7/09/2006 @ 23:46 GMT
Cameron Moll : In Real Tight winners revealed - Coudal's In Real Tight winners revealed. Now it's your turn to identify the objects in each photo for a chance to win some Coudal swag.
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7/09/2006 @ 23:46 GMT
Cameron Moll : New Blue Flavor Office - Blue Flavor gets new office digs. Usability lab included.
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jimray : Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide:Writing a Regular Expression Pattern - MDC - Man, I need to learn this
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gleuschk : "The World Is So Strange" - and when I say that, I mean "oh god can we please just slow down for a second so I can catch my breath please?"
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bmilleare : Tracking your buzz - Good reference of buzz tracking resources.
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bmilleare : Online Alarm Clock - Might come in handy someday (maybe).
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bmilleare : FreeNX -- Remote Linux Desktop - This is awesome, I'll be trying it out first thing tomorrow.
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7/09/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
gleuschk : Jopogo // Resources // Javascript Show/Hide - handy dandy
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7/09/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
cameron : The Evil Tree of Evolution... - Awesome infographic from the Institute for Creationist Studies
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7/09/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Bamboo and leather inset helmets by Indigo Snow and Bogner - Not easy to get a direct link to it because of frames, but here's one showing wicked gorgeous bamboo and leather inset helmets by Indigo Snow and Bogner. A mere $650 takes one home.
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7/09/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Mint: A Year in Green - Mint: A Year in Green. "Mint has been a competent source of income for a household of two for the larger part of the past year. It has survived Measure Map, Crazy Egg and two brushes with Google Analytics. Mint is still selling strong into its second year
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7/09/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Homebrew baby safety gate - "These days, there are a lot of options to close [off stairs] using very ugly devices called baby gates. You rather put chicken wire on it and I guarantee it will look better than any of the options that Babies R Us offer. That's why I decided to take mat
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7/09/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
Cameron Moll : Ariston's underwater clothing advert - Stunning advert from Ariston with clothing as if it were sea life.
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joshua : How To Fight Spam Using Your Postfix Configuration
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7/09/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Schneier on Security: Microsoft and FairUse4WM [via]
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Milo Vermeulen : Mark Jenkins: Street Installations [via]
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7/09/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Spam + Blogs = Trouble - Wired: Splogs are the latest thing in online scams – and they could smother the Internet
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7/09/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
jimray : MSNBC debuts new politics front - Begun, this design evolution has (I had nothing to do with this - it's all Rex and Ashley)
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7/09/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Did We Just Lose? - Did We Just Lose?: "In other words, Al Qaeda and the Taliban have traded Afghanistan for Waziristan, and gained this huge advantage: we dare not attack them there for fear of bringing Musharraf down."
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Jeremy Zawodny : TurnHere - TurnHere: "Free video guides for travel, restaurants, hotels, local events & music" Very cool!
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7/09/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : SEO for Talent, Oregon? Google this shouldn’t be so hard. - SEO for Talent, Oregon? Google this shouldn’t be so hard.: "Maybe I’m expecting too much from Google, but what seems to be happening is that my blog posts are rising to the top for this term rather than Star Properties (more appropriate)
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7/09/2006 @ 21:10 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A Folding Foldable Portable Fishing Boat - A Folding Foldable Portable Fishing Boat: well, I'll be damned. cool idea.
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : Magma have some of the best dedicated design stores in the centre of London - And it looks like they have a pretty good mail-order outfit too for design books, t-shirts, posters and assorted sundries.
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : Alex Russell writes a really nice (and personally flattering) summary of FOO Camp - Really glad to have got some people's attention with the Dirty Semantics stuff. I'll probably be putting in for a talk at ETech around the subject, if I can really get a grasp on it before then...
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : "Online video vault YouTube is place to see and be seen" - Medium-dull article features some less dull insights into why people do this kind of stuff in the first place from Clay Shirky, who - frankly - gets around a bit online...
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : Danah Boyd is trying to collate current research on Social Network Sites - I might steal this idea. I'm looking to find some interesting stuff around collective intelligence and social motives.
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : The Web Credibility Project - Another interesting project from Stanford researching how and why people evaluate what to read or believe online.
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plasticbag : Russell Davies (note not Russell T Davies) and friends take on "In Our Time" with "In Our Own Time", this week about Buffy the Vampire Slayer - I've only listened to the first ten minutes of the programme so far, but for an amateur effort it seems relatively entertaining. Love the idea though. The BBC should encourage this kind of thing...
philgyford : Russell davies: buffy - in our own time - Fantastic 'In Our Time' style mp3 discussing 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. Made me want to go and watch it all over again.
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plasticbag : Dion Hinchcliffe reports on 'Five Great Ways to Harness Collective Intelligence' - I agree that the harnessing of collective intelligence is one of the core big ideas of the new bubble, but I'm not convinced by some of these examples.
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : Suw Charman on how to speak at and organise conferences - This is a good solid piece that I don't think would necessarily please a lot of the people who think about these things. The gender thing is a particular community flashpoint.
Paul Hammond : The Twelve (or so) Step Program for Conference Speakers and Organisers. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns from the chaos that is the blogosphere. - You have a responsibility to pull your fingers out of your collective ass and start trying harder.
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution - Looks like an interesting article, which I will attempt now to buy and read.
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : Meet The LocoRoco Kid on Kotaku - See how she sings! Beautiful singing! I miss Loco Roco. I may have to go and play more.
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plasticbag : PICNIC '06 looks pretty interesting - Difficult to believe that I've only just noticed that it existed. Thanks to George Oates for pointing it out...
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : Trustmojo - On ongoing project investigating trust on the new web. Interesting ideas, beautiful site.
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
plasticbag : My Society put up some beautiful travel heatmaps a while back that I wanted to talk about but haven't had time - One thing I'd suggest is to overlay maps where the starting location is different (either each major city or tube stop, or at the end of each square half mile). That should give you a sense of which areas in London are best and worst connected...
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7/09/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
Andy Baio : Microsoft patches DRM faster than fatal security flaws - they care about their record label partners much more than you or the Internet
jimray : Quickest Patch Ever - Microsoft patches DRM faster than it patches security holes. A bit misleading, IMO, given that it's probably a great deal easier to fix this one bug than the myriad holes scattershout throughout Windows XP, but an interesting point nonetheless.
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7/09/2006 @ 19:04 GMT
tjogin : vemod.net - Ruby and eRuby Syntax Validation
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7/09/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
deusx : Thottbot World of Warcraft: Quest: Deep Ocean, Vast Sea - Neat! A quest named after a Peter Murphy song!
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7/09/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
deusx : eekim.com Wiki: Doug Engelbart - "The most impressive thing about Doug is that he's an incredibly decent human being."
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7/09/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
deusx : Paper Airplane and The Two Way Web - "A Collaborative and Decentralized World Wide Web"
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deusx : VideoCountDownSpecialCommentBush.mov - "The attempt to link, by the simple expediency of one word—“mediaâ€â€”the honest, patriotic, and indeed vital questions and questioning from American reporters, with the evil of Al-Qaeda propaganda."
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7/09/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
deusx : Crooks and Liars � Olbermann’s Latest Special Comment Targets Bush: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?†- "More over, Mr. Bush, you are accomplishing in part what Osama Bin Laden and others seek—a fearful American populace, easily manipulated, and willing to throw away any measure of restraint, any loyalty to our own ideals and freedoms, for the comfor
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7/09/2006 @ 13:52 GMT
Jon Hicks : Omniweb 5.5 is out! - No more sneaky peeks or betas, this is the real deal! And yes, you browser misers, it is still worth paying for a browser these days!
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7/09/2006 @ 11:48 GMT
Linkorama : Social Blog Aggregators - The problem with unread news is not that it is unwritten, but that it is drowning in all the other news. I'd settle for a meMeme that worked as a reliable garbage detector.
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7/09/2006 @ 11:48 GMT
joshua : Engelbart: Augmenting Human Intellect
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joshua : Tech support with UltraVNC SingleClick - hooray
Rod Begbie : Geek to Live: Tech support with UltraVNC SingleClick - Lifehacker - UltraVNC (my preferred VNC server/client for Windows) has a nifty "single-click"-ish deployment method you can send to someone to control their PC. Requires text-file wrangling and firewall-hole-poking, so it's not going to clobber CoPilot just yet, but [via] #
Nelson Minar : Family tech support - Mail a computer neophyte VNC so you can help them with their computer
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7/09/2006 @ 11:48 GMT
joshua : Transterpreter - open-source runtime for a growing family of massively concurrent programming languages
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7/09/2006 @ 11:48 GMT
merlinmann : Modern Mechanix » Three-Hole Paper Punch Debut - Paper pr0n nostalgia [via BB]
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7/09/2006 @ 11:48 GMT
Jason Shellen : New TSA Regulations for helper monkeys - 'Only the handler will touch or interact with the monkey.' #
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7/09/2006 @ 11:48 GMT
fastclemmy : Web based or not ? at Few Against Many - Web based or not ? at Few Against Many by fastclemmy Does it makes sense to get everything running inside a browser ? web hotlinks api desktop web-based Copy | React (0)
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Nelson Minar : PrePaid GSM France - Simple site comparing prepaid plans
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Nelson Minar : Weed thieves caught - Clever marketing for a good TV show
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Nelson Minar : Search log editorial - Eloquent call for search engines to not retain user search history
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jimray : Pano2QTVR - new feature adds QTVR to Flash export - Where was this six months ago!
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jimray : Ahmadinejad calls for university purge - "Iran's hard-line president urged students Tuesday to push for a purge of liberal and secular university teachers" Brilliant. Sounds kinda like this would fit right in with your local chapter of the College Republican National Committee
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7/09/2006 @ 11:48 GMT
jimray : Google News Archive Search will go back 200 years
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veen : Orange Cone: Burning Man 2006 Art Review - Mike writes about the art he saw at his 11th straight Burning Man.
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7/09/2006 @ 11:47 GMT
bmilleare : Montastic: the free website monitoring service
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7/09/2006 @ 11:47 GMT
Simon Willison : Jim Hugunin: IronPython 1.0 released today! - The Python ecosystem gets stronger by the day.
Rod Begbie : IronPython 1.0 released today! - IronPython, the Python that compiles to .NET CLR code, has hit 1.0. [via] #
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7/09/2006 @ 11:47 GMT
Paul Hammond : Noodlesoft - Hazel - Hazel works on whatever folders you tell it to, automatically organizing your files according to the rules you create
jimray : Hazel keeps your finder clean - $16 app that adds Mail-like filtering to the Finder. Fulfills the promise of smart folders.
joshua : Noodlesoft Hazel - cleans desktop/files/etc
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Paul Hammond : err.the_blog.find_by_title('Sessions N Such') - Sessions are wonderfully flexible and incredibly deep.
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Paul Hammond : peterme.com: Pictographs for you to use! - a series of pictographs, symbols, arrows, and other map graphics
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Paul Hammond : The Most Powerful Blogging Technique There Is | Copyblogger - a quick story that just might demonstrate that the most powerful copywriting technique is also the most engaging blogging technique
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7/09/2006 @ 11:47 GMT
Paul Hammond : Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka - We'll learn a kind of tolerance for the private conversation that is not aimed at us, and that overreacting to that tone will be a sign of social naivete.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Kitten and his box (video) - Kitten and his box (video): what would the web be without cat videos?!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Deep thinkers - Deep thinkers: "This behaviour is interesting because it shows that Kelly [a dolphin] has a sense of the future and delays gratification."
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Jeremy Zawodny : 2nd Annual All Grass All Day Delaware-Maryland Tour - 2nd Annual All Grass All Day Delaware-Maryland Tour: this is what happens when tailwheel pilots decide to go visit grass strips
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Jeremy Zawodny : Contest Traffic Tickets with the Ticket Assassin - Contest Traffic Tickets with the Ticket Assassin: "To encourage and empower citizens to fight traffic tickets through knowledge of their legal rights under the California Vehicle Code."
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Jeremy Zawodny : confidential "do not distribute" - Google Search - confidential "do not distribute" - Google Search: heh. find "secret" stuff in google
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Developer Network: Security Best Practices - Yahoo! Developer Network: Security Best Practices: "Yahoo! treats the security of our users' personal data very seriously, and we hope that our developers will do the same. Here are some guidelines to help you protect your users' trust in you
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Jeremy Zawodny : Myriad Aviation (Dave Morss) Rates - Myriad Aviation (Dave Morss) Rates: I need to schedule a checkride with Dave one of these days... [via]
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Jeremy Zawodny : GPLIGC and openGLIGCexplorer - GPLIGC and openGLIGCexplorer: open source igc tools
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Jeremy Zawodny : ORS - Online Resource Scheduler - ORS - Online Resource Scheduler: "The ORS web interface is a 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 : Lessons In Electric Circuits -- Volume I (DC) - Lessons In Electric Circuits -- Volume I (DC): a free on-line book for learning about DC power
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Jeremy Zawodny : Holux GPSlim240 review - Holux GPSlim240 review: neat little toy!
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Jeremy Zawodny : MorningStar SunGuard Product Summary - MorningStar SunGuard Product Summary: a great little soar charge controller
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Jeremy Zawodny : XCSoar - XCSoar: free soaring software for your PDA
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Jeremy Zawodny : Promote This! Plugin for Movable Type - Promote This! Plugin for Movable Type: "Promote This provides a set of super-simple template tags that make it crazy-easy to compose links to your favorite social bookmarking, and social news services like del.icio.us, digg (my favorite), reddit and
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Jeremy Zawodny : XML Notepad 2006 - XML Notepad 2006: "XML Notepad 2006 provides a simple intuitive User Interface for browsing and editing XML documents."
joshua : XML Notepad 2007
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plasticbag : Ryan Carson on the Four-Day-Week challenge - I'm jealous, but I don't have time to get the stuff I want to get done in a five-day week. I'm often sprawling over weekends, as I will be this weekend in fact, and did last. Bloody knackering.
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plasticbag : A pretty good Infographics pool on Flickr - Some nice stuff, to lead you deeper.
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plasticbag : Wikipedia's entry on Mark Shuttleworth - It seems slightly weird and stalkery to mention this, but I met a man who went into space and he was really nice and quite good at werewolf and I promise I won't mention it any more.
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plasticbag : Wikipedia's article on Peitho, goddess of persuasion - Funny goddess. Not enormously popular. Didn't get out much. Occasionally confused with Aphrodite.
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plasticbag : Wikipedia's (slighty) artile on Captology - Confession: My first reaction is to be horrified by the neologism. Apparently it derives from I am mostly gutted by the horror of the neologism. Apparently it derives from 'Computers As Persuasive Technologies' (CAPT-ology). If you went back to the Greek
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plasticbag : Stanford University have a 'Persuasive Technology Lab' - They call their field 'captology' and use it to mean how you can use computing technologies to influence and change behaviour, which sounds kind of creepy but they seem to be mainly using for good. Weird / interesting stuff...
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plasticbag : Stowe Boyd discusses 'Efficiency v Belonging' in social tools - There's a bunch of research on why people participate in online communities, but very little on why they contribute to projects like Wikipedia (as far as I know). If anyone knows of some, could they tell me?
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plasticbag : 3-2-1 Countdown Widget for Mac OS X - Every Travian player's dream come true - an easy way to set countdowns so you know when you can do the next bit of building in your village...
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plasticbag : An interesting post on 'Why You Tube works' - I actually pretty much buy this - I've never understood why advertisers (for example) so infrequently put their ads online for people to talk about and link to. You Tube has solved this, and I suspect is busily making a lot of advertiser's lives a lot eas
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plasticbag : Aaron Swartz writes about 'Wikimedia at the Crossroads' and announces that he's going to run for a position on the board - He'd get my vote - he's evidenced a particular level of passion, enthusiasm, intelligence and commitment over the last few years.
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plasticbag : Marvel reverses labeling policy for gay characters - This actually happened a week or so ago, so I apologise for clumsily referencing the labelling policy a couple of days ago without checking. Good news anyway.
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plasticbag : The Sun has its own take on what's going on with Blair and Brown - I honestly don't believe a word that The Sun says. It all seems like campaigning with their florid rhetoric. Still interesting to see where their loyalties lie.
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plasticbag : Tom Watson MP puts his letter of resignation on his weblog - I've met Tom and I believe that he's doing this for honourable reasons and that he honestly feels that Blair needs to go. I'm not sure I share those feelings, although I'm pretty clear that the authoritarian streak of the Labour party is creeping me out.
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Andy Baio : Video: Composing a Fugue - brilliantly meta explanation of how to write a fugue based on Britney Spears' "Oops, I Did It Again"
jkottke : Great video explaining how to turn a Britney Spears song into a Bach-style fugue - Great video explaining how to turn a Britney Spears song into a Bach-style fugue. (via waxy) [via]
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Andy Baio : Digg to counteract tight friend networks in promotion algorithm - close networks of friends have the end result of gaming Digg, even if they're not trying to [via]
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Andy Baio : WFMU's Great Copycat Contest - bands that sound exactly like their influences; don't miss Scott Wilk, the Elvis Costello clone [via]<
