1/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
plasticbag : "The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud brick building in the world and is considered by many architects to be the greatest achievement of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style" - Absolutely extraordinary - I've been watching images of this programme on TV and it's quite extraordinary how it fits in with the environment around it, and how well suited to purpose it is. Craftsmanship and design together...
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1/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
plasticbag : Flickr has some beautiful Creative Commons Attribution-only pictures of Djenné's Great Mosque - I'm increasibly stunned by the breadth and beauty of some of the images that Flickr contains. Really almost whatever you can think about is represented in there. There are more of Djenné under less open licenses...
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1/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : NBC.com > The Office > The More You Know #
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1/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Rise of Legends demo - Highly anticipated game
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1/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : decaffeinated archives :: April Fools - All the pranks and the laughter and the fooling and the fake press releases bring a smile to my face every time
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1/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Flickr / Interesting - An April Fool's joke that's actually funny
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1/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : FlickCentral: What's with all the CATS?! [via] #
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1/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
gknauss : TeeVeePedia - TeeVeePedia. I administer the machine that TeeVee runs on, and my one job this year was to roll over to the April Fool's site at midnight. The rest of the staff wrote over 300 articles and my one job was to just throw a switch at a particular time. And
Rod Begbie : TeeVeePedia [via] #
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1/04/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Anil Dash: Your April Fool's Joke Sucks. - a list of things which do not actually constitue a valid April Fools' Day joke
znarf : Anil Dash: Your April Fool's Joke Sucks. [via] #
Rod Begbie : Anil Dash: Your April Fool's Joke Sucks. [via] #
Nelson Minar : April Fool's jokes suck - Anil breaks it down
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1/04/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Happy Birthday Apple - Here’s the cake!
Eric Meyer : Happy Birthday Apple - Nicely done. [via Jon] [via]
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1/04/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
deusx : The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever - Fosfor Gadgets - "Keyboards come in many shapes - from the simplest computer grey $9.99 standard 102-key keyboard to variants that seem to come straight out of a Star Trek episode."
plasticbag : The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever is a list of the top ten weirdest keyboards ever. Duh. - Some of these keyboards are totally fucking weird, already. And there are eleven really, because they include the ZX Spectrum.
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1/04/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
deusx : Sony's Universal Media Disc facing last rites - Yahoo! News - "Disappointing sales have slowed the flow of movies on the proprietary Universal Media Disc to a mere trickle."
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1/04/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Python idioms and efficiency suggestions
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1/04/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Right old ding dong - Bus driver sex scandal (via Daily Rotten)
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1/04/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Wookiepedia - Just like it sounds (via Digg)
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1/04/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Salvador Dali chocolate bar commercial
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1/04/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Linkorama : danah on O'Reilly Factor - hey, that's cool
Andy Baio : Video: O'Reilly Factor on Myspace - features the brilliant Danah Boyd; he's surprisingly reasonable [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : danah on O'Reilly Factor - danah on O'Reilly Factor: no joke!
Simon Willison : YouTube - danah on O'Reilly Factor - There's something you don't see every day.
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1/04/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
djacobs : Little Brother is Watching - little brother is watching is a weblog that challenges the Bush administration’s domestic wiretapping program. --dj [via]
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1/04/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
plasticbag : Tom Baker apparently singing various songs in a sort-of Wiliam Shatner stylee... - If you thought you coudln't bear to go to your grave without hearing Doctor Who 'singing' The Smiths' "How Soon is Now" then feel free to rest at last. Extraordinary.
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1/04/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
plasticbag : OK/Cancel comments on the new argument that ugly design is attractive to users - Reminds me of a talk at SXSW about how easy it is to poorly evaluate statistics. The best way to approach this would be to work out which proportion of ugly sites succeed compared to which proportion of beautiful ones, and in which territories.
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1/04/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
gknauss : AirTrax: Omni-Directional Technology - AirTrax produces material-handling equipment that can turn and travel in any direction. It's the death of the three-point-turn. Be sure to watch the video. -- GK
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1/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Nintendo Sixty-FOUR! - everyone remembers their first console
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1/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : All Things Distributed: A Word on Scalability - All Things Distributed: A Word on Scalability: 'Often you hear in a discussion “but that doesn’t scale” as the magical word to end an argument.'
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1/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 50 Reasons Why People Aren't Using Your Website - 50 Reasons Why People Aren't Using Your Website: "Because they don't want to generate content, they want better life"
erikbenson : 50 Reasons Why People Aren't Using Your Website - Scott's smart. I wish I would've gotten a chance to talk to him more at SXSW... maybe next time!
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