28/02/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : How Microsoft would redesign the iPod package
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28/02/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
WillPate : Seeking New Horizons - Niall Kennedy is also using his blog to find a new job.
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28/02/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
deusx : Sjoerd Visscher's weblog - w3future.com - "Via LtU I read about a tail call optimization decorator. Of course I immediately wondered if it was possible in JavaScript, and it is" Holy crap that's cool, but it hurts my head.
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28/02/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : The story of downtown San Francisco's failed Metreon - The story of downtown San Francisco's failed Metreon. A mall by any other name is still a mall.
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28/02/2006 @ 22:11 GMT
Isofarro : Interview with Derek Featherstone - 'My biggest challenge is to help make Web 2.0 applications more accessible.'
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28/02/2006 @ 22:11 GMT
Isofarro : Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - 'From our correspondence with SOCITM it became clear very quickly that SOCITM don't know much about how SiteMorse tests either - as evidenced above there has been blind acceptance of the explanations given by the company and no independent expert view sou
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28/02/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
jimray : Washington Post adds del.icio.us tagging to articles - Seems to make more sense than technorati - fat chance we'll be using del.icio.us any time soon, given that they're owned by Yahoo
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28/02/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
WillPate : Raincity Studios Seeks Sales and Marketing Star
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28/02/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
WillPate : The Essence of the Customer Experience - Being Human - "In an era of fierce competition...the toughest business challenge isn't to keep expenses down. It's to keep loyalty high."
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28/02/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : iPod Hi-Fi - I just found my new stereo
Rod Begbie : Apple - iPod Hi-Fi - Obviously, I'm not a neutral observer, but my immediate reaction is that it had better sound good, cause it looks like crap. #
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28/02/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
WillPate : EricRice.com :: Sony distribution vs. iTunes distribution - Selling back catalogue albums w/ no promotion. With Sony: 1000 albums a month. With iTunes: 10,000 tracks, make 70 cents a track
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28/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
jimray : Working At WAL-MART - Blog chronicling the life of a wage slave - looks like his "Nickeled and Dimed" style experiment is just about up, but the archives are a good read.
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28/02/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Figure skater Johnny Weir loves to shop - Figure skater Johnny Weir loves to shop. (via lia) [via]
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28/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
kellan : What (will be) new in Rails 1.1 - Great overview. It's almost impossible to keep up with the new features. #
Paul Hammond : What (will be) new in Rails 1.1 - everything that's interesting to me
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28/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
jimray : Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - "An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign" Sadly, this was writting almost 25 years ago. Good to see some early work from Edward Jay Epstein, though.
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28/02/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Flickr: Early bird - Flickr: Early bird. Shots like this don't come from a can.
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28/02/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Wufoo - Maybe Wufoo can help me build a contact form once and for all.
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28/02/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Thong - Thong. "Thorry -- I type with a lithp thometimeth."
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28/02/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : The making of Ma.gnolia - Greg Storey: The making of Ma.gnolia (design process).
deusx : Airbag - Fl.ower. - "As some of you know I got the chance to work with the super joyful people of Happy Cog on their project for Ma.gnolia, that keen social bookmarking application that more and more people are using."
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28/02/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : The making of Mint - Shaun Inman: The making of Mint (workshop slides).
Rod Begbie : Ten reasons why you need to build an API - Very attractive presentation by Shaun Inman (author of Mint) on the benefits of building an API into your webapp. #
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28/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Andy unearths an old video game by Penn and Teller called Smoke and Mirrors - Andy unearths an old video game by Penn and Teller called Smoke and Mirrors, which famously features a game in which you drive a bus for 16 straight hours to score a single point. See also Takeshi no Chousenjou, a similarly challenging Japanese game.
Andy Baio : Penn Jillette responds to Smoke and Mirrors bootleg - he talked about the game in today's podcast, so I posted the edited MP3
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28/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : David argues for more variation and serendipity in video games - David argues for more variation and serendipity in video games. "...games overcompensate for their lack of variance in game play with over-the-top psychedelic graphics and sound effects. This is not a new problem of course with Pac-man and Super Mario Bro
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28/02/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : What if Microsoft redesigned the iPod packaging? - What if Microsoft redesigned the iPod packaging? Marvel at the branding / packaging / identity / whatever lessons this parody conveys. Absolutely brilliant.
Andy Baio : What if Microsoft designed the iPod? - created by Microsoft marketing for an internal meeting, as confirmed by Scoble
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28/02/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
deusx : Whatever: Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades e-Books: The (Semi) Official Announcement, Plus a Long Writing Screed - "No DRM, because DRM on e-books is a silly thing."
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28/02/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
plasticbag : ZoneTag Photos - from Yahoo Research Berkeley - Quite nice this and works with many Series 60 Nokia phones - making it much easier to tag photos from your phone, complete with geotagging...
Rod Begbie : ZoneTag Photos - It's stuff like this that made me want to purchase a Series 60 cellphone again. Two-click Flickr photo uploading, along with geo-tagging. [via] #
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28/02/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Flickr: The ABC (Always Be Capturing) Pool [via]
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28/02/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Selling AJAX by the pound - Yet Another Ridiculous Patent Example: the U.S. Government granted a patent on AJAX to an obscure web shop
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28/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : On Web Standards - "The mere act of validation doesn't suddenly make something accessible to all, so judging designers on validation doesn't say much either." [via] #
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28/02/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
jimray : LED Throwies with On/Off Tab - Sticky light-art project
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28/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
jimray : The Superbrowser - It's super, alright
Rod Begbie : The Superbrowser - What happens if you take the lightweight Firefox browser and load 100 extensions into it? (Short answer: You lose about a square foot of screen real-estate) [via] #
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28/02/2006 @ 05:14 GMT
Nelson Minar : How MREs work - Surprisingly interesting article
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28/02/2006 @ 05:11 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Funny moments on Google Desktop Search - This had me laughing out loud in the computer lab at school. #
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28/02/2006 @ 05:11 GMT
Wayne Burkett : IEs 4 Linux - Internet Explorers for Linux - Target audience: "WebDesigners that want to move to Linux but still need to test their sites on IE." #
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28/02/2006 @ 05:11 GMT
Wayne Burkett : gladwell.com: Gladwell v. Gopnik - Gladwell's comments on the debate I linked a couple days ago: "I've now changed my mind. I now agree with virtually everything Adam said and disagree with virtually everything I said. In fact, I shudder when I read what I said back then." #
jkottke : Gladwell's more recent thoughts on health care - I recently linked to a debate between Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell about health care that took place in 2000. Gladwell has recently updated his thinking on the issue here and here, saying that "I now agree with virtually everything Adam said and disag [via]
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28/02/2006 @ 05:11 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Bill Clementson's Blog: The Most Important Idea in Computer Science - Some great Alan Kay quotes, like: "Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it." #
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28/02/2006 @ 05:10 GMT
Wayne Burkett : [More from] Malcolm Gladwell on healthcare - Why are Gladwell's opinions on health care popping up everywhere lately? #
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28/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Standardista Table Sorting - "It’s unobtrusive. You add a reference to the Standardista Table Sorting JavaScript files in the head of your webpage, add a class of “sortable†to the tables in your page that should be sorted and you’re done." #
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28/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Simple blog in webpy - Been thinking about web frameworks a lot lately. #
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28/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Boing Boing: BoingBoing banned in UAE, Qatar, elsewhere. Our response to net-censors: Get bent! - "[W]hy should we let a company that helps corrupt dictatorships oppress their citizen dictate morality to us?" #
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28/02/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Boing Boing's Guide to Defeating Censorware - Obviously related to the previous link, but I want to have a direct bookmark to this. #
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28/02/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
kellan : Gap has complete it's rebranding - And contrary to Spike Jonze's ultimate wish fulfillment piece, the results are predictably predictable. J reviews, plus a note on how to freak out sales people. #
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28/02/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
jimray : HBO: The Sopranos: Behind the Scenes: Sopranos Maps - Google maps mashup that shows the places where "things" happened
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28/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
jimray : Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X - Very nice tutorial
François Nonnenmacher : Using RoR for web development on Mac OS X - A guide by Apple
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