16/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : The QI Interactive DVD - Oooh. Looks like the QI cash-in Christmas DVD might be something rather special indeed. #
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16/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : ongoing · Splogsplosion - "The software that’s generating these things is pretty sophisticated, you might think they were real at first glance. "
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16/10/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Isofarro : FBI puts stop to spam king - Alan Ralsky, a permanent fixture in Spamhaus' ROKSO lists, gets raided by the FBI and puts him out of business
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16/10/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : Rubyful Soup: "The brush has got entangled in it!" - Screen scraping in Ruby
Paul Hammond : Rubyful Soup: "The brush has got entangled in it!" - a useful quick-and-dirty parser for screen-scraping
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16/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : Servers on Poles - a photoset on Flickr - I took a picture of a Barclay street sign when I was in Vancouver about a year ago. Dawn called me a dork.
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16/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
ricmac : Dare Obasanjo: Making Money from Mashups - "Personally, I think more companies need to be like eBay and decide where it makes business sense to open up their website or service as a web platform."
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16/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jimray : Pastafarian pit preacher - That's pretty awesome. And who knew that Gary Birdson had a Wikipedia entry?
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16/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jimray : New Video iPod is Stereo Friendly - Gizmodo - Finally, a reason for work to buy me an iPod
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16/10/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
merlinmann : Now you can iSync with Entourage - e2Sync WORKS!! - Helps Entourage play nice with iSync and a metric assload of mobile devices.
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16/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
joshua : Meet the Life Hackers - lifehacking, interruption science, and productivity
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16/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
veen : Followup/Distraction (Ftrain.com) - "I worry that my knowledge of the world is actually growing shallower, in fact, because for every idea there are a dozen articles and Wikipedia entries to read that allow me to avoid thinking for myself."
merlinmann : Followup/Distraction (Ftrain.com)
Andy Baio : Paul Ford's Followup/Distraction - "There are two kinds of distraction, at least." [via]
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16/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
joshua : Meet the Life Hackers - lifehacking, interruption science, and productivity
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16/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Wollaston Beach in Quiny, MA
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16/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : phil ringnalda dot com: My only connection - "if it seems interesting, throw it up against your weblog wall, because you just don't know what's going to stick"
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16/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Clive Thompson on Life Hackers in the NY Times - Clive Thompson on Life Hackers in the NY Times. I'd informally heard about the benefit of larger screens on productivity (I feel more productive with a larger screen), but this article describes some study results: "On the bigger screen, people completed
Andy Baio : NYT on life hackers - an essential read on the most important emerging technology trend: beating interruption overload
Nelson Minar : Life hackers NYT - Great article, congrats to Merlin et al!
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16/10/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
joshua : BetterDesktop - videos of users and various apps
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16/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
deusx : Eric Rice :: The falsehood of "No one wants to watch 320px video" - "No one wants to watch video sized at 320 pixels, you'll say. To that, I'll just tell you to keep it down. "
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16/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
deusx : Herald Sun: Sex tips for teens [16oct05] - "But adolescent psychologist Michael Carr-Greg, who writes an advice column in the magazine, said the benefits of getting teenage boys to read outweighed the moral concerns."
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16/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
deusx : Tim Burton's Corpse Bride online | And all that Malarkey - "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride web site reminds us that Flash can still provide an undeniably superior user experience."
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16/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Linkorama : Wiki Essence - Recently, I've been using wikis furiously, and not because of the hype, but because of a need to work irregularly at a fine-grained level with separate sets of others. It's about having so much to do, and surprise, no great expanses of time for it all. It
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16/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : creating human DNA trees by transcoding human DNA within tree DNA (like Speaker for the Dead)
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16/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Placeopedia - "Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations" [via] #
Rod Begbie : Placeopedia.com - Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations - This? Is wicked cool. Using Google Maps to present an easy interface for the geocoding of Wikipedia articles. #
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16/10/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Harvard betting on the continued looting of American corporations by their managers?
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16/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the 7 foods of deuteronomy, in a bar
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16/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 1000000 roses in Katamari Damacy 2
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16/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Idaho state legislature bill commending the makers of Napoleon Dynamite
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16/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jimray : Rubber sidewalks add bounce to city foot traffic - Seattle is installing rubber sidewalks to better coexist with trees. They're also cheaper to maintain and recycle used tires.
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16/10/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
deusx : DeLay Uses Website to Attack Prosecutor - Yahoo! News - "DeLay's campaign effort might raise questions of trying to taint the potential jury pool but the legal standard for making such a case is hard to prove."
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16/10/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
deusx : Petty cash rules are fluid, Detroit officials respond - "What happened with the petty case fund reflects the Kilpatrick administration's philosophy: Let's have a party and let the taxpayers of Detroit pay for it"
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