10/05/2007 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : PC World editor returns to editor in chief post - This is the dude who quit over the "10 things we hate about Apple" non-story (really, just a fluffer blog post to juice page views). Reminds me of when Dave Winer quit his blog for, like, half a day. q
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10/05/2007 @ 23:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Poly9 FreeEarth - Poly9 FreeEarth. Seriously sexy embedable 3D Flash globe, with a JavaScript API. [via]
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10/05/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
joshua : Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar - 3d printer. that prints sugar. brilliant.
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10/05/2007 @ 21:02 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC - Eurovision 2007 - Home - Only two short days until Eurovision 2007. Once again, I'll be downloading this off of torrents and trying to avoid spoilers until me & the missus have had time to sit through it. Not fancying Scooch's chances much, it must be said. #
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10/05/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Replace Windows Explorer with Xplorer2 - Lifehacker - Replace Windows Explorer with Xplorer2 - Lifehacker: Xplorer2 looks to be quite handy... I wish it had SCP/SFTP support.
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10/05/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Jewish Girl Prank Calls Her Parents [audio] - Jewish Girl Prank Calls Her Parents [audio]: this was quite amusing
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10/05/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
gleuschk : goodreads dot com - invited by my sister; a competitor for librarything, it seems. any opinions?
nelson : Goodreads - what your friends are reading
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10/05/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Wal-Mart Have Effectively Declaried HD-DVD the Winner over Blu-ray
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10/05/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
wearehugh : Targeting IE Using Conditional Comments
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10/05/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
wearehugh : Red Hat News | Liberation Fonts
nelson : Redhat liberation fonts - New free fonts commissioned. The sans looks ok.
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10/05/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : Improving the in-flight information experience - Ben's got some sharp thinking about how to make flying better. The pictures are worth the trip alone.
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10/05/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : what kind of traffic can you get without pictures? - what kind of traffic can you get without pictures?: "the best way to get visitors is to have good content, because then you also keep visitors." indeed...
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10/05/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Giving up on Microsoft? - Giving up on Microsoft?: "...there don't seem to be many web startups running on a microsoft platform. When they do crop up you know their tech isn't likely to be very strong." Indeed.
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10/05/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazing lifehack: Pack a starter pistol to deter luggage theft - Amazing lifehack: Pack a starter pistol to deter luggage theft: that's a damned good idea... but what if *everyone* did it?
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10/05/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : bread - bread: "The nice woman will apologize that the bread is still warm and it is necessary to shrug and look just a little sad. Because secretly you both know that you're going to run home and immediately eat half of it..."
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10/05/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : quality of Google searches? - quality of Google searches?: "has the quality of Google search gone downhill in the last few months or is it just me?" It is not just you, unfortunately...
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10/05/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
wearehugh : Open-source Java -- except for the exceptions - News - Builder AU
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10/05/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo - Yahoo! News - "They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety."
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10/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
gleuschk : Chronicle Careers: 5/7/2007: Remedial Civility Training - via rateyourstudents
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10/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : I'd really love to live in one of the tiny microhomes that Wired covered in its last issue... - They're super tiny, belonging-free residences that you could put easily in the middle of a quiet outdoors environment for a great view. Or maybe in a garden instead of a summer house. I wonder if a roof could support them...
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10/05/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : More about the micro compact home... - I'd sort of like one of those in my parents garden for when I visited. Be a great place to get away to do some real thinking a work every now and then...
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10/05/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Guardian Unlimited's new look: Some background on templating - Guardian Unlimited’s new look: Some background on templating. Nik Silver describes some of the challenges involved in building a complex new homepage using CSS and Velocity.
Richard Rutter : Background on templating the new Guardian website - .
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10/05/2007 @ 13:01 GMT
jonhicks : Beards - Moustache - Make up Face Paints - Novelty & Jokes Make-up - Fancy Dress Costumes
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10/05/2007 @ 12:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft oPhone [video] - Microsoft oPhone [video]: damn that's funny!
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10/05/2007 @ 11:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Firefox Download Data - All the Firefox download data under CC license! Tags: firefox, downloads, data, spread firefox
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10/05/2007 @ 11:02 GMT
factoryjoe : One Billion Bulbs - Imagine if people all over the world mobilized to replace one billion standard incandescent light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs. What would that mean? It would mean that those people would save money
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10/05/2007 @ 11:02 GMT
factoryjoe : WordPress 2.2 Release Candidate 1 | boren.nu - A release candidate is out for WordPress 2.2...! Tags: wordpress, release candidate, open source
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10/05/2007 @ 11:02 GMT
joshua : simple network-oriented erlang tutorial
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10/05/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
nelson : Fallout MMOG: $75M - prospectus from interplay
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10/05/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
deusx : Man chops off head with chainsaw - World - smh.com.au - "A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after stabbing his 70-year-old father to death in their apartment in the German city of Cologne, police said."
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10/05/2007 @ 08:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Greenmonk Associates : Green from the roots up - Greenmonk is a community dedicated to using open source methods and social software to improve the environment and encourage good behaviours. As Marks and Spencer says: This is Plan A, Because there is No Plan B. Tags: sustainability, g
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10/05/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
factoryjoe : openecosource - Our mission is to create a web base tool, which will help speed up the distribution of available knowledge and connect efforts that aim to create a sustainable environment. Tags: sustainability, green, open source, green tech
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10/05/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
factoryjoe : nocturne - Nocturne is (yet another) simple app for switching a computer to night vision mode. From the developer of Quicksilver. Tags: macosx, application, blacktree, nightvision, invert, desktop
Rod Begbie : nocturne - Simple OS X app which does smart screen-inverting to make late-night computing more bearable. [via] #
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10/05/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Barcamp in Business Week - Licence to Roam - Given the number of women who go to the latter, self-declared geeks, it’s not a lack of numbers that skews the ration but the perception of the event. Articles like this do no help open up that perception, do not make the events inviti
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10/05/2007 @ 08:00 GMT
adamrg : Analysis of twelve major political religious voting blocs in America
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10/05/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : On iostat, disk latency; iohist onward! - On iostat, disk latency; iohist onward!: "What I really wanted is a histogram of the reads and writes (separately, please!) for the given device. I hacked up a quick script to do that, and noticed how incredibly useful it is."
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10/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Second p0st: Python: How to fork and return text from the child process | Dan Sugalski has a blog | PyCS has better logs now | ht://Dig static member variables | htdig integration
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10/05/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
adamrg : Work as Play? - The Freakonomics of manual labor as fun.
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10/05/2007 @ 04:00 GMT
wearehugh : Official Google Blog: Three summers of open source
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10/05/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
adamrg : Are You Paying $60 A Year For Water Pumped Into Chicken?
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10/05/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Live Earth: Spinal Tap to Reunite for Live Earth Concert - New 15-minute Spinal Tap film to help promote the "Live Earth" concerts in July. "6%" #
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10/05/2007 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : Mike’s Musings » Microformats and Firefox 3 (for Developers)
factoryjoe : Mike’s Musings » Microformats and Firefox 3 (for Developers) - A good technical write up of microformats support in Firefox 3. Tags: microformats, firefox, firefox 3, mkaply
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10/05/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : loupe.js - A pretty sweet Javascript-based zooming image loupe. Tags: javascript, loupe, image, magnification, zoom
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10/05/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Australian Gov't Plans to Cut Income Tax - Forbes.com - Howard's center-right coalition, keen to showcase its green credentials ahead of elections, also announced a A$150 million (US$124 million; euro91 million) five-year plan to double to A$8,000 (US$6,600; euro4,850) the handout to househol
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10/05/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Who's Got Your Back? - Interesting buy-a-pixel project for Firefox. Tags: pixels, mosaic, firefox
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10/05/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
Linkorama : South Park Mac vs. PC - A fan project of South Park and parody of the Mac vs. PC commercials at the same time. Created as the final project for a multimedia production class at California State University Northridge (CSUN).
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10/05/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Linkorama : Dandelife.com : Ross Mayfield's Stream - The new Dandelife absolutely rocks. Here is a convenient way to stalk me.
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10/05/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Linkorama : How to Start Business - The Internet isn’t just a bunch of cables and wires—it’s an interconnected network of people.
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10/05/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
Eric Meyer : Retired generals, Iraq veterans launch anti-war ads - Why do these troops hate our troops? Oh, wait... maybe they just hate the freedom they risked their lives to defend. That must be it.
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