24/01/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
kellan : "WoW is very pretty and very complex. It's not just a nice GUI for a spreadsheet application like some other RPGs" - Nicely put. #
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24/01/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
kellan : 5 things I hate about Ruby: slow, opaque evolution, documentation is sparse, shitty XML support. - Took the words right out of my mouth. To which I'd add lousy libraries, and sub-par threading. #
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24/01/2006 @ 23:09 GMT
gleuschk : It's My Turn (1980) - containing the only proof of the Snake Lemma that appears in a motion picture (as far as I know)
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24/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
gleuschk : Mathematical Problems by David Hilbert - Hilbert's original ICM lecture from Paris, 1900, translated
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24/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : Ian Albert collects really large digital images - Ian Albert collects really large digital images (100-900 megapixels) and constructs maps of video game worlds, including Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda. (via lia) [via]
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24/01/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
jkottke : A brief history of Pixar - A brief history of Pixar. "Even with the animation group generating income Pixar was still a money pit. That was about to change. Disney had decided they were willing to give a computer-animated movie a shot."
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24/01/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Help us paint our room - Help us paint our room.
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24/01/2006 @ 22:10 GMT
Nelson Minar : Warez bust - Looks like they went after some primary distribution ftp servers? (via Digg)
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24/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : The 50 most loathsome people in America, 2005 - The 50 most loathsome people in America, 2005. On Paris Hilton: "Somehow, everybody in America knew that this completely pointless person had lost her dog, and we are all diminished by the experience."
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24/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Joe Wikert's Book Publisher Blog: Safari's Rough Cuts Service - "Don't get me wrong. Again, I love the concept, but I wonder whether enough early adopters will want to pay for it."
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24/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
deusx : Ivan Krstic's Weblog: The little snake that couldn't - "I have a confession to make: Ruby on Rails does not impress me."
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24/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Video clip of a nude scene from Family Guy - Video clip of a nude scene from Family Guy that was apparently created as an in-house joke. NSFW, unless your job is watching cartoon porn.
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24/01/2006 @ 20:11 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Disney-Pixar: It's a Wrap
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24/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Richard Rutter : egoSurf - We surfed for richard rutter, looking for links to clagnut.com.
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24/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! gives up quest for search dominance - Yahoo! gives up quest for search dominance: "It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share."
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24/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : TrueHoop has a good roundup of Kobe's 81-point performance the other night - TrueHoop has a good roundup of Kobe's 81-point performance the other night. Quoth Henry: "This is the first time I have put something that happened last night straight into the 'basketball history' category of TrueHoop."
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24/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
kellan : Crooked Timber is running a survey asking, among other things, how often you use HotBot? - Um, I think I saw a link to it on the NCSA "What's New" page. (presumably they're getting paid to run this?) #
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24/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Loompanics closing - Coolest publisher ever closes its doors. Internet victim?
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24/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Andy Baio : OGLE, the OpenGL Extractor - grab 3D models from games or apps for reuse, mashup, or 3D printing; badass! [via]
jkottke : Eyebeam's Mike Frumin has released OGLE (OpenGL Extrator), a software package for extracting 3-D data from Windows applications - Eyebeam's Mike Frumin has released OGLE (OpenGL Extrator), a software package for extracting 3-D data from Windows applications. This means you can do stuff like grab the 3-D likeness of your World of Warcraft character and print it out on a 3-D printer o
joshua : Ogle: OpenGLExtractor - 3d screencaptures
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kellan : Coverage of the "Health Savings Accounts" that BushCo will unroll at the State of the Union - Not only divides the "well from the sick, the young from the old", but will force a race to the bottom discrimination against traditional managed risk approaches. I'm impressed, it takes work to make our current system look good. #
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24/01/2006 @ 18:12 GMT
kellan : Gladwell on the "The Moral-Hazard Myth: The bad idea behind our failed health-care system" - a commenter on the HSA reminded me of this excellent piece. #
cobra libre : moral hazard [via] #
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24/01/2006 @ 18:11 GMT
Philippe Janvier : NewsInterceptor - "...all known syndication formats (RSS, Atom, RDF) on PPC". Semble nécessiter quand même l'installation de .Net Compact Framewok 2.0 sur le pocket, ce qui peut s'avérer assez lourd. [via] #
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24/01/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
gleuschk : What They Don't Teach You in Graduate School -- Part IV, LIfe as an Academic - “Treat students as though they are guests in your home.â€
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24/01/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
gleuschk : What They Don't Teach You in Grad School -- Part III - Tenure, Academic Rank, and Department Chairs
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24/01/2006 @ 18:10 GMT
gleuschk : What They Don't Teach You in Grad School -- Part II - teaching and service, research, and grants
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24/01/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
gleuschk : What They Don't Teach You in Graduate School, Part I - tips on finishing a PhD and starting an academic career
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24/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
gleuschk : diagonal wrapping - file this with that nifty t-shirt-folding method
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24/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Aerial photos of cities taken by Olivo Barbieri with a tilt-shift lens look like scale models - Aerial photos of cities taken by Olivo Barbieri with a tilt-shift lens look like scale models. I'm familiar with the tilt-shift (Jake noodled around with one awhile back), but didn't imagine you could use it to achieve such a convincing optical illusion. [via]
Milo Vermeulen : aerial photographs made to look like miniature models [via]
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24/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Cool carpenter's level Dashboard widget for Powerbooks and iBooks - Cool carpenter's level Dashboard widget for Powerbooks and iBooks. I'd never played with my Powerbook's accelerometer before so this had me squealing with delight. (via df) [via]
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24/01/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
Rod Begbie : Clerks 2 - Teaser - Looks like Kevin Smith is heading back to the Askewniverse after "Jersey Girl" bombed. Here's hoping it's a worthy successor to the original. [via] #
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24/01/2006 @ 17:09 GMT
kayodeok : Official Google Blog: And now, News - We're taking Google News out of beta!
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24/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
kayodeok : Digital Web Magazine - Web Presentation Patterns - The trick is not to implement as many design patterns as you can, but to choose the design pattern that is most appropriate when you see the need for abstraction
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24/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Hossein Derakhshan is on his way to Israel - Hossein Derakhshan is on his way to Israel, which is unusual for a native Iranian. "As a citizen journalist, I'm going to show my 20,000 daily Iranian readers what Israel really looks like and how people live there."
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24/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
jkottke : Short (and a wee bit hostile) inteview with Daniel Dennett - Short (and a wee bit hostile) inteview with Daniel Dennett. "Nerve cells are very complicated mechanical systems. You take enough of those, and you put them together, and you get a soul."
Wayne Burkett : Questions for Daniel C. Dennett - Interview by Deborah Solomon - New York Times - Dennet's response to "I take it you do not subscribe to the idea of an everlasting soul" is "Ugh." Hehe. #
deusx : Questions for Daniel C. Dennett - Interview by Deborah Solomon - New York Times - "Churches have given us great treasures. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter."
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24/01/2006 @ 16:09 GMT
jkottke : "If you see something suspicious, welcome to how New York got started" - "If you see something suspicious, welcome to how New York got started." (via gothamist) [via]
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24/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : Since the summer of 1962, a fire, fueled by rich anthracite coal deposits, has been burning beneath the mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania - "Since the summer of 1962, a fire, fueled by rich anthracite coal deposits, has been burning beneath the mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania." This fire is almost old enough to have remembered where it was when JFK was assassinated. (thx, gerard)
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24/01/2006 @ 16:08 GMT
jkottke : West Wing cancelled after 7 seasons - West Wing cancelled after 7 seasons...the show won't survive much past President Bartlet's tenure, which seems fitting.
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24/01/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : I just found the most niche weblog ever: Hay in Art - I just found the most niche weblog ever: Hay in Art, which consists of pictures of art that feature hay in them.
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24/01/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
jkottke : Fire at a fireworks factory - Fire at a fireworks factory = lots of explosions. I went to a fireworks display when I was a kid and about 5 minutes in, the structure they were launching them out of caught on fire and the rest of the display went off in the space of 2-3 minutes. Best fi
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24/01/2006 @ 11:10 GMT
Jon Hicks : Mail.app Widescreen Mockup - Somebody – please?
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24/01/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Finding a Beached Xbox - some theories on the Gizmodo thread
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24/01/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
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24/01/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : analog hole bill would impose a secret law
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24/01/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
Jason Shellen : small blue printer : design your own house plan - Free, web-based floorplan designer. Nice use of Flash. #
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24/01/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
deusx : Instant Messaging in Frontier/Radio - "tcp.im is an instant messaging client and server framework for Frontier and Radio UserLand."
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24/01/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Beware - This Thyssen earth mover actually exists (via Ask Metafilter)
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24/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : DOM Scripting: Easier CSS rules through DOM Scripting - "Say you want to style form fields. You probably want to apply different styles to your text inputs, your submit buttons, your checkboxes, etc. But they all share the same tag name, input, so you can't just use an element selector in your CSS."
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24/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
deusx : MochiKit A lightweight Javascript library - "MochiKit 1.2 is now available [download]."
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24/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Getting Funky With Scopes and Closures - Mark Wubben has some neat tricks up his sleeve.
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24/01/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Linkorama : Top 10 Valley Marketeers - Not of the pom pom variety.
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24/01/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
Linkorama : Hot Blogger - Of the shoe variety. I find this very disturbing.
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24/01/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
Linkorama : Say Tello For Presence - Great team. Quoth the Om: My initial reaction to the service is that it might suffer from feature creep, and will be tough for actual users to adopt. And who really knows how well it will scale.
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kellan : Nat has been testing "Bare Bones' newly accounced data-snippet organizer, Yojimbo, since December" - And has a positive, if not bouncing up and down, review #
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24/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Help the Justice Department out via Greasemonkey - Help the Justice Department out Greasemonkey: "I’ve written a Greasmonkey script, which will automatically submit 'bonus' google queries every time you visit a regular google page." [via]
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24/01/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Do Not Shave Your Ass Hair! - Do Not Shave Your Ass Hair!: if alt.tasteless was still popular, this would be there. beware: NSFW! (but funny)
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24/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Andy Baio : The Most Downloaded Konfabulator Widgets - unofficial, created by Jon Aquino by scraping the official Konfabulator gallery [via]
Nelson Minar : Konfabulator widgets - Rated by # of downloads (via Populicious)
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24/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : Repository to Web Server Using Secure Shell (SSH) with TextDrive Hosting
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24/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : Yojimbo information organizer from BareBones - Gruber says it's his favorite new Mac app in years
merlinmann : Bare Bones Software : PRODUCTS : YOJIMBO - Makers of BBEdit introduce their new Cocoa app for managing all the little scraps of "stuff" in your life.
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24/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
jimray : Safari starts beta testing their books - A la the Pragmatic Bookshelf - wonder if these will be free via my Seattle Public Library account
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