12/04/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Lure Design Inc. - Some great, if a little pricey, concert posters
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12/04/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
jonhicks : Google Reader Skin - Once this is nearer being ready, I'll post this on my blog, but for now you can get a sneaky peek via Flickr
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12/04/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Hey, that's my bike! - The lo-fi acoustic pop superhero strikes another blow for karmic justice!
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12/04/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
jcgregorio : NAUGHTY BY NATURE LYRICS - O.P.P. - suggested to be written to A.P.P. in #redmonk
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12/04/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : FluxCap.com, exploring the mystery of the Flux Capacitor invented by John Bajak - ...and other devices that cause temporal distortions
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12/04/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : What should you pay for a house? - The rent v. buy debate rages on and on and on
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12/04/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Newspapers Struggle to Respond to Web Challenge - Somewhat boring story about that crazy disruptive web thing using newspapers as an example
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12/04/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
adamrg : Darfur, Google Earth, Brilliant! - Forwarding to a couple other SS teachers I know.
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12/04/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
joshua : top tower defense games - some old ones, some new ones
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12/04/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
WillPate : The 20 Best Ever Penny Arcade Strips
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12/04/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Johari window allows other people to describe you and matches that with how you describe yourself... - This is my Johari window. Choose some words that you think describe me (don't be too unpleasant, please) and it'll help me get a better sense of myself. If I take it seriously. Which I hopefully won't.
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12/04/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Andy Baio : 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne - a cautionary tale about Rails from its biggest user [via]
jimray : 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne - Cool behind the scenes look and a some frank thoughts on webdev, ruby (and rails) and twitter v. blogging v. journalism. All in a few hundred words! So... meta.
nelson : Twitter engineer interview - One of the Twitter guys talks about how well Ruby on Rails is working for them
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12/04/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
43folders : PostCheck for Address Book - Brian Toth - $10 Address Book plugin finds and standardizes missing info for USPS addresses. Handy thing (that AB _should_ do already).
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12/04/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
43folders : FeedLight | BrokenLogic - Lovely NetNewsWire theme
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12/04/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Developing Intelligence : 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers - "Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence."
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12/04/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
deusx : Mooninites coming to Hub: Theaters ‘toon’ out Tom’s plea - Local & Regional - BostonHerald.com - "If it was banned in Boston it would get bigger numbers nationally because it would be front-page news."
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12/04/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Quercus: PHP in Java - Quercus: PHP in Java. A “fast, open-source, 100% Java implementation of the PHP language”, built to run on top of Resin. Claims to be compatibly with MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, Gallery2 and DocuWiki. [via]
deusx : Quercus: PHP in Java - "Quercus is Caucho Technology's fast, open-source, 100% Java implementation of the PHP language (requires JDK 1.5)."
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12/04/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Discourse DB - Discourse DB. A collaborative effort to collect the opinions of the world’s journalists and commentators about ongoing political events and issues, powered by Semantic MediaWiki so there’s metadata coming out of its ears.
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Jeremy Zawodny : The Ethics of Valleywag - The Ethics of Valleywag: "a certain Valleywag employee had picked up my cell phone and started going through it looking at my contacts"
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12/04/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
deusx : Marek P. Michalowski - BeatBots: Socially Rhythmic Robots - "We are currently developing and studying dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot Keepon, designed and built by Hideki Kozima."
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12/04/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Fido - Imagine the 50's with zombies as domestic servants and pets.
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12/04/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Sveinbjorn Thordarson's Website - Sloth - "Sloth is a program that displays a list of all open files in use by all the applications your user account is running on the system -- this list includes IP and Unix sockets, character devices and directories."
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12/04/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Simon Willison : HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web. Covers similar topics to my talk, but in much more detail.
deusx : Digital Web Magazine - HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - "HTML5 will be the future of the web, so my advice would be to pay close attention to it."
Rod Begbie : HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - Good summary of the "competing" HTML/XHTML "standards". There's the engineering side of my brain that loves the 'you have to close every tag' tidyness of XHTML, but let's face it, the pragmatic reverse-engineered-tag-soup approach of HTML5 is going to wi [via] #
factoryjoe : Digital Web Magazine - HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - While HTML 4.01 is formally an SGML-based document format, the only clients actually treating HTML that way are validators. Browsers, on the other hand, treat HTML documents as tag soup—they try to make sense out of, and display, even
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12/04/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Knuth on software patents - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
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12/04/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Simon Willison : What the heck is HTML 5? - What the heck is HTML 5?. Slides from my five minute HTML 5 talk at Oxford Geek Night 2.
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12/04/2007 @ 15:03 GMT
Khoi Vinh : NYT: “To Study Wine, Buy and Drink,” by Eric Asimov - “People ask me, more often than any other question by far, where to go to learn about wine… What I’m about to propose is a do-it-yourself method that has a lot to offer to just about anybody who loves wine, or wants to learn about it.
jimray : Eric Asimov, NY Times wine critic, has a radical way to learn about wine - Go buy some, take it home, drink it
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12/04/2007 @ 15:02 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Design Observer: Are JPEGs the New Album Covers? - Adrian Shaughnnesy says, “I’ve found nothing in the digital arena that offers a viable alternative to a well-designed CD or vinyl album cover. Instead, I”ve discovered… dozens of tiny record labels determined to hang onto physical
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12/04/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : RIP Kurt Vonnegut - thanks for all the books
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12/04/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
jonhicks : { the argyle academy } - hand-made, 100% awesome!
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12/04/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Quakr 7d Tiltometer - Quakr 7d Tiltometer. How the Quakr team built their own seven dimensional metadata camera using sellotape, protractors and a ball of string.
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12/04/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : quakr - quakr. Uses Flickr machine tags to add tilt/pan/direction information to photos, then displays them in the correct orientation in a 3D Flash viewer. Presented at last night’s Oxford Geek Night.
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12/04/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
plasticbag : Kurt Vonnegut has died aged 84... - One of my all-time favourite authors, responsi ble for the creation of probably all-time favourite book Slaughterhouse Five, has died. Gutted.
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12/04/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Guardian has a rather better obituary for Kurt Vonnegut
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12/04/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
jonhicks : Correo 0.2 released - Great new features like address book integration and keychain support. It may be early days, but Correo is coming along nicely!
Rod Begbie : Correo - a new mail client for OS X - An attempt to mould Thunderbird into a more Mac-like mail client. [via] #
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12/04/2007 @ 09:02 GMT
43folders : Beatles to release tracks online - Digital Music - Gadgets - Technology - "The band will now be free to negotiate...a new royalties deal that extends to online music downloads through services such as the iTunes Music Store."
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12/04/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
jimray : Stikkit quick with Quicksilver - This will probably get me to use Stikkit
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12/04/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Computer Makers Rape Their Customers - Computer Makers Rape Their Customers: "The first day of owning an expensive new gadget should be a pleasure, not a hassle." Indeed. This is completely out of control these days...
nelson : craplets - Nice rant against the crap that computer sellers shovel at you. White label machines don't have this problem; neither do Thinkpads
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12/04/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : San Jose City Hall Falcons - San Jose City Hall Falcons: "These are the two peregrine falcons that moved to Downtown San José in 2004-05, but have made City Hall home. City employees have named them (Santa) Clara and Jose (Fernando.)" With a webcam even!
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12/04/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Faces Brain Drain As Anniversaries Hit - Google Faces Brain Drain As Anniversaries Hit: well, duh...
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12/04/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Smoking Yahoo's Pipes (Orlando Weekly) - Smoking Yahoo's Pipes (Orlando Weekly): "I like the idea of turning all the data on the web into my raw material, to do with what I please. That’s the beautiful part of Pipes."
deusx : Orlando Weekly - SMOKING YAHOO!'S PIPES - "I like the idea of turning all the data on the web into my raw material, to do with what I please. That’s the beautiful part of Pipes. Still, the more data we deposit in the hive-mind of the web, the less power we have over it."
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12/04/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
wearehugh : Joi Ito's Web: Mindfulness and deferred yak shaving
deusx : Joi Ito's Web: Mindfulness and deferred yak shaving - "I figure I should probably be respectful to the spirit of the promise with the "meditation me" so that I'll continue to trust my requests for deferred yak shaving during my meditation."
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12/04/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : 101 Essential Freelancing Resources - 101 Essential Freelancing Resources.
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12/04/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : Timing is everything: scheduling in WordPress - Development on a Shoestring - "WordPress 2.1 brought with it a number of new features, one of which is a pseudo-cron scheduling framework."
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12/04/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
deusx : TOKYOMANGO: Video: Cosplayer Off-Kai Ends In Police Raid - "To the lay person, this congregation might look like a harmless street dance unworthy of triggering the fear of cops, but you have to understand that it took a huge amount of guts for these law-abiding Japanese citizens to decide to do this without
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12/04/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why I fired my Secretary - Why I fired my Secretary: awesome story
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12/04/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Butte blast blamed on leaking gas - Butte blast blamed on leaking gas: you can't make up headlines this good
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Jeremy Zawodny : 3D Missle Game - 3D Missle Game: Someone needs to remove all games from the Internets, otherwise I may discover and play them
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12/04/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Kurt Vonnegut, dead at 84 - so it goes.
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12/04/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
adamrg : Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 - New York Times - Well, this seems like as good a time as any to churn through his works again.
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12/04/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why I Gave Up Beans - Why I Gave Up Beans: another great story if you have a 13 year old boy's sense of humor. Luckily part of me does.
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12/04/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Invisible Grip - The Invisible Grip: "The eye contact changed all that. I'd compare it to using a Sawzall for the first time, that moment you realize you could cut through pretty much any wall in the world if you had the right blade."
adamrg : The Invisible Grip - Evidently eye contact can cure cancer. I'm going to get me some of that.
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12/04/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : Badges? We Don't Need No Steenking Badges!
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12/04/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
joshua : Macintosh Tips and Tricks - big list. nice blog design too
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12/04/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
adamrg : 19 Banking Do's And Don'ts - Goofus and Gallant to the rescue again!
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12/04/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How come white people don't all look alike? - How come white people don't all look alike?: I've always wondered that too....
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12/04/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Detecting SVG Viewer Capabilities
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12/04/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Megadata Follow-up
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Megadata Follow-up
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Andy Baio : Google Answers takes entire archive offline - this is extremely upsetting; a huge body of collective knowledge, snuffed out
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12/04/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
nelson : Le Zinc d Hugo - Excellent casual restaurant in Aix en Provence
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12/04/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
nelson : Click fraud botnet - Google releases details of some fraud directed at AdWords
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12/04/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tiled Windows Are the Way of the Future - Tiled Windows Are the Way of the Future: "since I now have 30 inch displays at both home and work, I've been tiling my windows"
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12/04/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Orville Redenbacher is back from the Dead - "Digital recreation of Popcorn founder who passed away in 1995. Orville Redenbacher now once again can pitch the most perfect popping corn!"
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