9/02/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
kellan : Geography and transparency in online communities - Topix finds that exposing a user's rough geography raises the quality of discourse on a global discussion board. Seems like a nice balance of privacy and transparency. #
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9/02/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
kellan : Topix: The Architecture and Ambition of Craigslist - "Craig's lead-into-gold trick is that he gets his posters to accurately classify their spam." #
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9/02/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : Threadless T-Shirts - Squirrels Are Nature's Ninjas, by Tom Brazelton - ""
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9/02/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
merlinmann : bounce e-mail - a Whatis.com definition - see also: bounce, bounce mail - I wish I could "bounce with extreme prejudice." As in "Yes, I got the thing you subscribed me to, and no, I'll never see another email from this domain."
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9/02/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
jimray : Properly Chilled - Downtempo Music & Culture
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9/02/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
jimray : alspix stuff - Matchbox Pinhole - My patience for film is all but exhausted, but this looks cool
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9/02/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
deusx : Way of The Rodent - "Only those who truly understand the nature of a power stance deserve to wear this garment. "
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9/02/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Ouch for Amazon and A9: Udi Manber heads to Google - Ouch for Amazon and A9: Udi Manber heads to Google.
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9/02/2006 @ 21:12 GMT
merlinmann : quicksilver:plug-ins:timer_action [docs] - I always forget Quicksilver has built-in timers. Surprisingly flexible, plus they can be used as triggers for a future QS action.
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9/02/2006 @ 21:12 GMT
Isofarro : Developing Ajax applications that preserve standard browser functionality - Uses fragment identifiers and window.location.hash to implement a simple state saver, thus making the browser back and forward buttons useful in an AJAX application. This approach is where I was leading up to with 'Fixing the back button that Ajax broke'.
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9/02/2006 @ 21:12 GMT
Isofarro : Joe Clark: ATAG assessment of WordPress - ATAG makes a lot more sense when someone is measuring a known application against it.
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9/02/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
Isofarro : OReilly: AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons - A History Storage object for JavaScript enabled applications.
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9/02/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
deusx : The Legend of Zelda: The Complete Animated Series (DVD) | Gamers With Jobs - "If you are not prepared to fill in the blanks, to overlook the flaws, and to refrain from violently rejecting some of the more unpleasant aspects of late-1980s pop culture, then the recent DVD release of the animated Legend of Zelda can only bring pain a
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9/02/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
deusx : Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/deus ex machina - "Any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently insoluble difficulty."
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9/02/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
deusx : 365 tomorrows - Burning Angels - "There was a guy at the bar who had purple leopard spots that cascaded down his back like rain. That's how I knew he wanted me."
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9/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : FoWA: Things We've Learned - Joshua Schachter. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns from the chaos that is the blogosphere. - "There's not 'quite' a Del.icio.us community, because Del.icio.us is a tool, and the communities are elsewhere."
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9/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : 18x18 pixel clones of classic arcade games - they're surprisingly playable
jimray : GameSetWatch - Classic games, really small
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9/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Brokeback Mountain mod for the Sims -
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9/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : gotomobile: The mobile designer - The mobile designer. Yet another excellent write-up from Kelly, covering screen attributes, hard/soft keys, text entry, and testing.
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9/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
kaninka.net : 20 Stories That Made a Difference - Fair.org
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9/02/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
cobra libre : punk community steps up to help singer jack control - there's a benefit show tonight at emo's, and you can send paypal donations to timmythetexasturd at gmail [via] #
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9/02/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Head Games: The Use of Mental Rehearsal to Improve Performance - "Mental rehearsal of performances is an excellent way to support skill development."
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9/02/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : The case of the plane and the conveyor belt - The case of the plane and the conveyor belt. Kottke muses an answer from Cecil Adams while readers give their own 2c. Apparently this physics question has been around for some time but it's the first I've heard of it.
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9/02/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : World's smallest pong game - World's smallest pong game. No really, it's actually playable.
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9/02/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Linkorama : Anarchy Software - Being called an Anarchist was the highlight of my presentation
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9/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Current style in web design - a good explanation of current trends in good web style [via]
Nelson Minar : Current web style - Great explication of good design trends (via Populicious)
plasticbag : Current state of the art in graphic design for the web... - Mm. Rounded corners. Gradient fills. Anti-aliased text. I'd put money on them all emerging from use of Macs, but that's just me...
Philippe Janvier : Current style in web design - Une bonne ressource web design. [via] #
Paul Hammond : Current style in web design - This is where I try to sum up the current state-of-the-art in graphic design for web pages
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9/02/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : It's Time To Say So Long - It's Time To Say So Long: Gary Price is joining Ask Jeeves
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9/02/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Linkorama : Boycott Egypt - Freedom For Egyptians reminded me why the cartoons looked so familiar to me: they were actually printed in the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr back in October 2005.
kayodeok : Looks like those cartoons were first printed in Egypt back in October 2005 - Freedom For Egyptians reminded me why the cartoons looked so familiar to me: they were actually printed in the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr back in October 2005. I repeat, October 2005, during Ramadan, for all the egyptian muslim population to see, and not
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9/02/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Linkorama : GMail turning into Web Office - Thus, you can use Gmail as a replacement for your Exchange / Outlook or Lotus Notes powered office email.
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9/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
gleuschk : I Do Foundation: Bringing Charitable Giving to Weddings - the thing Anil and Alaina used
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9/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : How do you find extra-solar planets? - How do you find extra-solar planets? "I think the techniques employed by planet-hunters are pretty cool so the following is a brief primer on how the techniques work and the pros and cons of each."
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9/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : Salon.com | The little man - "Most of us sense that when, decades from now, the story of this administration comes out, it will be one of ordinary incompetence, of rigid and incurious people overwhelmed by events in a world they don't dare look around and see."
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9/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : Pariah for Xbox - Pariah Xbox Game - Pariah Xbox Video Game - "The game simply can't make the act of firing a weapon interesting, and this plagues every mode in it." Wow, now that's a killer review.
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9/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : The Fishbowl: You Wouldn't Steal a Movie - "Yes, I would. I'd steal it in a second if the stolen version allowed me to fast-forward past the fucking adverts."
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9/02/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : Joshua Schachter, del.icio.us - Things to look out for when building a large application.
tehu : Joshua Schachter : how del.icio.us works - very interesting notes
jimray : Josh "del.icio.us" Schachter on how to build large web apps
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9/02/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : Ma.gnolia - I thought this was supposed to be an enhancement add-on service for del.icio.us. Instead it looks like a prettily-designed yet not obviously useful replacement.
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9/02/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
philgyford : Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square! - IS this new or have I just not seen it before? "Aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles." Lovely. Nice Google Earth integration too. (via Tim/twisty)
joshua : Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square! - pretty dense
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9/02/2006 @ 11:10 GMT
kayodeok : IEBlog : The Keyboard Lover’s Guide to IE7 - I want to take a minute to discuss a few useful shortcuts already available in IE6 that will help you get around the web, and then list some great new shortcuts we are providing in IE7
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9/02/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
kayodeok : Hungry? Want another bullshit sandwich? - Stop it. Bad design harms business, it does not help it. Websites like Boingboing, Google and eBay are successful in spite of their poorly designed sites, not because of them
jkottke : This article on how Google and eBay are poorly designed seems really wrongheaded to me - This article on how Google and eBay are poorly designed seems really wrongheaded to me, although it may just be that essays that use the word "suckass" and mistake style for design will fail to convince me of anything.
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9/02/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
kayodeok : GMail code hints at coming domain feature - Based on information found buried deep within the javascript source, we can start to see the bigger picture for GMail — what else could they possibly add to this mail client? Their next big move will likely be GMail for domains — a powerful
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9/02/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
kayodeok : The "Triple-X" hack - an exclusive CSS filter for IE7 - IE7 and Opera 9 support CSS3 substring-matching attribute selectors, but they don't support the negation pseudo-class. We can further distinguish Opera 9 from IE7 by the former's support for CSS3 media queries.
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9/02/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Dave Chappelle's Block Party - Michel Gondry directs the story of an epic party [via]
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9/02/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Writing cross-browser CSS - Almost without exception, web professionals new to CSS run into problems trying to get their CSS to work as expected in all browsers. It doesn’t have to be like that though
deusx : Writing cross-browser CSS | 456 Berea Street - "Almost without exception, web professionals new to CSS run into problems trying to get their CSS to work as expected in all browsers. It doesn't have to be like that though. "
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9/02/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : The Mohammed Dance - yes, it's exactly what you think it is
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9/02/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Reclusive Sly Stone surprises Grammys - sporting a huge mohawk, we wandered off after a couple minutes
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9/02/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
merlinmann : Podfader ~ Index - "Why did they stop? Will they return? And how can we help and inspire other podcasters to keep them rolling?"
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9/02/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : SlugTerm - A Terminal for my Slug - Adding a head to the headless. Kinda crazy.
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9/02/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Desktop 3.0: There Goes More Privacy - Google Desktop 3.0: There Goes More Privacy: "In order to share your indexed files between your computers, we first copy this content to Google Desktop servers located at Google."
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9/02/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Inside Google Desktop: Desktop Reloaded - Inside Google Desktop: Desktop Reloaded: Google Desktop 3 beta with APIs all over
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9/02/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
jimray : Opera Widgets Developers Documentation - Ok, so Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple and Opera all have different widget platforms? Great.
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9/02/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
Linkorama : an open letter to blizzard entertainment - It would be deeply regrettable if incidents such as this were ignored, when they might be used to explore how we can live together within the virtual worlds.
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9/02/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Forget Jobs, Let's Worship Woz
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9/02/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : why do we carry so much around
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9/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : I Do Foundation: Bringing Charitable Giving to Weddings - is this the same thing M found?
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9/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : Uniquity Invitation Templates DIY! - these are pretty nice
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9/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : Cosmo from InviteSite.com - all DIY and shit
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9/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : 7 Bridge Studio - links to several invitation shops
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9/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : Handmade and Custom Wedding Invitations - more links to various stationers
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9/02/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Truth and Beauty Bombs :: Garfield - Amazingly profound once you take Garfield out of the equation. Be sure to scroll down for a block of even better examples. [via Ferrett] [via]
Milo Vermeulen : improving Garfield comics by removing all the text of Garfield's speech
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9/02/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Alone together in World of Warcraft - the MMO players favor loose, indirect forms of social contact [via]
Nelson Minar : WoW: alone together - Preliminary social analysis of the MMOG
plasticbag : A fascinating article on the social aspects of WoW: Alone Together in 'World of Warcraft?' - My thoughts: it's difficult to co-ordinate playing with real-life friends when you also have to keep your levels roughly in sync. It seems a bit like WoW is a game suited to a period before MMORPG-playing becomes ubiquitous...
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9/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo considers offering incentives to get people to use its search engine - Yahoo considers offering incentives to get people to use its search engine: this will be interesting
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9/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Zillow, real estate valuation search - find out how much your boss's house is worth
Rod Begbie : Zillow.com - Your Edge in Real Estate - As prophesized in Freakonomics, an extremely usable web database of house market values. Realtors have just become 50% less necessary. Hooray. [via] #
gleuschk : Zillow.com - Your Edge in Real Estate - holy cow this is very cool
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9/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : The Cult of Mac Blog - "Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies. They were picking up the receiver and pressing a button at the bottom of the handset."
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9/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Forget Jobs, Let's Worship Woz - "this week I figured I'd balance things out by talking about someone I admire greatly: Steve Wozniak."
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9/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Multi-Touch Interaction Research - it's like the Nintendo DS as a PC
gleuschk : Multi-Touch Interaction Research - jesus standup christ in a birchbark canoe, this is the coolest damn thing I've seen in years. starts out awesome and goes on from there
Rod Begbie : Multi-Touch Interaction Research - The coolest demo so far at ETech. Whizzy touch-screen Minority Report style interactions. #
Milo Vermeulen : very pretty Multi-Touch Interaction Experiments demo reel
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9/02/2006 @ 02:32 GMT
joshua : unpaper 1.1 - post-processing scanned and photocopied book pages
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9/02/2006 @ 02:29 GMT
Linkorama : Alfresco raises $8M - Commercial Open Source Content Management funded by Mayfield and Accel
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9/02/2006 @ 02:27 GMT
Rod Begbie : VMWare Server - Fantastic news: VMWare are making their server product free(beer). I'm almost certainly going to use this for a dev server at work -- Backup the virtual machine image every night, and if hardware crashes, just startup your backed-up image on a new machin [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : VMware Server - VMware Server: it's free!
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9/02/2006 @ 02:27 GMT
cobra libre : catholic encyclopedia: françois rabelais - "As a whole, it [Gargantua and Pantagruel] exercises a baneful influence." #
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9/02/2006 @ 02:27 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Dell and Google in Bloatware Venture - Dell and Google in Bloatware Venture: "Everybody gets paid in this caper except for the person who pays for the computer. He or she has to either spend hours removing or pay some computer geek to remove all the stuff he or she doesn't want."
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9/02/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Linkorama : Is World of Warcraft the New Golf? - "Warcraft is like a really, really well-designed UI for real-time, ad-hoc group collaboration and management of tons of people. The tools are really interesting because they apply to stuff that we'll be using in the real world."
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9/02/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Linkorama : Rivers of Information and Social Media - blogs, RSS, and other Web 2.0 technology is changing the dominant metaphor we have for the ‘Net from “place†to “flow.â€
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9/02/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : Evangelical ‘call to action’ on warming - Shocker: James Dobson and Chuck Colson oppose this plan
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Jon Hicks : Flying car captured on Google Earth
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Andy Baio : Yahoo testing new homepage - funny that this first appears on Flickr
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