13/12/2006 @ 23:04 GMT
jimray : TIME: The Best Photos of the Year 2006
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13/12/2006 @ 23:03 GMT
Rod Begbie : macosxhints.com - Take iSight snapshots during invalid login attempts - Nice security hack to find anyone trying to get into your laptop. [via] #
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13/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Collaborative filtering made easy - Dirt simple implementation of Slope One collaborative filtering algorithm in 40 lines of Python. [via] #
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13/12/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
cameron : Microsoft adCenter gender predictor - Gender prediction of search terms based on prior search behavior.
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13/12/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Why are most watches in advertisements set to 10:08?
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13/12/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : I quite liked the work of Barbara Probst in the New Photography 2006 exhibition at the MoMA - I quite liked the work of Barbara Probst in the New Photography 2006 exhibition at the MoMA. Probst shoots the same scene with multiple cameras at the same time.
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13/12/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : bookmark individual scenes, deep tag parts of a web video - (via lifehacker) [via]
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Rod Begbie : Are You Ready for Obama? - New York Times Blog - Barack Obama puts "all the doubts to rest" and makes his announcement. [via] #
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13/12/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : Oy, Robot: Asimo Down! Asimo Down! - Jalopnik - Asimo seizes up and falls off some stairs. It's saying something when a robot normally works well enough that a pratfall becomes funny.
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13/12/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
deusx : 24 ways: Writing Responsible JavaScript - "If you’re involved in client-side development in any way at all, chances are that you’re finding yourself writing more JavaScript now than you have in a long time."
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jkottke : With rising domestic silk prices, decreasing sales and retiring masters, Japanese-made kimonos may become a thing of the past - With rising domestic silk prices, decreasing sales and retiring masters, Japanese-made kimonos may become a thing of the past. One of the last remaining masters, 102-year-old Yasujiro Yamaguchi, says, "It cannot be helped. All we can do now is keep trying [via]
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13/12/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
jcgregorio : The eBay Architecture | 2006-12-13 | BitWorking
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13/12/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : ABC News launches Amanda Congdon's new show - here's a mildly positive review from the NYT [via]
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13/12/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Craigslist Meets the Capitalists - refreshing [via]
plasticbag : Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist goes to meet business types and weirds them out because he's not interested in profit maximisation - I think I love Jim Buckmaster. Craigslist may not represent a replicable model, but it's nice to have a counter example to the kind of advertising strip-mining that eviscerates sites and services because it can only think of eyeballs not communities...
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13/12/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Boing Boing: Airplane-Treadmill problem - ""Let's assume the friction in the wheel bearings is negligible."" Why not drop inertia and gravity while you're at it?
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13/12/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Adding Simplicity - An Engineering Mantra: Omniscient Inference, The Promise of SOA, REST, and ROA - When I was working at Systinet (now part of HP), we use to call this kind of thinking "science fiction." It's now called the semantic web.
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jkottke : David Pogue and Boing Boing have been ensnared by the airplane-on-a-treadmill problem we debated here last February - David Pogue and Boing Boing have been ensnared by the airplane-on-a-treadmill problem we debated here last February. The airplane still takes off. :)
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13/12/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Rick Dakan - GEEK MAFIA -A novel of comics, games, and crime - "Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe..."
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13/12/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Drivl.com | Top 20 Hackers in Film History - "Below you will find a list of the 20 coolest, funniest, dare I say sexiest hackers and computer geeks that have graced the silver screen."
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13/12/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Servers in the Movies - Our Top Ten | The Remarketer - "The Ten Servers that Changed the Fictional World."
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deusx : Drivl.com | What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies) - "Matt craps on a bunch of ridiculous ideas about programming and code that Hollywood can't seem to stay away from."
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13/12/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
gleuschk : NPR : Book Selections to Nourish the Mind at the Holidays - more gift possibilities
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13/12/2006 @ 17:02 GMT
43folders : Chewbacca defense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "...a defense consisting solely of nonsensical arguments meant to confuse a jury..." (thanks, Jason Weisberger)
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fastclemmy : YouTube - Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen - YouTube - Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen by fastclemmy A little drums, a little piano, a lot of editing and here we go! video music editing stop-motion hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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13/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
gleuschk : NPR : Best Science Books of 2006 - including kids' books
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13/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
gleuschk : NPR : Booksellers Pick Their Holiday Favorites - tempted by the Norwegian epic, but not really
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jkottke : The WSJ has some background on Lasse Gjertsen's excellent Amateur video - The WSJ has some background on Lasse Gjertsen's excellent Amateur video.
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13/12/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : 'Soy is making kids 'gay' - “There’s a slow poison out there that’s severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture.” The article claims that Soy is the culprit, but I rather think it’s misinformation and homophobia. Eejit.
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jkottke : A record-breaking year for Goldman Sachs; they're setting aside $16.5 billion for salaries, benefits, and bonuses - A record-breaking year for Goldman Sachs; they're setting aside $16.5 billion for salaries, benefits, and bonuses. That's $622,000 (!!!!!!) for each employee. Instead of the typical business puff piece telling us about what these i-bankers are going to do
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13/12/2006 @ 13:01 GMT
fastclemmy : Vidéo-Blog de Kruty. Chatelet Bullet Time Making Of - Vidéo-Blog de Kruty. Chatelet Bullet Time Making Of by fastclemmy & 5 other(s) Awesome making of an awesome video. hotlinks after effects video chatelet bullet time Copy | React (0)
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jcgregorio : The eBay Architecture - I love it on page 28 where they create their own BigTable.
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43folders : kfan's bookmarks tagged with "leslieharpold" on del.icio.us - Kevin Fanning is doing a great job of collecting links to people who are remembering Leslie today.
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13/12/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What if they had a major release of a software platform and no one noticed? - What if they had a major release of a software platform and no one noticed?: Nelson wonders why Java 6 is getting no attention. I could make a guess at that... :-)
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13/12/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Le Web and Dave Winer - Le Web and Dave Winer: "The solution to every problem is not Dave Winer."
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13/12/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Flickr Christmas Easter Egg - Add a note that says "ho ho ho hat" or "ho ho ho beard" to any of your photos on Flickr to Christmas them up! [via] #
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13/12/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
gleuschk : 33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names - I get OBDORMITION an awful lot
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13/12/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Flickr's Ho Ho Ho easter egg - try adding a "ho ho ho hat/beard" note to any of your photos [via]
cameron : Cleaner cut on Flickr - Best. Easter. Egg. Evar.
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13/12/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : Humping Dog USB Drive Robs Us All of Precious Dignity - Gizmodo - "why don't you go ahead and watch the video and then come back"
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13/12/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
joshua : PHLAT - Intuitive Personal Search - interface to desktop search
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13/12/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : A General Theory of Programming Language Relativity - Functional languages have clearer levels of indirection.
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Uncle Mark 2007 Gift Guide and Almanac (pdf) - gift suggestions and some random advice (via cool tools) [via]
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13/12/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
jimray : WorldNetDaily: A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals - It's like a parody of a parody. The sheer level of paranoia is truly astounding, not to mention just plain factually absurd
deusx : WorldNetDaily: A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals - "Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality."
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13/12/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : bits bytes pixels & sprites ? Archives ? BMW rips off N64 kid - "Think the kid got paid? Or did they just rip it off youtube and use it?"
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13/12/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : TooMuchMagic - JicarillaWiki - " ...your IDE doesn't know how to color-code your code"
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13/12/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : Jon Udell: AJAX and automation - "I think that AJAX is inherently more automatable than conventional GUI apps ever have been"
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13/12/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: ANN: HyperScope 1.1 Released! - "Hi everyone! I'm proud to announce the release of HyperScope 1.1."
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cameron : Wikio - Yet another digg clone. I like the topic colors.
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13/12/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
cameron : Why interactive websites can create false memories - Interactive product displays lead to increased false memories of features, a paper suggests.
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13/12/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : Atom API for AOL Journals
Simon Willison : Atom API for AOL Journals - Atom API for AOL Journals. AOL are doing some really cool things with the Atom Publishing Protocol.
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