14/02/2007 @ 23:03 GMT
joshua : How To Tell If You Have the Quiet 360
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14/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
cameron : The Morning News Guide New York City Etiquette - Some commonsense behaviors that are not so common when you're moving around NYC
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14/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : All Things Distributed: On the Reliability of Hard Disks - All Things Distributed: On the Reliability of Hard Disks: "Both papers report disk failure rates in the 6%-10% range: in a datacenter with about 100,000 disks you will need to replace up to between 6,000 and 10,000 disks per year." Ouch.
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14/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A Day In Paradise » Google as our Cult... - A Day In Paradise » Google as our Cult...: heh.
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14/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Macrochan, the 4chan image browser - culls and tags meme images from 4chan forums; beware, some tags very NSFW
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14/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : Matt’s Musings » Dell - Carbon Neutrality
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14/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : copyrighteous: A Definition of Free Cultural Works
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14/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : New "Definition of Free Cultural Works" Challenges Authors to Rethink Copyright Law
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14/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Cool Missile Command-like Flash game, but with some physics and... - Cool Missile Command-like Flash game, but with some physics and gravity. (link)
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14/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Forget all the other Line Rider videos you've seen previously.... - Forget all the other Line Rider videos you've seen previously. They all suck in comparison to the mastery of this one. Beautiful. (thx, this is narnia) (link)
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14/02/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
jimray : A Very Star Wars Valentines - An oldie, but a goodie.
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14/02/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Interview with Stephen Frears about his film, The Queen.... - Interview with Stephen Frears about his film, The Queen. "Do you think, then, that some of the power of the monarchy derives from its privacy and secrecy, and that as it modernizes -- as the people are demanding that it do -- it will actually lose some of
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14/02/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Park Smith is no ordinary wine collector...he's got 65,000 bottles... - Park Smith is no ordinary wine collector...he's got 65,000 bottles in a cellar measuring 8,000 square feet. (link)
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14/02/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
jimray : Yahoo Taps Its Inner Startup - Brickhouse will be lead by Caterina Fake. I realize my disdain for Caterina is almost 100% irrational, but I just can't shake it. Anyway, this is smart, go Yahoo.
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14/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Just pretend it's all ok - If you can fit it between your Darwin fish and "IMPEACH THE BASTARD!" bumper sticker
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14/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Wee planets - a photoset on Flickr - Wicked, wicked cool (via skperez)
Cameron Moll : Wee Planets - "All these pictures are 360° panoramas projected to look like small planets."
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14/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Vasectomy: $400. Speechless look on her face: priceless. - Vasectomy: $400. Speechless look on her face: priceless.: This is a most excellent tale...
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14/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : Official Google Blog: Strawberries are red, stems are green...
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14/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
jimray : Seattle Weekly's founding editor to start Web newspaper - No mention of any thing real specific, will be an interesting one to watch
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14/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
jimray : Wanted by Gannett: Young Talent - Interesting internship/training program aimed to get young folks in newspapers, not an easy task these days
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14/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
jimray : Multimedia storytelling: when is it worth it?
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14/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Early Kodachrome images - Yeah, the political posturing gets a little tiresome, but these are brilliant images!
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14/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Smart Guys Date in Parallel - Smart Guys Date in Parallel: "Because we’re dating in parallel, we compensate automatically for higher resistance. Even though Lisa clearly is just not putting out, the result isn’t the massive slow-down we saw before, but instead results
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Jeremy Zawodny : Whoops! [pics] - Whoops! [pics]: some of these are classics
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14/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The Morning News has compiled a guide to NYC etiquette.... - The Morning News has compiled a guide to NYC etiquette. See also my rules for the NYC subway. (link)
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14/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : SCO / Groklaw - Trying to subpoena the author of the blog debunking SCO; does she really exist?
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14/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Oddly surreal photo of the Queen Mary 2 going under... - Oddly surreal photo of the Queen Mary 2 going under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. (link)
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14/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The effects of blogging - Tyler Cowen: Blogging makes us more oriented toward an intellectual bottom line, more interested in the directly empirical, more tolerant of human differences, more analytical in the course of daily life, more interested in people who are interesting, an
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14/02/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
43folders : The PopSci Podcast - Popular Science - "Our contributing troubadour, Jonathan Coulton, talks to the movers and shakers of sci-tech. From the moon. "
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14/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Linkorama : Visualizing wiki lifecycles - Wiki decay rates -- the time it takes for information in a Wiki page to stop being useful.
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14/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Linkorama : Wiki Analytics - EEK on his wikithon project with Matthew
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14/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
deusx : Vista first look: Bugs and confusion | The Register - "Don't buy it, at least until after the first service pack is out. Don't pay to be a beta tester."
François Nonnenmacher : Vista first look: Bugs and confusion - Don’t pay to be a beta tester
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14/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Nelson Minar : Firefox quick find - Press / or ' and get a fast find in a page; used to be a source of bugs, now looks useful
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14/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Tutorials on Microformats - Tutorials on Microformats. Roger Costello’s 11 tutorials on microformats, covering hCard, hCalendar, hReview and more.
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14/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Sometimes that fish on your plate isn't what you ordered.... - Sometimes that fish on your plate isn't what you ordered. "The alleged grouper at 17 of 24 area restaurants sampled by the investigators was actually another, less desirable species, according to a DNA analysis conducted for the state attorney general's o
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jcgregorio : Free roads are anything but free - The Boston Globe - Tolls as social engineering.
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Jon Hicks : Ten Design Blogs You MUST Read - Actually, mine excepted, I agree with all these choices especially Brand Spanking New.
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14/02/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
bmilleare : CakePHP Akismet Model (for 1.1.x.x)
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14/02/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
wearehugh : Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog - "I joined Google this week" Congrats!
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14/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Chris Ilias’ Blog » Duration of the ‘New Mail’ alert in Thunderbird
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14/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Crazy Apple Rumors Site » Blog Archive » Zune Phone To Also Suck. - "This comment was followed by a long pause as reporters waited for some sort of support for this contention."
43folders : Crazy Apple Rumors: Zune Phone To Also Suck - "Also, the Zellular Phone Call will only allow you to call someone three times." [via:Daring Fireball]
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14/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Linux and Vista users share driver pain | InfoWorld | Column | 2007-02-12 | By Neil McAllister - it's staggering how little sympathy i feel for vista users right now
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14/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Clarification on Feisty’s proprietary drivers - still plan to install proprietary drivers in feisty+1
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14/02/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Video of a skydiver hitting the ground at 80 mph... - Video of a skydiver hitting the ground at 80 mph after his chute didn't open properly. Here's the full story. (link)
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14/02/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Multimap API: Decluttering Markers - Multimap API: Decluttering Markers. V1.2 of the Multimap API is out, and the nicest new feature is automatic decluttering of close-together markers. [via]
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14/02/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
plasticbag : Vitamin has a feature on 'How To Name Your Company' which I've found relatively entertaining... - Been trying to come up with some good names for products recently without an enormous amount of luck. Tricky process.
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14/02/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The weatherman throws up his hands - Right now, "Unknown Precipitation" is falling from the sky in NYC: They must have some idea what this stuff is. Maple syrup? Soylent green? Pepsi Cola? Update: Alright, this calls for some intrepid investigative reporting. I just stuck my hand out the
kellan : Apparently “Unknown Precipitation†is falling from the sky in NYC - Apparently “Unknown Precipitation” is falling from the sky in NYC. “Liquid is clear and flavorless, which rules out whiskey, transmission fluid, honey, and pig’s blood. It’s too soon to tell for sure, but I’m guessing t #
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Isofarro : Review: The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages - Chris Heilmann reviews a recent 2nd edition of Thau's popular Book of JavaScript, and finds a book that hasn't taken into account the rapid evolution of JavaScript, particularly unobtrusive scripting and progressive enhancement. Its as if the web standard
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14/02/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
joshua : some parts info about ssd flash disks
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14/02/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
wearehugh : mitchell's blog: The Mozilla Manifesto
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Eric Meyer : Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance - Too, too perfect. Washington State voters, you know what to do.
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14/02/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Establishing an epistemology - I almost feel weird linking to a post stating the blatantly obvious, but hey.
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14/02/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : API Reference for RMX Direct - API Reference for RMX Direct: take control of your advertising
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Dmitry Puchkov - (via blogamundo) [via]
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14/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Facebook's little digital gift - Facebook's little digital gift: "Valentine's Day is all about pronouncing your relationship to loved ones (and those you obsess over) in the witness of others."
Linkorama : Facebook's little digital gift - Pretty brilliant feature that matches real world patterns. But I think danah is underestimating how many people would pay for their own bling, as evidenced by some social networks abroad
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14/02/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-13.txt
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14/02/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
wearehugh : The Atom Publishing Protocol: Client Implementation Considerations
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14/02/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
wearehugh : Blog Migration - i've never used typo, but i'm always interested in why people switch between tools for tasks that matter greatly to them
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14/02/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott: Computer Camp
Andy Baio : Jason Scott on Computer Camps in the 1980s - Computer Tutor sounds like heaven on earth; many similar camps continue today, but avoid this one
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14/02/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
wearehugh : Goodbye Drupal, Hello Serendipity! - Windfluechter.Net - another migration -- this time because drupal isn't/won't be packaged in etch
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14/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : "IM logs are just like home sex tapes..."
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14/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : Launching 16 Weblog Communities with WordPress MU | Workbench
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wearehugh : The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » WHATWG’s development model
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wearehugh : The Dutch accessibility law is awesome | 456 Berea Street
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14/02/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - WOW Fight Club - "Fight Club in the World Of Warcraft."
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14/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : crisp's blog » Blog Archive » IE and 2-letter domain-names
Simon Willison : IE and 2-letter domain-names - IE and 2-letter domain-names. IE won’t let you set a cookie on XX.YY, where YY is anything other than .pl or .gr. Other browsers have better exception lists. [via]
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14/02/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
wearehugh : Speaking of Black hat SEO tricks... - conscience doesn't grow on trees, ya know
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Jason Kottke : Truehoop, a basketball blog that's one of the best out there... - Truehoop, a basketball blog that's one of the best out there on any topic, has been purchased by ESPN. Congrats, Henry. (link)
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Jeremy Zawodny : Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll - Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll: "More young people are putting more personal information out in public than any older person ever would--and yet they seem mysteriously healthy and normal, s
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14/02/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The largest drain hole in the world - The largest drain hole in the world: Oh. My. God. They actually refer to it as a "glory hole." Ha ha ha hahahahaha.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Identity vs. Membership - Identity vs. Membership: "There's no such thing as 'identity' ... and it's very wrong to try to continue to speak of this fictional entity that's exists independently of any context. Rather the concept of membership better capture
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Jeremy Zawodny : xterms and 256 colors - xterms and 256 colors: that's a handy trick to know about
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Jeremy Zawodny : Top paraglider attacked by eagles - Top paraglider attacked by eagles: "Britain's top female paraglider has cheated death after being attacked by a pair of "screeching" wild eagles while competition flying in Australia." Yikes!
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14/02/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Failure of We (the) Media - The Failure of We (the) Media: "The problem is that the hopes that Dan Gillmor raised for the media industry in his book -- which kicked off this whole business -- have largely failed." Ouch.
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14/02/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google - Please please please support email aliases! - Google - Please please please support email aliases!: "I, like many people, have more than one email address. One for work, one for home. It’s nice to keep them separate. I’m sure you know what I mean." Duh.
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Jeremy Zawodny : 5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes - 5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes: check 'em out
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14/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Technorati Search, via Yahoo! Pipes - Technorati Search, Yahoo! Pipes: "To the right of this paragraph is something Yahoo! has yet to release: a blog search function that returns results in JSON format, wrapped in the callback of your choice." [via]
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14/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Putting the game back in video game - Steven Johnson has written up some thoughts on the Nintendo Wii. His fifth point is especially interesting and I can't help quoting almost the entire thing: Wii Sports trades the onscreen complexity of goals and objectives and puzzles for the physical, h
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14/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The Merriam-Webster and Garfield Dictionary. (via andrea) - The Merriam-Webster and Garfield Dictionary. (via andrea) (link) [via]
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