26/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : hackdiary: Last.fm isn't just for humans - Matt Biddulph scripted an AudioScrobbler profile containing a live feed of the music played on the BBC 6Music radio station. [via] #
Andy Baio : Last.fm isn't just for humans - BBC radio station quietly tracking nearly every song played for the last year [via]
plasticbag : Last.fm isn't just for humans - Mr Biddulph talks about work he did when we were at the BBC, piping now-playing lists from 6music into last.fm to make a profile of their music listening preferences. Pretty cool, really. Very interesting.
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26/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : OmniWeb 5.5 Sneaky Peek 6 now available. - This is a public release, but unfortunately, has a ‘under construction’ stripe on the toolbar – just so you know its a beta. Ah c’mon!?
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26/04/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Changing the Homepage on the Motorola v710 - Changing the Homepage on the Motorola v710: kick ass! I've always wondered to how to make the v710 browser suck less
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26/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Dynamic Propeller Balancing - Dynamic Propeller Balancing: blancemyprop.com is a great domain name for this, though the site is butt ugly
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26/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bush Approval Ratings vs. Gas Prices - Bush Approval Ratings vs. Gas Prices: it's exactly what you'd expect to see
Philippe Janvier : Bush Approval Ratings vs. Gas Prices - Quand les américains votent avec leurs voitures. [via] #
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26/04/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Is Google Search More Relevant Or Is There A Brand Factor? - Is Google Search More Relevant Or Is There A Brand Factor?: maybe both?
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26/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Old 70s song about the subway from Sesame Street - Old 70s song about the subway from Sesame Street. This went totally over my head as a kid, but as a NYC resident, it's awesome. On the subway. Subway!
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26/04/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Science blog Cocktail Party Physics has a list of "physics cocktails" in the sidebar - Science blog Cocktail Party Physics has a list of "physics cocktails" in the sidebar (scroll down a bit). The Black Hole is "so called because after one of these, you have already passed the event horizon of inebriation." Boy, am I a huge sucker for physi
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26/04/2006 @ 20:28 GMT
jcgregorio : Backstory: What is the value of a tree? - Our real-estate-wise 'hot' sub-division is getting it's boost in part from all the trees we all planted 8 years ago.
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26/04/2006 @ 19:52 GMT
jcgregorio : Feed Error - Why is bloglines barfing on delicious feeds? - Why is bloglines barfing on delicious feeds?
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26/04/2006 @ 19:13 GMT
merlinmann : Wists, top web picks from 37signals for wallets. Wists, social shopping scrapbook, wishlist - The wallet meme is unstoppable. 37S provides this handy Wist full of links to various wallet-types out there. Neato.
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26/04/2006 @ 19:13 GMT
Linkorama : Promise and Peril of Enterprise 2.0 - Podcast with Jeff Clavier and Dana Gardner
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26/04/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
jimray : Slimmy - Kata - My poor duct tape wallet is falling apart, this looks like a nice replacement
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26/04/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bad Behavior - Bad Behavior: Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots.
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26/04/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
plasticbag : Roman historian Tacitus was a bit down on that Christ fellow - He referred to Christianity as a "pernicious superstition" and that Christians committed "crimes against mankind". My brother informs me that Romans also thought Christians were cannibals because of the sacrament. Smart people, if a bit dull.
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26/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Cheese by Hand is a project by Michael Claypool and Sasha Davies to "capture the experience of cheesemakers around the country, in their own voices, and share them with consumers and cheese fans everywhere" - Cheese by Hand is a project by Michael Claypool and Sasha Davies to "capture the experience of cheesemakers around the country, in their own voices, and share them with consumers and cheese fans everywhere". Jasper Hill Farms cheese = great; audio about J [via]
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26/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Powerful photo essay on Chernobyl, 20 years after the accident - Powerful photo essay on Chernobyl, 20 years after the accident. Photographer Paul Fusco says the damage was so great that he thought he was looking at "a different race of people". (thx, lisa)
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26/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Great set of publicity photos taken by French Ministry for Tourism of celebrities flying Air France in the 30s, 40s, and 50s - Great set of publicity photos taken by French Ministry for Tourism of celebrities flying Air France in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. They were found at a flea market for a euro each. Includes Ursula Andress, Louis Armstrong, Henry Miller, Marlene Dietrich, Cary
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26/04/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Matthew Baldwin ruminates on loopholes: tax, political, semantic, legal, and otherwise - Matthew Baldwin ruminates on loopholes: tax, political, semantic, legal, and otherwise. "Even when the perpetrator is doing something reprehensible [...] you can’t help but marvel at a loophole-monger’s ability to think both inside and outsi
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26/04/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
Linkorama : Personal Knowledge Management - But personal knowledge management tools allow users to devise their own workflow solutions on an as-needed basis - solutions that may come together long before a publisher or aggregator has been able to engineer their value equation into the user-driven p
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26/04/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : the Creatures in my Head - illustration and artwork by Andrew Bell [via]
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26/04/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC Programme Catalogue - The BBC Archives database has been put online in an searchable and hyperlinked format. How long until the archives are web-accessible too? [via] #
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26/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Steffy the Rubber Doll’s Web Page - Steffy the Rubber Doll’s Web Page: These rubberist and latex people are creepy!
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26/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Super Mario, live on stage - nice rendition [via]
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26/04/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Interview with Matt Groening about -- what else? -- The Simpsons, Futurama, and even a little Life in Hell - Interview with Matt Groening about -- what else? -- The Simpsons, Futurama, and even a little Life in Hell.
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26/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
philgyford : Archinect : News : Jane Jacobs goes to the great city in the sky - Fairly detailed obituary/summary. (via City of Sound)
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26/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
philgyford : LRB | Steven Shapin : At the Amsterdam - Review of two books on the history of coffee houses. A fascinating summary of how lively, interesting and important they were. (Subscribers only unfortunately.)
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26/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Third Hand - Third Hand: a useful little tool for helping with electronics projects
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26/04/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Long obit for Jane Jacobs - Long obit for Jane Jacobs. She honed her thinking by having imaginary conversations with Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and a Saxon chieftain. Here's another obit from the Toronto Star.
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26/04/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Blinksale $2.0 - Blinksale Reloaded. Woohoo! I've been using this fantastic app for every one of my invoices since July 2005. I couldn't ask for a better app, and this week it got even better. Invoice filtering / tracking / printing, tags, API, and much more. You're missi
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26/04/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
kellan : SvN Job Board - It's common wisdom that Google is the new portal, but a portl from 37s? #
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plasticbag : "Broadband is Killing TV" sign at BBC Television Centre - I'm assuming it's for some internal point-making exercise, unless the sign-makers guild has finally decided to take up the power that is it's natural birth-right and start making dumb comments all over the place...bro
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26/04/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
wearehugh : Important Message For Branch Nightly Users - Places
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26/04/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : David Copperfield gets robbed, does slight-of-hand to convince crooks his pockets are empty - This is going to sound like an Onion article but isn't. David Copperfield got held up at gunpoint after a show last weekend and when the robbers asked him for his valuables, "he pulled out all of his pockets for Riley to see he had nothing, even though he [via]
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26/04/2006 @ 15:36 GMT
jcgregorio : O'Reilly Radar > Web 2.0 and Databases Part 1: Second Life - However, we've eschewed any of the general purpose cluster technologies (mysql cluster, various replication schemes) in favor of explicit data partitioning.
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26/04/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
philgyford : 2lmc spool - Damn Interesting - I like the spool a lot but "my web-discoverage is pretty organic because I shun memeclouds" is a hilarious phrase. I fear it it's supposed to be serious.
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26/04/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
philgyford : Francis is » Four unusual hobbies - Nice grouping of Urban Exploring, Space Hijackers, Confluencing and Guerilla Gardening. Good for the explanation at the end about what they have in common.
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26/04/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
philgyford : Has Futurism Failed? - Good long summary of the history of futurism (not the art movement) and the state of the industry now. (via Blackbeltjones)
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26/04/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
philgyford : Jwz - space junk - Great photos of bits of rockets that have crashed to earth in and around Russia. (via Haddock)
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26/04/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
philgyford : Actors & Writers London - Someone emailed to point me at this and I'll lose it if I don't link to it. Fortnightly rehearsed readings of new plays.
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26/04/2006 @ 14:31 GMT
jcgregorio : Celebrated author, urban activist Jane Jacobs dead at age 89 - Author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities", one of my favorite books.
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26/04/2006 @ 14:11 GMT
jcgregorio : how books make (or don't) money - How the publishing sausage is made. Ripe for disruption.
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26/04/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : Encore Pro Software & Smart Card Reader ( USB ) - "If you want to download data from any Respironics machine with a smart card, this is the package that will get the job done."
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26/04/2006 @ 13:10 GMT
philgyford : Quick guide to somewhat advanced JavaScript - Helping me brush up my entrenched Web 1.0 JavaScript skills.
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26/04/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : mod_proxy_balancer - Apache HTTP Server - provides load balancing support for HTTP, FTP and AJP13 protocols
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26/04/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : autotest Sucks - It doesn’t suck because it doesn’t work well, it sucks because its insides still bear the scars of its birth.
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26/04/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Namespacing your JavaScript - the benefits of closures (inner functions)
Isofarro : Namespacing your JavaScript - Dustin Diaz uses the object literal way of writing code to namespace his functions. Nothing about namespacing classes, though.
wearehugh : Namespacing your JavaScript
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26/04/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : More on S3AjaxWiki » Archive » Blog » 0xDECAFBAD - some random thoughts on what good stuff is lurking in there
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26/04/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Semantics and design | And all that Malarkey - what I like to call the semantics of design
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26/04/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : JavaScript speed test - No one should care about JavaScript performance. But if you do, this page will help you get a feel for which operations are fast and which are slow
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26/04/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Nascent: Open Text Mining Interface - a common format in which all publishers can issue their content for text-mining and indexing purposes
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26/04/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Robert’s talk » Get the rendered style of an element - I have put together a function named getStyle (yes, the name is supposed to be funny)
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26/04/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Polishing Ruby: Where is our "magic-removal branch"? - when does rails get some love?
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26/04/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Use params, not @params - a good rule of thumb here is don’t use an instance variable in your controller or view unless you created that instance variable.
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26/04/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
Linkorama : Wikis and blogs transforming workflow - "This is not something that is technology-centric, but culture-centric," Aparicio said. "I think wikis represent a paradigm shift in terms of openness in the workplace. It is to the benefit of the CIO to understand that his job is to enable knowledge wor
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26/04/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Uno 1.3 - Uno updates to allow more installation options, including a darker iLife style theme. Just a shame you have to download another file decompression app in order to open it.
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26/04/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : HOWTO: Hosting An Orgy - HOWTO: Hosting An Orgy: "Here's some tips to make your next orgy a success."
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26/04/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
Linkorama : SOA Versus Web 2.0? - As I indicated in my previous posting, a cultural chasm separates these two technology communities, despite the fact that they both rely heavily on the same foundational standard - XML.
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26/04/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : World of Warcraft API - you can write scripts in Lua, bind them to keys and use them while playing
deusx : World of Warcraft API - WoWWiki - "The World of Warcraft API is a set of functions, provided by Blizzard, that allow you to interact and modify the World of Warcraft game through the use of addons and macros."
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26/04/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: Now in a Browser Near You: Offline Access and Permanent, Client-Side Storage, Thanks to Dojo.Storage - "I'm proud to announce the immediate availability of dojo.storage and a new web-based editor named Moxie."
Simon Willison : Brad Neuberg introduces dojo.storage - Incredibly technically impressive, embodying months of accumulated expertise.
Paul Hammond : Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: Now in a Browser Near You: Offline Access and Permanent, Client-Side Storage, Thanks to Dojo.Storage - Imagine if web applications could store megabytes of data on the client-side, in the browser, both persistently and securely. No server needed.
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deusx : Xbmc Ajax Interface Beta 1 - Xbox-Scene Online Web Community - "It is a touchpanel friendly web-based GUI written completely in Javascript which makes use of the prototype framework and script.aculo.us effects."
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26/04/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : World of Warcraft rest system guide
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26/04/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : Farewell, then, The Lazyweb - "That's it, alas. Ive closed The Lazyweb.org site."
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26/04/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Gore speech about the global warming - Google Video - What's striking watching this is that it's impossible to imagine Bush giving a similarly reasoned, passionate argument about, well, anything. #
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26/04/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
erikbenson : What is the difference between madness and enlightenment? - Interesting point about how spiritual experiences that later get diagnosed as symptoms of epilepsy may discount the value of the experiences... however, artistic or literary pieces that are penned by personalities later diagnosed with mental illness are n
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26/04/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : I've got the world's longest tongue - I've got the world's longest tongue: "I'm just proud that now people everywhere can read about me and my tongue," she said.
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26/04/2006 @ 03:58 GMT
jcgregorio : NASA Robotics - Events : FIRST - NASA will broadcast the 2006 FIRST Championship, April 27-29
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26/04/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
merlinmann : Main Page - ElephantStaircase - "Elephant Staircase is a wiki made up of pages detailing ridiculously sweet projects."
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26/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : IconBuffet | Stock Icons for Digital Professionals - Royalty-free icon site, builiding community with a free fun line in viral icon "trading". Anyone want to offer me 'Helsinki Hi-Fi' in exchange for 'Oslo Finance'? [via] #
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26/04/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : USGS Releases Geologic Maps for Google Earth - USGS Releases Geologic Maps for Google Earth: "The US Geological Survey (USGS) has added more earthquake related visualizations for Google Earth. A couple of weeks ago they released a large collection of visualizations for GE as part of the 100th yea
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26/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
bmilleare : Monitoring with Google Calendar
Rod Begbie : TruePath Technologies - Enterprise Monitoring With Google Calendar! - Cunning use of Google Calender's API to display system monitoring information. [via] #
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26/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How Does OpenID Work? - How Does OpenID Work?: Phil draws a picture and explains the OpenID flow
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26/04/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Scriptless Flickr Badge generator - Scriptless Flickr Badge generator: for myspace, livejournal, and such places where you cannot use JavaScript badges
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26/04/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Linkorama : Paladin PvP - Video of an advanced character in World of Warcraft
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26/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Anatomy of a Luke Harness - Anatomy of a Luke Harness: a nice 6-point harness for aircraft
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26/04/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
wearehugh : The Crystal Ball, Episode 1 - delicious rant about microsoft's foray into online storage
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26/04/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Shrook now free - Shrook is an RSS and Atom aggregator for Mac OS X
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26/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
deusx : Better tab handling in browser textareas
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26/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Shoes made of computer keyboards - Manquerait plus en effet que ça marche :) [via] #
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26/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Bangalore Hack Day: a report - Yahoo! Bangalore Hack Day: a report: it basically rocked
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26/04/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Early Amazon: Shopping cart recommendations - Early Amazon: Shopping cart recommendations: "In my experience, innovation can only come from the bottom. Those closest to the problem are in the best position to solve it. I believe any organization that depends on innovation must embrace chaos"
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