22/04/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
factoryjoe : From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet - New York Times - It’s easy to satirize Twitter’s trendiness, and cranky critics have mocked the banality of most tweets and questioned whether we really need such an assault upon our powers of concentration. But right now, it’s one of the fastest-g
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22/04/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : A28: Nationwide Impeachment Protests April 28, 2007 - George Bush and Dick Cheney have lied the nation into a war of aggression, are spying in open violation of the law, and have sanctioned the use of torture. These are high crimes and misdemeanors that demand accountability. Since Congress
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22/04/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Carbonfund.org - Carbonfund.org reduces the threat of climate change by making it easy and affordable for any individual or business to reduce their carbon footprint and support climate-friendly projects. Tags: carbon, carbon offsets, climate change
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22/04/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Predictions of the Year 2000 from the Ladies Home Journal in 1900 - Some of these are brilliantly prescient, some are sadly off the mark ("There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits.")
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22/04/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Richard Rutter : Down with Arial! - NO—to degenerate surrogate »typeface«. [via Flickr]
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22/04/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
wearehugh : How to install Windows Vista’s new fonts on a Linux system // plasmasturm.org
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factoryjoe : Feed the Head - Mindless fun. Tags: game, fun, head
Andy Baio : Feed the Head - this and Acrobots appear to be two new-to-me toys by the creator of Vector Park
Rod Begbie : Feed the Head - Pleasantly mindless Flash fun. [via] #
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22/04/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Species Alliance - Well produced video on the state of the planet via Kent Bye. Tags: Species Alliance, video, earth
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22/04/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Almost Universal Microformat Parser - This page will break apart some common microformats into their component pieces. Tags: parser, microformats, microformats parser
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22/04/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
nelson : City Walks: Paris - useful tour guide; little cards for interesting walks in Paris
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22/04/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
nelson : VATech killer on eBay - AAAAA+++++!!!!!! SWould sell again!
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22/04/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : CSS vertical rhythm calculator - Calculates em values based on a baseline size.
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22/04/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
nelson : Super Mario 5:00 - A humbling display of exactitude; no hacks
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22/04/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : Ned Batchelder: Xss with utf-7 - "The resulting page doesn't have any explicit declaration of its character set, so depending on your browser settings, the browser may try to auto-detect the character set, and seeing the distinctive UTF-7 byte sequences, will choose UTF-7. In UTF-7,
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22/04/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
deusx : Upcoming.org Absorbed By Faceless Corporation, Free T-Shirts for All - "This is Gordon from Upcoming. As far as I can tell, we are most definitely personally stuffing shirts into envelopes, here in Santa Clara. Flickr’s staff has done the same for their swag giveaways as well."
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22/04/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : AttenTV - As you spend more time online, your clickstream (the record of where you visit online) increasingly represents who you are and what you are interested in. AttenTV turns one person’s or group’s clickstream data into another person’s
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22/04/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : The Hyperconnected | TIME - Like any good pusher, services like Twitter don't answer existing needs; they create new ones and then fill them. They come to us wrapped in the rhetoric of interpersonal connection, creating a sense that our loved ones, or at least like
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22/04/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Redefining markets at charisma:18 - "Engaging any audience starts by getting noticed. In a local market, it means building awareness (advertising) within your distribution network. On the interweb, your distribution network is everywhere. So rather than focusing on a set o
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22/04/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Welcome to Opensville, Population Zero — TalkBMC - "Nestled between Proprietary and Freedomberg, Opensville is a utopia. Everyone who lives in the adjacent cities spends their free time in Opensville. The parks are beautiful, the shopping is amazing, and the nights are pure Vegas. Soun
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22/04/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Obviously: Twitter, Inc. - Ev's announcement of Twitter, Inc. Tags: twitter, obvious corp.
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22/04/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Glastar Kit Plane - Glastar Kit Plane: looks like it has very good performance with the right engine option
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22/04/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Jabiru J250-SP Light Sport - Jabiru J250-SP Light Sport: an LSA with surprisingly large baggage capacity
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22/04/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
factoryjoe : OpenID at Web 2.0 Expo - There were two sessions today on User-Centric identity at Web 2.0 Expo. I attended the first one etitled “Implementing OpenID”, which was conducted by David Recordon of Verisign and Brian Ellin of JanRain. The session was well attend
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22/04/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Web 2.0 Expo: Open Source Business Models - What I found interesting after listening to the above presentation is that not only can web 2.0 entrepreneurs build sites on top of open source projects (like MySQL - L.A.M.P.), but they can actually learn a lot about promoting their ser
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22/04/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : SourceForge.net: tumble: tumblelog like blosxom - "tumble is a featherweight weblog engine in the grand tradition of blosxom, designed for tumblelogs."
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22/04/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : 1 Bit Audio Player : A JavaScript-inserted Flash MP3 player for WordPress blogs and other websites - "1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It's main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog."
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22/04/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Daily Kos: Dinesh D'Souza, Atheism, Virginia Tech [Second Update] - "I am an atheist and a professor at Virginia Tech. Dinesh D’Souza says that I don’t exist, that I have nothing to say, that I am nowhere to be found."
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22/04/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Bokardo » 7 More Reasons Why Web Apps Fail - # They’re never built. # They’re modeling an offline activity incompletely. # They’re ahead of the curve. # They don’t plan for change. # They don’t charge money. # They have no barrier to entry…at all. # They don’t think h
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22/04/2007 @ 04:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Digital Web Magazine - Writing Semantic Markup - Practically speaking, however, semantic markup is markup that is descriptive enough to allow us and the machines we program to recognize it and make decisions about it. In other words, markup means something when we can identify it and d
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22/04/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Writing Semantic HTML - The Future of the Web - Try to use the full variety of HTML tags whenever possible. Sometimes you'll be stuck with using tags, but try to limit them to whenever you can't find a suitable HTML equivalent. At the same time, try to avoid using HTML tags for anyth
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22/04/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Who will read your Semantic HTML? - The Future of the Web - What's semantic HTML good for? How about bots, web developers, browsers, screen readers and other clients? Tags: semantic html, posh, microformats
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22/04/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Web Standards in the Real World: An Interview with Molly Holzschlag - Molly E. Holzschlag is a recognized expert in the area of Web Design, deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web. We're big fans of Molly E. Holzschlag's books on cascading style sheets, in particular Cascading Style Shee
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22/04/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
factoryjoe : The Web Standards Project - The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all. Tags: web standards, xhtml, posh, css, web design
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22/04/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Bokardo » 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail - # Focus on social instead of personal. # They solve too many problems, or try to. # They’re about making someone other than the user happy. # They sell it the wrong way. # Not in it for the long haul. # They show too much of what’s
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22/04/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Shebanation: Apollo, Competition, and Openness - Some good thoughts on Apollo's competitors. I still say it's too closed for the open web. Tags: apollo, competition, open source, wpfe, dekoh, SlingShot, joyent
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22/04/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Rails Machine: Ruby on Rails hosting, services and commercial support: Hosting - Our take on Rails hosting is simple: isolate the apps and tune the stack. We use VPS technology to split machines into multiple isolated environments, then build a stack from the ground up designed to support Rails and only Rails. Rails
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22/04/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Delta's Force for Global Good - We—Delta's employees, customers, and community partners—together form a force for positive local and global change, dedicated to bettering standards of living and the environment where we and our customers live and work. We are Delta
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22/04/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : iTheme - iTheme is a WordPress theme that is designed for the Mac lovers with a truly customizable sidebar. As an administrator, you can customize your sidebar’s contents without modifying the source code using WordPress widgets (no programming
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22/04/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Mini Pixel Icons - These mini icons are designed at 14×14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. Feel free to use these icons for your site (personal or commerical). However, if you are using more
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22/04/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Welcome to CellarTracker! - Cellar management software and community tasting notes Tags: wine, wine cellar
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22/04/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : O'Reilly Radar > Women in Computer Science - Taking up the point about how CS courses are poorly designed to support a wide audience, including women. Tags: computer science, women, tim oreilly, kathy sierra, diversity
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22/04/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Vimeo / Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger
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22/04/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
deusx : Tips for Web 3.0 - "Whether or not it's possible to list Best Practices in this space, I think it most definitely is possible to identify ways in which developers of such systems can maximise their impact on release. Whatever the particular business model or target aud
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