18/10/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
Paul Hammond : Kid - a simple template language for XML based vocabularies written in Python
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18/10/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
Paul Hammond : Small Ideas - You could spend a lot of time trying to figure out if this idea is any good, and at the end, you wouldn't really know
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18/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : Management by Fiction - it all starts with a lie
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Paul Hammond : gapingvoid: the global microbrand rant - it beats the hell out of commuting every morning to the corporate glass box in the big city
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18/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : These tools are not exciting - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
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18/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : Less as a competitive advantage: My 10 minutes at Web 2.0 - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - Instead of outdoing, try underdoing
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18/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : heyblog: Ning: The future just happened - Ning’s value is in building temporary applications
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Paul Hammond : Multiple file upload and the abuse of buzzwords - this is DOM-scripting pure and simple
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Paul Hammond : autossh - Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels
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Paul Hammond : mtsend.py - A Command Line Tool for Movable Type | sYp - Works fine in WordPress as well
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Paul Hammond : Rands In Repose: Taking Time to Think - You've got to create a thinking conducive environment in your natural setting
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Paul Hammond : Working offline (kottke.org) - Fast, cheap internet everywhere? Hoo boy, wake me when that happens...
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Paul Hammond : Securing your Rails models with ModelSecurity - implement a security defense in depth by implementing access control within the data model
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18/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Avalonstar » Past Memoirs » Browsers: Give Me My Life Back - Never should a browser be sold on a count that they follow a spec more precisely than a competitor, because all browsers should do that
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18/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Call Me Fishmeal.: Unit testing is teh suck, Urr. - Unit testing is a great way to pay a bunch of engineers to be bored out of their minds and find not much of anything
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18/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Twenty percent of the human genome is patented - Twenty percent of the human genome is patented. I expect that someday in the future, my morning will be interrupted by a lawyer telling me that the company he represents holds a patent on the biochemical conversion of foodstuffs to energy suitable for pow
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18/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Photos of hidden animals - Instead of emphasizing the animal, nature photographer Art Wolfe takes photos that show how animals have evolved to blend into their surroundings. Copies of Wolfe's book featuring these photos can be purchased on his site. (Also, what a perfect name for a
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18/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : Cocoa XML-RPC Client - "XML-RPC Client is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to access and debug XML-RPC web services from the comfort of your desktop." Now THAT is totally awesome
Paul Hammond : Cocoa XML-RPC Client - a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to access and debug XML-RPC web services from the comfort of your desktop
deusx : Cocoa XML-RPC Client - "XML-RPC Client is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to access and debug XML-RPC web services from the comfort of your desktop."
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18/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : styles at ollieman.net - Just might be the best NNW theme evAR
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18/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Tea Party, The: Jeff Martin quits The Tea Party - "The news came as a surprise to bassist Stuart Chatwood, who, in an email to JAM!, stated that he "wasn't aware that the band had broken up.""
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18/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
znarf : List of persons recently hired by Yahoo or Google #
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18/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Building BRC 2005 - Building BRC 2005: Weblog about building Black Rock City for the 2005 event.
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18/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : The Hidden Cost of Documentaries - New York Times on the ridiculousness of having to get clearance for every snippet of copyrighted work in a documentary
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jimray : Citizen United Negating Technology - Parody site from Rockstar Games about the evils of technology. And what an acronym!
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18/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Franz de Waal on low frequency audio as a social instrument - Franz de Waal on low frequency audio as a social instrument: "The host, Larry King, would adjust his timbre to that of high-ranking guests, like Mike Wallace or Elizabeth Taylor. Low-ranking guests, on the other hand, would adjust their timbre to that of
Matthew M. Boedicker : 500 hz and below part of our voices converge in conversation and lower status person does the adjusting
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18/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jimray : UNC's letter to Sun Microsystems proposing to build SunSite aka Metalab aka ibiblio - " Many days we have experienced over 100 ftp sessions in a 24 hour" - heh. Happy birthday, metalab!
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18/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : command-line stock quote display
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18/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Spiers leaves Mediabistro - In the New York media dictionary, "My time at mediabistro has been great and I'm very proud of what we've been able to achieve in these twelve months. I know the site will continue to flourish as a must-read destination for media professionals" is defined
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18/10/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Father of Wiki Quits Microsoft; Moves to Open-Source Foundation - Father of Wiki Quits Microsoft; Moves to Open-Source Foundation: an interesting development
Linkorama : Ward Leaves the Evil Empire - Father of Wiki Quits Microsoft; Moves to Open-Source Foundation
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18/10/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Master Bath Shower: EULA - When will the madness end! Love the tinyurl on the poster. #
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18/10/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : free ebooks for reading on PSP
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18/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jimray : Slashdotters really hate The Onion redesign - Interesting - I really like the new Onion. When it comes to design, though, if Slashdot nerds hate it, that probably means they're doing something right.
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18/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jimray : AS2 to AS3 Migration - Macromedia Flex 2.0 MXML and ActionScript Language Reference - I knew learning AS2 was going to be a waste of time...
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18/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : On the future - Time magazine asks Moby, Malcolm Gladwell, Tim O'Reilly, Clay Shirky, David Brooks, Mark Dery, and Esther Dyson about their views on the future: religion, culture, politics, etc. Gladwell: "If I had to name a single thing that has transformed our life, I
philgyford : TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine -- The Road Ahead - A handful of celebs-in-the-weblog-world talk about the future. (via Kottke)
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18/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
merlinmann : San Francisco Traffic Report | Traffic Information | Road Conditions CA:: Traffic.com
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18/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Harsh review of the user interface for The Complete New Yorker - Harsh review of the user interface for The Complete New Yorker. My experience was better (changing issues took me only a few seconds), but the interface does leave a lot to be desired. (Comment on this)
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18/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
merlinmann : FreeGuide TV Guide - "FreeGuide is a TV listings viewer that works offline." Linux and Windows [Via Andrew White]
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18/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : zoethe: OMG TEH INTARWEB IS FALLING!! - Fortunately, nobody send me that stuff any more, or else I'd totally use her followup letter.
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18/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
jimray : A few tips on running Rails on TextDrive
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18/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : New Doctor Who series - Adult spin-off of Doctor Who being developed by the Beeb will have sex and swearing. Does this mean I can throw away my collection of Jo Grant posing nude with a Dalek? (second link NSFW) (Comment on this)
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18/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Profile of comedian Sarah Silverman - Profile of comedian Sarah Silverman, who tells the most uncomfortable jokes around. (Comment on this)
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18/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Destroy hot action - Glitch pr0n (via memepool)
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18/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
gleuschk : Recent fantastic post flags | Ask MetaFilter - killer pony!
Matthew M. Boedicker : recent fantastic posts on Metafilter
WillPate : Recent fantastic questions and answers on Ask MetaFilter - Ask Metafilter is the best community site, and this page highlights its most excellent content
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18/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Printer fingerprints 2 - Images showing the dots.
kayodeok : Secret Forensic Codes in Color Laser Printers - DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide: This guide is part of the Machine Identification Code Technology project. It explains how to read the date, time, and printer serial number from forensic tracking codes in a Xerox DocuColor color laser printout
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18/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Claria Shows Ads Through Exploit-Delivered Popups - But despite Claria's dislike of "spyware" vendors who install advertising software without any notion of user consent, Claria funds and supports such vendors in at least two distinct ways
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18/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : The American Society of Magazine Editor's top forty covers of the last forty years... - There's some stunning stuff here - iconic images. Mostly they're more about the photography than the design though...
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18/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : "A 'sexy, funny' spin-off from the Doctor Who television series, is to be made by BBC Wales and set in Cardiff." - Featuring Captain Jack from the series, I can't help but hope that this paranoid thriller isn't as lame as it quite possibly could be. Would be good to get some adult sci-fi on the BBC though...
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18/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : Wikipedia's article on the Colbert Réport, which I really want to see... - "The Colbert Réport (/koʊlbɛɹ ɹəpɔɹ/) is a television program announced by Comedy Central that will star Stephen Colbert, currently best-known as a correspondent for The Daily Show. It is said to be a comedic counterpart to medi
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18/10/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : » Links are dead, Doc | Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter | ZDNet.com - "I appreciate links, I just appreciate more attention-focused gestures more."
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18/10/2005 @ 09:58 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Episode Guide - now expanded up to ep. 24 [via]
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18/10/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
Nelson Minar : Printer fingerprints - EFF figures out that Xerox printers stamp output with date, time, serial number
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kayodeok : Tagyu API ideas - "Create a plugin for your favorite blogging tool that inserts Tagyu tags as keywords"
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18/10/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : Tagyu: REST web services interface - The API uses a simple REST query. If you want to get suggested tags for a peice of content, you simply tack that content to the end of a URL and you'll get an XML document with the suggested tags
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kayodeok : Netcraft: Google Draws Fire Over Blogspot Spam Blogs - The explosion of spam blogs on Google's Blogspot hosting service is drawing a chorus of condemnation from prominent bloggers, and has led at least one blog search service to stop indexing posts on Blogspot
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18/10/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : The power user's guide to Firefox - The following tips will help you maximize this up-and-comer's potential. (All these tips were tested in Firefox 1.0.6 but should also work in newer versions.)
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kayodeok : 4 Layers of Separation - Web developers are starting to regularly practice three layers of separation (structural, presentational, and behavioral) in their projects and applications ... I believe, however, that a fourth layer of separation is being neglected: the data layer
Paul Hammond : Particletree · 4 Layers of Separation - with more sites duplicating markup in both PHP and JavaScript, XSLT provides a nice compromise
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18/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Suck.com on Wordprocessor.com - disturbingly accurate pitch from October 1996, just over nine years ago [via]
ricmac : Suck: WordProcessor.com - circa 1996 (via waxy): "idea: Microsoft Word meets HotMail..."
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18/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : WSJ profile on Jon Johansen - Wikipedia has a nice list of DVD Jon's projects [via]
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Andy Baio : Video: First music video shot on cell phones exclusively - they recorded footage at half-speed to work with the 10 frames per second limit [via]
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18/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Time interviews tech pundits on future of technology - Tim, Esther, Clay, and a host of other familiar names; I like Moby's closing quote [via]
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18/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Anil Dash: The Flip 2K5 - I think it's interesting to take a look at the companies that have already flipped and to compare them to the acquisitions after the deflation of the Web 1.0 bubble.
jimray : Anil Dash: The Flip 2K5 - The new new economy
erikbenson : Anil Dash: The Flip 2K5 - Interesting idea... though I don't think many of the people/friends we see flipping right now are making a million bucks.
Douglas Bowman : The Flip 2K5 - Anil's theory on the new flip.
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18/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : browse.delicious - browse.delicious a visual browser to explore and experience the del.icio.us community network
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18/10/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
joshua : Eater: Is Goodburger a Good Burger? Why, Yes - better than shakeshack!? disbelief
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18/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
Linkorama : Innovation 2.0 - Why Web 2.0 companies might have to flip to avoid being flopped
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Linkorama : Meet the Life Hackers - On attention management
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Linkorama : Feld on Continuous Partial Attention - Thinks the solution is in automation
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18/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Landmark New Orleans cafe getting ready to reopen - Landmark New Orleans cafe getting ready to reopen: I ate there earlier this year. Good stuff.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Where Have All the Make-Out Spots Gone? - Where Have All the Make-Out Spots Gone?: heh
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Jeremy Zawodny : How many feeds matter? - How many feeds matter?: At Findory, our experience has been that 95% or more of weblogs are fake.
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18/10/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
merlinmann : Journalist Express: News and research portal for reporters
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18/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : sleeping in a car parked on the side of the road
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Matthew M. Boedicker : American Discovery Trail
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18/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
ricmac : Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog » The Web2.0 2.0? - The father of the Web2.0 2.0 gets a mention.
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18/10/2005 @ 03:57 GMT
merlinmann : BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Linux on airplane seatback entertainment
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Matthew M. Boedicker : IMDB started as shell scripts and predates the web
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Matthew M. Boedicker : computing the pop count of a machine word
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jimray : Apple's Backup App is Shit - It truly does suck. I need to just buy a few big hard drives and bild a big ole RAID 5 array.
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18/10/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
jimray : The railway across the roof of the world - May be the only good thing to come of China's illegal occupation of Tibet
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jimray : Music thing: Friday is Timbaland Day - Pt 1: Tim's Greatest Hits - This one's for you, Resh
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deusx : Daily Kos: Gephardt admits mistake - "It was a mistake ... I was wrong."
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deusx : Crate and Barrel: Mahogany - "The luxuriant look of burnished mahogany for the table."
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Jeremy Zawodny : HP-14 Bailout - HP-14 Bailout: the story of a glider pilot bailing out and surviving
Nelson Minar : Bailing out of a plane - Great glider story (via Zawodny)
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18/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : My Outsourced Life - My Outsourced Life: this story makes me want to outsource part of my life too
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18/10/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : Techdirt InfoAdvisor - The Solution To Information Overload 2.0
ricmac : Techdirt:Announcing... Techdirt InfoAdvisor. The Solution To Information Overload 2.0
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18/10/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : FutureWiki - I know they are not popular now, and a lot of people don't yet understand them, but I think wikis could become as important as e-mail for the blogging generation.
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18/10/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : Future of Wikis Panel - Notes from my panel at Wikisym
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jimray : BitTorrent: The Great Disrupter - Fortune magazine article on Bram Cohen and Bit Torrent
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18/10/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
plasticbag : Kerry Bailey talks about God, atheism and being a "Lincolnist" - So basically, the stuff I've done that I'm ashamed of just stays with me and continually torments me when I least expect it. I really identify with his description of the homespun ethical principles of Lincoln...
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18/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jimray : Someone needs to take Photoshop away from CNN - We've been having a field day with their collage work
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18/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Rubber Soul tribute album - This Bird Has Flown is a tribute album of The Beatles' Rubber Soul on the 40th anniversary of its release. Includes covers by Ted Leo, The Fiery Furnaces, and Sufjan Stevens. (Comment on this)
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