21/09/2006 @ 23:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Agile Testing: Any projects that need Pybots buildslaves? - Truly distributed build and test.
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21/09/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Linkorama : Disruptive� - If a disruptive technology is developed…outside of the Northern California and no one in the Valley had already thought of it is it still a disruption?
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21/09/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
plasticbag : This Life returns after 10 years - This is going to happen every ten years for the rest of my life, I suspect. I'm going to be haunted by these actors representing my early twenties until we all drop dead together in twenty-fifty years time...
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21/09/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Stylus magazine has a list of their top 100 favorite videos - Stylus magazine has a list of their top 100 favorite videos, complete with embedded YouTube clips of the videos themselves for your instant gratification. Ok, now let's fight about what was excluded and how wrong that is... (via paul) (Comment on this) [via]
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21/09/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Flash Developer Center Launches - Yahoo! Flash Developer Center Launches: woohoo for flash geeks
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21/09/2006 @ 21:03 GMT
jimray : Yale to post free courses on Web
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21/09/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Zecco.com - Free Stock Quotes & Financial News - This looks interesting -- A financial community site (lots of forums and tipster blogs) which will offer zero commission stock trades. They apparently plan to make the money with advertising. [via] #
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21/09/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
bmilleare : How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic
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21/09/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Geo-Names downloadable ZIP data - Geo-Names downloadable ZIP data: more good data
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21/09/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Zip codes database - Zip codes database: "The ZIP code database contains 43191 ZIP codes for the continetal United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa."
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21/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Richard Branson pledges $3 billion to fight global warming over the next decade - Using 100% of the profits from his airline and transportation companies, Richard Branson pledges $3 billion to fight global warming over the next decade. Will the billionaire philanthropists save us from ourselves? BTW, this happened at the Clinton Global
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21/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : On the perfection of Tiffany's "little blue box" and how other luxury labels have failed to its seductive packaging lead - On the perfection of Tiffany's "little blue box" and how other luxury labels have failed to follow its seductive packaging lead. While Apple isn't strictly a luxury brand (they're more of an everyday luxury brand like Ikea or Muji...the luxury of well-des [via]
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21/09/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
Linkorama : SocialText 2.0 - In addition to UI enhancements, SocialText 2.0 adds what the company is calling "Wiki Web Services", which are a full set of both SOAP and REST APIs to enable integration with other applications. I've signed up for the beta program and will be expanding m
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21/09/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Will people need to know how to read and write in the near future? - Will people need to know how to read and write in the near future? Emails and texts are already not exactly literature and in 10 years, text-to-speech will be good enough that you can listen to anything you want. On the flipside, text holds a lot of advan [via]
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21/09/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Thomas Weinberger makes his photos with two long exposures, once in daylight and once at night - According to Joerg Colberg, Thomas Weinberger makes his photos with two long exposures, once in daylight and once at night. The result is these spooky washed-out photos, a kind of analog HDR effect.
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21/09/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
kellan : "Bloody stupid useless semicolons." - Tim Bray, on why its nearly impossible to go back once you've coded Ruby. I've been writing PHP all day, every day for 3 months now, and I still can't remember the damn semicolons. #
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21/09/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
bmilleare : 21 things I learned about CakePHP - Nice Cake gotcha list for reference
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21/09/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Side Effects of Anonymous Attack Blogging - Side Effects of Anonymous Attack Blogging: dead2.0 not so anonymous anymore!
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21/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Facebook in talks to sell to Yahoo for up to $1Billion - Facebook in talks to sell to Yahoo for up to $1Billion: oh dear... here we go again.
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21/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Top Employees Quit - Why Top Employees Quit: "we reviewed notes from exit interviews, cross referenced annual reviews and ultimately came up with 178 voluntary terminations from people that would have been considered in the top 20%"
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21/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : A transcript of a speech by Al Gore at the NYU Law School on September 18th - A transcript of a speech by Al Gore at the NYU Law School on September 18th. In it, he made some suggestions for how to address the global warming problem. More on Gore's speech from the NY TImes.
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21/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft on how to become a good theoretical physicist - Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft on how to become a good theoretical physicist. He lists the subjects you need to learn (from languages to quantum field theory) and resources (both online and off) for learning them. A note on the 't in his na
gleuschk : Gerard ’t Hooft, Theoretical Physics as a Challenge - how to become a GOOD theoretical physicist
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21/09/2006 @ 17:03 GMT
Jon Hicks : AquaTunes - Restore Aqua to iTunes 7. I wish I had time to write a detailed blog post about iTunes 7, but until then, I use this to get my interface back!
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21/09/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
wearehugh : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML - gee, that sounds vaguely familiar
philgyford : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML - Why you (and I) should probably be using HTML 4 rather than XHTML. Oops. (via Daring Fireball)
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21/09/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Mozilla Developer News » Blog Archive » Places to be disabled on Trunk nightlies
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21/09/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : If you need to read any literature from Krypton (Superman's home planet), here's the 118 letter alphabet you'll need to know - If you need to read any literature from Krypton (Superman's home planet), here's the 118 letter alphabet you'll need to know.
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21/09/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
43folders : CRON Job Calculator - Handy GUI for generating a cron job. (And, oh my, what colorful nested tables!)
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21/09/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : Bill Clinton on the Daily Show - Bill Clinton on the Daily Show.
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21/09/2006 @ 14:06 GMT
Cameron Moll : Blik wall graphics - Your office space needs wall decals, you say? Blik.
joshua : blik Wall Decals
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21/09/2006 @ 14:06 GMT
43folders : UNIX productivity tips - "The first step toward increasing your office productivity using the UNIX command line is to take a close look at your current day-to-day habits."
Matthew M. Boedicker : UNIX command-line productivity tricks - (via 43 folders) [via]
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21/09/2006 @ 14:06 GMT
43folders : MacDevCenter.com -- Burn Your New iTunes Movies to DVD (and Protect Your Other iTunes Purchases) - "There's something deeply intangible about the items we buy at the iTunes store."
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21/09/2006 @ 14:04 GMT
43folders : XtremeMac iPod Audio Accessories: MicroMemo for iPod with video - "Built in speaker for instant playback...One-touch recording in stereo or mono...Records 16-bit audio at 22 kHz and 44 kHz..." Gimme.
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21/09/2006 @ 14:04 GMT
43folders : What's all this about hoboes? - MP3: John Hodgman reads 700 hobo names.
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21/09/2006 @ 14:02 GMT
Linkorama : SocialText's Open Source Wiki a Hit - Commercial wiki vendor SocialText has released an open source version of its corporate wiki product, letting any interested developers freely download, use, and write code for the product. Nearly identical to the company's professional wiki tool, the open
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21/09/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : PBwiki Developer API - PBwiki Developer API: nice... a decent wiki with a good API on it
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21/09/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : EarthLink blog: Handling Dead Domains - EarthLink blog: Handling Dead Domains: Earthlink isn't learning from the past mistakes of Verisign here. Bad idea.
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21/09/2006 @ 06:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : building a watch by hand, including the movement - (via growabrain) [via]
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21/09/2006 @ 06:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to turn off OSX's useless graphical kernel panic with debug=0x100
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21/09/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Malcolm Gladwell on TEDTalks - Malcolm Gladwell on TEDTalks: wherein he explains why we have so many types of tomatoe sauce
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Tacobell Canon - The Tacobell Canon: heh.
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21/09/2006 @ 05:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Steven Levitt on TEDTalks - Steven Levitt on TEDTalks: Even though I've read the book, this talk was very enjoyable
jkottke : Video of a Steven Levitt talk on the economics of gangs and why gangbanger is not such a good vocation - Video of a Steven Levitt talk on the economics of gangs and why gangbanger is not such a good vocation (for one thing, the job pays less than McDonald's). The board of directors stuff made me think of the co-op on The Wire.
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21/09/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : YHOOuch (continued) - YHOOuch (continued): "internal Yahoo product development and management on the search engine ad side is in a shambles, and they can't find their way. You can bet that Panama will be delayed again." Ouch!
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21/09/2006 @ 04:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : mini big bang experiment at CERN has extremely low risk of destroying the planet - (via Broken Toys) [via]
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21/09/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! AJAX Maps Version 3.4 Is Here - Yahoo! AJAX Maps Version 3.4 Is Here: "The latest version of the Yahoo! AJAX Maps API includes performance improvements, numerous new features, bug fixes and a smaller footprint."
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21/09/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Video - Truth in Advertising - Video - Truth in Advertising: I haven't seen these videos in years. But they're still incredibly funny.
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21/09/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : USBCELL: Batteries That Recharge Through USB - USBCELL: Batteries That Recharge Through USB: good idea
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21/09/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : USA vs Japan in the open a beer bottle with a helicopter contest - USA vs Japan in the open a beer bottle with a helicopter contest: this is fucking insane... but very cool
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21/09/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
joshua : del.icio.us birthday party oct 3 2006!
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21/09/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Web 2.0 Expo 2007, April 15-18, 2007, San Francisco, California - "The Call for Participation Is Open"
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21/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Octet - the eight big ideas you need to know to understand the 21st century - Ben Hammersley has announced the cover and subject of his new book. Looks really really interesting.
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21/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Hot TV presenter in critical condition - "Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond is in a critical condition in hospital after a crash in a jet-powered car while filming for the programme."
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21/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : On TV tonight: Ric Burns documentary on Andy Warhol - On TV tonight: Ric Burns documentary on Andy Warhol. Part 2 tomorrow night.
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