17/11/2006 @ 23:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Nelson Minar on SOAP | 2006-11-17 | BitWorking
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cobra libre : Letter from Marshall McLuhan to Ezra Pound - "America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy -- the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep oc #
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jkottke : Steven Johnson has a new blog over at the NY Times on "the perils and promise of increasing urban density" - Steven Johnson has a new blog over at the NY Times on "the perils and promise of increasing urban density" but it's TimesSelect which sucks both generally and for me specifically.
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wearehugh : James Tauber : Why A-Sharp is Not B-Flat
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jkottke : A bunch of pictures of celebrities Photoshopped to look like Star Wars characters - It's fun Fotoshop Friday! (Phun Photoshop Phriday?) Anyway, here's a bunch of pictures of celebrities Photoshopped to look like Star Wars characters. I'm surprised there weren't more celebrities frozen in carbonite. (via fandumb) [via]
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Linkorama : Wiki Jobs - Socialtext is hiring several positions, locations vary, mileage doesn't so much
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cobra libre : Blake Ross: On the UCLA Tasering #
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wearehugh : Sam Ruby: The H stands for Hyper
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43folders : Harry | Uncrate - "The more stuff you give him, the bigger he becomes, shaping himself uniquely based on the kinds of stuff you give him to hold."
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43folders : Crap I love: Wesabe | A Whole Lotta Nothing - "For me, the main draw was simply having a powerful web version of something like Quicken, but flexible like flickr or delicious."
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43folders : I don't understand my Mac. | Ask MetaFilter - "What should be exciting me about this machine?"
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Matthew M. Boedicker : video of UCLA police repeatedly tasering a student who had forgotten his id card - papers please (via Blake Ross) [via]
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: The Phone Stories: VOICEMAIL - "I remember the grey day, I remember the rain drizzling across the street and against the booth when I realized my box, my little teenage piece of the phone system, was gone forever."
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deusx : me, 2.0: garlic meatballs - yum meatballs garlic
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deusx : sitemaps.org - Protocol - "This document describes the XML schema for the Sitemap protocol."
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jkottke : Donella Meadows came up with a list of 12 leverage points, places in complex systems (like cities, companies, environments, etc.) where making small changes can result in big shifts - Donella Meadows came up with a list of 12 leverage points, places in complex systems (like cities, companies, environments, etc.) where making small changes can result in big shifts. The Wikipedia page contains a summary of her points. Aside from the obvi [via]
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fastclemmy : Semen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Semen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia by fastclemmy Take a look at the pics, now that's what I call User Generated Content!!! wiki ugc hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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jkottke : Craigslist desperately needs something like Listpic...simple pages of thumbnails from CL ads by category - Craigslist desperately needs something like Listpic...simple pages of thumbnails from CL ads by category. Here's the page for NYC furniture.
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jcgregorio : MIT to try Python for introductory CS course (AMK's Journal) - "The difference is that programming will be done in Python and not Scheme."
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Linkorama : In search of non-gratuitous 3D - Today's screencast is a follow-on to last week's column and blog entry about how corporations are colonizing Second Life, and about what the real advantages of 3D simulation might or might not be.
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Linkorama : social metaverse - “It’s no accident that such minimalist modes as e-mail, chat, blogs, and wikis capture so much of our online attention. The Web began as, and keeps proving to be, an experience that’s more about social interaction than passive entertai
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Eric Meyer : Jon Jensen - Curriculum Vitae - Check out the "Recent Work Experience" timeline, which is a styled list. You can verify this by switching the "View mode". Slick!
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Rod Begbie : Wesabe - Marc Hedlund's start-up launches. Looks like an awesome light-weight social web-based finance manager, for folks for whom Quicken is too much hassle. Whether users will entrust their financial info to Web 2.0 remains to be seen. #
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17/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why SOAP Sucks - Why SOAP Sucks: "...let me say now I'd never choose to use SOAP and WSDL again. I was wrong..."
wearehugh : Nelson's Weblog: tech / bad / whySoapSucks
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jkottke : New Scientist asked "70 of the world's most brilliant scientists" what their forecasts are for the next 50 years - As part of their 50th anniversary celebration, New Scientist asked "70 of the world's most brilliant scientists" what their forecasts are for the next 50 years. As Steven Pinker says, this is a sucker's bet, but enjoyable reading nonetheless.
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Cameron Moll : Getting Microformats - Getting Microformats. This just in from Jeremy Keith's quality session here at Refresh06. Good categorized list of links to all things microformats.
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17/11/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : list of fallacious arguments - (via New Del.icio.us popular sites) [via]
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17/11/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : MsgFiler - Why the functionality of MsgFiler isn't automatically built into Mail.app, I don't know, but I'm definitely coughing up the $8 on this because my life primarily consists of moving email from one folder to another. (via df) [via]
43folders : MsgFiler - "MsgFiler is a plug-in for Apple Mail which quickly files emails into existing mailbox folders."
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Cameron Moll : Roger's favorite typography books - Roger Johansson's favorite typography books. Good list of books here, from both Roger and his readers.
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jkottke : Gelf Magazine finds that the critics think that a new TV show, Day Break, is a lot like Groundhog Day - Gelf Magazine finds that the critics think that a new TV show, Day Break, is a lot like Groundhog Day meets 24 meets The Shield meets The Fugitive meets Kafka meets Law & Order.
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17/11/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Bank of America sings U2's One - Sickbags at the ready people. You’re going to need a stack.
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deusx : instructables : Tv-B-Gone Hat - "This is a hat with integrated Tv-B-Gone and a couple added features such as rapid fire mode which will turn off (and on) the most common tvs more frequently and constant on mode which will repeat the off codes for all tvs indefinately. "
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deusx : Rush Limbaugh fakes stupidity. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine - "Take it from me. Rush Limbaugh wants you to think he's a dumbass, a pea-brain, an absolute yutz. It's a con job. Don't fall for it."
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cameron : FAA requires all airlines to have lap-airbags by 2009 - Research shows that many airline crash fatalities are avoidable. This WSJ article has some interesting video and photos of the lap-bag in use.
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Linkorama : Web 3.0 is made of people - So at this stage I think I’d be willing to take my chances on rewriting the future, and place my bet on it actually being Wikipedia Takes All.
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Linkorama : Blogging, dandelife style... - Now that I've moved my blogging routine to the dandelife service, I thought I'd explain some of the rather odd things that you'll see (assuming you visit my blog on a semi-regular basis).
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Rod Begbie : cabel.name: Kettle Chips Beta - $20 for five experimentally-flavoured bags of Kettle Chips. Vote for your faves, and they might appear on shop shelves some day. "Royal Indian Curry" is calling my name. #
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Rod Begbie : Cracked it! | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited - FFS. Detailed explanation of the how's and why's of reading/cloning a UK RFID-chipped passport -- which don't even have the tinfoil protective cover that US passports will. "'This doesn't matter,' says a Home Office spokesman." [via] #
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deusx : How-To: Turn a standard Xbox 360 video cable into a VGA cable for make benefit your wallet - Engadget - "In this How-To we'll describe how you can turn your existing Xbox 360 video cable into a "multi-out" device capable of VGA." Man. For the effort and damage potential, I'd buy the premade cable.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Kansas man shoots himself in groin - Kansas man shoots himself in groin: "gimme all your money, or I'll blow my testicle off!!!" Heh.
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deusx : Bill de h?ra: IM Grid - "5 years from now, Grid services that are not already on Web will be based on instant messaging, and XMPP/Atom/RDF will be the key Grid transfer protocols and formats."
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deusx : celtx - Overview - "Celtx is software for making media - film, video, theatre, and animation."
philgyford : Celtx - Overview - Free, good-looking software for writing scripts, storyboards, planning productions, etc.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Downdraft blamed for glider crash - Downdraft blamed for glider crash: ouch :-(
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Jeremy Zawodny : Search Engine Land - Search Engine Land: "News About Search Engines & Search Marketing" aka, Danny Sullivan's new thing
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17/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : SWFUpload - SWFUpload: "Upload files via flash to get the flash-upload dialog goodness." Open Source. Excellent.
bmilleare : SWFUpload beta - Open source flash upload dialog
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jimray : The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop - "Sample trolls" are the new evil incarnate
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Simon Willison : Get the most out of generic views in Django - Awesome tip re-inforcing the power of wrappers around generic views.
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17/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Firebug 1.0 preview - With network profiling inspired by Tamper Data!
Rod Begbie : Firebug - Version 1.0 of Firebug is on the horizon, and it looks about 75% more kick-assier than the current release, which is saving my life at the moment as I do some JavaScript stuff at work. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Firebug - Web Development Evolved - Firebug - Web Development Evolved: todo: grok firebug
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Jeremy Zawodny : HMPassphrase - HMPassphrase: "HMPassphrase is an anti-spam plugin for Movable Type." Sure beats having to hack the perl myself.
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Jeremy Zawodny : WEBMASTERWORLD vs. Web 2.0 Summit - WEBMASTERWORLD vs. Web 2.0 Summit: Chris has an excellent comparison of PubCon and Web 2.0
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plasticbag : Beautiful scarves covered in awesome retro-pixel art - I desperately want some of these, but I can't tell whether or not I'd look ridiculous wandering around in one. Would anyone take me seriously? Does anyone take me seriously now?!
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