30/01/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Wikipedia vs. politics - RFC to ban US Congress IP addresses from editing Wikipedia entries (via Digg)
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30/01/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Philippe Janvier : 50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing - Encore quelques extensions Firefox à découvrir. [via] #
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30/01/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
gleuschk : Crane & Co. Stationers - "STD". Heh.
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30/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
gleuschk : Crate and Barrel Sunday Morning Engagements - get free wine flutes and register stuff
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30/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
gleuschk : Gump's registry - some nice stuff here (also a lot of crap)
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30/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Scratch the World with cars as records and pedestrians as crossfaders - Scratch the World with cars as records and pedestrians as crossfaders.
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30/01/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Early Retirement - Early Retirement: This article addresses the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young.
Nelson Minar : PhilG: early retirement - Reports from his life
kayodeok : Early Retirement - This article addresses the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young. The author retired in 2001, at the age of 37 (same age as Rossini when he retired)
Matthew M. Boedicker : the standard tools that rich families use to preserve their wealth down through the centuries
jkottke : Phil Greenspun on retiring young - Phil Greenspun on retiring young. "Retirement forces you to stop thinking that it is your job that holds you back. For most people the depressing truth is that they aren't that organized, disciplined, or motivated."
philgyford : Early Retirement - By Philip Greenspun. One can dream. Two general tips: don't read news/email in the morning or your brain will fill and you'll get no work done; and spend more time with other people to increase happiness -- computer programming is bad. (via Kottke)
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30/01/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
jimray : Microsoft Live labs manifesto - "The Internet operates in a manner fundamentally unlike anything that has ever preceded it" BWA HA! Oh man, that's rich.
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gleuschk : Flops, flips, and matrix factorizations - talk by David R. Morrison. Wish I could figure out an efficient way to print this out
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30/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google logo redesigned by Students for Free Tibet - Google logo redesigned by Students for Free Tibet: heh
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30/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Dell in Discreet Partnership with Google? - Dell in Discreet Partnership with Google?: Do you consider $1 billion over 3 years "discrete"?
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30/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Matt calculates the cost of a la carte television, i.e. ordering TV shows from iTunes - Matt calculates the cost of a la carte television, i.e. ordering TV shows from iTunes. His yearly cable bill is $648 but the cost of watching all hs favorite shows from iTunes would be $800. I bet the networks love this math, especially since it cuts the
Andy Baio : The Cost of A La Carte Television - how much would it cost to replace cable TV with iTunes downloads?
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30/01/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Linkorama : Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone - sustainable software politics
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30/01/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
kellan : Parrot was supposed to have a fully layered, asynchronous IO system, with completion callbacks and layers, - Pity, that. Would've been cool #
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30/01/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
kellan : RecentChangesCamp 2006 ... "Building communities worth having!" - Love the slogan #
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30/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : MP3Gain - App to apply ReplayGain volume normalization to MP3s by tweaking the audio data, so the normalized files can be played back on any player (such as yer iPod), not just those that understand the tagging format. #
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30/01/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
kellan : BBC: Iraqis 'confirm' bird flu death - This is the route that H5N1 is going to take to enter the US #
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30/01/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : The World of TaB soda - Every product has a fan website
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30/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Some of the onscreen special effects on Doctor Who were generated by a home computer called the BBC Micro - Some of the onscreen special effects on Doctor Who were generated by a home computer called the BBC Micro. "A brief sequence during this program actually showed the BBC Basic and assembler code used to create the console display"
deusx : Chaucery Blog: Doctor Who's very special effects - "Did the BBC use a cheap home computer from 1981 to simulate the advanced computing power of hundreds, even thousands of years into the future?"
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30/01/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Richard Rutter : High Priority - Add todo items to iCal from the menu bar. [via Stopdesign]
plasticbag : High Priority toolbar widget for OSX handles to-do items... - Haven't had much of a play with it so far, but I like the idea and I've paid the $6 to use it directly. I may actually need to start using to do lists more often...
philgyford : 3000 miles from home | aram kudurshian's web site | high priority - Mac OS X toolbar to-do list manager. For me to remember if I start using iCal's to do list. (via plasticbag.org)
joshua : high priority - manage ical todo lists from a menu
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30/01/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
deusx : Dyadin the Game - I haven't played this yet, but the concept reminds me just a tad of Zelda: Four Swords with the GameCube / GBA integration and multiple planes of cooperative play
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30/01/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How Much Do Search Engines Make From Adware/Spyware? - How Much Do Search Engines Make From Adware/Spyware?: "Google and Yahoo make about $2.2 million per month, or $26 million per year, through this spyware-pushing advertising. That may not be big money to them, but to my eye it’s a lot."
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30/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Well, Garrison Keillor sure didn't like Bernard-Henri Levy's American Vertigo much - Well, Garrison Keillor sure didn't like Bernard-Henri Levy's American Vertigo much. I'm about halfway through...review soon (hopefully).
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30/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Why do journalists drink so much Tab? - Why do journalists drink so much Tab? Futhermore, if, as conservatives would like us to believe, the political and cultural tempo of the country is being dictated by the pulse of the liberal media and they all guzzle fantastic amounts of Tab, why is Tab n
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30/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Scott Nelson produces a "tribute brand" called MIKE that's an homage to Michael Jordan, Nike branding, and shoes - Scott Nelson produces a "tribute brand" called MIKE that's an homage to Michael Jordan, Nike branding, and shoes. After looking at his products (photos and interviews here and here), I'm amazed Nike hasn't sued him back to the Stone Age. Nelson's site is
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30/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
deusx : The Joy of Tech #781 - "Hey Bob, did you realize you're sharing your iPhoto library?"
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30/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : The Pixar model of making creative products - The Pixar model of making creative products: "We've made the leap from an idea-centered business to a people-centered business. Instead of developing ideas, we develop people. Instead of investing in ideas, we invest in people. We're trying to create a cu
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30/01/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Judith lost her camera (and most of her pictures) on her trip to Hawaii, so she's using other people's photos from Flickr to produce a trip journal - Judith lost her camera (and most of her pictures) on her trip to Hawaii, so she's using other people's photos from Flickr to produce a trip journal.
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30/01/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : kafsemo.org: 2006-01-23: Larry Sanders and Dr. Katz (SPARQL and Mivvi) - Use RDF and Sparql to find which actors were in what episodes of each of two shows.
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30/01/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Jason Shellen : ABC News' Bob Woodruff and Cameraman Seriously Injured in Iraq - I saw Woodruff at Google in Mountain View last week. He sure gets around quick, best wishes on a speedy recovery. #
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30/01/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Mousebot Revisited - Evidemment, il faut avoir aussi un peu le goût du bricolage. [via] #
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30/01/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : johnoxton.co.uk: Scalable logos - This is one of those “Gah! Why I didn’t I think of that?!!” moments. Great technique for logos that scale with the text size.
Cameron Moll : Scalable logos with Flash - Scalable logos with Flash. Hicks said it best: "Why didn't I think of that?"
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30/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : Quotations for Learning and Programming - A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools
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30/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : Firefox Extension: Mouseless Browsing - The basic principle is to add small boxes with unique ids behind every link and/or form element. You just have to type in the id and press enter (there is also an automatice mode available) to trigger the appropriate action i.e. following a link, pressing
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30/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : Hack Attack: Mouse-less Firefox - Learning to use Firefox keyboard shortcuts to reduce your trips to the mouse can lead to a much more fulfilling web browsing experience, especially at those times that your mouse just isn’t doing the trick
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30/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : The future of HTML, Part 2: XHTML 2.0 - In this article, I'll examine the work of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in creating the next-generation version of their XHTML specification, and also their response to the demand for "rich client" behavior exemplified by Ajax applications
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30/01/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3: Kevin Long covers Fiona Apple's "I Know" - pure serendipity; from Hype Machine's most popular to this MP3 blog to his MySpace
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30/01/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
deusx : Python Cheese Shop : pickleshare 0.2 - "PickleShare - a small 'shelve' like datastore with concurrency support"
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30/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : LM PM-225 device profile in RDF - Just got a new cell phone. It's not a powerhouse, but it's a lot more than I had. I do wish it wasn't MIDP 1.0, though
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30/01/2006 @ 04:10 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : WiGLE, making maps of wireless networks
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30/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
jimray : Best and Worst Abdominal Exercises
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30/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
jimray : Simple Guide To Getting Six-Pack Abs
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30/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : firedoglake: 01/22/2006 - 01/28/2006 - "Dear Ann Coulter: STFU."
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30/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Burning visible images onto CD-Rs with data - An attempt at tweaking what you write to a CD so you leave artwork on the disc -- Kind of like those Aphex Twin tracks where his face shows up in the spectrum analyzer. Very clever. [via] #
deusx : Burning visible images onto CD-Rs with data (beta) - "By carefully choosing the right 1s and 0s to burn to a CD, it is possible to burn visible images on normal CD-Rs." I always figured this was possible, but never bothered to explore it.
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30/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Zone 5300: Film Festival Rotterdam 2006
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30/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Chewbacca blog - Great images (via Digg)
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30/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Hamachi: P2P VPN - Tunnels a network via UDP, can mediate NAT on both ends
deusx : Hamachi : Stay Connected - "With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. "
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jimray : TextPattern on SubDomain - This is the set of .htaccess rewrite rules that allows for textpattern on a subdomain without hosing the rest of your domain in the process
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30/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Good old earth vs. Google Earth - Camtacular :) [via] #
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