27/06/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Inquirer != Enquirer - Inquirer != Enquirer: "Let’s face it, if GMail hadn’t come out swinging with 1GB we’d all still be stuck with 10MB mailboxes."
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27/06/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Mike Monteiro looks for backstory to the "Sucker Punched Teacher" video - after getting called out, I did some research; not a PTA meeting, but a courtroom
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27/06/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Could you pass the U.S. citizenship test? - I managed 85%, with only a couple of guesses. Not on there: "We all know the 13 stripes are for good luck. But why does the American flag have precisely 47 stars?" [via] #
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27/06/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Serif/Sans Text Families - Nice demonstration from FontFont on Serif/Sans typeface families designed to work together.
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27/06/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
merlinmann : Todo.txt - Task tracking for command line lovers - "The possibilities are pretty much endless when it comes to ways to use todo.txt."
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27/06/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
merlinmann : A new weapon in the fight against procrastination. - "I had never realised that I was spending so much time on email."
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27/06/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Isofarro : Da Vinci Code Trail - not big or clever - Dan Champion finds an astonishing secret to web accessibility in the Da Vince Code Trail: According to the combined wit of Segala, O2 and Sony Ericsson, one can pass Checkpoint 6.3 (accessible alternatives to scripts and programmatic objects) in Flash by
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27/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Jeopardy all-time champion Ken Jennings is blogging - he's a good writer, and funny! for example, his writeup on a trivia court decision, movies to sitcoms, and his giant head [via]
Rod Begbie : Ken Jennings - Blog - Ken Jennings, the long-running Jeopardy champion, has a blog. He always appeared a hugely entertaining and funny bloke on TV, and his blog only cements that reputation. [via] #
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27/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Sleater-Kinney to break up after summer tour - their last album was adored by critics [via]
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27/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : The NY Times World Cup Blog takes ABC/ESPN to task for the universally crappy TV coverage of the World Cup so far - The NY Times World Cup Blog takes ABC/ESPN to task for the universally crappy TV coverage of the World Cup so far, and then extends that argument to a broader condemnation of American sportscasting. Hear, hear. Balboa just straight up sucks and the graphi [via]
Rod Begbie : World Cup ’06 - The Sins of American Sportscasting - I'd been watching games with the TV volume turned down low, the commentators were so dreadful. Switching to Univision, though, is a masterful idea, and one I'll probably emulate at the weekend. [via] #
Cameron Moll : Sins of American Sportscasting - Speaking of US v. European TV: NY Times blog, "The Sins of American Sportscasting". "It's easy to see why O'Brien and Balboa announce this way. They are simply calling soccer games the same way all American sports are called. And yet the fact that there i [via]
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27/06/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
merlinmann : I fought the law, and the... | Ask MetaFilter - Poster is looking for the most useful way to kill 90 days in jail. I like the book-writing idea. Esp. since the process is kinda _like_ jail anyway.
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27/06/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Linkorama : A conversation with Warren Buffett - fascinating to think how significant the Gates endowment is, while being driven by an entrepreneurial model. Carnegie is spinning in his grave with glee.
Rod Begbie : FORTUNE Magazine: A conversation with Warren Buffett - Interview with Warren Buffet concerning his massive donation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last week. Basically explains that he'd rather their team spends his money, than him having to hire more people. [via] #
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27/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Isofarro : Fresh01’s redesign: more questions for the DTI - Bruce Lawson and Dan Champion take the DTI to task for squandering over £200,000 of tax-payers money on an accessible site that isn't accessible. Under the Freedom of Information Act they are taking up their rights to ask the DTI some very tough ques
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27/06/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Jeopardy king Ken Jennings has a blog - Jeopardy king Ken Jennings has a blog. (thx, matt)
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27/06/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
merlinmann : digg - Who dugg or blogged: iCommit - GTD php app - Mmmm. With the tabbed interface, you can watch a Digg link without ever seeing a single inane comment. It's like having a puppy that can't crap.
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27/06/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
jimray : Snarkmarket: Reviews of the New Slate.com - Oy, nobody likes it
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27/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Ice Cream Truck Music, Revisited - MP3s of the defining summertime music
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27/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Pauline Kael's New Yorker review of the 1978 version of Superman, just after it had been released - Pauline Kael's New Yorker review of the 1978 version of Superman, just after it had been released. I don't think she much cared for it.
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27/06/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : Gamer Successories - Inspirational posters (via Joystiq)
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27/06/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
Jon Hicks : Toby Oscar Ford Annett-Baker - Congratulations chaps!
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27/06/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : recirculating gravy fountain - "thanksgiving 2k5 : what's more excessive than a giant pie?  recirculating fountains of food seemed like the  obvious escalation.  a custom peristaltic pump design powered by an electric drill provided a gushing torrent of delicious, piping hot g
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27/06/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : OMG, The Super Mario World Room - Kotaku - "Holy Mario! A Ninty fangirl painted the front room of her house to look like Super Mario World, complete with piping and 3D boxes."
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27/06/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
deusx : Simon Willison: Notes on JavaScript Libraries - "If you take the time to learn it properly, JavaScript is a powerful and surprisingly elegant language."
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27/06/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
deusx : Python Web Developer ApplianceVMTN Virtual Appliances Directory - "The Python Web Developer Appliance includes the leading python web development frameworks and supporting libraries pre-installed and ready use, alongside a complete open-source software stack for building and deploying web applications."
Simon Willison : Python Web Developer Appliance - A VMWare virtual machine with Python web developer frameworks pre-installed for you.
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27/06/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
deusx : Inspirational Technology » Blog Archive » Microformats and Structured Blogging are not competitors - "Tools and formats are not the same thing. These projects are fully in line with each other and both efforts are necessary."
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27/06/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
deusx : Composite: thoughts on poetics by Liz Henry: talking gender - a long digressive juicy post - "If you talk all the time you will not hear anything."
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27/06/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
deusx : Fanatical Apathy · The Best-Ever Argument for Exploding Burritos - "Granting amnesty to the guy who’s been washing dishes at your favorite neighborhood restaurant for the past 7 years: Unthinkable."
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27/06/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : J.K. Rowling hints that Harry Potter might meet his end in the seventh and final book in the series, which will likely be one of the biggest bestsellers of all time - J.K. Rowling hints that Harry Potter might meet his end in the seventh and final book in the series, which will likely be one of the biggest bestsellers of all time.
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27/06/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : My new favorite weblog: The Baseball Card Blog - My new favorite weblog: The Baseball Card Blog. I'm having acid flashbacks to my teenaged years, but without the acid. The 1989 Upper Deck set was one of the first I built from scratch, a tall order for someone whose weekly allowance was $5. I remember lu
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27/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : dogwelder - Room 19's 19 Versions of Me [via]
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27/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Interesting CSS links - Great list of links pertaining to CSS web design
Cameron Moll : Veerle's interesting links - Veerle's interesting links. Mostly CSS. Veritably resourceful.
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27/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Farecast, which I wrote about here, is now out of private beta, meaning anyone can use the site - Farecast, which I wrote about here, is now out of private beta, meaning anyone can use the site.
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27/06/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : ESPN writer Bill Simmons lists his YouTube Hall of Fame videos - ESPN writer Bill Simmons lists his YouTube Hall of Fame videos.
Cameron Moll : YouTube Hall of Fame - The YouTube Hall of Fame.
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27/06/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : TED is releasing audio and video of some of their talks for free on the web - TED is releasing audio and video of some of their talks for free on the web. Current offerings include Al Gore, David Pogue, and Gapminder's Hans Rosling. They'll be adding one talk a week from their archives.
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27/06/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Songbird not-yet-0.2 source and binaries available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux | Songbirdnest.com - It’s still early days, but Songbird (not yet 0.2) is now available for OS X
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27/06/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : .9999999... = 1 - "No, I'm Sorry, It Does." [via] #
deusx : Polymathematics: No, I'm Sorry, It Does. - "Okay, so there's my rant. .9 repeating equals one. No, I'm sorry, it does."
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27/06/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
Jason Shellen : TiVo releases a paid version of their Desktop software to add Video iPod friendly features and more - TiVo Desktop Plus automatically converts your TiVoToGo transfers for iPod, PSP, Treo, Nokia, and other portable devices that support MPEG-4 or H.264 video. It's $24.95 but seems worth it compared to an iTunes season passes for multiple shows. #
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27/06/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Jason Shellen : TED Talks now available for download - Some of the wonderful talks from the TED conference in Monterey are now available for download. #
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27/06/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Jason Shellen : overplot: Overheard in New York meets Google Maps - Wherein the UI tech lead for Google Reader continues to prove he is a bad ass (and loves a good comedic line by a fellow New Yorker)! #
Milo Vermeulen : overplot: Overheard in New York meets Google Maps [via]
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27/06/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Simon Willison: Fjax: Just say no - Here's the catch: Fjax solves a non-existent problem
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27/06/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Scrolling Camino Tabs - Denholm is working on Camino’s tabs as part of the Google Summer of Code, and has come up with a way of scrolling tabs. Have a look, see what you think, and leave constructuve feedback if you have it!.
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27/06/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : overplot - incredibly great mashup of Overheard in New York and Google Maps
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27/06/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
merlinmann : MacUser: Ihnatko: Underused and unappreciated - "It’s true that many of Mac OS X’s ginchiest features are neglected middle children, overlooked and underappreciated." Great article.
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27/06/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Flickr: The Brain Age Drawings Pool - A collection of folks's sketches when challenged by Brain Age. I'll have to upload some of my own "artistry". #
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27/06/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Radio Times | Big Brother Blog - For my sins, I'm hopelessly addicted to the current British series of Big Brother (damn you UKNova!). Since it's not covered by TWoP, I'm delighted to find this excellent snarkblog on the Radio Times site. [via] #
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27/06/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : 10 Reasons Why High Definition DVD Formats Have Already Failed - All good points. DVD offered a *lot* more than VHS (picture quality, extra features, no rewinding, chapter selection), and wasn't as inconvenient as Laserdisc. Bluray and HD-DVD just off "more" DVD. Will either of them "succeed"? [via] #
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27/06/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Neat dataviz of coordinates mined from 10% of the web - any guesses on why the lightning bolt pattern emerges?
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27/06/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Stewart Butterfield on Photobucket - an interesting comparison of photo sharing numbers, but also insight into the accuracy of web tracking services
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27/06/2006 @ 02:11 GMT
Nelson Minar : Doom, the Roguelike - Amazingly detailed Doom-as-Rogue game
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27/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Calacanis on Calacanis - Calacanis on Calacanis: "The trouble with reading anything about Jason Calacanis is that it's so darn hard to get past the feeling that he is looking over your virtual shoulder and really, really enjoying knowing that you are reading about him.&q
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27/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Condom truck strikes rig from behind - Condom truck strikes rig from behind: an accurate and amusing headline
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27/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Mount an .ISO file without burning a disk - Mount an .ISO file without burning a disk: for windows
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27/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Matt Cutts Doll - Matt Cutts Doll: build your own Matt Cutts!
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27/06/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Hajjinets - US soldiers hack up Internet access in Iraq (via BoingBoing)
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27/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : punupgeek.com on Active Resource - Looks like 37 signals might be looking in to scaling across multiple servers using web services.
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27/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : HugTracker - Hugs are what make people happy because you're letting them know they are doing a great job.
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27/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Streamlined - Over time, we started pulling out the commonalities until we discovered we had the makings of a framework. Streamlined is the result of that
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27/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : PragDave - Glue That Doesn't Set - I've discovered that, over time, my Ruby programs stay malleable and easy to change
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27/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Django | Documentation | How to use Django with FastCGI
Simon Willison : How to use Django with FastCGI - The best FastCGI documentation I've seen for any platform.
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27/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Kevin Smith recording a Clerks 2 commentary track for in-theater use - free iTunes download to encourage second viewings for viewers with iPods
François Nonnenmacher : alt.soundtrack - Watch a movie at the theater with the director's commentary on your iPod, brilliant!
jimray : Kevin Smith has recorded commentary for Clerks II, available on iTunes - Brilliant - go see it in the theaters again, this time with director commentary
Paul Hammond : this is sippey.typepad.com: alt.soundtrack - Brilliant. Multiple viewings, reward your best fans, etc., etc. Why hasn't this been done before?
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27/06/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
merlinmann : MacDevCenter.com -- Making Movies with the Apple iSight - Excellent tutorial from Derrick. I'd never even _heard_ of QuickTime Broadcaster, but it's pretty darn cool and definitely does the trick.
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27/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Messenger 8 without Ads - Yahoo Messenger 8 without Ads: woohoo! That ad was really pissing me off.
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27/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Slammin' - Slammin': "We can't raise the minimum wage in this country, but the minimum serving size of Sprite just goes up and up and up."
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27/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
plasticbag : A rogue gang of transvestite shoplifters is terrorising New Orleans - I have to say, I sort of love this story - mainly because the imagery that it conjures in my heads is so glorious, bright and melodramatic
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27/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : What if some of the world's best photographers had posted their photos on Flickr or to a photo message board? - What if some of the world's best photographers had posted their photos to a photo message board? Garry Winogrand might have been told: "Man at right needs to be cropped out. Sometimes I find if I shout right before I take the picture I can get people's at [via]
Paul Hammond : The Online Photographer: Great Photographers on the Internet - This is just a snapshot. I would not even have considered showing this
jimray : The Online Photographer: Great Photographers on the Internet - "Bonjour Henri, assuming you are French, or at least understand it." Brilliant
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