15/09/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : DP Review has an "exclusive preview" of the Leica M8 - A thing of beauty. At $4800, it had better be. (Dear Santa, I like the silver one...)
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15/09/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon Unbox is evil - Amazon Unbox is evil: "Jeff Bezos: do the right thing and start over."
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15/09/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : ModSecurity for Apache User Guide - ModSecurity for Apache User Guide: a handy little apache module
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15/09/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
jimray : Judging your friends by their Netflix lists. By Sam Anderson - Slate Magazine - "The end of your list is the person you want to be—Eraserhead, the eight-hour BBC Bleak House, the complete Werner Herzog—while the top is the person you actually are: Wedding Crashers, Scary Movie 4, The Bridges of Madison County."
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15/09/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
plasticbag : A huge fluffy planet in another star system appears to be confusing astronomers - It's apparently larger than Jupiter but half the mass. No current theories of planet formation seem to be able to explain it. Super awesome. Other planets. Woof.
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15/09/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
plasticbag : The BBC has an interesting article about the rise of weblogs at political events - It still sort of astounds me that seven years after I started my site, and when I kept trying to say to people, "no really, they're sort of interesting", with everyone looking at me like I was nuts, that thye've gone on to take over the whole bloody world
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15/09/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : graph of the Dow Jones industrial average since the Great Depression - (via Drudge Report) [via]
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15/09/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : Definition - Free Content Definition
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15/09/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : The wives and girlfriends of gang members in one of Colombia's most violent cities are taking part in a "strike of crossed legs", withholding sex from their men until they vow to give up their violent ways - The wives and girlfriends of gang members in one of Colombia's most violent cities are taking part in a "strike of crossed legs", withholding sex from their men until they vow to give up their violent ways. Update: Lysistrata, a play by Aristophanes, tell
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15/09/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : rc3.org: The golden age for wannabe programmers [via]
cobra libre : "The golden age for wannabe programmers" - I'm often nostalgic for 80s computing, but this is completely right on. #
Paul Hammond : rc3.org: The golden age for wannabe programmers - David Brin wrote an article for Salon about the absence of BASIC on modern computers that is wrong on so many levels that it makes my brain hurt
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15/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
plasticbag : Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert at the Emmys - "Good evening, godless sodomites!" Best thing that's happened on television ever.
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15/09/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
wearehugh : Boing Boing: Amazon Unbox to customers: Eat shit and die - "only a couple femtometers more dignified than being traded to another inmate for a couple packs of cigarettes"
deusx : Boing Boing: Amazon Unbox to customers: Eat shit and die - "Amazon's new video-on-demand store may sound like a good idea, but once you take a look at the "agreement" you enter into by giving them your money, that changes."
Nelson Minar : Amazon Unbox DRM - More anti-consumer products
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15/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Cheapest cars to own for 5 years - Cheapest cars to own for 5 years: not including acquisition costs
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15/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Media ownership study ordered destroyed - Media ownership study ordered destroyed: "The FCC ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage"
jimray : Media ownership study ordered destroyed - "The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says."
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15/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : A Pocket Guide to China, distributed to US troops during WWII, included a helpful cartoon called How to Spot a Jap - A Pocket Guide to China, distributed to US troops during WWII, included a helpful cartoon called How to Spot a Jap, useful for telling enemy soldiers apart from "our Oriental allies", the Chinese. See also All Look Same. (thx, tabs)
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15/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Forecast Advisor tracks how accurate the major weather forecasting companies are in predicting temperature and precipitation - Forecast Advisor tracks how accurate the major weather forecasting companies are in predicting temperature and precipitation. Results vary based on what part of the country you're in (the weather in Honoulu is easier to forecast than that of Minneapolis),
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15/09/2006 @ 17:19 GMT
43folders : Pages tagged with "Can of Cory" - When the target's right, I _love_ seeing the Can of Cory get opened!
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15/09/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Google phishing bug - The dangers of hosting content from other sites
Milo Vermeulen : Phishing Exploit Discovered in Google Public Search Service - Phishing Exploit Discovered in Google Public Search Service - be suspicious of any google.com/u/ url [via]
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15/09/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Female Tech has combined her love of technology and her artistic sensibility to create photos of herself posing with various gadgets - Female Tech has combined her love of technology and an artistic sensibility to create photos of herself posing with various gadgets: a stratgically placed PSP, Sega Genesis cuddle, and GameCube piggyback. Reminds me somewhat of a certain Palm parody from
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15/09/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Bruce Schneier on what the terrorists want and how we are giving it to them
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15/09/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Craigslist hookers - Smoking Gun has mugshots (via Daily Rotten)
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jkottke : The first interview with James Frey since all that unpleasantness - The first interview with James Frey since all that unpleasantness with A Million Little Pieces. Lots of choice quotes in this one, but I'm going to go for: "My agent said her integrity was questioned, but it wasn't questioned enough for her to stop taking
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15/09/2006 @ 14:00 GMT
jkottke : A positive review of Idiocracy, Mike Judge's "new" movie, a film that Fox has been loath to release and promote - A positive review of Idiocracy, Mike Judge's "new" movie, a film that Fox has been loath to release and promote. One to look for on DVD, I guess.
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15/09/2006 @ 13:31 GMT
tjogin : Stop scaring the shit out of everybody every two years. - John Stewart reaches out to the president with some sound advice.
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15/09/2006 @ 13:01 GMT
Isofarro : A Self-healing Web - Tom Croucher, who occupies the desk behind me at work, talks about one of his pet ideas: a method of websites informing referrers of broken or moved links. It helps tidy up the problem of broken links - we already tell the visitor, but not the site where
Paul Hammond : Kid666 Blog » Blog Archive » A Self-healing Web - The problem with the way we deal with errors right now is we tell the visitor that there was a problem but not the resource they used to get to the error.
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Jon Hicks : I really like it, but could you change the colours and the design?
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Nelson Minar : Reno balloon race - Time lapse creativity
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Nelson Minar : US dishonest on Iran - Remarkable public disagreement
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deusx : WoW -> Info -> Basics -> Quests Per Level - "If you're having a hard time finding quests appropriate for your level, there are several ways to locate some."
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15/09/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Viral Video Chart - tracking the most popular on Youtube, Google Video, and Myspace [via]
Nelson Minar : Viral video chart - Currently popular Internet videos (via Waxy)
cameron : Viral Video Chart - Aggregation of popular videos from Google, YouTube and MySpace.
Rod Begbie : Viral Video Chart - What videos on YouTube and Google Video are getting the most links from blogs. Alternatively, your guide to what the hell those strange noises are you're hearing from neighbouring cubicles at work. [via] #
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15/09/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Universal Music planning lawsuit against YouTube and Myspace - idiotic, but obvious
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15/09/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Mike Patton mentioned on All My Children - extremely surreal cultural references slipped into soap opera [via]
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15/09/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
jimray : Florida State University To Phase Out Academic Operations By 2010 - Effing briliant
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15/09/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
veen : TSG Mug Shot: Bill Gates - "Microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after a traffic violation"
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15/09/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Solar Installation Pictures - Solar Installation Pictures: a fairly simple install to offset the costs of power
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15/09/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Air Hogs R/C Rush Airplane - Air Hogs R/C Rush Airplane: probably a fun toy for $25
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15/09/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Wattsun Solar Trackers - Wattsun Solar Trackers: get one of these and your panels track the sun for more power
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15/09/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
jkottke : Tutorial on adding surprisingly realistic beards to people with Photoshop - Tutorial on adding surprisingly realistic beards to people with Photoshop. (via photojojo, who's having a contest for the best bearded woman) [via]
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15/09/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : blufr - bruising your ego one bluf at a time - Silly little true-or-false game from answers.com. Good fun. [via] #
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15/09/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo's excellent Mail Beta now open to everyone - Yahoo's excellent Mail Beta now open to everyone: "It doesn't take very much time with it to come to a simple conclusion: It is a fantastic email application."
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15/09/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Mail Screencast - Yahoo! Mail Screencast: Ethan does a nice job. A bit too scripted, but will really help new users out.
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15/09/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
jimray : Bounty hunter Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman arrested - REALITY TV - MSNBC.com - "He arrests the bad guys — and he is definitely not one of them" Now THAT's a publicist for you
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15/09/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : What's Inside An iPod Game? - BenSinclair.com - i am shocked -- shocked! -- to discover that apple will not be allowing homebrew applications on the ipod platform
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15/09/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog: Dissecting iPod Games
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15/09/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Design patterns of 1972 - Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages. [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : patterns are signs of weaknesses in programming languages - (via Simon Willison's Blogmarks) [via]
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15/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Google Code projects labeled django - Wow, there's 39 of them already!
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15/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Coding Nightmares - Coding Nightmares: "I'll probably have to spend a few hours away from Emacs this weekend." You think?
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15/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The road to Google Calendar - The road to Google Calendar: a lot of common sense in there
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15/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Slate's Jacob Weisberg on The Wire - Slate's Jacob Weisberg on The Wire: "no other program has ever done anything remotely like what this one does, namely to portray the social, political, and economic life of an American city with the scope, observational precision, and moral vision of grea
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15/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Slashdot | Slashdot Discussion2 In Beta - The primary reason for discussion2 was to get beyond the pain in the ass that is navigating large discussion threads on Slashdot
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15/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : Highlight Microformats with CSS :: journal :: hicksdesign Ο°
Paul Hammond : Highlight Microformats with CSS :: journal :: hicksdesign Ο° - use css to style .vcard and .vevent classes differently.
Cameron Moll : Highlight Microformats with CSS - Jon Hicks knocks out a CSS file to highlight microformats in Safari, Camino, or Omniweb (for those of us without access to the Firefox Tails extension). I've been using this for a few days now and it works beautifully -- it'll really open your eyes to jus
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