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Are PR People "Challenged"?

12/03/2006 @ 21:10 GMT

Linkorama : Are PR People "Challenged"? - The PR pros in "A Mighty Wind" make us laugh because they are so "challenged" -- they are challenged professionally, ethically, and, most painful of all (the sharpest edge of the joke), intellectually. This problem -- the "dumb PR person" caricature -- ha

Tags : disruption management media pr

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Subversion Primer for Rails projects

12/03/2006 @ 21:10 GMT

tjogin : Subversion Primer for Rails projects

Tags : config howto rails svn

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Big on the Internet: SF writers who blog by Carol Pinchefsky - Intergalactic Medicine Show

12/03/2006 @ 21:09 GMT

deusx : Big on the Internet: SF writers who blog by Carol Pinchefsky - Intergalactic Medicine Show - "For the science fiction writer, the reasons to blog are perhaps a little more humble but no less important to those who do: it's a simple yet successful tool for writers to promote their work."

Tags : books metablogging scifi writing

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LiveJournal punches the monkey

12/03/2006 @ 21:09 GMT

Andy Baio : LiveJournal punches the monkey - adding a third member option with premium features, but free and ad-supported  [via]

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Early photo of Pyra Labs, circa 1999

12/03/2006 @ 21:08 GMT

jkottke : Early photo of Pyra Labs, circa 1999 - Early photo of Pyra Labs, circa 1999. Ev was on the startups panel this morning at SXSW, which was excellent.

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Alexaholic

12/03/2006 @ 20:15 GMT

Linkorama : Alexaholic - Get Your Alexa Traffic Graph Fix Here

Tags : ajax alexa metrics traffic

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CrazyEgg

12/03/2006 @ 20:13 GMT

Linkorama : CrazyEgg - Heat map usability tool for sites in beta

Rod Begbie : Crazy Egg – visualize your visitors - Track where users are clicking on your webpages so you can slap in advertising/tune your site's usability (delete as appropriate) [via#

Tags : crazyegg design usability stats web

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Report: Dolphins Have Evolved Opposable Thumbs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

12/03/2006 @ 20:11 GMT

deusx : Report: Dolphins Have Evolved Opposable Thumbs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - Looks like it's the end for us monkey-boys!

Tags : dolphins funny theonion

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Contentious - Using OPML for Thinking, Writing, Publishing

12/03/2006 @ 20:10 GMT

deusx : Contentious - Using OPML for Thinking, Writing, Publishing - "If you want to publish a complex, evolving, multi-leveled document online, OPML is a good way to go."

Tags : opml

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Simon Willison versus living shrimp in a restaurant

12/03/2006 @ 20:08 GMT

plasticbag : Simon Willison versus living shrimp in a restaurant - I'm not sure whether I like the idea of serving living food in restaurants, but I certainly like the idea of Simon freaking out and leaping across the room...

Jeremy Zawodny : Simon vs Shrimp - Simon vs Shrimp: Simon will never live this down!

Tags : entertaining food funny shock shrimp simonwillison video links

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The Earth Is Not Moving

12/03/2006 @ 20:08 GMT

Andy Baio : The Earth Is Not Moving - finally, someone who isn't afraid to speak the truth

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Digitize Textfiles, vintage computer ephemera

12/03/2006 @ 20:08 GMT

Andy Baio : Digitize Textfiles, vintage computer ephemera - also: see the flaming conversation that inspired the scanning project

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My zsh startup files for OS X

12/03/2006 @ 19:09 GMT

jimray : My zsh startup files for OS X

Tags : mac unix zsh

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NEWSARAMA.COM: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI's WORDS, WORDS, WORDS (One)

12/03/2006 @ 19:08 GMT

deusx : NEWSARAMA.COM: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI's WORDS, WORDS, WORDS (One) - "Your only real competition...is with yourself, with your fears, your insecurities, your determination to learn what needs to be learned; your willingness to apply ass to chair and fingers to keyboard and Get It Done instead of Talking About It."

Tags : comics writing

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Stamen design provided a backchannel visualisation for ETech

12/03/2006 @ 19:08 GMT

plasticbag : Stamen design provided a backchannel visualisation for ETech - Seeing it near the end of the week basically freaked me out, but now with a bit of perspective this is one classy little app!

Tags : classy cool etech irc stamen stamendesign visualisation

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Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/crapulous

12/03/2006 @ 18:08 GMT

jimray : Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/crapulous - "Crapulous old reprobate" - how awesome is it that this is the word of the day on my birthday? Well, it's kinda awesome.

Tags : funny language vanity

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Random observation on tagging

12/03/2006 @ 16:08 GMT

François Nonnenmacher : Random observation on tagging

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tunneling ssh over http

12/03/2006 @ 09:08 GMT

Matthew M. Boedicker : tunneling ssh over http - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]

Rod Begbie : DAG: Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S) - Neat hack for the upcoming (I'm sure) day when I'm behind a firewall that blocks port 22. [via#

Jeremy Zawodny : Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S) - Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S): Neat Trick!

Tags : apache encryption geekery hack security ssh tunnelling links

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find out what colors a url uses

12/03/2006 @ 09:08 GMT

Matthew M. Boedicker : find out what colors a url uses - (via Ma.gnolia: Hot Bookmarks) [via]

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The Five Buck Idea

12/03/2006 @ 07:08 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny : The Five Buck Idea - The Five Buck Idea: "That’s right. You, too, can have a startup. All you need is a five buck idea. And then all that glamour can be yours."

François Nonnenmacher : The Five Buck Idea

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Google Buys Writely

12/03/2006 @ 07:08 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny : Google Buys Writely - Google Buys Writely: "WHOOOOOPDEEEEE FUCKING DOOO!"

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Getting started with Quicksilver: understanding the basics - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

12/03/2006 @ 05:08 GMT

merlinmann : Getting started with Quicksilver: understanding the basics - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - "...I thought I would take a crack at posting some short tutorials on what Quicksilver actually does, and how to get started with it."

Tags : 43folders quicksilver

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buy unclaimed baggage

12/03/2006 @ 01:08 GMT

Matthew M. Boedicker : buy unclaimed baggage - (via ~qwertylinks) [via]

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Linus about GPLv3 - Forbes.com

12/03/2006 @ 00:08 GMT

tehu : Linus about GPLv3 - Forbes.com - From where I'm standing, [the GPLv3] says that you suddenly can't use the software in certain "evil ways" (where evil is defined by the FSF--it doesn't actually cover the James Bond kind of evil, but if you can see Richard Stallman as a less dashing James

Tags : gpl linux

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