15/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
cameron : First-ever medical study of sword-swallowing injuries - Clive on, umm, ouch. I can't say anymore.
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15/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google testing JUMBO checkout icons. - Google testing JUMBO checkout icons.: "Desperate for money? or desperate for checkout signups? probably both."
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15/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : [cc-licenses] Etiquette regarding attributions and pseudonyms
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wearehugh : Digg - Consumerist.com (Gawker Media) using Flickr photos without attribution
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15/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : C-Span Backs Off Copyright Claims - committee coverage is copyrighted? really?
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15/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and... - The Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique has some neat merit badges, including the "I've been published at the New Yorker" badge, the "my degree inadvertently makes me competent in fixing household appliances" badge,
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15/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » AACS: A Tale of Three Keys
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15/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Good actors that got paid a lot of money to... - Good actors that got paid a lot of money to appear in crappy movies. Buster Keaton was in Beach Blanket Bingo? (link)
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15/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Lots of Buster Keaton movies on YouTube and Google Video. - Lots of Buster Keaton movies on YouTube and Google Video. (link)
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jimray : More Flavor Inside and Out - Bittman stuffs some chicken thighs, makes me hungry
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15/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
cameron : Population change in the US by cartogram - Cartograms of the US population by state show the eventual westward movement and coastal polarization from 1900-2000.
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cameron : Digg users bash the new Yahoo Feedback product - And surprisingly scold themselves in this post. This debate is somehow fascinating to me, watching the Digg community come to terms with the fact that it's not entirely unique.
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15/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Omninerd on the accuracy of Internet weather forecasts - tracking a month of weather predictions on the top 10 weather sites
cameron : Internet Weather Forecast Accuracy - This detailed report find the most accurate weather sites have an error range of 10° for the next day, and 20° for 4 days ahead. Bah!
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15/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Crease patterns - Origami templates are more beautiful than the folded thing (via kottke)
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15/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Howland Island - Middle of nowhere island that belongs to the US (via Google Sightseeing)
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15/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Guano Islands Act - Birdshit defines our Pacific empire
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15/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Palmyra Atoll murder - 4 Americans living in the middle of nowhere. 2 kill the other 2.
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jimray : Mike Krzyzewski Assures Duke Players That Team Is Ranked 26th - Krzyzewski blamed his team's recent fall in the rankings to a combination of unusually even-handed officiating, and "vengeful" opposing teams "running up the score" to a total of one or more points than Duke's.
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15/02/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
43folders : 88 Lines About 44 Mefites | MeFi Music - "Lyrics with tremendous amounts of annotation inside." Holy crap.
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15/02/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
43folders : Daring Fireball [Lionsgate Movies Now on iTunes] - "That’s great, now they’re only 69,600 titles behind NetFlix."
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15/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Joe Rogan confronts Carlos Mencia about stealing jokes - (via digg) [via]
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15/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Jon Hicks : TheDailyGrind - Looking for time tracking applications I came across DailyGrind, easily the most useful dashboard widget I’ve come across. Neat, clean and well thought out, this is well worth supporting.
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15/02/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Launches Digg-Like Suggestion Site - Yahoo Launches Digg-Like Suggestion Site: "It’s an excellent way for Yahoo to gauge the popularity of suggestions, and is in no way competitive with Digg. It’s simply a compliment to the efficiency of the Digg model. I’m siding with
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15/02/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Jason Kottke : Neat music video by a band called The Longcut that... - Neat music video by a band called The Longcut that uses infographics to tell the story of a boy and girl falling for each other. (link)
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15/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : How to learn a foreign language: read Harry Potter in... - How to learn a foreign language: read Harry Potter in translation. "The plots and scenarios are familiar enough that I can pick up the gist of what is going on even if the grammar and vocabulary escape me; but after a few times reading about the impatient
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15/02/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
fastclemmy : YouTube - Gates vs. Jobs - YouTube - Gates vs. Jobs by fastclemmy Hilarious Gates vs. Jobs animated short. hotlinks cartoon jobs gates pc mac Copy | React (0)
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15/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Automated Translation of Java to Python - Automated Translation of Java to Python. java2python can translate most Java code in to non-idiomatic Python, using ANTLR for the heavy lifting.
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15/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Director Goes Goo Goo for Yahoo - Director Goes Goo Goo for Yahoo: "Last Friday, Edward Kozel spent $595,200 to buy 20,000 shares of Yahoo on the open market at per-share prices from $29.70 to $29.82, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Tuesday."
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15/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Folding under pressure (that's an old origami joke) - Susan Orlean has been AWOL from the pages of the New Yorker for some time now, but she's back this week with a piece on origami and Robert Lang, former physicist and an acknowledged master of the craft. He would have liked to have folded insects, but, in
jcgregorio : Folding under pressure (that's an old origami joke) (kottke.org) - be sure to try the origami box from a post-it note
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Cameron Moll : Thursday photography linkage - Some beautiful photography for a Thursday: Dave Hill Photography (thx Ben) and "Only You" on Flickr.
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15/02/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : MoMB, The Museum of Modern Betas - MoMB, The Museum of Modern Betas.
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15/02/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Dim Vista - "I suggested to one Windows product manager that if the company were truly serious about security, Vista might offer a simple way to delete files securely and eliminate all traces of identity and passwords so you could safely pass the machine on or sell [via]
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15/02/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : celtic knot Colonel Sanders tattoo - (via boingboing) [via]
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15/02/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : images in spectrographs of Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares songs - like Venetian Snares cats
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15/02/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
wearehugh : Luis Villa’s Blog » Canonical: putting money where mouth is, credit where credit is due, all that.
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15/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Uncovered is Jordan Matter's large gallery of photos of topless... - Uncovered is Jordan Matter's large gallery of photos of topless women on the streets of NYC. It's legal for women to go topless in New York. Nsfw. (link)
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fastclemmy : Master Plan - About the power of Google - Master Plan - About the power of Google by fastclemmy & 4 other(s) Nice video about Google's "creative" interest for privacy. A little conspiracy theory but first a very sleek motion design. video hotlinks conspiracy google Copy | React (0
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15/02/2007 @ 14:02 GMT
Jon Hicks : LaCie Unveils First FireWire Speakers - Great ocean-liner design, and less wires! I like!
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15/02/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : AOL and OpenID - AOL and OpenID. http://openid.aol.com/your-screenname now works as an OpenID, for every AOL user. Wow.
wearehugh : AOL and OpenID: Where we are
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15/02/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
Simon Willison : PHP and "OpenID authentication failed: Bad signature" - PHP and “OpenID authentication failed: Bad signatureâ€. If you’re seeing a “Bad signature†error in your PHP OpenID application it could be down to a miscompiled GMP library.
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15/02/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Content delivery system design mistakes - Content delivery system design mistakes. Collection of tips for optimising Web server performance. Mentions lighttpd/nginx, Keep-Alive, expires headers, noatime and more.
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15/02/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
plasticbag : There's an interesting article on BBC News about music executives and their frustration with DRM systems - It's an encouraging sign when people who work for record companies believe that DRM (at least in its current forms) is getting in the way of people buying music rather than saving their industries...
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15/02/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Rails 1.2.1 Impression - Rails 1.2.1 Impression. I hadn’t seen assert_select before, which lets you unit test generated HTML using CSS selectors; a really neat idea.
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kellan : Flickr: Photos tagged with upcoming:event=147538 (Pillow Fight.) - Flickr: Photos tagged with upcoming:event=147538 (Pillow Fight.). #
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15/02/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : It takes two to Tango - It takes two to Tango: someone grab the popcorn, 'cause this show is gonna be amusing (watch the comments rolling in)
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15/02/2007 @ 08:32 GMT
adamrg : SeeqPod Music - Holy crap. This is going to get shut down in a hurry. :P
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15/02/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : lgf: The Clueless Leading the Blind - "Daily Kos...using Ruby on Rails instead of mod_perl. Oh brother." Wow. And PHP/Zend ridiculed because Jews are involved. Creepy nutters.
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Jeremy Zawodny : As they hit middle age, Silicon Valley executives who had put romance on hold ask experts for help in finding a match - As they hit middle age, Silicon Valley executives who had put romance on hold ask experts for help in finding a match: interesting to see how this story came out...
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15/02/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
wearehugh : Bloglines | Image Wall - note: requires javascript
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15/02/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap - Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap: this is the best rant I've read in a long, long, long time. you must read it too. right. now.
43folders : Horseshoes and Hand Grenades - Gizmodo - Joel pinches a considerable loaf on mindless gadget obsession. "Stop buying products that serve any other master than you."
wearehugh : Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap - Gizmodo - pure gold
Nelson Minar : "chromed robot turd" - Righteous anti-gadget rant (via HotLinks)
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15/02/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - AsahiSUPERDRY CM "Change! Daisuke Matsuzaka" - First sighting of Dice-K in a Red Sox uniform? Pounding back a beer n a Japanese commercial. Reading about the start of spring training is getting me excited for the upcoming season. Let's Go Red Sox! [via] #
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15/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes - Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes: "Instead of going here there and everywhere to see all the content you create on the web, combine it all into one master feed using with the newly-launched Yahoo! Pipes."
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15/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : YouTunes: An Example Yahoo! Pipe - YouTunes: An Example Yahoo! Pipe: "The end result is an RSS feed which links to YouTube videos of the iTunes top 10."
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15/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » This is your Mac on drugs - i find this sort of thing fascinating; i owned macs for 15 years and never understood a word about color profiles
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15/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : MacBook Pro status update (Linux 2.6.20) - if you want linux, buy a linux box; if you want os x, buy a mac
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15/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : iCalendar is broken by design - "RFC 2445 is on crack"
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15/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : Gecko:Effective TLD Service - MozillaWiki
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15/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : girtby.net: Yahoo! Stops! Forwarding! Mail! - "And that, as you may have guessed, took the whole experience over the bloggable threshold."
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15/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : Code Craft » Blog Archive » Coding from the Barka Lounger - "Why will a company that pays an engineer a fully-loaded salary of nearly $10,000 per month spend only $150 a month on the physical work environment most critical to them?"
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15/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : This is puzzling: former Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson wrote a... - This is puzzling: former Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson wrote a terrific, blistering, spot-on rant about how bad the technology coverage of Gizmodo (and by association, many of the other gadget sites) is and how stupid their readers are for lapping it up...a [via]
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43folders : Our New Girl at Bee & Ethan - Congratulations to Bee and Ethan and Sage! Talk about productive.
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15/02/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Line Rider poetry - Freakin amazing (via kottke)
deusx : YouTube - LineRider "Discarded" A Line Rider Short by TechDawg - "A Short new Line Rider Adventure by TechDawg! This track contained 13,028 lines, yet is only around 2 minutes in length"
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15/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
erikbenson : James Hong: On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry - Words out of my own brain.
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15/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : Official Google Blog: From Gmail with <3 - no comment, i just like blogging things with angle brackets in the title to watch the chaos in rss readers
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15/02/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Franken Enters Minn. Senate Race - New York Times - Al Franken's announced his senate run for 2008. I'd vote for him. [via] #
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15/02/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : Parallel Universes page by Prof. Max Tegmark of MIT - "Welcome to my parallel universe page. In this universe, I've published two articles reviewing the subject"
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15/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
plasticbag : Hot Fuzz was probably the most fun movie I've seen in a long time and I can't really recommend it enough... - Go and see it. It rocks. The big question is which of the main characters you most identify with and why.
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15/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : rest-discuss : Message: Sun proposes to apply Web service standardization principles to REST - "If we can't stop it, maybe we can at least limit the damage."
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wearehugh : Steve: Developing on the Edge - javax.ws.rest - just to be clear, i don't give a rat's ass about Java, or WS-*, or REST, or how any of them may or may not work together for the betterment of humanity
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WillPate : HousingMaps - The best way to find a place to live
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Simon Willison : Introducing RDFa - Introducing RDFa. A way of representing RDF triples in XML that doesn’t suck.
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15/02/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
WillPate : 10 Best Five O'Clock Shadows Ever - Because I wear one every day
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15/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Django templates in Venus - Django templates in Venus. It’s nice to see the Django template system being used outside the context of the overall framework.
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15/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges - Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges: "I'd like to start by running through my thoughts on writing cleaner (or improving current) JavaScript badges..."
Simon Willison : Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges - Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges. Ed Eliot’s putting together a much needed set of best practices for badges and widgets.
bmilleare : Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges - Ed Eliot
deusx : Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges - Ed Eliot - "running through my thoughts on writing cleaner (or improving current) JavaScript badges first."
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15/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Uniqlo Explorer - insane Flash photo mosaic work; click the "Uniqlo Explorer" box and start clicking around
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15/02/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
Linkorama : Where Agile meets Planning - Where Agile is sometimes oversold is in the context of estimation. To me, software estimation is a bit like growing ear hair. It takes time to do it well. There aren’t that many short cuts.
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15/02/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
Linkorama : Illinois Bill to Ban Social Software - at libraries. sounds like they need Politicopia
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15/02/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
jimray : SwimMan Waterproofed Ipod - The waterproofed it from the inside, then tripled the cost! Pretty awesome, though...
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15/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Valentine for Perfect Strangers - "Dear Perfect Stranger, I made you an e-card!"
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