4/08/2006 @ 23:11 GMT
jimray : Apple and 3 Automakers Plan Alliances on iPod Use - There will be an iPod option on 70% of the cars sold in the U.S. in 2007!
# copy4/08/2006 @ 23:11 GMT
cobra libre : comic book urban legends #32: g.i. joe - COMIC URBAN LEGEND: The famous “Silent Issue†of GI Joe was originally meant to have dialogue in it, but it was left out due to some sort of error. STATUS: False [via] #
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : QuirksBlog: The dangers of browser detects - If you think you need a browser detect to solve a CSS problem, you're wrong. Always.
# copy4/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Positive Sharing » Top 5 business maxims that need to go - we need to replace them with new ones that are guaranteed to bring better results for people and for the bottom line
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : as days pass by » CSS hacks and server-side code - takes us back to the days of browscap.ini and The World’s Biggest List Of Browsers, which you have to rely on someone to maintain
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Engineering parallels at the Science Museum - currybetdotnet - - there hasn't been that much change over the last two centuries between the processes of mechanical engineering and the sort of software engineering I've been involved in
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Infovore : Getting a class object in Ruby from a string containing that classes name - Kernel.const_get(classname)
# copy4/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Minimal Rails - the minimal application, stripped it down to the rails
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Don't believe BusinessWeek's bubble-math - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - Try bringing your brokerage statement to McDonald’s and see if will buy you a burger
# copy4/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Vitamin Features » How to measure the success of your web app - A good way to start tracking all the different types of conversion for your business is to put them together in a funnel diagram
# copy4/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : milov.nl: hidden Flickr referrers - I guess it's too much to ask Flickr to offer personalized referrer listings for stats-addicts like me
# copy4/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Vizio L37HDTV10A - 37" LCD HDTV - Nice looking HDTV, going for a penny under a grand at Costco. Damn, that's tempting. #
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
deusx : Bunnies do not value privacy - Nintendo Wii Fanboy - "The facts just keep on coming. As the latest video to shed light on Rayman's furry, crazed captors, this little humdinger shows that these bunnies lack basic knowledge of privacy...or just enjoy making us feel uncomfortable."
# copy4/08/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Mark Boulton Design LLP - Mark Boulton, grid and typography extraordinaire, is leaving the BBC to go freelance. "Yes, I'm scared to death. I think it's natural, but also a good thing. I'm sure it will make me work hard to make this a success." Success? Bah, it's in the bag, Mark.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
plasticbag : FF Roiceâ„¢ font family - For some reason I keep coming back to this set of fonts. I keep thinking there's something lovely about them that might make them fun to work with.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
wearehugh : Mozilla Partners with Real Networks - "Instead, you gave your soul to a guy named Phil who smokes too much and ends every sentence with "Trust me!".
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Google Trends: Ubuntu vs. OS X - Google Trends: Ubuntu vs. OS X. Ubuntu pulled ahead in early 2006, but it still has a way to go to catch "Mac" though. The trend predates the Pilgrim/Doctorow switch...I wonder what it'll look like after that.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
kellan : Ubuntu - Sources.list generator - generate an ubuntu sources.list based on arch, distro and location. #
# copy4/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jimray : Zig Version: The missing Subversion GUI for OSX
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Fascinating list of terms that Jeopardy fans use to describe the game and different betting strategies - Fascinating list of terms that Jeopardy fans use to describe the game and different betting strategies. (via thih) [via]
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Linkorama : VandalFighter - Pretty cool anti-vandalism tool for Wikipedia
# copy4/08/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : College art students give Yahoo engineers a lesson in creativity - Yahoo! News - "From framed spit balls to baby dolls driven by lollipop licks, Yahoo had college artists from as far as Britain and Brazil on display to inspire its engineers."
# copy4/08/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : Think Progress � Rumsfeld: ‘I Have Never Painted A Rosy Picture’ About Iraq - "Here’s just a few of the “overly optimistic†comments made by Rumsfeld (and no, we did not have a “dickens of a time†finding them)"
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : The biography of Atia on WIkipedia differs rather dramatically from her character in HBO's Rome, which I've recently started watching on DVD - Awesome series - loads of blood and violence and sex and war and stuff. Highly entertaining. Not necessarily enormously accurate, "Atia was a religious and caring matron. Tacitus considered her as an ideal Roman Matron"
# copy4/08/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : Design Within Reach is screening The Eames Film Festival, featuring the short films of Charles and Ray Eames, at cities across the US - Design Within Reach is screening The Eames Film Festival, featuring the short films of Charles and Ray Eames, at cities across the US. Unfortunately for me, a small town called New York City doesn't seem to be on the schedule. :(
# copy4/08/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
jcgregorio : Sun Digging Deep for Dynamic Language Support - "It has come to our attention that some people want to program in things other than Java." Ya think?
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Linkorama : Closure - An important feature of social capital is what Coleman termed “closure†– where the people one knows also know each other.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
kellan : WordCamp 2006 - I'll be out of town, but I'm shocked (and a little dismayed) by the shear quantity of these type of events that happen in SF. Its impossible to keep up #
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : "I live at" "Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?" - Google Search - Bizarre comment spam. The number changes each time, but it's usually "from" mikef@gmail.com and links to google.com. #
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Amazon is selling web site thumbnails for $0.20 per 1000 - Amazon is selling web site thumbnails for $0.20 per 1000. That's cheap...and totally undercuts my planned thumbnail business. Instead, I'm switching gears and targetting the luxury thumbnail market; I'm thinking thumbnails printed on letterpress hand-deli [via]
# copy4/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
deusx : Markup - Trac - "Markup is a Python library that provides an integrated set of components for parsing, generating, and processing HTML or XML content in a uniform manner. The major feature is a template language, which is heavily inspired by Kid."
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : "My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood" - "My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood".
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Rubberband machine gun - "You'll shoot your eye out, kiddo. 144 times."
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : IE7 a "high priority" update - Dave Shea: "According to CNET, Internet Explorer 7 is going to be sent out automatically to XP users as a priority Windows Update upon its launch. We'll see a massive migration, and IE6 numbers will take a sharp dive in the very near future. This is a goo
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : IconBuffet starter sets, $5 - 7 stock icon sets for $5/each at IconBuffet.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Render any site w/MS Word wrapper - One of the best "how to get here" pages I've seen in a while: 4-step macro-to-micro instructions for getting to the Wickaninnish Inn.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Tick - budgeted time tracking - Tick - time tracking app, but with time budgeting (progress bars and other indicators) for each project/task. Looks like a pretty good app after a few mins playing with it.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : 15 Annual HOW Intl Design Awards - Enter the 15th Annual HOW International Design Awards. Winning entries to appear in the April 2007 issue of HOW. Last year's winnners shown here.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
Linkorama : Web Monday Silicon Valley at Socialtext - Web Monday is an informal gathering (in and around Germany) aimed at bringing together developers, designers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, researchers, web pioneers, inventors, bloggers, podcasters, end users and other folks interested in web 2.0 (
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Linkorama : Notes on Designing for Participation - I participated on a panel at Webvisions about encouraging companies to engage customers online. I wanted to put down what I said in a coherent manner for those who weren't there.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
philgyford : Martin Wittfooth - Lovely surreal paintings and drawings. (via Drawn!)
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
philgyford : Clickdensity - website heat maps for usability and information architecture - Interesting-looking thing for measuring where people click on your pages (although I haven't tried it).
# copy4/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
philgyford : LRB | letters from Vol. 28 No. 15 - I have a letter in the current London Review of Books. I fear they'll rumble that my knowledge is based solely on Google and Wikipedia (I've never seen 'Happy Days').
# copy4/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
philgyford : YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - Results for "grange hill" - Fantastic amounts of time wasting. See especially "grange hill,old ,skool" (the "Just Say No" video).
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : The rules of cricket explained so that even an American can understand them - The rules of cricket explained so that even an American can understand them. Another take by Kevin Guilfoile, this one with pies.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
philgyford : David Hughes Illustration - I loved his work when I was at college and he's still going strong and has a new website. Excellent scratchy pen action. (via Drawn!)
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
philgyford : Mallow street skyscraper - a photoset on Flickr - Ridiculously huge skyscraper planned for right next to Old Street roundabout. Only a few days left to get objections in to the planning people. (via Haddock)
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : After Deam Kamen introduced his scooter, "segway" became a popular misspelling for "segue" - After Deam Kamen introduced his scooter, "segway" became a popular misspelling for "segue". Thirty years earlier, Thomas Pynchon used the same spelling in Gravity's Rainbow: "But segway into the Roxbury hillside."
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
philgyford : LAPL Virtual Photo: Far and Wide - Wonderful collection of 1920s and 1930s travel posters advertising exotic destinations like California, Bermuda and North Wales. (Click the little 'Next Page' link, bottom right.) (via Drawn!)
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
jkottke : Dwyane Wade highlight reel - Dwyane Wade highlight reel. The one where he goes between the legs while splitting the pick and roll defense is insane (around 2:43). (via th) [via]
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
Isofarro : Yahoo! Graded Browser support chart - Grade a browsers: IE7, IE6, IE5.5, Netscape8, Firefox 1.5 (assuming that also means Firefox 2.0?), Firefox 1.0.7, Mozilla, 1.7.12, Opera 8.5 (presumably 'and above'), Safari 1.3 and Safari 2.0
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
deusx : michael-mccracken.net � Take me to WWDC! - "Just print one or all of the following pictures, and bring them with you to WWDC. They’re all cropped to a 3�5 ratio, so you can tuck them into your HPDA and flash them when appropriate"
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
deusx : Sci-Fi Hi-Fi - Blog Archive - Party Time, Excellent - "Even if all of the pre-WWDC activity at work wasn’t enough to remind me that my favorite hot weather nerd confab is rapidly approaching, I would definitely not have forgotten because of the many emails and personal queries I’ve been getting
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : in-browser emulation of a Mac running System 7
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Levels of the Game: The Hierarchy of Web 2.0 Applications - Levels of the Game: The Hierarchy of Web 2.0 Applications: 'a hierarchy of "Web 2.0-ness"'
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : [daily dose of imagery] lightning storm - Excellent shot of lightning hitting the CN Tower. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : lightning storm picture - lightning storm picture: very nice
# copy4/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Darth Vader parody - Darth Vader parody: hahahaha
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : VMWare Virtual Appliances Directory - VMWare Virtual Appliances Directory: lots of them!
joshua : VMTN Virtual Appliances Directory
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : VMWare Virtual Appliances - VMWare Virtual Appliances: I had no idea there were so many virual machine appliance images available.
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Using Verizon Wireless EVDO, PC5740, and Linux - Using Verizon Wireless EVDO, PC5740, and Linux: I didn't know those cards worked with Linux at all. Interesting...
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Stompbox Networks - Stompbox Networks: "A Stompbox is a home-brew WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network) router. In more human terms, it's a compact little box that gets data from cellular towers and re-shares it for multiple computers to use."
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
joshua : Good Experience Games - mark's game microblog
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
bmilleare : Linux Command Line Cheat-sheet
jcgregorio : Linux Command Line Tips
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
kellan : Google: "one trillion words from public Web pages." - note to self, revisit Hadoop #
Paul Hammond : Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You - We processed 1,011,582,453,213 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times
joshua : Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You - i wish this wasn't $150
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Browser JavaScript in Opera - Opera monkeypatches some sites, and auto-updates the patches once a week.
Isofarro : Opera: Browser JavaScript Explained - Opera 9 has the feature/habit of overwriting certain sites JavaScript as a means of making it work in Opera 9 - and then updating corrections on a weekly basis. An understandable idea, but makes it tricky for sites to fix their own JavaScript without impa
Paul Hammond : Browser JavaScript - Browser JavaScript is a feature that allows Opera to automatically fix incompatible Web pages, out of date scripts, and pages that inadvertently block Opera
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : What I've Really Been Working on at Google - Some technical background on Google Code hosting. [via]
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Module Pycaml - Integration between Python native libraries and OCaml. [via]
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : jacobian.org - Jacob got his tumble log working. It even exposes his Google searches.
Matthew M. Boedicker : jacobian.org
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Extending Django's database API to include full-text search - Outstanding tutorial on writing custom managers and QuerySet subclasses. [via]
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : [ANN] Markup - New Python templating system designed to replace ClearSilver in Trac. Very Good News.
deusx : about:cmlenz - [ANN] Markup - 'Just today I pushed out the very first release of Markup, a Python-based template engine, or, as the official tagline goes, “a toolkit for stream-based generation of markup for the web.â€'
# copy
4/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
wearehugh : Linux Digital Video - Deinterlace DV
# copy
