27/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : By subjecting ordinary water to extremely high pressure and bombarding it with x-rays, scientists at Los Alamos have formed a new hydrogen-oxygen alloy - By subjecting ordinary water to extremely high pressure and bombarding it with x-rays, scientists at Los Alamos have formed a new hydrogen-oxygen alloy. "Given high enough pressures, even hydrogen will behave as a metal. All the other heavier elements in
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27/10/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
jimray : PAC-MAN® Moving Power-Plush - Full Set - Yeah, it's a plush Pac-Man set, but get this - they chase each other around the room! Rock!
deusx : clubNAMCO.com :: Toys :: PAC-MAN� Moving Power-Plush - Full Set - "PAC-MAN and the ghost gang are on the move as adorable battery-operated waddling plush toys. Switch PAC-MAN and the ghosts "on" and let the games and mayhem begin!"
Rod Begbie : clubNAMCO.com :: Toys :: PAC-MAN® Moving Power-Plush - Wicked awesome (albeit pricey) "waddling" PacMan + Ghosts plush toys. (But what's with this "NOT available to ship to addresses in Massachusetts" bullshit?!) [via] #
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27/10/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
jimray : PAC-MAN® Ghost "EAT ME" t-shirt - Deliciously retro.
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27/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
plasticbag : Matt and Clare strip all the wallpaper in their flat with the motivating factor of a timelapse video - I bloody love Gawker. It's got me to do all manner of dull jobs recently relatively quickly and efficiently. There's a bit of Matt and Clare's video where the sunlight's moving across the wall that is surprisingly beautiful...
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27/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : The artwork of Claire Fisher on Six Feet Under - The artwork of Claire Fisher on Six Feet Under.
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27/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Hot on the heels of Muhammad Yunus receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, the New Yorker has an overview of the various approaches to microfinance and microcredit - Hot on the heels of Muhammad Yunus receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, the New Yorker has an overview of the various approaches to microfinance and microcredit.
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27/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Helvetica: the Movie - Forthcoming (2007) documentary about the ubiquitous sans-serif font, and its effect on design and culture.
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27/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : NHL '94 highlight videos - A confession: I just spent a little while watching NHL '94 highlight videos on YouTube and consider it time well spent. After all, it is one of the greatest video games ever made. I noticed quite a few of the featured goals in this video were what my litt
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27/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : whitney music box - Trippy flash "music box". With some chemicals, this could make for hours of entertainment. [via] #
deusx : whitney music box var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines - "a musical realization of the motion graphics of john whitney as described in his book "digital harmony""
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gleuschk : Syracuse University Graphic Identity Standards - now I just need to get my hands on Fenice Regular. anyone?
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27/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Tetris Weightlifting - up next: Doom treadmills [via]
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27/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Robert Birnbaum interviews Michael Lewis about The Blind Side - Robert Birnbaum interviews Michael Lewis about The Blind Side.
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27/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : There's a new Scrabble world record: 830 points - There's a new Scrabble world record: 830 points, including a play of quixotry on a triple-triple for a record score of 365. "Looking at the game as a whole, it's clear that a lack of expertise created the conditions for the record."
cobra libre : 830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. - Q: "If 830--or any record--happens as a result of boneheaded play, tactical ignorance, or the pursuit of a good time, should it count?" A: Yes, you ass. #
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27/10/2006 @ 18:05 GMT
43folders : Networks now are entering the dark days. Feel the fear. - "Because nobody in television truly, absolutely, knows what he's doing."
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27/10/2006 @ 18:05 GMT
jimray : Season Shot - Ammo with flavor. - Is this for real?
deusx : Season Shot - Ammo with flavor. - "Season Shot is made of tightly packed seasoning bound by a fully biodegradable food product. The seasoning is actually injected into the bird on impact seasoning the meat from the inside out."
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27/10/2006 @ 18:04 GMT
jimray : mmmzr: double your traffic - Is this brilliant? Or a scam?
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27/10/2006 @ 18:04 GMT
jimray : All Headline News - Boy Scouts Can Now Earn Anti-Piracy Badges - October 27, 2006 - As both an Eagle Scout and someone who believes that the entertainment industry is WAY out of control on copyright issues, this makes me incredibly, incredibly sad
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27/10/2006 @ 18:04 GMT
jimray : Apple - Support - Downloads - MacBook SMC Firmware Update 1.1 - Addresses random shutdown issues
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27/10/2006 @ 18:04 GMT
jimray : Footnote: The place for original source documents online. - Original source documents and tools to use 'em. Nifty.
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27/10/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : Girls's Costume Warehouse - "...and frog"
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deusx : Wired News: The Day the Music Died - Ha-ha, in the comments: "Seriously, I thought Wired had hip, knowledgeable writers. When did they start an open exchange policy with Reader's Digest?"
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27/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
gleuschk : http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ynagel/tex/ - with modifiable letterhead stylefile
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27/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : An organization called Scholarships Around the US is offering a $5000 scholarship to a college student who blogs - An organization called Scholarships Around the US is offering a $5000 scholarship to a college student who blogs. It's free to apply...all you need to do is write a 300-word essay (and meet a few requirements).
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27/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : M.B.A.s: The Biggest Cheaters - M.B.A.s: The Biggest Cheaters: "Students seeking their masters of business administration degree admit cheating more than any other type of student, from law to liberal arts. "
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27/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : You Do and/or May, In Fact, "Ask" (or "ask") - You Do and/or May, In Fact, "Ask" (or "ask"): hahahaha ha HA HA HAHA!
cameron : The Ask.com Blog: You Do and/or May, In Fact, "Ask" (or "ask") - Ask responds to the recent Googleblog post about protecting their trademark. I guess being number 3 entitles you to have a sense of humor. F'ing hilarious man.
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27/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Fascinating story of an amateur cyclist who starts taking various performancing enhancing drugs to see how they affect his performance - Fascinating story of an amateur cyclist who starts taking various performancing enhancing drugs to see how they affect his performance. "I had a life once, and now I'm standing in the Easton WaWa in the middle of the night, looking like a cyborg, with tho
Jeremy Zawodny : Story of an amateur cyclist who starts taking various performancing enhancing drugs - Story of an amateur cyclist who starts taking various performancing enhancing drugs: he gets impressive results in a short amount of time. spooky.
veen : Drug Test - A Cautionary Tale - "Outside Magazine sent an amateur cyclist into the back rooms of sports medicine, where he just said yes to the most controversial chemicals in sports."
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27/10/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : The cheapness and small footprint of flat panel TVs has made it much easier for restaurants and bars to just hang them up any old where - The cheapness and small footprint of flat panel TVs has made it much easier for restaurants and bars to just hang them up any old where...and spurred on by the recent World Cup festivities, that's exactly what's happened in NYC.
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27/10/2006 @ 12:02 GMT
mbertier : Amazon Product Tagging Campaign | DefectiveByDesign.org - Amazon.com, perhaps the largest internet retailer, has a system of "tagging" products on its US site. You can look at a product and add a tag that describes it. We have started tagging items that contain DRM (Blu-Ray players and DVDs, the Zune, the iPod a [via] #
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27/10/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Lik-Sang closing?! - Damn, the #1 site for importing games from Asia is gone
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27/10/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Crematorium fire - Human candles (via jwz)
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27/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Rails Forum / Ruby on Rails Help and Discussion Forum - Rails Forum / Ruby on Rails Help and Discussion Forum: looks like lots of great rails help to be found here
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27/10/2006 @ 06:03 GMT
Linkorama : Economics Of Abundance - It's about not selling that product at all. It's about recognizing that when the supply side is infinite, your price gets pushed to zero and therefore it doesn't make sense to sell it. Instead, you do just what the supply and demand curve tells you: you g
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27/10/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Zillow API Network - Zillow API Network: Looks pretty well done. Nice job, Zillowites!
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27/10/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google and the Gradient - Google and the Gradient: "Google is run like a socialist state. It's citizens are treated extremely well. There's free food, free doctors, free massages, free games, a limited workweek, etc. There are ministries to give projects free promotio
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27/10/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : bbPress » Simpler integration with WordPress - Integrate WordPress and bbPress logins
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27/10/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : Free e-book on Cocoa/Objective-C development
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27/10/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : The Lyceum Project » The Lyceum Database Schema
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27/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Rapper Shows Off His Two Affordable and Practical Vehicles on "MTV Cribs" - Rapper Shows Off His Two Affordable and Practical Vehicles on "MTV Cribs": hahaha haha ha ha HA HA HA!
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27/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Zope 3 in 30 Minutes - I understand Zope 3 better having read this.
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27/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Python, Metaclasses and Overloaded Methods - Really great explanation and demonstration of metaclasses.
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27/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Profile of Felicia Pearson, who came off the streets of Baltimore to play Snoop on The Wire - Profile of Felicia Pearson, who came off the streets of Baltimore to play Snoop on The Wire.
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27/10/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
43folders : Apple Patents Another Touch Sensitive iPod Concept - Gizmodo - "Electronic Device Having Display and Surrounding Touch Sensitive Bezel for User Interface and Control". Well, there you go.
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27/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Richard Dawkins is keeping a journal while he tours around in support of The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins is keeping a journal while he tours around in support of The God Delusion. "This Washington signing was remarkable for the number who bought not just one copy of The God Delusion but up to half a dozen. 'Christmas presents?' I inquired of
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