based laser - The move to optical computing is one way chipmakers can keep proving Moore's Law.
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Steve Cook : Theodore Beale: "The Lesser Evil" - Oh, man -- and this guy wrote a whole -series- of Christian lances-and-loincloths books?
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Steve Cook : Rosemary Wallin's modular shoe - Swap the heel in and out depending on the occasion
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Steve Cook : Understanding how a gecko clings - "The possibilities for future applications of a dry, self-cleaning adhesive are enormous. We envision uses for our discovery ranging from nanosurgery to aerospace applications."
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ricmac : Corante: Digital Media interview with Hank Barry - on the media companies: "...they are moving from a 'sale of goods' model to a services model."
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ricmac : Many-to-Many: Attention as a Social Fact - "...one of the better tactics for dealing with information overload is not fully processing every message you come across."
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ricmac : Gizmodo : Gates Interview Part Two: Windows Post-Longhorn and Apple's Office Suite - "From the SPOT watch, to the phone, to the set-top box, to the car?we write software for everything."
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ricmac : Wired 13.01: The Zen of Jeff Bezos - "If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert."
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Andy Baio : Ocean-related keywords recede and then sharply rise after Indian Ocean tsunami - blog keyword frequency as a strange, but coincidental, predictor of tsunami activity [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Blogpulse charts of blogger meals - "breakfast" and "dinner" references go up every Sunday, while "lunch" references go down
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Andy Baio : BayTSP's FirstSource anti-piracy software targets first uploads - find the first instance of a file online, verify it, and capture the IP addresses of the initial seeders
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kellan : Open seminar on Mieville's Iron Council - I'd been putting off reading IC, but after I saw this I read it on the plane today #
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Nelson Minar : street style - I don't get it, is this a parody? (via MetaFilter)
Ethan Marcotte : Dr. Jay's Street Style - Awwwwwwwwww yea--I mean, no.
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Andy Baio : Jennifer Garner's Awesome Great Workout Mix! - I'm not sure what's worse, her comments or her taste in music [via] [via]
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jkottke : The Numbers Guy is a great new WSJ column "on the way numbers and statistics are used – and abused – in the news, business and politics"
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deusx : music sheet - mario songs - Rock. Super Mario Brothers music on paper. I had to figure this out by ear on a piano in High School
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deusx : Sci Fi Wire -- Who Actors In Short Supply - "Producers of the BBC's new Doctor Who TV series are scrambling to find enough little people to perform in the show as tiny blue aliens, because most have already found work in the currently shooting movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Harry Pott
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deusx : Just a Bump in the Beltway: The Myth of the Small Farmer - "The legislation, which the groups claim has been carefully orchestrated by the U.S., renders the ancient art of seed saving illegal."
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deusx : kafsemo.org: 2004-09-12: Unpolluted ? Tests for RSS Scalability - "Unpolluted is a simple audit for a pollable resource"
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ricmac : Andy's published some Waxy Links Statistics - "...since MovableType stores everything in MySQL, it was simple to write a few queries to crunch my statistics."
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Andy Baio : Gizmodo grills Bill Gates about his copyright communist remarks - read his earlier remarks for some background [via] [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : JamPod, tiny guitar amp that plugs into your iPod and lets you play along
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ricmac : Less is More | Steve Gillmor's Inforouter - Amid all the "with all due respect to [insert A-Lister here]" witticisms, Steve writes compellingly about a "read/write version of the RSS-powered multimedia Web".
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Andy Baio : A World of Invisibilia - photos with the people replaced by line drawings [via] [via]
cameron : A World of Invisibilia - People replaced with line drawings
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