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Cameron Moll : Chillax - "In case you were wondering how much money you have to spend to get Apple to bend over backwards, that number is $12,718.19" and other observations as Greg Storey returns from an extended leave from blogging oops, writing, that is.
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Cameron Moll : TMN: Drumroll Please - The Morning News: Drumroll Please. For a former marching band quad player who grew up in Blue Devil country, this is a fascinating read. "Five hours of drumming and dancing and bugling is, it turns out, not for everyone. And yet, according to the proud si
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merlinmann : Over 160 Free Personal Information Managers - lifehack.org - Suggestion: read all you like, but _try_ no more than 3 or 4 of these. There's about 100 person-years of Fractal Productivity Spirals waiting on that page.
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joshua : HyperScope - a high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents in sophisticated ways
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joshua : Getting started with extension development
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Linkorama : Enterprise 2.0 Continuum - Modalities plotted by synchonicity, scale and leverage
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Linkorama : MeMeme and Social Search - Let's not forget about search refracted through a trust circle.
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Linkorama : HyperScope 1.0 Launched - Brad Neuberg has announced the release of HyperScope 1.0, a Web app based on tech legend Douglas Engelbart's 1968 NLS/Augment (oNLine System).
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Linkorama : Favorite Summer Hack - Answer: a bottle opener in the bottom of the Reef Fanning beach sandal
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Linkorama : openDESIGN - Community vote on a website site design
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Linkorama : bowling 2.0 video - Videoblog of the last day of Bowling 2.0, and Socialtext's triumph
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Linkorama : E2.0 Marginal At Best? - Thomas Davenport argues the other side
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Linkorama : E2.0 Evangelists - Andrew McAfee and J.P. Rangaswami, discuss their thinking about Enterprise 2.0
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Linkorama : Reducing Latency in Information - This information is like inventory backing up on a manufacturing shop floor between processing stations. And like partially finished products, latency in information and idea movement from one group or individual to another can be assigned a dollar cost.
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Linkorama : Socialtext steals #1 - Well, the wiki seems to have kicked ass and taken names. Socialtext came from behind to beat facebook and steal the bowling 2.0 title.
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jimray : Apple Removes Sex is Fun from iTunes - And yet I can still download Paris Hilton's album. While this is a lame move on Apple's part, I'm having a hard time getting worked up as the podcast is still available
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jimray : vita.mn - Minneapolis Star-Tribune's social calendar app. I've been shoulder surfing this site ever since Rex got a beta invite - besides few design inconsitencies (web2.0 AND worn?) looks really nice. Good to see more newspapers getting in to this space.
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jimray : Who won the Great Press War of 1897? Hearst or Ochs? - A new book looks at the differences between the schools of journalism at the turn of the 20th Century
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jimray : mimiFoto - Customize the photo on your iPhoto icon. Huh? Are there really people in the world that want to do this!?
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Rod Begbie : roachfiend.com » ErrorZilla - Useful error pages for Firefox - Firefox extension to make the error pages more useful -- Look up Google's cache or the Wayback Machine for pages/sites that have disappeared. [via] #
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deusx : The Carpetbagger Report � Blog Archive � Condi takes historical analogies to an absurd level - "Condoleezza Rice has upped the ante a bit, suggesting that opponents of the war are the moral equivalent of those who would tolerate slavery in 19th century America."
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deusx : Pink bug taken in lower corner of michigan - Amblycorypha - BugGuide.Net - "I have never seen a bug in Michigan of this color."
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joshua : MAPresso: Choropleth Maps, Cartograms
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merlinmann : InBox Zero on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Brian hits zero. Good man!
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merlinmann : TextExpander: organize abbreviations by context - Clever way to organize your snippets in TextExpander.
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Linkorama : Prototyping Organizations - ...rapid prototyping of a real organization, to learn quickly about variations of organizational form and its effects on performance and emotional engagement. There are some in-person simulation games that are pretty useful for learning such lessons.
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jimray : MySpace rolling out music stores - Licensing tech from Shawn "Napster" Fanning's startup, Snocap.
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veen : Wheaties for Your Wallet - Marc's new thing: "I started Wesabe because I thought there were way too many companies out there helping businesses get more money out of consumers, and not nearly enough that help consumers get more value from businesses."
Nelson Minar : Wheaties for your Wallet - My friend Marc's new personal finance company has a blog, off to a good start
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Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr GPS geocoding made simple - Flickr GPS geocoding made simple: "Thanks to Flickr it's finally easy to use geotagged photos. Alas, the workflow is still very clumsy for using a GPS to geotag. Here's what I came up with for Windows."
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Andy Baio : In-game developer commentary in Half Life 2 - I captured video of the best examples of this interesting glimpse into the videogame design process
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jcgregorio : The for Statement (The Javaâ„¢ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics) - How odd. "fred" + 1 would get you a TypeError: exception in Python.
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jcgregorio : Roles: Composable Units of Object Behavior - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog - Must keep an eye on Perl 6.
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jcgregorio : Venus Filters | 2006-09-01 | BitWorking
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jcgregorio : Why so many Python web frameworks? | 2006-09-01 | BitWorking
deusx : Why so many Python web frameworks? | 2006-09-05 | BitWorking - "Robaccia was built in three hours and a total of 60 lines of Python code."
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jcgregorio : ETech Conference 2007 • March 26-29, 2007 • San Diego, California - Must submit a proposal.
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jcgregorio : Call For Proposals: PyCon 2007 - Must submit a proposal this year.
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jcgregorio : Django: Python on a Plane - Quote from Guido - "Simply that if _I_ were to need a Web framework today, I'd use Django unless it was clear that Django isn't right for the task."
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jcgregorio : GNOME Hacks - Because I keep forgetting where this is.
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merlinmann : Sink or swim: 10 steps to rescue a foundering project - "You get caught up in 'requirement rush.' You continue to add requirements, and it gets so complicated, it's like a duck-billed platypus."
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merlinmann : GTDrawings - Very fun and lovely doodles illustrating aspects of "Getting Things Done." (Right up yr alley, Dave Gray)
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merlinmann : Brother PT-65 - Nearly-canonical GTD labelmaker. But has it been discontinued? That would suck -- I want this cheapie little champ to always be available.
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merlinmann : Apple - Support - Discussions - Updating app's Keychain access causing ... - Help me, 43F hive mind. My stupid Keychain is killing me.
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merlinmann : WSJ.com - This Email Will Self-Destruct - This sounds unbearably tedious to me. I wonder how long it'll be before GPG or the like will just be a standard feature in every shipping email app.
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Cameron Moll : dkeithrobinson.com - Keith Robinson's new site, of which I become immersed in the color scheme, among other wonderful details.
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Cameron Moll : TheTypeTrust - A few more typefaces, all from TheTypeTrust, you probably won't get fired for using: Diego, Sneakers Script, and Musee.
Ethan Marcotte : The TypeTrust - Fonts for the buying and the drooling and the hey-hey. #.
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Cameron Moll : popurls mobile - popurls mobile. See also Tracking the web with Single Page Aggregators, which I shamelessly stole from popurls.
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Cameron Moll : Philips Readus with roll-out screen - Philips Readus Prototype has a flexible roll-out screen for increased viewing area on a device that's still as small as a mobile phone.
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joshua : Context Free Art - neat little programming language for doing sorta IFS
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joshua : Techshop, The SF Bay Area's Only Open-Access Public Workshop -- Welcome - in menlo park
deusx : Techshop, The SF Bay Area's Only Open-Access Public Workshop -- Welcome - "TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace."
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joshua : COWS Ajax - changeable origin web services
jimray : COWS Ajax
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joshua : The Numbers - Movie Box Office Data, Film Stars, Idle Speculation
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joshua : impromptu - programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ's and graphic artists
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joshua : Savant Syndrome - profiles on autistic artists
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joshua : ozimodo - ror platform for tumblelog
jimray : ozimodo - Rails based tumblelog
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Milo Vermeulen : Twitch - overview/reviews of Studio 4C animation shorts [via]
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Milo Vermeulen : Scribblings of the Metropolitician - Photo reports from the streets of Seoul. - Scribblings of the Metropolitician: The Photo Essays
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fastclemmy : Problem solving flowsheet - Problem solving flowsheet by fastclemmy flowchart flowsheet humour hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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fastclemmy : Tattoo Art > UV Blacklight Ink - Tattoo Artists.org - Tattoo Art > UV Blacklight Ink - Tattoo Artists.org by fastclemmy & 3 other(s) Nice glowing tattoos ! tattoo hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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fastclemmy : 10 of the most stupid Tattoos possible - 10 of the most stupid Tattoos possible by fastclemmy tattoo stupid top10 hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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fastclemmy : Internet '96 - Internet '96 by fastclemmy Back to the future of the web made in 96! oldie wayback archive internet hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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fastclemmy : PHP Frameworks (71) - ColdScripts.com - PHP Frameworks (71) - ColdScripts.com by fastclemmy chart table comparison framework hotlinks php Copy | React (0)
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fastclemmy : Acronyms 2.0 - Acronyms 2.0 by fastclemmy Hilaruous list of 2.0 acronyms acronym humour hotlinks web2.0 Copy | React (0)
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fastclemmy : Adobe - Flash Tenth Anniversary - Adobe - Flash Tenth Anniversary by fastclemmy 10 years of Flash. hotlinks timeline adobe flash Copy | React (0)
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fastclemmy : Latest food additive: Viruses - Latest food additive: Viruses by fastclemmy If you want to get rid of a pest, why not use a littler pest to plague it? That's the tack OKd last week by the Food and Drug Administration, which has for the first time approved the use of bacteria-eatin
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fastclemmy : Calendar Generator - Calendar Generator by fastclemmy hotlinks calendrier calendar generator Copy | React (0)
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Eric Meyer : Keith Olbermann Blasts Donald Rumsfeld - The best response I can imagine to Rumsfeld's pathetic insults, with bonus historical insight.
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Eric Meyer : They start young these days - One fish, two fish, fish {color: red;}, fish {color: blue;}.
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Eric Meyer : Radio Lab - They've been playing Season Two on our local NPR station this week, and I really liked what I heard.
nelson : Radio Lab - Science radio program, came recommended
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Isofarro : User Interface Design Principles for Web Applications - User centred design is about designing for the user, not what the client thinks the user is. Aral provides an excellent list of usability guidelines to think about and approaches to adopt. Quite a fair bit is common sense, but that common sense that deser
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Isofarro : Visit with the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) - Two Flash developers, Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan visit the RNIB to see first hand how vision impaired people use the web. I'm encouraged by their positive attitude - something that's really needed in the Flash community. Met both of these excellent peop
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Isofarro : Let's talk about accessibility - Jeff Croft has managed to attract - and successfully expose - some of the worst of the web accessibility community. Sometimes the self-proclaimed accessibility experts need to be reminded what accessibility is or isn't. The B-List provides that reminder.
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Isofarro : Joe Clark: Precedent - 'It was later revealed on the Blind Canadians mailing list that two people have filed a human-rights complaint against Ticketmaster because of its inaccessible site. This will be a Canadian first. Such an action had been mentioned many months ago; I had w
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Isofarro : Werewolves of London - Jeremy Keith's roundup of BarCamp London, particularly interesting was the accessible Flash discussions, with Jeremy commenting: 'Both Aral and Niqui are doing great work from within the Flash community and it’s important that the accessibility comm
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Conan O'Brien clip with 1860's baseball re-enacters - (via clickolinko) [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : applications for negative databases - (via clickolinko) [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : crocodile hunter Steve Irwin killed by stingray - RIP (via wow insider) [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Fog Creek wrote FogBugz in a proprietary language that compiles into VBScript or PHP
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Matthew M. Boedicker : New Jersey is the richest state - (via Drudge Report) [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : browser autocomplete and history embarrassment stories
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fastclemmy : English Russia » Photos made in Moscow subway - English Russia » Photos made in Moscow subway by fastclemmy & 1 other(s) hotlinks humour fun subway russia photos Copy | React (0)
Matthew M. Boedicker : funny pictures from the Moscow subway - (via Boing Boing) [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : 6 formerly forbidden snacks that are actually good for you - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : live performance of YYZ by Rush, check out Neil Peart's drum solo
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Matthew M. Boedicker : 100 most viewed articles on Wikipedia - (via Hack the Planet) [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : 7 Brothers Food city (not 7-11)
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Matthew M. Boedicker : abusing telemarketers by transferring them to a recording that feigns interest for as long as possible - you could probably have a lot of fun with telemarketers using Asterisk
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Matthew M. Boedicker : official seal generator, create your official seal - (via 43 folders) [via]
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tehu : Voidstar - The Web 2.0 Emperor isn't wearing a style sheet - Best title of the week
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Nelson Minar : AOL Resrch: closed? - So the rumour goes (via Inside Google)
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Nelson Minar : 6 years of self photos - The music on this is very nice (via Populicious)
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Nelson Minar : Usability problems - Response to my post about copying favourites
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Nelson Minar : 32G flash hard drives - Solid state IDE hard drives are here
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Nelson Minar : GeoReTagr - Goes through Flickr photos and geotags them if you have EXIF geotags. Only needed for old photos.
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joshua : gpsPhoto.pl - update exif headers with gpx data
Nelson Minar : gpsPhoto.pl - Hackerware for geotagging photos. Supports CR2!
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Nelson Minar : Flickr geo/exif - By default Flickr won't geotag from your EXIF data; have to turn it on
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Nelson Minar : Browzar is a scam - Claims to be a lightweight privacy preserving browser, actually just ad crap
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Nelson Minar : Eve bug: hash collision - 32 bits is not a big enough hash function
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Linkorama : Olbermann on Rumsfeld - Decisive commentary against unaccountable leadership
Nelson Minar : Olbermann / Rumsfeld - Forceful editorial calling out a bully (via M)
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Nelson Minar : Doctypes vs browsers - Browsers layout pages based on the declared doctype
wearehugh : Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration - holy shit that's comprehensive
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jimray : Pitchfork does Live at KEXP Volume 2 - "At the very least, it's a more compelling snapshot than any of the O.C. soundtracks."
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jimray : Gavinmac’s ‘56 Signs You Might Be a Sexpat’ - "If you have more condoms in your apartment than hairs on your head"
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jimray : 22-year olds writing CNN headlines? - More classic CNN
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jimray : iCarta-Atech Flash Technology - Frightening
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jimray : Air passenger told to hide Arabic T-shirt - “Going to an airport with a T-shirt in Arabic script is like going to a bank and wearing a T-shirt that says, ‘I’m a robberâ€â€™ Yeah, because anyone who speaks Arabic wants to blow up an airplane!
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jimray : S60 browser - Nokia's promotional page about the S60 browser. Mostly marketing/featurey stuff
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jimray : S60 Browser - Details about the S60 web browser, used by Nokia's smart phones. Based on WebKit.
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jimray : Mac Performance: From the G3 to the Xeon - The performance jump on portables is pretty awesome
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jimray : EEMame - MAME for Symbian phones - nuts! (Says e61 not supported, but I've seen the YouTube videos, man!)
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merlinmann : Daring Fireball: An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch - Triple dog dared! I'm popping my corn right now.
jimray : An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch - John Gruber is putting up the cost of a new Macbook as a bet that the Mac WiFi exploit is a sham. Should be interesting to see if this plays out.
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jimray : graemewest's bookmarks tagged with "E61" on del.icio.us - Lots of good e61 links here!
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jimray : DarwinPorts is now MacPorts? - Missed this...
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jimray : Why People Don't Use Mass Transit
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jimray : America's longest war - The Economist looks at September 11 five years later
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jimray : Creating grunge brushes - Neato
Cameron Moll : Creating grunge brushes - Veerle: Creating grunge brushes.
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jimray : Rexy's collecting Warhol videos - The MTV promo looked awesome!
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jimray : Pitchfork loves the new TV on the Radio
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jimray : Stereogum has the details on the Bansky/Paris remix - With photos!
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jimray : Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank - Guerrilla artist Bansky replaces about 500 Paris Hilton CD's with modified versions but "left the original barcode so people could buy the CD without realising it had been interfered with." Enhanced CD, anyone?
jkottke : Banksy replaced copies of Paris Hilton's new CD in stores around the UK with his own copies containing doctored album art and a 40-minute song by Gnarls Barkley's Danger Mouse - This is old news, but I missed it while I was gone, so apologies if you've seen this. Banksy replaced copies of Paris Hilton's new CD in stores around the UK with his own copies containing doctored album art and a 40-minute song by Gnarls Barkley's Danger
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Jon Hicks : CrossOver Mac beta released - Engadget has pictures!
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Jon Hicks : I'm really interested, can you tell me more? - Go Jez!!
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Rod Begbie : Flickr: Explore your geotagged photos on a Map - My photos from our Scotland trip, overlaid onto a map of Scotland. Hooray for Flickry goodness. #
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Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: 75-Watt Dimmable Spiral Compact Fluorescent, Uses only 23-Watts - Turns out you can get energy-saving lightbulbs which work with dimmer switches. Who knew! They're pricey, but I'm getting some to see how they do. #
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Rod Begbie : FairUse4WM - a WM/DRM removal program - I've finally had a chance to test this with files downloaded from Napster and Rhapsody's subscription services, and it does what it says on the tin. The question of interest: If this could be chained to a transcoder that automagically converted download [via] #
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Rod Begbie : REAPER - Rapid Environment for Audio Prototyping and Efficient Recording | Cockos Incorporated - Shareware Windows multitrack audio editor from Justin Frankel and co. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Site24x7 - Website uptime-monitoring tool. Also graphs response-times which could make for interesting reading. Doesn't require any authorization, so you can track your competitors' sites too. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : cabel.name: Multiplayer Game Of The Year - Cabel reviews the Nike+ shoe+iPod combo. Sounds like the kind of thing that might get me moving, like the Sportbrain of olde. #
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Rod Begbie : How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It. - Walmart are making a huge push to get people buying the low-energy spiral bulbs. I've been using them since we moved house and I spent far too many hours wandering the aisles of Home Depot while Joy chose paint colours. The only place we still use incan [via] #
jkottke : Wal-Mart wants to sell 100 million CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs) in the next 12 months - Wal-Mart wants to sell 100 million CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs) in the next 12 months. "Compact fluorescents emit the same light as classic incandescents but use 75% or 80% less electricity." Between this and the organic food, Wal-Mart is agressi
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Rod Begbie : The Kransky Sisters: Overload - The Kransky Sisters' show "We Don't Have Husbands" was the best thing I caught at the Fringe. Here's a small taster of their wonderful character-driven comedy -- a cover of the Sugababes song "Overload". #
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Rod Begbie : The Saucepot - the rime of the ancient mariner - Zabs + chums coin a great new sexual term, the "ancient mariner". Get your clam chowder ready. #
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gleuschk : Letter from Grothendieck | The n-Category Café - some recently uncovered correspondence between Grothendieck and Ronald Brown
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gleuschk : Tina S. Chang's Blog - "Perelman's Song" - smooth out my singularities, heh heh nudge nudge
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gleuschk : Collin Vs. Blog: We'll see how this flies - listing your blog on "Form A" -- I wouldn't have the stones
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gleuschk : why is e^{\pi\sqrt{163}} so close to an integer? - the answer has to do with elliptic curves, apparently
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gleuschk : Mary Everest Boole - wife of George Boole, but outlived him by 50 years and considered herself a 'mathematical psychologist'
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gleuschk : Ivars Peterson's MathTrek -Algebra, Philosophy, and Fun - doesn't really get into how profoundly weird it is
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gleuschk : Philosophy and Fun of Algebra by Mary Everest Boole - PDF version, suitable for leaving lying around where grad students might find it. (thanks, yd)
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gleuschk : On arranging books by color - latecomers -- sweetnickyc was doing this in the early 90s
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gleuschk : Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the 19th Century - Peacock, de Morgan, Hamilton, Boole, Cayley, Clifford, Smith, Sylvester, Kirkman, and Todhunter
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gleuschk : Klein's Lectures on the Ikosahedron and solution of the quintic - still the best source for this material, I'm told (Jerry's book notwithstanding)
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gleuschk : Philosophy and Fun of Algebra - I think I have a new personal motto
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gleuschk : Lectures on Quaternions by Hamilton - so. many. titles. wow
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gleuschk : How to Draw a Straight Line: a lecture on linkages - by Kempe, of five-color theorem fame
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gleuschk : Lectures on Mathematics - Felix Klein's address to the ICM in Chicago in 1893
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gleuschk : Dickson's Algebraic Invariants - 1914
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gleuschk : Benjamin Peirce's outgoing Presidential Address to the Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. - people just don't give speeches like this anymore.
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gleuschk : The history of Coney Island, from its first discovery in 4, 11, 44, down to last night, in rhyme. - sometimes there's just nothing you can add
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gleuschk : Reminiscences of Syracuse, Timothy C. Cheney - from some time in the 1860s, I think.
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gleuschk : Cornell Library New York State Historical Literature - not nearly enough about the Onondaga salt industry, but excellent even so
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gleuschk : Cornell Library Historical Mathematics Monographs - 200,000 pages on file. amazing. some great things in here, too.
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tjogin : Web Developer's Handbook: developing web-sites, exploring imagination | CSS, Color Tools, SEO, Usability etc.
bmilleare : Handy list of Web Development resources
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bmilleare : Frickin awesome -- TouchScreen and XGL on Linux
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Paul Hammond : » My “Yahoo! vs. Yahoo!†@media 2006 Slides Nate Koechley’s Blog - how and when development decisions change in response to a project’s location on what I’m calling The Page-to-Application Spectrum
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Linkorama : MeMeme - Sam Ruby starts to hack together the MeMeme I want
Paul Hammond : Sam Ruby: MeMeme - the remaining links are current topics of conversation within my circle of friends
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Paul Hammond : TrackMeNot Extension - TrackMeNot is a Firefox extension trying to obfuscate your search behavior by adding information noise
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Paul Hammond : Riding Rails: Filtered parameter logging - ActionController#filter_parameter_logging lets you filter form data that you don't want saved in the log
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Paul Hammond : Define your own success - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - Your definition is the right one. That’s how you succeed. If you can do what you enjoy doing then that’s your success.
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Paul Hammond : John Battelle's Searchblog: Failure to Fail - For an ecosystem to be truly healthy, bad ideas (or good ideas poorly executed) need to fail, so we can all learn from the failure, incorporate the lessons, and move on.
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Paul Hammond : Seth's Blog: The end of the job interview - the next time someone asks you to “sit in†on an interview, just say no. Don’t do it. Don’t waste your time or theirs.
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Paul Hammond : Character Info in Textmate - It takes the selection as input and the information comes back in a tooltip
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plasticbag : Mr Webb has relaunched his 'dirk' project on the interconnectedness of all things - I remember this from the first time around when he launched it in 1996 and promoted it on Lance Arthur's glassdog.net webnerd artistic community. This time I believe it's built on Ruby on Rails. If you think about it, it's sort of a proto-anti-tagging...
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plasticbag : Awesome pictures of an iPod Shuffle case mod using an old Nintendo controller - Probably - definitely - the most fun thing I've seen so far this week.
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plasticbag : Sprites sing a song called, "I Started A Blog Nobody Read" on Odeo - It's like it reached into my soul and sang me a song based upon the activities I do on the internet...
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plasticbag : Islam vs. Christianity - it comes to a head on The Daily Show - Frankly it's about time a primetime TV show tried to answer the question, "Which religion is correct?"
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plasticbag : Chris Messina talks about, "The yin-yang of FOO and Bar" - Interesting comments from Robert Scoble surrounding the contention (which I agree with) that FOO and Bar are entirely compatible parts of the same ecosystem...
Paul Hammond : The yin-yang of FOO and Bar at FactoryCity - The way I see it, a year out, FOO and Bar represent the very yin and yang balance of openness and proprietariness that the open source community and its offshoot industries have struggled with since their inception
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plasticbag : Steve Irwin dies, South Park has the story - Okay - I'll accept that there's an element of tastelessness to the link I just posted. Let's be generous and call it a tribute, eh?
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plasticbag : Awesome Human Space Invaders on You Tube - I have no concept of how long this must have taken. Thanks to Euan Semple for pointing it out.
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plasticbag : BarCampers spot the unusable bathrooms - Ah Flickr, my true friend. You're always on my side. Hug.
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plasticbag : Stargate SG-1 to end with (cough) tenth season - Stargate is one of those desperate guilty secrets that it's difficult to justify, particularly in the presence of Battlestar Galactica which frankly craps upon it from a very great height. I'm not sure I'll miss it enormously...
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plasticbag : Just over a week ago Techcrunch UK launched keeping track of the tremulous UK start-up scene - I hear really good things about Techcrunch UK, but haven't yet been keeping much track of it. Nice to see that I get a mention though.
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Paul Hammond : Add and delete vertical space in measured intervals | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - When there is a change in text size, perhaps with a heading or sidenotes, the differing text should take up a multiple of the basic leading
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Paul Hammond : techno weenie - White Listing Plugin for Rails - html encode all tags and strip all attributes that aren’t specifically allowed. It also strips href/src tags with invalid protocols, like javascript:
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Andy Baio : When What We Love And Who We Love Are At Odds - Greg Allen wonders whether our dangerous passions can, or should, change after becoming a parent [via]
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Andy Baio : MP3: Mathowie's Community Blog - 22-minute epic parody of Alice's Restaurant, chocked full with Metafilter in-jokes [via]
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Andy Baio : Aaron Swartz asks, who writes Wikipedia? - most Wikipedia edits are by core users, but Aaron finds the most important contributions are by infrequent or anonymous users [via]
Nelson Minar : Who writes Wikipedia? - Aaron's campaigning, an interesting result on Wikipedia edits
plasticbag : Aaron's second essay on Wikipedia - "Who Writes Wikipedia" - is a bloody important read if you're interested in social software - If his contention is true - and it seems entirely plausible - then there are a lot of things we can learn from the existence of editors and the massively distributed content generation that's going on with Wikipedia
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Andy Baio : Croc Hunter Steve Irwin, dead in freak stingray accident - died doing what he loved
jimray : Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin killed in freak stingray accident - Fitting that he died with his boots on, so to speak
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Andy Baio : 100 Acre Deadwood - very offensive (and mostly unfunny) Disney meets Deadwood parody, banned from the new Cracked magazine
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Andy Baio : Video: 1K Project, videogame cars as fluids - 1,000 virtual cars overlayed in a single Trackmania run; also, the 3K Project and the full game for free download [via]
joshua : one thousand cars on a racetrack - i just know someone is going to turn this into a car commercial
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Andy Baio : <strike>iTunes disabling CD burning for some albums</strike> - update: false alarm! it appears that the unburnable tracks are the bonus videos
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Andy Baio : Fox trying to bury Mike Judge's Idiocracy - by all accounts, his followup to Office Space is an instant cult classic, but Fox released it this weekend without a trailer or website into only 130 theaters
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Andy Baio : Game|Life's exclusive details on the new Sam and Max game - this is a steal at $25, and runs on any modern OS with ScummVM
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Andy Baio : Video: KITT vs KARR Showdown - like Nelson says, "TV never got any better than this" [via]
Nelson Minar : KITT vs KARR - TV never got any better than this
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Andy Baio : Guitar Hero 2 Songlist Revealed - I can't wait until November 1
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