16/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
Linkorama : Teach A Man to Cellphone - "One element of poverty is the lack of information. The cellphone gives poor people as much information as the middleman."
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16/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
Linkorama : Office 2.0 Wrapup - Office 2.0 is for individuals and Very Small Businesses (VSB). On one hand, Office 2.0 is not ready for the enterprise, and it’s a good thing. Trying to make Office 2.0 work for the enterprise today will strip the concept off all the good things th
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16/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
jimray : Welcome | The Filter - Peter Gabriel (yes, THAT Peter Gabriel) is offering software that helps you find your music again.
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16/10/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : earFeeder :: Customized newsfeeds about your favorite artists - Site which scans the MP3s on your hard disk, then builds you a custom RSS feed of news, tourdates, etc based upon your "favourite" artists. Taking this for a spin too. Update: The user experience on the site is horrible -- It freezes your browser for a [via] #
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16/10/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
cobra libre : Stooges + Mike Watt + Steve Albini = ??? #
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16/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Wally Wallington demonstrates how to move anything by yourself, including a barn and a Stonehenge-sized rock - Wally Wallington demonstrates how to move anything by yourself, including a barn and a Stonehenge-sized rock. More information available at Wally's site.
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16/10/2006 @ 22:07 GMT
Cameron Moll : Veerle Tutorials Archive - Veerle's archived tutorials are plenty rich in design how-to, including her latest: Creating a ribbon in Adobe Illustrator.
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16/10/2006 @ 22:07 GMT
Cameron Moll : piotr m, dog pic extraordinaire - piotr m's Flickr photostream contains a wealth of fantastic canine photography: I, II, III, and IV.
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43folders : Monkey On Your Back - Cute way to request task work of others via email. (One-click add to apps would be nice to add in.) Also, as you know, everyone loves monkeys.
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16/10/2006 @ 22:05 GMT
43folders : Fire And Motion - Joel on Software - "...the principle of Fire and Motion is how you get things done in life. You have to move forward a little bit, every day."
Rod Begbie : Fire And Motion - Joel on Software - Classic Joel article from 2002. I had to go and reread this, because I've been stuck in a rut of unproductivity for the last couple of days. Good reminder that it happens to everyone. #
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16/10/2006 @ 22:04 GMT
43folders : videogrunt_directory - Craig Syverson's handy video and podcast info site. Cool stuff. (Met Craig Saturday, and boy, does he ever look like Mathowie)
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16/10/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
cameron : Ghosts Amid the Graffiti - This story details one of the strangest buildings in NYC, and one I have stared at thousands of times. (via kathrynyu)
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16/10/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Cessna LSA Flies - Cessna LSA Flies: "Cessna's proof-of-concept entry into the light sport aircraft category flew for the first time last Friday (the 13th). The 33-minute flight originated at McConnell Air Force Base and ended at Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita.&q
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16/10/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 101 Sex Tricks to Try Before You Die - 101 Sex Tricks to Try Before You Die: that's a bit list... time to get busy!
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16/10/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Blog ping full of spam - Google Blog ping full of spam: "Google’s blog ping service is used by spammers more than anything else." I bet most of 'em use AdSense too.
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16/10/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Patti Smith plays CBGB's last night before closure - as always, the Flickr and YouTube coverage is great, including Blondie on Thursday night
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Andy Baio : Virtual economies attract real-world tax attention - note that the end of the article mentions Reuters' new virtual news bureau in Second Life [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : E3 reborn into summer show in Santa Monica - PAX is the new E3 [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Scarlett Johansson releasing album of Tom Waits covers? - she has a Marilyn Monroe quality to her voice [via]
jimray : Scarlett Johansson recording an album of Tom Waits covers - I sort of love/loathe this idea
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16/10/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Selling Jeffrey Zeldman on Selling - Khoi Vinh interviews Jeffrey Zeldman in preparation for Tuesday's AIGA NY appearance. "We solve really big problems and then we move on. I don't think thatÂ’s a bad thing for anyone concerned. I think it's a good thing. [...] Once the big problems are
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16/10/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : A few good free fonts - A few good free fonts included in this font list posted at Smashing Machine.
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16/10/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Workshop: Bulletproof Design with XHTML and CSS - Bulletproof Design with XHTML and CSS with Mr. Incredible himself, Dan Cederholm. Boston, November 2. [Insert pun about a target and not missing this workshop.]
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16/10/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Opening new windows with JavaScript - Roger Johansson: Opening new windows with JavaScript. Note this is a tutorial for those who need to generate new windows for one reason or another without the use of the target attribute, and not a discussion about the worth or value of popup windows.
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16/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
veen : The New York Times on the fall of Friendster - "Such are the appetites of companies fixated on growing into multibillion-dollar behemoths. They seek to run even before they can walk."
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16/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : New: Cover Browser - New: Cover Browser: "During the last week I created Cover Browser, a website to explore & search comic book covers." A nice mix of Google and Yahoo APIs behind the scenes too...
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16/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Giant Bubble Helmet Gives 360-Degree View - I like to think that it's Jaron Lanier hiding in there
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16/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Real Beauty vs Photoshop - the Dove film shows a vivid example of the Photoshop whitewashing of models
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16/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : What's so special about the number 1729? - What's so special about the number 1729? (Turns out, quite a lot.)
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16/10/2006 @ 20:04 GMT
43folders : How to change a tire - Lifehacker - Yesterday, Lifehacker showed how to change a tire.
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16/10/2006 @ 20:04 GMT
jimray : MSNBC launches consumer news section
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16/10/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Honda GPS to include social networking features - reviews make sense, but seeing the location of your friends en route can't be far behind [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Elite Beat Agents track listing announced - I'm a sucker for rhythm games with interesting UI [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Andy Baio : The Filter, Windows iTunes recommender plugin powered by All Music Guide - for OS X users, try Soundflavor or beaTunes [via]
Rod Begbie : The Filter - App that works with iTunes to build up "smart" playlists from your library. Seems to be entirely metadata based (no fingerprinting), and limited to your existing library. Giving it a spin now. [via] #
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16/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Bill Murray attends late-night college party, washes dishes - also, note that CNN is soliciting for photos adn video from people who attended
Jeremy Zawodny : Bill Murray attends student party, does dishes - Bill Murray attends student party, does dishes: nice!
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16/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Comic Book Cover Browser - over 5,500 covers available, extracted using a number of available web APIs [via]
jimray : Comic book cover browser
Matthew M. Boedicker : comic book cover browser - (via waxy links) [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Top 10 ad-tricks in Tokyo's train stations - Ikea realized the only way to attract attention is by sponsoring whitespace [via]
Cameron Moll : 10 ad tricks in Tokyo's train stations - Not yet big in Japan? Try 10 ad tricks in Tokyo's train stations.
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16/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Bubble Bobble game for Nintendo DS ships with empty level - nice play testing! every cartridge shipped with this fatal bug, blocking gameplay beyond level 30
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16/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired News' editor catches MySpace pedophile with code - note that the author is Kevin Poulsen; also, I saw a very relevant banner ad below the Boing Boing post
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16/10/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
Linkorama : corporate social networking - A handful of startups have launched social networking services to business users and to companies, hoping that new workers will use them to find customers and contacts the way they once used these sites to find dates.
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16/10/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
kellan : Boston LUG: Enterprise-Class Virtualization with Open Source Technologies - If i was in Boston I'd so be there. [via] #
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16/10/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
tehu : (French) IceWeasel against Mozillan FireFox - Last saturday during a conference on Free Software at Lyon. Invectives and insults have ensued on blogs.
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16/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Video of a landslide in Japan - Video of a landslide in Japan. (via cameron) [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Slideshow of photographs from the last show (+ archival photos) at CBGB, a beloved New York music venue - Slideshow of photographs from the last show (+ archival photos) at CBGB, a beloved New York music venue. Several photos of the club's final days are available on Flickr as well.
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16/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : A collection of artists each picked a page from The Pat Robertson and Friends Coloring Book and "colored" them in - A collection of artists each picked a page from The Pat Robertson and Friends Coloring Book and "colored" them in. (thx, gk)
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16/10/2006 @ 18:05 GMT
jcgregorio : O'Reilly Radar > Cobol: The Undead Language
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16/10/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
43folders : Best earbuds for less than $100 [SF Gate] - "We've rounded up a selection of great earbuds that can be had for less than $100."
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16/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
43folders : Introducing These Week’s Theme: Fitness at Dethroner - My new third- or fourth-favorite blog tackles an issue each week. This week: fitness and weight loss. Very cool.
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16/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
jimray : U.S. Population hits 300 million mark - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com - Evann kickss asss
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16/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Alice links to some Michael Jackson / WOW Machinima - There's been some hard work gone into editing this one, and the result is extremely classy and cool and of significantly higher quality than much of the recent South Park episode...
deusx : Wonderland: Billy Jean WoW machinima - "This is pretty clever. There's an Alliance Quest involving a human kid character called Billy McClure: combine this with the male Night Elf dance (obviously lifted from Michael Jackson in the first place) and some vintage .. but mashed .. MJ, and you get
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16/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Open Rights Group is looking for a full-time Executive Director - "ORG now needs a full time Executive Director (ED) to build our supporter numbers and expand our activities. The ED reports to the ORG Board, and has the support of an Advisory Council of digital rights experts."
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16/10/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Damn Interesting - The Gravity Express - "One interesting property of the Gravity Express is that its transit time would always be very, very close to forty-two minutes regardless of the distance travelled."
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16/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
gleuschk : US Census Press Releases -- 300 million on Tuesday morning - and me just about to start differential equations in Calc II -- what a coincidence!
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16/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : #354622 - Message 338 - Debian Bug report logs - thunderbird is now icedove in debian (firefox rename coming shortly)
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16/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : glandium.org » Blog Archive » Facts about Debian and Mozilla® Firefox® - "For the [Debian] etch release, Iceweasel will only be Firefox® with a different branding."
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16/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : The future of science: celebrity photography - The future of science: celebrity photography. While in Venice for the World Conference on the Future of Science, prominent philosopher Daniel Dennett squeezed off a shot of Paris Hilton arriving at the hotel for, one would assume, activities unrelated to
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16/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : detailed map of the Simpsons' Springfield - (via digg) [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : video of every Simpsons episode - (via digg) [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Stephen Hawking is making an Imax 3D film about "cosmology and the meaning of existence" - Stephen Hawking is making an Imax 3D film about "cosmology and the meaning of existence". The film "will be like Groundhog Day meets Star Trek".
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16/10/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : Tyler Cowen takes a closer look at the recent "600,000 deaths in Iraq" claim - Tyler Cowen takes a closer look at the recent "600,000 deaths in Iraq" claim. "We all know that the political world judges Iraq by the absolute badness of what is going on (which means Bush critics find a higher number to fit their priors), but that is an
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16/10/2006 @ 13:02 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : The DEJIMA Japanese Film Festival complete program is online [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 10:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Richard's Paris blog - Old friend of mine is starting to blog
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16/10/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
deusx : another zit on the arse of the universe from warrenelliscom - "Apparently I can now tell people that I’m writing a CASTLEVANIA animated film for Project 51 Productions."
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16/10/2006 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : WoW:BC Tree Disguise - "You are a tree! Shhhhh!"
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16/10/2006 @ 09:02 GMT
Jason Shellen : GE Monogram® 30" Built-In Single Wall Oven with Trivection® Technology - Turns out 30 Rock wasn't really kidding about the Trivection Oven after all. #
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16/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Colbert, Steinem and Fonda - Colbert, Steinem and Fonda: feminist apple pie!
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16/10/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
joshua : Zaky Infant Pillow - disembodied hands keep touching your children
Ethan Marcotte : Zaky Infant Pillow - "Simulates a Mother’s Hand." Pardon me whilst I simulate retching. ∞
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16/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Children as text adventure game parsers - an anecdote that made me laugh
deusx : Our 69,105th post _... - My son just turned two, but about six months ago, I told him “Sam, go into your room and get a book and bring it out here,†and he did it, and I thought at the time, “Wow, he’s as smart as an Infocom game.â€
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16/10/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Jeremy Zawodny : No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering - No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering: a Fred Brooks classic
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16/10/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Who Killed the Electric Car? documentary - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Bush keeps revising war justification - Yahoo! News - "President Bush keeps revising his explanation for why the U.S. is in Iraq, moving from narrow military objectives at first to history-of-civilization stakes now."
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16/10/2006 @ 04:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Joel on Software : Book Review : Beyond Java - "On page 56 and page 57, Steve Yegge, who didn’t actually write the book, but plays an important walk-on role, bangs out the list. These are actually the most important two pages of the book, because these are the things that Python and Ruby (and,
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16/10/2006 @ 04:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : listen to emergency services, aircraft transmissions etc. using your TV card and hacked Linux driver - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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16/10/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
Linkorama : No iPod DRM Backlash? - At one point you were saying, “When our customers demand it, that's when we'll consider interoperability.†Jobs: Nobody's ever demanded it.
Rod Begbie : Q&A: Jobs on iPod's Cultural Impact - Newsweek - Steve Jobs: "I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're muc #
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16/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Bob Holmes imagines an earth without people in New Scientist - Bob Holmes imagines an earth without people in New Scientist. "All things considered, it will only take a few tens of thousands of years at most before almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely. Alien visitors coming to Earth 100
philgyford : Imagine Earth without people - life - 12 October 2006 - New Scientist - What would happen to the world if we all vanished. (via Boing Boing)
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16/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
43folders : Using Emacs org-mode for GTD - "A brief overview of org-mode Emacs and how it can be used to implement David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology" [via:anarchaia.org]
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16/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Photographer Francois Brunelle is looking for people and their doppelgangers to phoytograph for a project - Photographer Francois Brunelle is looking for people and their doppelgangers to phoytograph for a project. Whaddya say, Sweeney? (via bb) [via]
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