3/04/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Speech accent archive - Repository of audio samples of accents (via Mark)
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3/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
djacobs : Best of Skymall - Caterina's Products of the First World is a wonderful collection of the best of Skymall's products. I like Gaston the Gothic Climber. If Skymall had the CNN graphic artists illustrate their catalog, the world would be a better place. -dj
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3/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
djacobs : One of Spirit's Wheels is Broken Beyond Repair - One of Spirit's Wheels is Broken Beyond Repair, so NASA will have to guide the Rover away from terrain with loose soil. -dj
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3/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
djacobs : Google Updates their Map API - Google Updates their Map API. Leaner javascript downloads, no page view limits, and a 90 days heads-up on the presence of advertising on the map. -dj
deusx : Google Maps API Official Blog: Google Maps API Version 2 - "Version 2 cleans up much of the API and improves performance and stability in fundamental ways based on the feedback of many API sites."
jimray : Google Maps API Official Blog: Google Maps API Version 2
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3/04/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Present like Lessig - Reverse engineering Larry Lessig's amazing presentation style
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3/04/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Rod Begbie : ~stevenf: Treo 700w has Egregious DST Bug #
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3/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
deusx : Paj's Home: Cryptography: JavaScript MD5: sha1.js - "A JavaScript implementation of the Secure Hash Algorithm, SHA-1"
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3/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
deusx : PEAR :: Package :: Net_Growl - "Send notifications to Growl from PHP on MACOSX"
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3/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Wayne Burkett : I am a magic octopus (with sword) - Sorry for wasting your time :) #
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3/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
plasticbag : Birth rates in the European Union are falling fast as many people simply choose not to have children - This stuff is fascinating to me - I've already really wanted children, but simply can't conceive of a way in which I'd be able to do it (even excluding the gay thing). It's not a shock to me that other people of my generation feel similarly.
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3/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
plasticbag : Singing might have helped social cohesian in early humans and may even predate language - "Because music has grammar-like qualities such as recursion, it might have served an even greater function. With music in the brain, early humans had the neural foundation for ... symbolic thought and language."
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3/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
gknauss : Pictures I Like For A Variety Of Reasons - I like Pictures I Like For A Variety Of Reasons for a variety of reasons. -- GK
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3/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
djacobs : "The Art of Whistling" by DJ Papa - "The Art of Whistling" by DJ Papa. -dj
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3/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
djacobs : One Laptop Per Child project releases Software Developer Kit - One Laptop Per Child project releases Software Developer Kit. Includes a laptop simulator (since the hardware doesn't exist yet ), and a rich set of compatibility tools. -dj
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3/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
djacobs : V&A's collection search - The Victoria & Albert Museums's collection search is a fun way to waste an afternoon. Try searching for hinges, chairs or India. -dj
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3/04/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Little mech sculpture - Beautiful metalwork (via populicious)
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3/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
plasticbag : YouTube has a trailor for The Simpsons Movie - apparently coming out sometime in 2007 - Hm. As Homer says so eloquently in the trailer, "Uh oh, We'd better get started...."
Rod Begbie : YouTube - The Simpsons Movie Trailer [via] #
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3/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
gknauss : RICHH: RIP - RICHH is dead, killed himself in December 2001. A USENET legend, from the days before the Web, his writing is amazing: Funny, smart, sweet, rude, and of course infamously obcene (NSFW). RICHH was a huge influence on me. God, what a shame. -- GK
Andy Baio : The RICHH Archive - Usenet legend's brilliantly funny writings
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3/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
gknauss : Maggy Donea's "Touched" - Another big influence: Maggy Donea's "Touched". Even ten years on, this story still astonishes me -- a perfect model of writing for (not just on) the Web. -- GK
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3/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Hyped Web Stories Are Irrelevant
Paul Hammond : Hyped Web Stories Are Irrelevant (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - it's more important to focus on doing things right than to chase the latest fad.
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3/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : The WebKit Web Inspector at Jalecode - "I've seen plugins for Firefox that do similar things, but this goes miles beyond, both aesthetically and functionally."
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3/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : davblog: Why I Don't Use Word - "over the months that I spent writing the book I went from being a Word fan to hating it with a passion."
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3/04/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : wg:About visual noise on blogs - Even though I’m a sucker for little icons, I have to agree with this, and its something I’ve been considering for a while. The next version of Hicksdesign will use less of these.
Paul Hammond : wg:About visual noise on blogs - they're absolutely useless
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3/04/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Scene.org Awards 2005 nominees announced - the best of real-time, algorithmic art from the PC demoscene
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3/04/2006 @ 10:10 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Black Brush / Fekete Kefe official site - Black Brush official site [via]
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3/04/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC used to entice cyber victims - People are being warned about spam e-mails containing BBC News stories designed to trick them into visiting malicious websites
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3/04/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : Hackers Use BBC News as IE Attack Lure - According to an alert issued by Websense Security Labs, in San Diego, excerpts from actual BBC News stories are being used to lure IE users to Web sites that launch drive-by downloads of bots, spyware, back doors and other Trojan downloaders
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3/04/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : The Ethical Hacker Network - How To Break Web Software - This chapter is excerpted from the book titled "How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services" by Mike Andrews, James A. Whittaker
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3/04/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : At Last, Movies to Keep Arrive on the Internet - New York Times - Six major studios plan to begin selling movies over the Internet today that buyers can download and keep for watching at any time. For now, it is difficult but not impossible to watch the downloaded movies on a television. Some computers, like those using
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3/04/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : April 1, 2006 - April 1, 2006 was an April Fool's Day falling on a Saturday. Some noteworthy hoaxes for this year are listed below. For a complete list of hoaxes, see April 1, 2006 (Complete List).
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3/04/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
kayodeok : How to Drive your Website Developer Insane: A Primer - Constantly bring up your expert programmer son/cousin/close family friend. Make one up if you don’t really have one! Be sure to give them the most annoying qualities possible and make sure they always give the opposite advice of the programmer actu
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3/04/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Gnarls Barkley single becomes first Internet-only single to hit #1 UK charts - I see why; the Danger Mouse/Cee-Lo joint is catchy as hell
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3/04/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Interview with the head of the Swedish Pirate Party - contrary to previous reports, it's not formally connected with the Pirate Bay
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3/04/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Steve Jobs demos NeXTSTEP Release 3 in 1992 - keep in mind, Windows 3.1 was released the same year
Rod Begbie : YouTube - NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo [via] #
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3/04/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Interview with an ex-exployee of adware creator 180 Solutions - insider details about employee adware usage and dealing with public perceptions [via]
Nelson Minar : 180 Solutions people - Sucks to work for an evil company (via Waxy)
Jeremy Zawodny : 180 From The Inside Out - 180 From The Inside Out: "So I emailed him and asked him for an interview about what it was like to work for 180solutions, here it is below."
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3/04/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
kayodeok : Evaluating website accessibility: Part 3, Digging Deeper | 456 Berea Street - In this final article of the series I will explain some aspects of website accessibility that are difficult to test with automated tools and require more time and/or experience to evaluate manually
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3/04/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
kayodeok : Installing Microsoft Windows 1.0, 1985 - The following is the installation and boot-up sequence for the first release version of perhaps the most important software currently in the world: Microsoft Windows.
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3/04/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : New York Times redesigns - not designed by Khoi Vinh, but a lovely and clean redesign
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3/04/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Ohio town calls in bomb squad over Super Mario power-up cubes - an April 1 prank takes a turn for the surreal
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3/04/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Reverend, a general purpose Bayesian classifier Python module - (via clickolinko) [via]
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3/04/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula - Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula: a fantastic image
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3/04/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
gknauss : State of the Arcade Industry 2004 - I stumbled into an arcade this weekend for the first time in years, and it wasn't pretty: Lots of untranslated Japanese games, lots of Street Fighter clones (and lots of overlap between the two), only one game with a copyright date later than 2002, most m
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3/04/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
deusx : Simple Cross-Network Scripting - "So XML is central to the implementation, but is hidden from the script writer."
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3/04/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
gknauss : DC vs. Marvel - Like any good father, I'm trying to pass my values along to my children -- simple moral truths like: DC is better than Marvel. It turns out, that battle has already been fought. Spoiler results. It's a sick, sad world we live in.
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3/04/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
plasticbag : You Tube has the footage of Danah Boyd on The O'Reilly Factor - Weird piece of video - Danah comes off extremely well and presents a reasonable case for what's happening on MySpace. It's difficult to tell whether O'Reilly is satisfied with the piece or whether he was hoping for something ... else
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3/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : Richard Bartles' article, "Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs" - An old classic of an article. I'm not sure I buy the divisions but there's a good articulation of the space. What I want to know is how much of it is translatable into other socially creative spaces...
joshua : Players Who Suit MUDs
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3/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Trusted Computing - Trusted Computing: and how it sucks for most of us
Isofarro : Trusted Computing - An interesting look at the misnamed Trusted Computing: 'If they [the computer industry] don't trust you, why should you trust them?' (via virtuelvis)
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3/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
bmilleare : linux backup using bash, tar and netcat
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3/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Sleep no more - Sleep no more: Meet modafinil, "the first wave of new lifestyle drugs that promise to do for sleep what the contraceptive pill did for sex -- unshackle it from nature"
Nelson Minar : Sleep less with pills - Modafinil is $4/pill on the grey market (via Zawodny)
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