9/01/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Jenga Tower Projects - Now there's a hobby you don't see every day.
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kayodeok : 180solutions's Misleading Installation Methods - Dollidol.com - When a user receives 180 software from Dollidol.com, a close 180 distribution partner, the user cannot reasonably be said to have consented to 180's subsequent actions
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9/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
kayodeok : Trolling Is Now Illegal: Two Years In Jail - If you're anonymously annoying online, you face two years in jail.
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9/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
kayodeok : Google Pack - A free collection of essential software
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gleuschk : Install Google Screensaver without Google Logo - Digital Inspiration Software Reviews, Technology News, Web Guides, Internet Downloads, Tutorials, Productivity Tips - and without the rest of Google Pack
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Cameron Moll : David Bean, Photographer - David Bean of Visual Reserve goes full-time photography. With a portfolio like that, he won't be begging for work any time soon.
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9/01/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : "About The Image" Stock Photo Blog - Brent Phelps' "About The Image" stock photo blog.
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9/01/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : More on Yahoo! Go - Russ Beattie with more on Yahoo! Go.
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9/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Learn reverse engineering by hacking Windows Pinball - if nothing else, worth it for playing around with the backdoor cheat [via]
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9/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Internet feud escalates between Ebaumsworld and its detractors - this time around a borrowed Lindsay Lohan animated GIF [via]
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9/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are had been shelved, but Warner Bros has revived it - Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are had been shelved, but Warner Bros has revived it. Jonze wrote the screenplay with Dave Eggers. (via rw) [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : Spike Jonze will direct "Where the Wild Things Are" movie
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9/01/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Harsh feedster update - An executive should never use the phrase "purged some personnel"
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9/01/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Feedster overturn - Good journalism from WebProNews
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9/01/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Oblivion tech interview - Lots of interesting details about a next-gen 3d game
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9/01/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : TKTS: Discount Theater Tickets - Handy site listing which Broadway shows were selling discounted tickets at the TKTS booth in Times Square each day. #
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kayodeok : Digital Blending - Three Approaches to Expanded Dynamic Range When Shooting With A Digital Camera
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9/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Putting the Slash in Slashdot - Putting the Slash in Slashdot: "Several times over the past few months I've added Slashdot's RSS feed to my reader, and I always end up deleting it shortly afterwards."
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9/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Google testing contextual ads in print newspapers - they're filling unsold ad space in the Sun-Times
jimray : <i>Sun-Times</i> nets Google ad deal - Google putting adwords in newspapers - seems logical, but also anachronistically hilarious
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Andy Baio : Create an e-annoyance, go to jail - "annoying" someone anonymously online is now a federal crime [via]
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9/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo! acquires Webjay - if you haven't played with the playlist sharing community, try it out
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9/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Cute video of some Sims in a Metallica music video - Cute video of some Sims in a Metallica music video.
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9/01/2006 @ 20:20 GMT
Cameron Moll : iStockphoto.com Redesign - iStockphoto.com redesign launch planned for sometime today. Keep the ol' eyes peeled.
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9/01/2006 @ 20:18 GMT
Linkorama : Fortune 500 Blogs - The reason blog tracking becomes particularly important in the business context is that a large company can have tens of thousands of employees (and perspectives). The blog isn't a monolithic form of corporate communication; two bloggers at the same compa
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9/01/2006 @ 20:15 GMT
jimray : Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor - New York Times - "A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the
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9/01/2006 @ 20:13 GMT
jimray : The Shadowland/Lightroom Development Story - Turns out Lightroom has been in development for four years - makes me wonder if Apple got word of this project and pushed Aperture out to compete head to head - would explain why Aperture feels so rushed for some people
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9/01/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
deusx : VintageComputing.com | Vintage Computing and Gaming - Blog Archive Before Gauntlet, There Was...Dandy Dungeon - "At first glance, it appears to be a Gauntlet clone with primitive graphics (the Gauntlet of which I speak is the 1985 Atari Games arcade release), but it turns out that Gauntlet, not Dandy, is the clone"
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9/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : 34 poker players earned $1 million playing tournaments - In 2005, 34 poker players earned $1 million playing tournaments, compared to 78 golfers earning the same playing their sport.
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9/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Richard Rutter : VW Xmas card - Ice cool (geddit?). [via Authentic Boredom]
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9/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : The identity of the secretive writer JT LeRoy - In addition to the James Frey thing, we've got people digging into the identity of the secretive writer JT LeRoy (a denial). And True Hoop's Henry Abbott is trying to figure out who William Wesley is...a powerful NBA figure who came out of nowhere and app
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9/01/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
merlinmann : Quote Details: Edward Abbey: No tyranny is so... - The Quotations Page - "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." [Thanks, Greg Hitz]
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9/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Rude Place Names - Rude Place Names: featuring "Sugar Tit, South Carolina" and so many others
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9/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mouse thrown into fire sets home ablaze - Mouse thrown into fire sets home ablaze: "I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the mouse was on fire and ran back at the house,"
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9/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : The New York Times sure has a boner for Ana Marie Cox and her new book, Dog Days - The New York Times sure has a boner for Ana Marie Cox and her new book, Dog Days. They've reviewed one, two, three times in the last five days...and that's not counting Ms. Cox's nicely timed op-ed about Jack Abramoff from last Thursday.
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9/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Affirmations Google Should Consider Putting on Its Search Button Other Than "I'm Feeling Lucky." - Affirmations Google Should Consider Putting on Its Search Button Other Than "I'm Feeling Lucky." Not a great list, but "I Deserve to Google and Be Googled" should be put on a tshirt.
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9/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
gleuschk : Google Pack - aimed squarely at the 'parents-of-geeks' market
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9/01/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
merlinmann : How to speed up your mac and make it more stable when web browsing in 3 simple steps | A Whole Lotta Nothing - Matt's short, funny tutorial on deep-sixing the corpulent psychopath we call "Acrobat."
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9/01/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists
Linkorama : The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists - Missing: It's a feature, not a product
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9/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
gleuschk : NeverEndingBooks » Alain Connes on …. everything - links to excellent interview (PDF) with Connes
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9/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006 - 2006 will the year in which the once great Slashdot dies.
Cameron Moll : Slashdot Out, Digg In? - 2006: Slashdot out, Digg in? "There's always been a sense of frustration among those who submit news to Slashdot. Sometimes your story is picked and sometimes it isn't. After a while, you start to wonder why Slashdot's small group of dictators (err, I mea
François Nonnenmacher : Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006
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9/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds - Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds: James Surowieki on ITConversations
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9/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : American Idol of Search - your search isnt my search - American Idol of Search - your search isnt my search: will objective search remain the people’s choice in search engines?
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9/01/2006 @ 09:10 GMT
jimray : Adobe Labs - Project: Lightroom - Apple's Aperture warning shot has been answered in kind
jkottke : Adobe has released the beta version of a program called Lightroom - Adobe has released the beta version of a program called Lightroom (OS X only), a competitor to Apple's Aperture. Both are pro-level apps for manipulating and organizing digital photos. Here's the story of Lightroom's development from one of its developers [via]
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9/01/2006 @ 09:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why is setting up a new PC still so painful? - Why is setting up a new PC still so painful?: because advertsing is what subsidises low-cost PCs!
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9/01/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft's Bill Gates Wants to Save the World - Microsoft's Bill Gates Wants to Save the World: "The way he talked about wiping out malaria was how he used to talk about wiping out Netscape."
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9/01/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
ricmac : KBCafe Blog Awards Winners - iBLOGthere4iM - I came third in the Best Web 2.0 Blog award, behind Techcrunch and microformats. Damn, I was looking forward to doing my Marlon Brando non-acceptance act at the Awards ceremony - being a 2.0 rebel and all... :-) just kidding, thanks Randy for the honour.
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9/01/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs - The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs: heh, a good start
François Nonnenmacher : The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
Nelson Minar : Entrepreneurs' lies - Funny-but-true list (via Zawodny)
Linkorama : The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs - Missing: "We want you to be our VC"
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9/01/2006 @ 06:11 GMT
jimray : Free up Hard Disk space - For those of us without that terabyte RAID array (yet...)
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9/01/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
gleuschk : Help me DJ a wedding | Ask MetaFilter - two sets: one early for the grownups, one late for the kids
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9/01/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
gleuschk : Wedding songs? | Ask MetaFilter - they want a single "wedding song"
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9/01/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
gleuschk : Modern Love | Ask MetaFilter - no standards
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9/01/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
gleuschk : Classical Music For A Wedding? | Ask MetaFilter - for during the meal
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9/01/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
gleuschk : The Best Bridal Party Mix Tape Evah!!! | Ask MetaFilter - songs for the makeup-application before the ceremony (?)
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9/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
ricmac : Rugby-Pioneers - found via technorati blog of the day
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9/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Hands on with Google Pack - Hands on with Google Pack: "That description is vague and potentially inaccurate. Google Pack is indeed a collection of free software. Whether it's useful or improves the online experience is, I suppose, up to the individual."
kayodeok : Hands on with Google Pack - And though some of the applications are quite good, most of them spew system tray, Quick Launch, and desktop icons all over your system, and silently pad your PC with additional tasks to run at boot-up, slowing the boot process and taking up valuable reso
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9/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Say Goodbye to Embarrassment - Say Goodbye to Embarrassment: "Turning off an emotion is always a tough decision."
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9/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Searching where I’m not hated - Searching where I’m not hated: Phil is pissed at Google.
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9/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : The Aargh Page - "...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH"
Andy Baio : The Aargh Page - tracking the popularity of various spelling permutations on the web [via]
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9/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
erikbenson : A bunch of different confidence tricks - I never knew that con man was a reference to the confidence trick. Been watching a lot of Paul Newman movies lately with these tricks.
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9/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
merlinmann : Google Directory - Home > Personal Organization - Buttload of "personal organization" sites -- the usual suspects plus a few that are new to me.
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9/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : PHP Easter Egg - I'd never heard of this: "If you add ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 to the end of any URL that is a PHP page you will see a funny little picture of a dog." #
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9/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Vongo.com - Choose Now. Watch Now. - Starz's online video download service: $9.99 for all-you-can-eat movies. Windows #
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9/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
ricmac : Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab re BBC
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9/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
ricmac : Editors Weblog: From citizen journalism myth to citizen journalism realities
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9/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
ricmac : Shore Communications re CES - "The convergence battles have just begun, but already they are beginning to define for some time to come the field on which content ecommerce is evolving."
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9/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
ricmac : CES analysis: Why I know Google will do an office suite and a desktop OS in 2006. - The Jason Calacanis Weblog
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9/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
ricmac : Best of CES Awards - CES 2006 - Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas - CNET.com
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9/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
ricmac : d.Construct 2005 | Web 2.0 Conference, 11th Nov, Brighton - lots of excellent powerpoints and podcasts to digest here.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Americans Grow To Fit Their Environment - Americans Grow To Fit Their Environment: I thought "people are getting bigger" and "houses are getting bigger", how do they relate?
jkottke : Interesting graph comparing the size of new homes and the obesity rate in America - Interesting graph comparing the size of new homes and the obesity rate in America (which seem to track quite closely since 1995), prompting the question, are Americans growing to fit their environment? Relatedly, Bernard-Henri Levy on American obesity: "T
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9/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Video Player Removed From Downloads of Google Video Pack - Google Video Player Removed From Downloads of Google Video Pack: WTF?
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9/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ajaxian » Quick Tip: Scroll to Bottom of a Div - objDiv.scrollTop = objDiv.scrollHeight;
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9/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Must be a devil between us - users always win when things are open
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9/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
deusx : CBS 13/UPN 31: game guy scott fera goes crazy playing air guitar - Everyone must own Guitar Heroes
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9/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Geek Test - Le seul fait d'accepter de se soumettre à un tel test donne déjà une bonne idée de son niveau de geekitude. Reste maintenant à savoir jusqu'où ça peut aller :) [via] #
gleuschk : Geek Test: the original test from innergeek - 36.48915% - Major Geek
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9/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Making Sense Of Online Video - Making Sense Of Online Video: in which Fred points out the lack of sense, using only a table
ricmac : A VC: Making Sense Of Online Video - I'd bookmark Trisan Louis' site, which Fred links to, but for some reason I can never access it - either it's always down, or maybe in my part of the world it's inaccessible??
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