2/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
joshua : Bedbug Registry - Find Infested Hotels and Apartments - maciej's new project
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2/12/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : home of the nerd cave | taskbar shuffle - Drag'n'drop the buttons in your Windows taskbar, in case you, like me, are the obsessive type who gets quite out-of-whack when your mail client isn't the left-most button. [via] #
Milo Vermeulen : Taskbar Shuffle - enables drag-and-drop rearranging of Windows taskbar buttons [via]
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2/12/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
deusx : Writing Totems | PigPog - "It seems the writing totem was a big source of support for participants in this year’s NaNoWriMo and from this post in the forum it helped a lot of people achieve their target."
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2/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
Linkorama : Wordie - Like Flickr, without the photos
Rod Begbie : Wordie - "Like Flickr, without the photos". Make lists of words. Pointless and lovely. [via] #
jkottke : Wordie is "like Flickr, but without the photos" - Wordie is "like Flickr, but without the photos". "Wordie lets you make lists of words -- practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever. You can then see who else has listed the same words, and talk about it." Lots of people love schadenfreude. [via]
jimray : Wordie - "Like Flickr, but without the photos" Fucking hilarious!
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2/12/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : A panel of critics at The Guardian pick the world's 40 best directors - A panel of critics at The Guardian pick the world's 40 best directors. Anyone missing? (via khoi) [via]
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Nelson Minar : Keith Olbermann - Backgrounder on his success as someone who's willing to actually speak out
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Nelson Minar : Antarctic dining - Long and rambling, but first part's good
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plasticbag : I have to say I'm really quite impressed by the new Yahoo TV site - It's clean, open, practical. It has a page for every episode of most programmes and things that users can do around them. Generally pretty solid bit of work.
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2/12/2006 @ 14:00 GMT
plasticbag : Second Life Economic Statistics - Fantastically interesting insight-generating whatsits into the amount of people, land and money in Second Life and what they're all doing...
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2/12/2006 @ 14:00 GMT
plasticbag : Signal vs. Noise on building less and underdoing to win in competitive markets - Not sure that I totally buy this, but certainly it's interesting that Nintendo didn't take the high expensive compete on raw power route to victory, but instead looked towards making profitable and innovate stuff...
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2/12/2006 @ 14:00 GMT
plasticbag : World of Warcraft's Top List contain information on everything from most popular auctioned items to creature most likely to kill you - Not as interesting as the stats for Second Life, unless you're totally enmeshed in the ecology of WoW which I'm delighted to report, I feel like I've finally escaped from...
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2/12/2006 @ 13:00 GMT
plasticbag : Techcrunch reviews mixd - Yahoo's new group texting service - I think the group texting facilities—complete with web-based archives for text and photos—will rapidly prove to have more useful possibilities than the initial event-organising premise suggests...
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2/12/2006 @ 13:00 GMT
plasticbag : The BBC's Alan Yentob now has an (shudderingly creepy) avatar in Second Life which is flying around for an upcoming BBC TV show - I recently spent a bunch of cash in Second Life to try and get an avatar that I actually felt cool, and ended up producing some weird neanderthal looking gay porn-star style figure that sort of embarrasses me to use...
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2/12/2006 @ 13:00 GMT
plasticbag : The BBC reports on attempts to reconstruct an ancient device thought to measure the movements of the stars - I don't know to what extent the reconstructions referred to in the article are trusted by Classicists or Archaeologists. I should really explore this more. It's sort of fascinating...
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2/12/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
joshua : kdice.com - multiplayer risk like strategy - supposedly like dicewars?
Andy Baio : Kdice - multiplayer clone of Dice Wars; very fun
Rod Begbie : kdice.com - multiplayer risk like strategy - Online multiplayer simplified-Risk. This is going to consume my time, I know it! [via] #
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2/12/2006 @ 09:02 GMT
joshua : CandlePower Forums - lighting and whatnot - there sure is a community for everything
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2/12/2006 @ 09:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Parallels Desktop New Coherence Feature - The latest beta of Parallels Desktop for OS X allows you to seamlessly display windows from, erm, Windows on your OSX desktop. This is very cool stuff. Makes me wish I had an Intel Mac to try it out on. #
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2/12/2006 @ 09:00 GMT
deusx : This document attempts to explain the inner workings of the graphics system used in "Metroid". - 'This document attempts to explain the inner workings of the graphics system used in "Metroid".'
Matthew M. Boedicker : Metriod level data explained - (via populicious) [via]
cobra libre : Metroid level data explained #
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2/12/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
deusx : Stickis: social web overlay - Blog Archive - Subetha redux - "We acquired an excellent image to convey friends reading annotations, and deployed it just now. Thanks Martin at Subetha for bearing with us while we found the replacement!"
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wearehugh : Adobe - Potential vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader
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2/12/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : The first smart rabbit - Nabaztag - I've decided that the thing missing most from my life is a wi-fi enabled smart rabbit. Gonna get a Nabaztag/tag when it gets released later this month. #
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jimray : Tony vs. Paul - Really excellent stop motion video
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2/12/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : MOBILE CLUBBING - Encountered this yesterday evening at Paddington. Photos on Flickr.
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2/12/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Google Mondrian - Internal Google application, powered in part by Django!
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2/12/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Dancing on the Platforms - I stumbled in to this last night.
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2/12/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
Jason Shellen : The Invisible Danger You Carry To the Gas Station - Scroll down to the video. Yowza! #
Nelson Minar : Gas tank fire - Didn't know it could really happen (via shellen)
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2/12/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
jimray : New Parallels build lets you boot from your BootCamp partition - Rock. The Coherence feature looks freaking sweet as well - as Gruber says, Windows is the new Classic.
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2/12/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : eBoy's FooBar poster - view ; spot the logos for 43 Folders, Laughing Squid, Rollyo, Newsvine, Feedburner, and tons more
plasticbag : Loving the eboy Web 2.0 brand-filled pixelposter right about now - I want one of these. More particularly I want to make a site that makes it onto things like this. I liked that Odeo and Blogger were surrounded by bikini-wearing hula-hoopers too. Funny.
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