16/05/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
merlinmann : Science Friday: Dread on the Brain - SciFri on the "Neurobiological Substrates of Dread." Short version: it's the wait and anticipation that gets you. Fascinating stuff.
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16/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Andy Baio : History of Videogame Console Prices - absolute and adjusted for inflation; is it any surprise the Neo-Geo and 3DO flopped?
Nelson Minar : Console prices - Inflation adjusted, nice data view (via Waxy)
Rod Begbie : Curmudgeon Gamer: History of Console Prices - Absolute and relative pricing of consoles on their US launches. Interesting fact: Every Nintendo console (NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube) has launched at the $200 mark. Wonder what the Wii will cost... [via] #
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16/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
wearehugh : Can Anti-DRM Clauses in Content Licenses be Free?
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16/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : List of sounds that different animals make in different languages - List of sounds that different animals make in different languages.
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16/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
jcgregorio : Update: JavaScript to take cues from Python | InfoWorld | News | 2006-05-12 | By Paul Krill - "If it all holds, we'll end up in the middle of next year with JavaScript 2 implemented," said Eich.
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16/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Veer: Delicato - “A book typeface”. Not arf, what a beauty.
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16/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Free wifi in Central Park? - Free wifi in Central Park? Hopefully by June.
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16/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : HTML Editor Reviews: Jon Hicks - A wee interview with shadowbox creative about text editors. There are other interviews to read with luminaries like Jonathan Snook and Greg Strorey.
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16/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : The Classic Super Star Trek Game - "Super Star Trek is quite possibly the best of the "Star Trek" games from the 1970's."
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16/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr goes gamma! - wow, the new Scrumjax Organizr is neat; no more Flash!
Cameron Moll : Flickr UI updates - Big UI changes over at Flickr. Includes smaller changes such as shifting the photo sets from left to right sidebar on the Photos page, to much bigger changes like pop-up menus for the main nav and iPhoto-like improvements to Organizr. I thought the previo
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16/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : How do scientist attribute climate-change data? - How do scientist attribute climate-change data? In other words, how can they tell from the available data that climate change can be attributed to human causes?
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16/05/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : tracing the movement of the "Pokemon" phenomenon from its origins in Japan to its introduction into the US and beyond - tracing the movement of the Pokemon phenomenon from its origins in Japan to its introduction into the US and beyond [via]
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16/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Partager et afficher ses émotions sur ses vêtements - Décidément, le SMS ne cesse d'innover ! [via] #
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16/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo launches new homepage - also, it looks like they're changing the size of the left-hand navigation links based on your own personal activity
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16/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Two graphic design teams recently went head-to-head on The Apprentice - Two graphic design teams recently went head-to-head on The Apprentice. The winning team had flat-panel monitors, OS X, and Adobe Creative Suite while the losers were still using an old version of Quark on Mac OS 9 displayed on a gigantic CRT monitor. "Gra
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16/05/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
Paul Hammond : DOM Scripting: Hijax slides from XTech ‘06 - I’ve just finished speaking at the Ajax Developer’s Day at XTech 2006 here in Amsterdam
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16/05/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Paul Hammond : Yahoo! 360° - The Department of Style - Choose Your Ajax - If JSLint finds problems in a library, then dump it and move on to the next one.
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16/05/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Andy Baio : Paying for camouflage - the new black MacBooks cost $150 more than an identical white one
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16/05/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
Andy Baio : AOL launches UnCut Video - a YouTube clone with a focus on local video [via]
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16/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Notebook launches - like a personal wiki space, but with options to share publicly (search coming soon) [via]
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16/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Interview with photographer Jay Parkinson about his aspiring model project - Interview with photographer Jay Parkinson about his aspiring model project. "I feel that it's a photographic cop-out to take photos of strictly beautiful people because it's hard to take a bad photo of a beautiful person, especially a very scripted portra
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16/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Apple announces new MacBooks (iBook successor with Intel chips) saying, "Meet the family. Now Complete." - Apple announces new MacBooks (iBook successor with Intel chips) saying, "Meet the family. Now Complete." Does that mean no 12" MacBook Pro?
plasticbag : Apple have announced the 13" widescreen MacBook - It's quite sweet actually. Quite powerful, relatively small and if you're prepared to spend a couple of hundred extra dollars then you can get one in black (with a little extra hard disk space)...
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16/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
plasticbag : Yahoo! Tech Monkey Challenge - I'm not making this up - my employers have trained a monkey to race a human in getting a camera memory card into a computer to promote tech.yahoo.com. I have nothing to say about this whatsoever...
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16/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
plasticbag : It gets worse - the Yahoo Tech Monkey has a Flickr account - I'm completely overwhelmed by this. You don't get this stuff when you work for the BBC, although I think maybe you should...
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16/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : A long long long but good good good New Yorker profile of Errol Morris from 1989, a sizeable chunk of which is about The Thin Blue Line - A long long long but good good good New Yorker profile of Errol Morris from 1989, a sizeable chunk of which is about The Thin Blue Line.
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16/05/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Rod Begbie : Google Notebook - Google's new "Gather webpages and search results" tool is launched. I quite like it -- It's a different approach than del.icio.us (there's no tagging, and you're not limited to sorting by time), but I think it might fit in with people's usage a lot bette [via] #
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16/05/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Apple - MacBook - Yum, one of each please.
Rod Begbie : Apple - MacBook - My next laptop. I love the fact that they've made the black shell a "premium" offering, costing $150 more than the equivalent white. They've managed to make a black Macbook into a status symbol! #
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16/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
plasticbag : Derek Powazek's written an interesting piece on people following Google's design patterns for Vitamin - He's arguing for not blindly copying Google. The alternative argument would probably be something like Google have established a pattern language which now the rest have to follow or improve upon. Probably a bit of both...
Paul Hammond : Vitamin Features » What Would Google Do? - Google was not a success because their homepage was sparse. They were a success because they brought a better technique to solving a real world problem, and didn’t ever go off-message
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16/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
plasticbag : Apple have announced the 13" widescreen MacBook - It's quite sweet actually. Quite powerful, relatively small and if you're prepared to spend a couple of hundred extra dollars then you can get one in black (with a little extra hard disk space)...
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16/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
plasticbag : Feed Rinse looks like an extraordinarily useful little service for making your RSS feeds more valuable... - "Feed Rinse is an easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out syndicated content that you aren't interested in. It's like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions"
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16/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : My new favorite song ever for the next 20 minutes is Smiley Faces by Gnarls Barkley - My new favorite song ever for the next 20 minutes is Smiley Faces by Gnarls Barkley (album @ Amazon). Can't get enough. Thanks to Greg for turning me on to the GB.
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16/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Video of a Dutch store celebrating its 10,000 shoplifter - Video of a Dutch store celebrating its 10,000 shoplifter. Transcript & translation in the comments.
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16/05/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Blazing fruit - My friend Jonathan Williams has started a blog. I’ve always loved his illustration style – go see!
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16/05/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Google Maps + Fast Food shows all the the McDonald's, Burger Kings, Wendy's, and Jack in the Boxes in the US on a scrollable, zoomable map - Google Maps + Fast Food shows all the the McDonald's, Burger Kings, Wendy's, and Jack in the Boxes in the US on a scrollable, zoomable map. Here's lower Manhattan + parts of Brooklyn and New Jersey. (Alternate plurals of Jack in the Box: Jacks in the Box
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16/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
plasticbag : The Christian Science Monitor has noise about a study on how e-mails are misinterpreted - At first glance this is a pretty mediocre story about the old truim that you can't convey emotion well on e-mail (something we've known since the mid-nineties). But this digs a little deeper than most stories and cites some good research...
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16/05/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
jkottke : Why does it take Wes Anderson (and Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze and PT Anderson and...) so long to make a movie? - Why does it take Wes Anderson (and Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze and PT Anderson and...) so long to make a movie? "The Eccentrics seem to be guarding their personal ideas so jealously that it sometimes suggests a creative block. The eternity of anticipati
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16/05/2006 @ 12:37 GMT
Linkorama : When everyone has a suitcase nuke - two distinct thoughts, the first being that these very large vendor sponsored events may be a thing of the past, and secondly that the potential for word of mouth promotion spawning out of an event like SAPPHIRE is enormous and fully unrealized.
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16/05/2006 @ 12:37 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : secret compartment disguised as electrical outlet - (via http://boingboing.net) [via]
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16/05/2006 @ 12:36 GMT
jimray : ZigVersion GUI for Subversion - Oh dear god this looks awesome
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16/05/2006 @ 12:36 GMT
jimray : Come Back with a Warrant Doormat - Brilliant
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16/05/2006 @ 12:36 GMT
Rod Begbie : Tabblo: Poster Child | Boston WTF - glenn's written an excellent review of new photo-sharing site Tabblo for BostonWTF. #
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16/05/2006 @ 12:36 GMT
Rod Begbie : TechCrunch » Moola’s Interesting Business Model - Hooray! It's the first fucking idiotic, easily-gamable, pyramid-scheme, AllAdvantage-style "We'll pay you to watch ads" business model of the new bubble. #
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16/05/2006 @ 12:36 GMT
Rod Begbie : 13 Shocking Secrets You’ll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket - PDF containing new clues and details regarding the upcoming final book in the Series of Unfortunate Events (Due out Friday the 13th October) #
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16/05/2006 @ 12:36 GMT
Jon Hicks : FolderOrg - FolderOrg is an AppleScript Folder Action that is organizes files and folders by moving them into dated subfolders.
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16/05/2006 @ 12:36 GMT
deusx : Eugenics doesn't work. Ask why, asshole. - GreyThumb.Blog - "So now you know why eugenics doesn't work, asshole."
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16/05/2006 @ 12:36 GMT
deusx : Target : Come Back with a Warrant Doormat - "A little defensive, are we? Then plunk this straight-to-the-point doormat on your front stoop."
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16/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Fancy Pants Adventure - Enjoyable hand-drawn Flash platformer. [via] #
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16/05/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Simon Willison : Python Templates - It's surprising how much work you can get done building on Python's string interpolation.
deusx : Python Templates - "Originally posted to the Python Web SIG back in 2003. Published here May 2006 with minor changes."
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16/05/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Simon Willison : Are you generic? - More Django for designers, this time from Wilson Miner.
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16/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: E3 morning stampede - everyone bolted for the Wii, including me
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16/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : PS3 could be homebrew friendly? - I'll believe it when I see it
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16/05/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : John Resig - RSS to JSON Convertor
Paul Hammond : John Resig - RSS to JSON Convertor - This script is capable of taking an RSS (or Atom) feed and converting it into a valid JSON object
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