3/02/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Fashion week FAQ - It's fashion week in NYC next week and the last couple of years, Slate asked fashion expert Josh Patner to provide answers to some frequently asked questions about fashion shows (more here).
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3/02/2006 @ 22:11 GMT
Linkorama : Web 2.0 Innovation Map - Very cool, but has our old address
Jeremy Zawodny : Web 2.0 Innovation Map - Web 2.0 Innovation Map: The Web 2.0 Innovation Map grew out of an interest in how Web 2.0 development is distributed geographically.
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3/02/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : London Underground as a music map - surprisingly good and accurate, and available as a poster [via]
jkottke : Dorian Lynskey "[charted] the branches and connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map" - Dorian Lynskey "[charted] the branches and connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map", much like Simon Patterson's The Great Bear. (gs)
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3/02/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
jimray : Money-Saving Secrets : RealSimple.com
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3/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Legal firms cold-calling artists appearing on P2P networks - Jason Scott gets a call from a paralegal looking for witnesses in a new P2P lawsuit
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3/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Neat "center of gravity" calculator for Google Earth - Neat "center of gravity" calculator for Google Earth. Inspired by Cory's map of the center of gravity of Manhattan's Starbucks.
philgyford : Ogle Earth: Center of Gravity II - Finding the "centre of gravity" of a number of points in Google Earth. (via Kottke)
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3/02/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : How to fund a startup - Nice breakdown of the options
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3/02/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
jimray : Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund : - A privately funded hospital for veterans
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3/02/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
jimray : GMapsPHP - Google maps PHP library
Philippe Janvier : GMapsPHP - "Google Maps PHP Library". [via] #
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3/02/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
jimray : Windows Live Favorites - Microsoft does del.icio.us
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3/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
plasticbag : Alongside the Metacritic Critics lists, they've also compiled a full list of 2005 Film Awards & Nominations - Good to see Brokeback Mountain doing so well in that selection as well...
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3/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
plasticbag : Could Pledgebank help Wikipedia? - Thoughts: (1) Pledgebank is about increasing the perceived effect of ones actions by connecting it to a larger purpose (2) Wikipedia already seems to have that mechanism but (3) I like the idea of building social processes alongside wikipedia a lot...
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3/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
plasticbag : Omnidrive ploughs straight into one of my areas of fascination - how you could make all storage social - I don't know what I think about the implementation, and of course one major problem is that I can't easily test it.
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3/02/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
jimray : Children protest school candy sale - Children's Health - MSNBC.com - “If they tell us to don’t eat junk food and then after school we sell it, that disobeys what they said,†said 10-year-old Daphnie Auguste
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3/02/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : In an age of media fragmentation, here are ten cultural events that are still shared collective experiences among US citizens - In an age of media fragmentation, here are ten cultural events that are still shared collective experiences among US citizens, including the Super Bowl, Harry Potter, and The Da Vinci Code.
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3/02/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Super Mario sound effects - Super Mario sound effects. (via alice) [via]
deusx : smb_super_synth.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - It's a Super Mario Bros soundboard! With sprites from the game as sound buttons
Nelson Minar : Mario Bros sound - Awesome little soundboard for Super Mario Bros (via kottke)
Matthew M. Boedicker : Super Mario sound effects generator
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3/02/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : DETROIT BRINGS 'EM BACK: Like tourists in own town, suburbanites gape at view - "Many parents used the Motown Winter Blast as an opportunity to show their children the city for the first time." Now, let's see how long this lasts after the Super Bowl.
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3/02/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : The Wisdom of Parasites. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future - Attack of the Pod Roaches
jkottke : The world's coolest parasite; it makes zombie cockroaches! - The world's coolest parasite; it makes zombie cockroaches! When it wants to lay its eggs, the Ampulex compressa wasp stuns a cockroach, numbs its brain, steers it back to its nest, lays an egg inside it, and eventually a larvae forms, it lunches on the co
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3/02/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
plasticbag : Dan Futterman's page on IMDB - Dan Futterman was the cute American in Shooting Fish, the son in the Birdcage and object of a minor crush of mine. I'm stunned and impressed to see that he's also the Academy Award-nominated writer of Capote...
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3/02/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
plasticbag : Find the missing Keynote 2 animations in Keynote 3 - Apparently Keynote 3 removed several of the transitions that were in the earlier product, including "Burn" which was Simon's favourite. It turns out that they're all there in the new version, just turned off. Very weird / cool.
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3/02/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
plasticbag : There's a ... specialist ... painting representing scenes from Brokeback Mountain for sale on ebay at the moment... - It's actually not that bad. They were aiming for $50 to start off with, but now the price is up to $255. If we make it prominent enough, then I think one of their agents will buy if for their office.
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3/02/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
plasticbag : The Adventures of Dr. McNinja - He's an Irish Ninja whose parents are ashamed of him because he became a ninja instead of joining the Yakuza. What's not to like?!
deusx : The Adventures of Dr. McNinja - He's a doctor, he's a ninja, he's Irish. It's like The Tick meets pirate-vs-ninja. I wish it had an RSS feed.
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3/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
plasticbag : Pink's new video is a pretty entertaining tirade in favour of smart, ambitious women - It's really cool to see some positive reinforcement in the mass media for a version of womanhood that isn't about tight clothes, booty, bling and boobs.
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3/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
plasticbag : Mekwa & Beam Station Project - A pretty fascinating presentation expressing a different kind of personalised toy avatar widget that sits on phones and can travel around the world. I don't know if I've explaing it particularly well...
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3/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
plasticbag : Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches - Pretty fascinating, if creepy, story about how some species of wasp brainwash and then control roaches which they then steer back to their lairs, laying eggs in them while they're still alive...
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3/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Katamari Damacy lyrics translated - everybody clump together and spurt it all out [via]
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3/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Some people are so addicted to email, work, and their Crackberries that they're upgrading their bathrooms with features like TV mirrors and waterproof computers - Some people are so addicted to email, work, and their Crackberries that they're upgrading their bathrooms with features like TV mirrors and waterproof computers. Grab the folding chairs....it's intervention time!
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3/02/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Linkorama : SAP Gets On-Demand Religion - "This is not the end of software," says Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group. "It's just another way of deploying it."
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3/02/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : The business of selling iPod accessories is a $1 billion industry - The business of selling iPod accessories is a $1 billion industry. Jesus.
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3/02/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Linkorama : WikiHow:5000 Article Milestone - On February 2nd, 2006, Danielp7, a volunteer author, wrote the 5000th article on wikiHow. The article was How to Do a Frontside 360 on a Snowboard. In addition, 886,510 different people read wikiHow in January, making it one of the most widely read wikis
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3/02/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : CoverflowRemote - Control Coverflow with Salling Clicker! I’ve been wanting to do this for such a long time – thanks Mark Hunte!
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3/02/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Regarding my question about the first superhero, Peter Coogan sent word about his upcoming book, Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre - Regarding my question about the first superhero back in October, Peter Coogan sent word about his upcoming book, Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre. "An exhaustive and entertaining study of the superhero genre, this volume traces the roots of the sup
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3/02/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
Linkorama : Dabble Dabble - In less than six months, Hodder has put together a nice little service which will allow users to bookmark videos from different video services in one place. I would like to call them videomarks.
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3/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : Achewood - February 3, 2006 - "He was like the Thomas Edison of handing a dude his ass."
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3/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How I stalked my girlfriend - How I stalked my girlfriend: "Anybody could be watching you. It could be me."
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3/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : A young designer offers some advice on getting that first job right out of design school - A young designer offers some advice on getting that first job right out of design school.
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3/02/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: Big Brother Prison - This Dutch prison is the future of surveillance - Remember, new surveillance technologies are first used on populations with limited rights: inmates, children, the mentally ill, military personnel
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3/02/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
kayodeok : Portable Apps Suite - your computer, without the computer - Portable Apps Suite is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, web editor, office suite, word processor, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client and FTP client, all preconfigured to work portably and be easy to back up. J
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3/02/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
kayodeok : Exploring Internet Explorer: Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7 - Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7
Richard Rutter : CSS compatibility in IE7 - MSDN article detailing the changes from IE6.
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3/02/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
kayodeok : Exploring Internet Explorer - Here you will find answers to the riddles and mysteries of Internet Explorer from the various members of the Internet Explorer Development Team
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3/02/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : What’s New for CSS in Beta 2 Preview? - We had 3 objectives, in priority: Fix some really nasty bugs posted on sites like positioniseverything.net, Revise parts of our existing CSS implementation to be true to the spec, Add the most-requested new CSS functionality to IE
Richard Rutter : What’s New for CSS in IE7 b2? - IEBlog – the horse’s mouth.
Paul Hammond : IEBlog : What’s New for CSS in Beta 2 Preview? - we believe a move to a more standard compliant implementation benefits everyone in the long run
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3/02/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Part 1: Hello feeds - With the IE7 Beta 2 Preview, we added a convenient way interacting with the internet:
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3/02/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
kayodeok : The End of the Internet? (Warning: FUD!!!) - The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everythi
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3/02/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
kayodeok : Runing IE7 Beta 2 Preview next to IE6 (the right way) - You can also run IE7 in standalone mode which allows you to keep IE6 as your primary IE version but keep IE7 handy for testing, as long as you use the IE7 standalone launch script to remove two registry keys after IE7 is shut down
Paul Hammond : Runing IE7 Beta 2 Preview next to IE6 (the right way) - use the IE7 standalone launch script to remove two registry keys after IE7 is shut down
jimray : Runing IE7 Beta 2 Preview next to IE6 (the right way) - Doesn't make IE 7 any less eye-bleedingly ugly, sadly
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3/02/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
plasticbag : 2005 Venture Capital Web 2.0 investment statistics: US entrepreneurs raise ten times more than Europe - I don't know how much faith to put in these numbers, but the truthiness of them is beyond reproach, and that's got to count for something, right? European start-up and innovation seems generally pretty troubling to me right about now...
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3/02/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
philgyford : Map1.pdf - Map of the Barbican from Frank Harris estate agents attempting to show the raised walkways. Very misleading in a lot of places however.
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3/02/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
deusx : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Projects | httplib2.py - "A comprehensive HTTP client library, httplib2.py supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries." Huzzah - some great updates beyond httpcache.py, a module from which I've gotten much mileage.
Simon Willison : httplib2.py - Joe Gregorio's better HTTP library for Python.
Jeremy Zawodny : httplib2.py - httplib2.py: A comprehensive HTTP client library, httplib2.py supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries.
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3/02/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
deusx : Scott Sigler’s Podcast Novels - The Bloodcast » Infection, T-minus 5 weeks - Massively slick production values on this podcast trailer for Scott Sigler's next upcoming run...
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3/02/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
deusx : Fantasy and Science Fiction - Fiction - KEYBOARD PRACTICE, CONSISTING OF AN ARIA WITH DIVERSE VARIATIONS FOR THE HARPSICHORD WITH TWO MANUALS - "Got to force myself to sit down, sluice, educe the force that through these carpal tunnels drives the florid." Such an awesome story, reads like William Gibson mashed up with Douglas Hofstader.
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3/02/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Google, human rights - Text of a statement to the Human Rights Caucus. This is a lot of detailed disclosure!
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3/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
jimray : New Apple Patents tablet at hrmpf.com - My bet is that this comes to the iPod first - imagine a 16x9 screen the full length of a normal iPod (turned on its side) that has a touch sensitive screen to take the place of the scroll whell. That's when I'll upgrade from my 20GB 2nd generation.
factoryjoe : New Apple Patents tablet at hrmpf.com - "Gestures for touch sensitive input devices- looks very much like a GUI for a tablet with a touch sensitive screen. Clearly, there are lots of example of prior art but Apple has put a lot of thought into this and hopefully it is a glimps
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3/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Eric Meyer : Brokeback To The Future - The one variable they forgot was love. [via Todd] [via]
jimray : stereogum: Brokeback To The Future - Some day I'll get tired of these. That day has not yet come.
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3/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Tesla's 0 reference time generator
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3/02/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : video of the 4231 coke machine hack
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3/02/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Oblivion: Xbox360 / PC - Xbox version to be more capable than PC?!
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3/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Diablo III hiring? - "The team behind Diablo I and II is looking..." (via just about every game site)
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3/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Obsidian profile - Excellent game developer shop, weird article
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deusx : OPML Editor support: OPML Community Server Howto - "How to install your own server"
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3/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : YouTube presents "Brokeback to the future" - Okay now this is just genuinely awesome almost beyond the counting of the ways. Obviously it helps if you've seen Brokeback Mountain, were obsessed about the Back to the Future trilogy and had a bit of a crush on Michael J Fox...
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3/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : MSN UK in IE7 beta - Definitely needs some work.
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3/02/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
deusx : rentzsch.com: Stop Stop Stop Hurting the Internet - "My God, they’ve made metal look good." ...and with a bonus quote and link to my link to the IE7 demo.
Jon Hicks : My God, they’ve made metal look good. - ..and Fisher Price! Explorer 7 UI shocks.
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3/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : foe romeo: LIFT06: Stefana Broadbent, 'SMS is to tell you I miss you' - rapidly-jotted notes
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3/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : notes: Referer - Identifying a web programmer is easy!
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3/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Motown Building Razed for Super Bowl Parking - along with countless historical Motown documents
cobra libre : motown center in detroit razed for @!$#!! super bowl parking [via] #
deusx : Kempa.com: Destroying History - Motown Building Razed for Super Bowl Parking - "Before demolishing the building, the city couldn't be bothered to remove these artifacts. All sorts of historically important ephemera, knowingly demolished." As if I didn't have enough reasons to despise the Super Bowl and the Mayor
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3/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : SimpleTicket - open-source trouble ticket support software built in Rails [via]
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3/02/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : Florida Congressman wants 1st Ammendment to apply only to his wife - Says it would've been ok if Capitol police had just arrested Cindy Sheehan for her shirt but that they "acted precipitously" in arresting his wife. Only a true wingnut could make Cindy Sheehan look like the model of civic decorum.
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3/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
deusx : easing equations for dynamic tweening - ActionScript.org Forums - "Here are the quadratic easing equations." Math for making things slide.
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3/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Valleywag, Silicon Valley gossip blog - it's like The National Enquirer meets Fucked Company
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3/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : Why do hotels sometimes charge for internet access and sometimes don't? - Why do hotels sometimes charge for internet access and sometimes don't? My take is that most hotels figure that it's mostly business travelers that use the internet and therefore it's the guests' companies who are footing the bill and since it's a busines
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