11/10/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
kayodeok : Canon 5D Digital SLR Signals A New Era - At a list price of $3,300 Canon's just released EOS 5D prosumer digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera with its full 35mm-film size 12.8 MP CMOS sensor is more than a very nice camera
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11/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
plasticbag : An insanely thorough list of OSX keyboard shortcuts - very nice stuff... - Lots of great stuff here - from collapsing and expanding folders, logging out, emptying the trash and the like...
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11/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
plasticbag : NYC Subway Flash Overlay for Google Maps is absolutely fascinating and well-assembled... - I wonder if anyone's got the strength of character and will to try and do an equivalent for the London Underground
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11/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
plasticbag : 'ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript "compression" system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style.' - I don't write a lot of JavaScript to be honest, but a lot of people I know do, and hopefully they'll get some value from this service...
deusx : Dojo ShrinkSafe -- the safe way to make your JS sprightly - "ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript "compression" system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style."
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11/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
plasticbag : iWood nano - a beautiful slim natural wood case with a monogram on it that I want more than anything in the world... - I wonder what wood I'd get... I'd have some form of pipe, and a wallet of the finest leather and I might have a monocle as well. For effect...
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11/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
plasticbag : I know it's fashionable to make Americans look stupid, so I'm going to preface this by saying that I fear you could make a video like this on the streets of most Western nations... - Still, it's kind of terrifying. I notice suddenly that this is not the most useful or descriptive of comments about the content of the page... Sorry...
cobra libre : who should we invade next? - i present this without judgment [via] #
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11/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Andy Baio : Commodore Music Store - very bizarre; too bad, I was hoping for something like this [via]
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Andy Baio : News.com.au on the Snakes on a Plane meme - the Delicious community has been covering this one closely [via]
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11/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : New study: there's no dark matter - A relativistic examination of gravity in the galaxy may indicate that the invention of dark matter may not be necessary to solve the not-enough-matter problem. "The motions of stars in galaxies is realized in general relativity's equations without the nee
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11/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Investing in art - James Surowiecki on the Mei Moses Fine Art Index and why investing in art "mutual funds" might not be such a good idea. Here's more on the Mei Moses Fine Art Index.
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11/10/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
joshua : Panic - Desktastic 3 - Draw Directly on your Mac OS X Desktop!
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11/10/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Linkorama : Shameless Hitist - But the real surprises are just as likely to come from below, in the noise below the spikes. I can't find Tallinn, Estonia amongst Florida's beautifully mapped peaks, but that didn't stop some smart people there from changing the world not once, but twice
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11/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : More on Windows Vista versions - Rafael Rivera at Extended64.com poked around in some Windows Vista XML files and found this list of 20 version names
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11/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : "British blogs have recently found themselves getting comments from a fictional character who promotes a household cleaner. Weblog Watch looks at a new, personalised form of advertising..." - Interesting BBC News story that references the Cillit Bang fiasco from around these parts...
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11/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Jason Shellen : Worst Who Wants to be a Millionaire contestant ever - Wisdom of crowds my friend, wisdom of crowds. [via Best Week Ever] #
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11/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Isofarro : I'm terribly sorry, but that's not my problem - Joe Clark lists the screenreader problems a web developer shouldn't have to worry about. These are most certainly problems screen reader manufacturers should be addressing.
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11/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Isofarro : Four different ways to test Web accessibility - Joe Clark summarises a comparative study in accessibility testing: Expert web developers with screen readers caught the highest number of accessibility errors.
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11/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Vint Cerf at Google - Awesome photo
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11/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : SUV drivers get a bigger tax credit than hybrid owners - Makes about as much sense as every other change to the tax code Bush and Co. have made
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11/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
gleuschk : MetaChat - Katey Sagal is radiant - hints of some continuity in the "Lost" plot!
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11/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
znarf : Any consensus on 'responsible' linklogging? [via] #
Paul Hammond : Any consensus on 'responsible' linklogging? (plasticbag.org) - Have they read and approved of the things they link to, or is it really just a linkdump full of 'toread's?
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11/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Heatmapping Google Earth - dynamic data viz using Django and Google Earth layers
Simon Willison : Heatmapping Google Earth - Coolest use of Django to date.
Nelson Minar : Django + Google Maps - Nice video demo (via Waxy)
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11/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google adds tagging to search history - no social aspect yet, but I bet it's coming
jimray : Google adds bookmarking and tagging to personal search history - Not exactly intuitive, though - this needs to be a more distinct service, a la del.icio.us
plasticbag : Google Personalised Search adds tagging... - "Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited."
znarf : Google Adds Tagging [via] #
kayodeok : Google Adds Tagging To My Search History - Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited
Rod Begbie : Google Adds Tagging - Tag your previous searches so you can find them again. Handy, but needs a better UI (perhaps embedded into the Toolbar?). I want to be able to specify *just after doing the search* that I want to tag the resulting site, rather than having to go back in [via] #
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11/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Fire strikes Aardman Animations' warehouse - Fire strikes Aardman Animations' warehouse and destroys entire history of the company, including sets and characters for Wallace and Gromit.
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11/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jimray : Mike Downey: Codename for the next release of Flash! - I haven't even installed Flash 8 yet!
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11/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
WillPate : Succeed with Web 2.0 or Become irrelevant - Help vote Troy's ChangeThis proposal
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11/10/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : High Rise mp3s at Epitonic.com
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11/10/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Der Einzelganger - a photolog
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11/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jimray : So You Want To learn Japanese...
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11/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Moreover acquired by Verisign - In addition to weblogs.com, Verisign's acquisition of Moreover was also announced this week. Two of the companies founders, Nick Denton and David Galbraith, have thoughts. Nick reveals that Moreover almost bought Pyra once upon a time, a little tidbit I d
Andy Baio : Verisign buys Moreover for $30m - Kottke points to thoughts by co-founders Denton and Galbraith [via]
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11/10/2005 @ 17:58 GMT
Linkorama : Is Europe Loosing it's Innovative Edge? - “Entrepreneurs lack supportive networks in Europe and have to rail against structures meant to protect old wealth,†said Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext, a US-based software company. In many countries, such wealth is honoured yet new money is
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11/10/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Windows PrintFile - dump a postscript file directly to a printer, no drivers required. Simple.
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11/10/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Heritage USA - Exploring the corpse of Jim Bakker's Christian theme park/resort.
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11/10/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Someone really likes the White Sox - Really, really likes the White Sox. Really. A lot.
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11/10/2005 @ 17:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Hostile Witnesses - Arthur Liman on Ollie North and the Iran-Contra hearings.
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11/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Proposed Standards for Vampires - Except the guy doesn't show much familiarity with the Stoker book (or, for that matter, the Hammer Films' definitive take, or for "Buffy"). Was this legislation written by a lobbyist?
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11/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Best Hello Kitty ever - I too borrowed "I have no mouth and I must scream" as a throwaway line in a little piece I wrote about Ms. Kitty in college.
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11/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Steve Cook : How Race Wrecked Liberalism - A review of Nick Kotz’s "Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America".
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11/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Steve Cook : The Efficiency Project - My friend Jane Jerardi's upcoming dance piece at the Tivoli Theater in DC, featuring an original score by Scanner.
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11/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Muji: Your life in their hands - The Muji store I went to in London was a revelation -- think a higher-quality IKEA for the non-furniture things one buys.
jkottke : Muji - Story on Muji, the brandless Japanese retailer that has high brand recognition and customer loyalty. (Say wha?) I've got a few Muji things and love them.
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11/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Steve Cook : On bad sports nicknames - And The Register will not let that barreled fish alone.
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11/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Hip Forums - Zendik - All the fascination of a MeFi train wreck thread, combined with "jeer at the hippie" schadenfreude and a fascinating look at the inside of a tiny little cult.
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jkottke : Radicalcartography - Lots of neat maps at radicalcartography.
joshua : radicalcartography - Bill Rankin's cartographic art
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11/10/2005 @ 17:42 GMT
merlinmann : Lifestyle tips, from the weird to the useful - baltimoresun.com
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11/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : youngpup.net - Sleight - "Sleight is a simple Internet Explorer Behavior you can drop in webpages to make PNG graphics work as designed in Win32 IE5.5 ."
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11/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : IE PNG Fix - TwinHelix - "You know that one browser that has only a vague association with modern web standards? Yeah, Internet Explorer. Wouldn't it be great if it supported stuff like translucent PNGs?"
factoryjoe : IE PNG Fix - TwinHelix - Well, now you can add decent PNG support to IE5.5+ on Windows with no changes to your website HTML source code. This script will add near-native PNG support with full alpha opacity, with only one line in your CSS file, that applies to al
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11/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Hugms - Hugms connects to your mobile phone Bluetooth and then when you squeeze it, is sends a "hug" text message to the person of your choosing. See also sweethearting. (thx mike) [via]
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11/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation - The Onion: Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation. "We all got Ron's message loud and clear when that JPEG of his wife wipe-transitioned to a photo of her tombstone". (via mathowie) [via]
Nelson Minar : suicide note.ppt - Painfully funny Onion (via kottke)
mbertier : Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - The two-column text display was enlivened by colorful background wallpaper and clip-art question marks depicting Ron's confusion over his choice. [via] #
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11/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : eBay: Classic Vintage PC Collection (item 8706273723 end time Oct-15-05 10:00:00 PDT) - "This collection represents 30 years of collecting."
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11/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Bookmarklets Every Blogger Should Have - Quelques bookmarklets orientés weblogging. [via] #
kayodeok : Bookmarklets Every Blogger Should Have - To use these, drag each one individually into your Favorites or Links toolbar (in IE), or your bookmarks folder/toolbar in Firefox. (Hint: in Firefox you can also assign a single keystroke to each. Then all you need to do is type that letter in the addres
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11/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Isofarro : Ten questions for Patrick Lauke - Redux runs the gauntlet, talking about his zen garden entries and his role within the WaSP Accessibility Task Force.
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11/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Yahoo! News Search - Now includes blogs search
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11/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks - Findability Precedes Usability ... In the Alphabet and on the Web ... You Can’t Use What You Can’t Find
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11/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason) - The formation of strategy isn't one of the most popular aspects of web development, but it should be. Strategy narrows the focus and purpose of a project to make it as effective as possible
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11/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Ads On Blogs: 30% of A-list Bloggers Use Adsense
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11/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : BBC NEWS | Technology | Web enjoys year of biggest growth
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11/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo puts news, blogs side by side on the Web - Yahoo puts news, blogs side by side on the Web: the Reuters take on this
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11/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
Linkorama : Social Implications for Data Sharing - VictorGrey has said many times that we need a CreativeCommons for data sharing agreements -- simple, understandable, reusable, and legally enforceable contracts for our data.
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11/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
Linkorama : Loic, meet Steve - "I am with a small startup, a weblogs software company" I told him with my French accent...
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11/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
Linkorama : Beer and Loathing Part Two - At breakfast, one person told me, "I see a lot of body parts, but very few bodies." This was a common observation of Web2.0: features galore, some products, but not a lot of businesses.
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11/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jimray : Gallery of Bellydancing Librarians - This is why the Internet was invented
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11/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : TV news is a disgrace - TV news is a disgrace: After watching tv news for a couple hours.. I'm glad most young people don't.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Interview of Matt Cutts - Interview of Matt Cutts: wherein he discusses SEO and such
merlinmann : Interview of Matt Cutts
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11/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Linkorama : Teen 2.0 - The best session. I've been mulling over how to bring this kind of user group to unfunded startups
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11/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Linkorama : Blogon Meetup - Drinks before the big event, not sure that I'll make it though
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11/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
jimray : SNDies multimedia winners - Joe's far to classy to mention it, but I'm linking to his site because the official SND winners site BLOWS (it's designed by a UNC kid! For shame!) Also, nice work, Joe!
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11/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : You the Media - You the Media: wherein we put blogs in news search results
kayodeok : You the Media - Today we've begun the integration of blogs in Yahoo! News Search. Now when you search on Yahoo! News you will see blog results as well as content from thousands of trusted news sites
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11/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jimray : Bill Watterson answers questions from fans - The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is probably the only thing I really want for Christmas
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11/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : Nimble companies have stabilized the US economy - Nimble companies like FedEx have helped stabilize the US economy by becoming more flexible. FedEx keeps 5 empty planes flying over the US each night to help fill in surprise delivery gaps as needed.
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11/10/2005 @ 02:37 GMT
merlinmann : Region Focus Spring 2005: Interview - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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11/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jimray : Chip Kidd talks with Milton Glaser - I had no idea that the I heart NY logo was done pro bono
jkottke : Wonderful interview of Milton Glaser by Chip Kidd - Wonderful interview of Milton Glaser by Chip Kidd from a couple of years ago. Touches on his iconic I [heart] NY logo, the updated version (which the NY Commerce Dept. tried to sue him for), and the economics of design. (via df) [via]
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11/10/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
joshua : Timeline of video games
jkottke : Timeline of video games - Timeline of video games, mostly business-related. But holy crap, Hunt the Wumpus (a game I had for the TI-99) was invented in 1973? Cool.
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11/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Blog Search Engine Mentioned on Help Page - Yahoo! Blog Search Engine Mentioned on Help Page: hmm
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11/10/2005 @ 00:25 GMT
merlinmann : NPR : Game Theory Wins the Nobel Economics Prize
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