29/09/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Markup Maker - Takes a simple list of page ids that you enter and converts it to a valid XHTML document. A deceptively simple and very. very handy online tool. Thanks Ian!
Simon Willison : Markup Maker - Handy tool from Ian Lloyd.
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29/09/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : David Roth got a job at Topps writing for the backs of baseball cards and finds that it's pretty much like any other job for a lrage, soulless corporation - David Roth got a job at Topps writing for the backs of baseball cards and finds that it's pretty much like any other job for a lrage, soulless corporation. "Baseball cards, it turned out, are not made in a card-cluttered candy land. Rather, they are creat
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29/09/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Using User Private Groups - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
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29/09/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : 2Modern - Contemporary home furniture and decor - 2Modern. Contemporary home furniture and decor. Favs: I, II, III, and IV.
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29/09/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Linkorama : Web 2.0 badges - wear your exit strategy with pride
plasticbag : “Web 2.0 ‘exit strategy’†badges - Lots of badges, reflecting the various ways to cash out of the Web 2.0 ecology. Get bought by Yahoo! Get bought by Google! Get bought by Murdoch...
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29/09/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Linkorama : More on MeMeme - Sam Ruby is sticking to it
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29/09/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Short Rolling Stone interview with The Wire's David Simon - Short Rolling Stone interview with The Wire's David Simon, part of a longer interview from the magazine. "I thought Katrina was literally America having to pause for a moment and contemplate the other America that somehow, tragically, Americans forgot. It
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29/09/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : Viva Border Volleyball! - This sort of thing should happen more often. [via Greg] [via]
deusx : LA Weekly - Viva Border Volleyball! - "We decide to take our chances. Here we are, under the perfect sun of San Diego, where beach volleyball reigns, so why should that be any different just a few miles south?"
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29/09/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : AeroGarden versus dirt video
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29/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
cameron : Web 2.0 drinking game - More like web 2.0 suicide game.. you wouldn't make it more than 20 minutes on any of these properties.
Linkorama : Web 2.0 Drinking Game - funny
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29/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
cameron : Google Periodic Table of Elements - Periodic table replaced with images from searches for the elements. I don't know what xenon is but it's hott.
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29/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Hack Day Starts Today - Yahoo Hack Day Starts Today: Thanks to Barry at SEW for mentioning us.
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29/09/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : "Fisher Island millionaire Bruce McMahan loved his daughter so much, he married her" - "Fisher Island millionaire Bruce McMahan loved his daughter so much, he married her." See also genetic sexual attraction.
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29/09/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Rushing off a cliff - Strongly worded NYT editorial against the disastrous new torture bill
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29/09/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
cameron : collision detection: Robot thinks people taste like "bacon" - Or prosciutto. Given how good cured pork tastes, I'd say we're in trouble if robots ever take over the world.
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29/09/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Images of the dashed line in use - Images of the dashed line in use (as hidden geometry, movement, paths, ephemeral material, etc.). "I've had trouble justifying my excitement about this intricate visual detail, so I thought it would be good to collect a bunch of examples from over fifty y [via]
joshua : The dashed line in use
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29/09/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Linkorama : Play at Work - One meaning of "play" describes the looseness that allows a wheel to turn. If there isn't enough play, the wheel won't turn. This latter meaning of play can be easier to rationalize in the workplace.
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29/09/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Linkorama : The 9X Email Problem - So the new tools are not direct substitutes for email; instead, they're intended to provide capabilities that email can't. Will they succeed? It depends heavily, I believe, on whether companies and their managers want technology platforms for collabora
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29/09/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : flash memory price fluctuations for the last week
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29/09/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
jimray : Khoi nails what's so good about the NYPost.com redesign - "its unabashed appropriateness and surprising sense of wit is kind of irresistible."
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29/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Chris Spurgeon reports on an "astonishing art installation" going on right now in London called Bridge by Michael Cross - Chris Spurgeon reports on an "astonishing art installation" going on right now in London called Bridge by Michael Cross. It's a flooded church with carefully placed stones that let you walk on water across the room.
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29/09/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Brooke Greenberg is the girl who won't grow up - Brooke Greenberg is the girl who won't grow up. She's 12 years old but is physically and behaviorally stuck as a nine-month-old.
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29/09/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
43folders : MacUser: Ihnatko: Harsh Words for Windows - "In the meantime, how do I hate Windows? Let me count the ways:" via:daringfireball.net
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29/09/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
43folders : Cool Tool: The MindMap Book - "You don't need this book to do it, but the book will help you refine your style, and it will help you expend its use."
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29/09/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
43folders : Amazing iCal multiple day view trick - 43 Folders Board - "In week view, press cmd+option+n(1-7), and iCal will show you only n-days" Really cool tip.
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29/09/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
43folders : Flickr: Photos tagged with "h in sunrays" - This generation has, at last, found its Kilroy...its peace symbol...its Rubik's Snake. Gentlemen: the hobo uprising is afoot.
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29/09/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Personal Kyoto lets your track your energy usage and reduce it according to the Kyoto Protocol - Speaking of ecological footprints, Personal Kyoto lets your track your energy usage and reduce it according to the Kyoto Protocol. It only works for NYC residents...just grab your ConEd bill, punch in your account number, and PK will display your energy u
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29/09/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : If we all lived Tom Cruise's lifestyle, how many earths would we need to maintain that level of consumption? - Ecological footprints: if we all lived Tom Cruise's lifestyle, how many earths would we need to maintain that level of consumption? A: 2700 earths. (Well, sort of. Go read the post for the actual answer.) Find out your ecological footprint.
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29/09/2006 @ 15:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Seth Weisfeld: Art Direction + Design - Undeniably inspiring work by Seth Weisfeld. Via Newstoday. [via]
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29/09/2006 @ 12:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Google Earth / Paris - Lots of useful overlays and placemarks
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29/09/2006 @ 09:15 GMT
tjogin : Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006) - With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a cornerstone of legal justice since the Magna Carta.
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29/09/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Open Hack Day Starts Tomorrow - Yahoo! Open Hack Day Starts Tomorrow: The big day has arrived!
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29/09/2006 @ 08:07 GMT
Linkorama : Guestures are Intent - This plays off of Jerry Michalski's more-than-notion good intent
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29/09/2006 @ 08:04 GMT
Rod Begbie : Sling - An Edis Brothers Game from Ezone.com - A splendidly simple little flashgame. [via] #
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29/09/2006 @ 08:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Mr. Rogers plays Donkey Kong - this is great for so many reasons
Matthew M. Boedicker : Mr. Rogers plays Donkey Kong - (via waxy links) [via]
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29/09/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Reader redesigns - light years better than the last design
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29/09/2006 @ 07:02 GMT
jimray : Charles & Marie: Bottle Opener / Fridge Magnet - Brilliant
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29/09/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Steve Jobs: "And Boom!" - And Boom! [via] #
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29/09/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Sprint Ambassador program - Sprint Ambassador program: Jesse's experience was a lot like mine, it seems
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29/09/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
43folders : merlinmann's bookmarks tagged with "Plugins I use" - People often ask which WP plugins I use on the site. Here's a Q&D list of a few that I have installed now. Start with WP-Cache.
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29/09/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
43folders : Sci-Fi Hi-Fi » Blog Archive » del.icio.us API URL Switch - Huzzah! A Cocoalicious fix -- manually change the API's URL in Keychain.app, restart, re-enter password, and you're golden. Awesome.
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29/09/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Announcement: Flickr now supports JSON and serialized PHP - Announcement: Flickr now supports JSON and serialized PHP: kick ass!
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29/09/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
deusx : BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Dr Who 'longest-running sci-fi' - "Doctor Who has been named TV's longest-running sci-fi show, after 43 years and 723 episodes, according to the Guinness Book of Records."
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29/09/2006 @ 01:06 GMT
kellan : Bill Clinton: "All you need is ubuntu" - But he isn't talking about LInux. Huh? And whats with the thong? #
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29/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : London Python Meetup, Wednesday the 4th of October - At The Stage Door in Waterloo.
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29/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : geopy - Geocoding Toolbox for Python - Geocoder classes for Google, Yahoo!, Virtual Earth and more.
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29/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Introducing WSGI: Python's Secret Web Weapon - Every Python web developer should understand WSGI.
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29/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Utterly brilliant Vietnamese cut-out art - The more you look at them the cleverer they are.
cobra libre : impressive paper cutout art [via] #
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29/09/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Want to go apple picking without leaving Manhattan? - Want to go apple picking without leaving Manhattan? There are three trees with ripe apples growing near where you get up on the High Line at 33rd Street.
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29/09/2006 @ 00:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Bruce Lee fighting Kareem Abdul Jabbar in Game of Death
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29/09/2006 @ 00:03 GMT
deusx : Crooks and Liars � Keith Olbermann takes a “look back†at Bush’s first months in office leading up to 9/11 - "Our goal in this report is to rise to Mr. Clinton’s challenge, and assess the record of Mr. Bush’s efforts against al Qaeda in his first eight months in office."
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29/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
cameron : Hood gets sinking feeling as blimp crashes - People in Boston can't look up at the sky without seeing this thing, which was always hovering above Fenway. I wonder if they'll replace the Hoodendburg.
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29/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr: Hack Day 2006 - Flickr: Hack Day 2006: we have a Flickr group for event photos now, please tag with hackday06
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29/09/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Trailer for Steven Johnson's new book, The Ghost Map - Trailer for Steven Johnson's new book, The Ghost Map. If it's uncool to love book trailers, so be it. Also, I've read the book (review forthcoming); it's as interesting as it sounds in the trailer. (via sbj) [via]
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