23/02/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Blizzard suing creator of WoWglider World of Warcraft botting software - they don't just want to kill it, they want the rights and titles to it and the source
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23/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Are Google Apps Customers Real? - Are Google Apps Customers Real?: "Why pretend GE is a customer when it's really just testing it out? That feels misleading to me and - dare I say it? - just a little bit evil."
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23/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
wearehugh : Six Apart spins like a Whirling Dervish. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos - ouch
deusx : Six Apart spins like a Whirling Dervish. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos - "Personally, I find it hard to have faith in Six Apart's commitment to developing, improving and supporting Movable Type, which is why I now advise clients to avoid it at all costs."
Rod Begbie : Six Apart spins like a Whirling Dervish. - Suw Charman takes on SixApart over the crappy state of MovableType today. The load caused by comment spam (and their crappy "search" engine) were the main reasons why I defected to my own Django-powered system in December. (Good comments thread on this #
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23/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The Nintendo Wii, and the bowling game in particular, is <a... - The Nintendo Wii, and the bowling game in particular, is a big hit at an Illinois retirement community (average age: 77). "'I've never been into video games,' said 72-year-old Flora Dierbach last week as her husband took a twirl with the Nintendo Wii's bo
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23/02/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : How to make square corners with CSS - How to make square corners with CSS.
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Cameron Moll : Video: More multi-touch interface work from Jeff Han - I've been abusing the adjective "impressive" of late, so why not one more time: Video showing additional multi-touch, natural mapping interface work from Jeff Han (of TED fame) and crew, all of which, of course, is very impressive. (thanks Rob)
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23/02/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : #277; In which That sounds like a Dare - This is what the offspring of many parent-bloggers will have to face one day.
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23/02/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: You Are Fuel - "There is nothing wrong with being fuel! Just don't act all surprised when you're treated as such."
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23/02/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : For a rainy day: learning the Unix shell. - For a rainy day: learning the Unix shell. (link)
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23/02/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Tantek's Thoughts — 2007 February - """The mindset of waiting to be invited is a bigger problem that not being invited""" I've never been 'invited' to speak at a conference.
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23/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : bits bytes pixels & sprites ? Archives ? R.I.P. Amplitude Online, you’ll be missed - "I just caught wind of the fact that Amplitude’s online servers are going to be taken off-line next Monday (the 26th)"
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23/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Bomberman Land Wii is adorable - Nintendo Wii Fanboy - "It shouldn't be noteworthy that a Bomberman game is cute, but recent developments have called the cuteness of all future Bomberman games into question."
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23/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : AlterNet: The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair - "It is a movement built on the growing personal and economic despair of tens of millions of Americans, who watched helplessly as their communities were plunged into poverty by the flight of manufacturing jobs, their families and neighborhoods torn apart b
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23/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
plasticbag : Very much on the rumour mill - but I'm sceptical about it's truth: Are last.fm about to be bought by Viacom for $450 million - I've said it for ages that someone should try and buy them. I heard rumours in the past that they'd turned down overtures from a few large companies. They're certainly a huge potential player over the next few decades...
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23/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Photographs from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, after the atomic... - Photographs from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, after the atomic bombs were dropped. Some of these are pretty intense, so go easy if you're bothered by that sort of thing. (link)
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23/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Tea Birds is a blog of nothing but cute girls... - Tea Birds is a blog of nothing but cute girls having tea. (via bb) (link) [via]
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Linkorama : Oort-Cloud - Oort-Cloud is a place that gives us a chance to present some fundamental ideas, get feedback about them from other people, and comment on events and concepts that are, or might be, relevant to what Oort-Cloud is all about.
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23/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Serving YUI Files from Yahoo! Servers - Serving YUI Files from Yahoo! Servers: kick ass.
deusx : Serving YUI Files from Yahoo! Servers - "With the release of YUI version 2.2.0, Yahoo! is opening up free YUI hosting from the Yahoo! network to all YUI implementers."
Simon Willison : Serving YUI Files from Yahoo! Servers - Serving YUI Files from Yahoo! Servers. If everyone who uses YUI links to the same set of files, your users will already have the YUI code cached in their browser when they arrive on your site. [via]
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23/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Why the backlash for Little Miss Sunshine? "The critics have... - Why the backlash for Little Miss Sunshine? "The critics have a point, which they sometimes make with noticeable bitterness, that many independent films are stale and mannered. But for some of these films, this critical dismissal is a strange fate: to be f
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23/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
jcgregorio : flup: random Python WSGI stuff - Trac
deusx : flup: random Python WSGI stuff - Trac - "This Python package is a random collection of WSGI modules I've written."
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23/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
jcgregorio : :: cleverdevil ::: Python, FastCGI, WSGI, and lighttpd
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23/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
43folders : Identity Is a Mashup at Like It Matters - "Life is complicated. Explain and embrace the complexity. Don’t try to make yourself feel better with some grade school math problem."
veen : Identity Is a Mashup at Like It Matters - "Life is complicated. Explain and embrace the complexity. Don’t try to make yourself feel better with some grade school math problem."
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23/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
jimray : Yahoo will host YUI files from their servers for you, for free - So, in theory, that means if you hit one site that uses YUI, the JS files should cache when you need YUI again, even on a different site. Rock?
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23/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
deusx : Temperature Of Coffee Expected To Rise Nine Degrees By End Of 21st Century | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "A report released by the Union of Concerned Dietitians stated that not only will the temperature of coffee increase by nearly nine degrees by the end of this century, the rise is directly linked to human activity."
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23/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
deusx : Twitter trail - Scripting News: 2/20/2007 - Twitter + Outlining = Instant Outlining NG? "Then it occurred to me that Twitter and the outlining tool would probably be nice when used together, which led me to wonder if Twitter had an API, which it turns out it does."
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23/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
deusx : Daring Fireball: Using Dynamic Scripting Languages for Mac OS X Application Development - "There’s been a lot of interesting discussion over the last week regarding the use of dynamic scripting languages for programming desktop applications."
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23/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Combinatorial Critter Generator Web Service
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Combinatorial Critter Generator Web Service
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23/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : Parse RSS with Actionscript 2.0
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23/02/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Smarties and Dumbells - "look at what makes one website seem jam-packed full of Smarties and the other packed full of Dumbells"
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23/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Do Japanese pitchers, including Daisuke Matsuzaka, a new member of the... - Do Japanese pitchers, including Daisuke Matsuzaka, a new member of the Boston Red Sox, have an extra pitch called the gyroball? "The pitch started on the same course as a changeup, but it barely dipped. It looked like a slider, but it did not break. The g
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23/02/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Walter @ Yahoo - (via merlin.tumblr) [via]
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23/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : LibraryThing has a feature called UnSuggester...just put in a book... - LibraryThing has a feature called UnSuggester...just put in a book you dislike and it'll return suggestions of stuff you might be interested in instead. Here's what to read if you're not a fan of Atlas Shrugged...#3 on the list is Advanced Perl Programmin [via]
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23/02/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Virus 2 Flash Game lets you play a hexagonal virus as it spreads through a multi-coloured population - Nicely self-referential, I suspect it mirrors the game's own viral spread through popualtions of OCD nerds. Reminded me a lot of Webb's games as cleaning metaphors, which I think are more dull—games as imposition of order on chaos. Sorting.
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23/02/2007 @ 11:02 GMT
Jon Hicks : House Industries @ the Apple Store Regent St - Rich Roat will be lecturing this Saturday!
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23/02/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
deusx : as we may blog ? Blog Archive ? In which we prove yet again that even the coolest technology can be put to the dumbest uses - "How can I see all the beer-related content from The Content Webring, translated into French and then translated back into English?"
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23/02/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
deusx : SMK-88 Compact Mac Keyboard | DS International - "The Compact Mac Keyboard comes with 2 USB plug-in connectors: a 1.1 USB connector and an optional 2.0 USB connector."
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23/02/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
deusx : just to get super (22 February 2007, Interconnected) - "Just to get super abstract with the purpose of existence for a moment, the purpose of existence is this: To occupy time and space. In short, things which don't occupy time or space, aren't."
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23/02/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
deusx : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Projects | Critters - "Welcome to the critter generator. Inspired by Combinatorial Critters, and MonsterID, which allow you to create critters from combinations of parts, I just couldn't help but think, "That would be so much better as a web service," and so was born the critt
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Projects | Critters
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Projects | Critters
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23/02/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Firefox computer - The Firefox computer: "The only thing I care about is that they run Firefox. That’s because my digital day is currently spent in the following apps: WordPress, Yahoo Mail, Bloglines, 30boxes and Google. And they all run perfectly well in Firefo
deusx : The Firefox computer ? Toni’s Garage - "I want a Firefox computer. A nice, sleek, solid state notebook with a big screen that you open up and it just runs Firefox"
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23/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : MIT Libraries News » Blog Archive » MIT Student Day of Action for Open Access
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23/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : MIT Libraries News » Blog Archive » A Conversation with Benjamin Mako Hill, organizer of the MIT Student Day of Action for Open Access
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23/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: Pete’s 2nd Law of Computing
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23/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : Boing Boing: Puretracks "DRM-free music" mystery explained
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23/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : Firefox Tip: Shift-Delete mistyped autocomplete suggestions - Lifehacker - i live and die online by my browser history. this is a lifesaver.
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23/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market - FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market: "My Yahoo!, which does not render the feed content but shows headlines that click back to the publisher's site, is by far the largest driver of traffic back to publisher sites, accounting for more than ha
cameron : FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market - Some statistics on feed consumption which are interesting but not surprising: Yahoo leads total views (head?) and Google total feeds (tail?)
Linkorama : FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market - Great summary of news reading trends
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23/02/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Greg Patillo, Beatboxer Flautist - Croft and Kottke beat me to it, but still worth linking to beatboxer flautist Greg Patillo, whose Pink Panther / Axel F remix is extremely impressive, more so than (though not as nostalgic as) the Mario Bros theme.
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23/02/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Recording the Beatles - "A detailed look at every piece of studio gear used, full explanations of effects and recording processes, and an inside look at how specific songs were recorded, Recording The Beatles is a must-have for any Beatles fan or recording engineer." Via Coudal. [via]
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23/02/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : SitiosWap - Sitios WAP, a directory of mobile sites en español.
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23/02/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Forrester: What's Wrong With The Mobile Web? - Recently I had the opportunity to contribute to a Forrester Research study, which is now available for purchase: "What's Wrong With The Mobile Web?" by Vidya Lakshmipathy. A pretty penny at $31 per page, but the amount of research on the part of Vidya and
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23/02/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Blog Archive » I drank this—was that a bad idea?
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jimray : What does Marsellus Wallace look like? - Brilliant typographic treatment of an iconic Pulp Fiction scene
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23/02/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
WillPate : The Yahoo Spark blog used one of my photographs
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23/02/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : The Vanishing Post - It's going to happen.
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23/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
gleuschk : [hep-th/0010196] D-branes, Exceptional Sheaves and Quivers on Calabi-Yau manifolds: From Mukai to McKay - uses phrase "Beilinson quiver" (read this one first)
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23/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
gleuschk : [hep-th/0010217] D-branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds and helices - uses phrase "Beilinson quiver"
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23/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
gleuschk : [hep-th/0605177] On the geometry of quiver gauge theories (Stacking exceptional collections) - uses phrase "Beilinson quiver"
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23/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
gleuschk : [hep-th/0003263] The spectrum of BPS branes on a noncompact Calabi-Yau - uses phrase "Beilinson quiver"
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23/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
gleuschk : [math/9809121] Gorenstein dimension of modules - Whatever happened to Masek? This expository paper is really nice, but he seems never to have published anything (else)
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