24/11/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
erikbenson : A city-side experiment to make Slough a happier city - This is awesome. An attempt to make the entire city of Slough happier by giving them a Happiness Manifesto and getting them to follow it for 10 weeks. I love city-wide experiments, and with something as interesting as happiness.
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24/11/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Secure Linux/UNIX access with PuTTY and OpenSSH - Secure Linux/UNIX access with PuTTY and OpenSSH: another excellent tech tip from Steve Friedl
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24/11/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Jon Hicks : Carson Workshops Summit - The Future of Web Apps - Blimey, what a fantastic line-up! I am SO there!
Cameron Moll : Confs: Future of Web Apps, Ajax Workshop - Couple of conferences worth noting: Carson's Future of Web Apps (quite the speaker line-up) and Clearleft's Ajax Workshop.
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24/11/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : GPS Visualizer : Google Maps - GPS visualizer fait maintenant aussi de jolies cartes Google. [via] #
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24/11/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
ricmac : Lucas Gonze re the War on Text - "There is a huge amount of work left to be done before pictures and sound are first-class citizens on par with text."
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24/11/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo: From Dot-Com Survivor to Web 2.0 Powerhouse
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24/11/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Microsoft speaker at Harvard Law School on Nov. 28
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Nelson Minar : Ah Pook is here - Excellent animation for a William S Burroughs riff
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24/11/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
WillPate : Swivel - If this does what I think it does, it will be awesome
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24/11/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
WillPate : Online Resources Small Businesses Shouldn't Live Without - Incomplete, but has some gems
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24/11/2005 @ 19:31 GMT
Simon Willison : Web_2.0.jpg - That's that one sorted then. I like the inclusion of "beta".
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24/11/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : This personalized Flickr Name That Contact! game is so much fun - This personalized Flickr Name That Contact! game is a lot of fun [via]
gleuschk : Name That Contact! - can you identify your flickr contacts?
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24/11/2005 @ 12:01 GMT
kayodeok : Understanding WCAG 2.0: W3C Working Draft 23 November 2005 - This document, "Understanding WCAG 2.0," is an essential guide to understanding and using "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" [WCAG20]. It is part of a series of documents which support WCAG 2.0
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24/11/2005 @ 11:59 GMT
kayodeok : HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0: W3C Working Draft 23 November 2005 - This document provides information to Web content developers who wish to satisfy the success criteria of "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" [WCAG20] (currently a W3C Working Draft).
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24/11/2005 @ 11:57 GMT
kayodeok : Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: W3C Working Draft 23 November 2005 - This document contains principles, guidelines, success criteria, benefits, and examples that define and explain the requirements for making Web-based information and applications accessible. "Accessible" means usable to a wide range of people with disabil
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24/11/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Right's of Photographers (when shooting in public places) - The security guard on duty told me that since 9/11 they have become extremely sticky about picture taking in the stations however I didn't look like a terrorist so sure, I could go down the escalator into a "paid fare zone" to take a couple of shots
Matthew M. Boedicker : the rights of photographers when shooting in public places
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24/11/2005 @ 10:56 GMT
kayodeok : Digg Vulnerable to XSS - While trying to use the ‘search’ feature on Digg, I realized that it is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS). The search string is echoed back without proper output encoding
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24/11/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Repeat After Me: Lack of _Output Encoding_ Causes XSS Vulnerabilities - The correct approach to solving XSS problems is to ensure that every user supplied parameter is HTML Output Encoded (Example: < is replaced with
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24/11/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Greasemonkey Hacks: Tips & Tools for Remixing the Web with Firefox - For those who prefer to customize and control their content, Greasemonkey Hacks provides the expertise you need to take command of any web page you view
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24/11/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
kayodeok : Middle Ground: Content Management from Static HTML Files - My idea is for an extremely simplistic content management system — one based on HTML files and a scheduled file system crawl
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24/11/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Songbird - media player built on Mozilla platform, very iTunes-like
Rod Begbie : Songbird Media Player" - New cross-platform iTunes-a-like being built by some former Nullsoft guys. Interesting to see someone other than the Mozilla foundation building apps in XUL. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Songbird Media Player - Songbird Media Player: the mozilla folks are always cooking up something, aren't they?
Philippe Janvier : Songbird - "Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox's browser engine." [via] #
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24/11/2005 @ 08:11 GMT
jimray : Journler - Slick looking journal/lifetracking software
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24/11/2005 @ 08:07 GMT
jimray : Image Tricks - transform your images to unimaginable extent - Nifty wrapper/GUI for Tiger's Core Image tech
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24/11/2005 @ 08:04 GMT
jimray : MacDevCenter.com: HTML Tools on the Mac Command Line - textutil was a new one for me
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24/11/2005 @ 08:01 GMT
ricmac : Susan Mernit's Blog: Talking: The distributed web - "One of the ah-hah! moments of the last three months is recognizing that one of the best ways for a digital media business to reach an audience is to stop trying to be a destination."
deusx : Susan Mernit's Blog: Talking: The distributed web - "Big media, if you want to catch up to your audience, you have to let go."
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24/11/2005 @ 07:58 GMT
Andy Baio : Internet chatspeak as vintage type ligature - the "wtf" series is outstanding
jkottke : What if chat-speak words like WTF and LOL were typographically abbreviated - What if chat-speak words like WTF and LOL were typographically abbreviated just as "at" (@) and "et" (&) were. [via]
deusx : | An amusing exercise | Typophile - "If, in some bizarre alternate history, chatspeak abbreviations like “LOL†had become popular long before there were computers and character sets, they might have, over time, become new symbols, like “et†became “&†and
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24/11/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Richard Scarry's The Best Word Book Ever, 1963 and 1991 - Alan compares all the subtle differences between the two versions
Jon Hicks : The Best Word Book Ever,1963 and 1991 - Fascinating to see the changes made between the two books.
Eric Meyer : The Best Word Book Ever, 1963 and 1991 - Comparisons of two editions of Richard Scarry's classic, highlighting terminology and gender changes, among other things. Fun! [via Jon] [via]
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24/11/2005 @ 06:58 GMT
Rod Begbie : Indieish: Remixing Pop Culture � CC:365 - Podcast promising a new CC-licensed indie MP3 tune every day of 2006. I'm really looking forward to this. [via] #
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24/11/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : Pleech - new aussie RSS Aggregator - via Paul Montgomery
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24/11/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? - Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?: You shouldn't; it doesn't really matter, and you have better things to spend your time on.
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24/11/2005 @ 05:05 GMT
ricmac : Mark Sigal's Blog - The Network Garden: Short attention, short conversations and video clips - "One is that one of my companies, vSocial, has recently gone beta, dubbing itself The Video Clip Sharing Community."
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24/11/2005 @ 05:02 GMT
ricmac : 1000 Flowers Bloom: Aggregate Knowledge - "We are targeting a January unveiling of our first consumer facing service. This new service will leverage the WSRelater engine to create a compelling user retention solution for media portals."
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24/11/2005 @ 04:58 GMT
jkottke : Khoi Vinh from Subtraction is currently in Vietnam as well - Khoi Vinh from Subtraction is currently in Vietnam as well, blogging and taking pictures.
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24/11/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jkottke : Good French food in Vietnam - Another benefit to being in Vietnam is that they have pretty good French food here.
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24/11/2005 @ 03:07 GMT
ricmac : My Wellington friend does a John Malkovich - I'm waiting for the movie 'Being Pragmatic Geek' to come out ;-)
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24/11/2005 @ 03:04 GMT
ricmac : Don Dodge is bullish on Brightcove, re news AOL & IAC are on board - "My prediction is that Brightcove will be The Next Big Thing in video distribution."
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24/11/2005 @ 03:01 GMT
ricmac : diggClone - A clone of the Digg engine. But can they clone Digg's popularity? Uh, no.
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24/11/2005 @ 02:58 GMT
ricmac : A Venture Forth: Silicon Valley’s Hiring War–And The Impact to Startups - "I think we’ll see an increasing number of important startups based outside of the Valley over the coming few years."
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24/11/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Meet with Approval - lo-fi meeting scheduler
joshua : MeetWithApproval - nice app for converging on a meeting
plasticbag : MeetWithApproval.com - "Arrange a meeting or event. Work out which day is good for everyone & keep track of who is coming." - This is a lovely piece of kit - pretty easy to assemble, but really elegant. This would be a charming component of a larger social calendaring enterprise.
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24/11/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
ricmac : ::HorsePigCow:: life uncommon: My so-called online life - "I would love to bring this all together in a documentary afterwards." Great idea - I can see it being in the Sundance Movie festival or something.
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24/11/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
ricmac : Flickr: Brat Pack 2.0 - Just joined this Flickr group. I think it needs some non-Silicon Valley peeps in it.
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24/11/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Simple iterator-based parsing - Beautifully elegant Python parsing trick [via]
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24/11/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
plasticbag : Jessica's Trans-Traffic - Interesting little thing this - it's a bit of javascript you add to your weblog which tells you which other weblogs your visitors are reading. I quite like the idea of it helping people find unexpected peers.
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24/11/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
deusx : hatom - Microformats - "hAtom is a microformat for content that can be syndicated, primarily but not exclusively weblog postings."
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24/11/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
deusx : Canon braces for arse-induced copier carnage | The Register - "Mind you, there's more to a Canon engineer's life than extracting a grainy likeness of Maureen from Human Resources' posterior from a wrecked, beer-soaked machine."
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24/11/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
deusx : Australian man threatens to shoot down chopper with tomato-bazooka - Wikinews - "Fruit is hardly a weapon of mass terror"
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