19/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
43folders : Why Teens Do Stupid Things - Yahoo! News - Y'know, mainstream PR link bait like this is unquestionably fascinating, but it would be great if they could link back to full text of _an actual study_.
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19/12/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
gleuschk : bye bye, blo.gs / December 13, 2006 6:35pm @ trainedmonkey - finally dead dead dead. Too bad -- it was a nice place to keep things I wanted to read twice a month or so (but not every time they update).
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19/12/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Allen Iverson traded to the Denver Nuggets - Allen Iverson traded to the Denver Nuggets.
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jkottke : The blogging golden rule - Mena Trott: "If you aren't going to say something directly to someone's face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it".
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19/12/2006 @ 22:01 GMT
jimray : JoyTech announces Wii PowerStation to keep your Wiimotes juiced - My only complaint about the Wii (as a non-owner) is that the folks at Nintendo seem to have ignored the battery eating controller issue
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19/12/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : John Hodgman's The Areas of My Expertise audiobook free download - John Hodgman reports that the audiobook for The Areas of My Expertise is available for free at the iTunes Music Store.
43folders : good evening: CATEGORY: SELF DEVELOPMENT - Bafflingly, "The Areas of My Expertise" abridged audiobook is indeed available for FREE on iTunes. I own and treasure the original 235-CD edition.
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19/12/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Beginning of the end for open web data APIs? - did Google shut down its SOAP API for business reasons? (via 1060.org) [via]
deusx : Quoderat ? Beginning of the end for open web data APIs? - "Another victory for REST over WS-*? Nope — Google doesn’t have a REST API to replace it."
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19/12/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : O'Reilly Radar > Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API - This is the real unfortunate bit in the Google Search SOAP API going away: "The AJAX Search API is not a replacement for the SOAP API."
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19/12/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Six Apart's Holiday Video - "no, owls can't type"
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19/12/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : digg - Greasemonkey script: Add the befriended link to your profile again! - greasemonkey will never die; if it does, someone will recreate it and call it "greasemonkey"
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19/12/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : What is Wrong with the Use of these Terms: "Deaf-mute", "Deaf and dumb", or "Hearing-impaired"? - What is Wrong with the Use of these Terms: "Deaf-mute", "Deaf and dumb", or "Hearing-impaired"? "Overwhelmingly, deaf and hard of hearing people prefer to be called 'deaf' or 'hard of hearing.'"
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19/12/2006 @ 19:03 GMT
43folders : Zen Productivity Blog » Why GTD doesn’t work for me - Whereas, for me, GTD affords the freedom to know I can dick around whenever I want and not feel bad about it. Ultimately it's about decisions, not lists.
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19/12/2006 @ 19:03 GMT
43folders : A powerful new iCal action for Quicksilver - Holy crap. This looks completely amazing. Like a terminal for iCal via QS. Can't wait to play.
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19/12/2006 @ 19:03 GMT
joshua : appsnap - another download + install app, like installpad
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19/12/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : loopnote.com: How It Works - Apparently, it helps people violate copyright laws. Keen!
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19/12/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
jimray : geeksugar Is Here! - Rex just might explode when he sees this...
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19/12/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
jimray : AppDNA - Package Source Code inside Mac OS X Applications - See, you put the source code INSIDE the compiled app. That sound you heard is YOUR MIND BEING BLOWN, MAN!
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Rod Begbie : nanda: Clocky - Clocky -- the alarm clock that runs away from you after you hit Snooze, so you have to get out of bed -- is now available for purchase. [via] #
joshua : clocky is now for sale!
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19/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Twitter / condi - What's the Twitter equivalent of a "Fakester"? [via] #
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19/12/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
fastclemmy : How to turn your blog in to an OpenID - How to turn your blog in to an OpenID by fastclemmy Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the same account to log in to multiple sites and applications, without having to trust them all with your password? hotlinks authentication identity op
jimray : How to turn your blog in to an OpenID
deusx : How to turn your blog in to an OpenID - "Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the same account to log in to multiple sites and applications, without having to trust them all with your password?"
Jeremy Zawodny : How to turn your blog in to an OpenID - How to turn your blog in to an OpenID: it works on any site, really. And it's a whopping two lines of HTML.
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19/12/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Eric Meyer : CSS10: Ten Year Anniversary of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - This fits in perfectly with my SXSW panel, as well as a new project I'm working to get off the ground.
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19/12/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Eric Meyer : The World's Highest Website - It's really the world's tallest web site, but either way: awesome!
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19/12/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : free anonymous temporary phone number that redirects to your real phone number - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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19/12/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Flash Jedi lightsabre deflection game - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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19/12/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : Opera for Wii will be released on Dec 22nd - With the Weather channel being released this morning, and Opera later this week, it's going to be fun to see how the non-gaming side of Wii grows. [via] #
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19/12/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : ETags: This stuff matters | 2006-12-19 | BitWorking - "This turns a regular GET into a "conditional" GET (wonder twin powers activate)."
jcgregorio : ETags: This stuff matters | 2006-12-19 | BitWorking
wearehugh : ETags: This stuff matters | 2006-12-19 | BitWorking
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19/12/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Laughing Squid - Atari 2600: Pitfall, Berzerk & Venture - "I recently came across these awesome 1982 video demos of Pitfall, Berzerk and Venture, three classic Atari 2600 games that I spent an absurd amount of time playing in the early 80’s."
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19/12/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Steve: Developing on the Edge - The end of SOAP - "Slowly, all over the world, the lights on the SOAP endpoints are going out"
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19/12/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Google SOAP Search API - "As of December 5, 2006, we are no longer actively supporting the SOAP Search API. We encourage you to use the AJAX Search API instead."
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19/12/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : GNU Bash Shell Reference: Readline
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19/12/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Interview with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy about For Your Consideration and filmmaking in general - Interview with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy about For Your Consideration and filmmaking in general. Interestingly, they don't write any dialogue for their films (it's all ad-libbed) but only do three takes per scene to get it right. "It's the dialogu
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19/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : The proprietor of the Book Design Review blog picks his favorite book covers of 2006 - The proprietor of the Book Design Review blog picks his favorite book covers of 2006.
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19/12/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
Linkorama : Wiki Tests - Wiki Tests are like acceptance tests, but they are defined on wiki pages, and executed by other tools.
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jkottke : Interview with Steven Soderbergh, mostly about The Good German but also about some upcoming projects - Interview with Steven Soderbergh, mostly about The Good German but also about some upcoming projects. "I think for the most part intellectuals don't make very good movies. It's an emotional medium and I think you can really outsmart yourself." That quote
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19/12/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : Professor Richard Dawkins Speaks at Fair Hills Kindergarten Regarding Santa Claus - Professor Richard Dawkins Speaks at Fair Hills Kindergarten Regarding Santa Claus. "If you are the sort of person who is interested in the truth, perhaps you would consider asking yourself this question: how exactly does a single elderly man not only manu
deusx : Professor Richard Dawkins Speaks at Fair Hills Kindergarten Regarding Santa Claus, December 2, 2006. Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Short Imagined Monologues - "Together we should be working toward a point in the not-so-distant future where the words "Santa Claus" or "Kris Kringle" or "Father Christmas" create the same response as fingernails on a chalkboard."
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19/12/2006 @ 11:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : I Sold My App Through MacHeist and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt - I’d really like to hear Phill Ryu’s response to this. If these figures are anywhere near accurate, it makes reading the sycophantic forum responses all the more sickening.
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19/12/2006 @ 08:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : "The point of a grid is not..." - "The point of a grid is not primarily to ensure that all of the items on a single page are evenly sized and evenly spaced.... Rather, it is intended to ensure graphic consistency across many pages.... This can be accomplished with many types of grids." Fe
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19/12/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique - ALA: Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique. "...lets you define the dimensions, information richness, and appearance of your content objects for set ranges of screen sizes. A news site, for example, could have one layout and appearance for wide s
deusx : A List Apart: Articles: Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique - "CSS-based liquid layout has proven successful during the reign of 800-pixel to 1024-pixel screens, but as we use a wider range of devices to access the web, we need more powerful and flexible ways of managing layout."
joshua : Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique - neat
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19/12/2006 @ 06:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Ten Web 2.0 APIs you can really use - LinuxWorld - gah, links to atomenabled.org which is horribly out of date.
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19/12/2006 @ 06:02 GMT
Linkorama : The Million Dollar Blog Post - 1 Comment Wish = $1 to Charity
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19/12/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Transport Robot - "Watch this robot with human looking legs walk over anything!"
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19/12/2006 @ 05:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : The Mobile Web, Simplified - The Mobile Web, Simplified.
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19/12/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Rogers Cadenhead battling MGM over Wargames.com - he's owned the domain since 1998
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19/12/2006 @ 05:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Mates of State record a session with Daytrotter - including their 2-year-old daughter's recording debut
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wearehugh : Wired News: Goodbye TV, Hello Broadband - fascinating. i've been considering the same route, but haven't taken the plunge yet.
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19/12/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Reason Magazine - Ticking Bombast - Excellent deconstruction of the ridiculousness of the "ticking timebomb" argument for allowing torture. [via] #
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19/12/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Blowing Chunks: Marketing Before Security - Because logging you out of your banking website is clearly less important than trying to sell you another credit card. #
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19/12/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : a new face for Icedove - asac's software site and more
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19/12/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : Shiny, shiny tools won't save you from trolls - How to think about "community" if you work in media. Read this then go ahead and read it again.
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19/12/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
jkottke : James Surowiecki discusses the waste of holiday giving - James Surowiecki discusses the waste of holiday giving. "Waldfogel's main finding is that, in general, people spend a lot more on presents than they're worth to those who receive them, a phenomenon that he calls 'the deadweight loss of Christmas.'" This i
Rod Begbie : The New Yorker : The Gift Right Out - "Waldfogel’s main finding is that, in general, people spend a lot more on presents than they’re worth to those who receive them." [via] #
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19/12/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Geeking with Greg: Talk on eBay architecture
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19/12/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : How do motion-sensing video game controllers (like the Wii remote) work? - How do motion-sensing video game controllers (like the Wii remote) work? "The accelerometers used in the Nintendo controller are thinner than a penny, small enough to fit twelve on a postage stamp, and sell for under $6 a piece. They can accurately measur
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19/12/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : GameSetWatch reviews "Heaven and Earth" from 1992 - I bought this wonderful puzzle game when it was new; you can download Mac and PC versions here
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