7/10/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Dr Who Season 2 DVD Covers - Wonderful homemade covers to download and print off! Via Siobhan [via]
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7/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : iceweasel2.png (PNG Image, 602x627 pixels)
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7/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
plasticbag : I'd Love This Product Even If I Weren't A Stealth Marketer - The Onion cuts right to the heart of the issue as usual.
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7/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Extraordinary World of Warcraft / South Park episode that was broadcast a few days ago - So like any good nerd I was both stunned by the accuracy and also irritated by the errors. You totally can't build up XP on boar! After a few levels you stop getting XP from something so much weaker than you!
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7/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
plasticbag : Media Convert - Free, online and apparently quite powerful media conversion utility. I haven't had a play with this yet, but it looks like it could be pretty useful. Wonder if it's got a web service around it.
Linkorama : Convert Everything - New: select URL mode to make a website screenshot.
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7/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
plasticbag : Cuddle Party - 'boundary-appropriate workshop' - Learn how to stop touching inappropriately! Get warm and close to lots of other people who crave human contact! Stop creeping me out! What's wrong with an affectionate nod?!
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7/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
plasticbag : Let your council sell your details to marketing agencies to avoid paying any council tax? - No doubt some people thinks this is a really really good idea, but all I can see is a disturbing border being breached between viewing me as a citizen and viewing me as a consumer.
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7/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
plasticbag : Robert Anton Wilson needs our help - He wrote the Illuminatus trilogy, he inspired many of the weirdest counter-cultural figures of the last several decades and he's poor and dying. A contribution can help him to die in peace.
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7/10/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Linkorama : Sevin Rosen Exits - one firm got out competed. oversupply of companies in certain sectors itself opens the exit window, an arbitrage over structural changes
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7/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Nobody's Watching offical site - As part of their development deal with NBC, the creators of the sitcom "Nobody's Watching" got some cash to make online videos. This is their site, chock-full of amusing videos, as they wait to find out if they're getting picked up for midseason. [via] #
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7/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
veen : Buying Online With a Brain That’s Offline - New York Times - "Welcome to one of the latest and strangest financial hazards of our high-tech age: clicking under the influence, or as a friend of mine called it, 'sip and click.'"
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7/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What's Wrong with Identity Silos? - What's Wrong with Identity Silos?: "If you were Yahoo! or Google, would you wait a few years for a technology that is more difficult for the developers you are targeting to adopt than what you can roll on your own today to meet your needs? If the
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7/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools (by Jeremy Zawodny) - Here's what I've discovered
joshua : A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools
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7/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : Berkun blog » Blog Archive » How to run a great unconference session - Running a great session isn’t hard - it just take some thought and awareness of what can go wrong.
WillPate : How to run a great unconference session
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7/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Paul Hammond : GNUCITIZEN » Javascript Spider - a proof of concept tool which shows that Javascript can be in fact quite dangerous
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7/10/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
kellan : The Fishbowl: Comment Your Performance Hacks - Or restated as comment your code that "makes it work" without changing functionality. Super solid advice. (I just went digging for the relevant classic JWZ rant on the Netscape FTP module, but I can't find it) #
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7/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
bmilleare : s3/fuse - infinately large disk device
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7/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Book Search increased book sales - hugely obvious, but most publishers are short-sighted, paranoid luddites [via]
jimray : Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan - Hey, waddaya know, Google's book scanning actually increases book sales. Who would've predicted that, besides everyone on the goddamn planet.
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7/10/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
jcgregorio : URI Templates | 2006-10-05 | BitWorking
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7/10/2006 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Burger King Eat Like Snake Triple Whopper Commercial
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7/10/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
veen : Interview with John Hodgman, the PC from those "Get a Mac" ads - Engadget - " I am first of all: not a computer, but a human being; and second of all: a Mac user, almost exclusively, since 1984. There was a brief period in the wilderness between 1997 and 2003. Let us not speak of it."
jimray : Interview with John Hodgman, the PC from those "Get a Mac" ads - Engadget - Wow, the guy that did Junebug is doing the new Apple ads?
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7/10/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
joshua : As We May Read - on arxiv
deusx : As We May Read -- Ginsparg 26 (38): 9606 -- Journal of Neuroscience - "This is the real lesson of the move to electronic formats and distribution: not that everything should somehow be free, but that with many of the production tasks automatable or off-loadable to the authors, the editorial costs will then dominate the cost
gleuschk : As We May Read - to read
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7/10/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
kellan : Fox Barrel Black Currant Cider - So don't say nothing good never came out of Colfax. #
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7/10/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Garmin Mobile 10 - Garmin Mobile 10: Garmin is making a bluetooth gps you can pair with a phone, pda, or laptop.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Google Puts Lid on New Products - Google Puts Lid on New Products: "Realizing that its myriad services are confusing users, it will focus on refining what it has." This article is full of excellent quotes.
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7/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
jkottke : Abridged version of Bob Woodward's State of Denial, which "details the infighting, disarray, and mistakes made by the Bush war council during the Iraq war".
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7/10/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
Linkorama : Fred Brooks of Microsoft - What if Microsoft could not deliver Vista? Not just that it would have to delay Vista again by another six months, but that it can't deliver it in its current design.
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7/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : xkcd: Nihilism - Zomg squirrels!
plasticbag : xkcd decides to represent one of Simon Willison's major life events - The world afterwards has been resolutely full of squirrels.
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7/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Clean your flat in sixty seconds... - Clean your flat in sixty seconds...: hahahahahahaha!!!1
Simon Willison : Clean your flat in sixty seconds... - Time-lapse video as personal productivity tool.
deusx : Clean your flat in sixty seconds... (plasticbag.org) - "I love the idea of a whole Internet full of performance cleaning."
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7/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Daily Show: What Exactly Is President Bush's Job? - Daily Show: What Exactly Is President Bush's Job?: I have no idea. Neither does the president.
plasticbag : The Daily Show explore exactly what George Bush's job is - God, it's really about time someone did that. The whole liberal media has been really slack in trying to work out what he's for. Poor old chap must be terribly confused. Do I sound snarky? Do I?! Sleep deprived more like. Grumble.
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7/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Why an atheist cares about religion - Fascinating video on the way atheists are viewed in large tracts of the US and the way that religion is written into schooling, politics, power and history.
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7/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : The BBC report on the spotting of the Mars rover from space - I'll resist the temptation to mock and say that we sort of already knew that was there, and instead ask why on earth the BBC or NASA would say that there's a picture of the mars rover that's visible from space and then show a picture in which it clearly i
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7/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : PopTech Live - Can't make it to PopTech this year? Good news: they're showing the whole thing live on the web for free.
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