10/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Caucasian Club creates imbroglio - Caucasian Club creates imbroglio: "Freshman Lisa McClelland gathered about 250 signatures from students and adults to start a club at Freedom High School in Oakley, Calif., that would focus attention on European heritage and history." Good for h
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10/11/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Shell Blog : Features that didn't make the cut - """we decided that the easiest and most powerful thing to do would be to embed a TECO interpretter."""
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10/11/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
joshua : EAFUS: A Food Additive Database - everything added to food in the US
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jimray : Humiliated frat boys sue Borat - "The film 'made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community,' the lawsuit said." As opposed to being frat boys?
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10/11/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Jason Shellen : Mossberg on Zune - ...to buy even a single 99-cent song from the Zune store, you have to purchase blocks of 'points' from Microsoft, in increments of at least $5. #
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Jeremy Zawodny : Joel on the evils of software development performance metrics - Joel on the evils of software development performance metrics: "The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game."
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Truth Comes Out: Oracle Bought InnoDB Without a Clue - The Truth Comes Out: Oracle Bought InnoDB Without a Clue: "Imagining Oracle as a ditzy shopper makes the company seem, well, a lot more cuddly"
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Zune Brick - The Zune Brick: "I’d love to see the internal Microsoft memos choosing brown as a featured color for a new consumer device. Or choosing not to make it usable as an external hard drive. Or..."
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Andy Baio : ESA threatens Kotaku over game rating parody shirt - "Your Mom Rated E for Everyone"
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jkottke : The brand new Brand New blog identifies and critiques new logos and other brand identity work - The brand new Brand New blog identifies and critiques new logos and other brand identity work.
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joshua : Ministère des Affaires étrangères - France.diplomatie
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joshua : mozStorage Extension - sqlite store extension (to be included in ff3)
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Jeremy Zawodny : Breakfast cheese toast - Breakfast cheese toast: it sure beats grilled chesse at 6am, doesn't it? :-)
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Andy Baio : How I Was Duped by Ali G. - another first person story of an unwitting victim; also, a look behind the scenes
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Andy Baio : Convert an analog wall clock into a binary clock - brilliant hack, with a printable pattern PDF [via]
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Rod Begbie : Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - Alarmingly prescient story from January 2001. "Much work lies ahead of us: The gap between the rich and the poor may be wide, be there's much more widening left to do. We must squander our nation's hard-won budget surplus on tax breaks for the wealthiest [via] #
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Andy Baio : Humiliated frat boys sue Borat - the inevitable followup to this Ask Metafilter question from a friend of one of the guys
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jkottke : Comedian Aries Spears does awesome impressions of LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, DMX, and Jay-Z - Comedian Aries Spears does awesome impressions of LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, DMX, and Jay-Z. Here's a shorter bit of him doing Michael Jordan and Shaq. (via zach) [via]
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Linkorama : Answers.com Acquires FAQ Farm - $2M for a small public wiki community
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jimray : Frank Gehry designed watch from Fossil - Tells time how we talk about it ("half past noon") and the display switches between positive and negative during day/night. I love the idea of watches, but don't actually like the "male jewlery" component - I'd wear this one, though.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Spam has won - Spam has won: "My spamassassin setup clearly no longer works. What can I do?"
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Matthew M. Boedicker : guy doing amazing imitations of famous rappers - (via digg) [via]
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10/11/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Play Commander Keen online - Play Commander Keen online. Keen was the first game that id Software made (before Doom made them a household name among gamers).
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jkottke : Is this mess of a painting bought at a thrift shop for $5 a Jackson Pollock worth $50 million? - Is this mess of a painting bought at a thrift shop for $5 a Jackson Pollock worth $50 million? I wonder if Richard Taylor has been contacted to examine the painting.
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10/11/2006 @ 15:01 GMT
43folders : NPR : New Windows Has New Sound - I dunno. I think I like the XP sound better.
Rod Begbie : NPR : New Windows Has New Sound - NPR segment on the history of the Windows startup sound. [via] #
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gleuschk : Main Page - Encyclopedia Dramatica - this is not safe for work, but one of the most profoundly strange things I've ever seen
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jkottke : A contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? uses his knowledge of cognitive neuroscience to advance to the late stages of the game - A contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? uses his knowledge of cognitive neuroscience to advance to the late stages of the game.
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joshua : nekovm - small dynamic languange and embeddable virtual machine
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10/11/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : ev on when to sell - I think he's overlooking the benefit of eliminating risks
Linkorama : Too Sell, or not to Sell - The comment is right that the discounted future is built into the acquisition prices. The interesting thing would be be how that discounts relates to the traffic post-acquisition that Evan charts.
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Nelson Minar : Malcolm Miller Chartres - This man is rumoured to be a brilliant tour giude. His book is excellent.
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10/11/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Birth of an island - Blogged photos from a volcano (via MeFi)
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jimray : Who was the best rock band of the '80s? - By Dan Kois - Slate Magazine - What, no whitesnake?
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jcgregorio : Genshi - Trac - Another Python templating language.
joshua : Genshi - python templating thing
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Jeremy Zawodny : Luscombe-Silvaire Aircraft Company - Luscombe-Silvaire Aircraft Company: Wow! They've released an LSA-8 model that's designed for Light Sport. It has flaps and night lights too.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D: The comparative review » - Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D: The comparative review »: "he skinny: it's better in some regards than Google Earth, and worse in more important ways. That's nevertheless a good showing for a first iteration of a virtual globe."
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10/11/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Office Space redone as a Thriller - Office Space redone as a Thriller: It's fucking brilliant. And funny too.
jkottke : Trailer for Office Space reimagined as a thriller - Trailer for Office Space reimagined as a thriller. (via cyn-c) [via]
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10/11/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext Hiring Support - Socialtext is looking for a highly technical, friendly, and helpful customer support engineer to assist users of our award-winning web-based collaboration tool.
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10/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : One never knows when a homosexual is about - One never knows when a homosexual is about: at least I can claim I wasn't alive when this stuff was made
plasticbag : Glumbert.com has a 1950s Anti-Homosexual Propoganda film from the United States - [converted to Unicode] ?There's so much I'd say about this if I had more time. The important thing to remember is that there is a sizeable population in the US who would like to start making films like this again. Never believe that the progression in gay
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Jeremy Zawodny : The most optimistic person is the one who complains the most - The most optimistic person is the one who complains the most: "The complainer believes that people actually might care." Heh.
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Jeremy Zawodny : John Battelle interviews Yahoo's David Filo and Bradley Horowitz at Web2.0 - John Battelle interviews Yahoo's David Filo and Bradley Horowitz at Web2.0: Barney's notes from the talk
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Jeremy Zawodny : Sam Ruby: Tamarin - Sam Ruby: Tamarin: "why not port some of these same languages to a runtime which actually was designed for a dynamic language?" an excellent question...
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10/11/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : the show with zefrank: web developers - Looking to hire? Ze's got everything you need to know about finding the right candidate.
plasticbag : Ze Frank talks about Web Developers - Simon and Paul are nothing like this at all. I'm not either. None of my friends are like this. It's a scandalous misrepresentation. Um.
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Andy Baio : Review of Lou Reed's performance at the AOL Web 2.0 party - sounds painfully awkward [via]
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10/11/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Slashdot runs out of comments - they hit 16,777,216 comments, the upper limit for a mediumint in MySQL
jkottke : Slashdot recently crossed 16,777,216 (that's 2^24) comments - Slashdot recently crossed 16,777,216 (that's 2^24) comments, after which no more could be added because of a database misconfiguration. (via waxy) [via]
jimray : Slashdot runs out of comments! - The next time this happens, it means that there have been 4.1 billion comments made, thus ushering in the end of humanity as we know it
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Andy Baio : Video: One Bank - corporate America takes on U2's "One"; painful to watch in its sincerity
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Linkorama : The Corporate Adoption of Social Media - “There’s no question – the early success of peer-driven, social-media programs will put pressure on businesses to both adapt and adopt. But, for some leaders, there’s another question: in a world where everyone participates, wha
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Andy Baio : Unofficial FAQ for the Digg Algorithm - good look at what gets stories to the Digg homepage, but doesn't cover everything
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10/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony - Top reason for the decision was the excellent documentation.
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony - Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony: yay for open source and yahoo
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jkottke : A list of faux pas from different cultures around the world - A list of faux pas from different cultures around the world. "In German business dealings, scooting your chair closer to the host is considered an insult."
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jkottke : $2 bills are growing in popularity in the US - $2 bills are growing in popularity in the US...$1 bills just don't cut it for bartender's tips and lapdance gratuities anymore. Peter Morici, professor of business at some long-named school, says that the $1 coin is taking off as well, but when my wife tr
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