6/03/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
cobra libre : The Avant Garde Project - "The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music li #
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6/03/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : digital-scurf → software → aranha - "Aranha is a Lua and FastCGI based web application framework."
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6/03/2007 @ 22:18 GMT
adamrg : The Glass Isn’t 80% Empty, It’s 20% Full!
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6/03/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
Linkorama : Any questions for Ross Mayfield? - Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be interviewing Ross Mayfield, co-founder and CEO of Socialtext for a podcast on PodLeaders.com.
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6/03/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
Linkorama : Has Open-Source Lost its Halo? - Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry?
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6/03/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
kellan : Wordpress.com adds support for OpenID at FactoryCity - Wordpress.com adds support for OpenID at FactoryCity. More and more interesting openid consumers (RPs) every day. update Hmm, maybe not #
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6/03/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
nelson : "faggot" line kills - Laughing it up with the American Conservative union
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6/03/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : OpenID on WordPress.com - OpenID on WordPress.com: Nice job, Simon!
Simon Willison : OpenID on WordPress.com - OpenID on WordPress.com. My first project launch as a freelancer. You can now use your WordPress.com blog as an OpenID.
jimray : OpenID comes to WordPress.com - Use your WordPress login as an OpenID now
plasticbag : Now you can use your Wordpress ID as an OpenID. This is a cool thing. - Bloody typical of that Willison chap to be behind it as well. Come back to work, Simon. I'm really bored and I miss you.
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6/03/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Email is passe - Email is passe: "I’m convinced that not one congressperson ever checks their own email."
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6/03/2007 @ 20:03 GMT
nelson : NAT PMP - The alternative to UPnP for NAT traversal; Airport Extreme only implements this
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6/03/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
nelson : Trivial Ruby NAT-PMP - Evan wrote some simple code
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6/03/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Libby is guilty - Mind you, the real criminals are still unindicted
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6/03/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Coffee 'no boost in the morning' - "The work [...] showed only people who have avoided coffee for a while will get a buzz from caffeine." I'll say. I accidentally had caffeinated coffee for the first time in months last night, and I'm still buzzing. [via] #
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6/03/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Ex-Google Answers researchers launch Q&A site - including 9 of the top 12 most prolific answerers
cameron : Ex-Google Answers Researchers Launch Q&A Site - Same pay structure, same experience. I wonder if it'll garner traffic without the Google name?
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6/03/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
kellan : Using sparklines to aid conference proposal selection - Using sparklines to aid conference proposal selection. Nifty. Best use of sparklines in a while. #
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6/03/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
nelson : That phone guy - I had no idea this collection existed; Merlin being hysterical 30 seconds at a time
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6/03/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
jimray : Remixed TV themese from the 80's - From Fatal Farm, the guys who brought you Infinite Solutions. These are awesome, probably not safe for work.
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6/03/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
jimray : L'esprit de l'escalier - "a French term that describes the predicament of thinking of the right comeback too late"
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6/03/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : trailer for MAXED OUT, new film about the credit card industry
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6/03/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
nelson : SuperCard Info - coherent description of a NDS/GBA homebrew solution
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6/03/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
nelson : Email is doomed - Jeremy's right; spam is so bad that email is not useful anymore
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6/03/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Serving Compressed Content from Amazon's S3 - Serving Compressed Content from Amazon's S3: nice
bmilleare : Serving Compressed Content from Amazon S3
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deusx : It’s All Text! « Archive « The Doctor What - "Have you ever had to fill in a form on a web page and wished you could open it in an editor?"
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Jeremy Zawodny : One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't... - One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't...: "What is it about Apple that makes its users unable to shut their mouths? Everywhere I go, there's another asshole with a Mac preaching about how much better Macs are than PCs."
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Jeremy Zawodny : A demo of Pipes with Pasha and Ed - A demo of Pipes with Pasha and Ed: our Pipes screencast/interview is on-line now. check it out, if that's your sorta thing
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6/03/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Another War We're Not Winning: Us vs Spam - Another War We're Not Winning: Us vs Spam: no shit
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plasticbag : The BBC's religion site includes a section on the religion of 'atheism'... - The best response I've seen was featured on cloudsoup.com, "If atheism is a religion then not collecting stamps is a hobby..."
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Khoi Vinh : Waffle House Grill Cook’s Cheat Sheet - A fantastic example of information design in the wild.
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6/03/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : debug output from the YouTube embedded flash player - (via programming.reddit) [via]
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6/03/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : Matt Webb in early 2005 was trying to work out what to do next with his life, and I'm guessing in retrospect feels good about his decision... - I wonder whether I'll be the same.
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6/03/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : Stop bitching. Make it better... - Something I wrote in 2003 that I still agree with. Nick Carr please take note.
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6/03/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : Whatever happened to Jenny Everywhere, open source superhero? - The Barbelith crew were partly behind Jenny Everywhere, and there seemed to be all kinds of activity around her before eventually it all fell apart and disappeared. Quite disappointing...
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6/03/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : What is the origin of the phrase, "Carving nature by its joints"? - If anyone knows the answer, I'd really like to know it...
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6/03/2007 @ 13:02 GMT
Isofarro : SOCITM: Better Connected 2007 - Donna Smilie, from the RNIB Web Access Centre expresses her concern about people who interpret the Better Connected report as saying anything less than Double A (as per WCAG 1.0) is inaccessible. This is the wrong view, since accessibility is a continiumm
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6/03/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
deusx : Exploratorium: Opportunities for Artists
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6/03/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
deusx : Reading Comprehension and other controversies « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger - "There’s two separate styles of reading that I notice I’m in. One is a “grazing” style of reading where I’m just looking at the item and doing some quick pattern recognition on it."
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6/03/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
deusx : njr 3.0 - An AppleScript to update podcasts and your iPod - "These days nearly 100% of my iPod listening is podcasts, and iTunes’ iPod-syncing podcast support is decent but lacking in a few areas."
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6/03/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
deusx : Redirect test page - Content-Location and Base URL - "Your browser does NOT compute the base URI of the document per Section 14.14 of rfc2616"
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6/03/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
deusx : Making dynamic static pages | ianloic.com - I'd totally forgotten that FeedBurner now offers JSON renderings of RSS feeds. I should use this if I ever revamp to a new portal-of-me homepage.
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deusx : Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped--Now - "in the last few years I've been asking computer scientists and programmers whether they've ever typed E-N-G-E-L-B-A-R-T into Google-and none of them have."
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deusx : rc3.org: Is Lua the next big thing? - "Lua is a scripting language that was designed to extend applications. It's interesting to see it suddenly take off."
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6/03/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
deusx : HTTP Vocabulary in RDF - Was looking for something like this back when I was working on AgentFrank
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6/03/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
deusx : Tip #1500 - By default, when opening files in Mac OS X, a new vim window is opened. This shows you how to have only one window. : vim online - "This tip shows you how to make an applescript file, and how to use it so you can open files from the command line in the same window."
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6/03/2007 @ 11:04 GMT
Jason Shellen : Microsoft takes aim at Google project - Yahoo! News - In other news, Microsoft pointed out that the little girl on the corner selling lemonade is not adhering to home owners association rules about signage on lawns. #
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6/03/2007 @ 11:04 GMT
Eric Meyer : Cuckoos use mafia-style tactics to raise young - Ah, the unspoiled beauty of nature, so free of the duplicity and violence at which humans excel...
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6/03/2007 @ 11:03 GMT
jimray : USAToday.com 2.0 - Yeah, Mike Arrington loves the new USAToday (shocker) but not everyone is so enamored.
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6/03/2007 @ 11:03 GMT
jimray : How the geeks get thin - Hacker's diets, dietblogs, treadmills that check email and more
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6/03/2007 @ 11:03 GMT
jimray : U.S. Government bans Vista, Office 2007 - That's a pretty big customer...
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6/03/2007 @ 11:03 GMT
jimray : The purge of U.S. attorneys (partially) explained - "Perhaps the most important lesson to be drawn from the purge isn't that the Bush administration puts ideology above the rule of law."
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6/03/2007 @ 11:03 GMT
jimray : In praise of the parasitic blogger - "Another word for "parasitic," in this context, is "critical." Blogging is at its essence a critical form, a means of recycling other writings to ensure their fullest and most efficient consumption."
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6/03/2007 @ 11:03 GMT
deusx : Printable Cold Sores - "Printable cold sores allow us to take action! Bring these people back down to our level, and tell advertisers that you don't agree with their message."
cobra libre : Printable cold sores! [via] #
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6/03/2007 @ 11:03 GMT
WillPate : Stumbleupon: The Other Monkey in the Jungle
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Simon Willison : phpbb-openid: Your AIM screen name is your OpenID - phpbb-openid: Your AIM screen name is your OpenID. Log in to a phpBB board with an AOL OpenID and it will try to associate your OpenID with an account that lists that AIM in the profile. This is the kind of behaviour I talked about in my FOWA talk.
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6/03/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Security; AJAX; JSON; Satisfaction - Security; AJAX; JSON; Satisfaction. The JSON attack I linked to earlier only works against raw arrays, which technically aren’t valid JSON anyway.
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6/03/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Red Campaign, and Smugness in General - Red Campaign, and Smugness in General: "People shouldn’t give to charity to get laid or feel superior to those around them. They should do it because it’s the right thing to do."
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6/03/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The 50 Most Important People on the Web - The 50 Most Important People on the Web: HA! this list is all over the map... WTF?!
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6/03/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Fawlty Towers map in Counter-Strike - the lobby looks perfect, down to the moose head [via]
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6/03/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Items on Amazon.com that you cannot (or at least should not) buy - dark, unswept corners of a giant store
Jeremy Zawodny : Items on Amazon.com that you cannot (or at least should not) buy - Items on Amazon.com that you cannot (or at least should not) buy: heh... there's some funny shit in there
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6/03/2007 @ 07:48 GMT
adamrg : Causes of the "Seattle Chill" - It is amazing how it is possible to get 'the chill' in the town you grew up in if you are gone long enough.
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6/03/2007 @ 00:03 GMT
joshua : Oh No Robot - distributed comic transcription + search engine
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6/03/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Simon Willison : JSON is not as safe as people think it is - JSON is not as safe as people think it is. Joe Walker reminds us that even authenticated JSON served without a callback or variable assignment is vulnerable to CSRF in Firefox, thanks to that browser letting you redefine the Array constructor.
deusx : JSON is not as safe as people think it is - Joe Walker's Blog - I thought everyone knew this! Ugh! "I believe that JSON is unsafe for anything but public data unless you are using unpredictable URLs."
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6/03/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Octopart - Octopart: "Octopart is a search engine for electronic parts." if done well, that is awesome!
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6/03/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Confessions of an Empty-Nester - Confessions of an Empty-Nester: the tale of how a couple moved downtowm from the burbs
jimray : Confessions of an empty-nester - Couple moves from the 'burbs to downtown Seattle and are pretty much loving it
jcgregorio : Confessions of an Empty-Nester - Zillow Blog - I sometimes wonder if the city is the "new small town", and if this is true of all cities or just special ones like Seattle and Portland.
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6/03/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : mod_evasive - mod_evasive: "mod_evasive is an evasive maneuvers module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack."
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6/03/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jason Kottke : Free throws - Free throw shooting is one of my favorite topics. It's the whole relaxed concentration aspect of it: can you focus enough so that the years of practice undertaken to train the unconscious self to shoot override the conscious self's desire to take control [via]
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