19/01/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : site run on 23-year-old Apple Lisa2 - (via wikipedia) [via]
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19/01/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : Republicans Halt Ethics Legislation - washingtonpost.com - "Whatever they're saying, Republican votes tonight were votes to prevent the Senate from enacting major lobbying and ethics reforms to deal with corruption scandals in Congress"
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19/01/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest #83 | Radosh.net - "So I said to the genie, 'Hey! I didn't ask for a 60 inch crock!'" (from the comments)
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19/01/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
jimray : Free Quicksilver user guide ebook - He's good. And thorough.
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19/01/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | Smashing Magazine - "53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites."
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19/01/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist - WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist: may come in handy one day
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19/01/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The programmer productivity front - The programmer productivity front: "I want a fast scratchpad for my 50 front-ends to be able to share, kind of like sys V shared memory, but networked. I want get, put, append, tail, queue, dequeue, infinitely scalable across some RAID-ish cluste
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19/01/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : DeltaCopy - Rsync for Windows - DeltaCopy - Rsync for Windows: "In general terms, DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program."
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19/01/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Tremble funnyman Todd Levin dons the Non-Expert's hat over at The Morning News to explain how to buy wine - Tremble funnyman Todd Levin dons the Non-Expert's hat over at The Morning News to explain how to buy wine. "FANCY SERIF FONT + PARCHMENT LABEL + SOMETHING YOU KIND OF REMEMBERED FROM THE MOVIE SIDEWAYS + $12-$16 PRICE TAG = SUCCESS"
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19/01/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : Diagram that charts instances of the "x is the new y" snowclone from 2005 - Diagram that charts instances of the "x is the new y" snowclone from 2005. See also: a list I compiled last last year.
Nelson Minar : Black is the new black - Interesting visualization of a cliche (via Kottke)
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Nelson Minar : iPhone ringtone - "sounds like holy angels peeing"
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19/01/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
cobra libre : Legend of Zelda "TAKE THIS" generator - IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. [via] #
deusx : DUH DUH DUH DUHHhhhh! - DuhDuhDuhDuh.phantomhourglass.org - "IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS."
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wearehugh : Strasbourg - Anne’s Weblog - "html5lib, thanks to Sam Ruby, recently got a module for liberal XML parsing. This does exactly what you think it does."
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jkottke : Winning the Nobel Prize gets you more than $1 million...and two extra years of life - Winning the Nobel Prize gets you more than $1 million...and two extra years of life.
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19/01/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : pictures of Hotel Pennsylvania, site of 2600's HOPE conference, which is scheduled to be destroyed - (via boing boing) [via]
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Isofarro : Improving Ajax applications for JAWS users - Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner engineer a practical and pragmatic way of getting Ajax based applications playing nicely with JAWS 7.1. One of the advantages Gez and Steve have is access to experienced screen-reader users for testing purposes - that assures
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19/01/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
deusx : WOW DDR - "Can you reach level 60? Can you beat the hi-score? Is World of Warcraft DDR the best game ever?"
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19/01/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Links to academic papers on phishing - Links to academic papers on phishing. Posted to the openid-general list by Mike Beltzner.
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jkottke : The rate of suicides off of the Golden Gate Bridge increased sharply in 2006 - The rate of suicides off of the Golden Gate Bridge increased sharply in 2006, in part because of the local screening of The Bridge, a documentary about Golden Gate Bridge suicides. "The Bridge premiered locally in April. In May, four people jumped to thei
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19/01/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : IFFR - Film Title List A-Z - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Film Title List A-Z
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19/01/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Wegman's prints software error messages on cake - (via boing boing) [via]
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19/01/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : Lebowski Fest is coming to Seattle! - And, it's during SxSW, so all the hipsters will be down in Austin. Sweet!
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19/01/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : ..:Things My Boyfriend Says:.. - I'm quitting my job today so I can dedicate my life to finding this insanely awesome individual
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19/01/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : The Long Tail: The Vanishing Point theory of news - "I'll start reading my "local" newspaper again when it covers my block." I have a lot of problems with this "theory" but the idea of news that is relevant to people's lives is powerful
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19/01/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : Brightcove Splits Ad Revenue With Creators - And they just got $60million in funding. Awaiting the collapse/consolidation in video sharing space in about 6 months
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19/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Andrew Leonard of Salon responds to the David Carr post I wrote about earlier and in not enormously flattering terms... - And he's also got a point! saturation in the marketplace doesn't mean that everyone writes about Britney, it means that people specialise and there's more choice. The capitalist would argue that market failure is the biggest threat, not competition...
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19/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Employment (II) (1633) by George Herbert - "Man is no starre, but a quick coal of mortall fire; Who blows it not, nor doth controll A faint desire, Let's his own ashes choke his soul"
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19/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : Presentation Zen writes about Steve Jobs at Macworld and the stinking presence of Cingularity - Doing good talks is something that I wish I knew more about. Mine go quite well, but they cost me so much in preparation that I have to do them a few times to make them worth the time they take to write...
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19/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Carson Future of Web Design conference in April looks pretty interesting - Nice to see he's making a family out of these events - and I'm loving the visual design for the conference site.
Cameron Moll : Future of Web Design - The Future of Web Design conference (London, April '07) is destined to showcase some top-notch talent, including Joshua Davis and homeboy Jeff Croft.
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19/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Adam Gopnik on the current health of New York City - Adam Gopnik on the current health of New York City. "This transformation is one you see on every street corner in Manhattan, and now in Brooklyn, too, where another local toy store or smoked-fish emporium disappears and another bank branch or mall store o
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19/01/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
plasticbag : Joan Bakewell reviews Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion in glowing terms... - "Religions have the secular world running scared. This book is a clarion call to cower no longer. Primed by anger, redeemed by humour, it will, I trust, offend many."
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19/01/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Independent's review of The God Delusion is a little more equivocal... - It's a flawed review in that it attempts to defeat Dawkins on his own terms - ie. by describing religion as a trait that provides its adherents with greater adaptive success, rather than by looking towards the meme as the unit of selection.
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19/01/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : There's an interesting discussion going on on the microformats list about how to depict television and radio programmes - The standard confusions and complexities apply - the distinctions between a broadcast and an episode (where the episode corresponds to something on a tape that can be replayed), and between episodes and the brands that link them...
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19/01/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : David Carr talks in the New York Times about the benefits and costs of new web-native ways of reading and writing to the business of writing newspapers... - Now this is a really good article. It balances the value of 'most read' pages and blogs with the risks towards popularisation and ratings-grabbing while accepting that one way or another they're here to stay. No head in the sand.
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19/01/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : Spaceship Entertainment talks about symptoms of addiction in World of Warcraft and references something I wrote a while back on the subject... - I'm getting more and more fascinated about this. Obviously I'm not advocating censoring or banning games, but from the comments in the thread I'm beginning to wonder if gaming is the memetic equivalent of sugar - something nutritionally empty but increasi
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19/01/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : "Extra-terrestrials have yet to find us because they haven't had enough time to look" - "Extra-terrestrials have yet to find us because they haven't had enough time to look."
plasticbag : Rasmus Bjork has been exploring why aliens haven't found us - his conclusion is that it's because it would take them billions of years to do so - Rather spuriously, he seems to have decided that said aliens would send eight probes which would each subsequently break into an additional eight probes. My guess is that if they did it with more probes it might take less time...
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19/01/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Nelson Minar : IP address icons - Simple transform of IP address to tiny icon
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19/01/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Unfortunate CAPTCHA - The handicap icon is sort of the icing on the cake (via Peter)
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19/01/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Dealing with mudflation - Excellent game design insights from Raph Koster
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19/01/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
wearehugh : beatnikblog » Blog Archive » Gimmie 0.2.0, the Applet
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19/01/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
jkottke : Photos of people who have gotten a piercing on their third nipple - Rejoice, netizens! The hunt is over for the weirdest thing on the web. I give you photos of people who have gotten a piercing on their third nipple. NSFW and possibly not safe for your psyche either.
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19/01/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subjects, or the grammar of swearing - English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subjects, or the grammar of swearing. "Chomsky observes that the adverbial elements of (39)-(42) are outside of the verb phrase and that only elements within the verb phrase play a role in strict subcategorizati
gleuschk : Doug LeMoine » ENGLISH SENTENCES WITHOUT OVERT GRAMMATICAL SUBJECTS - substitution into the frame “F**k____irregular verb(s)†is an excellent diagnostic test
cobra libre : "English sentences without overt grammatical subjects" - "There is a widespread misconception that utterances such as (2) 'Fuck you,' which also appear to have the form of a transitive verb followed by a noun phrase and preceded by no overt subject, are also imperative. This paper will study the syntax of sente #
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19/01/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : From a while back - Stephen Colbert wags his finger at Apple and the iPhone - I've been distracted by other far more elaborate and confusing things than the internet for the last few weeks/months so this is a bit late in the day. Good. Funny. Stuff like that.
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19/01/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : Totally crazy video of cars sliding around on an icy Portland Street - Totally crazy video of cars sliding around on an icy Portland Street. The soundtrack in my head is playing The Blue Danube when I watch this. (via bb) [via]
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Isofarro : Ajax Debugging with Firebug - Joe Hewitt, in this Dr Dobbs article talks about using the Firebug extensions to inspect and debug Ajax applications (or any browser-based JavaScript application). It also has CSS inspecting capabilities, editing JavaScript on the fly, inspecting HTTP req
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19/01/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : TagMaps - TagMaps. The toolkit behind the new YRB World Explorer, available to developers as a reusable Flash component.
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19/01/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The NHL's All-Star voting disaster - The NHL’s All-Star voting disaster. The NHL ran an online poll to decide which players are picked for their All-Star Game. The only authentication was a poorly implemented CAPTCHA. Unsurprisingly, it got gamed.
Matthew M. Boedicker : online NHL all-star voting gamed due to weak captcha - (via Simon Willison) [via]
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19/01/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : MySpace Blocking Widgets? - MySpace Blocking Widgets?. Making your business dependent on revenue from MySpace is sharecropping of the worst possible kind.
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19/01/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Introducing: World Explorer and TagMaps - Introducing: World Explorer and TagMaps. “Can we automatically extract information from Flickr geotagged images to create a rich visualization of the world we live in? The answer is: you bet.â€
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19/01/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : New York bakery prints error message on cake - here's the backstory
Nelson Minar : Delicious custom cake - Just a small problem (via Waxy)
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19/01/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
wearehugh : PlagiarismToday » Safer Without FeedBurner? - ironically, i read this on my personal full-content planet
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19/01/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : Linux.com | Knoppix 5.1.1: Now with eye candy - also, knoppix now ships with iceweasel
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19/01/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
jkottke : From the June 2000 Esquire, what Julia Child has learned - From the June 2000 Esquire, what Julia Child has learned. "There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables." (via ag) [via]
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19/01/2007 @ 03:03 GMT
joshua : caida graph visualization tools
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19/01/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
jimray : 24-Hour Newspaper People - A newspaper man blogs
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19/01/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Chat Transcript - Microsoft's Kevin Collins on The Home Theater Forum
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19/01/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
gleuschk : PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum - what if probabilities didn't have to be nonnegative?
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19/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Dawn Of OpenID? - The Dawn Of OpenID?: "I believe it’ll succeed… in a similiar way Jabber has succeeded. A good, solid, open system with an active developer community, but not shiny enough to appeal to the masses."
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19/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : Forum.ArchosFans.com :: View topic - 604wifi Software and Hardware Info
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19/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : Forum.ArchosFans.com :: View topic - I called Archos about the Linux source code - archos 604wifi apparently runs linux, but so far archos hasn't posted their modifications as required by the gpl
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19/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : ARCHOS - plugins - H.264/AAC/.mp4 support now available for $25 extra
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19/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : Doom9's Forum - View Single Post - What are your settings? - archos has ZERO information on H.264 tech specs; according to this doom9 poster, the H.264 plugin supports baseline profile (only? at least? dunno)
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19/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : An Antic Disposition: A Foolish Inconsistency - "Microsoft is selling OOXML as the solution to an interoperability problem that they themselves carefully orchestrated"
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19/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : BET is showing season one of The Wire - BET is showing season one of The Wire. Not the best way to watch the show (with commercials and edited for television), but handy if you don't have other access to it.
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19/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : A list of Reel Pop's ten favorite dystopian films - A list of Reel Pop's ten favorite dystopian films. Running Man, La Jetée, and Blade Runner all make the cut.
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19/01/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
kellan : Would You Like to Join My Prison Farm? - Would You Like to Join My Prison Farm?. An alternate coinage to “walled garden”. Because the walled gardens might have wonderful things growing inside. #
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19/01/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
kellan : Dori Smith, for Apple Widget Evangelist - Dori Smith, for Apple Widget Evangelist. And yes, this is what job searches should look like. (via brent, rafe) [via] #
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19/01/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
kellan : Writers in Drag, this Saturday, at Writers with Drinks - Writers in Drag, this Saturday, at Writers with Drinks. see Kim Stanley Robinson read poetry! Michelle Tea read cyberpunk! Michael Blumlein read nature writing! There might be a dancing bear as well! #
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19/01/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
wearehugh : Forum.ArchosFans.com :: View Forum - 604 Wi-Fi
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19/01/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : The Prada mobile phone - The Prada mobile phone.
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