7/03/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
deusx : ALA | Next Generation Librarian at Wayne State University - "...working knowledge of blogs, wikis, online gaming environments, podcasting, RSS and other Web-related technologies..."
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7/03/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
deusx : Simon Willison: My ETech JavaScript tutorial - "I gave a three hour JavaScript tutorial at ETech this morning, aimed at people with previous programming experience who hadn't yet dived deep in to JavaScript as a programming language."
kayodeok : Simon Willison: A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript. - Simon Willison's Etech presentation
Paul Hammond : Simon Willison: My ETech Javascript tutorial - For the sake of completeness, I'm also releasing the notes I made in preparation for the talk
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7/03/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
deusx : ATPM 10.02 - ATPO: Outliner User Interfaces - "This month we look at different user interface strategies of outliners."
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7/03/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
deusx : A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript - slide 001 - An excellent survey of the language for people who haven't looked at JavaScript in awhile.
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7/03/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Modern Drunkard Magazine Online: Soused Africa - Modern Drunkard Magazine Online: Soused Africa: Throughout southern Africa, people are able to lead the kind of lives that we in the West can only imagine. They drink as much as they like, as often as they like, and no one—save for the odd azungu mi
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7/03/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Negativland interviews U2's The Edge in 1992 - great prank right after U2 sued them for copyright infringement
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7/03/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
kellan : Sat, March 4th: RobotCoop served 2.5 million Rails pages - And they've open sourced key pieces of their scalability architecture #
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7/03/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
kellan : On this day, March 7th, 2006 - I woke up to find an email from Marc Andreesen in my inbox. I'm enough of an old skool Netscape fanboi that I'm going to just sit here quietly a moment.
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7/03/2006 @ 20:12 GMT
Linkorama : Library Camp - a Library 2.0 Unconference, Ann Arbor, MI
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7/03/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
jimray : Chronicle didn't honor bet with DTH as they should've - Letters to the Editor - My baby bro (with some editing from me) sends in a letter to the DTH. They butchered the hell out of it, but he had a chance to set things straight on the website.
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7/03/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
jimray : Texas bankruptcy judge cites Billy Madison in footnote - "I award you no points and my God have mercy on your soul."
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7/03/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Critics pan some Academy Award-winning films - Critics pan some Academy Award-winning films. Said Slate's David Edelstein of Life is Beautiful: "Benigni's movie made me want to throw up."
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7/03/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
kellan : The universe is just one big quantum computer - ..and you're all script kiddies! #
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7/03/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : reAnimator: Regular Expression FSA Visualizer - Now that's what I call a useful tool. I'd love to see this done for full-on regular expressions.
joshua : reAnimator: Regular Expression FSA Visualizer
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7/03/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : reWork: a regular expression workbench - Never mind. THIS is what I call a useful tool.
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7/03/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
kellan : GeoNames.org: compilation of public domain gazateers, normalized on name, altitude and population - And then provided via REST or a download. 6 million entries including 2.2 million cities and villages #
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7/03/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
kellan : TechCrunch: ActiveSalesforce (as a Rails' ActiveFillintheBlank) - I've got my critiques of Salesforce, but I'm impressed by their ability to have people who get it, and then get out of their way. #
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7/03/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : "Sex might have evolved as a way to concentrate lots of harmful mutations into individual organisms so they could be easily weeded out by natural selection" - This is fascinating..."sex might have evolved as a way to concentrate lots of harmful mutations into individual organisms so they could be easily weeded out by natural selection".
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7/03/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Three years ago, Jonathan Rauch wrote an article for The Atlantic Monthly called Caring for Your Introvert - Three years ago, Jonathan Rauch wrote an article for The Atlantic Monthly called Caring for Your Introvert, one of my favorite pieces of magazine writing ever. He recently did an interview about the piece, which is the most popular article ever posted to
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7/03/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
deusx : LOST Magazine - Gray Area: Thinking With a Damaged Brain - "My entire brain, the organ by which my very consciousness is controlled, was reorganized one day ten years ago."
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7/03/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : DevilDucky - Used Car Catapult - "All you need is a tractor, a shotgun, a giant catapult and an old car. What do you do with the gas you save? Light it on fire and fling it into the air too, of course."
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7/03/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Modernist prefab houses are all the rage these days - Modernist prefab houses are all the rage these days. "Designed by architects, constructed in factories and trucked to their sites, these houses had the look the couple wanted, at a lower price." The Dwell House had a lot to do with current interest is mod
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7/03/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Eliot Shepard has some advice for those entering a photography competition - Eliot Shepard has some advice for those entering a photography competition...or really, on how you might go about taking a good photo.
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7/03/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Film critic Joe Morgenstern on how critics get a very different view of movies because they see them before the Hollywood hype machine gets rolling - Film critic Joe Morgenstern on how critics get a very different view of movies because they see them before the Hollywood hype machine gets rolling.
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7/03/2006 @ 10:15 GMT
kayodeok : A review of Gentoo Linux 2006.0 - The only major change to Gentoo in this release is the addition of a liveCD with a graphical installer. The liveCD boots to a plain GNOME environment with some basic desktop programs and a link to both the graphical and the ncurses-based installers. Both
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7/03/2006 @ 10:13 GMT
kayodeok : Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 1, Background and Preparation | 456 Berea Street - Many people, web developers as well as website owners, are new to website accessibility and find it difficult to evaluate. This three-part article series is intended to make it easier for non-experts to perform a basic accessibility check. I hope it will
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7/03/2006 @ 10:13 GMT
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Getting Started with Ajax - A List Apart is pleased to present the following excerpt from Chapter 27 of Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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7/03/2006 @ 10:10 GMT
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Flywheels, Kinetic Energy, and Friction - Put simply, when you write about the reasons why a reader should fill out that application for a grant, you are transferring kinetic energy. So long as what you offer is what they really want, you need to clearly and simply build up their enthusiasm and e
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7/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Flickr Leech: Best... Flickr... Toy... EVER! - Stewart Butterfield: "I loaded the FlickrCentral pool and firefox got up to using 240mb of ram before dying. So that's not a great user experience, but it's really terrible for Flickr. If it catches on and you don't limit it, we'll have to cut you off :\"
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7/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Ten of the Biggest Mistakes Developers Make With Databases - Database design can't be done in a vacuum, away from the business rules. It's critical that you get the input of the actual users of the data, and hammer on them to find out for sure how big each column needs to be, what rules apply to it, what types of d
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7/03/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It - Paul Krugman and Robin Wells in The New York Review of Books. #
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7/03/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Quantum Physics Double Slit Experiment - Google Video - Nicely done animated explanation. #
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7/03/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr Leech - Flickr Leech: impressively simple and useful at the same time
kayodeok : Flickr Leech - 500 Interestingness pictures on one page! I love it!! How long before the Flickr gods kill this one.
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7/03/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
plasticbag : April 11, 2002 - Matt Webb proposes that Google's implementation of a SOAP API represents the first step in a recombinant 'level 2' web... - Smug bastard. That's what I'm talking about on Wednesday at ETech. Grrrr. We'll all be using playsh in 2010...
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7/03/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
jkottke : Kirby Puckett dies at age 45 - Kirby Puckett dies at age 45. Aw, shoot. As a local, I cheered the Twins on to their two World Series victories...I can still hear Bob Casey's "KIR-beeeeeeeeee PUCK-it" echoing around the Metrodome.
Matthew M. Boedicker : RIP Kirby Puckett - (via Metafilter) [via]
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7/03/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
jimray : MiniMagick - Ruby wrapper for image magick with low memory overhead
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7/03/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
jimray : JSMIN, The JavaScript Minifier - Cull all the extraneous crap from your .js source files for deployment
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7/03/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
WillPate : Complexity Causes 50% of Product Returns - "Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can’t figure out how to operate the devices"
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7/03/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
WillPate : Toronto to Become Wireless Hotspot - "Toronto Hydro Corp. will announce Tuesday that it plans to turn Canada's largest city into one giant wireless hotspot"
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7/03/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Looking Busy - Looking Busy: "One guy wrote in to talk about how he and four of his buddies managed to take at least one day a week off each. They worked for a big company and it was easy to get lost."
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7/03/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
jkottke : Amanda Spielman created a brochure for Ephemeral City which she handed out on the F Train - Amanda Spielman created a brochure for Ephemeral City which she handed out on the F Train. "The brochure -- an aesthetic cross between McSweeney's and Edward Tufte -- evokes a fantasy culture where poetry and bicycle riding are exalted pastimes, and geogr
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7/03/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : Screenshot of Fold (http://www.fold.com) on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Or... I could just hit F12 and see my Dashboard.
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7/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : amazing performance of While My Guitar Gently Weeps on the ukelele - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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7/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the 9th circuit court of appeals says you can fly without id - does this mean you could use someone else's ticket? (via Boing Boing) [via]
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7/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : The Official Python Programming Language Website - Whoa! What happened to python.org? It's all slick now!
Matthew M. Boedicker : python.org redesign - about time (via del.icio.us/deusx) [via]
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7/03/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
Charles Miller : I watched Smalltalk die - "I watched Smalltalk die", says Steve Yegge in Bambi Meets Godzilla, a follow-up to A little anti-anti-hype, both good Javapythonrubyperlkerfuffle articles.
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7/03/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
kaninka.net : South Dakota outlaws abortion
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7/03/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
kaninka.net : Jon Stewart: Oscar host failure?
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7/03/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
kaninka.net : Northwest Progressive Institute: AP writer's criticism of Jon Stewart falls flat
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7/03/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
kaninka.net : The Oscar for best satirist goes to ...
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7/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Forget addEvent, use Yahoo!’s Event Utility - when I say forget addEvent, I mean any and every version of addEvent you can think of. This goes for Scott Andrew’s original addEvent function, every entry from the addEvent recoding contest, even Prototype’s Event observer and its many prop
deusx : Forget addEvent, use Yahoo!’s Event Utility - "After spending a few hours getting comfortable with Yahoo!’s new Event utility that was recently released along with many other sweet tools via YUIBlog, I became convinced that it is the dopest, sweetest, most tight, most sexiest event utility on
Simon Willison : Forget addEvent, use Yahoo!’s Event Utility - Great explanation of the cool stuff in YAHOO.util.Event.
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7/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » ETech Ajax Tutorial Slides - Here are the slides for today’s Ajax Tutorial at ETech
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7/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Cost of Bootstrapping Your App: The Figures Behind DropSend (part one) - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - how do you get started if you have no idea what it’s going to cost you?
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7/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : redirect or render - Here’s a snippet I keep re-using that you may find useful
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7/03/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Beale AFB - Beale AFB: Beale is home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, and is also considered by many to be one of the show places of the United States Air Force.
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7/03/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : Mac OS X Security Challenge - Debunking some ZDNet inanity
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7/03/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
deusx : Mind Hacks: Thinking with a damaged brain - "It's rare to find such a carefully considered and well-informed account of brain damage from someone who has suffered the consequences."
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7/03/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : TreasuryDirect - TreasuryDirect: buy your t-bills online
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7/03/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : The Aural Times, singing the news - sounds like a good job for failed American Idol candidates
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