10/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
joshua : mod a cheapie nextel phone for wireless gis stuff - geopony
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10/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : Flickr + Google Maps = Geobloggers [ Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net ]
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10/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : Google Maps API Basic Tutorial
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10/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : GoogleMapsHacking - An Unnamed MoinMoin Wiki
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10/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : The InvisibleShield iPod protector - Apple should buy these guys and include one with every iPod - even Walt Mossberg is starting to complain about scratches
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Philippe Janvier : Imagination Cubed - Pour dessiner tout seul ou à plusieurs. Pas très facile, mais assez impressionant et parfois peut-être assez pratique. [via] #
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10/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : "Influential indie band The Pixies are stalling over the recording of a new album, for fears of ruining the bands impressive legacy." - If only all bands were like this. The Pixies are my favourite band of all time, and I have to say that I would not wish a new album out of them if it sounded like a bunch of old farts. They were always better than that...
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10/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Linkorama : Web 2.0, a shift to more participation - Even those geared to corporations, like Socialtext.com or 37Signals.com, approach the task from an unorthodox perspective, building a fan base among the lower ranks of a customer's organization with inexpensive products, rather than selling pricey softwar
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10/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Simply Accessible - We are designing when we produce solutions that are built with intent – they are well thought out and created to be accessible at many levels and (generally) don’t compromise aesthetics and usability
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10/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : "The network effect causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service." - Personal opinion - whatever Web 2.0 is, one element of the future is a network effect of services and an interconnected functional platform in which each new function added to the collaborative web adds value to every other app...
Jeremy Zawodny : Network effect - Network effect: The network effect causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service. Metcalfe's law states that the total value of a good or service th
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10/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Webloggers of 1999 don't equal bloggers in 2005 - Andre Torrez: "Webloggers of 1999 don't equal bloggers in 2005". Agreed, but I also think the webloggers of 1999 are different too...the game has changed but so have the people.
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10/10/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
joshua : syntax across languages - a sortof rosetta stone of programming languages
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10/10/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : TaskSwitchXP - I'm still not sure if I want a graphical Alt-Tab replacement, but this is the best one yet [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : references to Odin in popular culture
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10/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : GreatNews: The Intelligent RSS Reader - "You don't tear newspaper into pieces to read them. Why should reading rss news articles be any different?"
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Strawberry Fields video
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Matthew M. Boedicker : video of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell playing Yer Blues
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10/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Pocket Ref, huge amount of reference information about everything
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jimray : Kevin Lynch's Web 2.0 Conference Presentation announcing Flex 2.0 and Flash 8.5 - Google Video - Actionscript 3.0!
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10/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
philgyford : BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | Fire hits Wallace and Gromit sets - Makes me sad, as if a tiny piece of my own posessions have gone up in smoke. Commiserations, Aards folk.
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10/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Doctor Doom's Top Ten Euphemisms for Sex - Mike should be writing for McSweeney's
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10/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Steve Cook : "Charade", a public domain film - Thanks to a "Wonderful Life"-esque clerical error, the fine 1963 Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn movie is in the public domain and available from archive.org.
Andy Baio : Video: Charade, full-length film from 1963 - Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn thriller slipped into public domain because of a clerical error [via]
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10/10/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Linkorama : Yahoo Launches Podcasting - Big news, via a Podcast
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jimray : Is Yahoo public enemy No. 1 for Big Media? - Yahoo as media company
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Andy Baio : Video: Rhythm of Life - excellent Guiness ad [via]
jimray : Guinnes evolution ad - I eagerly await the creationism version
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10/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : VGMaps, Vector Overlays for Google Maps - fusing Flash and GMaps; try the subway maps example
jimray : VGMap - Vectored Flash Overlays for Google Maps
jkottke : VGMap: Flash over Google Maps - VGMap is a library developed at Eyebeam that lets you overlay arbitrary data and graphics onto Google Maps with Flash. Since you can dump anything you want into a Flash movie, you're free to annotate Google Maps with anything you want, from audio clips to
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10/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Gangs of New York typography - Mark Simonson gives Gangs of New York 3 out of 5 stars for its use of typography. This is the latest in a series of posts about type in movies, starting with his original Typecasting article.
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10/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : The Long Now Foundation lecture downloads
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10/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
kayodeok : How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax: Pt. 2 - WebReference.com - - In part one of this series, we discussed how to retrieve remote data from an XML file via JavaScript. In this article, we'll learn how to process that data in a more complex manne
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10/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Solution for those scratches on your easily-damaged iPod nano - Solution for those scratches on your easily-damaged iPod nano: polish with Brasso liquid abrasive and seal with invisibleShield.
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10/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
joshua : TurboGears: Front-to-Back Web Development - python on rails
jimray : TurboGears: Front-to-Back Web Development - Pyt;hon on Rails
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Matthew M. Boedicker : mp3s of rare Beatles tracks
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Matthew M. Boedicker : poll ranks best horror films of all time
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Matthew M. Boedicker : teaser image from new King Kong movie
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10/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : R.I.P. WYSIWYG - Jakob Nielsen praises Office 12 as the UI raw model
kayodeok : R.I.P. WYSIWYG - Results-Oriented UI Coming - Unfortunately, we've now reached the limits of the current GUI paradigm. Displaying commands in menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes works with a limited number of elements. But Microsoft Word 2003 has 1,500 commands, and users typically have no clue where t
deusx : R.I.P. WYSIWYG - Results-Oriented UI Coming (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - "What You Get Is What You See"
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10/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Bryant Park ice skating rink - NYC's Bryant Park is getting an ice skating rink this winter. Admission is free. I can't imagine how long that line is going to be to get in.
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10/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Movable Type turns four years old - Movable Type turns four years old.
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10/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Web enjoys year of biggest growth - "Growth also comes from the rise in blogging, in which users write regularly updated web journals on any and every topic". Spammers are there too :( [via] #
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10/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
plasticbag : The Ta-Da Widget from Keegan Jones looked really really sweet, until he accidentally deleted the whole thing... - Will someone please fix the damn thing, because I could really do with a copy...
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10/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
plasticbag : Subtraction on designing the grid for the Onion redesign project - I'm really interested in grids at the moment. I think grids and swatches and styleguides and widgets are the new .psds
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10/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : I've been trying to develop a rollyo search engine for social software related stuff, but I'd really appreciate any recommendations for URLs that I should add... - I'm still kind of 50/50 on Rollyo's utility, but I can't deny the implementation is pretty amazing.
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10/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : Online Information 2005 in Olympia looks pretty bloody amazing and I really want to go to it... - Peter Morville's speaking, as is my old colleague and friend Ms Margaret Hanley. Who rocks...
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10/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : "Voters are becoming more rude to politicians - and the BBC's Jeremy Paxman is to blame, a senior Tory says." - Balls. Most of the people in the country don't know Jeremy Paxman from a hole in the ground. The reason they distrust politicians is because politicians are often untrustworthy...
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10/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : In introduction to LambdaMOO - I spent a fair amount of time on Saturday at State of Play using LambdaMoo as a backchannel with Mr Webb and Mr Hammersley instead of my normal IM. Sitting in the hot-tub listening to lawyers was a strange, strange experience...
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10/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : There's a great post on "Creating Passionate Users" called 'How to speak at a tech conference', which isn't really about the style of talking but about how to get accepted to attend.. - It's a good read, it's solid and it's true - I'd recommend everyone who is interested in submitting papers should read it thoroughly...
deusx : Creating Passionate Users: How to speak at a tech conference - "Do NOT wait for an invitation!"
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10/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers - "The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes."
gleuschk : Telegraph | News | Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers - Schtroumpfs! Dead! Dying!
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10/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : PopTech presentations streamed live - IT Conversations will be streaming presentations from PopTech 2005 live...Windows Media Player required. :( From Etech to the AIGA Design Conference to Web Essentials 05, more and more conferences letting those of us who can't attend listen in anyway.
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10/10/2005 @ 14:22 GMT
merlinmann : The Blind Men and the Elephant - by John Godfrey Saxe - Always loved this parable. It describes so many situations so well.
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10/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
kayodeok : Sergey Brin's Resume from 1996 - "Here's a blast from the past. Take a look at Sergey Brin's resume from 1996. Sergey is one of the co-founders of this little company called Google. If you have a similar resume today, maybe you too can be worth $11 billion in 9 years"
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10/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : Ill-timed Dairy Queen advertisement for their "Earthquake" dessert - Ill-timed Dairy Queen advertisement for their "Earthquake" dessert. Officials say that the death toll has reached 22,000 from the eathquake that hit the northern parts of India and Pakistan on Saturday.
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10/10/2005 @ 13:40 GMT
merlinmann : GABA Supplement Information | GABA Side Effects
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merlinmann : Google Groups : alt.drugs - "Best legal herb or drug for writers block?"
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10/10/2005 @ 13:31 GMT
merlinmann : GTD Getting things done questions galore | Ask MetaFilter
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10/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
znarf : Blogger Buzz: Introducing Backlinks - (not trackback) #
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10/10/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The future of CRM - ACLU Pizza
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Philippe Janvier : The Future Needs Futurists - "Being a futurist sure sounds like a fun job". [via] #
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10/10/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : E-voting hobbled by security concerns - [Thanks Daniel for the link]
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10/10/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent.org re Yahoo! Podcasts - "Yahoo Podcasts focuses on the user experience, so isn't competing with production services like Odeo ... yet. It's a mix of directory and search."
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10/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Podcasts - Yahoo! Podcasts: it's live!
Andy Baio : Yahoo! Podcasts - thus marks the point where nobody trusts what I link to
François Nonnenmacher : Yahoo! Podcasts
jimray : Yahoo! Podcasts - Odeo is toast
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10/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Stanford wins $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge - more importantly, five teams' robot cars crossed the 135-mile finish line [via]
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Andy Baio : Doctor Doom's Top Ten Euphemisms for Sex - Mike should be writing for McSweeney's
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10/10/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Language Log: Hangul Day [via]
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kayodeok : Why Do-It-Yourself Photo Printing Doesn't Add Up - The catch is that after you make an initial investment, you are going to pay at least 28 cents a print, if you believe the manufacturers' math. It could be closer to 50 cents a print if you trust the testing of product reviewers at Consumer Reports
jkottke : People are printing less photos at home - People are printing less photos at home on their inkjet/laser printers because of the high price of ink (and the low price of having them done at Wal-Mart, etc.). Ink costs more than pricey champagne and perfume, which is ridiculous. Printer companies suc [via]
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10/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : GoogleBastards.com - GoogleBastards.com: The Fate of Search is at Hand
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo to launch podcast search site - Yahoo to launch podcast search site: cnet reports on it... site still not live yet
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Andy Baio : Kotaku's rant on Arnold Schwarzenegger - blocks the sale of violent video games to minors, in contrast to his history of movie violence
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10/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : International coalition of government poised to take control of Internet from U.S. - dissolving ICANN and handing the root servers over to the UN
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10/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : testing Archimedes' death ray
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Matthew M. Boedicker : bookshelf that hides a table and chair
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Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft Office Converters and Viewers - Microsoft Office Converters and Viewers: instead of installing the bloatware that is Microsoft Office
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10/10/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
jimray : A Ruby On Rails tutorial for many-to-many relationships
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jimray : Distributing Rails Applications - Make your Rails app easy to install
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Jeremy Zawodny : Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body - Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body: don't forget to sleep!
plasticbag : Jet lag update: Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body - "With a good night's rest increasingly losing out to the Internet, e-mail, late-night cable and other distractions of modern life, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that too little or erratic sleep may be taking an unappreciated toll on Ameri
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo tunes into podcasting craze - Yahoo tunes into podcasting craze: podcasts.yahoo.com is not yet live though
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10/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Internet Explorer's Mark of the Web - Anyone else reminded of the Mark of the Beast?
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10/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
philgyford : RichardHerring.com - Warming Up - Friday 7th October 2005 - "So George W Bush is saying that God told him to invade Iraq. ... The last person I remember who argued that God had told him to do stuff was Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper."
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