30/08/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Only 20 seats left for "Designing Elegant CSS Interfaces" - Two weeks after announcing "Designing Elegant CSS Interfaces" the seats are half gone. Would love to see you there -- now's the time to register!
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Cameron Moll : Veer Summermixes - Veer Summermixes. I can't imagine their taste for music being any less astute than their taste for creative elements.
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Nelson Minar : Image spam surge - Everyone I know is getting way more stock pumping image spam lately
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jkottke : The difficulties of interviewing Bob Dylan - The difficulties of interviewing Bob Dylan. "Dylan is rarely concerned about sounding polite, and he says things, but he sometimes makes them up. He also contradicts himself, answers questions with questions, rambles, gets hostile, goes laconic, and gener
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Cameron Moll : April Zero - April Zero has all the stylistic flavors of Web 2.0... but I still like.
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Cameron Moll : Freebie fonts from FontShop - A rarity: Freebie fonts from FontShop, a few of which are actually quite nice.
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Cameron Moll : Treo 750 photos - New Treo 750 photos. Nothing terribly exciting to see, continue on folks.
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Cameron Moll : Portland Studios store now live - Portland Studios T-shirt store (mentioned here a few days ago) is now open for business.
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Cameron Moll : Free Mobilists' mobile RSS reader - Free Mobilists' mobile RSS reader. Stay abreast of mobile technology with 15 sites. Good little app, actually, just gave it a run. Supported on most phones, or so it says.
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30/08/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Cameron Moll : Print & Pattern utopia - Pattern utopia at Print & Pattern. Sensory overload! Via Hicks. [via]
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Cameron Moll : Lexus self-parking car - Video showing a Lexus self-parking car.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Earth’s Ozone Shield Shows Signs of Recovery - Earth’s Ozone Shield Shows Signs of Recovery: woohoo! ozone.
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Jeremy Zawodny : French military victories (practical joke) - French military victories (practical joke): heh. fake google bombs are funny too, especially when they're about the french
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Jeremy Zawodny : Google maps vs. Yahoo! maps. Side by side comparison tool by Sergey Chernyshev - Google maps vs. Yahoo! maps. Side by side comparison tool by Sergey Chernyshev: nice implementation, but what's with the sleazy adsense?
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30/08/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Emdashes has the lineup for the New Yorker festival - Emdashes has the lineup for the New Yorker festival. Lots of good stuff there....plus a "New Yorker Dance Party". Woo, sounds fun doesn't it, kids? Tickets on sale Sept 7.
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merlinmann : Event Maker 0.4.1 - MacUpdate - Early but intriguing release of an app for converting Mail.app emails to iCal events. Streamlined a good bit, this might be very useful.
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merlinmann : A Bird in the Hand: organized chaos - Getting Crafts Done. "[I]n the end, this effort on my part is about relaxing more and having less stress."
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Nelson Minar : Takei roasts Shatner - NSFW: This is pretty intense, even for the genre
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Nelson Minar : Exploring Amazon EC2 - notes from an early user
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jimray : 8-Cylinder Teenage Mating Dance - Oh, man this is awesome. In high school, we used to make fun of all the rednecks that would "cruise Patton" on a Friday night. And now it's in the New York Times' style section!
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Andy Baio : Business Week on the LonelyGirl13 conspiracy - here's a good overview;s is YouTube's biggest star a viral marketing effort or just kids havnig fun? [via]
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Nelson Minar : Comcast mail disaster - Randomly throwing away email from major sites
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Nelson Minar : Flickr Geotag API - Official announcement
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deusx : 08/29/2006: "<i>Nightmare</i> to receive 2-disc sountrack this October" - "will enter stores on October 24th. While the first disc of the set offers Danny Elfman's music directly from Nightmare, the second disc will present covers of movie's popular songs."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Electric Mini: 0-60 in 4 Seconds: It Has Motors In Its Wheels - Electric Mini: 0-60 in 4 Seconds: It Has Motors In Its Wheels: I want me one of those
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jkottke : "Nobody important is keeping score, so do what you think is interesting." - Brian Beatty: "Nobody important is keeping score, so do what you think is interesting."
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jimray : Frist didn’t meet medical license condition - Possibly lied about continuing education requirement. "The Senate's only doctor" may well not be.
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wearehugh : IBM Position Statement on XForms and Web Forms 2.0 from John Boyer on 2006-08-29 (www-html@w3.org from August 2006)
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jimray : MetaFilter Jobs - Awesome - hire someone who surfs MeFi all day
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Jeremy Zawodny : Ten Commandments Interview - Colbert Report - Ten Commandments Interview - Colbert Report: classic!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Disco Pirates - Disco Pirates: how distrubing!
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Jeremy Zawodny : which is better, window live QnA or Yahoo Answers? - which is better, window live QnA or Yahoo Answers?: WTF is "window live" anyway?
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jkottke : How GM and the other big US automakers are hamstrung by their dealers - How GM and the other big US automakers are hamstrung by their dealers. It was their own fault, though. They misued the dealers and the dealers responded by gaining all sorts of regulatory protection that severely limits what the car companies can do.
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Milo Vermeulen : Wooster Collective: Writing With Water [via]
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plasticbag : The more I see of Schulze & Webb's site, the more I think they're using NLP to make think of them as the design equivalent of an underground electronic music collective - This looks so much like an album cover. Like something by AIR or Godley and Creme or something. I'd go to a concert by these guys. We need some kind of teenage design magazine too with pin-ups and stuff.
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jkottke : An interview with Steven Soderbergh - An interview with Steven Soderbergh: "The hardest thing in the world is to be good and clear when creating anything. It's the hardest thing in the world. It's really easy to be obscure and elliptical and so fucking hard to be good and clear. It breaks peo
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jkottke : Stolen mobile phone + automatic upload of the thief's photos to Flickr = art project - Stolen mobile phone + automatic upload of the thief's photos to Flickr = art project. (thx, stewart)
Matthew M. Boedicker : stolen phone keeps posting pictures taken on it to old owner's flickr account
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jkottke : A classic article by Stephen Jay Gould on the changing biological features of Mickey Mouse - A classic article by Stephen Jay Gould on the changing biological features of Mickey Mouse. Over the years, Mickey has become more well-behaved and his appearance more juvenile (larger eyes, short pudgy legs, relatively large head, short snout, etc.). "Wh
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30/08/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
wearehugh : Python isn't just Java without the compile | 2006-08-30 | BitWorking
deusx : Python isn't just Java without the compile | 2006-08-30 | BitWorking - "As you can see Python, like many other dynamic languages, has a powerful set of abstractions that aren't available in Java."
jcgregorio : Python isn't just Java without the compile | 2006-08-30 | BitWorking
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tehu : BBC - Radio 4 - Meet the bloggers - Veterans and new faces of the blogosphere.
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30/08/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : I don’t want your Koo-Aid Bitch! - I don’t want your Koo-Aid Bitch!: uhm, okay.
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Jeremy Zawodny : use recorded audio loop to annoy telemarketers - use recorded audio loop to annoy telemarketers: heh
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merlinmann : Station Identification on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Jamison hears MUNI will clean up the ID of Metro stations and lines in advance of the 3rd St. extension opening. (It's _really_ inconsistent now.)
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merlinmann : Word:mac Troubleshooting - Terrifically useful guide for dealing with The Beast. (One-click reset to zero all templates, macros, and prefs would be my top Office "feature request")
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deusx : YouTube - Funniest Stargate SG1 Prank - "Stuck on a glacier with MacGuyver!"
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jkottke : William Drenttel discovers what happened to the small town in Oregon that renamed itself "Half.com" - William Drenttel discovers what happened to the small town in Oregon that renamed itself "Half.com".
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Linkorama : RIMarkable - The official, unofficial BlackBerry Weblog
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30/08/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Jeremy Bogan irritates telemarketers with random recorded responses - this is brilliant and cruel; what else can you tell me about this offer? [via]
jimray : Free phone! - Jeremy Bogan set up a system where he can forward a telemarketer to another line, which is fed a random sampling of quotes to keep the telemarketer on the line as long as possible. Hilarity ensues.
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Matthew M. Boedicker : keychain scanning universal remote
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Matthew M. Boedicker : why are there giant cats but no giant dogs?
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jimray : Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt Joins Apple’s Board of Directors - Interesting that Apple treats Google as a partner not a competitor.
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jimray : Scooped by a Source - MediaBistro on how to handle bloggers. Alternate headline: "Stop letting these assholes (Calacanis, Cuban, Jarvis) dictate the terms of the interview. Grow a fucking pair - if they won't submit to a fucking phone interview, tell 'em to go fuck themselves.
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Jeremy Zawodny : The War on Terror as viewed from the Bourne shell - The War on Terror as viewed from the Bourne shell: excellent geek humor
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Jeremy Zawodny : Failing to teach them how to handle real life - Failing to teach them how to handle real life: "The intelligence of 11-year-olds has fallen by three years’ worth in the past two decades."
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plasticbag : E4's running a parody of The Sopranos credits sequence and YouTube has it - Probably won't make much sense to people outside of the UK. Love the Wicker Man joke. Also Scunthorpe.
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Linkorama : Wired News rips off Esquire - I'd forgotten about the Esquire thing, but then again, they ripped off the LA times, who ripped off...
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Saddam made to repeatedly watch South Park movie that he is in
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Jeremy Zawodny : Python MyWeb to del.icio.us Exporter - Python MyWeb to del.icio.us Exporter: "Last week I put together a Python script that takes MyWeb bookmarks and imports them into del.icio.us. The source is linked to below."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Like to Hack? - Like to Hack?: "Like to hack? Come to Yahoo! Hack Day! Yahoo! is opening up its campus to all hackers to come and hack for a whole day (24 straight hours!)."
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plasticbag : One beautifully laser-etched Powerbook crafted at FOO camp - Beautiful, gorgeous, interesting. Wish I'd thoght of something cool like that.
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Linkorama : Startups are Temporary Cults - "Any time you isolate people, bind them together and work them like dogs, it's very powerful. You can get an enormous amount done when you create a place of such total focus and collective delusion."
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jimray : Exchange hosting and Web hosting from Intermedia.NET
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gleuschk : Hydrogen Atom Scale Model - science is so very strange
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30/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Using CrackLib to require stronger passwords (with Django) - Uses a custom validator.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Collision with glider forces jet's crash-landing; none hurt - Collision with glider forces jet's crash-landing; none hurt: a bit more info in this story
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plasticbag : Venn diagram on Wikipedia - Examine, if you will, the distinct differences between Euler and Venn diagrams and in the future use the terms appropriately in order to impress and confound your friends and seem cool in mathematical company...
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30/08/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : Gladwell on zero-tolerance policies - Gladwell on zero-tolerance policies: "making a fetish of personal accountability conveniently removes the need for institutional accountability".
Matthew M. Boedicker : Malcolm Gladwell on zero-tolerance policies - opens and closes with interesting famous scientist anecdote (via kottke) [via]
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Eric Meyer : Bill Watterson's RAREST! - There's some great stuff in there...
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Nelson Minar : Fear the Swiss cows - Hiking mishaps abound
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veen : adaptive path » business case modeling for design - "Like rapid prototyping, business case modeling enables designers to effectively assess and communicate the viability of products and concepts."
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30/08/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
veen : adaptive path » so you want to be an interaction designer 2006 - "Empathy with users and the ability to learn new domains and subject areas are both crucial elements of any designer’s temperament."
Cameron Moll : So You Want to Be an Interaction Designer 2006 - So You Want to Be an Interaction Designer, 2006 edition by Dan Saffer of Adaptive Path. "And if you are good enough, you'll work with companies whose technology and/or influence is so great, you can make a significant difference in the world. But in order
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wearehugh : Popular Mechanics - Resident Aliens: Earth's "Extremeophiles" Give Us Blueprints For Alien Life
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