6/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
Isofarro : More On Dyslexia - Mel discusses dyslexia in depth and how it relates to colour-contrast. An essential and interesting read.
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6/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
deusx : The Holy Grails of Console Gaming - The Rarest, Most Valuable, and Desirable Games Ever - racketboy - "games that everyone wants, that no one can find, and that stand tall as the centerpiece of their game room."
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6/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
veen : Geekspeak still baffles web users | BBC NEWS - "While 40% of online Britons receive news feeds, 67% did not know that the official term for this service was Really Simple Syndication."
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bmilleare : Photoshop Photo Effects Pop Art Tutorial
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6/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
bmilleare : Flex 2 Apps on Linux!!! - This is awesome, Flash Player 9 and Flex 2 on Linux
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6/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Wall Street Journal says Google are in talks to buy YouTube - Now that's an interesting bit of gossip. What with the parallel gossip from my guys as well, you can't help feeling that this should be a more profitable time to be in social media. It's raise time around now, right? Right?
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6/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Remember, responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms - Remember, responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms.
plasticbag : Responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms - It's the right thing to do. Apparently.
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6/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : List of great insults - List of great insults. It may be apocryphal, but I've always loved the exchange between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill: "Lady Astor: 'Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.' Churchill: 'Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.'" (v [via]
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6/10/2006 @ 22:04 GMT
Linkorama : Decentralization and Security - The wrong kind of structural barriers are harmful to business, and they also harmful to security.
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6/10/2006 @ 22:04 GMT
Linkorama : VLAB Enterprise 2.0 Event - MIT Stanford venture lab event with sugarcrm, socialtext and visible path
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6/10/2006 @ 22:04 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : set background=dark if you use vim on black terminals - avoid dark blue on black text
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Matthew M. Boedicker : free chapter of O'Reilly High Performance MySQL on replication
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6/10/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A Simple Show of Hands - A Simple Show of Hands: "To hold someone’s hand is to offer them affection, protection or comfort. It is a way to communicate that you are off the market."
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6/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : jeep drives across water - jeep drives across water: that's just insane.. and very cool
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6/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Top 100 most popular classical music pieces - Top 100 most popular classical music pieces, featuring stuff like Beethoven's 5th, Pomp and Circumstance, and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
Jeremy Zawodny : Classical Music's Top 100 Greatest Hits - Classical Music's Top 100 Greatest Hits: "Rock out with your Bach out." Heh.
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6/10/2006 @ 21:03 GMT
Linkorama : Myspace Acquisition Fraud? - “The answer to how News Corp. was fortunate enough to buy one of the largest and most valuable Internet companies for pennies on the dollar is now clear,†said Myspace founder Brad Greenspan. “I expect as the authorities get their arms a
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6/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Battle of the Bands - When album cover art attacks... One for the music geeks. [via] #
Jon Hicks : Battle of the Bands - Superb animation of album covers (Via Buzz ) [via]
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6/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently snapped a picture of the Opportunity rover perched on the rim of Victoria Crater - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently snapped a picture of the Opportunity rover perched on the rim of Victoria Crater. Opportunity drove more than 5 miles from its landing site to get there. High resolution photo here. Here's where Opportunity is located
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6/10/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
kellan : SF Golden Gate Park, 4:40pm: Free Billy Bragg show #
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6/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
deusx : A special comment about lying - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com - "Please, sir, do not throw this country’s principles away because your lies have made it such that you can no longer differentiate between the terrorists and the critics."
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6/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. - Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage.: best abstract ever!
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6/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend - Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend: "Back to Pell's post, he fails to explain how searchers are somehow magically going to go beyond "keywordese" to natural language searching. They aren't using keywordes
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6/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What Problem Does Natural Language Search Solve? - What Problem Does Natural Language Search Solve?: "the problem with natural language search is that it requires everyone to change their behavior" maybe... a lot of people *do* query in natural language and are surprised that it doesn't work
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6/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Sensational news report on World of Warcraft addiction - complete with crying moms and scary voiceovers, WoW is the new D&D
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6/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Make Love, Not Warcraft - South Park's wonderful Warcraft machinima episode
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6/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Holding hands is increasingly seen as a sign of commitment and intimacy, while more seemingly intimate acts like kissing and sex are more likely to occur earlier in a "relationship" - Holding hands is increasingly seen as a sign of commitment and intimacy, while more seemingly intimate acts like kissing and sex are more likely to occur earlier in a "relationship".
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6/10/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
Isofarro : An Alternative Colour Contrast Analyser - Mel comes up with a colour contrast analyser that focuses on the problem of there being too much contrast, thus making it more difficult for people with dyslexia to read. Still some empiricial work needed to determine an accurate upper limit.
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6/10/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : MobileRead Networks - Links to fresh Sony Reader reviews - Reviews of Sony's e-ink ebook reader. Seem to universally say "It's kind of nice, but it needs a light and is too expensive." [via] #
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6/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : More than half of MySpace now 35 or older - Slashdot says, "The truth: More predators, less victims."
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6/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : David Hasselhoff Says "Knight Rider" Car Was Gay - headline of the year
Nelson Minar : K.I.T.T. was gay! - Then again, Hasselhoff may have been drunk (via Waxy)
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6/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Battle of the Bands - classic album covers fight to the death; brilliant work [via]
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6/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Lemony Snicket has finished the last of his 13-book Series of Unfortunate Events with The End - Lemony Snicket has finished the last of his 13-book Series of Unfortunate Events with The End.
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6/10/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Bush says he can edit security reports - Yahoo! News - "Bush, for example, said he'd disregard a requirement that the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency must have at least five years experience and "demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management and homeland security."
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6/10/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Linkorama : Industry Of Cool - I asked [Yelp] where they thought they would be in five years. Stoppelman: Sitting on top of a pile of money ... [in unison with Simmons] ... surrounded by women! Yeah! [high five]
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6/10/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : When too much is not enough and a little is just right. Google > Yahoo - When too much is not enough and a little is just right. Google > Yahoo: "I agree and realize that for me it’s the fact that with Google I can get and visually scan *a lot more results* much faster than with normal Yahoo search."
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6/10/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bizarre: It's the dog's Borats - Bizarre: It's the dog's Borats: "It is quite simply the most shocking, offensive, tasteless, politically incorrect movie I’ve ever seen. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it is THE most appallingly crude and shocking movie ever mad
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6/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: For Your Consideration trailer - the new Christopher Guest film, a la Best in Show and A Mighty Wind [via]
jkottke : Trailer for Christopher Guest's new mockumentary film, For Your Consideration - Trailer for Christopher Guest's new mockumentary film, For Your Consideration. Yes, Parker Posey is present and accounted for. (via wdik) [via]
jimray : For Your Consideration - New Christopher Guest film, this time he mockuments Hollywood
Rod Begbie : For Your Consideration trailer - Trailer for Christopher Guest's upcoming flick. [via] #
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6/10/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
fastclemmy : Terminator vs. Robocop - Terminator vs. Robocop by fastclemmy & 1 other(s) Awesome movie mashup! mashup terminator hotlinks robocop movie Copy | React (0)
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Jeremy Zawodny : How we made the BBAuth screencast - How we made the BBAuth screencast: "All in all, I probably spent close to 2 hours beginning to end producing this screencast, but most of that was learning a few tricks."
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6/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr / Yahoo! Mail API beta Photo Postcard Hack - Flickr / Yahoo! Mail API beta Photo Postcard Hack: "Thanks again Yahoo for throwing an awesome event. We had a blast."
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6/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : 51 Birch Street - new film by Doug Block, director of Home Page [via]
jkottke : Doug Block, who you may remember was the director of the Home Page documentary (about online life circa 1997, featured Justin Hall), has a new documentary coming out called 51 Birch Street - Doug Block, who you may remember was the director of Home Page (a documentary about online life circa 1997, featured Justin Hall), has a new documentary coming out called 51 Birch Street. The film is an examination of Block's family begun after his mother
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6/10/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : beth on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - My lovely chum Jill Bernard is currently drawing anti-drug animal poems, and they're making me laugh. #
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6/10/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Natalie Jost's Pink for October - Natalie Jost's lovely Pink for October design. (Mouseover issue on logo in FF/Safari?)
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6/10/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Redefining Content Management - Vitamin: Redefining Content Management. "When most of us think (or talk, or read) about content management we are quick to associate it with a specific technology - the CMS. That, my friends, is our first, and probably our biggest, mistake. 'CMS' should i
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6/10/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Jeremy Coward Photography - Great photography work from Jeremy Cowart: Flickr | Portfolio. Photosets: Album Covers, Random Abstractions. (Thanks, John)
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6/10/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : The Peace River - Dave Rau, whom you might recognize as Mr. Red Labor, just released The Peace River into the wild - a beautifully worn site for the Southwest Florida Water Mgmt District.
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6/10/2006 @ 09:02 GMT
joshua : The Secret Garden - xray photographs of flowers
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6/10/2006 @ 09:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Size 20 model - Gaultier's comment on thin debates (via boingboing)
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6/10/2006 @ 09:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Foley a scientologist? - Weirdest twist to this story yet.
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6/10/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Nietzsche family circus - via metafilter
jimray : The Nietzsche Family Circus - Random Family Circus cartoon, meet random Nietzsche quote. Brilliant.
gleuschk : The Nietzsche Family Circus - makes every day a little weirder (not that today needed any help)
Matthew M. Boedicker : The Nietzsche Family Circus - (via del.icio.us/gleuschk) [via]
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6/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : RU Sirius interviews Neil Gaiman - a great coherent interview, available in MP3 or text
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6/10/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : hanging a prism in your kitchen window
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6/10/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : developer rage - (via slashdot) [via]
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6/10/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : DOM:window.navigator.registerContentHandler - MDC
jcgregorio : DOM:window.navigator.registerContentHandler - MDC
deusx : DOM:window.navigator.registerContentHandler - MDC - "For Firefox 2, only the application/vnd.mozilla.maybe.feed, application/atom+xml, and application/rss+xml MIME types are supported. All values have the same effect, and the registered handler will receive feeds in all Atom and RSS versions."
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6/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Screening People with Clearances - Classic Schneier analysis.
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6/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Airbag - Boxes. - Our content is all starting to look the same because of the tools used to manage it and web-two-point-dough has homogenized the Internet.
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6/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Make ruby-mysql create less garbage - 30% faster!
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6/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Top 10 Reasons Why Your 5 Tips About 7 Cutting-Edge Technologies will annoy me | A Whole Lotta Nothing - I'm starting to think it's just lazy headline writing that gets promoted up thanks to our nanosecond attention-span RSS readin' latte drinkin' ruby on rails codin' getting things done task managin' nerd culture.
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6/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Uninspired :: Jogin.com - I’m sad to see the increased conformity and fast-food taste of the content itself
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6/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Google code search (kottke.org) - it's given lots of flashlights to people interested in exploring dark corners
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6/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Ajaxian » “Don’t Waste Time†with Graphical Ajax Solutions - Competent developers don’t engage in dogmatic battles, because they know software is all about trade-offs. Many times, Flash wins. Many times, it loses.
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6/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : v-2 Organisation | news | IA or not IA - if IA is as a whole not interested in what's going on here, then I am afraid that I am not interested in it
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6/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Pen - This is pen, a load balancer for "simple" tcp based protocols such as http or smtp
joshua : Pen - simple load balancer
bmilleare : Pen - simple load balancer
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6/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Criticker - The Departed - The new Scorsese film is getting massively positive reviews -- Criticker reckons I'd give it 97/100. Gonna have to break my Leonardo DiCaprio embargo and go see it, I think. #
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6/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Unlikely Terrorists On No-Fly List, Steve Kroft Reports List Includes President Of Bolivia, Dead 9/11 Hijackers - CBS News - CBS News has got their hands on the TSA's "No-Fly List". Sucks to be a Gary Smith or a Robert Johnson. [via] #
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6/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : "if you are seeing this message" - Google Search
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