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Milo Vermeulen : Badly Drawn Boy - Year of the Rat video
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Nelson Minar : Google Talk: Partychat - bot that adds group functionality to Google Talk
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Nelson Minar : pixelArt tool - Nice Flash isometric building editor (via Metafilter)
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Philippe Janvier : Practical Microformats with hCard - "Of the data you're giving away, it makes sense to give it as much meaning as possible, thus enabling anyone from your friends and family to the giant search company down the road to make the most of it." [via] #
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ricmac : Yahoo! Site Explorer - Access the Site Explorer in your favourite programming languages through a web services API.
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ricmac : JotSpot Tracker - Stop emailing spreadsheets
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ricmac : Don Park's Daily Habit - Killing the Desktop
Linkorama : Killing the Desktop - When I observe how my wife and son uses the family computer, I can't help noticing how little use they have for the desktop. They look bewildered when I open the Windows Explorer.
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7/12/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
ricmac : Genuine VC: (The Beginnings of) Social Commerce
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ricmac : » Era of the content engineer | Software as services | ZDNet.com
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Paul Hammond : JavaScript Tip #1: Speed Up Object Detection - only performing object detection once instead of every time you call addEvent
Isofarro : JavaScript Tip #1: Speed Up Object Detection - A simple genius solution to the constant object detection. Do it once, and remember
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7/12/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : fish: a user friendly command line shell - An interesting new Unix shell. Look at the screenshots for examples of it's cool tab-completion fu. [via] #
joshua : fish - fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.
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kayodeok : Winpooch : opensource anti spyware and trojan - Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your
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7/12/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration - Here are 20 things you can do to make your apache configuration more secure
Paul Hammond : 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
François Nonnenmacher : 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
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7/12/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : Dude, where’'s my intranet zone? (… and more about the changes to IE7 security zones) - The Internet zone will run in Protected Mode on Windows Vista which helps provide defense-in-depth against some of the attacks IE has faced in the past. ActiveX Opt-In will also help reduce the attack surface of ActiveX controls in the internet zone (this
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7/12/2005 @ 20:57 GMT
Linkorama : Even in Web 2.0 Scale & Size Matter - It's as much about business planning as it is architecture
Paul Hammond : Om Malik on Broadband : » Even in Web 2.0 Scale & Size Matter - No one, is thinking (or planning) about long term business models!
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7/12/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Deflexion - Real-world bounce-the-laser-off-mirrors boardgame. Looks like a lot of fun -- I think I'll head to the "World Championships" at MIT this weekend. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : ratDVD - the DVD movie download format - Compression/packaging format to rip *everything* from a DVD -- Menus, special features, commentaries, etc. Also allows you to unpack and burn back to a DVD! Windows-only at the moment, sadly. #
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7/12/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
Jon Hicks : Jobs at Torchbox - My friends at Torchbox are looking for a Junior Designer and a Project Manager. Great place to work, with interesting projects.
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Richard Rutter : Chutney Challenge - Road testing mango chutneys..
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Philippe Janvier : Photo to Text - "...convert your colour photo's/images into colour text versions." [via] #
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jkottke : GameSpot has an ongoing series of articles about the greatest video games of all time - GameSpot has an ongoing series of articles about the greatest video games of all time. Lode Runner, Tetris, Quake, Oregon Trail, Defender, and Metroid all make the list.
Nelson Minar : Greatest games - Nice list of Gamespot selections (via Kottke)
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7/12/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Linkorama : I Will Knot! - This site would have come in handy when I taught Pioneering to Scouts
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Nelson Minar : WoW Insider blog - New blog just for the game; we are a truly decadent society
Matthew M. Boedicker : World of Warcraft Insider - articles about World of Warcraft
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7/12/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jimray : BBC NEWS | Nick Robinson's Newslog | - The Beeb is blogging...with TypePad
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jimray : Music thing: The Music Thing Xmas Gift Guide
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Andy Baio : CNET buys Consumating - not bad for two guys in their spare time; congrats!
Jason Shellen : Consumating is now part of CNET Networks - Congrats to Ben Brown and crew. However, CNET watch out he has a propensity for putting his 'DNA' on servers. #
jimray : Consumating bought by C|Net - Seems like an odd fit, but here's to Bubble2.0!
erikbenson : Ben Brown sells consumating.com, congratulations! - Every internet rock star needs to sell a website and move to San Francisco at least once.
plasticbag : Consumating.com gets bought by CNET - There really does seem to be a bit of an explosion of really early-stage acquisitions going on around the place at the moment. It's interesting...
ricmac : Consumating: bought by CNET - via waxy links
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7/12/2005 @ 18:57 GMT
joshua : Epilog Laser Engraver Engraving Laser Cutting Marking Systems and Machines
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Linkorama : Elite Tech Blogs - This is like a second generation A-list debate
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Linkorama : Sanger on Seigenthaler’s criticism of Wikipedia - That was a part of Seigenthaler’s column that bothered me: what exactly does Seigenthaler want Congress to do?
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kellan : Schneier: 30,000 People Mistakenly Put on Terrorist Watch List - In good news, after being "randomly" flagged for extra screening, on every flight I took for 3 years (dozens and dozens), the last few times I've breezed on with no more then the usual level of harassment. #
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7/12/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : S P 500 outliers - Simple statistical presentation
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Nelson Minar : Xbox 360 security - Various anti-mod measures; this is a dry run for Trusted Computing
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7/12/2005 @ 17:58 GMT
Cameron Moll : X-Men III Teaser - X-Men III teaser.
jkottke : Trailer for X3, the 3rd X-Men movie - Trailer for X3, the 3rd X-Men movie.
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7/12/2005 @ 17:58 GMT
Cameron Moll : TV design tips - Accessibility and usability for interactive television. For personal archival purposes now, though this is bound to come up at some point.
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Cameron Moll : Treo 650 Tips - Engadget: Treo 650 tips. Also for personal archival, for when I have a little time to go through all these.
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Cameron Moll : Blue-eyed Wedding Beauty - Blue-eyed wedding beauty. Another gorgeous composition from BellePhotos. No surprise that Daniel was the one to shoot the photo on my About page.
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Cameron Moll : Ebay Redux: A Design Exercise - Ebay Redux: A Design Exercise.
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Cameron Moll : FC: Beauty of Simplicity - "It is innovation's biggest paradox: We demand more and more from the stuff in our lives -- more features, more function, more power -- and yet we also increasingly demand that it be easy to use. And, in an Escher-like twist, the technology that's simples
jkottke : The beauty of simplicity - The beauty of simplicity. "Blame the [lack of simplicity on the] closed feedback loop among engineers and industrial designers, who simply can't conceive of someone so lame that she can't figure out how to download a ringtone; blame a competitive landscap
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Linkorama : Practice versus Process - Process is about dealing with information. Practice is about applying knowledge.
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Jon Hicks : DockStar - Customize your Mail.app dock icon - Yeah, I know its $8, but I like it!
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Andy Baio : Wikipedia to disallow anonymous edits - an experimental change to deal with their social scaling issues
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Andy Baio : Alison Mealy's Unreal Tournament art - artworks combine portraits and data viz from UT games [via]
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jkottke : Great profile by Michael Lewis of Mike Leach, Texas Tech's football coach - Great profile by Michael Lewis of Mike Leach, Texas Tech's football coach. Leach "believes that both failure and success slow players down, unless they will themselves not to slow down." 'When they fail, they become frustrated. When they have success, the
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7/12/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : An investigation into the properties of number spirals (and prime numbers) - An investigation into the properties of number spirals (and prime numbers).
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Jon Hicks : Binary Bonsai joins 9Rules - Another blog down. Anyone left who isn’t in 9Rules?
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jkottke : Who doesn't love advertising CMYK jokes? - Who doesn't love advertising CMYK jokes? "A Clockwork C:0 M:60 Y:90 K:0"
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7/12/2005 @ 14:56 GMT
deusx : CSS2 - Tableless forms - "That's it: tableless forms with a good, solid horizontal alignment."
Paul Hammond : CSS2 - Tableless forms - This CSS doesn't work in Explorer 5.0 Windows.
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deusx : [delicious-discuss] Familiar Taste greasemonkey script plus free bonus feature request - Whoa, deja vu! :) "I just came across this greasemonkey script in Les Orchard's linkstream"
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deusx : jwz - "WE ARE NIHILISTS. WE BELIEVE IN NOTHING." - "YIPPY YA YA. YIPPY. YIPPY. YAY." Nothing better than a German in a hat ranting about power tools.
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jkottke : Scientists have found a probable carrier for the ebola virus: fruit bats - Scientists have found a probable carrier for the ebola virus: fruit bats. According to the WHO, ebola causes death in "50-90% of all clinically ill cases".
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7/12/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
mbertier : pearworks: pearLyrics - if I have bought an album, am I allowed to save and view lyrics of that album on my computer? I mean, I surely can hear the words, but am I allowed to read them? #
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ricmac : Inventing the post-RSS world - photo by Mike Arrington (via Ben Barren)
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Jason Shellen : Saab Performance Team - The only ballet I love is auto ballet. [via AutoBlog] #
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jimray : Rewriting Reddit (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog) - Aaron Swartz introduces his Python framework, disses on Django a bit.
Nelson Minar : Django problems - The middle section of Aaron's essay makes me worried for Django
Paul Hammond : Rewriting Reddit (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog) - The way I wrote web.py was simple: I imagined how things should work and then I made that happen
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veen : Elliot Swan » Alpha Testing Measure Map: A Blogger’s Stats - "Measure Map doesn’t just track your normal hits, links, etc., Measure Map gives you info related specifically to blogging. "
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veen : Infinite Eye - Measure Map is almost here - "The main attraction to Measure Map is it’s sheer simplicity."
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7/12/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
veen : Blog Stats Software Reviews - MeasureMap | Performancing.com - "Design is straight out of the Web 2.0 branding guidelines. It's all curvy boxes, big text, flash and AJAX. It does look lovely."
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ricmac : iMedia Connection: John Battelle on Web 2.0 & Google - "The web has become a platform," said Battelle, "it's become literally an operating system of sorts that we, as developers of content and applications and services, build on top of."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Tripping the Yahoo Fantastic - Tripping the Yahoo Fantastic: Om wonders what Yahoo is...
ricmac : Om Malik on Broadband : » Tripping the Yahoo Fantastic - "What Yahoo needs is an ability to form an emotional connection with its users. Instead of being just MyYahoo users, they should have a religious fervor with Yahoo’s services."
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7/12/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
joshua : Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics Library
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Rod Begbie : iTSM Gallery: rodbegbie - My "sound signature" according to the iTunes Signature Maker. Slightly busted in that it refused to deal with most of the tracks in my collection, but fun nonetheless. #
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Rod Begbie : mozdev.org - nextplease - Ooh. This is just supersmart! A Firefox plugin which works out when you're on a site with multiple pages to a story (or search results), and lets you flip through them with keyboard shortcuts. This makes TWoP much easier to read. Hurrah! [via] #
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Matthew M. Boedicker : pictures of things people have done to computers from the Gateway 2000 service department
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Matthew M. Boedicker : a secret drawer for your laptop's empty PC card slot
deusx : StashCard-A secret drawer for your laptop - "The StashCard from Wireless Garden is a secret compartment that slides into your PC slot to stash away all sorts of stuff."
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7/12/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : bag to put a grilled cheese in and then put it in the toaster
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Matthew M. Boedicker : more laser etched Powerbooks
Rod Begbie : MAKE: Laser etching Powerbooks - Wow. For Christmas, I want a powerbook and a big fuck-off laser! [via] #
Nelson Minar : Etching Powerbooks - Nice "how it's done" article
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Matthew M. Boedicker : G.K. Chesterton quot on the reasonableness of the world
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deusx : Familiar Taste - A Greasemonkey Script for del.icio.us - "Each time you visit a page, FT consults your set of del.icio.us bookmarks to see if you have the current page marked."
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Ajax breaks the web for the same reasons frames break the web
deusx : Ajax Sucks Most of the Time (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox December 2005) - He used the Web 2.0 business idea generator at the end, didn't he? That cheeky bastard.
jimray : Ajax Sucks Most of the Time - "When It's OK to Use Ajax - If you are working in a Web2.0 company that needs to provide evidence of their technical expertise in order to gain new clients." Pretty brilliant spoof.
kayodeok : Ajax Sucks Most of the Time - Ajax breaks the unified model of the Web and introduce a new way of looking at data that has not been well integrated into the other aspects of the Web. With ajax, the user's view of information on the screen is now determined by a sequence of navigation
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gleuschk : lovelydesign. products. far away mail box - vintage maps + recycled paper
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gleuschk : lovelydesign. products. little bits making kit - scrap papers and ephemera
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7/12/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
jimray : Real to offer Web-based version of Rhapsody - If this works with my Roku, I'm signing up tonight
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deusx : Swimming Pools and Hard Disks (by Jeremy Zawodny) - "It took many hours to fill a swimming pool with the garden hose doing the work, but we really didn't worry about it that much."
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gleuschk : UncommonGoods: SMART WOMEN GLASSES - Smart women thirst for knowledge
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Rod Begbie : iTunes Signature Maker - This brilliant little applet analyses your iTunes library and based on your listening behaviour, patches together a short "signature" of your music taste. I'll upload mine in a moment. [via] #
jimray : iTunes Signature Maker - Java applet that analyzes your mp3s and creates a blurb representing "you" - cool!
jkottke : iTunes Signature Maker - iTunes Signature Maker analyzes your iTunes collection (in the browser a Java applet) and creates a short sound collage of the music that you listen to most frequently or have rated highly. Here's the signatute it created for me. (thx, paul) [via]
Andy Baio : iTunes Signature Maker - listen to the gallery for examples; pure chaos
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jimray : How it's made - Laser etching Powerbooks - Rad
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7/12/2005 @ 03:00 GMT
cobra libre : j'accuse: himahlya - "Who among us has not come back from some foreign trip intent on saying 'yama' for llama, or 'Nee-kar-agggh-wa' for Nicaragua, or 'Mong-rrrhay-al' for Montreal?" [via] #
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7/12/2005 @ 03:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : overstimulate | Canvas - Canvas is a HTML extension for procedural graphics
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7/12/2005 @ 02:59 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ethical Software by Alex Bunardzic » Confessions Of A Former Data Integrity Addict - What I’ve failed to understand at that point is that not every transaction that transpires in the course of conducting business is mission critical
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7/12/2005 @ 02:59 GMT
Paul Hammond : The case against high-level components (Loud Thinking) - One of the clear goals for Rails from the start was to stay at the infrastructure layer
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7/12/2005 @ 02:58 GMT
Paul Hammond : Andy Budd::Blogography: d.Construct 2005 Rundown - d.Construct turned out to be an excellent event and went off without a hitch
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Paul Hammond : The Rails Diary | Validation and Securing Input - never trust input from the end user and do everything you can to clean it before putting it in your database, and also before displaying it to other users
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Paul Hammond : Building Web 2.0 at XTech 2006 - I'm very excited to announce the Call for Participation for XTech 2006
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Paul Hammond : A web professional can never stop learning | 456 Berea Street - Some will call me an elitist for saying that
deusx : A web professional can never stop learning | 456 Berea Street - "Why should web professionals not be required to know their craft?"
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Paul Hammond : Getting Real: Saying "Done" - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - When you get to done it means something’s been accomplished
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Paul Hammond : Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab - This Post is Also Not About G**gle - Google is (increasingly) lame
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Paul Hammond : Ajaxian: Ajax Activity indicators with Rails - let a user know that we are talking back to the server
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Paul Hammond : 4-Ever: CSS Resizable Underlines: A simple CSS way to make underlines on unjustified text go the full width - Simple, small, clean CSS
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Paul Hammond : davblog: Web Frameworks Night - Report - As always the Perl community shot itself in the foot a bit
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Paul Hammond : Simon Willison: Notes on public speaking - Show, don't tell
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Paul Hammond : Reveal your old school web development hacks | 456 Berea Street - I’ve been looking through some documents on coding conventions and recommendations that I wrote years ago
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Paul Hammond : anti-mega: a request - Has anyone got a greasemonkey hack to remove Google Analytics script requests from web pages?
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Paul Hammond : 24 ways - to impress your friends
Philippe Janvier : 24 ways - Un truc ou une astuce de développement web par jour pendant un mois. C'est Noël ! [via] #
Jon Hicks : 24 ways is back! - yay!
Cameron Moll : 24 ways - 24 ways is back! 24 ways to impress your friends during the holidays.
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Paul Hammond : Resurgence issue 203 - A CULTURE OF SIMPLICITY by Leonard Koren - #
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Paul Hammond : getAttribute(attr) != null considered harmful - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style - Once again, the real world does not play ball
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Paul Hammond : The Odeo Blog: Podcast Amongst Yourselves - Today we're launching a new version of Odeo with several big changes
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Paul Hammond : RedHanded » YAML is JSON - all JSON is valid YAML
