14/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
cameron : Audio nerds find a use for the Playstation 1 - Apparently it sounds amazing, but only if you warm it up for 3 days prior.
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14/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : Lucas Nussbaum’s Blog » Blog Archive » When Ubuntu users discover that unofficial repositories can be harmful
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Jeremy Zawodny : Simpsons do Army Recruitment - Simpsons do Army Recruitment: now that's funny
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14/11/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Polish Exchange Student in US: My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists - Polish Exchange Student in US: My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists: "When Polish student Michael Gromek, 19, went to America on a student exchange, he found himself trapped in a host family of Christian fundamentalists."
deusx : Polish Exchange Student in US: My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - "I would never have expected my host family to welcome me at the airport, wielding a Bible, and saying, 'Child, our Lord sent you half-way around the world to bring you to us.'"
jkottke : A Polish exchange student spent six months with a fundamentalist Christian family in the US and didn't have such a good time - A Polish exchange student spent six months with a fundamentalist Christian family in the US and didn't have such a good time. "When I got out of the plane in Greensboro in the US state of North Carolina, I would never have expected my host family to welco [via]
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jkottke : Interview with novelist James Ellroy - Interview with novelist James Ellroy. "I do not follow contemporary politics. I live in a vacuum. I don't read books. I don't read newspapers. I do not own a TV set or a cellphone or a computer. I spend my evenings alone, usually lying in the dark talking
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43folders : 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job - He can also eat 50 eggs, earn a Ph.D., and kill a puma barehanded -- all while you're at lunch. Steve currently travels the nation with his blue ox, Babe.
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43folders : Apple in deal to let iPod videos play on planes | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com - "...iPod seat connections, which power and charge iPods during flight and allow the video content on the devices to be viewed on seat-back displays..."
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jkottke : Discussion of movies where the main character dies at the end - Discussion of movies where the main character dies at the end. Caution, all sorts of possible spoilers.
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Rod Begbie : Dev House Boston - Programmers/Designers! Got an idea of something you want to build, but no time to do it? Got a hankering to build something, but no ideas? In New England? Come along to Dev House Boston on Dec 9th. [via] #
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cameron : Illustrated history of the folding chair - Nothing better than an exhaustive collection of historical objects.
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Andy Baio : 10 Zen Monkeys stalks ex-Valleywag Nick Douglas - they obsessively track down Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom, Dave Winer, Nick Denton, and call Nick Douglas on his cellphone
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43folders : shmivejournal: my spectacular cold reading abilities at work - "People tell me I have a gift, but I think the ability is within everybody -- you just need to 'find your center'"
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43folders : Thanko RareMono Shop - USB (ashtrays|slippers|gloves|'aroma diffusers'|bottle coolers). Oh, those whacky Japanese.
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14/11/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : A new paperback version of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is out - A new paperback version of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is out. You get 1104 pages of Wallacian goodness for $10 (it's only $8 on Amazon) and I've heard it's physically a lot thinner than the previous paperback.
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14/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Jason Shellen : Apple Teams Up With Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM & United to Deliver iPod Integration - In response, Air Kazakhstan announces Zune compatibility. #
Eric Meyer : Apple Teams Up With Airlines to Deliver iPod Integration - So how long until someone starts selling a converter to let you charge your laptop off these things?
jkottke : Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM, and United are integrating the iPod into their airplanes, so that you can plug in to charge and view movies on the seatback video screens - Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM, and United are integrating the iPod into their airplanes, so that you can plug in to charge and view movies on the seatback video screens. How about some standard 120V AC power outlets instead?
Rod Begbie : Apple Teams Up With Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM & United to Deliver iPod Integration - Wow. What a great move by Apple. Further domination of the iPod-only connector, plus it solves the "iPod batteries only last 4 hours when watching video, that's too short for a long-haul flight" problem in one foul swoop. [via] #
jimray : Apple Teams Up With Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM & United to Deliver iPod Integration - Recharge, play video on the headrest screen in front of you. 737 is now officially the most expensive iPod accessory available.
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14/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : The Time-Gun Map of Edinburgh "was produced in 1861 to show the time taken for the sound of the one o'clock gun to travel from Edinburgh Castle to different parts of Edinburgh and Leith" - The Time-Gun Map of Edinburgh "was produced in 1861 to show the time taken for the sound of the one o'clock gun to travel from Edinburgh Castle to different parts of Edinburgh and Leith". (via moon river) [via]
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Eric Meyer : 'Beta' Is Not an Excuse - I've been meaning to say the same thing for a while, but John says it better than I would have, so now I don't have to!
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deusx : ripping up the pavement | MetaFilter - "Skate Bording Girls. Disclaimers: flash clip, uncanny nudity."
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deusx : Boing Boing: Girl hypnotizes and dresses up lizards - "Lily Capehart is a 10-year-old girl from Florida who like to "hypnotize" wild South Florida anole lizards and dress them up."
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14/11/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
jcgregorio : FGA: "mbox" is a family of several mutually incompatible mailbox formats. - Everybody has their "RSS".
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jkottke : Oxford University Press has announced their word of the year for 2006 - Oxford University Press has announced their word of the year for 2006: carbon neutral. Runners up included DRM, ghostriding, CSA, and Islamofascism.
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plasticbag : How to write in polytonic (ancient) Greek in OSX - This is sort of a niche thing to care about, but care about it I do. I keep wondering if I should put up any of my old abandoned doctoral work onto the web. Seems weird to have spent that much time on something and not be able to open up some of the resul
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plasticbag : Techcrunch (in July) covered the online sites that are hoping to replace paper TV guides - Fascinating overview full of useful information that gesture towards the future of television
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plasticbag : The Cintiq—as described on Kevin Kelly's site—is basically a combination tablet and monitor that allows you to do illustration work in a way that resembles working on paper - There's a substantial chunk of writing on the page from Scott McCloud talking about how he uses it too. It looks pretty extraordinary, actually. Wouldn't mind one of those, although god knows what I'd use it for.
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plasticbag : Medium-old BBC article about the perfect comedy face contains a great line from Ricky Gervais - "All these years I assumed my global success as a comedian was down to my acute observations, expert directorial rendering and consummate skills as a performer. Turns out it's because I've got a fat girly face."
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Linkorama : Get Big Cheap - Don’t worry about how long it takes—just make sure your burn rate is low enough to accommodate several cycles of iteration.
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Linkorama : Heroes Wiki - Mark my words, there is a wiki for every tv show
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Nelson Minar : Knights Templar - A thoroughly detailed site, free of Da Vinci infection
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14/11/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Installing the Zune... sucked - Engadget - Wow. Microsoft make it clear that, however rushed, buggy and miserably unready the Zune software may be, the user experience design was always half-assed. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Installing the Zune... sucked - Installing the Zune... sucked: Microsoft is amazing, huh?
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14/11/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Amazon Earworm interviews XTC's Andy Partridge - Alexa's Web Discovery and Amazon Earworm are two of the best corporate blogs
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joshua : the movie trailer voice guy, don lafontaine
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joshua : the inner life of the cell
Matthew M. Boedicker : The Inner Life of the Cell video simulation - (via del.icio.us/joshua) [via]
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veen : Lycos seeks rebirth as "virtual living room" - Yahoo! News - hahahaaahahahaaha...
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jcgregorio : PHP Succeeding Where Java Has Failed - ""Essential redux: Each PHP guy gets more done in a day than two Java guys get done in a week.""
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43folders : 10 Things I Wish I Had Never Believed–steve-olson.com - "So if you are getting lousy results in your life, it’s probably because of the decisions you are making."
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Rod Begbie : shell: revealed - Can't drag quicklaunch toolbar to top of desktop - I'm playing with Vista on my laptop, and this "improvement" from Microsoft was pissing me off. Thankfully there is a "solution". One that is a usability nightmare waiting to happen (drag a folder too close to the edge of the screen, and it becomes a too #
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14/11/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Eyeglasses Stores are for Suckers - Eyeglasses Stores are for Suckers: how to buy eyeglasses online and spend way less cash
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Jeremy Zawodny : Thoughts on the State of Search - Thoughts on the State of Search: "I do wonder where the next search innovations are going to come from, and I'm surprised to find that Google isn't the obvious answer to that question anymore."
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Rod Begbie : Sqlite Developer - Sqlite3 Database Manager - GUI for managing SQLite databases. Best one I've found, although it's not free. Deals gracefully with the 4Gb database files we use at work. #
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Simon Willison : Avi Bryant: smalltalk.rb - Bootstrapping Ruby on a Smalltalk VM in 65 lines of code (using JRuby).
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Simon Willison : Sun open sources Java SE, ME, and Glassfish under GPLv2 - Pretty detailed analysis, including why they chose GPLv2. [via]
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Simon Willison : Spiritual Research into Addictions - This gets increasingly crazy as you scroll down the page.
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Simon Willison : JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya - When to use the new keyword, by Douglas Crockford.
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Simon Willison : Ryan Tomayko: Shackled But Free - Did you know James Gosling caused the creation of the GPL?
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jimray : Recipe: No-Knead Bread - Easy enough for me!
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deusx : ToastyFrog.com : Site - Metroidvania - ""Metroidvania" is a stupid word for a wonderful thing. It's basically a really terrible neologism that describes a videogame genre which combines 2D side-scrolling action with free-roaming exploration and progressive skill and item collection to enable f
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jkottke : Video sampling music video - Human beatbox Lasse Gjertsen has taken his skills to the next level. His new video, Amateur, is a clever bit of video sampling: Gjertsen builds an entire song out of tiny video soundbytes of him playing the drums and piano. It's hard to explain, just watc
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