7/03/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : English majors as programmers - (via programming.reddit) [via]
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7/03/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Coins circulating without ‘In God We Trust’ - About goddamn time. Oh. Wait. It's a mistake? Dammit.
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7/03/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Details on PS3 Home, their MMO world with media sharing - watch the video; I'm looking forward to communal viewings of bootleg TV shows
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7/03/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : W3C Launches New HTML Working Group
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7/03/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
nelson : FAIR on Mormonism - Detailed site presenting a defense of Moronism from a critical point of view.
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7/03/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
43folders : SmileOnMyMac Blog » Blog Archive » TextExpander: Simplify Tasks With %Clipboard - Excellent tip from Gordon Meyer on using the "%clipboard" variable in TE snippets. [via:Hackszine]
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7/03/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
deusx : Me Gusta Comer Gatos t-shirt and apparel from Zazzle.com - I must re-find this video: 'I had to sit through this horrible video attempting to teach students the meaning of the verb "gustar"-- to like. The video showed a high speed reel of images from movies and pictures with all kinds of things like cats and fren
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7/03/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Dr. Macro's XML Rants: Cool Geek Toy: iRobot Roomba Vacuum - I had no idea the Roomba had an API
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7/03/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
nelson : Wiki scandle update - Fallout from Essjay's lying about his credentials
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7/03/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : Burrito map - burritoeater.com's map of all their reviews
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7/03/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Secrets & features of iTunes 7.1 - "iTunes now correctly identifies the color of an aluminum second-generation iPod shuffle under the Library and Settings menus"
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Linkorama : CommunicationProtocols - Wiki - easiest to incrementally collect state and state changes, in an open manner that others (the community) can help iterate. Organizational/capturing cognitive load is shifted more towards the writer than the reader, and thus is overall more community
factoryjoe : tantek / CommunicationProtocols - Tantek's rules of communication engagement. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: tantek, email, protocols
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7/03/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : scientist's opinion of Hawkins' cortex sim
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7/03/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
nelson : Canon SD800 IS - Canon's tiny line comes with a 28mm lens and IS now!
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7/03/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
nelson : SVN for legislation! - This idea is so obvious; record the edit history of legislation
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7/03/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
jimray : TerraPass - 21st century carbon footprint indulgences - In the old days, you bought indulgences to get in to heaven. This seems like a better use of your cash, since I'm pretty sure that whole heaven thing is a scam.
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7/03/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : TiVo Amazon Unbox service launched | PVRblog - You can buy and/or rent movies or TV shows from Amazon's Unbox service, and have them show up on your TiVo. Bigger library than Apple's movie service -- Could this help keep TiVo afloat a smidge longer? (Your first $15 hit is free. I just "bought" The #
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7/03/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Python Slithers into Systems
Matthew M. Boedicker : Python use in airline systems developed at ITA - Twisted too
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7/03/2007 @ 18:03 GMT
kellan : Wikipedia: Machine tag - Wikipedia: Machine tag. “Machine tags are form of tag, introduced in January 2007 by Flickr. They comprise three parts, a namespace, a predicate and a value.” Goodness. #
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7/03/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
deusx : 365 tomorrows » 124 - "So, Paul, you’re profiting off of the crimes and careers of 123 of the world’s greatest criminals."
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7/03/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Wired News: Downloading Is a Packrat's Dream - "It starts with good intentions. 'I'm going to get all of these movies while I can.'"
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7/03/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Matt Haughey interviews Mythbusters' Adam Savage - an interesting glimpse into how Ask Metafilter influenced Mythbusters in their upcoming episode
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7/03/2007 @ 11:02 GMT
Jon Hicks : Soft, warm and approachable - Johnson Banks on the popularity of blobby fonts.
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7/03/2007 @ 11:02 GMT
Jon Hicks : Quicksilver Comma Trick - I finally understand the comma trick that people have been going on about, and boy what a difference it makes!
Rod Begbie : Screencast on Quicksilver's "Comma Trick" - Didn't know you could do this with QuickSilver. Those Windows apps that try to clone just the program launching part of QS are really missing the beauty of the app. #
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7/03/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
WillPate : Foundphotos - Photograhps found by searching P2P networks for common digital camera file names. An amazing peek into people's lives.
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7/03/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : 37 Signals' next app Highrise will support OpenID - 37 Signals’ next app Highrise will support OpenID. I can’t wait to see how the 37 Signals team deal with the UI challenges involved in supporting OpenID logins.
jimray : 37 Signals’ next app Highrise will support OpenID - Apparently, the rest of the 37 Signals apps will, too
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7/03/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
jimray : NBC decided to host some HD Spider-Man 3 footage for 24 hours, which is about the stupidest idea ever - This is retarded and shows exactly why TV people just don't get the web. IT'S NOT FUCKING TV, YOU MORONS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT JUST LIKE YOUR PRECIOUS IDIOT BOXES!
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7/03/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
WillPate : World Imbalances Shown on Unique Maps
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7/03/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
cameron : LazerTag commercial - More 80's nostalgia, and one of the most epic commercials evar. Is it just me, or was LazerTag just glorified infrared remote controls? How we had the wool pulled over our eyes.
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7/03/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
cameron : 80's ShowBiz Pizza Place Promomentary - A 29-year-old man with a dream... a dream for dancing bears and pizza! And kids kids kids! (via channel 53)
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7/03/2007 @ 09:02 GMT
kellan : Q: How do you guys get any work done with all of the things you are involved in? - Q: How do you guys get any work done with all of the things you are involved in?. A: I wasn’t aware there was a difference between the two…I realized long ago that cutting back on the latter, rendered the former banal. #
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7/03/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
WillPate : Traffic on Community Sites vs Viral Marketing Sites - Community builds and builds, viral flashes and fizzles out quickly
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7/03/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Lottery Results - Yahoo! Lottery Results: that's some old skool yahoo design right there, I tell you
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7/03/2007 @ 06:03 GMT
deusx : Serbian vampire hunters prevent Milosevic come-back | The Register - "Serbian vampire hunters have acted to prevent the very remote possibility that former dictator Slobodan Milosevic might stage a come-back - by driving a three-foot stake through his heart."
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7/03/2007 @ 06:02 GMT
deusx : Boing Boing: Clarion bootcamp for sf writers deadline is Apr 1! - I want to go to Clarion someday. Need to start writing more, first. "This summer marks the first year that the venerable Clarion Writers' Workshop will run at the University of California at San Diego."
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7/03/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
deusx : Scripting News: Point of view - "They say it's just a rehash of Netvibes. If they had been aware of how RSS came to be, they would realize that it's the other way around, Netvibes is a reprise of My.Netscape. "
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7/03/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
philgyford : Disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy - Excellent stuff on following friends in Twitter, Flickr, etc. I must try and remember some of this for all those times I try and explain my online life to non-geek friends who look at me like I'm some weird stalking nerd. (via Yoz)
Rod Begbie : Ambient Intimacy - A good explanation of what's so lovely about Twitter, in a way I can explain to folks without sounding crazy. [via] #
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7/03/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
philgyford : Image: Architect scales back Smithfield plans - Building - Some good news about the redevelopment of the west end of Smithfield Market, but hard to tell exactly how good.
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7/03/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
philgyford : Borough Market - Network Rail and current 'Save the Borough Market' petitions - If you get a forwarded email about saving Borough Market, email the sender this and tell them to stop scaremongering. No one wants to get rid of the market (just run another railway above it).
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7/03/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
philgyford : Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing » Middleware Infrastructure - Magic percentages for getting the same font size on different platforms.
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7/03/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
philgyford : Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God - Robin Marantz Henig - New York Times - Why do people hold irrational, superstitious, religious views, and why does it persist over generations? Is there an evolutionary benefit? (via Kottke)
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7/03/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
deusx : Kepler: The Lua Web Development Platform - US.HomePage - "Kepler is a Web development platform. ... It is implemented as a set of Lua components, so it offers the same advantages as Lua: it is Simple, Portable, Light and Extensible (SIMPLE)"
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7/03/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
deusx : Barracuda Embedded Web Server - "A script engine that is faster, smaller and simpler than any Java VM." ...and that script engine would be Lua.
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7/03/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Hacking del.icio.us with Python - Hacking del.icio.us with Python. Nat introduces snaflr, a Python script for republishing selected links from a number of del.icio.us users to one communal account.
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7/03/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids - it's amazing how something can make so much sense, but feel so wrong [via]
adamrg : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids - Moment of clarity. Someday I'll write the post about how labels like "smart" have affected my life.
jcgregorio : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine
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7/03/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
jimray : John Edwards is a twitterer - That yellow background is SOO gay. I kid, I kid!
Rod Begbie : Twitter / johnedwards - John Edwards's campaign is Twittering his campaign stops. [via] #
nelson : John Edwards twitters - The Edwards campaign seems to be the new Internet campaign
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7/03/2007 @ 00:02 GMT
jimray : Things you can do to help save internet radio from the fuckwits at the RIAA - Fuck me, I'm pissed that I get so irrationally pissed about this fucking bullshit. Motherfucking assholes...
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