4/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Linkorama : Confluence User-Interface - My users, on the other hand, hated it. Every test we did left them confused and uncertain about where to click next. My users are not geeks, nor incredibly computer litterate.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Some couples are waiting to get married until gays and lesbians have the right to marry - Some couples are waiting to get married until gays and lesbians have the right to marry.
plasticbag : Some straight couples are deciding not to get married until it's a universal right that gay people can exercise too - It's a lovely sentiment, and the people concerned really have all my respect for making this choice. I think it's more of an indication of personal morality than a political campaigning move though. None the worse for that of course...
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Bearskinrun @ Coudal - Guest editor Kevin Cornell's inline sketches at Coudal.com are fabulous -- you'll miss the overall effect if you're feedreading.
# copy4/12/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : DWM and WDN contest ends 12/4 - The Digital Web / WDN snowboard contest ends tonight (12/14). I'm *really* impressed with the entries. Big thumbs up to the contestants.
# copy4/12/2006 @ 22:02 GMT
jimray : NPR : Indians Learn to Speak in Two Languages at Once - Hinglish is the new Spanglish
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
jimray : Hatred will always outpace linguistic correctness - Christopher Hitchens on the taboo of language, the danger of banning words and the idiocy of political correctness
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
jimray : Welcome to the all new cnbc.com - CNBC.com - I'll note that the CNBC uses the same CMS as MSNBC.com, which gives me a great deal of hope
# copy4/12/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Fantastic interview with David Simon in Slate - Fantastic interview with David Simon in Slate. If you're a fan of The Wire and caught up on season four, I really recommend reading this. When Simon was asked what the show was about, he said: "it's about the very simple idea that, in this Postmodern worl
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
jimray : Firebug 1.0: Public Beta, Still Free, and a Lite version for other browsers - Firebug for IE?! And Safari!!
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Firebug Lite - Wonderful! A lightweight implementation of the Firefox-only Firebug javascript debugger which you can embed into your pages for cross-browser debugging. #
Simon Willison : Firebug Lite - Add Firebug to your site for non-Firefox browsers.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Alexa traffic graphs roughly match those from Sitemeter, indicating that Alexa is not so bad for traffic trends - Alexa traffic graphs roughly match those from Sitemeter, indicating that Alexa is not so bad for traffic trends.
plasticbag : Alexa stats match Sitemeter stats for relatively well-trafficed sites - I'm pretty sure—well I know, actually—that Alexa rankings don't coincide so effectively the further you go down the rankings. When you get to me the two are almost entirely unrelated...
# copy4/12/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Rex Grossman, 6/19, 34 yards, 0 TDs, and 3 INTs - Rex Grossman, 6/19, 34 yards, 0 TDs, and 3 INTs; or why the Chicago Bears, despite their current 10-2 record and weak NFC, aren't getting anywhere near the Super Bowl this year.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
43folders : TWiT.tv - MacBreak 29: The Road to 1080p, Part 4 - Fans of "behind the scenes" stuff will enjoy Alex's nerdalicious tour of how PXC shoots "MacBreak." Leo and I appear, but the fun's all in A's explication.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Captain Placeholder - (via wow insider) [via]
# copy4/12/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Phillies pitcher Don Carman found a box of fan mail in his garage that he had accidentally not answered 15 years ago...so he replied to them, better late than never - Phillies pitcher Don Carman found a box of fan mail in his garage that he had accidentally not answered 15 years ago...so he replied to them, better late than never. "He lugged the envelopes down to the Naples post office, where he discovered that most of
Rod Begbie : A baseball player answers his fan mail 15 years later - Slate Magazine - Former baseball player finds a box of fan mail from 1991 while cleaning his garage, and replies to them! [via] #
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
43folders : eboy XV » Product Detail - I can't tell you pleased I am to see 43F appear isometrically in this very lovely poster. And right next to Amazon, Kevin Kelly, and Ask. Sweet.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : Twitter / jimray - I keep seeing Twitter bubbling under the surface, giving it a go to see what all the hype is about
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : UnSpun by Amazon: Community Opinions ... Ranked! - Like a localized epinions or digg "but for real things" says Rex
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : Yahoo You Witness - Yahoo's UGC play. Clever name...
plasticbag : Yahoo! You Witness News is coming soon - I genuinely have no idea how this is going to manifest, but I'm certainly interested. Bubble-up news, citizen journalism and the like have had highly mixed success rates. Still, it's quite cool to see Yahoo leap into the fray...
# copy4/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It's Online and Hyper-Local
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : How Google handles hacked sites - A pretty fascinating look inside
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : Wired News: So. Many. Letters - Wired got so many responses to the athiesm piece, they're starting a blog to post every letter
deusx : Wired News: So. Many. Letters - "You all just started calmly talking. And talking. And talking. We got more responses to this article than to any piece in memory. Brimstone quotient: low."
# copy4/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
cobra libre : Secrets of Wii Sports - like tossing your bowling ball into the next lane [via] #
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
43folders : Steven Johnson - Books - The Ghost Map - Report - New York Times - Nice shirt, SBJ.
# copy4/12/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Alex Tew, the fellow behind Million Dollar Homepage, is set to launch his new MDH-like venture tomorrow - Alex Tew, the fellow behind Million Dollar Homepage, is set to launch his new MDH-like venture tomorrow. Pixelotto will offer 1M pixels of ad space for $2M...with half going to a lucky ad clicker and about half to Tew. Clever. Here's a pre-launch screensh
# copy4/12/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
Linkorama : Open-Source Spying - del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry)
# copy4/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Rotary Reading Desk - Before there were feeds...
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay - Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay. "He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree. "
# copy4/12/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Because it's you - Another lovely blog post from a chef at Guy Savoy
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yup, Yahoo! TV Sucks - Yup, Yahoo! TV Sucks: "In this case it’s pretty obvious that the goals of the redesign did not mesh well with the goals of the users as they visited the site."
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Following three recent racial incidents (Michael Richards, Michael Irvin, and Mel Gibson), Malcolm Gladwell considers a possible spectrum of racial remarks - Following three recent racial incidents (Michael Richards, Michael Irvin, and Mel Gibson), Malcolm Gladwell considers a possible spectrum of racial remarks.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 15:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Heap Redux - Although I saw Inman's original Heap redux, I missed the second rev, which I'm really diggin'. Samples: Home, Archives, The Dirt.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 15:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Brandon Proctor Photography - Brandon Proctor's Flickr photostream is incredible. Behold: Then there was Silence, Johnny 5, Hang Up Your Shoes, Brandon Proctor.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 15:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : 4 minutes of The Runaway Bride - A sneaky peek of the Dr Who Christmas special, with impressive Tardis chase scene
# copy4/12/2006 @ 14:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Thoughts, shots from Valencia presentation - Thoughts and shots from a recent presentation at Valencia Community College.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 14:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Flickr as a source of inpsiration - "The following are 28 wonderful inspirational photo pools found on Flickr which could be of some use to those looking for some inspiration." Via Airbag. [via]
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 14:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Norman Zune - What do the Zune and this door handle have in common?
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 09:02 GMT
joshua : confab - yahoo microconference series, open to the public
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 09:02 GMT
joshua : confab.yahoo microconference on prediction markets - all are invited. please sign up and attend.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Extreme Makeover in Raleigh - Extreme Makeover rolled into town on Thursday, November 30 and surprised the Riggins family with a complete reconstruction of their house at 207 Poplar St. ifn Raleigh, N.C.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
joshua : Review: Amazing Magnets Superball kit
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
joshua : terrifying firefox install - via jessamyn
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
joshua : Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading - great list with some of my new favorites
jimray : Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading - Rex finds the blogs you aren't reading - and I helped!
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Best Divorce Letter. Ever. - The Best Divorce Letter. Ever.: heh
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : Creators, Consumers, and What’s “Right?†at Blogature - "Part of a close creator/consumer relationship is about treating the people who appreciate what you’re creating with the utmost respect."
# copy4/12/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
deusx : Deep Jive Interests ? Yahoo’s Blog Takes Its Blogging Lumps, Like a Real Blog Should - "by allowing full comments, and better yet, responding to some of them, you gain a valuable sense of integrity and, as loathe as I am to type these words, “street cred†"
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : US Army "justice" - Soldiers crush a looter's car (via case)
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : CrunchGear » Do You Love or Hate Bose? Tell Us Why and Win a Prize! - Set-up for what certainly seems to be a hatchet-job on Bose, but it does include the superb introduction "Bose is sort of the Hillary Clinton of tech — you either love them or hate them, and they’ve got lots of cash." #
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Richard Simmons' Exploding Steamer - Richard Simmons' Exploding Steamer: now THAT'S entertainment! :-)
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About - Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About: that's a lot of stuff to argue about!
# copy4/12/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Engineering Management Hacks - Engineering Management Hacks: "I've heard lots of ridiculous ideas about why Google has been able to recruit so many great people, and anyone who thinks it has to do with use of logical puzzles in interviews is out of their freakin' mind.&quo
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
gleuschk : Mornington Crescent (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Huh. I did not know that. /carson
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Django on Dreamhost: incomplete headers - Calling your file dispatch.fcgi (as opposed to django.fcgi) fixes the problem.
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
philgyford : Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Lots of very funny, obfuscatory and incomprehensible diagrams about Web 2.0. Couldn't be spoofed better. I thought diagrams were supposed to make things *simpler*. (via Haddock)
# copy
4/12/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : Steve: Developing on the Edge - Prolog for five year olds
# copy
