24/08/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Open Source Flash - fc64 - Open Source Flash - fc64: "FC64 is a low level Commodore C64 emulator for Flash Player 9, written in AS3." Kick Ass!
joshua : fc64 - c64 emulator written in flash
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24/08/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : Mighty Mouse Reviewed - A-yup. Every time I use one of those things, I want to become Superman just so I can throw it clear through a wall.
Cameron Moll : Not-so-Mighty Mouse - Mighty Mouse reviewed rebuked.
jkottke : Quick review of Apple's Mighty Mouse - Quick review of Apple's Mighty Mouse. My scroll ball wheel thing had problems after a month as well. And side squeeze = hand/wrist pain waiting to happen.
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jkottke : Video of a guy doing a 720 degree slam dunk - Video of a guy doing a 720 degree slam dunk. It's really more of a 540, but still, damn. (thx, armin)
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24/08/2006 @ 22:13 GMT
deusx : Improv Everywhere Mission: The Moebius - "On Saturday, March 22, 2003 Improv Everywhere agents created a living moebius strip in the Astor Place Starbucks. Seven undercover agents meticulously repeated a five-minute slice of time for twelve consecutive repetitions."
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24/08/2006 @ 22:11 GMT
deusx : Dr. Dobb's | Ant Colony Algorithms | August 3, 2006 - "Among other complex problems, Ant Colony optimizers can be used to simulate routing problems when network topologies change over time."
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24/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Robert Birnbaum interviews author Sebastian Junger about his new book, Death in Belmont - Robert Birnbaum interviews author Sebastian Junger about his new book, Death in Belmont. The interview is a little confusing if you haven't read the book (or at least a synopsis) but there's some good stuff in there. "I went to Bosnia with a bunch of note
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24/08/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
merlinmann : Battle Against Bald | A Battle Against Hair Loss Through Hair Restoration - Chronicling his journey back to the land of the hirsute. Fun idea.
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24/08/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : RAZR V3 hacking - looks like a good collection
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24/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Congressional redistricting | How to rig an election | Economist.com - "In a normal democracy, voters choose their representatives. In America, it is rapidly becoming the other way around"
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24/08/2006 @ 20:23 GMT
Nelson Minar : Tarot deck scans - Hundreds of tarot design samples (via Metafilter)
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jimray : Extending Thunderbird's wings - I've been super happy with Apple Mail ever since MailTags got updated to support IMAP. These are nice, though.
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jimray : The Pipettes - Yeah, I'm in love without hearing a single track yet
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24/08/2006 @ 20:18 GMT
deusx : The Official Stephen Colbert Green Screen Challenge - "Take the challenge and use your Jedi video editing skills to save Stephen in his lightsaber duel."
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24/08/2006 @ 20:16 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Refuse to be Terrorized - "The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act."
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24/08/2006 @ 20:14 GMT
philgyford : Mocking Music: NME C86: Side B - This makes me very happy. MP3s of all tracks on the NME's C86 tape. I only started listening to jangly indie stuff a year or two later, so this is nearly all new to me. Twenty years, blimey.
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24/08/2006 @ 20:12 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Automatic warranties: little-known facts about your credit cards - Automatic warranties: little-known facts about your credit cards: "Pretty much all American Express cards, Visa signature cards, and MasterCard Gold and Platinum cards are subject to automatically doubling up your warranty on electronic items purchas
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Jeremy Zawodny : Pocket GPS World - Pocket GPS World: lots of gps news, but no RSS feed for it. :-(
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24/08/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : Bruce Schneier: "It's time we calm down and fight terror with antiterror." - Bruce Schneier: "It's time we calm down and fight terror with antiterror. Our job is to think critically and rationally, and to ignore the cacophony of other interests trying to use terrorism to advance political careers or increase a television show's vi
jimray : Schneier on Security: What the Terrorists Want - "The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want." Precisely.
Jeremy Zawodny : What the Terrorists Want - What the Terrorists Want: "The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act... And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want." Sadly, he's right.
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Milo Vermeulen : Hu Yang - Shanghai Living photos [via]
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Nelson Minar : Vista DRM failure - Microsoft drops support for BluRay and HD-DVD DRM
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Nelson Minar : Big new Eve scam - The Eve Investment bank was a scam afterall
deusx : EVE Online | EVE Insider | Forums | 203 - "I fooled everyone. I win EVE."
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24/08/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
jimray : The New York Times Names Chandler Burr as Its First-Ever Perfume Critic - Dear god, I hope this means I don't start getting perfume samples in my Sunday Times
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jimray : Subtraction: Announcing Shorty - It's TinyURL that you install on your own box
Cameron Moll : Shorty - link shortening on your server - Two from Khoi today: Shorty, TinyURL-like link shortening, but on your server.
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24/08/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
deusx : Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services - "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers."
jimray : Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud - This is amazingly cool
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24/08/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : You've got about 4 hours left to enter the Pluto mnemonic device contest - You've got about 4 hours left to enter the Pluto mnemonic device contest. We're getting some great entries, but I know you will come up with something better.
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24/08/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Great library photography - Great library photography. Bet you didn't know those three words could fit together in that order. The Trinity College Library in Dublin looks lovely.
gleuschk : Hot Library Smut - steamy.
Milo Vermeulen : Hot Library Smut [via]
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24/08/2006 @ 17:30 GMT
Cameron Moll : Jquery tool tip - Jquery tool tip. Simple but useful UI enhancement for those ever-present question marks next to form fields. Will find use for this soon... (thanks, Jesse)
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Cameron Moll : More "typefaces on packaging" from FontShop - FontShop with another excellent newsletter listing typefaces used on popular consumer packaging. Loving this series -- I hope to see more.
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Cameron Moll : .Mac's slow death - .Mac's slow death. "Then Google introduced (free) Gmail with oodles more storage than .Mac offers, calendars and so on. To make a long story short, I'm about to give .Mac the boot for good. After the jump, a breakdown of why." I honestly thought we would
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Cameron Moll : Has accessibility been taken too far? - Jeff Croft: Has accessibility been taken too far? A delicate sorta delicate but appropriate treatment of the issue. "I believe too many people are trying to make accessibility a binary (yes or no) matter. It can't be. It has to be a continuum. Every addit
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24/08/2006 @ 17:24 GMT
Cameron Moll : Dictionary.com redesign - Yay! New dictionary.com design. There were a few cogs involved in this, one might say.
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merlinmann : Cool Tool: Handy Adder - Wow, my Mom had one of these when I was a kid. "It's the grocery store version of Be Here Now."
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24/08/2006 @ 17:20 GMT
Linkorama : German engineering of Wikipedia? - We will see how it plays out, I'm concerned how this would effect breaking news and the gratification of publishing, not the control issues because time is against them
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Linkorama : The Web 2.0 Economic Conundrum - The Web sites and blogs that cover Web 2.0 - sites that I really love - are largely supported by ads from startups that also are hoping to capitalize in the rising interest in online advertising. This creates a vicious cycle that's unhealthy for the earni
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24/08/2006 @ 17:16 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : FreshBooks - FreshBooks: "FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service"
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Jeremy Zawodny : OSHKOSH 2006 - OSHKOSH 2006: an amazing little photolog of a trip to Oshkosh this year
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24/08/2006 @ 17:12 GMT
wearehugh : More Like This WebLog > Atom Bank Shot
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24/08/2006 @ 17:10 GMT
jkottke : New Improv Everywhere mission: 225 people at the Home Depot in Chelsea all moving in slow motion - New Improv Everywhere mission: 225 people at the Home Depot in Chelsea all moving in slow motion. The sped-up video showing all the slow-moers moving at normal speed while everyone else zips around is pretty great. (thx, jakob)
deusx : Improv Everywhere Mission: Slo-Mo Home Depot - "How would people react if they found themselves surrounded by people moving forward at a different rate or time (or not moving at all)?"
Jeremy Zawodny : Slo-Mo Home Depot - Slo-Mo Home Depot: Improv Everywhere rocks
philgyford : Improv Everywhere Mission: Slo-Mo Home Depot - Lots of people go into a store as shoppers and, in unison, all move in slow motion. Shortly after, they all stand motionless, which is even better. (via Kottke)
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jkottke : "A great magazine is one which invents its own readership" - "A great magazine is one which invents its own readership".
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24/08/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
jcgregorio : W3C and the Overton window [dive into mark] - A roadmap for the deathspiral.
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24/08/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Animelab.com: Japanese -> English Dictionary - Animelab.com: Japanese -> English Dictionary [via]
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24/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
deusx : Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services - "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers."
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24/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : More photography from Gerald Panter - More photography from Gerald Panter. For the past 10 years, Panter has been rephotographing scenes previously photographed by Eugene Atget. Sophie Tusler and another group from USF have done similar projects. Nice panoramas too.
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jkottke : Author (and reader) Nick Hornby on how to read - Author (and reader) Nick Hornby on how to read. "Please, if you're reading a book that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a television programme."
philgyford : How to Read - Nick Hornby - "If you don't read the classics, or the novel that won this year's Booker Prize, then nothing bad will happen to you; more importantly, nothing good will happen to you if you do" (via Kottke)
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24/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
philgyford : Flickr: Archive of Strand Building Hackney's photos posted to Flickr on 16th July 2006 - The Strand Building, where I used to live, has finally had its central courtyard remodelled (necessary due to leakage into the garage below). Beautifully done, although the fountain looks odd.
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24/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
philgyford : LRB | David Edgar : Stalking Out - Review of a John Osborne biography with lots of interesting history about 1950s/60s London theatre, especially 'Look Back in Anger', Stratford East, and the Royal Court, and whether theatre was shaken up or not.
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24/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
philgyford : LRB | E.S. Turner : Catchers in the Rye - Interesting article about the history of animal and human traps (subscribers only).
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philgyford : BarbicanTalk.com :: View topic - milton court - Building Design article about the proposed replacement of the Barbican's Milton Court building ("43 storey residential tower"!), and the resistance to the plans.
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philgyford : Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis - New York Times - I have no interest in sport but David Foster Wallace always makes tennis fascinating. Not that I've got round to reading this yet. (via Kottke)
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24/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
philgyford : Phil Gyford's blog - I've been trying Vox out and have posted a few things there recently. Not sure I'll continue though - one weblog's more than enough.
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24/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
philgyford : Analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org - Pictures of tapes. There used to be a huge Japanese page that had all the pictures on one page, but that's gone and this is more convenient. How quaint. (via City of Sound)
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24/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
philgyford : 55 word stories - Some lovely stories here, conveniently short and ideally suited to the short-haul commuter or the busy housewife. (via Said the Gramophone)
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philgyford : The New York Review of Books: Cosmopolitans - Ethics, identity, violence, justice. "Why do we succumb so readily to appeals based on the irrational forms of identity -- ethnic, racial, religious -- rather than to appeals based on the rational forms -- economic above all?"
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24/08/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
jkottke : Slideshow of Gerald Panter's photos of the fast food stands of Los Angeles - Slideshow of Gerald Panter's photos of the fast food stands of Los Angeles. "Menus which featured hamburgers and hot dogs seem to have given way to those featuring tacos and burritos, while former purveyors of such Mexican fare now feature teriyaki and ot
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24/08/2006 @ 13:12 GMT
philgyford : YouTube - The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New - Nice video for the new, lovely, Mountain Goats single.
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philgyford : Google Maps + Google Video + Mashup - Claude Lelouch's Rendezvous - Fantastic idea, although it stutters horribly and becomes very out of sync for me.
fastclemmy : Google Mashup - Claude Lelouch's Rendezvous - Google Mashup - Claude Lelouch's Rendezvous by fastclemmy & 2 other(s) google video maps mashup Lelouch movie hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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Andy Baio : Long New Yorker article on the recent Poincare Conjecture battle - a fascinating story of two very different mathematic personalities; more from Kottke [via]
Nelson Minar : Math personalities - Long New Yorker, but great story about Perelman
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François Nonnenmacher : how do YOU feel? - A great art/web project that could prefigure not so great marketing scanning of our feelings
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24/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : 37 Signals on the Long Road to Simple - this basically summed up my day
Paul Hammond : The long road to simple: creating, debating, and iterating "Add an event" - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - To the customer, this is just a few obvious words in a small box. But really, that’s the point.
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Milo Vermeulen : defective yeti: Mold In The White House
gleuschk : defective yeti: Mold In The White House - don't think Matthew is just a funny guy -- he can also be terrifying
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Andy Baio : Phoenix Wright fan t-shirts - obscure Nintendo DS references on t-shirts make me happy
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deusx : Foreign Affairs - Is There Still a Terrorist Threat? - John Mueller - "Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has been neither a successful strike nor a close call in the United States since 9/11. The reasonable -- but rarely heard -- explanation is that there are no terrorists withi
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24/08/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : I hate email - I hate email: "Do you think the NSA could provide a public interface to their email scanners? Have them tell me when my email looks interesting?
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Matthew M. Boedicker : things a man should know about drinking - (via Information Junk) [via]
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24/08/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : say no like Sluggo - (via Boing Boing) [via]
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24/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
jkottke : The Eastern Garbage Patch is a miles-wide collection of garbage in the North Pacific - The Eastern Garbage Patch is a miles-wide collection of garbage in the North Pacific; the trash is collected by a slowly rotating system of current that keeps it trapped in one spot. (via pf) [via]
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Nelson Minar : Steal browse history - Very clever CSS tomfoolery lets a server learn whether a user has visited some set of URLs before
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Matthew M. Boedicker : bizarre performance by Dinosaur Jr on the Jenny Jones Show
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24/08/2006 @ 02:15 GMT
jimray : All the news that's fit for bits - On the NY Times digital makeover
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24/08/2006 @ 02:12 GMT
wearehugh : SimAquarium Widget - Opera Widgets
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wearehugh : Working XML: Expand RSS capabilities with RSS extensions
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24/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jimray : Crazy Apple Rumors on the whole MacBooks security flaw thing - "Listen, Mac punks, if a respected security professional wants to stick a lit cigarette in your eye, you just ask him which one! GOT IT?!"
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24/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Urwid - Text console application library for Python.
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24/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Hadoop - Open-source Google File System / map-reduce equivalent. Apparently scales amazingly well.
Rod Begbie : Welcome to Hadoop! - Open-source project to allow the creation of massive massively-parallelized systems. I'm so glad my CompSci course taught me about parallel programming in 1997, because it's only going to become more important. [via] #
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24/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Blow to inventors as Segway banned - Segways banned in the UK! That sucks. [via]
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24/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
wearehugh : Nick Bradbury: Feed Security and FeedDemon, Part II
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merlinmann : Boing Boing: The greatest Nancy panel ever drawn - Sluggo: "No"
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24/08/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Linkorama : Transclusion Baby Steps - Transclusion is one of several tools (like Wikis themselves) that enhance our ability to make use of the information and understandings emerging in a group's communication and narrative.
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