13/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Micro Persuasion: It's Time to Go the Distance - "One thing Tony [Perkins] and I agreed on is that the marketing community has got 75% of social media mastery under its belt."
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13/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : College football and network theory meet at last - College football and network theory meet at last. In a recent paper, a pair of researchers have devised a ranking system based on network theory (with teams that didn't directly play each other, the theory determines who's the better team based on games p [via]
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13/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Best new restaurants of 2005 - Esquire jumps the gun on the whole end of the year best-of lists thing and names their favorite new restaurants of 2005, with Danny Meyer's The Modern taking the top spot. Worth reading if only for the sidebar item on "wired and tired" dining trends.
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13/10/2005 @ 22:23 GMT
merlinmann : handwriting tips - Man, do I ever need this. [thanks, David La Spina]
kayodeok : Tips for improving your handwriting - People who inevitably have trouble with handwriting and calligraphy write with their fingers. They "draw" the letters. A finger-writer puts the full weight of his/her hand on the paper, his fingers form the letters, and he picks his hand up repeatedly to
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13/10/2005 @ 22:16 GMT
merlinmann : What Can You Do With Nut'n At All - "There isn't Nut'n that this thing can't do. This device supports many of the highest tech leading edge terms in use today." [thanks, Olie]
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13/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
deusx : Omnidirectional Powered Stereo Microphone - ""
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13/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
deusx : 43 Folders - Blog Archive Writing sensible email messages - "If you want to be a good email citizen and ensure the kind of results you're looking for, youll need to craft messages that are concise and easy to deal with. "
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13/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
deusx : Maintainable Css - css-discuss - ""
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13/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : Create and Maintain Web Sites More Efficiently Using Pearl Comments - "the Pearl Comments Browser Extension, which adds a sidebar to popular web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer."
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13/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
veen : Treasure (Measure) Map | And all that Malarkey
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veen : Measure Map blog stats service from Adaptive Path - The Social Software Weblog
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13/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
veen : TechCrunch » Measure Map To Launch by Year End
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13/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : One-button games - Clive Thompson enjoys the miniest of mini games, one-button games (more here and here): "video games that have a single button to control all the action". Many of the mini games in Wario Ware use only one control and only last 3-4 seconds.
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13/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : More Homo floresiensis bones found - Further discovery of Homo floresiensis bones have strengthened researchers' argument that the so-called Hobbit is a new and distinct human species. More on Flores man at Nature, which is doing a weekly podcast now.
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13/10/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
kellan : MySpace hacked: Viral vectors mutating and spreading among previously unaffectable communities. - First Warcraft and now MySpace. Apparently all social ventures are susceptible to viruses. (Is that a new law?) #
deusx : MySpace hacked: Samy is my Hero : www.Fast.info/myspace - "clever bit of viral javascript imbedded into his myspace page"
Milo Vermeulen : A Friendly MySpace Hack [via]
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13/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
WillPate : Startup Exchange - Collaborative website (wiki) for entrepreneurs
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13/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : www.nuts.org.au :: View topic - Fuck, our house is cool! Fuck! - "We now have a keyboard that sits in place of the doorbell at our house."
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13/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : Apple Matters | One More Thing Dissected - "Instead of poisoning, asphyxiating, or manually chomping their dinner to death Komodos rely on a filthy toxic bacterial stew that festers constantly in their cesspool of a mouth to do the dirty work."
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13/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tag Camp 2005 - Tag Camp 2005: haven't we beaten the Camp thing to death yet?
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13/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : McSweeney's lists the Presidential cabinet by the etymology of their first and last names - The Fierce Warrior With Sweetness [via]
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Andy Baio : How to Make 1 Million Friends on MySpace - outstanding story of the creation and spread of a MySpace worm
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13/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Kobe beef - Kobe beef (or more properly, wagyu) is high-quality, worth the expense for serious meat fans, and growing in popularity in the US.
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13/10/2005 @ 18:58 GMT
Linkorama : Email 2.0, Offspring Of Web 2.0? - So, yes, e-mail has its problems but there are lots of ways we can improve on the user and group experience to make it more useful and valuable by focusing on the connections and transitions to other types of collaborative and social tools.
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13/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Pez MP3 player - finally available for ordering [via]
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13/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
kellan : EBay not actually acquiring VeriSign - So we won't be seeing 'Do you trust this certificate? A++++ excellent certificate, would do secure business with it again!!!' anytime soon. A pity. I would have rated the comment +5 insightful, not +5 funny. #
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13/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
gleuschk : Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams - Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.
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13/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Today is World Jeremy Day! - Today is World Jeremy Day!: and I had nothing to due with it, I swear
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13/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : A harsh review of graphic novels in the New Yorker - Peter Schjeldahl, in a harsh review of graphic novels for the New Yorker (with particular contempt for Harvey Pekar), suggests that the artistic breakthrough of graphic novels has occurred, been recognized, and "that a process of increasingly strained emu
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13/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Bank of America | Keep the Change - BoA campaign which rounds up your debit card purchase to the nearest dollar, and deposits the "change" in your savings account. Smart plan for them, since it'll encourage people to use their debit cards for "small" purchases (see the example of "cup of c #
jkottke : Keep the Change feature from Bank of America - New feature from Bank of America: Keep the Change. When you use your bank card, you can have your charges rounded up to the nearest dollar and the difference automatically deposited into your savings account. I think this is the first neat thing I've ever [via]
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13/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Musical Geeks Mine 8-Bit Sound - "But the fact that it's vintage, that you got it at a Goodwill shop, that's the whole thing: the fetishism of the machine."
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13/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : My Outsourced Life - Esquire writer hires two Indian firms to manage his personal and professional life [via]
jkottke : Personal outsourcing - Inspired by Thomas Friedman's book, A.J. Jacobs outsources his life to India. He starts with his job but is eventually letting his Indian assistants argue with his wife, read to his son at night, edit his Wikipedia entry on his behalf, and even worry for
Jason Shellen : My Outsourced Life - A dig at Friedman's mustache, great writing and a tempting idea. [via Waxy] #
WillPate : Esquire Magazine: My Outsourced Life - This is brilliant, I want an outsourced assistant
Nelson Minar : My outsourced life - Very funny because the author is such an ass (via kottke)
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13/10/2005 @ 15:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : A state of mind - 2002 documentary about the North Korea mass games
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13/10/2005 @ 15:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : A state of mind review - Screened in New York in August
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13/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : 10 chef "tastemakers" - Forbes has a list of 10 chef "tastemakers", including Thomas Keller, Alain Ducasse, and Grant Achatz.
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13/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Typographic dating game - Typographic dating game. Who will it be for the evening...Futura, Garamond, Bodoni?
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13/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kaninka.net : Brúin yfir MessÃnasund - 3300 metra haf 380 m háir turnar lokið 2012 kostnaður um 5 milljarðar evra
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13/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Left Behind - no more halo photo crops for W
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13/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Zod 2008 - Vote for your ruler
Eric Meyer : Zod 2008 - His platform is oddly compelling-- probably for its complete honesty, which is a refreshing change of pace. [via Ferrett] [via]
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13/10/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Apple roundup - All the announcements in one. $2/tv episode is so smart.
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13/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
ricmac : eHub interviews - Emily interviews some web 2.0 companies.
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13/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jason Shellen : HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software - Exactly what I was looking for earlier today. Thanks Mark! #
Rod Begbie : HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software - Hurrah for Mark Pilgrim! Quick instructions on getting a fair use from your DVDs. [via] #
jimray : HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software - That took almost no time - God bless Mark Pilgrim
kayodeok : HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software - How To Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software
Simon Willison : HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software - Mark Pilgrim's Handbrake tutorial. [via]
François Nonnenmacher : HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod
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13/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
joshua : MacDevCenter.com: What's on Your Dock?
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13/10/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Hammertime @ Blogger - I still haven't gotten the back-story on his visit to Google today, but there he is hanging with Case. #
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13/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : Automatic MP3 Ripper, Hard Disk Backup, CD Duplicator, MP3 Convertor, Batch WMA Ripper - "So.... I just load Baxter up with 25 audio discs and it will automatically load and rip each one?"
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13/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
jkottke : John Gruber has a bullet-point roundup of the Apple announcements today - John Gruber has a great bullet-point roundup of the Apple announcements today...mostly stuff that you won't hear about in the tech press. (If you're living in a shack, Apple announced video iPods, new iTunes, downloadable TV programs, new iMacs, etc. toda
kayodeok : Brief Observations Regarding the New Stuff Announced at Today's Special Event - Battery life for video playback on the 30 and 60 GB iPods is a mere "up to two hours" and "up to three hours", respectively
Nelson Minar : Apple roundup 2 - Daring Fireball with some colour commentary (via Kottke)
Rod Begbie : Daring Fireball: Brief Observations Regarding the New Stuff Announced at Today's Special Event - Some bullet points of interest about Apple's announcements today. I'll take this time to make my guess: A video-capable "Airport Express" with Remote Control, and an online movie store announced at MacWorld. #
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13/10/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Linkorama : WikiSPs - This is what happens when blogger/journalists start inventing terms
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13/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : 3D Duck Hunt model in real-life - like playing with giant Pixelblocks [via]
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13/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : Text link on wordpress.org: $100,000/week - A single text link on the front page of wordpress.org is selling for $100,000 for seven days...for that you get only 17,000 daily pageviews. This Web 2.0 math makes 0.0 sense.
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13/10/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
gleuschk : The Chronicle: 10/14/2005: The Number That's Devouring Science - Impact Factor: "It wasn't supposed to be this way"`
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13/10/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
gleuschk : The Morning News - George Saunders, by Robert Birnbaum - pretty fun reading, though the introduction almost stole the show
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13/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
gleuschk : The New Yorker: Chicago Christmas, 1984 - George Saunders to read later
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13/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
gleuschk : Roy Kesey interviews George Saunders - the flat-out best interview with an author I've ever read
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13/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
erikbenson : Apple - iMac G5 - Front Row - This is the coolest thing. I have an older iMac and can't find a way to buy this software. Why not?
plasticbag : Front Row - as installed on the Apple iMac G5 - So I had a play with this the other day in the Apple sotre and it's pretty bloody sweet frankly. I'm going to need this in my flat...
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13/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MC Hammer visits Google - please Hammer, don't hurt him [via]
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13/10/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
kayodeok : XML.com: What Is Web Analytics - What Is Web Analytics
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13/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
deusx : Battlestar Galactica on iTunes/iPod Video? at D'Arcy Norman Dot Net - "The TV-on-iTunes/iPod thing looks like it will be awesome. But... Where is Battlestar Galactica? I'd subscribe to the whole season of that."
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