3/10/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
joshua : Upcoming.org: del.icio.us millionth user + birthday bash at Yahoo! Inc (Building C) (Tuesday, October 3, 2006) - seriously, be there or be square
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Jon Hicks : Beck 'The Information" sleeve - Comes with a blank cover, as you are given sheets of stickers designed by artists to make your own! Downloads = evil, physical CD = good.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Bold start-up, Powerset, about to raise $10M to take on Google - Bold start-up, Powerset, about to raise $10M to take on Google: "Yes, there are many incremental improvements that should be made, but is there anything new that Google’s thousand-odd engineers (or Yahoo’s for that matter) can’t fig
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Andy Baio : What Is This Creepy Site Advertising? - Ask Metafilter investigates a viral marketing campaign; great read
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3/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : WFMU's The Reel Night John Lennon Died - nice followup with the unedited NYC FM radio dial scans from the night of December 8, 1980
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Linkorama : Plazes Travel Speed - My average travel speed is 784 km/day
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3/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
cameron : The Best: Movies in the Public Domain - Wired editors pick the best movies that are free of charge.
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Andy Baio : Who Killed TivoToGo in the TiVo Series 3 HD? - the EFF explains how CableLabs and Hollywood are deciding for us [via]
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jimray : J-schools, computer science and the bigger picture | Holovaty.com - "Newsrooms need to welcome technical people with open arms and give them an environment in which they can thrive." Finally, a Holovaty post that doesn't make my eyes bleed.
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jimray : Wicked cool effects reel from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - I like the sound of the editors whirling in the background - this is really well done
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jimray : NASA - Strange Moonlight - Moonlight makes you see all wacky
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jimray : An Indian physicist puts an internet-connected computer in the slums - And the kids teach themselves how to use it
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plasticbag : Netflix are offering $1 million to anyone who can substantially improve their recommendations algorithms - The most interesting thing is that they're opening up a substantial dataset in order to help them work through these issues. I'd be really interested to get my hands on that with a talented data visualiser. Maybe Stamen should have a play?
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plasticbag : AOL Europe are looking for a Social Media / User Experience Intern - Could be a really interesting opportunity for someone who wants to get into this whole territory, and would be working with early UK weblogger Meg Pickard of NotSoSoft/Meish fame
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Linkorama : Getting It Right - "This is the best time in our history," says Sten Tamkivi, Skype's Estonian head of operations.
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Nelson Minar : Wikimapia / GEarth - Yay for integration!
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Jon Hicks : Pirate Transalator Widget - Arrr!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Moblogging purse takes Hack Day grand prize - Moblogging purse takes Hack Day grand prize: more on the winning hack
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jkottke : Bill Buford tells the story of Food Network, a channel that Julia Child could never hope to appear on today - Bill Buford tells the story of Food Network, a channel that Julia Child could never hope to appear on today.
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Rod Begbie : Listening Post: Winamp Adds Remote Access, Dashboard Widgets - New version of WinAmp (Remember them? It's like an iPod, except you can't carry it around with you. Ask your parents) includes "remote listening" -- Stream music from your home PC to wherevers. Since Apple kept disabling hacks that did this with iTunes [via] #
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3/10/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Rainbow Warrior - New scandal; one of the thugs who blew up the Greenpeace boat is in the news
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3/10/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : France smoking ban? - May be very soon. The sooner the better!
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3/10/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Leaping to France - Good personal story of some Brits who relocated
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3/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Steven Levitt's speed poker - Interesting story from Steven Levitt: stuck in a Vegas poker tournament with a $3000 first prize but needing to go to the airport to catch the last flight of the night, he starts playing very aggressively in order to win big or lose everything so that he [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : Steven Levitt winning a poker tournamet by going all-in on every hand because he had to catch a plane - (via kottke) [via]
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3/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Harrowing story of surviving a mid-air collision at 37,000 feet - Harrowing story of surviving a mid-air collision at 37,000 feet. (via sippey) [via]
cameron : Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, and Living - A frightening story of a mid-air collision over the Amazon with an almost impossible explaination. (via kottke)
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jkottke : Jim Holt reports on a pair of books that argue that string theory is hurting theoretical physics - Jim Holt reports on a pair of books that argue that string theory is hurting theoretical physics. The article contains a good overview of the history and current status of the theory. For those looking to discover which book is better, Holt recommends Smo
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3/10/2006 @ 13:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Tasty Drive, using Del.icio.us as a filesystem - brilliantly evil hack uses data: URLs and blind redirectors to store raw data as bookmarks
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Hack Day '06 - Yahoo Hack Day '06: "This event was absolutely beyond any of my expectations."
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3/10/2006 @ 13:00 GMT
Andy Baio : More details on the unnecessary WarGames sequel - in which WOPR gets defeated by an iPod
jimray : WargamesII??? - Seriously, who's idea was this?
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Cameron Moll : Print version of Nine Skills? - Matt P. says, "I was just wondering if there would be any way to get a vectorized version of page 56 of your 'Nine Skills' presentation (the one with the Good Designer vs. Great Designer table). I'd like to hang a copy on my wall." I would love to do thi
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Cameron Moll : Where to find "frilly bits" - Kate says, "I noticed all the little 'frilly' bits (for lack of better word) around the site; I'm wondering whether you made these yourself, or if you found them somewhere else." Love the term, Kate! I get asked this question quite often. The canned answe
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Andy Baio : Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, and Living - harrowing first-person tale of surviving a mid-air collision
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Andy Baio : World of Warcraft hits South Park - in one swoop, the most mainstream use of machinima ever [via]
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Andy Baio : MP3: Leonard's excellent (unused) Open Hack Day mix - 153 megabytes of good stuff
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3/10/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
fastclemmy : Apple iPhone - Apple iPhone by fastclemmy Apple iPhone concept designs from all over the web. mockup design iphone apple fake hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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Nelson Minar : Canon double rebates - Yearly discount program
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Jon Hicks : Listen Up, Adobe - This goes for ex-macromedia products too, shape up!
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3/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Jonathan Keller's 8 Years of Daily Photos - the most extensive I've seen in this recent trend of self documentation
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3/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Texas dad wants Fahrenheit 451 banned - he demands a book about book burning be banned during Banned Books week
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3/10/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
jimray : Bjork, live, onstage with Rahzel and an Inuit throat singer - Medula was one of my favorite albums from last year, amazing that she can pull off these live performances
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3/10/2006 @ 06:02 GMT
joshua : Room & Board furniture and home furnishings for every room in your house
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3/10/2006 @ 06:02 GMT
joshua : Christine.net: David Hornik Learns About Marketing from Syphilis - good summary of virality
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3/10/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Pitchfork reviews Jet's "Shine On" - I don't think they liked it
jimray : Jet: Shine On: Pitchfork Record Review - Could this be the best record review ever?
Rod Begbie : Jet: Shine On: Pitchfork Record Review - Normally, I can't be arsed with Pitchfork's reviews -- too pseudy by half. But this one is short, witty, incisive, and pretty danged accurate. [via] #
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3/10/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Open Hack 06: Saved By Patrick Stewart - Yahoo Open Hack 06: Saved By Patrick Stewart: this was incredibly funny in person
Andy Baio : Video: Saved by Patrick Stewart at Yahoo's Open Hack Day - sometimes, delivery is everything
joshua : yahoo open hack day vs patrick stewart
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3/10/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
deusx : How To Save $1000 Per Video Game System | Gadzooki - "In other words, don’t buy the system or game the minute it comes out."
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3/10/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Fossil Bluetooth Caller ID watch - Cunning idea -- a watch that connects to your watch via Bluetooth, then vibrates and shows caller ID information when you get a call or a text, so you don't have to go raking through your pockets/bag for your phone. Of course, it'll be a total battery dr [via] #
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3/10/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - C-Span - Nancy Pelosi sets a resolution! - "They acted like such children when Pelosi tried to get a recorded vote, which is what should have been done in the first place!"
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3/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
cameron : E-Mail is for Old People - The Chronicle of Higher Education explains to us old people how those young'uns are using crazy technology we've never heard of.
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3/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
cameron : YouTube - The Complete Profile - rev2.org - A nice portrait of a young company. $1M/mo. in bandwidth costs is nuts.
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3/10/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
jimray : Swingers (1996 film) - Wikiquote - Yet another reason to make a tax-free contribution to the Wikipedia folks
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3/10/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
jimray : And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely - Netflix is offering a million bucks to anyone who can improve their recommendations engine by 10%
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3/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Guiness World Record for most T-Shirts worn at one time. - "Matt McAllister of 99.9 KTYD in Santa Barbara, CA, setting the guiness world record for the most t-shirts worn at once."
joshua : Guiness World Record for most T-Shirts worn at one time. - i love frame by frame animations of similar but changing things
jkottke : Video of a man putting on 155 tshirts over a four-hour period - Video of a man putting on 155 tshirts over a four-hour period; at the end, the conglomerate top weights 100 pounds. (via josh) [via]
jimray : Guiness World Record for most T-Shirts worn at one time. - 155 shirts adds 100 lbs.
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3/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Biff's Question Song (Stand-up Comedy) - "Have a question about Back to the Future for the guy who played "BIFF?" Yeah, so do a billion other people! Here's a song ..."
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3/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
znarf : Digg users are dumber than goldfish [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Digg users are dumber than goldfish - Digg users are dumber than goldfish: "So not only can they be trained (goldfish, not Digg users), but according to a recent study, “goldfish memories can last as long as three months.” Which puts them approximately 47 days ahead of the co
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3/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The A:F6 fad on YouTube - Dane Cook lazywebs YouTube in an SNL joke, and hundreds of people respond
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3/10/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
deusx : Transhumanist Jokes - "A transhumanist walks into a bar…"
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3/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
tjogin : Equal Height Columns using CSS - Edward Eliot
Simon Willison : Equal Height Columns using CSS - Some seriously brilliant CSS trickery from Edward Eliot.
Paul Hammond : Equal Height Columns using CSS - Edward Eliot - Creating equal height columns with tables is easy
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3/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : 3 Easy Steps to Avoid JavaScript Memory Leaks - YUI handles two of them for you; avoid DOM expandos as well and you should be set.
Paul Hammond : Jack Slocum’s Blog » 3 Easy Steps to Avoid JavaScript Memory Leaks - By following the easy steps above, even a novice can write JavaScript code that is leak free.
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3/10/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Training Goldfish (and professors) | 2006-10-02 | BitWorking
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3/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
philgyford : Piecing IT together » Blog Archive » Why Calendars are hard - In the unlikely event I need a summary of why it's difficult to code decent calendaring. (via Blech)
Paul Hammond : piecing IT together » Blog Archive » Why Calendars are hard - there are some fundamental challenges which calendars, calendaring and scheduling face that need to be addressed
wearehugh : piecing IT together » Blog Archive » Why Calendars are hard
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3/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
philgyford : Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Supposing ... Subversive genius Banksy is actually rubbish - I do like Banksy's images, but I hate how people fawn over his criminal and not-really-political acts. (via Blech)
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3/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
philgyford : Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones - If you've installed several versions of Internet Explorer in Windows XP, here's how to make them work better.
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3/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
philgyford : NSLog(@"Erik J. Barzeski"); - iTunes Artwork in ID3 - AppleScript to move the artwork iTunes can fetch for you into the MP3 file itself. (via Daring Fireball)
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3/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
philgyford : WizbangTech - MT Plugin: Naughtytext 1.0 - Movable Type plugin to strip ugly characters (like those from Microsoft Word) from entries and comments.
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3/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
philgyford : July 2006 - Issue 391 | New Internationalist - Why carbon offsets and buying trees aren't the answer to global warming. This is my instinct too but I'd like to find a more objective and scientific source. (via Haddock)
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : RedHanded » These Yelps and Squeals are Totally Valid - wazup?!!!?!??1:!!??
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : O'Reilly Radar > YouTube and the DMCA - Enforcing copyright now has a non-zero price which means the rights for material of no value will tend to not be enforced
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Chris Shiflett: The Dangers of Cross-Domain Ajax with Flash - If the user interface and API operate in the same domain, there's almost no limit to what an attacker can do.
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Wikipedia vs Britannica: Yawn. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns from the chaos that is the blogosphere. - Wikipedia wins not because it is more accurate or more inclusive or written by more people or has expert contributors. All that is irrelevant. It wins because it's free.
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Window to DPO's thoughts: A forensic analysis of the IE6 BackgroundImageCache command identifier - I don't know yet what's the catch, if there is any. But it does a pretty good job for me.
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : random($foo): Google Reader: Huge Improvement.. BUT... - The Inbox metaphor may work for those who have a few sites they read, but how does it let me sample/prioritize for hundreds or thousands of feeds?
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer - The moral of the story: don't bother improving yourself, unless you have the freedom to improve your environment accordingly
Simon Willison : Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer - It demotivates you when working with less expressive languages.
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Drink Broken: Tracking Health With Bash - I added a curl command to my home and work bash startup files, that would increment a daily counter every time I fired up a shell.
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Rails deployment tip for Debian systems and Apache - Not rocket science, but a pleasing bit of configuration that keeps things tidy.
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3/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Bloggers dumber than high school students - Chad and Dave over at ScienceBlogs concocted an experiment to compare the SAT results of high school students with those of bloggers. The result? Short answer: the bloggers lost. More results here.
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