25/11/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
joshua : cheatcodes for e commerce sites - talk to a human via phone
jkottke : Cheatsheet for how to get to a human operator on various automated phone systems - Cheatsheet for how to get to a human operator on various automated phone systems. When calling Best Buy, "press 1,1,1,#,# and then wait through the 3 prompts asking for your home telephone number". (thx, scott)
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25/11/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
kayodeok : Online programme to get subtitles - The BBC is adding subtitles to the internet edition of its technology programme, Click Online. This will make the show more accessible to viewers with hearing impairments who have missed the broadcast on News 24 and BBC World
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25/11/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
joshua : MMOrgy -- sex in video games - strange world we live in
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25/11/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Xooglers - Blog of one of my favourite former Googlers, Doug E. (via John Battelle)
Simon Willison : Xooglers - Could become the folklore.org of Google.com. [via]
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25/11/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : VLC downloads - 16M+ downloads of this free excellent media player
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25/11/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : Urban Legends Reference Pages: Food (The Big Sleep) - The tryptophan in turkey is the reason why you feel sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner? Urban legend. #
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25/11/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jimray : Rails Theme Support Plugin - Easily add Typo-style themes to your Rails app
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25/11/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
plasticbag : "Boy band Take That have announced that they are to reform for a tour - 10 years after they split up." - Odds of Robbie Williams joining in are substantially less than zero, I would imagine...
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25/11/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : Channel 4 rapped over 'Lost' ad breaks - Sixty-four minutes of apparent programming contained only thirty-six minutes of new editorial content. I buy Channel 4's excuse a bit, but it's still a shame - bad advertising spaces and overlong breaks make shows less watchable. It hurts them in the end.
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25/11/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : Why Yahoo! will be the center of the million-channel universe. - A Wired Magazine article about Yahoo that features my new boss Bradley Horowitz. There's not quite enough about him online for me to feel that I know him well though...
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25/11/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone. - High-minded as that sounds, Google's ever-expanding agenda has put it on a collision course with nearly every company in the information technology industry: Amazon.com, Comcast, eBay, Yahoo!, even Microsoft
Philippe Janvier : Who's Afraid of Google ? Everyone. - "That's how it looks to panicked tech companies across the Valley as they contend with Google's ever-expanding power and ambition." [via] #
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jimray : lighttpd 1.4.8 and multiple rails-apps
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25/11/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Library clips on SSE: bi-directional RSS feeds - "The key word with SSE is replicate, I guess this is different to re-syndicate, as the recipient can send stuff back down the same channel, so the other keyword is bi-directional."
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25/11/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Gnod - The global network of dreams - Fun to play with, but I didn't find the results that great. Maybe needs more users. "Gnod is my experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. Its a self-adapting system, living on this server and 'talking' to everyone who comes along."
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25/11/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
WillPate : Three Funding Annuncements for Prince Edward Island This Week | Shawn Murphy MP - "Question Period has basically degenerated to a childish shouting match" Charlottetown has an awesome MP who not only blogs but calls em like he sees em.
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25/11/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
WillPate : Vancouver WiFi - A map of wireless hotspots (Wayfaring Map) - I did the first one, to the WifiMug!
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25/11/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
joshua : HumanMarkup.org: Bringing Human Qualities into Information Technology - finally a dtd for those emoticons i've been feeling
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