1/05/2007 @ 23:04 GMT
factoryjoe : IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski : FLITTER: SOURCE POSTED - An open source WPF screensaver that combines Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter feeds from MIX. Tags: twitter, flitter, wpf, screensaver, mix, open source
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1/05/2007 @ 23:04 GMT
factoryjoe : Marking up figures — Edward O’Connor - Edward discusses some of his own semantic patterns for dealing with images and ASCII art. Great stuff! Tags: figures, design, web standards, posh, meaningful markup
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1/05/2007 @ 23:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Digital Web Magazine - Markup as a Craft - "With front-end technology, it all comes back to the markup. It’s not particularly difficult to write great markup, but it does take attention to detail and an appreciation for some of the more subtle aspects. We can all be creating be
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1/05/2007 @ 23:03 GMT
factoryjoe : boogdesign posts - Is your markup POSH? - More pickup of POSH. Tags: posh
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1/05/2007 @ 23:03 GMT
factoryjoe : ReallyWorried | Compassion, help and advice - ReallyWorried is a place for you to seek or share help and advice on just about any worrying topic. Tags: worry, hicksdesign, beta
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1/05/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
deusx : Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: 10 Things You Need To Know When You Start Your Next Blog - "Here's a run down of what you need to know and what you need to think about before you put the first words down on paper."
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1/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
deusx : MVI - Snakes & Arrows (DVD Album) - Showtech Merchandising - "The Rush "SNAKES & ARROWS" MVI comes in a deluxe box, and includes these 13 new songs in hi-resolution audio, the entire album in 5.1 surround sound, a video documentary on the making of the album, and more (see below)."
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1/05/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Southwest Airlines Schedule Request - Southwest Airlines Schedule Request: here is where you can get a PDF schedule for flights to/from any airport that southwest serves... very handy when you want to see if you can snag an earlier flight...
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1/05/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo - Comcast = The Deal of the Year - Yahoo - Comcast = The Deal of the Year: "The competitive landscape for video advertising just changed, and no one even noticed."
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1/05/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
jimray : News Corp. makes a bid for Dow Jones - Obviously, the political alignment makes sense, but this just doesn't feel right
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1/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
jimray : Joyent releases Slingshot - Offline Rails desktop extender gets official, source code coming in a month
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1/05/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : I Can'T Believe I'M Actually Posting This On Gizmodo: Turd Twister is like A Fecal Cookie Cutter - Gizmodo - "dishwasher safe? DISHWASHER SAFE? For the love of god..."
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1/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Rage fans didn't like Crowded House's reunion at Coachella - unfortunate lineup placement leads to disastrous results, foreshadowed here
deusx : stereogum: Coachella: Rage Fans Didn't Like Crowded House - "would any of these kids respond, even in passing recognition of the tune? And they responded alright. With a water bottle straight to Neil Finn's head!"
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1/05/2007 @ 20:03 GMT
Linkorama : Changing Course - Jeff Nolan moves on. Good luck, buddy
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1/05/2007 @ 20:03 GMT
Linkorama : The Two Webs - No one better to break down Microsoft announcements than stevegillmor
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1/05/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
jimray : Mathowie quits his job and is chronicling his new online-only life at fortuito.us - Should prove to be handy for folks looking to embark on The Life
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1/05/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
deusx : kawaii_not: kawaii not #84 - "My niblets are showing!"
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1/05/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
deusx : Sashi's Architecture - "Well, I was sick of having to dig behind my TV to exchange the cable from my Nintendo 64 to play my SNES. So I figured why not install two RCA jacks so I can plug it directly into the front of my TV."
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1/05/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
deusx : Softies Central: Softies that eat other softies - "Shock, horror! Sad but true - some softies DO eat other softies!"
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1/05/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Dell to Offer Ubuntu - Dell to Offer Ubuntu. That right there is why I find Flex more interesting than Silverlight.
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1/05/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : 2007 Scene.org Awards winners announced - the best of the still-thriving demoscene
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1/05/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Microsoft Project Codename "Astoria"
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1/05/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
jimray : Holovaty breaks down the new presidential candidate tracker at the Post - Great feature set, pretty much exactly what you'd expect from that crew
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Eric Meyer : Seeing Beyond Sight - Must-see-- pun only sort of intended.
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1/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
wearehugh : Dell - Support - How do I install Ubuntu® 7.04 on my PC? - there's something you don't see every day
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1/05/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Hotmail's antispam measures snuff out legit emails, too | The Register - I've been experiencing this -- Emails I send to HoTMaiL users are getting silently swallowed, neither bouncing nor ending up in their Spam folders. [via] #
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1/05/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
gleuschk : Support Center - how to opt out of the Earthlink/Yahoo! domain error page.
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1/05/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.. I normally avoid linking to “top 10” lists on principle, but this one pulls together some great resources and adds some extra context to each one.
jcgregorio : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - Doesn't cover Google or eBay, but still a good list.
jimray : The top 10 presentations on how to scale websites - Flickr, Bloglines, Vox, etc - learn how to build strong sites
bmilleare : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
nelson : System scaling - Collection of videos on how they make systems scale
joshua : A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
philgyford : Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - The kind of thing I keep meaning to read up on. (via Kottke)
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1/05/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : A Rare Unassisted Triple Play - Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki pulled off an extremely uncommon feat on Sunday: “In the top of the seventh inning of a tied game, with runners on first and second, nobody out, and the count full, [Baltimore Orioles batter] Ch
jimray : The rare unassisted triple play - Best part of this story? It was Larry Wayne "I'm a grown man and I insist people call me Chipper" Jones who hit the ball that made it all happen. Beautiful.
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1/05/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
jimray : Don't fuck with particle accelerators - Also, they may cause black holes someday
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1/05/2007 @ 13:01 GMT
Richard Rutter : Building a Better Conference Badge - Bigger badge, bigger name, smaller conference details.
Cameron Moll : Building a Better Conference Badge - Mike Davidson: Building a Better Conference Badge. This might be construed as somewhat trivial, but Mike tackles a design issue that's been ignored at nearly every conference I've ever attended (many of which cover primarily, you guessed it, design topics
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1/05/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : NPG Accessibility Statement - Or “how to use your browser” (a good thing).
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1/05/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
joshua : Sorrento: Toward a Self-Organizing Storage Cluster
jcgregorio : Sorrento Project Home Page
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1/05/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
43folders : fortuitous - "It’s a new essay every Monday about some aspect of business that I’ve learned while running the MetaFilter/PVRblog/etc empire." Go, mathowie!
adamrg : fortuitous - Mathowie launches fortuit.us
Andy Baio : Fortuito.us - Matt Haughey's great new blog on becoming self-sufficient online
nelson : fortuito.us blog - Matt's empire grows with a blog about how he does business
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1/05/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Sparklines Update
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1/05/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : MyBlogLog hiring two engineers - MyBlogLog hiring two engineers: you could work on the mybloglog team in Berkeley, California...
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1/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
43folders : The Omni Group - Applications - OmniFocus [Screen demo] - Ethan's screencast walks you through the features of the OmniFocus alpha.
plasticbag : OmniGroup have put up a screencast of how they're expecting OmniFocus to work... - I have to be honest, I think I need this application right now. I'm rather overwhelmed with little jobs to do and am desperate for a decent way to manage them. This looks perfect...
Khoi Vinh : OmniFocus Public Beta - This is the GTD-based task management system I alluded to in last week’s post.
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1/05/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
gleuschk : 2006 AWM Essay Contest: Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics - Levine, Shulman, Chibnik, Knapp, Borrow: college kids down to middle-schoolers
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1/05/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
wearehugh : Getting Started with Windows Live Contacts API
jcgregorio : Getting Started with Windows Live Contacts API
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1/05/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
plasticbag : The best bit ever in Life on Mars (no spoilers) is the famous Camberwick Green intro to the episode... - I keep saying the lines from this to people and no one knows what I'm on about, so I thought I should probably link to the damn thing.
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1/05/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
joshua : In 1967 the Philco-Ford Corporation released a short film titled 1999 A.D.
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1/05/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
jimray : Does Japan's history of Shinto make them more open to accepting ubiquitous computing? - Really interesting thought, especially when you think about the corollary in the West: Does the Euro/US history of Christianity limit such acceptance?
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1/05/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
joshua : AutoBayes -- A DSL For Bayesian Networks
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1/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
jimray : Tantek's microformats presentation from MIX - Good stuff, if you're one of the four people in to microformats
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1/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
wearehugh : defective yeti: Tricks of the Trade - publishers suck
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