24/02/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Unpacking the (drum) set - Unpacking the set. It's been 7 years since I sold the last set just before getting married. Hopefully it won't take another 7 to learn how to play again.
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deusx : Scripting News: 2/24/2006 - The elevator pitch for OPML blogging - "That's what we're doing, perfecting a tool for easier, quicker, blogging on a smaller scale."
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24/02/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : Live Thumbnails: Watch 'em Grow - "What if thumbnails could grow into full images seamlessly right on the same page?"
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24/02/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Linkorama : The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom - An open-source project tries to break Cisco's lock on the $4 billion corporate router business.
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24/02/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
Linkorama : Werblog: Games as the Real Social Software - But I'm also playing because I believe MMOGs will be one of the primary forms of social software for the next decade. Defined broadly, they may become the dominant form of social software. And you can't understand games without experiencing them first-han
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24/02/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
jimray : Google Dashboard Widgets - Blogger, Gmail and history search - I bet the history search requires you to use Safari as your default browser
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24/02/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
jimray : U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications - Fuckwits like this guy deserve nothing less than a bullet to the motherfucking brain
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24/02/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Yahoo exec: Labels should sell music without DRM | News.blog | CNET News.com - Yahoo exec plants idea in record labels' heads that DRM'd music is useless. Hope he can make it take root. The only people benefitting from DRM currently are Apple (getting iPod lock-in) and Microsoft (selling their technology to everyone else). Everyo [via] #
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24/02/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : RedHanded - Wonder of the When-Be-Splat - "I was refactoring a parser and it occured to me that I could just do a when *tokens.keys at one point. Ruby treats it just like a list of conditions."
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24/02/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : RasterWeb! - It's a... hard drive? - "the iPod works fine as an external hard drive. Back up some files today!"
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24/02/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : API - Lucene Web Service - Cool stuff (in a gloriously uncool way). A servlet to handle remote Lucene queries which is based on Atom-Pub, XOXO and OpenSearch. Hooray for well-defined standards which will speed up coding. [via] #
deusx : API - Lucene Web Service - Trac - "The core of Lucene Web Service API is primarily based on the Atom Publishing Protocol, with a few extensions."
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24/02/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : Welcome to HiddenPassageway.com - There is no fantasy. - Have you ever wanted a hidden room in your house?
plasticbag : HiddenPassageway.com will bring you the technology you need to fill your house with dumb secret passages - My parents house has this awesome little cellar under the stairs and I keep thinking I could replace the door with a bookcase and no one would think there was a room down there. Mmm. Secret things.
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24/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : EA Black's Secret Hidden Gun Code - Revealed! - "Someone decompiled their flash web site and found the url that their restricted access login points to! The unlock code: 5SQQ-STHA-ZFFV-7XEV"
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24/02/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Plainpicture pattern mixups - In addition to foliage, I'm certain my clients need Plainpicture pattern mixups right about now too.
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24/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
deusx : XYZ Computing - SNES- As Good As It’s Going to Get - "Though it has just 16-bit graphics and a CPU which can’t even power one of today's cell phones, this is arguably the best console gaming system of all time."
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24/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
deusx : Lucene Web Service API | 2006-02-24 | BitWorking - "The Lucene Web Service API is based on the Atom Publishing Protocol."
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24/02/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Legend of Zelda ad - embarassing 1987 rap
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24/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : MC Hammer - Holy crap - MC Hammer is blogging!
Jeremy Zawodny : MC Hammer Blog - MC Hammer Blog: MC Mammer has a blog? Who'd have thought...
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24/02/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Finance Launching? - Google Finance Launching?: but will it launch before or after Google Calendar?
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24/02/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Malcolm Gladwell's blog
WillPate : Malcolm Gladwell's Blog - Will be watching this with interest.
jkottke : Malcolm Gladwell has a blog - Malcolm Gladwell has a blog.
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24/02/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Volkswagen: Un-pimp Your Ride III
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24/02/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
deusx : Elephant Larry: Sketch Comedy - HADOKEN! - Spot-on funny Ken vs Ryu Street Fighter 2 sketch
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24/02/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
gleuschk : C.I.R.M - Access - how to get there. now if I can just remember that I knew this at one point...
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24/02/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Were you up on the High Line on Feb 20? Did you lose your digital camera? - Were you up on the High Line on Feb 20? Did you lose your digital camera? It's been found...claim it on Craigslist.
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24/02/2006 @ 16:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : AOL and Yahoo to charge for email? - AOL and Yahoo to charge for email? Both are planning to give preferential treatment to companies who pay anywhere from $0.0025 to $0.01 per email for "guaranteed delivery". I'm hard time seeing any positives to this approach. Via Mark Wyner. [via]
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24/02/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : VW: Un-pimp my ride - VW: Un-pimp my ride. (Thanks, db.)
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24/02/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Hi-res foliage brushes for Photoshop - Jason Gaylor: Gorgeous hi-res foliage brushes for Photoshop. (Fingers crossed) my clients suddenly need foliage imagery for their projects.
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24/02/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
deusx : So what happened to Movable Type? - "The whole thing is frictionless - and frictionless tools are what I want this year." Ben Hammersley sings the praises of iWeb
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24/02/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
deusx : Standards, APIs, and the eye of the reader - Ben Hammersley rails against "validation porn" - and then, as if to just tweak the web geek's nose... the whole text of the article is a solid image, inpenetrable to copy-and-paste quotation.
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24/02/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
gleuschk : gladwell.com - the bloggers' pet columnist now also a blogger
merlinmann : gladwell.com - So far no kitty photos, drunken confessions, or "johari windows." Might take him a while to get a handle on the medium. (Watch this space.)
jimray : Malcolm Gladwell has a blog
Linkorama : gladwell.com - malcom gladwell blogs
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24/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
gleuschk : The other kind of math rock. | Ask MetaFilter - songs about mathematics
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24/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
gleuschk : Why not Coed Curling | Ask MetaFilter - I've wondered this myself, and the answers are much more interesting than I expected
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24/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
gleuschk : Why are people so negative? | Ask MetaFilter - the first comment is classic, but many of the others are remarkably savvy
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24/02/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
philgyford : Soundstream - If I used a screensaver... Reacts to sounds it hears through your Mac's microphone. Only appeared on my PowerBook's screen, not the external monitor, but still nice.
deusx : Soundstream - "Soundstream is a Mac OS X screensaver that responds to sound input."
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24/02/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
philgyford : Peter Maurer - Witch - Application switcher for Mac that lets you switch between windows, not just applications. Very handy for those of us trying to avoid the mouse. Oodles of options.
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24/02/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : ~stevenf: iCal Tip: "Attach" a File - Hits head in a ‘didn’t know it could do that how simple yet usefull’ way.
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24/02/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Is this the full screen iPod? - Maybe the rectangles are a new abstract interface? Maybe it only plays progressive jazz?
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24/02/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
joshua : Upcoming.org: Token-based Authentication
deusx : Upcoming.org: Token-based Authentication - "The Upcoming.org REST API has a method by which third party applications can access actual user data by getting automatic authorization from the user to do so, without having to collect a username and password in plaintext"
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24/02/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Abdomen X-Rays of Weird Items - Abdomen X-Rays of Weird Items: I really want to know the story behind some of these
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24/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : dancing ascii girl - dancing ascii girl: heh
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24/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
gleuschk : TOAST & JAM DJS - overthrow the hegemony of the cheesy wedding dj
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24/02/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : letter writing without envelopes, cutting or glue
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24/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : RSS Eclipse Plugin: RSS View - RSS feedreader plugin for Eclipse. Piping FogBugz's RSS feeds into this will make it easy to keep track of my bugs in the IDE. [via] #
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24/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : MPAA targeting Usenet binaries services - looks like NZB indexes and forums instead of Usenet feeds
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24/02/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
kaninka.net : Levittown, Pa. | Building the Suburban Dream
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24/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding - An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding: In this paper, we'll present the various forms of authentication available to the Secure Shell user and contrast the security and usability tradeoffs of each. Then we'll add the extra functionality of
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24/02/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
merlinmann : The Tao of Mac - Google - Oh, man. If I weren't so kind and chipmunk-like with the sweetly idiotic email I get, I promise I could bury Rui's needle linking to this one. Nice.
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24/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
jimray : One of my favorite iTunes Smart Playlists - Songs that I like that I haven't heard in a while - nice
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24/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Andy Baio : I'm Your Biggest Fan - blogger flunks job interview because of daily fan letters to Star Jones [via]
plasticbag : I’m Your Biggest Fan, by Christopher Monks - "There are many reason to pepper a celebrity with fan mail: admiration, a sense of kinship, obsession, even boredom. Any are acceptable, all are believable, until you try to explain your motives to others." Unfortunately true.
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24/02/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
merlinmann : del.icio.us/tag/monotasking - Right on. Great term, great tag.
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24/02/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
merlinmann : tivo.com | TiVo Central Online - TiVo's weekly "ratings," based on "anonymous, aggregated data." [via MeFi]
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24/02/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Poke: game cheats - Generic memory modification engine
Matthew M. Boedicker : game cheating utility that looks for patterns in memory and lets you modify them
deusx : poke - CodeFromThe70s.org - "Poke is the ultimate gaming utility. It's a small program that allows you to cheat in every game out there - published or to be published in the future!"
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24/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jimray : Apple Keynote Bloopers - "It's pretty awesome when it works"
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24/02/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Linkorama : U.S. Grants Patent For AJAX - “It’s kind of unbelievable that [the patent] has such a wide ranging use because it covers so many technologies,†says Bola Rotibi, a senior analyst at Ovum, an IT advisory firm in London. If the patent is enforced broadly, she says, â
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24/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Page Creator - Are you kidding me? - Google Page Creator - Are you kidding me?: "You would think that on a day when you launch a new service that would be on the cover of everything that you would at least have the infrastructure in place to support it."
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24/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Kottke.org switches from micropatrons to skyscraper ads - the parallel universe Kottke
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24/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Google To Become Portal - silly 2002 April Fool's article predicts the future
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24/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : World of Warcraft teaches the wrong things - grinding and the time commitment is a big part of the reason why I can't get into current MMOs [via]
plasticbag : "World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things" argues that the game encourages people to believe that hard work trumps ability and that people are more productive when they work together... - I'm at a loss to see why this is wrong, to be honest. I agree with bits of the article - certainly 'being alone together' is a core part of the experience - but i can't help thinking that those of us who play mostly alone feel the costs are reasonable
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