22/03/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
plasticbag : After a thread on Holocaust Denial appeared on Barbelith, I went and read this fascinating page examining the claims of the revisionists on Wikipedia - It's really good stuff, thorough and interesting. It's not going to convince anyone determined to believe that there's a huge Jewish conspiracy at work, of course, but then they have other issues.
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22/03/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
plasticbag : A 2,500 year old sarcophagus has been found in Cyprus, covered with paintings representing scenes from Homer... - Sometimes it's easy to forget that the history you read about in books actually bloody happened to real people. Moreover, how awesome is it that over two millennia since the time of the Greeks we're still finding more stuff and gaining more insight?!
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22/03/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
plasticbag : Ben Edwards report on the ETech Warewolf gaming experience... - I think ETech's Warewolfing was some of the best I've ever played - even more enjoyable (if less well-played) than the stuff from FOOCamp last year. Brains! BRAINS!
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22/03/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
plasticbag : Wikipedia's article on Jam is simply fascinating. I particularly like the information on the EU jam directive (Council Directive 79/693/EEC, 24 July 1979) - "Fruit" is considered to include many things that are not ordinarily classified as fruits: "tomatoes, the edible parts of rhubarb stalks, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons and water-melons"...
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22/03/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Backing up Flickr photos with Amazon S3 - outsourcing storage with 25 lines of Python and $0.15 per GB/month [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3 - Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3: using 25 lines of code!
Simon Willison : Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3 - 25 lines of Python.
deusx : Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3 at Matt Croydon::Postneo 2.0 - "After uploading 160 or so photos to Amazon, I owe them about a penny."
bmilleare : Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3
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22/03/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Office spouses are colleagues who must spend most of their workday together so that they seem married - "Office spouses are colleagues who must spend most of their workday together so that they seem married. Their relationships are often filled with the same kind of electrical charge that marriages sometimes lose. They are intimate in an intellectual way an
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22/03/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
znarf : Netvibes to Announce Seed Financing Today #
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22/03/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
plasticbag : Roger Ebert publishes a letter from Kerry Bailey which pretty much summarises my opinions on the Crash Oscar victory - Kerry's a friend who lives in LA. I think both of us felt that Crash was the worst possible film to beat Brokeback Mountain at the Academy Awards. He's just expressed it better than I have...
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22/03/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
plasticbag : Apple have attacked the proposed French law to force interoperability - I don't know the specifics of the law, but personally I'm in favour of any move towards making it possible for people to buy from one place and play elsewhere. It may not be practical, but it should be a goal...
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22/03/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
plasticbag : The Cisco VPN Client has gone Universal Binary with 4.9.00.0050 - Ever since buying my Intel iMac a while back, I've been surprised by how many things need to be updated to work properly - and how quickly the binaries are appearing. It's quite exciting, actually.
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22/03/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
Linkorama : Towards a decentralised publishing model - great thinking out loud about how media could adapt with a central rights clearinghouse, but unfortunately trends towards drm
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22/03/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Apple employee gets fired for hilarious standup/poetry routine - Apple employee gets fired for hilarious standup/poetry routine: anyone else think the Apple VP should have been the one fired?
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22/03/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Westward Ho! - Westward Ho!: Three RV's Travel From Alabama to Arizona and Back
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22/03/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Linkorama : Community and Collaborative Development - QuantumArt -- content management
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22/03/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Linkorama : Social bookmarking for the enterprise - Cogenz aims to fill that need. It won’t be suitable for every single organisation, I’m sure, but our ambition is to do for enterprise bookmarking what Socialtext has done for enterprise wikis.
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22/03/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Web 2.0 Panel at MIX06 - Web 2.0 Panel at MIX06: wherein I read from the scared text of Yahoo on stage
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22/03/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Complete rundown of the Yahoo Publisher Network Terms & Conditions changes - Complete rundown of the Yahoo Publisher Network Terms & Conditions changes: Uhm, why did Jen have to do this? Can't Yahoo explain WHAT changed rather than simply saying "stuff changed, you figure it out..."
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22/03/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
merlinmann : Todoque - there is nothing to learn. - Elegant, practical shorthand for sharing bits of action and info within teams.
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22/03/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Linkorama : Tubes Music - I joined the advisory board of a promising music startup
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22/03/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
kellan : Good night, sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. - Bob Elliott, Shaman, Christian, Patriarch. born 1927.09.09, died 2006.03.21 #
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22/03/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
deusx : CSS event:Selectors - "event:Selectors allow you to apply an event such as mouseover, mouseout, click, et al using a CSS style syntax."
wearehugh : CSS event:Selectors
Paul Hammond : CSS event:Selectors - I liked what Behaviour did, but I wanted something that was integrated better with Prototype since I use Prototype on a daily basis
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22/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : [DIGITIZE.TEXTFILES.COM] - "Magazine Ad: Electronic Arts Adventure Construction Set Contest (1985)"
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22/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : BoxtheWeb - Looks like some PHP classes that strive to be a universal parser / translator between outlining formats.
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22/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : [DIGITIZE.TEXTFILES.COM] - "Magazine Ad: "Why Apple II is the World's Best Selling Personal Computer""
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22/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon - "The future of structured content in my opinion is content tunnelled inside human readable content. *Not* machine readable content that can be converted/published for human readability."
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22/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon - Semantic Steganography - "The future of semantic markup is the tunnelling of semantics, unseen, inside harmless looking, presentation-oriented XHTML."
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22/03/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Franz Ferdinand frontman shot by Gavrilo Princip bassist - Franz Ferdinand frontman shot by Gavrilo Princip bassist. Interpol and British Sea Power are on the case.
Rod Begbie : Franz Ferdinand Frontman Shot By Gavrilo Princip Bassist | The Onion - I know, I know, it's the most obvious joke possible given the band name. The execution (sic) still made me laugh. #
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22/03/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : In the last two years, 83% of the pieces about abortion on the NY Times op-ed page have been written by men - In the last two years, 83% of the pieces about abortion on the NY Times op-ed page have been written by men.
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22/03/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : - Winer on wikis: Just add OPML | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - "if for no other reason than just to overcome the non-standard wiki markup problem, OPML support could be a breakthrough."
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22/03/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Jason Shellen : Official Google Reader Blog: Reader learns to share - We added sharing to Reader! #
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22/03/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Other Music - Aziz Ansari and Andy Blitz comedy short on indie record store clerks [via]
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22/03/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Don't Fuck With Love - lovely music video by the Sad Little Stars
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22/03/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : What's Really Behind the Windows Vista Delay? - To say that Microsoft's bombshell decision to delay the launch of Windows Vista until 2007 was due to quality concerns is an oversimplification. Microsoft actually is pushing the Vista launch back to January 2007 to appease the marketing gurus as much as
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22/03/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : How-To: SSH tunnels for secure network access - Engadget - Secure, trusted networks aren't always available, so today we'll show you how to use SSH to keep those unencrypted POP3 or IMAP passwords and data safe
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22/03/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Tim Berners-Lee Quote'o'matic - Was it not Tim Berners-Lee who said “Put it above th fold, users don’t like to scroll”? :D
Eric Meyer : Tim Berners-Lee Quote'o'matic - It's SIR Timothy to you, sonny, not Timbo. [via Jon] [via]
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22/03/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : A Belated Word on The JavaScript Anthology - SitePoint’s latest title, The JavaScript Anthology, has been out for over two weeks, and I just realized we never mentioned it here on this blog
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22/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : How to bluff your way in DOM Scripting
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22/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Updates Windows Vista Road Map - Business availability for Windows Vista in November 2006, consumer availability in January 2007
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22/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Another day at Yahoo... - just like any other day; more surreal photos on Flickr
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22/03/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
cobra libre : "award winners don't push brooms" - "just go out and sweep, knucklehead" #
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22/03/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : nattystuffs's Etsy Shop - Zombie cat ReD - "My zombie cats are back! This is fiskurs, He was a good mouser until he died, now hes a good brainer."
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Jeremy Zawodny : How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters - How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters: a good presentation from Joshua Bloch at Google
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22/03/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Danah Boyd on Myspace vs. Friendster - is Myspace a fad? [via]
Linkorama : Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? - Moral crisis to come!
Rod Begbie : Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? - Another great danah boyd essay. "Hanging out on Friendster is like hanging out in a super clean police state where you can't chew gum let alone goof around and you're told exactly how to speak to others. Hanging out on MySpace is more like hanging out in [via] #
WillPate : Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? - Excellent essay on the differences between Friendster and MySpace and how they put MySpace in a better position to survive.
Simon Willison : Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? - Great essay from danah. MySpace finally makes a bit of sense to me.
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22/03/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
jkottke : Findings indicated that behavior in online worlds mirrors that of the real world - Findings indicate that behavior in online worlds mirrors that of the real world, namely than men stand further away from each other than women, men maintain less eye contact with each other than women, and the amount of eye contact decreases when people s
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22/03/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
jkottke : America's Stone Age Explorers, a summary of recent findings about who the first Americans were, where they came from, and when they arrived - Watched America's Stone Age Explorers on PBS this evening, a summary of recent findings about who the first Americans were, where they came from, and when they arrived. Recent genetic and archeological evidence suggests they arrived earlier than generally
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22/03/2006 @ 06:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : Games for your wife - Nice selection of ideas here
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Rod Begbie : Silver Needle in the Skype - Reverse-engineering the heavily obfuscated Skype binary and protocol. [via] #
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22/03/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
deusx : Logitech Products > Design Controllers & Software - It's like a Griffin PowerMate knob with more stuff
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22/03/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
jkottke : A list of the most-linked blogs in September 2000 - A list of the most-linked blogs from September 2000 (scroll for the notes at the end). Metalog and Metalog Ratings comprised the first weblog tracking/ranking system, predating most of the current crop by at least a year or two.
Andy Baio : Metalog's Most-Linked Blogs from September 2000 - that's basically my daily reading list from 2000 [via]
kellan : 50 Most-linked Blogs in September 2000 - Late 2000 is when I started reading blogs. Then I read 17 blogs from the list, currently I read 4. Of those gone defunct, I miss Tomalak the most. #
plasticbag : Beebo's Metalog posts his Technorati 100-like list of the most-linked to weblogs in September 2000 - I remember the Beebo lists incredibly well - back when the community probably no more than few thousand weblogs. I'd taken a hit by moving from barbelith to plasticbag.org and no one really cared about what we did. Happy days...
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22/03/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
jkottke : Here's a line of pre-pixelated clothes suitable for wearing on television shows where the producers don't want to worry about clearing the rights to clothing logos - Here's a line of pre-pixelated clothes suitable for wearing on television shows where the producers don't want to worry about clearing the rights to clothing logos. Fun idea.
jcgregorio : Ironic Sans: Idea: Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows
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22/03/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
jimray : Hacking the $11 disposable camera
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22/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Atom as a Case Study - Notes from one of my favourite talks at ETech.
Philippe Janvier : Atom as a Case Study - Why ? How ? And lessons about Atom by Tim Bray. [via] #
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22/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Form Hijack - Neat unobtrusive JavaScript trick - use document.onclick to catch events before page has loaded. [via]
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22/03/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Jason Shellen : Tom Cruise @ Yahoo! - All the best controversial Scientologists end up visiting Yahoo!, when will Google catch a break? #
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22/03/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
kellan : What version of Ruby is this guy using? - No regular expressions, no instance variables, no packages/namespacing, no public/private/protected!?!!? Clearly he got his hands on an unreleased alpha from 1987. But that doesn't explain his concern that Ruby will drive up your electrical bill. It's #
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22/03/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Longhorn delay - Yet another pushback on Vista
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