1/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Fresh Thinkpad install - How to wipe the drive and start over.
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1/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "In a decisive 1–0 decision Monday, President Bush voted to grant the president the constitutional power to grant himself additional powers."
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1/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
deusx : JotBlog � De stageloper - "We are lucky to have Mark Wubben, in from the Netherlands, interning here at Jot for the summer. His first project is going to be finishing up an internal project with the super secret code name “Jotliner.â€"
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1/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
deusx : frontierkernel : Message: Re: [frontierkernel] unable to compile Universal Binary on PPC - "The lib should be libpaigefat.a" Getting an error when trying to build with libpaigemacho.a - maybe this is the resolution?
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1/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Assembly 2006 game competition entries released - "Racing Pitch" controls cars by mimicking engine noise into your mic, "TattooFrenzy" draws tattoos with the PocketPC touch screen, and a free Guitar Hero clone
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jkottke : Obituary of Rupert Pole, with whom Anais Nin carried on one half of a bicoastal bigamous relationship - Obituary of Rupert Pole, with whom Anais Nin carried on one half of a bicoastal bigamous relationship. "Both men apparently chose to believe her lies, which became so numerous that she wrote them down on index cards and locked them in a box so that she co
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1/08/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Thinkpad T60 forum - Got my new laptop, now to hack it
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1/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired typo leads to Insta-pundit parody blog - the typo domain in this Wired article now leads to a bizarro world mashup of Daily Kos in the Instapundit design
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1/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Study: hungry men prefer heavier women than men who are full - Study: hungry men prefer heavier women than men who are full. Presumably, if you're hungry, you're more likely to be attracted to someone who looks like they might know where some food is.
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1/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Colbert Analyzes Wikipedia - Colbert defends Wikipedia as a great bastion of Truthiness -- So long as a majority of people believe it, you can include it as "fact" in Wikipedia. Currently, about 20 elephant-related articles are locked down! [via] #
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1/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
veen : Why my cable DVR stinks | CNET News.com - I had to give up my Tivo for a Comcast box a few months ago. What a piece of junk. Three of the last seven Tour de France stages missed!
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1/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
veen : pints in a keg - Google Search - Important metric for future reference.
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1/08/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
jcgregorio : Earth dropped from NASA mission statement - Why not just go for the gusto and remove "scientific discovery" while their at it.
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Milo Vermeulen : PIKAPIKA lightning doodle project - very cool flashlight/lightpen long exposure photo animations
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Nelson Minar : Asteroids as RPG - Clever blend of two game genres
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jkottke : Jill Greenberg's End Times photography project depicts young children who are quite upset; the photos themselves are somewhat upsetting to look at - Jill Greenberg's End Times photography project depicts young children who are quite upset; the photos themselves are somewhat upsetting to look at. The photos were made by snatching lollipops from their hands and mouths and shooting the resulting anguish.
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1/08/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Ricoh GR DIGITAL firmware 2.10 is out [via]
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1/08/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Boing Boing: Animation historians blast SF Chron movie critic
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1/08/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Open Source Licenses are Obsolete - And it's not just the licenses that are in danger, come to think of it.
Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > Open Source Licenses are Obsolete - because their conditions are all triggered by the act of software distribution, they fail to apply to many of the most important types of software today
wearehugh : O'Reilly Radar > Open Source Licenses are Obsolete - tim continues his own personal war against the gpl
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1/08/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : CSS: The Tech Ajax Forgot - A timely reminder that CSS is a key player in serious Web application development.
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1/08/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Isofarro : Web Services + JSON = Dump Your Proxy - Calling JSON web services using the script element bypasses the default security model - so no back-to-original host proxy script is needed. Very clever, and useful.
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1/08/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Isofarro : News Search Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services - Very useful web service - finding news items based on a keyword search. The JSON output makes the service very easy to embed into a JavaScript enabled page.
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1/08/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
merlinmann : DonationCoder Best Of Blog - Windows app for doing the (10+2)*5 dash
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1/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Fidel Castro has ceded power to his brother while he recovers from surgery - Fidel Castro has ceded power to his brother while he recovers from surgery.
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1/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Researchers: "attractive parents are 26% more likely to have a daughter than a son as their first child" - Researchers: "attractive parents are 26% more likely to have a daughter than a son as their first child". Although I'm not sure that, as the article later says, that the Pitt-Jolie and Witherspoon-Phillippe daughters "lend weight to the theory".
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1/08/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
Isofarro : Wikipedia: DOM Events - Tables of events from typical mouse and form events, through to DOM mutation events, Microsoft-specific events, and XUL events. (via Think Vitamin and Dustin Diaz)
Paul Hammond : DOM Events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - There is a huge collection of events that can be generated by most element nodes
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1/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
wearehugh : ongoing · Involuntary Ubuntu
Jeremy Zawodny : Involuntary Ubuntu - Involuntary Ubuntu: "Apt-get is just so unreasonably fucking great. Why aren’t we using it for Solaris updates?" I have been wondering that for YEARS!
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jkottke : A few photographic reports of meals at El Bulli, Ferran Adria's highly regarded restaurant in Spain - A few photographic reports of meals at El Bulli, Ferran Adria's highly regarded restaurant in Spain.
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1/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
merlinmann : Call for Help Episode 405 - Google Video - Amber MacArthur & I talking about email tips on Canadia's geek-tastic "Call for Help." (starts around 24:30)
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1/08/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : What's New in Edge Rails: The Ins and Outs of ActiveResource - ActiveResource provides a way to utilize model objects as REST-based client proxies to remote services
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Paul Hammond : - Webkitchen | Peter Nixey |: Why XHR should become opt-in cross-domain - Why not enable cross-domain XHR in browsers but only as long as the server actively agrees
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1/08/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Finance Charts, Now in Flash - Yahoo! Finance Charts, Now in Flash: "Rather than going down the hiring route for getting Flash expertise, they trained themselves and really knocked everyone’s socks off here."
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1/08/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Tips - Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Tips: lots of good suggestions
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1/08/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : The Death March for Advertising - Jared Spool says advertising's days are numbered. Dare we hope?
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1/08/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Browser-based network attack discovered - And you can't even blame this one on Internet Explorer.
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1/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Dell.com Still Feels Like Buying a Used Car - Why Dell.com Still Feels Like Buying a Used Car: 'This business about creating "greater value" is a bit of a whitewash. We all know exactly what's going on. They're trying to charge business customers more.'
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1/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : On Ruby - On Ruby: Tim's progress on learnign Ruby to do work with Atom
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1/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google AdSense vs. AdBrite. - Google AdSense vs. AdBrite.: "The results are clear: Over the same period, and on the same sites, AdSense is generating 3 times the revenue that AdBrite is."
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1/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What’s new in the world of Aviation - What’s new in the world of Aviation: some highlights from eaa airventure at oshkosh [via]
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1/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : PylonsHQ - "Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework."
joshua : Pylons Python Web Framework - supposedly minimalistic
jimray : Pylons Python Web Framework - Yet another Python framework, I'm gonna have to get over my whitespace thing
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1/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
veen : Wired News: Former Wired Editor Dies in Race - "It came as a terrible shock on Sunday when news came that Bill Goggins had died running the San Francisco Marathon."
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1/08/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Simon Willison : A virus for Windows Vista? Wrong. - No Monad in Vista. That was the only feature left that I was interested in. [via]
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1/08/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : Thinking XML: Good advice for creating XML - Uche Ogbuji's commentary on the Bozo HOWTO. [via]
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1/08/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional - Christian's book is out. I wrote the foreword.
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1/08/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : kr.hub.yahoo.com has the cutest mascot - It's a tag!
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1/08/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Simon Willison : Afghanistan 2006 - a photoset on Flickr - Ben Hammersley is in Afghanistan.
philgyford : Afghanistan 2006 - a photoset on Flickr - Real life Action Man ("with real typing fingers!") Ben Hammersley is embedded with the troops in Afghanistan and taking some nice pics. Be careful Ben!
plasticbag : Ben Hammersley is in Afghanistan, taking amazing pictures that he's putting onto Flickr - There's something about having a friend in a warzone that makes the conflict very very real. His photography is pretty stunning too
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1/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
kellan : MySQL DBA - notes from the flickr database wars - aka Dathan's blog #
Simon Willison : mySQL DBA - Dathan's MySQL performance tuning blog. He tunes Flickr. [via]
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1/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : SpyMedia launches photo bounties and a widget - stillborn in MySpace - The MySpace economy: share-cropping in action.
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1/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Observer | Business | Keep your enemies close, but customers even closer - Subtract the percentage of detractors from the percentage of promoters and you get a 'net promoter score', or NPS
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1/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > Ruby Book Sales Pass Perl - Keep in mind also that sales of Ruby and Ajax books are driven by recency
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1/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Random Etc. : Blog Archive : Ask Later slides and notes - One Should Not Think That These Are Two Separate Things
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1/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work | Copyblogger - Now You Can Have [something desirable] [great circumstance]
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1/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Creating Passionate Users: A few more Presentation How To's - Damian is brilliant. One of those scary smart guys
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1/08/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
deusx : Supercomputer CYOA - page 74 - "Stepping over to a mirror, you see yourself as you will look for the rest of your life--with a funnel-shaped object the size of an ice-cream cone sticking out of your head." No image, but this was always my favorite ending to the book.
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1/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : The Plight of the Colorblind Gamer - some surprisingly good comments in the Digg thread; good to know I'm not alone here [via]
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jkottke : How to DJ your first set without knowing how - How to DJ your first set without knowing how.
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