15/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
kellan : ExxonMobil: "Blood for Oil" - BB calls it "unintentionally ironic", looks like an explicit, twisted joke to me. #
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15/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Steve Balmer - The Remix - Not one to show the children!
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15/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : BREAKER DESIGN - Damn this is nice. I wish I’d kept my 90° tree photo now!
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15/12/2005 @ 22:11 GMT
jimray : A design for a bot for a library
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15/12/2005 @ 22:11 GMT
Rod Begbie : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - Extremely well-designed anti-phishing extension from Google. #
kayodeok : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences. This type of attack, known as phishing or spoofing, is becoming more sophis
jimray : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - This is a great idea, I just can't help but think that your typical IE user would be better served by such a thing, though
Philippe Janvier : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - "...an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences." [via] #
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15/12/2005 @ 22:10 GMT
kayodeok : FM Reviews - Reviews of Digital Camera Lenses - Reviews of Digital Camera Lenses
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15/12/2005 @ 22:10 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Les Principes du Design - Une traduction de "Principles of Design". [via] #
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15/12/2005 @ 22:10 GMT
ricmac : Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005 - "I am optimistic that 2006 is the year of "Web 2.0 Innovation". It is the next logical step...and I anticipate it with great enthusiasm."
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15/12/2005 @ 22:09 GMT
ricmac : James Governor's MonkChips: IBM and Sun turn lead into gold: Write Once Walk Anywhere - "Web 2.0 is going to need models for offline useage if its going to enter the mainstream and start heading into rich client territory."
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15/12/2005 @ 22:09 GMT
ricmac : GeoWorld - Dec 2005 - POSITION: Google Verifies that GIS Is Media - "Advertising was always a part of Google Maps, and ads recently were added to Google Earth. The proliferation of map hacks and mashups has, in effect, created a variety of content channels for the Google Map and Earth medium."
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15/12/2005 @ 22:09 GMT
ricmac : Below the Fold: 2006: Year of The Vanishing Blogger - "“Bloggers†will become writers, publishers, producers, filmmakers and multicasters. " I second that.
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15/12/2005 @ 22:09 GMT
ricmac : Technorati Explore: The Tagspace As The Future of Media. Get Real: Stowe Boyd's Soapbox - "...it is a compelling vision: every interesting tag serving as the nexus for a community, and the largest and most active served by human editors."
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15/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
ricmac : » Next-gen RSS reading platform (Attensa) demos power of Attention.xml | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
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15/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Ken Auletta explores the recent troubles at the NY Times in the New Yorker - Ken Auletta explores the recent troubles at the NY Times in the New Yorker (interview with Auletta). As much as people complain about the liberal media, it's hard to imagine a conservative magazine running a similar story about, say, Fox News.
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15/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Interview with Richard Dawkins about religion, evolution, and intelligent design - Interview with Richard Dawkins about religion, evolution, and intelligent design. "If it's true that [evolution and natural selection] causes people to feel despair, that's tough. It's still the truth. The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation
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15/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
plasticbag : Wikipedia survives research test - "The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows. The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found few differences in accuracy."
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15/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
jimray : Quality in Typefaces & Fonts - What makes a quality font or typeface?
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jkottke : A museum of pull-down menus, for US states, currency, colors, etc. - A museum of pull-down menus, for US states, currency, colors, etc. (via do) [via]
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15/12/2005 @ 19:10 GMT
merlinmann : Google Groups : 43 Folders [Are you a coffee-drinker?] - Fun thread on drinking coffee. Second comment has good thoughts on treating it like a drug--no more or less.
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15/12/2005 @ 19:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : Internet encyclopaedias go head to head - Wikipedia and Britannica are found to be roughly equivalent in terms of scientific accuracy. Not a real surprise to me, but still interesting.
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15/12/2005 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : The Omnivore's Dilemma - Author Michael Pollan is coming out with a new book next year called The Omnivore's Dilemma, based in part (or excerpted from?) on his 2004 article in the NY Times Magazine, Our National Eating Disorder.
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15/12/2005 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : New Swiss banknotes, the result of a design competition, feature an embryo, the AIDS virus, and a skull - New Swiss banknotes, the result of a design competition, feature an embryo, the AIDS virus, and a skull. "Considering the history of Swiss banking, one cannot help but make the connection between the gold bar on the 1000-Franc bill (the gold of African di
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15/12/2005 @ 18:13 GMT
deusx : Improv Everywhere Mission: The Mp3 Experiment 2.0 - "They're all these people here throwing beach balls everywhere. I need backup. Wait... it looks like they're cleaning up after themselves. Nevermind."
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15/12/2005 @ 18:12 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google, Microsoft to Fund New Internet Lab - Google, Microsoft to Fund New Internet Lab: "Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience.&qu
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15/12/2005 @ 18:12 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google whistles a new tune - Google whistles a new tune: " Google was set to launch on Thursday a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page."
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15/12/2005 @ 18:11 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Greg Boser Interview - Greg Boser Interview: "Once you take away algorithmic visibility, that ideal model collapses pretty quick. It would be virtually impossible for my Father to replicate what he’s done online if he started from scratch today. Google has become so
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15/12/2005 @ 18:11 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Oh, No, We're Not a Portal - Oh, No, We're Not a Portal: what have I been saying for... ages?
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo hires DARPA director to head research - Yahoo hires DARPA director to head research: "Yahoo has opened an East Coast research center, hiring an artificial intelligence expert and former director at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to head the office and start similar oper
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15/12/2005 @ 18:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Won't Correct Billion Dollar Errors - Yahoo Won't Correct Billion Dollar Errors: we really suck at math. but barbie says math is hard, so maybe it's okay?
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15/12/2005 @ 18:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Corporate blogging panel at Syndicate - Corporate blogging panel at Syndicate: Chad blogs the panel I was on
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15/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Structured Blogging Will Flop - Structured Blogging Will Flop: people are lazy!
Linkorama : Structured Blogging Will Flop - Basically agree, like I said, but I wouldn't count out innovation that provides the incentive to fill in the form
Philippe Janvier : Structured Blogging Will Flop - "The cognitive effort of classification is enough to keep people from bothering. The same logic holds for structured blogging." [via] #
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15/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! 2005 Top Searches - Yahoo! 2005 Top Searches: all of the image searches are guys looking for chicks (real or virtual). that's not terribly surprising I guess
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15/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Web-based text files with Yahoo! Notepad - Web-based text files with Yahoo! Notepad: heh. everything that's old is new again
kayodeok : Web-based text files with Yahoo! Notepad - Imagine an easy way to append ideas, to-do’s and other notes to self to an @home-todo.txt file from the office, knowing it’ll be there when you get home without any special setup, server, emailing, FTP’ing or transferring back and for
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15/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Films whose 'fans' are more annoying than the film itself - "Films whose 'fans' are more annoying than the film itself".
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15/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : I've got the webcam on today for awhile - I've got the webcam on today for awhile.
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15/12/2005 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Video of a building super catching a baby tossed from the 3rd story of a burning building - Video of a building super catching a baby tossed from the 3rd story of a burning building. I've never seen such shameless maneuvering for a Christmas tip in all my life!
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15/12/2005 @ 16:08 GMT
gleuschk : Parents' actions betray SU ideals - Opinion - parents complain about their kids' roommates based on facebook.com snooping
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15/12/2005 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Slideshow of photographs by Annie Leibovitz documenting the building of The New York Times Building in NYC - Slideshow of photographs by Annie Leibovitz documenting the building of The New York Times Building in NYC. (thx, michael)
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15/12/2005 @ 15:09 GMT
deusx : New Video Game Designed To Have No Influence On Kids' Behavior | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "...a first-person vertical-crate-arranger guaranteed not to influence young people's behavior in any way."
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15/12/2005 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : Google Homepage API - Developer Guide - "The Google Homepage API provides a way to put third party content onto the Google homepage."
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15/12/2005 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : 365 tomorrows » Boom - "They interpret our words as bugs in the programming." Sounds a bit like a cousin to Bomb #20 in Dark Star.
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15/12/2005 @ 14:11 GMT
Linkorama : Using Social Media at SAP - The best arrow I have in my quiver is the overwhelming evidence that the technology industry has already moved beyond the question of whether or not to go down this road, companies in our space are really struggling over how fast and how far to take it. M
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Linkorama : Masked Wikipedia Author Revealed - "We're still confused why Seigenthaler felt the need to spend so much time tracking down the person and then writing a public editorial about the issue when, instead, he could have just corrected the story."
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15/12/2005 @ 14:11 GMT
Linkorama : Collective Choice: Rating Systems - the average of 5 is 4
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15/12/2005 @ 14:10 GMT
Linkorama : ZDnet Podcast - Ross Mayfield: Flap over Wikipedia won't slow down enterprise Wikis
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15/12/2005 @ 14:10 GMT
Linkorama : Wet Ware - The pay isn't great, but you will get to see what the next generation of Web/human interfaces will look like. And also get a feel of how to create the next generation of buzz.
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15/12/2005 @ 14:10 GMT
Linkorama : Amazon Mechanical Turk - Wikipedia page
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15/12/2005 @ 14:10 GMT
Linkorama : Index as Process - This has the effect of making sure that search at a significant scale can never again be a standalone technology or product. It's now inherently a process, or a service model if you would, because there must be ongoing defense of the metadata against the
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15/12/2005 @ 14:09 GMT
Linkorama : Jimmy Wales Interview post-Siegenthaler - the day after the Siegenthaler story came to an end with the "confession" of the errant poster -- Media Giraffe Project editor Bill Densmore interviewed WikiPedia founder Jimmy Wales at the non-profit website's small St. Petersburg, Fla., office.
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15/12/2005 @ 14:09 GMT
deusx : Aqua Teens assemble! on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - "Custom Aqua Teen Hunger Force Heroclix. Hand-made by my friend Don for my birthday this year."
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15/12/2005 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : LUGOD: Mailing List Archives - Re: [vox-tech] Suddenly the Dungeon collapses - "Uh, can someone explain to me this technical term?"
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15/12/2005 @ 14:08 GMT
philgyford : Welcome to Arty-kid.coms: Arty kids can turn your children's paintings into lasting masterpieces, purchase a canvasses, framed print or ceramic set - Kev's started a new business - one for all you people with oh-so-talented kiddywinks.
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15/12/2005 @ 13:09 GMT
kellan : TimBL: "So I am going to try this blog thing using blog tools." - And written using PHP (Drupal) and such vs. Amaya/RDF #
tehu : Tim B-L. : So I have a blog - - The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page... - Do you mean you invented the Read/Write Web? Hoooo!!
deusx : timbl's blog | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs - "it is nice to edit in a mode in which you can to limited damage to the site"
WillPate : Tim Berners Lee's Blog - The inventor of the internet. "Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn't crazy to think people needed a creative space."
kayodeok : Tim Berners-Lee has a blog
François Nonnenmacher : So I have a blog - Says Tim Berners Lee himself, after hand-crafting his own web site for more than a decade
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15/12/2005 @ 12:09 GMT
jimray : Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis - Protecting the Symbols and Traditions of Christmas - I only wish this were a joke
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15/12/2005 @ 12:08 GMT
ricmac : Matt McAlister :: Scott Gatz Keynote: All the ways Yahoo! is using RSS
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15/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Animated Singing Santa Hack - hack a Wal-Mart Santa to be evil; don't miss the videos
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15/12/2005 @ 09:09 GMT
Jason Shellen : Blogger Web Comments for Firefox - Like Hoodwink'd or Third Voice but hopefully more pervasive. #
kayodeok : Blogger Web Comments for Firefox - Blogger Web Comments for Firefox is an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you're viewing in Firefox and even make your own blog post about it, all without leaving the page you're on
Philippe Janvier : Blogger Web Comments for Firefox - "...an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you're viewing in Firefox and even make your own blog post about it, all without leaving the page you're on." [via] #
plasticbag : Blogger Web Comments for Firefox - The most interesting thing about this is how the weblog is becoming the default platform for pretty much everything and individual expresses online. Why would you use a dedicated web annotation service when you can just integrate it into your site?
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Matthew M. Boedicker : astronomy picture of the day
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15/12/2005 @ 07:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Facebook doubling as a CIA front? - some fun conspiracy theorizing
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15/12/2005 @ 06:08 GMT
Eric Meyer : Molly's Unabashedly Biased Picks 2005: Blogs, Design, Books and Achievements - I'd like to thank the Academy...
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15/12/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Simon Willison : Django Screencast - Tom Dyson has put together an excellent unofficial Django screencast.
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15/12/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Exclusive screenshots of King Kong for the Xbox 360 - cute riff on the "glitch" with non-HDTV setups [via]
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15/12/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : The top movie robots of all time - The top movie robots of all time, including #5 and the Iron Giant.
kayodeok : Top Ten Movie Robots of All Time - They walk, they talk, they work on moisture farms, they hunt Sarah Connor. And sometimes they're eerily human-like
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15/12/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : "i don't read kottke" - Google search for "i don't read kottke" versus a search for "i don't read boing boing". Nottke** wins, 39 to 37! Sit on it, Cory! ** Nottke = not Kottke, coinage by John Gruber.
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