12/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : New desktops are here - Quick self-pimp. Final desktops are here in 70s brown and OS X aqua blue.
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12/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
deusx : Home - Raskin Center - "Archy is a prototype computing environment based on years of research about this, largly on Jef Raskin's book "The Humane Interface"."
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12/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Mark Cuban thinks that live TV commercials could save traditional TV - More creative advertising fun. Mark Cuban thinks that live TV commercials could save traditional TV. More at Ars Technica. (thx, flip)
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12/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Advertising/Design Goodness is a blog that tracks the best and worst of advertising from around the world - Advertising/Design Goodness is a blog that tracks the best and worst of advertising from around the world. (thx, cap'n)
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12/05/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
jcgregorio : Blogging from Word 2007 - Using the Atom Publishing Protocol
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12/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Spice Up Your mini - Custom paint jobs for your Mac mini. I quite fancy getting the "retro" (begith with six-colour Apple logo) one. [via] #
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12/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Alex Barnett blog : Go and microformat stuff! ('cause it's going to happen anyway) - "The microformats + RSS + clipboard (mRc) combo isn't just about copy and pasting static structured data into microformat-aware webpages and clients (though this on its own would pretty powerful stuff)."
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12/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : User Tagging Is Fundamental | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing - "del.icio.us is important because it allows the users to tag the Internet. It's a fundamental part of the infrastructure of the Internet."
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12/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : JasonKolb.com: Cutting Out the Middleware - "The Live Clipboard vision gives users the ability to transfer data without having to rely on software."
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12/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : MIT students automate dorm room, add "party mode" - Engadget - "Using an X-10 control system, Zack Anderson and his roommate RJ Ryan hooked up strobe lights, black lights, a fog machine, laser light show, scrolling LED sign, disco ball, and an LCD projector to their computers so that all the effects would sync with w
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12/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : An Interview with Dean Edwards - snook.ca - "Coding around browser differences is now a passion of mine. :-)"
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12/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - O! News - Apple v Apple - Another round of quality impressions from Peter Serafinowicz. John Lennon invented the iPod, apparently. [via] #
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12/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Amazon Web Services Developer Connection: Will I have to pay for ... - "if I have a bunch of publicly accessible objects in my S3 buckets, then won't I have to pay bandwidth costs when Google/yahoo/a9 and all the other search engines go and spider my buckets?"
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12/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : WSJ.com - Personal Technology - "But in the post-PC era we're in today, where the focus is on things like music players, game consoles and cellphones, the end-to-end model is the early winner. "
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12/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
jimray : Adobe Labs - Spry framework for Ajax - The demos look sweet. I've been using scriptaculous for some rapid prototyping stuff at work, this could be a replacement contender.
Simon Willison : Spry framework for Ajax - Another take on declarative Ajax, this time from Adobe.
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12/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jimray : Get Rich Slowly
gleuschk : Get Rich Slowly - by mefite jdroth
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12/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Last month, an audience in London was shown a 3-minute performed "commercial" before the actual play started - Last month, an audience in London was shown a 3-minute performed "commercial" before the actual play started. Inadvertently, today seems to be unique/unusual advertising day on kottke.org.
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12/05/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
merlinmann : How to Pack a Cooler | Life Skills : RealSimple.com - "A full cooler stays cold longer than a half-empty one...Fill empty spaces with ice and ice packs, and top everything with a layer of that combination."
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12/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Rob Glaser - Head of Real/Rhapsody opens mouth, shite dribbles out. #
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12/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
deusx : 365 tomorrows - Weekend Warrior - "By federal law, I am required to inform you that by stepping outside of these doors, you are releasing the federal government from liability for your safety."
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12/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Current TV is running advertising for Sony that was created by a viewer - Current TV is running advertising for Sony that was created by a viewer. "Of course, Sony approved Mr. Ibele's finished product before it went on the air."
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12/05/2006 @ 17:16 GMT
merlinmann : Engineering Management Hacks: The BigBook Technique - "It is extremely urgent that you read this book. We've bought you many copies so that you might read it faster." via: Daring Fireball
Rod Begbie : O'Reilly Radar > Engineering Management Hacks: The BigBook Technique - This is one way to convince bosses about the folly of The Mythical Man-Month. "We've bought you many copies so that you might read it faster." #
Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > Engineering Management Hacks: The BigBook Technique - It is extremely urgent that you read this book. We've bought you many copies so that you might read it faster
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12/05/2006 @ 17:14 GMT
Linkorama : Google Co-op - Anti-social search, unless Notebook ties it together
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12/05/2006 @ 17:14 GMT
Linkorama : Structure in Enterprise 2.0 - How much of this structure is necessary? How much is valuable? Well, the clear success stories of Web 2.0 demonstrate that for at least some types of community and collaboration, none of it is.
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12/05/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Gmail pictures - "Gmail pictures allow you to put a face to a name, by showing user-selected pictures when you roll over a name in your inbox, Contacts, or Quick Contacts list." [via] #
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12/05/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
plasticbag : The new World of Warcraft Alliance race has been announced and they are Draenei - Not the most immediately exciting of the new races - nowhere near as cool as the Blood Elves, but then maybe that was the point...
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12/05/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
jkottke : 3-D NYC buildings from Google Earth (extracted with OGLE) printed out on a 3-D printer - 3-D NYC buildings from Google Earth (extracted with OGLE) printed out on a 3-D printer.
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12/05/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
jkottke : "The cluster effect is the effect of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service congregating in a certain place and hence inducing other buyers and sellers to relocate there as well."
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12/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Design: e2 is an upcoming 6-part PBS special on the environment and the economy - Design: e2 is an upcoming 6-part PBS special on the environment and the economy.
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12/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : BannerBlog highlights creative and interesting banner ads from around the web - BannerBlog highlights creative and interesting banner ads from around the web. Today's ad is pretty darn clever.
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12/05/2006 @ 15:10 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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12/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : OpenAugment - "The OpenAugment Consortium is a not-for-profit open source corporation dedicated to the preservation of the Augment legacy."
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deusx : Authorship Provisions in AUGMENT - "AUGMENT is a text processing system marketed by Tymshare for a multi-user, network environment."
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12/05/2006 @ 11:11 GMT
philgyford : Strongspace Weblog - Syncing With Rsync - In case I start using Strongspace and forget where to find these instructions.
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12/05/2006 @ 11:11 GMT
philgyford : Magpiebrain » Blog Archive » Trouble Free Backups, Part One - rsync and Strongspace - Again, just in case I start using Strongspace, saves me Googling again.
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12/05/2006 @ 11:10 GMT
philgyford : Peterme.com: Going Back To South Park, Gonna Have Myself A Time - I have fond memories of staying in the Wired corporate flat on San Francisco's South Park for a week in 1996.
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12/05/2006 @ 11:10 GMT
philgyford : ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox - Another colour scheme generator. I need all the help I can get.
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12/05/2006 @ 11:10 GMT
philgyford : London’s lack of Mexican (Phil Gyford: Writing) - My page on there being no decent Mexican food in London has spawned its own mailing list for those interested. Yum!
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12/05/2006 @ 11:10 GMT
philgyford : YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - Public Videos // pajamapants - Videos and interviews with musicians, lots of Britpoppy stuff from the early 1990s including loads from Sleeper. Suddenly I feel 10+ years younger. Fab.
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12/05/2006 @ 11:10 GMT
philgyford : Transport for London Cycle Journey Planner - Matthew Somerville does it again. Simple interface to get cycling directions across London from Transport for London's journey planner.
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Wayne Burkett : Kissing Hank's Ass [video] - Hank is right because he says he's right. #
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12/05/2006 @ 10:10 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Flickr: You can't take pictures here! [via]
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12/05/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
philgyford : Mod_rewrite Cookbook - FrontPage - Very handy resource for mod_rewrite recipes. It's like some arcane magic to me.
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12/05/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
philgyford : Speech Accent Archive - Hear people from different parts of the world recite the same paragraph. Fascinating.
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12/05/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
philgyford : IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive - Another archive of people from around the world speaking texts with their different accents.
jkottke : The International Dialects of English Archive has a ton of mp3 files of people speaking English from all over the world - The International Dialects of English Archive has a ton of mp3 files of people speaking English from all over the world. "All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and you will find both English language dialects and English spoken in the acc
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12/05/2006 @ 09:10 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Photographing Architecture is Not a Crime, Thomas Hawk vs. Building Security Episode 118 [via]
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12/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Isofarro : All aboard the PAS 78 gravy train - BrowseAloud caught red-handed claiming PAS 78 endorses or recommends their products. Previously BrowseAloud were caught astroturfing their products on discussion forums. In my opinion, this company should be avoided.
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12/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : ZUG: Comedy Articles: Electronic Road Signs and Me - "With only a few minutes of road sign hacking, I had programmed an homage to the 1951 sci-fi film The Day The Earth Stood Still, the phrase that was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from taking over the world."
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12/05/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Banding in Canon 5d? - Apparently a CMOS noise problem
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12/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS - Ian Lloyd's book. Sounds perfect for beginners.
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12/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
plasticbag : The Daily Mail has seven sets of secrets of the new series of Big Brother UK - The most notable feature is the 'golden ticket' angle - wherein one of the contestants will be chosen randomly from people who find a ticket hidden in Kit Kat chocolate bars.
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12/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
plasticbag : Channel Four has more on the Big Brother Golden Ticket lunacy - "100 golden tickets will be placed into KitKat four-finger single bars and Kit Kat Chunky single bars for distribution across the country." Seems like it's only one in four hundred odds of getting one, which is a little nerve-wracking...
Rod Begbie : Big Brother's Golden Ticket - The Brit version of Big Brother is going to include a contestant picked by finding a "golden ticket" inside a Kit Kat bar. [via] #
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12/05/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Secret CIA prisons - Our polity is sick (via Metafilter)
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12/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Are Smart People Overrated? - Are Smart People Overrated?: the talent myth
Rod Begbie : gladwell dot com - the talent myth - "Are smart people overrated?" Classic Malcolm Gladwell. [via] #
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