27/07/2006 @ 23:15 GMT
Andy Baio : Amy Hoy's Javascript Boot Camp - her three hour OSCON tutorial for "everyone who feels their Javascript skills just aren't up to snuff" [via]
deusx : Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial - "This talk is for everyone who feels their Javascript skills just aren't up to snuff."
joshua : Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial
Paul Hammond : Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial - This talk is for everyone who feels their Javascript skills just aren't up to snuff.
Jeremy Zawodny : Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial - Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial: "This talk is for everyone who feels their Javascript skills just aren't up to snuff."
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27/07/2006 @ 23:11 GMT
deusx : WORKSAFE's FREE Photo Page - "As of May 2004, SAFTENG will be posting WORKSAFE's weekly Shocker and Bodgey Scaffolding photos here as a way of saying THANKS for what they do to help us all in improving our safety efforts!"
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27/07/2006 @ 23:11 GMT
deusx : Warrenellis.com � John McCain On THE DAILY SHOW The Other Night - "In 2008 I want to see Arnold Schwartzenegger versus Jesse Ventura for the Presidency. And I want the debates to take place in a patch of desert, with a ring marked out with stones, see, and two swords thrown into the ring, and the music they always playe
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deusx : GeekList: Free Computer Version of Board and Card Games with Artificial Intelligence Computer Opponents and with Screen Shots - "I know many lists have been done on this subject but how many have actual screen shots?"
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deusx : SCIFI.COM | The Amazing Screw-On Head - "In this hilarious send-up of Lovecraftian horror and steampunk adventure, President Abraham Lincoln's top spy is a bodyless head known only as Screw-On Head."
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27/07/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Very simple Japanese game show: fail to correctly repeat a tongue twister and you get hit in the balls - Very simple Japanese game show: fail to correctly repeat a tongue twister and you get hit in the balls. Bonus video: a monkey playing with a dog.
deusx : Dog Bones: I Am Moving To Japan - "Here is a tongue twister, say it correctly or get hit in the nuts. Like peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches and Snakes On A Plane, you know exactly what you're getting and if you don't like it then that is your problem."
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27/07/2006 @ 20:12 GMT
Rod Begbie : Kawaii Not: Screw the Status Quo - Groucho glasses make anything funny. #
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27/07/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
jkottke : 10,000 computer-generated fake band names that sound real - 10,000 computer-generated fake band names that sound real.
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jkottke : Wu-oh. Floyd Landis had "an unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone ratio" in his blood after Stage 17 of the Tour de France - Wu-oh. Floyd Landis had "an unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone ratio" in his blood after stage 17 of the Tour de France. If his backup sample also tests positive, the title could be taken from him. You may remember stage 17 as the scene of Land
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jkottke : Jim Caple takes a tour of the Topps HQ in Manhattan - Jim Caple takes a tour of the Topps HQ in Manhattan. "I'm only half-listening because I've noticed an uncut sheet of 1968 baseball cards he has framed along his office wall. I can't help but notice that down near the lower left-hand corner of the sheet is
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27/07/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Warner Bros spyware - Stupid deal with 180 Solutions (via Digg)
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27/07/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Hotwired demo site from 1995 - a wonderful snapshot from November 1995 [via]
jkottke : Phil Gyford has posted a demo version of HotWired's web site from 1995 - Phil Gyford has posted a demo version of HotWired's web site from 1995. See also Jeff Veen's look back at some of HotWired's designs. Update: Net Surf covers The Spot and Yahoo getting VC and moving off of Stanford's servers. And the background on this st
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27/07/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Henry Abbott: bloggers give credit, journalists typically don't - Henry Abbott: bloggers give credit, journalists typically don't. "When Sports Illustrated breaks a story that blogs catch on to, SI gets its name and inbound links all over the blogosphere. When blogs break stories, I don't see why mainstream media should
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27/07/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell - A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell. The story from the early 1990s of a small online place called LambdaMOO, a violence committed in that place, and how the community that lived there dealt with it.
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27/07/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Life2Life, Amazon store within Second Life - build on Amazon's web services, including spatial positioning based on sales and relevance [via]
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27/07/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Enchantment Under the Sea Revisited - synchronized split-screen of both dance scenes from "Back to the Future" I and II [via]
deusx : "Back to the Future: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited" (2005) - Google Video - "Wonder what it would be like to have Parts I and II of "Back to the Future" synched up on a split-screen"
plasticbag : "Back to the Future: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited" (2005) - A wonderful fifteen minute bit of video splicing together Back to the Future and Back to the Future II's bits in parallel. Also manages to get much of the great bits of the films in, so well worth a watch...
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Andy Baio : Billy Bragg prompts Myspace to change musician's rights - Myspace safe for musicians again [via]
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27/07/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Sneak preview footage of the Simpsons movie - animated storyboards, but still cool [via]
jkottke : A pair of preview clips from the forthcoming Simpsons movie - A pair of preview clips from the forthcoming Simpsons movie. (via waxy) [via]
Rod Begbie : SIMPSON'S MOVIE footage from Comic Con hits YouTube! - Animatics from the upcoming Simpsons movie. The big guffaws from the crowd make me think that the best time to see this will be a late Saturday evening showing, when the audience is made up of slightly inebriated geeks (this is how I first saw the South [via] #
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27/07/2006 @ 08:12 GMT
Isofarro : Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance - Bruce Lawson gives the low-down on who was involved in this eagerly awaited follow-up to the classic 'Accessible Web Sites'. What remains to be seen is whether it can give Joe Clark's masterpiece a run for its money.
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27/07/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Next-gen Microsoft Flight Sim uses Navteq data for mapping the real world - seamless intercontinental flights that look like the real thing
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27/07/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
joshua : Neat Mac apps that help you concentrate
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27/07/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Pulp - Bad Cover Version - It's a great song, but this video just made it even better. I'll always have an especially soft spot for it after someone on a mailing-list I was on made it clear he didn't get the joke, and wondered how Pulp had pulled it off. [via] #
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27/07/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
jkottke : A list of the top 14 sexiest sex scenes from movies - A list of the top 14 sexiest sex scenes from movies.
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27/07/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
joshua : Tunnelblick - GUI for OpenVPN on the Mac
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27/07/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Youth lands glider after dad blacks out at 3,000 feet - Youth lands glider after dad blacks out at 3,000 feet: it's a good thing the kid kept a cool head and asked for help when he needed it!
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27/07/2006 @ 01:15 GMT
Nelson Minar : WoW Glider - Pay money to play the game you're paying to not play
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27/07/2006 @ 01:14 GMT
Simon Willison : NewsForge | Day one at OSCON - Includes a write-up of Jacob's Django tutorial.
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27/07/2006 @ 01:11 GMT
Simon Willison : Ask Later # 1 - It rocked. Can't wait for the next one.
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27/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : The Wireless Universal Resource File - One XML file, information about many wireless devices. [via]
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27/07/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Flickr API + JSON + MochiKit + Django - Short and sweet.
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27/07/2006 @ 00:25 GMT
Linkorama : The rise of open infrastructure - Beyond CDNs lie service delivery networks, a new opportunity that even the galactic incumbents have yet to seize. If I were the next Linus Torvalds, itching to create the Linux of open infrastructure, this is where I’d scratch. Innovation in open s
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27/07/2006 @ 00:19 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : PMD scans Java code for possible bugs, and unused, duplicate or suboptimal code
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27/07/2006 @ 00:19 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : programatically generate Doom maps using Ruby - many possibilities for what this could be hooked up to
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27/07/2006 @ 00:18 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : grow tomatoes upside down - (via populicio.us new links) [via]
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27/07/2006 @ 00:15 GMT
jimray : Popular Blog Tracks / The Hype Machine - Rex: "Your favorite URL ever"
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27/07/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Furby in the microwave - "The Furby was sitting on a grounded cookie sheet and connected to a distribution transformer like you see on telephone poles only it had been wired to step 240 volts up to 20,000 volts."
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27/07/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Unofficial Digg API - deconstructed from the Digg Labs Flash files [via]
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27/07/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : A couple of months ago, the Guardian ran an article about Timothy Leary that used a "factoid" from gullible.info, a site trafficking in fake facts - A couple of months ago, the Guardian ran an article about Timothy Leary that used a "factoid" from gullible.info, a site trafficking in fake facts. The editor of gullible.info alerted the Guardian to the error, but they still haven't corrected the article
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