4/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
factoryjoe : DreamHost Blog » We’re green. - Effective today, DreamHost is now a carbon-neutral company. Tags: dreamhost, carbon neutral, carbon offsets, sustainability
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4/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
factoryjoe : James Governor’s Monkchips » Somebody shot the president! Twitter: Nothing To See Here, Get Back To Work. - On the argument for brevity. Tags: twitter, brevity
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4/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
joshua : Required Eating: Costco is Selling Mexican Coke!
deusx : Serious Eats: Required Eating: Costco is Selling Mexican Coke! - "If you like the Real Thing better made with real sugar and you happen to live near a Costco, you'll be happy to know that they're selling Mexican Coke"
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4/05/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
jimray : Fake Steve on Murdoch buying The Journal - "But wait a minute. Isn't profit good? Shouldn't the market be allowed to work? [...] now Murdoch is offering a nearly 70% premium and you reporters are urging owners not to take it? Oh, Journal hacks, you are a bunch of frauds."
Eric Meyer : God I hope Murdoch buys the Journal - Nailed it in one, FSJ. Market forces are always good as long as they operate on someone else.
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4/05/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
jonhicks : A Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition - Campaign Monitor Blog
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4/05/2007 @ 21:03 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks.and death itself - standard emergency-room procedure has it exactly backward
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4/05/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Bull and Bear remodeling
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4/05/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : White House may veto hate crimes bill - Ah, so this is the bill that Boehner was twittering about - because killing someone based on their sexual orientation (or race or religion or sex) is akin to "thought crime." What a putz.
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4/05/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : Sun will help port OpenOffice to native Mac app - Isn't this like the fifth time a Mac-native OO has been announced?
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4/05/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Ruckus Laptop Backpack review: Simply Awesome - I just got one of these on the recommendation of Yoz, and it is top-notch. A dedicated laptop section, plus an excellent array of pockets and pouches. I got mine from NewEgg for $40 + shipping. [via] #
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4/05/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : White-On-White Violence Claims Life Of Accounts Receivable Supervisor | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "Herbert F. Kornfeld, 34, was an alleged accounting gang leader considered by law enforcement to be a key player in a series of ongoing office worker turf wars."
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4/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Inline SVG in MSIE - Inline SVG in MSIE. Sam Ruby has a neat proof of concept that converts inline SVG (currently only the path element) to the Silverlight equivalent.
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4/05/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : Sam Zell thinks it's time to stop "giving away" content to Google - Oh, boy. What has the Trib gotten itself in to?
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4/05/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : What have I been listening to? - Gorgeous visualization of a year's worth of music listening. Hey! Last.FM! I would pay $50 in a heartbeat for a nice poster print of this with my own listening habits. [via] #
Milo Vermeulen : megamu - visualizing last.fm listening history over time - megamu - visualizing last.fm listening history over time [related] [related] [via]
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4/05/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
deusx : Occupation: The Inconvenient Truth About Iraq — Rockridge Institute - "In an occupation, not a war, should the president still have war powers?"
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4/05/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Raging Sharks on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Kind of like the brain-scan results in an episode of "Firefly" being entirely JavaScript.
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4/05/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : John Boehner is twittering - "Dems pass thought crimes bill" - this has to be a fakester... oh, wait, this is for real? Seriously?
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4/05/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
Simon Willison : MSFT and Yahoo: two icebergs, roped together� - MSFT and Yahoo: two icebergs, roped together�. Yahoo!’s engineering platform and culture is Open Source pretty much all the way down. Microsoft’s isn’t. I wonder how that would pan out.
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Simon Willison : Migrating Microsoft Hotmail from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows 2000 - Migrating Microsoft Hotmail from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows 2000. I’d like to see them try that with Yahoo!’s 100+ properties.
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nelson : between - more insane Flash games from the game, game, game, and again game guy
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4/05/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
nelson : secrettechnology - Gallery from the game, game, game, and again game guy
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4/05/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Scotland | Review under way on voting chaos - Who would have thought that having three different voting systems (First past the post, regional list, and STV) on one ballot paper would cause confusion? Gah! #
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deusx : The Raw Story | Bush chuckles at Iraq success: 'Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed' - "How do you define an acceptable level of violence? I mean, how can that possibly be defined?"
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4/05/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : Microo! - Microsoft in talks to acquire Yahoo! for $50B
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4/05/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Jan Banning's The Bureau - photo series [via]
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4/05/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What if Microsoft Bought Yahoo? - What if Microsoft Bought Yahoo?: was it only a few months ago that I wrote this? heh.
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4/05/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Tomorrow Is Free Comic Book Day: Tomorrow, 5 May
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4/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
nelson : MacLockPick - Steal passwords out of MacOS keyring, even when the machine is asleep
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4/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
nelson : French election nastiness - Heating up, the vote is in two days
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4/05/2007 @ 12:01 GMT
factoryjoe : James Governor’s Monkchips » If Markets Are Conversations Then Twitter Is Money - What am I saying? Twitter is taking off like wildfire. Not just in terms of the users, but also developers. I can’t think of an API that has been faster adopted. We’re talking RSS-style virality. I don’t want to put a dollar figure
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4/05/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
nelson : Disney international hell - I clicked a link to go.com and ended up in some "You're not in the US" page. Ugh.
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4/05/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : Perspective transform and focal blur - Handy Photoshop tips from the man Shea.
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4/05/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
plasticbag : Pandora is to be blocked to users outside the US... - Which is a tremendous shame and almost certainly a significant long-term damage to their business...
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4/05/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
adamrg : How to deal with celebrities - Chris Sligh, pseudo-celebrity blogger on how to deal with celebrities.
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4/05/2007 @ 05:04 GMT
factoryjoe : Introduction to Agile Usability: User Experience Activities on Agile Development Projects - This article presents a coherent strategy for bringing usability practices into agile project. To accomplish this goal user experience (UEX) and agile practitioners need to learn about and respect each other’s philosophies and techniq
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4/05/2007 @ 05:03 GMT
factoryjoe : GetOpenID.com :: Tired of keeping track of a thousand signons? Get an OpenID! - Another OpenID provider, from Four Kitchen Studios. Tags: openid, openidprovider, idp
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4/05/2007 @ 05:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Offices are furnished, complete with friends - The Boston Globe - One of the biggest attributes offered is "a congenial work atmosphere," said Dumser, who is assisted by office manager Judy Campbell of Lancaster and receptionist Paula Howard of Maynard. The biggest challenge, she said, "is keeping up w
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4/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : More Than An Office - Home Page - More Than An Office is a full service executive office center, providing completely furnished private offices to sales reps, consultants, and other professionals. Tags: office, coworking, boston, executive suites
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4/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them | Smashing Magazine - One of the new terms on the horizon is Microformats (sometimes abbreviated µF or uF) - formats, which make it possible to create meta-content which can be not only read, but also understood by machines (which was the basic idea of Seman
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4/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Improve your photography with classical art. - An awesome trick for adjusting color based on classical art. Tags: match color, photoshop, color correction
Khoi Vinh : Color Matching Your Photos to the Paintings of Old Masters - Gimmicky but worth a look.
jonhicks : Improve your photography with clasical art.
joshua : Improve your photography with clasical art.
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4/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Bad Smells in Code - A really useful resource for refactoring your code. Tags: coding, refactoring, development
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4/05/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : Yes, coffee really is good for you - More Health News - MSNBC.com - "Drinking coffee can help ward off type 2 diabetes and may even help prevent certain cancers, according to panelists discussing the benefits — and risks — of the beverage at a scientific meeting."
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4/05/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
deusx : XSLT:PI Parameters - MDC - "two new PIs are implemented in Firefox 2 (see Supported versions below for details), <?xslt-param?> and <?xslt-param-namespace?>."
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4/05/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
joshua : Stripe Generator - ajax diagonal stripes background designer
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4/05/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Linkorama : Do We Really Need a Security Industry? - "The primary reason the IT security industry exists is because IT products and services aren't naturally secure." -- so talk to me about standards
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4/05/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Linkorama : Time To Stand Up for Estonia - FT: That's not the case, however, with its effort to intimidate Estonia this week in clear-cut acts of aggression. A string of events calls for a strong, unified response because this is not as small a case as it looks.
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4/05/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Linkorama : The right to be wrong - Estonia was unwise to provoke Russia—but deserves more support from its friends
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4/05/2007 @ 04:01 GMT
Linkorama : Trying to Tame the Russian Bear - German Foreign Minister Warns against a New Cold War
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4/05/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : AbiWord Help: How To Use the AbiWord Normal Template - AbiWord Help: How To Use the AbiWord Normal Template: this is useful if you don't like the default font, for example
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jimray : Feature: Getting to Done: Pimp your Mac Mini - Lifehacker
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4/05/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
jimray : NBC buys R|Mail, RSS to email gateway - Man, that's weird. Seriously, this feels like the brainchild some TV person who doesn't understand RSS. Not that there's anything wrong with being a TV person - I love TV people! Especially you.
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4/05/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
deusx : Richard Cohen - A Case Against Cheney - washingtonpost.com - "The percussive march of these statements is so forceful, one after another after another, that it suggests Cheney wanted war no matter what."
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Khoi Vinh : Luke Wroblewski: Beyond the Browser - Notes from a session at the MIX07 conference on Microsoft’s Reader technology, the most prominent example of which may be our own Times Reader.
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Khoi Vinh : Submedia - Gallery of flipbook-style subway tunnel advertising. Via Capn Design. [via]
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Khoi Vinh : New Apple Patent Applications - It’s always interesting to see how companies attempt to patent user interfaces.
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joshua : Tenuta di Petrolo: tuscany weekly rentals of luxury villa
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jimray : First Assignment Zero piece is about... wikis - Seriously? The first bit by the "landmark" collab of Wired and NewAssignment to revolutionize citizen journalism is an inside baseball piece about wikifrigginpedia? I guess we should be thankful there wasn't an accompanying LOLcats slideshow.
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jimray : FireWave - Surround Sound for Mac - This + Mac mini + massive FW hard drive + a handful of studio monitors + hidef TV = media center?
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4/05/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Actual Steampunk Star Wars! - Actual Steampunk Star Wars!. I-Wei Huang made a steam-powered R2-D2.
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Simon Willison : Crabfu SteamWorks - Crabfu SteamWorks. More awesome steam-powered robots.
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4/05/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Wonkette: Time Magazine Cover as Designed by Kindergarteners - I thought they redesigned this magazine to make it look better?
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4/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Dynamic Language Runtime - Dynamic Language Runtime. Miguel de Icaza describes how Microsoft’s new Dynamic Language Runtime lets you call JavaScript and Visual Basic functions from Ruby. Looks like they beat Parrot to the punch.
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4/05/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Introduction and Yahoo! Pipes - Introduction and Yahoo! Pipes. The official Google Maps API blog describes how to plot KML output from Yahoo! Pipes.
Jeremy Zawodny : Official Google Maps API Blog: Introduction and Yahoo! Pipes - Official Google Maps API Blog: Introduction and Yahoo! Pipes: "Yahoo! Pipes now allows output as KML."
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