20/12/2005 @ 23:11 GMT
Linkorama : Wikipedia to Delay Submissions - The system will work much like a seven-second delay on radio, except with a delay of about 10 minutes. On items such as news about a new pope being elected, the Journal reported, the public will see only pages that have been previewed for accuracy by Wiki
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20/12/2005 @ 23:10 GMT
Linkorama : Stress: the holiday Grinch - Hugging for 20 seconds has been shown to reduce blood pressure.
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20/12/2005 @ 23:10 GMT
Linkorama : The Probabilistic Age - hese systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
deusx : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - "these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale."
jkottke : Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs - Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs: they're probabilistic systems "which sacrifice perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale".
Paul Hammond : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale
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20/12/2005 @ 23:10 GMT
jimray : TextDrive Community Forum / Account Spec Sheet? - "In addition, all VCs will be required to: 'go commando' one day a month to their place of employ (or desk if they're SOHO)" Done and DONE!
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20/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
jimray : New York Transit Strike - Guide to Commuting - New York Times Interactive Graphic - The New York Times is using Google Maps to help folks figure out how to get work. Rad. They've got reports from readers, too!
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20/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
jimray : Flickr Photo Download: Web2MemeMap - Probably the only PowerPoint slide worse than anything Bill Gates has thrown onscreen. Kill me now.
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20/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : SimpleBits | Jack Murphy Cederholm - He couldn’t wait, welcome to the world Jack!
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20/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
kayodeok : The Old New Thing : Why does Windows setup lay down a new boot sector? - Why does Windows setup lay down a new boot sector? Because the alternative is worse. Even if Windows Setup did give you the option of "don't overwrite the boot sector" you still wouldn't like it.
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20/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
kayodeok : Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Part 1 - In this two-part series, Seth Fogie examines the internals of WPA and demonstrates how this wireless protection method can be cracked with only four packets of data. Part 1 outlines the details of WPA as compared to WEP and builds the foundation for Part
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20/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
kayodeok : Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Part 2 - With a solid understanding of how keys are created, transmitted, validated, and then used to set up the encryption between two wireless devices, we're ready to investigate how WPA can be cracked.
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20/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
gleuschk : Vote for The Best Web Games of 2005 - well, that does it for me today. (I love love love the nocircles one)
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20/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : top ten sexiest geeks of 2005 - top ten sexiest geeks of 2005: Geeks are sexy. Big, powerful, lubricious, restless brains are just about as hot as it gets -- the brain *is* the biggest sex organ in the body, after all.
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20/12/2005 @ 22:10 GMT
joshua : Stick Arena - massicely multiplayer stick figure fighting
deusx : XGenStudios.com - Stick Arena
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20/12/2005 @ 22:09 GMT
jimray : Bush’s Snoopgate - "the president knew publication would cause him great embarrassment and trouble for the rest of his presidency. It was for that reason—and less out of genuine concern about national security—that George W. Bush tried so hard to kill the New
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20/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Lisp Wins (I think) - The examples near the beginning show how wonderfully expressive Perl/Ruby/Python can be. #
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20/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Animal Crossing character promotes file sharing - the story seems more suited to a blog post than an 1,100-word NYT article [via]
cobra libre : just a dog's opinion - 'A user called Yams also added "Yams yams yams yams yams."' [via] #
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20/12/2005 @ 21:09 GMT
ricmac : Web 2.0 Dead? :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net - Excellent post by Thomas, better articulated than anything I've written on this subject the past week.
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20/12/2005 @ 21:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Sharing Your Media With Media RSS - Sharing Your Media With Media RSS: "Originally authored by Yahoo! to improve media enclosures in RSS and also allow the submission of media content to its search engine via RSS, the development of Media RSS has since been opened up to the RSS communi
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20/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Federal judge rules intelligent design curriculum unconstitutional - the court opinion (PDF) is an amazing read; read about the Wedge Document on page 28
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20/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Homebrew Lumines for the GBA - one less reason to own a PSP [via]
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20/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2005 - some surprisingly accessible choices throughout; also: Rex's growing list of year-end lists [via]
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20/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Google's 2005 Year-End Zeitgeist - the growth of Wikipedia queries reflects their traffic
gleuschk : Google Press Center: Zeitgeist 2005 - "Janet Jackson" was the top news search?!
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20/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : The Dover, PA evolution vs. intelligent design ends with the judge ruling against the teaching of ID in the classroom because it violated the "constitutional ban on teaching religion in public schools" - The Dover, PA evolution vs. intelligent design ends with the judge ruling against the teaching of ID in the classroom because it violated the "constitutional ban on teaching religion in public schools". "We find that the secular purposes claimed by the bo
plasticbag : A court in the Pennsylvanian town of Dover has declared it unconstitutional to teach Intelligent Design in the town's schools... - I think my favourite comment about the whole thing comes from Pat Robertson who said that the move risked provoking the wratch of God - despite the ID prononent's assertion that it wasn't a religious theory...
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20/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Wikipedia founder edits own bio - and insists others stop editing it without contacting him [via]
Linkorama : Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio - It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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20/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
Linkorama : E-Mail You Can't Ignore - MIT Tech Review article on filtering and alternatives
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20/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
jimray : Cheney defends Bush on use of domestic spying - Throws in some whine about how Presidential authority has eroded since Watergate and defends his secret oil industry energy taskforce. What an evil motherfucker.
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20/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
jimray : Panoramas from Hawaii (washingtonpost.com)
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20/12/2005 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Pokemon gene renamed following legal threat - Nintendo didn't like "Pokemon" being associated with "cancer" [via]
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20/12/2005 @ 19:12 GMT
Linkorama : Ready for Web 3.0? - The enterrprise, that is
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jimray : jimray.newsvine.com - Mike hooked me up with my Newsvine account
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20/12/2005 @ 19:11 GMT
jimray : Judge rules against 'intelligent design' - "A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the "intelligent design" explanation for the origin of life cannot be taught in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district." Finally, some goddamn sense in this freaking country.
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20/12/2005 @ 19:11 GMT
jimray : MildMannered Industries MySync - One step closer to getting rid of .Mac
joshua : MySync - build your own .mac for syncing
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20/12/2005 @ 19:10 GMT
cobra libre : well, i'll be - dover case decided against intelligent design #
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20/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Wayne Burkett : What Languages Fix - "C#: Java is controlled by Sun." #
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20/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Linus Torvalds recommends KDE - "This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it." #
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20/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Wayne Burkett : del.icio.us/help/json - Import your del.icio.us links with JSON. Very cool. #
kayodeok : del.icio.us/help/json - You can load a javascript object that contains your latest bookmarks, by including the following script:
Philippe Janvier : Del.icio.us/help/json - Mes bookmarks del.icio.us avec JSON. [via] #
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20/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Treehugger: Deck_House: Small, Beautiful Prefab #
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20/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior: 12/ 17/ 2005 - Is this for real? "A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called 'The Little Red Book.'" #
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Wayne Burkett : http://3.141592.com/ - Awww. Someone else already had this idea. (But there are infinite possibilities!) #
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20/12/2005 @ 19:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Why Functional Programming Matters - "Conventional languages place conceptual limits on the way problems can be modularised. Functional languages push those limits back." #
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20/12/2005 @ 19:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Automatically include key words in GNU Emacs to mislead the NSA - Heh. When I was a kid we'd repeat "bomb, terrorist, drugs" on the phone to throw off the wiretappers for fun. #
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20/12/2005 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : The SF Chronicle has a list of the top 100 wines of 2005 - The SF Chronicle has a list of the top 100 wines of 2005.
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20/12/2005 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : NYC subways and buses are shut down as the city's transit workers go on strike - NYC subways and buses are shut down as the city's transit workers go on strike.
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20/12/2005 @ 13:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : UX Magazine - I love the design of this site – resolution dependent layout, XHTML Strict and darn pretty! What’s more this is a Textpattern site – yay! [via]
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20/12/2005 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : So many choices, so little time: Spreadsheets for decision-making analysis - Spreadsheets for decision-making analysis
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20/12/2005 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : Ebert's Best 10 Movies of 2005 - Roger Ebert's Best 10 Movies of 2005
plasticbag : Roger Ebert describes his best 10 Movies of 2005, and mentions a whole lot of other films that nearly made the list or deserved a mention - It's a fascinating group of pictures. I can't quite fathom why everyone in the US was so taken with Crash - it didn't work so well for me, and I don't think it did enormously well in the UK box office. Maybe it's a cultural thing. Lots of films I haven't
jkottke : Ebert's best movies of 2005 - Ebert's best movies of 2005. Crash tops the list, which was probably my favorite from 2005 as well.
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20/12/2005 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : This is the Google side of your brain - If we are the sum total of our knowledge and experiences, then the Internet is a collection of other people's knowledge and experiences. And Google - so ubiquitous that it has become its own verb - allows us to tap into that collection.
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20/12/2005 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : Photoshop tricks for a newbie - What tricks separate a Photoshop/Illustrator newbie from a master?
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20/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads - Users of Google's search engine will soon see something they are not used to on the notoriously spare site: advertising with logos and graphics. And the advertisers will not be limited to America Online, whose talks with Google prompted the change in poli
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20/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist - "...we can make our users' lives easier by thinking about the way people interact with our websites, providing clear direction, and then putting the burden of sorting out the details in the hands of the computers - not the users."
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20/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid - "There is a new kid on the block, and her name is 'I've never designed with a table in my career.'"
Paul Hammond : A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid - There is a new kid on the block, and her name is “I’ve never designed with a table in my career.â€
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20/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
Richard Rutter : An orientation to Mac OS X 10.4 - I’m still on 10.3 but maybe not for long. [via Joshuaink]
WillPate : Taming the Tiger - 40+ free videos on how to use Apple's OSX Tiger operating system.
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20/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
ricmac : One Billion Internet Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - "By 2015, Americans will be less than 15% of Internet users and will likely account for about one-third its value (Americans typically spend more than other users)."
plasticbag : One Billion Internet Users (from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - "Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on. Statistically, w
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20/12/2005 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Jeremy Zawodny Interview - Jeremy Zawodny Interview: SEOBUZZBOX.COM interviewed me about stuff
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20/12/2005 @ 06:08 GMT
cobra libre : lutes + synthesizers + rock beats = america's most popular christmas music? - for chris #
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gleuschk : The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever, by George Boolos (PDF file) - no kidding
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20/12/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
ricmac : MusicStrands - MusicStrands helps you discover music you may like, and share your tastes in music with others.
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20/12/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
ricmac : The Edublog Awards » 2005 Winners Announced
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20/12/2005 @ 04:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : non-valuable trinket medallion depicting a coin of Maria Theresa from 1760, during the middle of the Seven Years' War
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20/12/2005 @ 04:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Sloncek's story of the Suprnova shutdown - a year ago today [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : what really happened to suprnova
plasticbag : The guy from Suprnova explains why the site went offline a year ago... - He tells the story quickly, but it sounds like quite a scary situation to find yourself in. Still, it also seems like the story ended fairly well. I wonder what happens next.
Nelson Minar : SuprNova story - sloncek's story of police, equiment seizure, etc (via Waxy)
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20/12/2005 @ 04:08 GMT
deusx : CanvasGraph.js : Graphing in Javascript | liquidx - "Canvas Graph is a small simple javascript library that allows you to conveniently plot simple line, bar and pie charts using the new HTML Canvas Tag."
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20/12/2005 @ 04:08 GMT
deusx : brentashley » Blog Archive » JSON trumps Ajax for Mashups - "It may be just another crayon in the box, but I think it’s going to get a lot of sharpening now that Yahoo is actively promoting JSON."
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20/12/2005 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : enhance - enhance: "life needs and 'enhance' button"
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20/12/2005 @ 03:09 GMT
WillPate : MonitorThis - "With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 22 different search engine feeds at the same time" Cool way to easily track mentions of something across many different search sites.
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20/12/2005 @ 03:08 GMT
ricmac : » Yahoo tying RSS into its social media services | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
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20/12/2005 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Adium is the Future - Adium is the Future: "Software of the future will be Open Source, will have a sophisticated and smart user interface, will take responsibility for making sure it’s up to date, and will meet essential human needs. Like Adium."
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20/12/2005 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : eBay Motors & Google Maps: Find the perfect used car, truck, or motorcycle near you. - eBay Motors & Google Maps: Find the perfect used car, truck, or motorcycle near you.: Adam built a mash-up that could actually make money for eBay. Cool.
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20/12/2005 @ 03:08 GMT
jkottke : Temporary park in a metered parking spot - PARK(ing) is a temporary urban park (complete with tree and park bench) that was situated in a San Francisco metered parking spot for 2 hours.
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20/12/2005 @ 03:08 GMT
jkottke : Ferran Adria of El Bulli has written the world's most expensive cookbook; it retails for $350.
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20/12/2005 @ 01:12 GMT
joshua : UFTP - UDP based FTP with multicast
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20/12/2005 @ 01:12 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Guinness wants to list nutritional information on beer but are prohibited by law, sign the petition
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20/12/2005 @ 01:11 GMT
jimray : What's the best way to set up a business? - Answer Desk - MSNBC.com
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20/12/2005 @ 01:11 GMT
jimray : John Battelle's Searchblog: With AOL Deal, Google May Get to Go Public Again - Google's investment in AOL sounds really smart if AOL gets spun off
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20/12/2005 @ 01:10 GMT
WillPate : Fun and Games at the Flourish and Raincity Studios Christmas party - Taken by Roland Tangalo with his cell phone...tiny but the fun is all there
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20/12/2005 @ 01:10 GMT
WillPate : Will Pate in the CHUM TV Diversity Database - "This database represents visible minority groups as well as women, the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual community, youth and Canadians with disabilities." - I'm one of the 17 youth from across Canada that made it in so far.
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20/12/2005 @ 01:09 GMT
deusx : BBC - Radio 2 - Sold On Song - TOP 100 - Fairytale Of New York - "Shane MacGowan has written a fair few classics, but none have had more appeal than this bittersweet Christmas song."
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