20/10/2006 @ 23:04 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : clone of classic AfterDark flying toasters screensaver - (via digg) [via]
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20/10/2006 @ 23:04 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Sierra's Johnny Castaway screensaver - (via digg) [via]
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20/10/2006 @ 23:03 GMT
jimray : Rub-applescript bridge - Automate your Mac with Ruby
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jimray : Robert Christgaue joins Morning Edition - From The Village Voice to NPR? Oddly, not that strange a fit, really
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20/10/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Casual Conversation, R.I.P. - Casual Conversation, R.I.P.: "We are rapidly turning into a society where our intimate conversations can be saved and made public later. This represents an enormous loss of freedom and liberty..."
Linkorama : Casual Conversation, R.I.P. - The Justice Department wants to make this problem even worse, by forcing ISPs and others to save our communications--just in case we’re someday the target of an investigation. This is not only bad privacy and security, it’s a blow to our lib
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20/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
philgyford : YouTube - Battle of The Bands - Oodles of album art animated Gilliam style. Very nicely done. (via Haddock)
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20/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
philgyford : UBUWEB :: Alvin Lucier - Lucier's 'I Am Sitting in a Room' track, which Paul Morely goes on (and on and on) about in his 'Words and Music' book, as MP3. 1969 tape recording avant-garde.
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philgyford : YouTube - Extras - Episode 5 - Acting by Sir Ian - I'm very much enjoying 'Extras'. Some great bits, like Ian McKellen's description of acting. Wonderful, and so straight-faced.
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philgyford : Comment is free: Religions don't deserve special treatment - It's a shame this needs saying, but still, great stuff. "It is time to refuse to tip-toe around people who claim respect, consideration, special treatment, or any other kind of immunity, on the grounds that they have a religious faith." (via Haddock)
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20/10/2006 @ 21:03 GMT
deusx : Daily Cup of Tech - Have Your Lost USB Drive Ask For Help - "I figured I needed to do something to catch the finder’s attention."
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deusx : Stargate: A LEGO® creation by Kelly McKiernan : MOCpages.com - "This rotating Stargate is 19 inches tall with light-up chevrons. An RCX drives a treadmill, which spins the inner ring randomly for x seconds, then reverses direction, seven times."
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20/10/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Violet Blue on Japanese nose-holding fetishists - wonderfully weird find; this gallery is safe for work, if you're curious
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Andy Baio : Russell Weller finally convicted in Santa Monica Farmer's Market crash - 89 year old man gets 18 years in prison; I wrote about the fatal accident from the scene
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20/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
43folders : PBS - NATURE "Animals Behaving Worse" (by Merlin Mann) - "...be aware, documentary fans: it’s only a matter of time before these animals will have all the tools they need to make their own PBS documentaries"
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20/10/2006 @ 19:03 GMT
43folders : PBS - AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "Test Tube Babies" (by Merlin Mann) - "...and for some reason, everyone you knew was suddenly making macramé. Macramé, for God’s sake!"
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Milo Vermeulen : The Loom : Homo floresiensis: Two Years Out [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : conditional logging in Apache
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philgyford : Doom_1.php - Graphic illustrating what would happen to Earth if humans vanished.
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20/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
philgyford : Walk It - A step in the right direction - Fantastic. Gives you walking directions from A to B in central London. Google et al only do driving directions, which are very different. (via Haddock)
Rod Begbie : Walk It - A step in the right direction - Site which gives you walking directions around London. Since most major cities have wacky one-way restrictions, driving directions are rarely handy. I'm surprised Google Maps et al don't support this kind of thing. [via] #
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Jeremy Zawodny : Backup Using Amazon’s S3 - Backup Using Amazon’s S3: "The idea that really interests me, though, is of using S3 to back up this website. Yeah, the one you’re looking at right now."
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Cameron Moll : Expression Engine Top 10 Tips - Expression Engine top 10 tips: Part One, Part Two.
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20/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Keith Robinson's mobile web observations - Keith Robinson has been eyeing the mobile web space for some time now, and shares 7 observations.
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Cameron Moll : Sony BRAVIA paint advert - "Our latest TV ad -- featuring massive paint explosions -- took 10 days and 250 people to film. Huge quantities of paint were needed to accomplish this, which had to be delivered in 1 tonne trucks and mixed on-site by 20 people."
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20/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Proper web usage of spaces - A brief overview explaining proper web usage of en-spaces, em-spaces, thin-spaces, non-breaking spaces, zero width joiners, and zero width non-joiners.
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20/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : Emacs Notepad (Ftrain.com) - I put many of these nifty little functions to my own nefarious uses this morning. Rock!
Matthew M. Boedicker : automating tasks with emacs, customizing with functions - (via del.icio.us/gleuschk) [via]
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20/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
wearehugh : Infodrom Projects -- gui-apt-key
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20/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Hasan Elahi ran into some trouble with the FBI in 2002 (they thought he was a terrorist) and ever since, he's been voluntarily tracking his movements and putting the whole thing online - Hasan Elahi ran into some trouble with the FBI in 2002 (they thought he was a terrorist) and ever since, he's been voluntarily tracking his movements and putting the whole thing online: photos of meals, photos of toilets used, airports flown out of, credi
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20/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Check out the neat time-lapse map of who controlled the Middle East at Maps of War - Check out the neat time-lapse map of who controlled the Middle East at Maps of War.
gleuschk : Maps of War - 5000 years of conquering and reconquering in 90 seconds.
# copy20/10/2006 @ 14:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Single on memory stick for Keane - Whats interesting about this is that the single is shipped with video and NO copy protection. Very forward thinking.
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20/10/2006 @ 14:00 GMT
Jon Hicks : Last.fm are looking for a Designer in London - Woohoo! Now that would be a great job!
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20/10/2006 @ 13:00 GMT
plasticbag : Make fridge magnets out of MOO cards! - Close personal friend of mine, Meg of Meish, demonstrates her extraordinary creativity and use of MOO-related paraphenalia to decorate her fridge with astonishing classiness and a copy of John Peel's autobiography...
Nelson Minar : Moognets - These little Moo cards are awesome
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20/10/2006 @ 12:00 GMT
plasticbag : Lost is moving to Sky One - That's pretty much going to completely irritate a couple of million people. Television is so bloody confusing and irritatingly designed.
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20/10/2006 @ 12:00 GMT
plasticbag : British and American engineers have created a cloak that bends microwave radiation around an object... - Evidently it makes the object 'invisible' in the microwave part of the spectrum. The principles could be used to make something invisible at the visible level too, but the technology to implement such a thing is years away...
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20/10/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Paris city wine auction - Only in France
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20/10/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Jail blog - MeFi user writes from a 90 day sentence in jail
Andy Baio : Rapid Adjustment - Metafilter user blogs during a 90 day sentence in jail [via]
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20/10/2006 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : Rice's 'Mother-in-Law' Comment Raises Conservative Hackles - American Family Association - AgapePress news - "A spokesman for a family-advocacy group in Washington, DC, is expressing disgust with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's swearing in of an openly homosexual man as global AIDS coordinator -- and in particular, with comments she made at the ceremony."
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deusx : Twenty-five years of "Weird Al" Yankovic. - By Sam Anderson - Slate Magazine - "To the millions of us flitting around the edges of hipness, he is our Geek Bard, our Troubadork. Unlike his prey—the rappers and the rockers, the folk-pop shamans and the techno wizards—Weird Al is, in the only meaningful sense of the phras
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Andy Baio : iFilm launches super-sekrit beta site - infinitely better, with Flash video, better navigation, and licensed content from MTV
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20/10/2006 @ 07:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google 49, Yahoo 0 - Google 49, Yahoo 0: "It is also hard to express how pathetic Yahoo seems in comparison. Only a year ago, the company was firing on all cylinders, gaining market share, innovating, inspiring the same kind of confidence that Google now does."
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Jeremy Zawodny : After years of teachers piling it on, there's a new movement to ... Abolish homework - After years of teachers piling it on, there's a new movement to ... Abolish homework: "What it does instead, they contend, is rob children of childhood, play havoc with family life and asphyxiate their natural curiosity. Learning becomes a mind-n
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20/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Bill Clinton speaks to GW Univ. about 'common good' - Bill Clinton speaks to GW Univ. about 'common good': If only our current president was half this articulate and thoughtful.
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Jeremy Zawodny : A Dangerous New Order - A Dangerous New Order: "This nonsense is part of the Republicans’ scare-America-first strategy for the elections."
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20/10/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
43folders : celtx - Scriptwriting Software, Breakdowns, Collaboration. - Remarkable FREE screenwriting app helps plan a whole production -- from script and talent down to cameras, stunts, props, animal handlers, etc. Super cool!
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20/10/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
gleuschk : Not just a father but a dad | Ask MetaFilter - great touching thread
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cameron : Global disease alert mapping system - Mashup with Google Maps and health organization data
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Linkorama : SocialText Best Of Breed - The other point here is that we're talking about a new breed of enterprise software.
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deusx : Wired News: Chertoff's 'Web of Terror' - "We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the internet" I'm radicalizing right now, in fact. The tubes are chock full of radicalizing agents.
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20/10/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
cameron : Wikiality - The Truthiness Encyclopedia - "Together, we can create a reality that we all agree on."
Rod Begbie : Wikiality: The Truthiness Encylopedia - A Stephen Colbert-inspired wiki, and proof that smart mobs can't write comedy. [via] #
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20/10/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Daring Fireball: Jackasses of the Week: Gartner Analysts Mark Stahlman and Charles Smulders - Daring Fireball: Jackasses of the Week: Gartner Analysts Mark Stahlman and Charles Smulders: "I long, long ago lost all respect for the capability of the Gartner Group to analyze the high tech industry. Why anyone pays them money for anything, I don&
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plasticbag : dead.licious 1.0 - Another app with a good logo, although this time it's more funny than useful. Scans sites in your del.icio.us account to see if they're still there. If they're not it removes them from del.icio.us on your behalf.
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43folders : Keane Releasing Next Single in a Flash Drive - Gizmodo - "Neat, because they incorporate new technology to add videos, screensavers, and other tracks into the offering."
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20/10/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
Jason Shellen : List of Canadian comedians - Comedians: Canada's finest export #
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20/10/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
jimray : Imagine Earth without people - earth - 12 October 2006 - New Scientist
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20/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : Keith Olbermann on Habeas Corpus, GW Bush and the war on terror - The bit that should hit home and hit home hard is the bit about the next President of the United States, who could be the most unscrupulous man who has ever lived and now has more power to abuse American citizens than any terrorist could ever hope for...
philgyford : YouTube - Olbermann: the beginning of the end of America - Awesome rant about Bush's irresonsibility. Fantastic and relentless. I love how Americans still refer to the subject of their ire as "sir". (via Haddock)
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20/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : Tangerine is a small OSX application that automatically works out the BPM of songs in your iTunes library - I'm running it now, and it's running through all my tracks at astonishing speed. It's got a wonderfully classy interface and a beautiful icon too, if that counts for anything. God knows if it's any good though...
philgyford : Potion Factory Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Tangerine - Interesting Mac app for creating iTunes playlists organised by BPM. It's BPM-working-out algorithm needs some tweaking though, as it's more miss than hit for me (eg, it thinks a few slow acoustic guitar tracks are 180 BPM). (via Plasticbag)
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20/10/2006 @ 00:03 GMT
deusx : A Question Bush Can't Answer - washingtonpost.com - "But if the public doesn't know what torture is or is not, as defined by the Bush Administration, how can the public make a decision on whether your policy is right or wrong?"
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deusx : Joey Green - Tabasco Pepper Sauce - "Americans use more Tabasco Pepper Sauce than any other nation, followed by the Japanese who sprinkle it on pizza and spaghetti."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Google Quantifies Its Momentum - Google Quantifies Its Momentum: "Google’s market share in search has grown 24% over the last year to 50% of the total market. Yahoo! grew 12% to 23% market share and MSN/Live dropped 8% to a 6% market share."
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20/10/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Q3 2006 Revenues - Google Q3 2006 Revenues: "I have to say that I am dumbfounded"
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plasticbag : Bid for the exclusive Colbert Report painting over on ebay - He talked to Richard Dawkins last night and made lots of jokes about religion without being actually offensive to religious people. Artful. And one year old yesterday!
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plasticbag : Wired's Monkeybites weblog has all their coverage of the Yahoo! Hack Day in one place - I only really mention it because it's got a picture of me in it and I'm that vain. Although having said that, the picture does rather make it look like I have a substantial cleavage, so I don't know that I should be thrilled...
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