25/07/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
merlinmann : I'm weird. | Ask MetaFilter - Should be an interesting complement to the recent eccentricity discussion -- how does one become _less_ weird?
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25/07/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : reddit.com: Slate - what's new online - Reddit launch a branded sub-site just for Slate articles, essentially becoming the "official" place to comment on and rate Slate articles. An interesting joint venture, showing there's more to the Web 2.0 businessplan than just "targetted advertising". [via] #
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25/07/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
wearehugh : Problematic extensions - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Rod Begbie : Problematic extensions - MozillaZine Knowledge Base - If, like me, you've got a shedload of Firefox extensions installed and, like me, are seeing memory leaks in Firefox, this guide can help you track down the responsible parties. [via] #
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25/07/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Exhibition at the Science, Industry and Business Library in NYC: Places and Spaces, Mapping Science - Exhibition at the Science, Industry and Business Library in NYC: Places & Spaces, Mapping Science (thru Aug 31). An online exhibition is also available or browse all the maps.
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25/07/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Linkorama : Effects of open sourcing - Socialtext Open is going to change everything about how we write code. Even if you’re not one of those directly responsible for getting Socialtext Open out the door on Monday, after that day, we’ll see a huge shift in how things happen. It w
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25/07/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Jane Jacobs revisited - Jane Jacobs revisited. "The mistake made by Jacobs's detractors and acolytes alike is to regard her as a champion of stasis -- to believe she was advocating the world's cities be built as simulacra of the West Village circa 1960."
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25/07/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Foon.co.uk - Super Serif Brothers - "use arrows to move / collect all �'s to open the exit e -> E / the rest is up to you"
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25/07/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : GeekStuff4U.com - Self Destruction Button USB - "Self Destruction Button, the ultimate USB HUB with sound for your PC"
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Andy Baio : Famous logos redone Web 2.0 style - hilarious; Digg's hitting the original YayHooray thread hard [via]
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25/07/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Digg Labs - the Stamen Design visualizations go live
Cameron Moll : Digg Labs - Digg Labs. Hadn't even seen this until today. Digg Swarm is really interesting to watch, to say the least.
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jkottke : Surowiecki on the difficulty of short-term thinking in business - Surowiecki on the difficulty of short-term thinking in business. "It's no wonder that management theory is dominated by fads: every few years, new companies succeed, and they are scrutinized for the underlying truths that they might reveal. But often ther
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25/07/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
merlinmann : Luis Apiolaza .:. Quantum Forest: Another mac update - I always like hearing how people decide to settle in with these or those apps on their Mac.
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Linkorama : Zac Bir Joins Socialtext - Recently with Zope. Welcome aboard Zac!
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25/07/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
joshua : A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems: Introduction
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25/07/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext disponible en open source - Annoncé hier par Ross Mayfield, Socialtext vient de lancer une version de sa plateforme wiki/blog en open-source.
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25/07/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Translator's musings - Every profession has experts blogging
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25/07/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : California power - Nice status graph (via Merlin)
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Nelson Minar : Web 2.0 logos - Spoof of traditional logos. (note: site is a mirror; main is down)
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25/07/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
jimray : Original Gangsta - Oh, that's nice (still prefer the Galaga version, though)
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25/07/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : How to lose the 'ums' and 'ahs' from your speech - How to lose the 'ums' and 'ahs' from your speech. Videotape yourself and practice.
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25/07/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Slim Devices : Product Info : Transporter - Slim Devices launch their $2k "audiophile" version of the Squeezebox. Gold-plated out the wazoo for those who claim they hear the difference. They probably won't sell many, but they'll make a shitload from the ones they do sell. [via] #
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25/07/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : Top 10 List - GameFAQs - "The following is a list of the top 10 most memorable cheats that will hopefully forever be remembered in video game history."
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25/07/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Income distributions for various US cities for the purpose of testing the "donut" hypothesis - Income distributions for various US cities for the purpose of testing the "donut" hypothesis, "the idea that a city will create concentric rings of wealth and poverty, with the rich both in the suburbs and in the 'revitalized' downtown, and the poor stuck [via]
Nelson Minar : City wealth maps - Fascinating cartography (via kottke)
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25/07/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Researchers in Israel and Illinois say they've found a second code in DNA, one that deals with the positioning of proteins - Researchers in Israel and Illinois say they've found a second code in DNA, one that deals with the positioning of proteins. Palimpsest anyone?
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25/07/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Web 2.0 style redesigns of famous logos - Web 2.0 style redesigns of famous logos. The BoeingBoeing one is pretty clever. (thx, mark)
Andy Baio : Famous logos redone Web 2.0 style - hilarious, but Digg's hitting their server hardhttp://www.kottke.org/remainder/06/07/11511.html [via]
Milo Vermeulen : Yay Hooray - famous logos redesigned in web 2.0 format! [via]
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25/07/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : » Google Maps, the fool's gold of mashups | Software as services | ZDNet.com - Mashups that rely on core, culturally defined and universally agreed informal data structures like names and addresses are misleading outliers
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25/07/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : apophenia: an ode to a math teacher: benevolent dictators and urban tribes - there's something fascinating about seeing my social life play out some of my research conundrums - namely, how do you resolve group structures and networks?
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25/07/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Vitamin Features » Trademark tips for your web app - A general understanding of how trademark strength is determined should aid in helping you choose a name for your web app, service or product, which will maximize its trademark potential.
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25/07/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Andy Budd::Blogography: Layout Grid Bookmarklet - applies a layout grid image to the body of the page
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25/07/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : RedHanded » Nikolai's UTF-8 Lib is All Ready - It’s small. It’s coded in C. It locks into Ruby’s existing string class. Therefore, it can be efficient with memory and use Ruby’s own regexps.
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25/07/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Breaking news: w3c specs are not the Word of God - Let’s just acknowledge that the author’s intention, even when it can be reasonably gleaned from the specification, is not a Holy relic
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25/07/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Jeffrey McManus: Is It Time to Dump Your Desktop? - the apps we're seeing today seem to say "behold! I bring you an in-browser version of Word for Windows 2.0 circa 1991. Bow down and worship me, losers!"
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25/07/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
jimray : Shakespeare Hates Your Emo Poems
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25/07/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext Bubble Bath Party - The SOAP API is one phase in multiple phases of work happening to make it easy to get stuff in and out of Socialtext; to play in the growing pool of tools that take stuff from here and there, fiddle around a bit and put it there and here. This is what mak
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25/07/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Linkorama : Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere - Can social media increase and improve civic participation? If so, in what ways?
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25/07/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
Linkorama : Sam Ruby: NPUC 2006 - Sam's presentation at New Paradigms for Using Computeres
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25/07/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Linkorama : wikiCalc Update - Dan updates us on wikiCalc and comments on Socialtext Open
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25/07/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Linkorama : Wikis meet open source with Socialtext - Cnet: Software company introduces Socialtext Open, an open-source, downloadable version of its primary wiki product.
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25/07/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : video demo of the creator of Electroplankton's new musical instrument - (via waxy.org) [via]
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25/07/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : video of Bob Dylan playing Ballad of a Thin Man - (via Information Junk) [via]
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25/07/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : video of John Denver playing Country Roads
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25/07/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the poorly designed user interface that led to John Denver's death
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25/07/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Instant Messaging and Trashing Google - Instant Messaging and Trashing Google: "Where does Google go from here? I suggest they roll some heads and figure out a real product strategy."
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25/07/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : UnNews:England shocked by occurrence of summer for 21st year in a row - Uncyclopedia - "We didn't anticipate this level of heat this year — we never thought we'd get a twenty-first hot season in a row!" Extra marks to the authors for the Tribe of Toffs reference. [via] #
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25/07/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
joshua : del.icio.us Mashups: Books: Brett O'Connor
deusx : Negatendo's Livejournal - Beginning del.icio.us Mashups - "Yes, that's right, I am writing a del.icio.us book!"
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25/07/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Linkorama : Hit the Road, Jack! - traditional (Welch-esque) “rules of management†that have been typically employed by more established corporations—like GE—and compares them with new and emerging management trends that have propelled some of the newer, growing c
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25/07/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
joshua : Seed: Look Around You - A Visual Exploration of Complex Networks
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25/07/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
tehu : slidingpast.com - the IDAHO archive - rarities unreleased - the days 2004 before the Lone Gunman
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25/07/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : redkeyreddoor retrogaming :: Paradroid blowout - "Here's a trick that'll impress your friends. First, write the word Paradroid on the back of a beermat"
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25/07/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : Paradroidz - a free Paradroid remake in 3D using the jPCT 3D engine for Java - "This site is dedicated to a free 3D remake of the Commodore C64 classic game Paradroid by Andrew Braybrook/Graftgold."
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25/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : North Korea counterfeit cash - Confirmation that DNK prints US currency
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25/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
veen : 8020 Publishing: The Blog - "Derek and Paul teamed up in 2006 to found a new creative design agency. But within their first few weeks of collaboration, they hit upon an idea for another business that was too good to pass up."
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25/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
veen : Freakonomics Blog » Why Don’t Americans Suck at the Tour de France? - "American cyclists claim that they train harder, more experimentally, and more scientifically than their European peers."
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25/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
deusx : Paradroid - This has to be the best combination of shoot em up and strategy in a game that I have seen to date.
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25/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : A star is "on the brink" of going type 1a supernova, something modern scientists have never witnessed - A star is "on the brink" of going type 1a supernova, something modern scientists have never witnessed. BTW, when you're dealing with stars, "on the brink" could refer to a period of time up to 100,000 years from now. Oh, and if you're the type of person w
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25/07/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : House Hacker :: Concrete Countertop HowTos
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25/07/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jimray : Hack Attack: The Cordless Workspace (sort of) - Lifehacker - My desk is a mess, this is a great DIY project
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25/07/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Disabling PDF Display in Firefox - Disabling PDF Display in Firefox: put an end to the madness
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25/07/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Details on Tenori-On, Electroplankton creator's new musical instrument - the official site has samples and details on two-way collaboration [via]
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