18/10/2006 @ 23:04 GMT
43folders : An interview with Jim Donald, CEO and president, Starbucks - October 16, 2006 - I love 'how I work' pieces like this, and this fellow seems to have a lot on the ball. [Thanks, Rebecca Blood]
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43folders : Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Why do people call it “Mail.app� - Ever try to Google help for "Mail?" Might as well be looking for an app called "The" or "Sex." It's a really stupid name. [via:Daring Fireball.net]
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43folders : The Macalope » Blog Archive » Dear Apple… - "But shipping virus-infected iPods was your mistake. Not Microsoft’s."
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18/10/2006 @ 23:04 GMT
jimray : Matt McAlister » [STARTUP] gets acquired by [BIGDOTCOM] for $[LOTSOFMONEY] - Oh, good times
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18/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
gleuschk : HT verify timestamp of an email? | Ask MetaFilter - dear students: this doesn't work
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cameron : Spike the Vote! - "My name is Spike. I'm tired of 30 elite users (or bots, perhaps) controlling the front page content of digg.com." Spike wants to control what gets on the front page.
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18/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
cameron : Only 13 days 'til Halloween... - Time to start putting costumes on your dog!
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18/10/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : BW: Wal-Mart workers walk out - BusinessWeek Online - MSNBC.com - BW: Wal-Mart workers walk out - BusinessWeek Online - MSNBC.com: wow, wal-mart sounds like an insane place to work
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Jeremy Zawodny : Is Anyone Else Pissed About This? - Is Anyone Else Pissed About This?: IE7 appears to ignore feed stylesheet, opting instead of imposing Microsoft's idea of what is right. Surprised? I'm not.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo: Time for a Shake-Up - Yahoo: Time for a Shake-Up: "A less charitable interpretation, one I've floated before, would be that the company got fat, happy, and lazy." Bingo!
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Jeremy Zawodny : When You Pick Your Tools, Pick Those That Can Build Tools - When You Pick Your Tools, Pick Those That Can Build Tools: "Programmers should be tool builders. If you’re not building tools to make your life easier, you’re wasting time." Good advice.
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18/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Polyorama, combinatorial artwork viewer - an updated version of vintage illustrated card toys, made by Metafilter and Flickr members [via]
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Cameron Moll : Forthcoming Backpack UI enhancements - A preview of some pretty impressive drag & drop UI enhancements coming to Backpack.
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18/10/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Seeking a design degree? - Seeking a design degree? Consider reading "What the Industry Expects from Graduates".
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Jeremy Zawodny : EasyVMX!: Virtual Machine Creator - EasyVMX!: Virtual Machine Creator: "EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player on the web." Cool.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Why Everyone You Know Thinks the Same as You - Why Everyone You Know Thinks the Same as You: many people seem to be talking about this story, but it seems like common sense to me. I must be missing something.
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deusx : onegoodmove: Colbert Dawkins - "Stephen Colbert's interview of Richard Dawkins author of The God Delusion was excellent."
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18/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : NERD E BLOG: Top 5 Mythbusters Segments - "With the 4th season of Mythbusters drawing to a close I have compiled a list of some of the best segments in the shows history..."
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18/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details Of Mars, Young And Old - NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details Of Mars, Young And Old: ooh! nice pictures.
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jimray : Straight Dope on the iPod's Birth - Design as process
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18/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
gleuschk : polyramas - those wacky MetaFilterians strike again
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18/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : My printer, my social letterbox - remote social printing for friends and family; absolutely brilliant idea, but especially for photos
joshua : social printing - love it
cameron : My printer, my social letterbox - Bringing networking back to the physical world.
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18/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Amazon launches Askville answers community - private beta, but interesting extension of their community
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon launches answers site - Amazon launches answers site: well, now... that's interesting
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Andy Baio : Universal Music files lawsuits against Grouper, Bolt.com - this could set the precedent for a wave of lawsuits against web video sites
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18/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : Install latest Beryl svn from packages repository! - Ubuntu Forums
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jkottke : Nice post by Paul Bausch about how museums can be more like the web: interactive, customizable, and "deep" - Nice post by Paul Bausch about how museums can be more like the web: interactive, customizable, and "deep".
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deusx : The Moderate Voice - Bush Meets To Keep Talk Radio Hosts In Line - "We're in an age where partisans can be mentally programmed to look approvingly on events, job performances and position changes that they would not normally accept and to look away at some untidy matters that may occur, or openly rationalize them away."
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18/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Announced Panama Launch - Yahoo! Announced Panama Launch: "Zod explains why Panama took so long to develop. Yahoo bought Overture in 2003. They first had to get their arms around this large system and it was growing like a weed."
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18/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : New MH EDS O2D1 Oxygen Pulse Demand Controller - New MH EDS O2D1 Oxygen Pulse Demand Controller: I guess my EDS unit is now officially old. Heh.
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18/10/2006 @ 17:07 GMT
Cameron Moll : Media Temple design update - Media Temple unveils a site design update, including new data about the Grid-Server, which aims to eliminate "roadblocks and single points of failure by using hundreds of servers working in tandem for your site, applications, and email."
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Cameron Moll : No Ideas But In Things - "No Ideas But In Things is a library of controls, animations, layouts, and displays that might be a source of inspiration for interaction designers. Dan Saffer is the curator." (Thanks Coudal)
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18/10/2006 @ 17:05 GMT
Cameron Moll : FTF Flama - "FTF Flama is a straightfull sans serif initially designed for signage mixing aspects of both, European and American sans serifs. With its 'neutral' flavour, FTF Flama proves to be highly efficient for signage, corporate as well as for editorial design."
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18/10/2006 @ 17:05 GMT
Linkorama : Project Blackbox - I have to say, containerization of data centers is quite a concept
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Linkorama : MySQL goes Enterprise - MySQL Enterprise is available as an annual subscription in four different tiers (Basic, Silver, Gold, Platinum.) Existing (and new) subscribers gain access to new management tools which Marten described as “leading edge.â€
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Jeremy Zawodny : No Turning Back: Panama Goes Live - No Turning Back: Panama Goes Live: "As of today, the first wave of advertisers are converting over to Yahoo’s new Panama ad system."
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18/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
Andy Baio : A Year Full of Kick-Ass Movie Pitches - #1. "What if the Internet turned into a Were-wolf?"
jkottke : The 12 best movie pitches ever by a guy named Erik Blevins - The 12 best movie pitches ever. "Idea #3: Two childhood friends who are in love with each other but don't know it (also, they're a man and a woman) have a contest over twenty years to see who can have the biggest divorce, but end up falling in love with a [via]
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18/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : An evolutionary theorist has predicted that humans may split into two sub-species - An evolutionary theorist has predicted that humans may split into two sub-species: "the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the 'underclass' humans who would have evolved into dim-witt
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Cameron Moll : Dirty car art - "Wash me" is so yesterday.
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18/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
43folders : Word Spy - potty whispering - "She removed his diaper, held his bottom over a potty with his knees pulled into his chest, and . . . the rest is history."
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18/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Great SF Chronicle series on sex trafficking: Diary of a Sex Slave - Great SF Chronicle series on sex trafficking: Diary of a Sex Slave. The story centers around a young Korean woman who accrues massive credit card debt and then is sold into prostitution to pay it off.
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18/10/2006 @ 14:01 GMT
joshua : Graphing requests with Tamper Data
philgyford : Simon Willison: Graphing requests with Tamper Data - Very nice thing found by Simon - a graph showing when elements of a webpage load, and how long they take. (via Daring Fireball)
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fastclemmy : Salomon Freestyle 2006 - Salomon Freestyle 2006 by fastclemmy Brand new Salomon freestyle website. Nice video integration. salomon ski hotlinks webdesign Copy | React (0)
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fastclemmy : Draw Play - Draw Play by fastclemmy Draw your platform and reach the flag! platform game jeu hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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18/10/2006 @ 14:01 GMT
fastclemmy : Helicopter - Helicopter by fastclemmy Maybe the dumbest way of opening a bottle of beer! beer helicopter video hotlinks bière hélicoptère Copy | React (0)
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joshua : huge list of physics-based games
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joshua : Toribash - turn-based physics game with physics modelling, completely bizarre
deusx : Toribash - "Toribash is a turn-based fighting game. ... Focus is on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing. The game features physics, full dismemberment, decapitation and comic style blood."
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18/10/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
fastclemmy : String Avoider - String Avoider by fastclemmy & 1 other(s) Highly unrecommended for Parkinson players! flash jeu game mouse souris hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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plasticbag : The t-shirt every self-respecting nerd should be wearing this autumn - And if you're not obsessed with Battlestar Galactica then you're barely worth talking to.
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18/10/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : WoW addiction danger - Very direct story from someone who quit
Andy Baio : The View from the Top - hardcore World of Warcraft junkie breaks his addiction and writes about it [via]
jimray : Quitting WoW - World of Warcraft addict walks away and tells his tale
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Jon Hicks : Hugo van Heuven, Icons, Interfaces & Design - That’s what I call a portfolio, no messing about! Everything you need on one page.
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Milo Vermeulen : Two teaser trailers for Hot Fuzz (from the makers of Shawn of the Dead) [via]
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veen : What does Jakob Nielsen have to do with the current state of the web? (Peterme) - Jakob: "What does a video storage service have to do with search?" Peterme: "This sentence reveals two drastic oversimplifications."
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18/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Spy Magazine's How to Be Famous - rare clips from the early '90s; the Seinfeld-hosted science experiments are great
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jcgregorio : Lessons from Dynamic Languages | Radical Simplicity
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Rod Begbie : The McIntire Conspiracy - An Open Letter to Orange Line Employees - "And god help us if you're running shuttle buses. It's faster to walk. No, I mean it. I could walk home faster. I mean, isn't that the absolute most basic measure of a mass transit system? That it's faster than walking? And you guys even fail by that stan [via] #
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wearehugh : Hixie's Natural Log: The DOM0 Legacy: document.title
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wearehugh : An Antic Disposition: When language goes on holiday
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18/10/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : The current state of video search
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18/10/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : D-Link firmware hardcoded to use Poul-Henning Kamp's NTP server - read for the correct way to use lists of servers in firmware
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Jeremy Zawodny : Web Numbers: What's Real? - Web Numbers: What's Real?: "Competing methods of measuring traffic online leave advertisers, investors, and even Net companies almost flying blind..."
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18/10/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
43folders : The Tao of Mac [.Mac - And Round And Round We Go...] - "There had better be some BIG value-for-money add-ons this time around..."
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Simon Willison : err.the_blog: My Rails Toolbox - Good overview of what's hot in Rails land this season.
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18/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat - Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat: Don't skip the fish--especially if you drink a lot.
jcgregorio : Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat
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Jeremy Zawodny : Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite? - New York Times - Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite? - New York Times: "so far, most American officials I’ve interviewed don’t have a clue. That includes not just intelligence and law enforcement officials, but also members of Congress who have important
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18/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
plasticbag : Phil gets his MOO cards and describes the whole experience of opening them and getting all excited by them - I know I'm friends with a bunch of the MOO people, but the attention to detail that's got people going all gooey over them is really quite sensational. You can feel the thrills this guy has as he opens the box...
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43folders : Subverting your homedir, or keeping your life in svn - How Joey Hess syncs his life (via his home directory) using Subversion. This, to me, is the dream. Sync+Backup, all automatic.
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Rod Begbie : BBspot - Teen Using MySpace to Lure Bands to Los Angeles - "Ashley Morgan, 13, has used her 'sonymusicexec' MySpace profile to lure several bands to her Los Angeles home. Ashley was grounded so she couldn't talk to us on the phone for this report." [via] #
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18/10/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
43folders : Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey - "Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself"
deusx : Jonathan Coulton » Code Monkey - "Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself"
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jimray : Your mom is in my top 8 - The MySpace cottage industry has invaded t-shirts as well
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18/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Textpattern 4.0.4 Released - It may only be a point nought release, but so many new tags, improvements and fixes. Well done chaps!
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18/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : FoleyBot - pretend to be a 16-year-old congressional page boy [via]
jimray : Foleybot - It was only a matter of time before someone coded up a Turing/Foley test
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18/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Praise be! The New Yorker seems to have reversed their position on splitting their articles up into multiple pages - Praise be! The New Yorker seems to have reversed their position on splitting their articles up into multiple pages...the articles from this week's issue all seem to be one-pagers (for example). Nice work.
philgyford : The New Yorker - There's lots of pointing at the redesign but few pointing out that links look like plain text. Precious bloody designers thinking links look "ugly", I bet. Hello? You're making a website, not a magazine! Come join us in the 21st century.
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