12/03/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Wave Bubble - A design for a self-tuning portable RF jammer
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12/03/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
nelson : Einstein Cross - A specific gravitational lens. Beautiful example.
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12/03/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Harry Potter book 'often unread' - According to a survey, 32% of people who bought the fourth Harry Potter book didn't finish reading it. Which makes sense, because it was shit. Life's too short for 200 pages on a Quidditch tournament. #
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12/03/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
joshua : dbpedia - community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia
Simon Willison : dbpedia.org - dbpedia.org. They scrape Wikipedia and extract useful information from it so you don’t have to.
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Linkorama : Corporate Wikis Go Viral - Two European companies show how the collaborative practice spreads from early adopters of wikis at work to become mainstream business tools
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12/03/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
nelson : GDC trip report - Ryan does a great job writing up the conference
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12/03/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : Chocolate Guinness Cake - This looks tasty...
deusx : Chocolate Guinness Cake - "1 cup Guinness Stout (and one for me)"
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12/03/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Spamtrap - Art. "When a new spam email is detected by the installation, it automatically prints it out. The printed email slides down a track into the shredder that analyzes it." [via] #
wearehugh : Spamtrap
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12/03/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
43folders : Nelson's Weblog: tech / computerClocks - "But lots of software still uses local timestamps. Apache, for instance, logs its timestamps in local time. Don't do that."
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12/03/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
jcgregorio : http://pythonpaste.org/initools/ - Like ConfigParser, but with some extensions that I find appealing.
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12/03/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
nelson : Mad Englishman drink - A lovely cocktail, like a Pimm's Cup as a cocktail instead of long drink
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12/03/2007 @ 16:02 GMT
43folders : TWiT 90: Idiocracy [Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Andy Ihnatko, Wil Harris, and John C. Dvorak] - Mr. Dvorak and I vigorously agree that you should rent "Idiocracy" immediately. Mr. Ihnatko and I invoke Prof. Frink. Bad British accents abound.
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12/03/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Balancing One-Wheeled Scooter - Balancing One-Wheeled Scooter. Technical details of the scooter I linked to earlier.
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12/03/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : opensource @ Joost - opensource @ Joost. Joost is built on top of Mozilla, Redland, SQLite and a bunch of other bits and pieces of Open Source infrastructure.
factoryjoe : Joost™ - Open Source - At Joost™ some of our software is built on top of open source code, and we're proud of it! These pages attempt to skim the surface of what we do with open source, and also provide a glimpse of how we try to contribute back to the commu
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12/03/2007 @ 08:02 GMT
joshua : Principles of economics, translated - standup economics
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12/03/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Bandito Coastguard - "Los Banditos Locos, a Horde guild on the Barthilas realm of World of Warcraft, teaches the Alliance how to take a bath. Well, we hope they had soap in their pockets for their swim, anyway. Avast! Arrr!"
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12/03/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Caffeinated Donut Invented - Caffeinated Donut Invented: "Wouldn't it be easier to just make coffee-soluble doughnuts?"
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12/03/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Man Who Plays Devil's Advocate Really Just Wants To Be Asshole - Man Who Plays Devil's Advocate Really Just Wants To Be Asshole: "Though area graphic designer Derek Sills says he plays devil's advocate to help his friends better understand opinions different from their own, sources close to Sills claim he
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12/03/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
WillPate : flickurbook - Import flickr photos and entire photosets into facebook. Rock.
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12/03/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
nelson : Loudness war - Music is increasingly recorded and broadcast at higher volumes, leading to clipping and distortion
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12/03/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : Habitat Chronicles: The Untold History of Toontown's SpeedChat (or BlockChat<sup>tm</sup> from Disney finally arrives) - "I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny. "
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12/03/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : aim_20070310.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) - "Leda Cosmides, renowned pioneer of the controversial field evolutionary psychology, asks, 'Are We Already Transhuman?' Don't miss this Templeton Research Lecture recorded for All in the Mind at Arizona State University."
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12/03/2007 @ 05:02 GMT
jimray : New Yorker redesigns - I mostly like it, sorta Morning Newsish, but really, you just can't wait to read what Kottke thinks
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12/03/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
deusx : A Workshop Lexicon - "This lexicon was compiled by Mr Lewis Shiner and myself from the work of many writers and critics over many years of genre history, and it contains buzzwords, notions and critical terms of direct use to SF workshops."
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12/03/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » html5lib 0.9 Released
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12/03/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : philwilson.org: IE7, an impartial review
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12/03/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : SXSW Panel: How to bluff your way in Web 2.0 - CenterNetworks - News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews - i shall bookmark this in del.icio.us and it will show up tomorrow on my microformats-enabled blog through the magic of some crappy blogging api (probably metaweblog)
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12/03/2007 @ 04:03 GMT
43folders : Values of n Blog: Stikkit won a SXSW award! - Congrats to the Stikkit team!
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12/03/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Aermacchi SF.260 - Aermacchi SF.260: "The Aermacchi SF.260 is a light aircraft marketed as an aerobatics plane and a military trainer."
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12/03/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : XSS - XSS. Sanitising HTML is an extremely hard problem. The sanitize helper that ships with Rails is completely broken; Jacques Distler provides a better alternative.
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12/03/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
wearehugh : kafsemo.org: 2007-02-26: Migration to Atom - "having people with the confidence to publish valuable content without working around others’ bugs seems like an important part of the ecosystem"
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plasticbag : Darth Vader expresses today's mood very very well indeed... - There's a whole series of Star Wars characters on Twitter. Chewbacca's my favourite. Thanks to Paul for pointing it all out...
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