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Andy Baio : Google Trends - compare frequency of particular search terms over time, but without exposing actual numbers [via]
jkottke : See graphs for the popularity of Google search results with Google Trends - Fun! See graphs for the popularity of Google search results with Google Trends. Is the blog meme trend finally flattening out? And hey, I had a hand in shaping this one.
Rod Begbie : Google Trends - Google Fight Pro -- Fun datamining showing search volume over time. [via] #
Philippe Janvier : Google Trends - "...compare the world's interest in your favorite topics." [via] #
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10/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Apocalypto Freeze Frame - I love the fact that for one solitary frame, there is an image of Mel Gibson grinning like a loon! I had to download the movie to see it though…
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10/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : :: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog :: The Testament, My Testament - "A functioning democracy requires its citizens to have some connection to reality."
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10/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
gleuschk : Make and Take Gourmet - in Cicero. $200 for 24 meals for 2.
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10/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : The WSJ asks their readers what they want in a news site circa 2016 and they respond mostly with stuff that's already possible or exists elsewhere - The WSJ asks their readers what they want in a news site circa 2016 and they respond mostly with stuff that's already possible or exists elsewhere.
deusx : WSJ.com - The Perfect News Site, 2016 - What's funny is that we've got these features on sites other than WSJ, right now and today.
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10/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : "eyecandy for Web2.0 retards" - I could give two craps about Sphere, but I loved these two lines: "it's eyecandy for Web2.0 retards" and "Designing for the TechCrunch crowd is a mook's game. Designing for users means making things straightforward, lightweight, and uncluttered." (via bbj [via]
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10/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : "You people have 8 levels of hierarchy and I haven't even stopped counting yet" - Edward Tufte on the user interface of some Sun software: "Dr Spock's Baby Care is a best-selling owner's manual for the most complicated 'product' imaginable -- and it only has two levels of headings. You people have 8 levels of hierarchy and I haven't ev
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10/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Linux 2.4 NAT HOWTO: Destination NAT Onto the Same Network - "If you are doing port forwarding back onto the same network, you need to make sure that both future packets and reply packets pass through the NAT box (so they can be altered). "
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10/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Amazon.com: Precalculus for Christian Schools: Books: Kathy D. Pilger,Ron Tagliapietra - "Worse than you may imagine"
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10/05/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Isofarro : SiteMorse accessibility outings - 'One of our long term clients, for whom we act as usability and accessibility consultants, recently came to us with a SiteMorse report. Basically thay had spammed about 20 people within the organisation. Yet another accessibility league table, the result
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10/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
plasticbag : Caffeinated and Unstrung... - "This wiki is intended to be a guide to the best places in the city to huddle over a table with your laptop, a cup of something hot and get online"
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10/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr releasing big UI changes next week - new nav, new search, and a redesigned Organizr
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10/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Linkorama : Bureacracy Termites: Blogs, Wiki's, and Information Markets - Yet, it strikes me that there are at least three inoculations executives can administer to their organizations to make them more immune to bad bureaucratic processes and, perhaps, unleash the value of self organization.
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10/05/2006 @ 18:19 GMT
Cameron Moll : Fonts on football jerseys - Linotype: Fonts on football (soccer) jerseys. Yes! I love lists like this. But then you already knew I've got a little experience with soccer jerseys...
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10/05/2006 @ 18:16 GMT
Cameron Moll : Five days, five heatmaps - Five days, five heatmaps. "Over the next five days, starting Monday, 8th May, we'll publish heatmaps from five of the sites we've tested." Today: Amazon.co.uk.
Jon Hicks : Five days, Five Heatmaps - Really fascinating articles on eye tracking [via]
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10/05/2006 @ 18:13 GMT
Cameron Moll : Isar-side seats - If a couch rests in the forest, would anyone sit on it? This stunning photo seems to answer the question.
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10/05/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Linkorama : Social Metaphor Mixer - Hey, whatever gets the party started, right?
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10/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Press Day - Google Press Day: "Stare in shock and awe as the company announces whizzy new revenue-less and incomplete products & services."
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10/05/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : M-Systems - SATA Products - mSSD Serial ATA 2.5" - 2.5" solid-state SATA drives. How long until these are cheap enough to use in laptops? #
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10/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Here's the original 13-minute version of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket - Here's the original 13-minute version of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket. (thx, janelle)
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10/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : List of 10 character actors that should be in every movie - List of 10 character actors that should be in every movie.
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10/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : How John Worley got duped by Nigerian spammers - How John Worley got duped by Nigerian spammers. Amazing manipulation and gullibility. Great issue of the New Yorker this week, BTW...worth seeking out at the newsstand.
Wayne Burkett : The New Yorker: The Perfect Mark - Wow. An incredible story about someone falling for the Nigerian 419 scam. #
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10/05/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
kellan : Bush: "The best moment of my presidency was catching a perch on my lake" - Like Rafe said, something the President and I can agree upon. Make sure to vote in the poll #
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10/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The Four-Day Week Challenge
Philippe Janvier : The Four-Day Week Challenge - Working less and Getting the Things Done : "It's harder than we thought". On est quand même bien placé pour le savoir :) [via] #
philgyford : A List Apart: Articles: The Four-Day Week Challenge - Excellent article on restricting the hours you work. "And then it hit me: there will always be more to do." Realising this is a big step.
Paul Hammond : A List Apart: Articles: The Four-Day Week Challenge - A lot of the constraints and barriers we place on ourselves are completely unnecessary and even worse, keep us from being happy
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10/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!
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10/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
kaninka.net : Subordinate and Non-Subordinate States
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10/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
kaninka.net : Yfirlýsing frá kosningastjóra
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10/05/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Between You and Me - short film by Patryk Rebisz shot entirely with Canon EOS 20D burst mode - Between You and Me - short film by Patryk Rebisz, shot entirely in Canon EOS 20D burst mode [via]
philgyford : Patryk Rebisz - Between You And Me - Lovely short film shot using still a digital still camera. There were a few awkward moments for me, but it looks wonderful and the technology makes it more dreamy. (via Blech)
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10/05/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Daily Show on Bush's Hayden/Goss deja vu - he used the same phrase to describe his new CIA director nominee as he did two years ago with Goss
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10/05/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Love Lines - tracking the daily loves and hates of the blogosphere
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10/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
kellan : crystallized ginger scones are better than god(s) - margot tracked down the recipe for the blue bottle scones! #
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10/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Isofarro : Massachusetts OpenDocument plans questioned by disabled - 'IBM also is accelerating development of a screen reader and a screen magnifier for Linux. And Sun is working on a combined open-source screen reader and magnifier called Orca. But those efforts are still in the early stages of development, officials said
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10/05/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
cobra libre : what we do is secret... the movie! - making movies about musicians is like filling out a mad lib, apparently #
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10/05/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Uwe Boll's Pac-Man, the Movie - "he appears to be some sort of man..." [via]
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10/05/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
joshua : Plasma Pong - pong with real-time fluid dynamics
Andy Baio : Plasma Pong - pong with fluid dynamic [via]
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10/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
jkottke : Video of a man performing the history of dance - Video of a man performing the history of dance. Awesome.
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10/05/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
jimray : Colibri - Type Ahead. - Best Quicksilver clone I've seen for Windows (still doesn't come close though)
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10/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Taylor Hicks Pacman - Does exactly what it says on the tin. [via] #
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10/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
veen : Girl’s Life » Blog Archive » The Ins and Outs of Pumping (more than you ever wanted to know) - "But I’ve been realizing lately that this parenting thing is about the good, the bad and, shall we say, the milky. Being squished and pulled in ways you didn’t think possible is on the bottom of the glamour list, kids."
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10/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
jkottke : Phrase of the day: "cereal spokescharacter" - Phrase of the day: "cereal spokescharacter".
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10/05/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : 419 victims - Amazingly detailed example of gullibility (via Metafilter)
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10/05/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google insider selling so massive it makes the Drudge Report: - Google insider selling so massive it makes the Drudge Report:: "Google insider sales and the taxes they paid on those sales account for 12% of the total increase in the entire state of California's tax receipt growth." Uhm, holy shit!
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wearehugh : Track the focused element in Firefox with a CSS hack
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10/05/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
joshua : Launchy - like quicksilver for the mac
Matthew M. Boedicker : Launchy, keystroke launcher for Windows - (via mikeduncan) [via]
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10/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Winggrids - Winggrids: Replace wingspan with Winggrids and get similar performance with better handling. Crazy looking!
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10/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Oil Fix Congress Won't Touch - The Oil Fix Congress Won't Touch: "Gasp. Tell Americans to drive less? Though a fractional reduction in driving across the country would dramatically reduce demand and prices"
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10/05/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : Base32 - Express large numbers in a neater form; good for URL transmission.
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10/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Four-Day Week Challenge - The Four-Day Week Challenge: a 4 day work week would rock my world!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Sex Leads to Boy's Suspension - Sex Leads to Boy's Suspension: "Ryan Biggar, 16, and his 17-year-old girlfriend had permission to leave Middle Creek High School for an off-campus program. When their event was canceled for the day, they were caught having sex in the girl's h
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10/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Airlines Try Smarter Boarding - Airlines Try Smarter Boarding: "For cash-strapped airlines, improving the boarding process has become more than a customer service issue."
Rod Begbie : Wired News: Airlines Try Smarter Boarding - Strikes me that Southwest's "Sit wherever you want" policy is the smartest of the lot. [via] #
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10/05/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Paul Hammond : Curiosity is bliss: "Take It With You" Wiki - TiwyWiki is a prototype wiki that runs both online and offline without any install
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10/05/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Jesse Ruderman » Finding the textarea selection - Am I missing a sane solution that works in current versions of Firefox?
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10/05/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » Rewind - SitePen is hiring me to work on Dojo full time
Simon Willison : Rewind - Alex Russell quits Jot to work on Dojo full time.
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10/05/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Creating Passionate Users: Do something scary - You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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10/05/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Paul Hammond : Build Half a Product (Joe Clark: Iceweb 2006 presentation, ReykjavÃk, 2006.04.28) - My results are easy to state: Everybody could do everything. It just wasn’t all that convenient.
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10/05/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Complete Guide to Rails Plugins: Part II | Ruby on Rails for Newbies - how to package a helper method as a plugin, which will show the basics of making any kind of code-based plugin
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10/05/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Paul Hammond : Opening new windows with JavaScript, version 1.1 | 456 Berea Street - It no longer opens a new window if a modifier key is pressed while the link is clicked
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10/05/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Paul Hammond : What happens when specifications are not updated? - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style - People start hacking around the limitations of the specification in order to keep supporting it. Sillyness
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10/05/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Paul Hammond : Matt Gemmell » Blog Archive » Creative - You create your artwork in Photoshop and Illustrator; our artwork is Photoshop and Illustrator.
Rod Begbie : Matt Gemmell » Blog Archive » Creative - Rant on that horrible term for folks who do graphic design: "Creative". I've always hated it, since I like to think that programming involves a heavy dose of creativity. Starts out well, but the author disappears up his own arsehole towards the end. [via] #
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Paul Hammond : json : Message: application/json - IANA has officially registered the MIME Media Type application/json
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Paul Hammond : Is the pace of change really such a shock? (plasticbag.org) - My sense of these media organisations that use this argument of incredibly rapid technology change is that they're screaming that they're being pursued by a snail and yet they cannot get away!
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Paul Hammond : QuirksBlog: IE 7 and JavaScript: what needs to be fixed? - What's your list?
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Paul Hammond : ongoing · Having Done Java - This suggests a hypothesis: Having been a Java programmer will make you a better Ruby or Python or whatever programmer.
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Paul Hammond : Hivelogic: Articles: Preventing SVN Exposure - If you deploy your Rails applications using Capistrano, there’s a good chance that you’ve unintentionally exposed information about your Subversion repository.
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Paul Hammond : Bare Naked App - The building of Carson Systems’ new web app - laid bare
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10/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon: Jeff Barr (Amazon Web Services) in London - May 15th! - Come along and listen to the ideas, views and experiences of someone uniquely positioned in one of the biggest and most advanced companies offering developer access to Web Services.
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