3/04/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : LJWorld launches local business directory - Aims to compete with bigger players (Google, Yahoo) by being hyper focused and knowledgeable about the community. Not a bad model for newspapers.
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3/04/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes - "What I want from my local newspaper"
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3/04/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
deusx : New Balance Joy Division | Hypebeast - Online Magazine for Fashion, Sneakers, and Culture - "Here is an interesting sneaker if you’re a fan of New Balance or English rock band Joy Division. It looks like New Balance has produced a tribute sneaker for this legendary group."
cobra libre : New Balance Joy Division Sneakers - But can I hang myself by the laces? [via] #
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3/04/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : AppleScript Language Guide
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3/04/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : Aix restaurants - Seems a fairly good list; better than the spammy crap Google turns up
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3/04/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : FireGPG - use GPG easily in Firefox ! - Firefox extension to enable GPG encryption/verification in GMail. Need to give this a shot. [via] #
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3/04/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
gleuschk : past final, prelim, and qualifying exams for the Syracuse math dept - look, ma! technology!
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3/04/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Skim - Open source software that functions as “a PDF Reader and note-taker for Mac OS X. Skim is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF.” Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog. [via]
joshua : Skim - read and annotate pdfs
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3/04/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
nelson : King o' Pop is comin back! - A 50 foot robot that shoots laser beams!
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3/04/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : PC World - The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time - Limited to products released since the "personal computer". I don't want to imagine a world that didn't have these products as stepping stones. [via] #
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3/04/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : Elizabeth Edwards: Realistic About Her Prognosis - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com - "I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy."
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3/04/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Consumating releases source code - from the readme: "HACK TIL IT WORKS"
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43folders : instructables : Macpack - "I have racked up more geek points by creating a backpack from an old macintosh SE computer c. 1988" [via:Makezine]
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3/04/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
43folders : Elgato's Turbo 264 USB Stick Encodes H.264 for Your iPod, iPhone and Apple TV - Gizmodo - If it works as described, this could make a digital video creator's life a bit easier.
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3/04/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
43folders : iScroll2: Two-Finger-Scrolling for pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks - "Supported models include most aluminum PowerBooks introduced from 2003 to 2004 as well as most G4 iBooks."
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3/04/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
43folders : Oddica - Company John Gruber uses to make and ship his shirts.
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3/04/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : Python loose at Google NY - They should really consider Ruby
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3/04/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
jonhicks : CompanyName - How about Hicksdesign? Another one of those stock logo sites taking inspiration a bit too far.
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3/04/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
wearehugh : Security for GWT Applications - Google Web Toolkit | Google Groups
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Linkorama : Influence by Modeling Tiger Woods - ecently, I picked up a great new book called Tiger Traits by Dr. Nate Booth. The premise is that you can learn a lot about success by studying arguably the greatest golfer who ever lived. However, as I dug into the nine secrets outlined in the book, I saw
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3/04/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
nelson : Crazy security stories - Computer security is only getting worse
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3/04/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : Universal Studios spoof - hysterical video from the South Park guys
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3/04/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Washington Post Redesign as a Wiki - Hypothetical redesign.
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jcgregorio : TTI-Vanguard-NextGen-Technologies.pdf (application/pdf Object)
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3/04/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Philip K. Dick blog - (via boingboing) [via]
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3/04/2007 @ 17:02 GMT
nelson : Limiting API access - Some ways to control your developers; doesn't address the sticky authentication problem
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nelson : Crazy plane formation - I guess the P-51 is fast enough to keep up
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3/04/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : boot stamping on a human face - forever - (via schneier) [via]
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3/04/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
wearehugh : You're not on a fucking plane (and if you are, it doesn't matter)! - (37signals) - awesome rant
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3/04/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
wearehugh : Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » EMI To Sell DRM-Free Music - "By bundling the lockin-freedom with something else (higher fidelity) Apple might obscure the fact that it is charging a premium for lockin-free music."
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3/04/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
jimray : Slate wants to know how they should fix their message boards
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3/04/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Lawrence Journal-World Marketplace - Lawrence Journal-World Marketplace. While other newspapers complain about competition from the internet, my former employer is embracing it. This is why local newspapers still matter. [via]
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3/04/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Simon Willison : phpsh - phpsh. An interactive shell for PHP, developed at Facebook and written mostly in Python. Facebook are really pushing their open-source stuff at the moment.
deusx : phpsh -- an interactive shell for php - "phpsh is an interactive shell for php that features readline history, tab completion, quick access to documentation. It was developed at Facebook and ironically, is written mostly in python. It is open source."
Rod Begbie : phpsh -- an interactive shell for php - This could come in handy for sanity checking syntax when writing PHP. Bizarrely, it's mostly written in Python! [via] #
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3/04/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : Adactio: Journal - Streaming my life away - "I’ve mocked up my own little life stream, tracking my Twitter, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Last.fm, and blog posts. It’s a quick’n’dirty script that isn’t doing any caching."
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3/04/2007 @ 09:03 GMT
jimray : Fake Steve nails the Kathy Sierra/Scoble/code of ethics inanity - "What you need is a cluestick and you should be beating yourselves with it."
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3/04/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
jimray : Slate wants to know how they should fix their message boards
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3/04/2007 @ 08:03 GMT
joshua : Supermarket 2.0 - ok, i feel strange
deusx : YouTube - Supermarket 2.0 - "Episodes in a supermarket a-la web 2.0 ;-)"
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3/04/2007 @ 07:02 GMT
deusx : I HATE IT HERE: Dear bubble veterans: We get it. Now shut up, you're harshing our buzz. - Valleywag - 'We'll laugh all the way to the billion-dollar buyout. And when the dust settles and it's time to make the fuck-you money say "fuck you," we'll see who looks stupid.'
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3/04/2007 @ 07:02 GMT
deusx : Pupusas (El Salvadorean Tortilla) Recipe | Recipezaar - "They are very filling, but it is hard to stop eating them even when you are full."
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3/04/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Curtido Recipe | Recipezaar - "This Salvadorean condiment resembling cole slaw is customarily paired with pupusas."
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3/04/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Web Hypertext Application Technology Task Force
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3/04/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Plagiarize This! - When all else fails, start a museum of public shaming. [via John] [via]
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3/04/2007 @ 04:03 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Reuters: Wii Are the Champions? - “The anticipated battle between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 for videogame console supremacy has become a sideshow to the unexpected rise of Nintendo's Wii as the new-generation game console of choice.”
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3/04/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : [PDF] Why people hate Clippy - a masters thesis. really.
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3/04/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : Friday, April 13th: International Unicode Screen Name Day - i am very proud that this post made it through feedparser and into planet intertwingly without getting munged
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3/04/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext wikis are enterprise pluggable - On document, directory, search, portal, mobile, offline, API and more integration
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3/04/2007 @ 02:07 GMT
Linkorama : Venture Hacks - Really great entrepreneur’s guide to hacking venture capital
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3/04/2007 @ 02:04 GMT
deusx : YouTube - The best unedited fight sequence ever - 'This is the most impressive fight sequence I have ever seen that contains no edits. From the movie "The Protector", featuring Tony Jaa (of Ong Bak fame), this stedicam shot lasts over 3 min.'
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3/04/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
deusx : Blood types A, B converted to type O | Science & Health | Reuters - "In a report released Sunday, researchers describe the use of newly discovered enzymes to convert blood types A, B, and AB into O, the universal donor type."
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3/04/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Video: Alanis Morissette covers "My Humps" - classy, but I think I still prefer Dogwelder's version [via]
nelson : Alanis / My Humps - It sounds dumb, but it's really pretty great
deusx : YouTube - Alanis Morissette "My Humps" video - Best. Version. Evar.
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3/04/2007 @ 01:07 GMT
Cameron Moll : Designed for communication: Hook & Ladder Co. - Hook & Ladder Printing Co., "the original greeting card chocolate bar company," unveils a site design whose aesthetics seem to accurately represent the company's products. This, for me, is a superlative example of designing for communication, which ha
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3/04/2007 @ 01:05 GMT
Cameron Moll : Introducing Scrapblog - Scrapblog is now live. The Flash-based UI is pretty slick, with template designs by Veerle Pieters, Cindy Li, and others. The fact that I can create a scrapbook without first having to sign in is merely icing on the cake.
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3/04/2007 @ 01:05 GMT
Linkorama : Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing? - [I am linking to a Steven Levy collumn]
deusx : Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing? - Newsweek Steven Levy - MSNBC.com - "The lure of Twitter—as well as its Achilles heel—is its simplicity. You "twitter" (yes, it's a verb) by answering the question "What are you doing?" in 140 characters or less."
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adamrg : Calcanis interviews Ev - Some background info on Twitter. Interesting stuff.
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3/04/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
wearehugh : Official Google Blog: About the New Orleans imagery in Google Maps and Earth
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Khoi Vinh : Transcript of Today’s Apple/EMI Press Conference - Steve Jobs and EMI Group head Eric Nicoli on why they went D.R.M.-free on their iTunes deal.
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Cameron Moll : I {heart} D. Fireball - I just sent an order across the interweb for one copy of Helmet (L), thereby renewing my Daring Fireball membership for another year. If you can't start your week without DF, take a minute to do the same.
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jimray : MSNBC Jockeys for attention online - WSJ profile of the MSNBC.com ad campaign
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cobra libre : Edith Nylon do "Edith Nylon" #
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Jeremy Zawodny : Landing A Glider [video] - Landing A Glider [video]: That's David Weekly in the front of Grob N3836L and me flying from the back seat.
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