16/02/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Linkorama : Wikipedia and open source - Lies, damn lies, and framing by blog
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16/02/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Jason Santa Maria | Under The Loupe #4: Keeping a Sketchbook - Sound advice on the lost art of keeping a sketchbook
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16/02/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
plasticbag : Valleywag Hotties semi-finals: Jeff Weiner vs. Ben Trott - The biggest debate coursing through Silicon Valley at the moment. Who would you rather nail? My boss' boss or that guy that did Typepad with Mena?
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16/02/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Blueprint flash game - Nice little puzzle (via Metafilter)
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16/02/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : More American shame - Salon gets the full set of Abu Ghraib data, presumably via a leak (via Metafilter)
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16/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
gleuschk : What Is the Value of Algebra? - clueless knuckleheadedness in the Washington Post. "I confess to be one of those people who hate math." Irresponsible moron.
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16/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Campfire Tennis - This morning's Photoshop Tennis / Dodgeball session at Coudal's Campfire.
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16/02/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jimray : The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Rails' Ridiculous Restrictions, a Rant - Some good points, DHH has his thoughts about midway down the comments section
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16/02/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Book covers inspired by Rene Magritte art - Book covers inspired by Rene Magritte art. (via do) [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Can NSA read email? - Yahoo declines to answer (via Zawodny)
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16/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Shut down Gitmo - UN asks US to close down torture prison
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16/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : OPML Editor support: - "The OPML Editor is an open source application, developed in C, released under the GPL."
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16/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Big Brain Thinking - Technology Review - "Stanford neuroscientist Bill Newsome wants to implant an electrode in his brain to better understand human consciousness."
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16/02/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : New London Architecture - "Prefabulous London shows that a modern approach to prefabricated construction is flourishing in the capital with a new generation of designers and manufacturers building on the pioneering work of organisations such as the Peabody Trust."
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16/02/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : How to choose steak at the supermarket - How to choose steak at the supermarket. "If the words 'chuck' or 'round' are in the name of the steak, it will need to be marinated and then slowly cooked in liquid to be tender."
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16/02/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : Earthquake prep - San Francisco city site for preparing for disasters
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16/02/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : Mind Hacks: Erasing the need for sleep - "Although perhaps we can be a bit suspicious of the claim that they have "few, if any, ill effects", as the history of new drugs shows that major effects are often not discovered until several years after the marketing claims them to be virtually side-eff
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16/02/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : Random Etc.: chatbots for to-do list management? - "I want to have a chat bot as a "to do" stack / list manager"
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16/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : A love letter to hamburgers - "If I were told that I had one last meal before I died and then I was given the choice between a super chic 15 course degustation meal cooked by Thomas Keller, Tetsuya Wakuda, Ferran Adria and Joel Robuchon and a perfect cheeseburger, the choice would be
joshua : Chubby Hubby: Cheeseburger cheeseburger cheeseburger - important burger discussions
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16/02/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
merlinmann : Groby Unplugged - Blog Archive - iCalFix 0.3 - Robert's new version of iCalFix adds features, fixes kGTD incompatibility. Huzzah.
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16/02/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Space-elevator tether climbs a mile high - "LiftPort Group, a private US company on a quest to build a space elevator by April 2018, stretched the strong carbon ribbon 1 mile (1.6 km) into the sky from the Arizona desert outside Phoenix in January tests, it announced on Monday. "
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16/02/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : The Remembering Site is a place to create and share personal histories - The Remembering Site is a place to create and share personal histories. The questions the site asks when recording your rememberances are quite extensive (here's a sample biography/history)...what a great way to record the details of your life for your fa
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16/02/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
gleuschk : PhilSci Archive - Subject: Mathematics - first, i didn't realize that philosophers used paper archves. second, there's some interesting stuff here
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16/02/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : A collection of "stupid nude calendars" - A collection of "stupid nude calendars". I confess that I found this while looking for photos from the racy curling calendar...but I came away empty-handed. (Only slightly NSFW.)
Nelson Minar : Stupid nude calendars - Girls of curling! (via Kottke)
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16/02/2006 @ 14:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : 100,000,000th photo on Flickr - The 100,000,000th photo on Flickr [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Will Apple Adopt Windows? - That John Dvorak doesn’t ‘arf talk a load of bollocks. I’ll leave the intelligent insight up to John Gruber…
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16/02/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : gethuman cheats - How to jump straight to a human operator at many companies. No infinite lives cheats though
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16/02/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Andy Baio : RIAA attacking AllofMP3.com - the Russian grey-market MP3 site is great, but not long for this world
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16/02/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Andy Baio : First Mac OS X trojan in the wild? - every Mac is a powerful Unix box, so it's inevitable that it gets targeted [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Little Food People - and a second set; anyone know the source of these photos? [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Podbop - podcasting MP3s from bands on tour using the Eventful API; very clever mashup [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Oprah grills Tom Cruise - great mashup of two famous Oprah moments
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16/02/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Linkorama : Jemplate - A Template Toolkit for Javascript
Paul Hammond : Ingy and the Blög: Jemplate - A Template Toolkit for Javascript - a complete port of Perl's ubiquitous Template Toolkit
deusx : Ingy and the Blög: Jemplate - A Template Toolkit for Javascript - "It is a complete port of Perl's ubiquitous Template Toolkit."
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16/02/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : [video] Can the NSA look at your e-mail? - [video] Can the NSA look at your e-mail?: Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., asked Yahoo spokesman and general counsel Michael Callahan whether the NSA has access to the e-mail of private American citizens.
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16/02/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jimray : Caring for Cast Iron - A well cared for piece of cast iron cookware will last a lifetime.
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16/02/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
deusx : SpaziOPML - Friday, August 12, 2005 - Pretty freakin' cool: "wanted some way to make presentations for my outlines" OPML + XSLT + S5 = Presentations straight from the OPML Editor
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16/02/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
deusx : Anne 2.0: I Want a Platform For Building a Community Meme Tracker - "However, were there a platform that gave me support for building a vertical meme tracker, that allowed me to import seed OPML files and define the HTML/CSS of my page then publish a display of hot topics as identified by rules I specify, that made it as
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16/02/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
jimray : Chuck Norris Facts T-shirts - I know about half a dozen people I want to order these for
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16/02/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
jimray : Subtraction: How to Get Ahead in Online News Design - Khoi Vinh is hiring
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16/02/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
jimray : All Things Considered is linkblogging on Ma.gnolia - Can't say that I blame 'em - it's much prettier than del.icio.us
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16/02/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
jimray : How to Season Cast Iron BBQ Grills and Burners - It's that time of year again!
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16/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Israely Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest - Yes! The whole "offensive cartoon" thing has turned into a gigantic international "Free Speech"-off, as everyone races to see who can out-satirize the ridiculous situation of bombing over (not-particularly-amusing) cartoons. [via] #
deusx : Israely Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest - "We'll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!"
Eric Meyer : Israely Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest - Iranian newspaper announces Holocaust catroon contest; Israeli cartoonist announces anti-Semitic cartoon contest-- by Jews, for Jews. Everybody kvell!
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16/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Fisheye - neat visualizations for CVS/SVN source code repositories [via]
Rod Begbie : Cenqua FishEye Source Perspective - To be investigated... Intriguing source-control browser (and searcher). I'll have to give this a go at work tomorrow. [via] #
joshua : Cenqua FishEye Source Perspective - visualise version control changes
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16/02/2006 @ 05:10 GMT
Rod Begbie : Simple group chat for business: Campfire - 37signals's new site -- an AJAXy chat tool. No installation necessary, more usable than IRC, and less susceptible to shonky firewalls than instant messaging, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with 37signals hosting transcripts of business conversations & #
plasticbag : 37 Signals release Campfire - providing 'simple group chat for business' - As with many of the more recent 37 Signals products, I'm a bit at a loss as to whether it's really worth the money that they charge for it. It seems nice enough for a chat app. Um.
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16/02/2006 @ 05:10 GMT
Rod Begbie : Overstock.com Actually Understocked, Manned by Soulless Robots - This is what happens when your webchat Bangalore-based customer "service" "agents" (who, let's face it, aren't of a sufficient quality to talk to humans on the phone) are given a set of pre-canned double-clickable responses -- Unhappy customers get an exp #
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16/02/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Using Anderson Powerpole Connectors - Using Anderson Powerpole Connectors: a good little howto from Fly RC Magazine
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16/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo on NSA surveillance: No comment | CNET News.com - Yahoo on NSA surveillance: No comment | CNET News.com: if he can't commment, who the hell can?!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Audio Cables and Connectors - Audio Cables and Connectors: a useful page that's well hidden on the RadioShack site
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16/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : 37signals launches Campfire - group chat for distributed teams and projects [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Flowcharts in art and comics - not mentioned is Jason Shiga's Meanwhile [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Chuck Norris Facts, Web 2.0 version - also: Chuck's selling his own shirts now [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Daily Candy may be sold for $100 million - not bad for a daily newsletter that found its niche
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16/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Amazon's most edited wikis - appropriately, A Million Little Pieces has nearly twice the edits of the next runner up [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
WillPate : The Art of Rainmaking - "You can blow all the smoke that you like about brand awareness, corporate image, and feedback from early adopters, but you either make it rain or you don't."
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16/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Spot the Google AdSene Video Ad - Spot the Google AdSene Video Ad: it's on this page
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16/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tactical is the new strategic - Tactical is the new strategic: my hed now hurts, thanks Chad
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16/02/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : My friends all drive Porsches - Uncanny-- it's like he can hear the soundtrack in my head.
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16/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
WillPate : The Art of Creating a Community - There is no magic community pixie dust, but here are some straightforward principles to follow if you want to create a community
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16/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
WillPate : HOWTO Listen to Women: The One Thing Every Mangeek Should Know - Note to self: have the discipline to apply this advice consistently.
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16/02/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
Isofarro : out-law: Target sued over web accessibility - The California Disabled Persons Act requires any 'public place' to be accessible – and the Act's list of relevant places ends with the words 'and other places to which the public are invited.' He argues that Target.com is such a place.
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16/02/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Google Jobs - Software Engineer - Boston - I knew Google had an ad sales office in Boston, but it looks like they're now hiring techies here too. Is a Beantown Googleplex on the cards? #
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16/02/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
deusx : An Arrogance of Power - "They have blown past the usual rules and restraints into territory where few presidents have ventured -- a region where the president conducts warrantless wiretaps against Americans in violation of a federal statute, where he authorizes harsh interrogati
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16/02/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Linux Command Directory: Index - From Linux in a Nutshell. #
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16/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : Weekly Grocery Lists for Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, Summer 1962 - The Brokeback Mountain humor industry is in full swing these days, but I thought this one was pretty funny: Weekly Grocery Lists for Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, Summer 1962. (via lia) [via]
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16/02/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
merlinmann : Comments on 11301 | MetaTalk - Per-user RSS feeds now available on MeFi. Totally sweet.
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16/02/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Apple shipping MacBook Pros with faster processors - More salt for my wound
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16/02/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
kayodeok : How babies do maths at 7 months - Babies have a rudimentary grasp of maths long before they can walk or talk, according to new research.
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16/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
kayodeok : Britain wants access to encrypted Vista hard drives - The issue is BitLocker Drive Encryption, slated for inclusion in Vista. The system can encrypt a user's entire hard drive, making it almost impossible to access data if the drive is removed from the computer or otherwise tampered with
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16/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
kayodeok : Google finally has an online application
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