16/02/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
43folders : Announcing the new weekly MeFi podcast | MetaTalk - Mathowie launches a MeFi podcast. Yay!
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16/02/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : Online child safety initiatives - While I still find filters to be of dubious value, the four scenarios help clarify the overall issue rather nicely.
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16/02/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
jimray : Building a Flickr Application in Flash with Actionscript 2
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16/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet - Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet: Holy Crap. I'm amazed that she survived.
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16/02/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : Nelson Minar, scholar - Vanity search; surprising number of citations
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16/02/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: Macrovision sends pretty lies to Steve Jobs - "This is my favorite DRM fairy tale of all: that someone out there will use DRM to charge you less and deliver more."
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16/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
43folders : A Downside of Being a Tech Writer - Pogue’s Posts - "Honestly, what IS it with PR people wanting me to spend half an hour on the phone with some executive?" First world problem, but a *really* annoying one.
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16/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
43folders : iTunes Podcast Spotlight - "That Phone Guy" is being featured on iTunes this month.
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16/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot - Seriously, is Battlestar Galactica predicting the future?
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16/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
wearehugh : Steve: Developing on the Edge - Java6 breaks open office - "This is quite a complicated failure."
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16/02/2007 @ 20:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : how to set up a secure web proxy using putty and Firefox - also change about:config network.proxy.socks_remote_dns
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jimray : Atlanta Journal-Constitution offering buyouts - Trimming staff by as much as 80, as well as circulation; focusing more on "digital news."
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16/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
jimray : Study: news quality improves profits - Shocking, a university study finds that newspapers aren't spending enough in the newsroom and spending too much on advertising. Oh, ivory towers...
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16/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Scissor Sisters at the Brits - I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Stonking live performance by the Scissor Sisters. Disembodied legs and floating singers a-go-go. $5 says the Jim Henson Creature Shop was involved. [via] #
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16/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Scissor Sisters Live - Take Your Mama - Another great live puppetry performance with the Scissor Sisters from last year's Brit Awards. I love the way the entire set erupts to life. #
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16/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
cameron : Top 5 ways to hustle free drinks - Some proposition bets for the bar... if this spreads too far though, you might find yourself buying someone else a drink and looking like an iijut sometime soon.
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16/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media: Podcasts - A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media: Podcasts: Holy Crap. You can get "The News from Lake Wobegon" as a podcast now.
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16/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
jimray : First skate - Mike and Des make it official! (thanks, Gabe)
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16/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
cameron : The Folding Chair - Somehow I missed this the first time around (somehow "slinky chair" didn't grab my attention). This is what Frank Geary wished he had made with his cardboard chair+ottoman.
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16/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Barack Obama's Flickr Photos - Barack Obama's Flickr Photos: this looks legit
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16/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
wearehugh : mykzilla: Content Preferences - Architecture/API
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16/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
wearehugh : Mike’s Musings » Rearchitecting Operator
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16/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Blah, got sick yesterday somehow, so things will be a little... - Blah, got sick yesterday somehow, so things will be a little sparse around here today. Back to the TV. The Wii isn't fun when you're sick...the last thing I want to do this afternoon is stand up. (link)
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16/02/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
jcgregorio : ACM Queue - A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk—and much more. - Lots of great stuff in this interview, particularly on pop-CS.
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16/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Garrett Dimon {hearts} content - Garrett Dimon's very impressive redesign kicks off with a post appropriately titled "Designing for Content". "I originally started to write in depth about the redesign and my thoughts behind it, but felt that was the wrong way to go about sharing. Instead
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16/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
43folders : What ToDo: GTD, Yet Again - TUAW - "So at the risk of starting something, for you GTDers out there, what is your favorite GTD application and why?"
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16/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
Linkorama : The Twilight of Web 1.0 - collection of web 1.0 designs
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16/02/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Itty Bitty RPG - Passively Single Player - "Itty Bitty RPG is a single player passive role playing game that anyone can embed in their own website!"
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16/02/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Passive Web Gaming: My New Passion ? Addicting Entertainment - "passive web games are brilliant because they fit into your life in the same slot as ‘checking your email’ or ‘checking the sports scores’ or ‘checking your portfolio.’ "
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16/02/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : HypeFighter: Social Bookmark Combat - "HypeFighter is a cross between a user-contributed content site and a turn-based massively multiplayer online game. Basically, it's a cross between Digg and Dark Throne."
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16/02/2007 @ 17:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Re*Move: Road User Charging - A Sensible Debate? - An interesting take on road use charges/tolls.
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16/02/2007 @ 17:03 GMT
43folders : Soft Rock - "I can't believe I'm sitting here with Air Supply." [via What Do I Know]
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Rod Begbie : Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac - Guide showing the time periods between Apple product line refreshes. Trying to decide if I want to pull the trigger on buying a MacBook now, or wait out a month and see if something faster and shinier comes along. #
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16/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
gleuschk : NSF to (La)TeX users: bite us - Effective with implementation of the new Guide, only the following four fonts will be permitted: Arial, Helvetica, Palatino, or Georgia.
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16/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The Zimki Plan - The Zimki Plan. Zimki is a hosted JavaScript application server by Fotango. The idea is to open source it, then build a component so developers can seamlessly switch to hosting on Fotango’s server farm if they need to handle a spike in traffic.
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WillPate : WikiSummaries - Awesome idea, book summary wiki
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16/02/2007 @ 15:02 GMT
fastclemmy : Anti-missile gone horribly wrong - Anti-missile gone horribly wrong by fastclemmy video missile videogag canada hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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16/02/2007 @ 15:02 GMT
fastclemmy : YouTube - Introducing the book - YouTube - Introducing the book by fastclemmy How to use a book. video wtf hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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16/02/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
plasticbag : The difference between religion and science encapsulated in one easy to digest tiny little flow diagram - As I get older I get less interested in the intellectual paradoxes that language allows us to get lost in, and more interested in affecting the world around me. My patience for religion—and philosophy—has diminished enormously.
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16/02/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
deusx : Konami Code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Konami Code (A.K.A. Contra Code) is a cheat code that can be used in many Konami video games, usually giving the player a large number of lives or fully charging up the abilities of the character."
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16/02/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
deusx : Well, I'm Back: ec06b3461cf0eaf3d3e4d7a2e429bddb - "...at some point in the future I would like to be able to prove that I wrote it today. So, let me just say that its MD5 hash is..."
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16/02/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : JsonLibrary - TrimPath - Trac - "Note, we have an improved implementation of JSON stringify that builds up a string array instead of doing inline string concatenation. The version below should use less memory than the original JSON implementation."
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16/02/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Badge Any RSS Feed With Yahoo! Pipes - Badge Any RSS Feed With Yahoo! Pipes. Smart hack from Kent Brewster. Uses Yahoo! Pipes’ JSON output plus a few lines of JavaScript to create a badge from any RSS feed.
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16/02/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
jimray : What ToDo - a Mac to do list program for Getting Things Done - The first actual GTD Mac app that looks like they actually thought through the interface
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16/02/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Slumbering Lungfish: I'm Just a Cat... - Best lolcat EVAR! [via] #
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16/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Digg Failed - Why Digg Failed: heh
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16/02/2007 @ 05:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Ward Cunningham Interview
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16/02/2007 @ 05:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | IBM: Royalty Free Atom
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16/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : New Yahoo Site Threatens Digg - New Yahoo Site Threatens Digg: No it doesn't. Please explain the mythical "threat" or stop writing dumb headlines.
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16/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Jerry Giving Stanford $75 million... - Jerry Giving Stanford $75 million...: "Yahoo! Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, have pledged to give Stanford University $75 million to enhance interdisciplinary programs."
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16/02/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
43folders : Cool Tool: Gaffer's Tape - Hanging out at Pixel Corps, I've picked up an affection for gaffer's tape -- for most tasks, it's a lot more practical than duct tape.
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43folders : DSC00290 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Violet acquires technology to extend the usefulness of both SMS and the iPod. (PNSFW)
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16/02/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The Windows Experience
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16/02/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
kellan : Beth’s Blog: The NpTech Mashup Meme - Beth’s Blog: The NpTech Mashup Meme. Good blog post on Social Source Commons (and related projects) #
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16/02/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Specific Things is a collection of photos and stories of,... - Specific Things is a collection of photos and stories of, er, specific things like raffle winners, teams called The Pirates, and wedding cakes. (via youngna) (link) [via]
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16/02/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
deusx : I'm burping garlic fries. - meg.hourihan.com - "I'm burping garlic fries."
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16/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Thinking on Your Feet - Thinking on Your Feet: "Its like he has a broken task scheduler, a bad threading model, or there’s not enough RAM, or random interrrupts are constantly firing. Perhaps he’s computing Pi in the background; I just don’t know." Ex
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16/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Some recent covers by Chip Kidd of three books by... - Some recent covers by Chip Kidd of three books by James Ellroy. The photographs on the covers are of dioramas of pulp fiction covers made by Thomas Allen. (via yda) (link) [via]
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16/02/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : WFMU's Beware of the Blog: The Sixty Second Song Remix Contest (mp3s) - Taking lengthy songs and shrinking them down to minute-long morsels. "Bohemian Rhapsody" snipped to sixty seconds is an improvement, if you ask me. [via] #
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Simon Willison : Les Orchard: "Web 3.0 will have Galactica-style angled corners." - Les Orchard: “Web 3.0 will have Galactica-style angled corners.â€. Here’s hoping. [via]
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