19/07/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
wearehugh : Web Things, by Mark Baker » Blog Archive » Standards as axioms
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19/07/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : An up-and-coming rapper gets shot outside a Manhattan radio station studio, scrambes inside the building, and does a 2-hour interview/freestyle session like nothing happened - An up-and-coming rapper gets shot outside a Manhattan radio station studio, scrambes inside the building, and does a 2-hour interview/freestyle session like nothing happened. Fun article.
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19/07/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : ESPN.com: Page 2 : Choosing my EPL team - Bill Simmons, American sportswriter, goes through an in-depth investigation to decide upon an English Premier League to support this season. A great read. [via] #
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jkottke : One of the most enjoyable presentations at Taste3 was by mad scientist David Arnold, who made gin and tonic onstage, but without the tonic - One of the most enjoyable presentations at Taste3 was by mad scientist David Arnold, who made gin and tonic onstage, but without the tonic. (He added the fizz directly to the gin with a CO2 canister.) Pete Wells recently profiled Arnold in Food & Wine
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19/07/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Linkorama : mojungle - share your cell phone photos and videos
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Rod Begbie : Adobe Labs - Project: Lightroom - Adobe's Lightroom photo-processing beta is now available for Windows in addition to OSX. [via] #
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19/07/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo to Delay Ad Platform Upgrade - Yahoo to Delay Ad Platform Upgrade: I saw this coming a mile away...
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19/07/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs - Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs: well, duh...
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19/07/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
merlinmann : Self-destruct Button USB Hub | Uncrate - Add extra USB ports while feeling like a crazed James Bond villain.
Rod Begbie : Self-destruct Button USB Hub | Uncrate - Pretend to be an evil villain whilst hooking up your digital camera. [via] #
Matthew M. Boedicker : self-destruct button USB hub - (via del.icio.us/merlinmann) [via]
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merlinmann : Geek to Live: Top 10 free and cheap productivity tools - Lifehacker - Good roundup by Gina includes a few of my personal faves.
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19/07/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Blackjack odds calc - Various game rules (via Chris Rohrs)
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Nelson Minar : 50 Influential albums - Thoughtful list of music in the last 35 years
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Nelson Minar : Make a flaming whip - "can be dangerous. You will be dealing with a flaming metal chain which gets extremely hot."
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19/07/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
cameron : Yahoo! Music Blog » Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music - Yahoo takes on DRM with a personalized Jessica simpson track. Interesting political statement wrapped in a sexy voice.
Simon Willison : Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music - The fact that it's an MP3 should cause waves.
Rod Begbie : Yahoo! Music Blog » Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music - "Our position is simple: DRM doesn?t add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day ? the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a [via] #
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Nelson Minar : Bush / Merkel / creepy - video of Bush acting scary
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19/07/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
jimray : Preloadr: Image processing powered by nexImage - Just in case you don't have iPhoto or Photoshop
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19/07/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jimray : sam weber illustration - Really lovely
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jimray : The Missing Sync gets friendly with WM5 - Engadget Mobile - Still leaning towards Palm...
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jimray : Reed concedes defeat in Georgia primary - Politics - MSNBC.com - Awesome
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19/07/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Oliver Laric - 787 Cliparts (Quicktime) - Oliver Laric - 787 Cliparts (Quicktime) [more] [via]
Nelson Minar : Clip art loop - Beautiful little animation (via Metafilter)
Andy Baio : Video: 787 Cliparts - [via]
joshua : 787 Cliparts
jkottke : Mesmerizing clip-art movie - Mesmerizing clip-art movie. (via waxy) [via]
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19/07/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
wearehugh : Who's afraid of Ashley Highfield? (plasticbag.org)
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19/07/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : ebon - ebon. I can't understand a word, but the perceived simplicity of this site is excellent.
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19/07/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Mobile Web Best Practices checker - W3C Mobile Web Best Practices "checker" is essentially a validator for checking how well your mobilized site adheres to the BP guidelines.
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19/07/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
merlinmann : NPR : Best Buy Cuts Workers Loose from Clock, Desks - Best Buy claims that a results-based policy, letting some employees work whenever they want, has increased productivity.
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cobra libre : animal crossing: the movie! [via] #
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19/07/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Because of the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the Rapture Ready/End Times Chat board is buzzing with excitement over what the board's denizens believe may be the second coming of Christ - Because of the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the Rapture Ready/End Times Chat board is buzzing with excitement over what the board's denizens believe may be the second coming of Christ. "This is the busiest I've ever seen this website in
jimray : Silver Linings and a Cross of Gold (Harpers.org) - Rapture nuts are getting excited about the war in Israel/Lebannon. I really hope that they're right -- once the rapture comes, the rest of us can get on with our lives without these assholes fucking everything up.
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19/07/2006 @ 14:09 GMT
joshua : Physics Games - Reviews, Physics-Based Game Downloads, and Developer Interviews
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19/07/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
jkottke : This tshirt with infographics on it is too nerdy even for me - This tshirt with infographics on it is too nerdy even for me. That and I've been getting a ton of crap from everyone I know about how many Threadless tshirts I own.
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19/07/2006 @ 13:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : The "Problems" With CSS Code - Oh for heavens sake, how on earth is this man still in a job?! Is Dvorak just making uniformed, downright idiotic statements just to provoke, or his really that ignorant? Either way, it has to stop.
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19/07/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time. - Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time.: I need to try more of my dumb ideas!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Teach Yourself book series - Teach Yourself book series: get 'em while they're hot
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19/07/2006 @ 09:09 GMT
Linkorama : from architecture to urban planning - .. get all huffy and puffy and try to be understood. Damnit.
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19/07/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Trailer for Valve's Portal game - holy cow; like the gravity gun, it's amazing how one weapon can revolutionize gameplay
joshua : video for valve's portal
Nelson Minar : Valve Portal video - High concept small game (via Waxy)
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19/07/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : There's No Way I'm Saving That Guy (by Jesus Christ) - There's No Way I'm Saving That Guy (by Jesus Christ): "He can go rot in Hell for all I care." I love the Onion
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19/07/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short Version - incredible editing work [via]
jimray : YouTube - The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short Version
Rod Begbie : YouTube - The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short Version - Warning. May contain swearing. [via] #
znarf : Video: The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short Version [via] #
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19/07/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
jkottke : New York Times to redesign in 2008, each page will be 1.5 inches narrower - New York Times to redesign in 2008, each page will be 1.5 inches narrower.
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19/07/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Linkorama : Strong Opinions, Weakly Held - to deal with an uncertain future and still move forward – they advise people to have “strong opinions, which are weakly held.†Bob explained that weak opinions are problematic because people aren’t inspired to develop the best a
wearehugh : Bob Sutton: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
jkottke : The secret to wisdom: strong opinions, weakly held - The secret to wisdom: strong opinions, weakly held. "Bob explained that it was just as important, however, to not be too attached to what you believe because, otherwise, it undermines your ability to 'see' and 'hear' evidence that clashes with your opinio [via]
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19/07/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
joshua : So Del.icio.us! Intelligent Tagging for the Mac User
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19/07/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Linkorama : The Snowstorm Study - Smith found that employee attitudes towards their jobs and their supervisors weren’t especially useful predictors of which employees were absent from work UNTIL the day a crippling snowstorm hit.
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19/07/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Vonage / spyware - Vonage ads help fund spyware
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19/07/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Hellodeo - I've recorded you all a message using Odeo's other new app from last week. #
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19/07/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
cameron : Airline Portal for Insider Information on Airline Seats and Finding the Best Legroom, Recline and Locations on Your Next Airline Flight - Seat rating system for various airlines
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19/07/2006 @ 01:11 GMT
merlinmann : Hope Is Emo, Chapter 3 - Hope is sad about change. "A boy is not just not a cockroach"
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : L.A. News Service Sues YouTube Over Beating Video - The first lawsuit with tags (an "idiosyncratic choice of descriptive terms") as a key concept?
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : TracDev/UnicodeGuidelines - How the Trac developers handle unicode. Includes a good Python-Unicode introduction.
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : How Shellcodes Work - Surprisingly accessible considering the level of detail.
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : Ruby Style Adding Methods to Existing Classes in Python? - What's the best way of doing this?
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : MySpace parser - Tom Dyson's Python library for screen scraping MySpace profiles, based on Beautiful Soup.
deusx : MySpace parser - I was building something like this at my last job. "Here's a MySpace parser. Usage is straightforward; the constructor takes a MySpace URL or numerical ID, and profile, friend and comment details are exposed as attributes"
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : Instant inlining of C/C++ in Python - Really neat API, but depends on SWIG.
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : ruby_blocks.py - Ian Bicking's port of Ruby style blocks to Python using decorators.
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : Ten Things Yahoo! Is Already Doing with the YUI Library - A good answer to a Frequently Asked question.
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ruby Linguistics - Trac - a generic, language-neutral framework for extending Ruby objects with linguistic methods
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in | Steven Wittens - Acko.net - a jQuery plug-in that can add one or more color picker widgets into a page
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Adactio: Articles - Using DOM Scripting to Plug the Holes in CSS
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Google supports META NOODP tag - n some circumstances, Google uses descriptions from the Open Directory Project as the title and snippet for a web result; this tag lets you opt out of the ODP title and description
wearehugh : Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Google supports META NOODP tag
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : The B-List: Helpers, scaffolding, tradeoffs and other stuff - The sooner you ditch the training wheels and write real, reusable, extensible code, the better off you’re going to be in the long run.
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Vitamin Features » The Importance of Maintainable JavaScript - if you’re starting to get down and dirty with it, there’s no excuse not to keep it clean
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ajaxian » Return of the POJO: Plain ‘Ole JavaScript - We are needing to POJ up, because so many people think that anything JavaScript MUST be “Ajaxâ€.
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Compact Subversion Backups < Programming Kung Fu - The important part is –deltas, which uses a more CPU intense but more storage efficient delta method.
bmilleare : Compact Subversion Backups
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19/07/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : S5 Project - It started when I was adding some hacks to S5 for a presenation at XTech. Simon Willison and I spent about 30 minutes and were able add a cool feature
Simon Willison : S5 Project - Ryan King is running a community development process around Eric Meyer's S5.
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19/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Mongrel: Not Mongrel - If you have a feature that you think would be great for Mongrel, then go for it, but you implement it first
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19/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : An angry fix - Beholden to its corporate paymasters who alone can afford membership, the W3C seems increasingly detached from ordinary designers and developers
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19/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Who Cares About Standards? - Download the slides
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Paul Hammond : Geek to Live: Control your workday - Lifehacker - It's Friday. Near the end of the day, deliberately decide on your MIT for Monday morning
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19/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Gina on not checking your email first-thing | 43 Folders - it’s your mailbox, and you get to decide when and for how long it draws your attention. I recommend affecting that decision while awake, cogent, and adequately caffeinated
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19/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Rails Tips: Test that POST-only vs GET-only methods are secure [testing] [security] [get] [post] [http] [secure] - assert_method_not_allowed(:update, {:good => :post, :bad => :get})
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Paul Hammond : RedHanded » The Camping Server - the ease of PHP installation, but the cleanliness of mini-Rails.
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19/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : AOL's customer retention manual revealed - "You gotta love it!" ...or else [via]
Rod Begbie : AOL Retention Manual Revealed - Consumerist - Consumerist get their paws on the scripts & tools used by AOL to try to keep their users from cancelling. "If you stop and think about it, every Member that calls in to cancel their account is a hot lead. Most other sales jobs require you to create your [via] #
Simon Willison : AOL Retention Manual Revealed - 37 signals take note - That's why AOL developed, "Keep It Real"...a set of principles that will drive a world-class Member experience...
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19/07/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : Valery Grancher does paintings and drawings of web sites, logos, navigation bars, and Google - Valery Grancher does paintings and drawings of web sites, logos, navigation bars, and Google.
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