13/09/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Economist.com - "In-flight announcements are not entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?"
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13/09/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Xiu Xiu, "Boy Soprano" - indie bands go 16-bit, moving on from the C64 and NES eras [via]
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13/09/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : blogsitter.net is the platform for bloggers who need caring people to sit their blogs - Like a babysitter for your weblog. "blogsitter.net is the platform for bloggers who need caring people to sit their blogs." (thx, drx)
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13/09/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Multiple iTunes libraries in iTunes 7 - Not quite as useful as the multiple libraries in iPhoto, but fancy
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13/09/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Gorgeous replacement OmniOutliner icons
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13/09/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Woz Arrives for Apple Media Event on his Segway - Why do I like this photo so much?
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13/09/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Ben and Tony are postponing South, their unsupported trek to the South Pole and back again, for a year - Ben and Tony are postponing South, their unsupported trek to the South Pole and back again, for a year. I own mile 900 of their journey, so I'm looking forward to it, whenever they go.
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13/09/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
Isofarro : Adobe Flex 2 Language Reference - A Javadocs-like ActionScript reference for Adobe's Flex 2 language platform. Its ActionScript 3.0 which is based on EcmaScript 4.0. The MXML elements are codified as pure ActionScript objects in the mx.* packages.
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13/09/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Kazakhstanis Against Borat - Borat makes lie
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13/09/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Economist.com: Welcome aboard - What an honest in-flight announcement would sound like. [via] #
plasticbag : Spotted on Dan Hill's weblog - the honest in flight announcements of the future? - "In-flight announcements are not entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?"
François Nonnenmacher : Welcome aboard - In-flight announcements are not entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?
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13/09/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : The Guardian has a nice profile/interview of David Remnick - The Guardian has a nice profile/interview of David Remnick. Incidentally, Remnick has a monster 25-page profile of Bill Clinton in this week's New Yorker...well worth reading if you can track down a copy of the magazine; consider this Q&A with Remnick
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13/09/2006 @ 18:26 GMT
43folders : Apple - Mac OS X - Setup - Migration Assistant still amazes me. Moves and remembers everything from your old Mac -- down to Finder window positions. Ace.
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13/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : FilmJerk.com - Reviews - Idiocracy
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13/09/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
jcgregorio : VMUNIX Blues » Blog Archive » FastCGI, SCGI, and Apache: Background and Future
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13/09/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
merlinmann : 43folders' bookmarks on del.icio.us - Because I couldn't bend del.icio.us to my needs, 43F links have moved [^ indicates ^]. We now return you to my prime rib recipes and monkey videos.
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13/09/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : MySpace is the AOL 2.0 - A walled garden of people?
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13/09/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : Share Control to Create Value - guest post at the Telegraph
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13/09/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : David Sedaris, plagued by language problems, has a taxing time at a French doctor's office - David Sedaris, plagued as usual by language problems, has a taxing time at a French doctor's office. "It's funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers."
Nelson Minar : Just say d'accord - David Sedaris (via kottke)
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13/09/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Webaroo intelligently caches high-value parts of the web for use on unconnected devices
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13/09/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
wearehugh : draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-10 | 2006-09-12 | BitWorking
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13/09/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : EarthWallpapers is a collection of desktop wallpaper taken from Google Maps satellite photos - EarthWallpapers is a collection of desktop wallpaper taken from Google Maps satellite photos. This one's my new desktop.
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13/09/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : Oh, rejoice and be glad...there will be a season five of The Wire - Oh, rejoice and be glad...there will be a season five of The Wire. "Balancing small audiences again critical acclaim, HBO has picked up a fifth season of drama The Wire." The season may focus on the media's role in politics. (thx, mark)
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13/09/2006 @ 13:49 GMT
43folders : Word Spy - news fasting - "The deliberate avoidance of all forms of news media, particularly to relieve stress and relax the mind." Good idea this time of year.
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13/09/2006 @ 13:47 GMT
43folders : Presentation Zen: Learning from the art of comics - "By stripping down an image to essential 'meaning,' an artist can amplify that meaning..."
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13/09/2006 @ 12:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : SNCF in English - French train schedules
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13/09/2006 @ 12:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Advocating the use of code coverage - One of my favorite things about code coverage is that it forces you to look at your code
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13/09/2006 @ 12:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Controlling Rails Process Size - Now, in Ruby 1.8.5, we have Process::setrlimit
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13/09/2006 @ 12:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Highlights from this year's Independent Games Festival entries - or see the complete list
joshua : Official list of IGF entries. - ok, i need to go to IGF next year
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13/09/2006 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Secret Life of Jason Fortuny - constructing a psychological profile of the man behind the Craigslist sex baiting based on his online writings
jimray : The Secret Life of Jason Fortuny - Well, not-so-secret really. Interesting profile of the guy behind the Craigslist sex post prank
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13/09/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
jimray : ‘Lonely Girl’ (and Friends) Just Wanted Movie Deal - Virginia Heffernan, who's been all over this meme, breaks it on down for us
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13/09/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Jon Aquino's Mental Garden: What Makes Rails Great - Its Directory Structure - Some conventions aren't tied to languages or frameworks.
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13/09/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
kellan : Who scheduled Scissor Sisters and Hack Day against each other? - Note to self: build global event conflict resolution system. Alternate solution: go to the free event. #
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13/09/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
kellan : Loud Thinking: system( "/usr/local/bin/convert #{escape(temp)} -resize 48x48! #{escape(target)}" ) - Not how we do thumbnailing at Flickr. #
Paul Hammond : Outsourcing the performance-intensive functions (Loud Thinking) - please don't let bottlenecks (real or imaginary, usually the latter) dictate your choice of software development environment
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13/09/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
kellan : The Future of White Male Apps - It is an embarrassment. #
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13/09/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : top 25 Simpsons guest appearances - (via Cynical-C Blog) [via]
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13/09/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
cameron : News Corp exec thinks MySpace could destroy any Web 2.0 company - I'm surprised they've even heard of Flickr, but I'm not really confident that they could build a "competitor." MySpace kind of already is, and it "won."
Andy Baio : News Corp exec implies Myspace can destroy any Web 2.0 company - says that Flickr, YouTube, and most next-gen apps "are really driven off the back of Myspace"; note that all three companies have typos [via]
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13/09/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Apple Showtime: iTV "One More Thing" Photos - Gizmodo - Apple's forthcoming hardware to stream music/video/photos over WiFi from your PC to your TV and Stereo. My uneducated bet: It'll also stream music wirelessly (over Bluetooth, probably) from an iPod that'll be launched in January. [via] #
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13/09/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : TiVo.com | TiVo(R) Series3(TM) HD - Existing TiVo lifetime subscribers can transfer their subscription to a new "Series 3" HD box. This is an incredibly smart move by TiVo -- A tasty carrot to convince their existing customers to upgrade to the new hardware while it's still full price. #
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13/09/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Cat Smack on Flickr - Cat Smack on Flickr: eat your food or I'll smack you!
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13/09/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr Services (APIs) - Flickr Services (APIs): the Flickr API documentation lives here
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13/09/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Johnston (typeface) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Turns out that the official London Underground typeface is not, as I had been lead to believe, Gill Sans, but instead "Johnston". [via] #
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13/09/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : dsandler.org ≡ Another iTunes release, another widget kit: the iTunes 7 UI dissected - Dan takes on the new iTunes UI. #
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13/09/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : It's like groovymother.com, only without the URL which can be misconstrued to indicate I'm female. - I'm dicking around with SixApart's new Vox service. Go subscribe there if you want to see me answer memes. #
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13/09/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - The Muppet Show - Beaker Sings - One of the best Muppet Show clips ever. Beaker performs "Feelings" [via] #
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13/09/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
Linkorama : Wikipedia & Brittanica Interview - ah, the showdown story
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13/09/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : HeyLetsGo Fenway Fest - HeyLetsGo is holding a free event at Fenway Park this Friday evening, watching the Yankees/Sox game in NY on the Jumbotron. #
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13/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Bletchley hums again to the Turing Bombe - They've rebuilt Alan Turing's computer. Awesome.
Matthew M. Boedicker : Bletchley Park recreates Turing-designed Enigma code-breaking bombe - (via Simon Willison's Blogmarks) [via]
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13/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : HREF Considered Harmful » Blog Archive » Ruby and Strongtalk
Simon Willison : Ruby and Strongtalk - Dynamic language function calls don't have to be slow.
Paul Hammond : HREF Considered Harmful » Blog Archive » Ruby and Strongtalk - Yes, Ruby is slow, and yes, that has to do with Ruby’s naive implementation of method dispatch, but no, it’s simply not true that you can “never get something compiled down†to the point where it’s fast enough
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13/09/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
Linkorama : Wired joue avec wiki - Christophe Duchamp translated the Wired Wiki!
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Best Portable Computer EVAR! - "Clip from the movie Brain Donors."
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : Crooks and Liars � Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture - "Matt Lauer went after Bush over his secret prisons and the use of torture on the captured terrorists via The Today Show this morning. He was uncommonly strong and didn’t back down when Bush gave his pet answer."
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush: Saddam not responsible for 9/11 - "The admission that Saddam had no connection to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon was a departure for a president who is famously averse to any expression of regret."
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : DOS Games Archive | Top 20 downloads
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : evhead: 16 Assertions - Things that make for healthy people often lead to healthy companies: balance, good communication, breathing, grooming.
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Decorator Pattern for JavaScript - # Run actsAsDecorator() on any object. # This object will now have a before() and after() method
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Gluttonous : Guide: Things You Shouldn't Be Doing In Rails - a list of things I still see over and over in Rails code that you really shouldn’t be doing anymore. Really. Trust me on this.
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : v-2 Organisation | news | What is Hotel? - Hotel is always perched precisely on the borderline between public and private
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Andy Baio : Sky pulls down video service after Windows DRM cracks - after FairUse4WM defeated Microsoft's patch within days, my insider sources say some major media companies will be pulling their DRM content within days
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Old news, but the copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream stolen two years ago from an Oslo museum has been recovered - Old news, but the copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream stolen two years ago from an Oslo museum has been recovered. M&M's will honor their offer of 2 million M&M's for the safe recovery of the painting. No word on whether the reward was responsible f
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13/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : What happens to a blog when its editor goes on vacation? - What happens to a blog when its editor goes on vacation? Glenn Reynolds: "I need a vacation more than I care about the traffic."
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