23/03/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : The MTA Song - Wikipedia - The kind of attention to trivia that Britannica can never hope to beat. A detailed analysis of whether 1980s transit policy in Boston would have allowed Charlie to deboard the train. #
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23/03/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Gordons united against the band "Kill Gordon" - Gordon is as Gordon does
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23/03/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
Rod Begbie : Schneier on Security: Airport Passenger Screening - Another good Bruce Schneier article. Worth it for the sentence "Although we should all be glad that Richard Reid wasn't the 'underwear bomber.'" #
Jeremy Zawodny : Airport Passenger Screening - Airport Passenger Screening: "It seems like every time someone tests airport security, airport security fails. In tests between November 2001 and February 2002, screeners missed 70 percent of knives, 30 percent of guns and 60 percent of (fake) bombs.
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23/03/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
jkottke : The Edge has a transcript and an mp3 recording of an event called The Selfish Gene: Thirty Years On - The Edge has a transcript and an mp3 recording of an event called The Selfish Gene: Thirty Years On. The speakers include Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins.
Wayne Burkett : The Selfish Gene: 30 Years On - To listen. #
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23/03/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
kellan : Robert Kingwill Elliott, 1927 - 2006 - Robert Kingwill Elliott, 78, died Tuesday 21 March, 2006, of complications from lung cancer, surrounded by his 6 children and his wife. #
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23/03/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : Hell Houses - "Scaring children into believing God. From Dawkins Doc. Root of all evil"
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23/03/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
merlinmann : Living large: 'Takahashi Method' uses king-sized text as a visual - "...the slide above says 'I don't have PowerPoint...'" [via: bblog]
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23/03/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
Linkorama : Mac Gmail Notifier - great when you set it as your default email program
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23/03/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Norfolk Island airport - Far flung piece of Australia
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23/03/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
jimray : Dick Cheney's Suite Demands - "All televisions tuned to FOX News" Wouldn't want dear leader to be without his Pravda
Nelson Minar : Cheney's hotel needs - Purported to be his advance staff's requirements document (via Metafilter)
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23/03/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
gleuschk : Sato-Tate Conjecture proved? - R. Taylor strikes again. What an interesting time for mathematics the last 15 years has been.
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23/03/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Criticker - Criticker: Rank at least 10 films to build personalized TCIs (Taste Compatibility Indexes) and find the people and critics whose tastes in cinema most closely match yours.
Rod Begbie : Criticker - Interesting take on collaborative filtering -- Finds you movie reviewers whose opinions match yours. Initial signs point to it being wicked fricking awesome. [via] #
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23/03/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
Linkorama : PayPal Mobile - Holy shit! That’s awesome! I was just expecting a personal payments service, that they’re enabling mobile purchases as well? Rock on. eBay could have just changed the world (again).
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23/03/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : NDS homebrew guide - How to run code - DSWiki
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23/03/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
deusx : OPML Editor support: - "suppose you have the OPML Editor (or compatible, someday there will probably be compatibles) installed on more than one machine. When you set up the second copy, you want to have all your public files installed there too."
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23/03/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
deusx : NitroTracker - A Fasttracker II style tracker for the Nintendo DS. - This makes me want a Nintendo DS even more now.
Nelson Minar : NitroTracker NDS - Homebrew music tracker for Nintendo GameBoy DS (via GameSetWatch)
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deusx : Human Beings: Built To Scan - "you might say that we are, in fact, designed to scan by millenia of avoiding being eaten by things with sharp teeth."
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23/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Early review of Pixar's Cars - Early review of Pixar's Cars. The author caught the first public showing of the film in Las Vegas.
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23/03/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Influential wine critic Robert Parker gave 90 to 91 points (out of 100) to a wine made by porn star Savanna Samson - Influential wine critic Robert Parker gave 90 to 91 points (out of 100) to a wine made by porn star Savanna Samson, denoting it as "an outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character". I'll leave you to make your own jokes about the wine's "great
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23/03/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
gleuschk : Tall, Dark, and Mysterious » Your stupid misconceptions addressed - ignorance fought with snark. satisfying, I'm sure, but more heat than light.
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23/03/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : magpiebrain - Is Amazon S3 the first Tier 0 Internet Service? - "If Flickr and it's ilk could be considered tier one applications, then surely Amazon S3 much be considered a tier zero service."
Andy Baio : Is Amazon S3 the first Tier 0 Internet Service? - along with EasyUtil and the Mechanical Turk, I sense an important emerging trend
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23/03/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Say what you will about how much he whines in the first two movies. When he walks into Jabba's palace, he's a badass. - I loved this riff on Luke Skywalker…
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23/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : RSS Feeds for FTP Servers - Ideas, ideas, ideas
deusx : XML.com: RSS Feeds for FTP Servers - "this article will show you how to write a PHP script that will monitor an FTP server for you, notifying you of the newest files added or changed."
Matthew M. Boedicker : rss feeds for ftp servers - (via del.icio.us/deusx) [via]
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23/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Scrambled Hacks - real-time video plunderphonics; don't miss the live performance
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23/03/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : NitroTracker, music sequencer for the Nintendo DS - make your own old-skool chiptunes with the touchscreen
deusx : GameSetWatch - NitroTracker - "based on FastTracker II and it shows. The familiar tracker layout gives the program a friendly face and a good feature set is already present in this first release."
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23/03/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
kayodeok : Why Google Finance Makes Me Sad (by Jeremy Zawodny) - It makes me sad because virtually all of the new/innovative/cool features in Google Finance are things we talked about YEARS ago. Many of them I'd lobbied for repeatedly. Some were even prototyped.
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23/03/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Prince - Prince: a server-side tool for rendering web pages as PDF
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23/03/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : All Things Web 2.0 - "THE LIST" - All Things Web 2.0 - "THE LIST": oh. my. god. I finally looked a THE LIST
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23/03/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon S3 Library for REST in Perl - Amazon S3 Library for REST in Perl: this opens up so many doors
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23/03/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
jkottke : There appears to be a bit of a problem with Yahoo's text ad program: you aren't allowed to show pages with Yahoo's ads on them to people outside of the US - There appears to be a bit of a problem with Yahoo's text ad program: you aren't allowed to show pages with Yahoo's ads on them to people outside of the US.
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23/03/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : The Neal Pollack Invasion - times like this, it's important to remember that (a) Neal Pollack is the greatest writer of his generation, and (b) he saw through James Frey before most of the rest of us
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23/03/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : Writing a Thesis in LaTeX - PATSWiki - thesis format for ntnu.no
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23/03/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : the South Dakota rez steps up - amazing.
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23/03/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Paypal goes mobile - back to their roots with X.com
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23/03/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
merlinmann : Inderjeet Singh's Blog: Using Airport Express as a range extender/repeater for Linksys Cable/DSL router WRT54G - Get your Airport Express(es) working seamlessly with a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. Works great.
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23/03/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : Rockbox - Open Source Jukebox Firmware - "Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players."
factoryjoe : Rockbox - Open Source Jukebox Firmware - Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: ipod, firmware, jukebox, open source, mp3, flac, vorbis
philgyford : Rockbox - Open Source Jukebox Firmware - I had no idea there was open source alternative software for MP3 players, including early iPods. (via Boing Boing)
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23/03/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Meet A Black Person - Meet A Black Person: Some parts of the world lack Indians. Others lack people from Pakistan. Aspen, CO happens to lack Black people. The person in this video capitalizes on this fact for an unforgettable short video.
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23/03/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
jimray : Paste Magazine :: Home - I keep forgetting to subscribe to this and unsubscribe from Spin
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23/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Crashed Linux on an Airbus A330 - Crashed Linux on an Airbus A330: as seen on Flickr
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23/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : S3 Rocks! - S3 Rocks!: another example of using Amazon's S3 as an on-line backup storage system
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23/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What's not wrong with eating organic - What's not wrong with eating organic: "When did eating become so complicated?"
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23/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : No tags, no ping server, no problem… - No tags, no ping server, no problem…: edgeio has Instant Add now: "Using Instant Add you can provide us with the URL of any RSS enabled website, well grab the most recent listings, and then you tell us if you want them published on edgeio.&quo
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23/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study - Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study: Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.&rdquo
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23/03/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Page Creator fills with crap - Google Page Creator fills with crap: who didn't see that coming, really?
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23/03/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Las Fallas - Crazy Spanish festival with lots of fire and art (via my nephew)
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23/03/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
cobra libre : mozilla firefox, homewrecker - bug 330884: "this privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years." #
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23/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : BitBucket - Experimenting with Amazon S3 Service in Python - Nice pythonic API. [via]
deusx : The Other 10 Percent » Blog Archive » BitBucket - Experimenting with Amazon S3 Service in Python - Mapping Amazon's S3 service to a Pythonic Dictionary interface
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23/03/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : favcol - Hammond-powered Flickr fun. [via]
Milo Vermeulen : favcol [via]
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23/03/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : PS3 games will be region-free - hopefully, the death knoll for a stupid idea
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