29/11/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Teach blogging at UNC j-school - My alma mater, staying on top of the new media game
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29/11/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : The iPod Was Not Developed by Baptists in Waco, Texas - Garrison Keillor: "Creative people thrive in a climate of openness and tolerance, since some great ideas start out sounding ridiculous." Right on.
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29/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : SecureApt - Debian Wiki - SecureApt - Debian Wiki: all about the new keys and secure packages and stuff that I'll have to deal with someday soon
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29/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Kansas Outlaws Practice Of Evolution - Kansas Outlaws Practice Of Evolution: "Kansas lawmakers passed emergency legislation outlawing evolution, the highly controversial process responsible for the development and diversity of species and the continued survival of all life."
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29/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Die, C, die! 5 reasons to UN-learn C. - Die, C, die! 5 reasons to UN-learn C.: heh... unit testing for C! as if.
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29/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : Binary Firmware Inventory for the Debian Linux 2.6.17 kernel
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29/11/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Buzzfeed: the new Digg? - Buzzfeed: the new Digg? Note: I'm a Buzzfeed advisor.
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29/11/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Nice thread of people providing examples of gifts that aren't really gifts - Nice thread of people providing examples of gifts that aren't really gifts. "The ideal is one that does not insult upon opening, that, in fact, seems like a great gift until living with it for a couple months." Worst gift I've ever heard of anyone getting
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29/11/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : It's the name on everyone's screen. But is Southridge Ethanol really such a hot stock? | Special_reports | Guardian Unlimited Money - Anatomy of a pump'n'dump scam. Or: Why you're getting so much more spam this month. [via] #
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29/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Display Advertising Network - Google Display Advertising Network: the first rule of the Google Display Advertising Network is that you do not discuss the Google Display Advertising Network with anyone!
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29/11/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Burtin vs. Ellis/Williams - "comics are in everything"
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29/11/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : Playing AC3/DTS tracks sourced from DVD - Slim Devices : Community : Forums - HOWTO rip the audio from 5.1-mix music DVDs and play it back on a Squeezebox. I've got an increasing number of surround music releases, so this'll come in handy. #
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29/11/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : Threadless T-Shirts - EXCITING NEWS ABOUT THE TEES WE PRINT ON! - Threadless are sufficiently large now to get to design the actual fabric of their T-shirts. "Imagine a tee that is less boxy than a Fruit of the Loom, but not as skinny as an American Apparel. Imagine a tee whose fabric is softer than American Apparel bu #
kellan : Threadless is going with their own private label t-shirts. - Neat. (of course I like the AA cut) #
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29/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Scientific proof that we all need love - Scientific proof that we all need love: "No matter how abusive the evil mothers were, the baby monkeys always came back and displayed affection towards them."
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29/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : NPR's Morning Edition on Vince Guaraldi's "Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack - the network hated the use of jazz, ordinary kids, and the central themes of materialism and faith
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Andy Baio : Flickr Time - clock composed of Flickr photos [via]
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29/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Mii Lebowski - silly machinima using Wii Sports' Bowling
jimray : GameTrailers.com - User Movie: The Mii Lebowski by bluegoggles - Revgeorge has dubbed the word "miichinima" and I love it
Rod Begbie : GameTrailers.com - User Movie: The Mii Lebowski - The Big Lebowski, remade with Miis and Wii Bowling. [via] #
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29/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog - How could Flash video stop being crappy?
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29/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : Something Witty Goes Here » Blog Archive » Is Firefox Sliding Down The Crap Wave? - "the developer followed the rules and got the shaft"
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29/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : Theme using HTML 4.0 « WordPress Support
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29/11/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : XHTML to HTML plus gzip compression? « WordPress Support
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Nelson Minar : BitTorrent gossip - $25M funding, CEO search
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Rod Begbie : b3ta: Virgin Trains Customer Satisfaction Form - "How late was your train? [ ] Hours. [ ] Days [ ] In my day, all this was fields" #
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29/11/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Hans van der Meer takes beautiful photographs of soccer fields in Europe - Hans van der Meer takes beautiful photographs of soccer fields in Europe. Also available in book form. (thx, dirk)
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Nelson Minar : French "penis" slang - 205 colourful expressions
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29/11/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Al Jazeera English - Kim to lose iPod privileges - "Kim Jong-il is to have his access to iPods and other desirable gadgets cut off as part of US efforts to target sanctions directly at the North Korean leader and his power base."
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deusx : Daily Kos: San Francisco Values - "Since O'Reilly boycotts everything he hates, I look forward to his boycott of all Bay Area-origin products. Same with every conservative who bashes San Francisco and the Bay Area."
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deusx : BobHarris.com - Pudu - "This site's mascot, the pudu (actual species name: pudu pudu) is the world's tiniest deer, a two-foot-tall little ungulate with big wide eyes and a body that resembles a Vienna sausage balanced on four wobbly toothpicks."
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wearehugh : Debian Administration :: How to set up an encrypted filesystem in several easy steps
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29/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Binary-only codecs, nyet
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29/11/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : The Shapes Project by Allen McCollum - The Shapes Project by Allen McCollum. "I've designed a new system to produce unique two-dimensional 'shapes.' This system allows me to make enough unique shapes for every person on the planet to have one of their own. It also allows me to keep track of th
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Isofarro : Judge rules paper money unfair to blind - I'm surprised that US currencies don't have different sized notes for each denominations like other countries. The solution is relatively straightforward: 'The American Council for the Blind has submitted several alternatives, including embossing, holes p
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29/11/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Google Maps satellite view of where Marlo hangs out on The Wire - Google Maps satellite view of where Marlo hangs out on The Wire. (thx, turbanhead)
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29/11/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Nudie satellite pics - Naked people on Google Earth
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29/11/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : WoW game stats - Blizzard releases some info from inside their game (via WoW Insider)
Matthew M. Boedicker : official World of Warcraft game statistics - (via wow insider) [via]
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29/11/2006 @ 09:01 GMT
deusx : ARC: ARC - RDF and SPARQL for PHP developers - "a lightweight, SPARQL-enabled RDF system for mainstream Web projects. It is written in PHP and has been optimized for shared (or otherwise performance- or privilege-limited) Web environments."
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29/11/2006 @ 09:01 GMT
deusx : A Firefox installation with a ton of extensions on display
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29/11/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Asteroid's Revenge - turn the table on those bastard triangle ships
plasticbag : Best game ever - an asteroid takes revenge on the tiny vector ships that have been oppressing it - I'm a bit of a fan of this. Plucky underdog rises up to fight the oppressor. Very cool.
kellan : Best game ever - an asteroid takes revenge on the tiny vector ships that have been oppressing - Wonderful! Having spent a significant percentage of my life aiding the oppression of asteriods, this is the perfect game to assuage my guilt. #
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29/11/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Google Answers shuts down?! - but why? it seemed to be a successful niche community
Jeremy Zawodny : Adieu to Google Answers - Adieu to Google Answers: Google Answers shutting down. Only had 800 users in 4 years. It's good to see 'em cutting their losses.
Nelson Minar : RIP Google Answers - Unusual for Google to shut down an old service
deusx : Official Google Blog: Adieu to Google Answers - "Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here."
cameron : Official Google Blog: Adieu to Google Answers - Google shuts down Answers. The only explanation I can find is that they have another competitive product they're waiting to roll out.
jimray : Adieu to Google Answers - Huh? This don't make no sense to me.
plasticbag : GoogleBlog bids Adieu to Google Answers - I find the two different approaches taken by the two companies to the idea of Questions and Answers profoundly interesting. I don't think anyone's quite nailed the full dynamics yet, and look forward to seeing how the field progresses....
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29/11/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
cameron : mixd. 445566. - Mixd... Yahoo's mobile social organization service
Jeremy Zawodny : mixd. 445566. - mixd. 445566.: "It's easy to create mobile text groups and to share your mobile pix and videos with your friends."
Nelson Minar : mixd shutdown? - Yahoo's twitter like service is being disabled Feb 25. Is it coming back?
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29/11/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : graph of odds of dying of various causes - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
Rod Begbie : Your odds of dying - Graph of your odds of dying by various causes. [via] #
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29/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : “The Porn Myth” - “The Porn Myth”: "Not one 50’s housewife ever had a little too much cooking sherry and took a load on the face for fun." I just knew that post would get people all... excited. :-)
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29/11/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : Re: Charters for review from Ian Hickson on 2006-11-21 (www-archive@w3.org from November 2006) - delicious
jcgregorio : Re: Charters for review from Ian Hickson on 2006-11-21 (www-archive@w3.org from November 2006) - 2022. That actually seems reasonable.
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29/11/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Tristan Lewis on the relaunch of Boo.com - he worked on the original site and has an interesting insider view of the original's failure
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29/11/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : The sad state of media players, part II - Arve Bersvendsen
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29/11/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : 0xDECAFBAD - painfully metalicious - "I’m also happy that del.icio.us uses MD5 hashes to normalize this situation." How meta is this now?
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29/11/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : Mirage Swift Mask Parts - I need me a new nasal barrel sleeve.
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29/11/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Russia agrees to shutter AllofMP3.com at U.S. request - frankly, I'm surprised they lasted this long
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29/11/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : People Like Us Collective - Buy Us - Nothing mind blowing, but some nice t's
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29/11/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : Etsy :: Beta Product Art, Apparel & Accessories - Oh, these are nice.
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Rod Begbie : Skid Prooof Glove for Wii Controller - Hands getting sweaty from too much Wii-playing? Here's your solution! [via] #
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29/11/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
veen : The rules of engagement - Tara Hunt - "Be involved in your community and transform everything from the quality of your product to the audience it receives"
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29/11/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
veen : Interview with Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycle Works - "if the designers knew they couldn’t supply instruction books, the designs would be simpler and the world would be a better place."
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29/11/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
cameron : An empirical examination of Wikipedia's credibility - Empirical study showing that experts rate the credibility of a Wikipedia article higher than non-experts
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29/11/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Gunnar Wolf - Are Debian people real Free Software zealots? - Yes. This has been another edition of "simple answers to simple questions." Join us next time when we ask "Is Firefox Free Software?"
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29/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Including Dojo, The Really Easy Way - Drop in a single include to load code on demand from AOL's CDN.
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29/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : BuddyLube (warning: plays music) - Best. Jingle. Evah.
Rod Begbie : BuddyLube - I've no freaking idea what this website is, but by god, the jingle is catchy. [via] #
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29/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Incompatible SQLite in OS X and Python - I've hit this problem; James has the solution.
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29/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : JotSpot Google Merger shows it's ugly side - JotSpot Google Merger shows it's ugly side: "Honestly we could have never imagined the non-lubricated rape that has taken place to the partners and customers. Really ZERO consideration was made to the partners and customers with the customer bein
deusx : Catching a wave in Silicon Valley: JotSpot Google Merger shows it's ugly side - "My question to Google (and the JotSpot people) is how can you treat your customers, some of which have been there from the beginning so poorly?"
Nelson Minar : JotSpot partner is mad - Sounds like the acquisition has caused trouble for JotSpot's customers
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29/11/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Performance Research, Part 1: What the 80/20 Rule Tells Us about Reducing HTTP Requests - Performance Research, Part 1: What the 80/20 Rule Tells Us about Reducing HTTP Requests: Tenni Theurer starts to talk about how we look at web site performance
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deusx : Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Microsoft Zune Review - "The bottom line is that Microsoft should have waited until it had a more compelling product to sell. I can't imagine what they were thinking."
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29/11/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : del.icio.us will eat itself - meta meta meta meta
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29/11/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Toilet Delight on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - People think I exaggerate about how dull my hometown of Tillicoultry is. So, for you doubters, here's a "news"paper headline from last year. The top story? Joss Stone had stopped at a pub in Tillicoultry for a wee. Hold. The. Front. Page. #
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29/11/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : robotgeek » Feisty and a shiny cube - updates - maintainer of EasyUbuntu claims shipping restricted drivers by default would drive him away from ubuntu (honestly i'm not sure what to make of that)
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29/11/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : copyrighteous - Bring the Bling?
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wearehugh : Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho » Blog Archive » Upgrading WordPress the sane way
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