17/02/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : what happens at a NetFlix shipping center - (via del.icio.us/popular/) [via]
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17/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : Amaxing paper cut artwork
Rod Begbie : Peter Callesen's Framed A4 Papercuts - Amazing artwork created from a single sheet of A4 paper. [via] #
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17/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Simon Willison : parseDateString function in dateparse.js return wrong date for '2006-12-31' - parseDateString function in dateparse.js return wrong date for ’2006-12-31’. I didn’t realise that you have to initialise a JavaScript Date object in a certain order; if you don’t weird bugs can result.
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17/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
nelson : Nelson Minar, scholar - Vanity search; surprising number of citations
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17/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : EA History - Long, detailed history of the pioneering game company electronic arts
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17/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Plumbline music - Nice mellow electronic music band
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17/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Delicious RSS limits - Switching my linkblog to host on delicious, I see the RSS feed has a 30 minute update delay. Urgh.
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17/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : My linkblog has moved - I've relocated my linkblog to delicious. Everything should work as before; the RSS feed is redirected to its new location.
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17/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
gleuschk : ORDER OF THE SCIENCE SCOUTS OF EXEMPLARY REPUTE AND ABOVE AVERAGE PHYSIQUE - pretty sure I've linked to the Quarterly before, but can't recall why. Anyway, this is awesome.
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17/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Neighbourhood Fix-It - Neighbourhood Fix-It. Report problems to your council across the UK. The most detailed Ordinance Survey maps anywhere online, and a superb example of progressive enhancement in action—the maps work without JavaScript, and the site even works with
philgyford : Neighbourhood Fix-It - I keep forgetting the name of this. "Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting." Reports go straight to the council concerned. Excellent. (via Tomski)
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17/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The VentureOne - The VentureOne: "Fly the Road" I want one of these. Right. Now. :-)
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17/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Quick Django Benching - Quick Django Benching. Django under Apache/mod_python outperforms nginx/FastCGI and LightTPD/FastCGI once you ramp up the concurrency levels. My setup for this site (Apache/mod_python behind an nginx proxy, with nginx handling static files) should give
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17/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : what happened to digg? - what happened to digg?: "for whatever reason, the maturity and behavior of the average Digger has evolved into, well, something resembling a middle school lunch room" no shit...
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17/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Walking through the Union Square subway station is like playing... - Walking through the Union Square subway station is like playing the Star Wars arcade game. I go through that station every single day and I never noticed that. For shame! (link)
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jimray : Slate does a good job of ripping apart the "half hour news hour" - "The mind strains to conceive of political humor that might be less humorous"
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wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott: Generation TEXT - "I guess if you stick around long enough, you become an institution."
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17/02/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
wearehugh : Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso's Response to Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music' - "I am high as a kite."
Simon Willison : Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso's Response to Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Music" - Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s “Thoughts on Musicâ€. By John Gruber.
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17/02/2007 @ 06:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | REST and WS-*
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17/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : Don Norman's jnd.org / UI Breakthrough-Command Line Interfaces - "So now command line interfaces are back again, hiding under the name of search. ... And they will get better and better with time: mark my words, that is my prediction for the future of interfaces."
Rod Begbie : Don Norman's jnd.org / UI Breakthrough-Command Line Interfaces - Don Norman on search boxes being the command lines of today. [via] #
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17/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : Nabble - popen on unices doesn't like "rb"/"wb"
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17/02/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Slipping the surly bonds of earth - Slipping the surly bonds of earth: I like the FAA Supplement at the end.
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17/02/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Jean-Paul Sartre, 911 operator. - Jean-Paul Sartre, 911 operator. (link)
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Simon Willison : What is The Daily You? - What is The Daily You?. New feature from Pegasus News that customises the site based on your browsing history and their detailed taxonomy. Probably useful if you live in Texas, but interesting nonetheless.
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17/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : NetApp Meets Monopoly and SimCity - NetApp Meets Monopoly and SimCity: "We could have spent hours on stage with PowerPoint slides explaining our beliefs in gory detail, but we thought that letting people play a computerized business simulation of NetApp would give them a much more visc
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Jason Kottke : A list of unboundedly long songs, songs that "continue until... - A list of unboundedly long songs, songs that "continue until the singer decides (or is forced) to stop". (link)
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17/02/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Wikipatterns - Wikipatterns. Great idea this: a wiki documenting patterns for successfully growing your own wiki.
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17/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : World map of driving orientations. "An estimated 66% of people... - World map of driving orientations. "An estimated 66% of people worldwide live in right-hand side countries, and 72% of all distances are completed while driving on the right side of the road." (link)
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Jeremy Zawodny : Faux Fuck Buddy Needed - Faux Fuck Buddy Needed: "Help me exact my revenge on my loud-sex-having-yet-sharing-a-common-wall roommates. Heh
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17/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : An interview with Tamir Goodman, the "Jewish Jordan". Even in... - An interview with Tamir Goodman, the "Jewish Jordan". Even in the Israeli pro leagues, he is the only Orthodox Jew playing. "Tamir [has] the respect of his coaches and teammates for his religious dedication, as well as for his ability to throw down two ha
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17/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : New David Sedaris in this week's New Yorker. - New David Sedaris in this week's New Yorker. (link)
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