2/11/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Which steak tastes the best? - Grass fed is best, go figure.
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2/11/2006 @ 22:06 GMT
Eric Meyer : No more seafood by 2050? - So do I feel guilty about eating sushi, or just savor it all the more for its transience?
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2/11/2006 @ 22:05 GMT
jimray : Gmail mobile client is live - Java client for Gmail on your phone. Nifty.
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2/11/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
cobra libre : Willie Nelson: "I'd rather be a horse" - "with no disrespect to the eagle," natch #
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2/11/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Reel ladle pegs - "Wans sup pawn at I'm their worth reel ladle pegs hole eft tome deuce seethe a whirled." Listen to the audio file and it'll all make sense. (thx, azrael)
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2/11/2006 @ 21:04 GMT
joshua : Aliens, Bucketheads, and Polar Bears - A Walking Tour of Greg Brown's Trompe-l'Oeil Muralsin Palo Alto
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2/11/2006 @ 21:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : BSD is dying, presentation on the history of BSD - (via digg) [via]
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2/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : The Malthusian trap - The Malthusian trap is "a return to subsistence-level conditions as a result of agricultural production being eventually outstripped by growth in population".
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2/11/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
deusx : World of Warcraft Screenshot Viewer - Tusky!
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2/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
cameron : TL;DR - Anil blathers on about attention or something. I couldn't make it to the end because it was SO LONG.
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2/11/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : A collection of two-minute Photoshop tricks - A collection of two-minute Photoshop tricks, delivered via text, audio, and video.
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2/11/2006 @ 18:09 GMT
43folders : Social sites becoming too much of a good thing / Many young folks burning out on online sharing - "Caro kept an online cat diary for six months and hooked up her cats with about 50 friends each...'Who cares if my cats have friends?'"
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2/11/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : Primary and early e-voting problems point to gathering storm - Could this year's election result in a hanging-chad-like farrago which convinces the general public that electronic-voting-without-paper-trail is A Bad Thing? I don't know whether I should hope it does or doesn't happen. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Google Mobile - GMail - Java applet for cellphones which, on my Nokia 6682 at least, provides a better email experience than the built-in mailreader. [via] #
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2/11/2006 @ 18:05 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Working Backwards - Working Backwards: "Once we have gone through the process of creating the press release, faq, mockups, and user manuals, it is amazing how much clearer it is what you are planning to build." That doesn't sound backwards at all.
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2/11/2006 @ 18:04 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Vista, the five year old’s OS - Vista, the five year old’s OS: Wherein Matt asks: Is there an “expert mode” in Vista I can set so I’m not treated like this is my first computer the next time I use it?
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2/11/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
wearehugh : Jesse Ruderman » Integer overflows
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2/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
wearehugh : Jesse Ruderman » Memory safety bugs in C++ code
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2/11/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
wearehugh : Bug 359655 - crash in Ekiga Softphone: I closed the application... (gnome-vfs) - holy shit that's a lot of duplicates
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2/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Man tries to jump the mile-wide St. Lawrence River in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental - Man tries to jump the mile-wide St. Lawrence River in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental. I don't want to spoil the result for you, but the concepts of gravity, force, and aerodynamics are fairly well established and understood, so why did anyone involv
joshua : rocket-powered lincoln continental
deusx : YouTube - Rocket Lincoln jump. - "Daredevil attempts to jump a rocket-assisted Lincoln over the St. Lawrence river."
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2/11/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
jimray : yogabeans! - "Your internet source for plastic action figures demonstrating ashtanga yoga" - it's like robot chicken, but for yoga poses!
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2/11/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Proposal for a new map of the Middle East that cuts along cultural/religious boundaries rather than current national boundaries - Proposal for a new map of the Middle East that cuts along cultural/religious boundaries rather than current national boundaries. Here's the accompanying article.
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Matthew M. Boedicker : human endogenous retroviruses
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2/11/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope - Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, a singularly talented photographer.
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Rod Begbie : Threadless T-Shirts - The Average Bear by Olli Rudi - Another great pop-culture T-shirt from Threadless. Shame it arrived a week after their $10 sale. #
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2/11/2006 @ 12:01 GMT
mbertier : Google and Creative Commons - Because of the important work Creative Commons accomplished over the past year, Google has decided again to donate $30,000 to their cause. Here's an update on some of the awesome work they've been doing: [via] #
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Andy Baio : Analysis of Comedy Central content on YouTube - nice analysis, though a bit moot now that all the videos are back
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2/11/2006 @ 09:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : WoW costumes - Winners from some competition
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2/11/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
cameron : souvenirs - a photoset on Flickr - Best. Flickr. Photoset. Ever. (via mathowie)
jkottke : Photographs of postcards and miniature souvenirs held in place of actual landmarks and tourist attractions - Photographs of postcards and miniature souvenirs held in place of actual landmarks and tourist attractions. (via gulfstream) [via]
Milo Vermeulen : souvenirs - a photoset on Flickr [via]
Rod Begbie : souvenirs - a photoset on Flickr - An obvious idea, beautifully executed: Perspective replaces a landmark with its souvenir. [via] #
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2/11/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
43folders : The Aftermath (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - "So you, uh, have a web site?"
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2/11/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
jimray : TechCrunch Bashing Heats Up - Michael Arrington tries to dismiss critics by saying he doesn't "fit in to a neat little box." Whatever, he's still an ass and the sooner the "crunch" bubble bursts, the better.
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2/11/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : Yahoo! UI Library (YUI) - "The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX."
Rod Begbie : Yahoo! UI Library (YUI) - Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a fea #
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2/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : iHalloween: Turn your iPod into a Ouija board - Crave at CNET.co.uk - "Leading Ouija boardists have discovered that the iPod can not only provide the traditional letters and numbers of the board, but spirits are now able to pick songs, or playlists, to convey their messages."
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2/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : feedface.com/software/FFView - "FFView is a fast OpenGL-powered picture viewer a la ACDsee (2.x). It is aimed at letting you read manga or other comics onscreen (windowed & fullscreen mode)."
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2/11/2006 @ 05:02 GMT
joshua : Client-side session and persistent storage - holy crap. global and cross-domain? i bet we will see a cobbled-together way to do cross-site ipc
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2/11/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
joshua : Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level - my god
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2/11/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : British scientists grow human liver in a laboratory | the Daily Mail - "British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant."
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2/11/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : The ultimate webdesign usability checklist at Not Usable
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2/11/2006 @ 04:02 GMT
joshua : percentage of chart which resembles pac-man
Jeremy Zawodny : Pac-Man Chart - Pac-Man Chart: heh
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2/11/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : ChexSystems decides if you are allowed to use the services of a bank
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2/11/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
deusx : storage.html - JotSpot Wiki (dojomanual) - "Imagine if web applications could store megabytes of data on the client-side, in the browser, both persistently and securely. No server needed."
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2/11/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
deusx : LightSnake USB Intelligent Microphone Cable Performs XLR Alchemy - Gizmodo - "This is a $70 cable, but it could save you from having to get yourself the pre-amp normally required to cross that analog-to-digital divide"
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2/11/2006 @ 03:02 GMT
deusx : MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Pacman arcade costume - Cool costume, but I don't want to interact with this man's groin.
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2/11/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : MAKE: Blog: Ugly doll costume - "she used some wool and foam and felt, and this stuff called stitch witchery, which meant there was no sewing involved, except for the big stitches holding the eyes and nose on."
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2/11/2006 @ 02:03 GMT
joshua : Parakey: Blake Ross's next project - “It’s a nice way to create and store all your stuff,†Ross says, “and know where it is.â€
wearehugh : IEEE Spectrum: The Firefox Kid - "Most or all of Parakey will be open source, under a license similar to Firefox’s." I'm guessing they don't realize how funny that is.
WillPate : Blake Ross and Parakey - His new venture is interesting...
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2/11/2006 @ 02:02 GMT
jimray : Asual » SWFAddress - Script that works with SWFObject to add deep linking, back button support of Flash. Rock!
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2/11/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Neil Fraser: Googled - I'm obviously not the only person who thought MobWrite was total genius.
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2/11/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Django on IronPython - The text is in Japanese, but the screenshot is universal. [via]
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2/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Change in funding from UK local governments to the Ordinance Survey - "I don't know what to make of this, but it seems important."
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2/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : WSGI Wiki: url_vars specification - Another neat piece of the WSGI puzzle, has the potential to play nicely with Django.
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2/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Jon Udell's The Screening Room: Dabble DB - Not quite as impactful as a "live" demo, but still really impressive.
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2/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Mark Pilgrim's definition of User-generated content - "You make all the content, and we keep all the money". Ouch!
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2/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Rafe Colburn: The secret of YouTube - YouTube acts like a Wikipedia for important video snippets.
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2/11/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
joshua : Persistence - Persistence allows Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and later to retain Web page information, styles, variables, and state.
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2/11/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Flickr: The Moleskinerie Pool - This is creativity right here! Very inspirational, it makes me want to get drawing in mine again.
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2/11/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
joshua : installpad -automatically download and install favorite software - i have always wanted this
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joshua : Fast Embedding of Sparse Similarity Graphs - given a sparse graph of similarities between a set of objects, quickly assign each object a location in a low-dimensional Euclidean space
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2/11/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
joshua : Multivariate Data Analysis Software and References
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2/11/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
jimray : Frak - Battlestar Wiki - I actually used the work frak (as a substitute for fuck) the other day without thinking about it. Scary.
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Jon Hicks : Synchronizing Google Calendar with Apple iCal Using Spanning Sync - I just can’t wait for this to come out!
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