11/03/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Andy Baio : The Torn-Up Credit Card Experiment - Chase issues a Mastercard to taped-up card applications for another address [via]
jimray : The Torn-Up Credit Card Application - "You should probably buy a shredder today."
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11/03/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Andy Baio : EvokeTV, sharing your TV habits with the world - why doesn't TiVo do this? [via]
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11/03/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : List of science books up for the 2006 Aventis Prize - List of science books up for the 2006 Aventis Prize. Need. More. Time. For. Reading.
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11/03/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
kaninka.net : HeimasÃða VG à ReykjavÃk
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11/03/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Agences et Standards Web - "...une série de questions posées à quatre professionnels ayant chacun son approche, son vécu et sa façon d'utiliser et de produire du code standard et accessible." [via] #
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11/03/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
merlinmann : NPR : Electronic Options Creating 'Feature Fatigue' - "An ever-increasing array of bells and whistles on cell phones, digital cameras and car dashboards are confounding many customers."
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11/03/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Phil Windley's Technometria | reBlog (ETech 2006) - "Michael Frumin and Michal Migurski, the development team behind reBlog are showing it off."
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11/03/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : OpenDoc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The basic idea of OpenDoc was to create small single-purpose reusable components responsible for a specific task, such as text editing, bitmap editing or browsing an FTP server."
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11/03/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : ways to convert DOS newlines into Unix newlines
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11/03/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Rider Waite tarot images
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deusx : Apple seeks controversial patents on use of RSS - The Social Software Weblog - "It looks like Apple has filed for patents on some uses of RSS."
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11/03/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Trixie Tracker launches - a long time coming for the insanely detailed baby log [via]
Rod Begbie : Trixie Tracker: Baby Tracking Software - Data-mining your baby for a happier life. I know some engineers that this will appeal to! [via] #
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11/03/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Andy Baio : NBC launches "web favorites" viral video - insulting the people who made them popular
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11/03/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Techcrunch reviews DabbleDB - replacing Microsoft Access with simple builder tools
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11/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
kaninka.net : Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - April 30
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11/03/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Lists of Bests - New out of the Robot Coop (sic). Fun way to check-off, compare or aspire to completing lists like Q Magazine's "Top 100 Albums of All Time" (I own 45%) or the BBC's "50 Things You Should Eat Before You Die" (76%) [via] #
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11/03/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
gleuschk : Professor Lets Her Fingers Do the Talking - New York Times - mathematical fibre arts --saw her and her husband demo in Atlanta
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11/03/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
WillPate : 111 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts on Selling - "This masterly list of not-always-obvious tips reminds us that every relationship is a sales relationship."
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11/03/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
WillPate : 5 Tips on "Listening to Customers" - "Products that solve a consumer problem or meet a consumer need are going to be successful, but the only way to make those products is to talk to consumers."
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11/03/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : National Weather Service Forecast Office Area Forecast Discussion for Monterey Bay - National Weather Service Forecast Office Area Forecast Discussion for Monterey Bay: this is the annotated version that I geek out on
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11/03/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter - Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter: useful for times that I'm lazy
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11/03/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
joshua : spacializer :: visual sound mixer | flash experiment
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11/03/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
deusx : Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder: The ironies of the cartoon jihad - "When Jews saw how Gentiles played hockey that is how Jews found out that instead of becoming a hockey player they would become dentists, and that way they decided to let other people play the game while they found a way to make a profit from it. "
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plasticbag : Matt Biddulph visualises the Personal Infocloud (from an idea by Dan Catt) - I think they're missing the point a little, but it's still enormously entertaining.
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11/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : rss-media : Message: Announcing RSS feeds on Google Video (alpha) - "Google is pleased to announce an alpha release of RSS feeds on Google Video."
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11/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : Prior art as a design method - "Whoever did it first probably had to iterate, to try one approach and fail, then try another, or see a different way later and re-do it. By respecting prior art you can save all that time. "
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11/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
philgyford : BBC News | Entertainment | Cult poet Ivor Cutler dies at 83 - I missed this earlier in the week. I'm glad we went to see him a couple of years back, although I feared I wouldn't see him again. Bye bye Ivor.
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11/03/2006 @ 01:11 GMT
Linkorama : Humans in the Loop - Maybe we should be including some of the early systems thinkers in that remembrance as well. A lot of their big dreams didn't work out, and a few ended tragically. But we now have something they never had: experimental social cybernetics, at the scale of
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11/03/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Linkorama : Software’s Glorious Revolution - The realization that we are in the midst of a profound revolution in the software industry and that we are witnessing the establishment of a New System of the Software World.
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11/03/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
gleuschk : The $39 Experiment: Asking Random Companies for Free Stuff - yay internet!
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11/03/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Linkorama : A word or two on love - Oh and by the way if the above is too new age and namby pamby for you I reckon social computing is capable of talking 25% out of the running costs of most businesses - so there!
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11/03/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Wall Street is wrong on Yahoo! - Wall Street is wrong on Yahoo!: "The Internet powerhouse may be growing slower than Google now, but it's well positioned for long-term success as a central site on the burgeoning Web."
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11/03/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : Why do boys like girls books like Little House on the Prairie? - Why do boys like girls books like Little House on the Prairie? When I was a kid, I read a lot of "girl" books (mostly my sister's), including all the Little House books, all the Anne of Green Gables books, a few Nancy Drews, some Judy Blumes, and, uh, eve
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