25/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Flickr.Net Screensaver - Flickr screensaver for Windows. Rather nicely, it displays different photos on each monitor if you've got multiple screens. #
kayodeok : Flickr.Net Screensaver - Flickr.Net Screensaver Release Notes
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25/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Using hcards in your blog - A suivre, cette façon d'utiliser les infos des personnes qui commentent sur votre weblogue. [via] #
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25/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Wired News: Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends - incl the "the 2006 IT explosion" --> gadgets, mobile, etc.
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25/10/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
merlinmann : How can I get my roommates to clean up after themselves? | Ask MetaFilter - In which the "one-fork rule" is wisely invoked.
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25/10/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
deusx : WSJ.com - Countries Question U.S. Control of Internet - So this is an extreme jump, but can I now be pissed at Bush for pissing off the rest of world enough that they want to break the Internet rather than let us take care of it? "Experts place the current tiff in the context of other nations' discomfort with
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25/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Imagine a world without copyright - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune - "Our democratic right to freedom of cultural and artistic exchange is slowly but surely being taken away from us."
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25/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Jeff Bezos interview - Interview with Jeff Bezos on Amazon's current activities. "We have always tried to be very clear with people that we are an appropriate company only for long-term-oriented investors."
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25/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Jason Shellen : Canon PowerShot SD430 WIRELESS - Canon's first consumer wifi digicam. Send photos to Flickr even faster! [via Engadget] #
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25/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
WillPate : Mayoral Candidate Jim Green Throws up the Double Cross V - I'm pretty sure he has my vote, just for that
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25/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : The White House cabal - Los Angeles Times - "Given the choice, I'd choose a frustrating bureaucracy over an efficient cabal every time."
jimray : The White House cabal - "IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal...led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense
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25/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : CNN.com - U.S. military death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000 - Oct 25, 2005 - "The war in Iraq saw two milestones Tuesday that reflect the country's path toward democracy and its human toll as officials said the referendum on a draft constitution passed and the number of U.S. military deaths reached 2,000."
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25/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance - The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance: Profanity is a tool reserved for special occasions. This is one such: WHAT THE FUCK!?!
François Nonnenmacher : The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance - Twice as bad, but *poof* disappeared almost instantly
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25/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Games: addictive then suddenly forgotten - Informal investigation of video game addiction reveals that it burns bright and fast but stops suddenly. I've noticed the suddenly vanished compulsion with my game playing as well. (via rw, i think) (Comment on this) [via]
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25/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Presidents Past Inspire Bush's Damage Control - "President Bush and his team are devising plans to salvage the remainder of his presidency"
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25/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
deusx : Ajaxian: JavaScript Database: In Browser - This is insanity. Not sure if it's the good or bad kind yet: "Cory Rauch has combined the browser storage story of AMASS with the TrimPath SQL Query Engine."
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znarf : Google Base - what the fuck is this ! #
Philippe Janvier : Google Base - They want YOU ! :) [via] #
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25/10/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
merlinmann : 43 Folders Board - Stop by & grab yr super-low hipster member number. Let's talk about cool stuff we can do here.
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25/10/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
Jason Shellen : Wicked Awesome Monkys YEAH!!!!!! - Video made of the sample clips out of Windows Movie Maker. Watch your back! #
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25/10/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Newark pays for all the good news fit to print - "The paper can only generate stories based on leads from the council and the mayor's office."
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25/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Seattle 911 calls in real time - Seattle area 911 calls mashed up with Google maps
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25/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Front Row on a Mac mini - I think it's pretty obvious that Front Row is going to be Apple's entrance into the living room - a mini with TV in and TiVo functionality will sell like hotcakes
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25/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
gleuschk : Download generatingfunctionology - hey, cool
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25/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Base launching soon - an open database of structured content
jkottke : Google Base - Google is launching something called Google Base soon...an open web database type thingie. From what little info there is, this sounds very cool. (via waxy) [via]
jimray : Google personal database app coming? - Sounds like a web-based "keep track of all your life" app, not so much a replacement for MySQL, though
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25/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Funny eBay ads - Merlin is collecting funny eBay ads from Google. "Looking for Handjob? Find exactly what you want today. www.eBay.com". Dictionary.com used to have Amazon ads tied to search terms that would say things like "Buy crack cocaine at Amazon" or "Buy hookers at
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25/10/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Conbarba's Sigtes Film Festival report (scroll down for English) [via]
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25/10/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : Cheney wants to exempt CIA from anti-abuse legislation - Pure evil
deusx : Cheney Plan Exempts CIA From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees - "This is the first time they've said explicitly that the intelligence community should be allowed to treat prisoners inhumanely"
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25/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies - Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's, died yesterday at
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kayodeok : Body and Soul: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005 - "At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in." -- Rosa Parks
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25/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : Amazon.com: SET Game: Imaginarium.com - "SET is a card game of quick recognition and deduction."
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25/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : My moustache - If you've ever wondered what your lowly narrator would like like with a moustache, wonder no longer.
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25/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
kayodeok : 10 Tips To A Better Form - Without pomp or circumstance, here are ten tips to transform your plain vanilla into double chocolate chunk with marshmallows
jimray : Particletree · 10 Tips To A Better Form - If more people simply used the label and tabindex features, the world would be a better place
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25/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Magazine cover double entendre - The "Women of Design" issue of Step Inside Design magazine features, er, pussy cats on the cover. Here's the story behind the cover design.
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25/10/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
merlinmann : del.icio.us/merlinmann/43fgeekgiftguide - Where I'm parking candidates for the "43F Geek Gift Guide"
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25/10/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : milov.nl: by category: on black
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25/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
gleuschk : What is Marfan Syndrome? - among other characteristics: tall and skinny
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25/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Most tropical storms ever - With 5 weeks to go in hurricane season, tropical storm Alpha breaks the record for most named storms in the Atlantic Ocean. All of this year's names have been used up, which means the remaining storms will be named after sequential Greek letters.
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25/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Charles Miller : Klingon Wedding - A photo of a real Klingon Wedding. Be sure to flick through the rest of uglydress.com while you're there.
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25/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
philgyford : The Observer | Magazine | Just Say 'No' - Scarily close to the bone. I have "no" down to a far-too-instant reflex response. (via Annie)
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25/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : The Starbucks Challenge - Any Starbucks in the US (and 22 other countries) is supposed to sell you a cup of fair trade coffee if you ask them to. The Starbucks Challenge is motivating people to take them up on their offer. You can track people's progress or join in the fun yoursel
jimray : The Starbucks Challenge - does your local 'bucks serve fair trade coffee if you ask for it? - Dawn and I were just chatting about this - good to see folks keeping that plucky local upstart to their word
Matthew M. Boedicker : ask for fair trade coffee at Starbucks
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25/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Boycott Starforce - "I will provide a list of games that install the Starforce device drivers, as well as a list of publishers that incorporate Starforce. "
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25/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : MySQL 5 now available - New version of MySQL (5.0) now available. Download here.
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25/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kayodeok : Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends - An assortment of forward-looking thinkers share ideas about where technology is headed in the near future and in the long term. By Joanna Glasner
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25/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
ricmac : The Deck: The new ad network from A List Apart, 37signals, and Coudal - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
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25/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : Google's stock soars higher - "Google Inc.'s market value briefly surpassed $100-billion (U.S.) for the first time Friday, its stock scaling new heights after an earnings and revenue spike that astonished investors."
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25/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : "Got a Mac? Want Front Row? You’re In Luck!" - I'm really interested that Apple decided to use software to get people to buy a new iMac rather that putting the software on every computer that could run it. Although clearly, people are excited enough to want it on all their computers...
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25/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : Oh this is too sweet - a replacement lanyard for your iPod Shuffle that makes it look like a big crucifix - For all your eighties Madonna-inspired retro-fashionistas and people who like to make clever statements with their clothes
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25/10/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
kayodeok : XPlorer - Tabbed alternative to Windows Explorer - XPlorer is a substitute for the Windows Explorer, adding multi tabbed features. So it is possible to have lots of locations opened at the same time, while we can manage them in an easy and eficient way
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25/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Did the Jedi Have It Coming? - Did the Jedi Have It Coming?: yes, they did
jimray : Did the Jedi Have It Coming? - "Darkness clouds everything"
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25/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
plasticbag : "Yet more 'fashion inspired' phones for people who live in London and work for the BBC and are gay and have blogs." - So I live in London, work for the BBC, am gay and have a blog and I think these phones look a bit rubbish. On the other hand, I'm also a little narked about gay jokes from grown-ups, but what can you do. There's no shortage of fuckwits in the world...
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25/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
plasticbag : Ars Technica - the definitive home for comprehensive reviews of tech stuff - has a stab at the Video iPod (and generally likes what it sees) - Personally, I'm looking at the return of the classic form factor in the iPod Nano and wondering if Apple are looking to gradually discontinue the larger sized iPods
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25/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
plasticbag : Pure California - I've finally found a decent juice bar in Central London - I'm so happy I could burst with ground- up fruit and dubious dried chemical supplements. Mmm. Sweet and delicious. Sweelicious!
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25/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
plasticbag : 'Mr. England' bemuses Alabama locals - "British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw joined Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for a weekend tour of her home state to promote understanding of the Anglo-American alliance, but Alabamans struggled to name him."
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25/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Mexican-American war - Great waiterrant
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25/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Liberia history - America's forgotten colony
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25/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jimray : Unlocking IBM's Intellectual Capital - IBM says you can use their IP if you're a healthcare org or a school. Awesome.
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25/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two - Or, 'hrair'. It came up in conversation over the weekend so I thought I'd link to the article. It's kind of interesting in any case.
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25/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Shore Communications on Flock - "Think of it as an early demo of where future content aggregation and creation desktop products are heading in the era of user-generated media."
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25/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : The New Visionaries: Rebooting The Web. Get Real: Stowe Boyd's take on collaborative and social technology, and its impact on business and society - What a great idea, video-taping Web 2.0 visionaries. I look forward to this series!
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25/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Shore Communications Inc: Content 2.X: The Clash Where Publishers, Technology Companies and Audiences Meet - "a rapidly evolving value equation in which both content and technology companies are finally learning how to use technology to be publishers of services that take people's contextual publishing abilities into consideration. "
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25/10/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
jimray : Google recruiters told to hire hot, single women - I'm feeling lucky indeed
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25/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
jimray : Hide My Ass! Free Online Web Proxy. - Pretty sweet name
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25/10/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Linkorama : Akimbo review - Just got one of these IPTV VoD thingys as part of the SV 100
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25/10/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Linkorama : Akimbo video blogs - Five of the Internet’s most popular video blogs are now available on the Akimbo Service, including Rocketboom, FreshWave.TV, Clint Sharp’s Vlog, Steve Garfield’s Video Blog and “The Carol and Steve Show,â€
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25/10/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : concert posters by Scrojo
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25/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : pink/white noise generating OSX app
merlinmann : Blackhole Media - Noise - Damn, I can't believe how well this works at knocking out noise. Great recommendation, gang.
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25/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Turner Classic Movies will show 9 Miyazaki films
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25/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Alarm clocks are bad. How to wake up and feel better.
merlinmann : Vincent Cheung: Alarm clocks are bad. How to wake up and feel better. - A gentler way to awaken [thanks, rlew.org]
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25/10/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : Skype Groups - Skype Groups is a tool that enables business and families to manage multiple Skype accounts.
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25/10/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : Founders wanted - Underlying trend is not just growth, but that business guys and geeks don't intertwingle enough
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25/10/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : Help Fund TailRank! - This is a grand experiment to is to see if I can fund a startup purely on the goodwill of the Blogosphere and without going through angel investors or Venture Capitalist (which have a number of problems).
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25/10/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
Linkorama : The DECK - At least they are positioning it as cost per influence
ricmac : The DECK the premier advertising network for reaching web and design professionals
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25/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jimray : Will Mark Cuban (Finally) Revolutionize Hollywood? - I love how Epstein is able to connect the Hollywood dots - the fact that Wal-Mart has Hollywood by the balls is unbelievable
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25/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Something Rotten in AdSense - Click fraud is a nasty problem.
kayodeok : Something Rotten in AdSense - Still, I don't think Google has a choice: I predict that you'll see a massive expulsion of smaller AdSense sites by Google, and it better happen soon, or AdSense will ruin Google's reputation among advertisers, something which could be deadly
Jeremy Zawodny : Something Rotten in AdSense - Something Rotten in AdSense: Joel looks at click fraud
François Nonnenmacher : Something Rotten in AdSense
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25/10/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
jimray : Coudal, 37 Signals and A List Apart team up on ads - It’s not about “cost-per-thousand,†it’s about “cost-per-influence.â€
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25/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
deusx : A guided tour of the Microsoft Command Shell : Page 1 - I've been wanting to check out MSH for awhile now - this indepth look actually has me wanting to play around on Windows! (gasp!)
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25/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
ricmac : Slashdot | Indirect Documents At Last - Ted Nelson's Transliterature theories...
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25/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Results of the WSJ's 2005 Technology Innovation Awards competition - Results of the WSJ's 2005 Technology Innovation Awards competition.
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