5/04/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
deusx : Software Out There - New York Times - "blocks of interchangeable software components are proliferating on the Web and developers are joining them together to create a potentially infinite array of useful new programs."
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5/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : if:book: sophie is coming! - "Sophie is an open-source platform for creating and reading electronic books for the networked environment."
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5/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : KITT cogworks | MetaFilter - "These people are cool, they have the cars to prove it. So can you. And then go to the convention. One man's shadowy journey. Could Heat Vision be next?"
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5/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : ITworld.com - Re-thinking the online spreadsheet - "What happens if we take the next step and put our spreadsheets on the Web rather than keeping them local?"
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5/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Cross-browser BlendTrans Filter JavaScript - "...a cool looking fade in/out javascript effect". [via] #
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5/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
djacobs : Forward an Entire Thread in Gmail - Aaron Boodman just posted a Greasemonkey script that forwards an entire thread in gmail, something I've wanted forever. Aaron writes: "One thing that is interesting about this implementation is that you'll note it does not use the gmail content script at
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5/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Linkorama : A Glitch in the Matrix - Syndicate event discount code
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5/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : OpenOffice SUMIF - Helpful blog of tips for the spreadsheet
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5/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
djacobs : Google Real Estate - Google Real Estate is the first good use of Google Base that I've seen. They could do a littler better on my search for an affordable two bedroom on the west side, but then again that apartment may simply not exist. -dj [via]
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5/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
djacobs : Map of the Cherry Blossoms in Brooklyn Botanical Garden - The Cherry Trees were blooming in Brooklyn Botanical Garden this week. I hope they're OK after today's snow. -dj
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5/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
djacobs : Thirty Second Teaser for the Simpsons Movie - Thirty Second teaser for the Simpsons movie. -dj
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5/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
djacobs : Love City - Love City takes the computer game "out of the bedroom and into urban spaces." Players get points for forming a "menage a-trois" by being in the same place relative to game pieces in three different cities: Nottingham, Leicester and Derby. -dj [via]
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5/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
gknauss : Analysis of U.S. Troop Deaths in Iraq - "September 11 is an uncontested and quantifiable tragedy. Iraq is approaching similar dimensions." How long before U.S. troop deaths in Iraq pass September 11 deaths? A little less than a year. -- GK
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5/04/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Linkorama : Red Herring 100 Finalists - Whoopie we are in the 200! And if you pay to go to their conference, you qualify for potentially being part of the 100.
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5/04/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
kellan : Boston: April Snow - I guess thats why we draw distinctions between Summer and Spring, but rats #
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5/04/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
kellan : Photojojo - like Make/Readymade, but just for your camera - Kara and Amit's new project is off to a great start. #
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5/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
djacobs : Everyware Bibliography - Adam Greenfield's has posted a partial bibliography for his book, Everyware -dj.
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5/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
djacobs : Citysnake - Citysnake is a city-sized version of the Commodore-64/Nokia classic game. The playing area is the city grid, and inviduals take ownership of blocks or city streets. City snake was one of Rhizome's 2005 commissions. -dj [via]
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5/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
djacobs : Starbucks Buzzing for Akeelah and the Bee - Starbucks is "co-presenting" the new movie Akeelah and the Bee, and will share in it's profits. Starbucks shoppers will be offered free vocabulary and spelling lessons, Baristas were invited to advanced screenings and are encouraged to offer their own opi [via]
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5/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
djacobs : New trailer for Art School Confidential - There's a New trailer for Art School Confidential, directed by Terry Zwigoff and starring Sophia Myles and John Malkovich. I wonder when Bloggers will replace Art Students as the iconic losers of cinema. -dj
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5/04/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : How much do I charge? - For anyone who's ever asked, How much do I charge? - Raise your rates. "This leaves you with 24 'billable' hours in a week, or just over 1150 billable hours in a year. So what do you need to bill per hour to pull your $XXX? Well, dividing your $XXX by 115
deusx : The Secret to Small Business Success | Firewheel Design - "So the next time you're unsure how you're going to grow your small business, remember the secret. Raise your rates."
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5/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
djacobs : Only 11 percent of NYC subway stations are wheelchair accessible - Only 53 of the city's 468 subway stations are wheelchair accessible. The MTA is spending $192,000,000 to make 15 more stations wheelchair accessible over the next 3 years. At that rate, the whole system could be modernized by 2090 at the bargain basement [via]
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5/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
djacobs : Mars Rover 2.0 - "Phoenix", the first in a new generation of "Scout" landers, will be going to Mars fall 2007. -dj
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5/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
djacobs : Apple's Boot Camp lets you run Windows XP on your Intel Mac - Apple's Boot Camp lets you run Windows XP on your Intel Mac. 7 out of 11 words in that sentence were trademarks. -dj
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5/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Apple's Boot Camp public beta - the stock market loves Apple's new official support of Windows XP dual boot
Jon Hicks : Apple - Boot Camp - Macs do Windows too! We knew they would, but we waited for the official word. Thanks to Ian Lloyd for the tip off.
jimray : Apple - Boot Camp - Boot Windows on a Mac - officially
Rod Begbie : Apple - Boot Camp #
joshua : boot camp - boot windows on your mac
Simon Willison : Boot Camp - Official dual-boot Windows solution for Intel Macs - downloadable beta!
plasticbag : Apple's Boot Camp makes the world's best Windows computer a Mac... - Or at least that's the tagline I'm seeing around the web at the moment. Looks fascinating, actually. Really interested to see how this turns out...
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5/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
djacobs : Caterina: "Poetry reviews, if awesome, make you want to read more poetry" - Poetry reviews, if awesome, make you want to read more poetry. Poetry has always seemed less accessible to me than fiction, because I've have less "formal" training in it. For some reason people post more fiction reviews than poetry reviews, but I'd welco
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5/04/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
deusx : Dave Orchard's Blog: WS-SopranosDesperateHousewivesKwisatchHaderach - "in about two WS-years, the WS-KwisatchHadarach will be born! He will be known as WS-ReliableSecureConversationEventingNotificationMetadataExchangePolicy ResourceTransferTransactionEnumeration."
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5/04/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Cop vs Dog - cop uses the taser - "An aggressive dog gets what's coming when it tries to charge at a police officer."
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5/04/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Shmup contest winner - Yay, new shootem ups
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5/04/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Merlin sees vast alcohol stream - Never offer to get a round in for Cassiopeians seems to be moral here.
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5/04/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Password Recovery Speeds - A friendly reminder that the number of possible combinations grows exponentially wrt the length of your password. #
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5/04/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : CPAN purity tester, see how much of a script comes from CPAN - (via Don Marti www/sitemap-o-matic.html) [via]
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5/04/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : 90% Crud: AIM Down - "go on and add all the people @gmail.com to your contact list. Imagine how surprised they'll be to see your Jabber ID show up"
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5/04/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
WillPate : Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle - A physician to geeks describes the health problems he sees common to them. It is now my mission to avoid these things.
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5/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : Zimbra - Blog - A Pint of ALE - Ajax Linking and Embedding - "AJAX Linking and Embedding (ALE) provides the ability to embed rich content into an editable document and to then interact with and edit that content in much the same way as it is done with traditional office suites and applications in a desktop environm
Paul Hammond : Zimbra - Blog - A Pint of ALE - Ajax Linking and Embedding - within the ALE world the embedded objects are AJAX components that are embedded into an editable HTML document
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5/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : macosxhints - Easily switch the current default Java version - "I wrote the following simple UNIX shell script to allow me to easily switch between the different Java versions I have installed."
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5/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : s3DAV - "s3DAV is a webDAV server which allows you to access a virtual file system using your Amazon s3 account."
Andy Baio : s3DAV - virtual filesystem using your Amazon S3 account [via]
joshua : s3DAV - amazon s3 as a DAV fs
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5/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Just how effective is chiropractor back cracking? - Just how effective is chiropractor back cracking?: this question (and the answers) cracked me up for so many reasons...
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5/04/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
merlinmann : How I Work: Bill Gates - Apr. 4, 2006 - "I'm very disciplined about ignoring that unless I see that it's a high-priority topic." [thanks, Nelson Minar]
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5/04/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : mozdev.org - downthemall - mozdev.org - downthemall: "DownThemAll! (or just DtA) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced downloading capabilities to your browser. DtA lets you download in just one click all the links or images contained i
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5/04/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : BubbleShare: Photos from Funny Mix06 Photos - BubbleShare: Photos from Funny Mix06 Photos: wherein I am bubbled
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5/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Slides from PHP Québec Conf 2006 - Slides from PHP Québec Conf 2006: including "SQLite: A fast, transactional DBMS embedded in PHP 5"
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5/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Raise an ALE to Google Maps API v2 - Raise an ALE to Google Maps API v2: "ALE: Ajax Linking and Embedding"
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5/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Michael Jackson - Thriller - Google Video - Michael Jackson - Thriller - Google Video: a classic. saldy, they provide only 30 sec of video. WTF?!
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5/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : defective yeti: Undercooking Light - defective yeti: Undercooking Light: '"One cup" is the fundamental, atomic unit of cheese -- did the editors of Cooking Light think we would not know this?'
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5/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
plasticbag : Various people have been writing up the various MacBook Pro noises that have plagued some early adopters - Apparently some of them are fixable (and may have been fixed) with software, while others have been fixed in later versions. Many other users are not experiencing any problems at all...
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5/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Tyra Banks show dedicated to Myspace - if you find the full video, let me know
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5/04/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Oblivion tweak guide - Exhaustive collection of suggestions
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5/04/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
deusx : HMAC Digest Access Authentication for HTTP - "This document specifies an HTTP authentication scheme based on cryptographic hashes."
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5/04/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
deusx : CW Operators Wanted - " Just touch our paddles and send perfect code"
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5/04/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
gleuschk : pictures of the roots of integer-coefficient polynomials - Whoa! V. cool.
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5/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Maps API Version 2 released - Google Maps API Version 2 released: fantastic stuff
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5/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Oh that? It's our new PPPP (Pay Per Pop-up Program) - Oh that? It's our new PPPP (Pay Per Pop-up Program): "Now, it's important to note that it's not Yahoo allegedly defrauding advertisers here, but a bad partner in its network."
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5/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : AOL changes name to AOL - AOL changes name to AOL: here we go again...
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5/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : At the IT Conversations Helm - At the IT Conversations Helm: "Doug Kaye has asked me to be the Executive Producer of IT Conversations" congrats to Phil!
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5/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
plasticbag : A bashed and broken Powerbook still mostly works - it causes me pain this, after seeing such a similar fate befall my work Powerbook... - "Matt Johnson sent around this jaw-dropping picture of a Powerbook. There's no way to describe the scene in words so you just have to look at the photo."
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5/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
plasticbag : These poems showing the absurdities of English spelling are pretty astonishingly fun to read out loud fast - But while I laugh, can I just point out how upsetting I find the Simplified Spelling Society. I'm afraid I believe that the systematic simplification of spelling strips language of its evident etymological roots and would diminish the language in resonanc
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5/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
plasticbag : People in Florida are too scared to send their children to London because of the threat of terrorist attacks - Extraordinary, but entirely familiar. During the first Gulf War, tourism from the US to Britiain dropped enormously, despite the fact that the war could have little or no direct impact in London at all.
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5/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
plasticbag : Timeline of Apple Macintosh models from Wikipedia - Nice bit of work this - classy and up to date. I can identify several major product lines that I've been lucky enough to own.
wearehugh : Timeline of Apple Macintosh models
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