2/08/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Consolas fixed font - ClearType hinted
jimray : Consolas Font Pack - Really nice monospaced font (psst - you can install on a PC then copy the TTF files to your Mac for use in TextMate)
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2/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Consolas screenshot - I don't care much for the style
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2/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Nintendo DS MIDI Port - I'd love to see Elektroplankton controlling other devices
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2/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : The Atlantic Monthly tackles the subject of Wikipedia, with a thorough telling of its beginning, one that's lighter on Jimmy Wales' role than usual - The Atlantic Monthly tackles the subject of Wikipedia, with a thorough telling of its beginning, one that's lighter on Jimmy Wales' role than usual.
gleuschk : The Hive - Atlantic Monthly - Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong?
Linkorama : The Hive - In-depth article on Wikipedia by the Atlantic Monthly
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2/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Hosting disasters - DreamHost's cascade of problems (via EvanM)
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2/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
deusx : Yet another self-serving corporate blog! - Yodel Anecdotal - "since we often get requests for tours of our Sunnyvale headquarters, we’ve prepared a little virtual tour to give you a sense of a day in the life of a Yahoo."
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jkottke : Lionel Shriver: bad book covers happen because people use computers to design them and don't know how to draw - Lionel Shriver: bad book covers happen because people use computers to design them and don't know how to draw. What, you can't draw with a computer? Not sure I see the cause and effect that Shriver is talking about here.
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2/08/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
jimray : Fries are French again in Capitol - I don't know why I'm fascinated by this but I am
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2/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Ruby/MicroformatParser - Labnotes - "A Ruby library for creating parsers that can be used to extract microcontent from (X)HTML documents in a variety of microformats."
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2/08/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Thinkpad key beep - Stupid misfeature, how to fix it
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2/08/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
bmilleare : FileChucker: AJAX File Uploader
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2/08/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Homeowner tracks down toilet-paper prank suspects - mom finds the jerk kids with grocery store receipts, surveillance tapes, yearbooks and online databases; with video [via]
deusx : Homeowner tracks down toilet-paper prank suspects | PE.com | Inland Southern California | Corona-Norco - "Beyond the toilet paper, the couple found damaged landscaping and light fixtures and ruined finishes on their two cars. Dog food and flour covered the lawn. It took 13 people three hours to clean up the mess."
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2/08/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Agency.com posts Subway pitch video online - if we roll, we roll big
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Andy Baio : Analysis of Digg's top users and the impact of Netscape's attempt to poach them - top 10 users responsible for 30% of front page stories, while top 100 goes up to 55% [via]
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Andy Baio : Stephen Colbert gets banned from Wikipedia - he made actual edits and encouraged others in this episode
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Andy Baio : Bill to ban social networking sites in schools and libraries moves to Senate - overly broad and completely unnecessary, it affects commercial sites with profiles and private messaging
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2/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
wearehugh : dead head, moving body - Glazblog
jcgregorio : dead head, moving body - Glazblog - "Do you know what happens if you chop off the of a duck ? Its keeps moving for a while... But it's still a dead duck." Ouch.
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2/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Could global warming kill the internet? - Could global warming kill the internet? "The internet is a big network of servers, and servers are hot. They devour electricity, they run hot and they mainline air conditioning. When the global thermostat goes up, the servers start going down." (via migur [via]
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2/08/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Linkorama : Arnold Rüütel - Apparently this encyclopedia thinks the President of Estonia is a black bald man
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2/08/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Andy Baio : WorkFriendly - safe-for-work proxy formats websites to look like Microsoft Word [via]
jkottke : If you're reading kottke.org at work and you shouldn't be, you might want to read the site as it looked like Microsoft Word - If you're reading kottke.org at work and shouldn't be, you might want to read the site as if it looked like Microsoft Word. Make other sites Work Friendly here.
Nelson Minar : Safe for work - Proxy reformats web pages to look like Office (via Digg)
Rod Begbie : workFRIENDLY - Surf the web discreetly at work in a window that at a glance is indistinguishable from Microsoft Word. [via] #
Matthew M. Boedicker : proxy to make any URL look like a Word document - (via waxy.org) [via]
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wearehugh : ongoing · Unending War - "It's depressingly easy to get young men to go out and kill and die for reasons that turn out later to have been really crappy."
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Nelson Minar : Freedom fries gone - Childish tantrum ends after three years
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jkottke : Watch the first hour ever broadcast on MTV - Watch the first hour ever broadcast on MTV. Of course, you have to wade through MTV's crappy interface and, oops, you can't look at it on a Mac because "Microsoft's Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh does not support Windows DRM". Thanks, assholes [via]
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2/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Three of the world's longest-running scientific experiments, including an electric bell that's been ringing since 1840 - Three of the world's longest-running scientific experiments, including an electric bell that's been ringing since 1840 and a self-winding barometrically powered clock.
Nelson Minar : Long Experiments - 100+ year scientific installations (via kottke)
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2/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
jkottke : This image of the participants of a 1927 conference on quantum mechanics sets the record for the most brainpower in one photograph - This image of the participants of a 1927 conference on quantum mechanics sets the record for the most brainpower in one photograph. Schrodinger, Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, Compton, Bohr, Einstein, Planck, Curie, de Broglie, and Lorenz, all in one place.
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2/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
deusx : PD Tweaker - "PD Tweaker is an Application Enhancer (APE) plugin that addresses a few shortcomings in the initial release of Parallels Desktop (build 1848) for Intel-based Macintoshes."
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2/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : ~stevenf: Better Trials for Web Apps - Why not create a "guest" environment for me that is fully functional, tied to my session, and completely temporary?
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2/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : XMLHttpRequests using an IFrame Proxy - use iframes that communicate with each other by changing URL fragment identifiers
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2/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Polishing Ruby: Writing C Extensions, Improved - It doesn't get simpler than this... and really, it shouldn't ever be more difficult than this.
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2/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Joel on Software - Can Your Programming Language Do This? - By abstracting away the very concept of looping, you can implement looping any way you want
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2/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
plasticbag : Stephen Colbert 'analyzes' Wikipedia in this You Tube clip from his US TV Show - I can't even imagine UK TV comedians talking about Wikipedia, which probably explains why the UK remains a second-class net nation. Funny but troubling piece from Colbert, though...
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2/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
plasticbag : The history page on Wikipedia for 'Elephants' shows how resistant the site is to calculated attacks like the one Colbert proposed - It's more the quiet changes where factual errors seem to me to be likely to creep in - places where the edited fact seems plausible and perhaps uncontroversial. Still, Wikipedia remains my first port of call when I want to know something...
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2/08/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jimray : I bought this t-shirt on the internet! - Brilliant
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jimray : Samuel L. Jackson is Afro Samurai - Music by The RZA
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2/08/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
joshua : Feed Access Control RSS and ATOM - no rss 1.0? sigh
deusx : Bloglines | Feed Access Control RSS and ATOM - "Used to indicate the re-distribution restrictions for a feed. The 'relationship' attribute is used to indicate whether a feed will 'allow' or 'deny' access."
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2/08/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
Linkorama : Eyes for Text - The first uses of Eyes for Text software engines will still leave humans to perform their magic of knowing what might be useful. However, now aided by machines that can pull out bits of information well enough to deliver them as the human searches or brow
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2/08/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
Linkorama : Write Less, Say More - good resolution, even for a picture
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2/08/2006 @ 05:10 GMT
Linkorama : Antipedia - Anil, it is great, the problem is what we compare it to, as is the case for great things new
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2/08/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : COI TV Fillers- Joe and Petunia - The UK Central Office of Information has "remastered" a classic Public Information Film for the 00s. [via] #
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2/08/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : Upside-Down-Ternet - Neighbors are borrowing this guy's wifi. He screws with them by turning every image on the web upside-down, blurry, and into kittens.
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to turn all web images from your open wifi upside-down or blurry for unidentified MAC addresses - (via Boing Boing) [via]
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2/08/2006 @ 04:10 GMT
Linkorama : Gesture Firestorm Hits - I think I'm finally getting it (and usually withold getting it with Steve concepts for a while): Gestures are contextual pings
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2/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Sweater Girl, Peter Pan, and Tron Guy sing for net neutrality - where's Mahir, Star Wars Kid, and Numa Numa?
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2/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Ubuntu on IBM X40 - Ubuntu on IBM X40: I may need this soon...
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2/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : pdftk - PDF toolkit - pdftk - PDF toolkit: "If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents."
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2/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Four Big Ideas About Open Source - Four Big Ideas About Open Source: good stuff from Tim, as always
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2/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Put your laptop to sleep - Put your laptop to sleep: "The Ubuntu development team has devoted an immense amount of effort toward getting ACPI power management working properly." Perhaps it's time to try it out!
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2/08/2006 @ 02:12 GMT
merlinmann : 43 Folders Mobile Edition - Get 43F served up nice and simple for your mobile device.
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veen : UCI source says some Landis testosterone exogenous - Oh man....
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Jeremy Zawodny : Earth-Shattering Study Confirms Young People Dig New Technology - Earth-Shattering Study Confirms Young People Dig New Technology: "get this -- young people who are more inclined to use social networking sites, IM and SMS." Heh.
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2/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Motorola Listened, Made “Just a Phone” - Motorola Listened, Made “Just a Phone”: wow, imagine that!
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2/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Django, Or why I chose it over turbogears and ruby on rails - Django, Or why I chose it over turbogears and ruby on rails: one guy's reasoning for using django
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jkottke : Steven Johnson lists Five Things All Sane People Agree On About Blogs And Mainstream Journalism (So Can We Stop Talking About It Now?) - Steven Johnson lists Five Things All Sane People Agree On About Blogs And Mainstream Journalism (So Can We Stop Talking About It Now?) Like Steven, I get frustrated with the rehashing of the same old points around this issue.
Paul Hammond : stevenberlinjohnson.com: Five Things All Sane People Agree On About Blogs And Mainstream Journalism (So Can We Stop Talking About Them Now?) - if you're writing an article or a blog post about this issue, and your argument revolves around one or more of these points -- and doesn't add anything else of substance -- STOP WRITING
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2/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Infovore: ChinaDialogue.net - An entirely bilingual site, powered by Ruby on Rails.
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Simon Willison : Photos on Flickr of new Bravia ad filmed in Glasgow - This looks brilliant.
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Simon Willison : XMLHttpRequests using an IFrame Proxy - Another scary hack abstracted away by Dojo. [via]
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Simon Willison : Proposed RFC for application/json - Douglas Crockford is putting JSON through the IETF. [via]
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2/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Blowing up paint - More on that new Bravia ad, including a video.
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2/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : What's New in Edge Rails: Simply RESTful Support - And How to Use It - map.resources :users
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2/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Sztywny Blog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer - With the help of public accessible e-mail adresses I asked 10 questions to a bunch of programmers that I consider very interesting people
Matthew M. Boedicker : great programmers answer aspiring student's questions - (via slashdot) [via]
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2/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : JoeHewitt.com - Quick - what does a Python app look like?
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