15/05/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
merlinmann : Heuristic Rule - "Heuristics are used when you have limited time and/or information to make a decision."
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15/05/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
Linkorama : Metaverse Roadmap Inputs Wiki - Do you have information or ideas relevant to the future of the 3D web?
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15/05/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
Linkorama : Metaverse - Walled gardens are analgous to what is happening with the 3d web today, and it looks like some good people want to change that
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15/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Cool photos of Volkswagen's new storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany, basically a 20-story circular parking garage - Cool photos of Volkswagen's new storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany, basically a 20-story circular parking garage.
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15/05/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Linkorama : Free SkypeOut - Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada - Skype Blogs
Rod Begbie : Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada - Skype Blogs - US Skype users can now use it to phone anywhere in the US or Canada. This is going to be painful for the mobile companies -- I'm sure a large part of their money comes from people using the "free" longdistance that your minutes bring. #
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15/05/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : Why does America hate America? - So true, so very true. (Note: page contains not-safe-for-work words.) [via Zoethe] [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : HallPass Presents - Fancy Pants Adventure - Between this and Sketchfighter 4000, there's a whole lot of "hand-drawn" goin' on. [via Keith] [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : jakob nielson's dance party usa - J-Load Nielly drops the funk bomb on ya. [via OK/Cancel] [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Ironic Sans - Pre-pixelated clothes - Stop worrying about whether or not the producer of that Reality TV show you're on will pixelate your carefully chosen t-shirt. Beat them to the punch with pre-pixelated products! [via Jeffrey] [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : The Rasterbator - It isn't as dirty as it sounds... although it could be, depending on the image you feed it. [via FreshArrival] [via]
jimray : The Rasterbator - Make huge, Warholesque printouts from your photos
jonhicks : The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator - Bookmarking this in a 'must get around to trying this out someday' way.
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Clevelanders carry much less baggage - Think Northerners are cold, isolated, and rude when compared to those in the South? Think again.
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Invention: The TV-advert enforcer - This is why I'm less and less interested in supporting media companies.
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : When you're in orbit, which way is Mecca? - Space travel always presents unique challenges.
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Passengers may have to stand on new Airbus jet - I bet they could get even more people in with floor-to-ceiling honeycombs of sleeping tubes.
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Kick Ass Kung-Fu - I know some gamers loved DDR, but will most of them be willing to put forth this much effort just to play a game?
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : CSS friendly ASP.NET 2.0 control adapters - If you're working in an ASP 2.0 environment, these are worth checking out.
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : The Open-Source Wish Project - Using many eyes to construct airtight wishes for the genie you just know will come out of the next lamp you rub.
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15/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Good Eats, Amazing Feats - Tell that Chuck Norris pansy to stand down-- there's a REAL man on the range, and here's what you need to know about him.
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15/05/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
jimray : Samsung i320 Smartphone : MobileWhack.com - Dead sexy, probably never coming to the U.S.
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15/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
jimray : Hip-hop artists spread word on vegetarian, vegan diets in black community
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Rod Begbie : DailyTech - Pirate Windows? Buy The Retail Version at a $100 Discount - If MS detect you running a pirate copy of Windows XP, they'll try to sell you a discounted legal copy. Smart. [via] #
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15/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API - "The Geocoding Web Service allows you to find the specific latitude and longitude for an address."
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Andy Baio : Siskel and Ebert behind the scenes - when Gene gets liquored up, things get interesting
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15/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : In an astounding display of typographic nerdiness and obsessiveness on a level to which I can only aspire, Andrew Hearst walks us through the anomalous digital clock on the popular TV show 24 - In an astounding display of typographic nerdiness and obsessiveness on a level to which I can only aspire, Andrew Hearst walks us through the anomalous digital clock on the popular TV show 24. "The onscreen time sequences are dictated partly by the typogr
Milo Vermeulen : panopticist: There Is Something Weird Going on With the Clock on 24 [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Life After the Video Game Crash - "But the gaming industry is still growing, dung-hoarding Turd Baron."
Rod Begbie : Life After the Video Game Crash - Fun rant predicting an impending crash. "We've now advanced from realistic 3D to slightly prettier 3D and... even slightlier prettier 3D with slightly better reflection effects and slightly better animated water ripples and - oh, look! This game has the [via] #
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15/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Electronic surgery - Browsing recent interestingness on Flickr, I ran across these photos of women photoshopped to include glass eyes, prostheses, eyepatches, and to look like amputees. This is a practice of devotees of amputee fetishism called Electronic Surgery. More exampl
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15/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Did Vladimir Nabokov deliberately take the idea for Lolita from a 1916 short story of the same name or did he suffer from cryptomnesia? - Did Vladimir Nabokov deliberately take the idea for Lolita from a 1916 short story of the same name or did he suffer from cryptomnesia? Cryptomnesia is when you consciously forget previously learned information but subconsciously remember it. (via george, [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : No Snap stats - Snap said they'd put their financial results online, but they've been offline for weeks now.
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Nelson Minar : Govt vs. ABC News - Investigative reporter told that their phone records are being spied on
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Nelson Minar : Eve Online stories - Nice MeFi wrapup of some game writing
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15/05/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Not your computer - Schneier breaks down all the people trying to control your machine
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15/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
deusx : - The great Singularity debate | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - "aturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus."
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15/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
plasticbag : 37signals job board seems to be ticking over quite nicely... - I wonder what the quality of the candidates they get through the site is like, and whether they're a good fit to their potential new employers...
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15/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
plasticbag : Chris Bowley talks about opening up the BBC's data in the form of APIs through BBC Backstage - I worked with Chris on the Annotatable Audio project and he's now working for the team that I used to look after. He basically pretty much rocks, so you'll all be needing to go and read his blog now...
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15/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Fleen, a blog about webcomics, examines IndieKarma with an interview with the founder of the company and an analysis of its potential viability - Fleen, a blog about webcomics, examines IndieKarma with an interview with the founder of the company and an analysis of its potentialbility. Here's my post on IndieKarma. [via]
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jkottke : Photographer Michael Wolf has a new project called 100x100, which is a series of photographs "of residents in their flats in hong kong's oldest public housing estate" - Photographer Michael Wolf, he of the Architecture of Density photos of Hong Kong, has a new project called 100x100, which is a series of photographs "of residents in their flats in hong kong's oldest public housing estate". Each of the apartments is only
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jkottke : With Wal-Mart selling more organic and Whole Foods expanding like crazy, organic foods are moving from the counterculture to "bean-counter culture" - With Wal-Mart selling more organic and Whole Foods expanding like crazy, organic foods are moving from the counterculture to "bean-counter culture".
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15/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Re Croquet, "3-D isn't an interface paradigm. 3-D isn't a world model. 3-D isn't the missing ingredient." - Re Croquet and the ridiculous breathlessness about it, "3-D isn't an interface paradigm. 3-D isn't a world model. 3-D isn't the missing ingredient. 3-D isn't an inherently better representation for every purpose. 3-D is an attribute, like the color blue. [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
plasticbag : The Los Angeles Police Department has its own weblog - Apparently seven policemen who lost their lives have a star on Hollywood Boulevard. Didn't know that. Quite interesting.
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15/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
jkottke : Through vaccination and vigilance, the avian flu is under control in the Southeast Asian countries that were hardest hit with the disease - Through vaccination and vigilance, the avian flu is under control in the Southeast Asian countries that were hardest hit with the disease. See also this map of avian flu reports. [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 13:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : Albatross! : Microsoft, IE and the Web Standards Project - The day the development of the standards-based platform in IE goes on a back burner again, I'll quit
Isofarro : Microsoft, IE and the Web Standards Project - Chris Wilson: 'From ten years of experience in championing standards and web development inside Microsoft, I think it's actually critically important that the reasons for supporting standards in our products – particularly IE – be business one
Eric Meyer : Microsoft, IE and the Web Standards Project - Chris Wilson tells it like it is.
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15/05/2006 @ 13:10 GMT
Paul Hammond : Subtraction: Blockwriter - What makes it like a typewriter is that it regards every character you type into it as basically ‘committed’ and permanent
deusx : Subtraction: Blockwriter - "what better way to thwart a computer than to step away from it completely?"
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15/05/2006 @ 13:10 GMT
Paul Hammond : Design Pattern: Invitation » Yahoo! User Interface Blog - Invitations are powerful ways to clue the user in to deeper interaction
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Paul Hammond : Eric's Archived Thoughts: Flummoxed By Frameworks - I feel like there’s some very basic, fundamental, obvious thing that I’m missing, but I don’t even have the necessary level of knowledge to frame the right question
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15/05/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Eric's Archived Thoughts: Framework Fix - my problem was such an elementary misconception that no framework documentarian would think to address it.
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Paul Hammond : Passing blocks to gsub, (OF COURSE Ruby does it this way!) - O'Reilly Ruby - s.gsub(/[^aeiou]/) {|c| c.upcase}
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15/05/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : ongoing · What Matters - the success is about doing useful things for individuals. How old-fashioned
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Paul Hammond : More Like This WebLog > Let JavaScript be JavaScript - So far, I prefer JS to every language they are trying to emulate, so I’m not interested
deusx : More Like This WebLog > Let JavaScript be JavaScript - "Many 'Ajax toolkits' aim to make [JavaScript] more like Python or some other language. So far, I prefer JS to every language they are trying to emulate, so Im not interested."
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15/05/2006 @ 13:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Don't let the medium dictate the content on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - It's how I feel about blogs most of the time
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Paul Hammond : [brothercake] Web design for the Sony PSP - the browser's main features, outlining its support for various web technologies, and demonstrating a range of useable techniques and hacks
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15/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Mini Gets Mighty: Introducting Opera Mini 2.0 for your mobile phone - Opera Software today released Opera Mini 2.0, the new version of the tiny and fast Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone
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15/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : "Amazing", "digg", "revealed": Top 422 digg.com attention grabbing words. - The complete list of words that (when used in a story title) get more than 500 diggs per story on average.
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15/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Sad Story of PNG Gamma “Correction†- There is no way of making PNG images that match CSS colors in all PNG-supporting browsers
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Paul Hammond : all in the head — The Dangers of Automatically Generating hCards - The only way you can accurately automatically generate an hCard is if you capture the specific data up-front
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15/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
wearehugh : Using the Stylesheet Service - MDC
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15/05/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: President Al Gore on SNL - missed this while I was out of town [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Guitar Hero Trainer for Windows - scrolling tablature and speed control using the Guitar Hero disc [via]
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15/05/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : GameSetWatch's nostalgic look back at the first E3 - with memories and maps of the convention floor circa 1995
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15/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jimray : Palm - Products - Palm® Treo™ 700p Smartphone - Finally.
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15/05/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
erikbenson : Thom Yorke is going to release his own little album in July - Sounds interesting. He seems defensive in his announcement about it though.
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15/05/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
jimray : Monbiot.com » Blog Archive » Choose Life
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15/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : The six species of Information Architect at disambiguity - "there are probably about six different species of Information Architect, based on the kind of professional past life they've had (nor not)."
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15/05/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
jimray : liveBooks - editable websites and online marketing tools for photographers
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15/05/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
merlinmann : The Management Myth - Funny, cranky take on big Business Management Consulting.
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15/05/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Seeing in the dark - Two photos, one without flash, one with. Then combine.
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jimray : Verizon FiOS - Contact Us - Fuck Comcast, I want fiber to my house - 5mb/s for $30/month!!
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15/05/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
jimray : BBC accidentally puts a cab driver on air to comment on the online music industry - Hilarity ensues. The look on the guy's face when he gets introduced is, frankly, awesome.
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15/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
erikbenson : GeoRuby, and ways to get it to work with Rails - Might be interesting to try some of this stuff on 43 Places.
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15/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web - Brendan Eich at The Ajax Experience.
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