25/05/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
merlinmann : information overload statistics - "The daily _New York Times_ now [1987] contains more information than the 17th century man or woman would have encountered in a lifetime."
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25/05/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Isofarro : To Hell with WCAG2.0 - Joe Clark sums up the sorry tale of WCAG 2.0. One of the benefits of WCAG1.0 is that its (almost) firmly grounded in technologies we use today. WCAG2.0 left that path when the PDF and JavaScript techniques document were decoupled. WCAG2.0 is now too abstr
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25/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
wearehugh : Juicy Studio: Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers
Isofarro : Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers - Gez, in collaboration with Steve Faulkner dig into how screen readers work, detailing the workings of a screen reader's virtual buffer mode. This is an encouraging step towards getting Ajax applications working with screen readers. Its a recommended read
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25/05/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jimray : Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert - Brilliant
Rod Begbie : Think Progress » Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert - Tom DeLay's legal fund uses a Colbert mock interview to "discredit" anti-Delay filmmaker. [via] #
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25/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Linux.com | Vim tips: Using viewports - "A really useful feature in Vim is the ability to split the viewable area between one or more files, or just to split the window to view two bits of the same file more easily."
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25/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : FC64, Commodore 64 emulator in Flash - incredible [via]
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25/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Breach Was More of the Spirit, Not the Letter, of the Constitution - "Both the search warrant for Jefferson's office and the raid to execute it were unprecedented in the 219-year history of the Constitution."
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25/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
cameron : A Station With a One-of-a-Kind Campaign: All Snapple, All the Time - New York Times - Snapple buys all advertising on WFNX in Boston for one month.
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25/05/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Game-based errors in "The Wizard" - you can almost feel the disgust emanating from the page
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25/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : jay is games: Warp Forest - "The object of Warp Forest is to collect all of the keys to activate the exit, and then make it safely to the exit to advance to the next puzzle/level."
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25/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : House Leaders Demand Return of Seized Files - New York Times - "Reckless Justice: Did the Saturday Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?"
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25/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : Unbundling US channels will change the face of TV | The Register - "US Presidential hopeful John McCain is pushing the idea of la carte pricing to the US Senate."
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25/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : Bash-httpd FAQ - "Bash-httpd is a web server written in bash, the GNU bourne shell replacement."
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25/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Andy Baio : The Morning News' 2006 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence - long name for a good list of links [via]
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25/05/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
cobra libre : meeting joseph cornell - 'The person who introduced me had been told by a renowned art collector that "Joseph likes quiche lorraine and little girls".' #
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25/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
wearehugh : Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle
Simon Willison : Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle - 100 lines of Python illustrating some key concepts in AI.
Eric Meyer : Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle - Mostly I'm linking this for my own future reference, since I may have some need of implementing rudimentary AI in the semi-near future. [via Simon] [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver in Python - (via devgrind) [via]
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25/05/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
wearehugh : Game Accessibility - The accessibility of computer games
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25/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : defmacro - The Nature of Lisp - "my attempt to explain Lisp in familiar, intuitive concepts."
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25/05/2006 @ 16:12 GMT
Cameron Moll : Trapper Keeper - "Refresh those stylesheets, folks. 'Operation: My Last Design Was Okay But Ultimately Unsatisfying So Now IÂ’m Starting Over' has wrapped."
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25/05/2006 @ 16:12 GMT
Cameron Moll : MadeinMtl - MadeinMtl. Plenty of visual enjoyment found within. And the "I want to..." search results (select menus at top) are pretty slick.
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25/05/2006 @ 16:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : YouTube supports mobile vids - YouTube now supporting mobile uploads. More fodder for the masses, this time with mobile flavor.
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25/05/2006 @ 16:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : .mobi - Kickstarting the mobile web or holding it back? - Carlo Longino: Is .mobi kickstarting the mobile web, or holding it back? Includes a response in the comments from Neil Edwards, CEO of dotMobi. In related news, mobile companies can now register their trademarks as .mobi domains. Registration open to the
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25/05/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : There's not enough information in this National Geographic story to figure out if the recent finds in Peru has anything to do with the Norte Chico civilization or not - There's not enough information in this National Geographic story to figure out if the recent finds in Peru has anything to do with the Norte Chico civilization or not. "We found some old stuff somewhere in Peru"...thanks guys, let us know when you startin
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25/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : Simply Recipes: Creating Your Own del.icio.us Cookbook - "If you look up lots of recipes online, and then add them to your favorites, sooner or later your favorites list can get a little unwieldy."
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25/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : 101 Cookbooks - Beeramisu - Freakin' yum! "Paul's Beeramisu recipe calls for ladyfinger cookies to be bathed in a deep, rich porter beer mixture that has been blended with strong coffee."
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25/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
deusx : Wired News: What If They Gave a War...? - "In short, where the hell is everybody?"
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25/05/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Torrentspy lawsuit accuses MPAA of hiring hacker - they claim he was asked to steal internal Torrentspy documents by any means necessary
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25/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Del.icio.us Hotlist - redesigned homepage highlighs fresh popular links, and a minimum threshold for the recent page
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25/05/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Half Life 2: Episode 1 goes gold - the first in the episodic gaming series will be released on June 1 [via]
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25/05/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
kellan : random($foo): Unicode/UTF-8 Notes: I18N Gotchas - Leonard's note on converting Upcoming, a LAMP melange of PHP, Perl, and Python to native UTF-8. #
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25/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : Think Progress - Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert - "DeLay thinks Colbert is so persuasive, he's now featuring the full video of the interview at the top of the legal funds website"
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25/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : :: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog :: American Idol: Both of them suck - "Consuming bad media degrades our ability to perceive."
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25/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : Questionable Content 628: Devastating Counter-Attack - "Hurkth! Oh god, that mental image triggered MY gag reflex! Hoisted by my own petard!"
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25/05/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
deusx : Dancing On Fly Ash: One Hundred Word Stories, written by Matt Bell and Josh Maday
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25/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : Zac's Weblog - Blog Archive Circuit Design With Quartz Composer - "Armed with my limited digital design knowledge, I set out to create some well known circuits from within Quartz Composer."
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25/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : Nobilis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Nobilis is a role-playing game created by R. Sean Borgstrom in which the player characters are "Sovereign Powers" called Nobilis; each Nobilis is the personification of an abstract concept or class of things such as time, death, cars or communication."
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25/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : Microfiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Microfiction is very short fiction, usually around 300 words long."
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Rod Begbie : TMBG ringtone: "Call connected through the NSA" - My new ringtone. [via] #
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25/05/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
joshua : Flexbackup - a flexible backup tool
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25/05/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Nicholas Carr on Wikipedia's gradual shift toward moderation - Nick and Jimbo Wales wage battle in the comments [via]
Linkorama : The death of Wikipedia - oh good lord, guess i'll have to blog about this again
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25/05/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : Apple Matters | Is Windows On a Mac Really Drawing in New Users? - "I'd be interested to know about any Apple Matters readers whove managed to sway a friend or work colleague in the past few weeks/months in switching to a Mac, especially those whove done it with the one-hit line "It can run Windows"."
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25/05/2006 @ 01:11 GMT
merlinmann : Fred Rogers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "I just feel that anything that allows a person to be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is important."
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25/05/2006 @ 01:11 GMT
deusx : Open Source Flash - fc64 - "FC64 is a low level Commodore C64 emulator written in AS3 and licensed under the GPL."
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25/05/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Simon Willison : Most Monitors Won't Play New HD Video - DRM strikes again.
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25/05/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Simon Willison : Room 641A - Interesting back-of-an-envelope analysis of the NSA domestic spying scandal.
Eric Meyer : Room 641A - Brian Hayes says: if you want to find the bad guys, get them to encrypt their communications. [via Simon] [via]
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25/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Using TinyMCE in Django's admin - Using the js admin argument.
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25/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : 15 Days Of jQuery - 15 days of tutorials for one of the more quirky JS libraries.
Paul Hammond : 15 Days Of jQuery - I consider it the Swiss Army knife of javascript - it's small, versatile, and has almost zero learning curve
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25/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : "The Google search box is like the Tardis -- there's a lot more inside that little box than you expect" - "The Google search box is like the Tardis -- there's a lot more inside that little box than you expect".
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25/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : Quite a few photographic homages to Rene Magritte - Quite a few photographic homages to Rene Magritte. I love this updated classic.
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25/05/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
joshua : (Sunny) California Swaps and Stores
deusx : (Sunny) California Swaps and Stores - "What follows are listings of electronic-specific swap meets and stores in the SF Bay Area, and a few outside of it."
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25/05/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Virtual Earth Map Control v3 - "...exciting new control with dozens of enhancements, including new features not available in any of the previous versions, simpler integration, better compatibility, and much much more." [via] #
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25/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
cameron : O'Reilly Radar > Rewarding Users for Contributing Data - Monetary or material incentives aren't all that effective, "And once the reward is worth money, you'll get people contributing crap just to get the rewards. Your reward system is now paying people to piss in your data pool."
plasticbag : Nat Torkington on 'Rewarding Users for Contributing Data' - I couldn't agree more with a lot of this - points-based reputation / prestige systems and financial incentives are generally bad ways to reward contributions in social environments.
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25/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
cameron : Invisible Crowds in Cyberspace: Mapping the Social Structure of the Usenet - Marc's classic paper on metrics for Usenet
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25/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : Writer Roger Angell on a leisurely approach to reporting - Writer Roger Angell on a leisurely approach to reporting. "Shawn didn’t have a sense of deadline. [David] Remnick now wants it next week, which is fine. It's that sort of a magazine, and I try to oblige. Shawn thought, Everybody knows what the news
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25/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : Fine nerd humor: comparing Girlfriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 - Fine nerd humor: comparing Girlfriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0. "If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient
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