10/08/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
joshua : 5 Firefox extensions you can't live without - hadn't seen all of these
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Eric Meyer : Geek Etymology - What do you call YOUR hard drives (or partitions thereof)?
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jimray : The Hideout - Swanky bar in CapHill, I always forget the name of this place. If you can get past the whole "five year art installation" blah blah, it's a cool joint
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10/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
wearehugh : Riding Rails: Rails 1.1.6, backports, and full disclosure
Simon Willison : Rails 1.1.6, backports, and full disclosure - Fixes a left over problem from 1.1.5.
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10/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
wearehugh : Multiple annoyances with Rails (more than one security issue) - Peter Krantz
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10/08/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : hacking-delicious-code.zip - My copy of source code for examples in Hacking del.icio.us
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10/08/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
deusx : del.icio.us%3A%20security%20(everybody%20feels%20better%20with) - garbeldy%20gook
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10/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
gleuschk : Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences - a survival manual
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10/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
gleuschk : How to Be a Good Graduate Student - again mostly about Computer Science, but maybe useful
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10/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
gleuschk : Ars Mathematica » Blog Archive » Grete Hermann - first Ars Mathematica entry of significant interest I've seen
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10/08/2006 @ 20:40 GMT
kellan : Rails 1.1.6, backports, and full disclosure - Ugh. #
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kellan : Imogen by another other name would smell as sweet? - Say Innogen? #
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kellan : Lots of people ask me what working at Flickr is like.... - This is what its like. #
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jimray : Destination: Out - Free-jazz mp3 blog with sharp writing
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Rod Begbie : splunk'd - You manufacture a webapp to index and search logfiles. AOL accidentaly releases a heap of log files that people want to search. Et voila! Viral marketing is born. [via] #
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deusx : Stop using this lame evasion, Condi. By Fred Kaplan - "Scholars who enter the chambers of power should use their training as a tool to help them make decisions. Condi Rice is using hers as a chant to wish away the consequences."
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deusx : Hixie's Natural Log: Tag Soup: appendChild() of a script that calls document.write() - "What will happen? What should I put in the spec?"
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10/08/2006 @ 20:26 GMT
Andy Baio : upcalendar - Aaron releases his Python hack for syncing Upcoming events to Series 60 phones
Simon Willison : upcalendar - Aaron's Python S60 app for syncing Upcoming with your phone.
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wearehugh : evan weaver :: explanation of the rails security vulnerability in 1.1.4, others
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wearehugh : Mandatory security patch issued for Rails, but the vulnerability is not disclosed. (reddit.com)
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10/08/2006 @ 20:14 GMT
wearehugh : Ruby Forum - On the total nondisclosure of the 8/9/06 security vulnerabil
Simon Willison : On the total nondisclosure of the 8/9/06 [Rails] security vulnerability - The best argument I've seen in favour of full disclosure.
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wearehugh : Google Groups: RubyOnRails to russian
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wearehugh : Ruby On Rails Mandatory Mystery Patch - Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
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10/08/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
Andy Baio : Tom Coates on World of Warcraft addiction - "are we as a culture starting to construct toys that are too effective and end up hurting people?" [via]
Linkorama : things that aren't fun, and fun that is bad - Is the game a scapegoat? Are they weak-willed and to be pitied? Or are we as a culture starting to construct toys that are too effective and end up hurting people?
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wearehugh : Working round the Rails showstopper
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jkottke : Satellites measuring the earth's gravity from orbit detected a change in gravity from the massive earthquake that caused the tsunami in the Indian Ocean - Satellites measuring the earth's gravity from orbit detected a change in gravity from the massive earthquake that caused the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. "The gravity at the earth's surface decreased by as much as about 0.0000015 percent, meaning that a 1
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10/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Lifehacker has a great thread going about how to find cheap airline travel, online and off - Lifehacker has a great thread going about how to find cheap airline travel, online and off. Going through a travel agency situated in a neighborhood populated by people from the location you're travelling to is a great tip.
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10/08/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Vote for SXSW 2007 panel topics - Help SXSW Interactive decide panel programming for the 2007 event. Tons of great topic suggestions, and this could kick things up a notch next year. You might vote for "After the Brief: A Field Guide to Design Inspiration" and, um, I just might be a part
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Cameron Moll : Basecamp Dashboard widget - Basecamp Dashboard widget. Be sure to enable the Basecamp API (Account tab).
plasticbag : I'm playing a bit with widgets for getting access to Basecamp on Dashboard... - Obvious really - store data in the cloud and access is locally with one keystroke. Very interested in dashboard widgets as lightweight interfaces to online storage of data...
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10/08/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Izze Juice, Tazo Tea, and other food packaging typefaces - FontShop takes a trip to the supermarket and identifies typefaces used in the packaging for Izze Juice, Tazo Tea, and others.
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Cameron Moll : Mark Simonson's first words - "Just for fun, I've decided to share my first published writing on the subject of typography. It appeared in the April 19, 1977, issue of Metropolis, the Weekly Newspaper of Minneapolis."
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wearehugh : Rails 1.1.5 security patch nonsense
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10/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Anil Dash writes that "intellectual dishonesty is a powerful tool, and should only be used in service of important and valuable causes" - Anil Dash writes that "intellectual dishonesty is a powerful tool, and should only be used in service of important and valuable causes". He and I have argued about this before so I think he's being serious (and not just being intellectually dishonest), bu
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10/08/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Isofarro : Avoid Common Pitfalls in Greasemonkey - Mark Pilgrim dissects the security issues of the 0.3 Greasemonkey, and describes how the new architecture of Greasemonkey works, pointing out pitfalls and how to address them. Excellent resource (via dive into greasemonkey)
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10/08/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Starfish - Easy Distribution of Site Maintenance - Starfish is most useful in situations where you need to go record by record through a table and perform some specific–possibly slow–task.
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10/08/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : err.the_blog.find_by_title('acts_as_textiled') - add the acts_as_textiled call to your model and forget about it. If you’re using form_for and no Textile helpers, everything will Just Work.
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10/08/2006 @ 09:09 GMT
deusx : ruben bolink - gameboy running unix - Wow. Now that's a screwed up fake! No Gameboy has the resolution to display that much text!
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10/08/2006 @ 09:09 GMT
deusx : The Litter Robot Turns Cat Litter Into Easter Eggs - Gizmodo - Your cat goes into the spaceship-like ball to do his business, steps out, and his droppings automatically get turned into little red and yellow balls of delight.
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Andy Baio : Seth Godin created a series of Nintendo fiction books for kids? - the excerpts and reviews are hilarious [via]
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Andy Baio : Myspace asks for "Salute" for verifying identity - it's a good thing there's no way to fake photographs on a computer
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10/08/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : The Open Source WRT54G Story - The story of the Linksys Wireless-G Router (model WRT54G) and how you can turn a $60 router into a $600 router is a little bit CSI and a little bit Freaks & Geeks.
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10/08/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : dqpost - del.icio.us quick post - "This page uses the post api to make a quick post."
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veen : AOL's disturbing glimpse into users' lives | CNET News.com - "AOL's publication of the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users has yielded more than just one of the year's bigger privacy scandals."
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deusx : Obsessive complusive cat flushing the toilet - Google Video - "Would hate to see the water bill for this place."
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deusx : [EXCLUSIVE] Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" Developer Improvements - AeroXperience - "A new framework is included for publishing and subscribing to RSS and Atom feeds, including complete RSS parsing and generation. Local feeds can be shared over Bonjour zero-configuration sharing and discovery."
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10/08/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : series of pictures of crackers and hackers - (via cryptome) [via]
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10/08/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Auctioneer add-on for World of Warcraft
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10/08/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Linkorama : Lovaglia’s Law - Lovaglia’s Law: The more important the outcome of a decision, the more people will resist using evidence to make it.
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10/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
veen : ban comic sans :: Putting the Sans in Comic Sans - "While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans."
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10/08/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Linkorama : Asterisk Creator Gets Venture Backing - Digium, the company that spawned open source PBX and telephony software, Asterisk, has received $13.8 million in Series A funding from Boston-based telecom specialist venture fund, Matrix Partners.
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10/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
wearehugh : 4 penguins killed in truck accident - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com
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10/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status - "With just these few commands (an admittedly small subset of XSLT) and a strong background in HTML (DHTML and JavaScript included), I believe web developers could meet the majority of their presentation needs."
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10/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
jkottke : Rebecca Blood posted the interview she did with me for her Bloggers on Blogging series - Rebecca Blood posted the interview she did with me for her Bloggers on Blogging series. It's a nice change of pace to be interviewed about blogging by someone who knows as much or more than I do about it.
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10/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
cobra libre : chants and taunts, clapping games, jump rope rhymes - "my boyfriend's name is fatty / he comes from Cincinatti / with 48 toes / and a dimple on his nose / and this is how my story goes" [via] #
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10/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
cobra libre : pizza pizza daddy-o - "the following film was made in a los angeles playground early in 1968..." #
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veen : Design Observer: The Road to Hell, Part Two: That Elusive Silver Bullet - "Every great designer I've ever met has gotten respect the old fashioned way, by earning it."
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Simon Willison : Rails 1.1.5: Mandatory security patch - Upgrade now, and spread the word.
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Simon Willison : The Python Developer Center got Slashdotted - And this comment made me smile.
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deusx : WordPress makes a move towards hAtom, gets upgrades at FactoryCity - "because the Sandbox theme is marked up with hAtom in its HTML, there’s no need to supply an alternative link to RSS or ATOM because the page itself is able to be read by newsreaders."
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