Jim Ray blogs at http://www.quietconfusion.com/ 
17/02/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
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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16/02/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
jimray : Building a Flickr Application in Flash with Actionscript 2
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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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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 @ 19:02 GMT
jimray : First skate - Mike and Des make it official! (thanks, Gabe)
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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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jimray : More Flavor Inside and Out - Bittman stuffs some chicken thighs, makes me hungry
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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 @ 00:01 GMT
jimray : SwimMan Waterproofed Ipod - The waterproofed it from the inside, then tripled the cost! Pretty awesome, though...
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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 @ 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 @ 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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13/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Patenting Life - Michael Chricton's impressively lucid critique of gene patents. After all that global warming inanity, good to see him making sense again.
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13/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Top 10 indy games of the year - Some spectacular looking stuff here
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13/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Battlestar Galactica gets a fourth season - Frak yes!
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jimray : MediaFork picks up where Handbrake left off - For all your DVD ripping needs
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13/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : YouTube shuts down Gawker account, Gawker says they did nothing wrong - Gawker was bookending copyrighted videos with their own promotions, says they never got complaints from the copyright holders, though
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13/02/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Linkorama : Widgets Considered Harmful - Yes
deusx : JavaScript Badges and Widgets Considered Harmful (by Jeremy Zawodny) - "These JavaScript and, to a lesser degree, Flash droppings have annoyed me for a long time."
jimray : JavaScript Badges and Widgets Considered Harmful - Not only do I hate these ubiquitous badges, but I also think the API pull mechanism should be replaced with an update ping.
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