28/09/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
deusx : 365 tomorrows - What is a Soul? - "He could keep writing forever at this point. He knew writing was important, but he could no longer remember why."
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28/09/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : "From September 27th - October 21 the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators will host '30 Years of Fantagraphics,' a retrospective art exhibition of over 100 pieces of original art published by the Seattle underground giant." - "From September 27th - October 21 the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators will host '30 Years of Fantagraphics,' a retrospective art exhibition of over 100 pieces of original art published by the Seattle underground giant." Arti
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28/09/2006 @ 22:06 GMT
jcgregorio : use Perl | Larry Wall's presentation at OSDC::Israel::2006
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28/09/2006 @ 22:04 GMT
jimray : John Stewart's elegant critique of Citizen Journalism - The thing I love the most about this is that this video is actually on CNN.com
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28/09/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Management and incentives at Google - Management and incentives at Google: there's a lot of be said for gaining the respect of your peers
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28/09/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Salary Search - Salary Search: now you can mash this up with zillow to see what sort of house various jobs can get you :-)
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28/09/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : How a new perfume gets created - How a new perfume gets created: perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena makes a new scent for Hermes.
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28/09/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : NY Times Reader beta launches
Rod Begbie : First Look - Times Reader - Odd move by the NYTimes: They appear to have re-invented feed-reading using proprietary Microsoft technology. [via] #
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28/09/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Why does Ze Frank's face fill the entire screen on The Show? - Why does Ze Frank's face fill the entire screen on The Show? According to experiments described in The Media Equation, when participants were shown a series of photographs of people shot from different distances from the camera, "the faces that had the mo
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28/09/2006 @ 20:07 GMT
jcgregorio : wsgicollection | 2006-09-27 | BitWorking
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28/09/2006 @ 20:06 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why You Shouldn't Buy iTunes Shows or Movies - Why You Shouldn't Buy iTunes Shows or Movies: "I will now give you some very good reasons for not buying those videos. This isn’t a ploy to confuse you, but to inform you. To make you aware of the issues that surround digital media."
43folders : Brad Choate: Why You Shouldn't Buy iTunes Shows or Movies
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28/09/2006 @ 20:06 GMT
43folders : Brad Choate: Why You Should Buy iTunes Shows and Movies
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28/09/2006 @ 20:05 GMT
Nelson Minar : Paris map w/ Metro - Google Maps overlay; Poskanzer comes through again
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28/09/2006 @ 20:05 GMT
jimray : SlingPlayer Mobile heads to Symbian? - Awesome, now I can watch Rex's TV on my way in to work...
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28/09/2006 @ 20:03 GMT
jimray : Happy trails with Google Transit - Ever since Busmonster died, I've been pining for this. Awesome.
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28/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
plasticbag : Alan Yentob wants to know why You Tube matters to you - It's weird. This couldn't look more cheap and yet simultaneously staged if it tried. I'm sort of weirded out by it. Interesting move, but at the same time, could you look any more stiff and formal?
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28/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : A paleontology grad student, while idly inspecting a bronze cast of a dinosaur skeleton on the wall of the subway station, notices that the dinosaur in question was not cannibalistic as previously believed - A paleontology grad student, while idly inspecting a bronze cast of a dinosaur skeleton on the wall of the subway station, notices that the dinosaur in question was not cannibalistic as previously believed. Man, good science can be done *anywhere*.
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28/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Michael Kinsley: do newspapers have a future? - Michael Kinsley: do newspapers have a future? "Newspapers on paper are on the way out. Whether newspaper companies are on the way out too depends."
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28/09/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : New Squidfingers site design - New site design by Travis Beckham, aka Squidfingers, purveyor of fine pixel patterns but also of some extremely impressive portfolio work. Via Croftie. [via]
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28/09/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
kellan : Gothamist: Map of the Day: Getting to Work (and more!) - How people get to work in NYC. Red is cars, blue is public transit, green is walking #
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28/09/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Stupid Linux Swap Tricks with "swappiness" - Stupid Linux Swap Tricks with "swappiness": echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
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28/09/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Jargon watch: dog whistle politics - Jargon watch: dog whistle politics.
kellan : jargon watch: dog whistle politics - Why bother with Lakoffian framing when you've got a secret language? #
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28/09/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : BBC tunes into Microsoft for Web 2.0 - Sob.
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28/09/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Actiontastic - There have been a lot of GTD cocoa apps in the last few months (and many more to come, including OmniFocus), but Actiontastic looks like one that I’d actually want to use!
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28/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : rodcorp has a collection of links to photos of Marcel Duchamp - rodcorp has a collection of links to photos of Marcel Duchamp.
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28/09/2006 @ 17:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : UC Berkeley on Google Video - UC Berkeley isn't taking this interweb thing lightly. First came UC Berkeley on iTunes a few months back, and now there's UC Berkeley on Google Video.
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28/09/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Shopping Blog : Solar-Powered Security Light - Yahoo! Shopping Blog : Solar-Powered Security Light: The shopping blog found my review. I forgot we had a shopping blog!
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28/09/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
jcgregorio : comp.lang.python - for: else: - I had no idea 'for:' could have an 'else:' clause. Unfortunately the way it works is rather non-sensical/un-intuitive.
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28/09/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
43folders : Cool Tool: Dymo Labelwriter Turbo - "...the Dymo is fast as hell and turns out crisp-looking labels in no time..." I do love this model. Worth the $$.
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28/09/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
gleuschk : YouTube - Sesame Street - A loaf of bread... - a container of milk, and a stick of butter
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28/09/2006 @ 13:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Warcraft lore comic - Amazing fan setting of the WoW story (via We Know)
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28/09/2006 @ 12:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Sidewalk power play - Social dynamics of getting out of the way in public
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28/09/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
Tomas : Breaking up and getting rich - Everybody’s writing tutorials nowadays; instead of informally writing about one’s experiences in a personal voice, its either “How to do this and that†or, worse, “Five steps to doing this and thatâ€. So, keeping with
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28/09/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Katamari-inspired insurance commercial - reminds me of the older HIV PSA [via]
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28/09/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
joshua : mynoteit review - college-oriented information management app
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28/09/2006 @ 06:02 GMT
Linkorama : Good Agile, Bad Agile - Great essay about development methodology, or lack thereof
znarf : Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile [via] #
Simon Willison : Good Agile, Bad Agile - Includes interesting insight in to Google development processes.
Paul Hammond : Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile - Is it any wonder Chrysler canceled the project?
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28/09/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : insider account of working as a software engineer at Google - search for "cue happy rat" (via http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/)
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28/09/2006 @ 05:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Jung quote about people facing their own souls
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28/09/2006 @ 05:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to become famous in your field? shit all in the same place - interested in original source of this anecdote
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28/09/2006 @ 05:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : William S. Burroughs Thanksgiving Prayer video
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28/09/2006 @ 05:02 GMT
deusx : DownsizeDC.org | Make Congress Read the Bills Campaign - "For Members of Congress, fiduciary responsibility means reading each word of every bill before they vote. But Congress has not met this duty for a long time."
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28/09/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Nelson Sings Nilsson - Harvey Danger's Sean Nelson covers great selections from Harry Nilsson's catalog [via]
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28/09/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Go For It! - Go For It!: "a motivational poster based on a video game or pinball machine"
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28/09/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : AOL Pictures goes social and it’s not pretty - AOL Pictures goes social and it’s not pretty: "The new version of AOL Pictures came out of beta today and it’s thoroughly underwhelming." Ouch!
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28/09/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
43folders : Graffletopia - Very cool OmniGraffle stencils site. Numerous web page widgets, IA/wireframes, and old Mac icons among many others. via Digg/Oyvind Solstad
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28/09/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Review: Commodork - "his book does what my film couldn't; go front to end on one boy's story to turning into a man online. And for that, I thank him, and I think a lot of others will too."
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28/09/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
cameron : Debunking the MySpace Myth of 100 Million Users at Forever Geek - Random sample of myspace users shows variance in usage patterns
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28/09/2006 @ 01:06 GMT
deusx : Static Electricity Gas = Bad - "This is why you should never get back in your car while pumping gas. Could have been much worse."
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28/09/2006 @ 01:03 GMT
Simon Willison : Better Metrics for Security - Understanding the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report - Mozilla defends against yet more spurious bug count reports.
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28/09/2006 @ 01:03 GMT
Simon Willison : No More IE6 Background Flicker - Hedger's suggested JS fix. Not sure if I like the object detection he uses though.
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28/09/2006 @ 01:03 GMT
Paul Hammond : err.the_blog.find_by_title('Strut Your Structs') - Struct is like Ruby on Rails for classes. Scaffolding.
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28/09/2006 @ 01:03 GMT
Paul Hammond : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Strange Medium - The moral of the story: be wary of tt, pre and font-family: monospace.
wearehugh : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Strange Medium
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28/09/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
Paul Hammond : Hold breath. Exhale. Focus. | Kinkless - Having the chance to take everything I’d been thinking and working on with kGTD and see it turned into something bigger and better and brighter is like making a doodle on a piece of paper, handing it to da Vinci and seeing it turned into a full col
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28/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Singletons with Functions - Snook.ca - You learn something new every day.
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28/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Rands In Repose: Trickle Theory - Begin. Go read the first bug. Don't think about how many are left. Go to the next one and watch what happens. In just a few minutes, you'll have made something resembling progress. Two more bugs and it'll start to feel like momentum. Progress + momentum =
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28/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Start and Stop All Your Mongrel_Cluster Processes - The beauty of this is that when I add a new app to the server, I don’t have to tell the script. Using conventions, it knows what rails apps I have installed.
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28/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Xblog : On Efficiency, Scalability, and the Wisdom to Know the Difference - Let’s review: efficiency is the ability to get something done while consuming few resources. Efficient code uses less memory, less IO bandwidth, and less CPU time to get the same job done
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