17/05/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Linkorama : Through the Grapevine - JP from DrKW speaks about Socialtext in his own words
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17/05/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Stylegala Up For Sale - A time of great change for CSS sites, it would seem.
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17/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Flickr: The Edinburgh Cow Parade Pool - Edinburgh's been infested with cows. This is happening in Boston this summer too. #
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17/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : YUI Tetris! - Tetris implemented in XHTML and Javascript, thanks to Yahoo's javascript UI libraries. [via] #
deusx : YUI Tetris! - "Using a combination of the Event Utility and the DOM Collection utility, I was able to roll out perhaps the sweetest piece of eye candy I’ve ever built."
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17/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Lee Siegel has a Malcolm Glawell problem and, he argues, so do the rest of us - Lee Siegel has a Malcolm Gladwell problem and, he argues, so do the rest of us. From a commenter (who gets his Dubner mixed up with his Levitt): "Gladwell is destroying literature as we know it". (via 3qd) [via]
Wayne Burkett : Lee Siegel on Malcom Gladwell - Siegelo's reverence for human life is admirable, but it conflicts with the facts, which is why he sounds silly when he complains that "people interest [Gladwell] only as examples of manipulable neurons and nerves." What are we made of, Lee? Love? Magic? #
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17/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
jcgregorio : Pastebin written in Django - the first 6 pages in the pastebin, the sourcecode for the pastebin of course.
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17/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Linkorama : How Enterprise Architecture enables Web 2.0 - Enterprise Architecture is not the Central Soviet of IT. We are the city planners who set zoning, inspect new construction, enforce setbacks, and protect wetlands. You are just as free to make a brave new world of Web 2.0 with EA in the picture.
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17/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Linkorama : Corporate Resistance to Enterprise Web 2.0 - Company executives must be willing to accept a new network architecture paradigm along with its frequent association with "social networking" functionality that many people are still not comfortable with.
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17/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Internet-only trailer for Clerks 2 by Kevin Smith - Internet-only trailer for Clerks 2 by Kevin Smith. Going boldly where Harold and Kumar have gone before.
Matthew M. Boedicker : Clerks 2 trailer - internet only (via kottke) [via]
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jkottke : "Kiva lets you loan as little as $25 to a qualified low income entrepreneur in the developing world" - "Kiva lets you loan as little as $25 to a qualified low income entrepreneur in the developing world." Basically no-interest loans to developing countries as charity, but you get the original donation amount back. Pretty cool idea. (thx, jonah)
philgyford : Kiva - Loans that change lives - I was trying to remember the name of this micro-loans site the other day and today it popped up on Cool Tools.
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17/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Top science book prize goes to David Bodanis's Electric Universe, a book about electricity - Top science book prize goes to David Bodanis's Electric Universe, a book about electricity. An odd choice...I read the book and it was good but not great.
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17/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : GreyThumb.Blog - Science blogging about artificial life, emergence, complexity, etc. [via]
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17/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
jimray : Interview with Deadwood's David Milch
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17/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : > It's All In My Head < - "I have come to view Tinderbox as a three dimensional writing tool. I can work using its basic functions one day, then dive into its more diverse functions the next to examine my thoughts and ideas from many different angles."
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17/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Today is Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger day - Dammit, today is Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger day and I unknowingly made lunch plans several days ago. I'm skipping lunch tomorrow instead. I've had problems with this in the past as well.
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17/05/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
Linkorama : Frictionless Commerce - SAP just announced they acquired them
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17/05/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
jimray : Official Google Blog: Making AJAX development easier - Google's AJAX toolkit; for Java devs
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17/05/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : Nintendo Amusement Park - Physically Augmented Reality - "Nintendo Amusement Park is a real life obstacle course which a player jumps through using a power assist harness."
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17/05/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : Some Schools Are Leaving Recess Behind - Yahoo! News - "Recess competes with many other activities for schedule time, from music and arts to gym classes and computer classes."
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17/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : "If you could cause one invention from the last hundred years never to have been made at all, which would it be, and why?" - "If you could cause one invention from the last hundred years never to have been made at all, which would it be, and why?" Nuclear weapons? Land mines? Internal combustion engine? (Comment on this)
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17/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : A list of the 100 most influential persons in the world and what religion they were - A list of the 100 most influential persons in the world and what religion each practiced. The list should more properly be called the 100 most influential men in the world + Queens Elizabeth I and Isabella I. (via rb) [via]
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17/05/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Autograph Sketch Pro - Autograph Sketch Pro by Eisner+Flake could potentially make for some interesting app icons, among other things.
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17/05/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : The Commencement Address Nobody Will Ever Ask Me to Give - "So, once again, I'm going to offer up The Commencement Address Nobody Will Ever Ask Me to Give, and hope you'll send it to a graduate: [...] You probably will want to go out into the world and 'make a difference.' Odds are, you will end up making a samen
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17/05/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Lloyd's "Build The Right Way With HTML/CSS" now available - Big congrats to Ian Lloyd and his successful publishing of Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, which "teaches web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or web development techniques."
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17/05/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Godin: Different kind of traffic - Seth Godin on different kinds of traffic: "Should Jeff Bezos be in mourning? After all, MySpace is killing Amazon in traffic. [...] The problem here is that Amazon users visit to buy stuff, and MySpace users visit to flirt. Last time I checked, flirting w
Paul Hammond : Seth's Blog: Different kinds of traffic - Whatever your website, I think you want better traffic, not more traffic.
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17/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
deusx : Google Web Toolkit - Product Overview - "Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix of technologies that make writing AJAX applications so difficult and error prone."
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17/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Plan is a photographic project by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga consisting of overhead views of apartments - Plan is a photographic project by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga consisting of overhead views of apartments. "Such an unusual effect was achieved through the use of a special technique: the overall picture of a room is an aggregate of dozens fragmentar
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17/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : A history of the lowrider - A history of the lowrider. "But the ultimate discovery was the realization that a heavy hydro system could launch the entire front end off the ground."
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17/05/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Bottle cap tripod - Bottle cap tripod. Precisely as it says.
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17/05/2006 @ 14:10 GMT
deusx : PixelBright LCDs - "What is the Difference Between a Traditional Anti-Glare LCD Screen and the New High-Gloss Anti-Reflective LCD Screen?"
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17/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : Toshiba TruBrite LCD Screens - "The objective of an anti-reflective polarizer is to amplify the light generated by the LCD while minimizing the reflection of external ambient light."
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17/05/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Isofarro : Google Web Toolkit - A Java framework for writing AJAX applications. Includes a browser history management so not breaking the back button. The HTML is quite old-school - which is a great pity.
Simon Willison : Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language - Write Java that "compiles" to JavaScript and HTML. Weird. [via]
Philippe Janvier : Google Web Toolkit - "...a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language." [via] #
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17/05/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : What's wrong with Flickr? - Quite a bit with the new Gamma design, as Ian points out.
Eric Meyer : What's wrong with Flickr? - Good points all the way around.
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17/05/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
plasticbag : Eva Longoria has topped the one hundred most beautiful women in the world poll in Maxim again. - I love this highly self-aware and self-deprecating comment, "I was like, 'Surely there are more beautiful women in the world.' I can name 10." Not bad out of six and a half billion...
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17/05/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Visceral song moments - MP3 bloggers isolate parts of songs that made them feel
Matthew M. Boedicker : visceral song moments - (via waxy links) [via]
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17/05/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
merlinmann : Merlin Mann on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - I have to confess; I'd really enjoy becoming a cartoon character at some point.
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17/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Flickr: Advanced Photo Search - Best feature of the Flickr "Gamma"? Proper fulltext search functionality, including Creative Commons searching. Huzzah! [via] #
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17/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Daily Show Effect: Candidate Evaluations, Efficacy, and American Youth - "Overall, the findings ... show that for young people, no other news source drives cynicism toward the candidates and the political system more than The Daily Show." [via] #
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17/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
wearehugh : [brothercake] Onfocus tooltips
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17/05/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
deusx : Spatterlight : Interactive Fiction for Mac OS X - "Spatterlight is a native Cocoa application that can play several different types of interactive fiction game files."
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17/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Beating Traffic - OCD commuter collects a year's worth of traffic data during his daily commute
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