6/06/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : The Monkey Chow Diaries - "I'm tired of cooking. I hate scrubbing pots and pans. I've wasted too much time in the checkout line. It's time to eat chow."
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6/06/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Companies that do photo prints (Target, in this case) refuse to print certain photographs because they look too professional - This news isn't new, but it's still irritating. Companies that do photo prints (Target, in this case) refuse to print certain photographs because they look too professional. Digital cameras are so good and cheap these days that everyone's taking professio
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6/06/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
cobra libre : kensington rune stone may be authentic - those vikings sure did get around [via] #
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cobra libre : "the modesty of history," by jorge luis borges - the essay that led me to read snorri sturluson's saga of king harald #
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6/06/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
merlinmann : The tao of Trader Joe's / Devoted fans meet online to swap news, stay connected - Despite carrying fewer items and less familiar brands, TJ's "produces sales per square foot of more than $1,300, which is twice the industry average."
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6/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : StateMaster - Statistics > Oral health > Loss of natural teeth by state - "DEFINITION: Adults aged 65+ who have had all their natural teeth extracted."
joshua : Loss of natural teeth by state
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6/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Inside Google Spreadsheets - Inside Google Spreadsheets: "You’ll notice Google put a focus on sharing and multi-user editing. You can invite others to your document, you can chat with them, and edit along with them on the same document, at the same time." Very cool!
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6/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Letterbox is a widescreen version of Mail.app for use on, duh, widescreen monitors - Letterbox is a widescreen version of Mail.app for use on, duh, widescreen monitors.
joshua : Letterbox - Letterbox is a plugin for Apple's Mail.app that takes advantage of your widescreen monitor.
Jon Hicks : Letterbox - The widescreen mail.app hack now has a name, a proper website.
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6/06/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
jcgregorio : Google Calendar VIM Add Entry V2 - vim script written in Python to add google calendar entries. That would be so much better with httplib2.
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6/06/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
merlinmann : Samuel Johnson: Quotes on Attention - "The true art of memory is the art of attention."
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6/06/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Gallows humor from inside Enron - When Enrorn was investigated, the contents of their Exchange server was made public. Here's some of the more amusing things found inside. [via] #
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6/06/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : UK music fans can copy own tracks - Nice to know, but shouldn’t be illegal in the first flippin’ place.
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6/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : AllofMP3 breaks silence - they claim they're going to work out deals with all music rightholders by September 1
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6/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Slate on athletes using LASIK as performance enhancer - is surgical eye enhancement a form of cheating?
deusx : If steroids are cheating, why isn't LASIK? By William Saletan - "If the andro that helped McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998 was an unnatural, game-altering enhancement, what about his high-powered contact lenses?"
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6/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Time and Again - photographer returns to small Iowa town 20 years after taking photos of every citizen [via]
jkottke : Peter Feldstein has returned to Oxford, Iowa, to photograph the residents of the small town, just as he did back in 1984 - Peter Feldstein has returned to Oxford, Iowa, to photograph the residents of the small town, just as he did back in 1984. More information on The Oxford Project + photos here. (via tmn) [via]
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6/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Facebook C&D's Gawker for posting profile photos - note that the profiles are public to any Facebook user
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6/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
merlinmann : Strategies for Reducing Procrastination - "These suggestions have been taken from chapter nine 'Treatment of Academic Procrastination in College Students' in _Procrastination and Task Avoidance: Theory, Research and Treatment_"
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6/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
merlinmann : Procrastination Research Group Home Page [Related Web Sites] - "The following web sites provide some useful information pertaining to the treatment of procrastination."
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6/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
kellan : Mark Fletcher: Moving On - To spend more time with his cats, and cream puffs #
Rod Begbie : Mark Fletcher's Blog: Moving On - Mark Fletcher's leaving Bloglines and Ask.com behind to go entrepreneuring elsewhere. Best of luck, Mark. #
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6/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
kellan : Eugene has an interesting review up of "An Inconvient Truth" - I was supposed to go with them, but I bailed for a weekend of digging through dusty boxes. Hmmmm. When Blaine gets back from Spain must ask him about the grocery delivery place in Vancouver that included the carbon cost info with their products. #
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6/06/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
jcgregorio : Welcome to Google Spreadsheets (Limited Test) - Found this by guessing at URIs for a bit.
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6/06/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Movable Type 3.3 Beta is here - Movable Type 3.3 Beta is here: oooh!
Rod Begbie : Six Apart - Movable Type News - Movable Type 3.3 Beta is here - Ooh! I think I know how I'm spending this evening. #
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6/06/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : The World Bank has a comprehensive package on World Cup 2006 and its relation to economics, including an economic analysis of who's gonna win and how the Cup influences economies in the winning/losing countries - The World Bank has a comprehensive package on World Cup 2006 and its relation to economics, including an economic analysis of who's gonna win and how the Cup influences economies in the winning/losing countries.
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6/06/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Linkorama : Collaboration Study - An overwhelming number (9-to-1) see their collaborative efforts as highly productive and believe that collaboration through communication technologies provides a personal competitive advantage, keeps them informed and positions them to take advantage of n
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6/06/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Linkorama : User Generated Brochures - Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, and a provocative thinker about all things wiki, said it pretty well: "People are leaving breadcrumbs of where they spent attention."
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6/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : For all you ugly people out there, a tutorial on how to beautify a face in Photoshop - For all you ugly people out there, a tutorial on how to beautify a face in Photoshop.
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6/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Robert Birnbaum interviews George Saunders - Robert Birnbaum interviews George Saunders. "What seems dark to me is CSI Baton Rouge or whatever -- where there is no mitigating humor, no sense that the absurd is absurd, it's all just murdering midgets and no one ever calls those shows dark."
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6/06/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
wearehugh : Creating Sandboxed HTTP Connections - MDC
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6/06/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Miami + Manhattan - So many New Yorkers retire to Florida, it makes sense to see what Manhattan looks like next to Miami. See also my Manhattan Elsewhere project, a map mashup featuring the island of Manhattan visiting Chicago, Boston, San Franciso, etc.
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6/06/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Press Photographers Year awards for the outstanding press photography of 2005 - Press Photographers Year awards for the outstanding press photography of 2005. (thx joshua)
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6/06/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
plasticbag : Kris Krug mounts the Great Wall - You can almost see all the Chinese people standing around him, looking horrified, quietly thinking, "Soon we shall destroy America and their foolish naked geeks..."
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Paul Hammond : davidflanagan.com: June 2006 Archives - I've just learned that Ruby and Python (and, I'm told Tcl) define integer division of or by a negative number differently that C and Java do
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6/06/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Slow Leadership: Business Killers - The “quick-fix†mentality seems to offer fast results for little effort. In reality, it simply postpones the problem.
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6/06/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : TechnoMagicians Weblog :: Native XMLHTTPRequest In IE7 - the ActiveX implementation in IE7 doesn't work exactly the same as pre-IE7 browsers
deusx : TechnoMagicians Weblog :: Native XMLHTTPRequest In IE7 - "Folks should be cautious with their AJAX implementations in supporting IE7 and make sure they instantiate a native object in IE7 instead of the ActiveX one."
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6/06/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Rails and Response Streaming - I created a small plugin with logged the current status of the RSS and VSZ memory and calculated a difference from these numbers and numbers from the previous request
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6/06/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Remote Buddy - This looks very interesting – software that allows the apple remote shipped with intel macs to control more than just Front Row.
deusx : Remote Buddy > Overview // IOSPIRIT - fueling creative minds worldwide .. - "The latest Macs ship with a remote control that allows you to control Front Row and a couple of Apple's applications. Beyond that, you can't do much else with it, though."
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6/06/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Linkorama : Spray and Fray - There is a lot of interesting truth in this post by Tom Foremski
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6/06/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Linkorama : Google spreadsheet - Bricklin: I finished the coding of the Beta 0.9 version of wikiCalc and should have it ready for release in a few days after some testing and documentation, probably by the weekend.
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6/06/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
merlinmann : Intermittent explosive disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Rare brain disorder that might be behind some road rage and domestic abuse.
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6/06/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Linkorama : The Human Behavior Experiments - great documentary on the social psychology of obedience, watched it twice, catch it if you can
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6/06/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : POKE 53281,0 POKE 53280,0 - POKE 53281,0 POKE 53280,0: hey, I know what that does too!
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6/06/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Spreadsheet coming tomorrow - their web office suite is coming along nicely
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6/06/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Linkorama : The Coming Wave of Enterprise Web 2.0 - Automating the white space between us is the last untapped source of Big Win in the Enterprise.?
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6/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
jimray : NPR : Home for Seniors Trades Privacy for Security
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6/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Tech-Savvy MPs Come Out Against DRM - Promising news from the Open Rights Group.
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6/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : New crazy bird flu dance is all the rage in the Ivory Coast - New crazy bird flu dance is all the rage in the Ivory Coast. "If we kill all our chickens and poultry, our cousins in the village will become poor. So I created the bird flu dance to put joy back into our hearts." Article comes with a complimentary Funky
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6/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : List of lines from Shakespeare plays that have become cliches - List of lines from Shakespeare plays that have become cliches.
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Jon Hicks : Vienna 2.1 - The open-source RSS reader goes from strength to strength.
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6/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : TrekEarth - "... a global community interested in photography from around the world." [via] #
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6/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Get Your Feet Wet with WordPress - Get Your Feet Wet with WordPress: there are some factual inaccuracies here, but not a bad article
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6/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : Long comprehensive article around the current debate? controversy? hubbub? about global warming - Long comprehensive article around the current (debate? controversy? hubbub? misdirection?) about global warming.
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6/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : New word: lexidiem - New word: lexidiem, meaning "word of the day". Lexidiem is a lexidiem.
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