13/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats - A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Jonathon's take on why they opened up the source to java...
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13/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Ironic Sans has an interview with one of NYC's quirkiest characters, Louis Klein, a man who has seen over 500 tapings of Saturday Night Live in person, including the very first show - Ironic Sans has an interview with one of NYC's quirkiest characters, Louis Klein, a man who has seen over 500 tapings of Saturday Night Live in person, including the very first show. "In the last 27 years I’ve missed 36 shows."
Rod Begbie : Ironic Sans: Interview: Louis Klein, audience member of nearly every episode of Saturday Night Live - Man, I consider it a chore to have to watch SNL on TiVo each week, when I can fast-forward through it. I can't imagine queuing up each week to go see the show live. [via] #
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Andy Baio : Nick Douglas leaving Valleywag - the blog everyone here won't admit they read; also: 10 Zen Monkeys interview with Nick
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wearehugh : glandium.org » Blog Archive » Trademark vs Copyright
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deusx : Scripting News: 11/11/2006 - Anchors in OPML - "I suggest using the created attribute, which provides a unique ID down to the second. Of course this would fail if you create more than one node in a second, but I find that's a limit I can live with."
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deusx : Tom Morris: Opath - a tool to popularise a concept - "You want to include an OPML node inside your outline. The problem is that you want to get just one node from an outline and include it. Here's where Opath comes in."
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deusx : Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Symphony of the Night was a massive critical success, and still maintains a large internet fanbase as well as status as a collector's item. It is considered by many to be the best of the Castlevania series"
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veen : frog design / Pentagon briefing redesign - "The New York Times published a PowerPoint slide from a recent Pentagon briefing, displaying the "Index of Civil Conflict" used by the US Central Command to track progress abroad. frog design has taken the opportunity to improve the quality of this inform
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cameron : Welcome to Confabb: The Conference Community - Social media site for conferences. I was wondering when someone would build this application. It's amazing how many there are; of 16k conferences, 2 of my regulars are indexed.
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jkottke : Artist Bob Dob has some nice video game-related oil paintings - Artist Bob Dob has some nice video game-related oil paintings, including mugshots of Mario & Luigi and Mario & Donkey Kong hanging out, having a beer. (thx, chris)
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deusx : How to Give a Cat an Injection - WikiHow - "Ever had to give a cat an injection at home, for feline diabetes, maybe? Here's how to do it painlessly... both for you and the cat!"
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plasticbag : Ms. Dewey - So it went around a month ago but I stumbled upon it today for some reason and you have to ask yourself, what the fuck is in the water at Microsoft if they think this is a good idea?
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jkottke : Interesting speculation that the 2006 election was the last 20th-century election - Interesting speculation that the 2006 election was the last 20th-century election. "The era of baby-boomer politics -- with its culture wars, its racial subtext, its archaic divisions between hawks and doves and between big government and no government a
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jcgregorio : Extra Chunky | 2006-11-11 | BitWorking
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jimray : NBC News Launches Video Podcasts on MSNBC.com - Launches the same day as the zune. Yay, synergy
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13/11/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
jkottke : New version of MAME for OS X that works natively on the Intel machines - New version of MAME for OS X that works natively on the Intel machines. MAME is an arcade emulator that lets you play arcade games on your computer. (via df) [via]
jimray : MAME OS X - MAME for Intel Macs
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jimray : 826 Seattle - Wish List - I need to give my old Mac away, 826 seems like a fine candidate
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Rod Begbie : SNL Transcripts: Alec Baldwin: 11/11/06: Carpool - Best SNL sketch in AGES. Sadly, I can't find the video on YouTube, so here's the transcript. "Bobby McFerrin raped my grandmother" has become a wholly-inappropriate running joke between Joy & myself. #
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43folders : Like Clockwork: Hour of Delay, Hour of Flight - washingtonpost.com - "The flight had the nation's worst on-time performance in September, arriving late 100 percent of the time..." via:obscurestore.com
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13/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
43folders : Ask Dethroner: How Do I Wear Cologne? at Dethroner - "Personally, I think a cologne should only be smelled by someone who is in very close proximity. It’s a whisper, not a trumpet."
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43folders : Microsoft's Zune to Give iPod Its Most Serious Challenge Yet | theledger.com - "The wireless music-sharing feature on the Zune is heavily compromised in a way that is bound to annoy the very audience it is targeting."
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13/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
43folders : Apple Matters | Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme - "In effect, Microsoft has created a store that only accepts gift cards as the valid method of payments. "
Rod Begbie : Apple Matters | Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme - Microsoft's "you must buy points in $5 increments" makes sense if you consider credit-card transaction costs (I'm sure Apple loses money if you only buy one 99 cent song at a time -- that's why they batch up your transactions), but the user experience of [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme - Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme: "So, this horrible system has been put in place (according to Microsoft’s logic) to make life easier for less than 1 million people."
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jimray : The Interface: Podcast Archive - AOL Music - This might be the best thing to come out of AOL
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deusx : Is a burrito a sandwich? Judge says no - Yahoo! News - "I know of no chef or culinary historian who would call a burrito a sandwich. Indeed, the notion would be absurd to any credible chef or culinary historian."
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jkottke : Sprint screws over another customer - Yet another tale of one of the mobile companies screwing their customers. This time it's Sprint: "After some wrangling, I am assured that the service will be terminated and no fee will be assessed. I even call back later that afternoon to make sure that I
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jcgregorio : W3C Widgets 1.0 - """and Widget Autodiscovery is based on Atom Autodiscovery [AtomAutodiscovery]."""
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deusx : The most confusing ad on television. - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine - "I admit that, even as I write, a select group of you is no doubt waking (or is it wanking?) to the charms of Erin Esurance."
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deusx : YouTube - Kiwi! - "My Master's Thesis Animation."
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13/11/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! University Hack Day Success!!! - Yahoo! University Hack Day Success!!!: "My hack involved a lot of screen scraping - until Yahoo! releases their Calendar API"
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jkottke : A Florida voter sent in their absentee ballot with an extremely rare stamp - A Florida voter sent in their absentee ballot with an extremely rare stamp, the 1918 Inverted Jenny. Two other stamps from the 30s and 40s were on the envelope as well. It looks like the stamps are sealed away with other voting ballots by law for 22 month
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jkottke : Which five comedies would you want to take with you if you were stranded alone on a desert island? - The NY Times asks a bunch of comedians: Which five comedies would you want to take with you if you were stranded alone on a desert island? My list: Dr. Strangelove, Zoolander, Office Space, Election, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. (Comment on this)
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jkottke : NASA has never had a Space Shuttle in orbit on Dec 31 or Jan 1 because they aren't sure that the onboard computers can handle the year switch over - NASA has never had a Space Shuttle in orbit on Dec 31 or Jan 1 because they aren't sure that the onboard computers can handle the year switch over.
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Nelson Minar : Mary Worth live - Comic strip with live actors, totally awesome (via Metafilter)
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13/11/2006 @ 12:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Historical maps - Google Earth publishes some old maps; very cool
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13/11/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Slaughterhouse NYC - Freaky slideshow of pig carcasses and industrial machines (via various)
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jcgregorio : Web Applications 1.0 | <event-source/> - To specify an event source in an HTML document authors use a new (empty) element event-source, with an attribute src="" that takes a URI (or IRI) to open as a stream and, if the data found at that URI is of the appropriate type, treat as an event source.
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13/11/2006 @ 10:02 GMT
joshua : Desktop Transporter - share screens on mac. wonder if it's faster than vnc
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13/11/2006 @ 10:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Passion-Industrial Complex - The Passion-Industrial Complex: "I like my work. I’m good at it. I try hard. When did that stop being enough? When did it have to be my Passion?"
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Andy Baio : Australian scientists build working air guitar - even better: air tambourine [via]
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13/11/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
cameron : Get therapy. Not a puppy. - I think more companies should have this kind of disclaimer
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13/11/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
cameron : Stop motion guitar and piano - Nice video produced through cutting up video as if it were music samples. It feels like what DJ Shadow would produce if he made videos.
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13/11/2006 @ 07:02 GMT
jcgregorio : ongoing · Java Is Free - """I have one concrete hope: that the people working on the GNU/Linux desktop can be unshackled from the tyranny of C++."""
Simon Willison : Java Is Free - GPL2 no less. Getting Jython up to speed is now even more important.
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Linkorama : WoW Leveling Guides - strategies for the boring part of world of warcraft, literally killing time
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13/11/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - South Park : Bigger, Longer & Uncut - Teaser - A considerably funnier version of the 3D animation gag in the Simpsons trailer: the South Park movie teaser from *1998*. #
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13/11/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Apple - Trailers - The Simpsons Movie - HD - Oh. Dear. #
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13/11/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Case Study: Digg Versus Google News Traffic - Case Study: Digg Versus Google News Traffic: complete with a long tail graph!
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Jeremy Zawodny : Robot Theatre: "Royale With Cheese" - Robot Theatre: "Royale With Cheese": heh
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13/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : There's something (crappy) about Borat... - There's something (crappy) about Borat...: "I don't understand the reviews. I don't understand how anyone can look at that film in its totality and describe it as a cerebral job of political satire that forces you to think."
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13/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Meaning of Borat - The Meaning of Borat: "Borat goes somewhere and does exactly what you're not supposed to do. In doing so, he points out the absurdity of our cultural assumptions and then documents exactly the punishments inflicted for violating them."
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13/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
jkottke : Trailer for The Simpsons Movie - Trailer for The Simpsons Movie. At this point, is there any reason to believe that this is going to be any good? (via fimonculosusis (sp?)) [via]
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Jeremy Zawodny : Web 2.0 + 1 - Web 2.0 + 1: "For the most part I felt like it was a waste of time (and $2500)."
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13/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Concerned is over - Now you can read the whole thing through from the start!
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13/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : A Second Life teaser - Matt's made a 3D printer.
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13/11/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
joshua : takahashi xul presentations - seems like a lot less work than powerpoint, franky
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13/11/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
plasticbag : Entertaining Late Late Show approach to Donald Rumsfeld... - Thanks to Kerry Bailey at mugwump.typepad.com for finding me that one. S'funny
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