2/09/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
deusx : Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Perfume Oils: A Picnic In Arkham: The Lovecraft Collection - "Scents inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos."
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deusx : Northwest Florida Daily News: Calif. lawmakers vote to give presidential electoral votes to nation's popular vote winner - "The California Legislature passed a bill that would give California's 55 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, rather than the candidate who captured the state _ but for now, the measure stands a slim chance of becoming reality."
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veen : Donald Rumsfeld's ghastly speech. By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine - "The fifth anniversary of 9/11 looms before us, and it's hard to say which artifact is gloomier: the awful memory of the attack itself or the spectacle of our leaders wrapping themselves in its legacy as if it were some tattered shroud that sanctifies the
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veen : An Interview with Barry Schwartz - " I think if people have a hard time choosing a product, that’s going to affect their satisfaction with it long after the choice has been made."
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gleuschk : You can get the best of the web at mathowie's community weblog - this is why I love that place. utterly unexplainable.
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gleuschk : Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Emine Saner: Bring back the magic hour - the Queen Mum is now one of my all-time favo(u)rite people.
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Simon Willison : simonwillison tag on a map - Kind of creepy, but also very cool.
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Simon Willison : UTF-8 Sampler - Good source for cheap UTF-8 testing via copy and paste.
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Simon Willison : The Screening Room #8: IronPython - Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.
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wearehugh : deconcept › SWFObject 1.4.4 released
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wearehugh : myTunes: the simplified iTunes DRM stripper for Windows - Engadget
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Jeremy Zawodny : C64 USB keyboard - C64 USB keyboard: that's just awesome.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Transponders in Sailplanes - Transponders in Sailplanes: a good writeup by Eric Greenwell
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Jeremy Zawodny : Random Sampling from a Search Engine's Index - Random Sampling from a Search Engine's Index: this video looks interesting...
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Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr: Explore photos tagged with jeremyzawodny on a Map - Flickr: Explore photos tagged with jeremyzawodny on a Map: that's pretty damned cool. I need to geotag my shit.
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2/09/2006 @ 02:31 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Firefox 2 Beta 2 milestone released - Firefox 2 Beta 2 milestone released: let the fun begin
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Jeremy Zawodny : HOWTO batch encode video for iPod under Linux - HOWTO batch encode video for iPod under Linux: Marks lays it out.
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2/09/2006 @ 02:31 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : RoboGeo: Geocode Photos and Create Google Maps or Export KML and KMZ Files to Google Earth - RoboGeo: Geocode Photos and Create Google Maps or Export KML and KMZ Files to Google Earth: "You need RoboGEO, a "software only" solution for geocoding photos with latitude and longitude information." Oooh!
Nelson Minar : RoboGeo - Could this be the turnkey geotagging software I've been looking for?
Rod Begbie : RoboGEO: Map Your Photos - Software to merge the timestamps on your photos with the route file from your GPS to automagically geocode your photos ready for Flickr. [via] #
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Jeremy Zawodny : Evangelist drowns trying to walk on water - Evangelist drowns trying to walk on water: "An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus' miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa." Awesome!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Fans | All Electronics Corp - Fans | All Electronics Corp: lots of DC electic fans. I may need a few of these.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Silent Wings Airshows - Silent Wings Airshows: 2006 Jet Sailplane videos are now online
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Hell of Flying - The Hell of Flying: "Airline security needs to be based on common sense, not policies that will turn citizens into inmates of their own countries"
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Jeremy Zawodny : Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible? - Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible?: probably not
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Black Rock City Airport - The Black Rock City Airport: The Black Rock Desert is on the Klamath Falls Sectional. The runway is placed shortly before the event begins and may differ from preliminary plans. Black Rock City is approximately 10 nautical miles on a magnetic heading of
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Jeremy Zawodny : Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky - Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky: "I did enjoy his latest piece on one level. It's one of the purest forms of FUD I've ever seen against Ruby and Rails."
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Jeremy Zawodny : TV FREE BURNING MAN - TV FREE BURNING MAN: check out the daily videos from burning man
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Paul Hammond : the fundamental interconnectedness of all things [Dirk] - Dirk is one of those six-degrees games, exploring the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
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Paul Hammond : Dr Nic’s Magic Models - Why do I have write my own has_many, belongs_to, and validates_presence_of commands if all the data is in the database schema?
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2/09/2006 @ 02:27 GMT
wearehugh : Program “e†— Extract Any Archive < Programming Kung Fu
Paul Hammond : Program “e†— Extract Any Archive < Programming Kung Fu - I got fed up with the sheer impossible number of compression formats out there
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Paul Hammond : memcached Basics for Rails | Ruby on Rails for Newbies - a basic introduction to using memcached with Rails
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Paul Hammond : UJS Rails Plugin—Unobtrusive Javascript for Ruby On Rails - Use built-in Rails Javascript and AJAX helpers unobtrusively out of the box
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Paul Hammond : mnot’s Web log: Caching Performance Notes - There have been some interesting developments in Web caching lately from a performance perspective, and fortuitously I’ve been benchmarking them with an eye towards the raw performance of their HTTP stacks
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Paul Hammond : Bare Naked App » Blog Archive » Displaying percentages - Okay, it’s not really that clever, it’s CSS not rocket science
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Paul Hammond : ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon: Missing the point - # # Being vulnerable is often your best defense/offense
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Paul Hammond : How Web 2.0-aware Are You? - Part disturbing, part humour
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Andy Baio : Video: 49 Up trailer - the ongoing UK documentary series interviews the same group of adults every 7 years since age 7
jkottke : The trailer for 49 Up, the latest in a series of documentary films in which the same group of people are interviewed every seven years - The trailer for 49 Up, the latest in a series of documentary films in which the same group of people (from varying socio-economic backgrounds) are interviewed every seven years. The first movie, Seven Up!, was released in 1964 when the participants were s
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2/09/2006 @ 02:21 GMT
Andy Baio : Comcast blacklists e-mail from The WELL - at my last job, dealing with mistaken Comcast and Verizon blacklists were the norm
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2/09/2006 @ 02:21 GMT
Andy Baio : Queen's Brian May slams Myspace for "pirated identity" - he doesn't want to do the Myspace salute; won't somebody think of the children
jimray : Queen Guitarist doesn't dig on MySpace, thinks of the children - "Does this mean Freddie Mercury's not really my friend either?"
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Andy Baio : The Dial-Up BBS Revisited - amazing story of calling ghost BBSes, and a great tip for using Vonage for dialup [via]
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Andy Baio : Animatus, realistic resin sculptures of cartoon character skeletons - a physical manifestation of Michael Paulus's drawings
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2/09/2006 @ 02:21 GMT
Andy Baio : Pirated jazz albums etched on recycled X-ray films - in the the '30s and '40s, vinyl was hard to come by in the USSR and Eastern Europe [via]
jimray : Pirated jazz records recorded on X-Ray films - "The method became so widespread in Hungary that not only amateurs, but the Hungarian Radio made sound recordings on such recycled X-ray films."
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Andy Baio : Google Image Labeler, the Google Images multiplayer game - Luis von Ahn's ESP Game now officially part of Image Search; see also, his excellent Tech Talk at Google
plasticbag : Google Image Labeler - Basically it's the ESP game from a few years ago, only now actually being used (presumably under license) by Google. Interesting.
philgyford : Google Image Labeler - I'm trying not to let this useful game eat up all of my time, although it's getting a fair amount of it.
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Andy Baio : Video: Nigerian authorities bust 419 scammers - fascinating glimpse into the origin of Nigerian scam e-mails
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Andy Baio : WOXY Internet radio calls it quits - 97X, bam! the future of rock n' roll
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2/09/2006 @ 02:21 GMT
Andy Baio : Two tourists crash the Lost set in Hawaii - and post all the photos to Flickr [via]
plasticbag : An interesting Flickr set of people hanging around on the set of Lost - No spoilers as far as I can see, although there are sets I don't recognise. Realistically they could be not parts of the set at all.
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Andy Baio : Video: Frank Lloyd Wright's Kaufmann House modeled in Half-Life 2 - deathmatches in famous architecture; download it here [via]
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2/09/2006 @ 02:21 GMT
jimray : Warrick - Tool for Reconstructing a Website - Command line tool that tries to recover your site from the Internet Archive, Google/Yahoo/MSN's cache
Andy Baio : Warrick, tool to reconstruct lost websites - uses Internet Archive and web caches to store website on your local filesystem
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2/09/2006 @ 02:20 GMT
Andy Baio : Video of the bootleg Super Mario World on the NES - insane port of an SNES game to NES; looks surprisingly playable
deusx : YouTube - NES Super Mario World : Final Boss - "This is a video of the Pirated Super Mario World for NES System."
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wearehugh : Posting Flash Videos with FFmpeg and FlowPlayer | SYP
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wearehugh : Sysinternals Freeware - ZoomIt
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wearehugh : Paintr 2.1 Beta - ignore the opera employee's FUD; it works perfectly in firefox 2 betas
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wearehugh : RFC 4633: Experiment in Long-Term Suspensions From IETF Mailing lists
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wearehugh : Event Streaming in Web Browser - Arve Bersvendsen
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jkottke : The Honus Wagner T-206 that won't sell - John Cobb and Ray Edwards own a Honus Wagner T-206 card -- the most valuable sports card in the world -- and they've tried to sell it a number of times, but no one bites because the card hasn't been properly authenticated (even though paper and printing e
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jkottke : things magazine reviews Mark Z. Danielewski's new book, Only Revolutions - things magazine reviews Mark Danielewski's new book, Only Revolutions. I quite liked Danielewski's House of Leaves, which House things describes as "a combination of the Winchester Mystery House and the Tardis".
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jkottke : Proflie of Walter Werzowa, the man responsible for the Intel Inside theme - Proflie of Walter Werzowa, the man responsible for the Intel Inside theme. More here about tiny music makers, including the Windows 95 startup sound by Brian Eno, the THX theme, and the Mac startup sound.
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