28/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Gamespot's Video Review of Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing - Gamespot's Video Review of Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing [related] [via] [via]
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28/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent.org on NY Times decision to cut off the ability to send full text via the "e-mail a friend" feature - "It changes the relationship between the site and some of its readers for the worse and may actually create resistance."
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28/01/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Engineer records Rap album, called "Geek Rhythms" (via Alex Moskalyuk) - "In the lyrics, I worked on weaving the connection between science principles and life principles with lines like, "scalar and vector told me to?. don't go as the scalar do, you gotta know the direction too?.""
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28/01/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
kellan : Researchers Map The Sexual Network Of An Entire High School - Incredibly (as in I don't believe it) heteronormative. Pretty pictures though. #
cobra libre : the structure of romantic and sexual relations at "jefferson high school" [via] #
Nelson Minar : High school sex graph - Visualization of the recent study. But why is it exclusively heterosexual? (via BoingBoing)
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28/01/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : "Official Use Only" Homeland Security briefs make it onto the web via Google cache - I hope the security compliance officer is taking a long, hard look at how he or she is running things.
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28/01/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Kimprobable's DC gallery - Drew's monopoly on DC photoblogging is shattered! Shattered, I tell you!
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28/01/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Our Intelligent Companions, the Plants - "There are indestructible cosmic seeds or germs -- monads -- behind the soul's growth in the plant kingdom and in all things, each learning by experience through successive forms on the ladder of evolution." (via Mileece)
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28/01/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay - Pieces from Ricky Jay's new book are being exhibited in San Francisco. And I'm not there! (via Redfox)
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28/01/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Cory Doctorow interviewed by Mark Frauenfelder - On DRM for mobile devices. #
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28/01/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Hacking Open Office - "...a few techniques that will be of interest to template maintainers working with OpenOffice writer". [via] #
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28/01/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Family of faggot fans fly the flag - Family of faggot fans fly the flag: uhh, okay
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Andy Baio : Livejournal circa 1945 - round-robin letter writing during WWII [via] [via]
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28/01/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Pokemon causes cancer! - Damn that Charmander! (via Hello Nintendo)
Andy Baio : Pokemon causes cancer, literally - POK Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic proteins [via] [via]
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Milo Vermeulen : surreal Geneva ice storm photos
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Dan Cederholm : Memorable quotes from Napoleon Dynamite - Do the chickens have large talons?
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Andy Baio : Mikel Maron's A9 panorama tool - enter a Block Search URL, get photos of the entire street
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Andy Baio : Credit card statement drawings - drawing each one until they're paid off [via] [via]
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Nelson Minar : Disgruntled SOAP user - Funniest email ever. www-ws is a very dry web services standards discussion list
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Nelson Minar : AoE III designer intvw - Not only does it look great, they've got some good game ideas too
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Nelson Minar : Spongebob ain't queer! - Surprisingly enough, the talking sponge isn't straight either.
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philgyford : Houstonpress.com | Love It, Fear It | 2005-01-27 - A play in London with a segment about a Brit finding Houston weird. I'm so going.
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Dan Cederholm : Bloc Party - Darn good indie rock from the UK. Loving the song 'So Here We Are'.
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plasticbag : A strangely serious piece of coverage of the Bloggies - "A number of web pioneers have been overlooked again this year, notably Dave Winer, with Tom Coates from Plastic Bag and Derek Powazek lining up as favourites for the Lifetime Achievement Awards."
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Mundane bodily movements can burn up to 350 calories
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Philippe Janvier : Cannibalologue - "C'est très beau, très original. Très riche aussi". [via] #
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Ethan Marcotte : The Haystack is coming soon. - Be scared. Be very scared.
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28/01/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Amazon pays for A9 reference on The OC - it sounds awkward, but here I am talking about it; anyone have a clip?
Steve Cook : A red letter day in the annals of product placement - Wow. That's.. painfully awkward.
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28/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Down to Business - Selling Web Design Services: another great SitePoint blog (filed under New media industry).
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28/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
ricmac : Paul Graham offers advice to school students (and those adults among us who still need career guidance!) - "Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations." ALSO "But in ambitious adults, instead of drying up, curiosity becomes narrow and deep."
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28/01/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
ricmac : Clay Shirky says Folksonomies are a forced move - "The mass amateurization of publishing means the mass amateurization of cataloging is a forced move."
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28/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : James Governor's MonkChips: Things To Do in the Analyst Business When You Are Dead - "At RedMonk we prefer to spend time in the bazaar, which is where the marketplace for ideas is at its richest. We prefer to admit, rather than disguise, antecedents for our ideas. We prefer to acknowledge, rather than obscure, the conversation..."
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28/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : Fast Company | The Urge To Unbundle (atomize or take apart content) - "...the same digitization employed to disassemble CDs and newspapers, says Yadav, can be applied to reassemble the components into new products of higher value."
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28/01/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : Sir Tim Berners-Lee named the Greatest Briton of 2004 - One of the judges: "If he had fully exploited it [the Web], he would make Bill Gates look like a pauper today."
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28/01/2005 @ 10:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Apple Spotlight Patent Reveals 3-Year Head Start on Microsoft - Apple started Spotlight in or before 2000, years before Longhorn was announced
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28/01/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Friend of a Friend Project - RDFWeb's 'Friend of a Friend' project developer site to gather together a large bank of existing friend of a friend related resources. [via] #
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28/01/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
plasticbag : Apple-like-styled sub-Sony Aibo 'iDog' - Since music from a stock set of phrases, responds emotionally to touch and can be plugged into an iPod - at which point it will dance
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28/01/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
jkottke : Metacritic is aggregating year end top ten lists for movies
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28/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Flicker slideshow of A9 photos down Melrose - set the speed to high; thanks, Jonah
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28/01/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Smoking Mickey Mouse t-shirt - order one before they're served a C&D [via] [via]
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28/01/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tough Day For Weatherman - Tough Day For Weatherman: worst weatherman EVER!
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28/01/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Steve Rubel shares his Feedburner subscriber numbers - Bloglines 34.5%, NetNewsWire 10.8% (first and second again). Interestingly, Firefox Live Bookmarks don't show up in Steve's chart (they were 3rd in Feedburner's and my stats)
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28/01/2005 @ 03:58 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tagging the Internet - Tagging the Internet: flickr and delicious in wsj
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28/01/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! and Showtime: Something "Big" Coming Soon - Yahoo! and Showtime: Something "Big" Coming Soon: makes you wonder what's coming, doesn't it?
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28/01/2005 @ 03:05 GMT
deusx : Safe, Legal, and Never - Hillary Clinton's anti-abortion strategy. By William Saletan - "You don't have to be against motherhood to line up behind birth control as the best anti-abortion strategy. You just have to be for it."
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28/01/2005 @ 03:01 GMT
ricmac : Steve Hall makes a compelling case for Onfolio 2.0, a new PIM-type app that can aggregate RSS too - There's a few issues I have with Onfolio: 1) it's a PC app, so it's not Web 2.0; 2) It only runs on Windows; 3) It only runs on Internet Explorer.
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28/01/2005 @ 02:58 GMT
ricmac : The Long Tail: The case against the Shuffle - "...a Long Tail without good filters is just noise."
jimray : The Long Tail case against the Shuffle - The argument kinda falls apart when you realize the value of smart playlists "shuffle playlist: random, all songs rated 3+"
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28/01/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
ricmac : WritableWeb blog: About the Writable Web - "For us, the Web 2.0 is about making it practical and desirable for a broad cross section of users to contribute, rather than just "consume"."
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28/01/2005 @ 02:07 GMT
Simon Willison : Ruby On Rails + XUL Experiment - States that Wiki is Hawaiian for "can't find shit."
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28/01/2005 @ 02:04 GMT
Simon Willison : Darin Fisher joins Ben Goodger at Google - Maybe they're interested in XUL and Mozilla's other cross-platform tools.
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28/01/2005 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : NSLog() has a funky new design - I don't know how long it's looked like this, but I love it.
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28/01/2005 @ 01:58 GMT
Simon Willison : Hacker or Lynx user? - That is the question.
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28/01/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Adwords API launches - web services for managing, deploying, and tuning Adwords campaigns
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ricmac : Wirearchy :: Principle # 8 Managing in a Wired Workplace - "According to the experts, Web 2.0 is on its way to the workplace soon ? it's an infrastructure that's decentralized and more open than that which exists today."
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