15/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
43folders : Francis Bacon - Wikiquote - "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." [Thanks, Geof Morris]
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15/10/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Apple - Trailers - STRANGER THAN FICTION - Saw this trailer yesterday, and it caught my attention in the same way that the trailer for "Being John Malkovich" did years ago. #
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15/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
cameron : Creative advertisements around the world - I'm particularly fond of the machines that are made to look like people are working inside of them.
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15/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
jcgregorio : JEP | 2006-10-15 | BitWorking
deusx : JEP | 2006-10-15 | BitWorking - "Here is the one entry where I'll track all the things I've posted about using JSON RESTfully"
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15/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Who Should Buy Yahoo! - Who Should Buy Yahoo!: "Microsoft can afford Yahoo! and a combined MSN/Yahoo! would certainly be a stronger competitive player against Google, something that is clearly on Ballmer's mind right now. That seems the most likely deal to me."
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15/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
plasticbag : Stephen Colbert's awesome Cooking with Feminists - Featuring Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem. I don't know if my mother's reading this, but I think you'd find this funny. I'm not sure, but I think you would. I hope you would. I think it's funny. Um.
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15/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What Is Telstar Logistics? - What Is Telstar Logistics?: "The short answer is that it's a scam for parking illegally in loading zones."
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15/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : Carson Systems are doing another Future of Web Apps conference in the UK - and this time it's a two day event like in San Francisco - I have to say that while I love talking at Carson events, I very much do not like the fear that I get for weeks beforehand. They're huge events and they fill me with ridiculous levels of fear.
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15/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Seven Tips for Naming Your Web 2.0 Startup - I'm interested that the rules they cite are broken by pretty much every single start-up that they mention.
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15/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : The people who benefit most from talks and lectures are the people who give them - I completely believe this. It totally meshes with my experience. The whole process of preparing, practicing and dellivering talks pushes me to clarify my ideas and then keeps them in a nice memorable structure that I find really easy to retain.
jimray : Lectures Work Against the Brain - Talking at people for more than about five minutes is useless. Or, at least, counterproductive.
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15/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Mark Thomas organises twenty-one demonstrations for the same day to meta-protest the limits on protests in Central London - My favourite protest was outside Westminster Abbey and read, "God is Dead, Shut the Abbey". It's difficult to feel unhindered love for Mark Thomas—he's a bit of a smug bastard—but at the same time, the man's got some style...
Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited | Mark Thomas on demonstrating near the Houses of Parliament - To protest against the stupid law that prevents "unlawful demonstrations" near the the UK Houses of Parliament, Mark Thomas stages 21 licensed one-man demonstrations in one day. "10.45am, Hungerford Bridge: Demonstration to demand Trolls for London Bridg [via] #
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15/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Channel 'five' in the UK is doing downloads of some of its core TV shows - You get to keep them and watch them for fourteen days after broadcast and you have to pay for them, and you have to use IE6 on a PC. But other than that, it's pretty impressive. I'll give it a few months until iTunes starts selling TV in the UK...
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15/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : What's Maria Wearing? - A sporadically updated weblog that bitches about what Maria's wearing on Yahoo's The 9. I wish I had as many types of top as she does!
Jeremy Zawodny : What's Maria Wearing? - What's Maria Wearing?: "What's Maria Wearing is dedicated to Maria's on-air wardrobe (good or bad). Give each days new threads a thumbs up or down. Now back to work!" I have a funny story about this that I should tell.
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15/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : RESTful JSON Client | 2006-10-15 | BitWorking
jcgregorio : RESTful JSON Client | 2006-10-15 | BitWorking
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15/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : The story of Friendster's failure - The story of Friendster's failure. By way of illustration, the people involved all blame each other for the debacle. I've gotta say, I loved watching Friendster fail...they were the poster child for stupid dot com companies during a time when that crap wa
Linkorama : Wallflower at the Web Party - There is no single reason that explains Friendster’s failure...“It’s a power story,†he said. “It’s a status story. It’s an ego story.†But largely, he said, Friendster is a “very Silicon Valley st
Andy Baio : Wallflower at the Web Party - in-depth NYT profile on Jonathan Abrams and the demise of Friendster [via]
philgyford : Wallflower at the Web Party - New York Times - Why Friendster floundered. I love reading technology failure (or not quite success) stories. (via ChrisDodo)
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15/10/2006 @ 13:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Poodle exercise - If Japan did not exist, we would have to invent it
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Jon Hicks : smcFanControl - This handy little app lets you set the fan speed higher on your MacBook Pro to keep it cooler. Its really worked a treat on mine, and the fans are fairly quiet.
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15/10/2006 @ 12:00 GMT
wearehugh : humping_iceweasel.gif (GIF Image, 200x208 pixels) - be sure to enable gif animation if you've turned it off
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15/10/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Michelin SF errors - The inevitable nitpicking (via Merlin)
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15/10/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Sproose - Sproose: a social search engine, apparently... it's crawling my site like mad right now
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15/10/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail to Keep Their Best Talent - Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail to Keep Their Best Talent: "If you want to keep your best people, make sure they're surrounded by other great people."
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15/10/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Terry Semel: Cause of Yahoo's Success or Along for the Ride? - Terry Semel: Cause of Yahoo's Success or Along for the Ride?: "...as Terry Semel caused the turnaround of Yahoo in the last 5 years? Or would it have happened anyway..."
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15/10/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : If at First You Don’t Succeed... - My first 300K - If at First You Don’t Succeed... - My first 300K: Congrats to Grace on her 300km flights! I expect to see her in contests before long.
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15/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : where things stand... - where things stand...: "I think it's important for folks in the tech space to keep an eye on WHAT you want to do, and not so much on HOW that has to be done; there's an awful lot of "we need an ajax geek" out there, with job descrip
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15/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : pre-election cynicism - pre-election cynicism: "I've met so many people who traffic in knowledge, power, and fame. The problem is that they haven't lived up to my fantasy of what they should be like."
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15/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why I Didn't Get My Driver's License Until I Was Eighteen - Why I Didn't Get My Driver's License Until I Was Eighteen: "the 1968 International Harvester mail truck rolled backwards down the driveway, across the street, between two parked cars with inches to spare on either side, bumped up over the cur
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kellan : SQLite now has full text indexing, as a loadable module. - The embedded database of choice just got more interesting. What would you do with an embedded , searchable database in Firefox? [via] #
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cameron : Amazing video of a landslide in Japan - Everything takes place in only a few brief moments. Frightening.
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Eric Meyer : My Animated World - A full day shown in stop motion video - Pretty well done, and with a fair number of clever touches to boot. [via FreshArrival] [via]
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deusx : smcFanControl - Damn, this thing reduces the machine's temperature dramatically. I could feel it cool down under my hand. "smcFanControl lets you control your fans manually to make your macbook(pro) run cooler. "
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cameron : Whitney music box - Pretty much the coolest thing ever. Sound meets art meets math x 10000.
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plasticbag : Bloody Dove 'Campaign for Real Beauty' had to go and produce this quite good video just to make me all conflicted - This whole Dove campaign seems so fake and it's really profoundly aggravating, but this video is pretty clever and pretty smart - although I'm having trouble knowing whether I buy it. Seems to me most people compare themselves with hot friends and the you
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