29/08/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
jcgregorio : 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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jcgregorio : Hey, That's Pretty Jifty, er, Nifty - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog - The RoR, Django, etc model for Perl. We need a better name for these second generation web frameworks. I'm pretty sure Framework 2.0 would get you a C&D.
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jcgregorio : Language Design for 9-to-5 Cogs - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog - Aristotle Pagaltzis takes the anti-closure Java camp to task
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bmilleare : AdsBlackList.com - Good site for increasing Ad revenue
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Jeremy Zawodny : Sporty's GPS Buyer's Guide - Sporty's GPS Buyer's Guide: a useful comparison of various Garmin and Lowrance aviation gps units
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Linkorama : Wired Wiki - Edit an article to be published by Wired News
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jimray : Rising from ruin virtual tour - The 360 videos are now working! I had almost nothing to do with the final version of this, congrats to all my colleagues who worked really long hours getting this out for the 1 year anniversary.
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jimray : Can Bush and Science Meet in the Middle? - The whole premise of this is fucking bullshit. Science is already in the middle. Why the fuck is Newsweek printing this political spin from a Bush speechwriter in their fucking health section?
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Jeremy Zawodny : Windows Live QnA - Windows Live QnA: It's like Yahoo! Answers, but from Microsoft
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merlinmann : The Omni Mouth » Software we like - Folks at one of my favorite software companies on the Mac apps they use and love.
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Linkorama : Open Warfare in Open Source - Disagreements over what should be included in the free software license's next version have pitted the movement's leaders against each other
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Nelson Minar : Sony geotag device - No interface, just makes GPS tracks
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Nelson Minar : Andy Kaufman SNL: Mighty Mouse - Still gives me chills
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29/08/2006 @ 21:12 GMT
Nelson Minar : Housing bubble graph - This is so extreme it must be lying
jkottke : Graph of American house values from 1890 to the present - Graph of American house values from 1890 to the present. You can't miss the sheer cliff starting in 1997. Houses have also gotten bigger over time. It would be interesting to see the same graph in price/square feet. (via ben hyde) [via]
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jimray : Universal Backs Free Music Rival to iTunes - Ha. You have to watch an ad, then keep revisiting the site to watch more ads after you download your music. Lame. Plus, it uses Microsoft's crappy WMA encoding and DRM.
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jkottke : NPR feature on John Sawatsky, ESPN's interview coach - NPR feature on John Sawatsky, ESPN's interview coach. (thx, doug)
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merlinmann : The Midnight Beep » Blog Archive » At long last, here it is! - New OS X app for doing GTD (server's getting creamed right now, so maybe try later)
plasticbag : Midnight Inbox is a new GTD application currently in beta - I haven't had time for much of a play yet, but I'm really looking for something that can help me do this kind of stuff. It's more about keeping on top of things than getting things done...
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Nelson Minar : Poultry killer - Old-timey and horrifying, all at once!
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Nelson Minar : Eve Online bugs - Of interest even if you don't care about games; random list of bugs in the latest patch
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jimray : Urban Legends Reference Pages: Hippo Eats Dwarf - Dammit. The "hippo eats dwarf" thing is a hoax. Leave it to Snopes to ruin everyone's fun.
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jimray : Online Journalism Awards: 2006 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists - General Excellence in Online Journalism (Large), Outstanding Use of Multiple Media (Large). Also, go UNC!
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jkottke : Great composite photo of Andre Agassi playing a point against Andrei Pavel in the US Open last night - Great composite photo of Andre Agassi playing a point against Andrei Pavel in the US Open last night. Looks like Agassi had Pavel running a bit. View large.
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jkottke : The New York Public Library's Digital Gallery has tons of great old photos of Central Park - The New York Public Library's Digital Gallery has tons of great old photos of Central Park...among other things. thx, bryan
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Linkorama : The Collective Wisdom at Work - Now do those of us who got the Soylent Green reference qualify as "2.0," or with our antediluvian cultural baggage, are we too old-school to make it out of Beta?
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jkottke : How to survive a freestyle rap battle - Street hacks: how to survive a freestyle rap battle. "Have your first real battle against someone you at least somewhat dislike. If you can find someone who just gets you emotional or who angers you, it makes it easier to flow about them." (thx, steve)
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merlinmann : Presentation Zen: From design to meaning: a whole new way of presenting? - "Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning."
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Linkorama : Testing a Wiki for Collaborative Journalism - Still, hats off to Wired News for trying something different. Let’s hope the resulting product is 1. readable, and 2. not grounds for a lawsuit.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Glider and Private Jet Collide Mid-Air - Glider and Private Jet Collide Mid-Air: DOH!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Wired News: Is Ubuntu Linux for You, Too? - Wired News: Is Ubuntu Linux for You, Too?: sort of a fluff piece, but it's semi-mainstream... so yay!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Cool Tool: Golden Eagle Bike Engine - Cool Tool: Golden Eagle Bike Engine: "I eventually found a 4-stroke motor and belt drive kit from Golden Eagle Bike Engines that weighs very little, operates quietly, and gets me to work and back for about 45 cents a day in fuel." Kick Ass!
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29/08/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Leaving Search Engine Watch - Leaving Search Engine Watch: Danny Sullivan is leaving SEW. Holy Crap!
jimray : Danny Sullivan is leaving Search Engine Watch
Nelson Minar : Danny Sullivan leaves - Moving on from SEW. Too bad, he's given many years of great coverage.
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jkottke : Farecast, a site which predicts airline ticket prices so that you know when to buy them cheap, has added more than 50 cities to its roster - Farecast, a site which predicts airline ticket prices so that you know when to buy them cheap, has added more than 50 cities to its roster.
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jcgregorio : A REST Analogy - Roy Fielding - "A better framework for an analogy is a double-sided wall of pigeon-hole boxes, with doors, a button, and a label per box on each side..."
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wearehugh : Digital Web Magazine - The Big Picture on Microformats
Cameron Moll : The Big Picture on Microformats - The Big Picture on Microformats. Still plenty of time to board this train if you haven't done so yet. "It may come as a surprise [...] that the level of adoption by tool developers, publishers, and aggregators is significant, and that you probably visit s
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François Nonnenmacher : Windows Media DRM cracked - Subscription model at risk of collapsing
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29/08/2006 @ 15:10 GMT
wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott: Looking Ahead: DVD Formats - "How quickly and easily can I strip all limitations out of the format and leave the most up to the people who have bought my stuff?"
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Looking Ahead: DVD Formats - "It is also apparent that AACS will give the option of a computer/player "phoning home" if so chosen, so verify you got a good copy. Fuck that right in the ear. I will never do that, either."
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jkottke : Big movie stars may not have that big of an effect on a movie's profit as the film industry thinks - Big movie stars may not have that big of an effect on a movie's profit as the film industry thinks. "Looking across a sample of more than 2,000 movies exhibited between 1985 and 1996, they found that only seven actors and actresses -- Tom Hanks, Michelle
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gleuschk : What are your thoughts on Lincoln NB? | Ask MetaFilter - this person could be me 10 years ago
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bmilleare : findABaker -- A CakePHP Job board
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jkottke : 1964 profile of Bob Dylan from the New Yorker - 1964 profile of Bob Dylan from the New Yorker.
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29/08/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
joshua : Wifi camera - it's like geek astronomy. i suspect the apeture on the antenna is too wide though
jimray : Wifi camera - Nerd art. Love. It.
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joshua : Falling Sand - this cute model physics simulation has spawned an entire community, multiple variants and implementations
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29/08/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
jkottke : Photographer Noah Kalina has taken a daily photo of himself for more than 6 years and recently made a movie of the results - Photographer Noah Kalina has taken a daily photo of himself for more than 6 years and recently made a movie of the results. Completely mesmerizing. Best viewed large. (via kdunk) [via]
Andy Baio : Video: Everyday - Noah Kalina has shot a photo of himself every day for six years; see also, every day for three years
philgyford : Vimeo / everyday video clip (from Noah K.) - A photo of himself every day for six years, made into a movie. Awesome. If he continued this into old age, until he died... wow, it would be hard to like any work of art more. Stunning. (via Kottke)
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wearehugh : Bill de hÓra: Eight Fallacies of Distributed Information Systems
Paul Hammond : Bill de hÓra: Eight Fallacies of Distributed Information Systems - All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big trouble and painful learning experiences
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Linkorama : Thoughts on Google Apps - I'm not saying it's impossible, and there are plenty of things outside Google's aim -- including apps that are much more social by design than what Google builds -- but the gate is 99% closed for bringing vanilla,mass-market office apps to the web.
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29/08/2006 @ 03:13 GMT
jimray : Hippo eats dwarf - "More than 1000 spectators continued to applaud wildly until they realized there had been a tragic mistake."
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29/08/2006 @ 03:10 GMT
erikbenson : Alternate reality games - I'm really interested in these at the moment.
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29/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Evhead on why pageviews are an obsolete metric - part of Myspace's big numbers are attributable to terrible site design [via]
Nelson Minar : Ev on web metrics - No easy way to measure how popular a site is
plasticbag : Ev Williams on why pageviews are obselete - There's clearly a need for an abstracted measurement to help advertisers work out where they're going to get the best return on their investment, but god only knows what it is...
Paul Hammond : evhead: Pageviews are Obsolete - Ajax is only part of the reason pageviews are obsolete. Another one is RSS
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29/08/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
jkottke : Gladwell says that some bloggers "believe that a reaction is the same thing as an argument" - Gladwell says that some bloggers "believe that a reaction is the same thing as an argument". Amen, brother.
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29/08/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
jimray : Charities thrive with online volunteers
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WillPate : BarCamp / BarCampStanfordCommunity
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jkottke : Film critic Jim Emerson is collecting great opening shots from movies, including Star Wars, Primer, and Annie Hall - Film critic Jim Emerson is collecting great opening shots from movies, including Star Wars, Primer, and Annie Hall. Do you have any favorites that Emerson hasn't covered yet? (Comment on this)
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29/08/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
Linkorama : Our Modern Salon Des Refuses - In otherwords, it is an encyclopedia and will be increasingly so, so you can contribute other things elseshwere
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29/08/2006 @ 00:11 GMT
jimray : Katherine Harris thinks that separation of church and state is a "lie" - "...that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, ... is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers." This should be the question put to every member of congress: Do you agree with Katherine Harris.
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29/08/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
deusx : Pharyngula: Another accolade from a 'prestigious' journal - "It's always such an honor to be hated by people who believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old, was conjured into existence in six days, and that not believing their god appeared on Earth, like Zeus before Leda, means your non-existent soul will bur
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29/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
deusx : The True Face of Abortion Opponents | Needlenose - "So thanks Dr. Science, for driving a nice little wedge between these people and their nasty little judgemental causes and ripping away their thinly-veiled morality facade (oops, did I say veiled?) I don't like abortions either. Nobody does. I wish they c
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