10/01/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Linkorama : Mondo Wikipedia - "No one has the right answers," he says. "Honest to God, what is truth? Can you tell me what truth is? If you want infallibility, go see the pope."
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10/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jimray : Movable Type Knowledge Base: Who is Melody Nelson? - Cool, all this time I thought it was a real person
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10/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
gleuschk : Oblivion | MetaFilter - complete David Foster Wallace bibliography. really. complete
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10/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
gleuschk : In Princeton, Taking On Harvard's Fuss About Women (NYT, July 2005) - What's the most difficult aspect of your life as a mathematician, Diane Maclagan was asked. ''Trying to prove theorems,'' she said. And the most fun? ''Trying to prove theorems.''
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10/01/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Tire specifications - All those random bits on the side of your tire mean something!
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10/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
gleuschk : A review of David Corfield's "Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics" - "flawed, but welcome" I think would be the upshot
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10/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
gleuschk : Thales & Friends - working to bridge the chasm between mathematics and other forms of cultural activity
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10/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
gleuschk : How Mathematicians May Fail To Be Rational - gasp! horrors! (a provocative title for an otherwise interesting paper)
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10/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
gleuschk : What is it that makes a mathematician? (PDF) - I dunno
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10/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Pareidolia: "The erroneous or fanciful perception of a pattern or meaning in something that is actually ambiguous or random" - Pareidolia: "The erroneous or fanciful perception of a pattern or meaning in something that is actually ambiguous or random." Here are hundreds of examples on Flickr...light sockets that look like faces, etc.
deusx : Word Spy - pareidolia - "The erroneous or fanciful perception of a pattern or meaning in something that is actually ambiguous or random."
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10/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Kodak has themselves a new logo and gosh it looks plain and boring and undistinctive. - Kodak has themselves a new logo and gosh it looks plain and boring and undistinctive. Who are the folks convincing companies like Intel and Kodak that these logo/brand overhauls are going to revitalize their companies? Revitalization is a hard business...
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10/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jimray : The Programming Language Lua - Apparently, 40% of Lightroom is written using this - worth investigating
Matthew M. Boedicker : the programming language Lua
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10/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Douglas Bowman : CSS 3 selectors explained - Roger Johansson provides good, concise explanations of the new selectors in CSS3, including an approximate level of browser support for each group.
kayodeok : CSS 3 selectors explained | 456 Berea Street - CSS 3 selectors explained
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10/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Steve Jobs announces Intel-based iMacs and new MacBook Pro laptop - MacBook 4-5x faster than Powerbook G4; new iMacs 2-3x faster
kellan : Apple - MacBook Pro - the only thing keeping me to the "wait for 2nd generation" course of prudence? The lame name. MacBook? Good engineers, bad copywriters. #
Jon Hicks : Apple - MacBook Pro - Bah. Humbug.
43folders : Apple Updates MacBook Pros - "Let the tea-reading begin: Why would Apple announce these today rather than wait until next week’s WWDC keynote? Answer: They must have plently of other announcements for WWDC."
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Linkorama : The making of AmazonBay - My premise is as follows: the basic structure and ecosystem of the financial services industry has remained relatively unperturbed by the internet revolution.
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10/01/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
Linkorama : BarCampLosAngeles - The evening of Saturday, March 4th, 2006, and 10a-5p or so on Sunday, March 5th, 2006.
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10/01/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : top ten blogger lies - top ten blogger lies: it's funny because it's true
François Nonnenmacher : top ten blogger lies
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10/01/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Conversations Network - The Conversations Network: it's alive!
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Andy Baio : Slashdot's CmdrTaco on their story moderation process - an uncharacteristic rant posted to the Slashdot homepage; some users want /. to be more Digg-like
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10/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr: Photos tagged with firstgoatse - Flickr: Photos tagged with firstgoatse: hahaha... what an awesome use of flickr :-)
Andy Baio : Flickr's firstgoatse tag - not even Ron Jeremy could handle it
Rod Begbie : Flickr: Photos tagged with firstgoatse - You'll never forget your first goatse. (Mine was back in 1998, when it was referred to on uk.misc as simply "*that* jpeg") [via] #
deusx : Flickr: Photos tagged with firstgoatse - Do you remember your first goatse?
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10/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Chuck Norris responds to the Random Facts - for some context, see the popular web meme
jimray : Chuck Norris responds to "random facts about Chuck Norris" site - And shamelessly plugs his books!
deusx : chucknorris.com - IN RESPONSE TO THE "RANDOM FACTS" THAT ARE BEING GENERATED ON THE INTERNET - "Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I'm not quite sure what to make of it."
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10/01/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Macworld Keynote Coverage - Engadget: Macworld 2006 keynote coverage.
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10/01/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : Apple - Trailers - Comedian - Quite possibly the greatest movie trailer of all time... and I don't even like Jerry Seinfeld. [via Ferrett] [via]
deusx : Apple - Trailers - Comedian - In an outpost... at the edge of space... a man... no, two men...
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10/01/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
kellan : Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. - A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. #
deusx : Gall's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."
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10/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
plasticbag : The BBC ask what people should call Menzies Campbell's supporters... - Given that his name is shortened to 'Ming', then they're suggesting Mingnons, Mongos and - the obvious but entertaining - Mingers...
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10/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : So I don't understand how this underwear works or even which way you wear it, but it looks terribly exciting... - It's for snowboarding in, apparently, but it's difficult to tell whether it's padded, armoured or has dedicated hatches for personal releases. I can't even tell if this is the front or the back...
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10/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : Alternative Monopoly rules put an entirely different perspective on the game! - Monopoly hacks to make the games more interesting. I love the idea of joining together two boards to make a figure of eight...
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10/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : Social Facts - the course notes for Clay Shirky's teaching around social software and group formation - I've not had time to really interrogate this yet, but I really really need to and want to. God if only I had more time in my day to get my head around things...
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10/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : SkyScout - awesome device that identifies celestial objects that you use like a telescope - I so want to get one of these, but it's kind of pointless given that I live in London and can't even see any stars most of the time. The sky is a perpetual red horror of light polution. I miss the countryside...
deusx : SkyScout - "The SkyScout is a revolutionary, one of a kind, patented handheld device that instantly identifies and/or locates any celestial object visible to the naked eye, providing educational and entertaining information, both in text and audio."
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10/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : Doc Searls writes a really interesting post about DRM, but it's one that I need to respond to in detail - Someone really needs to explain to the wider web about the rights situations inside most large organisations and how they really have legal obligations at the moment to support things like DRM. It's not good, but it's true...
deusx : The Doc Searls Weblog : Welcome to the Long Run - "We need to do with video what we've started doing with music: building a new and independent industry."
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10/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? - Interesting BBC article on the history of the Menzies / Mingis name and why it is pronounced the way it is. Good bit of history and linguistics stuff with a nice sideline in the impact of new technologies (ie. printing press)
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? - Round our way, you always pronounced "John Menzies" "John Mingus's". [via] #
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10/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : "Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson finds that putting his work online has invited a deluge of less than flattering correspondence" - I think the one thing I like most about real world people moving onto the internet is how much they have to deal with the same crap as the rest of us - nutty people leaving abusive comments, flame wars and the like.
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10/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : Totally random BBC news article about rebuilding the Newsnight set in Second Life - I completely missed this, and I can't believe i missed it. It's so gutting. I bet it was awesome. Does anyone have a clip?
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10/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : One of the most popular cough and cold products out there is not medicine at all and was formulated by an elementary-school teacher - One of the most popular cough and cold products out there is not medicine at all and was formulated by an elementary-school teacher.
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10/01/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
merlinmann : Inuit Words for Snow - Clever parody at the expense of the popular myth. E.g. "jatla - snow between your fingers or toes, or in groin-folds"
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10/01/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
cobra libre : roger caillois and the mexican jumping bean - "cutting the bean in half like a true scientist reveals that there is something inside making it jump, but poses a new question: why?" [via] #
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10/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
plasticbag : Newsdesigner talks about the work on the Observer redesign that launched on Sunday - I missed it, which is the most unfortunate thing. Matt Webb says it's a pretty solid piece of work. Looking forward to exploring it properly this coming weekend.
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10/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Erik Spiekermann explains how Nokia's corporate typeface came to be - Erik Spiekermann explains how Nokia's corporate typeface came to be. Looks like it was based on one of Nokia's onscreen bitmap fonts. I've always wanted to create a "real" version of Silkscreen like that.
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10/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Binding books in human skin used to be a more common practice than it is now - Binding books in human skin used to be a more common practice than it is now. More here. (via bb) [via]
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10/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
gleuschk : NPR : Paul Ford on Stories, Lies, Gary Benchley, and JT LeRoy - I need to find some way to subscribe to a Ford-feed
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10/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Some fans of The Matrix films went to Sydney and photographed various locations that were in the first film - Some fans of The Matrix films went to Sydney and photographed various locations that were in the first film. Photoset on Flickr.
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10/01/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Martenhoepla - Als Animal Planet 's nachts aan sms-dating zou doen - Als Animal Planet 's nachts aan sms-dating zou doen [meer leuks hier]
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10/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : POPJUSTICE ::: Is this the greatest band logo of all time? - Betty Boo and Alex from Blur -- Together at last! Oh, this sounds like a fantastic slice of P!O!P! and no mistake. #
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10/01/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : Hollywood's New Zombie - The last days of Blockbuster. - As far the studios are concerned, other than collecting the money that Blockbuster owes them for past movies, the video chain has little relevance to their future
jkottke : Edward Jay Epstein examines where it all went wrong for Blockbuster Video - Edward Jay Epstein examines where it all went wrong for Blockbuster Video. Blockbuster had an opportunity to have rental pricing for DVDs like they did with video, but they turned the deal down and the studios priced DVDs for retail instead and have been
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10/01/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : The Definitive How To Guide: Unattended Windows - Have you ever wanted a Windows CD that would install Windows by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? And have it merged with the latest Service Pack to save time?
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10/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists - Few things tell you as much about a person as the books he chooses to read. Isn't that why the Patriot Act specifically requires libraries to release information on who's reading what? For this reason, I chose to focus on the information contained in the
deusx : Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists | Applefritter - "Today, it is increasingly easy to monitor ideas. And then track them back to people."
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10/01/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Fortune: 100 Best Companies to Work For - Fortune: 100 Best Companies to Work For: woohoo! we made the list...
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10/01/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Danny Sullivan responds to Jakob Nielsen - Danny Sullivan responds to Jakob Nielsen: and explains a lot more about on-line advertising and search
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10/01/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Nat Torkington on the Steve Mallette vs. Digg controversy - O'Reilly contributor accused of stealing templates for Digg clones, turns out to be unfounded
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10/01/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Student Life on the Facebook - wow, incredible analysis of UNC's freshman class Facebook usage, including demographics and information sharing
gleuschk : Student Life on the Facebook - chimprawk.blogspot.com - awesome study of the penetration and usage
Wayne Burkett : Student Life on the Facebook - chimprawk.blogspot.com - It would be awesome if Facebook maintained a Zeitgeist page for each semester. #
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10/01/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
merlinmann : The Awful Forums - Tips and Tricks You've Picked Up Along the Way...Part 4! - Fun collection of random tips ranging from the useful to scatalogical. Fun stuff.
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10/01/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Linkorama : A New Tech Elite - Revolutions don't usually work out quite as planned. And that's what's happening now in the technology world with blogs. They are every bit as important as their boosters said they would be. But in an entirely different way.
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10/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : Dodge - Auto Show - One more RSS-powered auto show site
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10/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : Quake done Chopped! | MetaFilter - "this is a complete runthrough of the original Quake 7 years in the making, dispatching all enemies but zombies with only the axe."
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10/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : Math whiz gives lecture at UNL - Atiyah. Lousy title for the Journal-Star article, but actually a decent interview
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10/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : On having students or younger colleagues who are manifestly better than we are - no comment
deusx : Chronicle Careers: 11/07/2005 - "The attention may last for a few years, and then our mental lives are deposited in libraries, where they remain like unvisited tombs, until someone decides to sell them for $1 each or throw them into a dumpster to be pulped."
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10/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : On The Absence Of Time In Mathematics (PDF) - more Barry Mazur
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10/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Nintendo's holodeck prototype - a neat interactive floor display
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10/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Package Mappers - map the routes of UPS, Fedex, and USPS packages [via]
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10/01/2006 @ 05:11 GMT
deusx : Chrysler - Autoshow - "Aside from the exclusive details that you've come to expect from us, Chrysler.com will link you to the latest and greatest auto show coverage from respected automotive blogs and news websites."
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10/01/2006 @ 05:10 GMT
deusx : Jeep - Auto Show - More RSS-powered Auto Show goodness
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10/01/2006 @ 05:10 GMT
gleuschk : When is one thing equal to some other thing? By Barry Mazur (PDF) - In memory of Saunders Mac Lane
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10/01/2006 @ 05:10 GMT
gleuschk : "Why Mathematics?" you may ask (PDF) - looks really interesting
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10/01/2006 @ 05:10 GMT
gleuschk : The Unsolvable Math Problem (snopes) - George Dantzig, rip 13 May 2005
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10/01/2006 @ 05:10 GMT
gleuschk : Raoul Bott, an Innovator in Mathematics, Dies at 82 - New York Times - a nice memorial
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10/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
gleuschk : A Personal Profile of Karen K. Uhlenbeck - a public service to schoolkids writing reports
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10/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
gleuschk : The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics - classic, from the Monthly in 1980
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10/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : TechCrunch » Don’t Blow Your Beta - TechCrunch » Don’t Blow Your Beta: "If you don’t support Firefox and, to a lesser extent, Safari, when you launch, you are going to be shunned by the early adopters."
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10/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
merlinmann : NPR : Copyright Laws Severely Limit Availability of Music - Over 70% of music recorded before 1965 cannot be purchased legally in the US.
deusx : NPR : Copyright Laws Severely Limit Availability of Music - "over 70 percent of American music recorded before 1965 is not legally available in the United States."
jimray : NPR : Copyright Laws Severely Limit Availability of Music - "Over 70 percent of American music recorded before 1965 is not legally available in the United States."
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10/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Linkorama : Yahoo! Music Acquires Webjay - It’s with great pleasure that I announce the addition of Lucas Gonze and Webjay to the Yahoo! Music family.
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10/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Search Engines as Leeches on the Web - Search Engines as Leeches on the Web: uhm, no.
Linkorama : Search Engines as Leeches on the Web - Search engines extract too much of the Web's value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create the content. Liberation from search dependency is a strategic imperative for both websites and software vendors.
kayodeok : Search Engines as Leeches on the Web - Search engines extract too much of the Web's value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create the content. Liberation from search dependency is a strategic imperative for both websites and software vendors
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10/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : why not to buy diamonds
jimray : Ten reasons why you should never accept a diamond ring - I fucking hate DeBeers
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10/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : 49 business leaders asked their single golden rule
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10/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : using facebook.com to play a prank on the police
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10/01/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
deusx : MacDevCenter.com: The Power of mdfind - "In addition to the little blue magnifying glass in the upper-right corner of your desktop, Tiger provides the mdfind and mdls commands."
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10/01/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : November 2005 social networking statistics - also: MySpace growing by 160,000 new users per day!
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10/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
jimray : VideoHelp.com Forum Archive - How to convert .flv (flash video) to .avi or .mpg
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10/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
jimray : A Million Little Lies - The Smoking Gun thinks James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' was fabricated
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10/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
jimray : Dynamic DNS - free ddns, dynamic DNS service - I'm tired of having to remember my IP address every time my cable modem blinks
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10/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
jimray : Extra! Extra! - The future of newspapers. By Michael Kinsley
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10/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
WillPate : Boycott Digital Rights Management - Signed: "I will pledge to never purchase a CD contaning any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM)" DRM severely restricts our rights as users, creators, and members of the global community. We will not stand by and let fair use grow extinct as a cons
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10/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : Channel 4's two-part series, "Root of Evil" sees Richard Dawkins talk about his understanding of the dangers of religious thinking - I'm watching the show and - as usual - I'm stunned by what I see as the credulity of religious people in defiance of all reason. But I'm also noticing that Dawkins is not a sympathetic character, his rationality manifesting quite aggressively...
deusx : Channel 4 - Can you believe it? - The Real Exorcists - "Richard Dawkins is astounded that religious faith is gaining ground in the face of rational, scientific truth based on hard evidence."
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10/01/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
joshua : the viral chart - sortof a billboard for viral stuff
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10/01/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : The Web Standards Collection partwork now available - At all good newsagents now!
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10/01/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Odyssey2 emulator - Is K.C. Munchkin as good as you remember?
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10/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Morning Becomes Eclectic to start video podcasting - great in-studio live performances
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10/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : Beggar Prince is slated to be the first new game released for the Sega Genesis since 1998 - Beggar Prince is slated to be the first new game released for the Sega Genesis since 1998.
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