18/11/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Bill Hicks: Salvation - I happened upon this last week, and it's bloody fantastic. A complete unedited 100-minute Bill Hicks act from 1992. Due to his early death, Hicks gets a lot of messianic hyperbole, but listening to this act, it's a reminder that a) he was a very smart g #
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jimray : Brad Miller intros legislation to exempt bloggers from FEC rules (PDF) - Brad has worked really hard with a lot of smart people to make sure this gets done right
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18/11/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : Joel on pricing - "The entertainment industry has to maintain a straight face and tell you that Gigli or Battlefield Earth are every bit as valuable as Wedding Crashers or Star Wars or nobody will go see them."
Matthew M. Boedicker : the real reason record companies want tiered pricing for iTunes music
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18/11/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : ProduKey - Recover lost product key (CD-Key) of Windows/MS-Office - ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of MS-Office, Windows, and SQL Server installed on your computer
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18/11/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jimray : Boing Boing: Anti-GWB logo: Worst. President. Ever. - I'm not a fan of bumper-sticker politics, but that's just funny
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18/11/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
plasticbag : Ruby the Rival - an investigation of whether Ruby is proving a potential replacement or rival to Java - I'm increasingly finding this stuff interesting as time passes. I guess I'm getting nerdier.
François Nonnenmacher : Ruby the Rival
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18/11/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kellan : Brattleboro Tech Collective new site is live. - Congrats. #
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18/11/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tom Coates on Space Cadets, the real-life Truman Show - I agree, it sounds cruel regardless of the execution
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18/11/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Linkorama : Google-Mart - Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
Andy Baio : Google-Mart - intriguing Cringely column on Google's dark fiber plans [via]
François Nonnenmacher : Google-Mart - Cringely: Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
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18/11/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
plasticbag : The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles - Popular Science must have the most aggravating pagination scheme of all time, but the story - about the project to find a way to create multi-coloured bubbles for kids - is weirdly amazing and the picture is beautiful...
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18/11/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
plasticbag : Wired News explore the Sony malware installation and questions why anti-virus and security companies did so little about the whole thing... - I'm kind of stunned by the Sony move - installing software without the permission of your users, software that exposes their computers to viruses and worms. That's astonishing movie-villain behaviour, surely?!
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18/11/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Isofarro : colourmatch redux - pick shades of RGB and it delivers a useful palette of related colours.
gleuschk : {style:phreak;} - colormatch redux - never can find these when I want them
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18/11/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : A video of strange things you can do with air, weird liquids and vibrations... - It starts off slow, but the last thirty seconds or so are absolutely mesmerising and extraordinary. A definite must-see...
François Nonnenmacher : Amazing Liquid
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18/11/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : More of the beautiful paper creations by Peter Callesen that I linked to earlier in the day - Mostly larger scale items, including ladders and replicas of architectural features constructed entirely out of paper with an astonishing attention to detail
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18/11/2005 @ 13:57 GMT
deusx : Bill Clinton Calls Iraq 'Big Mistake' - Yahoo! News - "Clinton cited the lack of planning for what would happen after Saddam Hussein was overthrown."
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18/11/2005 @ 13:57 GMT
deusx : US use of white phosphorus in Iraq might constitute a war crime - Wikinews - "The denial of use followed by the admission will simply convince the doubters that there was something to hide."
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18/11/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot - "But Digg ... is pointing the way to a new wave of socially assembled news initiatives, organized and made sense of by readers themselves."
ricmac : Wired News: Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot - "Celebrating its first birthday this month, Digg's traffic is fast catching up with Slashdot's. Its 80,000-user base is doubling every three months, and the surprised owners of linked-to websites are feeling the results of its popularity."
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18/11/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
gleuschk : Crucio Bitch! | Ask MetaFilter - genius. just. genius.
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18/11/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
jkottke : A visit to Jim Thompson House - Meg basically posted what I was going to say about Jim Thompson House, so head on over to read up on this interesting house.
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18/11/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : del.icio.us/help/tagrolls - Tagrolls are a way for you to display your del.icio.us tags as part of your website
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18/11/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
Jon Hicks : Gus gets excited by the yahoo mail beta - I can see why. Apart from the very XPish colours, this looks like something I’d want to use.
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18/11/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
kayodeok : I Forgot My Administrator Password! - If that’s your only problem, then you probably have nothing to worry about. As long as you have your Windows XP CD, you can get back into your system using a simple but effective method made possible by a little known access hole in Windows XP
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18/11/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google Base as a platform - If we click through on the "people profiles'' link, we're taken to a Google-mapped page of profiles that we can refine by marital status, gender and more. Suddenly, we have the start of an online dating or social networking service
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18/11/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : WebPatterns and WebSemantics - But it's clear that the semantic expressiveness of HTML, even with HTML compounds is reasonably limited. And developers are voting with their feet, using class and id to create their own ad hoc semantics for HTML
Isofarro : WebPatterns and WebSemantics - Discussing web patterns - standardising or componentising the use of classes and ids for architectural purposes. Add to the 'keep an eye on this' list.
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18/11/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit - The story to pay attention to here is the collusion between big media companies who try to control what we do on our computers and computer-security companies who are supposed to be protecting us.
deusx : Wired News: Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit - "What happens when the creators of malware collude with the very companies we hire to protect us from that malware?"
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18/11/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Poynter Online: Heads Up: Future 'Readers' Are Content Creators - " I think this points to a future with high levels of participatory media usage. Now is the time to focus your Internet content strategy on participation and online community development..."
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18/11/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
ricmac : Scott Gatz’s Blog » Monetizing your RSS feed - Tips from Yahoo's Scott Gatz
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18/11/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
Linkorama : E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago - At Dresdner, Rangaswami says that among the earliest and most aggressive adopters, e-mail volume on related projects is down 75%; meeting times have been whacked in half.
plasticbag : "E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago" - Business Week talks about how the abuse of e-mail as broadcast has led to its redundancy and looks towards IM, wikis and blogs as replacements... - It's all pretty obvious and the tools are useful. I wouldn't be without a decent workplace wiki now. But the aggravating thing is that internal e-mail only got so useless because of corporate insistence on broadcast messaging. Idiots.
François Nonnenmacher : E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago
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18/11/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : guy brings 1990 Mac Classic to Apple Store Genius Bar
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18/11/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the Leeroy Jenkins World of Warcraft video
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Matthew M. Boedicker : new In Our Time episode on the Pragmatism philosophy
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18/11/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Nine Fine Irishmen - Nine Fine Irishmen: a good irish pub in the New York New York hotel/casino in Vegas
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Andy Baio : Video: Dying Fetus, "Kill Your Mother, Rape Your Dog" - death metal music video using clips from Disney and Nickeloden kid's shows [via]
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18/11/2005 @ 05:00 GMT
jimray : Snakes and Rubies :: Index - Chicago has turned into quite the hotbed of webdev
Simon Willison : Snakes and Rubies event - Rails and Django event in Chicago on December 3rd.
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18/11/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
kellan : A modest proposal from #rails-core - after all we've got our own versions of Array, and String! #
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18/11/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jimray : MSN Search: cookie site:msnbc.msn.com - Sometimes cached data will just make your day (or ruin it, if you happened to be the poor sap who edited this story)
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18/11/2005 @ 02:57 GMT
kellan : Rabble and Blaine - Phone Communities and Activism Showcase (O'reilly Emerging Telephony) - Congrats! At the Foocamp VOIP hacking session it became clear that Rabble and Lattice had actually done it, not just talked about it. #
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18/11/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
gleuschk : is an ebay fraud seller free? | Ask MetaFilter - an incredible detective job by the MeFi crew, crushing an eBay scam artist like a tiny leetle bug
Rod Begbie : is an ebay fraud seller free? | Ask MetaFilter - This is a long MeFi thread, but worth reading. Summary: Someone posts to mefi asking if it's possible to catch an ebay scammer. Turns out said questioner *is* an eBay scammer. Collected MeFi masses turn up addresses, bio, photos, etc on scammer. Now [via] #
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18/11/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
plasticbag : A BBC analysis column explores the politics and positioning behind the Internet governance discussions - "Internet professor Michael Geist explains why the arguments over who runs the internet are far from over"
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18/11/2005 @ 01:03 GMT
joshua : Del.icio.us: Social bookmarking phenomenon - i'm in pc world!
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18/11/2005 @ 01:02 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : google.co.uk features doodles drawn by kids this week
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18/11/2005 @ 00:59 GMT
jimray : Google Print upsets children's hospital - Sensational journalism at its absolute worst. Sadly, this is exactly what I've come to expect from the same folks who keep John Dvorak employed.
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18/11/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Using Immedi.at 101 - Quand l'immédi.at n'est pas aussi immédiat que ça :) un screencast qui décrit le fonctionnement d'un service d'alerte RSS via IM. [via] #
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18/11/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Google Base II - "If we give it the power, it will become the Wal-Mart of the waves–by default if not by design. Is that what you all want? If it is, just continue getting all misty eyed, because you'll need blurred vision not to see what should be right in front [via] #
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