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Orange Cone: How to make a magic wand

29/05/2006 @ 23:08 GMT

deusx : Orange Cone: How to make a magic wand - "Magic can be an useful framework for describing many of the kinds of functionality that contemporary technology enables."

Tags : hacks hardware magic osx quicksilver software

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Truck and Barter: One million dollars or all the world's knowledge of economics?

29/05/2006 @ 22:11 GMT

merlinmann : Truck and Barter: One million dollars or all the world's knowledge of economics? - Videos to teach you about Economics. Via:Metafilter.

Tags : 43folders economics mefi videos

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Illumio

29/05/2006 @ 22:11 GMT

Linkorama : Illumio - New expert network SNS from Tacit, interested to look at their privacy model

Tags : privacy socialnetworking tacitnetworks yasns

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365 tomorrows - Always Summer

29/05/2006 @ 22:10 GMT

deusx : 365 tomorrows - Always Summer - "You can't buy weather like that. Somewhere, its always sunny and its always summer. The trick is to find that place and build a house."

Tags : fiction future scifi stories

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Personal Avatar (aka Pavatar) Specification 0.2.0

29/05/2006 @ 22:10 GMT

deusx : Personal Avatar (aka Pavatar) Specification 0.2.0 - "The Personal Avatar (aka Pavatar) is a picture hosted on your webspace which can be used by webmasters to display an image referring to you."

Tags : avatars metablogging

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Ajax RSS reader

29/05/2006 @ 22:09 GMT

deusx : Ajax RSS reader - "Learn how to build an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader, as well as a Web component that you can place on any Web site to look at the articles in the RSS feeds."

Tags : ajax php rss syndication webdev

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Submit a Privacy Act Request

29/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT

jimray : Submit a Privacy Act Request - How to (politely) ask the NSA to give you your phone records. Every j-school student in the country should be required to do this before graduating.

Tags : government nsa privacy security spying

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Apple - Notebooks - Compare Models

29/05/2006 @ 21:09 GMT

jimray : Apple - Notebooks - Compare Models - Vastly simplified lineup, glad that they're not crippling the lower end notebooks any more. This makes a lot more sense than the old iBook/Powerbook lineup.

Tags : hardware mac

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KINGMAX 1GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) - Retail at Newegg.com

29/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT

deusx : KINGMAX 1GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) - Retail at Newegg.com - "Words simply cannot describe how tiny this drive is. It is about the thickness of a quarter and ~3 inches in length."

Tags : gadgets hardware wishlist

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Sploid: A day of posturing

29/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT

deusx : Sploid: A day of posturing - "In the week leading up to Memorial Day, the president acknowledged that some of his childish taunts hadn't been in America's best interests."

Tags : bush memorialday politics

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Oh, just go watch this remote controlled airplane video

29/05/2006 @ 21:08 GMT

jkottke : Oh, just go watch this remote controlled airplane video - Oh, just go watch this remote controlled airplane video. Go! Now! (via cyn-c) [via]

deusx : Cynical-C Blog: Amazing R/C airplane demo - "Wow, so skillful, that should be an Olympic sport."

Tags : gadgets radiocontrol rc toys

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WABI-SABI and SocialText

29/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT

Linkorama : WABI-SABI and SocialText - Overall, Japanese organizations tend to be "bottom-up" in decision makings, yes, we're "empowered" by nature. ("Kaizen" shall never be achieved by the mere "top-down" approach.)

Tags : asthetic bottomup management philosophy socialtext wabisabi wiki

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The Black Hat Tax

29/05/2006 @ 19:09 GMT

Linkorama : The Black Hat Tax - Most consumer Internet sites today have an inherent tax of about 25% on them due to scamming, phishing, hacking, and government requests. That 25% is based on time and mind-share. And the 25% is only going to get worse. This is troubling.Most consumer Int

Tags : businessmodel consumerinternet economics fraud

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Google Gapminder

29/05/2006 @ 19:08 GMT

Andy Baio : Google Gapminder - Flash infoviz of World Development Indicators from The World Bank  [via]

WillPate : Google Gapminder - Cool visualization tool

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Global warming skeptic Gregg Easterbrook finally caves: "based on the data I'm now switching side...

29/05/2006 @ 17:08 GMT

jkottke : Global warming skeptic Gregg Easterbrook finally caves: "based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert" - Global warming skeptic Gregg Easterbrook finally caves: "based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert". (via scott rosenberg, who says too little, too late, Gregg) [via]

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AcademiaAdvice

29/05/2006 @ 16:11 GMT

gleuschk : AcademiaAdvice - nicely collected

Tags : academia advertisingignorance howto toread

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Coney Island to get a $1 billion makeover?

29/05/2006 @ 16:09 GMT

jkottke : Coney Island to get a $1 billion makeover? - Coney Island to get a $1 billion makeover? I have a feeling that Shoot the Freak may not have a place in the new Coney Island.

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Plan for Sharpshooters to Thin Colorado Elk Herd Draws Critics - New York Times

29/05/2006 @ 14:08 GMT

gleuschk : Plan for Sharpshooters to Thin Colorado Elk Herd Draws Critics - New York Times - turns out they're not even native

Tags : colorado estespark nytimes

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Safari Tidy now at 0.2

29/05/2006 @ 11:08 GMT

Jon Hicks : Safari Tidy now at 0.2 - Now adds useful stuff like line numbers to the source view! Could this be a potential Firebug for Safari in the making?

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Htpasswd Plugin

29/05/2006 @ 09:28 GMT

tjogin : Htpasswd Plugin

Tags : authentication login plugins rails ruby rubyonrails

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Skype as Future of Connectivity

29/05/2006 @ 09:08 GMT

Linkorama : Skype as Future of Connectivity - from the edge: Skype, not "Internet 2" represents the future of connectivity.

Tags : applications architecture decentralization skype sysadmin systems voip

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Bloggers are Journalists

29/05/2006 @ 06:10 GMT

Linkorama : Bloggers are Journalists - Or a third way: let it go

Tags : blogging freedom freespeech journalism media speech

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Loving Teaching

29/05/2006 @ 06:09 GMT

Linkorama : Loving Teaching - How lucky Liz's students are to have someone that really loves growing young minds and souls over the allure of publish. But perhaps publish is less gated, and teaching will triumph.

Tags : academia learning teaching

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Musings on enterprise search

29/05/2006 @ 06:09 GMT

Linkorama : Musings on enterprise search - All this is not worth doing unless we’ve lowered the barriers to conversation, to publishing, in the first place.

Tags : anchortext blogs enterprise links search wikis

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hdl_dump - Windows-, Unix- and Linux-based game installer for HD Loader

29/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT

deusx : hdl_dump - Windows-, Unix- and Linux-based game installer for HD Loader - "hdl_dump/hdl_dumb are a set of tools to install Playstation 2 games, which are to be played using HD Loader."

Tags : hacks hdloader ps2 software

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hdl_dump HOWTO

29/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT

deusx : hdl_dump HOWTO - "Installing a game via TCP/IP network"

Tags : hacks ps2 software

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GEEKS.OPML.ORG :

29/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT

deusx : GEEKS.OPML.ORG : - "I thought maybe I could improve the XML-RPC server to have it branch to different places based on the HOST header of the HTTP request."

Tags : frontier nifty usertalk xmlrpc

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ongoing · Yes, I Can Keep Editing!

29/05/2006 @ 06:08 GMT

wearehugh : ongoing · Yes, I Can Keep Editing! - every wikipedia article has an atom 1.0 feed for revisions

Tags : atom wikipedia

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NYT profile of IMDB's founder

29/05/2006 @ 05:08 GMT

Andy Baio : NYT profile of IMDB's founder - I'm grateful that Amazon hasn't tried to change it  [via]

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Architecture and Control

29/05/2006 @ 04:09 GMT

Linkorama : Architecture and Control - If a mainline ERP vendor or outsourcer can offer BOTH traditional functionality control as well as reasonable levels of collaborative knowledge and relationship management functionality, risk averse corporate executives should smile.

Tags : architecture blogging enterprise events sap soa web2.0

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Tom Green is Not Old Media

29/05/2006 @ 04:09 GMT

Linkorama : Tom Green is Not Old Media - Did he say Fuck Estonia?

Tags : entertainment funny get media video vlogging

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Building Enterprise 2.0

29/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT

Linkorama : Building Enterprise 2.0 - Thoughtful IT governance model

Tags : IT blogs corporate enterprise2.0 km management wiki

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Own your data: ad-hoc representations

29/05/2006 @ 01:08 GMT

Simon Willison : Own your data: ad-hoc representations - Includes interesting notes about Tabblo's implementation.

Paul Hammond : Ned Batchelder: Own your data: ad-hoc representations - Rather than adopting (or worse, adapting) a standard to fit your purposes, you should create your own data representation. It will give you the best fit for the problem at hand.

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black macbook finger marks

29/05/2006 @ 00:08 GMT

Jon Hicks : black macbook finger marks - Extra price aside, here’s a drawback with the black macbook – it shows up those greasy finger prints a lot. I can see special black cotton iGloves being marketed to compensate…

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