1/11/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: Cool tools reviews the Cintq digital drawing tablet - "you draw directly on the tablet, just like a paper-based drawing, but digitally."
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deusx : Weebls Stuff - Magical Trevor 4 - "Yep after months of on and off work I can now say that Magical Trevor is back once again."
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1/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
cameron : The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) - Clifford Geertz, the influential anthropologist died a few days ago.
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1/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
cameron : Digg popular archive - Digg has added an archive of the sites that make into their popular index, i.e. the front-page stories of the day
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1/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : EFF files lawsuit against Craigslist sex scammer Michael Crook - more about the case from Jeff Diehl at 10 Zen Monkeys and the PDF of the complaint filing
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1/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Polling Place Photo Project - "The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that seeks to empower citizens to capture, post and share photographs of democracy in action. By documenting their local voting experience on November 7, voters can contribu
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1/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : The problem with the axiom "live each day as if it was your last" - The problem with the axiom "live each day as if it was your last": "it can't possibly be healthy for my body or mind to spend each day sobbing uncontrollably and trying to eat as many Carl's Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburgers as I can before nightfall."
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deusx : Game|Life - Ten-Button Guitar Hero Controller - "the extra buttons are there for showoffs who want to "pull in tight to the base of the guitar for a rocking solo,""
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1/11/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : First Grope: DS-Xtreme Nintendo DS Media Enhancer - Gizmodo - "The DS-Xtreme has lived up to the hype it has been receiving over the past few months."
Rod Begbie : First Grope: DS-Xtreme Nintendo DS Media Enhancer - Gizmodo - Rilly rilly simple DS flash cart. Plug into USB, copy over roms + MP3s, then plug into your DS. "Only" $125. [via] #
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1/11/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
veen : three meanings of open - The Open Knowledge Foundation - "what does it mean for knowledge to be open? We take open to have three distinct senses: legal, social and technological."
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1/11/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
veen : shmula » Google’s Acquisitions: A Timeline - "a nice ajax-y, draggable timeline of all the companies Google has acquired and a short snippet about each acquisition."
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1/11/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
veen : Box score (baseball) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The data layer of an event, often accompanied by a narrative.
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1/11/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Opening tonight at Jen Bekman's gallery: James Deavin's Photographs from the New World, a selection of photos he took in the online game, Second Life - Opening tonight at Jen Bekman's gallery: James Deavin's Photographs from the New World, a selection of photos he took in the online game, Second Life.
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1/11/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : A comparison: London's Tate Modern versus the MoMA - A comparison: London's Tate Modern versus the MoMA. The MoMA is a stuffy, inaccesible place, while the "Tate Modern is an enormously user-friendly place, physically comfortable and hospitable, with inexpensive places to eat and frequent opportunities to s
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1/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Students, enter Apple's Insomnia Film Festival, where you'll have 24 hours to make a 3-minute film - Students, enter Apple's Insomnia Film Festival, where you'll have 24 hours to make a 3-minute film. (thx, undulattice)
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1/11/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Spanning Sync - Bi-directional sync between gCal and iCal
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1/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Wired profile of Darren Aronofsky and his new film, The Fountain - Wired profile of Darren Aronofsky and his new film, The Fountain, which will finally be coming out on November 22. The special effects in the film are non-CGI: "No matter how good CGI looks at first, it dates quickly. But 2001 really holds up. So I set th
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1/11/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
cameron : EBay building bombed - Crazy. I never thought Valleywag would be reporting on real news
jimray : eBay building bombed: Exclusive IMs from an eBayer inside the building - Holy crap, somebody bombed eBay
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1/11/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Pixar's Cars is out on DVD on Nov 7 - Pixar's Cars is out on DVD on Nov 7.
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1/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : DVD Shrink - Simple software to copy a DVD to hard drive (via Lifehacker)
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1/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
jimray : Neighboroo - Wicked cool demographics/google maps mashup
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1/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Django Book - Book about Django, being written in public to encourage peer review. The commenting system is particularly clever. [via] #
Simon Willison : The Django Book - Two chapters online so far; more to follow.
Cameron Moll : The Django Book's contextual commenting - The Django Book's website uses a contextual comment system on all of its pages, allowing readers to offer inline suggestions and feedback where relevant to the text. This seems to be a rather interesting way of allowing a community to edit and improve a f
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1/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
deusx : Real-Time 3D in Javascript - "This is demonstration of rendering arbitrary triangles (relatively fast) with javascript/DOM/css (no images, flash, canvas tags or java applets)."
Simon Willison : Real-Time 3D in Javascript - Really cunning trick based around CSS polygons.
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1/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
deusx : Techcrunch - Blog Archive - Google Acquires Wiki Collaboration Company Jotspot - Congrats, guys! "Google’s office strategy just got a whole lot richer with the announced acquisition of the wiki based company Jotspot."
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1/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
deusx : Pets in Costumes!!!!!11!!! | MetaFilter - "The Daily Puppy's Halloween Parade 2006. More dogs in costumes. Cats in costumes. Dogs in bee costumes. Hamsters in costumes."
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1/11/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : YUI: DragDrop Nested targets - "Basically, all I am doing is setting a var (lastTarget) onDragOver to the element that we are over. Then in the onDragDrop function, I am checking to see if the id that is returned matches the id that is stored in lastTarget. If it is, display the text i
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1/11/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : DoubleClick Edit Example - "Double click on any item that says it's editable."
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1/11/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Jack Slocum's Blog - DomHelper - Create Elements using DOM, HTML fragments and Templates - "The DomHelper class in the 0.32.2 release provides a layer of abstraction from DOM and transparently supports creating elements via DOM or using HTML fragments. It also has the ability to create HTML fragment templates from your DOM building code."
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1/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Get your green on - Get your green on: we apparently have a ton of green stuff on Yahoo! Autos these days
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1/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Gmail with different attachment icons - Gmail with different attachment icons: "See from your inbox what kind of attachment an email has."
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1/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Skateboarder Bob Burnquist has built the world's first permanent Mega Ramp, a structure pioneered by Danny Way - Skateboarder Bob Burnquist has built the world's first permanent Mega Ramp, a structure pioneered by Danny Way, who used one to jump the Great Wall of China on a skateboard.
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1/11/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Cameron tells us about the peak-end rule, whereby you remember an experience by the high (or low) point and the ending - Cameron tells us about the peak-end rule, whereby you remember an experience by the high (or low) point and the ending. "Having recently been on a vacation, it strikes me that this heuristic is of utmost importance in planning long events." The p-e rule i
Jeremy Zawodny : The peak-end rule - The peak-end rule: "If you’re planning any trips soon, make sure to end on a high note, because you will be the one telling the stories."
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1/11/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : skeleton motorcycle - (via MAKE: Blog) [via]
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1/11/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Snowclone watch watch: Anil discovers the multivalent story of America - Snowclone watch watch: Anil discovers the multivalent story of America.
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1/11/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Paris rental hassle - Stories of why it's hard to rent a place in Paris
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1/11/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
jimray : Republican Contract with America - This is certainly interesting to read 12 years later - they're kicking themselves for that whole "have to obey laws" thing (thanks, Resh!)
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1/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Minesweeper built in Pixelblocks! - the finished product is 38,240 blocks standing six feet tall; it cost over $900 wholesale! [via]
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1/11/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : Amarok 1.4.4 packages for Ubuntu Edgy
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1/11/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : Pentagon boosts 'media war' unit - Oceania is at war with Eurasia, in alliance with Eastasia
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1/11/2006 @ 02:03 GMT
43folders : Kelleycomputing.net [FreeDMG] - Very handy app for making drag and drop (encrypted) DMGs. My MBW app of the week.
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1/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired buys Reddit - I didn't see that one coming
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1/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Menuism on Y! BBAuth - 70% of new users chose to use their Yahoo! account rather than create a new one.
Jeremy Zawodny : Use the Yahoo! Sign In to join - it’s easy as pie - Use the Yahoo! Sign In to join - it’s easy as pie: "If you haven’t noticed yet, we’ve added the ability to sign up and log into Menuism with your Yahoo! account."
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1/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : Go and see The Departed if you get a chance - It's not a gentle film, it's a bloody brutal film, but it's also a completely fascinating and engrossing film with plot arcs that you don't see coming that are allowed to manifest slowly and elegantly and with fascinating inevitability...
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1/11/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
Linkorama : Out, damned spot! Out, I say... - --From Macbeth (V, i, 38)
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