21/11/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : The Bargainist launches - From the folks who brought you Uncrate
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21/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : e - The Collaborative Text Editor for Windows - e - The Collaborative Text Editor for Windows: looks rather interesting
joshua : e - The Collaborative Text Editor for Windows - ooh
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21/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Pulls Click-to-Call - Google Pulls Click-to-Call: "...using it to make the local Republican party office call the local porn store..." Heh.
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21/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : Index of /debian/pool/main/i/iceweasel - the iceweasel cometh
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21/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : How would Shakespeare do in Hollywood today? - How would Shakespeare do in Hollywood today? He'd be raking in the dough on royalties, but because most of his stories were based on previous work, he might not have been able to write them in the first place without being sued for copyright infringement.
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21/11/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
43folders : Flickr: Camera Finder: Canon: EOS Digital Rebel XT - Cool new Flickr feature to find photos taken with a given type of camera.
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21/11/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Joel on Software: Choices = Headaches - Good article by Joel -- Why *does* the Vista shutdown menu require *seven* options? #
gleuschk : Choices = Headaches - reminds me of trying to explain to my grandmother why in order to turn the computer off, she had to hit "Start"
Cameron Moll : Choices = Headaches - Choices = Headaches. Joel Spolsky, former Microsoft program manager, couldn't have penned a better title for this article, in which he explores the inexhaustible (and ridiculous) options in Windows Vista for leaving your computer: Switch User, Log Off, Lo
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21/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : mail.yahoo.net - mail.yahoo.net: WTF is this?!
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21/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How to Fix Yahoo: Fortune (and I) Weigh In - How to Fix Yahoo: Fortune (and I) Weigh In: "Bottom line? No deals required. Just get the darn cash-register working."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Generate Simple Bar Charts From a MySQL Prompt - Generate Simple Bar Charts From a MySQL Prompt: this reminds me of an Excel trick I once saw...
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21/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Innovation and learning to love destruction - Innovation and learning to love destruction: "Old products never die, but they should. To innovate, it is not enough to love creation. We must also love destruction."
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Andy Baio : The Secret World of Lonelygirl - Wired Magazine's late profile of the Lonelygirl fad is still an interesting read, with new details of the beginning
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Andy Baio : 2006 Interactive Fiction Comp winners announced - detailed reviews of every entry linked in the comments
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jkottke : Historical rankings of US presidents - Historical rankings of US presidents. Honest Abe is number one with a...well, he's just #1. George W. Bush comes in at a respectable 22nd, just behind Bill Clinton. (via fakeisthenewreal) [via]
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21/11/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
veen : Series of Tubes - No wonder "the email" is so slow these days.
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21/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What Do Yahoo Employees Think of the "Peanut Butter Manifesto"? - What Do Yahoo Employees Think of the "Peanut Butter Manifesto"?: "A couple of us were chatting about the memo at lunch yesterday and I realized that if I was a Yahoo! employee my spider sense would be tingling like mad."
deusx : Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - What Do Yahoo Employees Think of the "Peanut Butter Manifesto"? - "didn't Garlinghouse's group purchase OddPost 2.5 years ago and yet still hasn't figured out how to integrate the offering into Yahoo! Mail besides making a molasses slow Web-mail experience that is still in beta"
jimray : What Do Yahoo Employees Think of the "Peanut Butter Manifesto"? - Hey, turns out the writer of said memo is just another hack middle manager. Shocker.
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21/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Using Amazon EC2 for on-demand multiplayer game servers - EC2 enables all sorts of interesting niche businesses [via]
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21/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Rex Sorgatz begins his 2006 List of Lists - as always, this will become the ultimate source for year-end best-of lists over the next six weeks
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21/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : The Google 15 - The Google 15: "the fifteen pounds that new Google employees supposedly gain in their first year at Google from gorging on the omnipresent free food".
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jkottke : Director Robert Altman dead at 81 - Director Robert Altman dead at 81. He will be missed.
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21/11/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : WAVE accessibility validator - WAVE accessibility validator. Great little tool for doing a high-level accessibility check. Pass your url through it to see how your site stacks up. (Icon explanations; would be nice if these were clickable within the results page.)
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21/11/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Some musings on the future of the newspaper in The Atlantic - Some musings on the future of the newspaper in The Atlantic. "The barbarians, on the other hand, don't seem to care; they'd rather get the news they want, not the news the mandarins say is good for them."
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21/11/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Linkorama : Video: SuiteTwo - At the recent announcement from Intel on their new Web 2.0 Enterprise Suite, PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier spoke with Ross Mayfield, CEO of SocialText to talk about the new offering from Intel.
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21/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Answers.com Integrates Yahoo Answers Into Content - Answers.com Integrates Yahoo Answers Into Content: I didn't see *that* coming
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yumio's Take on the Peanut Butter Manifesto - Yumio's Take on the Peanut Butter Manifesto: "My bet would be that in 6 months, a frustrated Brad Garlinghouse is going to be joining a startup…."
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21/11/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : You're Wrong - There are some smart lessons here for more than just video game makers.
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21/11/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : its a trap its a trap its a trap its a trap its a trap its a trap its a trap
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21/11/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : The Art of the Book: Behind the Covers with Dave Eggers, Chip Kidd and Milton Glaser - Event at the 92nd St. Y on Dec 4: The Art of the Book: Behind the Covers with Dave Eggers, Chip Kidd and Milton Glaser. Tickets are only $10 if you're 35 or younger.
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21/11/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : hCalendar-o-matic - Microformats hCalendar-o-matic.
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21/11/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Big thanks to Valencia - No, thank you for allowing me to speak to such a fine audience at Valencia Community College. It was a truly a pleasure.
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21/11/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Pixelnotes - "A wallpaper consisting of four layers of varying grey tones on a bright primary backing. Each layer is perforated in a grid format and backed with a tacky adhesive similar to ‘post-it’ notes. Pixelnotes is inspired by the way we work within
plasticbag : Duncan Wilson and Sirrka Hammer's awesome wall of beautiful pixel post-its - Really like this - the wall is painted red and then four layers of grey post-its, each a slightly lighter shade the one before are placed on top. Through use patterns and shapes emerge...
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21/11/2006 @ 15:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Monoslideshow - Monoslideshow is a bit like SlideShowPro but differs with transitions (e.g. Ken Burns effect) among other things.
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Jon Hicks : Use Standalone Feedreaders with OmniWeb - Greg Bowers comes up with a great bookmarklet to circumvent Omniweb not letting you use an external RSS Reader. Omnigroup has said that this functionality is on the way in 5.5.2, but until then, this fills the gap admirably.
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Andy Baio : Stephen Colbert on John Zorn - "I wonder how your little genius came up with that toe tapper"
Nelson Minar : Colbert on John Zorn - OK this is very funny, even though at one time I acted like I liked John Zorn (via Waxy)
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21/11/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : SaltedHashLoginGenerator in Ruby on Rails - SaltedHashLoginGenerator in Ruby on Rails: "A generator based on the LoginGenerator by TobiasLuetke. This generator adds ActionMailer support for changed and forgotten passwords, as well as account verification via a registration email with a custom
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Jeremy Zawodny : ExpertGPS - ExpertGPS: "ExpertGPS displays your waypoints, routes, and tracks on USGS topo maps and aerial photos."
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21/11/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Geting Really Started with Ruby on Rails - Geting Really Started with Ruby on Rails: a nice little presentation that's like most of the other quick intros for rails
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21/11/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
jcgregorio : The Spreadsheet as Mashup Fabric | 2006-11-20 | BitWorking
deusx : The Spreadsheet as Mashup Fabric | 2006-11-20 | BitWorking - "I believe an online spreadsheet is an excellent starting point for building a mashup fabric: a document into which a range of online services can be combined."
Linkorama : The Spreadsheet as Mashup Fabric - I believe an online spreadsheet is an excellent starting point for building a mashup fabric: a document into which a range of online services can be combined. To that end I downloaded and installed wikiCalc and tried to integrate my sparklines service int
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21/11/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : MapLib.net - MapLib.net: "MapLib.net turns any image you uploaded as large as 6000*6000 into a custom Google Map in a really simple way."
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wearehugh : Iceweasel released from its cage
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Jeremy Zawodny : Can Yahoo! and Local Papers Save Each Other? - Can Yahoo! and Local Papers Save Each Other?: "out there in the real world, it’s still the go-to site in ways that Google is not. My middle-class, middle-American in-laws use Yahoo! daily. They rarely use Google."
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21/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Flickr: Camera Finder - Flickr: Camera Finder: very cool! camera stats breakdown on Flickr photos
joshua : Flickr: Camera Finder - nice way to measure popularity of cameras
Andy Baio : Flickr Camera Finder - also, they pushed the oft-requested Guest Pass feature
Milo Vermeulen : Flickr: Camera Finder [via]
Simon Willison : Flickr Camera Finder - I hadn't seen this; includes some really nice graphs.
Linkorama : Flickr: Camera Finder - Now this is integration synergy, and emergent shopping
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21/11/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
joshua : Reinvented Software - KIT - Keep Your Stuff in One Place, Find It Again Instantly - a magic scrapbook for everything you want to keep
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21/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The continued adventures of the Permalink slideshow - Now powered in part by YUI.
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21/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Donut Robot of Love 2000 - IM ON UR ROBOT EATIN UR DONUTZ (scroll to comments) [via]
joshua : Belshaw Donut Robot 42 - i'm in love with a robot
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21/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The top 10 arguments against DRM - Includes some good business arguments I hadn't heard before.
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21/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : TheyWorkForYou.co.nz - Rob McKinnon's site for tracking New Zealand's Parliament.
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21/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala - Adam Cadre's wiki reality [via]
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21/11/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Physiologically, humans aren't meant to drive fast in cars because our flicker fusion frequency isn't high enough - Physiologically, humans aren't meant to drive fast in cars because our flicker fusion frequency isn't high enough. Compared to birds (> 100 Hz versus 60 Hz for humans), at high speeds, everything kinda blurs together for us, leaving us ill-equipped to
deusx : The Flicker Fusion Factor - "When we get behind the wheel of a car, we may think we gain a bird's power of flight, but actually we are poor, pathetic imitators of birds."
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jkottke : OJ Simpson's "If I Did It" book and TV show cancelled - Update: OJ Simpson's "If I Did It" book and TV show cancelled; Fox called it "an ill-considered project". Gosh, you think?
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