11/08/2006 @ 23:14 GMT
deusx : Philadelphia Daily News | 08/11/2006 | BUSH AND CHENEY'S REIGN OF ERROR - "To exploit a very real terror threat that could have led to major casualties, and to even indirectly implicate Americans who were exercising their democratic right by going to the polls and making a choice borders on the criminal, to say nothing of the i
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11/08/2006 @ 23:12 GMT
gleuschk : Mihov Image Resizer: resize, convert, and rotate digital photos - Download page - new website, new version.
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11/08/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
wearehugh : Ubuntu Linux now on my new Thinkpad T43p: Wow! (by Jeremy Zawodny)
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11/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Sausage shaped like beer bottles - Apologies for the lack of posts over the last couple of days. I'm back in the midwest visiting my folks. I'm doing great; they have sausage shaped like beer bottles here!
Jeremy Zawodny : Sausage shaped like a beer bottle on Flickr - Sausage shaped like a beer bottle on Flickr: that is so wrong!
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11/08/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
jimray : Lorem Ipsum, the corporate bullshit version - Heh
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11/08/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
deusx : Kung Fu Monkey: "Wait, Aren't You Scared?" - "Quick, do whatever we tell you, and believe whatever we tell you, or YOU WILL BE KILLED BY BROWN PEOPLE!! PUT DOWN THAT SIPPY CUP!!"
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deusx : Pharyngula: Put the blame where it belongs: God and the Republican Party - "That's the result of a new survey of people's attitudes toward evolution. Notice where the United States lies: nearly dead last. We beat Turkey."
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11/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
kellan : Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast - New York Times - "Israel has asked the Bush administration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions" - the perfect sort of weapon to use in crowded, urban settings to maximize civilian deaths. #
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11/08/2006 @ 19:21 GMT
kellan : "...airline passengers are still advised not to bring storms on board aircraft with them, even tropical depressions you might believe would be harmless." - "And now back to your regularly scheduled security theater." #
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11/08/2006 @ 19:18 GMT
Rod Begbie : Presentation Tips For The Technically Gifted - Good tips on how to do your tech project demo. Should be required reading for anyone talking at WebInno meetings. [via] #
deusx : Presentation Tips For The Technically Gifted - "It’s really hard to do a 10 minute presentation. ... 10 minutes doesn’t give you a lot of time to build rapport with the audience or otherwise “get into your grooveâ€."
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11/08/2006 @ 19:14 GMT
plasticbag : A Flickr slideshow of the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno - It looks beautiful. I think I was reading about these gardens somewhere on BoingBoing earlier today. They sounded fascinating. Flickr as ever, provides...
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Andy Baio : Top Web 2.0 Apps in Russia - continuing his great series of Web 2.0 apps around the world
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11/08/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Beating two SNES games at the same time - wiring a single controller into two SNES emulators, and recording the results
deusx : nesvideos - movies: #380 - "This movie is essentially constructed by taking one controller and wiring it into two SNES emulators at once. The same input is used to play both games to completion."
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11/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
gleuschk : Topology Board Resigns - fascinating strike against Elsevier. I wonder if it will have any effect.
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11/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
plasticbag : Apparently the BBC is exploring building devices to plug into iPods that allow them to listen to digital radio - If this is true it's almost certainly something that's come out of the part of the BBC that I used to work in. It sounds like a really interesting tactic to try and encourage digital radio take-up...
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11/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
plasticbag : A study has compared the acceptance rates of evolution across the world, and America is terrifyingly close to the bottom of the list - Britain's actually a surprisingly secular state, so perhaps it's not surprising it's done quite well. The most interesting aspect of the study for me? That the link between creationism and pro-life politics is almost total in the US but slight elsewhere.
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11/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
plasticbag : Marshmallow Peeps - You can't get them in the UK - even at Cybercandy. It's very annoying. They're evil plastic morsels of deliciousness
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11/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Another article on the decline of the baseball card industry in the US - Another article on the decline of the baseball card industry in the US. "Why does a kid want a baseball card of a player when, with a joystick, he can be that player in a video game?" (thx, peter)
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11/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jimray : Why you can't trust news photography - "Perhaps, we should judge a news photograph as a collection of purported facts about the world that is accurate if its claims are true and inaccurate if they're not."
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11/08/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Clell Tickle, Indie Marketing Guru - Aziz Ansari comedy with cameos by Tapes 'n Tapes, Pitchfork Media, and Ted Leo [via]
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11/08/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
joshua : Jon Peltier's Excel Charts - this guy has mad excel skills
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11/08/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
joshua : We Feel Fine - collaborative art project. i really like the typography, art model, and faceted browser. lots to like
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11/08/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
joshua : Advanced Gantt Charts in Microsoft Excel
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11/08/2006 @ 07:09 GMT
Linkorama : Venting on SOA 2.0 - But the "2.0" concept is really stretched with SOA 2.0. What changed from plain, old SOA? Nothing that I can see, other than we added on some EDA tools on top and tagged SOA with a "2.0". It's analogous to adding a set of socks to a pair of shoes and sell
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11/08/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
deusx : Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: OPML, Meet Douglas Engelbart - I haven't talked much about it, but Hyperscope uses OPML 2.0 as its native file format.
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11/08/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
wearehugh : Time Synchronisation on OpenWrt
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11/08/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
wearehugh : DropbearPublicKeyAuthenticationHowto - OpenWrt
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11/08/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: 1Lb Fat Replica - Just the thing to keep in the fridge next to the Green & Black's. [via] #
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11/08/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : Diamond Says Woman Broke Into Hotel Room - Yahoo! News - "Dustin Diamond, who played geeky Screech Powers on the '90s teen comedy "Saved by the Bell," says he scuffled with a woman at an Omaha hotel earlier this week."
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11/08/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Linkorama : The In-N-Out Test - Which would you have founded - In-N-Out or McDonalds? Actually a tough question and I think bias provokes me to answer, the one with the community.
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11/08/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Linkorama : The Garcia Rule - The Dead were the first band to encourage their fans to record shows and share them. As Garcia said, when the band was done with the music it was the fan’s to share. The only rule was no selling or profiteering and the fans were self-policing, crit
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11/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
jcgregorio : Anant Jhingran's Musings: Enterprise Information Mashups - I love the fact that the term "Atom Store" has already entered the vernacular.
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11/08/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
merlinmann : Learn the Five Causes of Disorganization - "Before you can dig out of your disorganization you have to first understand what led you there."
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11/08/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
joshua : Del.icio.us Traffic More Than Doubled Since January - hooray
plasticbag : Hitwise report that del.icio.us' traffic has doubled since the beginning of the year - I get to hang out with Joshua occasionally at work and it's always good fun. They've got so much done recently and there's lots more to come.
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11/08/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : liquids on a plane - (via Cynical-C Blog) [via]
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11/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Seymour Cray digging tunnels is a myth?
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11/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
tehu : Tantek's : Four year blogiversary - Since then, it seems none of the W3C working drafts that I mentioned have made it to Recommendation status which is a bit unexpected to say the least. // don't be so disappointed : you could have work for the HTML WG.
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11/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Endgame, the Google Maps real-time strategy game - like the Goggles flight simulator, why aren't Flash developers making games with the Yahoo Maps Flash API?
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11/08/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
joshua : Lightweight data exploration in Excel - man i love data
Jeremy Zawodny : Lightweight data exploration in Excel - Lightweight data exploration in Excel: heh. neat excel hacks.
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11/08/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Creating in-cell graphics with Excel - very neat use of old tech [via]
joshua : More on Excel in-cell graphing - my god, this is even better
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11/08/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
tehu : Hixie's Natural Log: SVG Tiny 1.2 in Candidate Wreckommendation stage - "I'll let you draw your own conclusions." => The SVG group need holidays ? (sorry, I'm french)
jcgregorio : Hixie's Natural Log: SVG Tiny 1.2 in Candidate Wreckommendation stage - The path to irrevelance is paved in arrogance.
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Simon Willison : Schneier on Security: New Airline Security Rules - "I'm sure glad I'm not flying anywhere this week" says Bruce. Now I wish I wasn't!
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11/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Release: Unobtrusive Javascript For Rails 0.2 - RJS kind of sucks. This looks like it doesn't.
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11/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Hot PHP UTF-8 tips - Always good to have.
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11/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Ze Frank on terrorism - "leveraging our inability to understand risk" [via]
Simon Willison : zefrank: don't be afraid - Terrorists levarage our inability to understand risk.
Eric Meyer : the show with zefrank: don't be afraid - When people don't understand risk analysis, the terrorists win.
jimray : Ze Frank on terrorism - Ze for president!
plasticbag : zefrank's episode today rocks my stinking little world - Simon: "He fucking rocks. I think I'd sleep with him". Me: "Simon, my friend, I think we'd all sleep with him..."
kellan : the show with zefrank - on terrorism - also zefrank on the democratization of aesthetics. wow #
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11/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: YouTube founders on Charlie Rose - uploaded by Charlie Rose! I like picturing him sitting on YouTube moderating the spam comments
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11/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
deusx : del.icio.us: security (everybody feels better with) - garbeldy gook
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deusx : Savant2 (2.4.3) - Savant is a powerful but lightweight object-oriented template system for PHP.
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11/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
wearehugh : The Blog Ride - The Vietnam of Computer Science
jimray : The Blog Ride - The Vietnam of Computer Science - "Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science."
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