4/11/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
Eric Meyer : Web 2.5.1 ver 1.344 RC 4.5.2/OS X Beta - I would so totally love to be part of this. Too bad it's already been sold. [via Jon] [via]
Jon Hicks : Web 2.5.1 ver 1.344 RC 4.5.2/OS X Beta - Anti-Social Software
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4/11/2005 @ 23:58 GMT
Rod Begbie : Tags.App - Tags solution for MovableType. I'm taking this for a bit of a roadtest at the moment. [via] #
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kayodeok : Outlook vs Evolution vs Kontact: an e-mail client comparison - Part 2 - We've put together a series of side-by-side screen shots of Outlook 2003, Evolution 2.2.1.1 and Kontact 1.1 as a visual comparison of these three groupware rivals
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4/11/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Feeds and well-formed XML - We will only support feeds that are well-formed XML.
Simon Willison : Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Feeds and well-formed XML - Wow. IE7 will require RSS feeds to be well-formed XML. [via]
deusx : Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Feeds and well-formed XML - "We will only support feeds that are well-formed XML."
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4/11/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
deusx : info.ea.com - Company: Tank Wars - "This AI must manage the internal resources for the tank (health fuel), find the enemy tank, map out the world, and destroy the enemy tank."
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4/11/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : Colour blindness on the Web | clagnut/blog - The thing is, colour blindness on the Web isn’t a big deal
Jon Hicks : Colour blindness on the Web | clagnut - Great post from Rich – more in depth than anything I could’ve done!
kayodeok : Colour blindness on the Web
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4/11/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Web Standards Project - WaSP Microsoft Task Force Update - standards support in new software, the role of XAML and the Microsoft agenda, the Acid2 test, SXSW, and last but most decidedly not least, IE progress
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4/11/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : techno weenie: Introducing Calculations - an extension to ActiveRecord dealing with aggregate queries
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Paul Hammond : XML.com: REST on Rails - just a couple of lines of code
Simon Willison : XML.com: REST on Rails - Matt Biddulph's Rails mixin provides an instant REST interface to an ActiveRecord model.
kayodeok : XML.com: REST on Rails - REST on Rails
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4/11/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Rands In Repose: Repetitive Information Injury - Knowing you're in this state is step number one to unsticking yourself
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Paul Hammond : FeedTools - a simple Ruby library for handling rss, atom, and cdf parsing, generation, and translation as well as caching
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Paul Hammond : Opensource Usability - Laughing Meme - Opensource's central dogma is "scratch your own itch", usability's central dogma is "you are not your own user."
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4/11/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Migrating in two dimensions - Each migration should change over time to adapt to the changes in the code
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Paul Hammond : Russell Beattie Notebook » Making Money? - The basic concept is pretty simple, right?
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Paul Hammond : Tantek's Thoughts - Lazytagging, Lazynotes - add the tags "needstags" and "needsnotes" to explicitly invite folks to add tags and/or notes respectively
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Paul Hammond : TextDrive Weblog: Optimizing Rails Resource Usage - Rails is nuclear stuff, it allows you to do wonders in minutes but you have to be careful with it
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4/11/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Google Desktop 2 is out of beta - Google Desktop 2 is out of beta. This release includes new sidebar panels and support for scriptable plug-ins. No Mac version yet.
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4/11/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
merlinmann : noui=yes& - Google Search - Holy crap. Try adding "noui=yes&" after the "?" in your del.icio.us bookmark; loads only the form fields (no tags) and WAY speeds things up. I feel like I can love again now. [Thanks, Joshua]
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4/11/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
merlinmann : Freecycle - Local chapters facilitate networks that reuse each other's "stuff." Kinda like a Craig's List for free stuff? [via 43F comments]
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4/11/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
merlinmann : 43 Folders Board / Ten plus Two Times Five - Open Source beats dropped in support of the (10+2)*5 hack: "I laid down 12 minutes of beats; the beats synchronise you to the hack." So cool.
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4/11/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : The Mess That Greenspan Made: Hummer Overfloweth - "The reason that the story of rapidly rising Hummer inventory is so interesting and so amusing, is that America's most ostentatious Sport Utility Vehicle, the Hummer SUV, is a metaphor for America in the world today - overweight, overpriced, inefficient,
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4/11/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Mark's Sysinternals Blog: More on Sony: Dangerous Decloaking Patch, EULAs and Phoning Home - But, there’s more to the story, like how Sony’s patch can lead to a crashed system and data loss and how Sony is still making users jump through hoops to get an uninstaller
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4/11/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jkottke : Chris Johanesen has a short review of the Eyebeam panel last night - Chris Johanesen has a short review of the Eyebeam panel last night. "I'd certainly rather read an insightful and well-written post about sandwiches than an unoriginal, poorly thought out post about politics." I like that Ebert quote too.
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4/11/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Blogging Starter Checklist - Blogging Starter Checklist: some good advice in here
kayodeok : Blogging Starter Checklist - "I have put together a starter checklist for new bloggers. I have used this list to help my friends and now I thought I will make this public. This list is by no means complete and all the items may not be relevant to everyone"
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4/11/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Best privacy policy ever - a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a privacy policy that does not exist
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4/11/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Isofarro : Clacksweb Accessible to All - Clackmannanshire is the first local authority to receive the Shaw Trust accessibility accreditation. Shaw Trust is a pan-disability organisation, testing with a range of different disabilities.
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4/11/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Isofarro : Shaw Trust Prologue - Dan Champion talks about the work done before the Shaw Trust audit took place. An interesting look at accessibility inside local government.
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4/11/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Isofarro : Web Standards Compliance and Web Application Development (plus Microsoft Visual Studio) - Nathanael Boehm, in light of the Disney shambles and his own experiences, describes why web designers and developers are still making bad choices and regressing sites to 1996 techniques.
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4/11/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : 10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers - Excellent list from David Pogue. "We may be the bane of your existence, but we're also the reason for it; you're stuck with us. We've got our credit cards ready - now show us some love." [via] #
François Nonnenmacher : 10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers
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4/11/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : GeoPress - GeoPress: Wordpress Plugin for tagging your posts with location
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4/11/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
merlinmann : Entourage — There’s Some Hope - RD2 Blog - Most of this dunna apply to me (I don't think), but you Entourage geeks in big companies, etc. may want to check it out.
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4/11/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
merlinmann : Amar Sagoo - Tofu 2.0 - Dev. version of a great little app specifically for reading text in pretty columns. This version supports PDFs.
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merlinmann : NPR : Sony Music CDs Under Fire from Privacy Advocates - Morning Edition on Sony's embarrassing response to their embarrassing malware debacle.
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4/11/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
merlinmann : CEOExpress: Business portal for executives created by a busy executive - Handy little old-school portal for busy CEO types (who need more media stimulation)
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4/11/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Television Without Pity > The Apprentice > Recaps & Extras > Season 4 Episode 7 - Recaplet of last night's Apprentice, the boardroom of which was one of the finest, most superbly bizarre and duck-behind-a-cushionly cringemaking bits of television ever. #
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4/11/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Linkorama : Emergent and Designed Communities - Suggests that top-down vs. bottom-up is a revenue driver for social software
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4/11/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Linkorama : Craig to invest in Wikipedia? - Could be. If I were to make a significant contribution to Wikipedia, for example, given that it is a journalism effort, ultimately, would that be considered an investment?
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4/11/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
merlinmann : HOWTO Use Your Mac From Anywhere - Like it says: get setup to hit that Mac from anyplace--even on Windows. God, I miss Mark Pilgrim.
jimray : HOWTO Use Your Mac From Anywhere
jkottke : How to use your Mac from anywhere - "This guide demonstrates using SSH tunnels and VNC screen-sharing software to use your Mac from any PC over the Internet. It's fast, secure, cross-platform, and can be done entirely with open source software." (thx tag)
Simon Willison : HOWTO Use Your Mac From Anywhere - A screencast tutorial by Mark Pilgrim. [via]
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4/11/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
jimray : Secret CIA Prisons in Poland? - "I get to feel the shame from both directions, since my adopted country is colluding with my native one to break the laws of both."
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4/11/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jimray : Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome - Artificial artificial intelligence - what happens when someone sets up an HIT to defeat captchas?
Paul Hammond : Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome - Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers
Andy Baio : Amazon redesigns Mechanical Turk with web-based creation tools - creating HITs now requires no programming; just pick a template and upload a CSV with the values
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4/11/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Top 100 DJs for 2005 - The readers of DJ Magazine picks the top 100 DJs for 2005. Top honors go to Paul van Dyk.
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4/11/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Microfinance gift - eBay founder gives $100M to Tufts, but they have to invest in microloans
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4/11/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Visualization of frequently quoted passages from the Bible - Visualization of frequently quoted passages from the Bible. "This visualization is an attempt to understand how people quote the Bible: which parts they choose to quote, & why." More frequently quoted verses appear in a larger, darker font. (via ia) [via]
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4/11/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Coding Horror: Improving the Clipboard
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4/11/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Marius Watz - I've been following this computational artist for years. Once every few months I look at all his cool new stuff.
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4/11/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Japanese blogger poisons mother in homage to killer - with translated excerpts from her blog
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4/11/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
Andy Baio : White Stripes cover Tegan and Sara on new EP - nice homage, but the original is much better; judge for yourself [via]
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4/11/2005 @ 09:57 GMT
kayodeok : perl.com: Making Sense of Subroutines - Well-written subroutines will make your programs smaller (in lines and memory), faster (both in writing and executing), less buggy, and easier to modify
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4/11/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Rasmus Lerdorf's PHP tutorial on the new Yahoo geocoder - for me, the geocoding platform is just as important as the new maps UI [via]
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Andy Baio : MySpace starts record label - sounds like a natural fit
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4/11/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : SuprGlu, build an instant personal page using your del.icio.us, flickr, etc.
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4/11/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : MHC-in-the-box » The Presentation Zen blog - Poor old Bill Gates is getting compared to Steve Jobs in the presentation stakes. We know who's going to win that one...
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4/11/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Brave New Word: Office Live vs. SampaSite - When Microsoft builds a product exactly like yours...
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Andy Baio : Alisa Viejo teen murderer posted on Something Awful, Anandtech, others - he was about shotguns on SA, then killed his neighbors and himself three days later
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4/11/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Desktop Plug-ins - Google Desktop Plug-ins: a good list they've got going
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Jeremy Zawodny : Inside Google Desktop - Inside Google Desktop: google desktop blog
Andy Baio : Google Desktop 2 launches - with support for user-created plugins [via]
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Jeremy Zawodny : Attack of the Clones - Attack of the Clones: yeah, let's not all clone google
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4/11/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : East Bay Ray is one of my favorite guitarists
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Matthew M. Boedicker : wicked cool shell scripts
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ricmac : Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog » It turns out, we’re not snarky - My comment: You guys are the Disruptive Start-Up of Snark. Those A-List Snarkers won’t know what’s hit them. Why, you’re Snark 2.0!!
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4/11/2005 @ 04:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 6 foot tall thirsty birds
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Matthew M. Boedicker : how to find lost objects
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Matthew M. Boedicker : true stories of Knoppix rescues
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Matthew M. Boedicker : new In Our Time espisode about asteroids
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4/11/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Local Events Browser - The Yahoo APIs mega mashup.
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Simon Willison : Super-mashup with Yahoo! APIs: event browser - Chad describes the local browser mashup.
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4/11/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Local Event Browser Demo - Edward Ho on the Local Events Browser, with a neat new use for term extraction.
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Simon Willison : geobloggers, Yahoo! Maps edition - Dan Catt's geobloggers, now with a Y! Maps Flash interface. [via]
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4/11/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : Restaurant critic Alison Arnett on how her job works - Restaurant critic Alison Arnett on how her job works, including how she stays so thin when she eats for a living, her best meal, and the reviewing process.
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4/11/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Amazon Mechanical Turk - develop questions that can only be answered by humans, make money answering them
Matthew M. Boedicker : Amazon mechanical turk, make money for doing repetitive tasks that computers aren't good at
Rod Begbie : Amazon Mechanical Turk - Get paid for grunt-work that's too complex for computers to deal with. Awesome name, and further proof that Amazon is really competing with Google, not buy.com. [via] #
plasticbag : Does anyone know if it's possible to add HITs to Amazon Mechanical Turk if you're outside the US? - I'm really interested in what I could do with mturk, but it seems like you have to have a US bank account to use it at all, which is profoundly frustrating...
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