30/10/2006 @ 23:03 GMT
jcgregorio : gengnosis: Heroscape - Good toy recommendation. The boys would probably love it.
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30/10/2006 @ 23:03 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Turkey Cinemascope photos by Nuri Bilge Ceylan [via]
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30/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : IBM Accessibility Center | Resources | Firefox: An open source accessibility success story
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30/10/2006 @ 22:04 GMT
jcgregorio : Framework 2.0 | 2006-10-30 | BitWorking
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30/10/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
jcgregorio : The 'Next' Java | 2006-10-30 | BitWorking
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30/10/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext meets SharePoint - Microsoft makes nice, saying that SocialPoint is a great example of how the SharePoint platform can "leverage a best-of-breed Enterprise 2.0 application based on open source."
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30/10/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext integrates with SharePoint - Commercial wiki vendor Socialtext today released SocialPoint, an open-source wiki integrated with Microsoft SharePoint, the popular enterprise suite for collaboration, file sharing, and intranets.
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30/10/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Linkorama : SocialText and Microsoft - So, instead of Sharepoint Vs Enterprise Class Wiki, we Sharepoint + Enterprise Class Wiki.
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30/10/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
jkottke : A list of Henry Miller's favorite books - A list of Henry Miller's favorite books.
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jkottke : Pubic hair dye - Hair coloring for your "betty"...you know, pubic hair dye, so you can match your cuffs to your collars. (via dethroner) [via]
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30/10/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how MythTV detects commercials - (via slashdot) [via]
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30/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
cameron : iLikeâ„¢ - Music listening community ala Last.fm, but with pretty amazing landing pad for new users.
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30/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Alan Smithee is an official pseudonym used for directorial credit when directors don't want their name associated with a movie - Alan Smithee is an official pseudonym used for directorial credit when directors don't want their name associated with a movie because "the film had been wrestled from his or her creative control". As you can see from Mr. Smithee's IMDB profile, he's a fa
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30/10/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : hacking video poker - (via Cynical-C Blog) [via]
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30/10/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
jimray : FireStats - Trac - Stats for Wordpress, MediaWiki, etc
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30/10/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
jimray : RetailMeNot.com - Coupon bugmenot. The metaphor doesn't really work, but this is slick.
Jeremy Zawodny : RetailMeNot.com - RetailMeNot.com: Coupon codes for thousands of online stores
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30/10/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : TIME.com: Borat Make Funny Joke On Idiot Americans! High-Five! - Ignore the shit headline, and you get a pretty good analysis of why Borat, Ali G, et al are so gut-wrenchingly funny to some, and just plain nasty to others. [via] #
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30/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
deusx : ABC News: Michael J. Fox Fires Back at Critics - "Actor Michael J. Fox jokes that he may be short in stature, but he's still enough of a "big boy" to withstand criticism over his backing of embryonic stem cell research"
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30/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
cameron : Estimates of percentage survival rates - Cancer survival rates over time with respect to each other
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30/10/2006 @ 19:03 GMT
jimray : Bike Bin Home - A bicycle tour of Seattle, set to music
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30/10/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
cameron : PayPerPost Is Now Officially Absurd - We need a new product, StillHasEthics.com that pays bloggers to be ethical
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cameron : In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year - Washington Post weighs in on the eventual demise of MySpace in the fickle world of teenagers.
deusx : In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year - washingtonpost.com - "think it's definitely going down -- a lot of my friends have deleted their MySpaces and are more into Facebook now"
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30/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Scott Rosenberg interviews Steven Johnson about The Ghost Map - Scott Rosenberg interviews Steven Johnson about The Ghost Map.
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jkottke : Transcript of a recent interview of Barack Obama by David Remnick - Transcript of a recent interview of Barack Obama by David Remnick. An 45-minute audio version is also available.
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30/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
joshua : Optimizing Page Load Time
Simon Willison : Optimizing Page Load Time - Great article; skip to the bottom for the solid tips.
deusx : Optimizing Page Load Time - die.net - "While working on optimizing page load times for a high-profile AJAX application, I had a chance to investigate how much I could reduce latency due to external objects."
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30/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
jimray : iPod Made By Chinese Children To Benefit African Children - Brilliant. Sad, but brilliant.
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30/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
jimray : Adobe Digital Editions - Lightweight (2.5MB!) PDF/XHTML/Flash(?) reader. Adobe's ebook/digital paper software, it would seem.
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30/10/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext Releases SocialPoint - "We are also very excited about the possibility of integrating Socialtext with our growing Microsoft SharePoint installation. Combining the structure of SharePoint with the open, flexible features of Socialtext's wiki is a great solution for supporting te
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30/10/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
Isofarro : JK Rowling Flash website - Case study - Web Access Centre - The RNIB's case study into JK Rowlings' use of accessible Flash. It covers some of the accessibility features on offer, including disabling background sounds, magnifying text, labelled resources, keyboard navigation, and inbuilt adaptions for when a scree
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jkottke : Turtle with a wheel! - Turtle with a wheel! A turtle with one missing back leg has been fitted with a wheel to help get around...a turtle/RC car mashup.
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30/10/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Disco - Mac Disc Burning - CD burner for Mac. Fairly boring idea, sure, but the UI is a gorgeous example of minimalism. #
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30/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Debian on NSLU2 - Debian on NSLU2: wow. you can run a full-blown Debian on the little slug
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30/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
wearehugh : Openmind 2006
jcgregorio : Openmind 2006 - The RoR backlash begins.
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30/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Michael Lewis profile of Cowboys coach Bill Parcells - Michael Lewis profile of Cowboys coach Bill Parcells. I don't know if this is a typical situation, but the Cowboys seem like a pretty dysfunctional organization.
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Rod Begbie : IGN: New Series from Arrested Development's Creator - Mitch Hurwitz's new project is a US port of the low-key British political sitcom "The Thick of It". #
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Isofarro : Designing a more accessible web - Leonie Watson says: "Flash is a very interesting topic in terms of web accessibility. It's actually capable of being very accessible indeed. It has means for building in captioning for people who are hearing impaired; it allows soundtracks to be imported
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30/10/2006 @ 12:00 GMT
Andy Baio : NBC's Heroes comic book tie-ins - they're releasing a comic book after every episode with additional backstory; clever!
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Andy Baio : Fake Warrant Generator - clever commentary on the boarding pass generator fallout [via]
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30/10/2006 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Sketch your furniture in the air - 3D fabrication of freehand drawings in space [via]
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30/10/2006 @ 10:04 GMT
Nelson Minar : Paris traffic mess - The traffic here is pretty stressful
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30/10/2006 @ 10:03 GMT
Andy Baio : Thou Art Early, But We'll Admit Thee - wonderful breakdown of the many ways to die in Nethack
Nelson Minar : Nethack deaths - Examples of the twisted logic that make this game brilliant
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30/10/2006 @ 10:03 GMT
jimray : Mozilla Firefox JavaScript Handler Race Condition Memory Corruption Vulnerability - Hey, look, Firefox 2.0 has security problems as well. I personally believe that FF2 was rushed to compete with IE7, which sort of defeats the point, really.
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30/10/2006 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: On the Edge of Blade Runner - excellent BBC documentary on Blade Runner, with an unreleased scene at the 40:00 mark [via]
jimray : On the Edge of Blade Runner - Google Video - BBC Blade Runner documentary
Milo Vermeulen : On the Edge of Blade Runner - Google Video - Google Video - On the Edge of Blade Runner
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30/10/2006 @ 09:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Whitney music box - Funky sound demo (via We Know)
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30/10/2006 @ 08:02 GMT
joshua : A Look at 19 Social Activities Services
cameron : A Look at 19 Social Activities Services - A comprehensive look at the social events space
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30/10/2006 @ 07:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : World’s Coolest Job Description - World’s Coolest Job Description: 'they told him they wanted him to “Be our Jeff Barr.”'... that is awesome
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30/10/2006 @ 07:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Speak of the Devil - Speak of the Devil: "Apple doesn’t have a blogging policy as management feels that their current communication policy governs blogging."
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30/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Blogging and Communication (and my final comments about Scoble. I hope) - Blogging and Communication (and my final comments about Scoble. I hope): must... avoid... looking... at... the... accident scene
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30/10/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : engineers who met an untimely end - (via metafilter) [via]
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Linkorama : The Parallel Entrepreneur - Sam's right, you can't be a parallel CEO. But Scott is right that you can be a parallel entrepreneur.
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30/10/2006 @ 01:03 GMT
43folders : Dropping the addiction that is irc - "As of last night at 2 am I am attempting to drop my addiction." [via:Anarchaia.org]
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30/10/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
Simon Willison : 830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. - Great story - they weren't even playing particularly well.
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30/10/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Subversion branching quick start - Ned Batchelder's branching tutorial.
Rod Begbie : Ned Batchelder: Subversion branching quick start - Handy guide to understand the purpose of branching in source control, and examples of how it works in Subversion. #
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30/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : New Popular Edition Maps - UK maps from the 1940s. Go add your postcode!
plasticbag : New Popular Edition Maps is using 1940s public domain maps as a foundation to build a free UK Postcode database - All you have to do is go to the site, find the place you grew up in or your current home on the site and then leave a marker complete with your postcode and the dataset builds itself. Totally public domain. Very cool.
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30/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : edparsons.com - Ed Parsons is CTO at Ordinance Survey, and has a really interesting weblog.
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30/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : New Pixies album - Pixies fans, this is the news you're all been waiting for: new album in 2007. (via plastcibag) [via]
plasticbag : PIxies—best band ever—are to record a new album to be released next year - There's a party in my auditory canal and everyone's invited!
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30/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
jimray : Hex Color Picker - Use HTML hexadecimal color codes in the OS X color panel. Why isn't this built in by default?
jonhicks : Hex Color Picker - Hex code value plugin for the OS X color picker
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30/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : bits bytes pixels & sprites � Wolfenstein for the Atari 2600… Yes, you read that right - "Iwolfen-3.pngt’s a fun game, and holds up very well next to “professionally†made carts from back in the day. It’s also suprisingly deep, with different weapons complete with ammo, and numerous enemies to run from and kill."
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30/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Telephone Conferences: Phreaky Boys Collection - collection of phone phreak voicemail messages from 1990; glimpse into a quirky subculture
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