3/05/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
kellan : Rafe: Just hack - Truer words, and better advice never spoken. But so damn hard to follow. #
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3/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : MaxiVista - Multi Monitor Software - I wish there was a Mac version of this. "MaxiVista turns any spare PC into a second monitor for your main computer."
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3/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
merlinmann : 2006/05: Getting Things Done [with PODCAST] - PLiNTH & CHiNTZ - Podcast interview James Ledoux did with me for Plinth & Chintz
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3/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
merlinmann : Wait. What site is this? | Ask MetaFilter - "What's wrong with my temporary memory? How can I fix it?" Answers run toward "ADD" and "mindfulness," respectively.
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3/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Isofarro : Has SOA jumped the shark? - 'But SOA is intangible, and this may be the first time an entire industry is trying to push an intangible concept. It's going to take time. Web 2.0, on the other hand, has some very tangible deliverables, such as Google Maps-based applications and wikis.
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3/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Using the New 3D Warehouse Network Link - Un moyen de trouver les modèles SketchUp qui ont été placés sur la vue courante de Google Earth. [via] #
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jkottke : Currently coveting: the Galaxie Polaris type family from Village type foundry - Currently coveting: the Galaxie Polaris type family from Village type foundry. Beautiful.
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3/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Interview with actor and (now) director Crispin Glover, who is screening his film What Is It? one theater at a time across the country - Interview with actor and (now) director Crispin Glover, who is screening his film What Is It? one theater at a time across the country.
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3/05/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Rod Begbie : Improv Everywhere Mission: Best Buy - Improv Everywhere send 80 folks wearing blue polo shirts and kahkis into a Best Buy. "Hilarity" "ensues". #
deusx : Improv Everywhere Mission: Best Buy - "Wearing clothing almost identical to the store's uniform, the agents would not claim to work at the store but would be friendly and helpful if anyone had a question."
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3/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : - - - the essence of rabbit - - - - "Order your own private Bunny Mandala for comfortable home meditation."
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3/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : Questionable Content #612 - "Right, I'll go put on my bike helmet."
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3/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : 365 tomorrows - Mrs. Lansing and the School of Humans - "More human than you will be, because the machines run you now, and unless you learn what makes them work, unless you work them, you are their slave."
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3/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : jwz - Oh That Colbert - "Unless your rock-of-hiding is particularly large, it's unlikely you've not heard about Stephen Colbert's cast-iron-testicles performance at the White House Correspondents dinner."
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3/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : Salon.com - Daou Report - "Or at the least, can't reporters suppress their raucous laughter every time he blurts out another jibe... the way they did when Colbert put them in their place?"
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3/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Is Flickr Protecting Photos From Download ? - "...if a photo can be viewed in a web browser, it can be saved." [via] #
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Andy Baio : Quitting YouTube - they're cracking down on copyrighted videos, their biggest attraction by far [via]
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merlinmann : Ohr Somayach - Ask The Rabbi / Shabbat Elevators - "A Shabbat elevator is essentially an automatic elevator which operates according to a preset program, and is not influenced by the passenger(s) in any way."
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3/05/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
merlinmann : Radical Mutual-Improvement - Mashing up "self-help, psychology, game theory, neurobiology, social networking, goal-making, and the internet."
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3/05/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
merlinmann : Bokardo » The Del.icio.us Lesson - "The one major idea behind the Del.icio.us Lesson is that personal value precedes network value."
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3/05/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
jimray : The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
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3/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Eau de PLAY-DOH - That instantly recognizable scent of Play Doh, in cologne form. [via] #
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3/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft may aim for Yahoo! acquisition, report says - Microsoft may aim for Yahoo! acquisition, report says: let's migrate Yahoo to Windows... just like HotMail
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3/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Guitar Hero tablature - also, this video of the hidden track is insane
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3/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : MomAdvice - MomAdvice. Hard not to like the visuals on this one. I'm enchanted by the tab mouseovers.
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3/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
merlinmann : “but please don’t pester me†on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Kunstler's website feels like a junk store owned by a cranky old man. Which I love. Right down to the little signs demanding certain behavior.
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3/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Can I use velcro on the Shabbat? - also: Shabbat elevators, glow in the dark toys, and no origami! [via]
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3/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Nokia Research - Mobile Web Server - Apache for your S60 cellphone. Includes mod_python so you can write your own scripts! [via] #
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3/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Wired magazine reports on the revolutionary food and strange equipment (antigriddle!) used by chef Grant Achatz in the kitchen at Alinea - Wired magazine reports on the revolutionary food and strange equipment (antigriddle!) used by chef Grant Achatz in the kitchen at Alinea. "The technology allows us to get to the essence of food. It allows you to be more true with flavor, not less true."
Andy Baio : Wired profile of chef Grant Achatz and Alinea restaurant - scientific foodies pioneering molecular gastronomy [via]
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3/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
wearehugh : Firefox has reached 20% market share in more than half of Europe
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3/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : The Onion AV Club is not impressed with this year's crop of blockbusters in their 2006 Summer Movie Preview - The Onion AV Club is not impressed with this year's crop of blockbusters in their 2006 Summer Movie Preview.
Andy Baio : The A.V. Club's 2006 Summer Movie Preview - the headline sums it up as "Why Bother?"
Rod Begbie : Why Bother?: The A.V. Club's 2006 Summer Movie Preview - The Onion AV Club's snark-filled guide to this summer's movies. [via] #
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3/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has compiled a 100-song playlist of mostly classical/instrumental music for the 20th century - New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has compiled a chronolocial 100-song playlist/tour of mostly classical/instrumental music for the 20th century. Starts with Stravinsky & Gershwin and ends with Bjork.
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3/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : if:book: defining the networked book: a few thoughts and a list - "After a quick back-and-forth, we came up with the following capsule definition: "a networked book is an open book designed to be written, edited and read in a networked environment.""
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3/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
plasticbag : ABC.com's full episode streaming allows you to watch TV shows online for free - Obviously the model is advertising funded. It's a pretty sweet angle because they can stop people skipping adverts. I don't think it's the model that 'wins', but it should sit nicely as one of the two or three along with season pass downloads...
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3/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
plasticbag : Think Secret posts notes from Apple shareholders' meeting - Most notable for the last line in my opinion and the (albeit tiny) response to questions about Microsoft's Media Centre - a territory I've said repeatedly that Apple should just be invading right about now...
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3/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
plasticbag : if:book talks about how we will handle and publish literary correspondence in the age of e-mail - My favourite part of this article is the conversation about how you'd create an annotatable, taggable and explorable resource around Dave Eggers' Inbox. Not sure I'd be enormously keen to have my e-mail on display in the same way of course...
philgyford : If:book: the selected, annotated outbox of dave eggers - When reading reviews of books about someone's letters I've wondered what will be gleaned in the future from someone who only uses email. (via plasticbag)
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3/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
plasticbag : Catherine Saillant of the LA Times writes about the negotiations she's had with her daughter around MySpace - A fascinating glimpse into the kind of things that teenagers are doing on MySpace and how confusing it can be for a parent working out how to handle, respond to and harness this activity...
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3/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
plasticbag : 'The essence of rabbit' is a shrine to the Illustrators love of bunnies - It includes some work by the lovely Denise Wilton and a mandala featuring hundreds of different rabbits
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3/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
plasticbag : Doctor Who dog K9 is to get his own spin-off TV series - The only important part of this story is that there's a picture of a revised K9 that I haven't seen anywhere else on the web. Has anyone seen a larger version?
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3/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Daedalus, N64 emulator for the PSP - not enough buttons on the PSP, but badass anyway [via]
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3/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Flashmob recreates banned Xbox 360 commercial - bang! [via]
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3/05/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Andy Baio : ASCII Maps - silly ASCII art proxy for Google Maps, with map and satellite options [via]
Rod Begbie : ASCII Maps - Google Maps in an ASCII Art stylee. [via] #
jkottke : ASCII Maps, a fully-functional version of Google Maps represented in ASCII - ASCII Maps, a fully-functional version of Google Maps represented in ASCII. Doesn't work in Safari tho. (via infosthetics) [via]
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3/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : CthulhuTrailer.mov (video/quicktime Object) - ""
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3/05/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
merlinmann : What's the simplest, cheapest yet most complete diet available? | Ask MetaFilter - "I often end up eating junk because it's more convenient, but it adds up." Fun thread and an interesting question.
jimray : What's the simplest, cheapest yet most complete diet available? | Ask MetaFilter
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3/05/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : World of Warcraft easter eggs
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3/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
wearehugh : Debian GNU/Linux Java FAQ. - Java Development - who wants to bet that, if sun open-sources java, they'll still manage to fuck it up?
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3/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
jkottke : OMGITWBI! (Oh my god, it's the world's best invention!) Bed Books have sideways text for easy reading lying in bed - OMGITWBI! (Oh my god, it's the world's best invention!) Bed Books have sideways text for easy reading lying in bed. (via cyn-c) [via]
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3/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
jkottke : Superman Returns trailer - Superman Returns trailer. Mmmmm.
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3/05/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
wearehugh : Sortable Lists (Ftrain.com)
deusx : Sortable Lists (Ftrain.com) - "Much that was once magic to me is now garbage. "
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3/05/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
deusx : Google Groups: rec.arts.int-fiction - "I'm not going to get into the question of whether it's ultimately better for total novices if you (a) dress up the program's logic or (b) expose it in bare shorthand from the beginning."
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3/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : CustomEvent: onFontResize - Neat little hack using an iframe with width set in ems. [via]
Paul Hammond : CustomEvent : onFontResize - When fontSize is changed, this Iframe will fire an onResize event which we can catch later
wearehugh : onFontResize - brilliant hack
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3/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Django "magic-removal" branch merged - Finally! Django's model layer is now a heck of a lot cleaner.
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3/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : EasyEclipse LAMP Edition - Eclipse pre-configured for LAMP development. Haven't tried it myself but it looks good.
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3/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : WSJ on Hollywood's goofy portrayal of the Internet - with a great gallery of movie clips [via]
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3/05/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
merlinmann : How to Cook Rice Perfectly - "Letting your rice rest enlarges the window of opportunity for serving perfectly cooked rice"
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3/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : The Saddest Thing I Own - epic and destroying; see My Firstborn, Daddy, and Mom's Ring [via]
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3/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Vectorama - old, but good; multiplayer vector illustration playground
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