2/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Must see/TiVo TV: for the first time in years, PBS is airing Eyes on the Prize, a 14-hour series on the American civil rights movement - Must see/TiVo TV: for the first time in years, PBS is airing Eyes on the Prize, a 14-hour series on the American civil rights movement. (via steve) [via]
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2/10/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
43folders : 60 in roman numerals - Google Search - Jesus, I love Google.
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2/10/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
kellan : Was Rome ruined by its own "war on terror"? - NYT op-ed. (via Rafe) [via] #
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2/10/2006 @ 21:03 GMT
jcgregorio : YouTube - Goldfish Training - Yes, really, goldfish training, on youtube. I have no idea how to tag that.
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2/10/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
43folders : merlinmann's bookmarks tagged with "iron maiden" - But then sometimes you just want to spend a few minutes learning the stories behind your favorite Iron Maiden songs. And that's okay.
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2/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
veen : trust but verify - News, Research and Commentary about the Floyd Landis doping allegations.
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2/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : Eric Shackle's eBook - Whimsical ways of counting sheep - Ounce, dice, trice, quartz, quince, sago, serpent, oxygen, nitrogen, denim
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2/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Linkorama : Pincus Punked by the Post - Mark Pincus' blog censorship story is spun by the Washington Post
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2/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
kellan : I'm a Puppeteer...: the yahoo event - The blog of one of the hack day puppeteers. #
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2/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : GigaOM » DVD Jon Fairplays Apple - Could be interesting -- DVDJon reverse engineered Apple's DRM, and is looking to license it to other companies wanting to sell DRMed tracks. Of course, Apple can break it again with a firmware update, so who knows where this is going. #
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2/10/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
43folders : Steve Garfield's Video Blog: Email Reverse - "Inspired by Adam Curry, I recorded this video while looking at my computer screen." [via:a1c0r]
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2/10/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
43folders : The Fisherman and The Investment Banker Anonymous - Even though I saw the punchline coming a mile off, I laughed out loud, because it's so goddamn true. Great bit. [via:PopDelish]
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2/10/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
43folders : WORKING AND LIVING LIFE SMARTER 2006 [43 Folders Discount Code] - Discount registration for 43F readers to see Dan Millman, me, and others speak in Raleigh next month. $90 off = $109. Not bad.
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2/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : US bill to ban online gambling - offshore gambling companies were hit hard, as the bill is expected to be signed into law in two weeks
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Rod Begbie : DejaVuWiki - Bitstream's open-sourced Vera fonts, tweaked to include masses of Unicodery. Vera Sans Mono has been my text-editor font of choice for a while. [via] #
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2/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
cameron : channel 53 - Collection of strange, awesome, and obscure Youtube videos. Amazing.
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2/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
cameron : YouTube - wilkins coffee 1 - Early Jim Henson/Frank Oz commercials for Wilkins coffee using proto-muppets and a good amount of violence.
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2/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : vNES, web-based NES emulator in Java - this is excellent lawsuit bait, especially since the Wii will be reissuing NES games
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2/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Digg Black Market - awful "service" pays users to promote advertiser links on Digg
cameron : Digg Black Market - Not surprising, but unless there is widescale adoption by diggers, it should be easy to detect using their collusion algorithms.
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jkottke : Danny Meyer on the difference between service and hospitality - Danny Meyer on the difference between service and hospitality: "Service is delivering on your promise. Hospitality is making people feel good while you're delivering on that promise." Meyer has a new book, Setting the Table, out tomorrow. (via eater) [via]
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2/10/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
jcgregorio : standing on the shoulders of giants - Except the giants more often than not have died already so the modern specs are instead carefully balancing on untold numbers of decomposing corpses.
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2/10/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
Isofarro : RNIB Accessibility Champion Moves to Fortune Cookie - Julie Howell, the big name in web accessibility in the UK, is leaving the RNIB and joining Fortune Cookie! (Fortune Cookie is a London based web design agency with a strong track-record of delivering RNIB 'See-it-Right' accredited websites. I worked with
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2/10/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Lazytown's "You're A Pirate" - Yet another earworm from Lazytown
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2/10/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : todbot blog � Blog Archive � Arduino, the Basic Stamp killer - "A new system called Arduino provides the benefits of the Basic Stamp at a greatly reduced cost, increased speed, and is entirely open-source."
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2/10/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Mad TV - R&B Parody - R & B video about a guy wanting his girl to watch him play Madden. Featuring: The Konami Code! Oh, and a 4 year old asian kid who doesn't know what sex is.
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2/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Hack Day on CBS-5 - Yahoo! Hack Day on CBS-5: ah, gotta love YouTube
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jkottke : Unusual job opportunity of the day: Chief Librarian of the Detainee Library at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Unusual job opportunity of the day: Chief Librarian of the Detainee Library at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Perhaps the person who gets the job can add the text of the detainee treatment bill to the stacks. (thx, stefan)
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jkottke : Sounds like a tactic out of The Wire: instead of mass arrests, law enforcement officials in a North Carolina city have been using pressure from families and the threat of arrest to drive drug dealers out of business - Sounds like a tactic out of The Wire: instead of mass arrests, law enforcement officials in a North Carolina city have been using pressure from families and the threat of arrest to drive drug dealers out of business. (thx, micah)
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Matthew M. Boedicker : TPS report cover sheet - (via slashdot) [via]
Rod Begbie : TPS report cover sheet [pdf] - We're putting new cover sheets on all of our TPS reports now before they go out. [via] #
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2/10/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
cameron : Théorie M - Caroline Delieutraz - Albertine Meunier - 2D graf barcodes around Paris that provide some sort of geotagging interface. (via nelson)
Nelson Minar : theoriem.net - Street Art, 2d barcodes painted around Paris
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Hack Day is on! - Yahoo Hack Day is on!: "It can sometimes be tough to work in a corporate environment. But it’s things like Open Hack Day that make me glad that environment is at Yahoo."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Judging the Hack Day entries… - Judging the Hack Day entries…: "The event was clearly a home run for Yahoo. Opening up their APIs is a smart thing to do and will further wire the company into the infrastructure of the internet."
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Jeremy Zawodny : VentureBlog: Yahoo Hack Day - VentureBlog: Yahoo Hack Day: "Perhaps most interesting to me was the fact that a number of companies sent teams of engineers to Yahoo Hack Day to mash up their own applications with Yahoo's services."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Open Hack Day Wrapup - Yahoo! Open Hack Day Wrapup: "In the end, it’s all about the experience, including everything I’ll remember about the event. From giving my first public talk to seeing an awesome show put on by Beck to meeting fantastic people. There will
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2/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : PhishTank - PhishTank: "PhishTank is a collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Also, PhishTank provides an open API for developers and researchers to integrate anti-phishing technology into their applications at no c
Rod Begbie : PhishTank | Join the fight against phishing - New open database of user-submitted Phishing URLs. Somewhat reminiscent of Mark Fletcher's old "Trustic" startup. Not sure how well the submission/validation system will scale, or deal with gaming, but it could be interesting to watch. [via] #
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Jeremy Zawodny : Hackday Roundup - Hackday Roundup: "I think it was somewhere around 3am, while I was making the rounds passing out free Red Bull to appreciative hackers (Leonard and I made a middle of the night run to and buy out an entire store’s inventory), that I realized ho
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Jon Hicks : Duck Fadar - I find your quack of faith disturbing. Via [via]
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jkottke : Sony has announced their Portable Reader...the one with the e-ink screen - Sony has announced their Portable Reader...the one with the e-ink screen. The Librie was the precursor to the Portable Reader.
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jkottke : They shut all the lights off in Reykjavik last Thursday so that residents might see the stars without light pollution - They shut all the lights off in Reykjavik last Thursday so that residents might see the stars without light pollution. What a lovely idea.
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jkottke : A pair of economists looked at the number of parking tickets accrued by diplomats at the UN (tickets for which they are not charged) to determine each county's corruption level - A pair of economists looked at the number of parking tickets accrued by diplomats at the UN (tickets for which they are not charged) to determine each county's corruption level. "Since, as their study reports, there is 'essentially zero legal enforcement
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2/10/2006 @ 11:05 GMT
tjogin : Creationism Explained - Ultimate proof for creationism: the banana, and how well it fits into the human hand.
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cameron : Arto.com - Friends, Community & Entertainment - The Danish MySpace
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cameron : Wired News: Web Journals Take On Peer Review - "The open peer review movement stems from dissatisfaction with the status quo, which gives reviewers great power and can cause long publication delays." Amen.
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2/10/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
deusx : Brain on Fire - Dublin Core plugin for Wordpress - "This plugin implements some Dublin Core metadata elements for Wordpress."
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2/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : HackDay: Thoughts on how Yahoo got there and what it all means - HackDay: Thoughts on how Yahoo got there and what it all means: "The vision of innovation and creativity in the Burning Man, Bar Camp and Hack Day is exactly what (I think) Yahoo is hungry for"
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2/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! BBAuth for blog comment authentication - Yahoo! BBAuth for blog comment authentication: "I've gone ahead and spent the hour to integrate it into my blog comments system, so now you can authenticate using your Yahoo! ID and leave comments here."
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2/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Open Hack Day: [this is good] - Yahoo! Open Hack Day: [this is good]: "I don't think that Yahoo! Open Hack Day could have gone any better. It blew past my personal best-case expectations. The biggest problem is where to take it from here. But that's one of those good proble
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2/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Using Yahoo!’s BBAuth with Rails - Using Yahoo!’s BBAuth with Rails: "I thought it would be fun to get it working with rails. It could be put into a plugin fairly easily I think. Without further ado, here is how I went about implementing it..."
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2/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Single Sign-On - Will Yahoo’s Attempt Succeed? - Single Sign-On - Will Yahoo’s Attempt Succeed?: "I hope small & large developers everywhere adopt this so that I can browse around the internet without remembering 15 user names & passwords. Great work Yahoo!!!!"
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Open Hack - BBAuth meets Flex by Me - Yahoo Open Hack - BBAuth meets Flex by Me: "When hack day started I was planning to write a Flex UI for Yahoo's new Mail API's. I got as far as the lack of a crossdomain.xml file but in the 2 hours I got BBAuth integrated with Flex."
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2/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : BBAuth vs. OpenID - BBAuth vs. OpenID: "Seems a pretty big reason to implement it for the web app developer, especially since it is such an easy API you can integrate it in an hour or two."
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2/10/2006 @ 06:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : forgiving houseplants - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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2/10/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Craigslist founder has no desire to sell site - Craigslist founder has no desire to sell site: "If you're living comfortably, what's the point of having more?"
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2/10/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Siteswap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Siteswap (also called Cambridge notation in the United Kingdom) is a notation used to describe juggling patterns."
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2/10/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Part 1 of 2: Yahoo’s HackDay06 was Quite Cool - Part 1 of 2: Yahoo’s HackDay06 was Quite Cool: "Yahoo is an amazing, close family that was gracious enough to open themselves up to over 450 outsiders (including myself) over the last two days from the lowest levels to the very top."
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2/10/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Developer Day Recap - Yahoo! Developer Day Recap: "It was a big day for the YUI developer team."
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2/10/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : Singer Chokes On Mic - BREAK.com - "A wedding singer belts out a tune on the dance floor when out of nowhere a dancing couple bangs into the back of the mic stand causing her to gag."
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2/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
deusx : Techcrunch � Blog Archive � All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize - "The winning project, called Blogging In Motion, combined a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures."
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2/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : mozdev.org - proxybutton: index - "The Proxybutton extension gives you a single button that you may place on your toolbar and whenever you need to turn proxy on and off quickly."
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