31/01/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Tony Royster Jr. - Tony Royster Jr., the 12-year-old featured in that Google video, is now 21. Someone get that talented kid a new site.
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31/01/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google's Ishtar Moment - Google's Ishtar Moment: "It's Google's big sellout moment. It goes against everything they represented -- something they're now trying to explain away with doubletalk and a quick rewrite of history."
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31/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : MaxScratch - MaxScratch: for those "hard to scratch" areas I guess
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31/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo programmer say Google to miss earnings forecast - Yahoo programmer say Google to miss earnings forecast: Amr got himself all famous on the internets!
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31/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What do newspapers do???? - What do newspapers do????: "The newspaper of the future needs to fight for audience –- fight for its life, before someone comes and takes it from them."
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31/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : A big dog on the subway with a fur-coated owner and a brick in its mouth - A big dog on the subway with a fur-coated owner and a brick in its mouth. And I believe it's a "pit bull-type" dog.
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31/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : A list of the 100 best first lines from novels - I feel like I've pointed to this before, but in case I haven't, here's a list of the 100 best first lines from novels. I'm partial to those of Pride and Prejudice, Lolita, and Anna Karenina.
erikbenson : 100 first lines to novels - I love first lines. I could live on them alone.
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31/01/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : CSS Mastery book site - CSS Mastery book site now live. Props to Andy for knocking out this one. Sample chapter available for download.
jimray : CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
Paul Hammond : CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
Richard Rutter : CSS Mastery - Advanced Web Standards Solutions: Andy’s forthcoming book.
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31/01/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview - Microsoft have released a public beta of IE7. The homepage is a staggeringly fucking awful flash animation, promising "Everything you need, nothing you don't, and a few things you have yet to imagine", before displaying a list of Firefox's features. [via] #
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31/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
gleuschk : "Sur la décomposition des ensembles de points en parties respectivement congruentes" (PDF) - Banach and Tarski's original paper from 1924 (in Frenchy)
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31/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Mark Rothko's Seagram murals were to hang in the then-new Four Seasons restaurant in NYC - Mark Rothko's Seagram murals were to hang in the then-new Four Seasons restaurant in NYC. How did they come to hang instead in the Tate Modern in London?
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31/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : The life and times of "broadcast pioneer" Edward R. Murrow - The life and times of "broadcast pioneer" Edward R. Murrow. "During the war, Murrow never had to play the role of the dispassionate reporter. He was an important player in the Allied war effort, and, under the circumstances, that did not conflict with his
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31/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
kellan : Bill Clinton: "First of all, in this age of culturally changed circumstances, - I should make it clear for the record that Senator McCain and I are not married." #
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31/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : In Meet the Fockers, the sign on a terminal at the O'Hare airport is typeset in Chicago - In Meet the Fockers, the sign on a terminal at the O'Hare airport is typeset in Chicago, an old Macintosh system font. Har har. (via mark) [via]
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31/01/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Uninstall StarForce - This piece of crap installed itself by surprise; here's how to remove it. Not clear this site is legitimate, but I think it is.
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31/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Malcolm Gladwell on different types of generalizations and when it's helpful to generalize (and not) - Malcolm Gladwell on different types of generalizations and when it's helpful to generalize (and not). I don't know about all that, but I *hate* "pit bull-type" dogs and I still think they should be banned.
Rod Begbie : Malcolm Gladwell: What pit bulls can teach us about profiling. - Excellent, fascinating Malcolm Gladwell article about the uselessness of "profiling" as a tool to attack crime. [via] #
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31/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : Web Framework Redux - "Zope and Twisted are off the scale ... But they only work if you drink lavish quantities of their particular flavor of kool-aid"
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31/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : ★ The Joy of Tech! ★ - Steve Jobs Dress-Up
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31/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : do what thou wilt - "For the next five minutes, you are permitted to lose your inhibitions and go wild. Do whatever you like."
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31/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Blogzilla: DRM-a-go-go - 'DRM-protected files exclusively released through iTunes ... appear in unprotected form on P2P networks 180 seconds later'. Well, that makes screwing your honest customers worthwhile. [via] #
deusx : Blogzilla: DRM-a-go-go - "We don't want this technology to be available to every hobbyist. We need to keep the number of licensees down to a manageable number. We charge a license fee to keep the number of people we have to deal with down to a level we can handle."
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31/01/2006 @ 17:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Plan59 - Plan59. Loads of mid-century paraphernalia, blog included.
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31/01/2006 @ 17:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : UX Magazine: A second look - UX Magazine. I've recently given this site a second look (though it's been live only a short while), and I must say the layout, grid, and design are all quite well-done. Home page isn't bulletproof (e.g. text resizing), but sharp nonetheless.
Richard Rutter : Size-dependent layout - UX Magazine.
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31/01/2006 @ 17:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Screencasts of Ruby on Rails - Screencasts of Ruby on Rails. Ruby in action.
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31/01/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
deusx : Brewed Fresh Daily » My NetNewsWire -> del.icio.us applescript » Opinions, news and events from Cleveland, Ohio - "Here’s what I’m using to send stuff from NNW to my del.icio.us account"
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31/01/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
deusx : Workbench: RSS Advisory Board Goes Public - "The board is taking on eight new members." Looks like some well-established members of the blogging and RSS community joining the board. Nice.
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31/01/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
philgyford : The Questors Theatre - Acting at the Questors - "The largest amateur theatre in Europe"
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31/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
gleuschk : Academic Job Interview Questions | Ask MetaFilter - some sanity in here
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31/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
deusx : Python Routes | 2006-01-30 | BitWorking - "Routes is a Python re-implementation of the Rails routes system that allows for a two-way mapping between URLs and a dictionary."
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31/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : New RSS Advisory Board Members - Sans commentaire ! [via] #
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31/01/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : Asperger syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "In very broad terms, individuals with Asperger's have normal or above average intellectual capacity, and atypical or less well developed social skills, often with emotional/social development or integration happening later than usual as a result."
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31/01/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: StarForce threatens to sue me for criticizing its products - How not to be a good PR guy: "If you're looking for reasons to boycott StarForce-crippled games (besides the obvious ones), you might add their use of bullying legal threats to your list."
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31/01/2006 @ 14:09 GMT
Linkorama : RSS Advisory Board - I joined, and hope this body can be more than a collection of face men
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31/01/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Reboot? - Why Reboot?: WhyReboot is a small (60KB) Windows application that displays a list of pending file operations that will occur after rebooting your computer. This is useful in determining why an installer has notified you that a reboot is needed.
kayodeok : Why Reboot? Why does that software installation want you to restart your computer? - WhyReboot is a small (60KB) Windows application that displays a list of pending file operations that will occur after rebooting your computer. This is useful in determining why an installer has notified you that a reboot is needed
Rod Begbie : Why Reboot? - Small Windows app that tells you what an installer is planning on doing after the seemingly-compulsory reboot. [via] #
joshua : why reboot? - shows you a list of pending post reboot file changes
Nelson Minar : Why Reboot? - Windows software to display a list of what actions are pending a reboot
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31/01/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Home Page Goals - ...home pages are anxiety-inducing for companies. The home page is your first impression. And like the old saying goes, you only get one chance. So home pages themselves have a unique set of design goals.
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31/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail - Three columns. Many articles have been written about the grail, and several good templates exist. However, all the existing solutions involve sacrifices: proper source order, full-width footers, and lean markup are often compromised in the pursuit of this
Philippe Janvier : In Search of the Holy Grail - "...deploy the Holy Grail layout without compromising your code or your flexibility." [via] #
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31/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Fantastic MetaFilter post summarizing the Space Shuttle's history #
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31/01/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : Dr Dave - Blog Archive WP-keitai-mail Plugin v. 1.0 - "This script might as well have been called wp-cellphone-mail, I just liked the sound of 'keitai'."
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31/01/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : James 'Pug' Jones' Random Bits Of Code - "WordPress Sprint PCS Vision Camera Phone support for wp-mail.php "
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31/01/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : MidpSSH | SSH and Telnet client for Mobile devices (MIDP/J2ME) - Holy crap! "MidpSSH is an SSH and Telnet client for MIDP 1.0 / 2.0 (J2ME) devices such as Java(tm)-capable cellphones and other mobile devices."
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31/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : The 30 Most Spoken Languages in the World #
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31/01/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
jimray : Letter From the Editors: Politics Makes Strange Blogfellows - Wonkette redesigns with a couple of dorky looking, but funny, dudes at the helm. Wonkette has pretty well sucked the past year, I hope it gets better now that Ana Marie has found her muse in the world of dead tree publishing.
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31/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
jimray : Seattlest: Eyman Files Initiative, Washington Yawns - Heh. I almost love the Seattlest as much as I hate that pompous frat boy Tim "Go to a fucking red state where you belong" Eyman
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31/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
ricmac : Software Notebook: Noted computer scientist leads Microsoft's new Net unit
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31/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Interview with the world's laziest man - Interview with the world's laziest man: "I absolutely refuse to work--have not, will not work. It's a waste of time. It's a waste of life. It's just a waste on every level, and it's the wrong way to be successful."
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31/01/2006 @ 04:12 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : programming like a mathematician: closures
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31/01/2006 @ 04:11 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : handwritten real-world cryptogram from Saugus murder suicide
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31/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : MSN Falls Farther Behind - MSN Falls Farther Behind: "it is becoming clearer that, far from being a credible Google challenger, MSN isn't even in the same league." Shocker!
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31/01/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Have you noticed.... - Have you noticed....: I have noticed many of those things...
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31/01/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How To Sync Yahoo PIM, iCal & Address Book? - How To Sync Yahoo PIM, iCal & Address Book?: my phone can't do any of this fancy stuff
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31/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
WillPate : Don't You Know That You're Toxic? - "Everyone who participated, from healthy-living folks on Salt Spring Island, B.C. to First Nations people in Northern Quebec had pollutants such as PCBs and fire-retardants in their bloodstreams."
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31/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : MIDP for OS X - "This package is a Darwin/OSX port of the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) Reference Implementation v1.0.3."
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31/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : Do-It-Yourself MIDP on Mac OS X - "Mac OS X ships with a wide assortment of free developer tools, but these don't include everything you need for J2ME development. "
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31/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : AOL Is Selling Access To Your Inbox - AOL Is Selling Access To Your Inbox: "AOL announced that they are "phasing out" their enhanced whitelist program and forcing commercial mailers to use Goodmail if they want their mail to get through to inboxes."
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31/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Blogs vs the NYT in Google - sounds like Winer has almost won his bet
kayodeok : Blogs versus the NY Times in Google (kottke.org) - So how did the NY Times fare against blogs? Not very well. For eight top news stories of 2005, blogs were listed in Google search results before the Times six times, the Times only twice. The in-spirit winner was traditional media by a 6-2 score over citi
jimray : Blogs versus the NY Times in Google (kottke.org) - I really hate linking to Kottke.This is a stupid bet and doesn't really prove much of anything beyond the fact that bloggers like to talk. More interesting would be when bloggers scoop or, heaven forfend, actually report on a story instead of just linkin
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31/01/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
jimray : Rupert Murdoch's MySpace - "There are many important benefits to fascism." Rad.
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31/01/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
jimray : omar kilani - projects - php-js - Javascript engine embedded in PHP - I'm not exactly sure how this is useful, but so be it.
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31/01/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : iTheater RC1 is out - Time for some tyre-kicking
jimray : iTheater - I dunno, this seems sorta redundant. It's pretty and all but seems unnecessary - and why build your own Widgets platform instead of just use Dashboard?
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31/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Yahoo! RSS Feeds - That's a big list of RSS feeds.
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31/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Stumbling Tourist Smashes Rare China Vases - Stumbling Tourist Smashes Rare China Vases: "A visitor to a British museum tripped on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and fell into a display of centuries-old Chinese vases, shattering them into "very small pieces," officials said Mo
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31/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
kayodeok : What Makes It Great? (First Draft) - Getting every aspect of the design perfect, making a usable product, making the right tradeoffs between price and functionality, between flexibility and ease of use, between weight and battery life, etc., etc., etc., is all really important, but the most
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31/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : 12-yr-old drummer rocks the house - Holy... Holy... Well, I can honestly say I was nowhere near as good as this kid as a 12-year-old drummer.
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31/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : exploring enron - Visualizing the Enron emails
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31/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
gleuschk : Envelopments - as seen in Martha Stewart Weddings
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