5/01/2007 @ 23:04 GMT
deusx : YouTube - gnome Death race - "Gnome death race 25/10/06 on ravenholt server"
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5/01/2007 @ 23:04 GMT
deusx : The Van Halen Clause - WOW Insider - "Apparently, Van Halen used to demand a bowl of non-brown M&Ms at every venue they played at to make sure the promoter actually read their contract."
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5/01/2007 @ 23:03 GMT
Andy Baio : A Kinda Patton Christmas - including custom Carvel cake and fake Photoshopped magazine
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5/01/2007 @ 23:03 GMT
Andy Baio : Merlin Mann's Phone Guy series - "my nails are salon-perfect" [via]
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5/01/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
Andy Baio : Suck.com's Joey Anuff launches recommendations site - sounds like Metacritic for music singles, gears, autos, and so on
jimray : Critical Metrics Tests Music Recommendations - Joey Anuff is back and now he's aggregating critics
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Andy Baio : Zug.com's John Hargrave releases prank book - one of the oldest e-zines, Zug has been active since 1995 and still very funny [via]
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5/01/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
wearehugh : Flickr: The Visual HTML Jokes Pool - so very, very wrong
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jkottke : Interview with Ben Schott, author of the Schott's Miscellany books - Interview with Ben Schott, author of the Schott's Miscellany books. It sounds like we have a lot in common, job-wise. "One of the metaphors of what I do that I like is a sort of curator. Often it's a question of finding information that might've otherwise
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43folders : Edgework: Merlin Mann at Like It Matters - Like me, Brian loves D&D, Rush, hobo matters, and theoretical productivity.
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5/01/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : D. J. Bernstein's guide to internet mail infrastructure - (via wikipedia) [via]
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5/01/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Hillel Cooperman purchased a small autograph book dating from the 1940s in a Hong Kong shop and has posted scans of the book online in hopes that people will help translate it - Hillel Cooperman purchased a small autograph book dating from the 1940s in a Hong Kong shop and has posted scans of the book online in hopes that people will help translate it. A commenter says: "This book is used to leave comments -- quite popular at gra
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Matthew M. Boedicker : how to get a copy of your FBI file
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Golden Compass movie stills
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5/01/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
deusx : Recycling yarn / Unravelling thrift store sweaters - "If the cost of quality wool gets you down then consider visiting your local thrift store and buying wool sweaters there."
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5/01/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
deusx : Emotibud Earbud Set - "4 of these pairs of adorable emotion ear bud accessories!"
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5/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon’s Price Drop Policy - Amazon’s Price Drop Policy: "Did you know that if the price on something you buy drops, within 30 days of your purchase date, Amazon.com will credit you the difference if you ask for it?"
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5/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : YouParkLikeAnAsshole.com - YouParkLikeAnAsshole.com: "Sick of a car taking up two spaces on the street? How about a car too close to yours? What about the car at the mall parked diagonally? Now you can do something about it."
Rod Begbie : You Park Like an Asshole - Printed out a few of these flyers to keep in the glove compartment for when they're needed. [via] #
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jcgregorio : Boing Boing: Excellent amateur stop motion video - stop motion video
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5/01/2007 @ 20:04 GMT
jcgregorio : "the secret life of machines" - Google Video
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jimray : Top 11 Things Geeks Did on New Year's Eve - Brilliant
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jimray : Daylife Launches, Starts Very Long Uphill Climb - Ouch - I wasn't aware that there was a web2.0 thing that Arrington didn't love, and he's an investor in this one. Maybe he's just trying to deflect all the criticism that he's nothing more than fanboi cheerleader. Oh. Wait.
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jimray : Richard Dawkins is on MySpace?!! - Going after the kids, I guess...
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5/01/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Why people don't use collaboration tools
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5/01/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Would You Hire Matt Cutts? - Would You Hire Matt Cutts?: this is rather amusing... espeically the part about what I supposedly make for MySQL consulting...
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5/01/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Food manufacturers are greenwashing their packaging, using homey organic colors and themes to seel food that isn't even necessarily organic or healthy - Food manufacturers are greenwashing their packaging, using homey organic colors and themes to seel food that isn't even necessarily organic or healthy. "Start with a gentle image of a field or a farm to suggest an ample harvest gathered by an honest, hard
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5/01/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
43folders : WordPress Help - Podz @ Tamba2 - These are so useful.
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5/01/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Singles chart set to go retro | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited - This weekend, the UK charts will switch to including sales of all digital tracks, not just those marked as "singles". As a result, album tracks and one-hit wonders are likely to hit the Top 100. Anything that gets The Proclaimers into the charts *has* t #
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5/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : NYC is a dirty place - Power Washing 188 Suffolk St., a photo depicting how dirty NYC is. (via eliot) [via]
philgyford : Trevorlittle.com - nyc photos » Power Washing 188 Suffolk St. - Wow. Shows how dirty some New York buildings have become over the years. The difference is incredible. (via Kottke)
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5/01/2007 @ 17:03 GMT
Linkorama : Feedburner Site Stats - Finally, A 360 Degree View of Audience Engagement
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5/01/2007 @ 17:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : Who speaks Irish? - "confronted by an unbending foot soldier of the Irish Taliban"
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jkottke : Gina Trapani in the WSJ - Holy crap, Gina got her own hedcut portrait in the Wall Street Journal this morning! She'll be under her desk for days over this.
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mbertier : Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities in 2006 (washingtonpost.com) - nice chart [via] #
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5/01/2007 @ 13:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : WotR 80 - Jet Set Willy:Online - Multiplayer Jet Set Willy! Play as teams collecting objects, or capture the flag mode. It's like my entire childhood was leading up to this. [via] #
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5/01/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
43folders : New Statesman - Resolution one: get a life hack - "Follow each life-hacking blogger around every twisted corner of time-saving trivia, and you could spend more time life hacking than you spend living."
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5/01/2007 @ 07:03 GMT
jimray : Google Comes Out of the Shadows in N.C. - Google in Chapel Hill!
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5/01/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Anal Sex Is Increasingly Popular in the Hetero World - Anal Sex Is Increasingly Popular in the Hetero World: there are so many amusingly quotable lines in this story that it's best to just read the whole thing
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Jeremy Zawodny : No joke, this Texans cheerleader works with NASA - No joke, this Texans cheerleader works with NASA: "Summer Williams is a Houston Texans cheerleader. She's also a rocket scientist."
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5/01/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : I'm Turning On Comments - I'm Turning On Comments: excellent! Dave is finally allowing comments
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5/01/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
43folders : Wall Calendar - This is a lot of fiddly work for a calendar that must be rewritten (in ginormous longhand) every few weeks. Classic pseudo-productivity.
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5/01/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
gleuschk : Automated backups in Windows » Draconis Software Blog - new year's resolution #1: set up an automatic backup scheme (200gig of disk space at Dreamhost going to waste)
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5/01/2007 @ 04:05 GMT
43folders : Other World Computing- The ModBook; The Mac tablet revolution is about to begin! - And it's at least partly designed by Germans. So there's that.
Rod Begbie : Other World Computing- The ModBook; The Mac tablet revolution is about to begin! - If Apple won't make a Mac tablet, then someone else will, apparently. [via] #
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43folders : Sales of CDs are falling faster than you can say iPod - "They manufacture and distribute plastic. Of course they have to put something on the plastic to make it more appealing -- but the music is secondary."
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5/01/2007 @ 04:03 GMT
43folders : Help, My Hard Drive is Full! - TechDigs.net - I'll almost certainly have a fuller post about this soon, but for now I'll say "thank you thank you, Greg!" Awesome.
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5/01/2007 @ 04:03 GMT
jimray : manicwave: NewsHeap - Parsing RSS in Ruby - Ultraliberal RSS parser built in Ruby, based on Mark Pilgrim's Python version
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5/01/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Classy Post Alert: Farting Strippers! - Classy Post Alert: Farting Strippers!: "the amazing thing is not merely the stories themselves, but that Stipper Web exists" heh!
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5/01/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : From $10/Week to $800/Week with AdSense - From $10/Week to $800/Week with AdSense: notice how he doesn't reveal his site URL?
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Jeremy Zawodny : eWeek doesn’t want me to visit eweek.com - eWeek doesn’t want me to visit eweek.com: eweek is teh suck!
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5/01/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
jimray : vidmeter - Top videos from around the net... and, most of it's porn. Yay, UGC.
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5/01/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
jimray : LaCie - FireWire Speakers - Bus-Powered Audio System - Hott
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5/01/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
43folders : Amazon.com: Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard: Software - "Scheduled to ship in spring 2007..." I guess this (and/or iLife '07) isn't Steve's big reveal. via John Foster.
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5/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : The Vinland Map - Strange Maps post about the Vinland Map, a document proported to have been drawn in the 15th century from a 13th century map. The Vinland Map depicts an unknown land across the Atlantic Ocean called Vinland which some think is the part of North America vi
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5/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Malcolm Gladwell on the difference between secrets and puzzles - Malcolm Gladwell on the difference between secrets and puzzles, particularly as it relates to something like the Enron scandal. I think this is one of the more interesting pieces from Gladwell in recent years. Having lived in California during the blackou
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5/01/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
jimray : Refund Please - Home - Amazon has a little known policy that if the price of an item drops within 30 days, they'll send you the difference. This site does all of the hard work for you! Que greasemonkey script that automates the whole thing in 5...4...
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5/01/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
cameron : LinkedIn's new answers product - They seem to have launched it recently...
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5/01/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : 1994 best/worst-of the internet lists with predicitons for 1995 - 1994 best/worst-of the internet lists with predicitons for 1995. "Pick any tragic event and you can probably recall seeing a newsgroup that taunted its seriousness. There was alt.tonya-harding.whack.whack.whack. Then we had alt.lorena.bobitt.chop.chop.cho
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