27/11/2006 @ 22:03 GMT
Linkorama : From artists to spies, more going wiki on Web - General article about wikis in The Boston Globe
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27/11/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : Corporate Gibberish Generator - Even better than lorem ipsum!
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27/11/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
cameron : Viral Learning Center - "How to make viral internet videos," which appears to be a a viral internet video to promote ziddeo.com, Comcast's UGC channel
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27/11/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Properties to Appear #1 in all SERPs - Google Properties to Appear #1 in all SERPs: "I’m not so sure I welcome our new Robot Overlords anymore."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Google Has My Credit Card Number Now - Google Has My Credit Card Number Now: As John says: Sorry Google, but mark this one in your metadata as "abandoned cart."
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jkottke : The best and worst restaurant trends in NYC for 2006 - The best and worst restaurant trends in NYC for 2006. Among the worst, Mexican: "Zero progress on one of the most misunderstood and untapped cuisines in NYC."
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27/11/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : akirlu: Zed's Dead: A Transatlantic Writing Essay - "This started out as a rant about British writers writing American characters and not getting the idiom right."
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27/11/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Why does the fashion industry thrive in spite of rampant IP "piracy"? - "In spite of the lack of IP protection for clothing designs—or rather, because of this lack, the authors argue—the fashion industry remains vibrant and profitable"
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27/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Kubick audition Brian Atene returns, for real this time - skip straight to 1:45; Atene claims the original audition was never actually sent in [via]
jimray : Brian Atene Returns—for Real - So, the guy who showed up on YouTube with an audition tape for "Full Metal Jacket" returns. Apparently, he never sent in the infamous tape, still really nutty, though
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cobra libre : Sneak King - Sadly, you need to buy an Xbox 360 AND eat at Burger King to play this. [via] #
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Andy Baio : Google Master Plan - zoomable version of the whiteboard epic, leaked for the world to see [via]
deusx : Google Master Plan | by UnderGoogle - "Google's master Plan had been erased but the Undergoogle blog kept a hight resolution picture of it for you"
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27/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Third place works for Nintendo - Although Nintendo finds itself in third place in the video game console wars behind Sony and Microsoft, the company is doing really well financially while Sony and MS are maybe breaking even with their efforts. "Nintendo knew that it could not compete wit
Jeremy Zawodny : In Praise of Third Place - In Praise of Third Place: "The point is that business is not a sporting event. Victory for one company doesn’t mean defeat for everyone else."
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27/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Penguin is releasing a series of books with blank covers with the idea being that the reader fills them in - Penguin is releasing a series of books with blank covers with the idea being that the reader fills them in. The first books in the series include Crime and Punishment and Emma. Penguin has a gallery of reader submissions...send in your best shot.
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43folders : Boing Boing Boing podcast 008: Merlin Mann - In which I unfavorably compare talking on a mobile phone to farting on Caltrain.
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27/11/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
43folders : String On Your Finger 2.0 (Label Maker Hack) - Clever way to create a "remember bracelet." Thanks, adamvarga
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27/11/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
deusx : Damn Interesting - Outer Space Exposure - "Though an unprotected human would not long survive in the clutches of outer space, it is remarkable that survival times can be measured in minutes rather than seconds, and that one could endure such an inhospitable environment for almost two minutes with
jimray : Outer space exposure - When you get thrown out the airlock, you've got about a minute and a half, maybe two, to get back in
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Cameron Moll : Web Directions North Snowboard Contest - Web Directions North is holding a snowboard design contest. Prizes include conference pass and lift tickets.
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27/11/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Firefox Sugar Cookies - Great work!
deusx : blog.josephhall.com - "So there you have it, a plate of beautiful Firefox cookies, perfect for any holiday or geek party."
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27/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Earth team asks Gaia team to shut down project - finally, a human face behind the C&D, instead of nastygram lawyerbots
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jkottke : Nintendo game developers Ken'ichiro Ashida and Shigeru Miyamoto talk about how the Wii was developed - Nintendo game developers Ken'ichiro Ashida and Shigeru Miyamoto talk about how the Wii was developed. "The consensus was that power isn't everything for a console. Too many powerful consoles can't coexist. It's like having only ferocious dinosaurs. They m
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27/11/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Whiteboard stopmotion animation - "Created by Kristofer Strom of Ljubilden & Piloten, this stopmotion animation is made entirely with whiteboard! Amazing..."
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Cameron Moll : CSS Mastery to be published in Korean - Suman Park has just completed a Korean translation of CSS Mastery. Crazy cool. More details later.
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Cameron Moll : Sample CSS-based forms - Big list of sample CSS-based registration and feedback forms, many of which link to tutorials. (Why they qualify as part of the "Web 2.0 era" is perplexing.)
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27/11/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : TinyTube - Mobile video from YouTube - "TinyTube.net is an independent mobile site that hosts 3gp versions of a lot of the current content on YouTube."
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43folders : cabel.name: Tragedii - "who fished what with the slingshot in the monkey basket now?" (via:mathowie)
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27/11/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
43folders : Extend GarageBand's recording limit to 3 hours [Archive] - PCA Forum - To psych Garageband into recording a podcast longer than a half hour, "set the tempo to 40 (the lowest you can set it to) and the time to 7/4." Great hack.
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Linkorama : Chinese Gold Farmers - Documentary of what happens to an IP-based economy made globally accessible.
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27/11/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Twitter / wit: At Ritual Coffee, the hand-...
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27/11/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Scott's Blog : Slippery Slopes - "I suspect that the lure of the bling will win out."
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27/11/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Wii elbow - Players of the Nintendo Wii are getting more exercise than they bargained for; reports of "Wii elbow" abound. Making the supreme sacrifice, one gamer is "vowing nightly 'Wii workouts' to get in better shape". What a trooper!
Andy Baio : Reports of Wii injuries rolling in - Nintendo anticipated this by placing obvious warnings and reminders in the games
deusx : A Wii Workout: When Videogames Hurt - WSJ.com - Wimps.
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27/11/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
deusx : Under The Sun: Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don't work - "There is something funky in your data."
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27/11/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : I posted the answer to the rope burning logic problem from last week - I posted the answer to the rope burning logic problem from last week. Note: the answer does not involve time travel or impossible knots.
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27/11/2006 @ 12:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Product of God - Gallery - Genevieve Gauckler is my hero, and now I find out that her work is available as prints! (via NOTCOT.ORG) [via]
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27/11/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
Jason Shellen : Pregnant star misses Vatican gala - The 16-year old star is taking this method acting thing a little far. #
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deusx : Ben Brophy’s Linkwalla adds xFolk support at FactoryCity - "Ben Brophy’s databaseless personal link aggregator, Linkwalla, has recently been upgraded to v0.9.7. Aside from Flickr and Ma.gnolia integration, the output is now marked up in the xFolk microformat."
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27/11/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
deusx : Linkwalla: PHP/XML link blog - "Build a list of links through a simple AJAX web interface, published via HTML and RSS. Sort of a mini-blog for links. Written in PHP5 and runs off XML files - no database needed."
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27/11/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
43folders : M.E.G.O. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Mine Eyes Glazeth Over"
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27/11/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : a crotch noogie done with the foot - a crotch noogie done with the foot: WTF?!?!
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Andy Baio : Make's Open Source Gift Guide - incredible resource; you could spend weeks exploring any one of these projects
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deusx : Escaping the JavaScript call stack with setTimeout at Blogature - "What happens when we call something using setTimeout with a delay of 0 is that the JavaScript engine notices that it’s busy (with whatever task called setTimeout) and queues the setTimeout code for execution immediately after the current call stac
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27/11/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : perfect comfort - perfect comfort: "If Jesus wore pants, they'd be microfiber lounge pants."
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27/11/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks - Education - Times Online - Good bloody grief. Damn that 2.4Ghz band, and all its illness-causing ways. Hope the schools also removed all cordless telephones and, erm, microwave ovens. Won't somebody think of the children?! [via] #
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27/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders - behind the recent surge of Captcha-like image spam [via]
Simon Willison : 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders - Many people I've talked to have noticed an up-surge in spam recently. This could be why.
Nelson Minar : Stock spam net - Some details on the crooks behind the latest spam wave (via Waxy)
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27/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Inside World of Warcraft gold farms - new documentary explores the half million Chinese making their living earning virtual currency [via]
Simon Willison : Inside World of Warcraft Gold Farm, Future of Work - Half a million (!) people make a living farming gold in World of Warcraft.
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27/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : python-dateutil - Labix
Simon Willison : python-dateutil - A bunch of useful datetime extensions, including recurrence rules and date parsing.
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27/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Zune is a piece of shit - Zune is a piece of shit: "Microsoft's Zune may be the thing that makes it obvious that Microsoft has crappy products..."
jkottke : "I just saw a Zune, and guess what? Its a piece of shit." - David echoes my reaction to seeing a Zune in person for the first time this weekend: "I just saw a Zune, and guess what? Its a piece of shit." I usually give people a hard time for making snap judgments about technology that takes time to get to know (com
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27/11/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : ParallelDistribution - wiki.mako.cc
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