26/02/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
Isofarro : Accessibility vs Universality - implications - Alastair Campbell: 'I do also work in 'universality' as a daily part of my job in web development and consultancy. But, I don't confuse the two. Any accessibility advice is given in the context of who it would affect (e.g. that type of layout will cause p
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26/02/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
Isofarro : Joe Clark's WCAG Samurai - There's a news update! '2007.02.23: As announced onstage at Web Directions North 2007, WCAG Samurai will publish its errata in time for @media 2007 San Francisco, May 2007.'
Richard Rutter : Final version of WCAG Samurai’s errata released - Corrections and extensions to WCAG 1.0 provides real life accessibility guidelines.
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26/02/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Christopher Guest Jumps Into 'The Thick of It' - 'Best in Show' director helming ABC pilot - Zap2it - Christopher Guest is to direct the pilot of the US version of "The Thick of It". Very cool. #
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26/02/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
plasticbag : I find myself increasingly interested in OmniFocus and other GTD applications as I find myself with lots of dumb little jobs to do - I've never been totally convinced that GTD stuff works for those territories where you have to mull or let things gestate or circle around them before coming to conclusions. Want to be proven wrong.
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26/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Japan's top 30 emoticons. (via andre) - Japan's top 30 emoticons. (via andre) (link) [via]
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26/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : "the free download isn't a frivolous act" - Tim O'Reilly with some interesting thoughts on the value of viral marketing as a function of market awareness.
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26/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : NASA's plan for what do if an astronaut in space becomes mentally unstable - (via kottke) [via]
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26/02/2007 @ 19:06 GMT
Linkorama : Meetings make us dumber, study shows - Brainstorming sessions backfire when group thinking clouds decisions
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26/02/2007 @ 19:05 GMT
Rod Begbie : iLap Laptop Stand - Picked one of these up over the weekend to stop my MacBook from frying my intimate areas when I'm working on the couch. Initial reaction: Very comfortable. #
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26/02/2007 @ 19:04 GMT
philgyford : Mixing It - How 'Mixing It' was nastily dropped from Radio 3's schedules after years and years.
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26/02/2007 @ 19:04 GMT
philgyford : Mixing It on Resonance FM - The show will be continuing on Resonance FM.
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26/02/2007 @ 19:04 GMT
philgyford : Gwenergy: Stage Fright - A good New Yorker article on stage fright and how it affects different people.
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26/02/2007 @ 19:04 GMT
philgyford : Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design tips & tricks - Because I'm always using losing this and having to Google for it or something similar.
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26/02/2007 @ 19:04 GMT
philgyford : New National Office for Arts Council England - Interesting site about the history of offices. (via City Of Sound)
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26/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
philgyford : Die Stadt, Frans Masereel, 1925 - Great wood cuts. (via City of Sound)
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26/02/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
philgyford : Yahoo! Photos - Photos de pvolant - Space Lab - Pierre's photos from our class in which we had to make a sculpture representing an anodyne Trashcan Sinatras tune.
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26/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
philgyford : TV Guide Community: Of Office Emmy Cheers and Acting Careers - Interesting stuff on how to be an actor in LA. Her professor said, "If you can think of anything else you are passionate about besides acting, do that. Your life will be better for it." (via Kottke)
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26/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The problem with forced rank - The problem with forced rank: "I suspect that the initial gains is because the forced rank is used at first to fire employees who should have been nudged out of the company a long time ago... further gains are lost to damage to morale and team cohesi
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26/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Benefits from new Panama Advertising System - Yahoo Benefits from new Panama Advertising System: "Just a small change like that in hundreds of millions of clicks is going to be a huge opportunity to make Yahoo money."
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26/02/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : comScore Data Show Yahoo!’s New Ranking Model Has Had Initial Positive Impact - comScore Data Show Yahoo!’s New Ranking Model Has Had Initial Positive Impact: imagine that... better ad ranking yields higher CTR. what grand revelation will come next?
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26/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Quantitatively, the greatest women artists in the 20th century were,... - Quantitatively, the greatest women artists in the 20th century were, in order, Cindy Sherman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Frida Kahlo. (via mr) (link) [via]
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26/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The Mouth Revolution - Eat better, the mouthifesto
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26/02/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
jimray : The BitTorrent store opens - Movies are rental only, but TV shows you keep. Music, too. Seems to use Windows Media DRM, so I'm not sure why they even bother with Mac/Linux torrent clients.
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26/02/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Best Indie Games 2007 - "if you want to see the raw, unpolished glimmerings of new types of gameplay, you have to head to the margins."
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26/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Methods for the social archiving of mailing lists... - Methods for the social archiving of mailing lists...: Tom is doing what Tom does best: thinking out interesting stuff online
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26/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : NASA's plan for dealing with a psychotic or suicidal astronaut in... - NASA's plan for dealing with a psychotic or suicidal astronaut in space: duct tape and tranquilizers. (link)
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26/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Photos of baskets and truffles at the Lalbenque truffle market... - Photos of baskets and truffles at the Lalbenque truffle market in France. (link)
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26/02/2007 @ 17:05 GMT
jcgregorio : xFruits - Compose your information system
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26/02/2007 @ 17:04 GMT
Cameron Moll : Joyent.com redux - Now with more Jill - Joyent.com redux. I had no hand in this revision, but a *huge* applause for those who did -- well done! (Joyent blog write-up.)
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26/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
gleuschk : Noncommutative geometry dot blogspot dot com - Alain Connes, blogger
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26/02/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Tokyo Seoul Mount Orange Roll
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26/02/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : A commercial for the iPhone aired during the Oscars last... - A commercial for the iPhone aired during the Oscars last night. Rick Silva noticed that it was a lot like artist Christian Marclay's 1995 piece Telephones (the relevant clip starts at 3:40) and, to a lesser extent, Matthias Mueller's film, Home Stories. N
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26/02/2007 @ 15:04 GMT
Cameron Moll : Matthew Kroeker's "Splinter" - "Hinting at a metaphor for a broken or mended relationship, the chairs join to form a bench."
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Cameron Moll : CUin5 "non-object" concept mobile phone - "How about a handset in which every face carries a keypad, microphone, and speaker? Imagine grabbing it quickly – from inside your bag, from off a shelf, from under a car seat – and freely interacting with it without needing to turn it over
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26/02/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
gleuschk : Crypto-Gram: May 15, 2001 - Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.
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26/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : Phil wrote a month or so back on haddock's directory ceasing to publish its internal link log... - We've been having conversations around it again recently, trying to work out if there's any useful way to bring it back without killing everyone or whether to do so would be a waste of time. Inspired me to some good thinking, either way...
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26/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Andy Baio : 54 of Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos were removed from YouTube - as Rex notes, everyone loses here
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26/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Sorry this is late, but clip and save for next year:... - Sorry this is late, but clip and save for next year: how to win your Oscar pool. Short answer: follow the wisdom of the crowds. (link)
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26/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Geneologists have discovered that Al Sharpton is a descendent of a... - Geneologists have discovered that Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by Strom Thurmond's family. (link)
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26/02/2007 @ 14:02 GMT
Cameron Moll : Presentational control of the interface, HTML 1.0 to CSS 3.0 - Interesting slide showing presentational control of the interface, spanning HTML 1.0 to CSS 3.0 (from Khoi Vinh's "Managing UI" @ FOWA 2007).
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26/02/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Django snippets - Django snippets. James Bennett’s new site for Django snippets. The source code to the whole site is available.
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26/02/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
Simon Willison : More on Decentralised Social Networking - More on Decentralised Social Networking. Martin Atkins has been thinking hard about the practicalities of building decentralised social networking on top of OpenID.
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26/02/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : OpenID makes web identities real and appealing - OpenID makes web identities real and appealing. DHH has caught the OpenID bug. Expect to see a flurry of activity around OpenID in the Rails community over the next few weeks.
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Jeremy Zawodny : HOWTO: Install GNU Emacs with antialiasing - HOWTO: Install GNU Emacs with antialiasing: build it yourself in a few easy steps
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Jeremy Zawodny : Pretty Emacs - Pretty Emacs: How to get antialiased emacs in ubuntu... kick ass.
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26/02/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
43folders : Beatnik Turtle: Indie Band Survival Guide - "We want to share what we'd tell ourselves if we were just starting out as an independent band." [via:MeFi]
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cameron : Legacy of an adventurer - A camera found on Andrew McAuley's capsized kayak shows the last image taken of him; he is believed to have drowned trying to cross the Tasman Sea
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Linkorama : The movie magic is gone - If stars' lives are superseding movie narratives, audiences are superseding the stars. Who needs Brad Pitt if you can be your own hero on a video game, make your own video on YouTube or feature yourself on Facebook?
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Matthew M. Boedicker : An Inconvenient Truth - just watched it, recommended
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26/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Pipes Support in Dojo - Yahoo Pipes Support in Dojo: "And no, you don’t have to download YUI to get at this stuff…it’s all pure Dojo. We make it easier to work with Yahoo’s services than Yahoo does."
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26/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
wearehugh : Re: WinDVD 8 Device Key Found! - "We've conquered the green part."
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wearehugh : persistent.info: Blogger Migration Part II: Getting Data Into Blogger - "the Universal Feed Parser came in handy" new uses every day
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cobra libre : Aug. 23, 1943 Time feature on Flann O'Brien - Notorious for its biographical inaccuracies, such as: "One of the few things O'Nolan takes seriously is chess. He is equipped with a pocket chessboard, plays promiscuously with chance acquaintances. He has informally beaten World Champion Alekhine." #
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26/02/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Common ground
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26/02/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
Linkorama : Cultural Transformation in 497 Easy Steps - As we were headed to our cars, Lou laughed and said "What you need to build is a tool that will automatically convert an e-mail culture into a wiki / blogging / knowledge-sharing collaborative culture. You know, without people having to actually change."
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26/02/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Google testing in-line video results in main search - moving to a plus box world
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gleuschk : Re: Not Convinced: Canon Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review - sez, "s4 is real and will be offically announced in may, 12x optical and 8.0 megapixel, 2.5" rotating LCD." hrmph
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plasticbag : Rory Bremner apparently rang up a highly-placed government minister and had a conversation with her while pretending to be Gordon Brown... - Margaret Beckett has said that if such a conversation took place it would be, "both an unprincipled and unpleasant breach of privacy" and I absolutely agree with her. Illuminating it might be, but it's also not really terribly cool.
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26/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : Bandwagon is a piece of software for the mac that backs up your music online every so often... - I've not had a chance to play with it yet, as their first customers basically brought down the service with the scale of their iTunes libraries. I suspect mine would similarly cripple them. Lovely idea though...
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