7/02/2006 @ 22:11 GMT
merlinmann : Stewie: You know, that novel you've been writing? - Google Video - Ah, the writing life. One of my favorite Family Guy scenes ever. [via kfan]
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7/02/2006 @ 22:11 GMT
merlinmann : TidBITS: Path Finder 4 Still Shows the Way - "At every step, in every detail, Path Finder's interface and behavior simply do the Right Thing." [via Brent/Ranchero.com]
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7/02/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Feedster new paint smell, but missing second gear - Feedster new paint smell, but missing second gear: "Today, cousin Feedster showed up with a new paint job. Unfortunately the car seems to be missing the hubcaps, a bumper, a rearview mirror and an all important second gear."
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7/02/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
kellan : RasterWeb: MagpieRSS for ... JSP? - Anyone got a suggestion for Pete? #
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7/02/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: Halliburton to build "immigration detention centers" in US - "Call me paranoid, but seeing "Halliburton," "Homeland Security," and "detention centers" in the same article doesn't make me feel safe at all."
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7/02/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Podfading Takes Its Toll - Maybe it's better to expect podcasts to be less of a regular thing like radio, more like a series of limited runs.
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7/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
gleuschk : Graham Gladwell, Malcolm Gladwell's father, is a math professor (emeritus) at Waterloo - and named Graham!
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7/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : On Chinatowns - On Chinatowns. "Like many crowded Asian cities, Chinatown has mastered the art of the vertical, inspired by languages that can be written up and down, not just side to side."
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7/02/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
jimray : Apple intros 1 GB Nano, cheaper shuffles - $70 shuffles are going to sell like hot cakes
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7/02/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
jimray : Joyent: Weblog
Cameron Moll : Joyeur.com - Joyeur.com. Joyent's blog redesigned and realigned. Bryan Bell plays off of my earlier design and introduces a darker, richer theme. I presume the content will be less corporate this time around. (Nachos, anyone?)
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7/02/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
jimray : God bless Vanity Fair - Even if they did have to include Tom Ford
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7/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
deusx : RSS: Guidelines for reading lists - "A few ideas as they occur about the developing art of reading lists."
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7/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
deusx : OPod - "The OPML-Pod is an AJAX OPML and RSS viewer widget that you can embed in any web page you like."
Philippe Janvier : OPod - "The OPML-Pod is an AJAX OPML and RSS viewer widget that you can embed in any web page you like." [via] #
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7/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
deusx : Russell Beattie Notebook - No Comments Pushback - "Anyways, as I've repeated from the very beginning in response to all sorts of criticism over the years, I will publish this weblog how I want, about what I want and you read if you want. Thats it, very simple."
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7/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
deusx : Amy's OPML blog: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - "It's going to give people a bad impression of reading lists if they try the concept and end up feeling inundated."
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7/02/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : If you like to eat (and have a Ph.d), Google looks like a good place to work - If you like to eat (and have a Ph.d), Google looks like a good place to work. (via afb) [via]
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7/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : LEGO Technic Difference Engine - "I set out to build a working Difference Engine using LEGO parts which could compute 2nd or 3rd order polynomials to 3 or 4 digits."
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7/02/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: Legend of Zelda pixelblocks - "Nintendo has released a commemorative set of Legend of Zelda pixelblocks to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary."
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7/02/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
kellan : Chi-1 Orionis is 28.3 light years from Earth. - It was enveloped by your light cone 2 hours ago. #
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7/02/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
kellan : February: Groupware with Joyent, Microsoft, and Zimbra at SF Tech Sessions - Feb 23rd. I'll be there. #
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7/02/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Malcolm Gladwell on "power law problems" like homelessness, auto pollution, and bad cops - Malcolm Gladwell on "power law problems" like homelessness, auto pollution, and bad cops. These problems have solutions which focus on the small number of hard-core cases, like the 5% of Denver vehicles that account for 55% of the city's automobile pollut
gleuschk : Million-dollar Murray (Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker) - this should be required reading. How do you solve hard problems? First, you identify the problem.
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7/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : Achewood - February 7, 2006 - "I ain't need no Dell Inspiron to bust a man down on into his component pieces."
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7/02/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : Thoughtless for the Day: She Blinded Me with Acid - "This is why, if you think about it, celebrating Darwin Day is more than just a good idea: it's your patriotic duty."
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7/02/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Richard Rutter : Zoom layouts update - Joe Clark updates our understanding.
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7/02/2006 @ 12:10 GMT
Jason Shellen : Mavericks is on - Annual contest is on tommorrow #
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7/02/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Gmail Talk - "New Gmail chat features is the latest buzz. It's rolling out to all Gmail accounts within the next few weeks." [via] #
kayodeok : Gmail: It's good to chat - Gmail learned to Talk. Now Gmail accounts are automatically enabled with chat features. See when your friends are online and decide for yourself how you want to get in touch with them. Email and instant messaging don't have to be so different. And why sho
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7/02/2006 @ 11:12 GMT
Isofarro : BBC: BMW given Google 'death penalty' - 'BMW's German website, which is heavily reliant on javascript code unsearchable by Google, used text-heavy pages liberally sprinkled with key words to attract the attention of Google's indexing system.'
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7/02/2006 @ 11:10 GMT
Jon Hicks : Camino 1.0 to be released on Valentines Day - Awww!
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7/02/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
kayodeok : Speed-Reading Techniques - Books offer wonderful gold to the prospector. But the reader must sort through tons of ore to find and refine the gold. The speed reader changes mindsets: quits fooling around with the ore and searches for the gold. What is a book anyway? What are words?
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7/02/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : Digital Web Magazine - Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2) - This week we’ll wrap up with four more scenarios to avoid and how. If budgets or client relationships constrain you, these ideas might at least inspire you to nudge the client in the direction of user-centric development or provide ammunition in me
Isofarro : Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2) - CAPTCHA - 'sharing problems with the visitor'
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7/02/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : IE7 Printing: An Experience You Won’t Want To Miss - The key here is that all content on the screen is available to the user and that annoying extra white-space is avoided. No one likes to get extra pages with just one or two lines of content on an otherwise completely blank page of paper
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7/02/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : Let the Good Times Roll--by Guy Kawasaki: The Effective Emailer - As someone who gets dozens of emails every day and sends a handful of emails every day to get strangers to do things (“digital evangelismâ€), I offer these insights to help you become a more effective emailer
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7/02/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Using Rootkits to Defeat Digital Rights Management - It’s therefore ironic, though not surprising, that several CD burning and disc emulation utilities are also using rootkits, though the technology is being used in the opposite way: to prevent DRM software from enforcing copy restrictions
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7/02/2006 @ 09:10 GMT
Andy Baio : NYT announces Gmail Chat - web-based instant messaging with Gmail
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7/02/2006 @ 09:10 GMT
Andy Baio : The Art of De-Touch - Eyebeam's Processing utility lets you scrub through before and after retouches [via]
jkottke : De-Touch lets you step through how photos of models are retouched for publication - De-Touch lets you step through how photos of models are retouched for publication. Announcement here. Made with Processing, source code is available.
philgyford : The Art of DeTouch - Widget showing how advertising / publicity photos have been retouched. (via Kottke)
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7/02/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Ben Goodger on the history of Firefox - a must read; it also cites Greg Knauss' pan of Netscape's themes
kayodeok : Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development - A lot has been told about the development of the Firefox browser since Firefox 1.0. The reality is that the story is bigger than just Firefox 1.0. It goes back years, spans continents, and includes a cast of thousands. It's a fantastic story, with all of
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7/02/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Google Orwellian
kellan : Publishing 2.0: Google should stop picking on pour BMW - The points about Google's power at the center of the network are valid, but this idea that a major company like BMW should be allowed to break the rules is more alarming and insipid. (and speaks, I think to a deeper problem with the modern American psyche #
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7/02/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : O'Reilly's technology futures market
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7/02/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : PSP to get email and GPS
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7/02/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
jimray : Dirty dishes - If Dawn ever leaves me for a younger man, I'm getting these. Which probably either makes me some sort of neo-feminist or gay.
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7/02/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
jimray : Better keywords in iPhoto 6 - Finally!
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7/02/2006 @ 04:10 GMT
deusx : bnode - semantic weblog / JSONC, JSONI, JSONP: Creating tailored JSON from SPARQL query results - "My current sparqlet (SPARQL-driven portlet) implementations mostly use queries generated server-side, the results are returned as application-specific JavaScript."
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deusx : Incantis ECM Blog: LIFE CACHING - LIFE CONTENT MANAGEMENT - "The LIFE CACHING trend is approaching mainstream appeal: every day brings consumers even more powerful cameraphones, even bigger memory cards, and even more streamlined do-it-yourself or serviced story-telling tools."
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7/02/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
jimray : Camping, the Documentation - I love the idea of using Camping to "sketch" out Rails apps
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7/02/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
jimray : This is what happens when you fuck with swords - "We may need ... emergency surgery, in the studio"
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7/02/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
cobra libre : battle of hastings 2006: frequently asked questions - "Q: Can I be Viking? A: NO. Mid 11thc English, Norman, Breton, or French only. Berserkers are also NOT allowed." #
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7/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : Workbench: Using the Feed Validator on RSS - "Eric Lunt and I made an RSS Advisory Board proposal today to officially recommend and use the Feed Validator."
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7/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : The Straight Dope: In Nintendo's "Duck Hunt," how does the TV know when you've hit a duck? - "But really the TV is shooting the gun."
Matthew M. Boedicker : how Duckhunt works
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7/02/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
jimray : New budget plan squeezes education, Medicare - "Sharply decreases funding for supporting the arts, vocational education, parent resource centers and drug-free schools, and instead puts a heavy emphasis on keeping the country strong militarily. It maps out a way to make first-term tax cuts permanent at
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7/02/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
deusx : How to Quickly Get an iTunes Podcast URL - dekstop weblog - "iTunes already has OPML export."
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7/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : XULRunner 1.8.0.1 Release Notes - First stable developer release - create cross-platform apps with XUL. [via]
Isofarro : XULRunner 1.8.0.1 Release Notes - First stable developer preview release of XULRunner. It provides facilities for launching standalone XUL applications and embedding APIs which can be used to render web pages within native and Java applications.
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7/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What customer surveys measure - What customer surveys measure: "They measure how well you did compared to expectations. They measure how well people rank you in the survey."
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jimray : Radiohead: "Climbing Up the Walls (Fila Brazilia Remix)" - Fantastic
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7/02/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds? - Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?: "Consumers spend a collective $100 billion every year on bottled water in the belief--often mistaken, as it happens--that this is better for us than what flows from our taps, according to environmental think tank
Wayne Burkett : Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds? - Yahoo! News - I'm bookmarking this to comment that a large part of this article's premise seems retarded. I buy bottled water when I'm out of the house and tap water *isn't available*. It's not because I believe bottled water is more healthful. #
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7/02/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : A grid of logos of Web 2.0 companies (kottke.org) - These names sound like a bunch of companies that make children's toys
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7/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Five Simple Steps to Typesetting on the web: Dashes : Journal : Mark Boulton | Information design - The Hyphen, the En Dash and the Em Dash
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7/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : ongoing · WSbert - when you have startup company, you know you’re in trouble when Dilbert cartoons start showing up on cubicle walls
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7/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Validating feeds in functional tests · Fingertips - validate_feed @response.body
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7/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Linkorama : how to kill email - the kids don't care. and price discrimination is that.
Paul Hammond : apophenia: how to kill email - email is already dying amongst youth
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7/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : µTorrent creator on BitTorrent encryption - Bram doesn't like it, but clients are encrypting BitTorrent traffic to get around ISP bandwidth throttles
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7/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Disney retooling Pirates ride with movie tie-ins - gah, this sounds awful
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7/02/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Philippe Janvier : CoComment : semantically forked conversation ? - Quelques problèmes et interrogations liées au stockage de commentaires sur deux serveurs séparés. [via] #
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7/02/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Lessons from the Cluetrain: Imperatives for presenters - Lessons from the Cluetrain: Imperatives for presenters: some good advice for presenters here
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7/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : CoComment, blog comment tracking - leave a comment, hit a bookmarklet to track the conversation
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7/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : The NY Times profiles Malcolm Gladwell - The NY Times profiles Malcolm Gladwell.
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