25/08/2006 @ 23:15 GMT
Cameron Moll : Outkast's Hey Ya, acoustic flavored - Phoenix-based Obadiah Parker's acoustic cover of Outkast's “Hey Ya”.
jimray : Acoustic "Hey Ya" - This should be on that mix you make for that girl
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25/08/2006 @ 23:13 GMT
Eric Meyer : How to charge a client - "The lesson we are told to draw from this... is don’t sell yourself short - as you’ll be selling the whole field short in the end." [via Dan] [via]
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25/08/2006 @ 23:11 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Riparian Rights - Dave Winer introduces a new way to bring news and blogs to mobile devices
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25/08/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : BMW commercial featuring the kinetic sculptures of Theo Jansen - BMW commercial featuring the beautiful kinetic sculptures of Theo Jansen, who I covered previously on kottke.org. (via poptech) [via]
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25/08/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Ricky Gervais at Microsoft UK - shut down by Microsoft on Youtube, now living on Google Video for the moment
Rod Begbie : Ricky Gervais - Microsoft 1 - Google Video - Ricky Gervais (in character as David Brent) and Stephen Merchant make a "training" film for Microsoft. [via] #
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jkottke : New Yorker piece on Clifford Ross' new camera, a "high-resolution digital video camera that shoots in three hundred and sixty degrees" - New Yorker piece on Clifford Ross' new camera, a "high-resolution digital video camera that shoots in three hundred and sixty degrees". Ross is one of my favorite contemporary photographers.
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25/08/2006 @ 21:12 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Torrent Search - ScrapeTorrent.com - The Torrent Search Engine - Torrent Search - ScrapeTorrent.com - The Torrent Search Engine: search for your torrents here
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25/08/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Andy Baio : L.A. Weekly on the gentrification of Los Angeles - also, five warning signs; most interesting are gelato and the flight patterns of visual artists [via]
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25/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Review of Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud - create and destroy a virtual server farm in seconds with an API call; Amazon is doing the most innovative work in the entire industry
jimray : Review of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud - "This is so much more ‘WebOS’ than Google’s walled garden."
Matthew M. Boedicker : Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - (via waxy.org links) [via]
Nelson Minar : Amazon computing - Rent Amazon's servers for $72/month. Useful, but how does it really help Amazon?
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25/08/2006 @ 20:19 GMT
Cameron Moll : SlideShowPro v.1.3.5 with thumbnail nav - SlideShowPro v1.3.5 now includes optional thumbnail nav.
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kellan : Ruby Quiz - DayRange (#92) - Intertesting date parsing Ruby Quiz #
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deusx : Wired 14.09: No Suit Required - "Let's give away the ProTools files on MySpace. Vocals, guitars, drums, and bass. We'll let the fans make their own mixes."
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25/08/2006 @ 20:12 GMT
Andy Baio : Stephen Colbert rips off Ze Frank joke? - hard to believe it's a coincidence; maybe a staff writer watches The Show [via]
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Andy Baio : Video of self-parking Lexus - I'd be terrified of crushing someone's legs
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25/08/2006 @ 20:10 GMT
Andy Baio : Nintendo Wii to limit wifi for third party titles - no non-Nintendo launch titles will have online play?
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jkottke : Amazing photoset depicting the aftermath of a hailstorm in Northfield, MN - Amazing photoset depicting the aftermath of a hailstorm in Northfield, MN. Tennis ball-sized hail puts holes in everything. (via eyeteeth) [via]
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Cameron Moll : Chato Band - 20% off Chato Band, a grungy script font.
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Cameron Moll : NorthTemple - Khoi's feed icon will likely soon show up all over the place; the first instance I've seen being NorthTemple. Nicely done.
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Cameron Moll : Petition for Prematurity Awarness Google doodle - Sign a petition to get Google to create a doodle for Prematurity Awareness Day (March of Dimes).
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Cameron Moll : Urban Typography Project - More Utah vintage signage stuff: Urban Typography Project. Letterpress prints based on imagery found in and around Salt Lake City. (thanks, Sam)
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Cameron Moll : Liquid-inspired phone charge indicator - NTT DoCoMo's liquid-inspired charge indicator. "[The phone] has a motion sensor that detects tilt, affecting the 'liquid' inside the display appropriately. As battery level drops, so does the level of the liquid."
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deusx : YouTube - portal - Now you're thinking with portals!
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25/08/2006 @ 19:10 GMT
erikbenson : The world's most unusual therapist - Fixes problems in the world by fixing the part of himself that created them. Cuckoo!?
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Jeremy Zawodny : ORS - Online Resource Scheduler Official Homepage - ORS - Online Resource Scheduler Official Homepage: "The ORS web interface is an free online reservation system for aircrafts, boats, rooms, time-shares, office or lab equipment, or any other type of resource that your organization schedules!"
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Maps Flash Maps API Version 3.03 is Live - Yahoo! Maps Flash Maps API Version 3.03 is Live: "The latest version of the Maps API is now available and it’s one of the most exciting yet. Many of the features and updates in this release reflect on suggestions,"
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jkottke : Is "dwarf planet" an ironym? - Is "dwarf planet" an ironym? "Pluto is a dwarf planet, but we are now faced with the absurdity that a dwarf planet is not a planet." (thx, adriana)
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Linkorama : Kawasaki Interviews Marten Mickos - "We start by not making money at all— but by making users. The vast community of MySQL users and developers is what drives our business."
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Linkorama : Vote for Julia French - Julia reached the finals of Valleywag's Web2hotties contest. Disturbing genre this rag, but at this point I hope she wins
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Linkorama : Pincus takes tribe back! - Mark Pincus takes back the Tribe.net he founded
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Jeremy Zawodny : High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper - High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper: some great background images, if you're into that sort of thing
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jkottke : Area Man Finally Works Up Courage To Sexually Harass Secretary - Area Man Finally Works Up Courage To Sexually Harass Secretary.
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25/08/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
wearehugh : Ironick: What were we thinking?
deusx : Ironick: What were we thinking? - "So who really cares that SOAP is able to be bound to MQ or IIOP or SMTP, today?"
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25/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : 20 seconds to solve a Rubik's Cube? With one hand? - 20 seconds to solve a Rubik's Cube? With one hand? Blimey.
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25/08/2006 @ 10:10 GMT
jimray : A perfect pair, thinks you. - Made me smile
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25/08/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
jimray : Double-Walled Beer Glasses - Best idea ever
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25/08/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : Barefoot Coffee Roasters -Artisan Roasters - Must go here. Coffee. Near. "Barefoot Coffee Roasters. Our entire existence is one thing: Striving for coffee perfection. We haven’t reached it yet, but we are enjoying some amazing coffee on the way."
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deusx : Rubber Ducking - "Place a rubber duck on your monitor and describe your problems to it. There's something magical about stating your problems aloud that makes the solution more clear."
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25/08/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : Crooks and Liars � Ann Coulter gets her freak on - "Whenever Ann is faced with the reality that Osama hasn’t been caught yet by this administration–well–Poor Ann. Kirsten Powers actually responds to Coulter’s ridiculous line that Afghanistan is going swimmingly and brings up th
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25/08/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
deusx : xilize2 - introducing version 2.0 - "Xilize is a way of generating valid HTML from ordinary text. More formally, Xilize is a markup language for generating XHTML and a translator for that language."
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25/08/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Dev-Scene Nintendo DS homebrew portal - outstanding index of available homebrew apps and games for the NDS [via]
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jcgregorio : Google Trends: "ruby on rails", django, ruby, python, java - Just to put this whole tempest in a teacup into perspective
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25/08/2006 @ 07:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks - Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks: some of these are lame... firefox? isn't that installed by default?
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Andy Baio : Myspace considers publishing magazine - a possible partnership with Nylon
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Gains Share - Yahoo! Gains Share: Fred and his readers look at the Yahoo and Google stocks, search share numbers, etc.
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wearehugh : Justpretending Dot Net - » New And Improved: Enable XGL/Compiz On Ubuntu Dapper Drake
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25/08/2006 @ 05:11 GMT
jcgregorio : SQLAlchemy - The Database Toolkit for Python - Both this and SQLObject look pretty mature. Expect some hands on time with both of them in the near future.
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25/08/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
jcgregorio : Jeremy Hylton: Inconceivable: Django Pronouncement - I think I need a whole new tag for this stuff: teacup
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25/08/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
jcgregorio : The Third Bit » Blog Archive » Python Web Frameworks (Yet Again) - More on the "Django Decision"
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25/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Fluid dynamics physics toy - not unlike Sand [via]
joshua : insanely fun toy physics game based on liquids
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25/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Myspace considered a print magazine - a possible partnership with Nylon
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25/08/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
jcgregorio : The ElementSoup Module ::: www.effbot.org - "The ElementSoup module is an experimental wrapper for Leonard Richardson's robust BeautifulSoup HTML parser" A match made in Soup heaven,
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Jeremy Zawodny : Byte of Python - Byte of Python: learn python for free
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25/08/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
deusx : Shorty - "Shorty is a simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so the links you create with it never go away. "
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25/08/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Ubuntu xorg-server update breaks X: "no screens found" - Ubuntu xorg-server update breaks X: "no screens found": that sucks. I shall wait a while to upgrade since my notebook is quite happy as is
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25/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : IWoz Logs Leap From Geek to Icon - IWoz Logs Leap From Geek to Icon: I've never read a woz interview I didn't like
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25/08/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Simon Willison : RSS CAPTCHA Prototype - Accessible captchas based on RSS feeds from friends' sites.
deusx : RSS CAPTCHA Prototype - "It's a prototype for mashing up publicly-available RSS feeds and using them as a sort of CAPTCHA."
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Simon Willison : The "add a class name" JavaScript widget philosophy - Dustin makes a good argument against it.
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25/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Squaw Valley Hiking Center - The Squaw Valley Hiking Center: if you're looking to hike in/around Squaw Valley
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25/08/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : News feeds vs Data feeds (and Yahoo) - News feeds vs Data feeds (and Yahoo): we should make our feeds more useful
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25/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : FDA says morning-after pills will be available for sale in the US to anyone 18 or older without a prescription - FDA says morning-after pills will be available for sale in the US to anyone 18 or older without a prescription. Since the morning after pill is just a bigger dose of regular birth control pills, does that mean women can get them over the counter now too?
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