25/01/2007 @ 23:03 GMT
jcgregorio : O'Reilly Radar > Threads Considered Harmful
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25/01/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
joshua : mac record - way to take a picture every time a mac unsleeps
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25/01/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : BBspot - Blizzard Announces Plans for Second WoW Expansion - "“To be honest, we just get a kick out of watching players spend countless hours of their lives trying to obtain something that amounts to about twenty polygons and a low-resolution bitmap texture,†said one Blizzard employee before returning
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25/01/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : BBspot - Horde Start World of Warcraft Charity - "The charity does come with a few strings attached. The players must join the chosen Player Vs. Player (PvP) realm, and they must also make themselves available for killing at the request of any Gankfest America member."
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25/01/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : If Roger Federer keeps going the way he's going, he could one day be considered the greatest sportsman in history - If Roger Federer keeps going the way he's going, he could one day be considered the greatest sportsman in history.
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25/01/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
deusx : Unintended consequences of syndication « Jon Udell - "If you do decide to explicitly publish your bookmarks in a sidebar widget on your blog, it may change the way you bookmark. It did for me, anyway."
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25/01/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Helvetica The Film - The Blog [via]
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25/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : Add external subtitles in HD DVD - Doom9's Forum - first-pass alpha tool to convert .srt subtitles into hd-dvd's "xas" subtitle format
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25/01/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
jkottke : How to photograph cool smoke pictures - How to photograph cool smoke pictures. Or you can skip the smoke altogther and make smoke-like images with Processing. (thx, shay)
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Matthew M. Boedicker : In Our Time Archimedes episode
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25/01/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : The design disease - Designers often have the design disease, where you "can't stop looking at things through your designer eyes". "But it's not just books, it's everything. You'll choose wine by the design of the label and you'd stay [at a hotel] because of the sign." (via e [via]
Milo Vermeulen : Noisy Decent Graphics: The Design Disease [via]
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25/01/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
Jason Shellen : YouTube - Mr. T: The "T" in I.T. - My friend at Hitachi sent this over. I think we can all learn something from Mr. T [via Mike Brandt] #
Andy Baio : Video: Mr. T on Hitachi storage virtualization - he puts the T in I.T. [via]
nelson : Mr. T is the "T" in I.T. - Amazing video for Hitachi
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25/01/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics - Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics.
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25/01/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Lego reproductions of some well-known photos - Lego reproductions of some well-known photos.
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25/01/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
Nelson Minar : WGA false positives? - Some data suggesting Microsoft's anti-piracy measure doesn't work right
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jimray : Video: Flea Market Montgomery - "It's just like a mini mall" Oh dear god yes.
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25/01/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
plasticbag : Two factor theory is the theory that talks about motivators and hygiene factors in working environments - Hygiene factors are things that need to be in place and if they're not dissatisfaction occurs. Motivators are the things that create actual satisfaction.
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25/01/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
jkottke : MySpace for Dummies - Finally, a book unafraid to speak the truth: MySpace for Dummies. I keed, I keed.
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25/01/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : MAKE: Blog: Homemade key opens up every voting machine - "Interesting, it seems when you make a master key for voting machines it's not a good idea to put a photo of the key that's good enough to make a physical copy of..."
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25/01/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to remove Ruth Kelly from the position of Minister for Women and Equality. - The argument here is about Ruth Kelly's positions on gay adoption, which is widely considered to be as a result of her Catholicism and is considered by some to be incompatible with a role to promote equality within her ministry...
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25/01/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Goldfish Chronicles : Cookies - any recipe that starts with two sticks of butter is ok in my book
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25/01/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Leonard's old Segfault stories
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jkottke : A pair of fine sports-related headlines from The Onion - A pair of fine sports-related headlines from The Onion: Confused Bill Simmons Picks The Departed To Win Super Bowl and Bears Lead Rex Grossman To Super Bowl. "All season long, the Bears have shown that they can win, even in the presence of Rex Grossman."
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25/01/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : Google Testing Blog: Introducing "Testing on the Toilet" - Google posts flyers giving tips on automated testing inside toilet cubicles. Good god, that's the creepiest thing I've heard of in a while. #
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25/01/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : Shuzak.com explores the anatomy of a successful social network - It's not a particularly surprising article—suggestions include have a purpose, don't push reputation, be useful, be niche, don't whore your ads too much—but it's still pretty clear and reasonable...
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25/01/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
jkottke : Tupper's Self-Referential Formula is an equation that when graphed, displays the formula itself - Tupper's Self-Referential Formula is an equation that when graphed, displays the formula itself.
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25/01/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Archbishop of Westminster has written a letter to Tony Blair saying that Catholic adoption agencies should not be able to refuse gay couples... - My favourite bit is the place where the agencies will currently refer gay couples to places where they could adopt, but consider that doing it themselves would not be in the best interests of the children. Hardly a matter of principle then...
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25/01/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
plasticbag : The BBC asks, "Should church be able to opt out of gay rights laws?" - An interesting and fairly-balanced set of comments from people. Interesting point, it is already against the law to refuse to look at candidates for adoption on the grounds that they're devoutly Catholic...
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25/01/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
plasticbag : Lord Mackay of Clashfern has protested against UK legislation that would make it illegal to refuse to give gay people equal treatment... - He states, "What they are saying is if you are offering services you must be prepared to allow people to practise actions that you believe are wrong." And of course that's exactly what it says. Because if it doesn't harm him it's none of his business...
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25/01/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
jimray : Murdoch joins $9.6b bid for Tribune Co - Says he wants to save money by combining backroom operation of Post and Newsday
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25/01/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Canyonlands National Park - Canyonlands National Park: Utah and Arizona seem to get all the cool national parks. Why is that?
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25/01/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
jkottke : 1993 New Yorker piece on Barry Diller's search for his future and that of television, cable, and technology - 1993 New Yorker piece on Barry Diller's search for his future and that of television, cable, and technology. This article is a time capsule of the optimism surrounding technology in the early 90s. Note that no one saw the internet coming then...the word d
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25/01/2007 @ 05:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Cream :: a modern configuration of the Vim text editor - Also works on Windows. I have Christopher using this to edit Python and HTML.
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25/01/2007 @ 05:03 GMT
jcgregorio : MicroEMACS - I miss MicroEMACS. I used it in grad school and at my first job. Of course, by the time I was done with it, I had it so customized it wasn't really MicroEMACS anymore.
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25/01/2007 @ 05:03 GMT
jcgregorio : List of text editors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - There is *so* much more to fight over than just VI and Emacs.
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25/01/2007 @ 05:03 GMT
Linkorama : collaborative exam creation - the results of wiki homework
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25/01/2007 @ 05:03 GMT
Linkorama : Big Questions Wiki - How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? 42 of the biggest questions in science.
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25/01/2007 @ 05:02 GMT
Linkorama : Computers in Management Wiki - Boston College wiki courseware
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25/01/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Brass Goggles steampunk blog
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25/01/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Coca-Cola settles with Joel Veitch and his ninja kitten video - more from Joel [via]
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25/01/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Quag7's State of the BBS - he called 50 dialup BBSes and wrote up the results; the parts about where web communities fail is essential reading
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25/01/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
Linkorama : Wikithon - Socialtext is hosting an all day hackathon, open to the public
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Rupture, World of Warcraft social network - (via digg) [via]
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25/01/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
Rod Begbie : Aquarium Feeds - Penguin Webcam - Watch the penguins at the New England Aquarium, and take control of the camera. PENGUINS! #
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25/01/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
wearehugh : Debian Motivation -- Wouter's Eclectic Blog - "if I want a warm and fuzzy place, then with all due respect, Debian is not what I'm looking for"
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25/01/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
wearehugh : Corsac.net - Echoes - Experimental XFCE 4.4 packages for Debian ppc and i386 - no amd64 love :(
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25/01/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
wearehugh : One for the Morning Glory: Package management usability
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25/01/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : Running the Numbers, a great new series of photography from Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers, a great new series of photography from Chris Jordan, is kind of a combination of Chuck Close and Edward Burtynsky, with a bit of Stamen thrown in for good measure. (via conscientious) [via]
philgyford : Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait - Images showing the number of things used by Americans every day/week/month/etc. Amazing, scary, etc. (via Haddock)
Khoi Vinh : Running the Numbers, an American Self-Portrait - Photographic representations of massive statistical facts.
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