24/07/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jimray : Pug Bowling - If ever there has been a reason to put a can of Pledge, hardwood floors and a laser pointer to good use, this is it
Rod Begbie : Pug Bowling - Can of Pledge + Bowling Pins + Laser Pointer + Pug Dog == Pug Bowling! [via] #
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24/07/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Addictive little game: MotherLoad - MotherLoad. Sure, it starts off simple enough. Oh, it's like Dig Dug, cute. Collect the ore, exchange it for money, and ooh, upgrades! There's platinum down here. Rubies! Wait, it's almost dinnertime? But we just had lunch. That was 5 hours ago? Oh. No. (
Rod Begbie : MotherLoad - A splendidly fun flashgame, drilling down for minerals, and returning to the surface before you run out of fuel, whilst cashing in the minerals and upgrading your driller. I could see me getting quite addicted to this! [via] #
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24/07/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Wiki 2.0 - JotSpot launches Web Office Wiki - It's wikis meets Microsoft Office
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24/07/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
jimray : A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems: Introduction - Nerdtastic!
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24/07/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The new JotSpot 2.0 - The new JotSpot 2.0: congrats! It's cool. I got to play with it a couple weeks ago
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24/07/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Pulling the cable plug - Pulling the cable plug: welcome to the non-TV club
deusx : Brad Choate: Pulling the cable plug - "today we’re without cable again, but not because we can’t afford it."
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24/07/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Top 7 Things I’ve Learned at Yahoo! - Top 7 Things I’ve Learned at Yahoo!: "Being surrounded by technical genius at work everyday, I was bound to pick up a few pieces of wisdom."
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24/07/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The High Cost of Being Poor - The High Cost of Being Poor: "If you're rich, you might want to stay that way. It's a whole lot cheaper than being poor."
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24/07/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Guessing game: Kid Rock or Floyd Landis?
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24/07/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
merlinmann : House Hacker :: Stuff for Home - Looks like a very fun and useful site -- somewhere between Lifehacker, _MAKE_, and the guy in the orange apron at Home Depot.
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24/07/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
cameron : Global Warming -- Signed, Sealed and Delivered - Los Angeles Times - Global warming article refuting last week's WSJ editorial, by the author of a climatology meta-study. Good stuff.
deusx : Global Warming -- Signed, Sealed and Delivered - Los Angeles Times - "There is continuing debate in the scientific community over the likely rate of future change: not "whether" but "how much" and "how soon.""
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Andy Baio : Doom 1 ported to Doom 3 - very meta hack lets you play Doom on a virtual screen inside of Doom 3 [via]
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24/07/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : John Battelle heard that YouTube is worth $1 billion and calls bullshit on whoever believes that - John Battelle heard that YouTube is worth $1 billion and calls bullshit on whoever believes that. As Tim Shey notes, lots of people are comparing YouTube to Napster (except for YouTube, of course), and I think the comparison is apt. Both services have pot
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24/07/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
deusx : Birth of a Paradroid. part I. courtesy of Dave Foreman. - "By the time the series is complete you'll have obtained a unique insight into the way a software house goes about its work."
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24/07/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Sword Vs Bullet - Google Video - Spoiler alert: The sword wins.
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24/07/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : I Like Killing Flies is a 2004 documentary about Shopsin's, a unique NYC eatery - I Like Killing Flies is a 2004 documentary about Shopsin's, a unique NYC eatery. Playing at NYC's Cinema Village this coming weekend. See also Shopsin's menu design and Calvin Trillin's classic NYer piece.
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24/07/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
wearehugh : Have you got the balls? (Metro Times Detroit) - "Then, suddenly I know how a daiquiri in a blender feels."
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24/07/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Three horrible videos from people who want to be a United States Senator from Maryland - "Three horrible videos from people who want to be a United States Senator from Maryland". Welcome to Razzmania! (thx, ajit)
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24/07/2006 @ 18:12 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext Releases Open Source Wiki - Available for immediate download, Socialtext Open is the first open source wiki with a commercial venture as its primary contributor.
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24/07/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
wearehugh : FatBits: John Siracusa's Journal: WWDC keynote bingo
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24/07/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
wearehugh : Internet '96
jkottke : What the web looked like in 1996, with screenshots from mcdonalds.com, coke.com, bestbuy.com, and lego.com - What the web looked like in 1996, with screenshots from mcdonalds.com, coke.com, bestbuy.com, and lego.com.
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24/07/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
wearehugh : POD-dy Mouth: Opening paragraphs of recent PODs that yielded an abbreviated read
deusx : POD-dy Mouth: Opening paragraphs of recent PODs that yielded an abbreviated read - "So many folks have asked me how bad a book must be to only read one sentence or paragraph before closing it"
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24/07/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Portraits of Indians, many of whom had never been photographed - Portraits of Indians, many of whom had never been photographed. (via cyn-c) [via]
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24/07/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Time to pull the plug on ESPN Mobile - Merill Lynch: Time to pull the plug on ESPN Mobile. Amen.
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24/07/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Behind the scenes: Yahoo! FIFA mobile site - Behind the scenes: Yahoo! FIFA mobile site. "To make sense of the chaos, Yahoo!'s team first selected a target group of ten phones. They were all widely distributed, and their browsers ran the gamut from high-end to barely functional. As the thinking went
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24/07/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Fossil Tinspiration Contest - Fossil Tinspiration Contest.
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24/07/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Student typography posters - "For one of the projects they create a typography poster for a typeface they are assigned. Students are to research and write a paper about the typeface and then design a poster based on their research of the typeface and time period. We've started postin
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24/07/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : "Designing for Mobile" slides - Brian Fling's slides from what appears to have been a brilliant "Designing for Mobile" workshop at Webvisions 2006. The diagram on slide 38 is phenomenal. Love the "Jargon Alert" idea, too.
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jimray : Crazy.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) - Ray Lamontagne covers Gnarls Barkley and it is fucking beautiful
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24/07/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : Urban Legends Reference Pages: 57 Varieties - "By the time the H. J. Heinz company celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1969 its product line included more than 1,100 items, but over the years the number 57 had permeated almost every aspect of the Heinz corporate culture."
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24/07/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : Heinz- Consumer FAQs -What is the significance of "57"? - Although there were many more than 57 foods in production at the time, because the numbers "5" and "7" held a special significance for him and his wife, he adopted the slogan "57 Varieties."
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jkottke : Motorized scooters, ostensibly for the disabled, are finding a new audience: the lazy - Motorized scooters, ostensibly for the handicapped, are finding a new audience: the lazy. "When scooter demand outstrips supply at Wal-Mart, greeters 'evaluate the situation' and make sure that people using the scooters can demonstrate a legitimate need."
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24/07/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
deusx : The Straight Dope: Why does Heinz ketchup say "57 varieties"? I only see one variety - "The number 57 has mystical significance to the Heinz company, but it has never had much to do with reality."
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jkottke : Profile of Floyd Landis, who won the Tour de France yesterday - Profile of Floyd Landis, who won the Tour de France yesterday. (via, a.whole) [via]
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jkottke : Two weeks in Ukraine with 30 men hunting for brides - Two weeks in Ukraine with 30 men hunting for brides. "The vision was Madonna and puttana rolled together, an American male desire shaped in equal parts by the Promise Keepers and Internet porn." (via maciej) [via]
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24/07/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Puffy AmiYumi cover Green Day's "Basket Case" (MP3) - I'm curious to test out RedSwoosh's P2Pness, so link-followers: Have a shot at downloading seven stonking megabytes of J-Pop oddness! Windows users should be directed to download the RedSwoosh client, while Mac & Linux users should be redirected to the #
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24/07/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
Linkorama : IT manager's guide to social computing - If your company is averse to openness and transparency and is unlikely to change, then this article is not going to interest you much. Unless, of course, you are considering a change of direction.
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24/07/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
plasticbag : Thingtagging: Pictures of objects - A project that Mr Biddulph's been working on for fun built off the back of Thinglink.org. I did some of the colouring-in work for him in return for his immortal soul. It's pretty cool.
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24/07/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
WillPate : Tourist Remover - "Removes unwanted tourists from your photos"
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24/07/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo and MSN cannot compete? - Yahoo and MSN cannot compete?: "What is the problem at Yahoo and MSN? After four years of trying, they just seem to be slipping further and further behind."
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24/07/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Johnny Cupcakes Clothing - Local indie T-shirt designer. I'll have to take a nosey at his store on Newbury St. [via] #
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24/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : XML-RPC servers using Django - Another advantage of the simple Request/Response model.
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jimray : PRINT GOCCO card/paper printing systems homepage - Create handmade prints using flashbulbs
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