3/01/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Man Is Rescued by Stranger on Subway Tracks - “I don’t feel like I did something spectacular; I just saw someone who needed helpâ€
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3/01/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
deusx : Rands In Repose: Ninety Days - "Your job interview isn't over until you've changed to become part of a new team."
43folders : Rands In Repose: Ninety Days - "Your job interview isn't over until you've changed to become part of a new team."
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3/01/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
deusx : Tinderbox Web Viewer - Notebook of Sand: J. Nathan Matias - "I have just finished the first beta of a Tinderbox web viewer. It's a series of PHP scripts ... which will load a Tinderbox file and recreate the Map View online."
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3/01/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
deusx : Anil Dash: Getting By - "A good friend of mine asked for some tips the other day on dealing with minor depression."
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3/01/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
gleuschk : Urban Legends Reference Pages: 2006 Federal Excise Tax Credit - wow, finally a reason to save all those old phone bills
wearehugh : Urban Legends Reference Pages: 2006 Federal Excise Tax Credit - we've finally stopped paying for the spanish-american war of 1898. really.
jimray : 2006 Federal Excise Tax Credit - Created in 1898 to pay for the Spanish American War, reinstated to pay for various other wars (WWI, WWII, Vietnam), you are now eligible for $30-$60 on your 2006 taxes
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3/01/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
wearehugh : Using YUI in Greasemonkey Scripts » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
deusx : Using YUI in Greasemonkey Scripts » Yahoo! User Interface Blog - "a Greasemonkey script that adds calls to external JavaScript libraries and CSS files to a given page and, once they are loaded, passes the YAHOO global object to the code inside the Greasemonkey script."
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3/01/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : OpenID for non-SuperUsers - OpenID for non-SuperUsers: Sam shows us what it takes to claim your site using OpenID and start using your new identity. It's surprisingly easy.
wearehugh : Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers
joshua : Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers
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3/01/2007 @ 21:06 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : graph of executions in the United States from 1608
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3/01/2007 @ 21:05 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : a Donald Knuth reward check for finding a bug
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3/01/2007 @ 21:04 GMT
jimray : Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs : ENERGY STAR - I'm starting my transition to CFL's this weekend
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3/01/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
jimray : What C.F. Lamps to Use Where - A guide to compact fluorescents
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3/01/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
jimray : FAQs: Compact Fluorescent - GE's CFL FAQ
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3/01/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
deusx : Scripting with JavaScript in Cocoa - "This tutorial shows how to script Cocoa using JavaScript."
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3/01/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
deusx : WebKit WebScripting protocol (Objective-C) - "WebScripting is an informal protocol that defines methods that classes can implement to expose their interfaces to a WebScript environment such as JavaScript."
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3/01/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
deusx : reconstitute.py - "Reconstitute an entry document from the output of the Universal Feed Parser."
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3/01/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : The Weird Thing (Ftrain.com) - "I did the weird thing and I was happy."
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3/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
deusx : SitePen Blog » Blog Archive » The Dojo Offline Toolkit - "The Dojo Offline Toolkit will be a small, cross-platform, generic download that enables web applications to work offline."
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Jeremy Zawodny : GPS navigator to include Yahoo search - GPS navigator to include Yahoo search: technically, it's Yahoo's local search... not to be confused with web search. but it's cool news either way.
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3/01/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Larry Lessig at 23C3 - Hour+ video, but he's a great speaker (via BoingBoing)
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Nelson Minar : 20 Full moons - Month by month animation (via apod)
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Matthew M. Boedicker : video of Joi Ito lecture on World of Warcraft
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Nelson Minar : God talks to Pat - Robertson predicts mass killing in the US
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jimray : Girl Talk, New Year's Eve - Staring in to a laptop at the Empty Bottle [misses Chicago...]
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3/01/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
deusx : Batman PWN'D!!! - Nerdy Shirts :: The Most Awesome Shirts in the World (Funny T-shirts, Funny shirts, Vintage Shirts, Vintage T-Shirts) - "PWN'D!!!!"
jimray : Batman pwn'd - Greg Perez *needs* this
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deusx : Wired News: All Hail the Mighty Coffee Bean! - "I have a terrible addiction to coffee. Not so much the substance itself, although I have my issues with it, but with all the paraphernalia that comes along with the experience."
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deusx : Wired 15.01: It's Alive! - "Say hello to Pleo. From the guy who brought you Furby, it's a snuffling, stretching, oddly convincing robotic dinosaur. You are so going to want one."
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3/01/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
joshua : Scalable Fabric - alternate UI for large screens
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3/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Mozilla Foundation: Achieving Sustainability - The Mozilla Foundation: Achieving Sustainability: "In 2005 the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation combined had revenue from all sources of $52.9M. $29.8M of this was associated with the Foundation (both before and after the creation of the Co
Nelson Minar : Firefox: $53M in 2005 - Nearly $30M from "search engine relationships"
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3/01/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
jkottke : America the Overfull - America the Overfull, Paul Theroux's New Year's musing on an America with twice as many people as when he grew up. "We are passing through a confused period of aggression and fear, characterized by our confrontational government, the decline of diplomacy,
Nelson Minar : America the Overfull - Wistful Theroux op/ed
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3/01/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Shopsin's to reopen as LES food stand - Shopsin's, who closed their beloved eatery in the West Village last month, has updated their web site with plans to open in a stall at the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side. (thx, janelle)
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3/01/2007 @ 15:03 GMT
43folders : Gus Mueller's Website [Chinese Democracy Syndrome] - "The hold up is because he wants to get everything 'perfect'. So it never ships." via:brilliantdays.com
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3/01/2007 @ 15:02 GMT
43folders : Word Spy - glass cliff - "A senior job or important project, particularly one given to a woman, with a high risk of failure"
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43folders : Getting Things Started: The Brain Dump at Dethroner - "The first step in GTD is to dash out everything you think you might be interested or compelled to do, from gratifying trifle to life-shaking event."
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3/01/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : Time magazine's list of best video games for 2006 - Perched on top of Time magazine's list of best video games for 2006? Wii Sports.
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3/01/2007 @ 13:01 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Martenhoepla's Muzieklijstje der eindejaarseinde van leukste 2006-liedjes, 1 t/m 50 [via]
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3/01/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
Linkorama : Fry's Electronics Ad - Looking for Fry's Electronics weekly ads? This site is updated with Day After Christmas Sale listings.
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3/01/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired Science, the Wired/PBS collaboration, debuts tonight - it took ten years, but they finally launched Wired TV
jkottke : Wired Science on PBS - Caught the first episode of Wired Science on PBS last night and it wasn't so bad. It's like Wired magazine, but on TV. If you missed it, the entire show is available online.
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3/01/2007 @ 08:03 GMT
43folders : GTD Roundup - Lifehacker - Lifehacker posts a recap of some favorite GTD posts.
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3/01/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
cameron : SkyscraperPage - Beautiful 3D pixel-art for all of the tallest buildings in the world, and some being built. I'm not sure how I missed this before.
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3/01/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : TV and HDTV - Choosing Screen Size & Placing Your TV - TV and HDTV - Choosing Screen Size & Placing Your TV: good advice on screen sizes and sitting distances
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3/01/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Donald Knuth tells Steve Jobs he's full of shit - engineering versus marketing (via programming.reddit.com) [via]
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3/01/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to grow your own tea - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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Rod Begbie : San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Tapir - Joy & I "adopted" the Malayian Tapirs at San Diego Zoo as part of our Christmas gift to each other. Tapirs are *awesomely* ridiculous looking creatures, and I love 'em to bits. Can't wait to see them when we're in California in June. #
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3/01/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
wearehugh : sukria.net » Blog Archive » etch is ready for the laptop - "The CPU throttling worked for me as soon as I loaded the appropriate modules (speedstep-centrino). I then dpkg-reconfigured gnome-applets to set a SUID bit on the cpufreq applet so I can change the frequency/governors with GNOME."
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3/01/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
wearehugh : [whatwg] Presentational safety valves - """Whenever someone uses , don't say "alas, that's a hole in HTML"; say "hooray, that's someone who isn't misusing "."""
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3/01/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
gleuschk : Inside Higher Ed :: Professor's Hunger Strike Ultimatum - give me tenure or I'll hold my breath till I turn purple! (the less-funny ways of characterizing this case make me distinctly uncomfortable) I'll stomp my feet!
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3/01/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
gleuschk : photographs that changed the world - I learned a couple things from this list
jkottke : Thirteen photographs that changed the world - Thirteen photographs that changed the world, featuring Robert Capa, Man Ray, Matthew Brady, and Ansel Adams.
Nelson Minar : 13 photographs that changed the world - Excellent commentary
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3/01/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : Slimmed-down Journal Debuts - With more color, more features. Sadly, they didn't ax the editorial page.
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3/01/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : John Edwards has a Flickr profile - Friended!
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43folders : Lofi Nike+ sensor holder on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - My official Nike+ shoes were depressing. Better to fix the Nike+ sensor to these first-world Asics with the lofi-est of means. Working great so far.
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3/01/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
43folders : Garmin FINALLY Supports OS X - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - "Now Macworld is reporting that Garmin will finally be supporting OS X in late January" [via:mbwideas]
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3/01/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
Linkorama : Innovation Games - Playing games with customers instead of listening them to get great requirements
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3/01/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
jkottke : The Long Tale of 2006 - The Long Tale of 2006. "What makes the long tail so disingenuous is that what happens in the long tail has almost no ramifications on what happens in the head." With the internet, some of the most popular sites are "places like YouTube and MySpace where l
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deusx : Beliefwatch: Blasphemy - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com - "Their intent was to encourage atheists to come forward and put their souls on the line, showing others that you don't have to be afraid of God."
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deusx : JavaScript source for Technorati linkcount - Another JSON-powered permalink metadata widget
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deusx : Democrats To Start Without GOP Input - washingtonpost.com - Republicans go QQ. "As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking."
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3/01/2007 @ 01:08 GMT
deusx : Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t - New York Times - "All the varieties of free will worth having, we have"
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deusx : YouTube - Line Rider - Urban Run - "The sequel to Jagged Peak Adventure! Completely 3D, not flat sections. Music from Katamari Damacy soundtrack."
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3/01/2007 @ 01:06 GMT
deusx : RSS wasn't invented - Scripting News: 1/2/2007 - "But RSS doesn't have an inventor. It wasn't invented. Something else happened, something harder than invention, imho -- an activity that we don't have a word for in the English language."
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3/01/2007 @ 01:06 GMT
deusx : BBC NEWS | Technology | $100 laptop project launches 2007 - They totally need to sell these for $250 a pop to techies in the western world, take $100 to sponsor another device for a kid somewhere, use the rest for overhead costs.
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3/01/2007 @ 01:05 GMT
deusx : Microsoft's RSS Patent Theft - "They're clearly aware that contributing to the community is important but they have no problem stabbing us in the back at the same time."
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deusx : Game Boy damaged in Gulf War on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Looks positively Lovecraftian. "This GameBoy was damaged when barracks were bombed during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. It still works!"
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3/01/2007 @ 01:03 GMT
deusx : The Gaming Generation: Finding Time for Gaming, Even as an Adult from 1UP.com - "the first generation to grow up with videogames is all grown up"
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3/01/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
deusx : BLACK LOTUS BREWING CO. - A brewery in Clawson? odd.
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3/01/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
deusx : TPMmuckraker January 2, 2007 11:48 AM - "Republicans "have taken every one of the techniques that Democrats employed when they were in the majority, and ratcheted them up to another level," said the American Enterprise Institute scholar."
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3/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Mannequin fetishist could get life - Yahoo! News - "FERNDALE, Mich. - A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a long prison term for his latest arrest."
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3/01/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
joshua : The Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks
jcgregorio : The Computer Language Benchmarks Game - Wow, D kicks some serious butt.
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3/01/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
jimray : Wal-Mart makes an unlikely champion of energy effecient light bulbs - Aims to sell 100 million -- a 50% increase -- in a year
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3/01/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
deusx : Lacrimae Rerum » The Best Of: The Bible - "There’s a bunch more about smashin’ babies and starting wars and a lot of plagues and an army of 200 million angels which killed a third of the world’s population."
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3/01/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
cameron : BBC - Sex ID - Simple system that takes many psychological tests and produces a score along the male/female continuum. Apparently, I am a girl.
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3/01/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Fionn Regan's "Be Good or Be Gone" - using ambient audio from diverse locations, creativity on zero budget
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3/01/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Happy birthday, horsies! - All Thoroughbred horses born in the Northern Hemisphere technically share the same birthday: January 1. Happy birthday, horsies!
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