21/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : four streaming Richard Feynman lectures [via]
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21/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
Jason Shellen : Google Hiring Mac Engineers - Mac it up at Google! #
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21/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Dell 30" LCD - 3007WFP looking like a reality
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21/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
kayodeok : Hack Attack: Take your data home for the holidays - Lifehacker - As you get ready to head home for the holidays, make sure that your computer is accessible from wherever you go, no matter how far from home
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21/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Zeitgeist turning against zeitgeist--time for a new term - Zeitgeist turning against zeitgeist--time for a new term: "Google's year-end report is a very weak and skimpy report, and tells us nothing much. And nothing much that we didn't know already, or could have guessed." Agreed.
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21/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Reasons Why I Bought The Poker Blog - Reasons Why I Bought The Poker Blog: Reasons that one might buy a blog...
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21/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Gravee Takes a New Approach to Search - Gravee Takes a New Approach to Search: So now a spammer (err, I mean "SEO") can get money from a search engine by being in the top 10 even if they're never clicked on. I'm in the wrong end of this business!
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21/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
jimray : Official Google/AOL deal announcement - Includes an under-reported detail that Google Talk will work with AIM - very cool
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21/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
erikbenson : 43 Things is one of Yahoo's "Picks of the Year" - Right between "The worst jobs in history" and "The history of the Batmobile". I also like "A Day in the Life of Miss McDonald"... what, Ronald won't propose?
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21/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
Linkorama : Center for Citizen Media - Dan Gillmor: Starting in 2006, I'll be putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The goals are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism.
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21/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Epic of Gilgamesh - A fairly literal translation
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21/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Gay gaming roundup - List of some recent articles
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21/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : CPU-Z - Single best program for identifying the mainboard hardware on your Windows box
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21/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : matplotlib guide - Simple starting instructions for scripting matplotlib
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21/12/2005 @ 19:08 GMT
jimray : Service scrubber - Keep your services managable
Jon Hicks : Services Scrubber - If, like me, you’ve accumulated a lot of debris in your services menu, trim it down with this! [via]
joshua : services scrubber - clean the services menu
deusx : Peter Maurer - ServiceScrubber - "Wouldn't the services menu be much more useful if it weren't overcrowded by services you never even thought of using?"
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21/12/2005 @ 19:08 GMT
gleuschk : Raoul Bott passed away - it's been a bad year
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21/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
deusx : jay is games: 零刻 (Moment Zero)
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21/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : A seemingly exhaustive list of the best music of 2005 - A seemingly exhaustive list of the best music of 2005. I think I strained my scrolling muscle.
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21/12/2005 @ 16:08 GMT
philgyford : Cityofsound: Savile Row and tailoring urban fabric - Great post from Dan about how developers/landlords squander centuries of space-specific history and community in favour of short-term profit.
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21/12/2005 @ 15:09 GMT
plasticbag : "One in 10 UK websites fail to work properly on the open source Firefox web browser, a study shows" - And the Odeon website is explicitly named again! That must be years now after they were first taken to task for it. They've made some improvements it's true, but how long will it take for them to realise that it needs root-and-branch rebuilding?
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21/12/2005 @ 15:09 GMT
plasticbag : Kevin Marks explodes Susan Cheever's ludicrous take on the copying of digital artifacts... - "It's a strange experience to see your own property so appreciated. It's disorienting and beguiling. You've been quoted. That's how it feels when something of yours suddenly appears in cyberspace..."
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21/12/2005 @ 15:09 GMT
plasticbag : DIY Paper bookmarks - This has been all around the web, but still - it's a neat and simple idea. Printable corners that you can stick on books to keep your place or to annotate the content at that point. Annotation is everywhere.
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21/12/2005 @ 15:08 GMT
plasticbag : An awesome post by a Barbelite colleague on "Christmas Trees and the God of Yule" - I bloody loved reading this - it's all about Freyr, a Norse god of fertility, one of whose symbols was the Christmas tree - within which each Winter he would be reborn. This is way more fun and spiritually satisfying than Christianity!
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21/12/2005 @ 15:08 GMT
plasticbag : Wikipedia has an awesome article on Freyr full of enticingly obvious symbolism! - "The most important Freyr myth relates Freyr's falling in love with the giantess Gerðr. Eventually she becomes his wife but first Freyr has to give away his magical sword."
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21/12/2005 @ 15:08 GMT
plasticbag : 'Gay weddings' first for Belfast - "Two women, Shannon Sickles and Grainne Close, exchanged vows at Belfast City Hall, followed by a gay couple and another lesbian couple." Lovely. And about time, frankly.
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21/12/2005 @ 15:08 GMT
plasticbag : A Flickr photoset of the notes taken during the inaugural ORG meeting, designed to try and capture the major issues that people felt about digital rights... - Named, "Digital Rights in the UK: Your Rights, Your Issues", this gets to the heart of many of the core issues that people are worried about w/r/t digital rights, although I'm sure there are more. Probably worth annotating for clarity?
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Manuzhai : Is Weak Typing Strong Enough? - Insightful comparison between static and dynamic typing system.
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21/12/2005 @ 13:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Low Weblog - Afwijzing ontwerp...
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21/12/2005 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : Beware the Automated Accessibility Tool Trap - Being a piece of software, an automated accessibility testing tool doesn't have much in the way of common sense. It will interpret each and every accessibility guideline literally, without giving any thought to what other things are happening on the page
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21/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Top 7 PHP Security Blunders - In this article, I'll detail many of the common PHP programming mistakes that can result in security holes. By showing you what not to do, and how each particular flaw can be exploited, I hope that you'll understand not just how to avoid these particular
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21/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Cgisecurity.com: Cross Site Scripting questions and answers - Cross site scripting (also known as XSS) occurs when a web application gathers malicious data from a user. The data is usually gathered in the form of a hyperlink which contains malicious content within it. The user will most likely click on this link fro
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21/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Google - Search History Trends - Today we launched a Trends feature that gives you a look at a list of your top searches and clicks and other info about your search activity.
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21/12/2005 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Official Google Blog: Setting trends - As part of the personalization team, I'm pretty addicted to looking at my search history for interesting patterns. So I decided to go a step further and write a script to pull together some stats about how I was searching. We thought other people might li
Rod Begbie : Official Google Blog: Setting trends - Google now give you some stats on your searches if you turn on Personalized Search, but the results for me were pretty dull -- Turns out I rarely repeat a search. #
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21/12/2005 @ 09:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : The Fishbowl: Wikipedia vs Britannica. Apples vs Oranges. - Perfectly stated. #
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21/12/2005 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Performancing for Firefox - Performancing for Firefox: this firefox extension rocks!
kayodeok : Performancing for Firefox (Full featured blog editor) - Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs
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21/12/2005 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Adam Rifkin - Adam Rifkin: our first victim on Power Source
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21/12/2005 @ 07:08 GMT
jkottke : Wow, Johnny Damon goes from the Red Sox to the Yankees - Wow, Johnny Damon goes from the Red Sox to the Yankees. It's looking like that Boston championship was a one-shot deal.
Rod Begbie : ESPN.com - MLB - Yankees snatch Damon away from rival Red Sox - Everyone's been expecting this for months, but it looks like it's official: Johnny Damon will be in pinstripes come April. [via] #
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21/12/2005 @ 05:09 GMT
kellan : Caucho adds PHP support to Resin - and apparently it runs 4x faster using ab and mediawiki to benchmark! #
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21/12/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : ASUS Update - Flash your PC BIOS from an ftp server. Freaky.
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21/12/2005 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Fuck You, Josh Stomel - Fuck You, Josh Stomel: This guy is simply stealing people’s blog posts, making slight changes and re-posting them as his own writing.
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21/12/2005 @ 01:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Rent a Linux cluster - As cheap as $0.15/hour for CPU time
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Rod Begbie : Teaching "Intelligent Design" in US public schools is unconstitutional [PDF] - The 139-page ruling. My favourite bit starts on page 31, and explains how "Of Pandas And People" (the "textbook" that kids in Dover were supposed to read as part of their biology class) had the word "creationism" search-n-replaced to "intelligent design" #
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21/12/2005 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : Pepsi's market cap surpassed Coca-Cola's last week for the first time ever - Pepsi's market cap surpassed Coca-Cola's last week for the first time ever. The secret to their success? Diversifying into other snacks (Frito-Lay) and beverages (Tropicana and Gatorade).
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21/12/2005 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : WordPress now officially on Yahoo
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21/12/2005 @ 00:09 GMT
kayodeok : Google free proxy! - Access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy
Matthew M. Boedicker : access restricted sites using Google language tools as a proxy (Google is too useful to restrict)
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21/12/2005 @ 00:09 GMT
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: NSA and Bush's Illegal Eavesdropping - Terrorism is a serious risk to our nation, but an even greater threat is the centralization of American political power in the hands of any single branch of the government
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21/12/2005 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Graphics Coming to Google Ads - Graphics Coming to Google Ads: "It was as if a Million Geeks cried out in terror and then were silenced."
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