27/10/2005 @ 23:59 GMT
cobra libre : bus trouble - "The social negotiation of riding the bus dictates that those who are forced to stand exact payment from those who are comfortably seated by being awarded the invitation to study the tops of their heads, look at the pages of the books they are reading, an #
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27/10/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
kayodeok : Stickies for Windows - Stickies for Windows lets you put yellow sticky notes on your Windows desktop, much like the popular MacOS application. It is very simple, very customizable, and completely free!
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27/10/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
deusx : dowski's projects - phpfilter - "Why waste time writing buggy PHP code to begin with? Cut to the chase with the PHPFilter for CherryPy. Take off those rose colored glasses and experience; All errors, all the time."
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27/10/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
deusx : Way.Nu » Marc Canter’s State of the Web ‘05 - "He breaks out the key technologies and the companies and individuals who are pushing them forward (and opening them up)."
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27/10/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
ricmac : Feld Thoughts: Corporate Web Site As A Blog - Noble concept, but it's a tough sell in conservative, cubicle-filled, sarbanes-oxley-fearing corporates.
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27/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
ricmac : Transit Tech review of eyeOS - good review, points out positives and nagatives. "eyeOS probably take a lot of load off of the CPU, and place the bulk of it on the server. "
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27/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
ricmac : Bubblegeneration reviews memeorandum - interesting insights
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27/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
ricmac : Communications Engineering & Design: October, 2005 - Speed-Ground, Air and Home - new broadband technologies (via Om Malik)
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27/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
ricmac : IT Business Edge on Web 2.0 - " Sticking with whatever IBM, BEA and Sun are selling is the easy choice. On the other hand, learning from the Web 2.0 leaders like Google lets you quickly integrate new technologies and provide better value to your customers."
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27/10/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
ricmac : Flickr: Do more with your photos - incl stamps, dvds. "we're getting started allowing people to take their Flickr photos with them into all kinds of other services."
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27/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : Burningbird re Google Base - "The main point of view of Google Base is that this is going after eBay and Craigslist, and online classifieds. I would say the target is Wikipedia, too."
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27/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft aims to trounce Google - "Mr Gates said he saw Microsoft's strengths lying in search, but also in its software that provides the glue to make different devices talk to each other so that people can have more power over their content."
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27/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : How do you feel about someone else making money off your content? - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - "I wonder when the public will demand that Yahoo shares a portion of the revenues generated from ads on people’s photos."
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27/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : Wired News: Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show - "The problems of Web 2.0 may have more to do with human nature, and less with the qualities of bottom-up, online media."
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27/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
ricmac : Geeking with Greg: Getting the crap out of user-generated content - " Other techniques for getting the crap out include editor review of recent changes (Wikipedia, Craigslist), asking your users to report abuse (Craigslist, MSN Spaces, Blogger), user moderation (Slashdot), relevance rank to suppress poor content (Google
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27/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : John Battelle's Searchblog: GoogleBase: Structured/Vertical/Domain Search Ain't The FreeWeb - "Google could build a killer meta engine over many vertical search engines (including books) if only it was willing to cut revenue sharing deals. Why, I wonder, is the company allergic to this partnering model?"
Linkorama : GoogleBase: Paidweb - Structured/Vertical/Domain Search Ain't The FreeWeb
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27/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : SiliconValleyWatcher.com on craigslist vs oodle - craigslist ceo: "We try and be fair and reasonable but aggregation sites like Oodle put a big strain on our infrastructure,"
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ricmac : » Ballmer on services, twitch cycles, AJAX, Google and innovation | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - "In today’s world Windows is a long twitch, Office a medium twitch and MSN is the short twitch, but I suspect those territorial boundaries will be altered over time."
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27/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Bokardo » Blog Archive » Bubble 2.0 and Flock - "but if you can get attention and give attention better than other folks, you’ve got power, and you might just be lucky enough to get bought out at a rediculous price."
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27/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
jimray : Stanley Kubrik's interviews with some of brightest minds of the 20th century to be released as a book - He conducted the interviews in 1966 for an opening montage for "2001" that had to be cut later
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27/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : PETA member gets punked - "Do you need help little monster man"
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27/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : Lindland's Cordarounds - Horizontal Cord Pants, Horizontal Cords, Horizontal Seersucker Pants, Seersuckers
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27/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Newbury Comics coupons - Some decent savings this weekend at New England's finest record chain, Newbury Comics. #
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27/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : ClickOnDetroit.com - Automotive - Ford To Monitor, Time Employees' Potty Breaks - This sounds quite nutty. Hell, why don't they just make the bathrooms cost a buck a minute or so and recoup losses that way?
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27/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Every File Format in the World - Une liste de tous les formats (ou presque) de fichier pouvant exister. [via] #
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27/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : "Silent recall" of digital cameras - Several companies who manufacture digital cameras have issued "silent recalls" due to a faulty chip distorts photos when it fails. Sony, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, and others are affected. Digital Photography Review has more; here's the Nikon D2H & D70 ad
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27/10/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : The Ups & Downs of a Successful Service - Honesty and transparency are great and all, but really, I want them to fix the goddamn servers so my people stop yelling at me
ricmac : Six Apart - Mena's Corner: The Ups & Downs of a Successful Service - Typepad has experienced poor service lately fue to demand
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27/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
veen : What do you get when you combine Ajax, XML, HTML, CSS and Flash? - answer: Measure Map
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27/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : moo.fx - "...a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library". [via] #
joshua : moo.fx - the next small thing - moo.fx is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, written with prototype.js.
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27/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
gleuschk : i^i - Google Search - actually e^{-\pi/2), but why be picky
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27/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
gleuschk : [math-ph/0510065] On the stability of four feet tables - rotate them! (or stuff sugar packets under the feet)
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27/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Brownie on the taxpayer payroll for another 30 days - At what point does this just become ridiculous?
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27/10/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
deusx : Daily Kos: Wingnuts Win, Miers Withdraws - "The radical right wing of the Republican Party killed the Harriet Miers nomination. Apparently, Ms. Miers did not satisfy those who want to pack the Supreme Court with rigid ideologues."
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27/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : Residents revisit Wal-Mart proposal - 10/27/05 - "Livonia seeks to work out safety concerns over plans for store at former Wonderland Mall."
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27/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : CNN.com - Miers withdraws Supreme Court nomination - Oct 27, 2005 - '"I picked the best person I could find," Bush said.'
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27/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
erikbenson : Today, the wallaby - I heard that you can buy them on eBay and keep them as pets, and that they are cuddly.
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27/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
deusx : CBS News | FEMA Extends Ex-Chief's Contract | October 26, 2005Â 20:30:06 - Doesn't resignation mean... er... "I quit" and then you find a new job? "The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday defended the agency's decision to keep him on the job another 30 days as a "completely legitimate thing to d
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27/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
kayodeok : Color Perception Is Not In The Eye Of The Beholder: It's In The Brain - Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that the number of color-sensitive cones in the human retina differs dramatically among people—by up to 40 times—yet people appear to perceive colors the same way
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27/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
deusx : Microsoft's 'big bang' could be its last | CNET News.com - "When Microsoft releases its SQL Server 2005 database on Nov. 7, it will have been five years since the last version debuted. If Windows Vista arrives as scheduled next fall, it too will follow its predecessor by five years."
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27/10/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
deusx : ABC News: Peres: Iran Should Be Expelled From U.N. - Too bad we're all tied up in Iraq and have wasted all our credibility
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27/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) by Joseph Tainter - Book mentioned by Matt Webb in his New Puritans piece.
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27/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
philgyford : Pricing (27 October 2005, Interconnected) - Webb again on how to charge for freelance and consulting work. Brilliant, without having to mention embarrassing figures.
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27/10/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Sheryl Swoopes announces she's gay - Sheryl Swoopes, a WNBA superstar, is the most high-profile team sports athlete to come out of the closet.
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27/10/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
merlinmann : The Odeo Blog: Merlin's Song - I love those guys. And I love the D/F# chord.
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27/10/2005 @ 16:57 GMT
joshua : how to ship stuff to florida post-wilma
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27/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
deusx : SimpleBits | CSS Patches - "Patches that fix known, documented problems in certain browsers."
Eric Meyer : CSS Patches - As opposed to "hacks". I like it.
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27/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
kellan : Google Calendar Blog - blogging the void? - See also Google Calendar = GoogleBase + ? #
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27/10/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Swiss gypsies - Jenisch, with their own history of oppression.
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deusx : Shingo - Google Video - Accidental evil Power Rangers villain?
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27/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Google Groups : Google-Maps-API : clearOverlays() - A recently introduced bug with IE and Google Maps, causes issues with event listeners and clearOverlays()
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27/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Miers withdraws Supreme Court nomination - Our short national nightmare is over, Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination for the Supreme Court (her letter). However, our long national nightmare still has 1181 days to go.
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27/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Deciding among competing tasks - How Einstein & Darwin wrote letters, people write email, and birds forage for food may reveal general patterns in how animals decide among competing tasks.
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27/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Communicating - Forbes has quite a large feature on the subject of communicating, with thoughts from Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Zimmer, Milton Glaser, Jane Goodall, etc. I haven't read any of this yet; it looks sufficiently interesting to get it in magazine form for easier r
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27/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show - Spam, scams and scatterbrains -- the same problems that plagued the old internet are cropping up again in a new wave of technologies known collectively as Web 2.0
deusx : Wired News: Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show - I think this will be one of my new favorite phrases: "When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer."
Linkorama : Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show - See also: Social Software is stuff that gets spammed
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27/10/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
kayodeok : Where's The Ambition? - Umm, I like FireFox as much as the next geek. But if you're creating enhancements to a browser with a 7% marketshare, god knows what you or your investors are thinking
ricmac : Russell Beattie Notebook » Where’s The Ambition? - excellent post by Russ: "It just seems that no one is trying to change the world any more. No one is aiming to create “insanely great†products or do the impossible. Why not?"
Paul Hammond : Russell Beattie Notebook » Where’s The Ambition? - Are they going to change the world?
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27/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : New Broken Social Scene album - What the fizzle? While I was apparently living in a cave, Broken Social Scene came out with a new album. What's the skinny? Is it any good? You Forgot It In People was one of my favorite albums of the past two years. (Comment on this)
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27/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Ancient pyramid found in Bosnia - An oddly shaped hill in Bosnia is a 10,000 year old pyramid, says Bosnian archeologist Semir Osmanagic. "The pyramid is 100 metres high and there is evidence that it contains rooms and a monumental causeway... The plateau is built of stone blocks, which i
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27/10/2005 @ 13:57 GMT
Isofarro : out-law: Travel sites fail to deliver on web accessibility - 'There is a commercial incentive to open travel websites to all internet users. According to Government figures, UK residents made over 61 million trips abroad in 2003, spending over 28 billion pounds. And in the first quarter of 2005, 58% of adults in th
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27/10/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : Questionable Content: #466 - Mind Control - "I HAEV NO CONTROL OVER MY ROBO-BOWELS"
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27/10/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Plamegate: Worse than Watergate | The Huffington Post - "No one died as a result of Watergate, but 2,000 American soldiers have now been killed and thousands more wounded to rid the world of an imminent threat that wasn't."
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27/10/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : QDB: Quote #564283 - "Hi, I'd like to speak with, um, Mr Testy McTest..."
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27/10/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : CNN.com - Poll: Bush would lose an election if held this year - Oct 25, 2005 - Well, too bad - you should've paid attention LAST YEAR, suckers!
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27/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know
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27/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Warrenellis.com » Jesusland - I'm tempted to say: Let them have their State of Jesus, if they'll leave everyone else alone.
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27/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : JohnKerry.com - Kerry speaks from his heart and conscience on Iraq - "An open-ended declaration to stay ‘as long as it takes’ lets Iraqi factions maneuver for their own political advantage by making us stay as long as they want, and it becomes an excuse for billions of American tax dollars to be sent to Iraq..
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27/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : C64 Music!: You can be a Floppy music star too... - "Here you have the DRIVE COMPOSER which allows you to compose your own music for the 1541 and 1571 drives with a stepper motor..."
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27/10/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : WoW travel guide - Postcard series from World of Warcraft (via Kotaku)
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27/10/2005 @ 10:57 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Online Crash Analysis - Windows Memory Diagnostic (windiag) - The diagnostic includes a comprehensive set of memory tests. If you are experiencing problems while running Windows, you can use the diagnostic to determine whether the problems are caused by failing hardware, such as RAM or the memory system of your moth
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27/10/2005 @ 10:57 GMT
kayodeok : I Saw You Today - Messaging service for the love struck (check out the chance encounters on London Underground)
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27/10/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
kayodeok : In search of the One True Layout
Milo Vermeulen : Position is Everything - In search of the One True Layout [via]
jimray : In search of the One True Layout - I could've used this about two months ago, but I think it'll be worth converting a lot of recent projects
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27/10/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
kayodeok : My Bionic Quest for Bolero - He's been haunted by Ravel's masterpiece since he lost his hearing. A deaf man's pursuit of the perfect audio upgrade
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27/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : XML.com: What Is Atom - So what are the differences between Atom and RSS? Apart from the process used to build the specification, and the rigor of the documentation, there are two main substantive changes
Philippe Janvier : What Is Atom - "...the Preservation of Metadata and the concept of Constructs". [via] #
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27/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Authentic Boredom: Mobile Web Design Part Three - Tips & Techniques - This is the third article in the four-part series, "Mobile Web Design"
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27/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
jimray : A Quick Guide to SQLite and Ruby - I'm curious about the feasability of developing RoR apps using SQLite locally and then migrating to MySQL or Postgres in production
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27/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
jimray : SQLite Database Browser - Cross platform SQLite viewer - sweet
Paul Hammond : SQLite Database Browser - visual tool used to create, design and edit database files compatible with SQLite
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27/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
jimray : Flickr is printing now - I'm simultaneously confused about why people need this and delighted that it now exists. Lots of cool stuff in the works, too.
jkottke : You can now get prints of your photos from Flickr - You can now get prints of your photos from Flickr (in the US, more locations coming soon). You can also do a bunch of other things, like get books printed, back up your photos to DVD, and get stamps printed.
Andy Baio : Flickr adds photo printing! - by mail, or pick them up at your local Target store for one hour printing [via]
Linkorama : Flickr Printing! - About damn time
Simon Willison : Flickr printing now available (US only) - You can also order your photos as stamps!
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27/10/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
jimray : Web Two Point Oh! - HA!
Linkorama : Web Two Point Oh! - Below you will find a pre-created VC friendly Web 2.0 company just for you!
Jason Shellen : Web Two Point Oh! - Create your own Web 2.0 Company. Nice - my next venture will be Inftix, tag-based micropayments via flash! #
Jeremy Zawodny : Web Two Point Oh! - Web Two Point Oh!: Create your own Web 2.0 Company!
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27/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jimray : Macworld: News: Christian-themed DDR-style game released - Oh man, this is probably the most hilarious thing ever
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27/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Why you should try VMWare's free virtual machine runtime - I've been gabbling excitedly for the last week to anyone in earshot about what a big deal I think the free VMWare Player is. Here's some more great arguments for it. #
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27/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
cobra libre : ian svenonius talks real estate #
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27/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Airliners.net - Airliners.net: Aircraft info and history
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Jeremy Zawodny : Akismet - Akismet: Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam
kayodeok : Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam - Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again
philgyford : Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet - Intriguing anti-spam solution for weblogs and pretty much any site with user-submitted content.
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27/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
merlinmann : communicatrix: Revolution of the High-Tech Luddites - "I chuckled to myself reading that way back when, and made a mental note to have sex with him as soon as possible because that shit is HOT."
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27/10/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
jimray : Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs - "Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart."
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27/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : RubyZilla - a demo movie - Creating a simple browser in 20 minutes with Ruby and Glade2.
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27/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : don norman (24 October 2005, Interconnected) - The great thing about not putting everything on the front page is that the surface of possibilities increases in line with the user's growing experience.
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27/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Fishbowl: Digital Identity - it’s not going to be about giving you cool sites to put your stuff on “out thereâ€, but about giving you the tools to build that cool stuff on top of your own persistent, personal space on the net
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27/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Anil Dash: The Interesting Economy - maybe economies are things that get gamed
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27/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : A List Apart: Articles: Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign - The desire to redesign is aesthetic-driven, while the desire to realign is purpose-driven
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27/10/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
kellan : Windows Calendar in Windows Vista Build 5231 - Wow, they'll almost replicate all the features of Apple's intentionally crippled calendaring toy #
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27/10/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Online Wage Library - Search Wizard - Find out what the "prevailing wage" is for your job. Apropos of nothing, obviously. #
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27/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : 25 of America's best leaders - US News & World Report has a list of 25 of America's best leaders. Condoleezza Rice, Steve Jobs, Meg Whitman, Bill & Melinda Gates, etc.
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27/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Solution to the wobbly table problem - Science triumphs again with the solution to the wobbly cafe table problem. Aside from a caveat or two, it's always possible to correct 4-legged table wobbliness by rotating the table until it's stable. (via cd, which is on fire lately) [via]
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