26/10/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : notcoming authentic wornness - Forget all that fake worn/aged stuff. Try executing the real thing instead. Rumsey Taylor writes, "For the notcoming horror splash page I printed out the type in capitalized Bodoni on a sheet of paper, wadded it up several times, kept it in my back pocket
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26/10/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
joshua : Season Shot - Flavored Ammunition - If I am ever gunned down, I hope it is in a blaze of teriyaki-flavored gunfire
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26/10/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : netcat 1.10 readme, the light side and the dark side
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26/10/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Inquisitor 3, perhaps? - UI design hotness!
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26/10/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
veen : The worst political Web sites | CNET News.com - "The problem in selecting the most ridiculous, poorly crafted, or just plain bizarre political Web sites is an embarrassment of riches: There are so many worthy contenders."
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26/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : The Royal Institution of London has named Primo Levi's The Periodic Table the best science book ever written - The Royal Institution of London has named Primo Levi's The Periodic Table the best science book ever written. Other authors in the running: Oliver Sacks, Steven Pinker, and Richard Dawkins.
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26/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
veen : Amy Veen: Do mommy blogs matter? Heck yes! - "[I]t’s not just writing a blog about my experiences being a mom that’s so worthwhile, but being able to hop online and, within seconds, find hundreds of other moms out there going through the exact same thing I am."
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26/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Gary Wolf talks to three prominent atheists (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett) - Gary Wolf talks to three prominent atheists (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett) and concludes that "the irony of the New Atheism -- this prophetic attack on prophecy, this extremism in opposition to extremism -- is too much for me".
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43folders : Get organized with GTDTiddlyWiki - Lifehacker - Thorough-looking overview on getting started with GTDTiddlyWiki.
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26/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Pure Breed Revolution! t-shirts, poster art and dog gifts - Shepard Fairey-style propaganda posters for dog-lovers. Some of these are great. #
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26/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft has no idea what's going on - Microsoft has no idea what's going on: "If you’re a web developer, it’s pretty obvious Microsoft isn’t interested in making things any easier for you..."
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26/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : It's sad that the Silicon Valley tech scene and press is so fixated on building companies to flip that people need to write about sustainable companies as "a new and better model for Internet startups" - It's sad that the Silicon Valley tech scene and press is so fixated on building companies to flip that people need to write about sustainable companies as "a new and better model for Internet startups". Good luck, Ev and company, in finding success on you
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26/10/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
43folders : Remotely Connected - Yahoo! Picks for October 26 - Yahoo! likes the bloggers who were drop-shipped onto the PBS site for RC. Fact: disliking nature documentaries has never drawn me praise until this day.
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26/10/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
43folders : Adobe Labs - Adobe Soundbooth - Adobe's Intel Mac/Win audio editor (successor to Audition?) via:Leo /Vox
Rod Begbie : Adobe Labs - Adobe Soundbooth - Beta of a new audio-editing app from Adobe. [via] #
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26/10/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping - (via populicious new popular sites) [via]
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26/10/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : Laboratory "grown" diamonds come to market - Die, DeBeers fuckers, die
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26/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Popjustice - The Truth About Pop - Top quality P!O!P! research from Popjustice. "44% of Lily Allen's MySpace friends think her next album will be shit." FACT! #
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26/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Googling Google And Searching Yahoo - Googling Google And Searching Yahoo: "Does anyone but the lawyers care? Probably not."
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26/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google can go shove their lexicographical ‘advice’ up their ass - Google can go shove their lexicographical ‘advice’ up their ass: "But in the end, regardless of whether it’s positive, harmful or somewhat in between for Google, I for one don’t like to be told how to use the English langu
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26/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A beginner's guide to freelancing - A beginner's guide to freelancing: lots of good advice for the self-employed out there
jkottke : Phil Gyford has written a great beginner's guide to freelancing - Phil Gyford has written a great beginner's guide to freelancing.
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26/10/2006 @ 17:03 GMT
Isofarro : Bonzai menu - Christian Heilmann does a tree menu without using loops. It demonstrates the flexibility and power of Event delegation - catching events at a higher level in the document. It drastically cuts down on the number of events you need to add to a document. One
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26/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : The Enron Explorer lets you search through the emails and social networks of Enron, circa 1999-2002 - The Enron Explorer lets you search through the emails and social networks of Enron, circa 1999-2002. Even kottke.org made it in there. (thx, dylan)
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26/10/2006 @ 16:04 GMT
Cameron Moll : Workshop: Mobile Web In Developing Countries - Workshop: Mobile Web In Developing Countries.
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26/10/2006 @ 16:04 GMT
Cameron Moll : mobile.google.com - From the Google blog: "If you visited [mobile.google.com] yesterday, you would have seen some pretty basic information presented in a fairly simple format. Today you'll find a streamlined layout and some new ways to learn about Google's mobile offerings."
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26/10/2006 @ 16:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : On pricing mobile web content - "The other consensus that seems to be emerging is that while people expect the web to deliver everything for free, when people access it on their phones they'll expect to pay for the same thing. [...] This isn't going to work, particularly in the youth ma
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26/10/2006 @ 16:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Fat list of CSS tutorials and techniques - An impressive list of CSS tutorials and techniques.
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26/10/2006 @ 16:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Parallels tips - Parallels tips: Don't forget Parallels Tools and Bonjour.
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26/10/2006 @ 16:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : eBay Motors: Flying Car - You so want a flying car for just over $3 mil.
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26/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Top Firefox 2 config tweaks - Top Firefox 2 config tweaks.
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26/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Pay Fast. Get Paid Faster. - "I once had lunch with a gentlemen who, at the time, was the CEO of one of the largest freight companies in the world. Here is how he told me he set the foundation for his amazing growth. He took a look at his list of money he was waiting to receive from
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26/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
43folders : Sunshocked : Stanifesto - 5 reasons people like lists - "Both did so in order for their followers to remember the teachings without having a Treo handy."
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26/10/2006 @ 14:01 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Wooster Collective: Bonom in Brussels (video) [via]
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26/10/2006 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : WFMU's vintage Halloween MP3 roundup - tons of great stuff here
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26/10/2006 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Vox launches publicly - yay! drinks are on Ben and Mena
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26/10/2006 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Guitar Hero 2's Hidden Tracks Revealed - Strong Bad's Trogdor and Dethklok hand-in-hand with Buckethead and Voivod
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26/10/2006 @ 08:02 GMT
Linkorama : Oracle Web 2.0 Crap - I’m no software expert by a long shot but I really don’t see why anyone would pay $50,000 per CPU for a license to use a tarted-up version of Oracle Fusion Middleware when so many clever subversives on the edges of organizations are already
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26/10/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
jimray : Adobe Labs - Downloads: Adobe Soundbooth Prerelease - Sound Edit 16 lives! (Provided you have an x86 based computer...)
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26/10/2006 @ 07:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : Green Monster Games, LLC - New local MMOG firm, founded by Red Sox pitcher (and well-known Everquester) Curt Schilling. I might apply for a job, just to see if I can get interviewed by Schilling! [via] #
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26/10/2006 @ 07:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : Netflix Prize: Forum / Miss Congeniality - Some great insights pulled out of the Netflix dataset. The list of movies "you either loved loved loved or hated hated hated" is particularly good. [via] #
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26/10/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Windows Defender home - MS's anti-spyware app is out of beta. Go install it on your relatives' PCs post-haste. #
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26/10/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
veen : Uni Watch: The Obsessive Study of Athletics Aesthetics - A blog on the design of sport uniforms.
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26/10/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Evan Williams and Biz Stone buy Odeo and Twitter - the new company will follow a similar philosophy to Robot Co-op and 37 Signals
veen : evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp. - Ev is excited.
znarf : evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp. - Great move. #
43folders : evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp. - Congrats to Ev and Biz! [ via:waxy.org ]
philgyford : Evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp. - I've thought this would be the way to go for some time: build a network of smallish, mutually-supporting websites, grow organically. (via Kottke)
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26/10/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : kid gets stuck inside skill crane - (via populicious new popular sites) [via]
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26/10/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : FloppyHead.com � Blog Archive � Barenaked Ladies successfully stick it to the recording industry - "The Barenaked Ladies are offering their latest album, “Barenaked Ladies Are Me,†as a download from their website without digital rights managment."
mbertier : FloppyHead.com » Blog Archive » Barenaked Ladies successfully stick it to the recording industry - The files are not encrypted with digital rights management or copy protection software. Artists are slowly migrating to distributing their own content via the internet. This seems like a great idea and should scare the RIAA more than any college student d [via] #
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26/10/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Norman Bridwell's "The Witch's Catalog" from 1976 - a children's book I adored when I was little
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26/10/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Fred Eerdekens typography with light and shadow - incredible type built with trees, wire, and clouds; more here and here [via]
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26/10/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
jkottke : Alphabetical lists of jobs that Homer Simpson has held - Alphabetical lists of jobs that Homer Simpson has held. (via cyn-c) [via]
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26/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : George W Bush Speechwriter - George W Bush Speechwriter: hours and hours of fun. too bad there's not a gallery where we can vote on them
Rod Begbie : George W Bush Speechwriter - Fun with real audio. [via] #
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26/10/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
Linkorama : Multiverse - Their plan is to provide virtual world creators the client, server, and development tools to create an MMO world. The entire technology platform is free for non-commercial use, so academics are paying nothing to create economic, architectural, sociologica
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26/10/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
veen : The 50 Worst Video Game Names Of All Time - "Zeitgeist : Man, nothing says 'fun' like a German philosophical term for an era in the dialectical progression of a people or the world at large. I wonder if it has tits!"
jimray : The 50 Worst Video Game Names Of All Time - Wild Woody: I just figured out my porn star name.
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26/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Write and hear your own presidential speech - Write and hear your own presidential speech: oh, man... that's almost as funny as the google blog post about when you can and cannot say "google"
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26/10/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
jimray : BetaNews | Yahoo Enhances Bookmarking Service - Seems yahoo's new bookmarks service is meant for personal use only, no sharing like del.icio.us
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26/10/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
jimray : Getting Real - The 37 signals guys put "Getting Real" online for free
Rod Begbie : Getting Real, the book by 37signals - Now available to read for free online. It'll be interesting to see if this spurs sales of the PDF and/or dead-tree versions. [via] #
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26/10/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Masi Oka: Coder, Actor, Hero - Both a programmer for ILM and a star of the series Heroes
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26/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : BT acquires Counterpane Internet Security - They just bought Bruce Schneier. [via]
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26/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates - Holy cow, when did this start? 50,000 articles and counting.
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26/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Best Way to Fight Terrorism Might be to Impeach Bush - The Best Way to Fight Terrorism Might be to Impeach Bush: "To fight terrorism, we need to address the root causes of terrorism. And one of those causes is that the US acts like a dick."
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26/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Funniest Google Blog Post EVER! - The Funniest Google Blog Post EVER!: 'Bad. Very, very bad. You can only "Google" on the Google search engine. If you absolutely must use one of our competitors, please feel free to "search" on Yahoo or any other search engine.'
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26/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
43folders : Giant Home Entertainment Remote - Gizmodo - I'll say it again: oversized items are _always_ funny.
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26/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Stock letterhead from 1963 - Web 3.0 will look like this
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