23/12/2005 @ 23:09 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The .cat’s out of the bag - Catalan TLD (meow ;-))
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23/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : Daily Kos: Science Friday: The One That Got Away - "The third rock from the sun might instead be a planet of intelligent squid or technological insects, peering with inhuman eyes at the ancient fossils of long forgotten, curious fish-like creatures with paddling fins that mysteriously died out."
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23/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : More and more, shoppers are judging books by their covers - More and more, shoppers are judging books by their covers. "Studies show that a book on a three-for-two table has about one and a half seconds to catch a reader's eye."
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23/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : New York City is in danger of losing its creative class - New York City is in danger of losing its creative class as the high cost of living drives people to other cities.
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23/12/2005 @ 22:09 GMT
kellan : "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Tim Bray quoting Phil Karlton #
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23/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
kayodeok : Lost in Translation - This site serves as an example of a dynamic web application. It uses HTML and a simple form processing program written in Perl. I don't know how to translate between five different languages, so I get translations from BabelFish instead. My program is mer
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23/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : In-progress ideas for New Yorker cartoons - In-progress ideas for New Yorker cartoons. "Or some other recent culture reference. Or something involving wine, or Europe."
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23/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
kayodeok : WordPress and the Performancing Extension - A Dummies version of implementing the extension for WordPress
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23/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Veil of Latex - Artist slips the Jesuits a sacriligeous joke
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23/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Veil of Latex story - Jesuit editor says "I don't think you could have found anyone in the editors' room who has seen a condom". That's kind of the whole problem with the priesthood, isn't it?
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23/12/2005 @ 20:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Les Sims stamps - France issues a videogame stamp
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23/12/2005 @ 20:08 GMT
cobra libre : CocoaJT : l'info en images sur votre mac ! - i wonder if there's a 24-hour molière station [via] #
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23/12/2005 @ 20:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : You learn something new everyday - You learn something new everyday: or "how not to transport a tree frog"
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23/12/2005 @ 20:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Cook with a pants hanger - Cook with a pants hanger: that's a damned good idea
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23/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
kellan : Fornax Bread Company Inc (5/5) - Without a doubt the best bakery in Boston. #
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23/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Style Versus Design - True, as Zeldman states on his site, we're in a much better position today. But five years later, I think the web still needs this.
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23/12/2005 @ 19:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Rumsfeld / Cheney - Slash fanfic, NSFW text (via BoingBoing)
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23/12/2005 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Top 10 National Geographic news stories of 2005
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23/12/2005 @ 18:11 GMT
Steve Cook : Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Perfume Oils: Wanderlust - "Whitechapel: A gentlemen's blend, possessed of dignity, charm, and refinement, but in truth masking a corrupted, hideous, soulless core." Also: Neo-Tokyo, Gomorrah, R'lyeh.
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23/12/2005 @ 18:11 GMT
Steve Cook : Charlie Munger on how to think - Warren Buffett's partner on Pascal, cash registers, and the price of wheat in Liverpool.
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23/12/2005 @ 18:11 GMT
Steve Cook : Rabbi Nachman's Aphorisms on Jewish Living - And cursing! My friend Finn apparently just got cursed to go blind by his Haisidic landlord.
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23/12/2005 @ 18:10 GMT
Steve Cook : fatale t-shirt - Steed Joins the Hellfire Club / Emma Becomes the Queen of Sin. There's a reason they didn't show "A Touch of Brimstone" in the U.S.
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23/12/2005 @ 18:10 GMT
Steve Cook : On the ubiquity of flair - I can think of few jobs as simultaneously fascinating and soul-deadening as kitsch purchaser for TGI Fridays.
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Steve Cook : The origins of the phrase "a country of laws not of men" - Judge Damon Keith overturns the Mitchell Doctrine that national security is what the Attourney General says it is, in a case tangentially involving pot, Dr. Spock, and the MC5. I had no idea. (PDF) (via Crooked Timber)
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23/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Steve Cook : Prettiest factory ever - VW's factory for their ridiculously overpriced Phaeton has floors nicer than the ones in my house.
deusx : VWvortex Forums: A photo tour of the Transparent Factory in Dresden - "I have visited the Phaeton assembly plant in Dresden several times, and thoroughly enjoyed each visit."
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23/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Steve Cook : A Boom Giveth, and It Taketh Away - Stories of gentrification in the neighborhood that used to be Shaw.
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23/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Steve Cook : Cardboard box added to the National Toy Hall of Fame - The photos are great. Who didn't like playing fort or firetruck in a refrigerator box?
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23/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
Steve Cook : Otters winning battle of wits - Man, that critter looks smug.
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23/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
Steve Cook : Fantastic Susanna Clarke post on Crooked Timber - It's good to see the smart nerds at Crooked Timber writing at length about the best fantasy novel so far this decade; it's -great- to see Clarke responding at length and making some fascinating points.
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23/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
Steve Cook : Some guy really doesn't like Robert T. Kiyosaki - A lot of this page is simply angry net ranting, but I found "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" not only to be dreadful, destructive advice but poorly written to the point of incoherence.
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23/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
Steve Cook : Michael Medved ramps up "Seduction of the Innocent II: Electric Boogaloo" - "Even after September 11th, Marvel Comics and other publishers are disseminating comic books that actively promote a destructive cynicism and mistrust of the United States Government." Also, they are soft on the Mutie Menace. (via Jim Henley)
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23/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Things Magazine has a great link-filled post about King Kong - Things Magazine has a great link-filled post about King Kong.
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23/12/2005 @ 17:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoobar For Opera - Yahoobar For Opera: look, someone made a Y! Toolbar for Opera. Cool.
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23/12/2005 @ 17:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mashup Camp: the unconference about the uncomputer - Mashup Camp: the unconference about the uncomputer: "My goal for Mashup Camp is to do the opposite of what all these other Web 2.0-esque conferences are doing. It won't be invitation only."
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jkottke : Photos of the year from Time and Reuters - Pictures of the Year 2005 from Reuters and best photos of the year 2005 from Time. (thx, indrek)
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23/12/2005 @ 14:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to break a gag-writing block
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23/12/2005 @ 14:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
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23/12/2005 @ 09:09 GMT
jimray : Mark Maynard - the dover evolution case and the ann arbor connection - The wingnut law firm that's trying to sneak religion into science
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23/12/2005 @ 09:09 GMT
jimray : How to use acts_as_taggable - Rails Weenie
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23/12/2005 @ 09:09 GMT
jimray : Top 7 PHP Security Blunders - For those of us still using PHP...
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23/12/2005 @ 09:08 GMT
jimray : Santorum Breaks With Christian-Rights Law Center - "Santorum told The Philadelphia Inquirer he was troubled by testimony indicating religion motivated some board members to adopt the policy." HA!
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23/12/2005 @ 09:08 GMT
erikbenson : I like the Advice Bunny, but I love the Advice Duck - Ask the bunny questions, and then ask the duck what he thinks of the bunny's answers!
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23/12/2005 @ 06:09 GMT
joshua : Furniture Whores and Debit Card Toilets - got furni?
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23/12/2005 @ 06:08 GMT
ricmac : BozPage (gpv) - Interesting re-presentation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup. Check out the alternate views!
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23/12/2005 @ 06:08 GMT
ricmac : Enterprise RSS: E-Commerce RSS - "The ultimate vision involves enriching the customer relationship around broader and deeper content, available to the customer through whatever device they wish, on a fully synchronized basis."
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23/12/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
ricmac : alarm:clock: Porno's HotMovies.com Claims Web 2.0 Status - Love that title :-)
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23/12/2005 @ 03:08 GMT
Charles Miller : How We Name Confluence Releases - Mike shows how we give each Confluence release a little bit of character on the Atlassian Developer Blog.
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23/12/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
WillPate : Hard to Find 800 Numbers - Don't bother making your 1 800 number hard to find because someone else will make it easy for your customers.
Matthew M. Boedicker : hard to find 800 numbers
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23/12/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : ShoutingLoudly: Blogging a dead horse - The appropriate response to Susan Cheever's idiotic Newsday piece on Google Book Search, copyright law, etc. #
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23/12/2005 @ 01:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : trailer for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto
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23/12/2005 @ 01:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Bush wiretap lie - Wow, an outright lie in 2004
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23/12/2005 @ 01:09 GMT
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: Vehicle Tracking in the UK - Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years
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23/12/2005 @ 01:08 GMT
ricmac : Microsoft hires user interface guru | Tech News on ZDNet
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23/12/2005 @ 01:08 GMT
ricmac : Revving a classic cliché at FactoryCity - "Yep, we've got a vision for how a browser with a different understanding of the web can help. We wouldn't be building it otherwise."
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23/12/2005 @ 01:08 GMT
ricmac : A Story about the Importance of Checking your Blog’s Stats: Blog Tips at ProBlogger - "‘If 20 people come to 1 camera review - how many people would come to 100 camera reviews?’"
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23/12/2005 @ 01:08 GMT
ricmac : Vijay: The world's most desparate Venture Capitalist - via Brad Feld.
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23/12/2005 @ 00:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 20 amazing facts about voting in the United States
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deusx : pacamajig.mov (video/quicktime Object) - Loud cosplay live-action pac-man in the libraries
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23/12/2005 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : Adam from Slice documented all of the pizzarias on his 8.2 mile walk to work this morning - Adam from Slice documented all of the pizzerias on his 8.2 mile walk to work this morning (more). (thx, janelle)
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23/12/2005 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : Gothamist reports that the 2005 TWU strike is over - Gothamist reports that the 2005 TWU strike is over. Subways and buses in NYC should be running normally in the next 10-18 hours.
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