28/11/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Power of Together - Sit through three "webcasts" on "exciting" "new" Microsoft "technology", and get a free legitimate license for Windows Vista and/or Office 2007. [via] #
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28/11/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Kunal Anand - Blog: Glancing alternative song structures with Graphviz - Visualizing the structure of a song, based on the pattern of words used in the lyrics. [via] #
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28/11/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
veen : Good experiences that make me feel uneasy - "One of the most important elements of long-lasting brand-customer relationships is trust."
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28/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Performance Air Service, Inc. - Performance Air Service, Inc.: local furnace repair shop -- hopefully they can make my posessed furance work right
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28/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Lennox G61V Variable Speed Gas Furnace - Lennox G61V Variable Speed Gas Furnace: If I need a replacement, this may be it.
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28/11/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Apparently, signing off your emails with "Best" is "something close to a brush-off" - Apparently, signing off your emails with "Best" is "something close to a brush-off". I sign most of my emails with "Best", especially when I don't know the person particularly well, and I definitely don't mean it as a brush-off. "Sincerely" is too formal,
cameron : ‘Yours Truly,’ the E-Variations
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28/11/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza - It begins. Again. The Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza at SXSW.
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28/11/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : SXSW sessions published - Speaking of SXSW, a preliminary list of sessions has been published. (If you STILL don't have a hotel at this point, you might as well book in Houston.)
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28/11/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Designing the Obvious - On account of a few positive recommendations from friends, I've ordered Designing the Obvious by Robert Hoekman Jr. Hope to hand in my book report down the road.
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28/11/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : CSS Mastery on Amazon's Best Books of 2006 - CSS Mastery lands #5 spot on Amazon's Best Books of 2006 (Computers & Internet category). Represent!
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43folders : Odeo: Why do I sound like Alvin the Chipmunk? - Dear anyone Googling for "Odeo," "fast," "audio": It's called "chipmunking," and you get it because the encoded rate of yr MP3 isn't divisible by 11.025.
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28/11/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
43folders : [Recliners vs. Uprights: Tighter Seating Puts Passengers at Odds] - I am an "upright" person. You should be too. One day there will be a reckoning; the "upright" people will rise as one and settle all old seat scores.
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28/11/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Linkorama : Enterprise 2.0 Insecurities - At the risk of underplaying real security concerns, I want to make a case for a laid-back / laissez faire approach to security and Enterprise 2.0. The main reason this approach will work is a simple one: people already know how to behave appropriately,
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28/11/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Linkorama : Web 'fuelling crisis in politics' - Government also needed to "develop new forms of consultation and engagement that are deliberative in their form and trust citizens to get to the heart of the difficult trade-offs involved."
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Linkorama : Organizational Dynamics, Not Technology - And that's another takeaway in this post: Elevating people, groups (teams, communities) and networks to the same level of importance as data, information and process is long overdue.
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28/11/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Linkorama : Enterprise 2.0: Ready for Prime Time, or Not Yet? - Unfortunately this article defines E2 as OSS, SaaS and SoA, and while the criticism based on inertia is partially right, it doesn't factor in adoption and value proposition trends
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28/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
cameron : Presto – Send email and photos to people who don't have a computer - HP printer + phone line = internet communication for people without a computer (read: old people)
Rod Begbie : Presto – Send email and photos to people who don't have a computer - Another bubblicious startup -- Email photos and letters to "people who don't have a computer" *cough*old people*cough*, and have them print out on their hooked-up-to-the-phoneline HP inkjet printer. I can't imagine that the old-person-without-a-computer [via] #
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28/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Map of the world according to Ronald Reagan - Map of the world according to Ronald Reagan. (via strangemaps) [via]
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28/11/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : Why Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword - Kathy Sierra gets real about jargon's usefulness. [via O'Reilly Radar] [via]
veen : Creating Passionate Users: Why Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword - "if you took away our jargon, the conversations would not just be slower, they'd be dumber."
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28/11/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
cameron : Flame Warriors Home - A satirical take on the various subtypes of flamers in online discussions.
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28/11/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Two interviewers for The Onion AV Club talk about how they prepare for doing interviews - Two interviewers for The Onion AV Club talk about how they prepare for doing interviews. "First, I think about what I might ask subjects if I were at a party with them, just making conversation. Then I read as many interviews as I can find with the subjec
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Cameron Moll : Throw your kids into the air Flickr pool! - Throw your kids into the air Flickr pool! Check out Superboy.
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Cameron Moll : Amex My WishList - American Express My WishList is back for the holidays, and surprise surprise, there's a mobile messaging companion this time around.
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28/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : Where 2.0 CFP - I have a feeling this conference will be interesting
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28/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : Space Invader intvw - Giant Robot interviews Space Invader
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28/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : Flickr camera stats - A little data mining shows what cameras are most popular
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28/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : Data bill of rights - Wesabe takes a provocative user-friendly stance
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Nelson Minar : Thanksgiving Prayer - William S Burroughs, a fine video
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28/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : KGB spy poisoning - Mmmm, Polonium-210
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28/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : Tapeworm story - God this is horrible; no more steak tartare (via jwz)
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28/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : P@ on SOAP - My AdWords API colleague chimes in
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28/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Note on distributed computing (Waldo) - Single best article I've ever read on the topic
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28/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Rumsfeld authorization - Direct permission to torture. When's the war crimes trial?
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28/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Nethack hacks - Good overview of contributions to change the venerable game
deusx : GameSetWatch - @ Play: Hack Hacks - "Nethack patches are fairly numerous in general."
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28/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Vigipirate - Funny word for France's equivalent of DHS threat levels
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28/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Second Life escorts - Virtual sex market
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28/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Paris expat blogs - I'm just about to leave, but here's a nice list
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Nelson Minar : Science mysteries - Some of the quandries of modern science, heavily physics oriented
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28/11/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : getting 1,215,000 frequent flyer miles for buying $3140 worth of pudding - (via kottke) [via]
deusx : The Proof is in the Pudding: 12,150 cups of chocolate pudding = 1,215,000 miles - "Isn't it strange to think that the million-miler sitting next to you in first class got there solely by buying chocolate pudding?"
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deusx : Revenge is a dish best served with cheese | MetaFilter - "You are an asteroid that has seen many of your brethren decimated by the evil spaceship in the original Asteroid's game. The loss of your rock-fellows has hurt and scarred you deeply. Your rocky heart has ached for vengenance."
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deusx : YouTube - Flaming Tennis Ball Into Leaves. - "We shot a flaming tennis ball with a catapault into a large pile of leaves soaked in gasoline. Enjoy."
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28/11/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Slashing your smoking may not help your health - health - 28 November 2006 - New Scientist - "Smokers who believe they can avoid fatal disease by slashing the number of cigarettes they smoke each day are sorely mistaken, according to a new study which suggests the only safe way to escape the risk is to quit."
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28/11/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : A gentlemen's pocket globe was the thing to have in the late 1700s in England - A gentlemen's pocket globe was the thing to have in the late 1700s in England.
Nelson Minar : Pocket globes - Beautiful craft (via kottke)
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28/11/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : 9 to 5 Paintings are artworks created by your mouse movement while you work (answer emails, use Photoshop, surf the web, etc.)
joshua : 9 to 5 Paintings - behavioral recordings of mouse motion. not surprised that eyebeam is behind this
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jkottke : Cool composite photo of planes taking off from a busy airport - Cool composite photo of planes taking off from a busy airport. (via nickbaum) [via]
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28/11/2006 @ 14:01 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : New in JavaScript 1.7 - Mozilla Developer Center
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28/11/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
veen : Tor: Overview - "Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet."
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28/11/2006 @ 09:01 GMT
jimray : Digital Photography Roundup - Lots more folks are getting cameras than PS3's this year...
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28/11/2006 @ 09:01 GMT
jimray : The Mailable Photo Frame - Brilliant
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28/11/2006 @ 09:01 GMT
veen : Blow in her face - oh. my. god.
jimray : Blow in her face - Good advice, really
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28/11/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 7 out of 8 ain't bad... - 7 out of 8 ain't bad...: "You know what's missing from my pizza? A WHOLE FUCKING SLICE!!!" Wow. It's as if Derek wrote this post. Heh.
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28/11/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
Linkorama : Matt Webb Speaks - He's looking at the future through the eyes of a product-capable interaction designer, and what he sees is really exciting.
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28/11/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
Linkorama : Meeting After Meeting - It is a common misconception that meetings ever decide things. Meeting never decide things - they only make official those decisions which have been taken before the meeting. Of all the things I have learnt this maybe the most important.
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deusx : Listening Post - Creative Commons' License Revision Would Render Zune Noncompliant - "When You distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work, You may not impose any technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the right granted to them
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28/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning - In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning: in which Ben Stein looks at how much less relative tax is paid by the rich
jkottke : Ben Stein muses about taxes, but the Warren Buffett stuff at the beginning of the article is the most interesting bit - Ben Stein muses about taxes, but the Warren Buffett stuff at the beginning of the article is the most interesting bit. "In conversation it came up that Mr. Buffett doesn't use any tax planning at all. He just pays as the Internal Revenue Code requires."
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28/11/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Wii Skin - Retro Revolution @ DecalGirl.com - Make your Wii like a bit more NESy! (I just ordered a Union Jack skin for my Wii, so I can play Super Monkey Ball for Queen And Country) #
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28/11/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Best Response to Microsoft's Shrinking Share of Search - The Best Response to Microsoft's Shrinking Share of Search: "Well, what did anyone really expect?"
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28/11/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Children of Men trailer - I guess that means a Y: The Last Man adaptation won't be happening soon
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28/11/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : Nintendo Says You Need To Be In Shape To Play The Wii - Gizmodo - "It's Wii-Day 8 and gamers around the country are simultaneously discovering one thing: they're wildly out of shape."
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28/11/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Leet speak - "horrible tv report on speaking in leet"
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28/11/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
jkottke : Kevin Smith's iTunes Celebrity Playlist got rejected by Apple because his comments were too long - Kevin Smith's iTunes Celebrity Playlist got rejected by Apple because his comments were too long. "This is a great playlist. Too great, actually. We don't have the space for comments that run that long."
Jeremy Zawodny : Kevin Smith's iTunes Playlist - Kevin Smith's iTunes Playlist: Apparently his text was too much for iTunes to handle, so he blogged it instead. Excellent. He's got some good tracks on there too. :-)
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28/11/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
jkottke : The National Design Triennial 2006 is on view at the Cooper Hewitt museum in NYC from Dec 8 - July 29 - The National Design Triennial 2006 is on view at the Cooper Hewitt museum in NYC from Dec 8 - July 29.
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28/11/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Safari typography better than Firefox? - Zeldman: Safari [typography] better than Firefox? "Both browsers fake the italics. But Firefox does the job crudely: a child could tell that its 'italics' are faked. (Firefox slants the roman text.) By contrast, Safari fakes its italics so well (by substi
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28/11/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
43folders : Skeuomorph - Wikipedia - "a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original..." via: David Galbraith
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28/11/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
43folders : LifeClever joins Federated Media » LifeClever - One of my absolute favorite productivity/design/cool stuff blog joins Federated. Very cool.
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28/11/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
43folders : Word Spy - stage-phoning - "Attempting to impress nearby people by talking on a cell phone in an animated, theatrical manner." (thanks, Finn)
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28/11/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
43folders : Marketplace: Surfing for talent - "Rising stars don't even have to leave home to get Hollywood's attention these days."
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28/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Frank Wierzbick: I now work for Red Hat - Includes news of Jython progress: slots support is in, which hopefully is a solid step towards Python 2.3 compatibility. [via]
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28/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : ElementTree Text Helper - Monkey patches a textlist() method in to ElementTree.
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28/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : Apparently thinking of three good things that happened to you or you did before going to bed improves general happiness - This is an AP story, heavily syndicated all over the internets. I wonder about things like the AP. It drives me mad that this link probably won't work in a few weeks. At the moment it's on hundreds of sites. In a year? I don't know that it'll be on any. D
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28/11/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
jimray : Election Night 2006: An Evening in the Life of the American Media | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
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28/11/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
jimray : Online video sharing quality comparison - Wow, SoapBox video looks awesome and YouTube looks like absolute crap. Of course, Betamax looked better than VHS...
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28/11/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
jimray : Grading Newspapers' Website Progress: B-
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jimray : The IHT has a media blog - My God, they need a creative director over there, the whole freaking site has been consumed by ads. The content is matched pixel for pixel by ads and the whole thing just feels shoddily put together.
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28/11/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
jimray : Rubicode - RCWebColorPicker - Where have you been all my life?
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jkottke : Long but great NPR interview with Ed Burns, writer and producer of The Wire - Long but great NPR interview with Ed Burns, writer and producer of The Wire. We just finished season 4 last night and it took the stuffing right out of me. I haven't been this depressed for months. (thx to the several people who recommended this)
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