31/10/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Ghosts in the Machines - Neil Gaiman on the things that haunt. "Fear is a wonderful thing, in small doses."
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31/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Extreme trees planted and shaped by arborsculptor Richard Reames - Extreme trees planted and shaped by arborsculptor Richard Reames.
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31/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : In Soviet Russia, links click you! - The Yakov Smirnoff joke -- In Soviet Russia, television watches you! -- is more formerly called the "Russian reversal".
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31/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : The Onion: Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars - The conceit, originating on LJ, that Spirit is a disgruntled goth, while Opportunity is an what we'd call in High School days - a "social" has gone mainstream.
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cameron : Wired News: Wired Acquires Reddit - Wired's announcement of their acquisition of the social bookmarking/digg-style site Reddit
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31/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : Zarro Boogs found. » Great post on the Debian/Firefox spork - more lies from the mozilla side
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31/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : reddit.com bought by Wired Digital - Congrats to Alexis, Steve & co. #
jimray : Conde Nast buys Reddit - For Wired, I guess?
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31/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
gleuschk : fouriernc.sty Encoding Warnings - just live with them, they're not hurting anything
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31/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Public-health advocate Richard Jackson says that "our car-dependent suburban environment is killing us" - In his book, Urban Sprawl and Public Health, public-health advocate Richard Jackson says that "our car-dependent suburban environment is killing us". "If that poor woman had collapsed from heat stroke, we docs would have written the cause of death as heat
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Jason Shellen : First version of Digg cost $200?! - Audio file of Kevin Rose from Future of Web Apps summit talking about using Elance to find a developer for Digg. #
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31/10/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : WP: In Fla., a campaign gone south - Holy shit, Katherine Harris is actually crazy. Sweet, sweet vengeance.
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31/10/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : What's wrong with software patents? | Free Software Magazine
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31/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : The "View Source" key - "One of the inspirations for OLPC is the powerful ability children have to learn with minimal guidance; an ability which is consistently underestimated by adults."
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31/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : apophenia: del.icio.us vs. bookmarks - "Does everyone use del.icio.us a complete replacement of bookmarks? I just learned the hard way how important bookmarks are to me."
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31/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Bookmarking and social sharing trends - "The inspiration for this month's SF Tech Sessions came out of a conversation with Jeff Weiner and Joshua Schachter of Yahoo! earlier this month."
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31/10/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : IGN: Big Castlevania Bonus - "In anticipation of the December release of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for the Nintendo DS, as well as in celebration of Castlevania's 20th anniversary this year, Konami's sending this dual-screen sequel off in style with one of the coolest pre-orderin
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jkottke : Review of a book celebrating Spy magazine - Review of a book celebrating Spy magazine. "You can't overflow with young, reckless rage forever." (thx, emily)
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31/10/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : NASA finally decides to fix the Hubble - Woo, NASA finally decides to fix the Hubble, repairs that will keep it working until at least 2013. "Scientists expect an upgraded Hubble to continue to make groundbreaking discoveries."
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31/10/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
Jason Shellen : JotSpot acquired by Google - Welcome aboard former Jotters! #
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jimray : With Tribune on Block, L.A. Times Circulation Down 8% - Dead tree circulation still dying
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31/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Bought JotSpot - Google Bought JotSpot: I didn't see that one coming. Congrats to Joe, Grahm, Ken, and others.
Andy Baio : Google acquires JotSpot -
jimray : Google buys JotSpot - Wikis coming to the masses?
Simon Willison : Google buy JotSpot - JotSpot is one of my favourite startups; excellent news.
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31/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : A list of the 13 scariest people in America - A list of the 13 scariest people in America.
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Matthew M. Boedicker : using python's ctypes module to show Apple's protection poem
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jkottke : More on the craptacular "Our Country" Chevrolet commercials - More on the craptacular "Our Country" Chevrolet commercials. The new ones, not mentioned in this article or on Slate, with images of exclusively white, male, heterosexual truck lovers, are possibly even worse. "This is our country...no chicks, homos, Mexi
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wearehugh : KOffice 1.6.0 Released for Kubuntu - krita rocks
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31/10/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : "One day several years ago, I opened up my hometown newspaper and found a picture of my rapist on the Engagements page" - "One day several years ago, I opened up my hometown newspaper and found a picture of my rapist on the Engagements page."
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Milo Vermeulen : Joe Clark - How not to fix HTML [via]
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Milo Vermeulen : Coding Horror: CAPTCHA effectiveness [via]
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31/10/2006 @ 12:01 GMT
tehu : Le Monde moves to WordPress - French press group quits Typepad for Worpress.com. Transition has seemed to be effortless. Old permalinks still work. Good thing.
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31/10/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Warning Signs - ...from the future! I think we should start using"Lack of Internet Connectivity" right away. [via O'Reilly Radar] [via]
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Jon Hicks : Location of first Apple store in Scotland - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - As someone who spends around 6 weeks of the year in Glasgow, this is GOOD NEWS!
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31/10/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext Releases SocialPoint - Socialtext released SocialPoint today, enabling Microsoft SharePoint deployments to leverage the Wiki Web Services that come with Socialtext 2.0. Ross Mayfield, Socialtext CEO has some nice things to say about Microsoft. Thanks Ross!
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31/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Happy Fun Ball! - Happy Fun Ball!: I have waited YEARS to see this again! Do not taunt happy fun ball.
deusx : YouTube - Happy Fun Ball - Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
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31/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Long New Yorker profile on Will Wright - The Sims was partially inspired by his daughter's dollhouse and his own house burning down
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31/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Anonymous insider's details on the YouTube deal - fascinating read about collusion between Google and the major media companies
Nelson Minar : Google/YouTube info - Some anonymous gossip on legal issues; I have no idea if it's true. (via Waxy)
kellan : Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal - Blog Maverick - Fascinating look at the hard ball negoiations that went into GoogTube deal. #
jimray : Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal - Google placated the major content owners fora bout $50 million a piece, which also bought a six month head start. Google needs to drop the "do no evil" thing, if only because all the cranky bloggers keep throwing it in their face when the act like a corpo
Simon Willison : Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal - From an anonymous source, but fascinating if true.
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31/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Transform XHTML to XHTML with XSLT - "Considering how useful it could be to transform the XHTML based web to another format or to use XHTML as an XML data store, it is surprisingly tricky to transform XHTML. Most XSLT developers need to be told the secrets of XHTML transformation in order to
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31/10/2006 @ 03:03 GMT
43folders : ThisService - Whoa -- this looks very cool. "Piping just got a whole lot easier." [via:DaringFireball.net]
deusx : ThisService - "I built a tool to easily turn any command line script ... or any AppleScript responding to a certain handler into a full-blown first-class service, complete with name and keyboard shortcut."
joshua : ThisService - turn any code into a Service
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31/10/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext brings more to Sharepoint - That might be true, but Socialtext is a lot more than what Microsoft is putting in, not to mention that Microsoft’s Wiki functionality hasn’t shipped yet. Anyway, congrats to Ross Mayfield, one of the truly nice guys in this business.
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31/10/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
Linkorama : SocialPoint - I think this is huge news for both Socialtext and SharePoint.
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31/10/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext wiki + Sharepoint - As always, Ross provides a very thoughtful story on the rational for this Socialtext / Microsoft co-operation, and it’s not (only) about the money…
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31/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Pyramid of Internet Piracy - The Pyramid of Internet Piracy: pretty accurate
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31/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
plasticbag : Interesting Technology Review article on a new cheap Motorola phone with interesting display technology - Back to basics phones that only do a couple of things effectively without any of the frills. I can see the appeal, even as I give up on voice calls and now only really use my phone to take pictures and stick em on the internet...
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31/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Hubble Deep Field - A rather grandiose narrative and some Pink Floyd and pan pipes can't quite obfuscate the idea that in the tiniest patch of our darkest night sky lurk tens of thousands of galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars...
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31/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : HOWTO: Configuring Logitech mice in Ubuntu 6.06: New Guide - Ubuntu Forums - my wireless mouse worked out of the box (for mousing), not sure if i care about the other stuff listed here
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31/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
cameron : Better ROI From YouTube Video Than Super Bowl Spot - The recent Dove beauty campaign video generated more response than their last Super Bowl ad (via mandydale)
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31/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
wearehugh : SIIG JU-91NF12 9-in-1 USB 2.0 Bay Reader/Writer - Retail at Newegg.com
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31/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
jkottke : Fair weather fans - Sports fans: "It seems to me if you are willing to stick around and watch your team win you should be willing to stick around and watch your team lose."
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31/10/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
cameron : YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips - New York Times - Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Comedy Central declares YouTube a Colbert- and Daily Show-free zone.
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31/10/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Why Tim Berners-Lee is Wrong - Elliotte thinks XHTML is not the problem. I'm not convinced.
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31/10/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
jkottke : Short review of New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English - Short review of New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. "'I like the cut of his jib' resonates a lot differently than 'shizzle my mizzle fizzle dizzle!'"
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31/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : A list of 20 works of art you need to see before you die - A list of 20 works of art you need to see before you die. They want to make a list of 50...suggest your favorites in the comments.
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31/10/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
Linkorama : The socialization of Sharepoint - This is Scott McNealy’s line. As Scott’s speechwriter, I included it in many of his speaking points (I say included because I didn’t write it, nor did I write most of his legendary Microsoft quips).
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31/10/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
Linkorama : Meganiche - The mainstream will still exist, but it will be joined by innumerable meganiches, each a reflection of the often baffling diversity of human interests and tastes – and a reminder that even the most idiosyncratic Netizen can share an in-joke with hi
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31/10/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
veen : Super broadband plan for Turner - Turner announces its plans for online video content. Adaptive Path did lots of design work on this.
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31/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : New Yorker profile of Will Wright - Looks like a good issue of the New Yorker this week, including a profile of Will Wright and a review of Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map.
jimray : New Yorker profile on game designer Will Wright - Can't wait for Spore
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