20/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : You Don't Know Jack - BETA | The Trivia Game Where High Culture and Pop Culture Collide - Jellyvision are releasing new web-based "DisOrDat" each weekday. If you know whether the "Denver Nuggets" are a basketball team, or a dish made with animal testicles, then this is the game for you. [via] #
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20/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
veen : Don Norman: Why doing user observations first is wrong - "Design first, on day one, if you can. Review, test, and redesign."
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20/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
philgyford : The Ten Thousand Things - I was following this eclectic MP3 blog a while back and somehow missed that Blake Leyh is also music supervisor on 'The Wire', which you must watch if you haven't already.
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20/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
philgyford : The London School of Osteopathy - Someone at college was recommending these folks as a reasonably cheap way of getting a work-over. For future reference.
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philgyford : Karen Scott Photography - Photographer who does actors' headshots, apparently popular with people at college in the past, for future reference.
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20/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
philgyford : Playwright Nina Raine on the difficulties of directing your own work | | Guardian Unlimited Arts - What it says.
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20/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
philgyford : Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle | urlgreyhot - Not very complicated, but a good idea and a nicely done demo. (via ChrisDodo)
Richard Rutter : Creating clickable prototypes with OmniGraffle - Handy video tutorial.
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20/12/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
philgyford : Caring for Your Introvert - Meet me. Scarily excellent description of being an introvert and they/we find extroverts frustrating.
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philgyford : The Taiyo Yuden FAQ - Blank Media - Club CD Freaks - How to identify which CDs/DVDs were made by Taiyo Yuden. (via Daring Fireball)
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20/12/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : How to actually use OpenID (reddit.com) - simon willison says openid needs a screencast. here's the script.
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20/12/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
wearehugh : defective yeti: Movies: Stranger Than Fiction - "Charlie Kaufman for stupid people"
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jkottke : People with low self-esteem don't like surprise endings in mystery novels - People with low self-esteem don't like surprise endings in mystery novels while the self-confident did. (via mr) [via]
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joshua : Circumventing browser connection limits for fun and profit
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20/12/2006 @ 21:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to post daily links automatically from del.icio.us to WordPress
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Rod Begbie : YouTube - How Michel Gondry Faked His Rubik's Cube Stunt - If you haven't already seen the original video, watch it first and see if you can work out how he does it. It's a lot less high-tech than I'd imagined! [via] #
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20/12/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Chan Marshall (AKA Cat Power) on the Richard Avedon photo of her in the New Yorker - Chan Marshall (AKA Cat Power) on the Richard Avedon photo of her in the New Yorker: "I was so drunk I could barely stand up. I couldn't zip up my pants because my stomach was killing me. I didn't even realize I wasn't wearing underwear until the magazine [via]
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20/12/2006 @ 20:02 GMT
43folders : The Record Industry's Piracy Law, Circa 1900 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - That Edison knew how to write him a EULA. [via: BB]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Wii uses real-time weather data in game - (via digg) [via]
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Andy Baio : Pitchfork's Guest List Best of 2006 - top album lists from 30+ musicians, from Beck to Mastodon
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20/12/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : ((meatspace)) » Recursion considered harmful
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wearehugh : Google SOAP Search API Replacement » EvilAPI Version 0.1 Released - C&D in 3... 2... 1...
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20/12/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : A look at Saks Fifth Avenue's new logo and identity - A look at Saks Fifth Avenue's new logo and identity. The identity system consists of cutting up the logo into patterns....98,137,610,226,945,526,221,323,127,451,938,506,431,029, 735,326,490,840,972,261,848,186,538,906,070,058,088,365,083,852,800,000,000,0
Rod Begbie : New at Pentagram: New Work: Saks Fifth Avenue - Saks Fifth Avenue's new branding is defined by taking their logo, splitting it up into 64 squares, then tiling those squares in an almost random manner. [via] #
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20/12/2006 @ 19:02 GMT
deusx : How Many Condoms at Once? - I think the most disturbing thing is the part with the hacksaw and the dildo.
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deusx : Shelley The Republican : The Freedom Blog ? Linux: A European threat to our computers - This has got to be a parody site. "Osama uses Linux because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney."
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deusx : Reality check: 95 percent of Americans had premarital sex - CNN.com - "More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past."
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deusx : WP: U.S. not winning war in Iraq, Bush says - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com - "President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against
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20/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
deusx : Overweight man sues Air France over seat row - Yahoo! News - There's tolerance and sensitivity, and then there's me squashed into the middle seat. "Let's be objective. This man is fat ... He barely fits on the courtroom chair. How could he sit in an airplane?"
Jeremy Zawodny : Overweight man sues Air France over seat row - Overweight man sues Air France over seat row: "An overweight passenger has sued Air France after being told he was too fat and had to pay for a second seat to accommodate his bulk." Hahahaha.
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20/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
deusx : Amazon.com: Playing with Fire: Music: Kevin Federline - Check the 'user-generated' tags: "talentless (28) garbage (18) idiot (17) laughable (16) music to make you long for the sweet release of death (15) hack (13) crap (12) loser (10) terrible (8) clown (7) aka vogon poetry (6)"
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20/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
deusx : Giles Bowkett: What If There Are No Gods? - "Say further that the only difference between a company running Seaside, a company running Rails, and a company running PHP is that the Seaside company has huge balls, the Rails company has some balls, and the PHP company has no balls at all."
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20/12/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
deusx : Preview of the del.icio.us publisher api (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) - "The del.icio.us team gave me a preview of a new service for publishers that is really interesting."
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20/12/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Paper Thin Walls' incredible 2006 Mixtape - 31 writers pick their favorite songs of the year, then interview each artist about them [via]
jkottke : Paper Thin Walls is offering an mp3 mix tape of their favorite music writers' favorite songs of 2006 - Paper Thin Walls is offering an mp3 mix tape of their favorite music writers' favorite songs of 2006...that's 31 mp3s for free. (via art fag city) [via]
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20/12/2006 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Jarvis - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - Great new video from Jarvis Cocker. [via] #
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20/12/2006 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Quirky West Village eatery Shopsin's finally closes for good - Quirky West Village eatery Shopsin's finally closes for good. Once more, with feeling: the Shopsin's menu and Calvin Trillin's classic piece about the restaurant in the NYer.
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20/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Google Maps adds Singapore, Hong Kong street maps
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20/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Kaj Arnö’s blog » Blog Archive » How to cope with timezones
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20/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : ongoing · 3âœâ™«: An Other Cup
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20/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
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20/12/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Five Things | 2006-12-19 | BitWorking - crap.
jcgregorio : Five Things | 2006-12-19 | BitWorking
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20/12/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : YUI Fluid Layouts in 3 Easy Steps - What's with all the great layout techniques the last couple of weeks? Here's another by Yahoo's Nate Koechley: Intricate Fluid Layouts in Three Easy Steps using YUI Grids CSS. Don't miss the complex example.
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20/12/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Here's the 3129 character code you need to enter into a car's keyless entry pad in order to guess the 5-digit passcode - Here's the 3129 character code you need to enter into a car's keyless entry pad in order to guess the 5-digit passcode. It'll take you 20 minutes or less to enter it. (via j-walk) [via]
deusx : Weak security in our daily lives@Everything2.com - "Right now, I am going to give you a sequence of minimal length that, when you enter it into a car's numeric keypad, is guaranteed to unlock the doors of said car. It is exactly 3129 keypresses long, which should take you around 20 minutes to go through."
Matthew M. Boedicker : brute-forcing a car's keyless entry in under 20 minutes - (via kottke) [via]
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20/12/2006 @ 12:02 GMT
fastclemmy : Fauxto... like photo. - Fauxto... like photo. by fastclemmy & 4 other(s) Flash-based pseudo Photoshop. flash photoshop ria hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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deusx : Caveat Lector ? The Moment - "Those bloggers who also write books will enjoy this. I had The Moment today. The Moment when you realize you’ve made a huge stupid careless mistake that will cost a ton of time, and if you’d only been thinking you’d have avoided it.
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deusx : Laughing Squid ? Adventure - "I literally spent days playing this one, which is pretty amazing to think of, considering how basic it seems now."
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20/12/2006 @ 11:00 GMT
deusx : Moving Through Matter with Buckaroo Banzai - "The most important contribution of "Buckaroo Banzai" is to demonstrate that there is a very important role for imaginative science to play in imaginative science fiction."
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deusx : DerekAllard.com : Conditionally Sticky Sidebar - "the dark-grey sidebar scrolls with you just until the banner and menu are off the page, and then locks itself into position or "sticks". When you scroll back to the top, if the menu and/or banner need to be seen again, the sidebar politely resumes its no
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20/12/2006 @ 11:00 GMT
deusx : Snowfall - A screensaver for Mac OS X
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43folders : digg - 43 Folders Podcast - Digg's lovely redesign also adds podcast Digg-a-bility.
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43folders : Okay | That Phone Guy - Phone Guy's web gets an update.
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20/12/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
jkottke : Michel Gondry did not solve a Rubik's Cube with his feet - Awesome. Director Michel Gondry recently posted a YouTube video where he is pictured solving a Rubik's Cube with his feet. A few days later, this response debunks Gondry's effort as a stunt. When I read the title, I half-expected the person to claim that [via]
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20/12/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Linkorama : Influence and reach - Related, not causal
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20/12/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Linkorama : Senior Socialcalc Developer - An opportunity for someone to work with Dan Bricklin
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20/12/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
veen : CSS10: Hall of Fame - "The CSS10 Hall of Fame is a list of sites that are important in the very subjective opinion of the list's editors"
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20/12/2006 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : #400721 - iceweasel - locale adjusting - Debian Bug report logs
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20/12/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
veen : Pinsetter from Coudal Partners: Spell With Buttons - "Spell with buttons. There's not a whole lot more to explain after that."
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20/12/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Vitamin Features » Create cross browser vector graphics - words fail me. not sure if i mean that in a good way or not.
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20/12/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Daniel Baumann - Mozilla Locales Packaging
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20/12/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Star-Telegram | 12/18/2006 | Desperation in the White House - "Cheney understood all of it, and he bears much of the responsibility for what's gone on in Washington and in Iraq for the last six years. Keep a sharp eye on him. Desperate men do desperate things."
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20/12/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon ? If you see a parade, get in front of it… - "So, there you go…if you see a parade, get in front of it. That is what being part of the community you serve is all about."
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20/12/2006 @ 00:01 GMT
jimray : Craigsnumber - Phone number that forwards to your actual phone, expires after a set time, keeps you anonymous
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20/12/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : TSA travel tip: cheesecake is not a gel - TSA travel tip: cheesecake is not a gel. "So, as you're traveling for the holidays, if you should feel the urge to surprise a loved one with a piece of cheesecake or some other gelatinous food product and are questioned by the TSA, make sure you remind th
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