23/01/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : Ticklebooth has tracked down online clips of three (and 1/2) of the short films nominated for an Oscar this year - Ticklebooth has tracked down online clips of three (and 1/2) of the short films nominated for an Oscar this year.
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23/01/2007 @ 22:09 GMT
joshua : 10base-t interactive - send files to destinations on a network
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23/01/2007 @ 22:06 GMT
philgyford : WWOOF Independents - home page - World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms for people who want to volunteer for a "holiday".
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23/01/2007 @ 22:05 GMT
philgyford : WWOOF (UK) - World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms in the UK.
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23/01/2007 @ 22:05 GMT
philgyford : EO Newsroom: New Images - San Francisco Skyline - Fantastic aerial photo, especially if you view the full image. Not that I'm envious of so many people I know moving there or anything, oh no. (via Pulse Laser)
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23/01/2007 @ 22:05 GMT
philgyford : Correo - a new mail client for OS X - Thunderbird-based email client from the people who do Camino. (via Blech)
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23/01/2007 @ 22:04 GMT
philgyford : Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components - Makes QuickTime work with all the video formats you're actually likely to use. Free. (via Haddock)
joshua : Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components - Perian is a free, open source QuickTime® component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
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23/01/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
philgyford : The Stage | Newsblog | The play(wright)'s the thing.... - About group-devised theatre vs theatre written by a playwright, which made some things floating in my head solidify a bit. (Plus my comment beneath it.)
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23/01/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
philgyford : Review: iDefrag for OS X - PaulStamatiou.com - Raves for a disk defragging tool for Macs, and discussion about the fact it is needed despite what many think.
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23/01/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
philgyford : A Low Impact Woodland Home - The houses are a bit cutesy for my liking, but working on them (or something similarly self-buildy) over the summer would be interesting. If, you know, one didn't have to work.
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23/01/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
gleuschk : interview with John Baez and Urs Schreiber about the n-Category cafe - neato
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23/01/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
znarf : Wired News: How Yahoo Blew It [via] #
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23/01/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Moonwalk Superstar - The Moonwalk Superstar: Parental Guide #27
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23/01/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
Andy Baio : Waxy.org: Pirating the 2007 Oscars - I just posted my research into Oscar screener piracy, also showing that restricting screeners may hurt film's Oscar chances
jkottke : Andy Baio has a report on Oscar nominated films showing up online - Andy Baio has a report on Oscar nominated films showing up online. Out of the 34 films nominated in one form or another, 31 have been released online. "The average length of time between a film's USA release and its first appearance online is 12 days."
Nelson Minar : Pirating the Oscars - Waxy researches the downloads of Oscar nominated films
wearehugh : Waxy.org: Daily Log: Pirating the 2007 Oscars
plasticbag : Andy Baio's written a great post about piracy and the Oscars and the effect of the piracy-free DVDs sent to academy members... - The general conclusion I get from this survey and from friends in the industry is that the companies who insist on copy protected DVDs ended up with Academy members unable to watch the films and subsequently not winning awards...
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23/01/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
Jon Hicks : Highland Fling Conference - Seeing as all my friends are talking, and that I’ll be in Glasgow at the time, I should maybe go!
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23/01/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon S3 Library for REST in Python - Amazon S3 Library for REST in Python: you need this to use adrian's upload script
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23/01/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : adrian's python s3 upload script - adrian's python s3 upload script: this worked well for me... I may tweak it so that it doesn't re-upload if you run it twice on the same content, though...
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23/01/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : chicken kick [video] - chicken kick [video]: watch the chicken in the background
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23/01/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Flea Market Montgomery, the mini-mall rap - "You heard me! Come shop!"
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23/01/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | ☣ A history of Atom 1.0 milestones in WordPress - The sun'll come out tomorrow ... tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow, you're always a day away...
znarf : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | ☣ A history of Atom 1.0 milestones in WordPress #
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23/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : Bubble Bobble street art in London - Bubble Bobble street art in London. BB is one of my favorite arcade games ever. (via wonderland) [via]
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23/01/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green - Viral clip promoting new series of Life on Mars. What would Windy Miller say? [via] #
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23/01/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : EFI's Consumer Division Residential Catalogue | Harmony Dimmable Spiral - I've finally found a good dimmable low-energy lightbulb. This model's less than $7, and has none of the buzzing or flickering that's been a problem with previous bulbs we've tried. Gonna buy a few more, then our house will be completely incandescent-bul #
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23/01/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : IBM's Many Eyes - like Swivel, a site for creating and sharing data visualizations; O'Reilly has more
cameron : Many Eyes - Collaborative visualization site featuring data sets and output visualizations.
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23/01/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Andy Griffith/PATRIOT - Back when the US understood civil liberties (via BoingBoing)
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23/01/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : PokerFace - UKGameshows - Tremendously enjoyable quiz show format from the UK. Surprised it hasn't been snapped up by a US network as cheap filler. #
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Rod Begbie : Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green - Viral clip promoting new series of Life on Mars. What would Windy Miller say? [via] #
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jkottke : Map of the world as described in George Orwell's 1984 - Map of the world as described in George Orwell's 1984. (via strange maps) [via]
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23/01/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Food Network running subliminal McDonald's ads - too bad subliminal ads don't work [via]
jkottke : Is Food Network doing subliminal advertising during its shows? - Is Food Network doing subliminal advertising during its shows? This video shows a McDonald's ad that was displayed for only one frame during a recent episode of Iron Chef America. (via the grumpiest) [via]
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23/01/2007 @ 18:06 GMT
joshua : The Map Room: Map Site Directory
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23/01/2007 @ 18:06 GMT
Linkorama : Microsoft patent 'immortal computing' - Doesn't stone tablets qualify as prior art?
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23/01/2007 @ 18:06 GMT
Linkorama : IBM Enterprise Social Networking Suite - Optimized for an organization of 130k employees
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23/01/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
Nelson Minar : Second Life rebuttal - See, if you just spend 20+ hours there you'll start to find it interesting
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23/01/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
jimray : The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles - You could do worse than to ape these at YOUR media website thingie
plasticbag : Tom Loosemore lists 'The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles' - There's nothing here I disagree with, but I'm not sure it feels right somehow.
Cameron Moll : The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles - The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles. "5. Treat the entire web as a creative canvas: don't restrict your creativity to your own site." Via DO. [via]
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23/01/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
jimray : Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music - Seems like someone is finally realizing that DRM and interoperability are, as Gruber says, mutually exclusive
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23/01/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
deusx : Wondermark: #268; A Moral Dilemma - "I will in habit any fantasy world that will put Shredder on my body"
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23/01/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
deusx : The Fishbowl: Call Waiting: A Confession - Me too: "To top it all off, I’m one of those annoying people who feels the need to use entire sentences, complete with capital letters, punctuation and fully spelled-out words when I send a text message."
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23/01/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Biden - Name One Single Time Cheney's Been Correct - Maybe this can be a new contest - name one single time Cheney's been correct! I'm sure there's at least one single time.
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23/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How To Lose A Customer, The Classmates Way - How To Lose A Customer, The Classmates Way: 'Frankly, these days, Google is a lot more useful for "high school reconnecting" than Classmates is, so it's not like they're bringing a lot to the table.'
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23/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Lists of best and worst Oscar winners - Two lists, both alike in dignity: the top 10 best best actress Oscar winners and the top 10 worst best actress Oscar winners. Anyone they missed? (Comment on this)
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23/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : Ben Brown has a built a little site that takes the content from kottke.org's RSS feeds and adds the ability to comment on them - Ben Brown has a built a little site that takes the content from kottke.org's RSS feeds and adds the ability to comment on them. "Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, Jason does not allow readers to leave comments. Kottke Komments contains the same stu
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23/01/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : NESN, Scout create reality dating show with Sox appeal - The only dating show to feature the phrase "Shut the hell up -- Papi's batting" on every episode, I imagine. [via] #
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23/01/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
jkottke : Photos of patterns taken from public transport vehicles - Photos of patterns taken from public transport vehicles. Gotta make it ugly enough to hide the stains, I guess.
Nelson Minar : Public transit carpets - Great collection of photos, alas with flash vignetting (via kottke)
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23/01/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : The Oscar nominees have been announced - The Oscar nominees have been announced. Compare with the top movies as determined by the film critics.
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Cameron Moll : LDS Tech Talk in Provo tonight - Another LDS Tech Talk in Provo tonight (Jan 23). Hope to see you there.
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Cameron Moll : Tips for a better design review process - Tips for a better design review process. "...be prepared to present your designs to just about anyone. I don’t know how many times a new stakeholder was introduced in the middle of a design review, and what’s worse, they’re usually so
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Cameron Moll : "Out of Bounds" photo tutorial - Good tutorial for adding some life to photography using the out of bounds technique.
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Cameron Moll : Decisions, decisions - "What was Rob’s final decision? The pink or the blue dress?"
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Cameron Moll : Barack to the Drawing Board - Barack to the Drawing Board. "With Barack Obama’s presidential campaign underway, his advisors are working overtime to make sure their man appeals to the American public, and the first challenge is the name... Senator Borat Obama... Senator Hillara
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23/01/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Pickles Begone - Pickles Begone. Barry Warsaw’s notes on adding SQLAlchemy persistence to Mailman.
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23/01/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots - Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots. Ned’s analysis of how spambots work, along with some relatively simple tricks that should fool most of them.
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Paul Ford : Office 2007 - "We had some options in there," said product manager Paul Coleman, "that literally did nothing,"
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23/01/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Paul Ford : Gawker shuffles, Choire Sicha returns - It's so good when people put their love back into pure web after being away. I like reading Choire because's he's a human being in an industry without any. Then this excellence from Andrew Krucoff on the switch: "I guess blogging's all grown up when it's
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23/01/2007 @ 11:02 GMT
joshua : Earnings.com: Event Calendar - Highlights - nice corporate earnings portal
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23/01/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Coachella 2007 lineup leaked - three days of heat and music
jimray : 2007 Coachella lineup leaked - Any one of these days would be awesome. Whywhywhy is Tennessee so damn far away?
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23/01/2007 @ 09:02 GMT
deusx : 000100000.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x700 pixels) - "You have to seel everything you own to inherit eternal life!" "Seriously, I thought that was metaphorical."
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23/01/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Wikipedia Nofollows - Wikipedia Nofollows: "all major blogging tools did this two years ago and comment and trackback spam is still 100 times worse now. In hindsight, I don’t think nofollow had much of an effect, though I’m still glad we tried it."
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23/01/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Onion Moon Landing - Onion Moon Landing: what they really wanted to say when landing on the moon
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23/01/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Children Are A Gift - a star performance by Ben, the son of my oldest childhood friend
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23/01/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Boing Boing: Does sprawl make us fat?
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23/01/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
jimray : Wii Transfer - Format your media on your Mac for your Wii, now shares over the network, too!
jonhicks : Riverfold Software - Wii Transfer
Greg Storey : Wii Transfer. - Move over AppleTV, now there's something meatier.
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23/01/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : defective yeti: Plugapalooza: The Offbeat Bride - "He has a point: When was the last time you saw otters at a church wedding?"
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23/01/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
joshua : the talent myth - another gladwell thing to read
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23/01/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Battery Breakthrough? - Battery Breakthrough?: I'll believe it when it ships.
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23/01/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What Yahoo Should Have Said to Wired - What Yahoo Should Have Said to Wired: heh
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Jeremy Zawodny : TechCrunch Referral Traffic - TechCrunch Referral Traffic: no real surprises in here...
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23/01/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Development Blog › WordPress 2.1 “Ella†- "550 bug fixes" but still producing atom 0.3... pass
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23/01/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : ianhenderson.org - megazoomer
joshua : megazoomer - make one app window fullscreen. requires simbl -- damn
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23/01/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
cameron : Gottabet - network for betting addicts - This has cameronfactor written ALL OVER IT. Time to take hapless saps peanuts.
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jkottke : Interview with Jill Youse, who started the International Breast Milk Project because she has excess breast milk that she wanted to donate to African babies in need - Interview with Jill Youse, who started the International Breast Milk Project because she has excess breast milk that she wanted to donate to African babies in need. "Breast milk has this fascinating aspect to it. It's not something you look at in your fre
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23/01/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Bostonist: Diesel Spreads to Union - Fantastic news -- Diesel Cafe's owners are opening a new coffee shop in Union Square. There hasn't been a caffeine + wifi place within walking distance of my house since the Grand Coffeehouse shut down. #
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23/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Twitter Updater (a WordPress plugin) - Twitter Updater (a WordPress plugin). “The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post.†Fantastic idea—I really want this for my own site.
Jeremy Zawodny : Twitter Updater (a WordPress plugin) - Twitter Updater (a WordPress plugin): "The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post." Interesting idea. I wonder how many users Twitter has...
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23/01/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Why is meat the most shoplifted item in America? - Why is meat the most shoplifted item in America? "So, more innovation is required in the battle against meatlifting. Meat-sniffing dogs pop to mind, though some shoppers might object to having a Doberman nosing around their crotches in search of stolen st
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23/01/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
kellan : snellspace.com: Flickr’s Atom feeds are using License links. - snellspace.com: Flickr’s Atom feeds are using License links.. Somebody noticed #
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23/01/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : USDA nutrient laboratory data
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