19/12/2005 @ 23:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Session saver Firefox - Extension to keep browser state in case of crash
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19/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : FACE : Faruk's Animated CSS Enhancements - "...developed to allow standards-compliant web developers to put more life and energy into their pages, without having to learn Javascript or Flash : all it takes is basic math skills and a good understanding of CSS." [via] #
Isofarro : FACE: Faruk's Animated CSS Enhancements - Animiated effects for your website using JavaScript and CSS. An interesting mix of web standards.
Paul Hammond : FACE: Faruk's Animated CSS Enhancements - KuraFire Network - put more life and energy into their pages, without having to learn Javascript or Flash: all it takes is basic math skills and a good understanding of CSS
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19/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : New vocabulary word: ba-donka-donk - New vocabulary word: ba-donka-donk, an "expression for an extremely curvaceous female behind". Picked up from the Weeds marathon I watched while sick.
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19/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : AT and T has a new logo - I missed this while in Asia last month, but AT&T has a new logo, which is pretty much the same as the old one.
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19/12/2005 @ 21:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : San Francisco snow - List of when it's snowed in SF (via Ask Metafilter)
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19/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Mark Foo's Last Ride - Mark Foo's Last Ride, the story of the death of one of surfing's best big wave riders at Maverick's in 1994.
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19/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Cool video of an infinite desktop - Cool video of an infinite desktop.
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19/12/2005 @ 20:10 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : How Google woos the best and brightest
plasticbag : "How Google woos the best and brightest" - One thing occurs to me is that such structures should either be well known, or kept very secret. All recruitment seems to be a gameable system. Ideally they should be well-known, so that everyone has equal access to the cheats...
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19/12/2005 @ 20:10 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Artists revolt against DRM
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19/12/2005 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Scientists prove that Mona Lisa is smiling - Speaking of the Mona Lisa, scientists have discovered through the use of emotion-recognition software that she was indeed happy.
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19/12/2005 @ 19:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : A Final End to IE/Mac - Personally, my feelings are mixed, but it's probably time to move on. Of course, whether you support it or not depends on your site's visitors, not the official status of the software.
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19/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Photo retouching - Or how to make a Barbie doll out of a real girl (via Shellen)
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19/12/2005 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : A digital rendering of the Mona Lisa from 1964 - A digital rendering of the Mona Lisa from 1964. In the detail view, you can see how it's made up of the digits 0-9, perhaps the world's first piece of ASCII art?
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19/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Webcam paedophiles - Detailed NYT investigative piece on a very creepy story (via Metafilter)
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19/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Cats' Christmas - Fluffy kitties doing funny things
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19/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Dr. Germ, no charges - "High value detainees" released with no charges in Iraq
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19/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : If Mike Wallace could question GW Bush, he would ask him... - If Mike Wallace could question GW Bush, he would ask him: "What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious. You didn't want to travel ....
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19/12/2005 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : King Kong gets a slow start at the box office - King Kong gets a slow start at the box office. This is kind of amazing to me...except for the length, Kong is almost a perfect movie for audiences to go see in the theater.
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19/12/2005 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Surowiecki on the sorry state of the US patent system - Surowiecki on the sorry state of the US patent system. "Since the [USPTO] is funded by patent fees, as opposed to getting its budget from Washington, it has a financial incentive to process applications as quickly, rather than as diligently, as possible."
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19/12/2005 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Witold Rybczynski on the success of Rockefeller Center as an urban project - Witold Rybczynski on the success of Rockefeller Center as an urban project.
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19/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
Jason Shellen : Retouch - Sneaky magazine photoshop-fu revealed #
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19/12/2005 @ 09:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Deciding Who To Trust - Really interesting sounding approach to warning users of untrustworthy sites -- armies of webcrawlers looking for the places which load you up with spyware and spam. #
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19/12/2005 @ 07:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Lazy Sunday, the Chronicles of Narnia Rap - easily the best thing I've seen on SNL in years
Rod Begbie : SNL - The Chronic of Narnia Rap - So not only did SNL hire the Lonely Island dudes, they're also taking a page out of their "distribute it online" book too. This is possibly the funniest non-Robert-Smigel-cartoon SNL clip in years. [via] #
Nelson Minar : Chronic of Narnia Rap - SNL short segment, fairly funny (via Waxy)
plasticbag : Saturday Night Live's "The Chronic of Narnia Rap" - This one's really spreading - I heard about it on a mailing list from a friend in the US about six hours before Cal sent me the URL. I'm guessing it'll have eaten the internet by Thursday.
jkottke : That Chronic of Narnia SNL rap thing - Alright, alright, that Chronic of Narnia SNL rap thing is as funny as you think it is because you've already seen it, so stop reading and watch it again, would you?
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19/12/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Paid Text Links and the Bigger Picture - Paid Text Links and the Bigger Picture: "What bothers me about GoogleÂ’s stance is that they are putting the onus on site owners to improve their search results rather than adjusting their algorithm."
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19/12/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google, Yahoo and Dogpile's Top Searches of 2005 List - Google, Yahoo and Dogpile's Top Searches of 2005 List: "This really illustrates that lots of searchers don't understand how search works (at even the most BASIC of level)."
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19/12/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Surfin' Safari: SVG Has Landed - Now in Safari nightly builds.
Jon Hicks : SVG Has Landed in Safari - This has implications beyond Safari itself – everything that hooks into webkit will be able to use this!
jimray : Surfin’ Safari » Blog Archive » SVG Has Landed - SVG added to Safari
Paul Hammond : Surfin’ Safari » Blog Archive » SVG Has Landed - SVG has now been enabled by default in nightly builds
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19/12/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts - Bruce Eckel on Java, Ruby, Python, Rails and more.
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