19/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : HEAVENLY DEAL: XM & Sirius to Merge - I've been claiming this as an inevitability for some time -- The satellite radio "battle" has been so reminiscent of the British satellite TV war in the early nineties that merger was the only way out. [via] #
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Jason Kottke : Some interesting photos taken in the Moscow subway. (thx, <a... - Some interesting photos taken in the Moscow subway. (thx, malatron) (link)
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Jason Kottke : A peek into David Fincher's uncompromising filmmaking process on the... - A peek into David Fincher's uncompromising filmmaking process on the eve of the release of his new film, Zodiac. Jake Gyllenhaal: "David knows what he wants, and he's very clear about what he wants, and he's very, very, very smart. But sometimes we'd do a
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19/02/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Mobile Persuasion - "[Justin Oberman] started by asking the audience to switch phones with the person next to them and then (with their permission!) send a text message to themselves. In 30 seconds, not a person in the room could complete the task. With so many smart phones,
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19/02/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Punchkick Interactive - Punchkick Interactive. Good site design, fun (and very relevant) navigation.
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19/02/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Samsung F700: iPhone rival? - Samsung takes stab at iPhone with new F700.
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Cameron Moll : Big Spaceship, LLC - Big Spaceship, LLC. Strong design, even stronger typography.
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19/02/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Resin billboards blur backgrounds for Mustang ads - "Constructed from GE Lexan EXL semi-transparent resin, the billboard accurately blurs the scene behind it regardless of day, weather, or season." What a killer concept!
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19/02/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
43folders : My first 24 Hours with my Apple MacBook - "Evil as it is, part of me feels comfortable in the warm embrace of hardware and software that just works and works well together."
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19/02/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
43folders : wii action! on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Finally outed as a Wiitard (Tennis Pro: ~1100).
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19/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Technology | Net giant supports open ID scheme - BBC covers Open ID. Shame that the number of places you can sign up for an Open ID now outnumbers the number of places you can *log in with one* by about 10 to 1. #
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19/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Astronomers are tracking a 250-meter-wide asteroid called Apophis which will... - Astronomers are tracking a 250-meter-wide asteroid called Apophis which will come within 30,000 km of earth in 2029. However, it's too soon to tell if that near-miss will pull the asteroid into a collision course with the earth 7 years later. "Lu says the
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19/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
43folders : MacBreak Weekly 29: The New Bourne Identity - Some weeks, you can tell how much I loathe talking about "Apple News" and who's sucking oxygen out of which vertical. I admit I'm a proudly useless pundit.
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19/02/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Blizzard sues glider - Robot to play World of Warcraft for you is big enough threat that Blizzard is suing. Any precedent?
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19/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Mag-lev bed. $1.5 million for a bed that levitates above... - Mag-lev bed. $1.5 million for a bed that levitates above the floor. (link)
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19/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
Linkorama : Run for China - Please consider sponsoring me for Grandma's Marathon and my Run for Chinese Education. Not only will I be putting the proverbial feet to the pavement ... for 26.2 miles, but I am also contributing $600 of my own money.
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19/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
Linkorama : Is Enterprise 2.0 for Hippies? - Enterprise 2.0 is not based on utopian ideals. It is instead based on the very principles that drive all free-market economies. Organisations that adopt enterprise 2.0 will do so for auto-preservation and corporate gain - to help their bottom line. Period
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19/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
fastclemmy : YouTube - Mindstorms Autofabrik - YouTube - Mindstorms Autofabrik by fastclemmy Who could be nuts enough to build a car factory with Lego? You bet someone did! lego hotlinks OMG robotique mindstorms Copy | React (0)
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19/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
nelson : pydelicious - Simple Python library for the delicious API. Not great, but works.
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19/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : Delete Eraser - I love this for some stupid reason
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19/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : Newest Flash Tools on Display at Photobucket - Lets you mix and mash photos, audio and video in a sort of iMovie-like interface
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19/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Nomination for the most useless new word of 2007: beme.... - Nomination for the most useless new word of 2007: beme. A beme is a meme that spreads blogs and those that create and spread them are called bemerz. (link) [via]
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19/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Joel Kotkin argues that the "superstar cities" (New York, LA,... - Joel Kotkin argues that the "superstar cities" (New York, LA, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco) are overrated and overpriced and that the real economic and social action in the US is happening in the more affordable cities (Charlotte, Houston, Las Vegas, Ph [via]
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19/02/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Building Robust Systems, by Gerald J. Sussman - (via programming.reddit) [via]
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19/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
gleuschk : Tips 'n Tricks (One Liners) - How can I get an arial font under LaTeX?
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19/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
gleuschk : How to change fonts from Times Roman to Helvetica in Latex - grumble snerfle NSF stupid mumble
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19/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
gleuschk : The LaTeX Font Catalogue – Palatino - more of these available for latex than I expected
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19/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : World Gazetter links to a 3 MB zip file that... - World Gazetter links to a 3 MB zip file that contains a list of all the cities/towns/hamlets in the world, their populations, and lats/longs. (link)
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19/02/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : An interview with Ootje Oxenaar, who designed a whole range... - An interview with Ootje Oxenaar, who designed a whole range of Dutch banknotes in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. "On the 1000 guilder note, it became a 'sport' for me to put things in the notes that nobody wanted there! I was very proud to have my fingerprint in
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19/02/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
Jon Hicks : The Magic of Hicksdesign :: Nuance Labs - Well there’s one happy customer at least!
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19/02/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Geek | Manager - Geek | Manager. Meri Williams is one of the most productive people I know. This is her new blog on being a manager and a geek at the same time, with plenty of productivity advice.
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19/02/2007 @ 09:02 GMT
joshua : Exhibit - looks like a json-y rdf-y brower
jimray : SIMILE | Exhibit - "Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code."
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joshua : Piggy Bank - turns your browser into a mashup platform, by allowing you to extract data from different web sites and mix them together
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19/02/2007 @ 09:02 GMT
Linkorama : Ask the Wizard - dick writes a real blog from a startup ceo perspective
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19/02/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch, scammer style! - "This is a video created by a Nigerian email scammer who thinks he is producing a video for a scholarship payment from a victim he tried to scam."
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19/02/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
deusx : Badger: Badge Any RSS Feed With Yahoo! Pipes - kentbrewster.com - "Badger uses Yahoo! Pipes and JavaScript to create Web badges out of any RSS feed."
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19/02/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Follow the bible? - Follow the bible?: "...Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?" Gotta love this stuff.
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19/02/2007 @ 06:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : emacs tips - (via del.icio.us/popular/) [via]
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jimray : Newspapers beating TV sites to video revenue - $81 million in 2006 vs. $32 million.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Classism at Google - Classism at Google: "It's a load of corporate baloney - the 400-person company that I started at has become a nightmare that has eaten my soul. God help the users."
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19/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo: Is Project Panama Taking Dollars from Google? - Yahoo: Is Project Panama Taking Dollars from Google?: "RBC Capital’s Jordan Rohan Friday increased his price target on Yahoo"
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wearehugh : wiip team interview » gh3log
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19/02/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio’s clever alternative to CAPTCHAs « Metacircular thoughts - Somebody likes my alternative to CAPTCHAs.
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19/02/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Pygments — Python syntax highlighter
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19/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Sometimes I think that what Americans are best at is inventing... - Sometimes I think that what Americans are best at is inventing new forms of conspicuous consumption. A man who sells snow guns for personal use (so that the kids can play in the snow even when the weather doesn't oblige) says, "New Jersey is a big area fo
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19/02/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Ikea Hacker is a site that highlights using Ikea furniture... - Ikea Hacker is a site that highlights using Ikea furniture and products in creative ways. (link)
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joshua : Solvent - helps you write screen scrapers for Piggy Bank.
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Jason Kottke : Rule of thumb to avoid photographing people with their eyes... - Rule of thumb to avoid photographing people with their eyes closed: divide the number of people by three (or by two if the light is bad). That means that if you're taking a photo of 12 people, you need to take at least 4 photos to have a good chance of ge [via]
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