4/04/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Processor speeds - Handy chart comparing Intel, AMD, and PowerPC
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4/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
gleuschk : John Baez's 'diary' - the ur-mathblogger
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4/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
djacobs : San Francisco is Sliding into the Pacific Ocean - California's "Devil's Slide" section of Route 1 is splitting in half. As the rainiest spring ever continues, there's a growing fear that the entire cliff may disappear into the ocean. -dj
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4/04/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Spyware - Click-Fraud Connection -- and Yahoo's Role Revisited - The Spyware - Click-Fraud Connection -- and Yahoo's Role Revisited: "when a spyware vendor can't find advertisers to buy its ad inventory directly, the spyware vendor can show Yahoo ads instead." Yikes!
Nelson Minar : Spyware and Yahoo - Ben Edelman's latest
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4/04/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
cobra libre : steal this book - "Gide wasn't writing a historical novel about a hoax. He thought the novel was a hoax." #
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4/04/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What I do for a living... - What I do for a living...: "You see -- I run the Reality Distortion Field." hahaha!
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4/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
gknauss : The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch - Set-up. [Pause.] Punchline! -- GK
Andy Baio : The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch - tracking abuses of the silent panel gag in the Sunday funnies [via]
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4/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
djacobs : This Grass Armchair Grows In and Around a Cardboard Frame - This grass armchair gets it's shape from a cardboard frame. "It's a flatpack do it yourself kit consisting of a 14 piece corrugated cardboard frame and a package of grass seeds. It starts to grow after just 10 days." ... "First find the right spot, becaus [via]
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4/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Fly me to the moon - by catapult - "Scots scientists have unveiled plans to develop a giant slingshot to catapult material from the earth to the moon."
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4/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
djacobs : One Laptop Per Child Project Abandons Hand Crank - One Laptop Per Child project abandons hand crank in favor of a foot pedal attached to the AC adaptor. Negroponte also says Linux is too "fat" for the 500 MHz AMD processors they plan to use. -dj
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4/04/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Mobile Zen Garden? - Gotomobile: Handheld style sheets and getting to Zen. "Russell Beattie wants a mobile CSS Zen Garden. Dave Shea has a lot on his plate, but I think we should support the effort and help to make it happen!" This would make for a rather interesting experime
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4/04/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Why .mobi is a good thing - Why .mobi is a good thing. Or at least Russell's opinion of it. ".mobi is a great way to restart the mobile web by giving it a standard naming and navigation scheme for that first step." I still haven't settled on a final opinion myself.
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4/04/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Pattern of the individual - Flickr: The pattern of the individual.
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4/04/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Eddidit - Eddidit. The portfolio of Edmund Hall. Love the textures. (Though those big fat images on the home page need to be clickable.)
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4/04/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : Dispatches from the Culture Wars: William Dembski: Prophet for Hire - "It seems that evolution is perpetually just that close to collapsing, yet it never does."
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4/04/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : Simple JavaScript Database - "This example illustrates one way of creating a completely JavaScript database with AMASS storage."
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4/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : Firefly < Serenity - So this guy wants to prepare his friend to watch Serenity, and so makes him a thirty minute introduction to Firefly which he's now circulating for free on the internet, even though he's going to get crushed by the law.
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4/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
gknauss : L.A. is the World's Burger Capital - Screw the Shake Shack, if you want burgers, you come to L.A. -- GK
joshua : The Food Section: The Beef About L.A. - must check out the burgers in la
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4/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
deusx : Sounds that annoy cats - "If the speakers are close to the keyboard and aimed directly at it, these sounds will annoy most cats when they're on the keyboard."
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4/04/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Spotting the fonts in "Thank You For Smoking" - You certainly have missed out big time if you have yet to see the opening titles for "Thank You For Smoking". Perhaps just as stunning is Stephen Coles naming 23 of the 28 typefaces used in the titles.
jkottke : Typographica identifies all the fonts in the font-o-riffic opening titles for Thank You for Smoking - Typographica identifies all the fonts in the font-o-riffic opening titles for Thank You for Smoking.
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4/04/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
kellan : JavaScript-based apps can be served up from the S3 domain as files stored via S3 - Adds up to JavaScript apps hosted on S3 with AJAX-based read/write access to S3 itself. #
Simon Willison : JavaScript apps with read/write access to S3 - JS apps hosted on S3 could read and write to the store.
Paul Hammond : JavaScript apps with read/write access to S3 » Archive » Blog » 0xDECAFBAD - All of this adds up to JavaScript apps hosted on S3 with AJAX-based read/write access to S3 itself.
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4/04/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Trust Me, I'm A Jedi Scientist -- Those Aren't The Fraudulent Clicks You Were Looking For
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4/04/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Trust Me, I'm A Jedi Scientist -- Those Aren't The Fraudulent Clicks You Were Looking For - Call off the expensive market research and fire the analysts and consultants
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4/04/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : is your iPod receiving secret instructions from numbers stations?
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4/04/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : svendtofte.com - Date formatting in JavaScript - "Most of PHP's date method's switches are supported."
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4/04/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
merlinmann : The Morning News - How to Write a Thank-You Note - "I have a crushing inability to write proper thank-you notes. Can you offer me some guidelines?" Go, Leslie (Whom I, ironically, owe a thank you note)
jimray : The Morning News - How to Write a Thank-You Note, by Leslie Harpold
djacobs : How to Write a Thank-You Note - How to Write a Thank-You Note: "The thank-you is exclusively about thanking somebody for their kindness. While you may want more than anything to show them once and for all you amounted to something, this is not the forum." -dj [via]
gleuschk : The Morning News - How to Write a Thank-You Note, by Leslie Harpold - timeless wisdom, is what this is
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4/04/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Rickey Henderson anecdotes - (via Information Junk) [via]
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4/04/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
gknauss : LBJ on Piss-Pouring Ability - According to the Internet, Lyndon Johnon didn't think the following could pour piss out of a boot: a Kennedy staffer, the Organization of American States, the United Nations, the Central Intelligence Agency, Dean Rusk, Republicans, generals and some peopl
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4/04/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
gknauss : Ohter Political Liquids - Other political liquids: hot legislation, warm spit, and dried-- Never mind. -- GK
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4/04/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
joshua : PimpMyCamino
jimray : PimpMyCamino
Jon Hicks : PimpMyCamino changes - Now powered by Textpattern, no longer using a pre-made template (its nothing to get excited about though!), and a much improved icon themes section. Still not what I would call a ‘finished site’ but it’s getting there.
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4/04/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
kellan : The beauty of the Boston esplanade - Nothing like a little pristine coastline #
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4/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
gleuschk : [math/0603599] A Comment on "On Some Contradictory Computations in Multi-dimensional Mathematics" - (a) the results ... are correct and in this case we need a revolution in Mathematics (and also in Physics) or (b) the paper is a potpourri of nonsense. We show that option (b) is the correct one.
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4/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
gknauss : BeakSpeak Birdcams - Get a load of the two great tits! Yes, it's only day three and already I'm in the gutter. -- GK
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4/04/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Linkorama : Business as Morality - You have to be generous in relationships.
WillPate : O'Reilly Radar > Doc Searls: Business as Morality - "Morality of generosity. We give. We are open. We love without expectation of reward, or even accounting."
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4/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Code Elegance, Code Balance - A nice way of thinking about writing maintainable code.
Jeremy Zawodny : Code Elegance, Code Balance - Code Elegance, Code Balance: the visual appearance of code matters
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4/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : gotoAndLearn.com - Impressive collection of Flash tutorial screencasts.
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4/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Anytime is the Right Time to Start a Company - Blue Flavor - External forces are not what makes a company succeed or fail
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4/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Schrodinger’s Audience - The idea, it seems, is that by buying these sites, the purchasers have bought themselves a huge captive audience that they can then advertise to. This is nonsense.
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4/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : jQuery: Discuss: Memory leaks forever - Sorry, I'm just mesmerized by this code: [0,1,1,1,0][xml.readyState]
deusx : jQuery: Discuss: Memory leaks forever - "Sorry, I'm just mesmerized by this code: [0,1,1,1,0][xml.readyState] that's seriously one of the coolest boolean ideas that I've seen."
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