5/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Joe Woodward profiles David Foster Wallace - Joe Woodward profiles David Foster Wallace for Poets & Writers magazine.
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5/01/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
jimray : Blake Biser Brookshire´s Blog - My friends Blake and Tim are hanging out in Chile for a few weeks
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jkottke : Stablized version of the Zapruder film of the Kennedy Assassination - Stablized version of the Zapruder film of the Kennedy Assassination (mirror). Stabilized means the camera movement has been digitally edited out...the video is super-clear now.
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5/01/2006 @ 21:12 GMT
joshua : everyone's a scientist - a bunch of good kook links
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Nelson Minar : Best Fark photoshops - Funny even without context (via Waxy)
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Nelson Minar : IGN top 10 games - More eclectic than the usual lists
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5/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : The Mile Wall, trying for the world's longest web page - The Mile Wall is an interesting variation on the Million Dollar Homepage...you buy space (by the inch) on a web page that will horizontally stretch a mile. Right now, the page is 1.7 feet wide...lots of good real estate available.
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5/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : A small collection of animated GIF mashups - A small collection of animated GIF mashups (which are created by using DHTML to layer a bunch of animated GIF over each other).
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5/01/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
Linkorama : Crisis Corp Blogging - Do Companies Start Blogging Only When They're in Trouble?
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5/01/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
Linkorama : Update on Mashup Camp - So, the target window for Mashup Camp is mid-to-late Feburary and it will probably be an evening-day-evening event (a gathering the night before, then a full day, and then, hopefully, closing cermonies at a brewpub or something like that).
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Linkorama : Intranet Trends to Watch for in 2006 - Blogs come and go, but RSS remains; Wikis gain prominence and get integrated
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5/01/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
jimray : Screens and new features from the latest Vista beta - My God, I think it's actually uglier than the previous beta. And the Expose ripoff is classicly clunky and overwrought.
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5/01/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited | Behind the magic curtain - A former Apple employee gives some insight into the lead-up to a Steve Jobs keynote. [via] #
plasticbag : Behind the magic curtain - how Steve Jobs prepares for the Apple keynotes... - Mike Evangelist reveals how the keynotes work. What's really interesting for me here is how much of this stuff is organised around demanding top-down management. God knows what it's like to work with Jobs...
jimray : Behind the magic curtain - An insider look behind the Apple keynotes
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5/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
WillPate : UBC Librarian Calls on Google to Develop Medicine Search Engine - "A biomedical librarian at UBC is calling on Google to develop a search engine devoted to medical research and share it with doctors around the world." Great idea.
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5/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Bounty County - blog listing cash bounties for open-source projects
WillPate : Bounty County - Coding bounties for free and open source software projects. - Bounty County is a listing of coding bounties offered by free and open-source software projects.
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jkottke : A collection of pre-Katrina obituaries from New Orleans of people with distinctive nicknames - A collection of pre-Katrina obituaries from New Orleans of people with distinctive nicknames. "New Orleans in the pre-Katrina world was full of characters that you'd sooner expect to read about in a Flannery O'conner short story than meet in real life. "
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jkottke : Neat information design on the menu for Alinea - Neat information design on the menu for Alinea. The size, positions, and darkness of the circles on the menu represent the sweetness/tartness, size, and flavor intensity of each course.
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Matthew M. Boedicker : MySpace is essentially a huge marketing demographic database?
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5/01/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Phidgets Inc. - Phidgets Inc.: Unique and Easy to Use USB Interfaces
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5/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Shoreline Flying Club - Shoreline Flying Club: a fairly new flying club based out of Palo Alto airport. They've got low fees and no monthly dues.
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5/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Read/WriteWeb: Web 2.0 is dead. R.I.P. - The term 'Web 2.0' is distracting from the real value going on in the Web right now.
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5/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : The positive side effect of big text: less text - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - The bigger the text the less you write and nearly every corporate website could use less words
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5/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Looks like Sony has finally made a version of the Libre (an electronic ink portable media reader) for the US market - Looks like Sony has finally made a version of the Libre (an electronic ink portable media reader) for the US market. It says that "Random House, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin-Putnam, Simon & Schuster and Time Warner Book Group are all on board wit [via]
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5/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Satugo is a fun little camera that you can throw in the air or bounce to get some unusual photos - Satugo is a fun little camera that you can throw in the air or bounce to get some unusual photos. Love the pull-string for the quick but steady shots.
jimray : :::: Satugo the worlds first Bouncing ball camera :::: - "Imagine combining your love for bouncing balls and your obsession for taking pictures into one"
deusx : :::: Satugo the worlds first Bouncing ball camera :::: - ""
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5/01/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
plasticbag : New Lego Mindstorm products works with Macs, has sensors and Bluetooth stuff... - Co-worker Simon Willison is dribbling over this as I type. Cal - if he hasn't seen it already - will die immediately if he doesn't get his hands on it. Webb will scratch at his skin to get a set...
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5/01/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
ricmac : RSS feeds I’d love to find — cre8d design blog
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5/01/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Jifty - HomePage - Jifty is a way to build web applications.
joshua : Jifty - ya rails in perl attempt
jimray : Jifty - Perl on Rails
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5/01/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : Changes in version 4.0 [Universal Feed Parser] - Support for Atom 1.0.
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5/01/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : PeterCooper.co.uk: Lagom - The Lexin Swedish-English dictionary defines lagom as "enough, sufficient, adequate, just right." Lagom is also widely translated as "in moderation," "in balance," "optimal," "reasonable," and "average."
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5/01/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : DOM Scripting: Hijax - Plan for Ajax from the start. Implement Ajax at the end.
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5/01/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : retrievr - search by sketch - retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
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5/01/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog) - Time has various levels of quality
Jeremy Zawodny : Be more productive - Be more productive: common sense that isn't
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5/01/2006 @ 12:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : ongoing · Drop the <!DOCTYPE> - not only unnecessary but actively harmful
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kayodeok : Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Inside Office 12, Part 1 - Inside Office 12, Part 1
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5/01/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
merlinmann : jonathangarrett: I BET THERE'S RICH FOLKS SMOKING BIG CIGARS - Jonathan reviews the purchase of The Man in Black's 13k sq.ft. home in the context of SF's inflated real estate market. Mind blowing.
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5/01/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
WillPate : Blogging Doubled Stormhoek Wines Sales in Less Than One Year - "What happened is that by interfacing with the blogosphere, it fundementally changed how Stormhoek looked at treating their primary customers (the supermarket chains) and the end-users (the supermarkets' customers)."
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5/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : BREAKING NEWS! Microsoft's OFFICIAL SECURITY UPDATE leaked onto the Internet early (and it works great!) - The updated GDI32.DLL file contained in this patch, was built in the evening of December 28th, LAST WEDNESDAY. It is clear that Microsoft jumped on this problem - and had it resolved - almost immediately. But the nature of the installed base of Windows sy
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5/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
kayodeok : Men Are From Google Women Are From Yahoo - Women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities. Men tend to see it as an office, a library, or a playground - screw the community, this is about function not family
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5/01/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : when digging a ditch, go for the pickaxe
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5/01/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Sidekick has bird sighting reports?
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5/01/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Vikings may have filed their teeth
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Andy Baio : Fark's best Photoshops of 2005 - some of these are brilliant, like The Temptation of Jedi and I Want to Make Believe
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5/01/2006 @ 03:10 GMT
Charles Miller : NSW Photography Rights - Now that I'm taking a lot of photos in public places, I should probably carry around a hard-copy of this PDF that explains what my rights are.
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5/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
erikbenson : After a whale dies, it falls to the bottom of the ocean and creates a crazy ecosystem. - That ecosystem sustains many species of worms and other creatures that survive solely off of dead whales, hopping from one carcass to the next for millions of years. So strange!
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5/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
erikbenson : Learn about whale falls. - They are so awesome!
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5/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Internet Stocks 2005 Price Performance - Internet Stocks 2005 Price Performance: a very useful representation of 2005 stock gains and losses
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5/01/2006 @ 03:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : U.S. nabs man with 'suicide bomber' written in journal - U.S. nabs man with 'suicide bomber' written in journal: An airline passenger with the words "suicide bomber" written in his journal was arrested when his plane arrived in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, but the words appeared to refe
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5/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : The Patent Epidemic from Business Week - One of the weirdest things I've had to get my head around over the last couple of months is the US patent culture. There's no patents for software in Europe yet, so it's been a total culture shock...
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5/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : Slate's astonishingly weird piece on Germany and 'Dinner for One' - 'British TV executives see it as fit only for foreigners, or they would rush to broadcast it themselves. Why Germany finds it so funny and the British don't is, according to Der Spiegel's Sebastian Knauer, "one of the last unsolved questions of European i
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plasticbag : Dan Hill on "New Musical Experiences" - Dear God, I only wish I had the time to read this all the way through. It really looks like an abridged version of a book than a weblog post. Probably a book I'd like to read. About design? Wow. Sigh. Whatever happened to our attention spans...
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5/01/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Jason Shellen : Letterman rips O'Reilly a new one - A spectacular site to behold - a Winter Solstice Festival miracle! #
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5/01/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Amazon Album Art Widget - At last! A widget I want to use! While there are apps that automate this sort of thing, I prefer the manual-but-easy approach like this.
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5/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : @media 2006 - Back for another year, in London on the 15-16th of June.
Isofarro : @media 2006 - Two tracks, interesting sessions, excellent list of speakers. (Wot, not Joe Clark??) Lots of Dom Scripting speakers. Looks to be another top-notch event.
Richard Rutter : media 2006 - media is back! Registrations are open..
Paul Hammond : @media 2006 - The @media conference returns to London this June, bigger and better than before
Jon Hicks : @media 2006 - Its on the way! See you in June!
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5/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Running a Service in China - An MSN Spaces employee responds.
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5/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : OK, $90 billion and Ballmer does the monkey-boy dance at Yahoo HQ -- but that's my final offer - OK, $90 billion and Ballmer does the monkey-boy dance at Yahoo HQ -- but that's my final offer: I would stick around long enough to witness that--then I'd quit.
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5/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
plasticbag : Current favourite character in all drama: Titus Pullo - Probably just toppling Doctor Jack from that Lost TV series. I believe the term is something like 'silver fox' or something. Dodgy tough old boots grey-headed soft-hearted tough old grumpy bastards. Cough.
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5/01/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Linkorama : Pete Ashdown Campaign Collaboration Wiki - Will a wiki help this candidate defeat Orrin Hatch in the US Senate?
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Matthew M. Boedicker : developing on Sony versus Nintendo platforms
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5/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Steve Cook : What's -Your- Worst Memory of Playing with Yo La Tengo? - "The floor was spinning. The students were spinning. I was in an 'I hate men' phase. I lost my Riccola. I fell asleep next to the ham." I blame James.
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5/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
plasticbag : What's the deal with the self-referential sign...? - A sign that warns you about itself? That sounds like Banksy to me, but it can't be - surely? Speaking of which I saw another weird traffic cone orb in London yesterday. I wonder if it was him...
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5/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : This Day in Apple History - This Day in Apple History offers a daily story about what happened on a given day in Apple's history.
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5/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Hong's Hangul Pronunciation Conversion
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5/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
jimray : Quick, call a Waaaahhhmbulance! - Chicago Reader columnist calls for reporters to go on strike, blames Craig Newmark and bloggers for all the ailes of Newspaperdom, hilarity ensues.
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