17/04/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: A beautiful mindlessness - A couple of weeks ago, my 16-year-old son said, out of nowhere, "I wish I lived before there were computers." I think I know what he meant.
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17/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Review of Why? by Charles Tilly, in which he examines the four kinds of reasons people offer as explanations for things and under which situations they are used - Review of Why? by Charles Tilly, in which he examines the four kinds of reasons people offer as explanations for things and under which situations they are used. See also an October 2005 interview with Tilly.
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17/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : IP geolocation GPL - Free database of where IP addresses are physically
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17/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Steve Cook : Crooked Timber on old movies - I've seen most of the Hollywood fare being mentioned (though I'm taking notes on the Japanese movies), but Ted's post and the subsequent comments a damn good list, putting the AFI's to shame despite the overappreciation of "Sullivan's Travels".
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17/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Midfield Aviation - Midfield Aviation: Patrick is an excellent mechanic. He's going to put a new magneto on our plane. [via]
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17/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Cabbie drives Ben Folds to laundromat, ends up on stage playing harmonica that night - no bootlegs online just yet [via]
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17/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Chris Ware ends his run in the NYT Magazine - the 29 parts are all online, but in PDF format (yuk) [via]
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17/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : "thanks for the add, you guys rock" - the MySpace cliche watch [via]
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17/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Kleptones' "24 Hours" sample listing on Wikipedia - a work in progress [via]
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17/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 - blogosphere continues to grow at a frightening rate
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17/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Ironic Sans has an ongoing series of posts about animated Manhattan; that is, depictions of Manhattan in animated films and shows - Ironic Sans has an ongoing series of posts about animated Manhattan; that is, depictions of Manhattan in animated films and shows. So far he's covered The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Tom & Jerry.
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17/04/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : JSM: Under the Loupe #5 - Under the Loupe: #5 Visual Thinking.
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17/04/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Stopdesign / Google Cal collaboration - Turns out Doug Bowman worked on Google Calendar. Now fill in the blank: "Ah ha, no wonder it ____ (looks sharp, is intuitive, etc)".
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17/04/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Hiring the right design manager - Hiring the right design manager. Khoi Vinh offers up four solid tips for securing the right candidate.
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17/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Demographic charts for New York City using data from 1790 to the present - Demographic charts for New York City using data from 1790 to the present.
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17/04/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Thirty-Five - Greg Storey on turning 35. There is no secret sauce to what I have done with one exception, I never stop working on my confidence."
Paul Hammond : Airbag - Thirty-Five. - All that is really necessary to take the next step is to have confidence that you will be able to stand up to the problems that are sure to come and that you will find a way to fix them or path around them
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17/04/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Angela Moll's quilted journals - Angela Moll's quilted journals. No relation, but this is quite interesting. "The pages of my Secret Diaries are actual journal entries screen printed on fabric... Each fabric page is a layering of different entries, the superimposition of a day onto the n
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17/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Andy Baio : iTorrent - download BitTorrent distributed podcasts from iTunes [via]
deusx : iTorrent - "iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes."
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17/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : Pragmatic Programmers: For Authors Only - "We're looking for both full-length books and shorter PDF-only Fridays."
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17/04/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
kellan : "If I want to beat Google? I would throw everything I have got at an AdSense killer." - Short, interesting take on how to build a better AdSense #
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17/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : The pleasure of finding things out - RP Feynman - Google Video - 1982 Richard Feynman interview. I downloaded this last month from UKNova, and it's just a fascinating insight into the man. [via] #
jkottke : Feynman: 50-minute video of The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Get yer Richard Feynman on at Google Video, particularly this 50-minute video of The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. A bit more Feynman at YouTube.
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17/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
kellan : man.splitbrain.org - web interface to 45k+ Unix man pages - Clean URLs and design, user contributions. Nicely done, every documentation set should be so lucky #
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17/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jimray : UNC J-school wins best of "magazine" category from Horizon Interactive Awards - Students beat out a bunch of professionals in this category - I'm constantly proud that this is my alma mater
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17/04/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Freedom to Tinker - Making and Breaking HDCP Handshakes [via]
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17/04/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
bmilleare : Top 15 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities
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17/04/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Gladwell on Bonds and steroids - Gladwell's reading Game of Shadows (which alleges that Barry Bonds took steroids) and proposes that record setters like Bonds, Flo Jo, and Bob Beamon should be subjected to a high degree of statistical analysis before their records should be allowed to st
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17/04/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Book blog starts Fibonacci poem fad - Book blog starts Fibonacci poem fad, i.e. the writing of poems where the number of syllables in each line is dictated by the Fibonacci sequence. "Poets are very, very hungry for constraint right now."
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17/04/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Is working at Cisco worth a 7-hour commute? | The Register - WTF is this guy thinking? Impressive. #
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17/04/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : "Ante Dominum" by Traction - lovely graphic demo available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, stuffed into only 64k bytes
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17/04/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jimray : United States Patent: 5,920,923 - God bless Penn Gillette
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17/04/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Alleged cannibal blogged about plans - Mefi has a link roundup, including his Blogger blog, Myspace, and profiles on Blogger, Yahoo, eBay, [via]
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17/04/2006 @ 06:10 GMT
jkottke : With Web 2.0 afoot, SF dot com ghost town South Park is on its way back to boom time - With Web 2.0 afoot, SF dot com ghost town South Park is on its way back to boom time. Peter Merholz, a current corporate resident of South Park, recalls the good old days in the area.
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17/04/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
jkottke : Kevin Ray Underwood, suspected of killing 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin, wrote an entry on his blog the day after Bolin disappeared and the day before he was discovered and arrested - Kevin Ray Underwood, suspected of killing 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin, wrote an entry on his blog the day after Bolin disappeared and the day before he was discovered and arrested. His Blogger profile is here: "If you were a cannibal, what would you wear
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17/04/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Saturday TV Funhouse's "The Disney Vault" - shocking Disney parody uses the image of Mickey Mouse and clips from "Song of the South"
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17/04/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
gleuschk : PodSync.com - TweakGDS - lets you changes lots of settings, including the location of the (2-freaking-GB) index files
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17/04/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
gleuschk : WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics - fantastic software. even better than sequoiaview
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17/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
jkottke : The World Heritage List consists of natural and man-made wonders from around the globe - The World Heritage List consists of natural and man-made wonders from around the globe. Thirty-four of the sites are currently on the "in danger" list, in some cases because of a site's inclusion on the master list (and subsequent dramatic increase in tou
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17/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
jkottke : 2006 World Monuments Watch 100 Most Endangered Sites - 2006 World Monuments Watch 100 Most Endangered Sites, including the entire country of Iraq.
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17/04/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Linkorama : Wealth of Networks WikiNotes - Wiki for Benkler's new book, the Wealth of Networks
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17/04/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
gleuschk : Main Page - QEDen - collaborative attack on the Millennium Problems. Good luck, kids.
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17/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
gleuschk : A Vt. drowning sets off a story of revelations - Who knew he was a world-renowned physicist with weightier questions on his mind? Wow. This is an astonishing story.
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17/04/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Wheee! - :D
Eric Meyer : Wheee! - Shut up! [via Shaun] [via]
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17/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Bite Size Standards - Standards Tapas!
jimray : Bite Size Standards - Adopt standards, one bite at a time
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