4/06/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
jimray : Kid Ethnic: Mixed-Race Adventures in Japan: The Delightful Young Sinners Drink the Children's Beer - And, this is why I love Saleem
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4/06/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
jimray : Diamonds Suck! A Personal Essay on the Virtues of Moissanite & Why You Should NEVER Buy a Diamond - Not sure about the whole moissanite thing, but this is a pretty good "diamonds are evil" rant
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4/06/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
kaninka.net : Richard Scobie orðinn Ãslenskur rÃkisborgari
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4/06/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
kaninka.net : Dixie Chicks won´t play nice
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kaninka.net : Sagas Of Iceland - The History Of The Vikings Volume 1
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4/06/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
kaninka.net : Meira rugl um vetnissamfélagið
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4/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken - Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken: "The binary-search bug applies equally to mergesort, and to other divide-and-conquer algorithms. If you have any code that implements one of these algorithms, fix it now before it blows up."
deusx : Official Google Research Blog: Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken - "A bug can exist for half a century despite our best efforts to exterminate it."
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4/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit - "one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane"
Jeremy Zawodny : Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit - Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit: "That snake resides in Ohio now," he said.
Rod Begbie : AP Wire | Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit - OK, the viral marketing for Snakes on a Plane has gone too far. Putting real snakes on real planes? That's just dangerous. [via] #
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4/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Do you know where this NYC map is from? - My friend Maciej found this map of NYC divided into sections that contain the same populations as other American cities. The page containing the image says it's from an unknown "City of New York publication". Anyone know where it's from or where to get a
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4/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : The case of Kelbessa Negewo, former Ethiopian government official and assused of torture and human rights abuses, and how a chance encounter with one of his alleged victims in an Atlanta hotel has turned into a 15-year legal battle - The case of Kelbessa Negewo, former Ethiopian government official and assused of torture and human rights abuses, and how a chance encounter with one of his alleged victims in an Atlanta hotel has turned into a 15-year legal battle.
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4/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : lockrun - lockrun: Run cron job with overrun protection
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4/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : After having the same web site since like 1985, Emigre has finally launched a redesign - After having the same web site since like 1985, Emigre has finally launched a redesign. The new site looks like it was done in 1998; the front page is all images, laid out in tables, and is invisible to search engines.
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4/06/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
joshua : ThinkWiki - Linux ThinkPad Wiki
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Jeremy Zawodny : Earth to Google PR - Earth to Google PR: "Never mind. I only have one question at this point. What planet are you living on?"
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4/06/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Does Anybody Cook at Home Anymore? - Does Anybody Cook at Home Anymore?: "I once worked with a fellow who ate out for every meal." And it was very expensive, it seems!
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4/06/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Feeling a Bit Dapper - Feeling a Bit Dapper: "What hadn’t occurred to me is that I had a functional Ubuntu system available to me--even during the install."
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4/06/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
jkottke : A chronological list of the largest cities through history - A chronological list of the largest cities through history. The five most recent cities and when they became the largest: Constantinople (1650), Beijing (1710), London (1825), New York (1925), and Tokyo (1965). The first city over 1 million was Baghdad ci
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4/06/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments - "What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints?" The Mentos and Diet Coke meme taken to the extreme. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments - The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments: What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane.
cameron : EepyBird.com - Taking the mentos/diet coke explosion to the next level
jcgregorio : Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment - 'Extreme' is a good description.
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4/06/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
wearehugh : File Locking And Concurrency In SQLite Version 3
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4/06/2006 @ 03:10 GMT
Linkorama : Nofollow No Good? - Not only does it not work for wikis, but Nofollow has been more of a failure than success, IMHO
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4/06/2006 @ 03:10 GMT
Linkorama : The Wealth of Networks seminar - Great complment to Benkler's book
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4/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
gleuschk : Tahiti, French Polynesia Forecast : Weather Underground - two weeks, more or less
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4/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Using rsync to enable the project drawer in textmate while working on a remote server - Looks like a useful trick.
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