18/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Rachel Papo's photo project, Serial No. 3817131, shows Israeli female soldiers as they complete their mandatory two-year military service - Rachel Papo's photo project, Serial No. 3817131, shows Israeli female soldiers as they complete their mandatory two-year military service.
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18/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : [airport] - Amusant et bien observé. Bonne musique aussi. [via] #
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18/04/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
joshua : Logic Alphabet - different notation for logic (slightly crazy)
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18/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : How To Be A Successful Evil Overlord - "no matter whether they are barbarian lords, deranged wizards, mad scientists, or alien invaders, they always seem to make the same basic mistakes every single time."
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18/04/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : F-shaped pattern for reading web content - A recent eyetracking study conducted by Jakob Nielsen reveals a recurring F-shaped pattern for reading web content. I've seen similar results before, but this might be the most practical data Jakob's put out there in some time.
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18/04/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Veerle on Chalet - Veerle: A brief typographic history of Chalet.
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18/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Free MUNI today in SF - Get around town easily
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18/04/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Linkorama : CEOs Look to Flexible Teams to Drive Margins - It turns out the CEO's sought-after pockets of discovery, within the workgroup, across the firm, and beyond to customers and partners, are no longer the stuff of future dreams. It's happening today and everyday inside wikis.
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18/04/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Isofarro : How to Shut up and Get to Work! - 'Set aside a couple of contigious hours of 'alone time' where colleagues know not to disturb you.' I'm thinking of a signal, like a red flag, or wearing a peaked cap. Beats using colourful language.
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18/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : This is one of the most insane things I've ever seen....graffiti artist Marc Ecko tagged Air Force One - Nevermind...the video is fake. This is one of the most insane things I've ever seen....graffiti artist/entrepreneur Marc Ecko tagged Air Force One. The US govt can't even effectively guard the President's plane...how does Homeland Security expect to do it [via]
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18/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
deusx : Patrons in the driver's seat: Giving advanced tool-sets to library patrons - HigherEd BlogCon - "The trick is assembling the right components to create unique, immersive experiences for our patrons both online and off."
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18/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
deusx : Eli Goes to PAX, and Lives to Tell the Tale | Ann Arbor District Library - "This past weekend, I attended the Penny Arcade Expo. It was absolutely incredible."
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18/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Firefox Bus - Firefox Bus: now that's funny... a Firefox themed bus in India
Jon Hicks : Firefox Bus - Just to prove – yes I’ve seen it!
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18/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Cameratruck is a camera built out of a box van...essentially a giant pinhole camera - Cameratruck is a camera built out of a box van...essentially a giant pinhole camera. The negatives are almost three meters wide and are developed inside the truck/camera. The tour page has examples of photographs taken with the truck.
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18/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : kottke.org: #1 search result for "nude paddleball players" - kottke.org: #1 Google search result for "nude paddleball players". (thx, jonah)
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18/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : How Coreaudiovisual shot a Karl Lagerfeld fashion show and very quickly turned around a promotional DVD featuring the photos - How Coreaudiovisual shot a Karl Lagerfeld fashion show and very quickly turned around a promotional DVD featuring the photos.
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18/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : A contest to find the meanest review - A contest to find the meanest review. What, no Dale Peck? A review of his got him a smack in the face...
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18/04/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Country Population, Density and Area - "Une carte interactive de la population mondiale". [via] #
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18/04/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : A More Accessible Map - "...a way to display text-based data on a map, keeping it accessible, useful and visually attractive". [via] #
Simon Willison : A List Apart: A More Accessible Map - Nice example of semantic markup, unobtrusive JavaScript and CSS.
Paul Hammond : A List Apart: Articles: A More Accessible Map - First make the data readable and useful as text, and then make it into a map
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18/04/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
plasticbag : "Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers" - There's a story in The Guardian today about the disproportionate influence held by webloggers in which I'm quoted. This may be of interest to some of you. Mum, are you out there? Check it out!
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18/04/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
plasticbag : Ryan Carson's new project 'Vitamin' (A resource for web developers, designers and entrepreneurs) has launched and looks pretty awesome - Beautiful bits of design work, some extremely cool people commenting and supporting the venture and cartoons by Hugh McLeod. Altogether a pretty interesting looking site.
Simon Willison : Vitamin - Lovely new web design magazine site from Ryan Carson and friends.
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18/04/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Isofarro : Wikipedia: The da Vinci Code - Probably come in handy deciphering some of the hidden questions in Google's da Vinci Code puzzles. Male and female, blade and chalice.
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18/04/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Isofarro : The Secret Language of Symbols - More reference material for solving Google's the da Vinci code puzzles. This time an explanation and meaning of symbols.
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18/04/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
erikbenson : Patricia Schultz's "1,000 Places To See Before You Die" on Lists of Bests - This is a pretty amazing list that someone took a lot of time putting together. I've been to about 7% of the 1,000 places to see before I die. I wonder when I'll hit 10%, and if I'll ever get to 20%. A strange thing to think about indeed...
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18/04/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
joshua : highlights from modern mechanics magazine
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18/04/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Linkorama : Backfence Acquires Bayosphere - Congrats to both, hyperlocal media will indeed happen
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18/04/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jkottke : Kyle MacDonald started with a single red paperclip almost a year ago and is trying to trade up to a house - This is great...Kyle MacDonald started with a single red paperclip almost a year ago and is trying to trade up to a house. He's made 10 swaps so far and is currently offering one year of free rent in Phoenix.
Andy Baio : Red Paper Clip guy gets his house - does this mean the mayor of Kipling, Saskatchewan appear in a movie with Corbin Bernsen? [via]
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18/04/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
deusx : coconut-flavour.com - coconutBattery 2.2 - "it also shows you the current maximum capacity of it in relation to the original capacity your battery had as it left the factory."
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18/04/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
deusx : Feds pounce on student 'ninja' - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com - "Agents misinterpret costume from University of Georgia Methodist event"
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18/04/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Stop the madness: SHOW STATUS - Stop the madness: SHOW STATUS: it looks like team MySQL kinda screwed up on this one
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18/04/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
joshua : My Setup, Part II: The Software
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18/04/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
joshua : xscope - tools for onscreen measuring, aligning, inspecting on-screen graphics
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18/04/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Kottke joins The Deck - he explains what makes The Deck different
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18/04/2006 @ 03:12 GMT
merlinmann : NPR : In India, Learning the Powers of Meditation - "During the stay in India, her struggles to quiet her mind came to a head one warm summer evening." On mosquitoes, the distracted mind, and Vipassana meditation.
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18/04/2006 @ 03:10 GMT
Rod Begbie : Baseball Salary Treemap - Player salaries laid out by team, division and league. #
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18/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : Stowe Boyd is auctioning off his chest for the rest of the year to Web 2.0 start-ups - You see at some level this is fun, but at another level it really creeps me out. It's the same reason I don't have ads on plasticbag.org - it feels like you're putting something personal about yourself up for sale. Makes me uncomfortable...
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18/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : MySociety is doing another round of proposals like the ones that triggered Pledgebank, TheyWorkForYou and other sites - "So, whether you have an idea you'd like to propose, or whether you'd just like to read and comment on other people's proposals, you've come to the right place."
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18/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : Make Me Watch TV - the readers choose which TV show he'll watch and he dutifully blogs the whole thing - Interesting idea! Mostly quite entertaining! Not sure he'll keep it up very long, though. Worth keeping an eye on. I particularly like the idea that he'll keep missing episodes of programmes even if he likes them. That's interesting / cruel.
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18/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : USA Today reports that posting to your site can help stop memory loss and Alzheimers... - "Research on animals and humans suggests mentally challenging activities such as playing bridge, learning a new language or even blogging might help build new connections in the brain"
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18/04/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Slab City airlines - Great general aviation story
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18/04/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : OpenOffice Calc Tips - Great little blog with useful content
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18/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : XTech 2006: Ajax lightning demos - Show off your Ajax at XTech.
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18/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : selector - WSGI Delegation - Neat URL dispatching system, similar to Django's.
deusx : selector - WSGI Delegation - "This distribution provides WSGI middleware for "RESTful" mapping of URL paths to WSGI applications."
jcgregorio : selector - WSGI Delegation - It's Routes but built specifically for WSGI. Saves me the trouble of rewriting Dispatch for WSGI.
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18/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
jkottke : Online TurboTax as a text adventure game - Online TurboTax as a text adventure game. "I should write up a complete walkthrough to solve Tax Return 2006 in as few moves as possible."
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18/04/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Linkorama : Bringing "Web 2.0" Concepts to the "Enterprise" - Make them show you, not in Powerpoint or whitepapers — in an actual demonstration, from beginning to end, from creation to retrieval, how this system will help and enable and empower and empassion the users whose job it will be to use the system. I
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18/04/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Gigapxl technology - I've seen some of these prints, they are astounding
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18/04/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
jimray : VGMusic - 21,000+ Game Music MIDI files
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18/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : If you take two copies of the same video, play them side-by-side a few frames out of sync, and do the cross-your-eyes thing that you do with stereoscopic images, you'll see the video in 3-D - Jakob noticed an interest effect...if you take two copies of the same video, play them side-by-side a few frames out of sync, and do the cross-your-eyes thing that you do with stereoscopic images, you'll see the video in 3-D.
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18/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Design Trends 2006 - Ahem. “What’s most interesting is the trend toward multicolor design. In the past, a piece might have one or two theme colors. Now a few designers are using the whole color wheel, in either pure, hot tones or pastels”.
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