2/05/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Wayne Burkett : 2006 Startup school notes - Shachter on scaling: "You don't know what the hell you're doing" #
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2/05/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
gleuschk : AGATHOS: Introduction - Algebraic Geometry: A Total Hypertext Online System. very cool, but not being maintained.
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2/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Andy Baio : The Web Design Trend Obituary and Death Clock - what, no drop shadows or rounded corners? [via]
Philippe Janvier : The Web Design Trend Obituary and Death Clock - "...a small collection of web design trends that I predict we will all be completely sick of in about 6 months." [via] #
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2/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
merlinmann : Daring Fireball: Good Journalism - Gruber goes to town on the AP's big "Apple" virus story.
Cameron Moll : DF on good journalism - Daring Fireball: Good Journalism. "Oh, zing! Not just an opening vignette, but the opening vignette with the ironic twist! See, I thought he was going to say Daines was using a Windows PC, because, you know, that sort of scene plays out millions of times
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2/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Isofarro : BBC Standards and Guidelines - Online technical and design guidelines for the BBC. Comprehensive and inspiring.
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2/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : ABC adds full streaming episodes of Lost, Alias, and others - good quality Flash video with commercial breaks [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : An analysis of 8,468 Pitchfork Media reviews - the followup pokes into individual author biases [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Andy Baio : Introducing Inform 7 - good introduction to the interactive fiction natural language [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Andy Baio : Sphere blog search engine launches - looks to be a good alternative to Technorati and Icerocket
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2/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Xbox Voice auto-blogs your Xbox 360 gaming activity - completely bizarre, but entertaining, form of historical activity in natural language [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Evolution on the molecular level appears to happen significantly faster for tropical species than for those that live in more temperate climates - Evolution on the molecular level appears to happen significantly faster for tropical species than for those that live in more temperate climates.
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2/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Interview with photographer Alec Soth - Interview with photographer Alec Soth. "I feel like a large part of photography is like a performance. And the photograph is like a document of this performance, of this encounter with the world." Many interviews with photographers often end up sounding v [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : An Event Apart NYC - AEA NYC. If you make it to only one An Event Apart, this might be the one. Stellar line-up of speakers.
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2/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Say Hello to Helio - Kelly Goto: Say Hello to Helio. "With MySpace in their back pocket, the promise for converting an initial percentage of the MySpace crowd is high. [...] The trick is to convert an audience who is comfortable with the desktop model of MySpace into an integ
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2/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : Achewood - May 2, 2006 - "AIRWOLF! FIND...AN OTTER!"
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2/05/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Comment design showcase - Comment design showcase. Only until recently while working on a forum app redesign did I understand just how much time one can spend on comment design.
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2/05/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : BYU undergrad biz ranked in top 10 - BYU's undergrad biz program ranks in top 10, not far behind Wharton, MIT, and Notre Dame. Right on. The diploma on my wall shines a bit brighter today.
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2/05/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Safari-like focus indicator in Firefox? - New focus indicator proposed for Firefox. Somewhat Safari-like. Love it? Hate it? Better chime in.
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2/05/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Why? - The Art of No. Or perhaps, the art of asking why instead of saying no. "When you say 'why' instead of 'no', you open a design conversation that can help inform both sides." (Love the blockquote styling btw, Derek.)
deusx : Powazek: Just a Thought: The Art of No - "When you say "why" instead of "no", you open a design conversation that can help inform both sides."
Paul Hammond : Powazek: Just a Thought: The Art of No - What if we substituted the word "Why" for "No"?
Eric Meyer : The Art of No - This would serve as well in civil discourse and debate as in a design shop.
François Nonnenmacher : The Art of No - What if we substituted the word "Why" for "No"?
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2/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
plasticbag : "TouchGraph of BBC TV/Radio Collaborators" - A nice bit of work that someone's already built on top of the BBC Programme Information dataset showing relatedness based on whether people have been on the same TV or radio show...
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2/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : In March of 2004, an artist named Tofu began constructing a map comprised only of the hometowns of American men and women killed in Iraq - In March of 2004, an artist named Tofu began constructing a map comprised only of the hometowns of American men and women killed in Iraq (map detail). "One of the disturbing by products of this work are the maps of various states with many rectangular pie [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Nabokov on Lewis Carroll and his photography - Nabokov on Lewis Carroll and his photography: "I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert. Have you seen those photographs of him with little girls?" Nabokov aside, there's no real evidence that Carroll did anything [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : PRIZM (Pretty Reliable Invisiclues for Z-Machine) - "There's a solution to every Infocom problem and a way through every Infocom maze."
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2/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : 2001 Space Odyssey on Google Earth - "It so realistic, it's almost painful not to have it rotate." So true. [via] #
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2/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : SketchUcation - "SketchUp learning materials" [via] #
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2/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Blogger Word Verification For All - "Now almost everyone will be able to create blogs, post comments, and prove to our spam classifier that they're not a robot." [via] #
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2/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Make your own x-rays: buy a dental x-ray machine on eBay and use it with Polaroid film - Make your own x-rays: buy a dental x-ray machine on eBay and use it with Polaroid film. Mit photos.
joshua : Polaroid x-ray radiographs - used dental xray + ebay = fun + radiation
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2/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
deusx : Brass Lantern: Introducing Inform 7 - "Rather than using a small set of terse programming directives as Inform 6 did, Inform 7 uses a subset of English, in an effort to make interactive fiction programming more accessible to writers who lack a computer programming background."
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2/05/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Linkorama : SoSo Necessary & Sufficient For KM? - 1.Unduly complex systems to share knowledge need to be phased out, 2.Employee engagement at work needs more attention.
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2/05/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : dpreview.com: Ricoh Talk Forum [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : official Ricoh Japan GR BLOG
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2/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jkottke : Good new series of ads for Apple; "Get a Mac" - Good new series of ads for Apple; "Get a Mac". I'm pretty sure the chap playing the PC is John Hodgman (author, Daily Show correspondent, This American Life commentator, former literary agent, monthly readings holder, hobo expert). Can anyone confirm? (vi [via]
Andy Baio : Apple's Get A Mac campaign - their new "Switch" campaign is funny and biting, but playing up the youth angle might be too limiting
Jason Shellen : New Mac TV ads - Great new ads starring Justin Long from Dodgeball and Ed fame. #
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2/05/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
deusx : SourceForge.net: The Z-machine preservation project - "A clean Java 5 implementation of a Z-code interpreter."
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2/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
gleuschk : Blahtex — home page - latex -> mathml
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2/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Star Fleet Vegas - a photoset on Flickr - Star Fleet Vegas - a photoset on Flickr: some good pics from Vegas last fall
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2/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google/Microsoft: Careful What You Whine For - Google/Microsoft: Careful What You Whine For: "First, hats off to Google for keeping a straight face while complaining about this."
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2/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : evolution occurs faster at the equator - (via digg) [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Linkorama : Wal-marts Wikipedia War - This piece does not provide enough compelling evidence that there is a war or that 'lobbyists' are at work
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2/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
gleuschk : Main Page - lyrics from LyricWiki - world-writable lyrics site withouth popups or viruses. yay wiki!
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2/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : OS X to get BitTorrent client for iTunes Music Store? - great rumor has users getting download credit for sharing video and audio
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2/05/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bad Blogger - Bad Blogger: "The lack of true ownership and the inability to make decisions can kill any product or idea."
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2/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : GalCiv2 developer - Lead programmer is a woman! May be the only modern game headed by a woman.
deusx : Chron.com | Female video-game developer provides a new perspective - "I'm not really a girly girl, but I created a Barbie race because the irony was so hilarious"
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2/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Customize "Send To" - easy Windows modification lets you open any file in notepad, etc
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2/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Radiohead Festival Announcement - Radiohead have announced some summer US tour dates. Boston is 4th & 5th of June. [via] #
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2/05/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : Change Safari's default search engine - revisited - Good Lord, you have to edit the Safari executable! [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Shopping Search APIs on Yahoo! Tech - The new Yahoo! Tech site uses the public shopping APIs.
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2/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Two steps backward - Another dumb attempt at a proprietary "reader" for online newspapers.
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2/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Microsoft make a reader for the NY Times? Wuh? - Interesting comment from John Dowdell attached.
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2/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Jeff Maurone blogs about the Times Reader - He's one of the developers. Great to see them blogging; still don't believe in the product though. [via]
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2/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : The names of Kobe Bryant's and Shaq's kids: Gianna, Natalia, Mearah, Taahhirah, Amirah, Myles, Shareef, and Shaqir - The names of Kobe Bryant's and Shaq's kids: Gianna, Natalia, Mearah, Taahhirah, Amirah, Myles, Shareef, and Shaqir.
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2/05/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
kellan : Blue Bottle Coffee just hit Cool Hunting. - Of course I used to listen to them before they got popular, and Steve was still the front man #
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2/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
deusx : SourceForge.net: ZPlet: A Z-Machine for Java - "ZPlet is an interpreter for programs using the Z-Machine virtual machine invented by Infocom for their interactive fiction."
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2/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
deusx : jay is games: Thy Dungeonman 3: Behold Thy Graphics! - "Made by Videlectrix, Homestar Runner's fictional software design company, Dungeonman 3 sports "state-of-the-art amber monochrome visuals" (circa 1980), real-time simulated medieval English text, a parser that talks back to you, and enough mocked adventur
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2/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
plasticbag : poissons-cravates - a photoset featuring men and women wearing nothing but fish ties - I don't know what to say or think about this, except that it's strange and interesting and entirely unsexual. Also the fish are cool. I wonder what it smelled like.
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