4/01/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Linkorama : Wikipedia's next five years - Agree with the suggestions, except the stable version should only be in print
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4/01/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Linkorama : Wikipedia, competition, and the future | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-01-04 | By Jon Udell - By "denatures wikipedia" I meant within the presented page. The community has the same reputation dynamics as open source.
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4/01/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Linkorama : The Rules are Changing - It's just that now single blog posts - single opinions - can become global influencers through the power of the search engines. These engines don't have any preprogrammed idea about corporate blurbs and corporate PR-folks being more reliable than anyone e
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4/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
kayodeok : A Naive User's Guide to Running Windows More Securely - OSNews.com - A Naive User's Guide to Running Windows More Securely
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4/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : AJAX Extended - There is no client-side magic: "Well, the only 'bad' thing is that AJAX Extended does require a server-side script to pack the data into a valid JavaScript document."
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4/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : What business are movie theaters in? - What business are movie theaters in? The fast-food business, the advertising business, or the movie exhibition business? All three, but they take the movie exhibition business the least seriously.
philgyford : The Popcorn Palace Economy - The thirsty moviegoer fuels the business. By Edward Jay Epstein - On the balance of food/drink, movies and advertising in the profits of cinemas. (via Kottke)
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4/01/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
jimray : Wonkette's Sex Change - Ana Marie is leaving the blog behind to be a full time writer, which is kinda sad. I hope her novel writing gets better, as I've not heard a single good thing about Dog Days.
jkottke : Ana Marie Cox leaves Wonkette to write books full-time - Ana Marie Cox leaves Wonkette to write books full-time.
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4/01/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
jimray : How they got caught: After lobbyist broke off engagement, ex-fiancee told of illicit dealings to FBI - Michael Scanlon's former fiance got pissed and told the FBI about all his dirty deals because Scanlon dumped her - that is just beautiful, folks.
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4/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Dell to bundle Firefox with new systems - This is UK only at the moment, but what a great boost!(via) [via]
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4/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : My new OPML Manager/Editor - A Flash UI for OPML Manager. Not just a demo ! [via] #
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4/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Transcript from the final moments of Asheron's Call 2 - Transcript from the final moments of Asheron's Call 2, an online game that got turned off on Dec 30 because it wasn't making any money. "This world will be shutting down in 2 minutes. Please log out." (via wonderland) [via]
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4/01/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
jimray : Mooning deemed 'disgusting' but legal in Md. - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com - The outcome could have been different, Judge John W. Debelius III suggested, if the man had been on trial for "being a jerk."
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4/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Extra Tasty - Drinking 2.0 from the Threadless crew
plasticbag : My favourite new Social Software enterprise is the beautiful and well-developed extratasty.com! - For sheer class, check out the submit a recipe page - all the ingredients come from a controlled vocabulary, are translated automatically into tags, and it even writes the recipe for you as you submit each component. Plus you can register on the creation
Rod Begbie : Extratasty - Get Your Booze On! - Cunningly designed cocktail guide from the folks behind Threadless. Enter the contents of your "bar" and let it recommend recipes to lubricate your speedy descent into inebriation. [via] #
jimray : Extratasty - Getting drunk goes Web2.0, courtesy of the folks who brought you Threadless
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4/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Playboy in braille? - Playboy in braille? Yup, they're produced by the Library of Congress.
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4/01/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
merlinmann : Getting back to the paper chase - Of course, my favorite thing about the article was that Fred the Photographer let me put an Easter Egg in the photo.
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4/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jimray : Intelligent-design policy rescinded - Sanity is slowly creeping back in
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4/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
merlinmann : Google Groups : 43 Folders [Sleep hacks] - Good post on the Google Group with advice and links on improving sleep patterns.
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4/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
plasticbag : Bodytag - a glorious selection of explorations in web programming, visualisation and play - Mr Willison, co-worker extraordinaire, introduced me to this cornocopia of beautiful fragments of insight and play. Very very classy indeed. Yay the web!
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4/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : The Stokke Xplory series of prams and pushchairs elevate children so they can see what's going on around them... - They look beautiful, but they also look really unstable to me - almost dangerous. I'm intrigued by the height question too - is it useful for children to be elevated, or should they be getting familiar with the way the world looks at their height?
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4/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : Technoranki - a weblog ranking and authority service - I have no idea whether this is any good or not as a service, except that it seems to be being used by the BritBlogs people for their charts at the moment. Anyone got any experience or thougts about it?
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4/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : Allegedly psychic Flash game works out what number you were thinking of... - Or at least so it seems for about the first three minutes you play with it. Have a couple of goes and then see if you can figure out how it's done. There's at least one ingenious twist in the whole thing...
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4/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Final 1,000 pixels of Million Dollar Homepage on eBay - The proprietor of The Million Dollar Homepage has sold 999,000 pixels (for $1 each) and is auctioning off the final 1,000 pixels on eBay (current bid is ~$30,000). (thx, jonah)
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4/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Some scientists say evidence suggests that early humans might have first appeared in Asia, not Africa - Some scientists say evidence suggests that early humans might have first appeared in Asia, not Africa.
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4/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Best Google logo yet...a Braille version to celebrate the birthday of Louis Braille - Best Google logo yet...a Braille version to celebrate the birthday of Louis Braille.
kellan : Is Google crawling URLs found only in Gmail? - Looking at an odd pattern of request from Google that found at least one obscure (can't call it secret) directory on my box they look like phrases from an email I sent last month, randomly appended to a URL from that email. Very weird. #
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4/01/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Original V8 snowblowers - The Original V8 snowblowers: if only I lived where it snowed a lot
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4/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
plasticbag : Ricky Gervais and Matt Groening have a little love-in as Gervais completes his first full Simpsons episode... - "The Simpsons creator Matt Groening said Ricky Gervais did such a good job writing an episode of the hit US comedy show that he wants him to do more."
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4/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : A long list of business buzz words compiled from a short time on the job for a big-box retailer - A long list of business buzz words compiled from a short time on the job for a big-box retailer. If we don't boil the ocean, concentrate on the big rocks, and avoid getting thrown under the bus, our surge to streamline is a whole other type of animal and
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4/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jimray : A Nobel Winner Can Help You Keep Your Resolutions - New York Times
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4/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : How's this for meta? - How's this for meta: my list of 2005's best links made it onto a list of the best links to lists from a list of "best of" lists. I might have to put this link on my list of best links of 2006.
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4/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Live City by Daniel Shiffman uses live cam images of New York City to create a living, interacting virtual city - Live City by Daniel Shiffman uses live cam images of New York City to create a living, interacting virtual city.
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deusx : Daily Kos: "Jesus would lose the war on terror." - "It was a very unpleasant look at the twisted, ugly innards of the soul of the Republican party. Suddenly I knew what it must be like to be Ann Coulter's gynecologist."
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4/01/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
tehu : Introducting Bastards of the Blogs! - First card : Dave W., the "father" of the blogs
deusx : Introducting Bastards of the Blogs! | 1/2/2006 | Those Bastards! - 'Our first bastard in the "inventor" of blogs, Dave Winer.'
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4/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Most bloggers are assholes - C'est tellement vrai ;) [via] #
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4/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Security Advisory (912920): Systems that are infected with Win32/Sober.Z@mm may download and run malicious files from certain Web domains beginning on January 6, 2006 - On systems that are infected by Win32/Sober.Z@mm, the malware is programmed to download and run malicious files from certain Web domains beginning on January 6, 2006.
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4/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : 10 Easy Steps to a Horrible Ecommerce Site - While these "tips" were written in good humor, the above pointers cover serious advice that is not so much related to the technical nature of an ecommerce site as it is to product and company presentation
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4/01/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
jimray : Developer | Slider | Measure Map - Veen and Co released their Date Slider Flash component - cool
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4/01/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
jimray : "Dog Days" no good? - ""Dog Days" manages to be doubly conventional: it follows both an old-fashioned love-betrayal-redemption arc and the newer, bitchier nanny-Prada chick-lit motif."
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4/01/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jimray : Busted Tees : Blow Me - Bloody brilliant
deusx : Busted Tees : Blow Me - "Because "blow me and then put another cartridge on top of me once I'm in the NES" wouldn't fit."
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4/01/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jimray : Authorize.Net - Payment Gateway for Accepting Online Payments
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4/01/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : IKEA: The Swedish Feeding Trough - IKEA: The Swedish Feeding Trough: so IKEA is the cheap place to get a meal in europe
Matthew M. Boedicker : abusing IKEA
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4/01/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Shortcuts - Yahoo! Shortcuts: do you think tihs page is intimidating for non-power users?
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4/01/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
jimray : War News Radio - Students use Skype and podcasts to reach Iraqis living in Iraq - amazingly, they're able to reach as many (more?) Iraqis as their professional, greenzone bound reporter brethern on the field
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4/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jason Shellen : The original: Flicker - Not Flickr, Flicker. An open-source stand-alone computer program for visually comparing 2D gel images. #
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4/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : response curves of analog recorders
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4/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : What does a record producer do?
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4/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Hamachi - To be tried-out: Cross-platform app that creates VPNs between computers -- even if they're behind firewalls. Downside: Requires connecting to a centrally-run server to initiate connection, which will soon be charging $$$. [via] #
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4/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Second Life's virtual prison - they send you to The Cornfield
Nelson Minar : Virtual Prison - For bad Second Lifers. Spooky. (via Waxy)
plasticbag : Weirdest moderation technique ever - Second Life griefers are sent to 'The Cornfield' - If you misbehave a fair amount you are sent to this weird environment with only a slow tractor, lots of corn and a depressing film playing in black and white on an old TV for company. The big question is whether or not curious people will act up to see th
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4/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Massively Multiplayer Personal Productivity - there's a seed of a brilliant idea in here [via]
deusx : ~stevenf: Massively Multiplayer Personal Productivity - "What? That guy I work with is level 20 already? I've gotta go mow the lawn, that's worth 500 XP!"
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4/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : The Decade the Music Blockbuster Died - crunching the numbers on best-selling albums by decade [via]
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4/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : TechCrunch on AllPeers - outstanding looking Firefox extension for sharing files privately with BitTorrent
jimray : TechCrunch » AllPeers Is The FireFox “Killer App†- Create private bittorrent networks in your browser
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4/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Linkorama : Microsoft Buys Yahoo? - Yahoo options in demand amid Microsoft speculation.
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4/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Jason Shellen : You've been chipmunk'd! - Audio recording is weird. Some of my podcasts sound chimpmunk'd in Odeo - this is an explanation why. #
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4/01/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how the Canada Goose became an urban species
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4/01/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : secret longer life of birds revealed by tracking bands
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4/01/2006 @ 02:11 GMT
Linkorama : Wikipedia can be better - The first supposedly Rational Rant from Ratcliffe
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4/01/2006 @ 02:11 GMT
Linkorama : Corporate blogging - The simple fact is that companies don't like their employees criticizing them publicly and they certainly don't like their employees blogging about anything other than company business. I am a case study on this point, it never ceases to amaze me how many
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4/01/2006 @ 02:11 GMT
Linkorama : Scoble on MSN Censor of China Blogs - Oh, and to: Zhao Jing, aka Michael Anti I’d like to offer you a guest blog here on my blog. I won’t censor you and you can write whatever you’d like.
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4/01/2006 @ 02:11 GMT
Jason Shellen : Google Cube? Google PC? - David Krane in Google PR squashes the Google Cube/PC rumors. #
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Simon Willison : Microsoft takes down Chinese blogger - Fascinating analysis of how easy it is to take the low-road when dealing with China. [via]
Linkorama : Microsoft takes down Chinese blogger - the story
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4/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Prove Christ exists, judge orders priest - Prove Christ exists, judge orders priest: heh. it's about time!
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4/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
plasticbag : World of Warcraft remix of Lord of the Rings... - Particularly guffawing at the LFG, rez, aggro and breath jokes. No one who isn't familiar with WoW will have the slightest idea why it's entertaining...
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4/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : My year in attention (and yours) - "This Excel tool downloads your delicious links and creates an animation that shows the evolution of your attention over the course of the year." [via] #
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4/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
veen : Holovaty.com | Adrian Holovaty's thoughts on Web development - Created chicagocrime.org mashup, and is deep into the Washington Post's "Post Remix" project.
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4/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
veen : The Scoop - Derek Willis’ weblog on investigative and computer-assisted reporting. Also at the Post. Also was JJG's college roommate.
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4/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bizarre self-referential warning sign - Bizarre self-referential warning sign: that is quite honestly the funniest thing I've seen in a long time
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4/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Average Number of Vacation Days Around the World Per Year - Average Number of Vacation Days Around the World Per Year: holy crap! the US is way below average
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