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Matthew M. Boedicker : Movies That Should Have Won an Academy Award, But Didn't - and vice versa
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20/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/keystrokes/gestures - Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/keystrokes/gestures: agreed!
Rod Begbie : Tantek's Thoughts: Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design - Nothing earth-shattering or new, but food for thought. [via] #
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20/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
gleuschk : [math/0702396] What is good mathematics? - by Terry Tao, to appear in BAMS
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gleuschk : Scientists in love: When two worlds collide : Article : Nature - romance from a couple of physics blogs, plus ruminations on the two-body problem
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Jason Kottke : How doctors make their decisions is being studied in the... - How doctors make their decisions is being studied in the hopes of making medical care better. "Doctors can also make mistakes when their judgments about a patient are unconsciously influenced by the symptoms and illnesses of patients they have just seen.
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Jason Kottke : If Strangemaps wasn't such a reliable source, I'd think this was... - If Strangemaps wasn't such a reliable source, I'd think this was a hoax. A small part of East Germany lives on in the Caribbean. Cuba gave the tiny island to the GDR in 1972 while on a state visit to East Berlin and it wasn't mentioned in the German unifi
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nelson : Cheney really is evil - NYT details from the Libby trial show how much machination Cheney was doing
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Jason Kottke : Kremlin Inc. is from the New Yorker a few weeks... - Kremlin Inc. is from the New Yorker a few weeks ago, but it's still very worth reading. The article details the current political situation in Russia and how in many ways, the press, business, and the political process are less free and open than under th
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Jason Kottke : Honeybee populations across the US are falling due to a... - Honeybee populations across the US are falling due to a mysterious disease. "Almond crops are immediately vulnerable because they rely on honeybee pollination at this time of year. And the insect decline could potentially affect other crops later in the y
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joshua : Highrise permissions and groups - (37signals) - 37 signals design review
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nelson : Debian, dovecot, SSL - Sure is a lot easier than trying to understand how to generate certificates by hand
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cameron : Experimental Poetry Class Plea - Another way to get students to sign up for your class
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20/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : A thoughtful article on how to make it as an... - A thoughtful article on how to make it as an actor by Jenna Fischer, the actress who plays Pam on The Office. "I have a great acting coach who says that success in Hollywood is based on one thing: opportunity meets readiness. You cannot always control the
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20/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
nelson : SPF query tools - Various checks for the anti-spam system spf
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20/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
nelson : OpenSSL cheatsheet - Decoder ring for yet another mysterious Unix command line tool
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20/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : New Google Maps features - Not sure when these features were added, but Google Maps now displays public transportation stops (NYC subway, the T in Boston, the L in Chicago) and building outlines for metropolitan areas. Here's a shot of the West Village in NYC: Tiny but useful im
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20/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
joshua : grl laser tag - write on walls with a lazer, use laptop + projector for persistance
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20/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Linkorama : A metric for messaging - Run your message by 15 people
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20/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
nelson : Google disk failures - Survey of 100,000 hard drives and their failure modes
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20/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
nelson : Flickr cache failure - Nice explanation of a system bug. 1B photos a day!
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jimray : Sasquatch! 2007 Lineup - Bjork and Arcade Fire! And my girl Neko! And M.I.A. And Citizen Cope. And The Hold Steady. Oh, and the Beasties. Might be worth enduring the suck of camping out with a bunch of damn hippies.
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20/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Weekend spamtacular -- what the heck happened and how we're fixing it - Weekend spamtacular -- what the heck happened and how we're fixing it: "who ever said jackasses made sense?"
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20/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Middle America vs Silicon Valley, or "crap i forgot my password" - Middle America vs Silicon Valley, or "crap i forgot my password": 'forgive me if i remain a bit disillusioned that OpenID is a panacea to all of the problems noted above, or if i'm skeptical the average user suffers from "social net
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20/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A Straw Holder for Spraycans - A Straw Holder for Spraycans: kick ass
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20/02/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Nation States and the Social Ganker
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20/02/2007 @ 16:03 GMT
Jon Hicks : Paul Simon Predicted The Interweb
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20/02/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Laser Tag is a new project from Graffiti Research Lab.... - Laser Tag is a new project from Graffiti Research Lab. The idea is that you use a high-powered laser pointer to trace a pattern on the side of a building, a camera captures that pattern, some software processes the capture, and a projector displays the gr
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20/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Andy Baio : SXSW Music releases huge showcase torrent - 739 MP3s from 739 artists
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20/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : You may be familiar with Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch.... - You may be familiar with Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch. This lesser known version of the sketch was made by a couple of Nigerian 419 scammers hoping to win a phony cash prize put up by a guy they tried to scam. (thx, Jeroen) (link)
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20/02/2007 @ 14:02 GMT
WillPate : Seven steps to remarkable customer service - Please adopt at your earliest convenience
Jeremy Zawodny : Seven steps to remarkable customer service - Seven steps to remarkable customer service: good advice
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20/02/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
WillPate : Eternal September - how inexperience and youth can be really annoying in online social networking spaces
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20/02/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
WillPate : Net Neutrality in Canada - "The sad state of the telecommunications market in Canada is that there is insufficient consumer choice" - you said it, brother
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20/02/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Django IRC FAQ - Django IRC FAQ. Frequently asked questions from the Django IRC channel.
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20/02/2007 @ 08:03 GMT
jcgregorio : EarthLink Accelerator Quick Tour - why can these things be accelerated? ;)
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20/02/2007 @ 08:03 GMT
Andy Baio : Evan Williams looking to sell Odeo - as Anil points out, Ev's freedom leads to interesting moves
Linkorama : Looking for Odeo's new home - prospectus by blog
jimray : Obvious is looking to sell Odeo - Could be a smart grab for some smart media company looking to leverage UGC...
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Linkorama : "Community" Are You Being Served? - "Community is communication made tangible." and Giovanni goes on to tease out the difference between a community and a network
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20/02/2007 @ 08:02 GMT
Linkorama : In a Van Down By the River - Mac Genius lives in truck for more than a year
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jimray : Code Igniter - Have I seriously never seen this before? Because I fee like I have. Anyway, cool looking PHP framework for web apps.
factoryjoe : CodeIgniter - Open source PHP web application framework - CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting
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20/02/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Getting To HarrisRanch Inn & Restaurant - Getting To HarrisRanch Inn & Restaurant: "For your convenience, Harris Ranch has a 2,800 foot landing strip that is paved and lighted along the south side of the main complex. Self-serve 100 LL Aviation Fuel is available 24 hours a day."
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20/02/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Please delete my AOL OpenID - Please delete my AOL OpenID: "I did not ask for, and nor do I want, an OpenID from AOL."
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20/02/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
43folders : evhead: Marketplace Wanted; Web Site for Sale - A site I love is on the market; I hope it finds a good home.
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43folders : MP3: "Rat Hole!" - Play along with MacBreak Weekly!
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20/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
cobra libre : Masterpieces Or Fakes? The Joyce Hatto Scandal - A series of hoaxed classical music discs was uncovered by performing a CDDB lookup. In other news, police investigators determine murderer's identity by dusting crime scene for fingerprints. [via] #
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Jason Kottke : Newly released footage of John F Kennedy right before he... - Newly released footage of John F Kennedy right before he was assassinated. Story here. (link)
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20/02/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
Linkorama : Sharing for Profit - "Even our most negative point estimate implies that a one-standard-deviation increase in file sharing reduces an album's weekly sales by a mere 368 copies, an effect that is too small to be statistically distinguishable from zero."
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20/02/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
nelson : Blosxom atomfeed - 2005 Atom 1.0 plugin for Blosxom; is this the one? (via Pagaltzis)
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43folders : Jonathan Coulton's Thing A Week - a photoset on Flickr - Astounding gallery of visual interpretations for JoCo's "Thing a Week" project.
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Jason Kottke : Thee Homophoner takes sum text and substitutes homophones four any... - Thee Homophoner takes sum text and substitutes homophones four any soundalike words it can fined. (link)
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