24/04/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
joshua : Simple Open Source 3D Game Engines?
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24/04/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Scaling Rails with Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer and Mongrel
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24/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : London Marathon - Ben Saunders - "Most inspirational t-shirt slogan : "Never give up. Never surrender." Least helpful advice from a crowd member : "Keep breathing!" [via] #
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24/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Bush's Thousand Days - Quoting Lincoln: "Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary ... and you allow him to make war at pleasure" #
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24/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Digital cameras leave 'fingerprints' on their snaps - Breaking News - Digital cameras leave 'fingerprints' on their snaps - Breaking News: big brother is watching!
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24/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Python GCal Api - Python GCal Api: Python Interface to google calendar
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24/04/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Philips is paying Time Inc to put the table of contents in some of their magazines on page 1 - As part of their "simplicity" ad campaign, Philips is paying Time Inc to put the table of contents in some of their magazines on page 1 (the TOC is typically further into the magazine in a more irritating position). It's funny that there was concern about
jimray : WSJ.com - Philips and Time Inc. Agree to Keep It Simple - Philips is paying Time $5 million to put the table of contents of several magazines on page 1, where it belongs
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24/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Linkorama : Wiki Fever Spreads to Shopping Sites - "You're seeing a lot of people throwing up a wiki and saying 'Oooh, now we'll magically get all this stuff,'" Mr. Wales said. "But it's not about the software."
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24/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : George W. Bush, dissident president? - George W. Bush, dissident president? "Now that President Bush is increasingly alone in pushing for freedom..." The WSJ editorial page is laughably bad sometimes.
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24/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : An Iraqi star of the movie Flight 93 won't be able to see the premiere of the film in NYC because the US government won't let him into the country - An Iraqi star of the movie Flight 93 (which has been getting great reviews) won't be able to see the premiere of the film in NYC because the US government won't let him into the country.
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24/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Ira Glass and This American Life have moved to NYC...and they're making a TV version of the show for Showtime - Ira Glass and This American Life have moved to NYC...and they're making a TV version of the show for Showtime.
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kellan : Does anyone know what weatherjam is? - J has a social weather app she wants me to build for her #
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24/04/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Wayne Burkett : To Leap or Not to Leap: Science News Online, April 22, 2006 - "Another possibility would be to avoid any change in standard atomic time until the disparity between the clocks and Earth's rotation becomes, say, an entire hour." #
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24/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : David Sifry and Technorati Get On My Nerves - David Sifry and Technorati Get On My Nerves: "Dave Sifry plays fast and lose with language by interchangeably using blogosphere and number of blogs Technorati is tracking."
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24/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : CEO pay eclipses ridiculous - CEO pay eclipses ridiculous: "CEOs at larger U.S. corporations on average earn $430 for every $1 earned by the average U.S. worker. Twenty-six years ago, CEOs received an average of $10 for every $1 earned by a U.S. worker."
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24/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : New business practice: bring your own laptop - New business practice: bring your own laptop. "Basically treat the employee's laptop as you would treat the employees's pants: require it, pay the employee enough to buy it, and provide the infrastructure that works with it, but that's all. Give the emplo
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24/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Short remembrance by Rob Janoff about designing the logo for Apple Computer - Short remembrance by Rob Janoff about designing the logo for Apple Computer. The logo was to be black & white to save on printing costs, but "Jobs was resolute, arguing that color was the key to humanizing the company".
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24/04/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Linkorama : Add a Wiki to Your Start Page - Why didn't I think of that?
deusx : Micro Persuasion: Add a Wiki, Bloglines or Technorati to Your Start Page - "If you add Bitty Browser to your personalized page and then set it up to load a mobile version of a site, you have a powerful tool you can use right on your home page without ever leaving it. "
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24/04/2006 @ 19:14 GMT
jcgregorio : WSGI and WSGI Middleware is Easy - Ben Bangert on WSGI
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24/04/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : MenuPages.com - MenuPages.com: they scanned a bunch of menus and put them online
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24/04/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tru-Laser Distance Measurer - Tru-Laser Distance Measurer: a handy tool if you measure a lot
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24/04/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Is Concentration the New Competitive Advantage? - Is Concentration the New Competitive Advantage?: ...the way the constant collection of information becomes an easy substitute for trying to achieve any kind of true understanding
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24/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Andy Baio : SFGate tribute to the 25th anniversary of Journey's "ESC4P3" - don't stop believin'
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24/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : On Pokemonetisation... - On Pokemonetisation...: Simon is a wise Harry Potter
jkottke : Pokemonetise, v., "to make money by appealing to the stupid human instinct to collect dumb things" - New coinage by Simon Willison: pokemonetise, v., "to make money by appealing to the stupid human instinct to collect dumb things".
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24/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Greg Saunders has a suggestion for a Democratic ad campaign for the midterm elections - Greg Saunders has a suggestion for a simple Democratic ad campaign for the midterm elections consisting of three graphs: gas prices, oil company stock prices, and oil company campaign contributions.
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24/04/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
Linkorama : Strategic Acts of Generosity - market share leaders in mature markets offer up access to their customer base to a new generation of partner/competitors in order to stimulate a new round of customer interest in their category.
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24/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
plasticbag : SteamPunk Transformers are rocking my world right about now - I'm a trivial man, but still the image of Megatron built out of a huge cannon is pretty damn cool and makes way more sense than that stupid miniature gun that he used to turn into...
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24/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
plasticbag : Denise Richards has been presenting a pretty unsavoury view of Charlie Sheen in her divorce papers - Although, the weirdest thing about it is that pretty much everything she talks about just sounds like a slightly negative portrayal of how I'd expect a Hollywood star to behave anyway, so there you go...
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24/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Set of photos depicting NYC in the 80s - Set of photos depicting NYC in the 80s. Everytime I see pictures of subway cars covered with graffiti, I marvel at how clean the cars are now.
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24/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Horrible Segues, With Local Anchorman Clive Rutledge - Horrible Segues, With Local Anchorman Clive Rutledge. "After seeing that clip featuring the hottie in the halter-top, something else is rising, too, heh-heh, if you catch my drift -- that's right: interest rates. Today the Federal Reserve recommended they
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24/04/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Linkorama : What Would Disney Do? - First, he would be creating incredible new experiences in gaming, and on the cell phones...Second, running a market for content
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24/04/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
deusx : ongoing Atomic Monday - "This is Atom doing exactly what we went to all that trouble to make it do."
Paul Hammond : ongoing · Atomic Monday - This is huge; anyone who uses synthetic or aggregated feeds knows that dupes are a big problem, showing up all over the place. No longer, Atom makes that problem go away.
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24/04/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : James Tauber : Recreational Programming - "For recreation, some people like to do NY Times crosswords puzzles in ink. Me, I like tackling small, incremental, computer programming tasks."
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24/04/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
merlinmann : Annie Says "Hi Merlin" - Hi, Anne. (thanks, Brian)
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24/04/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
merlinmann : SeonaDancing.com - Info and audio on Ricky Gervais's early 80s new wave band. He weighs like 80 pounds -- and most of that's makeup and hair care products. [via:muledesign]
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24/04/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Feedburner now tracks more podcasts than sum total of all radio stations - and it's just beginning
Linkorama : More Podcasts than Radio Stations - "FeedBurner recently surpassed a major milestone of 44,000 podcast feeds under management, which, according to the CIA World Factbook, exceeds the total number of radio stations worldwide," notes Klau.
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24/04/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Linkorama : Media 2.0 Is Less Profitable Than Media 1.0? - Not from this analysis, which assumes that every impression should contain an ad. Even though there us unlimited inventory. Offline, does a phonebook or newspaper have an ad on every page?
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24/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Linkorama : Chickens and eggs - I recently told an investor that I'm not a believer in businesses that can only be successful at massive scale. It reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live commercial for the company that made money by changing a dime into 2 nickels and a nickel into
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24/04/2006 @ 01:11 GMT
jimray : :: rogerebert.com :: Editor's Notes :: 101 Movies You Must See Before... (xhtml) - Thanks, Resh...
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24/04/2006 @ 01:11 GMT
jimray : Cool Hunting: Hitachino Nest Beer - Wow, Japanese beer I might actually like!
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24/04/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
jimray : The Blog | Tony Hendra: The Rapture is Crapture (Part 1) | The Huffington Post - "...judging by my current book tour through the Bible Belt the Lord's going to get a hernia snatching up some of those Baptist babes." Ouch.
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24/04/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
jimray : Moongirl - cute stuff for an ugly world
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24/04/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Philippe Janvier : This is hot ! - When fire + ice = Firefox :) [via] #
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24/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
plasticbag : Welcome to Torchwood House... - Omigod, after the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who completely and epically sucked the big one, the new one rocked like a motherfucker. Woot!
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