27/02/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : The Impossible Quiz Deluxe by =Splapp-me-do on deviantART - Trick questions, logical traps, and just general evilness. Takes an age to download and get going, but it's plenty of fun. [via] #
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27/02/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The graphic design of the futuristic world depicted in Mike... - The graphic design of the futuristic world depicted in Mike Judge's Idiocracy. I love the signage that doesn't fit on the hospital. (via do) (link) [via]
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27/02/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
jcgregorio : EatPES - HOME OF THE TWISTED FILMS OF PES - Game Over
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27/02/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
Linkorama : Wiki Wednesday invitation - Next week, March 7, we're hosting another Wikithon, distributed across several cities in the U.S. and Europe. For Wiki Wednesday we will have Bryan Pendleton from geekdom.net and Xerox PARC on building tools to help identify conflict on Wikipedia.
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27/02/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
deusx : The Curious Mind | Articles / Classic Texts in Computer Science
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27/02/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : cake for the Horde - (via wowinsider) [via]
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27/02/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
Jon Hicks : MakeMeASpeaker - A great idea from Meri Williams – offer to give mentoring , or be mentored, to become a speaker. A positive and imaginative step forward.
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27/02/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
cobra libre : you don't bury survivors - "Q: So, Jeremy, tell me a little about yourself. A: Because they'll roll and they can't fall down the hole. And because manholes are round." #
Rod Begbie : code slate: you don't bury survivors - "what was your contribution to the team?" "Light both ends of fuse one and one end of fuse two. When fuse one burns out, light the other end of fuse two." [via] #
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27/02/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : A bunch of really uncomfortable women's shoes. These are almost... - A bunch of really uncomfortable women's shoes. These are almost architecture, not fashion. (via ahhhhhh!!!!) (link) [via]
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27/02/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
jimray : A tiny ad upstart forces Google to open up a little - Quingo seems popular especially amongst media companies because they let you specify who can and can't buy ads on your site
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27/02/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The top 11 underground transit systems in the world. The... - The top 11 underground transit systems in the world. The London Tube is #1, NYC is #7, Hong Kong is #10. (via rob) (link) [via]
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27/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Linkorama : Sweet Home Chicago - My question is never why Chicago? But why not? Why not start a business where YOU want to start a business? And if you do want to be in online media — we have a pretty fantastic confluence of journalists, advertising, and new media execs.
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27/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Eric Meyer : Be Men, Not Destroyers - "You won't enjoy it, and for that you should be grateful."
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27/02/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
jimray : Adobe - Flash Media Encoder - Free Windows-only Flash streaming server from Adobe
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27/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Can't Programmers.. Program? - Why Can't Programmers.. Program?: "A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters' degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks."
nelson : Some can't program - I had this experience at Google, too; a frightening number of applicants simply can't write code
cameron : Why Can't Programmers.. Program? - What is fascinating to me about this post is not that people can't program; this is assumed. What is fascinating is the fervor with which people solve/argue about the FizzBuzz problem.
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27/02/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Regarding Susan Orlean's piece on Robert Lang and origami from... - Regarding Susan Orlean's piece on Robert Lang and origami from a couple of weeks ago, the New Yorker has posted a 5-minute audio slideshow of Orlean talking about the piece. (link)
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Linkorama : Blue Oxen Way - mission statement patterns of the SquirmTest, BeLessDumb and Bootstrapping
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27/02/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
Linkorama : Who needs a CIO? - It doesn't require a "C" title to keep fat pipes to the wide-open Internet open. A zillion free hosted services on the web have replaced the functionality of the IT departments service by service, just as minerals replace the cells in dinosaur bones. Talk
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27/02/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
Linkorama : Only Connect - My claim is that there are two types of rules for communications networks: interconnection rules and non-discrimination rules. The distinction has never been fully appreciated, even though regulators have imposed both requirements many times. Non-discrimi
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27/02/2007 @ 18:04 GMT
Linkorama : Misunderstanding Disruption - The real technology disruption here is that Google Apps for Your Domain (and Google Docs, the free version) use HTML as their native format, not Microsoft's crufty legacy format, nor the equally crufty XML data-dump.
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27/02/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
gleuschk : What’s new, by Terry Tao - that's two blogging Fields Medalists. And Serre is on YouTube.
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gleuschk : Some hints on mathematical style - by David Goss, based on conversations with Serre
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27/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Community Doesn't Scale: Why k5 Is Perpetually Dying - Community Doesn't Scale: Why k5 Is Perpetually Dying: "In short, gentle kurons, we must *troll harder*." Heh.
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27/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Life-Long Computer Skills - Life-Long Computer Skills: "The problem, of course, is in tying education too tightly to specific software applications."
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27/02/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : David Denby talks about films with "disordered narratives", with a... - David Denby talks about films with "disordered narratives", with a special focus on the films of Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro González Iñárritu: Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel. Many of the films he mentioned are what Alissa Qua
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27/02/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Symphonious » Beware The Unused Thread
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27/02/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : Henry Jenkins has made his comments known about the Second Life debate and Clay Shirky's quantitative style of historical impact measurement... - I agree with the argument that something can be significant and influential even if it is not particularly popular. See the Pixies for more information on that one. However, it is reasonable to interrogate statistics to measure whether something has mains
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27/02/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
plasticbag : Alister McGrath is all over the place (including the Daily Mail) in an attempt to promote his book, a response to Dawkins' The God Delusion - The Dawkins book is, it has to be said, clumsy and yes, sure, Dawkins himself comes across as arrogant and rude. But while McGrath takes delight in picking apart some of Dawkins' strategies, he doesn't really counter his arguments...
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27/02/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : List of sampled songs used by Daft Punk. Here's... - List of sampled songs used by Daft Punk. Here's a video of some of them. (link)
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27/02/2007 @ 15:02 GMT
Linkorama : MySpace: Why We Block Widgets - ...commercial widgets not allowed, and potentially charged for one day
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27/02/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
Linkorama : Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle - "When we talk to small-business people about their personal businesses, the biggest complaint we hear is about loneliness and the lack of social networks," King says on Coworking
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27/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : Interesting old piece of video from Steve Jobs about Microsoft and their lack of taste... - "I'm saddened ... not by their success, which I think they've earned ... for the most part ... I'm saddened by the fact that they just make really third rate products..."
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27/02/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : This video has so much goodness in it: a short... - This video has so much goodness in it: a short Bollywood-esque production featuring Daleks and the Tardis and then Kevin Smith arriving at an event flanked by a bunch of Stormtroopers, Boba Fett, and Anakin Skywalker. "Stormtroopers, keep it tight, we got
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27/02/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : OpenID and microformats support on XTech site - OpenID and microformats support on XTech site. “A single-sign on solution like OpenID solves an important problem for us, as most people tend to interact with our conference web sites in only one or two time periods each year.â€
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27/02/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
plasticbag : BBC News reports that the gene that allows most Westerners to consume cow milk effectively only appeared in the last few thousand years - Apparently it gave humans such an enormous advantage that it subsequently spread like wildfire through Western Europe.
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27/02/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Introducing swfIR, swf Image Replacement - Dan Mall unleashes swfIR, swf image replacement technique that affords "an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website" using JavaScript and Flash. Examples: elastic header, rotated image, rounded corners. A backstage look at the dev
Rod Begbie : swfIR: swf Image Replacement - Cunning use of Flash and Javascript to enable "special effects" (borders, rotation and shadows) on images in web pages cleanly. [via] #
jimray : swfIR: swf Image Replacement - Like sifr but for images. Pretty cool, allows for cool inline image effects with graceful degrading.
Simon Willison : swf Image Replacement - swf Image Replacement. Really neat idea: unobtrusively replace an inline image with a SWF, then apply effects like rotation, rounded corners and drop-shadowns. Shame it suffers from Flash-Of-Unstyled-Content.
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27/02/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : This is for you. - This is for you.: jwz really finds the gems
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27/02/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Bazooka tee - Bazooka tee. Can't wait for this one to arrive in the mail.
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Cameron Moll : Job (re)Pile - R. Marie Cox enhances the aesthetics and utility of Job Pile, a job board aggregator that seems to be getting better with age.
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27/02/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo’s Terry Semel: Call For His Head - Yahoo’s Terry Semel: Call For His Head: "What incentive is there to do better when you already are making $110 million a year???" Yikes!
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27/02/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : History of Minesweeper - including an overview of the modern remakes and variations
Rod Begbie : 'Beyond Tetris' - Minesweeper - History of everyone's favourite Windows feature. [via] #
nelson : Minesweeper history - Nicely written overview
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27/02/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
veen : S.F.'s Castro district faces an identity crisis / As straights move in, some fear loss of the area's character - Heterosexuals "are welcome as long as they understand this is our community."
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27/02/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The Taste3 conference has put some videos from their 2006... - The Taste3 conference has put some videos from their 2006 conference up on YouTube. All three talks they posted are worth a look: Dan Barber of Blue Hill, global warming and wine, and Bryant Simon on Starbucks. (link)
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27/02/2007 @ 04:24 GMT
adamrg : Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto - "the Psychopathic School, Elitism, the failure of Progressive Education"
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27/02/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : DMCA takedown notice for BackupHDDVD at SF.net - Doom9's Forum
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27/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The No-Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications - The No-Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications. Fantastically useful: Dan Webb digs through the API documentation so you don’t have to. The example code is for Rails but the PHP and Python libraries work in much the same way.
factoryjoe : danwebb.net - The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications - A great how-to on getting OpenID going on a Rails app. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: ruby on rails, rails, openid, how-to, tutorial
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27/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : So Beautiful, So Disturbing - So Beautiful, So Disturbing: Windows Vista is like being married to a hot chick who occasionally grabs you by the throat to ask for permission.
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27/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Panama Puts Yahoo Back in the Race - Panama Puts Yahoo Back in the Race: "Yahoo's pit stop will prove to be a sound--if somewhat belated--strategic move, and there's no doubt the company will see revenue improvements before the year is over."
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27/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo!: Time for Plan B - Yahoo!: Time for Plan B: "I have finalized our proposed "Plan B" for Yahoo! and it was delivered to Yahoo!'s Corporate Secretary Friday morning. We've submitted the necessary paperwork to present it at the May annual meeting of shar
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27/02/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Things I Desperately Wish Women Would Say to Me on... - Things I Desperately Wish Women Would Say to Me on First Dates. "Is that an XXL Magic: The Gathering shirt? Plus five to Gryffindor!" (via fimoculous) (link) [via]
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27/02/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
jimray : When bad financial news for newspapers is good news for journalism - In essence, it takes expectations out of the stratosphere and helps newspapers get back to the job of churning out the news
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27/02/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Oxford Geek Night 2 call for proposals - Oxford Geek Night 2 call for proposals. The next event is coming up in April. Get your talk proposals in now!
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27/02/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Some recent rigorous radiocarbon dating has thrown into doubt the... - Some recent rigorous radiocarbon dating has thrown into doubt the theory that the Americas were first settled 11,000 years ago by the so-called Clovis peoples. (link)
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27/02/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
43folders : Macworld: News: Apple TV ship date pushed back to mid-March - "Expected to ship by the end of February, Apple on Monday said that Apple TV will be delayed for a couple of weeks." [via: TUAW]
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27/02/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
WillPate : What is an Open Creative Community? - Richard Florida says it's a must read, so you should probably check it out`
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27/02/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
WillPate : NowPublic is "the largest participatory journalism website in the world"
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27/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : Browser testing CSS and JavaScript | 456 Berea Street
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27/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : YouTube - Samantha, Mozilla Party Dog - so very, very wrong
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27/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : preed's blah-blah-blahg: ([Mm]ozilla[^z]|[Ff]irefox|[Gg]ecko|[Tt]underbird)
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27/02/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : David Remnick speculates on Al Gore, candidate for the 2008... - David Remnick speculates on Al Gore, candidate for the 2008 Presidential election. "Gore, more than any other major Democratic Party figure, including the many candidates assembled for next year's Presidential nomination, has demonstrated in opposition pr
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27/02/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Forth Lesson 0 - OLPCWiki - FORTH!
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27/02/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week
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27/02/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : The 51 (smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most influential, most necessary,... - The 51 (smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most influential, most necessary, most important, most essential, etc.) magazines ever. (link)
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