2/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - EdgeVox - My Barbarian - Unicorns L.A. - it's like a parallel universe were larp'ers had an 80's pop band
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2/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - My Barbarian - Squirrels - "Quite an interesting act. Search for their "Unicorns L.A." video for a real treat. :)"
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2/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: The Calibration - '...racking my brains for what I actually do instead of just saying "I need Windows, so too bad about the raping."'
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2/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : Urban Dictionary: B.O.H.I.C.A - "Bend Over Here It Comes Again"
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2/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Conan vs. Serena at Wii Sports tennis - "NBC late night host Conan O'Brien challenges 2007 Australian Open champion Serena Williams to a set of tennis on Nintendo's "Wii Sports"."
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2/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Update to the whole annoying Flickr/Yahoo login business: Heather Champ... - Update to the whole annoying Flickr/Yahoo login business: Heather Champ is personally giving refunds to people with pro accounts who don't want to switch their login to Yahoo. (link)
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2/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : A paper on the tradeoff in baseball between home runs... - A paper on the tradeoff in baseball between home runs and hitting for average that I don't fully understand but seems interesting. "Both models find a significant and negative relationship between home runs per at-bat and contact rate." (thx, aaron) (link
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2/02/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Linkorama : A Million Penguins - Over the next six weeks we want to see whether a community can really get together, put creative differences aside (or sort them out through discussion) and produce a novel.
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2/02/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
jimray : CNET launches API - REST-based with both XML and JSON support and there's even a "dashboard" to let people easily create their own queries.
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2/02/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
wearehugh : The Rude Pundit - Goddamnit (Molly Ivins) - "She loved Texas like a parent loves her child even after that child has gone on a three-state killing spree."
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2/02/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : How to report scientific research to a general audience. - How to report scientific research to a general audience. (link)
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2/02/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : This just in: Conan O'Brien defeats Serena Williams at Wii... - This just in: Conan O'Brien defeats Serena Williams at Wii Tennis. (link)
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2/02/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Since people are "poor at predicting what will make us happy... - Since people are "poor at predicting what will make us happy in the future" (the term of art is miswanting), perhaps careful career planning is a waste of time. "The best strategy for career planning is this: make your best guess, try it out and don't be
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43folders : Sensitive data dumped at recycling center / Indian Consulate tossed visa applications from business, political figures at S.F. facility - "As we see it, the documents are not confidential..." Wow. Well, there's one consulate's opinion on your privacy.
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2/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com - Bill Gates trolls the Apple fanboy. "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." I [via] #
Jon Hicks : Every single day, they come out with a total exploit [for the mac] - Bill Gates taking a lead from Dvorak?
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2/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Empire: Future Films - Knocked Up - Trailer for the new film by Judd Apatow (of Freaks & Geeks, Undeclared and 40-Year-Old Virgin), which has the excellent Seth Rogen in the leading man role. Made me laugh. [via] #
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2/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - My Barbarian - Morgan Le Fay - "it's like a britney spears video crashed into the ren faire on pagan day"
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2/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Reading at a 4th grade level - We're leaving tomorrow for a trip of the relaxing sort, so I went to the bookstore this morning to collect some reading material. I had decided not to read anything that felt too much like work or that I had to think about. What I needed was fiction like
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2/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
joshua : tingelets - really useful web design bookmarklets for highlighting specific html tags
deusx : tingelets – Bookmarklets for Web Developers - "When clicked, they highlight a certain tag or set of tags in a specific color or background tile"
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2/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Florida chucks touch-screen balloting - if marked paper ballot is best, why do we bother with the intervening technology in the first place?
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Nelson Minar : Emotion at Guy Savoy - I continue to love this woman's writing
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2/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Use Gmail to manage other accounts - POP3 only, I'll wait for IMAP support
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2/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : digg labs / bigspy - I like the interface, want to be able to scroll, though
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2/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : New Harry Potter drops July 21 - My plan is to reread the previous six before, I guess I'd better start soon. And we wonder why he's single...
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Andy Baio : Video: David Sedaris on the Stadium Pal - the testimonials have many happy NASCAR fans; see also: the Beerbelly
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2/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
Linkorama : FT.com on Enterprise 2.0 - Can mash-ups match up to business needs?
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2/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Scary bomb monster - Awesome commentary on the Boston stupidity
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jimray : Bride Wig Out is a fake, but who do we thank? - "Fake YouTube vids are the Rorschach Tests of our time."
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2/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
cameron : When Harry Met Sally... AND KILLED HER - I am starting to love the genre of film-trailer-recuts. And anything that makes Billy Crystal out to be a crazed killer, because deep down I think he is.
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2/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
cameron : Digg removes the top user list - Yet another successful community takes down its ranking (cf. Flickr)
Simon Willison : Digg to drop their global "top users" list - Digg to drop their global “top users†list. It’s fascinating how big an effect a simple feature like a top users list can have on the social behaviour of a site.
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2/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Linux Genuine Advantage - Linux Genuine Advantage. As with all the best parodies, this one ships with source code.
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2/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Pairing San Francisco neighborhoods with New York neighborhoods. For instance,... - Pairing San Francisco neighborhoods with New York neighborhoods. For instance, North Beach --> Little Italy, Hayes Valley --> Chelsea, and Mission --> Wiliamsburg. (link)
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2/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
cobra libre : G.W. Bush operates heavy machinery, mayhem ensues - "Watching the chaos below, Bush looked out the tractor's window and laughed..." [via] #
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2/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : This cool new commercial for the VW Phaeton features professional-grade... - This cool new commercial for the VW Phaeton features professional-grade shadow puppetry. (via youngna) (link) [via]
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2/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Each day, Brass Tacks Design chooses an exemplary newspaper front... - Each day, Brass Tacks Design chooses an exemplary newspaper front page and explains why it's so good. (via newsdesigner) (link) [via]
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2/02/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
cobra libre : P3RMUT4TI0NS - Includes an extract from "Cent mille milliards de poèmes" and other goodies. [via] #
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2/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Photography of Tin Tabernacles and Other Buildings by Alasdair Ogilvie.... - Photography of Tin Tabernacles and Other Buildings by Alasdair Ogilvie. "Largely unnoticed and ignored, corrugated iron buildings can be discovered scattered across Britain and the Empire. [...] With not existing infrastructures, these newly created commu
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2/02/2007 @ 09:02 GMT
joshua : I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? - when i am feeling down, i like to look at anthropomorphized cat pictures
Rod Begbie : I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? - For all your LOLcat needs. [via] #
Milo Vermeulen : I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? - I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER - lots of lolcats
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2/02/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Clip: Conan Vs. Serena Williams In Wii Tennis - Kotaku - Conan O'Brien takes on Serena Williams at Wii Tennis. #
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2/02/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
deusx : ABC News - "BoingBoing's Mark Frauenfelder thinks Boston isn't ready for a real attack"
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2/02/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
deusx : elephantintheway.jpg (JPEG Image, 604x452 pixels) - "No. There is an elephant in the way."
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2/02/2007 @ 08:02 GMT
joshua : Jyte: Spread the Cred - openid-centered identity/reputation for sharing claims, credit, and contacts
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2/02/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : dont panic! > bunniestudios | CafePress - "Don't Panic! This is NOT A BOMB" Someone needs to print up a thousand or so of these, and plaster Boston and Cambridge with them. For example, I'm sure they'd look good on the CharlieCard payment stations. #
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2/02/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : TC's Ministry of Propaganda: Denouement - TC sums up yesterday pretty well: Police did the right thing, politicians, mainstream media *and* bloggers overreacted all over the shop. Favourite line: "Note: If the MBTA were truly Fascist maybe the damn trains would run on time." #
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2/02/2007 @ 07:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Ning | Developer Blog » Blog Archive » Rocky and App Core Scaling - Yet another non-relational db story
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2/02/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Boston Ad Prank Suspects Talk About ... Hair - Video of the "Boston Ad Prank Suspects" press conference from earlier. They seem to be taking it exactly as seriously as the media really should. [via] #
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2/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : LED lightbulbs are expensive, but they last a long time... - LED lightbulbs are expensive, but they last a long time and use relatively little power. One LED lightbulb costs $35 but lasts 60,000 hours, during which time you'd have to buy 60 incandescent bulbs (at a cost of $40) and the difference in the cost of the [via]
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2/02/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
43folders : Daring Fireball: Interarchy Interview: Peter N Lewis and Matthew Drayton - Congrats to Peter!
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2/02/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
cameron : Champagne ninja - This guy obviously has a drinking champagne problem
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2/02/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
jimray : Ads Drive Sharp Surge in Earnings at Google - "Google is also showing fewer ads on each search, but those ads are more relevant to users, are clicked on more frequently, and hence, generate a better return for both Google and for advertisers, he said."
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2/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
gleuschk : Heather offers to refund Old Skool Flickr members' memberships out of her own pocket - the gnashing and wailing is completely absurd, and this is the classiest possible response
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2/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
cameron : Ask X - Ask's new 3-pane, ajax-infused search interface. Kind of nice for high-level queries.
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2/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Police Chief Writes Himself Ticket - Police Chief Writes Himself Ticket: awesome
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2/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Rejected iPod Engravings - Rejected iPod Engravings: there are some good bumper stickers in this list :-)
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2/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : YouTube - Boston Ad Prank Suspects Talk About ... Hair - some days, the daily show just writes itself
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2/02/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
WillPate : The Accidental Influentials - "trends in public opinion are driven not by a few influentials influencing everyone else but by many easily influenced people influencing one another"
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2/02/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
wearehugh : philwilson.org: Things my rabbit has said to me - In the future, all world spam will be communicated through talking rabbits.
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2/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google users confirm, Yahoo! better than sex - Google users confirm, Yahoo! better than sex: that made me laugh
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2/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : TechBurnOrati - TechBurnOrati: "When I saw a preview of Technorati’s new WTF feature, the first thing I told Dave Sifry was the logo looked an awful lot like FeedBurner’s." I'm not the only one to notice? Heh.
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2/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Do you want my clicks or my attention? - Do you want my clicks or my attention?: "There was a collective 'ouch' when InfoWorld lost Jon Udell to Microsoft." (look at the chart he has)
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2/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Official ImgBurn Website - The Official ImgBurn Website: "ImgBurn can write most types of CD / DVD images and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony). You can even use ImgBurn to era
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2/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The MyBlogLog Blog: Just so there's no confusion... - The MyBlogLog Blog: Just so there's no confusion...: "MyBlogLog WILL be moving to Yahoo IDs for login purposes in the next couple of months. As soon as possible, actually. I'm going to post this on a weekly basis so that it sinks in."
deusx : The MyBlogLog Blog: Just so there's no confusion... - "MyBlogLog WILL be moving to Yahoo IDs for login purposes in the next couple of months. As soon as possible, actually. I'm going to post this on a weekly basis so that it sinks in."
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2/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : "iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music... - "iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city." (thx janelle) (link)
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2/02/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
joshua : My Firefox 1.5 Extensions (by Jeremy Zawodny) - jeremy's essential firefox buttons
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2/02/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : wbztv.com - CBS4 Boston Video Archive - "Does anyone have any questions about haircuts in the 70s?"
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2/02/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
deusx : Thomas Menino is an incompetent coward - August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com - "There is no excuse for blaming Turner Networks, Adult Swim, and especially a single 27-year-old, for the overzealousness of Boston's government and the news media."
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2/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Pneumatic Tennis Ball Launcher, Potato Gun, Spud Cannon, etc. - Pneumatic Tennis Ball Launcher, Potato Gun, Spud Cannon, etc.: if I ever get the time, I'm building one of these
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2/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Boston ad prank suspects talk about hair - best press conference ever; is it somehow illegal to create LED displays in public?
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2/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Mooninites LED bomb scare on eBay - $2000, cheap!
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2/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : I wanted to write more about this, but I don't have... - I wanted to write more about this, but I don't have the throughput right now and the article is 5 days old at this point, so this shorter post will have to do. Michael Pollan, who is doing some of the best food writing out there right now, wrote an articl
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