7/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jimray : U.K. worker fired by text message - "We are a youth business and our staff are all part of the youth culture that uses (text) messaging as a major means of communication." Wow!
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7/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : Apple - Apple - Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek - Time Machine - Holy gratuitous whizbang spacial timewarp UI! "With Mac OS X Leopard and Time Machine, not only can you back up and preserve everything ... you can go back in time to recover anything you’ve ever backed up."
Rod Begbie : Apple - Apple - Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek - Time Machine - Most of the Apple stuff announced today was fairly unexciting. Nice improvements, but not revolutionary. But this, their constantly rolling system backup looks brilliant. The UI, if it works as advertised, is genius too. #
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7/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : Tuberaider Video: Ghetto Big Mac - "This video will take you through the steps and have you stacking your own $1 Big Macs"
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7/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Top 50 movies (by gross) that were never in wide release in the US - Top 50 movies (by gross) that were never in wide release in the US. Top 3: Rocky Horror, Boyz n the Hood, and Royal Tenenbaums.
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7/08/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
Linkorama : Macitt - We love Digg, without Digg there wouldn’t be Macitt. But Digg is getting a little huge for the Apple web. So Macitt hopes to fill that void.
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deusx : POWET.TV � GameCube: A Video History That Never Was - Lots of GameCube videos of games never released
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deusx : Penny Arcade! - Man's Inhumanity To Man - "I always imagine looking up into the sky to see a great, black boot descending. Does he also see the boot? And does he then calculate where he can stand, safe, in the raised part of the waffle?"
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7/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
deusx : Achewood - August 7, 2006 - "Damn, these days bein' gay is like one better than havin' an iPod!"
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7/08/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
kellan : Live from WWDC 2006: Steve Jobs keynote - Engadget - TimeMachine is software as service? More info needed. #
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7/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
gleuschk : SPF - DreamHost - pretty sketchy. could someone please explain what to do in small words?
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7/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Preview of Leopard, Apple's newest version of OS X, due out in spring 2007 - Preview of Leopard, Apple's newest version of OS X, due out in spring 2007. Some of that demo stuff was *really* corny; reminded me of the first demos of OS X back in the early 00s. Thoughts? (Comment on this)
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7/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : "The Rolling Stones weren't original. Bach wasn't original. Einstein wasn't original. Show me someone who is original, creative, self-expressive, and I'll show you someone who is boring." - "The Rolling Stones weren't original. Bach wasn't original. Einstein wasn't original. Show me someone who is original, creative, self-expressive, and I'll show you someone who is boring." Pop Idol judges understand Plato
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7/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : TorrentFlux - PHP Torrent Client - "TorrentFlux is a FREE PHP based Torrent client that runs on a web server. Manage all of your Torrent downloads through a convenient web interface from anywhere."
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7/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : Azureus Dashboard Widget - "The Azureus Dashboard Widget provides a compact, friendly interface for monitoring and managing BitTorrent downloads."
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7/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
deusx : More Like This WebLog > Sandbox and Strangelove: hAtom in Wordpress - "I hung out in the back of the hall at Wordcamp, adding hAtom support to the default Wordpress theme."
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7/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : The Biology of B-Movie Monsters, or why you just can't scale living things up (a la King Kong) or down (like in Fantastic Voyage) without consequence - The Biology of B-Movie Monsters, or why you just can't scale living things up (a la King Kong) or down (like in Fantastic Voyage) without consequence. One key problem: with a theoretical 20 foot tall human, mass increases much faster than bone strength an
joshua : The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
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joshua : Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society - blog filled with amusing junk
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7/08/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Linkorama : AOL Proudly Releases Private Data - a serious error, but there needs to be a way to enable researchers too
Nelson Minar : AOL data release - Stupid, stupid, stupid
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Linkorama : AOL reSearch - AOL public wiki, where private user data was published
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7/08/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
kellan : FeedBurner announced they'll be creating a network of curated aggregated feeds. - Niall: "In the literary world there are established means for paying writers for aggregation of work..." #
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7/08/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : del.icio.us network explorer - Uses the new JSON feeds of del.icio.us network data to map relationships.
joshua : del.icio.us network explorer - very cool, uses json
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7/08/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
plasticbag : Bruno Giussani reviews and considers "The Long Tail" for The Huffington Post - It's an interesting critique that pulls the Long Tail effect back towards a few digitised assets, but which makes the mistake of saying that Chris Anderson only writes about the US when in fact it's just starting in the US like many technology trends...
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joshua : gps tracking for mobile art piece
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Milo Vermeulen : LOVEPIXEL - LOVEPIXEL - a gigantic pixel-art image that's great fun to scroll around in
fastclemmy : LovePixel - LovePixel by fastclemmy & 6 other(s) Another pixel lover. pixelart art pixel hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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plasticbag : Mr Biddulph's looking for a place to crash and think and hack in San Francisco for September - Does anyone have any ideas? He's rather good company.
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7/08/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society recently included a report on the 28-hour day - The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society recently included a report on the 28-hour day. "There are apparently plenty of advantages to switching to a 28-hour day, including four-day work weeks, fewer daily chores, longer weekends." This diary of s
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deusx : Sandbox � plaintxt.org - "The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned... More experienced themers will drool at the rich semantic markup and profusion of classes, dynamically generated by a few functions."
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7/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Wes Anderson's new film (after The Fantastic Mr. Fox) will be called The Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson's new film (after The Fantastic Mr. Fox) will be called The Darjeeling Limited. Anderson, Roman Coppola, and Jason Schwartzman are writing it, with Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Schwartzman to star.
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7/08/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Eons - 50+ networking - Eons is apparently a new social networking site for the 50+ crowd. If they were really cool they would have called it Boomr.
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7/08/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : DragonEdit - HTML editor for Palm Treo - If you've been dying to code on the go, DragonEdit is a text/HTML editor for Palm Treo. Crazy.
deusx : Green Dragon Software.com - "DragonEdit is two applications in one: a full-featured text editor, and a powerful HTML editor."
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Cameron Moll : iTunes movie rentals, other unveilings expected today - The release of iTunes movie rentals is one of several unveilings anticipated in today's keynote. Give me tabs in Leopard's Finder and I'll be giddy.
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7/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
cobra libre : today in literature: ulysses in america - 'So, furiously, the fellow had to open the suitcase. And the agent said, "Aha!" as he produced our copy of Ulysses. The customs man said, "Oh, for God's sake, everybody brings that in. We don't pay attention to it." But the agent persisted, "I demand that #
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7/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
deusx : David Byrne Journal: 8.2.06: American Madrassas - "One asks if religious visions are better off kept as a personal thing, or at least confined to a small group — otherwise the death and destruction sown by and in the name of religions more or less balances out their moral and personal virtues (whi
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7/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
bmilleare : HTML Character Codes (for reference)
Isofarro : HTMLSpecial Characters - Very useful looking HTML entity reference. (via Hotlinks)
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jkottke : No surprise really that Joe Francis, the guy behind Girls Gone Wild, is a turd - No surprise really that Joe Francis, the guy behind Girls Gone Wild, is a turd. During the course of writing this piece, Claire Hoffman is physically assaulted by Francis and we hear of an alleged unreported rape by Francis of a 18-yo girl. "I'm sorry, b
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7/08/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
Isofarro : Correctly Using Titles With External Stylesheets - When stylesheets seem to be ignored, check you're not using the title attribute on the link element. Persistent stylesheets should have no titles, supplying a title demotes the stylesheet to one that can be switched to within a browser. (link via archive.
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7/08/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
Isofarro : Correctly Using Titles With External Stylesheets - 'we've gotten a number of Bugzilla reports about 'Mozilla is ignoring some of my stylesheets' and the cause turned out to be the incorrect over-use of title.'
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7/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : With Clickdensity, you put a bit a JavaScript on your site and it tracks where your visitors are clicking and gives you a heat map of the results - With Clickdensity, you put a bit a JavaScript on your site and it tracks where your visitors are clicking and gives you a heat map of the results. I had the idea for this about a year ago and was going to write it up for the site to see if anyone wanted t
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7/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
jkottke : Works of fiction (books mosly) which deal significantly with mathematics - Works of fiction (books mosly) which deal significantly with mathematics.
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7/08/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
joshua : Coded Exposure Photography (Flutter Shutter Deblur)
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Paul Hammond : err.the_blog.find_by_title('rake remigrate') - This task deletes and recreates our development database, runs the initial migration, then loads our fixtures
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Paul Hammond : adaptive path » blog » blog archive » Teenagers don’t really have much to say - pay no attention to “trends†reports that focus on teenagers and extrapolate The Future. We all change as we grow older
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7/08/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
joshua : Removing camera shake from a single image
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deusx : Legalizing Marijuana - A New Republican Strategy? : Indybay - "It involves luring people to sign a LEGALIZE MARIJUANA petition and then re-registering them as Republicans."
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7/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
plasticbag : $212 million dollars was spent last year marketing in the gay press and broadcasting networks - "In its annual assessment of media buys advertising agency Prime Access Inc. and gay media representative firm Rivendell Media said that for the first time, advertising with 'gay-specific' content comprised slightly over half (50.3%) of all ads in the gay
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7/08/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
jimray : Damn Interesting » Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West Ford - In the late 50's, the US tried to blanket the earth atmosphere with tiny copper needles to create a redundant ionosphere for shortwave radio communications, in case the Russians cut our terrestrial cables. Crazy.
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7/08/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
jimray : Concert Ticket Generator - "Watermark: Ticketbastard" Awesome.
Rod Begbie : Concert Ticket Generator - Create real-looking ticket stubs for the shows you wish you'd been to (or wish existed) [via] #
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7/08/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
joshua : OpenWetWare - bioengineering wiki
jimray : OpenWetWare - Bioengineering wiki
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7/08/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - wilkins coffee 1 - A massive collection of the "Wilkins and Wontkins" coffee commercials made by Jim Henson in the late 50s. Splendidly violent! [via] #
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wearehugh : Feed Injection in Web 2.0
Paul Hammond : Feed Injection in Web 2.0 - various forms of attacks based on Web feeds that follow the RSS, Atom and XML standards
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7/08/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
jimray : Easy Two Tone Silhouette | Photoshop Lab
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Rod Begbie : BBC World » Advertising/Design Goodness - Cool new print adverts for BBC World. The theme is "News beyond your borders". Took me a moment to "get" them. #
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deusx : YouTube - Legend of Zelda Commercial for NES - "Is this what happen to people who play to much Zelda?"
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7/08/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
jimray : The Stars - Your Ex-Lover is Dead
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7/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Matt Kutts: Gizmos, Googol, and SEO - Matt Kutts: Gizmos, Googol, and SEO: Heh. A Matt Cutts parody blog.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Bikely - Bikely: Discover and share your favorite bicycle routes
philgyford : Bikely - Discover and share your favorite bicycle routes - People sharing bike routes in different cities/countries. Using Google Maps. Interesting to see which way people go. (via Blackbeltjones)
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7/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A new way to get rich: Google, Yahoo ads - A new way to get rich: Google, Yahoo ads: depends on your definition of "rich", I guess
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Jeremy Zawodny : Bump keying - Bump keying: open 90% of locks with a set of 10 keys
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Bump keying - Practically every lock out there can be opened with a filed-down key and a hammer. Methinks home insurance premiums are about to go up. [via] #
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7/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bill de hÓra: Django 0.95 - Bill de hÓra: Django 0.95: "The rest of the post are my personal notes on what's improved since magic-removal was merged into the main line last spring"
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7/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : gone living: the packing list - gone living: the packing list: "Here is a list of the gear that I currently have with me in my backpack as I travel around the world."
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plasticbag : An interesting article on C|Net about Google's resolute refusal to play social networking games... - For me, 'social networking' in the longer term remains a structuring principle rather than a product, but you need a the network to be able to layer it into your products, and Orkut isn't it. Blogger's rather been left to rot too...
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7/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jimray : Times to Reduce Page Size and Close a Plant in 2008 - Cutting the page size down by an inch and a half will save $12M a year!?!! Newsprint's 'spensive.
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jimray : WSJ offers a pretty damning critique of The Long Tail
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jimray : Hundreds expected to come to Masturbate-a-thon - Yahoo! News - Headline correction: Hundreds expected to come AT masturbate-a-thon
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plasticbag : A spoof of Al Gore that was put on YouTube, allegedly made by a teenager, may have been made by a PR firm with Exxon as a client - Wow, this is super low and horrible. Makes the whole Cillit Bang thing seem like a real PR victory in comparison. This is like Ethicopocalypse. I don't understand how these people sleep at night.
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