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Milo Vermeulen : Made-up words in The Simpsons - Wikipedia - Made-up words in The Simpsons [via]
deusx : Made-up words in The Simpsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Simpsons has coined some new words, phrases, portmanteaux, and abbreviations, popularized some existing words and phrases, and also used some existing words and phrases in new ways. "
jkottke : List of made-up words from The Simpsons - Wikipedia has a list of made-up words and expressions from The Simpsons. "Cromulent" is my favorite and should find it's way into actual use. "Car hole" is great as well. (via bb) (Comment on this) [via]
WillPate : Culturally significant words and phrases from The Simpsons
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17/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : Internet Stamps - An idea that keeps coming up, and I have to say I'm becoming increasingly symapthetic to it.
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17/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
erikbenson : Chemistry.com: interesting (in a crazy way) new dating site - I love the scales that tell you how you compare to your matches... and you can rate your interest levels in each
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17/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : A list of 100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present - Time magazine has a list of the "100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present". I'm not much for novels, but I've read 11 of the works on the list. (Comment on this)
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17/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : At the Met: an exhibition of drawings by Vincent va Gogh - Opening tomorrow at the Met Museum in NYC, an exhibition of drawings by Vincent van Gogh. October 18, 2005 through December 31, 2005. (Comment on this)
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17/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : Coolfer: Online Storefronts: A Comparison - "Napster. How’s this for a first impression? Bad. The company is so busy selling itself it doesn’t spend much time selling music."
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17/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Fractal Food - Self-Similarity on the Supermarket Shelf [via]
Philippe Janvier : Fractal Food - "It seems like the universe just wants to compute". [via] #
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17/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : nameboy | free domain name generator, search, creation, domain name lookup and domain registration - Help name your startup
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17/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Big Media, Little Blogosphere - Big Media, Little Blogosphere: advertises want more sites and pageviews before advertising on blogs
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17/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil outline their case for not releasing the genome for the 1918 influenza virus - Two of the biggest pessimists in the business, Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil, outline their case for not releasing the genome for the 1918 influenza virus. "The genome is essentially the design of a weapon of mass destruction. No responsible scientist would a
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17/10/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
merlinmann : KGTD 0.67 [Black Flower] - Latest cut supports iCal synching. What a neat little project this is.
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17/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Security Advisory (909444): Various Issues After Installing Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-051 on Systems That Have Non-default File Permissions - Microsoft is aware of reports of isolated issues after deployment with Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-051. We are working with a limited number of affected customers to help resolve these issues
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17/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : New Internet Explorer @import hack - Simon Pieters of the HTML5 DOCTYPE fame discovered a really nice @import hack for Internet Explorer. The idea is based on a parsing bug in Internet Explorer
Paul Hammond : New Internet Explorer @import hack - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style - You got to love how CSS parsing in Internet Explorer for Windows works
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kayodeok : Phishing Without Computers: Beijingers fall victim to SMS scam - A Beijing resident surnamed Wang never thought a text message on his mobile phone would cost him more than 150,000 yuan (US$18,500)
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17/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Jakob Nielsen on weblog usability - Jakob Nielsen's latest Alertbox is about weblog usability. I actually think most of these are pretty good, but as with all such guidelines, they are made to be broken. (Comment on this)
kayodeok : Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes - Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author
Linkorama : Weblog Usability - The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
ricmac : Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - useful tips in here.
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17/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
kayodeok : Choosing between bridge (Prosumer) and DSLR - Why entry level digital SLRs are better than their similarly priced competition in the bridge camera range
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17/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Linkorama : Future of Wikis panel - I'm on this thing right now, so spam away!
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WillPate : One Day Vancouver - "One day is about taking small steps to make Vancouver the cleanest, greenest, healthiest city in the world"
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17/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Healthline - Healthline: health search engine
kayodeok : Healthline - The Web's Best Health Information - Health Search Engine
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17/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Fortune's long profile on BitTorrent - history and some details about the new business
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17/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jimray : Announcing Macromedia Labs - Alpha testing for Macromedia
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17/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jimray : House GOP Leaders Set to Cut Spending - I'm reminded of the Onion's headline from the '04 election "Nation's poor elect nation's rich" The addendum being, of course, that the nation's poor are about to get royally screwed.
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17/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Bird flu wiki - Flu Wiki has lots of information on the avian (bird) flu. (Comment on this) [via]
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17/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
merlinmann : Need a Nano Case? Try Chiclets! - Lifehacker - Totally cute. I think my GF will dig this for her Nano.
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jkottke : Two "lost" Da Vincis - Two Da Vincis long held in private collections to go on public display for the first time. (Comment on this)
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17/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jimray : How Apple does it - Time continues their fawning praise of Apple - full text at Time Canada
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17/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : The Complete New Yorker is in gray area, legally - The right of Conde Nast to sell The Complete New Yorker (which is completely awesome from a content standpoint, BTW) without paying authors for republish rights is a gray area legally. National Geographic has stopped selling a similar collection because o
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17/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
deusx : df20051017.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels) - SPECIAL ADVERTISING DIRECT CRANIAL INSERT
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jkottke : Thomas Keller gets the butter for his restaurants from 6 cows in Vermont - Thomas Keller gets the butter for his restaurants from 6 cows in Vermont. The woman who owns them sells more than 80% of her butter to Keller: "When you're small you can have a relationship with the people who buy your food. The reason I'm not big is beca
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17/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Fyodor nmap interview - Surprisingly interesting read (via Slashdot)
Matthew M. Boedicker : interview with Fyodor who wrote nmap
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philgyford : Ideas Bazaar: Weblog: Goodbye… - Simon Roberts on deciding to close his company, and what he's learned.
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jkottke : John Gruber on the life cycle of the independent Mac developer - An excellent John Gruber piece on the life cycle of the independent Mac developer, using for an example Brent and Sheila Simmons, whose company Ranchero was recently sold to NewsGator. (Comment on this)
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17/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Divmod.org :: Vertex - "Vertex is the Divmod implementation of the Q2Q protocol."
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17/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kayodeok : Spyware: What You Need to Know - A survey from California security company Trend Micro last week revealed that more than 87 percent of corporate end users are now familiar with the spyware threat -- 40 percent through personal experience. But a little more than half say they still don't
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17/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Mr Jones saw my announcement and mocked up a t-shirt for me... - Obviously now I've started, the cool factor has just er... well... um... well it hasn't gone down too much... I hope...
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17/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Shadows: Tag, Comment, Rate web pages - Why does this trigger memories of Microsoft SmartTags?
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17/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : » The Blog Herald Blog Count October 2005: over 100 million blogs created The Blog Herald: more blog news more often - includes country break-down
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17/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Jib Jab cease and desists website for borrowing 9 seconds of Flash animation - completely hypocritical, considering their history with fair use [via]
jimray : Jib Jab sues someone for using 9 seconds of their Flash animation - There's some bitter, beautiful irony here, I know it
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17/10/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Canon rebate - Good deals on photo equipment
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17/10/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : All the News That You Can Use. And More - A Web site is being introduced today that will not only let you find articles on the topic of your choice from hundreds of newspapers and magazines, it will also alert you to all the other news accounts floating around cyberspace that have any connection
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17/10/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : inform.com: "the ultimate newspaper of the future." - nform is creating a free online tool that we believe will revolutionize how people read news on the web. We not only provide thousands of news sources and blogs in a convenient single interface, we process the news for you, allowing you to get at what you
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17/10/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : 10 Questions for Clearleft - Faruk interview us on Kurafire.
Paul Hammond : 10 Questions for Clear: left - The KuraFire Network - Once in a while stand back and take stock of what you've accomplished
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17/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Brian Wilson's drunk dad on the Help Me Rhonda session - the edited version is enough to hear what an ass Murray was
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Andy Baio : Video: My Successful Friends - many more videos on Tales of Mere Existence [via]
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Andy Baio : Screenshots of the Nintendo DS wifi interface - Joystiq explains some of the security issues [via]
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Andy Baio : Matt Haughey on this morning's massive Blogspot spam flood - Chris Pirillo is covering it closely, with a response from Google
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17/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tom Coates leaves BBC for Yahoo! - Yahoo continues the trend of hiring people I genuinely admire
ricmac : Farewell BBC - and hello Yahoo! (plasticbag.org)
jkottke : Tom Coates moves on from the BBC for a job at Yahoo! - Tom Coates moves on from the BBC for a job at Yahoo! It's now official...everyone I know works at Yahoo! (Comment on this)
Simon Willison : Farewell BBC - and hello Yahoo! (plasticbag.org) - We have a Tom Coates!
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17/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo seeks 1 million sq. ft. - Yahoo seeks 1 million sq. ft.: that's a lot of foots
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17/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Get Your Blogspot Shit Together Google - Get Your Blogspot Shit Together Google: Mark Cuban pissed at Blogger
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17/10/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
deusx : Super Mario Brothers music and sound effects done entirely on a guitar.
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17/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Halley's Comment: Yahoo's Kevin Sites, the Rock Star - "They might as well have hired Mick Jagger to blog for them."
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ricmac : » Web 2.0 and open source | Open Source | ZDNet.com - "In retrospect Amazon.Com was one of the first true Web 2.0 sites. It was bulit as a database from the ground up, a decade ago."
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17/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Nick Bradbury defends desktop apps: Web 2.01 Release Notes - "Over the next few years we'll see a number of new desktop apps which take advantage of the web as a platform, providing many of the benefits of a web app with the speed, usability and (in some cases) privacy of a desktop app."
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17/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : NewsForge | Using open source software on Mac OS X - Wow, what a self-defeating, self-parodying pile of Linux / GNU zealots in attendance for this comment thread...
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17/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
ricmac : ben barren - rss'ing down under: What AOL Should Do.... - "I'm amazed the Steve Rubel's of this world havent advised major internet customer aggregators to "engage" the people who may 'influence' their future."
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