4/05/2006 @ 23:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Aerial photos by Jason Hawkes - Gorgeous aerial photography by Jason Hawkes.
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4/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Yahoo Tech uses the hReview microformat! - Its spreading!
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4/05/2006 @ 22:13 GMT
Cameron Moll : Port Pot Shot - Exclusively for the scientist who always dreamt of blasting a porta potty into space.
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4/05/2006 @ 22:13 GMT
Cameron Moll : Aisle of Averages - late night photography at Safeway - "Perspective shots of [Safeway] store aisles are distorted back out of perspective so that the shelf forms a rectangle in the picture plane instead of trapezoid. Then four passes of motion blur @ 999 to arrive at a kind of loose average or wash of the she
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4/05/2006 @ 22:12 GMT
Cameron Moll : 05012006.jpg by Ken Ilio - Gapers Block: 05012006.jpg by Ken Ilio.
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4/05/2006 @ 22:11 GMT
Jon Hicks : FlickrExport 2 Screenshots - I can’t wait for the next upgrade to FlickrExport. Being able to send to photosets as well as groups!
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4/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
deusx : Phil Windley's Technometria | Wiki Wednesday - "So what features are needed and central to the notion of a wiki?"
Linkorama : Wiki Wednesday - Eugene was being controversial and said that recent improvements to wikis are missing the point. Wikis are transformational tools for communities. They are neutral space. So what features are needed and central to the notion of a wiki?
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4/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
deusx : decaffeinated archives :: Submit, publish, comment, rinse, repeat - "So why isn't MacOSXHints a wiki?"
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4/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : A list of the films preserved in the United States National Film Registry - A list of the films preserved in the United States National Film Registry. (thx, robert)
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4/05/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
philgyford : Dorian moore : Dalston to Old Street - Like a slow and clunky (in a good way) east London version of that movie where a guy drives across Paris insanely quickly.
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4/05/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
philgyford : The New York Review of Books: The Coming Meltdown - I underlined this review of two books on environmental disaster when I read it. Not sure why now, but still.
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4/05/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
philgyford : The New York Review of Books: The Way to a Fair Deal - Interesting review of Benjamin M. Friedman's 'The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth' (subscribers only).
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4/05/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
philgyford : The New York Review of Books: Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death - Lots of bits in this review of Carter's book 'Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis' that I circled.
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4/05/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
philgyford : The New York Review of Books: Summoning the Spirits - Fascinating article about Victorian mediums, spirit photographers etc. (subscribers only)
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4/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : The Day The Lawn Wasn't Mowed - it looks like the headline changed on the small town newspaper
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4/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
wearehugh : Accessible DHTML - MDC
veen : Accessible DHTML - Mozilla Developer Center - "Role" and "State" metadata in Ajax applications.
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4/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
wearehugh : Key-navigable custom DHTML widgets - MDC
jcgregorio : Key-navigable custom DHTML widgets - MDC - onkeydown
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4/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Brandon Flowers expresses his love for Bruce Springsteen and then announces that The Killers are recording "one of the best albums in the past 20 years" - Brandon Flowers expresses his love for Bruce Springsteen and then announces that The Killers are recording "one of the best albums in the past 20 years". (via gf) [via]
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4/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : The King James version of the Bible makes several mentions of unicorns, but it seems to be a creative mistranslation on the part of the KJB's authors rather than "evidence" that the Bible is mythical - The King James version of the Bible makes several mentions of unicorns, but it seems to be a creative mistranslation on the part of the KJB's authors rather than evidence that the Bible is mythical. God still hates shrimp, though.
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4/05/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Flickr: The hello, stranger. Pool [via]
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4/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Andy Baio : On Bots - analysis and great visualizations of Yahoo, Google, and MSN crawler activity for a year
joshua : On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers - Nice analysis of crawler behavior
Matthew M. Boedicker : beautiful graphs of search engine crawling behavior - (via slashdot comment) [via]
Milo Vermeulen : drunkmenworkhere.org - On Bots - results of a one-year experiment on search engine behaviour [via]
Nelson Minar : Search spider test - If I understand right, the best crawlers would crawl no pages here
Rod Begbie : Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots - Visualizations on how Yahoo, Google and MSN (and comment spam bots) spider through content. [via] #
Philippe Janvier : On Bots - Analyse des comportements des robots des 3 plus gros moteurs de recherche. [via] #
Wayne Burkett : On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers - Very interesting crawler behavior visualization. #
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4/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Richard Dawkins has a new book coming out in October called The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins has a new book coming out in October called The God Delusion. For some reason, I don't see this being a big seller in the US.
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4/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Guidelines from the Secret Service on the printed reproduction of currency - Guidelines from the Secret Service on the printed reproduction of currency. I once photocopied a dollar bill at the office on our uber-photocopier and was astounded how good it looked...I don't envy the SS's task here.
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4/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Alright Star Wars nerds, here's the moment you've all been waiting for...the original as-shown-in-the-theater versions of Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi are being released on DVD, at long last - Alright Star Wars nerds, here's the moment you've all been waiting for...the original as-shown-in-the-theater versions of Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi are being released on DVD, at long last. Han shoots first!
Andy Baio : Original Star Wars to be released on DVD - finally, I can replace my bootleg Laserdisc rips with bootleg DVDs [via]
Nelson Minar : Real Star Wars DVDs - Without the abominable extra material from the past few years. No need to steal laserdisc rips anymore.
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4/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : How will David Blaine hold his breath for 9 minutes? - How will David Blaine hold his breath for 9 minutes? Relaxation and pure oxygen.
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4/05/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
philgyford : Randy Glass Studio - Incredibly detailed and accurate black and white ink(?) illustrations. (via Drawn!)
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4/05/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
philgyford : Aplus :: z-pos - Detailed exploration of an Internet Explorer CSS z-index bug. It saved my sanity last week.
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4/05/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
philgyford : Royal Festival Hall | Information Pages - The RFH are selling mats made out of the 1950s carpet they took up for their refurbishment. Nice, but £55.
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4/05/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
philgyford : Enid Crow Disasters - Nice Cindy Sherman-esque self portrait photography of characters witnessing disasters.
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4/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
merlinmann : Federated Media - Advertising Platform - Federated Media's self-service ad platform launches. Choose audience and ad units across all FM sites. Nice work, gang!
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4/05/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : US mothers deserve $134,121 in salary - US mothers deserve $134,121 in salary: A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work
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4/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : Castlevania Game Name Generator - "German Techno of Really Bad Gas"
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4/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
wearehugh : win32 1.8-branch build with canvas updates - hooray! toDataURL is almost here!
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4/05/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Up close and personal with Toshiba's new HD DVD player (the HD-A1) - Slicing and dicing an HD DVD player. A Pentium 4 processor, a 256Mb USB flash drive (running ext2), and a gig of RAM are amongst the goodies. [via] #
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4/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Six Apart's downtime and Blue Security, the idiots that spam spammers - a great post sums up how these two stories from yesterday are related
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4/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Apple cease and desists Something Awful - for a service manual they're not even hosting; the thermal grease thread is great, too
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4/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : IRC on the Nintendo DS - l33t [via]
deusx : Ficedula: SylphIRC - release - It's IRC on a Nintendo DS!
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4/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Soda distributors to end most school sales - I fully expect high school students to riot to get their Coke machines back [via]
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4/05/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : Dave's Store - "This innovative pump spray hot sauce allows you to change the heat of the sauce by turning the cap. It changes from slightly spicy to fiery."
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4/05/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : Thank You Stephen Colbert. - "40004 Thank Yous. Add another"
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4/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Counterattack On Google - The Counterattack On Google: "Sifting through paperwork, number crunchers at rival Yahoo! Inc. were stunned to realize just how much more profit Google generated, compared with Yahoo, from its system of selling ads on Web searches."
plasticbag : Business Week wrote an article a little while back about the ways in which Microsoft and Yahoo are responding to Google's dominance in the search ad market - I'm obviously not going to comment on it in any formal capacity - it's not an area that I work closely with for a start - but it's a pretty interesting read nonetheless.
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4/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : MySpace reinvented email - MySpace reinvented email: hmm... could be.
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4/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
plasticbag : The BBC's review of Mission: Impossible III contains this completely classic line... - "The only real problem is Tom himself, who manifestly fails to convince as a human being. With his plasticised musculature and ten kilowatt grin, he's less of an action hero and more of an action figure"
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4/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Neutrality of the Net - Tim Berners-Lee on the most important issue facing the 'net today.
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4/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Django for non-programmers - Jeff Croft's intro to Django.
jcgregorio : JeffCroft.com: Django for non-programmers
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4/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines - Jacob's presentation at the Googleplex, on Google Video.
Rod Begbie : django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines - Google Video - Google Tech Talk from Jacob of the Django team. Good overview of the origins and philosophy of Django. #
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