18/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
gleuschk : Ask Science: Poincaré’s Conjecture - New York Times - nice Q&A with Dennis Overbye, who wrote this week's article on Poincare
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18/08/2006 @ 22:11 GMT
joshua : New species discovered on eBay - ok. the future is finally stranger than fiction
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18/08/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
deusx : Richard K Miller dot coooooooooom � MicroID Plugin for WordPress - "MicroID, which is a simple hash of an email address and a URL, can be used to claim ownership of a blog, a blog post, or a blog comment."
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jkottke : Yesterday, almost 30 years after it was launched, the Voyager spacecraft crossed the 100 AU boundry, meaning it is 100 times farther from the Sun than the Earth is - Yesterday, almost 30 years after it was launched, the Voyager spacecraft crossed the 100 AU boundry, meaning it is 100 times farther from the Sun than the Earth is. The article is worth a read. (via sb) [via]
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jimray : Pitchfork finishes up their top 200 songs of the 1960's - You had to know it was gonna be the Beach Boys (my money was actually on the Beatles. Or Miles Davis.)
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wearehugh : inkBlots » Newsgator vulnerable to RSS script attacks
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jkottke : Rethinking Moneyball - Rethinking Moneyball. Jeff Passan looks at how the Oakland A's 2002 draft class, immortalized in Michael Lewis' Moneyball, has done since then. "It is not so much scouts vs. stats anymore as it is finding the right balance between information gleaned by s
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18/08/2006 @ 20:17 GMT
joshua : Pretty amazing way to move a boat - boats on a train
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18/08/2006 @ 20:15 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Schneier on Security: Human/Bear Security Trade-Off [via]
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deusx : Epyx back on DS, Wii - Nintendo Wii Fanboy - "Development studio System 3 has scored rights to the old Epyx library of games and is already planning to bring popular titles Impossible Mission and California Games to the DS "
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18/08/2006 @ 20:12 GMT
deusx : Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin screens and art - DS Fanboy - "Famitsu has a handful of screenshots and artwork for Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin."
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18/08/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
deusx : MicroID - Small Decentralized Verifiable Identity - "MicroID is a new Identity layer to the web and Microformats that allows anyone to simply claim verifiable ownership over their own pages and content hosted anywhere."
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Kiko Affair - The Kiko Affair: "The best solution for most startup founders would probably be to stay out of Google's way."
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18/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : NYC in Lego! - NYC in Lego!: I love lego art.
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joshua : The State of DS Homebrew - links - links page from big summary article
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18/08/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
wearehugh : snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Holes - "I was able to sneak script into Feed Demon that would place text on the status bar, open popup windows, show message dialogs, rewrite the entire contents of the newspaper view, send the entire contents of the newspaper view to a remote website, change ev
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jkottke : The politically incorrect alphabet - The politically incorrect alphabet. A is for abortion, B is for bomb, C is for cigarettes...
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18/08/2006 @ 18:13 GMT
Rod Begbie : SnapStream Blog » Project Hoover: Suck up every TV show in the new fall season, be your own TV critic - Build yourself an 11-tuner DVR so you can record every new show this season without having to think about it. [via] #
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18/08/2006 @ 18:13 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Pancakes! - "A short music video about making pancakes =)"
Nelson Minar : Pancakes are tasty - Clever little video (via Flickr)
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deusx : YouTube - Sheep Are Fluffy - "This is a harrowing story about the difficulties sheep face while living in modern society."
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18/08/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
gleuschk : Free Resources for Grad Students - Grad student survival kit -- free!
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wearehugh : Mozilla Pastebin - collaborative debugging tool
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18/08/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Three Mexican fisherman were found alive after 11 months of drifting on the Pacific - Three Mexican fisherman were found alive after 11 months of drifting on the Pacific. They survived on raw fish, rain water, and sea birds. Immediately after being resuced, "they chowed down". (via bb) [via]
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18/08/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Faces are now being searched at US airports for suspicious microexpressions - Faces are now being searched at US airports for suspicious microexpressions. Psychologist Paul Ekman helped set up the program and was previously one of Malcolm Gladwell's subjects in The Naked Face and Blink.
Rod Begbie : Faces, Too, Are Searched at U.S. Airports - New York Times - Good move by the TSA: Investing in training screeners with the ability to pick out suspicious characters at the airport; skills that can be used regardless of whether a "bad guy" is planning on using liquids, boxcutters, or dental floss as part of their [via] #
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18/08/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
merlinmann : will-self.com: Will's Room - Damn, that's a lot of post-it notes. [via linkmachinego]
gleuschk : will-self.com: Will's Room - that's a lot of post-its
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18/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Autos Feedback Center - Yahoo! Autos Feedback Center: it's like digg, but useful
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18/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Classic Sesame Street video clip on how crayons are made - Classic Sesame Street video clip on how crayons are made.
Nelson Minar : Making crayons - Awesome short video documentary (via kottke)
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18/08/2006 @ 16:13 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator [via]
jimray : bullshitr - The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator
Linkorama : The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator - 1. Click the button. 2. Watch the bullshit appear in the box.
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18/08/2006 @ 16:10 GMT
wearehugh : RSS Duplicate Detection ･ 詹姆斯
Simon Willison : RSS Duplicate Detection - RSS Duplicate Detection. “Detecting duplicate items in an RSS feed is something of a black art”. I hadn’t realised quite how involved such a basic function of an aggregator could be.
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wearehugh : Here's the new Thunderbird default theme - MozillaZine Forums
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jkottke : Great interview with David Remnick, conducted just after he'd taken over at the New Yorker - Great interview with David Remnick, conducted just after he'd taken over at the New Yorker. I love this guy. (via emdashes) [via]
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18/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : Dan's a web designer and wonders what he would have done for a living 100 years ago - Dan's a web designer and wonders what he would have done for a living 100 years ago. Building radios? Wheelwright? Newsagent?
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18/08/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Isofarro : Dapper - Unleash your creativity - Until organisations start providing real APIs to their (or my) data, Dapper fulfils a number of real world cases today. Its another building block in the web services platform.
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18/08/2006 @ 10:10 GMT
deusx : Doug Engelbart: The Demo - Google Video
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deusx : Open Source Flash - fvnc - holy crap! "FVNC is a VNC Client for Flash Player 9 and above."
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18/08/2006 @ 08:10 GMT
deusx : Mimulus XHTML Editor - "It turns any tab into a WYSIWYG editor, enabling a cursor and letting you change existing content just by typing in the browser window, or add new elements such as headings and lists using simple key combinations. It saves to your hard drive, has an opti
fastclemmy : Mimulus XHTML Editor - Mimulus XHTML Editor by fastclemmy Mimulus is a lightweight XHTML editor implemented as a Firefox extension. Untested, though. xhtml editor firefox extension hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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18/08/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
wearehugh : youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com
deusx : youtube-dl: Download videos from YouTube.com - Now someone just needs to incorporate this into a browser for YouTube videos on Xbox Media Center! "youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com."
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jcgregorio : Web Things, by Mark Baker » Blog Archive » The unsittable fence - I believe that's the first time the world has ever heard the phrase "architectural nuances of JEE/EJB3 or CORBA" uttered.
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18/08/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
kellan : jkanstyle: Actual lessons from Kiko - These are excellent. Though I'd re-state #3 as "Take the time to do things right enough." Where the enough is hard part. #
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18/08/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Andy Baio : RU Sirius show on Gettingit.com reunion, part one - I'm interviewed along with the rest of the staff; follow along on the archives
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18/08/2006 @ 04:11 GMT
kellan : Kokogiak - Amazon's Digital Video sneak peek: "Amazon Unbox" - Alan does a bit of sleuthing. (Of course Alan has the advantage of being an AWS god) #
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18/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
jimray : Right Wing NY Times - What wingnuts see when they read the paper of record. This is good.
Rod Begbie : What Right-Wingers See When They Read The New York Times. - "By reporting this entirely true information, we hope to sap America's fighting spirit" #
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18/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : Main Page - Wikiality - "Welcome to Wikiality, the Wiki dedicated to upholding and documenting truthiness."
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18/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Federal Aviation Administration - Airmen Practical Test Standards (PTS) - Federal Aviation Administration - Airmen Practical Test Standards (PTS): this is where the FAA stashes all the PTS documents [via]
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18/08/2006 @ 01:19 GMT
joshua : DoubleTake - Stitch Images to Panoramas on Mac OS X
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18/08/2006 @ 01:16 GMT
Andy Baio : Dappit - visual tool for screen scraping websites into XML and doing neat things with it
Simon Willison : Dapper - Ambitious attempt to make screen scraping available to the masses.
Isofarro : Dapper: The Data Mapper - A way of building web services out of normal HTML pages. Uses the neat feature of taking two URLs from a site and comparing them - the differences will tend to be the dynamic data. That data can then be extracted and transformed into a structure fit for w
Jeremy Zawodny : Dapper: The Data Mapper - Dapper: The Data Mapper: dapper is way, way cool. my head is spinning with the possibilities!
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18/08/2006 @ 01:14 GMT
Simon Willison : Bradley Horowitz on Interestingness - The concept of user-discovered content is very useful.
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18/08/2006 @ 01:12 GMT
Simon Willison : HOWTO: Adding an RSS feed to a Subversion Server - Using post-commit hooks and some Python.
jimray : Adding an RSS feed to a Subversion Server
deusx : bbum’s weblog-o-mat � Blog Archive � HOWTO: Adding an RSS feed to a Subversion Server - "I have now gone on stage twice and talked about how useful an RSS feed is for a subversion server. About time I actually document how to set up such a thing."
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18/08/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos - 10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos: "To make the new stuff work, we had to make browsers jump through some hoops. This post is the first of a few that will explore some of the big ideas behind the scenes."
Simon Willison : 10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos - The new Photos interface is a beautiful piece of work. Scott is an absolute wizzard.
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18/08/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : dns_client.py - dns_client.py: "The twenty-first module of Allegra implements a DNS client cache, with support for A, MX, NS and PTR record resolution. The dns_client module provides a ready-made and self-managed DNS facility that does the right thing for its applic
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18/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
wearehugh : Exclusive Microsoft Zune Picture - Zune In The Wild! - Gizmodo - "the shot is in black and white because Microsoft assigned a unique color scheme to every Zune prototype so any leaks could be traced to the employee who leaked it."
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18/08/2006 @ 00:17 GMT
joshua : adobe using delicious - this is seriously cool
jimray : Adobe's on delicious
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18/08/2006 @ 00:15 GMT
kellan : Apparently the writers on the new Transformer movie are responding to questions on Y! Answers - Or will be. #
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18/08/2006 @ 00:12 GMT
Nelson Minar : URL length limits - Practical limits of browsers. Spec says 1024 bytes.
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