6/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Peak foliage map of the United States - Peak foliage map of the United States. This weekend is looking good!
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6/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Brad Pitt, architect - Photo of Brad Pitt and Frank Gehry building an architectural model together. What, you didn't know that Brad really wants to be an architect?
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6/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Linkorama : Wondir bought by Revolution Healthcare - Wondir bought by Steve Case's latest business enterprise
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6/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Linkorama : Ready for Web 2.0? - "Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people," Mayfield said.
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6/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : What is the Semantic Web ? - Une introduction au web sémantique. [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Searchable William Shakespeare - Everything and Nothing rounds up a list of searchable versions of the work of that most famous of English wordsmiths, William Shakespeare. The public domain rocks.
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6/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Franz Ferdinand's blog - Franz Ferdinand** has a blog and you don't probably do too. ** The band, not the archduke.
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6/10/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Kottke says Verisign bought Weblogs.com for $5M - a match made in hell [via]
Linkorama : Weblogs.com sold to Verisign? - The latest report is that Dave Winer has sold weblogs.com to Verisign (~$5 million is the figure being bandied about).
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6/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Tiny Greasemonkey script for Flickr page titles - Pour ceux qui n'aiment pas le "photo sharing". [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Give up control - A-frickin'-men.
factoryjoe : Give up control, by Jeffrey Veen - All of these things are probably true of the work you do online: * Your web site is a tiny piece of a much larger experience. * Nobody sees your web site the way you expected. Few use your content the way you intended. * Everything you
Linkorama : Give up control - The Web’s lesson is that we have to let go, to exert as little control as necessary. What are the fewest necessary rules that we can provide to shape the experience? Where do people, tools, and content come together? How do we let go in a way that’s m
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6/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : The origins and common usage of British swear words - The origins and common usage of British swear words. "Both Oxford and London boasted districts called 'Gropecunte Lane', in reference to the prostitutes that worked there. The Oxford lane was later renamed the slightly less-contentious Magpie Lane, while
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6/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : AOL buys Weblogs Inc., including Engadget - I heard $40 million, but take it with salt; seems like an unusually expensive content play
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6/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Almost 500 pounds of Legos up for auction on eBay - What the hell? Almost 500 pounds of Legos up for auction on eBay. "This is my collection for the past 25 years, it's time to go." Bid stands at ~$6800. (thx, karl)
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6/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Unusual words in non-English languages - 20 unusual non-English words sent in by readers of the BBC Magazine (in response to this article about a new book on unusual words). Plimpplampplettere, the Dutch word for skipping stones, is sublime.
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6/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips - 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips [via]
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6/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Piss Off Door Mat - UrbanOutfitters.com - "Seriously sturdy, with a non-slip backing and subtle Anglophile-centric message for visitors. In the end, they can't say they weren't warned."
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6/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Broken Windows of Blogs - "The minute you open your blog or journal for comments, it's your responsibility to monitor what's being posted. It's even more important to nuke junk as soon as it appears". [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : Welcome to mimir.ik.nu - "This site is part of a Jabber enabled news service called Mimr."
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6/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Tips From Top Taggers - "After a few months of storing bookmarks online with tools like del.icio.us, many people find the tags they've used to categorize them are a hopeless mess. So what are the best methods for getting your tag taxonomy in order ?" [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : New Salon design - Salon redesigns...here's a letter from the editor explaining it all. (thx, ryan)
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6/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Steve Ballmer Details Microsoft’s Security Strategy - Microsoft Client Protection will help protect business desktops, laptops and file servers by providing unified protection against emerging threats such as spyware and rootkits, as well as viruses and other traditional attacks
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6/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Designing for the Sandbox - Peter Merholz’s blog on Web 2.0 and new thinking in design.
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6/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Bulletproof Logos - "Styling the alt text in Firefox and Opera." [via] #
Paul Hammond : SimpleBits | Bulletproof Logos - a nice way of keeping the visual hierarchy of things consistent, even in the absence of images
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6/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Tag, You're It : Best Bookmarker - Champion du monde de bookmarking :) [via] #
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6/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
gleuschk : WESTERN UNION "92 CODE" & WOOD'S "TELEGRAPHIC NUMERALS" - for Kord
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6/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : What's the funniest word ever? - What's the funniest word ever? I don't know about funny, but I've always enjoyed saying "Goethe".
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6/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Dot com bubble 2.0 - Scott Rosenberg on the Web 2.0 conference and the new bubble: "it seems likely that a certain number of people will get rich, a certain amount of money will be wasted, several important new companies and technologies will emerge and some indeterminate num
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6/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Warrenellis.com - Cow Kicks Shit Out Of Dogs, Becomes Warren's Sacred Animal - "This sequence of photos is quite astonishing. Particularly the heroic final shot."
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6/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : 'p2p is leagal its already bought its in the air' | The Register - "Piracy is big fat guys manufacturing fake CDs in Mexico and selling them at swap meets."
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6/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Microsoft FAT patent rejected - again | The Register - "The case had been raised by open source defenders who feared that Microsoft was preparing a legal offensive against Linux based on enforcement of intellectual property rights."
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6/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kayodeok : Tag, You're It: Best Bookmarker - Bookmarking online content and categorizing it with "tags" is fast becoming an important way to surf the web. Robert Andrews talks to the most influential tagger and looks at a new search engine based on social bookmarking
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6/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kayodeok : Tips From Top Taggers - According to CollaborativeRank's most influential bookmarkers, the key is to tag sparingly and with focus, using words that are highly descriptive
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6/10/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : play a game of Flickr Memry [via]
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6/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Reducing browser privileges - A simple yet little-known approach exists for users to avoid many of these vulnerabilities in any web browser. It is a novel tool called "Drop My Rights," created by Microsoft's Michael Howard
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6/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Domain hack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - A domain hack is an unconventional domain name that uses parts other than the SLD (second level domain) or third level domain to create the full title of the domain name
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6/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jimray : Bacon of the month club - Adding to Christmas list...
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6/10/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : geektool and bash one-liners
deusx : Mac Geekery - Geektool and Bash One-Liners - "It's already replaced half my Dashboard I find the displayed information simultaneously more noticible and less in the way."
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6/10/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : print out disposable Scrabble game
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6/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jkottke : Weblogs, Inc. bought by AOL? - Weblogs, Inc. bought by AOL? If so, this is a perfect match.
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6/10/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : Web 2.0 launchpad roundup - "Mayfield is force"
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6/10/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : Yahoo Inc. Acquires Upcoming.org - Congrats
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6/10/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
plasticbag : Cleaner caught playing dirty on the net - "Household products usually promise to help get rid of dirt, but one leading brand has been shamed into cleaning up its own act after an internet marketing campaign backfired spectacularly."
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6/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : On RSS and the coming wave of content theft - A reason to avoid commercial-use-allowed Creative Commons licenses.
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6/10/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Linkorama : AJAX Powers Web 2.0 Growth - But where's the business model for AJAX-powered applications?
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6/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : Katie Holmes is pregnant with Tom Cruise's demon child - God this is creepy and wrong. I mean Katie Holmes was meant for Cal! He told me that years ago...
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6/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : A review with screenshots of the BBC's iMP - currently released to a trial for a few thousand British citizens... - Generally favourable response so far. Interested in what else people make of it.
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6/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Synchroedit, open-source real-time multiuser web editor - whew, that's a mouthful; sounds like the open-source version of Jot Live
kayodeok : SynchroEdit - SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always
Jeremy Zawodny : SynchroEdit - SynchroEdit: "SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so
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6/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : E =mc^2 - Brian Greene on Einstein's most famous equation, E =mc^2. When he finally gets around to it in the middle of the article, Greene's got a pretty good layman's explanation of what the formula actually means.
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