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Washington State declares RSS Days

30/06/2006 @ 22:08 GMT

jimray : Washington State declares RSS Days - Oh my.

deusx : RSS Days - Washington State Proclamation ~ Chris Pirillo

Andy Baio : Washington State declares June 30-July 1 to be official "RSS Days" - only slightly more meaningful than a Universal Life Church ordainment  [via]

Tags : dumb feeds government weird bizarre rss

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Boing Boing: Mac tattoo roundup

30/06/2006 @ 22:08 GMT

wearehugh : Boing Boing: Mac tattoo roundup

Tags : boingboing corydoctorow mac tattoo

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Privatephone - Free Private Phone Number and Online Voicemail by NetZero

30/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT

Rod Begbie : Privatephone - Free Private Phone Number and Online Voicemail by NetZero - Free disposable voicemail that you can get forwarded to you automatically via email. Feel free to spam me with WAV files at (617) 440-3295. [via#

Tags : free netzero privatephone telephony voicemail

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Dilberito: Why?

30/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT

deusx : Dilberito: Why? - "The company's first creation was the DILBERITO -- a delicious handheld meal fortified with 100% Daily Value of 23 essential vitamins and minerals. "

Tags : burrito dilbert food

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aptitude versus apt-get

30/06/2006 @ 21:08 GMT

wearehugh : aptitude versus apt-get

Tags : aptitude debian linux ubuntu

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Applied Cognition Laboratory (U of Utah)

30/06/2006 @ 19:09 GMT

merlinmann : Applied Cognition Laboratory (U of Utah) - "The long-term objective or our research is to understand the impact of using advanced in-car technologies on driving performance and traffic safety."

Tags : 43folders cars distractions driving phones research safety

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MeFi Music

30/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT

Andy Baio : MeFi Music - Matt and pb hack up a sexy section for Metafilter's musicians in 24 hours

jimray : MeFi Music is back - I like the js/flash player thingie

Tags : community metafilter music

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tetris shelving

30/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT

cobra libre : tetris shelving - when assembled correctly, the shelving vanishes [via#

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Tobias at Adorama won't sell lenses to Indians

30/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny : Tobias at Adorama won't sell lenses to Indians - Tobias at Adorama won't sell lenses to Indians: Kalyan wanted to spend $5k on a high-end lens and they wouldn't take his money. Yikes!

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Ajax timeline of the Kennedy assassination

30/06/2006 @ 19:08 GMT

Andy Baio : Ajax timeline of the Kennedy assassination - interesting choice of a sample dataset; all the timeline code is open source

joshua : timeline widget

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NPR : Wayne Hale's Insider's Guide to NASA

30/06/2006 @ 18:09 GMT

merlinmann : NPR : Wayne Hale's Insider's Guide to NASA - "The e-mails deal with things that NASA people might feel, but rarely talk about."

Tags : 43folders email nasa

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How to Handle Tough Questions from an Audience

30/06/2006 @ 18:09 GMT

merlinmann : How to Handle Tough Questions from an Audience - Good advice in 4 tips: 1) Rephrasing the question; 2) Redirecting the question to the audience/class; 3) Admitting your ignorance; 4) Finding a solution.

Tags : 43folders advice hardstuff speaking tips

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Camera lens tests

30/06/2006 @ 18:09 GMT

Nelson Minar : Camera lens tests - Detailed geeky data on lens performance

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calder's circus on youtube

30/06/2006 @ 18:08 GMT

cobra libre : calder's circus on youtube - when this played at the local museum, i must have watched it five or six times #

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Nylon Hand Truck

30/06/2006 @ 18:08 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny : Nylon Hand Truck - Nylon Hand Truck: everyone needs a good hand truck

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Bugzilla Lookup

30/06/2006 @ 18:08 GMT

wearehugh : Bugzilla Lookup - my first GNOME Deskbar plugin

Tags : bugzilla deskbar gnome plugin python

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Transcending CSS

30/06/2006 @ 17:09 GMT

Cameron Moll : Transcending CSS - Transcending CSS. Andy Clarke's forthcoming book, unveiled at @media. If it's anything like his presentation, it'll include plenty of fresh thinking about how we use CSS moving forward. Molly's comment at dinner, "How would you mark that [plate of food] u

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Bookshelves inspired by Tetris

30/06/2006 @ 17:09 GMT

Cameron Moll : Bookshelves inspired by Tetris - Bookshelves inspired by Tetris. Via Netdiver. [via]

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Zazen - Features

30/06/2006 @ 17:09 GMT

merlinmann : Zazen - Features - "Any activity you do on your Mac will be made more enjoyable by doing it in concentration mode, though." Tx, Keith Mason

Tags : 43folders applications focus macs osx

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Bruce Perens: The monster arrives: software patent lawsuits against open source developers

30/06/2006 @ 17:09 GMT

Isofarro : Bruce Perens: The monster arrives: software patent lawsuits against open source developers - We've warned you for a decade. Now the monster has finally arrived: attacks against Open Source developers by patent holders, big and small. One is a lawsuit against Red Hat for the use of the principle of Object Relational Mapping used in Hibernate, a po

Simon Willison : Software Patent Lawsuits Against Open Source Developers - Someone has a patent on ORM. [via]

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Ten Common CSS Mistakes

30/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT

Philippe Janvier : Ten Common CSS Mistakes - "...several common mistakes in the stylesheet." [via#

Tags : css

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tecosystems: What To Do After the Bough Breaks: Getting to Linux

30/06/2006 @ 17:08 GMT

wearehugh : tecosystems: What To Do After the Bough Breaks: Getting to Linux - "you don't know migration pain until you've been asked to port Mahjong scores to a new machine"

Tags : linux migration

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Wow, both Jan Ulrich and Ivan Basso are out of the Tour de France this year because of doping all...

30/06/2006 @ 16:08 GMT

jkottke : Wow, both Jan Ulrich and Ivan Basso are out of the Tour de France this year because of doping allegations - Wow, both Jan Ulrich and Ivan Basso are out of the Tour de France this year because of doping allegations.

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Could Lois Lane have Superman's baby?

30/06/2006 @ 15:08 GMT

jkottke : Could Lois Lane have Superman's baby? - Could Lois Lane have Superman's baby? "His Kryptonian biological makeup is enhanced by Earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan, the kid could kick right through her stomach." More discussion here. And here.

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scale and crop images

30/06/2006 @ 10:45 GMT

tjogin : scale and crop images

Tags : crop images library rails ruby rubyonrails scale

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For the love of Florrie

30/06/2006 @ 10:08 GMT

Andy Baio : For the love of Florrie - the woman that Jerri Blank from "Strangers with Candy" is based on; don't miss the insane LSD video  [via]

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Sphinx - Free open-source SQL full-text search engine

30/06/2006 @ 09:08 GMT

joshua : Sphinx - Free open-source SQL full-text search engine

Tags : db ii

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Couchsurfing down for good

30/06/2006 @ 08:08 GMT

Andy Baio : Couchsurfing down for good - hard disk failure and bad backups led to the permanent loss of the great service

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The MayaVi Data Visualizer

30/06/2006 @ 06:08 GMT

joshua : The MayaVi Data Visualizer

Tags : vis

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kipple

30/06/2006 @ 06:08 GMT

Matthew M. Boedicker : kipple

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Jaco Pastorius

30/06/2006 @ 05:08 GMT

Matthew M. Boedicker : Jaco Pastorius

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Kevin Kelly -- Help Wanted [The Big Here]

30/06/2006 @ 04:08 GMT

merlinmann : Kevin Kelly -- Help Wanted [The Big Here] - "30 questions to elevate your awareness (and literacy) of the greater place in which you live"

Matthew M. Boedicker : 30 questions to elevate your awareness (and literacy) of the greater place in which you live

Tags : 43folders senseofplace

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overview by rdeditor (on reddit.com)

30/06/2006 @ 03:08 GMT

Rod Begbie : overview by rdeditor (on reddit.com) - When old and new media collide -- Someone at Reader's Digest calling themself 'rdeditor' is submitting articles from rd.com to reddit and digg. #

Tags : digg readersdigest reddit

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Google Account Authentication

30/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT

Paul Hammond : Google Account Authentication - Google Accounts authentication for web-based applications allows the application to access a Google service protected by a user's Google account

Jeremy Zawodny : Google Account Authentication: Account Authentication Proxy for Web-Based Applications - Google Account Authentication: Account Authentication Proxy for Web-Based Applications: I'm pretty sure we decscribed a similar scheme at ETech a few months ago.

jimray : Google Account Authentication - Apparently, this is *not* Google passport. We'll see.

deusx : Google Account Authentication - "To maintain a high level of security, the Authentication Proxy interface, AuthSub, enables the application to get an authentication token without ever handling the user's account login information."

Tags : links apis authentication google identity security webdev http rest webservices

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O'Reilly Radar > Google Auth Launches

30/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT

Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > Google Auth Launches - Expect Google Passport hysteria in the first week, followed by technologists finding real use cases thereafter.

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The Power of the Marginal

30/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT

Paul Hammond : The Power of the Marginal - People at big companies don't realize the extent to which they live in an environment that is one large, ongoing test for the wrong qualities.

jkottke : As with much of Paul Graham's writing, The Power of the Marginal is filled with odd conclusions and unfair assumptions, but the general ideas are interesting to consider; lots of food for thought in this one for me - As with much of Paul Graham's writing, The Power of the Marginal is filled with odd conclusions and unfair assumptions, but the general ideas are interesting to consider; lots of food for thought in this one for me.

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Adactio: Articles - In Praise of the Hyperlink

30/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT

Paul Hammond : Adactio: Articles - In Praise of the Hyperlink - You or I will remain in the universe that matches the link we clicked. But the googlebot is different: it follows all ten links at once, spidering alternate worlds.

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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : The Power of Positive Whining

30/06/2006 @ 02:08 GMT

Paul Hammond : Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : The Power of Positive Whining - I do this not as complaint, which is of no use to anyone, but as critique and information-sharing

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Classics On Google Video

30/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT

Philippe Janvier : Classics On Google Video - "Some old movies have "fallen out of copyright", which means they can be distributed and downloaded for free." [via#

Tags : cinema google video

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Wrapping Text With Regular Expressions

30/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny : Wrapping Text With Regular Expressions - Wrapping Text With Regular Expressions: heh

kellan : TextMate: Wrapping Text With Regular Expressions - I literally finished debugging an HTML entity breaking bug with this same regex 5 minutes ago. Odd convergence. [via#

Simon Willison : Wrapping Text With Regular Expressions - Neat regexp trick.

Tags : links flickr regex text formatting txtmate wrap

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Greenpeace goes open source in collaboration push

30/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT

Simon Willison : Greenpeace goes open source in collaboration push - Django in the news.

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Javaref.com

30/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT

Simon Willison : Javaref.com - Sane Java API browsing.

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A Week in Chicago with Rails, Perl, and Django

30/06/2006 @ 01:08 GMT

Simon Willison : A Week in Chicago with Rails, Perl, and Django - I love Nat's observations about Java programmers who discover dynamic languages.

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nextplease

30/06/2006 @ 00:09 GMT

joshua : nextplease - firefox plugin to provide next/previous functionality

Tags : firefox

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Tetris effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

30/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT

deusx : Tetris effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Tetris effect refers to the ability of any activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention to begin to dominate their thoughts, images, and dreams."

Tags : gaming tetris wikipedia

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Dodge Caliber is not my friend - Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

30/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT

deusx : Dodge Caliber is not my friend - Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 - "This improper use of "friend" quickly destroys community - which is all MySpace is there for."

Tags : caliber dodge metablogging myspace

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How to draw a pixel head

30/06/2006 @ 00:08 GMT

jkottke : How to draw a pixel head - How to draw a pixel head. (via sb) [via]

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