9/03/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : PgFoundry: Query By Example - "Query by Example" dataminingy plugin for PostgreSQL. The ETech demo wasn't that compelling, but it looks like it could have potential for "agile" data-prodding. #
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9/03/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
philgyford : Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers - How to stop RSS feeds overwhelm you. Aside from switching off the computer and doing something else.
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9/03/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
philgyford : Nev n Dave » Top 10 tips for effective blog reading - part 1 - More tips for stopping RSS overwhelming you. Apart from unsubscribing from them all.
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9/03/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
philgyford : "No input file specified" | jenseng.com - How to generate 404s when using PHP as a CGI binary. Bodgy, but better than the default.
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9/03/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
kaninka.net : Kvennaskólinn á Blönduósi - - mjög svo brýnt
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9/03/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : The NYC Dept of Health is cracking down on the practice of sous vide (low temperature cooking of vacuum packed food for better tenderness and flavor) in the city's restaurants - The NYC Dept of Health is cracking down on the practice of sous vide (low temperature cooking of vacuum packed food for better tenderness and flavor) in the city's restaurants. Also this tidbit: Thomas Keller is doing a sous vide cookbook...is Rulhman inv
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9/03/2006 @ 19:13 GMT
Linkorama : People use software they like - I'm just happy to see simple and effective tools starting to spread like epidemics through the notoriously heavy-handed domain of centralized IT departments. It's about time our workplaces get infected with tools we actually want to use.
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9/03/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : Grand Text Auto - 3 in 7: New IF - "Leading IF author Emily Short has released two new games, and Graham Nelson, IF author and creator of the widely-used IF system Inform, has a new IF offering, too."
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9/03/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
deusx : Swamppundit - A Respectful Rant - "The New York Times declines to publish the Danish Mohammed Cartoons out of, it says, respect for Islam. This is, of course, a crock."
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9/03/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
Isofarro : out-law: How to commission an accessible website - 'Website commissioners saw [accessibility] as a technical issue for developers,' he said, 'but developers had an uninformed tick-box approach to the guidelines. So we established an accountability framework.'
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9/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
gleuschk : Seed: Microscopy and the Art of Sudoku - an alleged algorithm to solve sudoku
deusx : Seed: Microscopy and the Art of Sudoku - "When Cornell physicist Veit Elser attempted to demystify an esoteric imaging problem for biologists, he had no idea his solution would also help subway riders and break room loiterers around the world figure out those challenging, Sudoku puzzles."
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9/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Quake 3 running on 24 monitors at a resolution of 10240x3072 - Quake 3 running on 24 monitors at a resolution of 10240x3072.
deusx : plastk:net - Quake 3 - "It's amazing how much more fun games are when you can play them on really large, high-resolution screens."
Matthew M. Boedicker : Quake 3 at 10240x3072 - (via clickolinko) [via]
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9/03/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : lfs.nl present 600: blend - 600th(!) present at lfs.nl: blend [via]
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9/03/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Under Odysseus is a weblog written by Eurylochus, a Greek participating in the Trojan War - Under Odysseus is a weblog written by Eurylochus, a Greek participating in the Trojan War. "There was a lot of shit-talking. Hector kept shouting that Ajax wasn't much of a substitution for Achilles. Ajax would respond that Hector was just flattering hims
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9/03/2006 @ 12:19 GMT
Paul Hammond : ongoing · ETech 2006—Generalities - I wish we could keep the good bits, discard the rest, and make this conference a little more Un.
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9/03/2006 @ 12:19 GMT
Paul Hammond : 2d presentation (8 March 2006, Interconnected) - it seemed like a good idea last Thursday, when I thought of it
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9/03/2006 @ 12:18 GMT
Paul Hammond : Live Clipboard Technical Introduction - a DHTML control that provides copy/paste functionality for data associated with a web page using the Live Clipboard XML data format
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9/03/2006 @ 12:18 GMT
Paul Hammond : playsh (8 March 2006, Interconnected) - Because the view of objects is subjective, different players can play different games, while using the same underlying reality
joshua : playsh - matt webb's new object shell
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9/03/2006 @ 12:17 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ray Ozzie: Wiring the Web - So, where’s the clipboard of the web?
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9/03/2006 @ 12:16 GMT
Paul Hammond : eigenclass - rcov: code coverage for Ruby - will at least tell you when your tests need more work, and most importantly where
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9/03/2006 @ 12:15 GMT
Paul Hammond : Words » Blog Archive » ETech 06 - Attention - the real aphrodisiac - Ease of use has been the mantra of tech companies and columnists - this is good, but it’s not good enough anymore. The new mantra, differentiator, opportunity, should be “improves quality of lifeâ€.
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9/03/2006 @ 12:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : ETech is Emergent? [updated] :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net - Is Emerging Tech just rehashing the current and the past? Or can it move forward? I am not seeing much of that forward movement this year
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9/03/2006 @ 12:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Digital Web Magazine - Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development - Creating wireframes, PDDs, site maps, storyboards, process flows, and other tools for developing user interfaces is a lot like working in a vacuum
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9/03/2006 @ 12:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Micro Persuasion: The Center of Gravity is Shifting - the blogosphere is not where all the action is going to be in the months ahead
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9/03/2006 @ 12:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : peterme.com: Design Appropriateness - When is Ugly Okay? - I think Scoble makes a mistake, though, calling out that we're "sick of committee-driven marketing." I don't think we're sick of it; we just know when it's appropriate and when it's not.
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9/03/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Random Rails Hints - I wanted to share some random hints
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9/03/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
joshua : Moderation Strategies | Main / HomePage - Strategies of online moderation
kellan : Shirky: A Pattern Language for Moderation Strategies - I love pattern languages, and this is an excellent start. E.g. main problems with community can be addressed by MakeIdentityValuable #
plasticbag : Upsettingly - but perhaps unsurprisingly - Clay Shirky's moderation strategies wiki has been overrun by revolting porno spam - It's all spurts and holes and sluts now. Very upsetting, but probably predictable. The open wiki is pretty much a thing of the past now already.
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9/03/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
Linkorama : inattention - Following the path from intention to attention
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9/03/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
WillPate : Overtime and Startups - Because yes, there are big tradeoffs.
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9/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
deusx : del.icio.us/doc/feeds/js/styling - "Nearly every HTML element has a class for CSS styling."
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9/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
deusx : SpokePOV: LED Bike Wheel Images - "Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display!"
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9/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Sean Bonner finds censorware director's infantilism past - dating back to 1996, Usenet never forgets
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9/03/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : How Game Mechanics Can Make Your App More Fun - Some ETech links. This was my favourite talk yesterday (and one I stumbled into by accident when another room was full). Using the fun things we see in games to make your (social) software more engaging. #
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9/03/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : O'Reilly Radar > Entrepreneurial Proverbs - Marc Hedlund's "Proverbs" for engineers who want to be entrepeneurs. Great stuff. #
Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > Entrepreneurial Proverbs - These are basically little nuggets of wisdom for bite-sized nutrition
philgyford : O'Reilly Radar > Entrepreneurial Proverbs - I'm a sucker for lists of start-up rules like this that I'll probably never need. (via Boing Boing)
Matthew M. Boedicker : entrepeneurial proverbs - (via Boing Boing) [via]
Linkorama : Entrepreneurial Proverbs - good tips all
François Nonnenmacher : Entrepreneurial Proverbs
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9/03/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jimray : How to install Awstats on TextDrive
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9/03/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Andy Baio : iPodMAME, arcade games on the iPod - I'll bet Asteroids would play well with the wheel [via]
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9/03/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
deusx : Liberated Games - "Free, legal games for download."
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9/03/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Linkorama : Wiki Wednesday London - PwC helped host, lots of show and tell
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9/03/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : Good Morning Silicon Valley: Q: How do I reboot my Origami device? A: Turn it over and shake it. - "It's what we dreaded: a letdown."
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9/03/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Linkorama : Four Types of Application - Refreshing to see a taxonomy at much higher level abstraction than current noise around Web 2.0, SOA, SaaS ...
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9/03/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : automatically generate an rss feed for any url - (via Populicious. New popular sites (24h).) [via]
gleuschk : automatically generate an rss feed for any url - but you have to join, which is too bad
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9/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : things to put on a blog sidebar - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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9/03/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
joshua : Character Set List - Guide to a technical and psychological struggle
Milo Vermeulen : Unicode in Japan - Guide to a technical and psychological struggle [via]
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9/03/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
kellan : How I met Cal - Though there was a bit of talking about you know, computers, and stuff. In other news I think digital cameras have broken down SF's few remaining social norms #
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9/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : Ipodmame brings Pac-Man to the iPod - Engadget - "A subset of the iPodLinux project, iPodMame aims to bring the MAME game emulator to iPods, allowing owners to play classic games on their audio players."
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9/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : blyberg.net - 2006 Library Camp: A library 2.0 unconference - "Superpatron Ed Vielmetti has been quietly assembling a fantastic group of people to attend the first ever Library Campan "unconference" which follows open-space guidelines."
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9/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Universal Encoding Detector - Character encoding auto-detection in Python, ported from Mozilla.
kellan : Universal Encoding Detector: character encoding auto-detection in Python - Its been on my todo list to port the Mozilla chardet code to a Unix lib/binary, but now I've an excuse to get lazy. Yay Mark! #
Jeremy Zawodny : Universal Encoding Detector - Universal Encoding Detector: Character encoding auto-detection in Python. As smart as your browser. Open source.
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9/03/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
kellan : "hey conference organizers, wireless connectivity is part of your marketing budget." - truer words #
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9/03/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : ConsumerReports.org: hybrids vs. all gas - The best illustration so far of how little money (if any) you save by choosing a hybrid car. #
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9/03/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Linkorama : WoW Text - Welcome to World of Warcraft: The Text Adventure.
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9/03/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Isofarro : New standards for website access - 'Although not legally binding, the guidance could well be used in a court case in which someone is seeking to force an organisation to improve the accessibility of its website.'
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9/03/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jimray : Apple sells monthly pass for TV downloads - Get a month of Daily Shows for $10 - now all I need is Lost and The Office (in HD) and I can cancel cable!
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9/03/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
deusx : Caffeine Awareness - I think this site is my nemesis.
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9/03/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
deusx : Sandi, singer in the basement, plays the world - Sunday Times - Times Online - "MEET the singer who is in the middle of a "world tour" without leaving the confines of her suburban basement."
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